Tsunami originating near Japan hits the Mad River, Arcata, Northern California

A tsunami, originating from the same earthquake event that devastated parts of coastal Japan, strikes the California coast near Arcata, California. 11 March 2011
video previously posted under channel "treejimmy" ; now discontinued and posting under channel "JimCSpickler"

[@EZurg]

Factually speaking, this tsunami move so historically slowly that it took nine years for KZbin to recommend it to me. Legend has it that it is still out there.

[@jonmccormick6805]

Slow news day?

[@carolsmith7380]

@@jonmccormick6805 lol

[@patriciahunt3663]

😂

[@babagama4232]

Savage....

[@TheStabbyMedic]

💀💀

[@EdLndrs12]

10 years today. RIP all victims of this tragedy.

[@lexstacks6944]

Incredible that something that far away, across the entire Pacific Ocean could have an impact on a place as far as California.. mother nature is truly incredible sometimes..

[@MrBelmont79]

Not sometimes. Always.

[@PlaylistKiiing]

@@MrBelmont79 You just had to be one of those input guys? The mans original comment was good enough.

[@seasaltlover]

The Cascadian earthquake in 1700 created a huge tsunami and it traveled all the way to Japan. The huge tsunami killed quite a few people, and it was nicknamed the orphan tsunami, from them not knowing where it came from

[@Eric-xh9ee]

@My Dixie Wrecked rivers naturally bend and straighten then rebend over time. No river is ever straight

[@Eric-xh9ee]

@My Dixie Wrecked I've never heard that. I think that's a myth. Rivers are formed by erosion over time. This is an interesting video showing lake formations like you were talking about, if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHitiat3j7Wgbq8

[@johnnybravoBoyah]

The great crow sends warning to goofy humans

[@fitfogey]

The crow is smarter than most humans. They use tools to help with food gathering and mourn their dead family members. More so than most humans.

[@marcsalzman8082]

@@redDot185 "but they aren't use that" If English isn't your 1st language, it's understandable. If it is, you have no place commenting on others inability to become a Mensa member. This thread is loaded with cretins & harshkins.

[@julianshepherd2038]

An email would be more use

[@PlaylistKiiing]

@@redDot185 The irony of you being a human calling someone stupid while sounding stupid.

[@gloatinglizard1]

I believe there are at least a few cultures that hear the crow's call as laughing at fools/calling someone a fool

[@cindykq8086]

"Hey, guys, there's a tsunami coming." "Let's go stand right by the water's edge to watch!"

[@somedudeonyoutube8079]

Well it originated in Japan so unless it’s a mega earthquake or rock slide it’s not gunna have that much force after it goes across the ocean.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

@@somedudeonyoutube8079 it’s still dangerous..

[@andrewvare3173]

Darwin, bro!

[@387Dan]

Darwin Award runners up.

[@SyriusStarMultimedia]

Who knowingly stands in the path of an oncoming tsunami?

[@juliahadley4977]

My gosh that was a pretty good gush of water. I just still cannot wrap my brain around what those poor folks in Japan endured. God bless them today and every day forever.

[@NYRangers520]

And to think of how those waves from that Japanese tsunami made it all the way from Japan and kept going to make it all the way to California just goes to show you how powerful those waves were and how powerful mother nature is and how we as humans should have more respect for it no matter what the situation might be!!

[@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16]

@@NYRangers520tsunamis can travel all the way across the Pacific, they have before. On May 22, 1960, an earthquake in Valdivia, Chile triggered a deadly tsunami that not only destroyed Hilo, Hawaii, but the city of Kamaishi, Japan built a sea wall as a result of the damage it sustained. The wall would topple in the 2011 tsunami.

