From my understanding, its a wave when the sea level doesn't have a cliff of a kind. Without a cliff of a kind, the water basically has a ramp to build up on.
@@aksmex2576 it's more like a change in the altitude of the ocean. If you imagine a line on one side is sea level the other is 3m higher, all the water from the higher side will move towards the lower side creating a wave of change in altitude.
For all those watching this now... look up Miki Endo. Tragic and heroic story.. she stayed at he post doing the announcements until the 3 story building she was in was engulfed.. she never left her post even though she could see the water coming towards her. She was found almost a month later washed up on a beach. She's credited as saving thousands.
@@NoName5589 Right, it looks worse. The monstrous volume of water. Eerie how it slid in over the whole harbour. Thankful they had a warning system. It could have been at night.
If you have never experienced the power of the flooding Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, I imagine it is like that except much higher and with more power. Poor folks that did not get out in time.
I’ve seen many bits of footage of Tsunamis over the years but this has to be the most visual representation of the sheer scale of one that I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
It was a huge disaster for Japan. There was a lot of footage captured from all over the country. Hopefully it'll be a long time before they have another one.
@@aeroripper Ah yes. I heard Japan just just had an earthquake. I was waiting for the new episode of Attack on Titan. I hope they're OK. Life over a TV series for sure.
@@frederikzinn5427 I mean it was kind of bad yeah, but honestly I was expecting a 20-30 foot wall of water to come in at like 50 mph+ based on how they discribe them.. This just seemed like, "ehhh lame". A simple wall is all you need or just travel up 30 feet
It’s hard to believe this was twelve years ago now, I remember the day this happened pretty vividly. RIP to those that perished and much respect for Japan and it’s people to recover so well!
I was in Kamaishi in December 2011, and stayed with a family who lived very close to here near Unosumai (a few miles to the north). Every day we went into Kamaishi and passed through this area. The seawall was mostly gone, just giant broken chunks of concrete. I asked my friend about the tsunami, and he said that the people of Ryoishi talked about the tsunami in terms of “a bathtub filling up and overflowing”. This video shows exactly that, I can see why they made that (accurate) comparison. The damage to the town went all the way back, about 1/2 mile inland, to this curve in the highway (45). Only the higher areas of Ryoishi were spared. Since my last visit in 2015, they raised the ground level of the entire town by 10 meters (it ramps down right before it gets to the harbor). But in 2011, the roads had been destroyed and had many temporary 1-lane repairs... I’ve never seen anything like the destruction in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. I lived through Hurricane Katrina, which was horrific, but the destruction in places like Ryoishi here was total. Videos, photos, and words just cannot fully convey what happened here. I’ll add, these were also the nicest people I’ve ever met. Just amazing.
+Rocket Scientist 🙏 Thank you for sharing your experiences and the post-tsunami details. Even before when I watched this video prior to the English subtitles, it was plain that these were good people who were determined to look out for one another. Yours truly, Brain Surgeon 🪛👩🏼⚕️🩺
That's a really strong wall when it can hold what looks like >10m of static and dynamic water pressure. I'm genuinely impressed by Japanese authorities who manage to build this infrastructure to protect a small town. This relatively thin wall managed to dam up the paciffic ocean. I'm sure this gave several people more time to escape.
Yeah, though the idiots that think "oh I gotta grab all my stuff" were probably the ones you see drive by just seconds/minutes before the water goes over the wall. Either that or some officials but still, it's stupid like if that wall was defective in any 1 spot or the water raised any quicker they would have been dead.
Yea tsunamis have happened there in the past but it’s not super common. Typhoons are. They’re much more organized and built say if the same thing happened in Florida
It is amazing to think that wall held back the pacific ocean, as well as the massive underground water tunnels in tokyo, I believe I watched or read something that they've re-engineered the embankments. They're not going to let this type of devastation happen twice, thats for sure!
I just hang out with my friend Smelly Bob. Water is supernaturally repelled by his mere presence in some godforsaken way. I shit you not! He has his uses...
Translating the man's comments for us English speakers really helps us understand what was going through the villager's minds. Fear, awe, amazement, safety of others, resolution of what was to be all pour out of this man's heart, and yet he keeps a clear head to be ready to react to further danger. One can only imagine the sense of panic and grief once the waters receded and the task of locating family and friends began. Then multiply this by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. He was correct in that they were experiencing a living hell. My heart still hurts for the Japanese affected by this awful disaster.
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@@sstills951 Criticizing him for sounding too dramatic? Even for a troll, that's preposterous l. Hysterically screaming for four straight minutes until he lost his voice wouldn't have been an unrealistic reaction to witnessing this happen to your home town. He just saw his town and probably his own livelihood (he mentions his boat) completely destroyed, isn't sure if the cliff they're on will be undermined and collapse, knows people he knows have drowned, wonders aloud about the safety of the school children. Dramatic? Hush, troll. You'll call the thunder down on your own head.
Multiple times. The water didn't even go out after the first wave. Then another taller wave trumped the last one. Crazy! If this happened on the eastern seaboard usa so many people would die from wanting to watch it, not realizing how tall the next waves will be.
Wow, thank you for filming this Tsunami. I live in Western Australia which is quite flat for the most part. I had not realised how harmless looking a Tsunami could look from a distance, and it didn’t occur to me that such a high barrier wall could so easily be breached. Very sobering. Thank you again for educating me. Best wishes to you and your family.
“When you see the cheetah running with the gazelle, you run with them.” That was something I heard an old man say in a newscast of the tsunami. He said that when he saw animals that usually eat each other running up the mountain together, he knew something was wrong. He said he saw that a while before the tsunami hit and that’s what saved him. He ran up the mountain.
I was living near Hachinohe the day of the earthquake. I thought the ground was going to open up. I volunteered and did cleanup afterwards along the coast and it was unreal like a horror movie. We didn't have power for over a week, so I put my food in the snow. I had my huge American BBQ grill so I cooked meat for my neighbors and bonded because we were all together in this. I can't wait to move back. I wish more Americans shared the Japanese culture because they are simply amazing!!
This is recommended because it was 10 years ago that it happened in this same month, people have been searching this so it’s been getting attention and algorithm picked it up.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I think he ment the tsunami didn't look anything like how they make it appear with cgi in movies. Like a huge wave crashing into skyscrapers.
@@MrMazvaz these tsunamis here are "small" if u gonna start even comparing it with the movies. Movie ones like what we see example San andreas, it's apocalypse asteroid level of tsunami, it ain't something you will see in your lifetime they're unbelievably rare but it's definetely possible , tsunami's are a series of waves that can have long distance apart like even hours behind the first wave, and these waves can be long up tp 100Km.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I know, but its still a tsunami and its still terrifying even though its regarded as small. It just puts things in perspective, how helpless we are when nature decides to fuck shit up.
You know what's worse than a wave? Seemingly endless ionising radiation that will be around for thousands of years that is now polluting the Japanese coastline.
It's incomprehensible just how much water was displaced & pushed inland in such a short time. The subtitles are great, they really convey the mix of awe & horror these folks must have felt seeing nature go completely haywire
It's not till the end when he swings the camera around to look at the whole town behind those walls being washed away that you really understand what he's so upset about.
In less than 6 minutes everything you've owned, all the places you made memories, went to school, perhaps met your first love...Gone. I can only hope everybody heeded the alarm in time and got to higher ground in time.
