TSUNAMI HITS PONDICHERRY ON 26TH DEC 2004

TSUNAMI HITS PONDICHERRY ON 26TH DEC 2004

[@harrybhangal]

Alternative title: Tsunami of people hit Pondicherry beach

[@rewanthr]

That is funny.

[@Stonecutter334]

Ha and true too. You’re looking for a big wave. Keep looking.

[@agnidhbhattacharya5410]

😂😂😂😂❤

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

That was way too much stupidity for one beachfront. They hear there's a tsunami coming and then flock to the shore? Idiots.They're lucky natural selection was feeling lazy that day.

[@priyankakhuntia8874]

Perfection

[@SK-qj8sm]

I was there when it happened. I remember just waking up to find my grandma and my uncles in the house. We live in a residential zone quite far from this beach. My grandparents and my uncles live 5 mins by walk from the beach in their village. When the news hit and my grandpa saw their cows and dogs acting weird. He knew the water levels will rise dangerously when he walked to the shore to check, apparently he was alive a time in the 1950s when a tsunami hit. He quickly asked my uncles to check the news and leave to our house. He knew what to do. He also warned the rest of the villagers to stay as far away from the shore as possible. Instead of joining my grandma and my uncles, he stayed with the farm animals to calm the down. There was also a backwater literally 2 mins from his land. Thankfully, the tsunami didn't hit Pondicherry that bad except for a few lives of fishermen was taken (RIP). He and his animals survived. while I cried for my grandpa to return smh. I will never forget the bodies that continued to be found for another year or so, and seeing the images from children to limbs missing on their bodies, I had absolutely no idea that a tsunami could do that. I was like 10 years old at the time. AND the way some disgusting pieces of shit 'volunteers' who stole gold and money from these corpses.

[@abhijitmishra5243]

Wow.. This comment really enlightened me! And yes I can totally relate with the animals 'acting weird' phenomena. Here in Gujarat during the devastating 2001 earthquake, animals and birds were acting very weirdly even before the tremors were felt throughout Gujarat. I am talking about all the cities over here.. Dogs, cows, birds were really visually restless that day without any apparent reason, and no one knew the reason until the tremors were felt and some cities got totally annihilated! Animals 6th sense is indeed very strong... And yes, all those people who steal money and ornaments from corpses are really disgusting!.. What to say..

[@abcde7172]

Thank you for sharing your experience!

[@stephentackett9344]

It's the same when we gave money to the charity. They stole it and I HAVE HATE FOR THEM.

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

To everyone wondering why they didn't know about Tsunami even though it's a coastal area.....The peninsular part of India is tectonically stable and almost all of Indian Ocean also, until it reaches the active Andaman Sumatra subduction zone. So the possibility of of Indian coasts ever experiencing a Tsunami big enough (considering that bigger earthquakes are less frequent) to reach there was pretty slim. At that time neither anybody my age, nor anybody in my parents generation knew anything about what a Tsumani is, let alone knowing it's tell tale sign and internet had yet to become a common commodity in India. However the Sentinelise tribe in Andaman Islands knew exactly what to do, since those islands where the back arc of the active Andaman Sumatra subduction zone and had experienced Tsunamis through generations.

[@derrickallen2054]

Your explanation makes perfect sense, yes things were different back in 2004. By the way you are extremely beautiful.

[@tula__]

It was first tsunami in Indian Ocean probably about 70+ years later. Whoever would have known about tsunamis probably died till they reached 2004. So no wonder people didn't know about it. And whoever is in the comments being a hero are a waste.

[@rewanthr]

This comment should be on the top.

[@tomriddle2427]

@@derrickallen2054 Well that went pretty fast!

[@andrewnicholas9079]

How do we know what the sentinelise did? Honest question

[@MommeeMadre1]

Lord willing everyone now knows that when the tide goes out an unprecedented distance, you need to start RUNNING. That water is on its way back with a vengeance!

[@dianawarner2654]

they taught us, as kids in elementary school about tsunamis an underwater earthquakes and we are a pretty good distance from the ocean .

[@sherrimccune5946]

Lord i hope they know now. I wish all schools around the world taugjt this. I just want to yell when i watch these for them to run!

[@erin7624]

I saw a lot of footages of 2004 tsunami and seems like during that time, people were not aware of the signs. There's also a footage in Thailand wherein the tourists most of them are foreigners swam in beach after they saw the water receded.

