Not even that. The water itself is quite harmless, if you know how to swim. But it's the debris that kills you. One survivor (who lost his sister, and had his ear torn) said that "It's like a junkyard being thrown into a washing machine." All the scrap being sloshed around would rip and pound you to smithereens.
@@davidlafleche1142 Even without the debris, I don't think anybody is a strong enough swimmer to be able to fight against that strong a surge. Maybe if you can reach something to hang on to, you might make it, but otherwise, you'll just get swept out to sea.
@@davidlafleche1142 most of the dead after a tsunami arent ever found because the water has to go back to the sea and it takes either the dead bodies or the live survivors with it
I have scoured high and low for tsunami footage that truly tells the story. This is by far the most terrifying video. Watching the water create cyclones, ripple in a crosshatch design, then wave in reverse. The power of water is incredible. Thanks for posting this!
This is lame I was there a day after tsunami I saw the damage This nothing Even the footage shows a 10ft wave Other footage shows the 20 to 30 foot wave size I've surfed for 40 odd years and can judge wave height My wife is thai her relatives live in around the phuket area I saw shit like a war zone .... I could talk your arm off
It's sad knowing that so many people ran to the water's edge when the water receeded. Seeing fish, shells, and other things that was under water moments earlier. So many didn't realize that was the warning sign of what was coming. I still remember watching it on the news, some tourist standing out on the sand and seeing a wall of water towering over them. They just turned their back to the water and disappeared into it.
@@mikefanofmovies I hope the World REPENTS and turn from their Evil Wicked Ways and come to Jesus Christ to se them Free from their Sins and give them PEACE, JOY, ABUNDANCE, WEALTH and most importantly ETERNAL LIFE!
@@melissaonorati2243 Man some people just don’t want to see the truth. It’s only science. You can’t get immortal life. Religion is a myth built by humans to make us feel safe. Wake up.
The swedish guy at the 2:23 minute mark says, "You would almost think that it's been an earthquake or something". (I'm swedish). The other voices are norwegians, but we can communicate anyway. They are mostly discussing the fact that the waves keep going backwards.
Backwards waves is probably never good unless they are the cute ones in lagoons like Bora Bora because of the small atolls being close together. On a coast or harbor there shouldn't be a large sudden shift in water going out to sea (where it is being sucked in and feeding the roaring water heading inland).
@@WertynIsSwedish oh that makes sense, like they're going back out after high tide. I think that is still part of what causes the weirdness in French Polynesia because the waves aren't always going directly out. As a result of other tiny islands outward waves intersecting with each other, it causes the outward waves to suddenly go left or right. It's a little bit hypnotizing.
Great footage! Rarely see the retro grade action so clearly after the wave crashes. Also the creation of whirlpools and eddies is something usually seen as water inundates village streets and houses. Don't usually see it happen in open water. Thanks for the upload.
Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever. Psalm 146:6 💙✨ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20 💙✨
IN all fairness I witnessed a Tornado April 27, 2010 in Birmingham Alabama. I thought It was a thrill. The next day the body counts came in, and kept growing each day. I just can't began to tell how bad I felt when grief replaced thrill. I did a lot of volunteer work and made hefty donations to ease the sorrow and guilt I felt. Sincerely, Greg Bernstein
Greg. I too am from Alabama. The tornadoes are thrilling, and fascinating, and deadly. But the damage the tornadoes did is not your fault. It's great that you helped with recovery, but I hate that I sense guilt, because you found a tornado thrilling. It's not your fault, you didn't contribute a single thing to the winds to cause anyone to lose their lives that horrible day in Alabama
Thank you Greg Life Is Not. A Cheap Thrill. For me action junkies are for the birds and I have done A few things without regret like wingsuits they Don't show you the bodies littering the Hills. Your giving is good but love life now.
Thank you for sharing - This video is of my family's story of survival -Phuket Thailand 26/12/2004 - @ Our thoughts and prayers are always with those that did not make it and for the heartbreak of the families who still live with the loss in their lives.
Thanks to your family for documenting this. Wonder, in this place/resort, was there victims/people died? or people in this resort were aware so thats why they were in a high place? People here were so chilled while watching the tsunami
Were you told your spot was safe, or were you stunned, or was that the highest spot already? I never lived close to the sea and am always a bit afraid of it...
The main beaches on Koh Lanta face north or northwest - like this one - while the tsunami epicentre was off Sumatra to the southeast, so the waves were sheltered by the island. That’s why they appear to move backward.
Seeing a wave break THAT far out from the shore is a bad sign. Means that the mass of incoming water is pretty tall compared to sea level. If you havent heeded the warning of the water receding far from shore by this point....you should be running now
I've seen beaches where the tide has gone way out. If you're not familiar with that beach, you'll never know. Also, the waves are deceptive because the mass is the length of the wave. Unless, you are aware an Earthquake has occurred, hard to know what you are witnessing and when to seek safety.
@@ryand141 there are no beaches in which the tide goes out by a few meters within a couple of minutes. Proper education could have saved tens of thousands of lives that day.
@@ryand141it does happen very quickly though, if a tsunami low tide happened just before you arrive then everyone will already be running. If it happens while you're there it'd be impossible not to notice. It happens because the thick mass of water being pushed to shore up the slope pulls the bottom layer of water in the opposite direction, a bit like a treadmill. The low tide before a tsunami is much lower than any tide you'd normally see
Even at 0:01 the turbulence of the water is frightening. The way the water turns seems as if the currents are already disrupted and are more of a whirlpool
I think most people expect a tsunami to look like that famous Japanese woodblock of a ginormous wave or how they make it look in movies. I was very surprised when seeing some of these videos that it just didn’t seem so obvious until it was too late
The thing is that a tsunami is less a wave and more the entire ocean surface rising. There isn’t an obvious “peak” until it reaches shore, by which point it’s way too late.
There are many hazards listed on old naval charts that are now believe to be forming tsunami’s. Feels like you struck a rock, but no damage, and that’s it. It is the shallow coastline that causes the wave to form.
As a kid, I hyper-fixated on disasters and spectacle I loved tornados, watching nuclear bombs blow up, sinkholes, whirlpools and big monsters and sea creatures and stuff, just for the cool factor. Hearing about tsunamis was underwhelming, I wanted big tidal waves engulfing massive cities, upon discovering it was, well what looked to be a bit of water I lost interest. As I grew up and was educated about the realities of our domain, I soon learned that a Tsunami wasn’t a bit of water, I discovered this: The sheer eeriness of the fact that the earths tectonic plates sometimes collide and just push on each other, just like any other planet with plate tectonics, and sometimes thousands and thousands of miles of the earths lithosphere gets pushed into the the molten mantle at speeds sometimes way faster than fighter jets, displacing insane amounts of water and reducing the storage capacity of entire oceans and our puny little body’s barely pushing 7ft in the most extreme cases just sometimes gets caught up in that sheer power. That is so much more scary.
Para nosotros con el internet, videos, películas, etc ya sabemos q un tsunami no es la gran ola q muestran en las películas pero si tienes razón cuando somos niños pensamos eso ahora está gente en el 2004 pensaba de esa misma forma ya q no tenían videos de internet ni otros medios q ahora tenemos nosotros no se dieron cuenta de las claras señales q dio el mar ahora nosotros con las experiencias en otros tsunamis ya sabemos yo tuve una experiencia fea con el mar y créeme el poder del mar es increíble no puedes hacer nd mas q dejarte llevar por la corriente y rezar por no chocarte con algún objeto grande o tragar demasiada agua
These people were very fortunate that they only experienced a mild version of the tsunami. Could have been much worse, like it was in so many other areas around the Indian Ocean.
