@@tatepearce7898 just trying to open the eyes of the "climate change is destroying our world" people. Sadly, they won't realize this but at least you did. And if 1 person does, the ripple affects can cause dozens more which turns to hundreds into thousands and so on!
I watch these videos regularly to keep myself grounded. To remind me that whatever problem I have, there are people who are worse off and have bigger problems to deal with. I know the Japanese people are still recovering from this catastrophe and have achieved so much since. My heart, thoughts and respect I send to you all.
I can understand contrasting your life to the one in the video, but I dont think it should make you feel better because your life is less crappy than the ones in the video either. Comparing yourself to someone with less than you or experiencing a more tragic event in there life than you is not something to necessarily hold onto for hope, definitely not a positive foundation to build upon and probably the exact way of thinking that got you into the situation you're in right now.
I have visited some of these impacted areas twice over the past few years. The Japanese people worked so hard to rebuild and bring life back to these areas. Very resilient and absolutely impressive!
After all these years and all the times I've watched these videos, my heart still races, I still cry, and I just can't wrap my brain around what I am seeing. My mother - who was Japanese - always told me, "When you see the ocean retreat, run for the hills or the highest place you can find. A tsunami is coming." She lived through so much; as a child running through the streets of Tokyo to get to a bomb shelter, being sent to the countryside to her Uncle's farm to keep from starvation, losing her mother during the war, coming to the States.......... Despite all the tribulations the Japanese people have gone through, they are resilient, maintaining their grace and move forward.
I'm from Chile and the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami still haunts me. So, I understand this pain, many lost and not found. And terms of the States, I get it! Look up 9/11 Chile!
What i would see is how the Japanese have recovered, started again from scrap, rebuilt their lives; but we only witness the ordeal not the recovery.. Did NKK report on that ?
저들이 대한민국에게 한 만행을 몰라서 그래. 벌을 받는거지. 전범국인데 잘못한게 없단다. 독일은 고개숙여 반성하는데.. 솔직하게 더 큰 쓰나미가 와야지 정신을 차릴 민족이야. 독일과 이스라엘과 같은 처지인데 잘못을 뉘우쳐도 그런데 일본은 잘못은 커녕 뻔뻔함 자체야. 더러운 민족 일본이지.
I used to think as a kid that a tsunami was just one massive wave hitting once, then done. But this is actually far more terrifying and mind-blowing. I can't imagine what these people experienced.
That's the thing there is an initial impact that takes out a load of people, but then the aftermath goes on for ages with people suffering and so much wreckage to move, it's horrible for all involved.
I was in the Air Force stationed in Japan in 2011 when this happened. It was absolutely horrible to see the damage the tsunami caused when we were sent out to do search and rescue missions.
I was here in 2011 several months after the tsunami, and I was just floored at the scale of the destruction. Much of what is seen in here was cleared out, but I have photos I took of several buildings (the Shell station near the giant boat in Shiriori, for example, as well as the Coast Guard building) and saw them in the video. I’ve never seen any of the footage in here before, and I watched everything I could find - in English AND Japanese. Thanks for putting this together, it’s very impressive.
I cannot seem to wrap my head around the sight of such a massive deluge of water swallowing everything in a real life footage! Each time I watch this I get a better sense of how massive this tsunami was!
So much complete destruction. Survival from the earthquake, then survival from the tsunami. Then surviving the loss of everything and everyone you knew and loved. It was so tragic.
Esse povo japones é guerreiro trabalhador e honesto, aposto que reconstruiram tudo, se fosse aqui no Brasil isso seria motivo pra super faturamento e corrupção e o pais estaria destruido com obras inacabadas e tudo jogado as traças, se eu tivesse condições financeiras iria morar no Japão
What occurred that afternoon was unprecedented, first came the 9+ Richter Scale Earthquake, twelve minutes later a Tsunami of extraordinarily gigantic size and ferocity made landfall, attacking the coastline. After which, the Nuclear Power Station at Fukishima experienced a catastrophic failure of its reactor cooling system, leading to a runaway meltdown, which caused the plant's reactors to explode, erupting highly radioactive contamination into the surrounding areas and into the atmosphere. As if that was not bad enough, uncontained wildfires broke out in the communities devastated by the Tsunami, with the entire horizon ablaze in many areas, including many vessels. The cataclysmic destruction to Japanese coastal communities was unlike anything ever known, with the Tsunami run up reaching 40 metres and at its furthest it inundated to a distance of 9.6 kilometres inland.
Even though this happened 12 years ago it's still terrifying and devastating to watch, there's really no words that can express the horror these people must've been dealing with! My heart goes out to every single one of them that was impacted, survived and died in this horrible thing!
Ölüm insanı daima bekleyen bir şey kimseyi unutmaz. Umarım bu sefer daha az kişi götürdü. En azından doğal afetlerde kurtulma şansı var, yalnız Hiroşima ve Nagazaki gibi olaylarda insanın kurtulması imkansız. Umarım insanlar akıllanmıştır ve ölüme daha az iş kalır, umarım insanlar bu dünyada yaşamayı bilir. Lafım Çin’e Amerika’ya ve Rusya’ya. Yoksa ölüm yine kazanacak bir kaç para için ve ölüm meleği çift vardiye yapacak. İnsan ol insan gibi sizlere layık yaşayın yoksa beklemede olan gelecek ! Bir Türk olarak savaşı iyi bilen ve tanıyanlardanım asırlardır bekleriz mecbur kalırsak şişenin ağzını açarız ve kapatırız yalnız erkek gibi savaşmayı biliriz. Bilin şişe yine açılıyor akıllı olun insanlar !
