by cameo-d 61 Replies latest jw friends
Another Chilean tsunami video. Notice how far the water has retreated and the strange behavior of the water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR_wjv7gIkI
The devastation in Chile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDDir2Xy7Qc
The retreating waters in San Diego:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKgifefnbg
It's always a weird sight because the water seems to flow in reverse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUtUhpop7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqcfSS7-v1Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMvZGX4KC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGf2q_-s1_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYJD5jmeBHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-tH7Y9WTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EijXMxIGTaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxC1XN_rSJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1_qCnBf9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyuXPVcw58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzBrdIrj2ns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5YjSTtQaU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIerCKxxVl4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUF755Lc3M8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1scUw5n1cU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJSM81y1lE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9tKm6HuPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiWspEF7I5s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6hDQnAYl0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyA8PboKPHM
Wow, what a big, scary surge... At least, along the California coasts... That first video from Santa Cruz - the guy should invest in a tripod, or stop waggling the camera for "drama"... Sad thing about 'false' alarms like this one - means that many people might not take the next "Tsunami" warning seriously... Could cause a fatal apathy in future...
Zid
I think most people are thankful it was not any worse than it was,
and might look at this like a drill.
and will most certainly take any future warnings seriously.
purps
How could one not have "false" alarms when the magnitude of the tsunami cannot be accurately predicted? So much depends on the amount of water initially displaced, how the waves converge across a distance, and the geography of each individual location where the tsunami reaches land. The best thing is still to warn people to get above sea level and hope the tsunami is wimpy like this one was. I can't imagine the officials passing on giving a warning (and I think it was only advisory and watch warnings on the West Coast) and hoping for the best. I had plenty of no-show tsunami warnings in Hawaii growing up, but I was always glad to have them nonetheless. As a kid, we all heard the stories about what happened in 1946. People today know what happened in 2004, or even last year in Samoa. And even if the tsunami is a wimpy surge like this, it still can create dangerous currents for beachgoers swimming in the water.
I think it's good for people to know that a tsunami is not necessarily a "big, scary surge"; people underestimate them too often because they look smaller and less threatening than the waves are expected to look. We can see in these videos that appearance of the tsunami varies a lot from location to location.
I like finding tsunami videos because these events are rare wonders of nature. I was a beachgoer for many years of my young life and I know what "normal" waves look like in various tides and places and so it is always interesting to see the water behave in unusual ways. That is partly what attracts people sometimes unfortunately to chase out the drawback and then get trapped by the rushing tide. And until the past decade, there were almost no videos of tsunamis available. Now there is a lot of documentation available.
Thanks for all the videos Leo,
I remember studying about tsumanis in school and was really fascinated by them.
When the 2004 one hit I was surprised at how many people did not know what one was.
purps
More tsunami videos from Chile. You might want to mute the first one, but it's a pretty amazing video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzdcXQNR3Y&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQg3JxwE5B8&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUOgxHf9K4s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CP6bDl7hWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAIXb2VQ4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kla-rQ1tXnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2FOkFgnRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZAu2FZUHmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhSRhFiGhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZBJ4W7p37U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rxxjz-6n7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uNSSCRI-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckO5HlNAP0
