Looked it up. And wow, yeah . 2 kilometres inland. https://i.imgur.com/UXJXOMP.png

And it's fucking HUGE https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Generator_ship_lands_5_km_inland_after_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami%3B_Andy_Doyle%3B_July_2008.jpg

You're mixing several events there.

Some years ago I was in Banda Aceh, the town on the tip of Sumatra where the 2004 tsunami made first landfall. They have a tsunami museum there, and a generator ship that used to be in the harbor is also maintained as a monument where the tsunami dropped it - some two or three kilometers inland on top of a house. Blew my mind to be honest...

Ahhhhh! Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining

That was new 12 years ago.

It's amazing the natural disasters that have happened in the last 20 years that people seem to have just completely forgotten about.

In 2004 an earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed almost a quarter of a million people.

In 2010 300000 people were killed in an earthquake in Haiti. Crickets.

It's absolutely wild. I'm not suggesting we're bad people or anything, or what the reasoning is, but it's pretty mind boggling.

Some of the repeated footage is also at a far higher quality than I have seen. I remember watching coverage live.

It's still crazy to thing that in 2004 a Tsunami killed nearly 230,000 people. It seems like such a huge event that has mostly been forgotten

Quite indelible to the hippocampus

なんでやねん

I was driving home from uni and heard on the radio it was all kicking off. Turned the tv on and gave my mate a call whose parents and young siblings were living in Japan at the time. Took waaaay to long to get in contact with the family. Very scary afternoon.

The effort to clean up after that must have been incredible. There was probably a million tons of debris.

Yeah, it was like a movie. I remember that wave of water going over the low flat land and seeing a car driving down the road, all of a sudden a big burning boat riding a wave of debris is nearly crashing into the car and they barely get away.

-masu (pronounced “mass”) is a common verb ending in Japanese. It’s like “-ing” in English.

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Ahh sheeeit.

But don't forget the very worst part was a nuclear meltdown that required 60,000 to be relocated/s. The Tsunami was devastating, everything washed away, hundreds of thousands killed, but nuclear was the dangerous lesson for part of the world. It was so bad and the government was so unprepared the Yakuza started running supplies to help communities without extortion.

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Incredible footage of VIDEO UNAVAILABLE

And that the flood waters were also carrying fires and explosions with them just floating along

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Yeah they come in waves

Jump to 15:51 @ 3/11 — The Tsunami: The First 3 Days - NHK WORLD PRIME

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Just came across this on YouTube. This footage is visceral. At 15:51, the cameraperson perfectly captures the immediate shock of the flooding event. What a terrifying experience... Floody muddy burning chaos.

Why didn’t you look out the window?