🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE BIGGEST TSUNAMIS EVER! 

There was a boat with a father and son on it which rode out the Lituya Bay wave, without injury.

The Japanese 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused about 20,000 deaths, but that pales in comparison to the 2004 Indian Ocean boxing day tsunami, shown @ 1.21, which killed about 230,000 people.

The Lituya Bay tsunami, to be completely fair, had a few things going for it a lot of the other tsunamis didn't. Namely that it had that massive land displacement hitting the water with so much force, but also it was in a fjord, so basically it has mountainous walls on either side to direct the wave and energy one direction. Not saying it's any less impressive or that the other tsunamis were weaker, but if the other ones had also started in cliff side bays, the wave height would have been a lot higher. Which is exactly why the two lake ones also got so high. Contained bodies of water, in comparison to the vastness of the oceans, have less room for the energy to go so the displaced water has to go out. But for years, Lituya Bay had a clean cut line of where the tsunami wiped out the trees and where the trees where high enough to be spared.

It was nuts when St Helens blew. I lived in Bremerton Washington, over 100 miles away. The blast was so strong it shook our house. Then in the days following it was like a strange snow covered everything. it was rather eerie. A lot of mask wearing then! The aftermath was a stark contrast to what it was originally. It looked like a lunar landscape for a long while. Then the green started coming back along with the animals. It is still active but quieter these days.

There are a lot of videos on RU-vid showing the tsunami in Japan and, Indonesia. So scary! Thanks Kabir, loved it!

The tsunami in Thailand in 2004 caused almost 228,000 deaths.

The Tsunami in Japan happened on March 11th, 2011. So, coming up on the 12th anniv. 👍 If you think the Japanese Tsunami of 2011 was bad & killed a lot of people (Which I'm not disputing because it was & did), the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 was way worse! That Tsunami killed over 250,000 people. 😳

Little scares me more than tsunamis. Luckily a lil (at the time) British girl taught me the signs bc I’d def be one of those ppl down by the shore looking at all the damage after the first wave. Not any more I wouldn’t.

I watched a documentary once, sort of by accident (it was like a history's mysteries kind of things late at night), and in it they mentioned that people never understood why all the trees on this one bit of Canadian shoreline were absolutely denuded to a certain age a few hundred years back, dating back to a bit before people were coming over from Europe to explore the new world regularly. In any case there was no evidence of villages having been on that coast, and there were no ancient trees below about a couple hundred feet up; all the trees below that line were much younger, like a sign of regrowth. They couldn't figure out what might have caused it until they realized that the denuded coastline dated back to the same time as there was this huge volcanic event in I think the Azores or maybe the Canary Islands; but in any case the resultant quake caused another one of those events mentioned in here where a whole side of a volcano just fell into the ocean, and that caused a tsunami that lost so little energy crossing the entire Atlantic that it went all the way up and stripped all those trees off that coast in Canada... and likely removed any villages that might have been their entirely off the map. (A mudslide did the same on the west coast of Canada or perhaps Washington state around the same time (unrelated, but by way of comparison) and entirely preserved (ie buried) an ancient village of Native longhouses, which was sort of the opposite type of natural disaster from the standpoint of preservation. It's odd how these things occur and what they do or don't leave us, while of course all being equally tragic. These things are insane. Have you watched the footage of the Japanese and Indonesian ones? I think what startled me the most about them is that they were slower than I thought they would be, but they were just relentless and continued to push in and push in until there was nothing left standing.

4:08 and it’s moving at thousands of mph!

There were a couple videos posted a year ago on RU-vid of a tsunami in Greenland. It's absolutely insane footage . Moral of the story: when water is retreating, RUN

I grew up in a coastal town (San Pedro, CA) and as you get closer to the waterfront and the beach there are sgns posted showing you the tsunami evacuation route. Thankfully, a tsunami has never struck there yet, but it could happen. And California being prone to earthquakes, if we get one big enough it could definitely trigger a tsunami. I still live in Cali, but in a different city now. I'm actually afraid of water, always have been. (To clarify, I'm terrified of any wave or body of water that can drown me. I hate and avoid the beach and swimming pools for example, but I absluteky love when it rains). To me though, a tsunami is the scariest natural phenomenon. It's just a wall of water moving at thousands of mph. Even the fastest runners or the best swimmers couldn’t escape it. Simply terrifying.