@@Anomaly.Filmworks you'll never understand the pain of seeing everything you made during your entire life get destroyed in seconds unless you suffer through it. You probably take everything you have in life for granted.
If I'd live in Japan, I wouldn't do it in a house by the sea shore... The entire world know about tsunamis from Japan, you'd think they would stop building vulnerable houses(everything owned, memories etc) right there near the water.
Thanks for the translation! I've seen the full version of it many times, but was never sure his exact words. That day still resonates, the loss and displacement and altered lives of so many. God bless!
I always thought a tsunami would look so different. Large waves coming toward the shore, but this is even scarier. It seems so calm till it's pretty much too late.
i remember the tsunami that happened in 2003/2004 after the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake - i'm Australian so i wasn't affected, but i remember reading a story about one young girl who noticed the water receding dramatically and managed to get her loved ones to evacuate in time.
@@elfinvale this is actually how a lot of native people who are on islands know to get to higher ground. If the water recedes a certain amount they head inland for higher ground. Learned that from my cultural anthropology class.
They even had a breakwater line, seawall and a warning system. Imagine if this hit a country like the Philippines. The level of destruction would be devastating 😰
A tsunami hit our country in 2004, on the day I was born. We had no sort of warning systems or breakwall whatsoever. A few minutes right after I was born, half of our country was destroyed
@&; it was 3 meters. Thats taller than most living quarters in Japan. It only looks the way it does because they're safe and on high ground. If you saw it face first, it would be 3 or 4 of yourselves combined in height.
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt -Faith restored in humanity -Wrecked/dead/ded/dying -was this filmed with a potato? -last time I was this early... -Stop saying who is here, we never left. -in the weird part of UA-cam again -I'm not crying, you're crying -she/he/they found their UA-cam password -who is watching in 'current year' - 'something else' brought me here - saaaaaaame - nobody: Not a single soul: Me: something unfunny nobody cared to know I could go on...and on...and on.. 80% of people are clones, social media comments reflect that. Accept that, lower your expectations and you won't be bothered by them haha
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt I honestly didn't think anyone else had said that. I don't go on UA-cam often and I was just commenting what I truly thought. But I guess I can see how many people would say that though
@@wubblebubbleball5433 We can take his comment as a different way of thinking about "losing everything we worked for". If we accept that what we borrowed has been taken back, it will hurt less. The comment doesn't have to mean that there must be an alternative and humans are bad so they deserve this.
Tsunami is not a wave, but a column of water under pressure in movement. It can be just a few centimeters over the water surface but with tons of power. A fact of density
@@pepeperez2774 Tsunami is a wave tho. Even if it doesnt nescessary look like a wave it is a wave of water. Look at this footage and tell me that isnt a huge wave ua-cam.com/video/Z-2khcTHIgs/v-deo.html At 2:20
I can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this disaster occurred, I was still in elementary school when I saw this on national news, my condolences to the Japanese community.
I was on a college oceanography class shortly year after this happened, we watched SO much footage! It was horrifying! But it was the best example we've really ever had of a modern day tsunami.
No matter how many times I watch this it still saddens me. It's been almost 11 years since that horrible day and it still breaks my heart to see this happen to the Japanese people.
@@nonnaurbisness3013 why do you think so? I've seen this tragedy back in 2011 and its horrifying to watch at the videos back then. a lot of people died and lost their homes.
I think it likes to give us reminders from time to time about HAARP and what not, anything to keep us distracted from Prince Andrew and Jeffry Epstein...... oh no wait they did the Oprah interview to distract from that didn’t they? oops lol
It must be heartbreaking to see that coming in, and right before your eyes it takes everything, and you would never feel more powerless in your entire life.
The anxiety in dudes voice😩 I can’t even imagine what it’s like to witness in person. As someone stated before, With all the advancements of mankind & his technology we don’t stand a chance against Mother Nature.
The 3 meter announcement was wrong, and part of the problem - probably a lot of people heard "3 meters" and weren't too worried. Then when the actual wave turned out to be much bigger.... some of the people who had warning hadn't run far enough to get away from what hit the coast. It was 14 meters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Same Tsunami event. Something I didn't see people try to do that puzzles me - I'd think that, the moment you feel an earthquake like that, with all those boats around.... why not grab one and head straight out to sea? If you can get out to deep water fast enough, the tsunami will pass under you as a not very high, not dangerous swell rather than the towering dangerous wave it becomes as the shallows lift it up.
If you know Japanese men, this the scariest they can get, while saying “this is HELL ! HELL ! HELL ! “ he still went on to say “This is AMAZING ! “ but he said it in FEAR, so I’m sure many got “ lost in translation “
the most horrid thing is that they had multiple sea walls and break walls and everything still got swept away. it's hard to imagine how much worse things would have been without those walls when everything was swept away anyway
I think it's coz of those walls the impact of the waves was lessened but still managed to do a lot of damage.. but those walls did buy some time for the people.
If you pay attention to the road at the bottom of the frame in the beginning of the video. You will see a little white truck driving towards the water just before the tsunami hits. A few minutes later you can see that same truck being swept back down the road by the tsunami as it starts to crest over the sea wall. I hope the driver survived but nature is rarely so kind.
Shooting location: 39.307126, 141.889863. Every time I watch this video I am amazed at how that water went over the wall. It seems unthinkable before it happens.
We've had 2 major tsunamis in the last 20 years.. they both happened in daylight. Imagine if it was the dark of night. Would be much harder to escape I'd think
That's what exactly happened here in the Philippines labelled the tsunami as the "midnight killer" because it strucked at midnight leaving a lot of people dead caused by the tsunami :( It was devastating If only they evacuated even after experiencing the huge earthquake they could have been saved.
And I still get amazed how Japan recovered from this tsunami and how far they have came, pretty amazing. Unfortunately There are still more than 2.5k people missing. RIP to those souls. God speed Japan
Strong people n a strong country to bounce back after a catastrophic tsunami like this ,if one visits these places it's like it never happened such is the resilience of Japanese people
This is amazing footage and shows how important it is to know what a tsunami is actually like. It's less a "tidal wave" and more a giant ripple in the ocean from the energy that created it.
What is tragic is that people did not realize how big "huge tsunami" was about to be. The fact that is topped that seawall so completely is terrifying, even ten years after the fact. I would like to see new video from this same area to see how well people have recovered and whether the seawall was rebuilt to larger standards. To those lost, RIP. To those who survived, be strong and be at peace. (From USA)
The fact that people are still driving probs overestimated the impact of the impending tsunami. Rest their souls & everyone that’ve lost theirs inland.
Fact are most of those drivers were emergency personnel contacting people to leave for higher ground. Most of those folks living in these fishing towns are older folks.
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 this car just a minute before the water started to break the seawall... i cant stop to think about that view and i really hope they made it out of there.
I’ve watched a hundred of these videos and it’s still gut wrenching to watch and think of what the Japanese people went through and how terrifying that all must have been. The one man kept yelling, “it’s the end.” At that point you had no idea when and if it was going to stop and recede. I can’t imagine how hard that could have been to watch everything to have get destroyed.
I've seen enough of these to know what was going to happen but at first, I reacted like you. The interesting thing here is that this guy knew it was going to be a huge tsunami just by looking at what was happening out in the ocean. That shows a lot of experience with the sea and tsunamis.
