by Sad emo 35 Replies latest social current
Here is a much longer version of the second video posted above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0Qayel-DM
And more photos:
http://hot-current-news-trends.blogspot.com/2009/09/tsunami-pictures-in-samoa-today-tsunami.html
And here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70d_1254289198
(Sorry to keep posting on this but I have an interest in tsunamis for a number of personal reasons)
New aftermath photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22541086@N04
And another video from Samoa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUS14vtojk
This is probably the most unreal video....these guys are along a road beside the beach some 20-30 feet or so up (if not higher in parts), and there is devastation all along the road, indicating that the waves struck that high up. And while the guys were driving around pointing out the destruction, you can see the receding churning waves down below — the tsunami was still in progress even though the surge had subsided.
This is an interesting little video on the evacuation of a little town in New Zealand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80j6qOy7DGA
Here is my local news broadcast...we even had the tsunami (or rather what was left of it) come to my neck of the woods:
JG has been busy today
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has occurred SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA at:
0.78S 99.85E Depth 80km 30/09/2009 at 10:16:10 (Universal Time)
Earthquake location with respect to nearby cities:
59 km W Padang (pop 840352, local time 17:16 2009-09-30)
35 km SW Padang pariaman (pop 92183, local time 17:16 2009-09-30)
The jw emails are only concerned about the jws......................
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXo7XlcgPWc
You can see the waters receding in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6fxQYsYw90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVY4amlLNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkUAv_GS3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRgTiCQdMxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZmz78rHTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apm3fyPM1QE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3VP1KQEac
The last one shows a tsunami quickly flood an area that a prior wave had devastated.
The HFD warning swimmers in Waikiki to stay out of the water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UncW1uBtfw
The leftovers of the tsunami in Hawaii:
It's kind of amazing that remnants of the tsunami are still reverberating in the ocean around New Zealand, as the tide gauges show:
Difference between a Tsunami and tidal wave ?
Thanks for posting the videos Leolaia.
It's scary how powerful tsunamis are. The video of the wave hitting the already flooded area was really disturbing to me. It just doesn't look to be much but suddenly... you can begin to understand why people don't see these things coming in time to escape
PSacramento....Tsunamis are specifically seismically generated waves, whereas tidal waves more broadly refer large waves or those generated by tidal phenomena (such as tidal bores).
Sad emo....Exactly. There are similar videos of the 2004 tsunami in which the wave intially appears only a foot or less in height. But this is just the leading edge of what really is a highly energetic sea surge of several hundred feet in length that raises the sea level vertically rather quickly (and often higher than the intial wave). It is a wave that doesn't break but just keeps going and going and going. So it may deceptively look inocuous at first but quickly becomes deadly. Also tsunamis come in successive waves, and so people are caught in another tsunami when they come to survey the damage caused by the first wave.
Here is a view of Pagopago airport while the waters were receding between surges:
