The Boxing Day Tsunami

[@HandyMan657]

Amazing power. Makes one wonder how many civilizations have been completely removed from the Earth never to be seen again except in artifacts. Incredible power. Thanks, Midnight. Take care

[@Dihechuwa]

I appreciate that you offered a breakdown by areas of how many lives were lost. You always project great respect to the people in the events that you speak of❤

[@Sanakudou]

I still remember the day this happened, I was just a kid and my family had planned to go to the beach like we always did on Boxing Day (we live in Australia) but our parents decided against it after seeing this happening on tv. It was the time I learned what a tsunami was. There was a lot of news coverage due to how many Australian tourists were involved, so much of it was captured on camera too, it definitely changed my perception of the ocean forever. Some of the survivor stories were an eye opener to how dangerous a lack of knowledge is, plenty of the Australians didn’t even have the word “tsunami” in their vocabulary, let alone knew the warning signs, their survival was predominantly thanks to the locals who took the time to yell at them to run to higher ground. Some locals were even desperately herding complete strangers into multi-storey buildings to try and save them. Honestly, I suspect the foreigner death toll would’ve been so much higher if not for the selflessness of the locals.

[@MKPrive]

Hard to believe we are coming up on twenty years since this tragedy. The news reports at the time of the event were shocking, absolutely terrifying. We had really never seen something filmed like this before. The scale is still so unfathomable, even with worsening storms, floods and fires fueled by a changing climate.

[@vivelajonny]

Where I'm from, we don't believe in the whole earthquake and tsunami thing. It was always taught to us that it was all false, but watching these videos starts to make me question it that whole belief

[@jessbellis9510]

@@vivelajonny What do you mean?

[@laurag6832]

​@vivelajonny really? I didn't know that was in question. What else would have caused the Tohoku tsunami? (Japan 2011)

[@annegrey3780]

The Earthquake was so powerful it slightly altered Earth's rotation.

[@farfaraway4285]

I think that was the Japanese one in 2011.

[@sauldasc2226]

I countered it after my visit to taco bell. Its all good. Spin in peace ✌️

[@vivelajonny]

That's simply not true, lmfao use your brain for a second, you sound stupid

[@APR1037]

@@farfaraway4285It has been documented that both earthquakes were powerful enough to affect the speed of Earth’s rotation.

[@flaviochavez1747]

You gotta cover Hurricane Katrina. Especially in light of recent events with Helene in the Southeast.

[@Mlpojnnb1234]

Oh ya

[@Heike--]

Dude that is racist as fuck. no, do not cover katrina. The school buses, remember the school buses? Or shooting at the rescue copters? It's going to bring out the racists, bigtime.

[@PenskeRacingDodge]

@@Heike--alright schizo

[@Heike--]

@@PenskeRacingDodge OK racist

[@ironwoodnf]

Camille as well

[@rustyshackelford7121]

One of my favorite channels to fall asleep to

[@tygrubb]

Long time listener here. Thank you for covering this. Just a note: the Richter scale was deprecated in the 80s, replaced by the Moment Magnitude scale. The Richter scale was tied to a a specific location and didn’t take into account some important variables. Moment Magnitude is what is in use today.

[@smk2457]

The thing that annoyed me about the coverage at the time in the UK was how much it focused on Thailand because that's where all the tourists were to the point that some people thought Thailand was the main site of the disaster.

[@efnissien]

It's interesting that it appears that the population on North Sentinel Island, in India's Andaman island archipeligo seems to have suffered only light casualties. The population of the island famed for it's 'no go' status and hostility to outsiders, appears to have migrated en-masse to higher ground in the centre of the island. A flyover by a surveillance aircraft indicated (via thermal and visible smoke) that both groups inhabiting the island seemed to have picked up on the signs of a tsunami (apparently some other indigineous groups on other islands in the Andemans also did the same). And only 4 years into the century and the hyperbole 'deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century' was attached to it.

[@MKPrive]

Would be cool to see a video on how indigenous people reacted to the signs. I wondered this. Albeit I don’t believe this is hyperbole, bc it’s true. A quarter million people died. Hard to imagine a disaster that will rival this scale of destruction. It’s a once in several generations event.

[@efnissien]

@@MKPrive It's a bit early in the century to be making those claims yet.

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Wow. Thank you for the equivalents that illustrated the scale of atomic bomb explosions relative to earthquake magnitude. That was terrifyingly helpful. This event was truly horrifying. I recall when it happened - and I couldn't even fathom the devastation at the time (I did not have a t.v. at the time). Just awful.

