BBC Nature: Mega Tsunami - Evidence of Destruction

[RMJ1984]

Only thing that more or less we know can make a wave that big is an asteroid impact from outerspace.

150 Meters thats insane. The speed of such a wave wow.

[zerker12312]

@RMJ1984 an asteroid made tsunami/tidal wave, can go up to 2 kilometers :) thats ALOT MORE.

[kilala2444]

MEEEEGA TSSSSAMI!

[carzykt11296]

3:50 OMFG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, IT'S THE MEGA TSUNAMI!

[n5017858]

My Great Grandfather was on a steam ship in Alaska when a wave picked up the boat and plonked it between two buildings. I cant find the town or year, however the story continues and he road a train from Vladivostok to Leningrad (note the names, Vladivostok was later closed and Khabarovsk was used, a clue to the time period) and then another ship back to London.

[cvrnut09]

didnt something like this happen at Skagway, Alaska sometime in the mid eighties?

[705jbird]

The chick from Precious took a dip.

[Rivannous]

chuck norris farted in the water. That's the real true story

[mattsk89]

HAARP is what happened

[TheSeanyCash]

stupid baby trees

[CutiaaNikitaaa246]

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[patio87]

Bunch of tards here that can't get their numbers right. The Tsunami in 1958 is recorded at 1,720 feet high.

[smimot]

@patio87, that happened in '58. This man was looking for oil in 1953. So either this video is wrong or more than one giant landslide/tsunami occurred in the past. Note that both the narrator and the lady scientist mention the same date, 1953.

[capokhatpin]

The powerful force was Susan Boyle having a swim and then farting.....

[connor2k]

@capokhatpin LOL

[medavog]

@capokhatpin lol

[BSIamAzn]

Maybe And Earthquake, Landslides, and Volcanic Eruption all joined together and created this big Tsunami o.O

[lurviQ]

Okay lets see what geographical/natural/fictional disasters people fear..

Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Asteroids, Aliens, Zombie apocalypses, Diseases, Terrorists, The year 2012, The year 2036, The year 2019, Y2K.

If you worry about all these things you might as well kill yourself.

[ladygagaspenis]

@lurviQ mold too. that shits scary as hell.

[lurviQ]

@ladygagaspenis what's mold?

[ladygagaspenis]

@lurviQ Nasty ass fungus. Scariest shit in the universe. I'd rather be buried in the sand while this tsunami came at me then be put in a room with mold.

[lurviQ]

@ladygagaspenis OK

[whateverVIE]

...think about atomic bombs my stupid scientist-colleagues...ah, sorry, i forgot you're paid by some government... ~.~

[VicTheMouth]

I know for a fact that a landslide occured in lituya bay that had a height of 1,700 feet, and someone in a boat actually survived it, I'm assuming that that's what caused the devistation here

[VicTheMouth]

That's messed up how big that wave must've been

[TheSimonHarris]

Amazing world we live in

[VicTheMouth]

@TheSimonHarris Couldn't agree more

[megamanxdeath]

the lady talking sounds just like my reading teacher XD

[jreid8231]

I was there!!!! Dat stuff was crazy maaaan!!! You shoulda been there wit me yo......

[brats817]

1,720 foot tall wave, taller than the empire state building and tallest recorded mega tsunami, caused all that destruction. :(

[LizRichieBand]

Sarah Palin farted :)

[Tekhelet75]

@LizRichieBand lol

[solarshenron]

so beautiful.....

[TheBloodyloon]

Way to dramatize science... This is incredibly boring work. INCREDIBLY so.

[warner4455]

america has lost a nuke in alaska in a airplane crash whille transporting it. i bet thats what that is right there.

[amitnewyork]

i'd like to retire to this place asap and die peacefully

[MADEINMAIDEN]

a big slide! mountain slide!

[IrishGodThe4th]

why the matrix music?

[TAWDIGITAL]

It was 3 million miles high and washed all the cheese off the surface of the moon.

[jaguilar7643]

LMFAO AHAHAHAHA omg...omg*wipes tear*you sir r a comedic GOD

[mike48176]

secondly...it was attributed to a landslide

[brickjake99]

i was taking a crap in the bay when the wave struck back in 1928 and it washed my runny bum clean

[aazz2272]

Sílvio Fontes-Tsunami

[rapnerdschick]

anything is possible...don't underestimate earth

[SqueeNSpleen]

If you hear it again, i am pretty sure he said 50m? Lol.

[cmpunky]

50 story wave, gimp

[xpto]

Now, for everybody to read! The guy at 3:03 says a wave, POSSIBLY 150 meters high (that's 490ft, no 17000ft). And even 490ft, as I said before, is in my opinion unlikely...

[gabrielleung]

Hey genius, well why don't you go and write a scientific report to disprove this whole story then

[onlyoneak]

Any questions, you down south????????//

[xpto]

The guy sayed 100 to 150 meters!! Who started talking about 500 meters?! Even 100 doesn't seem very probable to me!! Imagine a 20 or 30 meters wave hiting the land and then climbing the rest! For me is much more possible and logical...