I came here to watch these videos after visiting Japan recently, I have nothing but respect for Japanese people and their resilience and hard work to rebuild their country. May this never happen again to any nation.
What can’t be communicated from a video is the stench following major flooding events like this. Rotting fish (if near oceans) and food (from fridges/freezers), garbage, sewage (human waste from flooded out sewer systems), diesel fuel and whatever else you can imagine. As a retired Homeowner Insurance estimator flood claims were some of the nastiest I/we had to deal with. Horribly tragic.
Wow. I watched a lot of live coverage on this back when I was a freshman in college. I remember actually skipping class because of how mind blowing this was.
I remember watching documentaries on tsunamis in the late 1990s. At the time there wasn't much by way of footage at all, except for grainy film of the Alaskan tsunami in the 1960's, and that footage by no means captured the actual influx of the water. The Boxing Day and Japanese tsunamis allow us to now understand how the destruction occurs.
One's mind has difficulties processing what the eyes are seeing! The sheer magnitude of the event is almost beyond comprehension, the once familiar landscape now unrecognisable. This video serves a very important historical document, recording the unimaginable events of that day, which forever changed the country and its people...
So many people not only lost loved ones, their whole families but also everything they owned, their lively hood and their communities. The footage is horrifying to watch but to watch it all unfold before your eyes is on a totally different level.
i still cant believe when you first posted this in february (before it got taken down), we were a day apart when we posted these. and we didn't even know eachother!
I thought I had watched every single 2011 video a 100 times each. I can't believe I've never seen this particular low angle before! Absolutely mind-blowing.
Japanese people are so resilient they had three horrific events that day and they picked them selfs right back up I have ALOT of respect for them ✌️🇬🇧👍
@@deehaytch8442 ... That was 77 years ago. The current generations of Japanese people are not the same. I have been to Japan several times and always found the people to be polite, gentle and generous..
I always had the idea in my head that a Tsunami was a giant single wave that swept inland. When in reality it's more like an extremely high tide. Cool to see and learn but terrifying for the people that had to live through it!
New sub, Ive always been so curious of nature, Tsunamis have got to be the most devastating. I try to watch all natural phenomenons to see there cause and effect. To see how people react to such a power. To learn what to watch for or how to escape. Its truly devasting and my heart goes out to all involved. Heartbreaking. Blessings and Thanx for sharing.
We have not finished. Japanese citizens pay a special reconstruction tax every year. There is still no end in sight for taxation. I don't know when the business will be completed.
@@user-pb3yv5uw5m I know it's still a long road to recovery. It will forever leave scars on the beautiful land of Japan but the people and land can still be beautiful and survive.
I wonder if those guys on the two fishing boats survived, probably not judging by the immense power of that water streaming in. It was surreal watching them both try to leave the harbour just as the tsunami started to come in. Were they choosing to ignore the warnings and carry on with their work or were they just trying to save their boats by going out to sea before it arrived, if so they tragically miscalculated how quickly the Tsunami would come.
My wife and i were living in our home on the North Eastern coast of Cebu Philippines when this earthquake and following tsunami occurred near Japan. The authorities in our area, made an announcement by vehicle loud speaker warning that the tsunami could reach the Philippines in a couple of hours. We immediately went in our vehicle to high ground for a couple of hours. As far as i know, our neighbours right alongside the sea, just stayed in their houses.
I just don't unfersta why those boats went out towarda it. I mean so did those people think that all the alarm s were for nothing very good vid god bless to thefamilies affected most
@@debraclevinger1400 Because the sea is safer than the shoreline. The tsunami slows down but grows in height they closer to the shallows, so you can simply ride a normal wave which is higher than normal in the ocean and that's it but in the harbor and the shorelines the wave becomes a wall that will demolish everything in its path.
To this day I have felt overwhelmed by the destruction that the tsunami caused and the people who were killed, injured and displaced. The one thing it shows is the resilience of the Japanese people. 👍🏻😁🇦🇺
We think that these towns were rebuilt and life carries on but it's not like a replica of each town was reconstructed - that would be both impractical and impossible. How strange it must feel if 50% or more of the town you grew up in was destroyed and replaced by new buildings, so that within a short time, a whole new town appeared and only the mountains surrounding you were familiar. Maybe the main roads stayed the same, but the skyline, the buildings, shops and parks must have been altered greatly. The shortcuts and alleyways you knew, maybe your neighbours, the woods, all gone and replaced. The memory of the town you remember mixed with the image of the town you now see - it's hard to imagine how that must feel
Drowning is my worst fear ever since I jumped in an adult pool by mistake as a kid that was extremely deep. The panic I felt realising I was so far down was the worst feeling I’ve felt but luckily a coastguard had seen me and got me out just as I felt seconds away from breathing in water. I feel so bad for all the people who had to deal with this, the fear of seeing the ocean rush at you and your town with such force with absolutely no time to prepare and nothing you can do must be awful. I really hope they have managed to rebuild and recover best they could. I’ve just seen the date on my phone. 11 of March that’s eerie , 12 years ago today this happened. Pray🙏🏻 ❤💜❤️✌🏻
Watching this reminds us to enjoy our time on Earth. Live in peace, harmony and joy. Our time here is too short. You never know what could happen in a second.
The fact that there was only 14,000 killed by this tsunami in all of Japan is mind boggling. Feels like there should be 100,000 killed in this one city.
