Japan Tsunami 2011 Rare Footage Compilation with some Unseen Footage [GRAPHIC WARNING]
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- Japan Tsunami 2011 Rare Footage Compilation - with some Unseen Footage.
11 March 2011.
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I was there as part of the Australian Navy task force co-ordinating out relief efforts. Its a testament to the fortitude, industriousness and the Japanese peoples care for each other that basically a year after this, life had returned to some normality and the economy recovered quickly. Tens of thousands of homes were lost, whole towns washed into the countryside, but a place was found for all the displaced people and care delivered quickly.
Thank you for mentioning this - I find it incredible what you say.
That’s pretty incredible
Cheers for ya service mate❤
The Japanese are accustomed to this. They always know what to do. They have tsunami records going back 1400 years.
It was to adjust the playing field of world economics, a weapon that uses the earth, that way there's clean hands, they can manipulate the weather and the planet to change countries, the country that sits at the top nice and safe is the culprit
I was there... American working in Japan since 1994. I was part of the rescue effort and body recovery after that. This was the most tragic event I have ever witnessed in my life.
Cool story bro
Wow. I can't imagine the kind of shock that would have been for you. Glad you made it out alive and was able to help others. I would imagine helping others would at least take the edge off of the pain of seeing such tragedy all around you. I thank you for your service there and am sorry you had to see all those dead bodies. I could not do that.
It’s hard to watch on video, can’t even imagine being there, hope all is well with you
I feel so sad watching this in 2023. Hope you’re ok
He wasnt there, he is an internet Billy Bullshitter@@TheMikesylv
There actually WAS some footage I had not seen before.
There is some we will never see, shot by people who as it turned out, were too close. I am surprised to see so many people recording it rather than fleeing for higher ground.
Hell on Earth.
The old ppl in the street that hud behind that house. The water just rising and sweeping them away
I have watched hours and hours of this horrific event but this video seems to capture the unreal strength of the Tsunami more than any other video I have watched. The one thing I can't get past is the frustated feeling I get when watching some of the people just standing around like thier out for a Sunday stroll but all along you know that many of them won't survive the oncoming death and destruction that is only minutes away.The people that stayed behind after the destruction to clean up and rebuild should all be commended and recognized for thier determination resolve and courage in the face of natures destruction.
it really does! LIke you, I've watched nearly everything on youtube, mostly the Japanese filmed stuff...I don't understand the language but the horror and terror was not hard to translate...But; This one is important.
"I have watched hours and hours of this horrific event but this video seems to capture the unreal strength of the Tsunami more than any other video I have watched", also. Sorry for just quoting you, but I could not have described more perfectly my feelings on this video. It also captures the horror of it.
Mesmerized with disbelief unaware that it will get worse.
I posted about this too, but the people filming on the ground had to have made it out alive, otherwise how would they post their video? I seriously just thought about that!
I feel the same .If I saw that , I'd be running for the hills .... They're really scary things ,Tsunami😢
It is hard to imagine a five minute long earthquake with any amount of shaking. 60 yeas in California, I have been in major quakes, it is rare to shake 10-20 seconds. 5 minutes is insane.
LOTS of quakes in California are 10-20 seconds, they're not RARE. But yes, 5 minutes IS insane!
Yeah and this was richter 9 quake so 100 - 1000 times more powerful than anything in california. there was 7.0 quake in 1980 california ?
That is pretty much what seismologists expect to see if the Cascadia Subduction zone ruptures.
Ikr? Loma Prieta was around 15 seconds, and it was too long.
Watch a timer and imagine 9+ shaking going on for five minutes. I quite possibly might have gotten hysterical.
And then you have 15-20 minutes to collect yourself and get to higher ground ... whew ...
@@carolegeorge7040 i have experienced a 50 second one and it has left its mark let me tell ya, but 5 mins it's just something else
I love Japan; lived there for 4 years as a child. Best place ever to be a kid. This broke my heart for the people of Japan.
Yes, my dad was stationed there from 1958-1961. I was ten when we moved there. We loved Japan and the wonderful people. This is so sad. And this video is one of the best compilations I’ve seen to date. God bless these gentle people
Because they're strict nationalists. Not much "diversity", so they avoid the third worlders that come and refuse to assimilate.
@@CjbrkBrooks Gentle people? Many would disagree with that statement.
They make the best cars and trucks, radios, guitars, batteries, music mixers...you name it. Japanese means high quality.
@@baneverything5580 Not guitars.
The height doesn't even come close to the wave's length. A tsunami wavelength is measured in MILES, several MILES from peak to peak. Everything we witness when a tsunami makes landfall is a byproduct of their enormous wavelength. An 80ft wave at Nazare' Portugal has a wavelength between 200-250 meters, more than twice the height of the tsunami but they cause no damage and surfer's ride them. The tsunami breaking across the harbor in the beginning of the video has a wavelength nearly to the horizon. That's why the water keeps coming and coming, relentlessly more like a raging river than a breaking wave.
