the wave that shook the world

[@scottywalker3867]

The guy on the beach just waiting for the wave like he fully knew there was no point in running.. Just accepted his fate...gives me chills t thus day... Rest in peace all who died

[@nickfowler5106]

Accepted his fate

[@kathrynejones2590]

AMEN BROTHER...I FELT THE SAME THING FROM HIM TOO...#BIGGESTBALLSEVER...STAY SAFE OUT THERE...^-^...

[@Saifull1991]

do you think he survived ?

[@america6545]

@@Saifull1991 Unlikely. RIP to the victims.

[@whitepouch0904]

Time stamp please

[@lydialaporte6926]

I remember that day of tsunami in December 2004. I was in the sea with my two kids aged 9 and three and my husband was sitting on the beach. A lady came running across the beach asking everyone to get out of the water she said the radio was announcing the tsunami and asked volunteers to run to the beach to give the message and as the lady was running along the beach to shout out to everyone as I ran out very scared pulling my kids to run the Very minute the water was up all over the beach across the road we got the chance to escape just on time. I want to thank those gentlemen who acted quickly enough to get the message to our country a small island in the Indian Ocean not far from Mauritius. Thank you so much you helped saved a lot of lives by getting the message across to the ambassador.

[@truesoulghost2777]

Was it just a wave that came in right away or did the water not get sucked out first as it does usually?

[@lydialaporte6926]

@@truesoulghost2777 the area that we were in the water came up all of a sudden covererd the whole beach and up to the road then it sucked back . Earlier when we were going around searching for a beach as there are many here we came to a beach where normally there's the sea and that moment there was no water at all and just vast area of the sand and I had no idea at thar time what was happening and I was going to walk all the way out there where the sea was sucked out and thanks God I didn't go as I wasn't feeling well I was just put of hospital a few days. Otherwise if I had gone walking on the area the sea would have come back and get me. So I was so pretected by God. Even at the other beach we were saved

[@truesoulghost2777]

@@lydialaporte6926 count your blessings. Stay safe.

[@lydialaporte6926]

@@truesoulghost2777 thnk you

[@OhCrow]

My moms house in Andaman got destroyed

[@sleazysid253]

I was stationed in Japan when this happend and they detached a group of us over to Thailand a few days after this happened to perform "clean up". 2 combat tours in Afghanistan, and this is still the most horrible thing I have ever experienced. The smell of death was debilitating. 14 hour days in full MOP gear to keep ourselves safe and burying bodies to try and stop the spread of disease. It was something I will never forget.

[@Dumbpuppet101]

My god thank you for what you did that is heartbreaking

[@demon13doc]

Now that is a service you should be thanked for.

[@dawnhickman7256]

Thank you for your service ❤

[@jaestreets1708]

💚🤞🏽🫡

[@eddiereyna2998]

I’m a Desert Storm veteran , so did y’all have the dogs eating the bodies ? We saw that over there as the Iraqis were to afraid to come when we had shelling nonstop. Plus the smell was overwhelming. Sad that this happened but hopefully those nations will set up early warning stations .

[@Kriegerdammerung]

I remember two Argentinian tourists that survived because they were diving. In their words, they said "we were swimming and suddenly a mantle above covered us and it was all darkness" that sentence gave me more terror than 1000 horror films put together.

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

Mantle?

[@Kriegerdammerung]

@@krotchlickmeugh627 Like a cloak, a shroud

[@DavO_666]

@@Kriegerdammerung now that's more confusing 😂

[@vingram100]

@@DavO_666 Basically, the ocean covered them with the depths of the sea that they could never reach. Terrifying.

[@Saifull1991]

Oh my God that’s truly terrifying indeed

[@derrinrogers7098]

It looks like I have stumbled into the documentary part of youtube. The thing I've noticed is once you stumble into the documentary part of youtube it's hard to stumble out of it!

[@kristybarnes2563]

why would you want to?

[@charsback]

Quit drinking..

[@dovetail90]

LOL yes!!

[@juliahadley4977]

Derrin Rogers Ha ha you were probably addicted to The website StumbleUpon. I know I was

[@0ceanline]

Once you get in you never escape

[@vex3825]

This just popped up randomly on my feed... I swear to god 2020, don’t you dare.

[@kaicleland3852]

Ohhh boyyy welcome to level 8 of Jumanji: August brings us *spins wheel* .........TUSINAMI'S!!!!! WOOOoo....oh

[@jensbassa]

Mmmm about the sand Andreas fault, don’t let 2020 know it didn’t rupture yet

[@caitlinpresley5420]

SAME! I thought the same exact thing🥴

[@DAYZA00]

DOnT JInx US

[@kamtorosam5742]

You should swear !!!

[@cassie5978]

I was Vacation. Had 4 broken ribs, broken wrist, a concussion and 4 weeks coma. My birth mother died. My aunt and uncle took me in. I thank God i survived

[@commentsectioncleaner944]

Glad you are ok,and sorry for your loss

[@sunflowerheather7019]

Hugs cassie im glad youre still with us

[@Keys7]

God Bless you always and forever 💕🙏💕

[@mathieutyler00]

This is a lie. Cassie is a liar.

[@jarrettmaltry6305]

If you were one of the people who ran towards a receding ocean I don’t know how to feel. Darwinism claimed many lives that day

[@sunitamosesesq]

Every few decades Mother Nature delivers an extreme reminder of who's really in charge.

[@skwisgarskwigelf7191]

@Natalia Arceo Mendía if that’s the case then God is a sadistic asshole

[@KrisWolf4]

As another wave of disease of biblical proportions shakes the globe!

[@neverest187]

@Natalia Arceo Mendía or, you're just an indoctrinated fool that's been told to believe such silly nonsense, that supernatural fairies exist, without evidence.

[@countdownda]

Wuuuuuurddddddd

[@KrisWolf4]

@@countdownda 👍

[@CinemaDemocratica]

One of the things that fascinates me is how dated television looks even a few years on. This program would have been cutting-edge at the time, and now it looks like it was made while Gerry Ford was President.

[@nebtheweb8885]

Your right. Consumer HiDef cameras were very expensive if they were even available at all at the time, not to mention people were still using what they had at the time, which was 4:3 aspect ratio, and resolution that was at best 480p and most probably 480i which is like 1/6th that if 1080p. Add in youtube compression and, well, it looks very dated. NTSE really didn't change in resolution much for over 60 years until the early part of this century(2006).

[@onubok]

Right! This always fascinates me as well!

[@DrLuke49]

CinemaDemocratica can you imagine President Gerald Ford being caught up in a tsunami emergency? I suspect that the First Lady never left him alone in the bathtub for very long let alone leaving him by himself while out for a day at the beach or out at sea lest he would have been washed away . . . .

