@@jbrobertson6052 Did you see how the wave splashed up almost to the highway? That's too close for comfort. You'ld never get me on that bridge. I would up that hill so fast.
@@clarkewi I must have missed that part what I saw was the water was 20+ feet from the bottom of the bridge deck. But if that were me I would have been keeping an eye on the bridge supports make sure they weren't moving because if they were I would hightail it to the hills lol. Cheers
The water surges in until the 0316 mark then draws back, at 6mins the second wave hits & the power it has to overtop the outgoing & surge forward is just mind blowing...We think of water as soft, but it has a brut force that is unreal and obviously unstoppable. 🧡🙏🧡 Japan.
Yes, that’s true, yet the second wave was not as large as the first. The second wave was high enough to overtop the receding water from the first wave, but did not reach the same level as the wet water mark on the high (railroad?) bridge pylons further up the inlet. (at 6:58 )
"Never turn your back on the ocean!!" - I kept screaming, mentally as I watched this... That second wave looming in the background mustve done some serious damage.
I guess that the Japanese did not imagine that this would be so intense. Some of the videos show people running from the waves only when they were too close.
When this happened , the satellite imagery on Google Maps was poor and there was no Street View . Now it's better . I hope qqh77m7d and his friends present that day on the bridge are all allright now . Brave men .
One of the more archetypal tsunami vids from 3/11. Most of the videos show a slow and gradual escalation. This one is a high wall of clear water that crashes into a peaceful harbor, unleashing sudden, high-speed chaos.
There’s one on river in foreground and tsunami overtopping the trees. Within 20km of Fukushima nuke plant. It was spectacular. There was one on a marine port which was on the far side of east coast, the waves came towards you, took out tons of trees. It was so tall, over the trees. I think the east coast one was quite well videoed. The one on coastline + river with the water that moved up like an elevator, and then receded from river was horrifying, trees taken away, waterfalls of huge height back from river. There was an inn, and other structures, and bus on far side. Part of the structures were totalled. I think the inn and bus were okay. I don’t t know what is worse, getting a warning or in 2004 Boxing Day tsunami not getting a warning. Myanmar initially denied casualties, took them a few weeks to say 1000 died. Hah, just googled it. It’s officially under 100 people.
I found myself fearing for everyone along the course of that river as I saw the power and volume of the incoming waters. I wondered too, if after the waters receded that survivors began searching amongst the debris field, unaware that the second wave was coming, and I feared for them, too. Unfortunately, the only certainty is that there will be further earthquakes and tsunamis...
Now that was a huge tsunami, but people will look at the wave and think it was a small tsunami...but it all depends on the topography of the seafloor that the incoming tsunami is inundating. If the seafloor there was higher up that would of been a huge breaking wave, but it's not usually a huge breaking wave, it's just an incredible surge of incoming water.
One of a kind experience in a life time. Seriously, every single persons who (sur)vived that day will have anchored inside this feeling of power, this feeling of being so tiny, in having faced that side of Nature. "shinjirarenai" he told, however it was true
Hoy se cumple un aniversario más de esta horrible tragedia, abrazos al hermano pueblo japonés desde México, esperando jamás se vuelva a repetir. 🇯🇵❤️🇲🇽
So this was a tsunami coming in and going up river then retreating back. And then coming in again and retreating back again. I wish I could’ve been there to see that first hand
I watched as many videos of this I can see and this is the only one where you actually had a huge wave crashing into the river and going up River it look like I think this was close to where the original earthquake happened out at sea
There’s another 2-5. Check out the Kesennuma river ( can’t remember name) Also the one within 20 km from Fukushima nuke reactor. That was overtopping the trees. The river was in foreground. There’s the one where river was overtopping the wall eventually, cameraman moving rapidly up to 2nd or 3rd floor of school. It covered the school ground, took out pedestrian bridge over river. The students etc survived. One camera guy was able to get onto tree on the far right of video. He’s in this video for a second. This guy was videotaping too and survived.
becuase the amount of water that was pushed inland was huge from the earthquake.. that water didnt have the same force pushing it when it was going back out to sea..
pinkdipi because it hopped over berms that acted as dams and it filled up flat areas behind it. The shore is sloped towards the ocean so it would be like dumping water down a hill that led to a lake.
This was a very restricted and small size inlet. Therefore the tsunami very quickly filled the available volume before receding. A broader inlet with a flatter gradient would have allowed a much greater volume of water to enter, which would have taken less time to dissipate. Also, not knowing where this location is on the coast, the tsunami might not have been quite as high amplitude as elsewhere. The breaking wave, however, was very impressive.
+justplainpossum Look north of Fudai on highway 45. If you have google earth look at 40°03'22.83" N, 141°51'00.31"E. You see the bridge there and river, along with the small fishing port that was wiped out.
A whole video wasted on the water going out and coming in.. should have shown what if anything was happening to those houses on the other side of the bridge. There was NO debris of any kind ... houses etc. as in other videos. .. just water.
