6 minutes of that would feel like an absolute eternity

I didn't realize there was this much extra footage I didn't see. Absolutely surreal event.

> "my car's finished...I'm finished....everything is finished..."

-the speed of the Tsunami -number of people left homeless and hungry -dealing with the multiple aftershocks -the nuclear reactor's emergency systems failing

Thank god Japan's emergency and relief services had their shit together or this would have been so much worse.

The scariest disasters are known as mass extinction events. There have been 5 in the history of the earth. These disasters add numerous species to the extinction list

The last one was 66 million years ago and killed 75% of all species. The gap between these events has been as short as 20 million years and as long as 130 million years

The scariest of these events is an asteroid collision. Hard to detect, can happen out of nowhere, and absolutely devastates the earth including very extended environment changes

After reading up on natural disasters of the past and reading about massive floods in almost every civilization around the world, it truly is terrifying.

And knowing how little we know about our ocean floor. Everything could just get washed away and sink and all that’s left is the giant rocks we stacked up.

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Cringe

I am rewatching on Disney and saw that episode last night

I’m not sure why every time this comes up there’s some need to blame the rest of the world for reacting to the nuclear meltdown. The Japanese government clearly saw it as a concern too, hence the evacuation.

It’s why people die trying to cross fast moving streams. “Oh it’s not even knee deep” yeah but that hoe is MOVING and has a ton of force

I lived there at the time, I can't bring myself to see the footage again.

Love this show, it's so good and underrated! fairly rated!

what happened to that boat

And it's full of broken stuff

The strength of water is almost incomprehensible

Even seeing it live is almost unbelievable

I think it’s also why people won’t respect even a mild wave when they should

In anchorage a few years ago there was a big quake at Xmas time, the one that broke the on-ramp from airport road to Minnesota drive. Scary in the moment, but the aftershocks are worse in terms of mental health, over 220 aftershocks “above 5.0” sounds terrible

Well there were all those Americans posting videos callously saying that this was “pay back for Pearl Harbor”. Because apparently dropping two nuclear bombs on them was not “pay back” enough. I think a lot of this forgetting is caused by a lack of caring or outright disregard.

I mean none of them were related to climate change so...

Ultimately, the official total for the number of those confirmed dead or listed as missing from the disaster was about 18,500, although other estimates gave a final toll of at least 20,000.

This is "Faces of Death" on a grand scale.

It was aftershocking

The 2004 Tsunami was massive news at the time.

The 220+ separate aftershocks above a 5.0 was also shocking to me as well.

Japan has the 3rd highest GDP in the world.

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It's strange, in movies they always showed tsunamis as a big, arching wave. Somehow, real tsunamis are more terrifying, because it's not one big wave, it's a constant push / flow of water that just doesn't stop.