Posted: 3/14/2011 8:03:44 PM EDT
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http://www.dump.com/2011/03/12/crazy-video-of-the-ground-shifting-during-the-japanese-quake-video/
Something I've always taken for granted......solid ground. |
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Here is a link to a scary video
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/this-is-the-scariest-first-person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet/ Seems to work for most. |
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Quoted: Here is a link to a scary video http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/this-is-the-scariest-first-person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet/ Seems to work for most. Pause the video at 00:52 and notice the yellow awning. By 04:54, it's under water. That's what, 10, 13 feet? Incredible. |
| Not video, but before and after pictures taken from aircraft. It has a scrolling tab that shows before and after damage. Here |
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I put this with some grabs of the high wave in the BIG thread Look how high the wave is behind those houses and buildings, before the big splashing white.. you can see the waves crest above the buildings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4oxbUUr130&feature=related this one is full of carnage and there is a person standing out on a roof in it all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrNDYPidWU (a little off the topic of ground shaking) I have seen another video like the one in the OP taken in Chiba by another westerner/American and the ground was doing similar things, water was flooding out of the manholes and drainage.. the ground opening up like that looks like its ready to chew a leg up.... watch your step.... |
| The violence of the quake isn't what amazes me.. it's the fact that it went on for TWO MINUTES. The longest quake I've been in was probably 30 seconds, and that was still long enough to wonder if it would *ever* end.. two minutes has to seem like the end of the world. |
| Here in Calif, I've in my share of quakes, and they usually last maybe 1 minute tops. 2 minutes is a long time. The water you see is probably water from Tokyo Bay, even though they raised the ground up high enough, down below is probably water, and it is being pushed up by the quake. |
