The areas hit first gave the residents little time to escape. The earthquake itself went on for six minutes, so most people were just trying to stay standing. The elderly and the sick didn't have much of a chance. Some thought their three story building was high enough. Please don't judge.
How can we judge the Japanese brave people. First they were shocked from the Massive, long and scary earthquake 😳. Then when they thought they survived the earthquake and the right thing was to be in the lowest place, than all of a sudden they had to run to the highest place. And then again to another highest place. They didn't take anything from home. No family photos, no clothes and not even coats, blankets and food. How they survived after the Tsunami. The little kids suffered so much and they are so traumatized 😢😫forever. Seeing their homes and maybe their parents and families all destroyed in front of their eyes. How come people and children still want and have the strength to live. We can never judge or criticize, just admire their courage to live and function in such hard and Chaotic situation. I hope they will have better life and happier life full of love and joy. All the Best to them. Efrat. Israel
There was a lot of warning in Kessenuma. Instant warnings on television, on cell phones, the tsunami horn was blowing, the firemen and police were driving around telling everyone a tsunami was coming. And yes, I believe the man you heard was reporting to his superiors what he was observing in the bay. But sometimes ten minutes or twenty minutes is not enough to find your pet, your kids, your car keys and make it through traffic to the hills. So many people died trying to escape in cars. Awful.
And in many towns and cities in Japan, the combination of the land being lowered by 3 feet from the earthquake, plus the massive tsunami (30 feet or more) led to a large number of "Evacuation zones" being flooded and impacting those who had actually evacuated
Hands up all who live by the sea. Be honest! Having watched videos like this, you have already made a mental note of where the highest ground around your way might be!
Just watched all 6 of this video, and I can say its the best at bringing home to people worldwide the horror that these peoples went through. From Earthquake to Tsunami, and then to fire. I didn't even know about the fires and how bad it all was till I watched this. blessings to those that past over and to the brave survivors.
Crazy.....its like everything bad that could have happened, did happen. The time of day could have been worse, but not much else. It horrible to think of those who initially survived, but were too injured/trapped to be saved.....and now hypothermia is another factor. So sad
You have to imagine people in the middle of their daily lives,working,taking care of the home,children,elderly people,everyones in the middle of something,not expecting what's to happen,first a major earthquake,that goes on for about 5 minutes,when it finally winds down,you have to quickly turn your thoughts/emotions to immediate situation,are you injured,do you need to turn the gas off,are your elderly parents/in laws who live with you safe or injured,what about your children if they are at school or home,is your home damaged that you can't get out,than you hear the tsunami sirens,now you have to think about evacuating,get your parents/inlaws,children together,while dealing with violent aftershocks,taking into consideration that parents/inlaws are elderly and can't move too fast,or are sickly/disabled,what if you don't have a car,if you are at work you are concerned about your family and anxious to get to them,you start out for the tsunami shelters or local high spots,but your family isn't moving fast enough,the children are too young,their little legs can't run like an adult,the elderly are hobbling along as best as they can,but you have several blocks to get to any shelter...this is only an example of how it could be for everyday people.
@Sandman Huffmaster pearl harbor was an act of war and this was an act from nature 2 completely different things. Those who had to witness this tragedy had nothing to do with pearl harbor
I watched a documentary on this as it unfolded. Aerial video w/ maps and strike zones. This town actually has a peninsula (not visible here) that protected and redirected some of the tsunami. I can’t imagine it worse but it apparently could have been!
@@Glostahdude i think its either troll or racists, they think this happened to the japanese because of pearl harbour. Imagine being such a nationalist and up your own ass that you would even dare think that shit.
I looked up the location of where this video may have been shot at on Google Earth and it looks like it was filmed atop the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives Bldg in Kesennuma Harbor. If you do a streetview of that building you can see that the whole bottom floor is retrofitted to withstand floods such as a tsunami. Whoever designed this particular bldg and the one next to it saved many lives on this day, including the amateur videographer, who I think did a great job capturing the entire events of the day. Rest in peace to those who perished as a result of the earthquake and tsunami this day.
Sorry you have that much free time. I have time to watch 5 minutes of something in the morning and spend time with my kids in the evening. I can't imagine what you could be accomplishing while looking up irrelevant shit like that. Hope you dont have kids that could be benefiting from your help with life. "my kids can't read but i was on google earth for 5 hours the other day".hahahaha. That's you
Ian Good ... I’m a busy person and I too have done the same with Google Earth. So what? Are we harming you or somehow disrupting your life or anyone else's? You’re the one who needs to stop the chest-beating, get off UA-cam and then get a life. I hear they’re on special this week at Wal-Mart. Don’t miss out.
@@whaghht you just made an argument against your first reply. Am I somehow disrupting YOUR life? I have a life, thank you very much. And who is the "we" you are talking about? There was no chest beating involved here. You on drugs or something? You're not making much sense here. Carry on.