[@hasnaalshammri4490]

وينك عن ظلام

[@Morsmalleo]

Back then not much information about Tsunami's were taught until after the Boxing Day Tsunami hit, it was that strong that it even hit Australia, it wasn't as strong as it was for other places, but it was still strong enough to sweep people off of rocks

[@sairoopas2718]

Actually in 2004 we Indian people don't know anything about Tsunami but after this incident only we came to that something like this is present in nature there even a name given to this in Japanese language " Tsunami"

[@thetechnicanwithaheart1682]

Tsunamis are actually quite a easy to understand you just have to understand some fundamental basics plate tectonics. Magma underneath the plates underneath the crystal plates is constantly rubbing on the bottom constantly pushing the plates in One Direction. As the plates move sometimes plates will collide. One plate will basically start to slide underneath another plate and that's called a seduction Zone. The plate that's being impacted by the advancing plate will actually get stuck and we'll start to suck the edge of that plate downwards. It will start to bend and Warp the length of the plate for some distance and it will start to cause it to rise in the air. But once that plate is being pulled down will break free. That plate will snap upwards. If the distance that plate Rises up is equal to 30 ft, it will push up on the water column on the bottom of the ocean and cause a rise of 30 ft of the water column. The width of the wave in other words the Leading Edge of the wave versus the trailing Edge is roughly 1 mi. It will be slow and then accelerate up to the speed of sound. That is roughly 760 mph I don't remember what it is in kilometers per hour but I think it's 760 * 1.6. As it starts to approach the coastline. Any water that's on the beach will retract and fall back into the. The height of the wave will increase. It's not just a wave it's actually a massive body of water. Think of it as a full River of water behind a dam. You release the damn and the water will start to flow at a rapid rate down the river and it will start to continue to push into the city for up to 10 minutes. The tsunami will advance Inland up to 1 to 2 mi or roughly one and a half to 3 km. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed 200,000 people in 10 different countries

[@sairoopas2718]

thanks for u r explanation , I hope this will educate us

[@GE0RGE77]

Such a lame comment..Do you represent the entire india?? If not then why are you saying that v Indians didn't know anything about tsunami?? You should say that you didn't know anything about tsunami, because a fair bit of indians did know what tsunami was back then..Its a simple phenomenon which is readily available in textbooks..anyone who is a 10th pass would have read about it in textbooks.. when this tsunami occurred, I was in 6th standard, and our seniors had read about it and told us about what tsunami was..

[@kaushertop]

Tsunami was gentle in this shore....and people didnt knew that this same ocean had swallowed millions just 1 hr earlier

[@bazza945]

The waves seem to have magnetic attraction, as seen by the number of people running towards them, or standing there, hypnotized!

[@amitkumarsarkar1594]

To see things in video and to witness them are two very different things, i am from Andaman islands and that morning of 26th Dec.2004 was the most terrifying morning of my life.

[@diwakarb8792]

Happy that you are alive and living.. All the best bro

[@poulomi__hari]

If you survived a disaster then you have seen everything the world has to offer.

[@christinejenkins4698]

@@poulomi__hari except what humans are capable of doing to one another.

[@catherinebilung5868]

Cam you give more information of that fateful day

[@MJLeger-tz4so]

Any time you see water being pulled rapidly way back from its usual shoreline, regardless of tide, it's a pretty sure sign a tsunami is coming and time to get the hell AWAY and up too higher ground, WAY away from shore! And the incoming water will be strong enough to tear down buildings and up-root trees! Often, if you're looking, you can see a high wave off shore, but not always recognizable as a tsunami. The pull of water far away from shore is the key. It is insane to walk further out on the sand when you see that, but some ignorant people do and they lose their lives that way!

[@rewanthr]

It wasn't ignorance by chance. This simply wasn't a knowledge people in this part of the world had before 2004.

[@vdiitd]

You know that now because of the events like these were captured on camera. Almost no one knew back in 2004.

[@varun2904]

Ocean: I'm gonna raise my level and kill everyone. Humans: This is once in a lifetime event, we will gaze at water raising.

