From my understanding, its a wave when the sea level doesn't have a cliff of a kind. Without a cliff of a kind, the water basically has a ramp to build up on.
@@aksmex2576 it's more like a change in the altitude of the ocean. If you imagine a line on one side is sea level the other is 3m higher, all the water from the higher side will move towards the lower side creating a wave of change in altitude.
Translating the man's comments for us English speakers really helps us understand what was going through the villager's minds. Fear, awe, amazement, safety of others, resolution of what was to be all pour out of this man's heart, and yet he keeps a clear head to be ready to react to further danger. One can only imagine the sense of panic and grief once the waters receded and the task of locating family and friends began. Then multiply this by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. He was correct in that they were experiencing a living hell. My heart still hurts for the Japanese affected by this awful disaster.
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@@sstills951 Criticizing him for sounding too dramatic? Even for a troll, that's preposterous l. Hysterically screaming for four straight minutes until he lost his voice wouldn't have been an unrealistic reaction to witnessing this happen to your home town. He just saw his town and probably his own livelihood (he mentions his boat) completely destroyed, isn't sure if the cliff they're on will be undermined and collapse, knows people he knows have drowned, wonders aloud about the safety of the school children. Dramatic? Hush, troll. You'll call the thunder down on your own head.
For all those watching this now... look up Miki Endo. Tragic and heroic story.. she stayed at he post doing the announcements until the 3 story building she was in was engulfed.. she never left her post even though she could see the water coming towards her. She was found almost a month later washed up on a beach. She's credited as saving thousands.
It’s hard to believe this was twelve years ago now, I remember the day this happened pretty vividly. RIP to those that perished and much respect for Japan and it’s people to recover so well!
Wow, thank you for filming this Tsunami. I live in Western Australia which is quite flat for the most part. I had not realised how harmless looking a Tsunami could look from a distance, and it didn’t occur to me that such a high barrier wall could so easily be breached. Very sobering. Thank you again for educating me. Best wishes to you and your family.
@@NoName5589 Right, it looks worse. The monstrous volume of water. Eerie how it slid in over the whole harbour. Thankful they had a warning system. It could have been at night.
If you have never experienced the power of the flooding Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, I imagine it is like that except much higher and with more power. Poor folks that did not get out in time.
I was living near Hachinohe the day of the earthquake. I thought the ground was going to open up. I volunteered and did cleanup afterwards along the coast and it was unreal like a horror movie. We didn't have power for over a week, so I put my food in the snow. I had my huge American BBQ grill so I cooked meat for my neighbors and bonded because we were all together in this. I can't wait to move back. I wish more Americans shared the Japanese culture because they are simply amazing!!
Thanks for the translation! I've seen the full version of it many times, but was never sure his exact words. That day still resonates, the loss and displacement and altered lives of so many. God bless!
“When you see the cheetah running with the gazelle, you run with them.” That was something I heard an old man say in a newscast of the tsunami. He said that when he saw animals that usually eat each other running up the mountain together, he knew something was wrong. He said he saw that a while before the tsunami hit and that’s what saved him. He ran up the mountain.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I think he ment the tsunami didn't look anything like how they make it appear with cgi in movies. Like a huge wave crashing into skyscrapers.
@@MrMazvaz these tsunamis here are "small" if u gonna start even comparing it with the movies. Movie ones like what we see example San andreas, it's apocalypse asteroid level of tsunami, it ain't something you will see in your lifetime they're unbelievably rare but it's definetely possible , tsunami's are a series of waves that can have long distance apart like even hours behind the first wave, and these waves can be long up tp 100Km.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I know, but its still a tsunami and its still terrifying even though its regarded as small. It just puts things in perspective, how helpless we are when nature decides to fuck shit up.
I wonder if that person driving the white truck at 4:30 lived, you can see that same truck floating back by at 8:48. Crazy how this went from normal to water well over the top of the tallest structure within minutes
What's scary is how often you'll hear those sirens but this time was real, it was deadly, and the most disasterous ever. I think that's why these sirens have become so eerie, they really only signify mass destruction. Even more scary that it only took about 3 mins from the alarm to the water coming in.
Multiple times. The water didn't even go out after the first wave. Then another taller wave trumped the last one. Crazy! If this happened on the eastern seaboard usa so many people would die from wanting to watch it, not realizing how tall the next waves will be.
You know what's worse than a wave? Seemingly endless ionising radiation that will be around for thousands of years that is now polluting the Japanese coastline.