It's frightening to quickly go through the first several minutes of this by clicking about 30 seconds ahead in succession and watch that boat just RISE.
Yawns interesting wording of so much death and destruction on a scale that boggles the mind. But a excellant description of the event. Fourth largest since records and technology could accurately determine. 1960 chili 9.7 Alaska 9.4 Boxing day 9.3 Japan 9.2. The anguished cries are the worst. Watching your whole neighborhood city washed away. The classic the river runs up hill. Up to 6 miles inland.Best tsunami protection any where. 35 thick barriers. Most waves averaged about 45. One town of 17000 lost 10000. God bless Mikie Endo. The most fascinating heart wrenching the MOST powerful thing I have ever seen. God bless Japan's people. The most resilient people. In a beautiful land.
I watch these and cry. I lived in Japan for 10 years and consider it home even though I'm back in the states now. Breaks my heart to see a country and people I love as much as my own go through this.
Tracy • And because northeast Japan is within the Pacific Rim and its unstable tectonic plates, this kind of disaster will likely happen again, and again. Bless the Japanese people, they are proud but in such a polite way. I’ve seen videos of drivers who waited patiently behind slower drivers - when they could clearly drive around them - as water was quickly swirling around their tires.
Oh how I wish you fellows had left the building for higher ground! Assuming you survived (hence, the YT upload), I cannot imagine the terror you felt to actually witness such a devastating event. I had to turn off the sound because the sound of sheer destruction is overwhelming to me, eight years later, safe and dry in the USA. My heart ❤️ goes out to you, your families, your community families, and all your countrymen. I can only offer hope and prayer that today, February 10, 2019, you had the human spirit to come back, to plod on, to clean up, to rebuild, and to stand proudly together to honor and salute those who perished, and to keep backpacks handy for all family members to grab and get to higher ground quickly. This Tennessean salutes you.
R Diaz • Wow. That really is a testament to how powerful our oceans are, affecting completely different continents. I’m landlocked (Tennessee) but the Tennessee River is close by and, being downriver from the locks and dam, we really have to watch for significant rainfall even hundreds of miles away, as the land downriver frequently floods.
I believe this was shot from, or near the Coast Guard building in Kessennuma. 38*53'27"N, 141*35'18"E. On Google Earth you can see that much rebuilding has been done, but there are great empty areas everywhere.
I’ve viewed that too - some places there is nothing but a piece of twisted steel; another place has the remnants of several houses off in the distance, severely damaged, etc. Bless the Japanese people - the casualties they suffered that fateful day are mind-boggling. So many did not take the threat that seriously and didn’t head for higher ground - some places the inland water assault reached 60 feet deep and obliterated many neighborhoods and communities. I’ve read that almost 4,000 people were never found. So very heartbreaking!
Those guys must have been astounded to see something so horrific. I've seen this footage from another angle, and I recognize the building. Are there any commenters who understand Japanese and could provide a translation? What is amazing is how they didn't seem to appreciate how much danger they were in.
Google Maps - 38°53'28.5"N 141°35'19.6"E - Filmed from somewhere very near the pin. I'm pretty sure from the Coast Guard Station building that's still there. This town got hit hard by the tsunami, hats off to the brave coast guards men that stayed at their posts to monitor the situation. Thanks for posting the videos for posterity.
I don’t know why this came up on my feed, or why I watched it. But I watched it with the same emotion as I did 10 years ago. Their interpretation turning to turning to the apocalypse in 6 minutes.
Something to consider. We all know what happened. Imagine for a moment you don't know. It's getting bad, then worse, but how bad will it get? Not knowing. We will never know that feeling. Even with us knowing, it's horrific. Imagine not knowing how long or how high it will go.
This is just astounding and horrific. I can’t imagine anticipating the arrival of the tsunami with what I can only imagine would have been complete terror and then the strong aftershocks that you can hear and see happening with the camera jolting around and the sound of things being shaken from the strong ground movement after going through the initial 6 minute absolute violence of the main earthquake. And then watching everything around you being just swept away. And then another strong aftershock hits while the tsunami is sweeping everything away. When that massive round oil storage thing came toward the building they were in and actually hit the building (based on the sound I’m assuming it hit the building) I think I felt like I was actually there because I had a panic feeling like I was in that building with them. Just an unbelievable video and this is 1 of 6 parts. Wow! I can’t imagine what the rest of the 5 remaining videos in the series will reveal.
Nature is not kind or unkind. It just is. We insist on building on the waters edge, houses, businesses. Water, wind and fire know no walls, territories, or humans. The earth will continue to do what it has done for millions of years. We are the only species, that thinks we are in control...
