Thanks for posting this. I filmed it from near the Berkeley Marina and it didn't look like much, but we could "feel" it, ya know? It was eerie. It's terrifying to think of that same wave thirty feet high. The way it flooded into the inlets near the marina was odd, in the sense that it is so strange to see the water behave that way, despite it's lack of force. I am grateful, and send love to the people of Japan. Thanks again for posting.
Mark: Can you please tell me exactly where you were standing and what direction you were looking when you shot this video? I am a tsunami researcher from USC and I am trying to plot out this wave front on a map of the east bay area. Also, do you have the precise time that you recorded the video? contact me on 'jocabo at mac dot com' or 'jborrero at usc dot edu' looking forward to your reply and thanks for your help!
The earthquake registered on the seismograph in Western North Dakota in a city called Noonan! It took 11 minutes for it to reach from Japan to North Dakota which is 8069.7 miles or 12,987 km away! Now that is somw serious energy!
Boats,buildings,houses,cars,trucks,vans,planes,people and roads got pushed and mashed by this wave in Japan and when it arrived in cali it pushed over some kid's sand bucket.....oh man...
@anicetune yeah you are right, I should have kept it going. It lasted all the way to the shore. Some co workers also recorded some of the wave I'll see if I can get them to post. I also have a short clip of the second wave, but it was much smaller.
it's incredible if you think that the energy of a spheric wave decrease like 1/(radius)^2 and here the radius is, i don't know 5000km while sendai is 150 km from the epicenter
Just so you know: It started out on the open sea near Japan at >700 km/h!! Only 1m high on the open sea, but 150km long!! So it does not look like a normal wave, but very long and flattened out. Then when it reaches the shallow water, everything is compressed, as the water comes in quicker than it can move on. So it rises, and only then will it become a high wave. So the best thing in a tsunami, is to get as far out on the open sea as you can.
It looks like a Boar Tide in Turnagain Arm near Anchorage. Turnagain Arm has a tidal range of 30 feet. So when the tide comes in, it often forms a wave like that shown in this tsunami video.
Alot of people are putting up stupid advertisement comments. WTF do they think this vid is showing? People have been killed by this wave. The wrath of God people!!!
So many people were like "oh the waves won't be so big here, no worries"...then they saw the footage of the destruction in Crescent City and down in Santa Cruz: the size of the wave didn't do all that damage, the force of the surge which looked like a giant widespread lowlying ripple did. Prayers to all that were effected, and yes, it's going to happen to us in SF/Cali eventually. Incredible, and no stopping nature or mans' effect on it..
@mumbleye . The wave is moving through the ocean, not the water. Water moves in circles as waves pass through it. Except for a tsunami where the wave surges a km or more onto land from a short distance offshore. It's not the same water from Japan.
It doesn't move the water thousands of miles. What is traveling at ~500 mph is energy in the form of a wave. The water being pushed through the Golden Gate was picked up in the Gulf of the Farallones, when the wave changed character when it "felt bottom" on the continental shelf, slowed down and began to actually transport water horizontally.
Pure energy. Its not about science Vs. nature. They are one in the same. The earth lives. Our very science is based on natural awareness. I have no idea why people compete nature with science. Science does not tell you to stand up against nature. Science tells you to get the fuck out of the way. The natural occurance of the planet tells you to respect it. Nature will not hesitate to take you out.
This really make me think we are nothing compared to nature... There' s no technology, no science that can be compared to this unbelieveable energy...
im in Emeryville marina. We had just gone out and came back, and were informed by the marina office that this had happened. no big damage but I was sad I couldn't see the wave.
I hope the Japanese public doesn't get the wrong idea from the few morons who are making Pearl Harbor comments, the US public as a whole is very concerned about Japan and wishes our friends from the far east a rapid recovery.
@dmaggana umm..the cause of the earthquake WAS from a subduction zone of the tectonic plates so i dont know what you're talking about... I just hope the Japanese people and anyone else who were affected by this terrible natural disaster to recover quickly :)
Search Grooveshark for "Edward Scissorhands: Main Titles" and watch this video to it. I happened to be listening to that song coincidentally when I first watched the video and it was pretty cool.
We have got to come to realize that as humans the effects of what we say and do generates Tsunami's much like the one carried across the pacific from the earth quake in Japan. The killer is that much like the unfortunate catastrophe and loss of life in Japan, is what is really created when we are not careful of what we say or do. We had an advance warning and time to prepare Japan did not. We may not have that great fortune perhaps when we have our next earth quake. And we will have more.