Funny how this came across my feed!! I was there, of course. March 11, 2011. We first responded from Malaysia, and got to Japan (where I lived) in three days. When I saw Kesennuma, fishing port, it was in ruins. One truck was thrown against the back wall like a toy. Our craft could now beach where the quaywall used to be 8 feet above sea level. Now it WAS at sea level so we could pick up the engineers and their trucks, which were radioactive. We went to Oshima Island to get the residents food, water and get the electricity going. We did this for about two weeks. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen, and the residents were grateful- they had no power for ten days, and it was freezing. BTW, that LCU the 1634? I was the craft navigator on that boat. We were embarked on the USS Essex for Spring patrol at the time. I can say without a doubt this was the most frightening thing I have ever seen. I left Japan in 2012 after living there twice over a period of six years.
Over the years I have watched hundreds of hours of video of this tragic event. Yours is the first time I've seen the destruction taken from a boat on the water. Good job and God Bless the people of Japan!
i have so much love and Aloha for the people of Japan who went thru and endured this very tragic natural disaster. they are still healing from their losses and overcoming their suffering. love you Japan!
@@orion7326 japanese tourist is #1. they know and use "ALOHA" WHEN THEY COME TO BEAUTIFUL HAWAII. We in Hawaii understand, know the japanese culture. many of my friends are Japanese. In Hawaii we grow up with many, many different nationalities and we live ALOHA AND GIVE ALOHA HERE'S YOURS.♥️♥️🤗👍
This Is the first time I’m seeing this footage and I’ve looked up lots of videos regarding this tsunami but this one never popped up in my searches and now today it gets randomly recommended to me
Foi muito triste, pois muitos perderam suas vidas, seus bens, foi devastador, como tudo aqui neste mundo, mas o tempo faz com que tudo volta o normal, o bem mais precioso e a vida daqueles que foram, e não volta mais. E muito triste. Foi uma tragédia.
The camera operator did a awesome job. I just wanted to mention this. Very sad what happened to all these small cities in the path of the Tsunami’s. But. This camera operator is outstanding. The filming contributes a lot of useful information for future understanding of what a Tsunami can do..
It's unbelievable the amount of energy required to move this much water in such a short amount of time. I still cannot wrap my head around it and I still to this day feel for the Japanese people who lost their homes, communities and loved ones in this disaster. I am sorry you had to experience this.
This is one of the most astounding videos I’ve seen of this event. The powerful eddies seen in the middle distance around the left hand point shown in the early moments is caused by the rush of waster being detained from the harbour as the tsunami approaches land. The awesome power indicated by this alone is mind numbing. What follows is beyond words. 4:14 OMG! Here it comes! 15:00 After witnessing the tsunami and then the fires at night must have truly felt like the end of the world.
I remember watching it on TV when it was happening and thinking to myself omg this is apocalyptic. I can't even fathom how it must've been witnessing it and going through it in person. It's one of the worst natural disasters the world has ever seen. It terrifies me to think about the next big earthquake and tsunami that will follow.
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this! These videos allow those who study the tsunami phenomenon to greatly improve their understanding. You are an angel😇 to the study of sub-sea earthquakes. My sincerest compliments!!!
Terrible témoignage du tsunami de 2011 et de ses ravages !! Merci pour ce partage. Il en faut du courage pour affronter tout cela et se projeter dans le futur…. 🙏🙏🙏
SUPERB, but very distressing, footage. I can only imagine your horror at losing EVERYTHING... Thank you for documenting the incredible destruction. I have watched the Kesennuma school clips from inland, up the river, multiple times (and seen the white kappa fleeing the tsunami up and over rooftops - like both the black and white kappa fleeing the fields in the Sendai aerial vids). But, I had never seen THIS footage. What most impressed me, were a) the resilience of the Japanese people, b) the "let's get it done" attitude - the next day, clothing and bedding were already washed and neatly hung, drying in the March 12th (my bday) sun, and c) the honesty and integrity of the Japanese - I saw/ heard of very little thieving from stores. I contrast that with the hurricane/ flooding in Houston, Texas, where I watched all sorts of videos of people breaking into the stores and stealing every thing from TVs & other electronics, to expensive sneakers. Really? You have no food or clean water, and you steal sneakers? How incredibly low - as the store employees and owners are ALSO suffering in the flooding. Anyway, there was very little of this in Japan (though I understand some looting did occur). The 13th anniversary has just passed, and I so hope that folks are healing, and recovering, and returning wiser and stronger. All best wishes from this Canuck!
Watching the current develop as the water exits and then reverses with the speed increasing such that the outbound fishing boats can't make forward speed is one thing. But then the final rush is something out of my civil engineering hydraulics course BUT ON A GIANT SCALE. It's been a long time since I watched the videos for days of the power of a tsunami. Deep respect to the Japanese and so sorry for the loss of life and damage.
The destructive power of water is hard to comprehend. I saw water damage from the rapid flooding of New Orleans and surrounding areas due to breached levees following hurricane Katrina, and many areas looked similar to this city unfortunately.
Watching the water come in was a slow-motion tragedy. It is a different level of horror... of dread. To try and fully comprehend it at the moment and it overwhelms me.
We had some destructive quakes in New Zealand the same year as this one happened in japan. News from Japan put us even more on edge and every time we had a decent sized quake, our coastal suburbs would be evacuating n middle of night just in case. These videos gave us nightmares. Some unfortunate Japanese migrants went back to japan after our first big quake, only to be home in Japan at time of their quake too 😢 horrific.
I was in highschool at the time, our Japanese sister school sent us paper cranes for the February quakes and it wasn't long before we were folding paper cranes to send back once their quake hit
I watched this live when it happened - it was pretty horrific and uncensored, definitely wasn’t used to that sort of thing as a sophomore in HS. RIP to all of those lost.
