Tsunami Devastation Videos Truly Terrifying
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 27, 2011 19:12 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Earthquakes, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Sendai, Tokyo, Video Gallery
More and more video evidence of the immense devastation wrought by the great tsunami which inundated Japan’s northern pacific prefectures continues to surface, with the spectacle of entire cities being swept away being captured on film by terrified onlookers,
The videos are enough to put anyone off living on the coast:
The wisdom of letting a secretive power company build and operate a series of supposedly tsunami-proof nuclear reactors directly in the path of such phenomena seems less and less comprehensible.
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Ive seen these videos millions of times on the Taiwan News broadcasts mainly TVBS and CCTV Taiwan, Much TV and most of the entertainment channels. Talk shows cover everything and discuss about the event as well. They basically play them over and over again but with differnt narration. Its basically 24 hour Earthquake/Tsunami channel. Our 921 Earthquake in Taiwan came up many times. This earthquake got people scared here in Taiwan. Since the 921 Earthquake which I was here when it happened in 1999, Taiwan is also expecting a big earthquake soon and fear that the one in Japan could offset one here in Taiwan. We have actually got some decent sized quakes ever since the one in Japan hit like a 4.2 just two days ago and a 5 about 3 days before that. Its getting active here.
But those vids are amazing. Water really is the most powerful element on this planet given the force.
In chile we got an earthquake that was almost as big as this one last year and we ae still getting aftershocks uP to 7..... but when that happened I was living in Taiwan and now I'm back in chile and thIs happens over there
The aftermath is even more terrifying. As you put it up as a picture in your previous article, a ship got put on the roof of a house. Crazy power
Wow can't believe all those shit happened just 2 weeks ago. Time sure flies fast
Zzz and I was planning on a Tokyo trip in December. I hope they at least get some good fixes by that time
Tokyo is fine. Some blackouts and paranoid people hoarding all the bottled water, but nothing like these videos.
Your main worry should be Ishihara and his ban...
Some asshole parted the sea and look what happened
2nd video pretty sad.
A few people seem to be helping a person in a wheelchair and two seems to get hit by some random pieces of house and one of them seems to get swept away.
Serve them right for raping our women
I hope you die in pain.
wtf?
Well they also rape their women if it makes you feel any better.
Chinese? Koreans? Filipinos? Malaysians?
Don't forget that centuries ago, we all came from barbaric tribes and clans who invaded other people's lands, raping their daughters and wives, cut their fathers' heads as trophies, turned the villagers into our slaves, burnt their houses, use them for sacrificial rituals, etc.
All of our roots were rotten at the first place so stop acting like only the Japanese and the Germans were evil.
I've been waiting for someone to say this!
Oh boo hoo.
you can see they survived
If you see well there were 2 persons, both got hit and just one of them stayed in ground.
Very sad to see that.
... To Aru is showing :3 And so is Freezing, Kore ha Zombie Desuka, Cardfight, Infinite Stratos, Dragon Crisis, etc...
That more than 4, u gonna be mad? 83
Oh, come back to reality already. Or your straight jacket. And get your meds.
Dude, war with demons?
I'm the General of Satan's army and I can assure that we have no time to wage war with humans.
Why would demons bother with waging war with us when we are already doing a pretty good job warring amongst each other?
Lets hope for a Earthquake in America
A Earthquake in America would be much worse than the Earthquake in Japan
Who would come to save these sorry assholes that you call "Americunts"
did that last video remind anyone of a Fall Out3 like world. just ruins and rubbish everywhere.
WTF at 2nd video?
they just take the photo and doesn't want to help that people....?????
Well, they don't want to be hero. What can they do ? They are on the higher ground and I doubt many of them will run down to help.
they dont want to be a hero because in real life heroes die, and death is bad mmkey
And just how would you personally behave in such a situation ? There and then ?
Would you run down and jump into water, committing suicide in the name of solidarity ?
Oh sure. I'll go. Me versus big giant tsunami wave. Not the same as David vs Goliath you know.