[@Unicorn-sg1ls]

Daveunave oooh👀

[@NDnf84]

This is not what TV looked like when airing live. Clips of sporting events from the mid 90s look blurry but master recordings are not. It's deteriorated physical media, but it did not look that bad.

[@AlexModeling]

I always get the shivers when i see that guy just there.. waiting for the wave...

[@ozdorothyfan]

Dead man standing.

[@DrLuke49]

He literally had that "deer frozen in the headlights" aura about him. He knew that it was the end. Chilling to this day . . . .

[@mxrkz1876]

Mr Epic 😂😂😂😂😂

[@truesoulghost2777]

Same.

[@truesoulghost2777]

@@KD-os7kv legend says that you are a douche, and there will never be anything epic about you, besides your ineptitude.

[@charpad6690]

" it was so powerful that it shifted the Earth by a few Centimeters" that is a disgusting amount of energy.

[@tessiepinkman]

I was 14 years old, in Sweden, at a friends house together with some other friends when we heard about the tsunami having hit Thailand. We all had friends, family or both in Thailand who were there to celebrate Christmas and the new year. I remember the afternoon/evening going from laughter to crying and calling the Swedish embassy in Thailand for any word on our friends and family in an instant. We all stayed there, at my friends parents house for two or three days, so that we at least had each other to hang onto. It was horrible when the words came in that a close friend's mother had died. It was heartbreaking and I can still feel exactly what it felt like when we found out. This was someone who had fed us, helped us with school when we were at their house and had been a great "extra" mom for all of us. I can't even begin to imagine what it was like to be there, or for the people who lived in the parts that were destroyed... I think about that day quite often, to be honest. I have no idea how anybody survived on Sumatra. Indonesia really got the worst of it, but that doesn't really say much about how horrible it was in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India & the Maldives since it was all unprecedented. All these pictures are haunting.

[@oregoncoastbeachcomber2060]

I'm sorry for your and your friend's loss. It's hard enough to lose someone you love, let alone knowing that they suffered in terror as they died. 😢

[@maxkillcount6232]

They're actually very lucky it didn't happen at night...

[@popcornegg4405]

A tsunami can travel to the other side of the earth in some cases; and we all know that if one side is day, the other is night. So for some, it struck at night.

[@davidlafleche1142]

The "Orphan Tsunami" happened at night. It came all the way from North America to destroy a village in Japan, and they had no idea it was coming, or where it came from.

[@runningfromabear8354]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953 Mass flood killed 2,551 in Scotland, England, the Netherlands and Belgium. Main reason for so many deaths was because it happened to people in their beds and too much post-war construction on flood plains that traditionally weren't built on. My Great-Grandmother said she woke up to the house being hit and forced off it's foundation. Waves came in off the sea hitting the marshland. My Grandmother (her daughter) doesn't remember it but she was 9 years old when it happened.

[@SMX815]

It does not bare thinking about & the death toll would be beyond huge!

[@SMX815]

Matthew Kirkham there are no words & it still sends shiver down my spine every time you see the clips on TV, KZbin, et cetera. The tsunami will haunt many people for years to come & I feel for anyone who were caught up in the disaster.

[@Cupo666]

Fairly frequently I think about how nearly a quarter million people is such an incomprehensible loss. I was just a kid when this happened but certainly old enough to bear witness from the other side of the world. It humbled us all to the power of the ocean. I wonder how the world would be different if those 230,000 people’s lives weren’t cut short.

[@ms-jl6dl]

350,000 have died in Ukraine so far.

[@alidabotes6264]

​@@ms-jl6dl It's so bloody awful.

[@CoupmalaThaThroatGod]

​@ms-jl6dl and it's going to be alot more if they don't smarten up and remove their leader and stop the nonsense....Its on them that they were poking the bear until it bit them and now they want to keep escalating at our expense of course and with the lives of the Ukraine people...if the people would smarten up it'd help them alot...THIS IS NOT THAT.....THEY DID THAT ON PURPOSE AND THEM PEOPLE KNEW THEIR FATE.....THIS WAS OUT OF NO WHERE...YOUR DISGUSTING FOR TRYING TO COMPARE THE 2....

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

@@ms-jl6dl : That is what communists do. Human life has no meaning to them. Natural disasters are an entirely different matter.

[@iamarizonaball2642]

We wait in the shadows until another disaster of this magnitude comes again.

[@boredweegie553]

I was visiting my mum this day and was getting ready to leave to go home..this flashed across all channels and I was standing there with my jacket on ready to leave,..chin on the floor..watching the islands being wiped off the face off the planet..one by one..I stood and cried In complete disbelief..It was one of the most horrific things Ive seen and watching people run..knowing they can't go anywhere,,screaming... absolutely horrendous.💔😭

[@Owl325]

White lady shut up

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

The cram school I worked at in Korea almost lost one of our teachers in the Boxing Day Tsunami. She'd gone for a sea kayaking vacation in Thailand. It was a couple of days of knowing nothing before we finally got an email saying, "I'm okay and I'll tell you about it when I get back." She told us that she'd gone to the beach that morning and it didn't look right. The water was too far away. Then she saw that the locals were walking away from the beach so she started walking away as well. Then she noticed that people were running past her. She looked back and saw the wave coming and started to run. One of those little trucks with benches in the bed pulled up alongside her and a man in the back asked if she needed help. She didn't stop running -- she just lifted up her arms and they grabbed her and pulled her into the truck and saved her. When she finally got access to a computer she had to make it quick so she sent out a single email to everybody on her contact list. The trip had been a Christmas gift from her grandmother! Poor grandma must have been losing her mind until she'd heard that Lisa had survived.

[@martinkirkov]

H.A.A.R.P. CIA

[@MayimHastings]

Wow was she lucky/blessed! Thank you for sharing the story!

Thanks to the kind man in the truck!

[@smdrmc]

99999999999ooooo9999

[@smdrmc]

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[@ethorii]

It's weird how this was easily the deadliest natural event in a century or more, and no one talks about it anymore.

[@tamfuwing1]

In my family we often do. It's not forgotten at all I would think. Even in the small town in South Africa I'm from there's a couple who lived through the tsunami.

[@buttcheeks985]

I was thinking this the whole time I was watching. I'm from NOLA and want to beat my head in when I still hear about Katrina...

[@spikenomoon]

The thing is water doesn’t compress. Basically when the wave hits. It’s hitting with all the weight of the water behind it. The energy is actually hitting at the same time. When dams break they can actually have some much speed and mass they vibrate the solid rock into a liquid ish shape and blast right thru it.

[@pamelaleigh4225]

​@@buttcheeks985I know... N.O. my home town and I still grieve...and we knew, we knew. We should have acted...

[@tsb3093]

If you don’t know of her already look up the story of Tilly Smith whose education and quick thinking saved all the people on one beach in Thailand.