Im from sri lanka and a lot of people died due to this tsunami .. i had a friend whose 8 month pregnant sister had gone to her parents place near coastal on the previous day after an altercation with her husband .. they all got caught and died. My friend who was in colombo went looking for them. Apparently he had found her sister, belly opened. It changed his life immensely . 😥
I was on Ko Lanta the year before, there was a boy called Jot who was the son of the owners of our local beach bar, I used to lend him my moped so he could go visit his girlfriend, being a narrow island I thought it would've been completely wiped out, but this video has finally set my mind at ease a little as now I can see it wasn't so destructive on this island at least, so there is a chance he and his family survived. It was a massive tragedy though, and my heart goes out to all those lost by the power of mother nature, thanks for the upload.
Yeah, I saw a documentary about the tsunami, and they mention how, because of the geography in some of the beaches (like, how steep or gradual the shore, the orientation of the beach to the incoming wave and such) some places in the same island or country were affected more or less than others. In some the damage was minimal and only monetary, in others it was more catastrophic.
There is a LOT of footage of the tsunami from Thailand. The highest wave was about 12m high. There is NO footage from the coastal areas of Indonesia, because the biggest wave there was about 30m...EVERYONE died, so none of the footage survived. I was in Cape Verde, and learned about tsunami waves that were 80+m high...I was VERY surprised to learn they go that high, so started researching. Discovered a long ago meteorite strike, with a 300+m high wave! Seemed almost impossible. But no. The highest tsunami wave we know was an even bigger meteorite/comet strike, with a wave OVER 1,500m high!!! A wave that high, is going to TOTALLY destroy even a MASSIVE coastal city, and go inland, for miles and miles and miles. CRAZY to think about!
Yo vivi ese tsunami, estaba haciendo un trabajo casualmente para esas áreas Si me pides una palabra para contar cómo sucedió todo, elegiría inesperado. No recibimos nunca una alerta. Nada. El 26 de diciembre estábamos hospedados en un hotel cerca de la bahía, desde donde se tomaban pequeños botes de excursión para turistas. La playa donde estábamos no tenía arena. Era una zona de puras rocas. Fue ahí, justo en el medio del mar, a unos 80 o 100 metros desde la costa, donde nos agarró la ola. Recuerdo estar en la balsa y que hacía un día precioso, muy lindo. Fue en cuestión de segundos. Todo empezó a moverse, tembló el fondo de la balsa. El siguiente recuerdo que tengo es el de una gran explosión en la que todos salen despedidos por el aire. Eso nunca lo olvidaré eso fue algo inimaginable, sentir la potencia de la tierra y nosotros tan vulnerables. Saludos cordiales desde Panamá 🇵🇦
My ex boss was having breakfast in the hotel and filmed it from start he was on the roof it went straight through the hotel he was trapped there for 3 day before being rescued his video footage was used on news channels around the world
Well they are laughing because they have no idea what a horrible situation this is. I was 16 when that happened so I don't remember if the majority of the world knew what a tsunami really was before 2004
The facts are this is sad, truthfully. You're probably not getting many "recommendations" from what you watched a year or 18 months ago. EweTube has altered is algorithms. Cutting off and "providing" us with their agenda. It's sad....very sad. But the pendulum will swing the other way soon. Make sense?
Interesting, I never knew about waves going backwards. Makes sense though, once it hit the wall, all that inertia/energy has to go somewhere. Some bounces back out to sea.
Hearing my own Norwegian language being spoken in a situation like this... hearing their every commentary. It really brought this even more to reality for me.
Har oppvokst i Bergen i 7 år, vi dro som familie i 2006 2 år etter tsunamien. Jeg er helt enig, det er ganske rart å høre alt kommentarer mens det skjedde på norsk, man føler seg mye nærmere hendelsen på den måten.
When the earthquake stuck, it displaced billion of tons of water above, causing two different types of waves to form at the epicentre. In the eastern direction towards Thailand, etc. the fault ruptured was pulled down, (subsided) forming a trench of water, (trough) creating a so-called "negative" wave, all the waves travelling East led with this "trough". As this "negative" wave approached the shore the water near the shore receeded, allowing the waves to come in like a flood. However, to the West towards Sri Lanka, etc. the story was very different, (fault uplifting). There was no treach formation, just a "positive" wave, (crest comes first) with no receeding, just a massive wall of water hitting into the shore.
05.36 SA WAD DEE KAB = สวัสดีครับ (greetings of Thai people(THAILAND)) Thank you very much that you please speak Thai. ขอบคุณเป็นอย่างยิ่ง ที่คุณกรุณาพูดภาษาไทย I am very proud that foreigners speak our language. ผมภาคภูมิใจมากที่ชาวต่างชาติพูดภาษาของเรา I hope you will enjoy your trip to Thailand. ผมหวังว่าคุณจะได้รับความสุขในการท่องเที่ยวประเทศไทย Sorry that I speak very little English. ขออภัยที่ฉันพูดภาษาอังกฤษได้น้อยมาก THANK YOU. ขอบคุณครับ(Kob Kun Krab)
Pro tip: When you see the water from the shore suddenly disappeared and you know that it never have low tide on that area, IT'S A TSUNAMI! Time to go to a high places. It's sad that people on that day doesn't know what is happening and no signal that there's a tsunami, there are 200,000 people died that day. I just finished watching "The Impossible" great movie.
It's really sad that so many didn't know when the waves go out and the beach is bare, that's your time to turn and run as fast as you can away from the ocean.
I was at Zinkwazi Beach in KZN South Africa and a friend was laughing as the sea receded and he saw some rocks that weren't visible below the water before. Immediately I thought it was tsunami like although nothing dramatic happened thereafter. The next morning the newspapers and TV were screaming headlines of the massive disaster and terrible death toll in other parts.
I think this is the first video of the 2004 tsunami that everyone has taken the high ground. Did they have warning systems? Did someone have knowledge about earthquakes and tsunamis and give a warning? I am glad they heeded whatever it was, and survived.
I can tell so far that in Thailand after Tsunami they installed warning systems. My father was one of the engineers in a company who got the contract installing warning systems S
Люди добрые, когда на отдыхе смотрите элементарно под ноги, все животные взволнованы, всё живое бежит и летит прочь от моря часов за 12,, вся рыбка в море уплывает, будьте внимательны к братьям нашим меньшим и они нам укажут и помогут о надвигающейся беде
The last few moments before the world re-learned about Tsunamis. We all knew of them from books, word is Japanese not hard to figure it out, but we didn't really *know* until 2004. "Hey the ocean looks weird" Now we know. You _run_ and get to the 5th storey of a modern concrete building.
Grazie,bellissima testimonianza di ciò che può fare madre natura 🤙💪 Per fortuna l'hai potuto raccontare purtroppo c'è chi non è stato così fortunato.....
this place is patong beach, isn´t it? Phuket , Thailand. The paradise on earth. LOVE THIS PLACE. I was there in 1985. Spent 15 wonderful days with nice thai people. Thanks
I sometimes wonder if people at that time did not know what a tsunami was,Why, when the sea receded, most of the French people were bathing with their children on the beach.And they still see the big wave coming and they just stood there, they saw the Thais running and they didn't move. Then some ran when it was too late.Thanks to the person who uploaded this video, it has good quality compared to what the others look like. I wanted to see this. At that time I was a child, I was 9 years old but I heard about all this on December 26.