@@magyarfull These towns have rebuilt as much as they could over the past ten years, in the same place. I guess it's just human nature. I would hope that having gone through this they have accepted this as a future possibility in their families' lifetimes. I did see that one of the towns rebuilt the evacuation center (the high school) on higher ground so that's good at least 😕
I guess it all depends on where the person went to take the photographs. I can only imagine, on hearing about the tsunami the person went to view the effects on the Californian seaboard, not expecting it to be anything major. Three feet is actually quite high. If I had been in a similar situation I would probably have done the same thing, taking the precaution to stand upon a raised point which I would consider to be high-ground. But maybe, in such a situation the ground wouldn't be high enough!
Good filming..I hope you survived the tsunami 🙏❤️ much love to your country ☺️ I'm in NewZealand and your country had your people here in Christchurch NewZealand helping us after our massive earthquakes!! Then your country got a bigger quake and a tsunami ☹️ I will never forget 3/11 in Japan, I watched it live and I was terrified for the people 🙏❤️
One account I’ve read is of a radio announcer, a very beautiful young lady, stayed at her post, repeatedly warning everyone to get to higher ground..there are videos on UA-cam where you can hear her continued announcements..the radio station employees thought they were safe in their four-story office building; they realized they had to all get on the roof, but the killer tsunami came for them, and finally they had to scramble up the tower as the last bastion of safety was going underwater. All but one of them perished, including the young lady who chose to stay and warn her countrymen. There is a breathtaking photo on UA-cam also of the tower showing only the top few feet was all you could see. RIP the Japanese people and may they rebuild and may God heal their broken hearts.
the most important question for me is how did the Japanese live during earthquakes and tsunamis in the 16-19 centuries without all these protective systems and alerts?
This location has two concrete high rise buildings; this video is from the building on the right. The video from the building on the left shows the green-roofed warehouse breaking apart, as seen here, but also showing how a large piece of it got stuck against the corner of this building before it was completely destroyed.
This capture my attention when the videos 1st aired onTV - could not imagine surviving any of this... I was a new widow with 3 school age kids & felt my world had been turned upside down ...thought “wow that there is footage of a real catastrophe riddled in loss”
What amazes me is how nonchalant they are at the beginning. My mother in law passed 4 yrs. ago. She lived with us and passed knowing I loved her even more than I love my husband. She said she’d never live in Japan again because of her fear of this. She was royalty to the end. Not a day goes by still we mention her. And theses Japanese lost everything...praying daily for Japan even now❤️
I thought id seen every piece of footage concerning the earth quake and the tsunami, but this one is new to me. Broke the mooring rope to that car/people carrying vessel, which just shows it strength, but then to see all the cars, just tons of them. The sad part, is most people tried to flee via their car, so you can be sure a lot of those cars are occupied by people. Even a lot of the evacuation zones went under water, which is truly tragic, but they never thought a magnitude 9.0 earth quake would happen, let alone the sheer size of the tsunami! sad fact it was a record breaker on both counts. It took so many lives, especially the old. I pray for all those who died, and all those who are still suffering almost 10 years on. The other sad part, is that a lot of the reconstructed buildings are STILL made of wood, which is hard to believe they would do that. The good news, is that a lot of areas now have evacuation towers, that are very tall, higher than this tsunami was.
Holy sh*t!!! I hope the building they were in was sturdy enough to withstand the tsunami. That must've been so freaking scary with the water surrounding you from everywhere like that. Definitely one of the scariest tsunami videos I've seen from Japan so far.
I heard mention on another video about the 2011 Tsunami that one person died in California as a result of going down to the shoreline to take some photographs. What depth, or height was the tide on the Californian side of the Pacific?
People keep commenting on how amazing it was that the building these people were in survived. They are actually in the main Coast Guard station for that harbor area. It is very tall, to give a full view of the harbor, and reinforced steel and concrete to weather even the worst storms. Still, when that tank hit it I was afraid for a minute that the damage might be too great, but although they were all safe they had to watch countless people die and their town be destroyed. I hope they found some peace and acceptance in the end but the experience will never totally leave them. Prayers to erase the terrors that live on in your dreams.
They must have been shitting themselves I know I would be. Seeing the water get higher and higher and every single structure around you get smashed and ripped to pieces. All I would be thinking while my heart is pounding thru my chest is this building should be strong enough to hold right ?....RIGHT ?? And please God dont let one of those ships crash into us. Omg I cant even begin to imagine the not knowing.
This is why I will never live next to the ocean. Japan has been working to repair from this disaster, and prepare for the next one. The rest of the world is not prepared.
will haston You think its possible to create a seawall that reduces a tsunami, yet still allows ships into port? If it were possible, that would be great!! I imagine officials would not want to pay for it, and not consider the savings
will haston I agree with most of the things you said. We can make the waves crash further out, dissipating the energy, with surf brakes. As far as mining rock, arent the mountains inhabited already?? People should not build near shore, period. They should build at higher elevations, well above the flood lines. Anything below, should be raised on stilts, columns, to allow water to flow.
This has happened many times in Japans past. There was even ancient markers saying Do not build below this elevation. But they were ignored and of course forgotten until it happened again. Sadly people will repeat this over and over.