[@manifestgtr]

I went to Phuket with my family in 1999 and it was a beautiful place. We found these guys who lived on the beach, wooden boats parked right up on the shore and struck up a “conversation”. Totally casual...we ultimately ended up on one of their boats, fishing with hand lines and drinking cheap beer early in the afternoon. We spoke about 5 words of Thai and they spoke almost no English but somehow it just *worked* for whatever reason. 5 years later, the tsunami struck that beach and sometimes I wonder what happened to those guys. They were such good dudes...just real DUDES. I really hope they made it out of there but it’s one of those things I’ll never know...which really sucks....

[@Saifull1991]

Bro, did you happen to note their contact numbers down that time? Perhaps call some business nearby and check , u never know, they could have survived

[@thejhonnie]

Dude

[@LTG22]

@@Saifull1991It was 20 years ago Brah, They did not speak, You expect him to "call around"?

[@aking8477]

The ocean scares the shit out of me.

[@EVERTONFC.]

Is right

[@mariamontanez6093]

Just looking at this makes me gasp for air

[@Tlyna1952]

It is often violent without warning but it doesn't take an ocean to scare me. I went to a ore freighter used as a museum up in St. Saint Marie, Michigan some years back. That had a large, heavily built life raft from the 730 ft freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank in a storm on Lake Superior. The life raft looked as if a giant had twisted it and half ripped it apart like it was made of tin foil. Made me never want to go on on any of the Great Lakes and I have no plans to try any ocean either.

[@LeahsLover]

All of nature will rip you a new one, if you let it.

[@LTG22]

Wise

[@MONi_LALA]

If you going to visit any place with history of tsunami, there's likely a warning ahead of time. But it's a good idea to look for signs. -Look for drastic decrease of water line -Large amount of animals moving inland -Ground shakes and roaring sound If you see all of these signs, don't wait to see the wave, turn the opposite direction of the ocean and run as fast as you can. Don't use your car, just run to the hill or the mountain. If you can't outrun the wave go to the highest buildings, if not climb the highest, strongest tree and hold on to your dear life. If the wave caught you, just let the wave take you , don't fight it and try to find something to help you float. It's a good idea to have small emergency kit when you go to these area. I saw people disappear in one second and I don't want that to happen to anyone. And believe me there are many people who see the signs 10 minutes before tsunami hits and they pay no mind. They regret that now.

[@laurasalo6160]

Yeah they're nor around to regret anything...

[@emiliebova]

The warning system was not really very effective. Answer the phone.

[@MikeHodges666]

Equinox = one of the better programmes Channel 4 brought to our screens. I miss it badly. It was serious, insightful and tackled some very interesting science stories. Pity there's nothing like it on UK broadcast media anymore. Thanks for posting this!

[@SurreySoundsystem]

I was on koh phi phi when it hit....my kiwi friend convinced me to go up the hill to look down on the beach. We saw the wave hit....I'd never seen a dead body until then....I grew up that day. RIP my friends xx

[@HeadhuntexGamer]

Damn, you should buy him a drink, he saved your life. Im glad youre alive with us

[@SurreySoundsystem]

@@HeadhuntexGamer I buy him a drink each year and what a decent thing to say. Not very often I see kind replies to comments, you're clearly a good guy

[@eliotasterforrest5026]

Fellow Kiwi here, been raised since birth to go uphill if the tide retreats. When I was 7 my siblings and I were playing on the beach in my home town maybe a couple kms from our house. The second I started seeing the water recede, I picked them up under my arms and ran home. Watched the while thing from our deck, and even though it couldn't have been bigger than 4m, still scared the shit outta me. Kiwis know the terror of the sea living so close to it lol

[@SurreySoundsystem]

@@eliotasterforrest5026 I’m guessing you guys suffer earth quakes regularly then?

[@eliotasterforrest5026]

@@SurreySoundsystem Yup! Quite normal down South. Its become kind of a, is it bad? No? Alright I'm not getting up lol

[@cindyOC1]

I remember a story many years ago about a young girl maybe 8, learning about tsunamis in school. She was vacationing somewhere with her parents, when she saw the sea go out. She started screaming to everyone and to her parents and at first they didn't believe and then everyone started to follow her. I don't know how many lives she may have saved that day. That is the day when I first learned about tsunamis. I don't understand why they didn't have a system put in place for that part of the region.

[@pfrstreetgang7511]

That gal was 10 at the time and had learned about tsunamis in class just 2 weeks prior. It's estimated she saved at least 100 lives. There are at least 6 documented attempts, 2 of them prior to this horror, where multi-country grants and advisors from Hawaii / Japan were given to Indonesia to install a warning system because it's very active tectoniclly. The money has disappeared into the pockets of government officials every time with no records of who took it. Thailand and Sumatra were offered expertise by the Japanese 3 times but it was declined by their officials claiming they had the resources to do it themselves. There are no public records they ever started any serious projects. Areas of Indonesia put in some warning measures about 10 years ago, but the government of Indonesia claims that they do not have the naval patrol assets to keep pirates from tearing up the warning buoys for scrap on the black market.

[@melodiefrances3898]

The infrastructure needed to do that is often more than what certain areas have 😢

[@devinchandula4245]

She is Tilly Smith if I'm remember that right.

[@proxancamille]

They said she saved 100 and she received awards afterwards.

[@LTG22]

From the accounts I have heard, no one had ever seen this before. Possible they just never considered it, human error.

[@mikexxxmilly]

Just watched “the impossible.” Went to KZbin and this was recommended. I wish people could watch things like this and learn to appreciate the simplicity and privilege we have in America and much of the world. Be grateful for your life! Even when the days seem daunting and the problems appear to mount. Your ability to breathe and live are an unbelievable gift that when appreciated, open your eyes to such beauty and awe, you will never want for more.

[@Chellz801]

There’s people in America who aren’t so comfortable enough to share your vision.

[@ophirph-2024]

How many privileged you are? I guess you have no idea how many poor people you have

[@Meritor15]

That guy at the beginning... it looked like at the last second he turned his back to the wave and lowered his head... Truly just accepted what was about to happen

[@desrussouw6797]

But he did survive by the grace of God

[@salvitoripopadillo4539]

I'll never forget this! I was on my way from Minnesota to Australia. I was on the other side of the world but I think I was in an airplane when it all actually happened. As a surfer, I know how violent and scary the ocean can be. The footage that we do have is nothing compared to the places that got hit the hardest! I think one of the guys speaks briefly about that in this doc.

[@eliezerdaniel]

47:40 that dog always haunts me

[@devinchandula4245]

@@eliezerdaniel Oh shit I never noticed him. He was tied to a pole or something?

[@tigrehermano]

@@devinchandula4245 yes, tied

[@jennifermarie1230]

@@eliezerdaniel😢😢😢😢

[@jennifermarie1230]

@@devinchandula4245thats FKN terrible

[@babetosaid5180]

Thanks for the warning. i live in Kenya at the coastal town of Mombasa. We were not hit hard but we already knew it was coming. We took precaution. God bless

[@kellensarien9039]

God bless?? The vast majority of people killed by this event believed in God (Muslim, Christian). Didn't help them one iota. God's blessings were in bed sleeping off Christmas that day.