@@angelbonilla8292 I wont either. Now. Back in 2004, not so many knew what was going on. It's diffucult to explain, but it kind of felt safe when the water disappeared - until it suddenly didn't...
@@Pilot90Oh my God, you were there 😮? How old were you at that time? I ask you why there are people who were not in that place, but upload videos of other people, but I know that there were many there who still keep those videos.
After all these years, and multiple waves creating havoc around the world it amazes me how many people still don't recognise the approach of a tsunami. The signs are so clear.
This was a wake-up call for the world if you see the ocean receding run like hell. I would have never thought something like this would happen on vacation. On vacation in Costa Rico and experience earth quick 2 months later from this destruction and ran to the beach to watch the ocean.
My sisters boyfriend was there. He woke up in his hotelroom, floor 6 there was water covering the floor but luckily he survived, with all due respect rest in peace for the people that didn’t survive
Thanks to all that footage people around the world know what a tsunami is now. If they see the ocean receding they’ll know what it is and have more time to scramble to safety
This is a mild version of the tsunami, as given in the description of the video... But it literally is still so strong as to still draw the waves back.
This video is taken after the 2nd wave - there were actually 3-4 tsunamis in different areas, sometimes the 3rd wave or the 4th wave the most destructive
0:42 “today we’re going home, and that might be a good thing”, did you get on the plane that day? 1:16 the kid saying “I’m NOT taking the boat today” is smart I did not expect to find a video in Norwegian, but that’s really cool. My teacher was also there and showed us a video he took, when I went to school years ago (we’re also Norwegian) 3:57 also, this kid also knew what he was talking about, the only one who saw the wave build up again
Is this your own video? If so thankyou for uploading its absolutely fascinating, and historic. Was everyone filming high enough to escape? it doesnt seem like it but they must have for the footage
They always say run when you realize the waters being sucked out from the beach. Judging from this video it still seems like that would only give you a slight chance of living due to the speed and how close it is to the beach already. Truly terrifying to watch let alone experience.
This video was taken after the 2nd wave - in some places there were 3-4 tsunamis - where the 3-4 tsunami waves caused much more damage than the initial 1-2 waves
You have to respect and understand the sea. As you can see, its not the height of the front of the wave thats the most dangerous, but all the water that follows
It seems like the waves are smashing the shore and then goes back to the ocean to gain more power, unlike what they show in the movies that it's just a huge wave, no, it gives several wave warnings before the huge one make it to land.
@@Pilot90then how come people are just standing there all chill, just chatting and laughing, not even concerned or scared. How did you know it wasn’t gonna come an even bigger one?
It's at 2:30 into the video I would have been thinking something is very wrong here. I think I would have been clueless and curious up until that point and then the sense of doom would have hit. I'm sorry for all the people who had to experience this, especially those who lost someone and the locals who had to live through the aftermath.
00:55 clapping!? Running!! Even though l know a tsunami goes 500mph on sea and 150mph on land. and there's no way to run it out Every time when there's a quake vulcano or whatso ever leave the beach instead :'( Better false alarm and a return back than staying and getting in trouble people don't understand how dangerous nature can be These waves were about 20-43 meters high.. it's insane Japan made walls to protect their selfs but the walls where not high enough they could have known a tsunami normally is around 10 meters in height they made walls from about 11 meters in height They made the word Tsunami Why did they built the nuclear power plants so close to the sea?:'( l give them so much money too, l'm so sorry for everyone who died and everybody who lost someone doesn't matter where it was which place when it was l'm sorry for all of them :'( l know people didn't know what it was back then some guy said maybe the earthquake affected the water he said nah but the truth was: YES it's so hard l gave those people a lot of money wish l could have saved people it breaks my heart :'( R.I.P
no.. 20- 43 metres. 20 metres 43 metres in between when two plates hit each other the plates give a 10meter high shock. So people expect the waves to be around 10 meter but these were way higher
No they made the walls 11 meters, cause they expect the wave to be around 10 meters but it was higher, they could have known that because the word ''Tsunami'' comes from japan. But l dont blame anybody because you're never sure how high the waves will be thats the problem
Darling, you don't know nothing about it. These waves were 20-43 meters high There has been waves even higher than this. The tsunami Alaska, in 1963.was triple as high as these waves. You seriously think only meteors can do that? Forget it about it, That would mean we are completely safe. No, Earthquakes/Seaquakes/And volcano's Landslides, Can cause more than you think. Tsunami's are 500mph. on sea 150mph on land. it's the truth You think 40 meters are high? Haha no. That's nothing. This was one of the worst accidents in history. But this one is not the worst of em all. Please don't start an argue with me about this subject l studied in this.
Never say never.. that's the danger. 1000 meters is high thats almost deadly for the whole world if that happens if a 1000 meter wave strikes this planet. We're fucked But think about it, how the earth was made, How wild rivers actually were in the past. How the mountains were made Ever heard of the Ardeche river? it's pretty calm now But in the past, that was a place where rocks as big as cars, fell down. Because of the water stream that caused breaking in the rocks. Which takes millions of years
this video is really well-made! it's impressive how it captures the impact of such a devastating event. however, i can't help but feel that focusing on tourism developments in areas like Ko Lanta after the tsunami can be a bit insensitive. it raises questions about how we balance remembrance with commercial interests. what do you all think?
Es el tsunami más triste tremendo y devastador de la historia contemporánea para muchos de nosotros, nos cambio la vida está catástrofe en tiempos modernos que veíamos por primera vez todos esos muertos y niños...es como si fuera la Pompei o Pompeya en está era moderna.
@@MarinaMescheryakovaykt14RUS The biggest tsunami of this century was the aceh, indonesia tsunami in 2004 because hundreds of thousands of people died and a lot of damage to buildings
Man I have so many questions... do you have PTSD from this experience? Do you suffer from survivor guilt? How did you and your group managed to get out of there after alk this chaos? I was 14 in 2004, I assume we are same age.. i remember watching this vaguely and I remember feeling very disturbed as a kid... I still cant comprehend that this actually happened ..
I was 14 as well. I had some problems after. I never got diagnosed with PTSD, but I think I had. Alot of nightmares that lasted for a few years. I still get them from time to time. You are actually the first one to bring up survivor guilt in the comments, and that was a real thing. We were on one of the first flights back to Norway together with people who had far worse experiences than us. From the moment we got back home all I wanted to do was to go back and help, and I felt really bad for leaving that fast. My father was one of the founders of a supportgroup in Norway, with the help of Red Cross, and we actually helped alot of survivors in Norway. We even organized a trip back to Thailand for survivors in 2005. Approximately 40 people attended that trip together!
@ 5:01 I believe i would not be around to see whats coming next, after all the water that came through and all of a sudden it’s receded that far. No bueno
The more tsunami videos I watch the more I notice the similarity between Oriental Asian dialect and Scandinavian/Germanic Dutch, the words themselves and the 'hurdy gurdy' rising/falling flow of the sentence.