To understand wave motion is to understand propagation in this instance. A Tsunami travels in the open ocean as fast as a jet aircraft. The depth of the bay and the opening at the Golden Gate all play into what attenuated it to what you see here. I wonder if the Army Corps of Engineers model in Sausalito, CA modeled it. They had an actual small scale operational model of the SF Bay, old school technology.
yes ,and I work on Treasure Island ( right there in the background) we were waiting to see if any thing came in ,, but nothing much happened, as you can see.. ( T I is only about 1-4' above sea level)
Thanks for posting this, it is really interesting to see this in our bay - a miniature tsunami wave, acting exactly like the big ones, only in small scale because it has lost most of its power. I only which I had driven down there to see it myself.
@draoi99 The water did not actually get moved across the ocean, only the energy created by the wave moved across. It is just like holding a long Slinky spring and creating a wave on it. The metal does not move from one end to the other, just the wave action. Sorry about the non-scientific description.
@draoi99 It's not the same water as in Japan, the wave is moving THROUGH the water. Just like when you hear a noise from far away, it's the wave that you detect, the air is not moving that distance. Generally water moves in circles as waves pass through it. But yes indeed, an incredible amount of energy released. About 1000 times more energy released than the Haiti earthquake; magnitude 9 vs. magnitude 7. Each number is 10 times the shaking intensity, 32 times the energy release.
@draoi99 Try to read "waves" on physics . It doesn't move the volume thousands of miles. It waves it. The distance is not such problem as the friction between molecules of the substance (water here). If there were no frictions and no air resistance, I guess it could travel till any coast with the same rage
@danceposer note, they used the term 'tsunami' pretty loosely in this case. No one was rescued because there was nothing to be rescued from. Maybe a little boat damage in the berkeley marina, but i think all that happened is that the water level rose by a few feet. I live in berkeley closer to the hills, but i don't think anyone was really worried. People should stop worrying about us in california...nothing's going to happen, at least not compared to what the japanese are enduring right now.
@JamesRadnus that's actually the left lane on the right side of the road.... note the large grassy median dividing the two directions. Up til that point in the video, all cars had been going the opposite direction on the other side of the road.
Nope, just a subduction zone doing exactly what it has been doing for millions of years, occasionally getting stuck for a few decades and eventually slipping violently.
@Beta4Life that guy who replaced Larry king said on CNN "What could be the cause of all this destruction, is it global warming? is it the moon?" THE MOON? Oh wow. Good buy traditional media.
This seems unimpressive to the most of us... but whoever took this don't see waves like that everyday... so to them this is a big deal. Remember the obstacles like the bridges and land masses slowed the wave way down.
I saw this too from my office in emeryville. It was around 9.30 or so this morning. Right before there was a lot of mud exposed at the shoreline, presumably because the water had receeded before the wave bit. Thanks for posting this.
What time was this shot taken? The earthquake was at 14.45(JST) = 5.45(UTC).
If the shot was taken at 5pm, it would have only took 18 hours to go from the epicenter to the SF shore. It's trucking along pretty good considering a plane takes about 11 hours.
Thanks for posting this video, Mark. It demonstrates again the power of instant information in the hands of "everyday" people, albeit sometimes a thin line between blessing and curse.
Japan would not exist *physically* if it wasn't for the forces that created this earthquake event.
All persons who think rationally and have done their reading understand what I mean as opposed to the morons who-can't-think-for-shit idiots who throw in "god" and "mother earth" whenever these events occur.
This is a very accurate shot of the area this morning. I live in Albany, and was on the Bay Bridge at 9:20 am, and this was the wave I saw passing Treasure Island. This shot is of Powell Street, a small peninsula street into the bay.
this is so sad sunami destroyed all the main city.....in japan
it's so bad....
i love japan.......
i will must have to go japan in my life....it's my good luck if i was born in japan
and pray to god plz...don't doit' any more with japan cuz japan all ready lot's of destroyed in last 100 years...
mann01punjabi 10 months ago
Thanks for posting this. I filmed it from near the Berkeley Marina and it didn't look like much, but we could "feel" it, ya know? It was eerie. It's terrifying to think of that same wave thirty feet high. The way it flooded into the inlets near the marina was odd, in the sense that it is so strange to see the water behave that way, despite it's lack of force. I am grateful, and send love to the people of Japan. Thanks again for posting.