[@olivedog1880]

Kellen Sarien shut the fuck up already

[@gursisingh1940]

god blessed over 200k people that day😂😂😂 nice

[@stevenschnepp576]

​@@kellensarien9039 Pretty sure the "God bless" was said in gratitude to the people who sent the warning. It was a benediction for them, not thanking a deity for benevolence not shared with the other victims. After all, only a douchebag thanks their sky-daddy for their survival when other people were killed.

[@kellensarien9039]

@@stevenschnepp576 You might be right with your first point, and you're certainly right with your douchebag point. Alas, it is a common sentiment among the religious to hope that God visit calamity on other people, not them, and to thank Him when He does. It is summarized by the familiar phrase, "There but for the grace of God go I".

[@arrancaal]

i survived this and i was 14, and watching this still give me chills

[@ewartlambert]

Everyone watching this survived it..🙄

[@ManOfGod-vq7sb]

ewartlambert not everyone expirenced this disaster

[@firstnamekaty8830]

Kun Everybody making jokes but I’m sure that was traumatic and affected you greatly. I’m so glad you survived and I hope you are doing well❤️ I can’t even imagine what you experienced😢

[@chunguss180]

Liar

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

@Nonna Urbisness read what the person wrote before him b4 u reply so rudely

[@mariadavis3832]

I couldn't imagine sitting there with children that can't swim or elderly. Terrifying.

[@nickpease2073]

You can't swim in this kind of wave. You get crushed. Watch the clips and observe cars being ripped apart. Humans are not as robust as metal.

[@mariakiwi1428]

You can swim in it and when the waves currents are extremely powerful, you should try your best to just keep air in you but not move against it as it will exhaust you very fast also not moving might help the debris to not have such a big contact with your body

[@nickpease2073]

@@mariakiwi1428 the problem with this is that at some point on its journey, the debris will likely make contact with other debris or an immovable object like a building. When this happens you will either be forced downwards or forwards due to the sheer weight/force behind you. If you get forced down you drown, if you get forced through objects such as steel or wood you will be ripped apart, quite literally. This is of course dependent on the individual situation. The lucky survivers that got swept by the tsunami escaped only because they were in an early current, thus little debris had been collected. Once the tsunami hits the streets of a town the water quickly becomes filled with object much more durable than skin and bones. There are of course a few exceptions, these lucky survivers are simply that, lucky. Yes the best stratergy in any turbulent flow is to keep your lungs full to aid buyoncy, though this still will not aid the majority caught in this horrific situation.

[@oxyfee6486]

There’s a video of a water bomber,they dump their water on a truck,not pretty.

[@genericfilmmaker6339]

@@oxyfee6486 I've seen it.

[@margaretcooper797]

I have read accounts that the animals were more aware of the dangerous waves even before the people,and fled to higher ground first.I think one girl was saved by a baby elephant which bolted to higher ground and she followed it.

[@mikegregory4386]

The animals (several elephants I know) that were on the beach and in the area were trying to leave. These are trained animals. And they were picking up kids while leaving. Dogs were pulling at people's pants. The animals were trying to warn them and save any they could.

[@kevint6656]

@@mikegregory4386 you were on the beach?

[@mikegregory4386]

@@kevint6656 no I was not. That is what I saw in videos of it. Heard from reports and victims. I have also seen animals try to get people away from a natural disaster right before it happens first hand. So I know that animals do this.

[@Star-uk1kh]

Animals are way more in tune than us . I was in a tiny earth tremor in the Himalayas, thankfully no one was killed , just some damage to buildings but before it happened the monkeys birds and wolves were going crazy and that's what woke me up . I now watch and listen far more closely to what nature tells me .

[@baconbap]

I read that, too. With their instincts, if I saw animals moving to higher ground, I would follow.

[@vince6056]

Could it happen again? That's like asking if it could rain again.

[@martinkirkov]

H.A.A.R.P. CIA

[@amylee3531]

According to the studies and documentaries etc, California is the next expected. The others have been hit more recently.

[@KL-us8yb]

@I am thee thee if you see all the earth plate tectonic...you can see what place will get this kind of tsunami... Earth always suprise you brother.you can learn anythink you want but earth will keep all suprise. The basic data what is happen there is cz by plate tectonic moving

[@phillipibsen4027]

@@amylee3531 it might put out the fires at least...

[@tomben6180]

@@amylee3531 The hippies there need a good wash. (That’s a joke by the way I don’t want it to happen obviously)

[@under-dog5390]

Seeing the power and sheer size of this wave it is miraculous anyone survived at all.

[@Mainswitch55]

Thank you for the upload! No pictures or videos can show the horror those people went through :-( I was 25 when this happened, still scares the shit out of me

[@Saifull1991]

Now you’re 43

[@deemingo8951]

I respect that first fellow. He knew theres no outrunning it & he calmly....waited🤦.

[@academyofnaturaljustice8939]

I felt and heard the earthquake in Eastern Australia. But instead of the normal seismic shock waves or tremors normally associated with earthquakes, this was a singular thud. I remember instantly looking west for the source. With a background in mining and mineral exploration, that dull thud is well known to me. It sounded and felt like an underground explosion. Given the location and scale of destruction, even nuclear.

[@miketexas4549]

HAARP

[@GRMNCVS]

@@miketexas4549 ... sure

[@miketexas4549]

@@GRMNCVS Does it exist

[@melodiefrances3898]

Umm, I don't think so ...

[@thejhonnie]

@@miketexas4549 it does exist - but the amount of energy required to actually move the mantle is incomprehensible lol. Look into the shapes in the ionosphere that haarp can make, it's fascinating enough on it's own. But it's not causing earthquakes lol.

[@manuelvillalpando6665]

I remember this event as if it was yesterday. It was a sad and tragic day. Islands disappeared, people disappeared, and although the governments said that around 250 thousand people had perished in this catastrophe, the true numbers of casualties may never be known, and I feel that the number of casualties number was much much higher. The other fact is that many of the videos that existed and were posted on various sites were soon to be censored by the higher powers because it showed the public the true carnage of what the tsunami caused. Nova here, of whom ever made this documentary, is only giving us a sugar-coated view of what truly took place. Again, it was a sad sad day.

[@wickedtwix]

I was in Patong Phuket that day on a three week holiday. We planned on going diving that day but had a bit too much to drink the night before and did not hear the alarm clock, completely overslept and only woke up after it all had happened. Our hotel was located about 1 mile from the ocean the foot of a hill and not affected. Since I have never felt bad when I overslept in the morning...it probably saved my life that day.

[@LTG22]

How did you sleep through that???