Your post is so interesting and important to understand. The Nazare Portugal wave that you refer to, is it a *"bore wave"?*
@@linedanzer4302 No, just a typical wind/storm generated wave in the Bay of Biscay. Biscay Bay is wide open for waves generated in the fierce North Atlantic. They're the largest rideable waves discovered so far. There's hundreds of videos on RUclips of Nazare'. Check it out when you get the chance. Absolutely mind blowing stuff.
Length would imply the distance of the wave parallel to the beach which is miles as well but the distance between the waves would be frequency or width, depth? Idk
@@NFS305 The wavelength is the distance between each peak, just like a sine wave. All waves have a peak and a trough, peak and trough combined makes up one full wave cycle. In a tsunami, the water recedes WAYY out farther than normal for a long time. Then the water comes BACK and keeps coming relentlessly because the trough and peak, aka the WAVELENGTH, is freakishly long... several MILES long. That enormous wavelength creates all the phenomena observed when a tsunami makes landfall.
@@chrisnizer5702 right on. So the length of the face is called the width?
I was in Maldives when this happened. I remember being terrified that it may happen there. How very precious is life. And how quickly it can all be taken away.
Unfortunately it did happen in the Maldives, in 2004 with the Indian Ocean tsunami. Hopefully one day humanity invents technology that can dissipate even the strongest tsunamis and render them mostly harmless.
Mama Nature has to let the arrogant Human Race who controls the Remote Control
Were you surfing?
April 2024, still can’t comprehend this even as I watch it. Brutally relentless
We were in this area 3 weeks ago and we're astounded at how they've done everything possible to minimise another such tragedy. We love Japan.
My daughters best friend is Japanese. She lost her parents in this. They are listed as missing to this day.
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Yes many body's were never even recovered.
Thats heartbreaking ❤❤
That's so sad😢
I’m so sorry for her loss may they rest in peace.
Thank you for making this. It is probably the BEST compilation of video clips of this tragedy that I have seen. 🙏🏼
My mother was Japanese.
Born and raised in Tokyo.
When my father was stationed in Hawaii, the family would go to the beach on the weekends with our Hawaiian babysitter.
My mother and babysitter always told us kids, that if we see the ocean retreat, run the highest ground you can find. It meant that a tsunami was coming and it would be a bad one.
To this day, I am still shocked at the devastation and loss of life.
From the war or the tsunami?
@@mariemccann5895the loss of life from margarine. The war on margarine is one not to be defeated and Only the biggest wieners shall survive
nobody asked about your history
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@@bigman9731 I just find it very low when people go to comment on a clip about a disaster and trying to make it about themselves
I have watched dozens of videos of this horrific tsunami over the years, but this was the first time I have seen those in this video. Hearing the screams and cries of the people watching their cities and towns being swallowed up by the ocean still brings tears to my eyes. I live on the Olympic Peninsula in northern Washington state, and I am well aware of the Cascadian Fault that lies to the West of us, deep within the Pacific Ocean. This Fault is essentially a “twin” to the fault that sits off the coast of Japan and caused the 3/2011 tsunami. It could just as well happen here, too.
I have always been profoundly touched by the plight of the young woman (Mika Endo? I’m 74 and my memory often escapes me) who, along with several others, stayed to broadcast warnings of the impending tsunami and lost their lives doing so. Surely she, and the others, must be looked upon as National Heroes in Japan. I would love to see a documentary about her. Does anyone know if one has been done and, if so, where I could view it?
Thank you for this compilation. May those who lost their lives that day be resting in peace.
I live South of you on the Hood Canal and the very end of the Nisqually fault line is just about 200 yards from my front yard...
@@jasonsummit1885 Oh, my! Whenever I hear of the tornadoes in Tornado Alley, hurricanes along the East Coast, and floods in the Midwest, I realize two things 1) while we on the west coast live perilously near a great fault and numerous volcanoes, (Mt. Rainer comes to mind: it is an active volcano), the aforementioned disasters in other parts of the U.S. happen with mind-boggling regularity, and I often wonder how those poor folks can rebuild year after year, and continue living in those areas. Of course, those places are their homes, where their families and jobs are, their histories and traditions are, so of course they stay, and 2) The earthquakes and tsunamis that threaten our west coast are, thankfully, few and far between.
However, that said, when that fault does slip, we are likely facing inestimable and catastrophic disaster. Millions of lives will be lost, and there will likely be little land and few people left to rebuild, at least initially. You and I can only hope it doesn’t happen in our lifetime, and can live out our lives in one of the most beautiful places in the world. BTW: my hubby and I just moved here to the beautiful PNW last year from the San Francisco Bay Area, and both of us have lived through all of the most recent notorious and, thankfully relatively easy, earthquakes down there! I hope you and your family have a good plan in case we do get hit with the Big One and the anticipated tsunami. I understand that both Oregon and Washington have not done nearly as much as should be done in the way of warnings and escape routes, particularly along the westernmost coasts of both states. That I don’t understand.
@@cydkriletich6538. I can relate. I’ve lived in Northern California most of my life and lived through the 89 earthquake and the Oakland Hills firestorm a few years later. I was in Berkeley when both occurred, the fire was actually scarier only because it took so long to contain and we watched the flames slowly encroaching us. I moved to the Sierra Nevada foothills a decade ago and even though we have fewer earthquakes here the summer and fall wildfires are terrifying. Everything is more severe with climate change. I have family in Florence, Oregon right on the coast, I wish I could move there, it’s a beautiful area.