[@varun2904]

@Will Julian I think you have been commenting the same thing in many videos. Did you miss mentioning about your girlfriend also watching with you. 😂😂

[@tula__]

@@varun2904 technically you're right. It was a lifetime thing for countries around the Indian Ocean. It last hit in 1945. How many people of 1940s do you think survived till the new millennium?

[@mm-hz1xd]

When i was a girl my aunt say me: if the sea go back is time to run, save your Life, tsunami is coming, It was 50 years ago

[@senorfusion94]

Hol' up

[@dougclark9921]

She was early

[@harryrampersad858]

Your aunt taught you good dear 🤗👍💯

[@madihakhan1586]

Menacing

[@shantikathiravelu6810]

Its important to giant screens at beaches to educate ignorant ppl.of sea hazards ,.instead of placing adverts

[@Tiberius291]

when the waves recede like that, it's time to run like hell.

[@realtalkroscoeg]

Man for real

[@khanoff13]

Idiots do opposite - they go on the beach and stare...

[@ashokekumarchowrangi5292]

@@khanoff13 Ñmì

[@foysalahmed7624]

@@khanoff13 fucking true

[@moniquefleming3738]

Yeah, that's the safety brief. They Probably didn't attend that one.

[@MyGodZach]

In India, even when two ants fight, there will be 100k people watching

[@ujjawalmishra5751]

Why you said so?

[@jainheritagememes5193]

It’s true bro legit there are always people watching does not matter wtf it is. 1.3 bil pop we have

[@mohammadbakri2201]

It means that there are a surplus eyes available over there unutilised.

[@itsmeitsmeitsthedaved5300]

@@ujjawalmishra5751 come on man, let not get all Al Sharpton on Zach.

[@gunasekarkrishnan4947]

Selfish people kaliyuga kaalam 😏

[@user-rh9bp2dz5k]

They didn't really know much about tsunamis til 2004 and most wondered why the ocean receded.

[@balagoodalur]

hi

[@LegendKingY2j]

it's the India what do you expect

[@balagoodalur]

what

[@hannanpakthini7221]

@@LegendKingY2j .. oh you idiot, do want everyone to be Socrates, Aristotle, Plato?

[@dee.f88]

@Saoirse J. McKenna I was 16 in high school when this tsunami hit and all the years prior to this tsunami their was virtually no video evidence of any other tsunamis ever recorded. So believe me, the world was not familiar with signs of a tsunami because they were not witnessed by many people prior to this 2004 one. Receding water was a mystery to all those people and pretty much the world at the time so it was not a clear indicator of a giant wave coming.

[@mitchellhogg4627]

top tip: if the locals begin to look even remotely worried...fucking haul ass outta there...

[@doncorleone3901]

We indians always like to gather and stare at anything. We basically make all business our business

[@mikejones6791]

I wonder if that includes staring at a woman being violently assaulted by multiple men, in broad daylight, on let's say... the bus, and not doing a single thing to help?!

[@doncorleone3901]

@@mikejones6791 there were no onlookers in that incidents. India is also known for street justice fyi

[@mikejones6791]

@@doncorleone3901 barely... fyi! You seriously act like I'm referring to one incident when those atrocities happen almost daily! How 'bout the woman whom had her head shaved, paraded through a dirt village, all the being beaten and stoned... all for spurning the groom of a fixed marriage?! Can you explain that one away as "street justice"?!

[@doncorleone3901]

@@mikejones6791 thats how it is and we like it that way.

[@_Since-1994]

@@mikejones6791 lol burning a woman alive just because she know how to read in the name of witchcraft ...grow up things happen everywhere

[@warrenpeece1726]

Reminds me of my time in SF - when there was a tsunami alert everyone went to the beach to take a look!

[@varshinisugu3301]

People at that time had no idea about tsunami they were not informed anything about it ..😕😕

[@christopherfritz3840]

Then why all the commotion?

[@JasonPhillip303]

instinct and common sense this is how we survived before videos

[@jamiebraswell5520]

Tsunamis were not a secret prior to 2004. I wish you people would stop perpetuating that myth.

[@cryingforbread]

@@jamiebraswell5520 the tsunami struck countries that were still developing. Sure, some people knew about it, but some people also didnt know about this phenomenon. Only when it was broadcast worldwide was when most people finally knew about tsunamis or atleast, what to do in that situation.

