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Japan Quake Moment #8: Tsunami Impact Caught on Video in Fishing Port of Miyako

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.

BBC News:

Newly emerged footage shows the force at which the tsunami struck Japan’s coast.

In the fishing port of Miyako, in Iwate prefecture, boats were overturned, while video from Kamaishi city shows cars being dragged down city streets by the water.

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  • cologoddess
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:43pm

    what is so strange to me is that the ppl who are recording this immense event are silent? how could you look at this happening right under your feet and be silent? very strange to me…. i know… japanese are different – but……… ?

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:38pm

    I just watched another youtube video where, entire row of houses were wipped out and moved along like it was nothing. I keep thinking back to their current estimate of 10,000 dead. Even with advanced warning systems, if they managed to move these people out of harms way in time, it’s a miracle in itself.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:34pm

    DAYUMM! Seriously, may the good Lord be with them!

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  • inferno
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:34pm

    It’s hard to believe that alleged union people are protesting their need for more and more taxpayer funding while the Japanese people have suffered one of the greatest disasters in their history. It’s
    pathetic. Imagine if you will , whole families lost, never to be found, perhaps washed to sea, while family members and friends are left to mourn their loss. I would suggest all of us, including those in Wisconsin rearrange our priorities. I’m aware that a great number of those on the left in this country
    believe there is nothing nor anyone more important than their warped cause. They are beyond all hope. The rest of us must remember what is really important in our lives.

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    • DeadFred
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:53am

      Amen …to that. Are we all prepared to be our best selves, and quit being so, “me, me, me”

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  • Billsocal
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:24pm

    I feel for the Japanese people. I ve been through some big earthquakes here in So Cal. The Whttier quake in the 80s and the Northridge quake in the 90s.. In fact I was doing my business on the stool when the Northridge quake hit. I glad to see that our country is there to help the Japanese. this quake prove with strict building code a building will come through a bad earthquake okay. The earthquake in Christcurch hit were there aren’t as strict building codes as Japan or California. Also having 5,000 earthquakes since the 7.2 in Sept didn’t help either. There is a report on Drudge I think that a volcano in southeast Japan has erupted. The Earth she is going crazy and Planet X is getting closer..

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  • sadmanwhossane
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:24pm

    Tragedy of epic proportions!

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  • jordy2010
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:23pm

    Behold the power of Mother Nature!!!!!!! ……….and to think that a few phd’s at the UN actually believe that carbon dioxide will destroy this planet and that MAN can destroy the earth……

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  • EZDOZIT
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:48pm

    Japans destruction may be a 100 times wrose than our 9-11. The Japanese people will recover and rebuild better than before. That is who they are. And americans will help them because that is who we are.We mourn for the people of Japan that have lost their love ones.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:58pm

      I have to agree with you 100%

      After the war, we are kinda joined at the hip. The “honorable enemy.” The fight was long and hard. But after all is said and done, our fate is glued to their fate, and vice versa.

      If this administration doesn’t step up and do everything that this country is capable of to help our friends at the hour of their greatest need, we are truly finished as a world power.

      But then again, I am seriously biased when it comes to Japan. Too many years, too many friends.

      Take my postings for what they are worth.

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  • Wilma
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:38pm

    What must have been going through the mind of the videographer as he faced the wrath of mother nature?

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 8:02pm

      Japanese reporters and journalists are surprisingly bold. Many were killed in Vietnam and Cambodia, just because they wanted to get a first-hand look.

      He was just being a good reporter.

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  • lampshade
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:37pm

    I look at the pictures and wonder where does one even begin? Japan, I’m so sorry

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Wow! The incredible force of Mother Nature is unstoppable and hard to conceive. Such power and strength that can not be controlled by man. Thank you Lord for these reminders of just how almighty you really are! May God’s grace and comfort and peace be with those people that have been effected.

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  • RingADingDing
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:31pm

    Crazy stuff. That looked like a movie.

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  • Ecodancer
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:28pm

    TheThe awesome power of nature! It’s nothing to take lightly. We must strive to keep our families and friends safe by choosing to live in areas where hazards like these cannot reach us . Power plants need to also be situated in safer regions!

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:44pm

      those nuclear power plants are on bedrock

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:02pm

      The entire country of japan is on a fault so where else can they build them?

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:26pm

    The reports I’ve heard are estimating that more than 200,000 people left the low lying areas when the tsunami alarms went off. They had between 1 and 2 minutes to heed the warning. Preparedness really paid off for those who heeded the warnings.