Why would you write something that is so dumb and so cruel? Tens of thousands of people died during this horrible thing, including an entire elementary school that was washed away before the children could escape. There's something wrong with you.
My sister and b in law were there at the time but they didn't see the flooding. They are avid kayakers, lucky they were not not on the coast. Flights were cancelled, they were on a commuter train, they felt sick before they realized it was a quake. There were several tremors they felt. Crazy eh? My brother in law was in the LA quake in the 80's, there on a convention. My kids were visiting India when they had the 2005 quake and tsunami. God is preparing us in British Columbia for the big Pacific quake due any day now.
The aftershock captured is terrifying to me, honestly. i am still captivated by this event months later. my heart aches today as it did that day. what terror!
This is really sad. America will see something similar in the pacific northwest, however our buildings are (for the most part) not earthquake proof, those victims will so badly injured, they mostly will drown.
Everyone in that building was concerned with how high the water would rise, and whether their building would be swept from its foundations and obliterated like every other structure they'd seen suffer the same fate...
I think it was three feet. But remember, it would be a series of powerful waves; even at only three feet it could throw you against the cliff and suck you back out to sea and throw you back against the beach, and drowning would be a distinct possibility.
Hei tahdon sanoa nähtyäni suurimman osan järkyttävistä videoista.Olette rohkea kansa..selvisitte maanjäristyksestä ja sen aiheuttamasta tsunamista.Ei ole helppoa kokea kotinsa ja perheen menetyksistä,hyvistä ystävistä taikka lemmikeistä.Liikutuin näkemästäni ja toivon että saatte kaiken avun jotta voitte rakentaa elämänne uudelleen.
Interessante que as pessoas escutam os avisos de que a tsunami estaria próxima e ainda deixam os carros no mesmo local. Será que queriam algum benefício do seguro com isso?
The building is specially designed to withstand this sort of thing. It’s a coastguard building or something. So there was a risk, but not as much as in a normal building.
The areas hit first gave the residents little time to escape. The earthquake itself went on for six minutes, so most people were just trying to stay standing. The elderly and the sick didn't have much of a chance. Some thought their three story building was high enough. Please don't judge.
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How can we judge the Japanese brave people. First they were shocked from the Massive, long and scary earthquake 😳. Then when they thought they survived the earthquake and the right thing was to be in the lowest place, than all of a sudden they had to run to the highest place. And then again to another highest place. They didn't take anything from home. No family photos, no clothes and not even coats, blankets and food. How they survived after the Tsunami. The little kids suffered so much and they are so traumatized 😢😫forever. Seeing their homes and maybe their parents and families all destroyed in front of their eyes. How come people and children still want and have the strength to live. We can never judge or criticize, just admire their courage to live and function in such hard and Chaotic situation. I hope they will have better life and happier life full of love and joy. All the Best to them. Efrat. Israel
@@user-to1mk2um3h amen shalom.
@@SaanichtonMinistries Thank you. I really felt like I had telepathy with the Japanese people 😢 Efrat. Israel
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I cannot even imagine what it must be like for those who film this event while watching their lives change forever, in an instant.
Prooly something like "damn ocean, who pissed you off" or "wayment"
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And watching the roofs of every building around them float away, wondering when their own building would be engulfed. Everything happened so quicky.
There was a lot of warning in Kessenuma. Instant warnings on television, on cell phones, the tsunami horn was blowing, the firemen and police were driving around telling everyone a tsunami was coming. And yes, I believe the man you heard was reporting to his superiors what he was observing in the bay. But sometimes ten minutes or twenty minutes is not enough to find your pet, your kids, your car keys and make it through traffic to the hills. So many people died trying to escape in cars. Awful.
...yes, and the people were still fresh from getting all shook up by the earthquake....
And in many towns and cities in Japan, the combination of the land being lowered by 3 feet from the earthquake, plus the massive tsunami (30 feet or more) led to a large number of "Evacuation zones" being flooded and impacting those who had actually evacuated
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great point, I would definitely be scrambling to get my 3 cats, and they are elusive.
Soon as I felt the earth shake I’m moving to safe grounds
Very sad 😞
Hands up all who live by the sea. Be honest! Having watched videos like this, you have already made a mental note of where the highest ground around your way might be!
Just watched all 6 of this video, and I can say its the best at bringing home to people worldwide the horror that these peoples went through. From Earthquake to Tsunami, and then to fire. I didn't even know about the fires and how bad it all was till I watched this. blessings to those that past over and to the brave survivors.