FunKills1969 11 months ago
I was flying from SFO to LAX that day and it was amazing to look down from 30,000 feet at the waves.
jvolstad 11 months ago 6
Good quality image.
windex1234 11 months ago 4
WOW!! 10 Miles into SF bay!!! across 5000+ miles!!! and still has a crest! thats ALOT of power!
emailmemrstara 11 months ago 4
Mark: Can you please tell me exactly where you were standing and what direction you were looking when you shot this video? I am a tsunami researcher from USC and I am trying to plot out this wave front on a map of the east bay area. Also, do you have the precise time that you recorded the video? contact me on 'jocabo at mac dot com' or 'jborrero at usc dot edu' looking forward to your reply and thanks for your help!
jocabo99 11 months ago 74
@jocabo99 09:32:13 PST
markdemma 11 months ago 16
Wave energy should be researched more.
Nature has proved itself as being mightier than anything else so it's time to try and harness a fraction of that power.
HarrysSecret 11 months ago 5
I read in the NY Times the damages of the waves is costing crescent city alone $25 million imagine if it was at full force
zakartaz 11 months ago
The earthquake registered on the seismograph in Western North Dakota in a city called Noonan! It took 11 minutes for it to reach from Japan to North Dakota which is 8069.7 miles or 12,987 km away! Now that is somw serious energy!
cop694u 11 months ago 3
Boats,buildings,houses,cars,trucks,vans,planes,people and roads got pushed and mashed by this wave in Japan and when it arrived in cali it pushed over some kid's sand bucket.....oh man...
wrxsavvy 11 months ago 8
im so sorry about japan. this freshens my horrible memories in sri lanka 2004-12-24. im so soory about this
cd1151 11 months ago
this is mindblowing. i wonder what would happen if a 8.3 quake hit SF.
bosoxyaz8 11 months ago
at first i thought this was is slow motion and then i saw a car drive by lol =D
i hope the people in japan will be okay because this is nothin compared to how they got it
11crows 11 months ago 5
Very neat recording.
MattBNSF1991 11 months ago
we are lucky .... god bless from Japan ,, their in my prayer
Zuleyma2006 11 months ago 2
Why was only 1:13 minutes worth recorded?
Does it disappear after that?
anicetune 11 months ago 26
@anicetune yeah you are right, I should have kept it going. It lasted all the way to the shore. Some co workers also recorded some of the wave I'll see if I can get them to post. I also have a short clip of the second wave, but it was much smaller.
markdemma 11 months ago 17
@markdemma
Well at least you recorded, and posted, something. Thanks for the vid.
bandsaw000o0 11 months ago 3
It wasnt really that big........hawaii (search kona) had a pretty goood damage.
echizenn808 11 months ago
it's incredible if you think that the energy of a spheric wave decrease like 1/(radius)^2 and here the radius is, i don't know 5000km while sendai is 150 km from the epicenter
malcomino 11 months ago 2
the tectonic plate moved 9 meters. In the San Fran quake it moved 16 inches!
sebastian0217 11 months ago
wow and this is in CA.
DESZ1ER 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing this...did you have any more footage that shows water moving in on that patch of green? Luckily it was low tide.
SeaPip 11 months ago
Just so you know: It started out on the open sea near Japan at >700 km/h!! Only 1m high on the open sea, but 150km long!! So it does not look like a normal wave, but very long and flattened out. Then when it reaches the shallow water, everything is compressed, as the water comes in quicker than it can move on. So it rises, and only then will it become a high wave. So the best thing in a tsunami, is to get as far out on the open sea as you can.
Evi1M4chine 11 months ago 5
incredible
batistuta9 11 months ago
It looks like a Boar Tide in Turnagain Arm near Anchorage. Turnagain Arm has a tidal range of 30 feet. So when the tide comes in, it often forms a wave like that shown in this tsunami video.
anchoragedan 11 months ago
Tsunami inc!
maximax217 11 months ago
It looks like the incoming tide. Not a Tsunami.
kookaburrakookaburra 11 months ago
retards in this comment area
stealthgerbil 11 months ago 6
Might as well have just been a photograph
HighHemplar 11 months ago 3
slowest....wave.....ever....
rickwilliam95 11 months ago
Alot of people are putting up stupid advertisement comments. WTF do they think this vid is showing? People have been killed by this wave. The wrath of God people!!!
