I realize that was only an 8 foot surge, but the thought of standing right there raises the hair on the back of my neck, knowing the other side of that wave killed thousands in Japan.
Pyrus Rex yup! The Japanese had no idea what was coming at them. They have ... once again posted markers on hillsides.. to show how far up a Huge Tsunami can reach... but .. after a while the people will forget... yet again.
And yet the Sentinelese, isolated on a tiny island in the Andaman sea for sixty thousand years, who have not yet discovered fire, metallurgy, or agriculture, knew when the fault let loose in 2004 to run for the high part of the island, because the sea was coming. India sent a survey helicopter to see if any survived, and it was promptly greeted by a healthy hail of arrows from shore.
@@faithrada that's not exactly how it played out ... The reason so many got caught was because the coastline dropped about 3 feet, which hadn't been factored into the equation, combined with the sheer magnitude of a 9.1 earthquake, which, while it was known it could be possible, was definitely the extreme edge of what people were expecting. Imagine enduring a 6 minute 9.1 quake and then having 10-20 minutes to get to higher ground. Japan is more prepared for earthquakes and tsunamis than any other country.
Maybe my favorite California tsunami video of all time. The regression and then ascension of this wave is super impressive, and far more so than we can normally see on an exposed area of coastline like this one. Fantastic stuff!
People always know that they are in absolutely NO danger right up until the point when they get nailed. No one EVER sees it coming. Having said that, adults can make their own decisions & we, the spectators, can entertain ourselves by talking tons of smack. Nice video. Questionable decision-making.
As scanning to the right the road goes along the water about 3ft higher. The water didn't go across the road. The initial warning was over and lots of people were out to check the damage. The cliff was Round 20 ft , so not so crazy as it looks.
Great video, but seriously, this was a very dangerous place to be, and they weren't alone (4:13) there were a few people there. Imagine if that water kept coming a little more, you all would be a memory right now. People drown in that water all the time when there isn't a tsunami surge. Glad everyone is safe.
I'm surprised that there wasn't any "bad apples" who ventured into the water with a surf board or jet ski! Great video Alisha, videos like such are a great resource for preparing for future tsunami's and storm surges, it's vital for individuals to take note if along the coast line.
I suppose if the surge had been a few feet higher you'd have been washed out to sea; but, since it wasn't and you weren't, thants for a fascinating and very educational video!
This is brilliant footage and it really shows why so many Japanese people were caught off guard… the crazy currents and the directions of the waves.. the people were watching for a wave coming in straight, but instead it came from sideways around the headland. Seeing the way these waves change direction when it’s just a small amount, compared to the 40 ft monsters the Japanese faced is quite amazing. This is probably the best footage and vantage point I’ve seen to date.
What makes this more amazing, it traveled thru the night from Japan. It damaged Depoe Bay, and Brookings Harbor in Oregon. Crescent City Harbor, and Santa Cruz Harbor in California. If anyone thinks this was a non-event, type those locations into the search boxes. You'll see some of these harbors were protected from storms, but this tsunami surge is a different animal, just keeps moving with its own turbulence & power!
I don't mean to make light of the disaster in Japan or the damage in Hawaii or California but its mind boggling how the effects of an earthquake halfway around the world can be so far reaching.
Thanks for posting your video. It's helpful to see the mechanics of the tsunami--it's far more complex than a single "wave" coming in [surfers take note!]. Today we've seen that these surges can ebb and flow a number of times. The rocks that are "taller than I am" are a great reference.
There is pretty much always more than one surge. And generally the first one is NOT the worst. Often the 2nd wave is the worst, but it can also be later ones. Moral : wait until it's really over.
Man, I know this wasn't nearly as bad as what hit Japan, but you can definitely tell how powerful those waves were. How high up above the water were you guys?
What will people on the East Coast do...when the landslide accompanies the Canary Island earthquake/volcano? I have heard numbers as low as 300 ft. and as high as 3000 ft. surge waves.
This occurred during a LOW tide...... If it happened during a HIGH tide, the surge would have been much more damaging..... GREAT video...thanks! An 8 foot surge also was reported in Avila Beach Harbor......but no damage, due to occurrence at low tide....
That's what I call "confused seas". The waves did not know which way to go, and that sound, kinda like the sound a tornado makes: you don't mistake it for anything else. If you want to see foolish people, watch all the toursits in Sumatra going out to look at how far out the see had gone: if I see that, I don't just go the other way, I RUN.
There was a landslide in the Italian Alps in 1963 into a dammed up reservoir.. The earth had moved slowly for years and then failed - a huge piece of granite two kilometers long. The engineers were all up on the dam to "watch the 25meter" lake tsunami that the engineers had predicted. Only it was 200 meters and washed over the dam and destroyed the town below killing thousands including the miscalculating engineers watching on the dam. But like you say, it must have been "quite an adventure."