What’s always most terrifying to me when I watch these videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami are that almost every one of these towns had the infrastructure to prevent even a fairly large tsunami from destroying the whole town. The Pacific Northwest of the US is also prone to receiving mega-tsunamis but has none of this infrastructure. I can’t even imagine the devastation we’re going to experience in the PNW when the big one hits. We have no protection, the US will only (maybe) invest in the infrastructure after it happens
I’ve watched a hundred of these videos and it’s still gut wrenching to watch and think of what the Japanese people went through and how terrifying that all must have been. The one man kept yelling, “it’s the end.” At that point you had no idea when and if it was going to stop and recede. I can’t imagine how hard that could have been to watch everything to have get destroyed.
That's a really strong wall when it can hold what looks like >10m of static and dynamic water pressure. I'm genuinely impressed by Japanese authorities who manage to build this infrastructure to protect a small town. This relatively thin wall managed to dam up the paciffic ocean. I'm sure this gave several people more time to escape.
Yeah, though the idiots that think "oh I gotta grab all my stuff" were probably the ones you see drive by just seconds/minutes before the water goes over the wall. Either that or some officials but still, it's stupid like if that wall was defective in any 1 spot or the water raised any quicker they would have been dead.
Yea tsunamis have happened there in the past but it’s not super common. Typhoons are. They’re much more organized and built say if the same thing happened in Florida
It is amazing to think that wall held back the pacific ocean, as well as the massive underground water tunnels in tokyo, I believe I watched or read something that they've re-engineered the embankments. They're not going to let this type of devastation happen twice, thats for sure!
I just hang out with my friend Smelly Bob. Water is supernaturally repelled by his mere presence in some godforsaken way. I shit you not! He has his uses...
Unbelievable footage! The water slowly and relatively calmly creeps in with enormous pull force. It's scary to watch all the destruction and with what ease it carries big boats and entire houses.
@&; it was 3 meters. Thats taller than most living quarters in Japan. It only looks the way it does because they're safe and on high ground. If you saw it face first, it would be 3 or 4 of yourselves combined in height.
This is recommended because it was 10 years ago that it happened in this same month, people have been searching this so it’s been getting attention and algorithm picked it up.
It such a sad part of Japan's history. So many lives lost but the school children that were told to stay in the class room and all 75 died was the saddest. There were also some great rescues too.
@@YONIGUNIookawa elementary school!! Also the students weren’t instructed to stay in the classroom. They were all outside, with plenty of time to escape. But the fucking teachers waited 50 damn minutes until they finally started evacuating, but it was far too late. They got washed away in the process. Search about it cuz it’s pretty messed up. turned into a pretty big lawsuit too
@@glizzyparker8056 you will turn to dust if you faced God, you can't even leave your hand on fire for an hour , I bet you think that the world was created from an explosion and life just came out of nowhere 🤣
I’ve seen many bits of footage of Tsunamis over the years but this has to be the most visual representation of the sheer scale of one that I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
It was a huge disaster for Japan. There was a lot of footage captured from all over the country. Hopefully it'll be a long time before they have another one.
@@aeroripper Ah yes. I heard Japan just just had an earthquake. I was waiting for the new episode of Attack on Titan. I hope they're OK. Life over a TV series for sure.
@@frederikzinn5427 I mean it was kind of bad yeah, but honestly I was expecting a 20-30 foot wall of water to come in at like 50 mph+ based on how they discribe them.. This just seemed like, "ehhh lame". A simple wall is all you need or just travel up 30 feet
Does yer heart also go out to the 80 90 y.o.'s Japanese men who did all those unspeakable shit to others in Asia including the brits, the dutch, the aussies and are now retiring comfortably sleeping in a warm bed because they have never been punished for crimes against humanity? I sure don't feel for these bastards and I hope the tsunami is Mutter Nature's way of bringing these criminals to justice.
We have recovered now. It’s 10 years ago. Most people affected by this have moved on from this. Yes many died. But many didn’t die either and bounced back. My uncle’s home for example entire first floor was flooded because of Tsunami that flooded the river and back flowed the surrounding areas. But his home was not crushed luckily. He bounced back within a year and he was lucky. The areas that crushed are not like before but all cleaned up and new buildings already built. The Japanese government built huge walls spent billions of tax payers money and locals have mixed feelings about that as we can’t see the ocean like before in these Tsunami regions. But we have recovered long ago.