I was 18 months old when Mt. St. Helens blew up. I seen it on the news. My mom was surprised I remembered that.

That's just terrifying. With a lot of natural disasters, even last second, there are things you can do to try and survive. But with a tsunami, by the time you see it coming, it's already too late. There's pretty much nothing you can do

I have been to the ocean many, many times but, thankfully, never experienced anything like this. I've mostly lived in Kentucky and Arizona my entire life, so I wouldn't, but I did live in San Diego one summer. I have also been to Hawaii. That said, I have dreams about tsunamis and they wake me up shaking. Every single one is the same. We are in a fully glass house on an island in the ocean at a massive fancy party and one comes...so yeah...Hide from the water? No, but maybe. Hide from the debris? No, but maybe. Hide from the glass projectiles? ... Terrifying ...

The narrator really mixed up two different events on #2. The dam is called the Valjont Dam, and the landslide and tsunami happened in 1963. The Morandi Bridge was another nearby disaster, but was a bridge collapse that happened in 2018. It didn't cause any tsunami.

If you've never checked it out but are interested in tsunamis, a great movie to react to would be The Impossible from 2012. It's a true story of a family who were on vacation in Thailand during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that killed over 200k people. It's an absolutely wonderful film and very accurate to what actually happened that day! It has Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland and Naomi Watts in it.

Watch the movie The Impossible. It’s based on a real tsunami that happened and how a family struggled to survive. Based on a true story

The engineers who designed the Itain dam built a fine dam as it survived the flood and overtopping of the dam, over all management.

The tsunami cause by the chicxulub impact 66 million years ago was not 100 enters tall, it was somewhere between 1000 and 1500 meters tall.

That wave Jake Gyllenhaal and his classmates got struck with in New York City was pretty intense.

This reminds me of watching 2012

You should look up some more info on Mt St Helens. I remember that happening and later meeting people who lived nearby. Crazy!

Does anyone remember the video of the little boy on the beach and he bends down to pick up a shell or something and you just see the water surge coming and the video ends and you don’t even have to see it but you know the boy’s fate…i saw that when i was young and its always stuck with me because its so disturbing…anyone know what i’m talking about and seen that video…i’m thinking it could have been from thailand or indonesia but i’m not sure…if anyone has info i’d like to know…thanks!

The one in Japan also destroyed a nuclear power plant.

Mother Nature is still in charge of this planet, no matter what anyone thinks.

I'm not sure what company Kabir is referring to @ 11.13. The dam was built by the Italian government.

That idear is clever you might have something there with the Hugh Holes

At least now there are tsunami warning systems.

The inland ones are called lahars.

Very scary, 😦 btw great video Kabir 👍🏽😀✌🏽

lmao "a rock". you right though, that is a big ass rock 😂

They really underestimated the landslide at the vajont dam :(

I am the lizard king. I can do anything

The earth is 6000 years old... As soon as he said 66 million years ago, I turned it off ..😅

that's the whole country if it went to Canada

When you finishing the gulf war day 2?

I hear they can be as high as a mile high.

Crazy planet! 🌎✌️

the earths climate has been changing for 3 billion years. the gaul of humans thinking they are actually affecting the sun and earths cyclical patterns is disturbing since its politicians, and scientists try to get a grant, and of course the media darlings

Narrator can't do feet to meters correctly ugh. 3.37 feet is 1 meter. At one point totally screw's up conversations listen for it approximately halfway through video. He's off by seven feet or 2.134 meters

Hurricanes are the name in the Atlantic Ocean. Tsunamis is the name in the Pacific. The Oceans are peaceful and angry at the same time. So interesting.

asteroid makes 100m high tsunami....this dude is crazy...it was 5 killometars high..not 100m

So much NOPE.