[@andrebhas2530]

Recommended after 9 years. -thx youtube

[@scoobysean555]

Was going to say bloody hell that wave took it's time to reach cali 😂

[@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536]

Fuck KZbin. Globalist platform

[@siddokis2945]

@@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536 you conspiracy freaks are worse than religious zealots. Always trying to convert everyone to your way of thinking. You read or watched a video that sounds convincing to you (probably in a British accent, so you know it's smart), so you then go to forums you say are evil, like YT and regurgitate those ridiculous theories as fact.

[@MoisesMosiala]

ACTUALLY 10 years

[@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536]

@@siddokis2945 unaware slave

[@michaelrexrode3759]

They can see it coming from miles away yet don't move until it's nearly on top of them. Darwin Award contenders.

[@raynechantel2738]

sheep!!

[@susanmetz9892]

Darwin Award contenders? That’s hysterical! I’m going to use that.

[@HighPotatoo]

Lmfao they had plenty of time to move. Like the video shows. Not everyone’s a pussy like you. It’s not a pack of charging wolves. It’s water they can see coming for atleast a mile 😂 go be a pussy somewhere else

[@fredh1805]

Can’t fix stupid............ 🤦‍♂️🤔

[@athay14]

That's what people who don't respect nature do.

[@yggdrasil9039]

That is one serious displacement of water.

[@SickndSoul]

That's nothing compared to the bay of Fundy. Which happens twice a day

[@straybubbles7334]

That's nothing you should see your mom get in the pool!

[@DeMooniC]

@@SickndSoul But the tsunami happens in seconds, while tides take a while to change (as far as I know)

[@SickndSoul]

@@DeMooniC right, but at the bay of Fundy there are river systems that experience tidal bores. 3' to 8' high single River of a wave comes rushing up the river channels. They are so crazy... And fun to raft on.

[@purtlemoirrey1161]

It’s only a tidal bore it’s not a tsunami

[@donnydizzle2781]

Something tells me if it was Southern Cali those 2 guys would have had boards and jumped right onto the wave..

[@tomgraves6463]

Youv are right. Tsunami surfers in Sothern California. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p57Ie6ucqL11m8U

[@crashalarm3283]

It’s California, not Cali. Sincerely a northern Californian.

[@tomgraves6463]

@@crashalarm3283 Right? It's like it's ok to say, "Its Friday night, I'm going to party in the City." But..... it has long been discouraged and frowned upon to ever say, "Its Friday night, I'm going to party in Frisco." ☺

[@thetrashman4204]

So cal sucks nor cal baby

[@monkg3i]

@@crashalarm3283 cali is an ok term to use. sincerely, a southern californian

[@colinmccauley3301]

must have been neat to have seen this in person. that's a lot of water.

[@jeffgraham436]

“Neat” is not the descriptive I would use. Perhaps “awe inspiring”, perhaps “ terrifying”?

[@jffroezze7324]

They trip me out. That shit started in Japan and made an effect in Cali. So crazy

[@PAVANZYL]

The Valdivia earthquake (Chile) in 1960 the tsunami killed 56 people in Hawaii and cause extensive damage in Japan. In the open ocean a tsunami can travel at 500 miles per hour. It is crazy. And extremely dangerous.

[@jogman262]

I read The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 circled the entire globe.

[@viceroyzh]

It's a small world.

[@nicolasbuzzbuzz1079]

What do you think of a wave that can be 500 meters high?? That could happen.

[@getsmokedlikethatblunt776]

"The teens by the water were never seen again after that day." ~Rip Josh, Josh and Running Josh.~

[@briantravelman]

So crazy how our natural forces work. How an event in Japan can effect the landscape in California.

[@courtneytrumpower1593]

one of the guys out of the three had a conscious and got out of there before the wave hit. if that wave was any quicker, those two would've been swept off their feet.

[@Vurdox]

swept off their feet? sounds romantic...

[@mattycheeze4131]

@@Vurdox sometimes when I’m lonely I will shave one leg so it feels like I’m sleeping with a woman 👩🏼

[@Vurdox]

@@mattycheeze4131 you too?

[@wide_awake]

Crazy how loud it is. That was from the earthquake in Japan?