[@wickedtwix]

@@LTG22 if i sleep, i sleep. My girlfriend told me that she felt some shaking early in the morning but i never felt anything. The hotel was the now "i am recidence" just enought to the back of patong to be out of harms way. Imagine the surprise when we went for breakfast and everyone was acting strange, and then sit down and see CNN footage of patong on the telly. We needed some time to adjust.

[@LTG22]

@@wickedtwix I was there for 9/11. I remember waking up just as it was happening. I never woke up that early back then...I could not fathom that event and waking to that.

[@wickedtwix]

​@@LTG22 I can relate, it takes some time to wrap your head around.

[@mitchydarne8734]

Excellent documentary, scientists and 3D imagery down to my level, to understand more about Mother Nature, my thoughts and Love to all the people who left us and their family.

[@evesdrop1982]

Those people standing on the beach and then just being swallowed by the ocean...that hit me. I remember watching footage of this when it happened and seeing a woman’s body just draped over a telephone line, just stuck up there after the water receded. Heartbreaking and crazy.

[@jonathantacla5514]

Watching July 29, 2020. Still thankful it happened morning, atleast people are awake. Just imagine it happened midnight. 😔😣😖

[@osamabinladen824]

Many would be dead bro

[@zuri6752]

I was born in 2000 in switzerland and this tsunami is one of my first memories...i was just 4 years old but i can still remember the pictures on the TV from the people standing on the roofs of high houses completly surrounded by streaming water... I'm so glad I found this documentary now and can learn what was going on exactly. (Sry for my poor english)

[@Le_GingerBeardMan]

Your English is really good! Yeah, I was 10 when this happened. Going back and watching stuff about it now is still chilling.

[@fannysludge]

Your English next to flawless . You Swiss speak it better than us 😂

[@oskha1815]

i was also 4 years old and hear a alot of stories about this. My hometown is also located in Sumatra. In 2000 my parents experience M7.9 eq so they thought it would be it. But just three years after 2004 Earthquake, M8.5 earthquake struck in 2007. The most powerful earthquake that i've ever felt in my life.

[@jillhoskins2414]

Your English is perfect!

[@roycepavich2441]

I was 4 aswell in New Zealand and remember seeing it on the news crazy stuff

[@jeffsullivan2044]

Hard to believe this was 16 years ago. The morning the world truly took notice of nature's wrath!

[@jeanbrandt5605]

A guy who worked with me was going to go on holiday to this place, but about 3 days he suddenly changed his mind and never went. We were so shocked that he could almost have died and were greatly relieved he was saved.

[@FloozieOne]

I wonder why he changed his mind. It would be interesting to know if he had a bad feeling about his upcoming vacation or if it was just an unrelated decision.

[@Owl325]

You’re so annoying and speak just like the ignorant white fool you are

[@fatmayo2293]

A lot of things were pulled back into the oceans as well. Telephone poles with long cables still attached, bodies, broken building pieces and nearly everything else sucked in by the power.

[@melodiefrances3898]

Sometimes the receding is the most dangerous. 😢

[@palmereldrich]

3 miles from the ocean and a wall of water 7feet high or more inundates you. Incredible.

[@Happybidr]

😊 I watched the movie about the Spanish family of five who came there for Christmas holidays. They were portrayed by a young Tom Holland along with Ewan MacGregor and Naomi Wolfe. All member of the family survived miraculously.

[@dachsrottweiler]

Naomi Watts :-)

[@terrycanales23]

The movie is called "The Impossible".

[@shaybaby2427]

I just watched a documentary for the 10yr anniversary of this terrible tragedy on Boxing Day. The reason it was so horrific was that they hadn't had a tsunami for so long people didn't realize until too late. Even when the tides started receding and animals running for coverage no one sounded the alarm. It wasn't until the first wave hit that people realized they were in mortal danger. Entire towns/villages/cities wiped off the map! Most still haven't returned and they had to do new mapping. Imagine within an hour or less your ENTIRE city is gone along with everything you own?! This remains the largest disaster and loss of life in our modern history. May the over 320k souls that were lost be forever in peace. I pray the victims and survivors pain has lessened because it never goes away. 🙏🏽

[@storm6_6trooper31]

I like how we have a go fund me page for random people with problems but not one for problems like these. To know we could of saved those people with warning systems is sad.

[@CSparzo]

Ever heard of the Red Cross?

[@leo95630]

There was a huge outpouring of donations at that time. My company matched all of our individual donations so we raised thousands and many companies did that.

[@alexfarman4580]

Considering it didn't exist when this happened it would have been rather difficult

[@ElSantoLuchador]

The tsunami moment etched in my brain is the Japanese tsunami of 2011. I remember fishing vessels trying to get out to sea (which is the right instinct), but they were obviously much too late. I later learned of a fishing boat captain that did manage to get far enough out to sea, saving his boat and his life. That guy's my hero.

[@alidabotes6264]

At least they had some warning but the damage was totally horrendous.

[@LTG22]

ooook

[@cookingprof]

IMHO the greatest sadness is the families had lost loved ones will never get a chance to properly bury their deceased family members.

[@michaelmurray7199]

The day after Hurricane Isabel wreaked havoc in my home state of Virginia in 2003, I actually wondered aloud about what could be more devastating than a hurricane. To which my dad answered, “a tsunami”. This particular tsunami certainly proved him right that’s for sure.

[@eliezerdaniel]

47:40 the dogo always breaks my heart

[@spikenomoon]

There’s a river in China that has flooded many times killing millions. Can’t remember name but they finally built a dam

[@sitcomchristian6886]

Isabel was rough. My family owns a tree business - we trim and remove residential trees. I believe that was the storm which we were forced to only accept calls from previous clients. I wasn't old enough to help yet, I just remember walking the neighborhood gawking at damage, and my mom holed up in our home office fielding a constant stream of phone calls.

[@smokeyortiz3894]

Rest in peace and God bless you all that lost their life's gone but,never forgotten

[@MrSvenovitch]

Your deity blessed them plenty with that tsunami, religious jerk

[@markw3598]

Smokey, I am SO certain your stupid remarks make the dead and their family's feel SO MUCH better, you moron.

[@ihelxsourxxz2410]

@@MrSvenovitch Wow you're an idiot

[@pauldwyer8655]

I from st johns Newfoundland and I remember that morning I was 11 and I remember seeing it and think it's Christmas it's spose to be joyful .. next morning I woke up at 7 at went out shoveling drive ways went until about 6pm made 350 dollors and went to my dad to bring me to blue cross to donate it was the best feeling I had I felt so proud and good to help.. wasn't much but was the best a 11 year old with a shovel can do

[@sarahj344]

I went to Phuket Island 3 years after the tsunami. At Patong Beach (where I stayed), there was about two to three streets back of buildings (from the water) and behind all that, these enormous empty dirt fields, then the hills started to rise and they were jam packed with buildings. I went back about 8 years later and didn't recognize the place as it had fully rebuilt and it made me realize that the Patong Beach that I saw the first time, was an absolute shell of what it was before the tsunami hit.