TheWatanna fire is caused by salty water reacting with car batteries
Crazy.....its like everything bad that could have happened, did happen. The time of day could have been worse, but not much else. It horrible to think of those who initially survived, but were too injured/trapped to be saved.....and now hypothermia is another factor. So sad
You have to imagine people in the middle of their daily lives,working,taking care of the home,children,elderly people,everyones in the middle of something,not expecting what's to happen,first a major earthquake,that goes on for about 5 minutes,when it finally winds down,you have to quickly turn your thoughts/emotions to immediate situation,are you injured,do you need to turn the gas off,are your elderly parents/in laws who live with you safe or injured,what about your children if they are at school or home,is your home damaged that you can't get out,than you hear the tsunami sirens,now you have to think about evacuating,get your parents/inlaws,children together,while dealing with violent aftershocks,taking into consideration that parents/inlaws are elderly and can't move too fast,or are sickly/disabled,what if you don't have a car,if you are at work you are concerned about your family and anxious to get to them,you start out for the tsunami shelters or local high spots,but your family isn't moving fast enough,the children are too young,their little legs can't run like an adult,the elderly are hobbling along as best as they can,but you have several blocks to get to any shelter...this is only an example of how it could be for everyday people.
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When the waters go out, RUN !!! 😱
I can't imagine how terrifying and horrifying that must have been to go through.
@Sandman Huffmaster pearl harbor was an act of war and this was an act from nature 2 completely different things. Those who had to witness this tragedy had nothing to do with pearl harbor
I watched a documentary on this as it unfolded. Aerial video w/ maps and strike zones. This town actually has a peninsula (not visible here) that protected and redirected some of the tsunami. I can’t imagine it worse but it apparently could have been!
@@clutch3316 japan never apologized for pearl harbor
@@erictyson5947 really???? How the hell does that have anything at all to do with this?!
@@Glostahdude i think its either troll or racists, they think this happened to the japanese because of pearl harbour. Imagine being such a nationalist and up your own ass that you would even dare think that shit.
Even 9 years later this still gets to me
I looked up the location of where this video may have been shot at on Google Earth and it looks like it was filmed atop the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives Bldg in Kesennuma Harbor. If you do a streetview of that building you can see that the whole bottom floor is retrofitted to withstand floods such as a tsunami. Whoever designed this particular bldg and the one next to it saved many lives on this day, including the amateur videographer, who I think did a great job capturing the entire events of the day. Rest in peace to those who perished as a result of the earthquake and tsunami this day.
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Sorry you have that much free time. I have time to watch 5 minutes of something in the morning and spend time with my kids in the evening. I can't imagine what you could be accomplishing while looking up irrelevant shit like that. Hope you dont have kids that could be benefiting from your help with life. "my kids can't read but i was on google earth for 5 hours the other day".hahahaha. That's you
@@iangoodisDMX Some folks are retired and have much (well earned) free time! You, on the other hand, are an idiot.
Ian Good ... I’m a busy person and I too have done the same with Google Earth. So what? Are we harming you or somehow disrupting your life or anyone else's? You’re the one who needs to stop the chest-beating, get off UA-cam and then get a life. I hear they’re on special this week at Wal-Mart. Don’t miss out.
@@whaghht you just made an argument against your first reply. Am I somehow disrupting YOUR life? I have a life, thank you very much. And who is the "we" you are talking about? There was no chest beating involved here. You on drugs or something? You're not making much sense here. Carry on.
It's frightening to quickly go through the first several minutes of this by clicking about 30 seconds ahead in succession and watch that boat just RISE.
Humankind think they know power, then Mother Earth yawns and power is released...🌏
Yawns interesting wording of so much death and destruction on a scale that boggles the mind. But a excellant description of the event. Fourth largest since records and technology could accurately determine. 1960 chili 9.7
Alaska 9.4 Boxing day 9.3 Japan 9.2. The anguished cries are the worst. Watching your whole neighborhood city washed away. The classic the river runs up hill. Up to 6 miles inland.Best tsunami protection any where. 35 thick barriers. Most waves averaged about 45. One town of 17000 lost 10000. God bless Mikie Endo. The most fascinating heart wrenching the MOST powerful thing I have ever seen. God bless Japan's people. The most resilient people. In a beautiful land.
Mother Earth is a real bitch. We don't have to protect as she will get along with out humans.
And to think some humans think they can control climate change
I watch these and cry. I lived in Japan for 10 years and consider it home even though I'm back in the states now. Breaks my heart to see a country and people I love as much as my own go through this.
Tracy • And because northeast Japan is within the Pacific Rim and its unstable tectonic plates, this kind of disaster will likely happen again, and again. Bless the Japanese people, they are proud but in such a polite way. I’ve seen videos of drivers who waited patiently behind slower drivers - when they could clearly drive around them - as water was quickly swirling around their tires.
Its totally horrifying to imagine being dragged by the force of the flowing debre totally horrifying
If I was driving it would have passed up people I wouldn't wait inline to get to higher ground.