[@-star_27-20]

Yeah, it was. It made it to California.

[@johnm.515]

And it made it to Hawaii

[@josephastier7421]

It caused ice sheets to crack off in Antarctica.

[@nicolasbuzzbuzz1079]

Yes. All the way from there. When you hear tsunami., don't stay there and go inland where it s high

[@haroldhadradi8763]

It seems as if no one has read your comment properly. The noise in the video, as the wave passed. Was the sound of all the water bubbling and gurgling as it flooded the bank. The wave was created by the earthquake, as everyone here has correctly stated. But not the noise here.

[@wandah9468]

The Great Japan quake! Amazing how fast that traveled to the entire west coast!!

[@susanborkenhagen58]

A lot of objects that were in Japan when the tsunami hit were washed across the Pacific and ended up on the shores on the West Coast of North America.

[@wayneevans1509]

I wonder whether those fools, were ever gonna move!

[@user-ke7nk4mv6f]

the problem is people always run away from fire but never for water

[@calebkerby2740]

Did they make it? It looks like they don't.

[@johannaruiz6236]

Exactly what I was thinking 🙄

[@ninline2000]

All they had to do was go a few feet and they were on high ground. They didn't even cut it that close.

[@desa415]

They had plenty of time.

[@LewisBeckman]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you for documenting this.

[@MZ-bl6wg]

Amazing a wave can go SO far from Japan to California and carry so much force! Hard to comprehend fluid dynamics

[@kingdoc3262]

Fascinating timing. Must've been waiting for this

[@avariceseven9443]

There was ample time. From googling, for South America for example, there was 10-30 minutes before the wave got there.

[@christinekilar502]

Why do people just Have to be idiots? And put themselves in harms way??

[@charlesward8196]

Because, humans are attracted to dynamic events and environments, whether it is a football game, or a peaceful sunset on the beach, or a cascading mountain stream. That is why YOU are here watching this video! People will pay big money to attend the first one or to live in a house by the other two. I always told my kids not to buy property in a dynamic environment in order to avoid the rare, but consequential environmental “bit6h slap”.

[@sboloshis1188]

Fun.

[@ThatMeansHesMad]

Let them! Too many idiots

[@123TauruZ321]

Christine, be nice.

[@smartfck4]

Why do you care? Is it because you're a sad person? Oh yes

[@dianejohnson4315]

So what happened to the 2 geniuses who waited until the last second to run?

[@AliceAmane]

Splish splash

[@theytoobpromotescommies]

Natural selection

[@chrisconger8975]

They are in Biden’s cabinet.

[@waynek3366]

Their at Walmart buying new underpants and wet wipes.

[@didibolter9362]

They took a bath!

[@Radionut]

Wow that was indeed spectacular. Is there any video of it retreating back out so the river returns to normal? Thank you for the upload that was truly spectacular

[@janheard3826]

Amazing thanks for capturing

[@sirMAXX77]

I didn't see any of this at all in Eureka. The water level dropped a little, swelled up about a foot really slowly and went back down.

[@davidbagley1783]

Aloha Eureka.. I lived there for a long time

[@lukemn29]

I don't know why, but I could envision Duane Johnson standing in that exact same spot yelling "Just bring it!" as the wave is rolling in.

[@susanbode239]

You could hear it long before the water came rushing by. That wasn't a tidal wave but the results of a tidal wave.

[@sierratrilogy]

I was gonna say, wouldn't this be considered more of a surge?

[@kiwisunshine9631]

Amazing to think it has come from so far away and yet still has so much power behind it.

[@connierichards7781]

Thats alot of natures power. Kind of terrifying.

[@ShutTheMuckUp]

Imagine the size of the tsunamis created by the impactor that hit the Indian Ocean and left the giant chevrons on the coast of Western Australia and Eastern Madagascar.

[@MySamurai77]

The origins of those Chevrons are not known for certain yet.

