In this video we will map the Onagawa Town Than on the border of the northern and southern areas affected by the wave which destroyed by tsunami in Japan in 2011 and the immediate vicinity . We will show you how work continues on rebuilding the entire area and we can’t forget to visit the notorious places you know from videos and photos and from the social media. The video is of an educational nature and therefore the purposeful shots of destruction are not shown here, but only the illustrative and informative form. Thanks for watching like and subscribe our channel
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As always, tysm for this video. I always look forward to your work! My only regret is that they're too short.
Your explanations are one of the major reasons I'm subscribed. After all these years, it's enormously helpful to understanding not only the mitigation efforts, but what actually happened in the first place.
The videographer in Onagawa must have been absolutely terrified! There's no way he could have known at what point the water would stop rising. His own safety was in serious danger! Kudos to him for continuing to film.
The saddest point of his video was the scene where he captures 4 people running through the connecting bridge between the buildings. They ran INTO the one which would be destroyed FROM the one that survived.
Again, thanks. I so look forward to your post on Ishinomaki — the town with the HIGHEST death toll that day. How/why that happened has always been of interest.
Thank you for another informative video. I look forward to the next one.
Eventually Japan over 500 years will wash away. Buy then climate change will have ended life
Somethings wrong with this video. Keeps fluttering and jerking like an old VHS. Please re-upload it. If it's intentional please stop.
Thank you for such an informative video that shows us how the waves became so destructive.
The content is good, but the graphics are awful. There is WAY too much jerking around and zooming, which made it hard to watch. Stop trying to be so fancy and find some smoother mapping.
14 metros de mar monstruoso. muy buen documental .saludos desde chile!
I loved this video!
Just what I was looking for
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I love how your videos are presented and narrated. The Topographical Maps are really helpful, and fascinating, it's prompted me to look at satellite images of our own West/California Coast. Many of the clips of the Tsunami do not have translations or English subtitles and the Japanese language is complex, one word can have multiple meanings based on the inflection, so, Thank you, for another excellent video & helping people to understand how devastating these waves/tidal surges can be.
The pictures of that tower at the 03:36 mark are terrifying. In other clips you can see several people, May they rest in Peace, running into the shorter tower, which ended up being completely under water. The water mark on the taller tower is a huge eye opener as to how deep Onigowa was inundated.
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Epizode don’t you mean episode . Bloody awful computer voices .
Excellent series..thank you
use metric system like 95% of the world, feet, miles eccetera, old non logic system
When this tsunami occurred, I was sitting at my computer in the early hours of the morning at my home in California. I saw a pop up about a tsunami in Japan and clicked on it. It showed a terrifying scene of someone(s ??) running across a broad, flat area, with a wall of water quickly catching up. It was a jaw-dropping thing to see. My sympathy continues to go out to the people of Japan who were impacted by this natural disaster. Thank you for this video.
Always happy to see an upload.
40 meters? Hogwash.
Japan is such a beautiful country,cursed by fault lines off its coast that periodically cause such horrible damage. My prayers go out to the residents of these beautiful coastal towns.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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While they're correct that you must go to extremes to fight what was seen in 2011 (some places saw run-up to 40+ meters above sea level, on 20+ meters inundation), it was seen that while even a 6 meter wall might be pathetically inadequate, it did allow in many places, a few extra minutes for people to move away, before streets became impassable.
That combined especially with the education and training to just run when the alarms sound. You can't go home to get anything or make sure everyone's leaving; you have to rely on them just going uphill wherever they can from where they might be.
I would not have an outdoor cat on an indoor pet alone during the day, if I lived in a tsunami-prone area.
As was seen especially at the school in Ishinomaki, a tall building on the plain isn't good enough (unless it's ~20 stories tall and can hold everybody for a couple of days…) Not until you're partway up a mountain with a clear path ahead of you, are you safe.
Wow a video in English, you win first prize
I have watched a great many of your videos. Your videos are as informative and educational as any of the documentaries I’ve watched on PBS,History Channel or the learning channel.
The amount of information you provide is just unbelievable. The details you provide mixed with anecdotes from the local population gives an added touch of humanity.
Never ever ignore the tsunami warnings, 1000 false alarms is good practice, because the one will come, and take it all again. History can prove it
Sorry, but the overly-fast jump cuts and pans, intentional color glitches and picture defects added for some reason, and the overall confusing speed of these TOP Topics tsunami videos make them unwatchable.
По чаще такие явления происходили бы , может люди стали более умнее и понимающими других.!!!!!
Very informative, thank you.
One suggestion. Don't do the jerky transitions with the red outlines. It detracts from the story. A good edit should add to the story.
I have some concerns about the idea of raising the ground to build on. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we know about liquefaction, which is extremely dangerous during earthquakes, the most likely cause of tsunamis. It was a cause of major damage after the huge earthquake that struck Alaska in the early 1960’s. If there is an earthquake bad enough to cause another huge earthquake, it may cause the undermining of that wall and steel gate protecting the last city in this video.
Was interesting thank u
Wow a tsunami in English, that’s a first 👍
Why not dig in shelves!? and build on the hills simple solution and turn dangerous low ground in farming land … keep harbour for boat s fishing.🤷🏼♂️🤗❤️👍
I love Japanese people and their culture, and was absolutely heartbroken to see such a beautiful country hurt like that. It still remains some of the most devastating events caught on camera. I hope Japan is ready for the next one, I couldn't handle seeing another country suffer like that again. The same goes for the 2004 Boxing day tsunami as well. 2 very sad day's on our under siege planet. Stay safe people.
P.S The footage of Kesenuma and Kamaishi (excuse my spelling, I am from London) was especially horrifying😢
Very interesting
They should have showed the entire footage of It hitting Onagawa. The building connected by a bridge.. It is beyond insane. Kamaichi City .
Cool maps. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
just a pleasure to hearing, thank you!
3:39 I don’t think the water reached that high. Or else the destruction would have been far greater.
I felt sorry for them more than Ukrainian!. Mother’s nature we can’t beat it. Stay strong and rebuilding it!
Excuse me wtf does everyone want from me?
Sorry, best, ahhh, only bet is a 10 meter min high barrier way out at choke point into bay with a ship channel. The other passage between ocean and bay should just be sealed, like bulldoze a hill into a good 50 meter high 300 meter wide earthen dam / berm. The outer bay barrier would greatly slow the flooding, limit the amount of time wave would be moving inland, etc. To keep city dry still need to raise level 10 meters, or put in 10 meter berms. If there's a tall mountain / hill, you can make a pumped storage project out of holes made getting fill to raise city. Take off hill top, dig in shallow pool, under it, dig big pool. Make power while water flows from top to bottom pool. Then install as many wind turbines as possible to power pumps to move water to upper reservoir.
Sorry, the way the camera was jerking around so fast just made me nauseous. Couldn't watch it.
Great info
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The wave at onagawa was massive