Oh how I wish you fellows had left the building for higher ground! Assuming you survived (hence, the YT upload), I cannot imagine the terror you felt to actually witness such a devastating event. I had to turn off the sound because the sound of sheer destruction is overwhelming to me, eight years later, safe and dry in the USA. My heart ❤️ goes out to you, your families, your community families, and all your countrymen. I can only offer hope and prayer that today, February 10, 2019, you had the human spirit to come back, to plod on, to clean up, to rebuild, and to stand proudly together to honor and salute those who perished, and to keep backpacks handy for all family members to grab and get to higher ground quickly. This Tennessean salutes you.
If you click every 30 seconds or so of the first 5 minutes you can see how high the boat gets each time.
blizzarduk must have been scary!
R Diaz • Wow. That really is a testament to how powerful our oceans are, affecting completely different continents. I’m landlocked (Tennessee) but the Tennessee River is close by and, being downriver from the locks and dam, we really have to watch for significant rainfall even hundreds of miles away, as the land downriver frequently floods.
Never seeing anything like this, I bet the thought of the water rising high enough to still get them was scary
I believe this was shot from, or near the Coast Guard building in Kessennuma. 38*53'27"N, 141*35'18"E. On Google Earth you can see that much rebuilding has been done, but there are great empty areas everywhere.
Thanks for the specific information.
I’ve viewed that too - some places there is nothing but a piece of twisted steel; another place has the remnants of several houses off in the distance, severely damaged, etc. Bless the Japanese people - the casualties they suffered that fateful day are mind-boggling. So many did not take the threat that seriously and didn’t head for higher ground - some places the inland water assault reached 60 feet deep and obliterated many neighborhoods and communities. I’ve read that almost 4,000 people were never found. So very heartbreaking!
This is beyond terrifying to watch.
Yet we do. Weird.
Terryfing even after all these years
How these people survived such destruction! It is beyond me.
Omg I'm feel so sad for them 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Those guys must have been astounded to see something so horrific. I've seen this footage from another angle, and I recognize the building. Are there any commenters who understand Japanese and could provide a translation? What is amazing is how they didn't seem to appreciate how much danger they were in.
Thank goodness they lived to post this. I would have been crapping my pants. They are so calm.
Google Maps - 38°53'28.5"N 141°35'19.6"E - Filmed from somewhere very near the pin. I'm pretty sure from the Coast Guard Station building that's still there.
This town got hit hard by the tsunami, hats off to the brave coast guards men that stayed at their posts to monitor the situation.
Thanks for posting the videos for posterity.
I don’t know why this came up on my feed, or why I watched it. But I watched it with the same emotion as I did 10 years ago. Their interpretation turning to turning to the apocalypse in 6 minutes.
Something to consider. We all know what happened. Imagine for a moment you don't know. It's getting bad, then worse, but how bad will it get? Not knowing. We will never know that feeling. Even with us knowing, it's horrific. Imagine not knowing how long or how high it will go.
man spotted @ 6:05, middle right by a small car.
I don't see how he could have made it to safety, but I pray he did.
don't forget that there are 5 more 10 min clips (total 1h)
This is just astounding and horrific. I can’t imagine anticipating the arrival of the tsunami with what I can only imagine would have been complete terror and then the strong aftershocks that you can hear and see happening with the camera jolting around and the sound of things being shaken from the strong ground movement after going through the initial 6 minute absolute violence of the main earthquake. And then watching everything around you being just swept away. And then another strong aftershock hits while the tsunami is sweeping everything away. When that massive round oil storage thing came toward the building they were in and actually hit the building (based on the sound I’m assuming it hit the building) I think I felt like I was actually there because I had a panic feeling like I was in that building with them. Just an unbelievable video and this is 1 of 6 parts. Wow! I can’t imagine what the rest of the 5 remaining videos in the series will reveal.
Simply unimaginable..even with video coverage. Nature can be so unkind...No words can bring solace. Our hearts were broken with you.
Nature is not kind or unkind. It just is. We insist on building on the waters edge, houses, businesses. Water, wind and fire know no walls, territories, or humans. The earth will continue to do what it has done for millions of years. We are the only species, that thinks we are in control...
@@magyarfull These towns have rebuilt as much as they could over the past ten years, in the same place. I guess it's just human nature. I would hope that having gone through this they have accepted this as a future possibility in their families' lifetimes. I did see that one of the towns rebuilt the evacuation center (the high school) on higher ground so that's good at least 😕
Jesus Christ, just hearing the sound of the steel bending at 9:40 is awesome...
I guess it all depends on where the person went to take the photographs. I can only imagine, on hearing about the tsunami the person went to view the effects on the Californian seaboard, not expecting it to be anything major. Three feet is actually quite high. If I had been in a similar situation I would probably have done the same thing, taking the precaution to stand upon a raised point which I would consider to be high-ground. But maybe, in such a situation the ground wouldn't be high enough!
Even in the safest building i still wouldn't feel safe..scarey
The devastation is unreal!!
