that offshore wave must be like 50 or 60 feet if u can clear see it from so high up, they can make an amazing movie out of this disaster and hopefully the world will be more informed and prepared about the awesome destructive power of tsunamis!
This footage is so valuable. You can clearly see how the positioning of the breakwaters alter the waves course and buys them a bit more time. We on Canadas west coast have learned so much from the Japanese in loss prevention, building codes, and the behaviour of water after a quake. And the biggest lesson of all: how you learn from such tragedy and overcome it. I can still remember being glued to the tv when this all unfolded. It was hard to believe it was real. 🇨🇦🇯🇵
As an American, I am so sorry for this tragic event. I followed it closely throughout the clean-up process and number of those who tragically lost their lives. Japan has been through so much and has always come out stronger. The world could learn so much from the Japanese people.
Absolutely! I have always been astonished at the Japanese character as a whole when it comes to pulling together for the sake of recovery and healing. It is truly heart breaking what they have been through.
@@mikewatt8706 wtf is wrong with you? That person didn't do it. WW2 was 80 years ago and there were horrors being committed everywhere by everyone, including the Japanese - but this person wasn't there, almost certainly wasn't even alive, and are just here honestly expressing sympathy and respect for a people that went through a horrible tragedy. So again, I ask you, wtf is wrong with you? You think you're telling hard truths? You're just so above it all? Or are you just being petty human garbage who gets their kicks taking random shots at people on the internet with accusations of things they're not guilty of when they're vulnerable and expressing sympathy?
No, it cannot increase. The energy is being dissipated as it interacts with the coastline. In the deeper part of the channel the energy and speed are maintained more, and the wave assumes an arcuate shape. Unfortunately, the barriers couldn’t stop it completely.
Amazing footage of the wave coming. It is so even and smooth looking like some great sea serpent rolling slowly toward land. Thank you for providing this viewpoint. RIP all.
It looks like it breaks on a reef 0:32 before it moves on . Then a 05:35 it looks like a tidal bore going up the river. Then at 6:07 I wish he would have zoomed in on those breaks almost at the top of the screen
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wMO6mmVFYlA.html I did the best I could, but it's so shaky and the quality's so bad that Adobe had a hard time with its algorithms. I tried to clean up the footage as much as possible 😅👍
This aerial photography proved the magnitude of the earthquake that struck the sea and the latest devastating waves .. We regret what happened in Japan
Please forgive, I do not speak Japanese. Can anyone tell what place, prefecture, or city this is? Thank you. My heart goes out to all who have suffered in this unbelievable event. I am from Seattle, which is above a similar subduction zone - we are brothers and sisters on the Pacific ring of fire.
from above it looks like the water is moving slow , i wonder how fast it actually moves as i imagine it will be anything but slow..i couldnt even begin to imagine being caught up in that..RIP..
The first wave front must be 40 or 50 feet high! It's so surreal to see these mammoth horrors march across the land. The configuration of the wave is fascinating. You know, before 2004, the only tsunami video available was grainy footage shot in Hilo HW back in the 60's. In the span of less than a decade, the largest tsunami waves in history have revealed themselves in front of a camera.
@@thakrak just watched a video on Banda Aceh 2004. Entire city wiped from face of earth, the wave was still over 100 feet high when it struck the mountainside behind the city. Brutal stuff
damn the second wave is so big af those buildings and houses in lower areas really can't stand a chance.. this already happened a long time ago but still rip to those people who have lost their lives... tbh this is the only tsunami I've seen so big in the internet i don't know how big the thailand tsunami is before but for me 2011 japan tsunami is so terrifying..
Remarkable footage showing how the sea walls dissipated the power of the tsunami. They couldn’t stop it completely, yet the power was diminished. Otherwise the devastation would have been that much worse.
Someone needs to stabilize this video. Seriously! This has to be the most fascinating 3/11/11 footage ever, capturing the massive tsunami as it approaches . Powerful !!!
2011....it’s been eight years and these images still convey the terrifying knowledge that so many people faced this on the ground. Now we have the events in the Bahamas. Smaller scale, but a terrible reality for those people. Theses are human events.
Footage of big surf is cool...but these things are a whole different story. Cant even imagine the underwater distubance during that earthquake to spawn these damn things!! Peace Japan
1:35 自衛隊などヘリから俯瞰できる立場人の会話を ラジオやワンセグで生中継してほしい！！！ 地上にいると情報が不足しているから。 Can be viewed from the perspective of conversation helicopter I want to live on the radio and seg! ! ! Because they lack information on the ground.
Excellent view of the details of a tsunami wave. Notice that the ocean is deeper behind the wavefront. The wavelength is so long that the trough can't be seen, it is so far out to sea. Another wave crest arrives even before the first wave has passed. Thank you for posting this.
Tsunami waves break up in many smaller waves as they reach continental shelves so the period we see close to shore is really just a fraction of the actual one.
It must be terrifying to watch that monster water coming straight into shore & knowing there's nothing you can do about it. I don't think many people took the warnings seriously enough.
@zerascal3 Not all helicopters have the ability to lift weight, some of the smaller ones only have capacity for those seated nor do they have winches etc for the job. Filming the wave is very important as it shows the specialists lots information.
@pur3blackang3l : Thank you. These video recordings, very heartbreaking to watch at times, will provide valuable knowledge for people facing this type of event in the future. Never before have we been given this perspective of the true nature of tsunami.
Everyone is applauding the video. Am I the only one thinking the camera man had only one job: to film the tsunami and want it did - and he did a poor job. Really, I understand, of you're on the ground in the middle of it all and in great fear and anxiety so you don't really concentrate on filming. But this guy just had to hold the camera still and capture the disaster. I was frustrated with the camera cutting off the most important things: when the wave come close to houses in the begging on the video, what happened?! Did they survive? Just as the wave came to the houses, the camera man pointed the camera so, that we couldn't see! 🤦
I always think perhaps he had a wife and child below him, and other family. Think I'd shake if I saw what was heading towards them! Also, I've been in a helicopter and you get a lot, and I mean a lot, of vibration.