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:40pm

      I didn’t hear the tsunami alarms in the video. With only a few minutes between the quake and the tsunami I wonder how many towns even got any warning at all. This town did not. I would be willing to bet hundreds if not thousands of people within the camera shot perished.

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:45pm

      How can 200,000 leave low lying areas in 1 to 2 minutes?

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    • JP4JOY
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:43pm

      I don’t have separate corroboration of the alarms just what one reporter said in an interview from Japan.

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:26pm

    Every time I see one of these video I cannot help but wonder how many people we are watching die. You can see people and cars just two or three blocks away who have no idea of what is coming. One moment they are on a peaceful street corner and the next moment they are in the middle of a raging river.
    It’s horrible.

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  • proantisocialist
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

    how once our enemy,now our friend,god bless all during this tragedy.

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  • cap0ne
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:20pm

    End of Days.

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    • Oatsy
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:30pm

      May or may not be the end of days. But why not live life each day as if you are going to see your Maker? Love God, love your family, love your neighbor. Strive to please God.

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    • MS70
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:50am

      Amen. Let’s all keep our faith strong. This is the beginning of his sorrows.

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  • Oatsy
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:18pm

    The devastation is so overwhelming that it’s hard to grasp. I pray that those who died did not suffer and that those who have survived will be given all the help they need to restore their country.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:17pm

    I sent this to The Blaze, but I’m not sure how they could use it.

    Satellite view of various Japanese cities before and after the quake and tsunami. There’s a slider for each set of pictures so you can get a wider view of before and after.

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?ref=asia

    The videos that keep pouring in at The Blaze are mindboggling!

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:27pm

      hey show……those pictures are revealing, but can they locate the same area pictures and compare them? those pictures show the devastation obviously, but they are not before and afters as the locations dont match up to corresponding locations look closely

      in other words, they show what one part of a city looks like before, and another part of the city looks afterwards it shows the damage and it is intense, but they are not true before and afters

      oh well just thought i would let ya know

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:40pm

      I thought so too, but use the ‘slider’ in the center of each picture. Click and hold and move to left or right to see before and after.

      Thanks, Show.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:40pm

      @ psyc

      LOOK AGAIN those ARE the same areas..

      the only thing missing from 1945 is the radiation!

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    • BeardedDog
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Unreal. Great post. I feel like the luckiest person on Earth right now. I felt that way in ‘07 too when I spent a lot of time in the hospital watching my dad fight a losing battle with cancer but this is like that several million times over. God help them all.

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    • Katydidnt
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Those before and after shots are the most profoundly disturbing shots. It shows how completely devastated these towns were, I just kept remembering the words that are said at the begining of every lent on Ash Wednesday. “Remember man that thou are dust, and unto dust you shall return.” Let us remember our ends, this Lent and prepare not just for a disaster, but for meeting God. Forgive, Repent, and Love.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:51pm

      Just trying to keep up with CheezWhiz and AZDebi! :-)

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  • Packer-dad
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:15pm

    Water is powerful,how can anyone prepare for that

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  • AmericanWarrior
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:14pm

    If you ever wanted to know what the end of the world looks like… this is probably closes to it… then add hot-rain to it & the earthquake devastation… Japan is living in hell on earth… God help them…

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:18pm

      I can’t imagine it is much better for our troops overseas, either.

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:47pm

      The Japanese have weathered far worse. History in modern schools has failed to portray what has really happened in the past.

      They are resilient, and have experience with tragedy that none of us will ever know.

      Radiation awareness and countermeasures? Hell, they invented it.

      They have survived much worse, they will take this in stride.

      After all: Ware Ware Wa, Nihonjin Dayo!

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  • randy
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:12pm

    May God bless these poor poor people!

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    • Cesium
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:23pm

      huh,,yea sure..he blessed em alright.. just like he continues to do so much of the time.

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    • MS70
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:44am

      Your alive aren’t you? Don’t test the Lord.

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  • JbTuffGirl
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:08pm

    This is so humbling. Praying for those that are in need in Japan. Nothing could ever prepare a family for this type of destruction. I hope every American who can spare a little, will be able to reach out and make a donation. Does the Blaze have any good organizations to suggest?

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  • Mr Caps
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:06pm

    Amazing!