[@TheWelwyn21]

I went to patong in the April after wave you wouldn't have known a wave had it the place was packed and perfect

[@leelunk8235]

YOU WROTE ALL THAT TO TELL ME THEY REBUILT FINALLY 8 YRS LATER😂

[@TrinityCourtStudios]

33:58 That man experienced a genuine “fight or flight” reaction from his body’s sensory system. When you’re in fear of your life, your vision and perception of the world can become distorted. Our brains and body are overloaded both with sensory information and fear of what’s happening. When human beings experience a sense of panic or fear of their life, their brain and body, (without our conscious decision) prioritizes which senses the body needs the most. People in dangerous situations say things happen in black and white. And that’s because they do. Their eyes focus on the direct person or object or thing that is causing them immediate danger, and they see it with intense detail with little to no focus for anything else. The brain will actually temporarily shut off the part of the brain that processes color from the eyes and compensate for the lack of color by enhancing the focus and detail of the person’s vision, allowing the person a better chance to find a possible escape or way to survive the situation. It’s incredible what the brain can do, and it’s even more incredible that we as humans can only use some of the brain, while the rest remains inactive unless there’s adrenaline or fear or love or other emotions involved. Fascinating stuff.

[@MourningMoons]

Trinity Court Studios this guy sounds like the tennis player nick kyrios from Australia. It’s almost creepy.

[@jeremyn6825]

Amazing what you say is true but I don't think you personally have ever faced death. What you say is true but you lack the experience to say such things.

[@ENKI49]

Fuck it

[@macrinataitano8816]

That Person in the beginning sequence will go down in history as one of the Most Profound Images in our Lifetime!

[@sv9943]

I swear...so true. I have been binge watching these tsunami documentaries since yesterday. And his image is everywhere, its so imprinted in my brain now. Poor guy....RIP. Wonder who he is or where he is from

[@sandrahall1867]

Me too!....

[@vihockeyguy1]

S V I read that he had walked out to the seabed after the waters receded and got his feet and legs stuck in the mud. He tried to get out of the muck, but he was so stuck that he had to just stand there with the tsunami rushing towards him

[@gantrobert3]

Obviously if you can walk out that far your dumb ass should know something is wrong before you decide to try it.

[@fudgenuggets405]

He’s up there with Tank Man from Tiananmen Square in my memory bank.

[@KateDenthimamai]

I was 16 when that happened, that thing was the first natural disaster that has ever shocked me to the point I was having literal nightmares. Then after a few years the Japanese tsunami happened and I remember thinking that this is probably the new reality now, we didn't hear about tsunamis at all and then we suddenly had two destructive deadly tsunamis happen in less than a decade from each other!

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

The stupidest thing about reporting of the Tohoku earthquake and associated tsunami is the class of anti-nuclear folk who write as if the Fukushima-Daiichi meltdowns caused it. UNSCEAR's nuclear damage assessors reckon that there was no radiation damage. There was damage caused by the Japanese government's unnecessary evacuation of that whole province. People who stayed at the reactors to minimise the damage were not themselves harmed except no doubt by fatigue. I note that the entire source of "geothermal clean energy", and the planet's magnetic field that protects us from solar particle emissions, is equally the source of all tectonic phenomena and probably therefore the vast variety of species that we celebrate. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis are products of the radioactivity of three elements that the Earth collected along with the rocks, iron, and other metals whose mutual gravitational collisions first melted the core. But the Glasgow professor of "Natural Philosophy", the love of the study of Nature -- i.e. Physics --- who became Lord Kelvin, estimated that the Earth is about 10,000 times as old as the 6000 years that the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh calculated. and many ignorant folk still believe. Kelvin was a bit low, by a factor of 100, because radioactivity hadn't been discovered.

[@author505]

How can anyone possibly outrun this overwhelming monster? Sooo devastating. May all those unfortunate victims rest in peace. 😮😥😩

[@infinitytimesinfinity1273]

With our modern technology you get a 15 minute head start. It's important to not have a fast car but a reliable car.

[@ItsIdaho]

@@infinitytimesinfinity1273 tiny roads + jams, everyone want to get out. Best accommodation probably was a Helicopter,

[@BlackJeepConvertible]

High ground

[@justcameron9500]

You cannot outrun it - even in a vehicle. You head for the closest high ground and pray it’s high enough

[@genecoppedge5972]

Our 1st or 2nd grade school teacher, in the nineteen sixties, was a Navy veteran. Before we left to go on a class trip, to the beach in Southern Florida, he said if we saw the water receding far from the beach we should get off the beach and run to a tall building. I assumed everyone that lived near the ocean would know the sign of an impending tsunami but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. In the video I was amazed looking at the people on the beaches that did not realize that danger was headed directly towards them! So many lives lost, this truly was a tragedy of epic proportions!

[@glennislovatt3373]

Even though this happened years ago ,seeing it and those people who lost their lives still sends shivers down my spine. I don't think we will ever get over it .I just hope that it will never happen again.

[@Cherimoya102]

Of course it will happen again. These things are regular processes of the earth. They are inevitable.

[@traviscoates6878]

It happened 7 years later in Japan. Even bigger

[@melodiefrances3898]

​@@Cherimoya102 so absolutely true.

[@c0m4g1bb]

Lmao what a dummy

[@concernedamerican6961]

I hope they put in a warning system just in case this happens again. I was screaming at the people in Hawaii to do something then realized they couldn't because nobody was on the other end, so frustrating to watch. Those poor people. 😢

[@alexyo2440]

They should definitely put cameras everywhere and surveil all of its citizens, just for them to be safe. And then make sure that they don't have insurance to pay off their broken house on the same day this disaster happens.. for safety of course

[@melissalayson7275]

They did.

[@galihpa]

I was 12 years old when this happened. I remember charity events were held everywhere in the country shortly after the disaster happened.

[@milfordweeks9994]

And just a very few short years later, 2011 Japan...

[@jackwalsh8871]

The 2004 tsunami was a beast!

[@dionnaogunshina]

Milford Weeks truly devastating 😞😪

[@agustin.525]

only three months later, there was another (8.5) earthquake in Sumatra, that killed 1.300 people in 2005.

[@jonbonesmahomes7472]

@@agustin.525 how come there wasnt a tsunami then.. Epicenter wasnt deep in the ocean?

[@weetme1613]

@@jonbonesmahomes7472 Different earthquake mechanism, imho. 2004 earthquake caused by subduction zone movement, while 2005 caused by strike-slip movement so water movement were minimal. Except the 2018 Palu earthquake which also a strike-slip earthquake, but underwater landslide caused tsunami which killed >4000 people

[@erictaylor5462]

20:30 Imagine the smell. Not just the people, but all the food, and animals, pets and livestock and wild animals. On top of that you would have sewage everywhere.