Thank you for sharing
Abuhafsah2009 11 months ago
So many people were like "oh the waves won't be so big here, no worries"...then they saw the footage of the destruction in Crescent City and down in Santa Cruz: the size of the wave didn't do all that damage, the force of the surge which looked like a giant widespread lowlying ripple did. Prayers to all that were effected, and yes, it's going to happen to us in SF/Cali eventually. Incredible, and no stopping nature or mans' effect on it..
zendenmother 11 months ago
slowest............wave............ever
mumbleye 11 months ago 349
@mumbleye . The wave is moving through the ocean, not the water. Water moves in circles as waves pass through it. Except for a tsunami where the wave surges a km or more onto land from a short distance offshore. It's not the same water from Japan.
RBL77433 11 months ago
@mumbleye NO SHIT!!! I'm kinda scratching my head wondering how the hell that wave made it all the way from Japan in under 24 hours???
ianmma 11 months ago
Not to make light of a very serious situation but I made bigger waves in the bath tub last night then the ones seen in this video.
TheMusketITuckedIt 11 months ago
Where is Emeryville?
MammothWooly 11 months ago
look at 0:24
geoff2o9 11 months ago
It doesn't move the water thousands of miles. What is traveling at ~500 mph is energy in the form of a wave. The water being pushed through the Golden Gate was picked up in the Gulf of the Farallones, when the wave changed character when it "felt bottom" on the continental shelf, slowed down and began to actually transport water horizontally.
Melibe13 11 months ago
It's not that serious. This one at least. I mean THIS wave.
Chiicko1 11 months ago
at first, I thought it was small. but omgsh if I move my head it's scary.
Honestly, I would run. I'd be like "run, bitch!"
XpianoxboyX 11 months ago
Absolutely devastating. I hope the people of Emeryville are okay.
Spydurz 11 months ago
I didnt even expect to see this much in emeryville, the bay area!
jujumediazone 11 months ago
Now i see how some americans can be so idiot.
9/11 inside job.
S4kit4 11 months ago
God Bless Japan !!!
KiillOfTheCentuRy 11 months ago
Pure energy. Its not about science Vs. nature. They are one in the same. The earth lives. Our very science is based on natural awareness. I have no idea why people compete nature with science. Science does not tell you to stand up against nature. Science tells you to get the fuck out of the way. The natural occurance of the planet tells you to respect it. Nature will not hesitate to take you out.
humanisall 11 months ago
This really make me think we are nothing compared to nature... There' s no technology, no science that can be compared to this unbelieveable energy...
NewYorkPixels 11 months ago
I hope Japan will recover soon. but it will take time. We know what Japan is going thru. Regards from SL.
78n7 11 months ago
Scary as hell. But more than a wave, it is a higher layer of ocean. And that makes it even more frightening.
frankivalli 11 months ago
It hardly moves WTF just like a normal WAVE FUCFK THIS HIT SUCKS ASS FU
gregor00005 11 months ago
@gregor00005 You should have been at Sendai, Japan then. It was a lot bigger there...
sleeptyper 11 months ago
thats cool
managarm1349 11 months ago
What's incredible to me is that these waves can travel 500 mph or faster and that sea life can survive that!
typer1998 11 months ago
im in Emeryville marina. We had just gone out and came back, and were informed by the marina office that this had happened. no big damage but I was sad I couldn't see the wave.
Dramaism 11 months ago
Nice shot. Well done.
batcactus 11 months ago
Run for your life!
xxeb4sgxx 11 months ago
Maggano, I apologize for my remark. I completely misunderstood you comment
As usual I jumped the gun.
great7saint5 11 months ago
Run!!!
Zebonka 11 months ago
I feel bad for japan but i would so be grabbing my boogie board and ride that shit WEEEEEEEEEE
TheEthug 11 months ago
I hope the Japanese public doesn't get the wrong idea from the few morons who are making Pearl Harbor comments, the US public as a whole is very concerned about Japan and wishes our friends from the far east a rapid recovery.
mobbindag 11 months ago 4
@dmaggana umm..the cause of the earthquake WAS from a subduction zone of the tectonic plates so i dont know what you're talking about... I just hope the Japanese people and anyone else who were affected by this terrible natural disaster to recover quickly :)
mustang4010 11 months ago
Search Grooveshark for "Edward Scissorhands: Main Titles" and watch this video to it. I happened to be listening to that song coincidentally when I first watched the video and it was pretty cool.
1coodude 11 months ago
We have got to come to realize that as humans the effects of what we say and do generates Tsunami's much like the one carried across the pacific from the earth quake in Japan. The killer is that much like the unfortunate catastrophe and loss of life in Japan, is what is really created when we are not careful of what we say or do. We had an advance warning and time to prepare Japan did not. We may not have that great fortune perhaps when we have our next earth quake. And we will have more.
scorpiouknow 11 months ago
The humanity!