@@m0r73n Yes ' it was a thin wall. Judging from the size of the cars driving on the road next to it, l figure wall is about 25-30 feet or (7 to 9 meters tall). That's about the height of buildings at the Mall shopping center. Thats alot of pressure and Alot 'of water. I can't help feel bad for all those who lost family, friends, pets and properties 😫
What’s always most terrifying to me when I watch these videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami are that almost every one of these towns had the infrastructure to prevent even a fairly large tsunami from destroying the whole town. The Pacific Northwest of the US is also prone to receiving mega-tsunamis but has none of this infrastructure. I can’t even imagine the devastation we’re going to experience in the PNW when the big one hits. We have no protection, the US will only (maybe) invest in the infrastructure after it happens
Don't worry, outside of CA, US building codes are so crap that you'll all be dead from the initial earthquake, so the tsunami will just be claening up the bodies, the collapsed buildings, and putting out the fires
@@a-j.2002 It did collapse unfortunately but once the first 2 waves happened. It was reduced in some parts to chunks of unidentifiable concrete. We studied it in geography class and saw photos of it afterwards. Parts of the wall (which is a lot longer than it looks in this video) looked like a giant had taken bites out of it.
@@gehtnix16 I suppose that makes sense, but I still fail to see how you could get that sort of funnel effect in something as vast as the ocean where the total volume is spread so vastly. I always assumed it was the physical raising of the sea level that contributed to the height of a tsunami, not the influence of coves/mountains.
My wife was in Japan and I was in Switzerland…. She called me and said that a earthquake happened, I just said “ we’ll be careful and call me back “… then less than 1h after I saw the news and I call back my wife with tears in my mouth. Hopefully she was in a safe place but she wanted to stay in Japan to help ( she is a nurse). She left Japan in may and we stayed in Switzerland for 12 years. Now we are back in Japan with 3 kids and we hope to never have to go trough it again in our life
Everything is going as they watch. It's so sad to lose what one works so hard to aquire. I'm sorry for everyone who lost both their property and loved ones
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What's scary is how often you'll hear those sirens but this time was real, it was deadly, and the most disasterous ever. I think that's why these sirens have become so eerie, they really only signify mass destruction. Even more scary that it only took about 3 mins from the alarm to the water coming in.
@@MrBmxbrawler Sorry. you are incorrect.A couple hundred kms of coastline dropped 2 meters with the earthquake making the walls useless.Check with livescience.com
Whenever the water level suddenly lowers at the coast of the ocean, you better run for your life in direction of the inland and to a point as high as possible.
There is little you can do to prevent this, no matter how advanced the technology is, the water comes with a fairly large force, so not even the dams can handle it. The only solution is to build further from the coast or in higher areas near the coast. In my country, every few years, floods occur in certain areas. The houses that were built in the riverbed (areas that are not safe for construction) are destroyed by the water, and the authorities give the owners money to rebuild their houses in the same area, instead of moving them to safer areas, so that the problem does not happen again...
Fukushima wasn't prepared and is still leaking thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean every year. New irradiated species are being found all the time on the west coast of North America.
It's because of the form of this bay, on a straight beach it will be only three meters, which is scary enough. But when pushed in to bay or ever smaller inlet, it might quadruple it's height easily.
Wow, that video was awesome. Scary sad. I hope nobody lost her life. It’s a shame. People lost their homes vehicles boats jobs businesses while that was so awesome but scary at the same time for the people that lived there people that might’ve not known it was coming that was so sad if anyone lost their lives it’s awesome, seeing how mother nature works, but it’s also scary when people lose lives
Same i only saw this video for the first time 2 days ago and i have watched it a good few times now and i am still in disbelief at what is happening i mean wow this is unbelievable i so appreciate now where i live and my country's boring weather ❤
@@ligametis problem is, it might have been 3m somewhere more "neutral", but this town was in a sort of bay which acted like a channel. 3m quickly turned into much more as the water was channelled. Sad to see the cars just moments before it happened.
@@riquelmeone I don't think officials think people will do mathematical equations. They probably announced how high they expected waves to be in that particular area.
It is something I will never forget. I hope you all managed to rebuild your homes and businesses. I hope also that you are living happy lives. With love for all those who lost their lives. Xx
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Anyone else got this randomly recommended 8 years later?
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This is important. People often think a tsunami is a big wave, when acctually is like a flooding, you can't really see it coming until is too late.
From my understanding, its a wave when the sea level doesn't have a cliff of a kind. Without a cliff of a kind, the water basically has a ramp to build up on.
@@aksmex2576 it's more like a change in the altitude of the ocean. If you imagine a line on one side is sea level the other is 3m higher, all the water from the higher side will move towards the lower side creating a wave of change in altitude.
It depends on the magnitude of the earthquake on the sea floor and how close it is to the land. The waves can be tremendously high! 20 meters!
isnt that obvious after watching the video?
Yes.. it's obvious... but it's a nice comment
For all those watching this now... look up Miki Endo. Tragic and heroic story.. she stayed at he post doing the announcements until the 3 story building she was in was engulfed.. she never left her post even though she could see the water coming towards her. She was found almost a month later washed up on a beach. She's credited as saving thousands.
:(((((
Rip Miki endo
Wow... Amazing dedication
@@alisonestill9178 and selfless sacrifice 🙏
I did not know abut her at all....Thank you.
Thanks for the English subtitles. I often wondered what was actually being said. Much love for the fortitude of the Japanese people!
I honestly didn't realize a tsunami could be so subtle while being just as destructive. I'd always thought of them as a huge wave
It is a huge wave. It’s just not the tall vertical wall as portrayed in movies.
It is am absolutely huge wave its just mostly under water. The entire ocean is lifting up essentially
@@nwe2009 That's what this looks like and I think that might be scarier than the 'traditional' tsunami wave
@@NoName5589 Right, it looks worse. The monstrous volume of water. Eerie how it slid in over the whole harbour. Thankful they had a warning system. It could have been at night.
If you have never experienced the power of the flooding Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, I imagine it is like that except much higher and with more power. Poor folks that did not get out in time.
I’ve seen many bits of footage of Tsunamis over the years but this has to be the most visual representation of the sheer scale of one that I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
It was a huge disaster for Japan. There was a lot of footage captured from all over the country. Hopefully it'll be a long time before they have another one.
Honestly this was way way WAY less intense than I expected
@@locklear308 Then you might not have realized what you have seen...
@@aeroripper Ah yes. I heard Japan just just had an earthquake. I was waiting for the new episode of Attack on Titan. I hope they're OK. Life over a TV series for sure.
@@frederikzinn5427 I mean it was kind of bad yeah, but honestly I was expecting a 20-30 foot wall of water to come in at like 50 mph+ based on how they discribe them.. This just seemed like, "ehhh lame". A simple wall is all you need or just travel up 30 feet
Hearing the word "Tsunami is coming" must be so terrifying.
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@@saketchourasia7191 What a coincidence bro!.
One in ten of thousands.
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@@TheWatchmaan yes bro
Not if you are at a save spot already
It’s hard to believe this was twelve years ago now, I remember the day this happened pretty vividly. RIP to those that perished and much respect for Japan and it’s people to recover so well!