[@tula__]

@@JasonPhillip303 lol. Tsunami struck Japan so many times over. But people still died everytime. Even though it's a developed country and has very sparse population compared to this part of the world. Hurricanes have struck the States almost every year. But people died, drowned all the time. You think your logic will make you invincible in the face of a calamity? Remember your God and apologize.

[@pranav9569]

Dec. 24, 2004...The day i heard about "TSUNAMI" for first time.

[@kseniapiter6977]

Я была через 2 недели после цунами. Огромные камни валялись по всей набережной. Много деревьев пострадало. Но уже в городе наводили порядок, был свет.

[@garg0731]

Nice Show, Well Managed.

[@deg6788]

People do 't have the education we have.... Now they know it for many generations... Don't judge those poor fisherman

[@SOCCER_360]

Yes

[@itsmeitsmeitsthedaved5300]

Your kidding, right?

[@Diana_L.]

You'd think that if anybody knows how dangerous the sea can be, it'd be a fisherman.

[@melissaboeckman1784]

Wow. Haha.

[@welshgit]

You don't have to know about tsunamis. Just look at a normal wave hitting the beach. Each wave draws back water before it hits. The bigger the wave, the bigger the draw-back.... If the draw-back is HUGE then ...

[@sammygent9591]

Loud public announcement. Get away. Ooh lets all go to the beach.

[@Fake_Sailor]

Sammy Gent.....No its said we have big water in front lets try to take a bath sometimes....HELLO in the end

[@elfabusss3287]

Y es. Fxxxing assh@oles

[@judythompson5253]

yep, let me get my surfboard, man...

[@raywrightstone22]

hey, dummy, there was no alert system in the Indian ocean for tsunamis until AFTER this tsunami hit because there had never been one recorded before there. Normally they occurred in the Pacific Ocean. Ironic that you're making fun of them for being dumb when you're the idiot because you're uneducated and didn't realize that there was no public announcement or any warning signs.

[@catdogky]

@@raywrightstone22 The tsunami publicly announced itself! By sucking the water off the beaches before rushing back in.

[@jeroenjansen2709]

When I lived in Brunei, on the South China sea, I knew already at young age about tsunsmis. A sudden low tide means one thing. Run for the higher ground!

[@niconestra]

Sad thing is, if it happened again today there would still be a crowd of the mindless coming to see.

[@timwhite4885]

So what exactly was the video “supposed” to show other than everyone standing on the beach ?

[@georgespalding7640]

250,000 people died that day, seems hard to imagine but tsunamis are very dangerous things.

[@tula__]

It was about 9 richters. What did you expect. 10 deaths?

[@misterjingles708]

I don't know about you guys but from a very young age I knew that something cataclysmic was about to occur immediately following "drawback" of ocean water. I would even venture to say that I knew this drawback was a hallmark sign of an incoming tsunami. For the life of me, I cannot understand why these people thought it was a good idea to walk into the ocean to investigate this phenomenon. And after watching other videos about this awful event, it appears as though the longer and father the ocean withdrew, the more people came to see it.

[@trishwade8402]

Natural selection.

[@infledermaus]

Well ... Yeah, curiosity killed the cat. A young man, 20ish living in Crescent City, California, went down to the water's edge when the Japan tsunami arrived and was washed out to sea. They never found him. It's not as if everyone in CC was clueless. In 1964 after the Alaska quake, a 9.2 that generated waves of around 135 feet in Alaska, CC was swamped and several.prople died. In Japan in 2011, most of those who paid attention to tsunami warnings survived. The shocking thing about that tsunami is that in dome areas there was hardly any tsunami while in others people evacuated to higher ground, but the waves were so deep that the safe areas were washed away. Many people figured it was a false alarm and stayed at home. Sad. Almost all the lives in Japan could gave been saved.

[@sasskvetch8617]

@@trishwade8402 Right, just like y'all's insanely high COVID numbers in the USA 👍

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Hello evacuate. The problem is the event is so rare the generation who remembers the last one is gone so... hey the ocean is retreating that is serious low tide let's go walk on the beAch...instead of run for your lives for high ground!!!! They do evac drills in japan coastal towbs frequently then when disaster strikes people automatically head to high ground. Police finaslly show up in this vid with megaphones.

[@supervidya2486]

INDIA

[@timothybradek3560]

I guess it hits land differently, because it sure didn't appear too threatening.