@@silvermainecoons3269 I’m with you 100%! I lived in CoCo County during Loma Prieta. Though I didn’t live there at the time, when I went to UC Berkeley back in the early 1970’s, my roommate and I were two of the first to rent at those apartments just passed the Caldecott Tunnel which were the first buildings to burn down during the Firestorm. Some of the most terrifying videos of that fire were of people trying to get out of there. My bro & his lady live inland from Crescent City. They have to evacuate every year and their property is always under threat of fire during the summer. Florence, OR is beautiful; but, remember, the coasts of Oregon and WA state are extremely vulnerable to tsunamis. There’s just no getting away from Mother Nature, especially when she’s angry with us!
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Can't imagine what it's like to watch your home and country just get wiped out! So sad for the people affected by this awful tragedy, and my thoughts and prayers are still with you. ❤
Seeing those waves from ground level is terrifying. To see a wave where you wouldn’t normally see water is mind boggling.
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I remember watching this on the news when it devoured all those greenhouses. I had to rub my eyes because it didn’t even look real. I’ve been on the ocean for 50 years and have seen what the ocean can do but NEVER did I see ANYTHING like this.
OMG. And then, as if things weren't bad enough - it got cold, was already damp & humid - and then it snowed. The unendurable loss of beautiful temples, homes, so many things - *that* was heartbreaking to me. The beautiful Tokyo Gardens ( some of it was lost), the list is endless. I truly hope the wonderful people are finally able to get some parts of their lives back, with the determination so ingrained
Temples, buildings, roads are replaceable, people are not.
It's just amazing how tranquil and mesmerizing the waves look far out..then the waves hit with such unbelievable force
My thought exactly.
The thing that caught my eye was the speed the water moved. The leading edge of the water crept in then the rest of the wave came screaming in. I don't know how fast the water was moving but it was like a giant bulldozer was destroying everything in it's path.
It's like water running downhill, except the hill is made of more water.
Out at sea, it’s over 500mph. As it reaches land, it’s slowed, but the land rise causes the wave to grow in height. It’s the miles of water still coming in behind the initial wave that is so frightening.
A typical wave has with a wave length (=horizontal distance between crest and crest of the next wave) of say 300-500 feet maximally.
A tsunami's wavelength is many miles. That is why the sea level keeps raising for many minutes (10-30 minutes or so), creating an accelerating flood.
The breaking waves we can see on the video are not the crest of the tsunami proper. People think that they are safe once having avoided these pre-waves. They are wrong. As the main wave is still on the raise. Not spectacularly so and therefore even more dangerous.
Yet even after that the danger is not over: Once the crest of the tsunami has passed (and overcome various obstacles on land), the water on land will stop moving for a while. People wading through such water will soon find themselves in the violent torrent of the backwash. Again lasting many minutes and pulling everything in its path far out to the sea. Many people who survive the onslaught then die in the unexpected backwash. Remember, a 125 ft tsunami crest is followed by an equal tsunami through.
13:24 “they won’t make it” truly heart-wrenching😢😢
I know. We’re seeing people die on camera. Its tragic.
Never have there been more horrifying images of why you can't "surf" a serious flood: you just get ground up in the debris. Also, how many millions of acres of farmland trashed and polluted, maybe for generations?
Heartbreaking. 💔💔
I always feel bad for the elderly man walking up the street...you see him at 22:02 - he eventually steps up 22:18 on a pole or box and holds on for his life which although they did not show, you know he did not survive. If he had just left or had someone to assist him 2 minutes earlier he would have made it. An older lady shared the same fate just ahead of him.
I never noticed them perishing when I first watched.
There's just so much for your eyes to try and take in initially.
So sad to watch someone's last seconds alive.
I've always noticed him. He looks like cannot move very fast and he either runs out of effort or realizes that he could never outrun it and just stops trying. You can see the people yelling to him have to give up and run for their own lives. There must be a great deal of footage of people being swallowed up and swept away - but it is not something that RUclips would allow to be shown.
The children in Japan are told not to help anybody. Save yourself, worry about other people later. This sounds a very selfish policy, but human nature is to look for family and friends and try and ensure that they are safe. Unfortunately, this creates a much larger number of casualties than if everyone runs for their life. In your example, if two young people had picked this guy up, they may have only got 10 mtrs further and all drowned instead of 1. ANnd now they are waiting for another big quake in Tokyo...
@@BricktopsPigsI agree Mr. Smelly Fart
I saw this as well. Absolutely heart breaking. So scary how the whole shop just washed away like nothing.
I've experienced many earthquakes in CA, obviously not as big as this. But 5 minutes is just insane
If something like that happens in Brazil, it would never recover. Japan's people and politics are in a totally highes level of civil discipline. Educacional is key.
USA too we suck ass at helping our people in disasters. Hurricane Katrina exemplifies this
Brazil is an average of over a 1000 feet above sea level. The Atlantic is subject to far fewer tectonic movement than the Pacific . Brazil has never been hit by a tsunami .