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I was in Kamaishi in December 2011, and stayed with a family who lived very close to here near Unosumai (a few miles to the north). Every day we went into Kamaishi and passed through this area. The seawall was mostly gone, just giant broken chunks of concrete. I asked my friend about the tsunami, and he said that the people of Ryoishi talked about the tsunami in terms of “a bathtub filling up and overflowing”. This video shows exactly that, I can see why they made that (accurate) comparison.
The damage to the town went all the way back, about 1/2 mile inland, to this curve in the highway (45). Only the higher areas of Ryoishi were spared.
Since my last visit in 2015, they raised the ground level of the entire town by 10 meters (it ramps down right before it gets to the harbor). But in 2011, the roads had been destroyed and had many temporary 1-lane repairs... I’ve never seen anything like the destruction in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. I lived through Hurricane Katrina, which was horrific, but the destruction in places like Ryoishi here was total. Videos, photos, and words just cannot fully convey what happened here.
I’ll add, these were also the nicest people I’ve ever met. Just amazing.
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Thank you for sharing your experiences and the post-tsunami details.
Even before when I watched this video prior to the English subtitles, it was plain that these were good people who were determined to look out for one another.
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Yes I also found the Japanese people extremely hospitable and a very proud honorable people.
That's a really strong wall when it can hold what looks like >10m of static and dynamic water pressure.
I'm genuinely impressed by Japanese authorities who manage to build this infrastructure to protect a small town.
This relatively thin wall managed to dam up the paciffic ocean. I'm sure this gave several people more time to escape.
Yeah, though the idiots that think "oh I gotta grab all my stuff" were probably the ones you see drive by just seconds/minutes before the water goes over the wall. Either that or some officials but still, it's stupid like if that wall was defective in any 1 spot or the water raised any quicker they would have been dead.
Yea tsunamis have happened there in the past but it’s not super common. Typhoons are. They’re much more organized and built say if the same thing happened in Florida
It is amazing to think that wall held back the pacific ocean, as well as the massive underground water tunnels in tokyo, I believe I watched or read something that they've re-engineered the embankments. They're not going to let this type of devastation happen twice, thats for sure!
That wall looks to be 18-24ft high looks like it could use another 10-12ft added....
I just hang out with my friend Smelly Bob. Water is supernaturally repelled by his mere presence in some godforsaken way. I shit you not! He has his uses...
Water is so powerful and devastating. The whole scenario is quite surreal.
The water will always reclaim the land. We're merely pimples.
It really is tho! Something we take for granted.
Never build so Close to the sea
Water can flow, or it can crush. Bruce Lee.
A 30 foot high concrete wall. Submerged 10 feet under sea level. Yeah
Translating the man's comments for us English speakers really helps us understand what was going through the villager's minds. Fear, awe, amazement, safety of others, resolution of what was to be all pour out of this man's heart, and yet he keeps a clear head to be ready to react to further danger.
One can only imagine the sense of panic and grief once the waters receded and the task of locating family and friends began. Then multiply this by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. He was correct in that they were experiencing a living hell. My heart still hurts for the Japanese affected by this awful disaster.
The guy wouldn't shut up. A very cartoonish/Godzilla like reaction.
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@@sstills951 I’ll tell you what, I wouldn’t be anywhere near as calm as he was.
I did think he kinda sounded like long johnson nononono cat.
@@sstills951 Criticizing him for sounding too dramatic?
Even for a troll, that's preposterous l.
Hysterically screaming for four straight minutes until he lost his voice wouldn't have been an unrealistic reaction to witnessing this happen to your home town. He just saw his town and probably his own livelihood (he mentions his boat) completely destroyed, isn't sure if the cliff they're on will be undermined and collapse, knows people he knows have drowned, wonders aloud about the safety of the school children.
Dramatic?
Hush, troll.
You'll call the thunder down on your own head.
@@melissasaint3283 To be honest, this Man reacted harmlessly... I can't imagine how I would have reacted if my village was wiped out
Another UA-cam recommended that is actually worth watching.
Неожиданно, согласна
How UA-cam used to be
Same
Unbelievable, it's not a big wave like I thought. Just keeps rising and rising. The power is amazing. I'd be scared to death.
Tsunami waves can be miles long a normal wave is a few metres, its the length of the wave that surprises people
No when announcement is made where is the question of death, this is only natural balance act, and known fact
It was a very big wave actually
You can see actual waves here ua-cam.com/video/3618dZoiaPE/v-deo.html
Its a big wave actually but it come slowly in seconds
It's petrifying how slow it begins and looks pretty innocent and then it just annihilates EVERYTHING in its path.
I love it for all the same reasons except that in today's day it's got to be systemic racism that caused this Plus climate change deniers
When they use the term evacuate I said I would be saying EVERYBODY RUN
Multiple times. The water didn't even go out after the first wave. Then another taller wave trumped the last one. Crazy! If this happened on the eastern seaboard usa so many people would die from wanting to watch it, not realizing how tall the next waves will be.
@@paulwilliams8555 how the actual fuck does systemic racism have anything to do with earthquakes and the resulting tsunami
@@rileymannion5301 because yes
Wow, thank you for filming this Tsunami. I live in Western Australia which is quite flat for the most part. I had not realised how harmless looking a Tsunami could look from a distance, and it didn’t occur to me that such a high barrier wall could so easily be breached. Very sobering. Thank you again for educating me. Best wishes to you and your family.
I'm in WA too. This video just popped up, so I watched it.
Very sad. 😢
Western Australia tsunami could happen in past it has I believe that's wat caused the hills ridge
It was barely a tsunami.
The most staggering thing about this is it goes from absolutely nothing to everythings fucked in about 4 and a half minutes.
Hello ? Are you a boy ?
@@zaryab1111 *Bonk* , Go to horny jail.
I like GTA too😌
@@zaryab1111 Why does it matter if they are or not? Sounds a bit predatory. Could get yourself into some serious trouble if you are one.
Че лодки в море не угнали?
“When you see the cheetah running with the gazelle, you run with them.”
That was something I heard an old man say in a newscast of the tsunami. He said that when he saw animals that usually eat each other running up the mountain together, he knew something was wrong.
He said he saw that a while before the tsunami hit and that’s what saved him. He ran up the mountain.
There's cheetah and gazelle in Japan?
@@niklasmorningstar4301 Nope. But he was making the point that when animals that eat each other are running together, you run.
😳Wow, just visualizing that is terrifying
@@Gator-fromOZ x
wow thats actually really cool
The person who took the video doesn't say "amazing".
He says "The damage is too bad".
But it describes it pretty well. Dreadful and terrible. But in a weird also amazing...
@@alessandrok.9684 "Unbelievable" would be more accurate, I guess.
3:48
@@PartyhatRS Last time They posted was 4 years ago i dont think they are going to fix a subtitle in a video from 8 years ago.
@@PartyhatRS They can't. It's edited onto the video itself.
震災は想像を絶する大変さだったと思います。
明治生まれの祖母の話を親から聞かされ、当時の震災や戦争被害の事を思い出します。
形は変わってしまうけど、また新たな時代を築いてきた先祖代々の思いを大切にして、これからに繋いでいきたいと、思います。
I can’t even imagine how horrifying it would be to See your entire village where you spend most of your life in being destroyed by a huge wave...