***** That explains why this one stood out so much... But I have noticed it a lot in all the video's, even the ones from japan. I've got a thing about speech, languages and actual communication. I live in London I hear pretty much every accent everyday, at the end where he's calmly summing u the aftermath, says hello (i'm guessing) to the people walking by, the rhythm and flow is sort of indian with more Germanic pronunciation of Z's and W's
speak2tone At 5:35, is the only time in the video he -does not- speak Norwegian :) I am Norwegian. Sounds like he's greeting them in their own language, which i assume is Thai. And yes, Norwegian is quite an independent language, it doesn't sound like much others, other than Swedish and Danish. A foreigner would have a little difficulty distinguishing between the three.
After the fact. People weren't educated on the surge and receding characteristics of tsunamis back then. Nowadays people have wised up - what goes out must come back in, multiple times
Sushmita: visited the 'Tsunami 2004' ruins 10 years later... I felt extremely sad standing on that ground and simultaneously proud that I could do so to make the journey to Thailand 🇹🇭
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It's not the size of the wave that matters. It's the power underneath the ocean that you really gotta worry about
Not even that. The water itself is quite harmless, if you know how to swim. But it's the debris that kills you. One survivor (who lost his sister, and had his ear torn) said that "It's like a junkyard being thrown into a washing machine." All the scrap being sloshed around would rip and pound you to smithereens.
@@davidlafleche1142 Even without the debris, I don't think anybody is a strong enough swimmer to be able to fight against that strong a surge. Maybe if you can reach something to hang on to, you might make it, but otherwise, you'll just get swept out to sea.
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@@davidlafleche1142 most of the dead after a tsunami arent ever found because the water has to go back to the sea and it takes either the dead bodies or the live survivors with it
@@davidlafleche1142 A tsunami will throw you around like an worthless dummy, you CAN'T swim.
I have scoured high and low for tsunami footage that truly tells the story. This is by far the most terrifying video.
Watching the water create cyclones, ripple in a crosshatch design, then wave in reverse.
The power of water is incredible.
Thanks for posting this!
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This is lame
I was there a day after tsunami
I saw the damage
This nothing
Even the footage shows a 10ft wave
Other footage shows the 20 to 30 foot wave size
I've surfed for 40 odd years and can judge wave height
My wife is thai her relatives live in around the phuket area
I saw shit like a war zone .... I could talk your arm off
Lmao no this is not the most terrifying tsunami video amongst any other tsunami videos. If you said this is the one, then you haven't watched it all😂
Are you crazy? This is nothing. Look harder.
@@ashmuntz612 no one likes a one upper...
1:20 okay that is scary. The waves are actually moving AWAY from the beach. So much power and energy underneath the surface of the water.
Oh damn wtf looks like it was reversed
That means RUN!!!!!!
And contrast that giant wave with the one at 6:28 - who would have thought the calm sea was a raging tsunami not too long ago… 😱🌊
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It's sad knowing that so many people ran to the water's edge when the water receeded. Seeing fish, shells, and other things that was under water moments earlier. So many didn't realize that was the warning sign of what was coming. I still remember watching it on the news, some tourist standing out on the sand and seeing a wall of water towering over them. They just turned their back to the water and disappeared into it.
@@mikefanofmovies God and jesus does not exist.
@@mikefanofmovies I hope the World REPENTS and turn from their Evil Wicked Ways and come to Jesus Christ to se them Free from their Sins and give them PEACE, JOY, ABUNDANCE, WEALTH and most importantly ETERNAL LIFE!
it is told that this is exactly how most people walked to their death in ancient times too. knowledge is key.
@@melissaonorati2243 Man some people just don’t want to see the truth. It’s only science. You can’t get immortal life. Religion is a myth built by humans to make us feel safe. Wake up.
Were I. An gind the video??? Thank you!! I recopilate all of them..
The swedish guy at the 2:23 minute mark says, "You would almost think that it's been an earthquake or something". (I'm swedish). The other voices are norwegians, but we can communicate anyway. They are mostly discussing the fact that the waves keep going backwards.
Thanks for translation🙏🏻
Backwards waves is probably never good unless they are the cute ones in lagoons like Bora Bora because of the small atolls being close together. On a coast or harbor there shouldn't be a large sudden shift in water going out to sea (where it is being sucked in and feeding the roaring water heading inland).
I'm brazilian but have visited Norway twice, I can't speak Norwegian but I recognize the language as soon as I heard
@@lynnlynn9124 ive also seen backwards waves in he nettherlands but the only come after tidal waves so theyre not dangerous but they are cool
@@WertynIsSwedish oh that makes sense, like they're going back out after high tide. I think that is still part of what causes the weirdness in French Polynesia because the waves aren't always going directly out. As a result of other tiny islands outward waves intersecting with each other, it causes the outward waves to suddenly go left or right. It's a little bit hypnotizing.
Great footage! Rarely see the retro grade action so clearly after the wave crashes. Also the creation of whirlpools and eddies is something usually seen as water inundates village streets and houses. Don't usually see it happen in open water. Thanks for the upload.
Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever. Psalm 146:6 💙✨
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20 💙✨
@@Andrew-Johnson Om f*ck.. just go away
@@Andrew-Johnson "and on the third day, God said "Spam the youtube comment section with random gospel quotes!" 🤣🤣
Fu cking scared
It remains
IN all fairness I witnessed a Tornado April 27, 2010 in Birmingham Alabama. I thought It was a thrill. The next day the body counts came in, and kept growing each day. I just can't began to tell how bad I felt when grief replaced thrill. I did a lot of volunteer work and made hefty donations to ease the sorrow and guilt I felt. Sincerely, Greg Bernstein
Greg. I too am from Alabama. The tornadoes are thrilling, and fascinating, and deadly. But the damage the tornadoes did is not your fault. It's great that you helped with recovery, but I hate that I sense guilt, because you found a tornado thrilling. It's not your fault, you didn't contribute a single thing to the winds to cause anyone to lose their lives that horrible day in Alabama
Natural disasters are both thrilling and devastating, human curiosity is a very strong thing and it doesn't mean you're a bad person.
Thank you Greg Life Is Not. A Cheap Thrill. For me action junkies are for the birds and I have done A few things without regret like wingsuits they Don't show you the bodies littering the Hills. Your giving is good but love life now.
You are a good human
was hat das mit dem Tsunami 2004 zu tun?
Thank you for sharing - This video is of my family's story of survival -Phuket Thailand 26/12/2004 - @ Our thoughts and prayers are always with those that did not make it and for the heartbreak of the families who still live with the loss in their lives.
Thanks to your family for documenting this. Wonder, in this place/resort, was there victims/people died? or people in this resort were aware so thats why they were in a high place? People here were so chilled while watching the tsunami
Were you told your spot was safe, or were you stunned, or was that the highest spot already? I never lived close to the sea and am always a bit afraid of it...
@Patriot82 relax
@@hovawartfreunde4599 I think it was more like 227k
@Patriot82 only 227k died 🤓
It's weird and scary how the water waves move back in the first few minutes of the video. It shows how strong it has hit the shore.