[@forceoffriction]

My school district did a whole Tsunami education module when we came back from break in January. They were very adamant that it didn't matter that we lived on the east coast of the US, with extremely little chance of ever experiencing anything like that at home. We never knew if or when we'd be traveling somewhere with increased tsunami risk. I distinctly remember being told that "If you see water retreating, immediately run in the opposite direction".

[@_GntlStone_]

Glad to catch a new video before work!

[@amazingazblo0239]

Moribird, I am from the Maldives and am pretty disappointed that you didn't mention my country which was in the thick of the tsunami which occurred within Sri Lanka and India's Eastern coastal areas. Just for people who are wondering, Earthquake Occured around dawn and the tsunami came approximately after 9 am ( Maldives Local time ) and hit mainly in the eastern areas of the small country. Some Islands and resorts were damaged that took 2 years atleast to repair and reopen by then and 2 islands unfortunately got badly destroyed in the tsunami ( or 3 but not sure but Interms of inhabited islands at the time of the disaster that's 2 of them) one of them got rebuilt luckily but the other island, thanks to the second wave of the tsunami which then was completely destroyed and made it unhabitable as a result. Further more to show how badly off guard the situation was when the tsunami got hit to the capital's main international airport ( Male' International airport was the name at the time) Now Velana International airport was struck by the tsunami. The craziest thing of all is an aircraft was taking off at the time the debris are coming to the runway as the plane rolled for takeoff and just barely, I mean barely the plane took off just missing the plane by few meters by the debris. That's how powerful the tsunami is, luckily the death toll was low compared to India and Sri Lanka ( not saying we are lucky) but thanks to everyone in the country cooperated during that day and the aftermath of the tsunami which itself was made into a national holiday to remember that fateful day because everyone absolutely helped out eachother in the aftermath of the tsunami, the waves of the tsunami Knocked off the radio towers ( main source of media at that time ) so they had to even do a Temperory fix afterwords to then see the damage throughout the country soon afterwords. Even tho you didn't mention my country but atleast we all can agree on one thing, those who know the story or atleast witnessed it first-hand, then can consider this as the greatest natural disaster of not only in the century but in humankind as well.

[@amazingazblo0239]

Btw the radio towers part is just the tip of the ice burg but in other areas it may have been much worse depending on where the islands are at, specially the east coast line of my country's island chain which were effected the most ( including the Capital City Malé and the Main Airport ( including the seaplane terminal ) ) Just shedding some information regarding that just to make sure

[@Heike--]

You have to make your own videos. Where are the Maldivians making their videos about what happened? So instead, you whine and moan we didn't do it. And if we ever do, you whine we got it wrong, the host pronounced this wrong, didn't cover something, we've all seen it a million times. This is why you don't cover tiny ocountries. It's nothing but trouble.

[@amazingazblo0239]

​@@Heike-- it's not like that tho, yeah anyone could make a video about it atleast but as i said am just saying points about it regardless based on the information i know. i mean people do point out if they missed something which is not an issue really. And secondly despite the maldives damage costs and death toll wasn't as significant compared to the other countries moribird mentioned, which i truly understand why hr may have not included it in the first place. Which i can give it a pass. Either way it's a great video by moribird anyway

[@Heike--]

@@amazingazblo0239 Yeah it is, we've all seen it happen a million times. You insignificant country people dogpile into the comments and start shouting that we did it wrong, mispronounced something wrong, we got it wrong, we're all so stupid. I've even seen you people meet each other in the comments. Neighbors who live across the street and such. It's just plain weird to us. Better to avoid the whole thing. You can make your own videos. That way, you always get it right.

[@atheistsince1210]

Morbid midnight PhD in geology so glad to be a student !

[@inappropriatejohnson]

Earthquakes get right to the point. Kinda rude, actually.

[@GoBlueGirl78]

Tsunamis are the unexpected encore. 😬

[@goodemily]

I remember when this happened and watching videos on the news. It was awful to watch in real time.

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Thank-you ❤️

[@parkerbtc]

Fantastic video! There are many natural disasters you can cover on this channel

[@VetvsWorld]

Love the videos! I play them at 1.25 as that makes it more conversational with few awkwardly long pauses. ✊🏻

[@rustyshackelford7121]

I like his pace 💪

[@VetvsWorld]

@@rustyshackelford7121 To each their own dude. 😁

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

You have to watch it as recorded dude. It’s his creativity you have to celebrate. Come on man. SLO talking is coming back.