@@doncahooti🤯 bro that's not the point
@@coffeelatte8616 - yes that's most certainly the point .
what's your point ? to crap on Brazil ?
@@nooneproductions27Yup, all while we send billions to others 😐
I have seen videos of the tsunami in the past but this really reminds us of the power of nature.
For an earthquake to last five minutes is astonishing but what comes after that is even more destructive than the earthquake itself.
Watching people run for their lives knowing that they are not going to make it to higher ground is so heartbreaking too.
Thankfully many survived, but it really shows how precious life is on this planet.
You reckon? Come on, everyone knows that. What is the point of making such dumb-ass comment?
I have seen many videos of this tragedy. But not seen many of the clips that are in this video. Thank you for providing them.
The whole thing was just devastating. I don't think I have seen the power of such destruction in any other disaster. This just ripped my guts out. Especially seeing people not really believing they were about to be swept away and just standing around or walking slowly instead of running for the hills. We know many of those people did not survive.
I find it so odd that this phenomena of people not realizing the level of danger they are in happening all around the world in many different disasters. It's infuriating and fascinating at the same time. Fascinating because there has to be something about the makeup of the human brain that causes people to react this way when it's clear to everyone around them that they need to run, seek shelter, do something! Yet, many don't. Are they in freeze mode? Denial? Mislead by their own beliefs? I would like to know that.
For those Japanese people who watched their countrymen and families, homes, businesses, and dreams simply be washed away in front of them, that vision can never go away. My heart hurts for them.
Deer-caught-in-the-headlights mode
I think there’s a subconscious feeling that they know they are already dead, they might feel that there is no high ground, and they cannot make it the situation any better for themselves. That’s my theory at least, I’m not a psychologist.
Not in a freeze mode, just awed watching mother nature doing her thing. Several years ago I just stood in place about a mile away watching 'the finger of God' literally destroy a small town in Kansas. The overwhelming power is just festinating.
Freeze mode…in shock and disbelief. Sometimes airline passengers in survivable crashes freeze in their seats. If you tap them on their shoulder and shout “Get up and move out!”, they do exactly that. It “wakes” them out of that stupor.
Some of us arent physically able to move fast. I was thinking the other day how I used to hear the phone go and be there in less than 6 seconds from my bedroom at the top of the house, but now even in major emergency mode that same trip would take maybe 2 minutes, The elders here knew they couldnt outrun the wave . It must have been a terrible realization
I watched much of this footage either on the first day or very soon after the tsunami. There was enough new footage in this video that I was struck again by the sheer violence and power of the ocean. When I watched the available footage in 2011, I could hear the warning sirens and hear the voice of the person who was begging the people to go to higher ground and so many didn't listen, they just stood and watched the oncoming waves until it was too late! So tragic that so many people didn't have to die if they would have just believed what they were told!
You have to remember that they had just experienced a 5 minute 9+ earthquake. Watch a timer and think of the ground shaking violently for that long. You are NOT going to be at your best. Add to that the belief that the walls were high enough to hold the water back (scientists really didn't think the waves could be so high). Tbh, it's amazing that as many people got away as did.
Yup - surprized so many people ignored the warnings as Japanese people are brought up to respect authority and be obedient.
absolutely heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to those who lost their lives and to those who lost everything,truly devastating 😢
In many places, the death toll was so high because the evacuation centers were swept away. Nothing this big has occured in Japan for over a hundred years.
I watch this over and over just to see the unbelievable power of nature. It is mind blowing and I never get used to seeing it. Astonishing!!! Some of those scenes where you can only see the waves hitting the shore with enormous splashes a hundred feet in the air and destroying the forests... I think some of the most amazing scenes were never captured by people who lived to share. So sad. So astonishing1!!
Until now, cant help from crying seeing those helpless people from being swept by this horrible tsunami.💔
Thank you for this video - although in the U.K. we heard of it, but more about the nuclear plant, I had no idea to the extent of the lives lost, what just be survivors tragic experiences, and the complete destruction of so many people’s family histories and livelihoods. I’m actually gonna save this because it humbles me and reminds me to never groan about my tiny little struggles in life. - I actually dreamt that I was in amongst this scenario with huge waves blowing out the glass window of a big white buildings and watching similar scenes to this. The dreaming woke me up and thought to myself that was very powerful like a tsunami. 2 days later I heard the news and understood the dream. Prayers of comfort for the people who have to live on with that experience in their memory for real.
Valdez, 1964.
I've watched probably most of the RUclips videos .. I'm always awe struck!! Unimaginable!!
4:38 is one of the best and least shown shots of this. It’s unbelievable seeing it approach for a few seconds from ground level
The one at 8:35 is even crazier
@dayserlock9150 that clip to this day is the most terrifying perspective of how huge these waves are I have found. The way it rises up and looms over those houses really seems unreal.
Remarkable. My son was in Japan at the time and would not listen to our entreaties to return to the US. He wouldn’t leave his friends and stayed on to the fall of ‘11 when he left in order to finish college in the states. He spent a year there to improve his language skills. It turned out to be a remarkable choice
I know it’s a nothing story but think of sending your teenager off to a place where there is an earth churning cataclysm ! It’s just a bit alarming -
And when I see this remarkable footage - stunning really - I have to thank my stars that I wasn’t seeing it then, dear God!