[beethovens9th1]

@xpto The wave was 17040 feet high. The trees were flattened at this hight.

[xpto]

@beethovens9th1 - Have you ever seen a wave?! After the wave hits land it still goes on for a while. If it flattened trees at 17000ft high, obviously the wave wasn't 17000ft! If it was that high it would have flattened trees much higher! Is it so hard to understand?!

[mike48176]

not 17000 ft...170m at most (for the runup on the shoreline). However, this was only possible because it occurred in a very channeled area, which concentrated the energy of the tsunami upwards, instead of allowing it to spread out over a wider area, such as an ocean. Secondly...TREES do not grow at 17000 ft. the air is too thin for them to live there practically everywhere in the world. Unless you meant centimeters...check your units ;-)

[IrishGodThe4th]

the WAVE WAS OVER 9000!!!!

[yoad3545]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[SilentSnoopy703]

@IrishGodThe4th LMFAO

[zerker12312]

@IrishGodThe4th a megatsunami can get to 2 kilometers in the sky dude.

[onlyoneak]

jackierrobinsonfan! Know whats funny? What your ignorant ass is talking about is this same event in 1958, at Lituya Bay Alaska! Some people just amaze me!

[michaelmyersfan123]

an 8.3 earthquake made the rocks which caused a landslide which made the mega tsunami

[onzki]

cease fire on religious fights.. first time to see this video..its interesting:D is there a volcano underneath?

[Maslacak1985]

maybe your both wright, god is something man cannot yet understand, like few thousand years before now the bad wheather was god, and son was god and so on...

and yes scientist don't know wath was before big bang, we use big bang theory because it fits in our equasion, it's simple as that.

[nil1230]

might be an island sinking?

[zeppelinrulez22]

this wave was most likely formed by a landslide, but it could also have been caused by a volcanic eruption, or possibly even meteor impact

[ThaDK00]

i like pie

[leroigymsockdos]

lol

[ShayminIsAwsum]

what the hell lol

[wolfchow2]

no u don't.

[leroigymsockdos]

what the...

[gonorette]

/???/jesus and wtffffff could you be more stupid its not jesus or god shit its a tsunami ,a natural wave from techtonical plate

[matangaash]

Well he is imaginary so we decide if he loves us or not.

[dynamicz108]

And are you just assuming that?

[matangaash]

NO! Invisible mind-reading flying omnipotent creatures are real!

And the tooth fairy!

[dynamicz108]

Right haha ok but God aint any of those

[matangaash]

God is that thing that comes out of a bull's asshole.. ya know.. BULLSHIT.

[dynamicz108]

is that you assuming though? or saying what you want to hear?

[matangaash]

ehh -.-

Have fun waisting your life on religion.

[dynamicz108]

Have fun studying the big bang theory or any of that crap that some dude comes up with in a white cape

[matangaash]

Yeah.. It's much more logical that the universe was created by magic.

[dynamicz108]

is that not exactly what the big bang is? well it did appear from nothing

[hellonou]

Dude..i never thought about it like that..You're right!!

also i would like to say that is fantasticly-magical

[siondalion]

are you dumb these guys in white cape's lol talk actual facts backed with evidence! not some story book that has been changed so many times in 2000 years! our world is 100 million years old and 6374 km around there are 100 million stars in our galaxy which is 946,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers! there are 100 million galaxies which are nearly all bigger than ours in the universe and now there is proof of distent universes (dimensions) thus meaning our world is like a tiny partical in existance!

[MetaLSlickarn4Life]

DO YOU know that earth is 4,54 billion years old (not 100 million) and that the circumference is 40 075 km (not 6374)? The equatorradius is almost 6374 kmif that is what you meant?

[siondalion]

i did not know the precise age of the earth so i just wrote 100 million as a rough guide, thanks for the fact tho' i did not think it was that old amazing when you think about it. i did mean the radius as that is how planets are mostly measured, again nice to learn a new fact.. also do you have any views about global warming being a natural cycle due to our planet being at the closest point to the sun in the 26'000 year cycle?

[MetaLSlickarn4Life]

Ok, good that you took the facts in an constructive way :)

Well, about the global warming, I only think that nature is in an upwarming procedure itself BUT also that humanity is speeding up the whole scenario! The world will be a warmer place, whatever we would like it or not but it is happening in an unnatural velocity! That is my point of view! :)

[paramore12555]

i loved that landscape..it was so peaceful i almost cried seeing it *sniffles*

[leroigymsockdos]

the wave was 1,720 feet high

[skillboy656]

ehhh, i could ride that wave in my sleep. :)

[crowers73]

God, what a beautiful landscape..brings tears to my eyes..

[lolownedinlol]

What are you talking about?

