Amazing Video Captures Intensity Of Japan Earthquake As It Happens

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by Mark Joyella | 2:09 pm, March 11th, 2011

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Sometimes, the real power in a video isn’t the image, it’s the sound. That’s the case in a compilation video assembled by CNN that captures the intense earthquake as it happened. If you can, turn up the volume as you watch and see if your body doesn’t feel the impulse to take shelter. It’s scary stuff. And no words could describe it the way the natural sound on this video does.

In one clip, executives in an office building run for cover as the building shakes in a truly frightening way.

It looks and sounds as if the entire building might collapse–exactly the fear of a man in another clip. Elsewhere, a Japanese supermarket rocks as the quake hits. Like the aftermath pictures, this kind of video tells you a lot without a single reporter or anchor helping you out. It’s brutal, it’s honest, and it’s immediate. It makes your heart hurt for the people affected.

Watch it here, from CNN:

CNN, Japan, quake

More Liberty3

I thought this wasn’t a news site. I thought it was a site that reported on media.
right-is-wrong

More Liberty3 said:
I thought this wasn’t a news site. I thought it was a site that reported on media.

Sometimes, the real power in a video isn’t the image, it’s the sound. That’s the case in a compilation video assembled by CNN

Watch it here, from CNN:

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/11/nat.moment.of.quake.cnn
Call_Me_Ishmael

More Liberty3 said:
I thought this wasn’t a news site. I thought it was a site that reported on media.

Do you have any particular goal in mind with all this puling you and others indulge in? Do you think you will cause Mediaite to change its content? Go out of business? Post only reports that you feel are valid? Apologize for offending your sense of decorum?
redleaf

I’ll take this over their useless Jersey Shore episode recaps.
Last check, none of those posts have resulted in more than 9 comments, yet they still keep doing it.
TeaPartyPatriot

Is anybody keeping track of the number of lunatic-left d-crat socialist ECO-NUTS claiming that the quake was caused by GLOBULL WARMING? The number must be in the thousands by now.
Grammie

Has anyone heard or seen how much warning, in time, that the northern areas of Japan had that there definitely was a tsunami.

Or is that a dumb question?

Do folks who live in such earthquake prone areas know that they should always assume there will be The Big One with every earthquake or are they like many of we Gulf Coast residents who seem to lose their institutional memories of Storm Surges every few decades?
Karen McNeil

Considering the strength of the quake it is remarkable that the number of casualties will not be as a result of collapsed buildings, but from the tsunami following.

Japanese are well aware of the impending disasters around them and how to react when they happen. So much so, the word “tsunami” is Japanese 津波.
Grammie

Karen McNeil said:
Considering the strength of the quake it is remarkable that the number of casualties will not be as a result of collapsed buildings, but from the tsunami following.

Japanese are well aware of the impending disasters around them and how to react when they happen. So much so, the word “tsunami” is Japanese 津波.

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Thanks.

As an aside I’ve often thought that any group who can routinely master such a complex language with so many more symbols than ours must be innately superior intellectually.

I guess I was also asking, which I haven’t heard either, how long the interval was between the quake itself and the first waves hitting them. I hope they had more time than just minutes.
Karen McNeil

I don’t know about the first two big quakes and the following tsunamis, but the tsunami warnings continue to be broadcast as we speak and cover all the way from the northern parts of Japan down to the southern islands, with various estimates on wave sizes.

Right now the focus is in Japan, correctly so, but we haven’t heard much about other places like Hawaii, the Philipines, Taiwan, all the way to Chile, to find out how far tsunami waves can travel.

Regarding the complex Chinese characters, if they can do it, anyone can do it. It is not easy, but it possible.
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Karen McNeil

This is not an “official” account, as it is not a report from someone on shore but I would accept it.

In a few words, to answer the question about time of the quake and the first tsunami, about 25 minutes.

http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/honshu20110311/

Tsunami Event – March 11, 2011 Honshu
Main Event Page

The Honshu tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.9 earthquake (38.322°N, 142.369°E ), at 05:46 UTC, 130 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan (according to the USGS). In approximately 25 minutes, the tsunami was first recorded at DART® buoy 21418. Forecast results shown below were created with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data.
Grammie

Karen McNeil said:
In a few words, to answer the question about time of the quake and the first tsunami, about 25 minutes.

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Thank you.

I tried googling it but I guess I never did get my search terms right.

I was afraid that the time would be very short but hoping that they would have an hour or two. That sounds even worse having heard that the surge reached six miles inland in some areas.

The Japanes seem to me to be a very disciplined and hardworking people. They’re going to need every bit of their national character to overcome this blow.

Again, thank you. That was very kind of you.
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