I hurt with you Japan. Island arks are 'beautiful places', the geological upheaval; however, that comes with such feature is a different kind of beast. Understanding this is your home, just as it could have been mine, is still home and everyone understands this. I have the greatest admiration for all Japanese in honoring the land for which you live whether good or the bad happens.😍😍🗾
Oh wow you had a lot of nerve to stand there and film that. Even when it got so crazy, you had to know that you were at risk yourself. I admire your courage.
Videos like this one should be preserved for future generations, thank you for archiving them
To see that this 1 day caused more ocean pollution than the last 10yrs combined... that way they may realize Greta retard is a hoax to steal our money
Yes I agree with you.
@@tatepearce7898 that this day caused more ocean pollution than the last 10yrs combined? Or what jero said?
@@sparkynate91 actually you made a very good point to so for both
@@tatepearce7898 just trying to open the eyes of the "climate change is destroying our world" people. Sadly, they won't realize this but at least you did. And if 1 person does, the ripple affects can cause dozens more which turns to hundreds into thousands and so on!
I watch these videos regularly to keep myself grounded. To remind me that whatever problem I have, there are people who are worse off and have bigger problems to deal with. I know the Japanese people are still recovering from this catastrophe and have achieved so much since. My heart, thoughts and respect I send to you all.
Beautifully put.
It's funny because I do the exact same thing, mother nature will always win. But the struggle that this country inured is just beyond words
A very nice post , well said , and ditto..
This comment actually helped me. So thank you for commenting
I can understand contrasting your life to the one in the video, but I dont think it should make you feel better because your life is less crappy than the ones in the video either. Comparing yourself to someone with less than you or experiencing a more tragic event in there life than you is not something to necessarily hold onto for hope, definitely not a positive foundation to build upon and probably the exact way of thinking that got you into the situation you're in right now.
I have visited some of these impacted areas twice over the past few years. The Japanese people worked so hard to rebuild and bring life back to these areas. Very resilient and absolutely impressive!
After all these years and all the times I've watched these videos, my heart still races, I still cry, and I just can't wrap my brain around what I am seeing.
My mother - who was Japanese - always told me, "When you see the ocean retreat, run for the hills or the highest place you can find. A tsunami is coming."
She lived through so much; as a child running through the streets of Tokyo to get to a bomb shelter, being sent to the countryside to her Uncle's farm to keep from starvation, losing her mother during the war, coming to the States..........
Despite all the tribulations the Japanese people have gone through, they are resilient, maintaining their grace and move forward.
I'm from Chile and the 8.8 earthquake and tsunami still haunts me. So, I understand this pain, many lost and not found. And terms of the States, I get it! Look up 9/11 Chile!
True
Every once in a while I watch these. It defies belief.
What i would see is how the Japanese have recovered, started again from scrap, rebuilt their lives; but we only witness the ordeal not the recovery..
Did NKK report on that ?
저들이 대한민국에게 한 만행을 몰라서 그래. 벌을 받는거지. 전범국인데 잘못한게 없단다. 독일은 고개숙여 반성하는데.. 솔직하게 더 큰 쓰나미가 와야지 정신을 차릴 민족이야. 독일과 이스라엘과 같은 처지인데 잘못을 뉘우쳐도 그런데 일본은 잘못은 커녕 뻔뻔함 자체야. 더러운 민족 일본이지.
I CANT BELIEVE AFTER 11 year these videos are still so crazy too watch i must say they are the calmest people and so brave and strong
Why can't you believe it? They're still the same videos. They didn't change over the past 11 years.
@@michaelb2388 Pretty sure they meant the impact that the videos still have after all these years, but you knew that, didnt you?🙄
I think a lot of what we take to be calm is actually shock. I agree with you that the impact of these videos is still strong after all this time
A lot easier to watch than the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Footage, At least in Japan they knew what was coming and were mostly well prepared for it.
@@michaelb2388 You really didn't get her comment at all, did you?
私はトルコから日本人に愛を送ります. 私たちはあなたをとても愛しています. あなたは本当に善良で文化的な人々です. トルコ人として, 私は日本人を愛しています.🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
その日は仕事で東京にいました。非難しながら携帯でニュースを見て手が震えました。
何回、何十回、何百回、何千回
見ても衝撃を受ける…。
しかもその日の夜や翌日、その後の映像まで…
I used to think as a kid that a tsunami was just one massive wave hitting once, then done. But this is actually far more terrifying and mind-blowing. I can't imagine what these people experienced.
Same. Turns out a tsunami is more like a rapid rise in sea level. Still devastating though.
That's the thing there is an initial impact that takes out a load of people, but then the aftermath goes on for ages with people suffering and so much wreckage to move, it's horrible for all involved.
Tsunami is a very long wave. It hits the shore and keep moving inside for minuts.
EXACTLY !!! Both scenarios are terrifying, but this is more terrifying in a way because at the start it gives you a false impression of safety.
it’s like a wall of water
Thank you for the footage, especially because you risked your own life capturing it. Also I am so sorry for the victims involved.
Same, yes- thanks to media we all experienced it
I was in the Air Force stationed in Japan in 2011 when this happened. It was absolutely horrible to see the damage the tsunami caused when we were sent out to do search and rescue missions.
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Salute to you men you there putting your lives on the line to save others. Top man
no you didn't
Cap 🧢
@@cemo3292 why
I was here in 2011 several months after the tsunami, and I was just floored at the scale of the destruction. Much of what is seen in here was cleared out, but I have photos I took of several buildings (the Shell station near the giant boat in Shiriori, for example, as well as the Coast Guard building) and saw them in the video.