Imagine titans invading your whole town🙄
Not like it was the first tsunami in Japanese history. People are just dumb. Should have built a larger harbor wall. Can't fix stupid
They should have used one punch man to rebound the waves 🙄
@some random person they did lol
Almighty push
Can't believe I've not seen this footage before. Absolutely mesmerising the destructive power of nature
But then after 7 years the UA-cam algorithm struck...
I saw the unedited long form version... But then UA-cam said no more versions with people dieing. So it got edited down.
@@Mac_Omegaly youtube hates the facts and the reality we live in
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man
@@unicornsteaks6769 Godzilla
I'm watching this video near the end of 2021, may the families of the victims be given abundant health and fortune..
warm hugs from Indonesia...
Salam indo 🙏
@@mangobing2717 anjay😂
@@tillend1115 aowkaowkw
Semoga kakek Sugiono baik2 saja 🤣
@@susisusanti8131 🔥
I was living near Hachinohe the day of the earthquake. I thought the ground was going to open up. I volunteered and did cleanup afterwards along the coast and it was unreal like a horror movie. We didn't have power for over a week, so I put my food in the snow. I had my huge American BBQ grill so I cooked meat for my neighbors and bonded because we were all together in this. I can't wait to move back. I wish more Americans shared the Japanese culture because they are simply amazing!!
Америка не помогает ! А всё уничтожает многие этого не понимают !
This is recommended because it was 10 years ago that it happened in this same month, people have been searching this so it’s been getting attention and algorithm picked it up.
Thanks.
Yeah, same thing around 9/11, terrifying videos recommended
It's not all CGI like in the movies, but it's actually scarier in real life.
No shit it's not cgi 💀
Yes it is, it's relentless, as sea level keeps increasing more and more you realize there's nothing that can stop it. That's the essence of nightmare.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I think he ment the tsunami didn't look anything like how they make it appear with cgi in movies. Like a huge wave crashing into skyscrapers.
@@MrMazvaz these tsunamis here are "small" if u gonna start even comparing it with the movies. Movie ones like what we see example San andreas, it's apocalypse asteroid level of tsunami, it ain't something you will see in your lifetime they're unbelievably rare but it's definetely possible , tsunami's are a series of waves that can have long distance apart like even hours behind the first wave, and these waves can be long up tp 100Km.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I know, but its still a tsunami and its still terrifying even though its regarded as small. It just puts things in perspective, how helpless we are when nature decides to fuck shit up.
Don't judge a book by it's cover, Such a gentle wave but wipe away everything in less than 5 min.. Unbelievable power..
Imagine power of creater 👆🏻
except the breakwaters, the boats and the cliff. and the cameraman.
1m cubed of water weighs 1 tonne. Puts into perspective how powerful water is.
@@Jammydodgers41And its only light GASES Hydrogen & Oxygen combination!!!!!! It means if you join forces with others your power multiplies
You know what's worse than a wave? Seemingly endless ionising radiation that will be around for thousands of years that is now polluting the Japanese coastline.
It's incomprehensible just how much water was displaced & pushed inland in such a short time. The subtitles are great, they really convey the mix of awe & horror these folks must have felt seeing nature go completely haywire
It's not till the end when he swings the camera around to look at the whole town behind those walls being washed away that you really understand what he's so upset about.
@Jannis Joplin xd
@Jannis Joplin h
@Jannis Joplin sarcasm is wasted on the ineptitude of yourself
His other job is football announcer
1:50 2 ppl choose to drive straight into their own death. Smart.....
Whenever the water gets sucked out of the harbor to the sea.... RUNNNN!
Looks like you will be running twice a day.
@@Leo-eb1wl 😂😂
@@Leo-eb1wl 🤣🤣
@@Leo-eb1wl 😂🤣☠
@@mikiplusdevideos4915 i didn't get his joke
In less than 6 minutes everything you've owned, all the places you made memories, went to school, perhaps met your first love...Gone.
I can only hope everybody heeded the alarm in time and got to higher ground in time.
Dude it's not like they got nuked again... christ.
"Gone" ...no. just underwater.
@@Anomaly.Filmworks you'll never understand the pain of seeing everything you made during your entire life get destroyed in seconds unless you suffer through it. You probably take everything you have in life for granted.
If I'd live in Japan, I wouldn't do it in a house by the sea shore... The entire world know about tsunamis from Japan, you'd think they would stop building vulnerable houses(everything owned, memories etc) right there near the water.
@Katherine Yu lol I didn't write that, I just replied to that ass, we both have the same greenish blue dp, so you must've got confused
Thanks for the translation! I've seen the full version of it many times, but was never sure his exact words. That day still resonates, the loss and displacement and altered lives of so many. God bless!
I always thought a tsunami would look so different. Large waves coming toward the shore, but this is even scarier. It seems so calm till it's pretty much too late.
i remember the tsunami that happened in 2003/2004 after the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake - i'm Australian so i wasn't affected, but i remember reading a story about one young girl who noticed the water receding dramatically and managed to get her loved ones to evacuate in time.
ikr, u wouldnt realized 'till it's suddenly there
Me too. I'm glad I saw this. I am surrounded by the ocean!
@@elfinvale this is actually how a lot of native people who are on islands know to get to higher ground. If the water recedes a certain amount they head inland for higher ground. Learned that from my cultural anthropology class.
...it will be the Same with SARS-COV2...and people already think it is over...
They even had a breakwater line, seawall and a warning system. Imagine if this hit a country like the Philippines. The level of destruction would be devastating 😰
Philipines will be sunk forever
A tsunami hit our country in 2004, on the day I was born. We had no sort of warning systems or breakwall whatsoever. A few minutes right after I was born, half of our country was destroyed
Yes it happened in 2004 and thousands of people died in India, Philippines and other south east countries.
I dont remember a tsunami hitting the Philippines in 2004. Or maybe a small one.
Or Louisiana!!!!!
Its definitely nothing like how movies portrays tsunami.
Movies make people delusional
Yeah, true and that's why the real one is so deadly.
No shit
@&; it was 3 meters. Thats taller than most living quarters in Japan. It only looks the way it does because they're safe and on high ground. If you saw it face first, it would be 3 or 4 of yourselves combined in height.
@@Elseldom based
*_40 meters/ 130 feet high_*
The highest recorded waves anywhere in Japan that day.
My heart still hurts.
We all living the same life if we got recommended this 8 years later
UA-cam algorithm is getting weirder 😂
@@nyeh663 why though, this video might be uploaded in 2013, but was recorded on march 11 2011, it's the 10 year anniversary. not so strange at all!
Stop. Say, something, anything at all original. The whole "we watch at the same time" shtick is getting old.
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt
-Faith restored in humanity
-Wrecked/dead/ded/dying
-was this filmed with a potato?
-last time I was this early...
-Stop saying who is here, we never left.
-in the weird part of UA-cam again
-I'm not crying, you're crying
-she/he/they found their UA-cam password
-who is watching in 'current year'
- 'something else' brought me here
- saaaaaaame
- nobody:
Not a single soul:
Me: something unfunny nobody cared to know
I could go on...and on...and on..