Stunning fascinating footage. Hysterical inane comments. I just love the contrast. These blokes are recording excellent film. But they haven't the thought or vocabulary to do it justice. "holy crap" "holy crap". It isn't that they're not David Attenborough, they aren't even my 3 year old.
I've watched many videos of this tsunami in Japan; so glad this is all you had to put up with. I'd like to think you (all) have an escape route in place abd coordinated wuth your community so no one gets trapped on the road due to congestion... like close all roads coming and open all for leaving.
I was in Japan during this time. It was quite a bit different there, but I grew up in CEC area. I have seen storm surges push logs up over that stretch of road. If those waves had been higher or had hit during high tide, this video would be very different. The cow pasture behind you is fairly flat, and the rise in the road to your left is a little bit away. Going toward the airport would have been futile or deadly. But, truth be told, that is probably where I would have gone too or the harbor...
Japan was 17 hours ahead of the U.S. West Coast on that date, so when the earthquake hit off the coast of Japan on the 11th at 2:46 p.m., it was 9:46 p.m. on March 10th in California. The tsunami waves reached Northern California on March 11th at 8:44 a.m., 11 hours after the earthquake.
I was in Lincoln City sleeping a few feet from the beach when the Tsunami Alarm sounded... and woke up and was in the car and I drove half way to Salem, In like 15 min...haha..a bit over cautious I guess.
alotsa monetarieo No.. never can be over cautious... far too many in Japan forgot their own history... and paid for it with their lives. Always err on the side of caution.
CC seems easily affected by tsunamis triggered in South America and Asia. When the Cascadia quake hits right off coast CC is in for some very serious trouble.
Yep. I remember watching a documentary piece about the 64 tsunami following the Good Friday quake in Alaska. I think three people were killed when the third and biggest wave hit.
No he did not because his Mother was beside him! No changes .Our winters are pretty much the same just surged in and out within minute and waves came from multiple angles. The cliff is 30 ft high.
Wow, that is probably 5 times the height of what was seen in Seaside. Excellent spot to cover it. Looks like you were standing a good 10 feet above the surf.
@metafis I work for Sac city Fire dept and people that dont follow evac orders we have to go find there bodys and give them back to his/hers family that why I said that.
This occurs from a 7 plus quake here in Alaska. I was in the coastal fishing town of Petersburg, locals all got in their vehicles and headed to higher ground, we got no wave though.
These were great pictures. I only wish that with so many people with cameras now, they would learn how to take pictures. This had way too much camera movement. You just can't wave your camera around.
There were a lot of lucky people on the Crescent City shoreline that day, through no merit of their own. These people are standing WAY too close to the water in a tsunami generated from a magnitude 9 quake in Japan and reaching the beach of a town that has often suffered tsunami damage and death, including the 1964 Good Friday Quake in Prince William Sound.
The time/date difference between Japan & US west coast must be throwing me off. It must have been THURSDAY night (March 10th on the west coast of US) when I saw it on TV, live, around 10 PM). Japan was already into friday afternoon, 3-11. That must be it.
@2004armywifey I know the area, it's maybe 10 feet down to the water at high tide there. But before the waves hit, nobody knew how big they would be. They could have been anywhere from 4 feet to 15 feet. So considering most places evacuated were at a higher elevation than this, these people weren't too smart to stand here. They're just lucky that the highest waves ended up being around 8 feet.
Always be aware of what caused the tsunami, like how big was the quake, if its a landslide from land or under the ocean you may want to run for your lives, in 1950s a tsunami wave cleared the tree line at around 524m, yes 524m......... Geologists and hydrologists had to re-evaluate how high waves could get when this happened. If its an asteroid impact also run for your lives...
@srhbca The problem is that 12' wouldn't be enough if you were in Japan. 100ft wouldn't be enough. So the worry was that the waves generated by this earthquake would still contain enough energy behind them to wash out the bluff. Fortunately the energy was greatly dispersed as it travelled through the ocean. Just wait for the Juan De Fuca to slide, it's a Megathrust 9.0+ magnitude producing fault along the Oregon coastline.
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Some good video but I wish people would learn to video with a little less speed. You waver back and forth that makes a person dizzy trying to see something. Take a few seconds at each level. My daughter and her husband were living in Crescent City at this time. They were working so could not get down to the beach to watch.