[@windyortiz5904]

INCREIBLE.....ven un TSUNAMI , y se quedan hay a mirar, me solprende que todavía queden personas vivas en esos paises....

[@esperanzatoronjo4104]

No te sorprende que casi todo s los que miran son hombres? Nada de que hacer? LAS MUJERES ESTAN A OTRAS COSAS. Países de machistas.😘😘

[@ginalane7540]

I learned something new Dec 26 2004. Schools dont teach everything

[@MishaElRusito]

I didn't see no tsunami in this video lol

[@robertpaulis439]

It looked more like a wake from some sea-ducks chasing each other!!!!!

[@dexter8858]

I was in third grade back then This was the deadliest ever tsunami

[@katrinmcdonough2414]

if that one had been there like the one in Japan there would have been a definite decrease in population of that area. Not something to mess with.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

This one killed 250 thousand people.

[@prestontamaica1]

KZbin the wave that shook the world,you’ll see.

[@johnnyflores1978]

Thats because the earthquake happened in the ocean they didn’t know what was coming it also reached more countries but the one in Japan was devastating its like the whole ocean was swallowing japan

[@User_Fafa2015]

Roodborst Kalf 200 thousand killed in indonesia... the wave definitely reached about 15-30 meter with highest wave 51 meter in leupung, western coast of aceh... in eastern coast of sri lanka and indian southeast the waves are still massive though... it’s capable enough to derail a train and bring it 400 meter from its original place in sri lanka...

[@hiran4935]

Japanese Tsunami was way worse. With the Tsunami breaker walls and Japanese people actually been educated about tsunamis, still lots of lives were lost. In some areas water had even come around 3km inland. There were walls around 15m high and still water had come inland.Check the vedios online, its scary af, most waves are higher than two storey buildings. Lot of lives were lost in 2004 Tsunami because people in the region had no idea about it and trying to investigate the recession of the sea. Still some parts of Srilanka, Thailand and Sumatra were severely affected

[@ats-3693]

"Oh wow the ocean has mysteriously drawn way back from the beach, let's all go have a closer look" Woopsie

[@floydiandreamscapes5145]

Where's the tsunami?

[@chitterlingsrtasty]

Anybody who lives on a coast needs tsunami awareness training starting at the earliest possible age. Get your ass to high ground and don't stop to collect 200.

[@ronbird1293]

chitterlingsrtasty or just learn to listen to a public announcement warning

[@tula__]

@@ronbird1293 not all countries had an alert system as functional as the US back then.

[@mk9199]

@@tula__ rapidly receding waters is an alert, it's not an invitation

[@tula__]

@@mk9199 well you know now. Did you know in 2004? Before 2011 Japan Tsunami?

[@mk9199]

@@tula__ Of course, it was taught in school and I finished school well before 2004. You yourself have acknowledged that people on some island knew what they were and what to do. Maybe these people didn't know, I don't know Indian schooling. But most western tourists that died when it hit Thailand would've been taught the theory at least and should've known better.

[@richardl772]

And here’s me thinking Pondicherry was a small town on the west coast of Ireland........

[@jehannemarie1163]

What?

[@richardl772]

Jeanne Marie. Joke.....

[@jehannemarie1163]

@@richardl772 ok because i know both country and I don t see any link between us , except English language perhaps...

[@samb8054]

😂😂😂🤣

[@tula__]

@@richardl772 said like a typical western person. 🤣 Americans create wars just to learn geography isn't it. 🤣🤣🤣

[@jamie7472]

2004: oh a tsunami? I have to see that 2005: oh dear god we are all going to die

[@palaksingh1777]

2020: 💀

[@elley13]

In 2004, most of them don't know what is tsunami because it was the first time in Indian Ocean. There's no Tsunami warning in Indian Ocean back then.

[@imautuber]

Curiosity killed the cat.

[@davidmeyers8230]

imautuber and stupidity

[@georgegreathouse1919]

But satisfaction brought it back

[@lhaviland8602]

My left ear really enjoyed this video.

[@sagardahije1432]

Sake here

[@ravicharles5192]

we mess with nature and when it becomes angry, mankind boastful of power and wealth stands nothing before it. Let's keep this in mind always.

[@andrewrobinson8305]

This was caused by an undersea earthquake. It wasn’t caused, in any shape or form, by mankind.

