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What a tsunami looks like before it hits land… #interesting

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@ottogreen2749 says:

The thought of being on that boat and knowing that seemingly innocent, albeit large wave, is going inland to take lives and damage billions in property, and there's absolutely nothing I could do to help makes me feel weird.

@astramari28 says:

It's the volume not the height basically

@1Scimetar says:

No, the voice-over was right. While millions weren't displaced from their homes by flooding, blackouts, or radiation from the nuclear-powered generators damaged by the tsunami, millions were affected by the resulting shutdowns in industrial production. For example, at the time Fukushima was hit, Chevrolet was sourcing the transmissions for their volt cars from a factory that was forced to shut down when the workers had yo be evacuated from their homes following the incident.

@Wobbly_Iife says:

Fukushima nuclear disaster

If you understood the reference then good for you

@zachkilla8803 says:

Jessica watson has faced more than that wave..

@aaronpitcher4886 says:

The height isnt the worrying part out there. Its the fact that wave was horizon to horizon left to right

@Taking_the_break says:

I wonder if you should just swim out of you have enough time

@Ryu-kyunaro says:

Sierra Madre be like:tsunamis and typhoons/hurricanes are nothing to me

@mikeyd946 says:

So scary 🫣

@icecream6256 says:

For those of you wondering, tsunami starts out very small, like around 30cm small when they're just formed. But they're very quick, we're talking 250-300km/h. As it goes closer to land however, it becomes slower because the seabed is closer to the surface of the sea, making the friction higher and it converts the kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy, making it very tall and slow. Some can go as tall is 10-15 metre while loosing most of its speed m. So yes, if sailors go into the ocean, they will only hit a 30cm bump. But in the coast they'll get hit by a 12m behemoth.

This knowledge was learnt when i was in geography class 9 years ago, so take it with a grain of salt and correction is appreciated.

@H4CK3RonYT says:

Imagine how that must feel being on that ship

@riddlemehuh says:

Don't need your explanation. This is poor. And a waste of time.

@SleepingWithShotguns says:

Best example of how those waves hit
As it gets closer to land. And the beach becomes more shallow, the wave bunches up on itself increasing hieght while trading off velocity. However with that much energy behind it this velocity save will not orevent the wave from hitting shore

Kinda like rolling up a carpet then unrolling it the other way. Most tsunamis start out as nothing more then a slight ripple. However this ripple is across a absolutely huge volume of water.

@brettmartin4626 says:

That damn tsunami ruined my trip i had planned two weeks after it hit.

@EKSBEntertainment says:

I was in Ishinomaki that day it was 35+m high wave due to the mountainsm

@Spacewalker1870 says:

tsunami waves are small when traveling over open ocean, but once they reach land they slow down a bit and become much taller/bigger

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