They even had a breakwater line, seawall and a warning system. Imagine if this hit a country like the Philippines. The level of destruction would be devastating 😰
A tsunami hit our country in 2004, on the day I was born. We had no sort of warning systems or breakwall whatsoever. A few minutes right after I was born, half of our country was destroyed
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt -Faith restored in humanity -Wrecked/dead/ded/dying -was this filmed with a potato? -last time I was this early... -Stop saying who is here, we never left. -in the weird part of RU-vid again -I'm not crying, you're crying -she/he/they found their RU-vid password -who is watching in 'current year' - 'something else' brought me here - saaaaaaame - nobody: Not a single soul: Me: something unfunny nobody cared to know I could go on...and on...and on.. 80% of people are clones, social media comments reflect that. Accept that, lower your expectations and you won't be bothered by them haha
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt I honestly didn't think anyone else had said that. I don't go on RU-vid often and I was just commenting what I truly thought. But I guess I can see how many people would say that though
It's incomprehensible just how much water was displaced & pushed inland in such a short time. The subtitles are great, they really convey the mix of awe & horror these folks must have felt seeing nature go completely haywire
It's not till the end when he swings the camera around to look at the whole town behind those walls being washed away that you really understand what he's so upset about.
I always thought a tsunami would look so different. Large waves coming toward the shore, but this is even scarier. It seems so calm till it's pretty much too late.
i remember the tsunami that happened in 2003/2004 after the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake - i'm Australian so i wasn't affected, but i remember reading a story about one young girl who noticed the water receding dramatically and managed to get her loved ones to evacuate in time.
@@elfinvale this is actually how a lot of native people who are on islands know to get to higher ground. If the water recedes a certain amount they head inland for higher ground. Learned that from my cultural anthropology class.
My wife was in Japan and I was in Switzerland…. She called me and said that a earthquake happened, I just said “ we’ll be careful and call me back “… then less than 1h after I saw the news and I call back my wife with tears in my mouth. Hopefully she was in a safe place but she wanted to stay in Japan to help ( she is a nurse). She left Japan in may and we stayed in Switzerland for 12 years. Now we are back in Japan with 3 kids and we hope to never have to go trough it again in our life
I was in Kamaishi in December 2011, and stayed with a family who lived very close to here near Unosumai (a few miles to the north). Every day we went into Kamaishi and passed through this area. The seawall was mostly gone, just giant broken chunks of concrete. I asked my friend about the tsunami, and he said that the people of Ryoishi talked about the tsunami in terms of “a bathtub filling up and overflowing”. This video shows exactly that, I can see why they made that (accurate) comparison. The damage to the town went all the way back, about 1/2 mile inland, to this curve in the highway (45). Only the higher areas of Ryoishi were spared. Since my last visit in 2015, they raised the ground level of the entire town by 10 meters (it ramps down right before it gets to the harbor). But in 2011, the roads had been destroyed and had many temporary 1-lane repairs... I’ve never seen anything like the destruction in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. I lived through Hurricane Katrina, which was horrific, but the destruction in places like Ryoishi here was total. Videos, photos, and words just cannot fully convey what happened here. I’ll add, these were also the nicest people I’ve ever met. Just amazing.
+Rocket Scientist 🙏 Thank you for sharing your experiences and the post-tsunami details. Even before when I watched this video prior to the English subtitles, it was plain that these were good people who were determined to look out for one another. Yours truly, Brain Surgeon 🪛👩🏼⚕️🩺
In less than 6 minutes everything you've owned, all the places you made memories, went to school, perhaps met your first love...Gone. I can only hope everybody heeded the alarm in time and got to higher ground in time.
@@Anomaly.Filmworks you'll never understand the pain of seeing everything you made during your entire life get destroyed in seconds unless you suffer through it. You probably take everything you have in life for granted.
If I'd live in Japan, I wouldn't do it in a house by the sea shore... The entire world know about tsunamis from Japan, you'd think they would stop building vulnerable houses(everything owned, memories etc) right there near the water.
Cinematic Tsunamis don’t even do this slow beast any justice. The “oh wait a minute we need to leave” moments that a tsunami have are scary. didn’t even look like anything at first.
Tsunami is not a wave, but a column of water under pressure in movement. It can be just a few centimeters over the water surface but with tons of power. A fact of density
@@pepeperez2774 Tsunami is a wave tho. Even if it doesnt nescessary look like a wave it is a wave of water. Look at this footage and tell me that isnt a huge wave ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z-2khcTHIgs.html At 2:20
I think it likes to give us reminders from time to time about HAARP and what not, anything to keep us distracted from Prince Andrew and Jeffry Epstein...... oh no wait they did the Oprah interview to distract from that didn’t they? oops lol
It is something I will never forget. I hope you all managed to rebuild your homes and businesses. I hope also that you are living happy lives. With love for all those who lost their lives. Xx
When I first watched the full documentary it gave me so much anxiety I cried but I wanted to finish watching the documentary to understand how mother nature works and to learn from it. I cried for the people that couldn't escape this and for those whom couldn't sleep for there safety of what could come next.
why cry? this happened in Japan, a country so arrogant that they cancel out anything foreign and think theyre the best at everything; no reason to feel sorry for a hostile population like that. let them deal with it on their own.