[@arbjful]

@@MySamurai77 I thought Chevrons were something you painted on the road, to demarcate lanes

[@MySamurai77]

@@arbjful They are a similar shape, just hundreds of meters tall and made up of sea desposits left by a tsunami. .

[@MySamurai77]

Although its possible they may have just been laid over time and not by a tsunami. No one is sure yet.

[@wanderingangelstudio1359]

To think that this tsunami traveled all the way from Japan. Wow.

[@tomgraves6463]

When I was a young boy, I was advised not to go to the beach to watch a tsunami. 😉

[@LechuzaPrecoz]

Yeap. You can actually see some floating bowls filled with ramen noodles. 🍜

[@tomgraves6463]

@@LechuzaPrecoz The packets of hot sauce took an additional three weeks to get here. The Ramen didn't last that long, which explains the surplus of hot sauce packets.

[@yeltsin6817]

The energy of that wave travelled 5300 miles. Wild.

[@adil8701]

@@tomgraves6463 when I was a young boy I was advised not to speak to unknown people in the street. Now i speak with unknown people on the internet.

[@BobbyHoskins1016]

Can you imagine the scenes 11,000 years ago when a wall of water 1000ft deep swept over the north American continent

[@michaelsullivan3581]

According to the geological record, were talking 5000 feet! Whew doggies, that's a wave!

[@california8118]

Pretty dang cool

[@vibez_kru01]

It’s hard to fathom a wave so high that it would fill the horizon on its approach. You’d probably die of fright.

[@seanmanwill2002]

Incredible!

[@billtomson5791]

Please leave reply with more info, thanks.

[@conniepayne591]

Should have taped longer.

[@lcgilbertson4791]

The guys that scrambled when the wave got close probably had to work later to pry their undies from between perma clenched cheeks. The person filming though, didn't seem to realize the danger they were in. Even when a piece of the dirt embankment they were standing on got undercut and collapsed into the torrent. Didn't even flinch.

[@Banana_Jesus_]

If they even remotely know how to swim then they were in no danger, only close to getting soaked and going down stream.

[@ferrous719]

I don't even live near a coast and I know when the water runs away, so do you

[@vigorousera]

Seems almost mundane at a distance, only when it's battering the shore can you see just how much power is behind it.

[@5oglock474]

That wave had no passport. Came all the way from Japan without any documents. Wish I was as lucky as this wave.

[@mrquackadoodlemoo]

This is an amazing example of how tsunami waves aren't "waves" but rather the leading edge of a sudden rise in water height.

[@jimlepeu577]

We get tides like that in the UK all the time on spring tides, in one place it’s called a bore on another river it’s called an aegre.

[@hostrauer]

Yes. Tidal bores are "true" tidal waves. Tsunamis are an entirely different mechanism of action, though.

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

Amazing, the ocean can do whatever it wants

[@aoilpe]

This looks like the “Mascaret“ phenomenon in the Gironde/France... A tidal wave in the estuary....

[@rivco5008]

Haven't been to Arcata in many years; beautiful up there, so different from down south...

[@cryptic_cowboy_557]

I agree I live in Albuquerque NM and It is very hot in the summer and I go to arcata

[@artwonnowtra1987]

Can you elaborate please?

[@artwonnowtra1987]

I always been fascinated with doing this since childhood. Living somewhere it's hot or cold but traveling somewhere no more than a 24 hour drive on the West coast to beat either extreme weather or season. So far I have done San Bernardino County to Lake Tahoe and all it's rivers down to towns. It's too different worlds I tell you. It's amazing.

[@mitchelllyell8279]

@@artwonnowtra1987 come up here its a whole different world

[@davidbagley1783]

Arcata.. lost coast

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

There's a great downtown walking tour showing water heights etc in Arcata of the tsunami. Good eating & drinking places right there, too.

[@charlesburris6314]

The one with the camera didn't say a word to the two at the water. Absolutely nonchalant about their possible deaths. I'm not surprised.

