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Japan Quake Moment #13: Tsunami’s Unrelenting Wave of Water Washes Away Japanese Port Town

Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:01am by Meredith Jessup
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Editor’s note: This video is part of an ongoing series on The Blaze featuring some of the Japan earthquake’s most breathtaking videos. We have numbered them sequentially so that it is easier to keep track. We will post them throughout out coverage.

New footage of the tsunami reaching the Japanese port town of Miyako City in Iwate Prefecture:

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dontbotherme
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 11:08pm
Those people must have been terrified. God be with them.
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Longshot35
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:39pm
Wow
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:44am
  ditto
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chickenfried
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 5:31pm
Can you imagine the horror?
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GETLIFE
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 2:55pm
OBSCURITY: you should go and look up the details on that required vacation time. Let us know if you think that’s what progressives are after.
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lightbeam
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:57pm
WIKILEAKS has notes from Penatgon describing a low-orbit weapons satellite with the ability to change orbits and go geosynchronous. It can hold its position over the earth for as long as commanded, and then be driven to a new location or cruise at different speeds. It was defined as experimental and undetermined which country operates the satellite. There is a connection to the Haiti earthquake, and there is information connected to the earthquake-tsunami-nukeout in Japan. The location of the earthquakes are near worste case scenario generation points for each region. The messages indicate that Haiti could have been a test ground. More later…..
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:44am
  When I get a 9.0 earthquake here in Detroit, then I’ll buy it. Until then I’ll keep in mind that both areas are in quake zones and, in Haiti’s case, are unsophisticated in building structures able to survive even low mag earthquakes.
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jedi.kep
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 12:26pm
These pictures are truly terrifying. I cannot imagine watching my town swept away like that. Horrifying.
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peezee
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:21am
“Progressives” must hate the Japanese. They are calm and humble. These leftist bratty children have to hate that because the contrast shows the world just how petty and selfish they are.

Progressives are weak and seek to bring the world down to their level rather than rise up to where the strong Japanese people are. One of these brave souls are worth 100 of these whiny entitlement obsessed parasites.
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- obscurity
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 2:18pm
  Peezee, I’d say Japan is more progressive than conservative. They have a universal health care system, high taxes, unions with fairly good support, are considered a leader in the environmental movement, minimum wage standards, and abortion is widely accepted there. The country also requires a minimum amount of yearly vacation time for an employee regardless of where they work, public or private. Just sayin’. :) I wouldn’t mind that last bit here in the states.
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:40am
  Not to mention the encouragement to buck individualism. With all our problems I‘ll take the good ol’ USA any day!
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LOOKINGFORGW
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:08am
There is no humor in this disaster. We need to help the people of Japan. Who is leading?
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- EqualJustice
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:35am
  Humor makes it a little easier to digest… it’s just like what happened in New Orleans. You can watch, send money, pray, but it won’t get help to people who are CUT OFF from the outside with no power, no roads, no airports and no way to communicate. I seem to remember some criticism of Bush during that crucial time. We think BO should be taking the lead in this and not focusing on BBall. Act at least as quickly as he responded to the WI UNION protests with support! We try to laugh so we can stop crying. These videos are painful to watch. :(
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- skippy6
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:14am
  You’re right, I’m donating to help that Country. Anyone else??
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Mr. Apathy
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:05am
I guess it is false to say they did everything they could to prepare for this. I remember being told a centuries old tale about the tsunami waves. Despite having a warning system and the chance to get away someone they stayed to film this. How many also did and did not survive?
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skippy6
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:49am
Holy SH##! Golf Anyone?
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- WAR PIGS CRAWLING
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:31am
  Every time I see these amazing videos, I can’t help but say “Holy SH##” too…even expletives don’t express the astonishment, fear, and sorrow I feel for these folks. I pray that those that survive can find a measure of comfort…
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- Dale
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 11:00am
  No, thanks – I’m going ta Disn – no, er South America.
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CameronIL
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:26am
Amazing video and very sad.
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HTuttle
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:20am
That is one sturdy damn building in the front there!
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:32am
  @HTUTTLE ~~~ Indeed!!!
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- PrfctlyFrank
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:33am
  You noticed that too? That structure was under unbelievable pressure and stood there like a rock.. If the Japanese had invented Chinese food they’d be perfect..
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Ialmostforgot
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:20am
Its not nice to fool mother nature.
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Gonzo
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:15am
Too bad Ted Kennedy didn’t drive a Japanese minivan, they seem to float.
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- Thighmaster
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:28am
  you think Mary Jo would have survived then?
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:31am
  @ GONZO ~~~ LOL That was funny…. but not very under the circumstances. Thanks for the bit of humor though.
  