I’ve never seen any of the footage in here before, and I watched everything I could find - in English AND Japanese. Thanks for putting this together, it’s very impressive.
I cannot seem to wrap my head around the sight of such a massive deluge of water swallowing everything in a real life footage! Each time I watch this I get a better sense of how massive this tsunami was!
So much complete destruction. Survival from the earthquake, then survival from the tsunami. Then surviving the loss of everything and everyone you knew and loved. It was so tragic.
Fukushima
Esse povo japones é guerreiro trabalhador e honesto, aposto que reconstruiram tudo, se fosse aqui no Brasil isso seria motivo pra super faturamento e corrupção e o pais estaria destruido com obras inacabadas e tudo jogado as traças, se eu tivesse condições financeiras iria morar no Japão
What occurred that afternoon was unprecedented, first came the 9+ Richter Scale Earthquake, twelve minutes later a Tsunami of extraordinarily gigantic size and ferocity made landfall, attacking the coastline.
After which, the Nuclear Power Station at Fukishima experienced a catastrophic failure of its reactor cooling system, leading to a runaway meltdown, which caused the plant's reactors to explode, erupting highly radioactive contamination into the surrounding areas and into the atmosphere.
As if that was not bad enough, uncontained wildfires broke out in the communities devastated by the Tsunami, with the entire horizon ablaze in many areas, including many vessels.
The cataclysmic destruction to Japanese coastal communities was unlike anything ever known, with the Tsunami run up reaching 40 metres and at its furthest it inundated to a distance of 9.6 kilometres inland.
@@michaeltaylor8835 Indeed.. Fukushima was the worst of it all. That complex should NEVER have been built there. Many wise people were ignored.
Even though this happened 12 years ago it's still terrifying and devastating to watch, there's really no words that can express the horror these people must've been dealing with! My heart goes out to every single one of them that was impacted, survived and died in this horrible thing!
So sad to see how events like this affect people’s lives
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Kuran
Ölüm insanı daima bekleyen bir şey kimseyi unutmaz. Umarım bu sefer daha az kişi götürdü. En azından doğal afetlerde kurtulma şansı var, yalnız Hiroşima ve Nagazaki gibi olaylarda insanın kurtulması imkansız. Umarım insanlar akıllanmıştır ve ölüme daha az iş kalır, umarım insanlar bu dünyada yaşamayı bilir. Lafım Çin’e Amerika’ya ve Rusya’ya. Yoksa ölüm yine kazanacak bir kaç para için ve ölüm meleği çift vardiye yapacak. İnsan ol insan gibi sizlere layık yaşayın yoksa beklemede olan gelecek ! Bir Türk olarak savaşı iyi bilen ve tanıyanlardanım asırlardır bekleriz mecbur kalırsak şişenin ağzını açarız ve kapatırız yalnız erkek
gibi savaşmayı biliriz. Bilin şişe yine açılıyor akıllı olun insanlar !
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I came here to watch these videos after visiting Japan recently, I have nothing but respect for Japanese people and their resilience and hard work to rebuild their country. May this never happen again to any nation.
It will. Many more times, unfortunately.
This is still spine-tingling to watch. You really have to respect such incredible power.
The best video about the tsunami I have seen yet... and I have watched most of them! My thoughts and prayers are with the Japanese people 🙏
What can’t be communicated from a video is the stench following major flooding events like this. Rotting fish (if near oceans) and food (from fridges/freezers), garbage, sewage (human waste from flooded out sewer systems), diesel fuel and whatever else you can imagine. As a retired Homeowner Insurance estimator flood claims were some of the nastiest I/we had to deal with. Horribly tragic.
The emergency siren noise, eerily calm weather, and a gradual and steady fast intensity.
Life is the Movie we all are apart of
Finally a new video about the disaster in Japan 2011, haven't seen this before. The worst thing is that nothing to do about the big fire.
Wow. I watched a lot of live coverage on this back when I was a freshman in college. I remember actually skipping class because of how mind blowing this was.
Just...WOW! I just don’t have the words! Great footage, scary as hell too. Thanks so much for posting this!🙀🇺🇸
I remember watching documentaries on tsunamis in the late 1990s. At the time there wasn't much by way of footage at all, except for grainy film of the Alaskan tsunami in the 1960's, and that footage by no means captured the actual influx of the water. The Boxing Day and Japanese tsunamis allow us to now understand how the destruction occurs.
One's mind has difficulties processing what the eyes are seeing!
The sheer magnitude of the event is almost beyond comprehension, the once familiar landscape now unrecognisable.
This video serves a very important historical document, recording the unimaginable events of that day, which forever changed the country and its people...
So many people not only lost loved ones, their whole families but also everything they owned, their lively hood and their communities. The footage is horrifying to watch but to watch it all unfold before your eyes is on a totally different level.
The amount of water displaced was just unfathomable. So much power and force at work.
A natureza é implacável. Dá mto medo . Pior de tido é a perca de vidas . Parabéns pelo vídeo. 🇧🇷
i still cant believe when you first posted this in february (before it got taken down), we were a day apart when we posted these. and we didn't even know eachother!
I thought I had watched every single 2011 video a 100 times each. I can't believe I've never seen this particular low angle before! Absolutely mind-blowing.
Japanese people are so resilient they had three horrific events that day and they picked them selfs right back up I have ALOT of respect for them ✌️🇬🇧👍
After 11 yrs. I still feel for these people . The memories remain . The Japanese are a beautiful people and resilient .
except for ww2 right?