[@Unfamous-Chronicles]

⁠@@thereissomecoolstuff To each their own. To me it doesn’t sound like someone speaking slow. It sounds like he recorded it and then slowed it down, and I tend to listen at 1.25x too. I used to do 1.5x but he speaks a bit faster now. And I’ll tell you I’m used to both fast speech and slow. I live in NY, several hours straight north of NYC but we speak fast. My dad is from rural Texas and his entire family speaks so slowly. You’d think if I can handle that I can handle this, but this just sometimes sounds unnatural.

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

@@Unfamous-Chronicles right on I was just trolling you. I usually watch everything at 2.0. This speaking style is big in mysteries.

[@BostonHorticulture]

Never forget you DW❤

[@Clownieo]

Honestly, this is a pretty short video for the sheer scope of this disaster. It should either be a multi-parter, or a longer video altogether. I understand wanting to keep it brief, though. Lots of good documentaries out there already.

[@GoBlueGirl78]

This was truly awful. I know someone who helped identify victims.

[@pigeonbusiness]

6:24 If the ocean goes away, don't go looking for it. Get to high ground. That's the ocean's equivalent of pulling its fist back to punch you in the face.

[@edinsoncavanirespector9078]

The OG disaster channel lfg etc etc

[@InquisitorXarius]

Honestly its about time you covered this particular disaster given it is the deadliest tsunami in Human history so far

[@franciscoramirez9867]

Yea boii have a good night everyone!

[@nowistime8070]

I felt that earthquake in Ladner BC. I won't go into detail unless someone wants me to It also affect California Oregon Washington Hawaii and South America

[@hobartw9770]

Nature's way of thinning the herd.

[@burkluca7738]

Do hurricane helene next since our national news and government fail to acknowledge the damage done

[@briantologist7629]

I wonder how many people were saved by the Japanese tsunami warning system in 2011.

[@anthonypalazzi6255]

160000 is INSANE

[@Apocalypse_Meow...]

I have a friend who was in Bandar Aceh~ his cabana was on the beach! He heard something, opened the door & was instantly swept away~ cabana & all. He was lucky and got to a multi story building, all he had was the underwear he had on🤭😂 He said the smell of death was impossible to escape 🤢😰

[@ja3590]

I’m just glad I was born in Oklahoma, fuck the ocean

[@Bearrrrrrrrr]

That's a lot of damage... I don't give a fuck about

[@thefanone]

Lord Almighty God please have mercy on your people😢

[@GoBlueGirl78]

LOL 250k people killed and you think there’s a god

[@Heike--]

Worth mentioning as tidal waves were widely ridiculed as being a stupid name for this phenomenon, and we were supposed to use the alien, unpronounceable "tsunami" instead by arrogant scientists who had never seen one. Then, lo and behold. this was the first one widely filmed - and it looked exactly like the tide coming in.

[@dfuher968]

Unpronounceable? Tsunami? This Scandinavian has no problems with pronouncing it. And its the accurate name, tidal waves might be similar, but its NOT the same.

[@rosieposie9564]

@@dfuher968 What is the difference?

[@Heike--]

@@dfuher968 Oh look, a Scandinavian looking down on and sneering at us. How unusual. SWEDEN YES

[@judyjudy51]

Your pronunciation of Aceh is incorrect

[@Unfamous-Chronicles]

17:25 Normally not a stickler but it should be “Deadliest tsunami in recorded history.” Imagine it’s 3004 AD and people are talking about a deadly tsunami from 2900 AD. Who is to say the records of our deadliest survived that thousand years? Likewise, there’s no real way of knowing if an entire civilization was wiped out in the past, or if they were so remote they couldn’t share. Or heck, it wasn’t uncommon back then to watch other countries burn because A, there’d be a lot less help coming than today and B, why save your enemy when you want their land?

[@Heike--]

Oh, shut it, nerd. We're telling our tales. It's not 3004 AD. Stop being woke.

[@Heike--]

Going to be a big fight that day? It kind of sucks boxing got corrupt so nobody cares about anything but uFC today.

[@GoBlueGirl78]

What? No one’s talking about boxing.

[@froz1983]

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December).[1] Boxing Day was once a day to donate gifts to those in need, but it has evolved to become a part of Christmas festivities, with many people choosing to shop for deals on Boxing Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in several Commonwealth nations.

[@Heike--]

@@GoBlueGirl78 Dude just said boxing day

[@Heike--]

@@froz1983 Oh, it's some weird, off holiday only celebrated in white countries. Stop assuming it's universal.

[@GoBlueGirl78]

@@Heike-- “Dude” thinks Boxing Day is about UFC & fighting.

[@timothyclark-sl4il]

Do a video on the Karate Day tornado!