[@mscris503]

Does anyone know how long it took for california to feel the tsunami from the time the earthquake ended ?

[@dogcrick]

My friend was the one and only death in this tsunami. Still blows my mind.

[@EdLndrs12]

I just read that today, on the 11th anniversary of this tragic. RIP Mr. Dustin Weber.

[@lindaberry7206]

So sorry for your loss.

[@InterceptorIV]

Mother Nature has the strongest power in the world. Its hooribly amazing, that something so far away at the other side of the ocean still hits California

[@purtlemoirrey1161]

It’s not a tsunami it’s a everyday worldwide occurrence called a TIDAL BORE

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

How long did it take? Not same day has to cross international time zone

[@leonotthelion]

Crazy how loud it is!!

[@nickefgen9219]

Huh.... thought I saw a made in Japan label on the tree that floated by...

[@richm7873]

Looks like the water in Galveston

[@brandongraham8021]

Ain’t that the truth....

[@jacobdavis8769]

This is spot on 😂

[@JackycClark]

You aren't lyin !

[@anthonyhebisen]

But without the seaweed

[@gregchristianson9631]

I am amazed by the power of the tsunami that hit japan and coast of north america 1000 of miles away

[@davidhumphries7092]

In Albuquerque our flood control system looks like this after a heavy rain! RUN HENRY RUN!

[@Jeff-kz5kl]

Awesome! I can't wait to move back this year!

[@myRefuge3710]

Catch a wave

[@rockthelightGomer]

How long did the river flow backwards for?

[@michaelcanney7218]

So if the water came from Japan does the United states get to keep it or do they have to send it back

[@mikegike7273]

How long did it take to get here from Japan?

[@didibolter9362]

Incredible speed and power.

[@manorrd]

Oh my God. Those poor people.

[@RPostVideos]

This is what a tsunami looks like when it's not smashing through villages and killing everything in its path. Looks almost peaceful.

[@davidoverstreet2875]

I had no idea it made it all the way to the west coast of the United States. Absolutely mind-blowing. Hundreds of billions of tons of water displaced.

[@johnallen2771]

My old stomping grounds. I live in Red Bluff now. But we used to fish and play around all over this area. It's really pretty and you can take one of the excursion boats up the river. You can see many whales going right past you there.

[@davidbagley1783]

Perry Dove says hello

[@johnallen2771]

@@davidbagley1783 Hi Perry. Did U hang around there?

[@didibolter9362]

Red Bluff California is pretty, my brother took me to the Gelding sale there at the Fairgrounds once, have you been there John? He also took me up to Lassen National Park in the snow, that part was scary, but, his handsome German Shepherd loved it 😆. Take care my friend, stay safe and healthy, enjoy Red Bluff 😊😀

[@johnallen2771]

@@didibolter9362 The Fairgrounds is right next to my house. We walk across the street to go to the fair and all the horse sales and there are a lot of them, also cattle and dogs. Those dogs can go for some good money. Yeah, it's only about 40 minutes to the mountains here. Love Mt. Lassen and Shasta. If you come over for the gelding sale look me up, I'm in the book: John Allen.

[@didibolter9362]

@@johnallen2771 WOW! What a nice invitation! I sincerely appreciate it John! You are so incredibly nice, it's hard to find nice people here on the Internet, I am so glad to have finally found a real genuine gentleman here, thank you my friend, thank you!

[@billchaulk5547]

I would have gone up the hill before the first person. Lol. Nice vid. Stay safe!

[@tinadavies4195]

Some people are bloody thick!!

[@billtomson5791]

Ya think so?

[@Miristzuheiss]

This Video nine Years old. Dont understand YT Algorithmen.

[@JMM599]

The bird at 0:19 is like “get the fuck outta there”

[@matthewwalden656]

I believe the big one was in 1964 ? I remember once seeing watermarks on a large concrete wall just inland, maybe 1 mile from where this video was taken.