80% of people are clones, social media comments reflect that. Accept that, lower your expectations and you won't be bothered by them haha
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt I honestly didn't think anyone else had said that. I don't go on UA-cam often and I was just commenting what I truly thought. But I guess I can see how many people would say that though
Thats so sad. Everything you worked for just washed away in swift terrifying moment
yeah you have only yourself with your life.
terrifying.
Everything that you took from nature only that things are being snatched.
The same is happening right now but in patagonia argentina, due to intentional fires
@@Saurabh_Kumar_Rai Do you have alternative suggestions? We’d love to hear them so we can “stop taking from nature”.
@@wubblebubbleball5433 We can take his comment as a different way of thinking about "losing everything we worked for". If we accept that what we borrowed has been taken back, it will hurt less. The comment doesn't have to mean that there must be an alternative and humans are bad so they deserve this.
Can’t imagine what it would be like to see this in person. That’s nuts.
Just like watching your death approaching towards you...😨
Fuck that, I'm taking the car outta there!!
Heartbreaking.
Ur nuts
It's always hard and still so for me to watch and hear this in 2024 from Arizona, USA!!
My Heart breaks for these people. 💔😭🙏
At the begining i was like, that is nothing. Was expecting a wave or something, but it just got worse and worse every minute. Terrible
Stop scaring me !!
Big wave comes only in movies hahah
Tsunami is not a wave, but a column of water under pressure in movement. It can be just a few centimeters over the water surface but with tons of power. A fact of density
@@pepeperez2774 Tsunami is a wave tho.
Even if it doesnt nescessary look like a wave it is a wave of water.
Look at this footage and tell me that isnt a huge wave ua-cam.com/video/Z-2khcTHIgs/v-deo.html
At 2:20
Nr 1 of that video also shows how huge the wave is. Must be waves from around 10 to 20 meter high.
Scary as fuck .
Me: it’s not that big
Tsunami: goes over the wall.
Me: oh never mind
Do you always leave comments as imaginary conversations?
@@albe7292 Do you always leave comments as a sarcastic asshole
Did you say that to get a reaction , you are one crazy stupid human being. Satisfied now.
The fact that there were vehicles driving on that road not too soon before that is 😱
Nekisha C. Guity you can see a white pickup passed the road and later being dragged by the water
When you see how high that wall is at the start, and then see large boats going over it by then... its just terrifying
G BTU as the aaaaa
Just like witnessing some of your favorite rubber ducks washed away from an overfilled bathtub.
I can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this disaster occurred, I was still in elementary school when I saw this on national news, my condolences to the Japanese community.
I was on a college oceanography class shortly year after this happened, we watched SO much footage! It was horrifying! But it was the best example we've really ever had of a modern day tsunami.
@@jellyfishi_ If you are suggesting it doesn't take a community to make up a nation then you are mistaken.
There's only one Japanese community? Weird. I mean... I know the island is small, but to have only ONE community seems a bit far-fetched...
@@jellyfishi_
Well, that particular Japanese community. The one that was recording and the people the live or lived there. Feel better now.
@@jellyfishi_oh just shut the fuck up and stop trying to make a problem out of anything
No matter how many times I watch this it still saddens me. It's been almost 11 years since that horrible day and it still breaks my heart to see this happen to the Japanese people.
It’s 10 yrs this year
Do you live in the future dude?
It's already 2022 for him!
I was living in Tokyo on this day. I felt the Earthquake. My prayers are with you.
Dont say
Dudu, this was ten years ago! You’re 10 years too late
@@sungshin393 yes and I was living in Tokyo 10 years ago on the day the Tsunami happened.
@Eduardo they wouldn't have done anything anyways
@Eduardo Prayers to the dead are never useless, my friend. They can hear us, even ten years later.
I'm honestly glad that they have a warning system and a water barrier and wall, that helped breakdown the wave.
I dont think youre really being honest I think youre lying about being glad
@@nonnaurbisness3013 why do you think so? I've seen this tragedy back in 2011 and its horrifying to watch at the videos back then. a lot of people died and lost their homes.
Yeah, if our country had this system, maybe the victim will not go over hundred thousand with Tsunami Aceh
@@lillibethswan8533 Still without it it probably would have been much worse.
none of it worked
Thanks for the translation. love from America, even 5 years later.
thank you for remembering this day.
Feels like yesterday watching this. 5 years have went by fast!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😪😪
Prayers still for all who have and who are still alive but have been grieving and traumatized!!🙏🙏🙏😭♥️♥️
@@thephenomenonwatcher
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Sometimes, UA-cam algorithm is just like that weird friend who enjoy to share random scary things.
Absolutely! 🤣
I think it likes to give us reminders from time to time about HAARP and what not, anything to keep us distracted from Prince Andrew and Jeffry Epstein...... oh no wait they did the Oprah interview to distract from that didn’t they? oops lol
That is so true
😄😄
@@Bennybey123 aq
Kudos to the guy who filmed this he did a great job.
That’s tough to watch. Condolences to all those Japanese who lost someone in this tragedy
2021 hy bro
yes
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No earthquake damage ....9.1? That's weird.
@@caporetto90 no earthquake damage....do you see any? ...
There were literally cars crossing that road till the last few seconds it's truly scary how things can turn for the worst in a mere moments
At 4:59 there is a car transiting as the water is overcoming that wall...scary af
Not when you’re paying attention and not acting like a potato lol
Azərbaycanca danışan yoxmu
@@ournoiz5953 it's sad cause that car probably didn't survive 😕
In a documentary they said many felt safe having the tsunami wall protecting them.
It must be heartbreaking to see that coming in, and right before your eyes it takes everything, and you would never feel more powerless in your entire life.
That's true
thank you for translating. the horror will ever stay too real with natural catastrophes. may those who lost their lives and loved ones be in peace.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this it’s still so frightening how the water just keeps coming
Something about the fact that its not a massive wave but like the whole oceans come to swallow everything. It's horrifying
This is what happened to Atlantis and Egypt basically
Ikr, I found a fear I didn't know I had.
The anxiety in dudes voice😩 I can’t even imagine what it’s like to witness in person. As someone stated before, With all the advancements of mankind & his technology we don’t stand a chance against Mother Nature.
Anxiety?! This guys is enjoying himself😂he's saying "sugio" again and again which means "amazing"😂
@@KaranSharma-gv9bf In Japanese, "sugoi" is neutrality word. it's used for meaning both 'amazing things' or 'terrible things'.
@@KaranSharma-gv9bf
Well yea, You can hear nervousness in his voice.. I appreciate your input tho,
The only things I’m truly afraid are fire, water, wind electricity and my mother.
total of 1 gram of corona viruses have billions of humans on their knees now... imagine that..
3 meters i was like hm ok, probably should be fine, in like 5 minutes every building under the water, everythings gone
-My face :O :O.......
Oh nice you spoke about something else than color
The weight of trillions of tons of water continually coming can wash anything not stable like a mountain away
Yeah the difference between a 3 meter wave and a 3 meter tsunami is huge but also spectecular
I thought the same,3 meters that's nothing lol.
The 3 meter announcement was wrong, and part of the problem - probably a lot of people heard "3 meters" and weren't too worried. Then when the actual wave turned out to be much bigger.... some of the people who had warning hadn't run far enough to get away from what hit the coast.
It was 14 meters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Same Tsunami event.