[@sophiemcwilliams7759]

Eric Taylor absolutely dreadful :-(

[@lisascarrott6142]

Diseases and illnessess will be a problem from ecoil to dysterny to thyrold fever has well as parasite infections raw sewage is defently a problem diarrhoea diseases will be rife to. Nasty

[@okboomer6201]

And that's before the tsunami even hit!

[@wtywatoad]

When I was about 8 years old, we stopped on vacation to visit some relatives that lived in a small town in Iowa. A tornado had gone through the town during our stay, and caused moderate to severe damage to homes and farms. I will never forget the smell of the area two days after the tornado. The combination of decaying plant and animal matter, combined with the stench of petroleum and other chemicals is forever burned into my memory.

[@eldjr1104]

Welcome to San Francisco.

[@oregoncoastbeachcomber2060]

I didn't realize how fast and deep and far the wave went as it traveled inland. Seeing loved ones and pets being swept away and your home destroyed is the stuff of nightmares. I feel so sorry for the victims and their friends and families. I appreciate this documentary and the format of it. I like knowing the timeline and the in-depth information about the wave. Thank you!

[@OneAdam12Adam]

Excellent work. Sobering story. The best coverage of what happened. Ending was superb. A work of art. So sad. My condolences to all affected. It's too huge to comprehend.

[@elaineg60]

Remember this & 2011 as my precious Son was living in and traveling through the South Pacific during both. Thankfully, he was safe in Saipan in 2005-shortly after leaving Bali; and he was in Samoa in 2011. Scared the heck out of me…

[@simonmkongwa3262]

My geography Prof recommended we watch couple tsunami footage!! Officially nature has my full respect.

[@lualncol]

When he says, at the 15 minute mark, “this street is three miles from the sea”- that completely blew my mind. There was no way the most learned person there could’ve anticipated what those people are seeing in that segment.

[@deavaleria]

My step dad was there was it happened, lost friends in this, he helped with the rescue efforts 🥺 forever thankful he survived

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

Bravo!

[@analizatampos1740]

KZbin recommended this video to me on the anniversary of this tragic event. RIP to the people who died.

[@lGipsyDanger]

A lot of people are probably looking it up because it is the anniversary

[@dragontoothless4351]

"Could it happen again?" Sadly, it did so only 6 years and 2.5 months later with the March 11, 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami off the east coast of Japan. However, because Japan is more used to tsunamis and earthquakes, the Japanese Meterological Agency (JMA) had invested heavily in the early warning system for Tsunamis, and instant warning system for earthquakes both on the mainland and out in the waters surrounding the island nation. So even if a quake happens out at sea, the areas of the islands which will feel the quake can be informed upwards of a minute before tremors are felt, so that folks can seek cover if necessary.

[@iamarizonaball2642]

Ok. This is ridiculous. It happened, again. Cascadia, in the late 2020s and early 2030s. A 15-20 meter tsunami.

[@PrincipledNaturalLaw]

My belated prayers to all who lost loved ones 🙏❤

[@johnnydebeer9409]

We checked out of our hotel in Phuket and took a walk on the beach before our morning flight out at 9. Sometimes you luckier than you know.

[@Bettina8987]

We were on a tour group in Sri Lanka whilst driving in the area, ocean to the left, train tracks to the right-felt this deep sadness then our guide explained this is the area of the tsunami...beautiful people amazing island

[@claytonbouldin9381]

My friend lived in Columbo at the time and spent the day going through Red Cross lists of missing people to see if she was okay. Later that day she emailed me to let me know she was alright.

[@afkkaede]

y'all,, this suddenly came up across my youtube recommendation... *2020 please. dont.*

[@txmom1122]

you can not stop what God has planned to happen

[@martinkirkov]

H.A.A.R.P. CIA

[@John14-6-]

@Edmund Keeling God Made nature hes the Almighty for crying out loud and from 2020 onwards it'll get ugly people think everything will eventually go back to our old normal lives little do yall know our time's up take a good look at everything and see what's truly happening Globally it don't take a genius to connect the dots and see the obvious! My advice start repenting and stay ready for the upcoming horrendous events soon.

[@John14-6-]

@Edmund Keeling you'll eventually see soon...

[@dsmith8643]

@Edmund Keeling They took it over.. Like tried to hide this planet in their own sense to torture people here..

[@DarkKitarist]

I regularly go rafting and canyoning and even though I'm fully prepared at how powerful even a smaller river is it still surprises me every time. I can't even imagine how much power there was in that one wave.

[@VirgoCali89]

I remember this and it still brings me to tears 😢

[@osamabinladen824]

You were there?

[@sdemosely]

In short and in total seriousness: if the ocean leaves, you better leave too.

[@davidlafleche1142]

It doesn't always give enough time. Check out "Though The Earth Be Moved." The quake and tsunami came so fast, nobody could react.

[@sdemosely]

@@davidlafleche1142 yeah, I know ^^ I meant it as a more "general" thing. A lot of people today, even after this and Japan 2011, are still unaware of tsunami warning signs (turists in particular!). Poor souls living or being right alongside the shore on any tsunami prone area will always have little to no time, sadly...

[@starfireprincess]

@@sdemosely exactly, if the ocean is gun than you betta run

[@Patricia-un6kv]

@@davidlafleche1142 Thank you for the suggestion, which I've just Googled to have a look at. Stay well...;-)

[@martinkirkov]

H.A.A.R.P. CIA

[@facundolozzia]

So horrifying and unfair, there is something about this tsunami in particular that gets me so much more than others.. RIP to all those poor people, and I hope their relatives found peace

[@MinoritiesRlazy]

Why didn’t people just punch the tsunami in the face?

[@gerardomakingvids]

Unfair? How about us literally destroying our ocean by dumping our trash and waste , how is that fair?

[@tomben6180]

@@gerardomakingvids What the hell has that got to do with a tsunami? Do people deserve to be killed for littering now?

[@Muslim-cy5gu]

@@gerardomakingvids the tsunami should’ve just taken like you alone u stupid fuck

[@lindennash599]

@@Muslim-cy5gu oh yr remark hit me as funny and I am still laughing as I type you stupid fuck caps it!!!

[@carolcoates3750]

I'm English and we don't get many tsunamis but I remember being told at school, in geography, that the sea retreats before a tsunami.

[@matthewtetley7048]

ive seen somewhere that there were once a few, hundreds of years ago but the area is nowhere near as active as the asia-pacific plate boundary

[@davidwormell6609]

Not always.....

[@internetuser528]

or godzilla

[@jamsstar2010]

North sea floods

[@mariakiwi1428]

Unfortunately it doesn’t happen in a lot of parts due to specific terrain or cause

[@squarebear619]

What amazes me is that the North Sentinelese didn't suffer catastrophic loss like everyone assumed they would. Obviously their stories shared over the years gave them warning to go to high ground. It is a shame that modernity has most of us fooled.

