Japan Quake Moment #14: Tsunami Swarms Kesennuma
- Posted on March 27, 2011 at 10:15pm by
Scott Baker
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A stunning video posted on YouTube captures the Japan tsunami ravaging the city of Kesennuma, in the northeastern part of the country.
The clip begins as a wall of water breaches the coastline and starts sweeping away a parking lot of cars. Sirens sound and a man’s voice is heard giving alerts as the water quickly engulfs the entire area. Within minutes, the surging water has left a path of mass destruction as cars are swept away and buildings are reduced to rubble.
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Comments (43)
antirino
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:06amNo video.
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 9:24amThanks xployer. Speechless!
Report Post »gator-gal
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 9:22amu-tube has been taken down..poltics as usual…bet google abd u-tube are in cohooots with white house.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 9:00amThank you Xplorer, that was an amazing video. Everything just wiped away by water… God Bless Japan.
Report Post »Xplorer
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 8:41amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U44qDNRriKo
I believe this is the same video and it is working as of my post
Report Post »Mack truck
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 7:04amWow!!! Not in charge of things as we like to believe. God not their emperor, will see them through this mess.
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 6:24amA tremendous video. It becomes obvious after watching that the videographer has absolutely no place with which to escape. The fear must have been palpable.
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:29amThe peron who took that video has some balls no doubt.
Report Post »Player To Be Named Later
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:00amThis is the best/worst video I have seen of this disaster. The extent of the damage is biblical. What a nightmare.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:43amObviously, whoever shot this video did make it through the tsunami..but…my question is, “How did they know that the building they were filming from wasn’t going to be washed away as well?”…
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 5:29amIt must have been very scary, and the building must have been very strong, made of cement and rock.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:28amTalk about a serious “Pucker” factor. Holy crap…. that’s almost 3 stories of water (30ft)….
Report Post »Dick Blitskreig
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:50amHoly sh#t!!!!!
Report Post »eMinistry
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:49amHow can they stand there and film this horror…its just horrible to watch. God help us…
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:43amGood Lord !!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:28amDid you all know they had a volcano erupt alone with everything else? Shinmoedake volcano. Sucks to live in Japan at the moment! God help those people. At least most of them had enough sense to be prepared.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:31amYes I heard about it, similar to one erupting after that big quake hitting Indonesia last year, I think it was a 7.0 or so and within hours, the volcano went active as well.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:41amI heard about it tonight for the first time. It reminds me of Indiana Jones Temple of Doom where he’s hanging off the half of a foot bridge. While hanging there, the Thuggie shoot two dozen arrows at him (all of them miss), and Indy turns around with a look of bewilderment on his face and says, “Jeez!” (or ‘sheesh’ or whatever it was). I can’t help but feel that way for Japan. Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuke disaster, and a volcano. What’s next? I hope nothing!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 2:08amWell, they were prepard for the tsunami, not for the nuclear disaster. Japan’s seafood industry has suffered an irreparable blow, IMO.
Report Post »Godzillalips
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:13amHollywood pales in comparison. Hope we are ready in California.
Report Post »CHEWYRUNTS
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:09amlook where the water level was when the video started. 5 minutes, that is all it took 5 MINUTES!! your entire world can change in such a short amount of time.
Report Post »LOSTAGAIN
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:54pmNo words…..
Report Post »avlmtns
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:54pmThis is insane. We must keep praying for the Japanese people.
Report Post »anniegirl
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:43pmThey had a 6.5 quake earlier today.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:42pmGod Help us – ALL.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:38pmIt reminded me of what the eastern half of North Carolina looked like when Hurricane Floyd hit. The water didn’t sweep buildings away like that, but Tarboro and another city were almost entirely under water. Rose Hill, in Duplin County, was an island.
Japan has really been run through the wringer!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:08amShowtime:
I showed the first set of thirteen videos to my relatives today, and they just shook their own heads in disbelief; they still cannot grasp that this has happened. I had to explain that while it may be among the rarest of events for this magnitude to occur, the japanese isles lost that day.
Report Post »sabrinacle
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:29pmOMG. It just kept coming and coming and coming. Those poor people
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:23pmSpeechless
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:39pmIt surely got quiet in my room.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 10:12amMe too since the video has been taken down!!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-NT
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:22pmIs this from the newest earthquake or from the original one?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:32pmI think this was from the original one.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:33pmYes, it is from the original one if the date of 11 march 11 on the video is correct.
Report Post »chubbzbar
Posted on March 27, 2011 at 11:37pmThe original
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 12:08amI would have liked to see the whole event and what it looked like as the waters receeded. did it bring everything back with it or just dump it at the far end. Amazing video it looked like the waters went up to the third floor, about 30 feet. Just amazing the power of Nature. I bet PETA is angry that a lot of sea life was washed ashore and were killed. I suppose they will be saying that humans are not allowed now to obstruct the water flow over land with stuctures of anykind so that if this happens again the fish can swim back out to sea! We are so bad as humans that we don’t take into account the wildlife. we should all live in huts that are easy washed away and gives free access to the fish.
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Report Post »GrannyATL
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:43amWhen you think Tsunami, we often think of a monumental wave that washes in and then washes back out. As we can now see, the force and longevity of this massive “wave” lasted more than five minutes and was strong enough to wipe out all but the tallest buildings.
God help those who were washed away as well as those who stood on these buildings and had to witness the diaster unfolding before their eyes.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 1:56amWhat’s happening around the world tells me that God is not happy!
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Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 5:20amWow! That is one very scary tsunami. It was reported yesterday that there were places where the tsunami was up to 16 meters high. Japan does have a lot of tsunamis, but they never had one like this before. Though in the year 869 there may have been one like this, and this was brought up when the plans for the Fukushima nuke plant was being discussed, but they dismissed it and said that it would never happen again, but it did.
Report Post »Bob Holland
Posted on March 28, 2011 at 8:37amAre you kidding me. I watched this video just 6 hours ago and now it’s been taken down by the uploader. How many times are people going to do this. Is it just because it’s on the blaze and someone is playing politics? Hmmm I don’t know.
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