@@deehaytch8442 ... That was 77 years ago. The current generations of Japanese people are not the same. I have been to Japan several times and always found the people to be polite, gentle and generous..
It is hard to believe that this was 11 years ago. Seems so much more recent.
@@dexterford8094 yeah they polite gentle and generous...just don't surrender to them
@Dee Haytch. What a stupid comment to make. Grow up!
I always wondered where the ferry ended up. Now o know, sad but great video. Thank you.
Probably watched this 50 times and how everything can change in minutes is unreal
I always had the idea in my head that a Tsunami was a giant single wave that swept inland. When in reality it's more like an extremely high tide. Cool to see and learn but terrifying for the people that had to live through it!
New sub, Ive always been so curious of nature, Tsunamis have got to be the most devastating. I try to watch all natural phenomenons to see there cause and effect. To see how people react to such a power. To learn what to watch for or how to escape. Its truly devasting and my heart goes out to all involved. Heartbreaking. Blessings and Thanx for sharing.
貴重な映像ありがとうございます
These were the first videos of good quality that documented a powerful tsunami.
亡くなられた方、安らかにお眠りください。
日本は世界的にみても災害がとても多く、そう言った現象ひとつひとつに神の存在を信じ、八百万の神として信仰してきました。
だからこそ、人間の力で抗うことが出来ないのだと、受け入れ、耐え、忘れ、不屈の精神で生きてきた。
こんなに悲惨な災害が起きても、東北の人は今も負けずに、強く生きているのでしょうね。
たくさんの悲しみがあったと思うけど、その分たくさんの幸せを噛み締めているのでしょう。
同じ日本人として、311は忘れられないし、忘れてはならない。
共に負けずに頑張ります。
The power of the ocean. I sailed it for years.
God bless these people for everything they went through. I can't even imagine...
The fact the Japanese recovered from this is inspiring. Such heart breaking devastation...
А ещё, японцы оправились от ядерных бомбардировок США в сороковых годах!
We have not finished.
Japanese citizens pay a special reconstruction tax every year. There is still no end in sight for taxation. I don't know when the business will be completed.
@@user-pb3yv5uw5m I know it's still a long road to recovery. It will forever leave scars on the beautiful land of Japan but the people and land can still be beautiful and survive.
WTF did you expect them to all give up and become extinct??? 🤔🤡🙄
@@user-pb3yv5uw5mI know but what happens if another earthquake hits
I wonder if those guys on the two fishing boats survived, probably not judging by the immense power of that water streaming in. It was surreal watching them both try to leave the harbour just as the tsunami started to come in. Were they choosing to ignore the warnings and carry on with their work or were they just trying to save their boats by going out to sea before it arrived, if so they tragically miscalculated how quickly the Tsunami would come.
Yes I'm surprised to not see more talk of the boats. I think they wanted to save their livelihood but the water came too fast and too hard
Saving the boats was exactly what they were trying to do.
If they had made open ocean in time they would have been alright.
One of the boats survived, the other didn't. You just get a glimpse of the survivor @11:35.
My wife and i were living in our home on the North Eastern coast of Cebu Philippines when this earthquake and following tsunami occurred near Japan. The authorities in our area, made an announcement by vehicle loud speaker warning that the tsunami could reach the Philippines in a couple of hours. We immediately went in our vehicle to high ground for a couple of hours. As far as i know, our neighbours right alongside the sea, just stayed in their houses.
I just don't unfersta why those boats went out towarda it. I mean so did those people think that all the alarm s were for nothing very good vid god bless to thefamilies affected most
The boats were trying to get out of the harbor, out beyond the point at which the tsunami was high
@@debraclevinger1400 Because the sea is safer than the shoreline. The tsunami slows down but grows in height they closer to the shallows, so you can simply ride a normal wave which is higher than normal in the ocean and that's it but in the harbor and the shorelines the wave becomes a wall that will demolish everything in its path.
Relocating to pasay in metro manila, first thing I did was plan a route of escape and a secondary
Thanks for uploading!😭
To this day I have felt overwhelmed by the destruction that the tsunami caused and the people who were killed, injured and displaced. The one thing it shows is the resilience of the Japanese people. 👍🏻😁🇦🇺
We think that these towns were rebuilt and life carries on but it's not like a replica of each town was reconstructed - that would be both impractical and impossible. How strange it must feel if 50% or more of the town you grew up in was destroyed and replaced by new buildings, so that within a short time, a whole new town appeared and only the mountains surrounding you were familiar.
Maybe the main roads stayed the same, but the skyline, the buildings, shops and parks must have been altered greatly. The shortcuts and alleyways you knew, maybe your neighbours, the woods, all gone and replaced. The memory of the town you remember mixed with the image of the town you now see - it's hard to imagine how that must feel
The towns really have not rebuilt very much
Time flies by for the watcher but it stands still for those that suffer --
If they rebuild those areas it shows they have learned absolutely nothing
If you've ever looked at the edge of The Niagara Falls....the power of water forces is amazing. Reminds me of this.
Drowning is my worst fear ever since I jumped in an adult pool by mistake as a kid that was extremely deep. The panic I felt realising I was so far down was the worst feeling I’ve felt but luckily a coastguard had seen me and got me out just as I felt seconds away from breathing in water. I feel so bad for all the people who had to deal with this, the fear of seeing the ocean rush at you and your town with such force with absolutely no time to prepare and nothing you can do must be awful. I really hope they have managed to rebuild and recover best they could. I’ve just seen the date on my phone. 11 of March that’s eerie , 12 years ago today this happened. Pray🙏🏻 ❤💜❤️✌🏻
You’re honestly sort of a wuss
ohh my godd did you survive
Such a good record, they did a really good job of filming under the circumstances
Gosh, I can't get my head around the sheer volume of water - gives a small sense of the energy released by the quake.