[@McClarinJ]

After this and the Japanese tsunami footage, my resolve was to place myself out of reach of all but the most massive cosmic-impact tsunami. I chose the eastern slope of the Andes.

[@howlinsg1968]

Seriously? Is that where you live?

[@McClarinJ]

@@howlinsg1968 Yes it's where I am now.

[@genericfilmmaker6339]

Huh what do you know he actually does. Good for him.

[@skymaster4743]

Try the Karakoram. Absolute high altitude. Tsunami stands no chance.

[@sydney8734]

When I was in grade school, I read a textbook about tsunami or tidal wave. In the book, there's this short story about a kid in japan how he escaped a tsunami. So, grateful that I was educated what tsunami is and what to do if ever it will strike - run as fast as you can to a higher ground when the water receded not normally in the beach

[@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree]

Idk if we read the same story but in my text book the boy burned the ricefield to warn people about the tsunami.

[@kennethrobinson2012]

They made a movie/documentary about this called "Impossible" I love the movie but it gave me nightmares

[@nicolegagneux9919]

I made it until I saw a flash of the woman's leg and I nearly pass out (I felt faint, for real). Never finished the movie. Scared me too much. (Also got nightmares from just the 20 minutes or so that I did watch)

[@Emy53]

I watched it on Netflix. I can't swim, so I immediately felt that I would definitely be a casualty, but an event like that, having the ability to swim meant very little for many.

[@jasonmiddleton5491]

I'm not sure, but I think that tsunami in the film was caused by water displacement and not a earthquake (I think a mountain collapsed into the ocean)

[@jasonmiddleton5491]

Oh no, sorry you are correct "the impossible" - I was thinking of another film that's called "the wave"

[@kennethrobinson2012]

@@nicolegagneux9919 her leg getting caught on the branch under water is not what got me... But the part when the tire hit her son under water😬😬🙈🙊

[@chich61]

I am in awe as to the speed of the water. So frightening for the people who witnessed it and lost family members. So heart breaking to watch. I know it was back a while ago but my thoughts and prayers go out to them all. 😢💔🙏

[@KristinkaAranova]

Imagine when this happened to ancient civilizations....woulda left nothing of their cities or anything

[@cryingforbread]

this reminded me of a tsunami from ancient times. people were going to invade some place and they got swept away by a powerful wave. the people from the other side said it was a miracle

[@per2]

dont forget to scale this up by few levels .. there is plenty of evidence in north america about "massive" flood/s (12.000 years ago) ... also one can only wonder what the biblical flood looked like, its most probably not only some random story everyone who lived through some flood know you cant just run from this

@@cryingforbread Typhoons saved Japan from the Mongols.

[@darmbains9727]

There are so many cities under water

[@per2]

@@wyomingbeautiful well you cant take everything in bible so literally ... if you got one continent underwater from melting icesheets, thats biblical to me even though other half of the world might be "quite" ok .. reality is we know nothing about our history really

[@David-tz7tn]

my wife and i were in the maldives 2 weeks before that event , i woke early one morning and decided to go for a walk along the beach i saw one of the waiters standing on the edge of where the water should have been but it was about 80 yards out and all the rocks were above the sand i said to this guy whats wrong he said something very bad , the next day it was all back as normal , we watched the news 2 weeks later and the rest is history how lucky were we , they lost two people from our island , velavuru

[@David-tz7tn]

@@dustinbirkez8321. When I saw the water had receded it was actually the whole island had been pushed upward because the ocean floor had moved so I think that’s why they had a tsunami 2 weeks later as they are an island and islands have no tides

[@Official_Cockroach]

"Could it happen again?" 2020: good question, let's see

[@tangben9297]

And today, the world's strongest typhoon in 2020 is about to wreck havoc in the Philpippines, Super Typhoon Goni. So dont, please don't jinx us with this.

[@vincentanno1997]

I remember watching this on German television when I was 7 and especially the man right at the beginnung facing the wave was engraved into my memory

[@shalomccs]

Never disrespect the sea and always look to the horizon if you are in a beach .

[@thejhonnie]

Something growing up I was always told by my parents was "never turn your back on the ocean". I bodysurf every summer and the second I get above water I'm turning to see what's coming next. The ocean doesn't care.

[@Proteinpapi210]

Yo I remember this day, I was in high school junior year at that and watched this on tv with one of my teachers (the cool one) I was high af watching the coverage it was crazy my heart broke for those who lost their lives..

[@SrTacoman]

Beautiful recount

[@donny9078]

I remember this disaster, one thing I couldn't understand back then was the amount of people in these regions who didn't know the warning signs of a tsunami. I live in Scotland, which isn't a disaster zone and this information was taught to me in primary school, when the water recedes you run for a tsunami will come.

[@heyfindmenoob]

watching this as a kid "terrified" me about going to a beach, when i was younger my family went to cancun and i was making a sand castle on the beach and i looked out into the ocean and saw like 5 or 6 tornadoes and this scared the absolute shit out of me cause i didn't know if tornadoes was a sign of tsunami or not.. i was prob 1 mile down the beach from my parents and i ran as fast i could.. got to my parents out of breath and panicking saying we need to gtfoh! dad told me to stop freaking out and that nothing bad would happen.. so i sat there and stared at them for idk 1-2 hours with extreme anxiety till they just vanished.. i have absolute shit memory but that event even tho nothing bad happened that day i will prob always remember it frame by frame :V

[@kaiapparent2653]

nobody is above dying at the mercy of nature. what the people of sumatra, sri lanka, thailand and all the other countries affected by the tsunami is something so harrowing it’s impossible to understand. always remember, if you see the sea receding unnaturally far and fast, run away.

[@Biswit]

Mother Nature is beautiful and terrifying at the same time

[@therealborischang]

That iconic footage of that guy standing on the beach staring right at death coming at him was etched into my memory. First you think stupidity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But then you think stoic courage to just stand there and not flinch as you are about to be killed.

[@simonhand_]

Boris Chang he was stuck in the ground due to sinking sand below him

[@mglenn7092]

It's more shock, disbelief at what he's seeing and/or there's nothing he can do to avoid what's about to happen to him so why bother with doing anything rather than courage or a lack of it.

[@Saifull1991]

Do u think he survived ?

[@callmecoy4610]

No matter how strong and influential we think humanity is on this earth, nature will always be there to remind us how small we are and how fast the Earth can destroy us in a small moment. Weather should be humbling and the Earth should be respected not because shes so helpless to us and our actions, but because we are all at her mercy, mercy that she doent have.

[@matthewgartell6380]

That was terrifying but imagine this scenario. 11.8k years ago during the last ice age, a flood with a depth of a thousand feet obliterated north Western USA. . That makes this tsunami look like a mill pond.