Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scariest Tsunamis
Caught on Camera.
Tsunamis are large displacements of water and are generally triggered by underwater
earthquakes, landslides or volcanic eruptions.
Over the years, they have contributed to some of the biggest natural disasters in history,
killing millions.
On this list are still and moving images taken of some of the most devastating tsunamis of
all time.
Stay tuned for some true chaos.
10 - Tidal Wave Destroys a Boat Uploaded to Youtube by Multi Movie Player,
this insane Tsunami video has had over 4.7 million views.
Watch as the GIANT WAVE absolutely decimates the boat.
I don’t know who was recording this and from what distance, but this is far out.
We assume everyone on board lost their lives.
9 - Boat on House How does a boat end up on top of a house?
A tsunami, that is how.
This picture is of the aftermath of the terrifying Japanese Tsunami in Fukushima in 2011.
The Tsunami came from an earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, which registered
as a 9 on the Richter scale.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan and the tidal wave that came reached
heights of 122ft.
The water traveled 6 miles inland and caused 15 thousand 895 deaths.
This image of a huge ferry boat on the roof of a someone’s home goes to show the power
if the waves and has become an iconic snap of the devastation.
Check out this scary footage of a Tsunami wave in China at number 8.
Captured on a camera phone, we see the moment a giant wave sweeps over a barrier in China.
Shot in 2011, the wave is absolutely huge and knocks people in the street over, and
a motorcyclist off their bike.
I have no idea why people are standing there and staring!
Like…
there is a tidal wave coming at you!
What is happening!
Why aren’t you running to high ground!
Put your camera away!
This next image is of a man walking his bike through his former neighborhood.
It is so moving at number 7 This man got very lucky…while caught up
on the Tsunami, he was on higher ground and not swept away with the waves.
He can be seen in this picture going to survey the wreckage of his old home and neighborhood
which has been totally raised to the ground.
Not only is the physical Tsunami devastation caught on camera here, so is the emotional
ruin caused.
Heartbreaking.
6 - Fukushima Tsunami This photo captures the moment that waves
breached the flood wall on a street in Japan.
We see the wave coming in over the street and it is so scary…
In one still image, there is so much damage to be seen.
It is presumed the photographer survived, but we don’t know for a fact.
If you thought that picture captured was scary, check out a video taken of the same Tsunami
at number 5 Going one step further and recording the deadly
waves, this footage is heartbreaking and the videographer can be heard screaming.
At first, we see the tide sweeping boats away in the current, watched by onlookers and the
camera holder from a higher floor in a building, then nobody can believe it as the water crashes
over the banks and starts destroying everything on the ground.
It is presumed that everybody not on a rooftop or higher building level, everyone in the
street or in a car, was washed away to their deaths.
Buildings can be seen being swept away and cars float in the water like bobbing ducks.
4 - Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand On Boxing Day of 2004, swathes of the Thai
coastline – although it wasn’t just Thailand affected.
In fact, we will be seeing a number of pieces of footage from the Boxing Day Tsunami on
this list – it was the deadliest Tsunami in history, killing 230 thousand people across
12 countries.
A tourist shot this footage in Patong, filming the huge wave coming in from the beach.
We hear them freak out when they realize just how big the wave is.
They run inside from their balcony to try and get away.
3 - Man Swept Under in Thailand This is some heartbreaking footage right here.
In this footage, we see people huddled on a rooftop.
The camera catches a man, someone who looks to be a white tourist, clutching on to debris
and trying to stay afloat.
Sadly, he is lost to the water.
We have another person swept under at number 2 -
This is some of the most dramatic Tsunami footage I have ever seen.
This horrifying footage is such a symbol of man vs nature.
It is terrifying.
So here we hear two locals watching the waves roll towards the beach during the Boxing Day
2004 Tsunami.
The guys recording point out a tourist still on the beach who doesn’t realize what is
about to hit him.
Just as he realizes how high the waves are, he stands up stunned….
But it is too late.
He has swept away.
There is zero chance he survived.
1 - CCTV from around the Iwate Prefecture This is the final piece of footage from the
Japanese Tsunami of 2011 is absolutely insane and heartbreaking.
One moment you are looking at a road, the next you are looking at a road turned into
a river.
Literal houses are floating down the street.
Later we see a car driving up a road.
The driver is met with water on the road and turns around.
Quickly, a whole ocean of water and debris comes at the car, which goes out of shot,
but presumably, it couldn’t outdrive the gushing water.
So there you go.
That was the Top 10 Scariest Tsunamis caught on camera.
My thoughts are wholehearted with the people that lost their homes, were injured or killed
in these devastating natural disasters.
Let me know your thoughts on the video in the comments section down below.
Before I head out - I want to draw your attention to some similar videos – we have Top 10
Crazy Things found after a Tsunami.
On that list, we have a few very weird things that have washed up after the huge storms.
We also have a list of the Top 10 Worst Natural Disasters.
I thought was we were still here, I would read a few comments from one of my recent
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