[@SuperVijaypraveen]

Poor ducker

[@gunasekarkrishnan4947]

Man made disasters only 😏

[@sourabhsingh8544]

Oh look there's a Tsunami coming, let's run towards it and stand in thousands

[@davidmeyers8230]

Sourabh Singh one way of lowering the population count I guess 😬

[@goldfinger1528]

In 2004, entire world apart from Japan did not know how to even spell it or what the name meant. Imagine no volcanic activity since dawn of human kind and suddenly one happened, how'd you be not interested in something not even known before? Think before you judge and speak!

[@brandonvessell4659]

@@goldfinger1528 damn your all over the comment section

[@tula__]

@saurabh Singh 70 saal k baad bhi tu unki hi chat bc.

[@melissaboeckman1784]

I see now why there were so many fatalities with this tsunami. I've watched several videos of different countries this tsunami hit. Lots of people standing there watching instead of running lol. Maldives was destroyed.

[@ZanesProductions]

Yeah. Doesn't help that pretty much no one from the areas that got hit knew about tsunamis. They do now, but didn't then. Many survivors say they never even heard the word tsunami before it happened.

[@tula__]

@@ZanesProductions yeah Indian Ocean is pretty normal in most days. The last tsunami ever happened here was probably around the time of world war 2 or before.

[@sys09]

Most were Westerners who knew what Tsunami was ,according to comments posted here,yet they didn't warn or run away to safety..Its really sad to read the comments here in KZbin.. its so easy to nitpick and spread negativity ..let's pray that such calamities don't occur again and people live in peace instead

[@mk9199]

@@sys09 huh? Most commenters here were not anywhere near India when this happened. You comment makes no sense. Most are shocked that India didn't teach about tsunami at school as this has been taught all throughout western countries for a century -even land locked countries are taught. We do not get earthquake or tornado where I live, but I was taught these things and know vaguely what to do if I encounter one, this was over 40 years ago. They find it shocking that this wasn't the case here, apparently.

[@nou4605]

@@mk9199 We were taught about tsunamis in schools dumbass. Studying something and experiencing it are different. India barely gets Tsunamis so nobody expected one. And this was before smartphones.

[@crfz4998]

Others countries:-- tsunami is comming leave the place Indians:-- tsunami is comming lets go and watch😅😅

[@patsematary]

...they didnt know...no one knew that the sea retreats abruptly and abnormally for a precise cause....

[@dab9122]

everyone knows this except indians...

[@dangerouslybad58]

@@dab9122 how foolish of you to assume that people were aware of this back in 2004..... You know it now due to internet and all but most of the people weren't aware of that in 2004 since there was no internet and no major tsunamis in recent years had occurred at that time.... And stop generalizing people

[@alwaysright3718]

@@dangerouslybad58 it's common knowledge clearly you are uneducated... the Internet has been around since 1969. I will assume you are a garbage collector by trade because you couldn't possibly hold down a job with a higher qualifications...

[@commoner7660]

@@alwaysright3718 u r absolutely wrong

[@alwaysright3718]

@@commoner7660 I am 100% right as usual...

[@Travis_22]

That place even looks like it stinks

[@pawankumarcv4767]

2004 year is in my mind and also in my parents mind too I leave it to God

[@annadaranjannandi5952]

Anywhere on the planet : get out of the beach ...run like hell.. India : first time I am going to witness a tsunami. Let's wait

[@kmohanty1137]

😂😂😂😂

[@fmcm7715]

@@kmohanty1137 it’s not one bit funny. Have you forgotten how many people died?

[@kmohanty1137]

@@fmcm7715 m sorry dear but I didn't laugh for the video😔😔. Anada's comment padhke hasi. Sorry dear but Han I remember how many died. 😔🙏

[@tula__]

@@kmohanty1137 tumlog bhi gore ki bhasha bolne lage. Bewakoofo! India se zyada log Sumatra me mare the aur 14 countries ki waat lagi thi. Esa nhi ki sirf Indians dekhne gae the. Kisiko 2004 me idea bhi nhi tha tsunami ka. Tum paida bhi nhi hue honge. 🤣

[@tula__]

@@fmcm7715 let these Gen Z morons be. Not much use for anyone anyways.

[@bazzatheblue]

The tsunami seems to have run out of steam by the time it reached the Indian east coast then.