SonnetopticsVideo 11 months ago
To understand wave motion is to understand propagation in this instance. A Tsunami travels in the open ocean as fast as a jet aircraft. The depth of the bay and the opening at the Golden Gate all play into what attenuated it to what you see here. I wonder if the Army Corps of Engineers model in Sausalito, CA modeled it. They had an actual small scale operational model of the SF Bay, old school technology.
suretobringskills 11 months ago
it's so slow...
nerdlydood 11 months ago
wow wow wow
sinarxxx 11 months ago
yes ,and I work on Treasure Island ( right there in the background) we were waiting to see if any thing came in ,, but nothing much happened, as you can see.. ( T I is only about 1-4' above sea level)
moosiah 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this, it is really interesting to see this in our bay - a miniature tsunami wave, acting exactly like the big ones, only in small scale because it has lost most of its power. I only which I had driven down there to see it myself.
rcmallory 11 months ago
am i the only one wondering about how f****** slow this "wave" is? can anybody explain please?
RMCasillasF 11 months ago
@RMCasillasF The wave is so slow because the earthquake was hundreds of miles away from this place. So the wave lost the power.
Eck0S33r 11 months ago
great video, it even got referenced on the German News Magazine "Der Spiegel", that's how I found it, did this happen 9 am - ish ?
boettix 11 months ago
Just imagine how much energy was required to move this volume of water thousands of miles across the ocean. It's incredible.
draoi99 11 months ago 402
@draoi99
Hey it's not the water that travels vast miles, but the energy. The energy travels through the water. Either way, it is a mind boggling amount.
Kenjineering 11 months ago 7
@draoi99 go to school and learn physics - it's inertia.
NakilonishE 11 months ago
@draoi99 The water you see in this video was not physically transported to California from Japan.
TimeLapseSteve 11 months ago
@draoi99 approx 9.3 teratons of TNT
MrOranj 11 months ago
@draoi99 The water did not actually get moved across the ocean, only the energy created by the wave moved across. It is just like holding a long Slinky spring and creating a wave on it. The metal does not move from one end to the other, just the wave action. Sorry about the non-scientific description.
sbalogh53 11 months ago
@draoi99 That's not how waves work. They don't transport matter. They transfer energy.
elhrac 11 months ago
@draoi99 It's not the same water as in Japan, the wave is moving THROUGH the water. Just like when you hear a noise from far away, it's the wave that you detect, the air is not moving that distance. Generally water moves in circles as waves pass through it. But yes indeed, an incredible amount of energy released. About 1000 times more energy released than the Haiti earthquake; magnitude 9 vs. magnitude 7. Each number is 10 times the shaking intensity, 32 times the energy release.
RBL77433 11 months ago
@draoi99 Try to read "waves" on physics . It doesn't move the volume thousands of miles. It waves it. The distance is not such problem as the friction between molecules of the substance (water here). If there were no frictions and no air resistance, I guess it could travel till any coast with the same rage
TheEndlessNote 11 months ago 3
Holy crap, this is so effin dangerous! Please people, take care!
rondon2333 11 months ago
!?
Vicitoriachi 11 months ago
underwhelming
entres 11 months ago
@entres It crossed the god damn entire Pacific ocean before getting there. Fuck your underwhelming bullshit.
ferrek343 11 months ago 5
Take cover!
7CHR1S 11 months ago
You're like the only american aware of what's happening right now.
HerrFru 11 months ago
I'm not being bad or anything....but why are there people driving? Would they not be helped by a rescue team?:/
danceposer 11 months ago
@danceposer note, they used the term 'tsunami' pretty loosely in this case. No one was rescued because there was nothing to be rescued from. Maybe a little boat damage in the berkeley marina, but i think all that happened is that the water level rose by a few feet. I live in berkeley closer to the hills, but i don't think anyone was really worried. People should stop worrying about us in california...nothing's going to happen, at least not compared to what the japanese are enduring right now.
elabta 11 months ago
1:03 Why is that red car on the left side of the road? Is this really the US?
JamesRadnus 11 months ago
@JamesRadnus welcome to San Francisco, where the rules only apply to other people. (also there are a lot of one-way streets here)
plaidfluff 11 months ago
@JamesRadnus that's actually the left lane on the right side of the road.... note the large grassy median dividing the two directions. Up til that point in the video, all cars had been going the opposite direction on the other side of the road.
elabta 11 months ago
@elabta Oh, ok, thanks. I though it was some kind of private road to some company or estate.