The actual earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan did not occur until around 4 PM (approx) Japan time, friday afternoon, 3-11-11. I recall watching it LIVE around 10 pm or so, California time, that night. If the wave in this video happened *earlier in the day* on that friday (3-11-11) as you say, then it can't be a tsunami from the Japan quake, can it? That's all I'm saying. I like the vid tho', regardless. :)
I don't think that the cameraman was an idiot... If he wanted to go see the predicted-8-ft-wave, knew the risks, and chose to go where he knew he had a decent (15ft by approximation from the waterline) height to video from, then let him do it and just watch in awe at his video. Like pp said, we all clicked on the link to see the footage. Where was he supposed to take it from: inland? a cliff? would you have watched if he had?
It is quite obvious that some of you don't know what is dangerous or not. I lived there for many years and where they were is not dangerous. Great viedo so lay off.
There were photographers in Japan standing in the middle of the tsunami, and even they were fine. These guys here are safe, the tsunami runup height isn't big enough to get them.
23 اوكل الله جل في علاه بكل شئ ملكا : فهناك ملك الجبال وملك البحار وملك السحاب وملك الرياح وباستطاعته ان يامرها بما يريد ان زلزلوا او احرقوا او دمروا او حطموا او اغرقوا فينتقم الله ممن يشاء ولا يستطيع اي مخلوق في هذا الكون منع قضاءه جل وعلا ويقال ان صوت الرعد حسبما ورد في الاثر انه صوت الملك الذي يزجر به السحاب ويسوقه حيث يشاء بامر الله عز وجل ... والله اعلم قال تعالى ( وما تاتيهم من آية من آيات ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين ) وقال تعالى ( فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم ... ) وقال تعالى ( وان يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم ) وقال تعالى ( فلما راوه عارضا مستقبل اوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا بل هو مااستعجلتم به ريح فيها عذاب اليم ) وقال تعالى ( ولو شئنا لرفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هواه فمثله كمثل الكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث ذلك مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فاقصص القصص لعلهم يتفكرون ) وقال تعالى ( مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل اسفارا بئس مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين ) وقال تعالى ( قل ياأهل الكتاب لستم على شيء حتى تقيموا التوراة والإنجيل وما أنزل إليكم من ربكم وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما أنزل إليك من ربك طغيانا وكفرا فلا تأس على القوم الكافرين ) يَـأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيراً مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُواْ عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ* يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِّنِ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِراطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ وهذا ما سيحدث لامريكا كثيرا وستدفع الثمن باهضا انتهت امريكا وكل شئ انتهى ولا يستطيعون فعل اي شئ اللهم عليك بهم فانهم لا يعجزونك حقيقة اعصار التورنادوا : هو في الاساس رباني ومن غضب الله الجبار ومن شدته انه اذا مر على نهر شقه نصفين ورفع قاعه الطيني وذر ترابه في الهواء وكذلك يقتلع البنايات والبيوت والاشجار ومن ثم رميها في مكان بعيد مهما كانت ثقيلة وعظيمة ويحمل الجسور والقناطر والخزانات الكبيرة ويدور بها وكانها عود ثقاب ويلفها كالمروحة من شدة قوته العنيفة ويحمل معه الحيوان والانسان الى عنان السماء ثم يلفظه خارج الغلاف الجوي او الكرة الارضية وكانها عملية تفريغ اي شفط نحو الفضاء الخارجي مما يتسبب بخسائر مادية جسيمة وهائلة تقدر بتريليونات الدولارات وهذا غيظ من فيض وهذا بعض ما يجري في امريكا ان الذين كذبوا باياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم ابواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط ...
I watch the videos of the tsunami that hit japan and speed in which it arrived onshore, and my greatest fear is if a earthquake hits new fault found off of long beach in southern ca ; how much time would people have to leave the area.
I know some of these comments are half joking and criticizing, but a guy did die yesterday trying to take pictures of the waves. Check The Daily Triplicate website. He got swept away at the mouth of the Klamath. Sad.
darkangelkitty...the dinosaurs arn't weeding out the slow ones anymore so instead we let them do stuff like this. Hopefully they won't be entering their genes into the pool shortly.
My wrong, however we did get a big quake here in Alaska in 2011, thought it was the same one. Similar topic though the great 1964 quake in Alaska, second largest ever recorded killed not only Alaskans from the huge tsunami but people in Oregon, Hawaii anc crescent city California were killed by the tsunami! Talk about a long distance! By the way that quake registered 9.2 and lasted approx “4 minutes”, imagine that!
Strangely this was more terrifying than some of the footage from Japan considering the distance from the quake site. Despite some of the judgemental tut-tutting there is nothing wrong with watching or recording these outrageous natural events. Please remember to DONATE through you local Red Cross or do whatever you can to help the international response to these awful disasters.
Are these people a being unsafe, yes to an extent but if you know the area they are at it is 8-10 feet down to the water. Could they have got swept out to sea yeah but they were a lot safer than most of you are thinking.