[@SOCCER_360]

Ayin

[@piesoda3683]

Still killed over 1000 people so wouldn’t say it ran out of steam

[@emiloprisa]

That's a mistake they'll only make once

[@nickauclair1477]

Good video

[@richhillyer3448]

Well, they'll never make that mistake again

[@shaunboden]

Neither will I.

[@гольф2бравобраво]

Какая, прелесть. Расчитывал на волну метров20, а тут

[@i-primeproductions1517]

That Hass to be the most anti-climactic video I’ve ever seen

[@theobserver6493]

I am like "what tsunami"?

[@briantones5993]

A tsunami can be from .5 of a meter to 30 meters high. I would call these wave surges rather than a tsunami...

[@pamelacorona3665]

Now I understand why women live longer than men. Is there nothing else to do in that town other than challenging a Tsunami of all things ? One kid looked like he was kicking rocks and he even slowed down when he saw the waves coming. They should have been arrested. Or is it a sport in India Tsunami Dodging ?

[@marcosperalta5738]

Pamela Corona What?

[@cristinafultz2378]

Arrested, come on don't you think people have the right to live Dangerously free ? Government should give the suggestion to find safety. But never force people to protect them selves. It's not a CRIME to be in charge of your own safety. Only mom and Dad have the power to do that.

[@RanjaniSvijisekar]

Pamela People were not warned beforehand because nobody not even the officials knew what Tsunami was. Only After the mass destruction Indian people learnt that it was Tsunami.

[@fatimavallim8056]

Tsunami????????????

[@hollowaang5284]

Nobody gonna point out how dirty that beach looks??. 🤢🤢

[@shayneb3540]

How much trash do you produce in a year? And where does it go? Maybe some of that trash is yours.

[@hollowaang5284]

@@shayneb3540 Why are you so butthurt?". I was pointing out how dirty that beach looks.

[@gaurav0narwal]

That's South India. It's normal over there.

[@varshinisugu3301]

Just search for promenade Beach on google

[@LUXURYcar-q4m]

20 years of sad day 😢😢😢 2 laksh people left this incident

[@sriy2k7]

Present time rock beach look like in 2004. Beach restoration project is going on. Almost 100 - 200 feet samd is visible from rocks. Hope entire beach will be restored in 1 year.

[@ARADHYA____Singh_2007]

This video when he upload then i not born 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Now i see

[@judythompson5253]

it amazes me that people actually are standing around WATCHING this thing advance...

[@deg6788]

Education is a bliss my fellow westerner.... We are the one % don't forget that.. Peace

[@itsvizor171]

@@deg6788 Majority of what you know was discovered in the East, you ignorant idiots.

[@Mohitkumar-mv8mj]

That was 2004, what do u expect? They weren't aware about tsunamis

[@hemantrahar7083]

A huge crowd to see tsunami - India

[@jesshopper-roberts2857]

Watching these videos of all the people standing there watching is kind of eerie considering most those people died. Very sad that they live that close to the ocean but we're not educated about tsunamis. It's strange to me that really nobody and those who knew didn't try to clear the beaches if at all possible. I have watched every video on this tsunami and it's scary no matter what video it is or how many times I watch it it's so scary. So many people dead. It is a true tragedy.

[@tula__]

Check history darling. Tsunami never hit there in decades. It has mostly hit in the Americas, Europe, Japan.

[@vns92001]

Rest of the world : people run away from beach if tsunami strikes. In INDIA : people go to beach to watch tsunami.

[@_Alfa.Bravo_]

... that is the advantage if you believe in reincarnasation ...

[@ushathirumurthy2903]

ஐ நம்ம புதுச்சேரி 👌👌👌👌😀😀😀😀

[@kenarmstrong7890]

The mesmerized deer in the headlights phenomenon... snap out of it and RUN!

[@robinnicholas7867]

Not quite the massive tidal waves of disaster movies

[@chaitanyashah7968]

This is just like high tide ! Tsunami engulf everyone but all are watching , so it's like little high tide.

[@danhutson3460]

It was already too late for most of them. Sad.

[@varshinisugu3301]

No nothing happened

[@All_is_well1211]

This video taken after tsunami

[@michlo3393]

So, what's the over/under on the number of people in this video who got swept out to sea?