The main beaches on Koh Lanta face north or northwest - like this one - while the tsunami epicentre was off Sumatra to the southeast, so the waves were sheltered by the island. That’s why they appear to move backward.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Waves move backwards to the epicenter. In every case of tsunamis this happened
Seeing a wave break THAT far out from the shore is a bad sign. Means that the mass of incoming water is pretty tall compared to sea level. If you havent heeded the warning of the water receding far from shore by this point....you should be running now
That was my first thought,water receding,run,run,run. We were taught about tsunamis when I was a kid.( I'm 72)
I've seen beaches where the tide has gone way out. If you're not familiar with that beach, you'll never know. Also, the waves are deceptive because the mass is the length of the wave. Unless, you are aware an Earthquake has occurred, hard to know what you are witnessing and when to seek safety.
@@ryand141 there are no beaches in which the tide goes out by a few meters within a couple of minutes. Proper education could have saved tens of thousands of lives that day.
Seeing a wave break while moving away from you is a pretty good sign to run
@@ryand141it does happen very quickly though, if a tsunami low tide happened just before you arrive then everyone will already be running. If it happens while you're there it'd be impossible not to notice. It happens because the thick mass of water being pushed to shore up the slope pulls the bottom layer of water in the opposite direction, a bit like a treadmill. The low tide before a tsunami is much lower than any tide you'd normally see
Even at 0:01 the turbulence of the water is frightening. The way the water turns seems as if the currents are already disrupted and are more of a whirlpool
You're saying it because you never saw an aerial view of sea
I think most people expect a tsunami to look like that famous Japanese woodblock of a ginormous wave or how they make it look in movies. I was very surprised when seeing some of these videos that it just didn’t seem so obvious until it was too late
Sim...eu pensei que fosse dessa forma.
The thing is that a tsunami is less a wave and more the entire ocean surface rising. There isn’t an obvious “peak” until it reaches shore, by which point it’s way too late.
There are many hazards listed on old naval charts that are now believe to be forming tsunami’s. Feels like you struck a rock, but no damage, and that’s it. It is the shallow coastline that causes the wave to form.
As a kid, I hyper-fixated on disasters and spectacle I loved tornados, watching nuclear bombs blow up, sinkholes, whirlpools and big monsters and sea creatures and stuff, just for the cool factor. Hearing about tsunamis was underwhelming, I wanted big tidal waves engulfing massive cities, upon discovering it was, well what looked to be a bit of water I lost interest.
As I grew up and was educated about the realities of our domain, I soon learned that a Tsunami wasn’t a bit of water,
I discovered this: The sheer eeriness of the fact that the earths tectonic plates sometimes collide and just push on each other, just like any other planet with plate tectonics, and sometimes thousands and thousands of miles of the earths lithosphere gets pushed into the the molten mantle at speeds sometimes way faster than fighter jets, displacing insane amounts of water and reducing the storage capacity of entire oceans and our puny little body’s barely pushing 7ft in the most extreme cases just sometimes gets caught up in that sheer power.
That is so much more scary.
Para nosotros con el internet, videos, películas, etc ya sabemos q un tsunami no es la gran ola q muestran en las películas pero si tienes razón cuando somos niños pensamos eso ahora está gente en el 2004 pensaba de esa misma forma ya q no tenían videos de internet ni otros medios q ahora tenemos nosotros no se dieron cuenta de las claras señales q dio el mar ahora nosotros con las experiencias en otros tsunamis ya sabemos yo tuve una experiencia fea con el mar y créeme el poder del mar es increíble no puedes hacer nd mas q dejarte llevar por la corriente y rezar por no chocarte con algún objeto grande o tragar demasiada agua
That reverse wave just freaked me out, how bizarre is that!
The amount of energy in a “reverse wave” is freaking incredible. Looks so cool, but incredibly dangerous!
fairly common. Even in wind generated waves. Water has to go somewhere so it does that. Depends on how the contour of the bottom is layed out.
These people were very fortunate that they only experienced a mild version of the tsunami. Could have been much worse, like it was in so many other areas around the Indian Ocean.
like the aceh tsunami one? yeah that one was real devastating
@@lookatmyfacern Yes, same day, same tsunami in Aceh. They were much closer to the epicenter so the wave was much more devastating...
@@stonew1927 yup
Im from sri lanka and a lot of people died due to this tsunami .. i had a friend whose 8 month pregnant sister had gone to her parents place near coastal on the previous day after an altercation with her husband .. they all got caught and died. My friend who was in colombo went looking for them. Apparently he had found her sister, belly opened. It changed his life immensely . 😥
Yeah they were really lucky lol ffs
I was on Ko Lanta the year before, there was a boy called Jot who was the son of the owners of our local beach bar, I used to lend him my moped so he could go visit his girlfriend, being a narrow island I thought it would've been completely wiped out, but this video has finally set my mind at ease a little as now I can see it wasn't so destructive on this island at least, so there is a chance he and his family survived. It was a massive tragedy though, and my heart goes out to all those lost by the power of mother nature, thanks for the upload.
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was the moped well
Yeah, I saw a documentary about the tsunami, and they mention how, because of the geography in some of the beaches (like, how steep or gradual the shore, the orientation of the beach to the incoming wave and such) some places in the same island or country were affected more or less than others. In some the damage was minimal and only monetary, in others it was more catastrophic.
Thanks for sharing. That would make a lovely short story.
Was there for millennium year 2k I hope Rang the masseur was OK.
If I saw those waves, I would be getting the hell out of there. So scary.
Exactly gives you anxiety just watching it on video
It’s frightening. I have a fear of water and this scares me
@Willow Cat Glad I never experienced that when I lived in England 😮
Thats a good idea, I would be running too. But thats why water is the most powerfull element, you cant run.
@@MrPanekify you can only hide
There is a LOT of footage of the tsunami from Thailand. The highest wave was about 12m high. There is NO footage from the coastal areas of Indonesia, because the biggest wave there was about 30m...EVERYONE died, so none of the footage survived. I was in Cape Verde, and learned about tsunami waves that were 80+m high...I was VERY surprised to learn they go that high, so started researching. Discovered a long ago meteorite strike, with a 300+m high wave! Seemed almost impossible. But no. The highest tsunami wave we know was an even bigger meteorite/comet strike, with a wave OVER 1,500m high!!! A wave that high, is going to TOTALLY destroy even a MASSIVE coastal city, and go inland, for miles and miles and miles. CRAZY to think about!
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The 1.5k one was only because of the shape of the mountains next to it that would happen at a coastal city
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The higest tsunami in history are alaska tsunami with 524 m
@@nonameguy3665Nop. The biggest one is the one after the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs.
Yo vivi ese tsunami, estaba haciendo un trabajo casualmente para esas áreas
Si me pides una palabra para contar cómo sucedió todo, elegiría inesperado. No recibimos nunca una alerta. Nada.
El 26 de diciembre estábamos hospedados en un hotel cerca de la bahía, desde donde se tomaban pequeños botes de excursión para turistas.
La playa donde estábamos no tenía arena. Era una zona de puras rocas.
Fue ahí, justo en el medio del mar, a unos 80 o 100 metros desde la costa, donde nos agarró la ola.
Recuerdo estar en la balsa y que hacía un día precioso, muy lindo.
Fue en cuestión de segundos. Todo empezó a moverse, tembló el fondo de la balsa.
El siguiente recuerdo que tengo es el de una gran explosión en la que todos salen despedidos por el aire.
Eso nunca lo olvidaré eso fue algo inimaginable, sentir la potencia de la tierra y nosotros tan vulnerables.
Saludos cordiales desde Panamá 🇵🇦
Thank you for sharing!