Great footage and thanks for posting - good job !
Sorry to hear about your enteritis, that can be painful.
@@paulshell1729 thanks, never saw that! It stinks of spellcheck meddling. Sorry for the idiocy - but it is funny as hell…
Damn.The view from the sky doesn’t do the size of the wave any justice. Those views from the street really shows how big it was.
It’s so devastating. It just destroys everything so fast.
I’ve watched a lot of these videos, and here are definitely some rare!
It’s still horrifying to see them and see people dying!
We'll never fully understand the sheer horror those poor folks experienced on that day. And to think the earthquake was just the beginning of the worst of it. With the massive tsunami waves that followed. When you hear facts that this event caused the earth's axis to move a few centimeters. Then you know damn well this was a MASSIVE event. I have a great affinity for the Japanese people and there culture. My cousin was working over there when this happened. And luckily was able to get home to the states before things got as bad as they did. My heartfelt prayers go out to the Japanese people and everything and everyone they lost on this fateful day. It was catastrophic beyond measure. No man made weapon will EVER be as powerful as the forces of nature. Respect it folks and NEVER underestimate it.
I think most human beings from any country would have collapsed and ceased to exist after such a massive natural event such as this. Not the Japanese. The world has witnessed the strength and determination of one of the greatest species of human beings on our planet. May they live long and in total happiness. They have earned all the worlds respect. God bless them all.
The speed and power this water moves with is terrifying. I can't imagine what it would be like to see this in person and have to flee from it.
This still breaks my heart watching it again!!! Hearing the cries from people is gut wretching!!! It took just seconds to completely destroy everything in its path including thousands and thousands of people!!! It is amazing to know how quickly Japan was able to rebuild and take care of all the people who lost everything!!!
Some if these clips are from Soma, Sendai and Riku.. Thanks for putting this together
The burning buildings , traveling on the waves😢
2024 - still hard to watch
After seeing dozens of footages of this Humongous Tragedy since 2011,this Event still is the Scariest Thing i Ever seen in my life.
Its Absolute Terror.
I think I’ve stayed up past 0200 watching these in disbelief so many nights, and have seen just about all of them. This compilation of videos is absolutely frightening. Very well done. I wonder what is done with all of the debris. Where do they take it?
It bothered me for a long time after I watched it. I had nightmares 😳😭
My God. The ocean is swallowing up the land!
Yep , the lesson is there are earthquakes , but to build house near ocean 🌊 is not wise .
@@RoyMayhew-b3h yes it's wise. Quality of life as no price.
If you gonna built on the Mountains there are Landslides, avalanches,etc.
On the "interior" draughts,wildfires,etc.
I live by beach and don't Change for nothing on this Earth.
It's amazing how many of these people are just casually watching the waves come in and destroy buildings without having any idea how high the water will get or if what they're standing on is strong enough to withstand it.
The horror; watching those people running from the wave knowing they most certainly didn’t make it was too awful for words. If that wasn’t bad enough the fires that followed. Everything we own can be taken in a moment. I can’t imagine how these people recovered from this.
I've seen a lot of tsunami footage, and this is some of the scariest ive come across
That music at the end…made it even more scary….those moaning, ghostly voices.
Minus 2004.
I've watched these for years. I just can't see how they survived. Major earthquake, then a huge tsunami, and it snowed. No power, no food, no help for all those injured, and it snows! So many homes and loved ones lost! Pray for you each time I see this. ❤
I live on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and have found several objects from Japan on the beach still to this day. A lot of pieces of those blue shipping containers. Every time I find something I think of the victims of that horrific tsunami.
@@harrysarai3947 I’m not sure if the currents go that way. But that would be wild.
@@harrysarai3947. No they won’t. Currents.
Heartbreaking.....😢😢😢
Sure they would, or the global oceanic circulation would shut down and weather everywhere would be VERY different...they would take the Southern route past Hawaii rather than the Northern route past Alaska and Canada is all. @@CjbrkBrooks
@@harrysarai3947 I’m not sure what that means but after 2011 tsunami, a lot of things ended up on our beaches for example, a boat that was fixed up by the locals and actually returned to the owner in Japan.
I will have to look up the Kuroshio current and see what’s going on. Thank you for the info.
~ Heart wrenching. Heart pounding fear. ~ Just watching this it's like "How can this be real"? This is so devastating to watch one almost puts up a guard for emotinal protection. I was in shock seeing many just standing there watching what was unfolding and not running like fire was coming off their heels for their life! Seconds counted!!!!!!!!!! All those people that were in their cars and how many were in the big ships that were broken up like dry sticks. So so sad.
21:58 hurts the most. Seeing the camera zoom into the 2 elderly, watching them brace and just wait, knowing there is nothing they can do. Seeing the helplessness in everyone, just a street away from them, wanting to help but having to run away themselves. Seeing the elderly man do his best walking towards higher ground with the torrent in the background, seeing him stop and brace beside the house, watching the water swallow everything around him, all while hearing the panic in everyone's voices. My god..