[@msms3260]

Seems like people are having fun with this. Still, they saw something unusual that I cannot see in the video.

[@SunilKumar-pu7me]

In 2004 no one knew what tsunami was I know because when first news started coming people were unable to pronounce

[@sarihaddu]

Yep. We had very little idea about it and it hit us very bad

[@NevadaNihilist]

The tsunami is coming. Lets stand there and stare at it 😊

[@brandonvessell4659]

Natural selection at its truest

[@kostas6621]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kostas6621]

@@brandonvessell4659 Good one!!! 😂😂😂

[@goldfinger1528]

@@brandonvessell4659 In 2004, entire world apart from Japan dod not know how to even spell it or what the name meant. Imagine no volcanic activity since dawn of human kind and suddenly one happened, how'd you be not interested in something not even known before? Think before you judge and speak!

[@goldfinger1528]

In 2004, entire world apart from Japan dod not know how to even spell it or what the name meant. Imagine no volcanic activity since dawn of human kind and suddenly one happened, how'd you be not interested in something not even known before? Think before you judge and speak!

[@propasangapropasanga6123]

Ithula yar ellam 6years appuram pakkiringa

[@agnidhbhattacharya5410]

Interestingly, I was born 3 days prior to this😂😂😂

[@sureshr5767]

I was born 3 months before this lol 😂

[@richardheikkila4146]

Darwin proven right again.

[@huntershashi7499]

Jai Shree Mahakal Ji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@vandalorianvandalorian4769]

Well, that was a huge waste of time.

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

Why were those people STILL in the water when levels were reaching land ?? Common sense or lack of it .

[@newbeginnings8566]

A million people arrive from nowhere.. Overpopulation is an issue in India...

[@swatimehrotra3785]

Wow thanks for letting us know that we have a huge population.. the waters are usually till the rocks that you see.

[@itsvizor171]

Ha! As if it isn’t a global issue.

[@debashisghosh8718]

I think you have gone mad.This is tidal wave not tsunami 😂😂😂

[@danielhartin7680]

Look at the timestamp. Dec 26, 2004. Google it and see what happened in the Indian ocean that day.

[@ikaika5107]

And where the hell is tsunami ?!

[@arjunpancholy2921]

Excuse my stupid curiosity..... i am a landlubberly Delhi resident. Not been close to ocean much. Tsunami videos on KZbin seem not so dangerous.... like a lot of water slowly just flowing in. How could it so-many-meters-high , so dangerous ?

[@tula__]

You didn't watch the ones near epicentre. India was far off for this one.

[@richiec9077]

Looks like that most days I go to the beach in Scotland, on a mild day😂

[@gog4167]

That was AWESOME!!!!....

[@FannomacritaireSuomi]

GoG You call normal ocean activity "awesome"? Oh dear.

[@muruganp9986]

What in that awesome

[@kerryquinn6218]

There's a Tsunami, what will we do, yes let's run towards it!

[@merlin3515]

Where is Thuznami

[@christopherfitzgerald774]

Alternative title: The tide comes in at Pondicherry.

[@Nightrider238]

This are just mini effects of the earth quake. Not a tsunami

[@dumbotater2158]

OMG, I didn’t know 500,00 people were going to drown in front of me!!!

[@JMENDES_]

Olha lá vem o tsunami, legal vamos pra praia olhar ele chegando...😰

[@manelcosta4983]

People is smart. Go to the beach and call friends, the humans are the bigger dangerous for him self.

[@shanewatson9010]

Most of the people killed were in Indonesia where it was flat ground for miles inland so nowhere to run

[@adventureridervijayakumarr1708]

Pondycherry it's my home town Cuddalore just near 19 km

[@sj9918]

This was in 2004 or 2006?

[@rohansatardekar4870]

Day on which i learnt the word 'tsunami'

[@butterfly-bw6cx]

A tsunami is a tidal wave. That was a ripple compared to some of our English beaches

[@atinimaedigresyl]

You've got your information wrong. A tsunami is not a tidal wave.

[@olomolo5052]

It was a tsunami, probably a small one. Water don't recede and come back like that in Indian beaches.

[@cryingforbread]

tsunamis arent tidal waves themselves. tho the tide can raise the tsunami's waves.

[@tula__]

Indian Ocean is usually very pleasant. It never had a tsunami before 2004.