Watching this reminds us to enjoy our time on Earth. Live in peace, harmony and joy. Our time here is too short. You never know what could happen in a second.
Yup you could die in a horrible explosion like the ones in Pearl Harbor did on that day that still lives in infamy
Well said, we have to think about our purpose on this short life and prepare for our hereafter.
Tek güç vardır oda Yeri göğü yaratan Allaha aittir
The fact that there was only 14,000 killed by this tsunami in all of Japan is mind boggling. Feels like there should be 100,000 killed in this one city.
Funny how this came across my feed!! I was there, of course. March 11, 2011. We first responded from Malaysia, and got to Japan (where I lived) in three days. When I saw Kesennuma, fishing port, it was in ruins. One truck was thrown against the back wall like a toy.
Our craft could now beach where the quaywall used to be 8 feet above sea level. Now it WAS at sea level so we could pick up the engineers and their trucks, which were radioactive.
We went to Oshima Island to get the residents food, water and get the electricity going. We did this for about two weeks. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen, and the residents were grateful- they had no power for ten days, and it was freezing.
BTW, that LCU the 1634? I was the craft navigator on that boat. We were embarked on the USS Essex for Spring patrol at the time.
I can say without a doubt this was the most frightening thing I have ever seen. I left Japan in 2012 after living there twice over a period of six years.
Over the years I have watched hundreds of hours of video of this tragic event. Yours is the first time I've seen the destruction taken from a boat on the water. Good job and God Bless the people of Japan!
It's not filmed from on a boat
They're on land you can see the road and lampposts next to them
@@mattsmith5421 You need lessons in good manners to not intrude into a conversation between two other people with your ignorance.
Eh???
@@athopi 7:35 you're either stupid or blind. Ima guessing both
Не дай Бог никому такого!🙏 Природу не победишь! 😢 Мое восхищение силой духа японцев!
Человеческий разум не победить
🇹🇷😢bir daha olmaz inşallah 🙏 sizleri seviyoruz 🇯🇵
That was heartbreaking. Really did feel bad for our friends in Japan. Much love from Texas.
i have so much love and Aloha for the people of Japan who went thru and endured this very tragic natural disaster. they are still healing from their losses and overcoming their suffering. love you Japan!
Japanese don't say aloha. The Hawaiians do.
The Japanese say Konichiwa.
@@orion7326 I've got a feeling they're Hawaiian. And It doesn't just mean hello, context orion.. :P
@@orion7326 japanese tourist is #1. they know and use "ALOHA" WHEN THEY COME TO BEAUTIFUL HAWAII. We in Hawaii understand, know the japanese culture. many of my friends are Japanese. In Hawaii we grow up with many, many different nationalities and we live ALOHA AND GIVE ALOHA HERE'S YOURS.♥️♥️🤗👍
@@wibblywobble7068 I didn't think about that. Thanks for the reminder.
@@rochellecano4216 Thanks for explaining that. I had no idea.
Aloha ma'am, all the way from India.🇮🇳❤️
My thoughts are with the good people who are still recovering from this absolute tragedy, all these years after.
This Is the first time I’m seeing this footage and I’ve looked up lots of videos regarding this tsunami but this one never popped up in my searches and now today it gets randomly recommended to me
Foi muito triste, pois muitos perderam suas vidas, seus bens, foi devastador, como tudo aqui neste mundo, mas o tempo faz com que tudo volta o normal, o bem mais precioso e a vida daqueles que foram, e não volta mais. E muito triste. Foi uma tragédia.
The camera operator did a awesome job. I just wanted to mention this.
Very sad what happened to all these small cities in the path of the Tsunami’s.
But. This camera operator is outstanding. The filming contributes a lot of useful information for future understanding of what a Tsunami can do..
It's unbelievable the amount of energy required to move this much water in such a short amount of time. I still cannot wrap my head around it and I still to this day feel for the Japanese people who lost their homes, communities and loved ones in this disaster. I am sorry you had to experience this.
こうした生の映像が、未来の次の災害で多くの人の命を救うことになるんだね
貴重です
This is one of the most astounding videos I’ve seen of this event. The powerful eddies seen in the middle distance around the left hand point shown in the early moments is caused by the rush of waster being detained from the harbour as the tsunami approaches land. The awesome power indicated by this alone is mind numbing. What follows is beyond words. 4:14 OMG! Here it comes!
15:00 After witnessing the tsunami and then the fires at night must have truly felt like the end of the world.
I remember watching it on TV when it was happening and thinking to myself omg this is apocalyptic. I can't even fathom how it must've been witnessing it and going through it in person. It's one of the worst natural disasters the world has ever seen. It terrifies me to think about the next big earthquake and tsunami that will follow.
@@itsthespiceoflifesame, hurried to use big tv for monitor, I was glued to it
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this! These videos allow those who study the tsunami phenomenon to greatly improve their understanding. You are an angel😇 to the study of sub-sea earthquakes. My sincerest compliments!!!
there were animals who died bro
@@abdurparu4708?
Wow! That's my response to this type of footage every time I see it. Feel so bad for the ones it affected. So sad.
I just cant comprehend the utter tragedy and despair these people must have felt and are still experiencing 😢
I'm in awe of the massive power of mother nature . And we are so small and helpless against her.