[@michaelcarlson219]

There was a tsunami in March 1964 from an Alaskan earthquake. Then there was a severe flood in December 1964 due to several "feet" of rain that fell over several days. I think the water mark you saw would have been from the December event.

[@matthewwalden656]

Awesome. I can’t tell you the exact point but I know it was Mad River, inland in the Humboldt area. It was unfathomable to see that watermark so high and an inscription in paint stating “1964”.

[@davidbagley1783]

True

[@Fk67Lg]

That river went from 0 to 3 feet deep in 2 seconds.

[@charlesmccullough7892]

I was wondering how long it would take for those guys to get out the way from that tsunami!

[@sharynleato5880]

Thank you for this vid and info. So. Cali.

[@renajohnson9804]

I remember this, it hit all the way down to Santa Cruz

[@RobertWilliams-oy1fl]

Wow that’s incredible & Terrifying at the same time 😧 😳

[@Golden_Age_Flash_]

An extreme tidal bore due to a tsunami I was wondering how long it was going to take those two to get the hell out of there before the tsunami came!

[@eugenedegeorge5084]

This is why we sometimes refer to tsunamis as tidal waves

[@JanelleLynn392]

How long did it take to reach the us

[@rubend9391]

Looks more like tide coming in, just fast

[@suet.r.4815]

Those guys, standing down there too close. I was so worried, even though this was filmed years ago.

[@bertiewooster3326]

No need to worry Sue we have far far far too many people on the planet please tell folk to stop having polluting kids thanks.

[@brianjoyce9040]

A little different than expected. More insidious than awe inspiring

[@estherwhalen614]

I can see the second wave coming toward them I wonder if they will learn from the first one

[@jannahjohnymuhammad9172]

HOW LONG IT TOOK FROM JAPAN TO USA COAST?

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

2:23 any chance that log was hauled all the way from Japan?

[@ChiliCheeseD0g]

The coast in the distance looks like it's getting an ass kicking.

[@dzspdref]

well the water HAS to recede shortly after... how come no one ever films THAT part too?

[@judithwalker3600]

It's 2020 why is this even popping up?

[@tomgraves6463]

Probably because of all the political commentary on scocial media in recent months about a Blue Wave... and/or Blue Tsunami. ☺

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Too bad it wasn't on the Potomac...

[@matthewehritz3544]

Incredible

[@kevinswales7003]

After traveling over 8,000 miles, the Tsunami has lost a lot of its energy and strikes the California coast very softly.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Looks exactly like a tidal bore, check out the one that runs up the Amazon river.

[@leonardofrederico5290]

Its like a 'Pororoca'

[@angelafeldman5903]

What a rush...

[@brianadams5996]

I was surprised that they just come up out of the ocean with no warning until the water recedes. I wonder if the water receded here.

[@Pearlaceous]

Incredible. Would love to know How long did it take for the tsunami to travel from its point of origin to this place?

[@arbjful]

600 -700 km/hr, in deep ocean

[@fireworksfanatics2777]

I think it took 4 or 5 hrs but could be wrong

[@ladyseeker2927]

Crow: Guys, get out of there! Humans: LeT's StAy UnTiL tHe LaSt MoMeNt

[@elterrible06]

i dont know but could also be a tidal bore... either way no matter how awesome it looks like i'll still be running towards safe ground

[@Mikeandlucy1]

I think you are correct and have said so myself

[@stigmartin3072]

Bet there’s some nice three eyed fish in there now lol

[@didibolter9362]

I would bet so Stig.

[@1960gambit]

Made the river run backwards for a while until the water leveled out

[@weirdowilla1027]

No people were harmed in the making of this video ?

[@NaomiNunya]

I wonder where those trees came from?

[@seanmanwill2002]

The T-shirt example of 'I'm with stupid', and they're both wearing one.

[@roblow8126]

How could a tsunami originating in japan hit the east coast of north america?

[@taniadolphy5122]

So powerful!