  My mouth continues to fall open at the destruction. It closes when I stand/kneel in wonder at the miracles GOD has and is providing for the Japanese people at this time.
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- TheRevInCo
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:36am
  Amen to that!
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:38am
  kickagrandma
  Sorry, my heart aches for Japan too. I’m ready for some good news from there. They came back strong after WWII but, that was with a ton of U.S. support. I doubt we are in a position to help to the same extent we did back then.
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- Oil_Robb
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:19am
  Where does a fella find himself one of those Sunomi”s….I could use one on the border towns and maybe one in Compton Riverside and East St.Louis
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:37am
  @Oil_Rob
  
  Don’t forget Detroit (even though I’m just outside it)!
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ComeAndTakeThis
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:15am
Pray for the people of Japan.
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- poverty.sucks
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:48am
  I pray for the poeple of Japan to see the goodness of the christians support they receive and hear the words of God and come to him.
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:28am
  @Poverty.sucks
  
  Amen, well said.
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 3:05pm
  POVERTY: It is a part of their culture to be keenly aware of what others do for them. I‘m sure they’re way ahead of you, and are even appreciating the non-Christian support. Can they get to God that way too?
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- kris843
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 12:50pm
  Well said, GETLIFE, well said.
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Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:06am
I can’t even imagine what it must have been like to experience this. My prayers go out to the people of Japan.
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teddrunk
Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:06am
Quit showing these scenes of destruction in Japan. Everyone knows you SHOULD be reporting on the NCAA tournament in every article and how the brackets are doing. Just ask our Spectator in Chief.
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- GeneralBeasley
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:11am
  haha spectator in chief, now I very carefully watched his team picks, and went with the exact opposite, it’s a sure fire win.
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:11am
  We can get to the tragedy in Japan later, now, this hoops thing, that‘s what’s important.
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- nuttyvet
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 8:48am
  This makes me realize that the Libs are SO wrong when they say humans are to blame for climate change. When it comes to the Earth, Humans are not that important. We don’t dictate the future of this planet. It the planet wants to, it can shake us off like flees.
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 9:07am
  Listen, I am for one glad they show these moments, the combination of all thirteen so far shows to all just the total magnitude of the disaster; and the humanity being impacted as well. For history if anything else, let them be shown.
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- Tony
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:09am
  I thought when we elected Obama as our chief executive, resident theologian, and savior, we had made atonement for all of our past sins against mother earth. Didn’t Obama, with his great oratory powers, say our seas would be restored to their proper boundaries, mother earth would calm once again and legs would tingle with excitement as we witness his greatness? Well at least one leg tingled. But possibly what Chris felt on his leg was a warm liquid Progressives tend to emit on others. Chris often loses control and he is aging a bit prematurely.
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- Oil_Robb
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 10:39am
  Go on youtube and search Dr. Manning
  The smartest Black man Ive ever run across
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- banjarmon
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:04pm
  This is something that will effect the world for a long time. if you want to see round ball go watch your TV or go to a different sports sight on the net, and leave your comments there!
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- Larry Notes
  Posted on March 19, 2011 at 2:02pm
  O ran away
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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on March 20, 2011 at 11:35am
  Sarcasm, people, sarcasm.
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