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New Zealand Tsunami warning - People Told to Evacuate Immediately
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04-03-2021 10:02pm#1
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What I have seen so far suggests a wave between 10cm and 1m, so hopefully it won't be very bad. The 2011 tsunami in Japan seems to have had 3 - 8.5m waves causing the worst of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#/media/File:Tsunami_map_Tohoku2011.svg
The ten year anniversary of that M9.1 (!) event will be next week.
I remember the helicopter footage coming in live, watching cars and buildings being inundated and moved across the flat land
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I’d heard about the first quake but not the second and third. Hopefully it passes and isn’t serious. I saw footage in a documentary of the Christmas Day and Japanese tsunamis recently and the utter power of water is still breathtaking all these years later.
Water is so powerful in many ways. It's so heavy.
This was one of the craziest footage I have seen from Japan 2011.
I think it maybe Sendai, that harbour town?
But the way that the land funnels in the energy of the water, straight into the town...
I wonder how would Cork fare, if ever that mountain in the Canary Islands did its thing
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igCorcaigh wrote: »The ten year anniversary of that M9.1 (!) event will be next week.
I remember the helicopter footage coming in live, watching cars and buildings being inundated and moved across the flat land
It was mental stuff.
I was in Japan at the time,I was in Okinawa far to the south,the Okinawans are a hardy island bunch but when the pictures came through everybody hit for the hills.I was down on the coast having lunch watching it on the telly,the restaurant owner said this is serious and get to high ground.I got in the car and made it a few km inland and above sea level but was stuck in traffic then.I thought about abandoning the car and going further inland but nobody else seemed to be doing that so i stayed in the car and trundled along in traffic.
I got back to my apartment shortly after and was watching the clips youre talking about, crazy stuff.The Tsumai was making its way south at this stage and although it was losing power the locals were still spooked (I've spent a lot if time in Okinawa and you just don't see this) The tsunami hit that evening but the sea wall mostly did its job,power was knocked out for the night but that was it.
About 2 months later I was working up north of where those terrifying clips came from,I was chatting to a few lads who had volunteered for going through rubble looking for survivors/bodies,guys breaking down in tears,a shocking event.I don't think there's a natural disaster as scary or as devastating as a big tsunami .0 -
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It was mental stuff.
I was in Japan at the time,I was in Okinawa far to the south,the Okinawans are a hardy island bunch but when the pictures came through everybody hit for the hills.I was down on the coast having lunch watching it on the telly,the restaurant owner said this is serious and get to high ground.I got in the car and made it a few km inland and above sea level but was stuck in traffic then.I thought about abandoning the car and going further inland but nobody else seemed to be doing that so i stayed in the car and trundled along in traffic.
I got back to my apartment shortly after and was watching the clips youre talking about, crazy stuff.The Tsumai was making its way south at this stage and although it was losing power the locals were still spooked (I've spent a lot if time in Okinawa and you just don't see this) The tsunami hit that evening but the sea wall mostly did its job,power was knocked out for the night but that was it.
About 2 months later I was working up north of where those terrifying clips came from,I was chatting to a few lads who had volunteered for going through rubble looking for survivors/bodies,guys breaking down in tears,a shocking event.I don't think there's a natural disaster as scary or as devastating as a big tsunami .
Wow. Holy carp.
Thank you for that story.
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Can feel silly saying it but I always point out a cubic metre of water literally weighs a ton.igCorcaigh wrote: »Water is so powerful in many ways. It's so heavy.This was one of the craziest footage I have seen from Japan 2011.
I think it maybe Sendai, that harbour town?
But the way that the land funnels in the energy of the water, straight into the town...
I wonder how would Cork fare, if ever that mountain in the Canary Islands did its thing
It's the relentlessness that always gets me. I remember for the Indian Ocean tsunami most of the dramatic footage was a large wave hitting then the rest of the water following behind. It just keeps coming and coming. Horrific stuff.0 -
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[Deleted User] wrote: »Can feel silly saying it but I always point out a cubic metre of water literally weighs a ton.
It's the relentlessness that always gets me. I remember for the Indian Ocean tsunami most of the dramatic footage was a large wave hitting then the rest of the water following behind. It just keeps coming and coming. Horrific stuff.
The first waves can be dramatic on video footage, yeah, because it crests so high.
The real damage though is the following relentless weight of the rising water which carries with its force all the debris
Tsunamis are a terrifying force of nature.
I'm so glad we live on a safe Atlantic island.0 -
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