Video: Japan earthquake tsunami footage showing intense force

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By Brett Davis | March 29th, 2011

A new video has emerged on the web showing an extensive view of the sheer power of the recent tsunami in Japan. The video was captured by an onlooker who was stranded on top of a building near the port of Kesennuma.

At first, the water seems to trickle over the harbour wall, but as time passes the speed and flow of water just keeps rising to unbelievable levels, taking everything in its path. Cars are tossed and tumbled literally like they are toys in a bath tub. Even an entire shed/factory is picked up and swept downstream, squashing cars against buildings.

Simply mind-blowing footage showing just how vulnerable cars can be. In these circumstances it’s highly recommended not to try and outrun the water before it reaches you, safety personnel recommend trekking to higher ground by foot. But as the footage proves, there’s hardly any time to prepare for such a catastrophe.

Accountant

Unbelievable
toxic_horse

poor people. are those bodies you see floating over the wall on the bottom left right at the start.
nugsdad

Mesmerisingly staggering
ST

These people videoing this are so lucky that their building is anchoured into the ground sufficiently into the ground that it didn\’t get swept away like the other smaller buildings given the forces acting at the base of the building would be huge against a relatively flat surface.
Nobody

Earth’s end is closer than ever….Never too late to join swimming classes.
Henry

Poor People, Poor Buildings, Poor Cars Poor everything and everyone
Joker

Just when you thought the torrent couldn’t get any worse in the first few minutes, it turns into a deluge beyond comprehension. You gauge its force as “terrible” when you see the cars getting knocked over like skittles…it quickly becomes horrific when you can’t even make out the landscape for the Tsunami steam rolling it…my exchange student and her family are in Sendai- I haven’t been able to contact her…watching that leaves little hope for me..
Shak

My thoughts and prayers go out again to all those who are still suffering. But the pace of recovery and redevelopment is quite remarkable, proving that the Japanese are as tough as galvanised nails!
Benza

That’s horrific.. But they’re re rebuilding at a very fast pace.. Which is good.
John B

This is terrible! Those poor people stood no chance. We should learn and not build on low grounds. The Japanese have a very tough time ahead. I feel for them. I think this is more too do with the solar system lining up than global warming. God help us all over the next 2-3 years.

CLINTON

can you please explane in more detail what you mean by the solar system lining up???

Joker

2012 December…Apparently all the planets will align..
Some people are saying this will lead to the end of the earth or a new era of enlightenment…Majority of Scientists say nothing will happen..We just had the Moon at it’s closest proximity to earth in a long time and there was no major disaster as some fringe theorists purported.

The sky is not falling…Natural disasters just occur at any place and any time. Japan had a catastrophic earth quake worse than Sendai that killed 130,000 people in the 1930′s.

They were in fact due for another…this is a once in 80 year earthquake. They were ready for it. Just not the ensuing Tsunami.

Andrew M

Maybe something will happen 2012, maybe something wont. Either way there is no denying that the planet and solar system operate on a big cycle.

These cycles are responsible for the ice ages and other eras associated with big changes to climate. Forget about a the petition to get sooty old diesels off the road, they arent responsible for the changes in climate, and majority of scientists will agree with that.

I think its something like 90% of scientists dont believe human activity nor intervention will change any of what is happening.

There is a few theories about 2012, they all pretty much all say a gravitational force from something in the solar system will cause a dramatic chane in the earths axis. This, if it does happen will quite obviously affect the seasons

Jer

Power of the the mass water is staggering. Nothing can stand against it.
BK

As tough as my F6
Octavian

This footage gave me the creeps, I feel very sorry for those affected.
adam smolkowicz

Now that’s what you call powerful
ian

there is no mystery to what happened its straightforward effects of plate tectonics, whats problematic is humans live in areas where in a sense they should not, this will happen again possibly tomorrow, there is a reasonable probablity one day Tokyo will be devasted by a large earthquake as will San Francisco, like wise the Eastern mediterranean and other areas where plates collide, luckily for me i live in the central quiet area of the euro plate so i am never affected, same with general floods for example Bangladesh will in the future have many deaths when a storm surge from the Ocean meets floods from a particularly bad monsoon season, and so it goes on.
Victims of the Japanese tsunami R.i.p
mat in sd

One of the scariest and most devastating videos showing total destruction by the ocean. It is both terrifying and heartbreaking and there is nothing we can do to stop it from happening. It leaves one feeling how insignificant and small humans really are. Do what you can to help the people of Japan.