[KJTheTruth]

I cannot see my comment anymore, I guess because the author removed it or something, so I do not know what it is that my comment said. I suppose it had something to do with the flood. Have you ever read about the flood? Have you ever heard of a man named Ron Wyatt?

[u2beoscar]

a chunk of ice or part of the mountain fell off.

thats what happened

[yellowman88]

After an Earthquake

[Bonald1101]

@u2beoscar The Lituya bay tsunami is what happened, or at least something similar.

[sabinevanderven]

強波 is literally translated as strong (tsu) wave (nami)... strong wave

[fg815]

It's wrong. Tsunami=津波's tsu=津 means harbor. Nami=波 means wave. See wiki. 強 literally tsuyo or kyou or gou.

Tsunami

wikipedia . org /wiki / Tsunami

[sabinevanderven]

well it always was my second language. thanks

[Cipirano]

actually mountain start sliding down the water :D

[EASYTIGER10]

Tsunami is Japanese for "harbour wave" (since that is where they were observed) Wiki does actually (correctly) explain that.

I just hope you don't teach oceanography, Japanese or geology shmaveyea if you think a) it means tidal wave and b) IS a tidal wave. I think this BBC docu was made before 2004 when many were less careful with words like tidal wave and tsunami.

[MaxSafeheaD]

Actually tidal wave in this case is a complete misnomer. the tidal wave is produced primarily by the sun and moon. Tsunami are generated by direct physical impact - be that earthquake, landslide or (rarely significant) meteorite.

[shmaveyea]

Tsunami is Japanese for tidal wave

[MaxSafeheaD]

I don't think so! the Tidal wave is that produced by the gravity of the moon and the sun - the tides.

Tsunami is indeed a Japanese word and I'm unsure of it's original meaning but as far as western use is concerned it refers specifically to a cataclysmic wave generated by other forces (like a landslide or earthquake.)

[shmaveyea]

3:21

[MaxSafeheaD]

I know - that's why I made the original comment!

See wikipedia.

[shmaveyea]

Wikipedia isn't a credible source. Automatic fail in some of my university classes.

[MaxSafeheaD]

Not always credible, sure. That's the same with any scource. In this case it is correct and was easier to type =P

[ananiasacts]

Pat Robertson's law school?

[onlyoneak]

What don't most of you ouside not get about Alaska??????? You just can't comprehend what it is like up here??????

[RandomizerStewart]

poppiy pop pop pop

[steveee6t9]

look it up on google ppl. part of the mountain fell into the bay and created the wave

[KevPeng]

LOL

[BBCWorldwide]

Hi All!

If you want to see more, then check out the Mega Tsunami playlist on the BBC Worldwide channel. The link is in the description field to the right of this video.

More videos to tell you more about the idea of Mega Tsunamis!

Thanks,

BBC Worldwide

[badboots7]

Good cliff hanger, would like to see the more of that but it ends to short. not to impressed with that

[Hybie]

Holy shit! That was really, really interesting. Does the rest of the story exist somewhere for us to watch?

[sickpack82]

search for "Mega tsunami - wave of destruction" and watch parts 1 to 5. Very interesting and outlook about mega tsunamis to come in the future

[kylecorreia]

weres the rest?

[sickpack82]

watch mega tsunami - wave of destruction.

[camaroz28fatbuttgabe]

rubbish.

[Mykai73]

JESUS DID IT!

[sarahsdays]

I agree!

[MaxSafeheaD]

LOL!

[Anonymousw1n]

I am sorry, the tsunami occurred in 1958.

[Anonymousw1n]

Additionally, there are many Native American legends about large tsunamis in the bay.

Anonymous

[Anonymousw1n]

I study tsunamis in depth, and have read quite a bit about Lituya Bay. The large tsunamis inside the bay originate when gigantic sections of glaciers fall from the mountains and into the water. In 1957, such an event occurred one night during a large earthquake. Given the late hour, there were only three small boats in Lituya with a total of six people on board and no one on shore at the time of the event. Two boats sunk, resulting in two fatalities aboard one of the vessels.

Anonymous

[sickpack82]

watch mega tsunami - wave of destruction. Parts 1 to 5. Incredible!

[MaxSafeheaD]

I don't think it was a glacier - if I remember correctly it was a large chunk of the mountain itself.

[katerina3]

maybe it happen from a huge meteor

[MaxSafeheaD]

There would be a crater.

[metabolgia]

I want more!!

[JaffaCake79]

Wonder what caused it.. hmm very interesting =)

[minorityop]

I think I saw this show on TV. If I remember correctly, it was a huge chunk of ice that cracked off a glacier and fell into the water.

[JaffaCake79]

Ah of course thanks! =) Yeah that would cause such a change in the landscape.

[chirp420]

yupp i seen this too................wow!

[wackojacko708]

me too, very interesting.

[Merrick0001]

Cooooooool