Something I didn't see people try to do that puzzles me - I'd think that, the moment you feel an earthquake like that, with all those boats around.... why not grab one and head straight out to sea? If you can get out to deep water fast enough, the tsunami will pass under you as a not very high, not dangerous swell rather than the towering dangerous wave it becomes as the shallows lift it up.
Thank you for explaining!
Just when you think it's nearly over....it hits twice as hard
Yes, really impressive.
There were three waves the third was the biggest and fastest.
Hi
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@@rubyshoes1032 jojjjijiji no j
If you know Japanese men, this the scariest they can get, while saying “this is HELL ! HELL ! HELL ! “ he still went on to say “This is AMAZING ! “ but he said it in FEAR, so I’m sure many got “ lost in translation “
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson
Amazing isn’t just a positive word
around 5:30 man in the video says “Jigoku da!” means it’s Hell!
@@SuperJuvent a man of culture i see
@@calort2150 🤣🤣
the most horrid thing is that they had multiple sea walls and break walls and everything still got swept away. it's hard to imagine how much worse things would have been without those walls when everything was swept away anyway
I think it's coz of those walls the impact of the waves was lessened but still managed to do a lot of damage.. but those walls did buy some time for the people.
Are there any of these videos with out the local camera man yapping
I feel bad for the cars driving around. Ihope they made it
Probably not
If you pay attention to the road at the bottom of the frame in the beginning of the video. You will see a little white truck driving towards the water just before the tsunami hits. A few minutes later you can see that same truck being swept back down the road by the tsunami as it starts to crest over the sea wall. I hope the driver survived but nature is rarely so kind.
@@RedRumWraith
Damn, will look for that... I counted 28 seconds between his road passage until the seawall was crested. 😔
Whoever didnt listen to the warnings 🤷♂️ oh well
@@mah_sanity5635 it’s not oh well. Just because someone makes a mistake doesn’t mean they should die.
Being able to witness things like this is unreal. Shows you exactly where we stand in the grand scheme of things. God bless those damaged by this.
God stop the next tsunami before hitting like that.
God bless em with a big ass wave
god is fake.. man made only to con other stupid human
God already fucked with them enough time for him to leave them alone
@@happyfish1212 prove it
Shooting location: 39.307126, 141.889863. Every time I watch this video I am amazed at how that water went over the wall. It seems unthinkable before it happens.
何度見ても心がえぐられます。
It’s hard to imagine so much water moving like that. In the end the boats sail over the tsunami wall like it never existed..
We've had 2 major tsunamis in the last 20 years.. they both happened in daylight. Imagine if it was the dark of night. Would be much harder to escape I'd think
I've thought about that, too. Especially after the 2004 tsunami. To be sleeping and then a 30 foot wave comes crashing into your home.
Daylight depends on which. Country you are referring to. Tamil Nadu was hit before daylight.
Omg this is the 3rd time I hear someone speaking like this. Makes me scare God save Your people.
That's what exactly happened here in the Philippines labelled the tsunami as the "midnight killer" because it strucked at midnight leaving a lot of people dead caused by the tsunami
:( It was devastating If only they evacuated even after experiencing the huge earthquake they could have been saved.
Indonesia was hit at night...
No one saw it coming either, they were still having concerts etc by the beachside.
And I still get amazed how Japan recovered from this tsunami and how far they have came, pretty amazing. Unfortunately
There are still more than 2.5k people missing. RIP to those souls. God speed Japan
You realize they were nuked twice, right?
Strong people n a strong country to bounce back after a catastrophic tsunami like this ,if one visits these places it's like it never happened such is the resilience of Japanese people
Fukushima was the worst thing Japan ever endured.
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This is amazing footage and shows how important it is to know what a tsunami is actually like. It's less a "tidal wave" and more a giant ripple in the ocean from the energy that created it.
This was certainly not a dangerous event.
What is tragic is that people did not realize how big "huge tsunami" was about to be. The fact that is topped that seawall so completely is terrifying, even ten years after the fact. I would like to see new video from this same area to see how well people have recovered and whether the seawall was rebuilt to larger standards. To those lost, RIP. To those who survived, be strong and be at peace. (From USA)
The fact that people are still driving probs overestimated the impact of the impending tsunami. Rest their souls & everyone that’ve lost theirs inland.
Fact are most of those drivers were emergency personnel contacting people to leave for higher ground. Most of those folks living in these fishing towns are older folks.
Must likely all perished 😔
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 this car just a minute before the water started to break the seawall... i cant stop to think about that view and i really hope they made it out of there.
04:30
* under estimated
This is the power of tsunamis!!nature always have the right of way...it's incredible footage!!
Its also sad
I’ve watched a hundred of these videos and it’s still gut wrenching to watch and think of what the Japanese people went through and how terrifying that all must have been. The one man kept yelling, “it’s the end.” At that point you had no idea when and if it was going to stop and recede. I can’t imagine how hard that could have been to watch everything to have get destroyed.
Er, try not to forget that foreigners live in Japan, too. That's a day I will never forget.
Woww this is super good video even its 8 years ago, anyone else watching this video in 2021 like me as well?
Yup, and it has proper English subtitles.
It was a lot more than three metres high. Watched this many times over the years and still shocks me 😑
@@nicpalmer3597 yes my friend
The video was posted 8 years ago but this event happened 10 years ago
@@Cheddar1023 cheers friend and i had watch so many tsunami videos cant get enough of it
When it was starting to rise quickly over the wall , l said " oh ' this is serious now
+1 for funny comment
The fact that the wall was still standing is insane
I've seen enough of these to know what was going to happen but at first, I reacted like you. The interesting thing here is that this guy knew it was going to be a huge tsunami just by looking at what was happening out in the ocean. That shows a lot of experience with the sea and tsunamis.
@@m0r73n
Yes ' it was a thin wall.
Judging from the size of the cars driving on the road next to it,
l figure wall is about
25-30 feet or (7 to 9 meters tall).
That's about the height of buildings at the Mall shopping center. Thats alot of pressure and Alot 'of water. I can't help feel bad for all those who lost family, friends, pets and properties 😫
@Justin Iverson No, but you certainly are.
Literally recommended after 8years RIP for those who lost their lives
the day water overdose killed 15000 people
*10 years
@@sandror.4927 it shows me 8years
@@alibro675 yeah but the tsunami itself was in 2011.
So 10 years and 12 days
@Luke yeet Nah fam, that's the date the footage was uploaded to YT.
What’s always most terrifying to me when I watch these videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami are that almost every one of these towns had the infrastructure to prevent even a fairly large tsunami from destroying the whole town. The Pacific Northwest of the US is also prone to receiving mega-tsunamis but has none of this infrastructure. I can’t even imagine the devastation we’re going to experience in the PNW when the big one hits. We have no protection, the US will only (maybe) invest in the infrastructure after it happens
We would be better without the entire west coast
Gonna be cool to see
@@whyguy3651 based
@@whyguy3651 spoken like a cousin fucker 😂
Don't worry, outside of CA, US building codes are so crap that you'll all be dead from the initial earthquake, so the tsunami will just be claening up the bodies, the collapsed buildings, and putting out the fires
The people who planed and build that walls got my full respect such amount of water is no joke
They failed, ultimately. Still, it did slow down the disaster which will have saved lives.
@@Soul-Taker yes they failed to stop it but you cant stop it you can just slow it down and they did a good job there.