Watching that makes you feel so small and helpless
When it all calmed down, HOW did all these survivors eat, drink, live? Where did they go? How long were they destitute? Blows my mind.
The Japanese are one in times of national crisis contrary to, for instance America. There is discipline because they know that they depend on each other to survive everything nature throws at them.
As a Dutch I can fully sympathize with that.
@@FrankHeuvelmanYou haven’t seen US hurricane response! It’s incredible. Repair trucks are stationed nearby before it hits. In the South, the CAJUN NAVY shows up ASAP, which is thousands of volunteers towing their motor boats to rescue people. Volunteers flock to help at shelters. Hundreds of firemen and police died on 9-11 because they ran INTO the buildings to rescue people. We send billions of $ in aid to other countries in trouble. I’ m a Red Cross volunteer and a CERT volunteer.. During on massive hurricane evacuation in Texas, people who lived along highways invited the people stuck in traffic jams to come in and use their bathrooms. Strangers. So don’t insult our helping others in an emergency when you know nothing about it. What do YOU do in emergencies?
@@kathyyoung1774Well bully for you. Since when did a hurricane take 20,000 lives in one go and annihilate many towns. Not comparable. Also I am reminded of the pitiful response to hurricane Katrina.
@@Maisiewuppp I wasn't playing one-upsmanship! I was reponding to the unwarranted criticism by someone from the other side of the Atlantic that Americans don't respond to catastrophies. The only pitiful part of Katrina was Mayor Nagel, who evacuated himself and left hundreds of school buses to flood, rather than evacuate poor people on them. The state and federal government did respond well to that colossal tradegy. It was unprecedented, too. And the states respond well to other catastrophies.
@@kathyyoung1774During WW2, my grandfather couldn't even get a cup of coffee from your organization b/c he didn't have any money.
He never forget it, and neither did we. He said, send the money to the Sally (Salvation Army)
The water just dont stop coming !! 😮 the force that it takes to do that is mind blowing.
how in the hell does a country recover from something like this. damn its so heartbreaking. Japanese have got to be the most resilient people to exist. im sitting here crying. I cant believe they went through this.
Determination! People are resilient. It’s just tragic that they had to endure this.
So very sad . I've seen over 12 hours of tsunami videos and was amazed at the destruction it caused .
Man that third wave at 11:30 was brutal! I'm in my 60's, I've always followed catastrophes etc, The footage from this tsunami was unprecedented in human history...it must have been mind shattering for those caught in the maelstrom!
Amazing and devastating images ..💔 most I have never seen . The strength and resilience of the Japanese people to deal with this is astounding .
This was amazingly terrifying. I’ve watch a number of videos on this tsunami, but I’ve never seen the waves moving this fast before.
Even after all these years, this is still horrific to watch. I can only image the shock and horror of those who witnessed and/or survived it.
Feels like yesterday
I remember seeing this live in the UK. 2011 seems so far away now. :(
These poor people must be forever traumatized. I was there in March of 2001 visiting my son stationed in Yokosuka. He took me everywhere with pride in these people and their country. My heart is forever with Japan and its wonder people.
I've seen many of these videos and have been amazed and immensely saddened at the widespread destruction so far inland and worst of all, the horrendous loss of life.
I can't imagine going through that and the memories that likely torment many even to this day, may their days be filled with life, light and hippieness.
I remember watching it live on tv, it was a really weird feeling standing in my living room while seeing the tsunami hit in real time. Sad, scary, intense, and paralyzing at the same time
I too just by happenstance, woke up here in Calif. to see this live on tv( left on when I had fallen asleep earlier) .. It was horrible to see this tremendous tsunami lives, ,people running for their lives.
It was sad, tragic and horrible seeing people swallowed up by the waves of crushed everything. To hear the people’s cries, it was heartbreaking. I have been through a few earthquakes here in Calif. But nothing like this. God rest the souls 9f those’d who died in this terrible Tsunami.
Same. My 2 brothers and their families live in Japan. I'll never forget the terror I felt that day.
How many people missing and were never found?
This is a comprehensive compilation including the heights of waves. Excellent production.
Very few videos show the extent of the horror of natural disasters, but this one certainly had me sitting slack-jawed in disbelief. It's so sad to see such death and destruction. My heart went out to the people of Japan during this event and my prayers were not wasted. I continue to pray for people who experience such things worldwide.
How do you know your prayers were not wasted?
Prayer. How to claim you are helping while doing nothing that requires effort or money.
@@mirrage42I am sorry you know so little about prayer. Your lack of awareness is a great loss to you. Life is much bigger than you imagine. Blessings for your journey 💛
@@oceanecastelnau9821 I could not have said it better and you said it calmly and without hostility. A rare event here in RUclips land. Peace and blessings to you and yours.