My ex boss was having breakfast in the hotel and filmed it from start he was on the roof it went straight through the hotel he was trapped there for 3 day before being rescued his video footage was used on news channels around the world
Can you send the footage?
Where is he now 🤔
@@catherinebilung5868 I don't have the footage the company closed down in2008 and he passed way in 2012
@@NJAceSgt he passed away in 2012
de que pais sos?aca por suerte no tenemos ese problema por ahora..soy de Argentina..saludos
Before the 2000’s most people had no idea what a tsunami was. Since these major catastrophes pretty much everyone knows the sign of a tsunami!
We knew what it was but a lot didn't know how to tell it was about to destroy the coastline
Well they are laughing because they have no idea what a horrible situation this is. I was 16 when that happened so I don't remember if the majority of the world knew what a tsunami really was before 2004
Congrats you're good at math! lol
There was nervous laughter c:
Oh please.
Nervous laughter.
No we had no idea, we were so stupid, thank God young people like you are here to share their knowledge and show us the path to wisdom
This is the fifth tsunami recommendation I've seen today from 9 and 10 years ago
Is this a premonition
Yeah... same here and hope not 🙏😬
The facts are this is sad, truthfully. You're probably not getting many "recommendations" from what you watched a year or 18 months ago. EweTube has altered is algorithms. Cutting off and "providing" us with their agenda. It's sad....very sad. But the pendulum will swing the other way soon. Make sense?
No no it's because I have been watching a lot of tsunami videos
Same story with me bro fro. Past three days
Me too
Interesting, I never knew about waves going backwards. Makes sense though, once it hit the wall, all that inertia/energy has to go somewhere. Some bounces back out to sea.
Reflection basically. Happens with all waves eg light, radio, heat, sound etc
Emma Wood State Beach in Ventura, California has one wall so that during a high tide and good surf, the waves go backwards. Always good fun to watch!
Hearing my own Norwegian language being spoken in a situation like this... hearing their every commentary. It really brought this even more to reality for me.
Helt sykt
Har oppvokst i Bergen i 7 år, vi dro som familie i 2006 2 år etter tsunamien. Jeg er helt enig, det er ganske rart å høre alt kommentarer mens det skjedde på norsk, man føler seg mye nærmere hendelsen på den måten.
Came here to post this, makes it hit closer to home
O q eles diziam no video não entendi.
Maybe you could translate for us...
I don’t know what’s scarier, the weight or the speed of the waves
The strength they have
The speee of the wave + weight = Disaster
Crazy. Natural disasters are mind blowing. Everyone I see blows my mind. It's been my favorite focus to make documentaries on for awhile now.
When the earthquake stuck, it displaced billion of tons of water above, causing two different types of waves to form at the epicentre. In the eastern direction towards Thailand, etc. the fault ruptured was pulled down, (subsided) forming a trench of water, (trough) creating a so-called "negative" wave, all the waves travelling East led with this "trough". As this "negative" wave approached the shore the water near the shore receeded, allowing the waves to come in like a flood. However, to the West towards Sri Lanka, etc. the story was very different, (fault uplifting). There was no treach formation, just a "positive" wave, (crest comes first) with no receeding, just a massive wall of water hitting into the shore.
I didn't know that ...
The wave actually changed the Earth's rotation. Imagine that for a moment.
Areas of Thailand did have waves.
05.36 SA WAD DEE KAB = สวัสดีครับ (greetings of Thai people(THAILAND))
Thank you very much that you please speak Thai.
ขอบคุณเป็นอย่างยิ่ง ที่คุณกรุณาพูดภาษาไทย
I am very proud that foreigners speak our language.
ผมภาคภูมิใจมากที่ชาวต่างชาติพูดภาษาของเรา
I hope you will enjoy your trip to Thailand.
ผมหวังว่าคุณจะได้รับความสุขในการท่องเที่ยวประเทศไทย
Sorry that I speak very little English.
ขออภัยที่ฉันพูดภาษาอังกฤษได้น้อยมาก
THANK YOU. ขอบคุณครับ(Kob Kun Krab)
Spot-on narration! The voice, diction, and timing truly elevate the video.
Looks fairly benign at first. Spooky.
Yes it does, kind of mesmerizing, until you realize it's too late 😑
I don’t know how I thought it was one wave. It’s a series!!
Be what?
@@claes8853 Benign. Comes after Beight. 😂🤣😅🤣
IS THAT IS VERY SPOOKY ALL YOU SEE IS NOTHING BUT WATER I NEVER BEEN IN A TSUNAMI I'VE BEEN ON SINKING CRUISE SHIP NOW THAT'S SCARERY
Pro tip: When you see the water from the shore suddenly disappeared and you know that it never have low tide on that area, IT'S A TSUNAMI! Time to go to a high places.
It's sad that people on that day doesn't know what is happening and no signal that there's a tsunami, there are 200,000 people died that day.
I just finished watching "The Impossible" great movie.
It's really sad that so many didn't know when the waves go out and the beach is bare, that's your time to turn and run as fast as you can away from the ocean.
We know now.
when i was in thailand the tide used to pull out alot every day
This incident is the reason I know it now
I was at Zinkwazi Beach in KZN South Africa and a friend was laughing as the sea receded and he saw some rocks that weren't visible below the water before. Immediately I thought it was tsunami like although nothing dramatic happened thereafter. The next morning the newspapers and TV were screaming headlines of the massive disaster and terrible death toll in other parts.
Foram as ondar de 2004?
Sim.
@@Daniel-hh7kc i think so, because tsunami 2004 also reached south africa
@@zeff8820 it reached Tanzania too
@@bertojr2130 same for san fransisco
I think this is the first video of the 2004 tsunami that everyone has taken the high ground. Did they have warning systems? Did someone have knowledge about earthquakes and tsunamis and give a warning? I am glad they heeded whatever it was, and survived.
No warnings. We were actually on the beach when the first wave hit.
I can tell so far that in Thailand after Tsunami they installed warning systems. My father was one of the engineers in a company who got the contract installing warning systems
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@@Pilot90sorry not speak english, pero tu estuviste en ese incidente? Dame más detalles.
Pd: use a translate For traduction, i speak spanish.
@@Pilot90Var det noen som omkom i denne situasjonen?
@@f.b.i.4387 ikke akkurat her
Thankfully these people headed the warnings and got too higher ground and safety. Sadly others were not so lucky.
Isso é aterrorizante e ao mesmo tempo sensacional. A natureza é incrivel!
Lot of people have no idea how much power our oceans have. It is what will more than likely be a part of the ending of our existance.
Nah, humans will manage that quite well on their own I think
@@merlith4650We are not a type 1 civilization at the moment to fully controll our planet. We could seize to exist if Earth decides that
Люди добрые, когда на отдыхе смотрите элементарно под ноги, все животные взволнованы, всё живое бежит и летит прочь от моря часов за 12,,
вся рыбка в море уплывает, будьте внимательны к братьям нашим меньшим и они нам укажут и помогут о надвигающейся беде
Our smaller brothers
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I was there that day. I worked at Lanta Paradise. I saw and ran from the wave and helped tourists out in the aftermath.
Thanks!
Translating from Norwegian: This is the time when we're running down to the bar to steal all the booze. They have no control anymore.
The last few moments before the world re-learned about Tsunamis.
We all knew of them from books, word is Japanese not hard to figure it out, but we didn't really *know* until 2004.