Good filming..I hope you survived the tsunami 🙏❤️ much love to your country ☺️ I'm in NewZealand and your country had your people here in Christchurch NewZealand helping us after our massive earthquakes!! Then your country got a bigger quake and a tsunami ☹️ I will never forget 3/11 in Japan, I watched it live and I was terrified for the people 🙏❤️
It must have been horribly scary to still be feeling aftershocks and watching all that water coming towards you. I can't even imagine
This is really a new one. Thanks.
These two different angles must have been shot from the same building right?
Kesennuma really got clobbered. Lots of land still being repaired and rebuilt 10 yrs on.
Dank den FILMER sieht man was für eine Kraft das Wasser hat. Vielen Dank Ihnen. 🍀🍀🍀
I still can't believe the death & destruction this Tsunami caused. It's just mind boggling how powerful those waves got
Not to take away from the absolute tragedy of this day, but that guy on the loudspeaker echoing like that sounds like a scene from a Sci-Fi thriller!
The world changed
We are all warned
Thanks to these brave photographers.
Godbless you
I notice the ALARM goes off AFTER the tsunami hits bigly
One account I’ve read is of a radio announcer, a very beautiful young lady, stayed at her post, repeatedly warning everyone to get to higher ground..there are videos on UA-cam where you can hear her continued announcements..the radio station employees thought they were safe in their four-story office building; they realized they had to all get on the roof, but the killer tsunami came for them, and finally they had to scramble up the tower as the last bastion of safety was going underwater. All but one of them perished, including the young lady who chose to stay and warn her countrymen. There is a breathtaking photo on UA-cam also of the tower showing only the top few feet was all you could see. RIP the Japanese people and may they rebuild and may God heal their broken hearts.
Read your comment again Fernando. Imagine the stress ....
The big ship is like, on my way to knock down power lines and stuff.
Miyagi Prefecture is pretty large. What harbor is this?
the most important question for me is how did the Japanese live during earthquakes and tsunamis in the 16-19 centuries without all these protective systems and alerts?
So many dont Get up in the hill? Dont they hear the Siren ?
6:00 - the mayhem begins
This is just Mother Nature moving around a little in her sleep. Imagine if she woke up and got really mad at us.
20,000 Souls were lost that day.
@@marilynyorkreames9328 I know, but it could have been much, much worse. And some day, it will be.
@@Diana_L. 230k were lost in the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.
@@ijustneedmyself And some day it'll get even worse than that. It'll be millions.
This location has two concrete high rise buildings; this video is from the building on the right. The video from the building on the left shows the green-roofed warehouse breaking apart, as seen here, but also showing how a large piece of it got stuck against the corner of this building before it was completely destroyed.
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Imagine realizing that you arent high enough when it hits?? Its heartbreaking and terrifying. God Bless All
This capture my attention when the videos 1st aired onTV - could not imagine surviving any of this... I was a new widow with 3 school age kids & felt my world had been turned upside down ...thought “wow that there is footage of a real catastrophe riddled in loss”
What amazes me is how nonchalant they are at the beginning. My mother in law passed 4 yrs. ago. She lived with us and passed knowing I loved her even more than I love my husband. She said she’d never live in Japan again because of her fear of this. She was royalty to the end. Not a day goes by still we mention her. And theses Japanese lost everything...praying daily for Japan even now❤️
I thought id seen every piece of footage concerning the earth quake and the tsunami, but this one is new to me. Broke the mooring rope to that car/people carrying vessel, which just shows it strength, but then to see all the cars, just tons of them. The sad part, is most people tried to flee via their car, so you can be sure a lot of those cars are occupied by people. Even a lot of the evacuation zones went under water, which is truly tragic, but they never thought a magnitude 9.0 earth quake would happen, let alone the sheer size of the tsunami! sad fact it was a record breaker on both counts. It took so many lives, especially the old. I pray for all those who died, and all those who are still suffering almost 10 years on. The other sad part, is that a lot of the reconstructed buildings are STILL made of wood, which is hard to believe they would do that. The good news, is that a lot of areas now have evacuation towers, that are very tall, higher than this tsunami was.
Wow, Frank. Amazing and so sad.
These terrifying scenes are as numerous as narcissistic posings.
id wish i knew what they were saying. with subtitles or something. you can guess about half of it tho..
Holy sh*t!!! I hope the building they were in was sturdy enough to withstand the tsunami. That must've been so freaking scary with the water surrounding you from everywhere like that. Definitely one of the scariest tsunami videos I've seen from Japan so far.
I heard mention on another video about the 2011 Tsunami that one person died in California as a result of going down to the shoreline to take some photographs. What depth, or height was the tide on the Californian side of the Pacific?
An unbelievable change in so short a time!...Mother Nature sure has her moods!
People keep commenting on how amazing it was that the building these people were in survived. They are actually in the main Coast Guard station for that harbor area. It is very tall, to give a full view of the harbor, and reinforced steel and concrete to weather even the worst storms. Still, when that tank hit it I was afraid for a minute that the damage might be too great, but although they were all safe they had to watch countless people die and their town be destroyed. I hope they found some peace and acceptance in the end but the experience will never totally leave them. Prayers to erase the terrors that live on in your dreams.