Terrible témoignage du tsunami de 2011 et de ses ravages !! Merci pour ce partage. Il en faut du courage pour affronter tout cela et se projeter dans le futur…. 🙏🙏🙏
The slow crescendo is terrifying. It's just keeps getting more intense until everything is under water.
SUPERB, but very distressing, footage. I can only imagine your horror at losing EVERYTHING... Thank you for documenting the incredible destruction. I have watched the Kesennuma school clips from inland, up the river, multiple times (and seen the white kappa fleeing the tsunami up and over rooftops - like both the black and white kappa fleeing the fields in the Sendai aerial vids). But, I had never seen THIS footage.
What most impressed me, were a) the resilience of the Japanese people, b) the "let's get it done" attitude - the next day, clothing and bedding were already washed and neatly hung, drying in the March 12th (my bday) sun, and c) the honesty and integrity of the Japanese - I saw/ heard of very little thieving from stores.
I contrast that with the hurricane/ flooding in Houston, Texas, where I watched all sorts of videos of people breaking into the stores and stealing every thing from TVs & other electronics, to expensive sneakers. Really? You have no food or clean water, and you steal sneakers? How incredibly low - as the store employees and owners are ALSO suffering in the flooding.
Anyway, there was very little of this in Japan (though I understand some looting did occur). The 13th anniversary has just passed, and I so hope that folks are healing, and recovering, and returning wiser and stronger. All best wishes from this Canuck!
Watching the current develop as the water exits and then reverses with the speed increasing such that the outbound fishing boats can't make forward speed is one thing. But then the final rush is something out of my civil engineering hydraulics course BUT ON A GIANT SCALE. It's been a long time since I watched the videos for days of the power of a tsunami. Deep respect to the Japanese and so sorry for the loss of life and damage.
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This is madness, at first it all looks so harmless!
Holy crap, you cannot animate that... reality is always far scarier than anything we can imagine
A floating dock from this event, ended up on a beach in Oregon. The power of water is truly scary.
Shows just how fragile life is. Looking at the world now seeing just how badly people treat each other. Such a shame
私はインドネシア出身ですが、日本の兄に起こった災害に深い悲しみと悲しみを感じています。
Absolutely fantastic
Watching it from afar seem unscary but knowing how massive the waves are fear creeps under your conciouness & spine!!!.
Anyone who lived through this horrific event will carry it with them for the rest of their lives. May God give them strength. 🙏
あの悲しくて悲劇的な日に人々が経験した感情の半分を想像することさえできません.
11 yıl geçmiş, rastladığım bütün videoları belgesel olarak indirdim hala içim burkularak izliyorum.
The destructive power of water is hard to comprehend. I saw water damage from the rapid flooding of New Orleans and surrounding areas due to breached levees following hurricane Katrina, and many areas looked similar to this city unfortunately.
🇹🇷🇯🇵 başımızdan gelen bir çok iyilik ve kötü olaylarda insan büyüyor. Başımız sağolsun ölenlere rahmet kalanlara sabır.
311經過這麼多年了、看一次難過一次，人無法跟大自然對抗、天祐日本🇯🇵
I can not imagine what must have going through your mind and heart when you witnessed this...
I'm so sorry you all had to go through that...best of luck to you
The air siren sends chills down my spine. RIP all those who perished.
So many souls were lost, we can't imagine what you all went through, but my wife and I think about what has been taken
🇬🇧❤️
Our throughs from the UK
Imagine the next day thinking "Well I guess we better start clearing up." How would you even start?
It's crazy how much chaos we tend to forget
Watching the water come in was a slow-motion tragedy. It is a different level of horror... of dread. To try and fully comprehend it at the moment and it overwhelms me.
We had some destructive quakes in New Zealand the same year as this one happened in japan. News from Japan put us even more on edge and every time we had a decent sized quake, our coastal suburbs would be evacuating n middle of night just in case. These videos gave us nightmares. Some unfortunate Japanese migrants went back to japan after our first big quake, only to be home in Japan at time of their quake too 😢 horrific.
I was in highschool at the time, our Japanese sister school sent us paper cranes for the February quakes and it wasn't long before we were folding paper cranes to send back once their quake hit
I watched this live when it happened - it was pretty horrific and uncensored, definitely wasn’t used to that sort of thing as a sophomore in HS. RIP to all of those lost.
たった10分で景色が全く変わってしまっている…。
改めて恐ろしさを感じます。
非常に悲しく辛い出来事でしたが、我々はこれを教訓にしないといけないですね😢
2011那一年 我在北京正忙着出国留学的事情，很少很少看电视关注新闻，只有听说日本发生了大地震，但是并没有看到影像记录。多年后的今天 看了netflix的unsolved mysteries关于日本海啸这一集，才看到真实的画面…😭整个人已经哭到无法呼吸… 竟然带走了近2万人，那么多无法安息的灵魂，活着的人比死去的人更加的痛苦，而我们今天依然为那一次的灾难付出沉重的代价…… 太令人悲痛了。
I hurt with you Japan. Island arks are 'beautiful places', the geological upheaval; however, that comes with such feature is a different kind of beast. Understanding this is your home, just as it could have been mine, is still home and everyone understands this. I have the greatest admiration for all Japanese in honoring the land for which you live whether good or the bad happens.😍😍🗾
Oh wow you had a lot of nerve to stand there and film that. Even when it got so crazy, you had to know that you were at risk yourself. I admire your courage.
Indeed, well documented
Still terrified to watch it even it's been 12 years since the tragedy occured...