Yes, let's all think logically about running downhill when the giant wave of death is coming at us.
oh man, I want alread spend some money there -.-, but have to wait for paypal..
everytime I see this, I think of making a story about. A alternative story, not a real story that happend, but a parallel story, which could be true, a drama anime as tribute for japan, but don't know if it is ignorant against japan. :/
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0?
They should make a sequel by name "Tokyo Magnitude 9.0"...
Anyone else suddenly feel like watching Ponyo?
No, you're a sick f--
...Wait, yeah. Yeah I do.
I want to watch Day after tomorrow again.
That was a brilliant movie, to think something like that can happen O_o
except helicopters cannot freeze midair in that temperature.
Well.. at least that movie is a little less over-the-top than 2012..
Yes, only a little..
Sort of..
..Exept 99.9% of the characters in that movie forgot to panicked instead feeling so carefree despite the tsunami already flooded their town.. which kinda makes the happy go lucky My Neighbour Totoro looks like a tragic melodramatic film.
A wake up call for those living on tiny islands in the pacific.
I just want to point out that greedy powerplant companies aside...
1. Japan needed more electricity, and Nuclear is the only affordable way for them to expand the power supply.
2. Powerplants built at the coast allows a steady source of cooling water.
3. Most importantly, areas near Sendai have been stagnating economically for years. They wanted the powerplants because it brings in jobs and money for the area.
Things are the way they are because there was no alternative.
GE engineer reflects on Fukushima power plant
- I told you so! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex7ANTzWjp8&feature=feedu [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex7ANTzWjp8&feature=feedu]
That was fucking 35 years ago.OF COURSE THERE WASN"T MUCH TECHNOLOGY AGAINST A 9.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE.Not to mention how different standards were back then. Nobody even questioned how NONE of tokyo's buildings collapsed? Idiot.
There's still isn't much technology against a 9.0 magnitude earthquake... correction, there's still isn't any.
And btw, Tokyo's buildings didn't collapse cause the earthquake was in the sea, not in Tokyo. If it had been we would be looking at a much worse catastrophe.
Anon 07:41
It's more than just that - Building codes in Japan integrate expansion brackets and compression zones into the buildings structure, which are surprisingly good at absorbing energy from an earthquake. Larger buildings are also designed to have a different resonant frequency to those normally found in earthquakes.
All of that basically means that the buildings move with the earthquake rather than resist it - scary to be in the inside during a quake all the same, but they're far less likely to collapse than buildings in the US, for example.
The buildings most prone to collapsing are older buildings from the post-war period and cold war... The codes were tightened further after the Kobe earthquake in 1995, so any buildings built after that actually have a good chance of surviving.
Still daunting even by remembering it...
I have notice that there are ppl watching the waves approaching them and they are not even running when its only METERS away!!?? Did ppl lost the instinct to RUN?
I would be in running mode ready to run anytime.
The tsunami probably was unexpected and when you see a huge wall of water flying at you, you probably stand still in surprise and fear. I know I would XD
no, they were filming silly
people ran away from danger automatically or else something is seriously wrong with the instinctual hardwiring
That's called survival of the fittest.
Those too stupid to run when they see a greater-than-5m wall of water rushing at them have lost the natural right to breathe.
You can run 500mph?
As soon as you HEAR a tsunami is coming, you would have long fled for the hills unless you are blind and deaf or you are a cripple.
I'm wondering if you'd make such a comment again at the age of 60+... Probably not.
Not all are elderly people...
I'm guessing you've never seen and older person running...
There's not really anywhere to run to...
I know a lot of people in their 60's, and none of them have lost their survival instinct. They're old, not stupid.
That's precisely the point. They're old. Without their youth and strength...
apparently you've never been in shock.
You couldn't have outdriven it. No joke - there's a video where it catches up to a car. Staying at high ground was the smartest move.
"Real men don't run from a tsunami...they stare it down (from a high point)"
...if not u can always use ur drill to pierce the tsunami...
Apparently you can outrun a wall of water heading towards you at 500 miles per hour.
Are you stupid or just dense?
O_o
On shores it's much more slower. 500mph is in deep ocean.