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    • GdHUs
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:03am

      @walkwithme1966hippie
      Thanks for plugging that wonderful family oriented organization, Planned Annihiltion uh, I mean Parenthood. I’m sure that 11 year old girl in Cleveland, TX and her 18 “friends” saw that delightful video too. It’s thoughtful of you to remind kids that sex is great and that simply everybody does it. In doing so I’m sure PP can count on a steady, uninterrupted stream of those wonderful abortion customers.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:06pm

    OMG it’s scary & it’s a big disaster .

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:15pm

      The more you see these videos and photos, the more it gets slammed home how precious life of any human really is at the first hand experience; the earth moves, the oceans flow inland and out again, and the human will to survive kicks in along with the determination to rebuild and show we have been bowed yet not broken and defeated in the face of any adversity.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:36pm

      This is a horrible disaster, please pray for my friends in Kamaishi and everyone else in Japan. Kamaishi is shown in one of the first stories about the tsunami.

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:40pm

      Yes it is, but what is the lesson we should learn from this? Prepare, prepare for the worst hope for the best! I said the night this happened when Fox’s Courtney Friel was reporting from Hawaii she stated ppl were getting food and water but in total the island only had enough to feed everyone for 5 days! She also commented there were lines at every gas station. Imagine if what happened in Japan happened there!

      IMO this is a warning shot across all of our bows and is why Glenn has been adamant about preparing. Do what you can as this disaster just proves it can happen to anyone anywhere at anytime!

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:50pm

      Keep in mind that this surge spread across hundreds of miles of coastline.

      Way, way bigger than anything a hurricane or cyclone could produce.

      The effects in life and property damage have been consistently understated

      I think the damage could easily top $100 billion and the deaths in the many tens or low hundreds of thousands.

      Keep in mind also that Japan holds near a TRILLION dollars in US treasuries, besides being 2 times their GDP in debt themselves.

      Bernanke’s printing press will be in competition with Japan as they try to unload the debt for reconstruction.

      As the enormity of the cost of this cataclysm becomes clear, the currency markets will be very “interesting” to watch.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 5:59pm

      SAVINGTHEREPUBLIC, Very good tip. You are so right about being prepared. Am in Hawaii, and the night of the tsunami warning I realized how unprepared I was, low on everything that would have been needed if a real disaster had happened here. Now I’m stocking up.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:31pm

      All of a sudden living in the desert of Arizona doesn’t seem so bad.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:32pm

      The more we‘re watching the more we’re learning how big this disaster is , mother nature is so powerful , maybe this will shut the loons for a while that keep talking about “man made” things in nature .
      Japan needs a lot of prayers & all kinds of support .

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:08pm

      This morning a volcano erupted in Kyushu in the south almost 1000 miles from the earthquake epicenter.

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    • ForeignWatcher
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:32pm

      The moment I realised that i saw the guy in the orange dress die i felt pretty sick.

      Would have liked a disclaimer here, i wasnt prepared…

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:41pm

      The Japanese are cutting edge on earthquakes and tsunami. They were PREPARED for this. But no matter how prepared, you can be overwhelmed. And they were.

      Had this been any other country, even ours, I believe the destruction and loss of life would have been ten fold.

      No one will ever know or be able to calculate the final tally, but in my humble opinion, the Japanese were about as well prepared as any country could be. This whole thing just points up to the true nature of God and the universe.

      We are here and live only at God’s mercy and design.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:48pm

      ForeignWatcher
      I am sorry , I did not see it. Can you post the time on the clip when you saw it?

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:54pm

      Well said Al Gator

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    • NotaLemming
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 9:19pm

      LIVE Stream News for Japans News Agencies; coverage is in English: http://t.co/rSWjhz6

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    • Conserving Ink
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:19pm

      Hollywood is going to have to step up their game. I don’t think their special effects are up to scaring us after this.
      __________________________________________
      http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:19am

      Now is the the time for people acroos the globe to come together and help Japan to show that the nature of man is more than one of domainance but rather of love,respect and perservence in the face of disaster even one as great and on going as this.

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    • TenStrings
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:01pm

      @PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:48pm
      ForeignWatcher
      I am sorry , I did not see it. Can you post the time on the clip when you saw it?

      I think what ForeignWatcher saw was actually a flag on one of the boats in the beginning of the clip. Though I did notice the vehicles traveling on a roadway that were undoubtedly swept away. Tragic!

      TenStrings  
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