@@bigfatpenguin1682 and it didn't collapse, which says a lot about a long wall.
@@a-j.2002 yup
@@a-j.2002 It did collapse unfortunately but once the first 2 waves happened. It was reduced in some parts to chunks of unidentifiable concrete. We studied it in geography class and saw photos of it afterwards. Parts of the wall (which is a lot longer than it looks in this video) looked like a giant had taken bites out of it.
Ten years later. All my compassion for Japanese...
Me too...tjonge het is me nogal wat....
@@marcelbrokling8627 voulez vous être plus clair. Merci.
Al my compassion to for all the Japanese people
@@marcelbrokling8627 thanks brave Marcel.
@@hakimondoor8469 And the first answer is Dutch written...and means the seem in English
It’s like waiting for a monster that you know is coming. Terrifying.
Doesn't help them saying 3 meters when it's more like 30
Bari bari gusha gusha baki baki gokun
I think many people didn't expect anything serious.
@@ssss-df5qz yes ... 3 meters on see, but here the place has mountains on each side.
@@gehtnix16 I suppose that makes sense, but I still fail to see how you could get that sort of funnel effect in something as vast as the ocean where the total volume is spread so vastly.
I always assumed it was the physical raising of the sea level that contributed to the height of a tsunami, not the influence of coves/mountains.
My wife was in Japan and I was in Switzerland…. She called me and said that a earthquake happened, I just said “ we’ll be careful and call me back “… then less than 1h after I saw the news and I call back my wife with tears in my mouth.
Hopefully she was in a safe place but she wanted to stay in Japan to help ( she is a nurse).
She left Japan in may and we stayed in Switzerland for 12 years. Now we are back in Japan with 3 kids and we hope to never have to go trough it again in our life
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@@томат-к7юзаткнись
Everything is going as they watch. It's so sad to lose what one works so hard to aquire. I'm sorry for everyone who lost both their property and loved ones
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I remember ALL trains shutdown Kanto Region. It took me 6 hours to walk home.
What if you had to swim?
At least you did not die.
Luxury problem
God bless you, you made it home
Find any rare Pokémon on the way ?
The magnitude of it! Scary those poor people, I just couldn't imagine.
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What's scary is how often you'll hear those sirens but this time was real, it was deadly, and the most disasterous ever. I think that's why these sirens have become so eerie, they really only signify mass destruction.
Even more scary that it only took about 3 mins from the alarm to the water coming in.
May we never forget the victims of this terrible day
How many died?
@@liamc1102 around 15,900 people dead with 2,000+ missing
@@liamc1102 🌲🌱rtry
Why so many deaths? Why didn’t they evacuate in time?
@@jimcars6468 probably only had a few minutes notice. 15 minutes isn't a whole lot of time. It looks like they had less than that.
同じ日本に暮らし、車で数時間で行けてしまう場所がこんな事になってたというのは映像でしか知る事ができず、目の当たりにしていた人達はどれだけ恐怖だっただろう…。都会は山がないからいざって時にどこに行けばいいかわからないし、大地震でパニックになってる中たった数十分で津波が来るって知ったら足がすくんでしまいそう。
The wall went over was quite tall. It’s amazing how much it filled up and just overflowed so quickly.
Taller than the border wall
the earthquake caused the land to drop so the barriers became useless.
@@willmatthews3155 you are wrong. There was no land movement here. Water pulls from the shore as the tsunami grows. And rushes back in
Wall was to stop average tsunami, not Jougan one...
@@MrBmxbrawler Sorry. you are incorrect.A couple hundred kms of coastline dropped 2 meters with the earthquake making the walls useless.Check with livescience.com
Whenever the water level suddenly lowers at the coast of the ocean, you better run for your life in direction of the inland and to a point as high as possible.
At least japan has technology that well prepared for something like this ..
So at least they have time to escape and minimize the victim
Oh yeah, that's real fucking evident(!)
There is little you can do to prevent this, no matter how advanced the technology is, the water comes with a fairly large force, so not even the dams can handle it. The only solution is to build further from the coast or in higher areas near the coast.
In my country, every few years, floods occur in certain areas. The houses that were built in the riverbed (areas that are not safe for construction) are destroyed by the water, and the authorities give the owners money to rebuild their houses in the same area, instead of moving them to safer areas, so that the problem does not happen again...
Atleast it give times for people's to evacuate.
@@alphainitium5737 exactly thats what i mean , its can minimaze the victim so they have time to escape
Fukushima wasn't prepared and is still leaking thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean every year. New irradiated species are being found all the time on the west coast of North America.
It's like a rage of anger as it comes, this is scary even watching it now.
So yeah, UA-cam decided to recommend this on the 10th birthday of this tragedy.
8th it was 8 years ago so its inpossible to be 10 years :>
@@maceisgone1317 The uuuh...
The Earthquake and the Tsunami happened on the 11th of March 2011...
That's 10 years
"UA-cam decided", a lot of people today searched it for this reason, so the video got in the trend
@@maceisgone1317 uploaded time doesnt mean the tragedy time
Expect the worst prepare for it this is history it always repeats itself.
Thank you for posting this. It is good to understand that you cannot underestimate a surge of 🌊.
I thought 3 meters high wasn't going to be that bad. Boy was I wrong
Think of it as 3000mm of rain in 5 minutes.
Yep
It's not just water, it's a 3 metre wall of solid water and debris that carves everything away in its path.
It's because of the form of this bay, on a straight beach it will be only three meters, which is scary enough.
But when pushed in to bay or ever smaller inlet, it might quadruple it's height easily.
@@bluelizard81
As you clearly see.... it isn’t a “wall” of water. It is the water level rising as water is pushed in front of the “shockwave”.
Wow, that video was awesome. Scary sad. I hope nobody lost her life. It’s a shame. People lost their homes vehicles boats jobs businesses while that was so awesome but scary at the same time for the people that lived there people that might’ve not known it was coming that was so sad if anyone lost their lives it’s awesome, seeing how mother nature works, but it’s also scary when people lose lives
The helpless fear in someone’s voice on the verge of impending doom is so heart wrenching.
LOL
Yes :(
It's crazy how that road below them where many cars were still driving on was gone within a second.
Same i only saw this video for the first time 2 days ago and i have watched it a good few times now and i am still in disbelief at what is happening i mean wow this is unbelievable i so appreciate now where i live and my country's boring weather ❤
Because announcement said it is only 3 meters so people truster their wall.
@@ligametis problem is, it might have been 3m somewhere more "neutral", but this town was in a sort of bay which acted like a channel. 3m quickly turned into much more as the water was channelled.
Sad to see the cars just moments before it happened.
@@riquelmeone I don't think officials think people will do mathematical equations. They probably announced how high they expected waves to be in that particular area.
The whole thing is crazy
It is something I will never forget. I hope you all managed to rebuild your homes and businesses. I hope also that you are living happy lives. With love for all those who lost their lives. Xx
Can you imagine driving down that road thats right next to the sea wall and looking up to see all that water pouring over the edge. 🤦🏽♂️
No
i'm sure evacuation measures have been taken so no one enters the city, and everyone from within has made sure they are on a safe place
@@Laliscrew There was cars driving past that same wall a minute before the water came over. People died there.
@@getbent973 there were cuts
Anxiety level:dead