@@gradeyundery4939 hahaha I wouldn't qualify for drafting, I'm old jumped that g u n I feel sorry for the young people on that hope it don't happen in my life time or your lifetime..... scary.
The 3 meter announcement was wrong, and part of the problem - probably a lot of people heard "3 meters" and weren't too worried. Then when the actual wave turned out to be much bigger.... some of the people who had warning hadn't run far enough to get away from what hit the coast. It was 14 meters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Same Tsunami event. Something I didn't see people try to do that puzzles me - I'd think that, the moment you feel an earthquake like that, with all those boats around.... why not grab one and head straight out to sea? If you can get out to deep water fast enough, the tsunami will pass under you as a not very high, not dangerous swell rather than the towering dangerous wave it becomes as the shallows lift it up.
@@wubblebubbleball5433 We can take his comment as a different way of thinking about "losing everything we worked for". If we accept that what we borrowed has been taken back, it will hurt less. The comment doesn't have to mean that there must be an alternative and humans are bad so they deserve this.
ive seen multiple videos of the earthquake and tsunami and it just terrifies me to imagine to have been there i cant imagine how the ppl who actually went thru this felt such a horrible event God bless Japan
@@AhmedAli-dt9bl We aren’t into Islam and Allah etc. We Japanese people have Shintoism and our god isn’t same as your god. We love pork. Free range ones the best from south of Japan. In fact those who eat these special free range pork, fish and seafood, and varieties of vegetables live the longest on earth. My Japanese grandmother lived till nearly 110. You guys are too much into such archaic thinking that pig is a dirty being, no such thing. Pigs are among the cleanest animal much more than cows that’s for sure. But free range, they’re roaming freely on green pastures in south of Japan. Yep we aren’t ever going to agree on Allah or treating women as second class citizens or allow multiple wives. That’s illegal actually here. We are Shintoism based society.
The anxiety in dudes voice😩 I can’t even imagine what it’s like to witness in person. As someone stated before, With all the advancements of mankind & his technology we don’t stand a chance against Mother Nature.
It must be heartbreaking to see that coming in, and right before your eyes it takes everything, and you would never feel more powerless in your entire life.
the most horrid thing is that they had multiple sea walls and break walls and everything still got swept away. it's hard to imagine how much worse things would have been without those walls when everything was swept away anyway
I think it's coz of those walls the impact of the waves was lessened but still managed to do a lot of damage.. but those walls did buy some time for the people.
With the devastating earthquake in Turkey, my deepest condolences to everyone in Japan on this March 11, be at peace and mourn for what's lost but live for what's most important.
If you pay attention to the road at the bottom of the frame in the beginning of the video. You will see a little white truck driving towards the water just before the tsunami hits. A few minutes later you can see that same truck being swept back down the road by the tsunami as it starts to crest over the sea wall. I hope the driver survived but nature is rarely so kind.
@@nonnaurbisness3013 why do you think so? I've seen this tragedy back in 2011 and its horrifying to watch at the videos back then. a lot of people died and lost their homes.
I've seen enough of these to know what was going to happen but at first, I reacted like you. The interesting thing here is that this guy knew it was going to be a huge tsunami just by looking at what was happening out in the ocean. That shows a lot of experience with the sea and tsunamis.
@@m0r73n Yes ' it was a thin wall. Judging from the size of the cars driving on the road next to it, l figure wall is about 25-30 feet or (7 to 9 meters tall). That's about the height of buildings at the Mall shopping center. Thats alot of pressure and Alot 'of water. I can't help feel bad for all those who lost family, friends, pets and properties 😫
These pictures are a testament to the destructive power of nature, but also to the unshakable strength and hope of people. I pray for all who were affected by this terrible event and hope they have found comfort and healing.
If you know Japanese men, this the scariest they can get, while saying “this is HELL ! HELL ! HELL ! “ he still went on to say “This is AMAZING ! “ but he said it in FEAR, so I’m sure many got “ lost in translation “
@@gehtnix16 I suppose that makes sense, but I still fail to see how you could get that sort of funnel effect in something as vast as the ocean where the total volume is spread so vastly. I always assumed it was the physical raising of the sea level that contributed to the height of a tsunami, not the influence of coves/mountains.
This is amazing footage and shows how important it is to know what a tsunami is actually like. It's less a "tidal wave" and more a giant ripple in the ocean from the energy that created it.
I can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this disaster occurred, I was still in elementary school when I saw this on national news, my condolences to the Japanese community.
I was on a college oceanography class shortly year after this happened, we watched SO much footage! It was horrifying! But it was the best example we've really ever had of a modern day tsunami.