They must have been shitting themselves I know I would be. Seeing the water get higher and higher and every single structure around you get smashed and ripped to pieces. All I would be thinking while my heart is pounding thru my chest is this building should be strong enough to hold right ?....RIGHT ?? And please God dont let one of those ships crash into us. Omg I cant even begin to imagine the not knowing.
Just horrifying!!!
This is why I will never live next to the ocean. Japan has been working to repair from this disaster, and prepare for the next one. The rest of the world is not prepared.
After all these years, pain remains. RIP
My most viewed You Tube Video ever with over 115,000 views #Tsunami
Still so very scary to watch..
I can't for get. So horrible...
will haston No, I was not there. Just my feeling.
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You think its possible to create a seawall that reduces a tsunami, yet still allows ships into port? If it were possible, that would be great!! I imagine officials would not want to pay for it, and not consider the savings
will haston I agree with most of the things you said. We can make the waves crash further out, dissipating the energy, with surf brakes. As far as mining rock, arent the mountains inhabited already?? People should not build near shore, period. They should build at higher elevations, well above the flood lines. Anything below, should be raised on stilts, columns, to allow water to flow.
The sound is terrifying, and the power!
Wow.. that one brought the viewers into the reality more than any other video.
why dont you place the clips in a playlist so that they all play one after another?
I really really hope Japan learned from this experience. I would hate for them to go through the same thing twice and just as worse !
This has happened many times in Japans past. There was even ancient markers saying Do not build below this elevation. But they were ignored and of course forgotten until it happened again. Sadly people will repeat this over and over.
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The Parable of the Man who built his house on Sand instead of Rock. Kept getting washed away while the other man’s house stood firm.
I'm sorry for your loss.....
Why would you write something that is so dumb and so cruel? Tens of thousands of people died during this horrible thing, including an entire elementary school that was washed away before the children could escape. There's something wrong with you.
My sister and b in law were there at the time but they didn't see the flooding. They are avid kayakers, lucky they were not not on the coast. Flights were cancelled, they were on a commuter train, they felt sick before they realized it was a quake. There were several tremors they felt. Crazy eh? My brother in law was in the LA quake in the 80's, there on a convention. My kids were visiting India when they had the 2005 quake and tsunami. God is preparing us in British Columbia for the big Pacific quake due any day now.
I think u mean 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
The aftershock captured is terrifying to me, honestly. i am still captivated by this event months later. my heart aches today as it did that day. what terror!
That boat should have left the harbor and rode it out in open water.
This is really sad. America will see something similar in the pacific northwest, however our buildings are (for the most part) not earthquake proof, those victims will so badly injured, they mostly will drown.
Only thing missing was Godzilla.
I don't know whats worse. The tsunami or the quality if the video.
For the record, shit gets real around 5:28.
Everyone in that building was concerned with how high the water would rise, and whether their building would be swept from its foundations and obliterated like every other structure they'd seen suffer the same fate...
That was the best footage.... damnnnnn
Some people stayed on the ground for to long. They were probably curious, I really hope they made it. 💗🇯🇵
I wonder if they felt their building might collapse
It’s so deceptively calm like we know it’s coming and still we don’t see it until it’s late
Oh my!
Terrifying...
I'm glad I live at the foot of the Rockies!
I think it was three feet. But remember, it would be a series of powerful waves; even at only three feet it could throw you against the cliff and suck you back out to sea and throw you back against the beach, and drowning would be a distinct possibility.
Excellent camerawork..!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks Frank ..
Video starts at 6.20
Hei tahdon sanoa nähtyäni suurimman osan järkyttävistä videoista.Olette rohkea kansa..selvisitte maanjäristyksestä ja sen aiheuttamasta tsunamista.Ei ole helppoa kokea kotinsa ja perheen menetyksistä,hyvistä ystävistä taikka lemmikeistä.Liikutuin näkemästäni ja toivon että saatte kaiken avun jotta voitte rakentaa elämänne uudelleen.
Interessante que as pessoas escutam os avisos de que a tsunami estaria próxima e ainda deixam os carros no mesmo local. Será que queriam algum benefício do seguro com isso?
Why did these people stay in a building so close to the seà?! Were they so sure their building would not collapse?!!!
The building is specially designed to withstand this sort of thing. It’s a coastguard building or something. So there was a risk, but not as much as in a normal building.
So scary to be in the building wondering if it will collapse
I wish I could understand what their saying cause this is scary jus to watch it
I wonder whether these guys were safe. At any rate, the Tsunami in Miyagi was over 20 meters high
I can't imagine the trauma from the person filming it.
That moment when you look out the window and the parking lot/carpark is now the sea,you know sh.t is getting real.
Not like a gradual rise in the water but like a raging river. I’d definitely be moving.