@@mirrage42 the only thing I *could* do was pray for these people because I am now a quadreplegic living in a wheelchair after a lifetime of working as a nurse caring for the elderly, mentally ill and hospice patients in end of life care. I *now* do what I can to inspire others by not living in negativity and fear. I am a positive, happy person who doesn't bitch to everyone I meet about how miserable my life is because it is *not.* Regardless of my abilities, I live as fully as I can despite living below the poverty line because I am uninsured. But I find time to sing to the elderly in nursing homes because they don't receive a lot of visitors. I can't do bake sales or carry water, but I do what I can in my own, individual way.
What do *you* do to try to affect change in the world besides find fault with complete strangers on the Internet? I am looking forward to hearing you expound on what *your* efforts are to alleviate the suffering of these people, or *any* people. Do you offer money and/or volunteer for the rescue efforts? It is so easy to lower ourselves to levels of hostility and negative people, but I don't moralise about other people's attitudes and behaviours, Iive by example. I pray that you find a way to live in such a way that is as rewarding as I have found it to be.
Mesmerizing and terrifying. My heart still aches for all those affected.
They say 8.9 on here but it's since been upgraded to a 9.2 earthquake, that's absolutely insane the one in Sumatra that caused the other huge tsunami was a 9.1.
Plus the fact that the scale is logarithmic, which most people don’t understand. The difference between 9.0 and 9.2 is gigantic.
@@briansymmes7917stop it your frightening me
It changed the tilt of the earth, which “rang” like a bell.
@@CjbrkBrooks yes it did that also we lost something like 0.040 of a second in time.
Here are some mind-blowing facts on the earthquake:
The shaking lasted about six minutes.
The number of confirmed deaths is 19,747 as of December, 2021, according to the reconstruction agency.
The effects of the great earthquake, which was the strongest in Japan's recorded history, were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. Tsunami debris has continued to wash up on North American beaches years later.
The direct financial damage from the disaster is estimated to be about $199 billion dollars (about 16.9 trillion yen).
The total economic cost could reach up to $235 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in world history.
The earthquake shifted Earth on its axis of rotation and shortened the length of a day by about a microsecond.
About 400 km of Japan's northern Honshu coastline dropped by 0.6 meters (2 ft) according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The jolt moved Japan's main island of Honshu eastward by 2.4 m.
The Pacific Plate slid westward near the epicenter by 24 m.
In Antarctica, the seismic waves from the earthquake sped up the Whillans Ice Stream, jolting it by about 0.5 m.
The tsunami broke icebergs off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
As the tsunami crossed the Pacific Ocean, a 5-foot high (1.5 m) high wave killed more than 110,000 nesting seabirds at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
In Norway, water in fjords pointing toward Japan sloshed back and forth as seismic waves from the earthquake raced through.
The surge of water carried an estimated 5 million tons of debris out to sea, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency reported. Japanese docks and ships, and countless household items have arrived on U.S. and Canadian shores in the ensuing years.
More than 2,500 people are still reported missing.
My heart goes out even today to all lost and survivors left behind.
God bless all of Japan and the people affected. I have never seen anything so sad. It's heartbreaking hearing their screams of pain.
Is this"Predestiny?"
I've watched these videos over & over again.
Tsunami videos are sooo addictive, the raw power is a sight to shiver anyone's timbers, almost like a giant calvin iceberg's, which are also amazing to watch.
"From dust we came, & to which we'll return"
We are entirely insignificant in the grand scheme of time & space.
Amazing and horrifying. Thank you Robert for a great compilation.
Absolutely correct. Terrifying, but mesmerising and unbelievably sad. 😢
In one seaside village the height of the surge was 129 ft. Even viewing many before it I was shocked when it was posted. In Alaska there was a rock fall at the head of a ocean fjorde while a father and young son were on their fishing boat, the wave created was over 500 ft high judging by the scrapping of all plant life along the shore. Their boat was tossed, tumbled and rolled as the wave swipped them along. Amazingly they both survived as did their boat. The father said he heard the noise and was expecting something but not what they recieved. I think his first reaction seeing the wave was " Holy Shit hang on ".
Higher than that. All trees were wiped out to 1700 feet.
It was OVER 500 METERS high, not 500 feet. That wave was over 1700 feet high !!!
This remains the most terrifying thing I have ever seen in my 60 years of life, the absolute and unstoppable force of the water, the speed that it moved, and the scale of the destruction is nearly beyond my comprehension. My prayers still go out to the people affected by this, and I pray never to see anything like this again.
I’m sorry but you are praying to a god who was incapable of averting this (and all other) disaster(s)’ or is capable but chose not to intervene to save the lives of countless thousands of babies and children as well adults, or doesn’t exist. The first possibility blows any claims in the Bible that god is all powerful and controlling, the second means that this god, is callous, cruel and indifferent to human tragedy, grief and suffering. Both of these do not paint this god in a very good light if people insist it really exists. The third case is the most likely and we are all sadly at the mercy of the forces of the universe, whether they enable the circumstances for our existence to prevail, or enable the circumstances for our demise.
I hope that with all the advanced technology that Japan possesses, that they have detectors planted everywhere on their coast line and further out to sea, so at least they all have a fighting chance to get to higher ground.