"Hey the ocean looks weird"
Now we know.
You _run_ and get to the 5th storey of a modern concrete building.
I got a degree in geography many years ago and I still remember learning the meaning for a test. The textbook called it a seismic sea wave 🌊
Grazie,bellissima testimonianza di ciò che può fare madre natura 🤙💪
Per fortuna l'hai potuto raccontare purtroppo c'è chi non è stato così fortunato.....
I find it very interesting that you can see the wave being reflected which normally you cannot see because they are only surface waves.
This makes me glad to live in a landlocked province. RIP to all the poor souls who lost their lives that day.
this place is patong beach, isn´t it? Phuket , Thailand. The paradise on earth. LOVE THIS PLACE. I was there in 1985. Spent 15 wonderful days with nice thai people. Thanks
I sometimes wonder if people at that time did not know what a tsunami was,Why, when the sea receded, most of the French people were bathing with their children on the beach.And they still see the big wave coming and they just stood there, they saw the Thais running and they didn't move. Then some ran when it was too late.Thanks to the person who uploaded this video, it has good quality compared to what the others look like. I wanted to see this. At that time I was a child, I was 9 years old but I heard about all this on December 26.
Not all the Thais were running either...
@@Pilot90 You're right, not all Thais were running either, but damn, if I see something like that I won't stay calm.
@@angelbonilla8292 I wont either. Now. Back in 2004, not so many knew what was going on. It's diffucult to explain, but it kind of felt safe when the water disappeared - until it suddenly didn't...
@@Pilot90Oh my God, you were there 😮? How old were you at that time? I ask you why there are people who were not in that place, but upload videos of other people, but I know that there were many there who still keep those videos.
@@angelbonilla8292 my father and I took all this footage. I was 14..
After all these years, and multiple waves creating havoc around the world it amazes me how many people still don't recognise the approach of a tsunami. The signs are so clear.
I agree!
But back in 2004, not so many knew...
At the beach we were, nobody had the slightest idea what was going on before it was almost to late.
This was a wake-up call for the world if you see the ocean receding run like hell. I would have never thought something like this would happen on vacation. On vacation in Costa Rico and experience earth quick 2 months later from this destruction and ran to the beach to watch the ocean.
Ever since I learned about tsunami in grade school, I am in awe and fear of the ocean.
My sisters boyfriend was there. He woke up in his hotelroom, floor 6 there was water covering the floor but luckily he survived, with all due respect rest in peace for the people that didn’t survive
Hope he was ok. Bothe regarding the event, and dealing with all the stuff that follows an experience like that.
Blah blah blah lies
@@jamesdobbins7312 bro you don’t know what happened be quiet
2:25 That sound when the wave breaks is horrendous.
Q
this is what I imagine God sounds like.
the only thing i could think off was gandlf saying: run you fools!
*fly you fools
***** *fly*
i think ppl are just...wow...look at this.....they dont realise whats happening!
lyverbird1973
flock
No
Incredible footage....to have witnessed such a sight....and its aftermath ....once in a lifetime experience
Wtf
a one in a lifetime experience ... Possibly the last
La experiencia única es "poder contar la historia"
These wave height are only maybe 80-90 feet or so. To imagine there was a tsunami in Alaska 60 years ago that was around 1300 feet!!
Waves moving backwards is so weird😳
Thanks to all that footage people around the world know what a tsunami is now. If they see the ocean receding they’ll know what it is and have more time to scramble to safety
This is a mild version of the tsunami, as given in the description of the video... But it literally is still so strong as to still draw the waves back.
This video is taken after the 2nd wave - there were actually 3-4 tsunamis in different areas, sometimes the 3rd wave or the 4th wave the most destructive
0:42 “today we’re going home, and that might be a good thing”, did you get on the plane that day?
1:16 the kid saying “I’m NOT taking the boat today” is smart
I did not expect to find a video in Norwegian, but that’s really cool. My teacher was also there and showed us a video he took, when I went to school years ago (we’re also Norwegian)
3:57 also, this kid also knew what he was talking about, the only one who saw the wave build up again
No, we did not get on a boat or a plane that day.
Being so calm at first is what fools everyone!!
The ocean.....she's beautiful one minute, and unforgiving the next. Mother nature reminds us that we're just guests on her planet 😎
Damn mom
How the sea heaves and undulates like a living, breathing thing. So bloody terrifying.
im confused at around 2:07 the spinning funnel thing, was that a hurricane almost forming? or what was that??
sorry.
was a whirlpool, most likely caused by a collapse in the ground structure
oh ok. thank you.
ManiacAidenAssasin ^^
Dawg, hurricane doesn't form near the coast
Is this your own video? If so thankyou for uploading its absolutely fascinating, and historic. Was everyone filming high enough to escape? it doesnt seem like it but they must have for the footage
Yes, it is actually!
We were safe in this location, with even higher ground behind us. So we could easilybescape even higher!
@@Pilot90 Thank God! The video is Just amazing. Thanks for sharing your expierence
Seeing that wave come is such a ohmygoddddd moment. I hope you managed to forget it by now!
Its still in my mind. Comes back now and then
They always say run when you realize the waters being sucked out from the beach. Judging from this video it still seems like that would only give you a slight chance of living due to the speed and how close it is to the beach already. Truly terrifying to watch let alone experience.
It was not common knowledge before 2004. But now, everyone knows..
Espetacular a calma desse povo vendo o mundo acabando e eles aí super de boa 👏✌🤔🇧🇷
Acho que essa região pegou as ondas menores...
@@W1Account E eles estão em terreno alto também. Mas você tem razão, eles foram afortunados. Em uma tsunami a água fica quase sólida.
Wow endelig en som snakker norsk. Flott at det gikk bra med dere.❤
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1:20 Footage of the sea getting sucked back out again is incredible ...Waves going in reverse.
It's kind of strange. And amazing at the same time. Alot of power in moving water.
Это отбойное течение
If you ever see water retracting away very far, just run as far as you can. A large tsunami is about to come
The oceans are terrifying 😱
Charlene Flynt Lives Forever
Was this taken before the real surge? Surely that island didn't escape with that little damage???
This video was taken after the 2nd wave - in some places there were 3-4 tsunamis - where the 3-4 tsunami waves caused much more damage than the initial 1-2 waves
that wave goin back at 4:47.... thats scary
You'll never know how powerful that wave is unless you see videos like this, now I know you can't underestimate the sea
You have to respect and understand the sea. As you can see, its not the height of the front of the wave thats the most dangerous, but all the water that follows
Tepat bersamaan juga terjadi di aceh. Indonesia bro, dan itu belum apa apa besarnya di bandingkan di aceh
Utrolig rå video dette. Godt dokumentert!
18 years later I watch this from Thailand… chilling
When there's a tsunami animals sense it before it happens and head for higher ground
At 3:54 is the most beautiful barrel wave i have ever seen but it is a pity that it was a tsunami it was like the seven gosts
Yer, that right hander coming around that point looked amazing
Right
Hi djizzah!!!
The wave going back out to the ocean is really cool! It's called backwash i think
It seems like the waves are smashing the shore and then goes back to the ocean to gain more power, unlike what they show in the movies that it's just a huge wave, no, it gives several wave warnings before the huge one make it to land.
actually, the biggest one came first. This is just the aftermath
@@Pilot90then how come people are just standing there all chill, just chatting and laughing, not even concerned or scared. How did you know it wasn’t gonna come an even bigger one?
I've never seen big waves like tsunamis so scared ,Ur subscriber from the Phillipines.
It's at 2:30 into the video I would have been thinking something is very wrong here. I think I would have been clueless and curious up until that point and then the sense of doom would have hit. I'm sorry for all the people who had to experience this, especially those who lost someone and the locals who had to live through the aftermath.
You should have seen the first wave 😳
@@Pilot90 oh I didn't ready the description 😳
Our Australia friend yelled for everyone to get to higher ground. People just thought he was crazy and ignored him.
If something looks out of the ordinary, don’t sit there and gaze: run!!!!
They may have been at the highest point for miles.
00:55 clapping!? Running!!
Even though l know a tsunami goes 500mph on sea and 150mph on land.
and there's no way to run it out
Every time when there's a quake vulcano or whatso ever
leave the beach instead :'(
Better false alarm and a return back
than staying and getting in trouble
people don't understand how dangerous nature can be
These waves were about 20-43 meters high.. it's insane
Japan made walls to protect their selfs but the walls where not high enough
they could have known a tsunami normally is around 10 meters in height they made walls from about 11 meters in height
They made the word Tsunami
Why did they built the nuclear power plants so close to the sea?:'(
l give them so much money too, l'm so sorry for everyone who died and everybody who lost someone doesn't matter where it was which place when it was l'm sorry for all of them :'(
l know people didn't know what it was back then
some guy said maybe the earthquake affected the water he said nah
but the truth was: YES
it's so hard
l gave those people a lot of money
wish l could have saved people
it breaks my heart :'(
R.I.P
no.. 20- 43 metres.
20 metres
43 metres
in between
when two plates hit each other the plates give a 10meter high shock.
So people expect the waves to be around 10 meter
but these were way higher
No they made the walls 11 meters, cause they expect the wave to be around 10 meters but it was higher, they could have known that because the word ''Tsunami'' comes from japan.
But l dont blame anybody because you're never sure how high the waves will be thats the problem
Darling, you don't know nothing about it.
These waves were 20-43 meters high
There has been waves even higher than this.
The tsunami Alaska, in 1963.was triple as high as these waves.
You seriously think only meteors can do that?
Forget it about it,
That would mean we are completely safe.
No, Earthquakes/Seaquakes/And volcano's
Landslides,
Can cause more than you think.
Tsunami's are 500mph. on sea
150mph on land.
it's the truth
You think 40 meters are high?
Haha no.
That's nothing.
This was one of the worst accidents in history.
But this one is not the worst of em all.
Please don't start an argue with me about this subject
l studied in this.
That was extreme yes.
But this one was higher than you think.
Never say never.. that's the danger.
1000 meters is high thats almost deadly for the whole world if that happens
if a 1000 meter wave strikes this planet.
We're fucked
But think about it, how the earth was made, How wild rivers actually were in the past.
How the mountains were made
Ever heard of the Ardeche river?
it's pretty calm now
But in the past, that was a place where rocks as big as cars, fell down.
Because of the water stream that caused breaking in the rocks.
Which takes millions of years
This footage is amazing. The way the sea was creating out going waves. Crazy
It sure was something worth filming!
this video is really well-made! it's impressive how it captures the impact of such a devastating event. however, i can't help but feel that focusing on tourism developments in areas like Ko Lanta after the tsunami can be a bit insensitive. it raises questions about how we balance remembrance with commercial interests. what do you all think?
The Weird Thing Is How Calm The Weather Is. Sun Is Out, No Thunderstorms, No Heavy Winds. Boom! TSUNAMI! 😳
It’s confusing to me that none of the locals had a sense that something was wrong
The Indian ocean doesn't produce tsunamis that often, I think.
Es el tsunami más triste tremendo y devastador de la historia contemporánea para muchos de nosotros, nos cambio la vida está catástrofe en tiempos modernos que veíamos por primera vez todos esos muertos y niños...es como si fuera la Pompei o Pompeya en está era moderna.
11.03 Япония, не менее, а может и более страшная трагедия 😔
@@MarinaMescheryakovaykt14RUS The biggest tsunami of this century was the aceh, indonesia tsunami in 2004 because hundreds of thousands of people died and a lot of damage to buildings
I remember another piece of footage from down on the beach with ppl screaming but i cant remember if it was this one or not i guess it was taken down
That was another video
Man I have so many questions... do you have PTSD from this experience? Do you suffer from survivor guilt? How did you and your group managed to get out of there after alk this chaos? I was 14 in 2004, I assume we are same age.. i remember watching this vaguely and I remember feeling very disturbed as a kid... I still cant comprehend that this actually happened ..
I was 14 as well. I had some problems after. I never got diagnosed with PTSD, but I think I had. Alot of nightmares that lasted for a few years. I still get them from time to time.
You are actually the first one to bring up survivor guilt in the comments, and that was a real thing. We were on one of the first flights back to Norway together with people who had far worse experiences than us. From the moment we got back home all I wanted to do was to go back and help, and I felt really bad for leaving that fast.
My father was one of the founders of a supportgroup in Norway, with the help of Red Cross, and we actually helped alot of survivors in Norway.
We even organized a trip back to Thailand for survivors in 2005. Approximately 40 people attended that trip together!
@ 5:01 I believe i would not be around to see whats coming next, after all the water that came through and all of a sudden it’s receded that far. No bueno
Flapping fish only means, “get on higher ground now!”
If I had been into the water, with that waves and the whirlpool, I’d have likely died from heart attack than drowned
Those people seem so calm standing there on higher ground. How can you be sure you’re high enough?
We could easily gotten to higher ground. We had a huge hill behind us.
@@Pilot90 - That video is terrifying.
@@mchapman132 it was terrifying! Strange how people react in extreme situations..
what camera did you use!!
unbelievable
Something like the JVC GR-D33
4k was not exactly common back in 2004 🤣
so scary, love goes out to all of the deceased, and their loved ones. ❤
The more tsunami videos I watch the more I notice the similarity between Oriental Asian dialect and Scandinavian/Germanic Dutch, the words themselves and the 'hurdy gurdy' rising/falling flow of the sentence.
***** That explains why this one stood out so much... But I have noticed it a lot in all the video's, even the ones from japan. I've got a thing about speech, languages and actual communication. I live in London I hear pretty much every accent everyday, at the end where he's calmly summing u the aftermath, says hello (i'm guessing) to the people walking by, the rhythm and flow is sort of indian with more Germanic pronunciation of Z's and W's
speak2tone At 5:35, is the only time in the video he -does not- speak Norwegian :) I am Norwegian. Sounds like he's greeting them in their own language, which i assume is Thai.
And yes, Norwegian is quite an independent language, it doesn't sound like much others, other than Swedish and Danish. A foreigner would have a little difficulty distinguishing between the three.
123TauruZ321 yepp,he was saying "hello" in Thai.
I can’t believe these people just stayed there. I would’ve ran so fast and so far up hill.
After the fact. People weren't educated on the surge and receding characteristics of tsunamis back then. Nowadays people have wised up - what goes out must come back in, multiple times
Sushmita: visited the 'Tsunami 2004' ruins 10 years later... I felt extremely sad standing on that ground and simultaneously proud that I could do so to make the journey to Thailand 🇹🇭
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