Watching this made me sob my hear out, especially seeing to eldetly people try to run from the wave, but didn't make it...but not forgetting all those in the buildings, boats, cars etc🙏🏻🦋💙🫂🌹
Best way to think of a tsunami is not as a wave, but the ocean itself rising. Scary stuff…
It always just looks like a big flood to me, I’ve never seen one video of a 40-50 foot wave taken from ground level where you actually see the height, all the videos have no perspective to show their size, no trees, cars, houses, buildings, etc. I think all these claims of 40-50 foot waves are exaggerated
Umm, there is definitely a video that shows where the water got up to and it’s like 100ft above where the water normally is…I’m not sure if it’s Omoe, but it’s like a harbor and you see the water flowing into the town. Yes, it’s definitely like a flood, the water rushes in and just keeps on rising. There’s a video of two boats trying to leave a harbor, there are at least 2 “waves” that look at least 20+ feet that you see the boats try to get over, but I don’t think they make it…The make up of Japan’s coast doesn’t really lend itself to “waves,” but you can DEFINITELY see waves if you check out the Indian Ocean tsunami. Sry just kinda went on a rant there, search for “40 meter tsunami” and it should bring you to a video that’ll show how high the waters went(but you’re right, you won’t see a clear “wave” per say…It just starts rising and keeps on rising)
@@TheCuthere. Go back and rewatch it. There were some gigantic waves! You can tell as they dwarfed mature trees. One city had a huge rise as the water was funneled into a smaller area, causing a massive rise in height.
@@CjbrkBrooksThe wave front only occurs if the ground/bottom gradually rises or a bay funnels towards a beach line, port or river delta. If not, it's more like rapid flooding. It's like taking a large cover or panel into a pool or bathtub and then pulling it to the surface quickly.
@@TheCutherewhy would anyone take a video from ground level? They wouldn’t be alive.
The power of nature when unleashed is terrifying
Man, on one of those clips you see an elderly couple slowly trying to find high ground before being overtaken and the whole shop swept away, so heartbreaking. This footage is some of the scariest ever.
What is the time stamp on that?
@@myfighthereI'd say 22:15 - 22:30
Every now and then, nature has to remind us who's really in charge
Incredible footage and yet heart wrenching😢..
What incredible power the ocean has. Mother Nature rules this world. Not humans. She can take it whenever she wants. We need to learn to respect her. Much love and respect to the Japanese people for there bravery and resilience 🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing your work. 🙏🕊💙
This is the best, and warmest footage I have seen to date. Horrifying.
The sheer amount of water just keeps coming and coming. Insane.
I remember watching this when it happened on news. This is best compilation of videos capturing the events. Thanks
Nearly 20k people gone .. RIP
That oldtimer hangin onto that bldg, no way he made it, got swept up in all that debris, poor guy, RIP🙏
at 15:19 WHAT comes out of the ocean and streams across the field? It is really fast, white and big! It is at the upper third if screen.
Helicopter
Thank you ! I was beginning to think that I was the only one seeing "the thing". I remember pointing it out in the original video in 2011, where you can see it much clearer. An no....I don't believe it was a helicopter.
It seems like those signal flares supplied to boats
It is NOT a helicopter, and if you look at the water it leaves behind a streak in it on the left. Very good catch buddy, you found something very strange
The scene with the giant wave moving towards the bridge is the stuff of nightmares. If I had been there, I would have had a heart attack!
Awesome footage - good to see the Old LiveLeak in there too!
I have seen some videos on this, but not from that many locations. That is crazy! You can get a months warning on a Hurricane, I can't imagine these people even knew it was coming. Not like you can just grab a 5 gallon bucket from the closet and start bailing water. This is gonna take out everything in it's path. Horrible for the lives losts and the massive destruction
I've watched videos of this many times and every time sadness for the lives lost that day.
8:50 I've never seen that footage before. The size of the wave is absolutely terrifying.
12:50 So much for those "tsunami protection" trees, all they did was become huge battering rams.
I have no words. My heart hurts.
This was the most amazing / heartbreaking video i have ever watched. It's absolutely heartbreaking! 🙏
22 mins in and the old fella slowly trying to make his way 😢 climbs a few feet up a railing and the whole buildings start to move. Poor old sod 😢😢
I noticed that. Few seconds later and the whole area is swallowed by water.
And the lady with the handbag and head scarf and mask who is up a little from him. They both were next to buildings that were knocked and fell down where they were standing. They just ran out of time and had no where else to go since the water came down from the side streets too.
4:40 is my worst nightmare, how high is that wave
This is the most horrible thing I have ever seen. So scary. RIP to those who perished. 😢
The Tsunami added insult to injury! I remember seeing this and feeling so sad for Japan 🇯🇵
I can't begin to think what the clean up was like when it was done. And that's without the nuclear disaster. Just hauling off boats and cars alone would be a daunting task. Then you have the challenge of demolished buildings and other structures. What a logistical nightmare! You have to be able to get to it before you can remove it. I guess you start at the edges and slowly work your way in.
All of which has to wait until the human toll is fully taken, and remains claimed.
Such utter devastation. 😔
@22:16 probably that mans last moments on this planet.... may they all RIP 😢
I was horrified those days, as was the rest of the world, watching apocalyptic scenes. I was, am, and will be mindful, with sorrow for what happened 😢