JamesRadnus 11 months ago
God that shit is slow
SteffenBurattiVIDEO 11 months ago
wow this is surprising, i didnt even know about this and i live in the bay area
HELLLA 11 months ago
caption: And not a single fuck was given.
azn8ball 11 months ago
OMG its global warming!!! Or is it terrorists??
Nope, just a subduction zone doing exactly what it has been doing for millions of years, occasionally getting stuck for a few decades and eventually slipping violently.
Beta4Life 11 months ago 3
@Beta4Life that guy who replaced Larry king said on CNN "What could be the cause of all this destruction, is it global warming? is it the moon?" THE MOON? Oh wow. Good buy traditional media.
sharpezor 11 months ago 2
@sharpezor Fuckin shifty eye'd moon always lookin to cause trouble.
Beta4Life 11 months ago
This would be great with O Furtuna! playing in the back ground.
catguta 11 months ago
@catguta no
fdr100100 11 months ago
@catguta no you stupid stereotype youtube video maker
fdr100100 11 months ago
@fdr100100 ... said the stereotypical youtube comment troll.
catguta 11 months ago
@honeybrwngrl well if you dont want to see the end *sigh* off your self and win an amazing Darwin award in the process
drunkeymcnojob 11 months ago
That is amazing. Thanks for posting this!
micronautp 11 months ago
This seems unimpressive to the most of us... but whoever took this don't see waves like that everyday... so to them this is a big deal. Remember the obstacles like the bridges and land masses slowed the wave way down.
madbunny101 11 months ago
So eerie with no sound! Inexorable....
bcgrote 11 months ago
I was hoping a boat would rip through it
1992yls 11 months ago
Great clip! I can't believe how many asses have left obnoxious comments on here, though.
mooseboy18 11 months ago
uhmm..wow. 20 feet huh? not really...
LostInALoveHangover 11 months ago
gnarley
frenchirishcatholic 11 months ago
I saw this too from my office in emeryville. It was around 9.30 or so this morning. Right before there was a lot of mud exposed at the shoreline, presumably because the water had receeded before the wave bit. Thanks for posting this.
thirdnormal2 11 months ago
It was incredibly brave of you to remain there, filming the carnage. You must have Tiger Blood and Adonis DNA.
Garganchitha 11 months ago 5
fast as an airplane my ass
TheoMarkAllen 11 months ago
@TheoMarkAllen - Then how did it get from Japan so quickly? It slows down in shallow water.
TheObimara 11 months ago
@TheObimara i know, i was just being a trollolol
TheoMarkAllen 11 months ago
OMG!!! LOOK AT HOW FAST IT GOES!!!!!!
DarkstarOhio 11 months ago 3
I'm coming for you!
bradley364 11 months ago
Wow, looks like total chaos. Devastating wave. Award winning photography.
rickw 11 months ago 3
What time was this shot taken? The earthquake was at 14.45(JST) = 5.45(UTC).
If the shot was taken at 5pm, it would have only took 18 hours to go from the epicenter to the SF shore. It's trucking along pretty good considering a plane takes about 11 hours.
Thanks for posting the video.
Aeiouley 11 months ago
"hits" is a very misleading word.
Fernicia 11 months ago 4
half a mile from my job. I wasn't aware we got any surge. Freaky
davygrvy 11 months ago
@davygrvy Would you go so far as saying Freaky Friday? ;)
DeviantRahll 11 months ago
DUDE.
terracrush1234 11 months ago
What time was this taken?
joker4153 11 months ago 3
Thanks for posting this video, Mark. It demonstrates again the power of instant information in the hands of "everyday" people, albeit sometimes a thin line between blessing and curse.
gr8a 11 months ago 2
Fell asleep halfway through the vid xD
conchita510 11 months ago
i pray for san franciscos health god bless
Crunchieman 11 months ago
@Crunchieman your praying did nothing, nice try though.
ilovedragons 11 months ago
@ilovedragons Obviously it did. San Francisco wasn't hit by this Tsunami . . .
Mr101tech 11 months ago
@Mr101tech
Praying doesn't do anything, you do know that? Praying won't help prevent world hunger, wars, diseases, and catastrophic events.
ilovedragons 11 months ago
@Mr101tech Umm.... YouTube isn't live video. The event was well over *before* Crunchieman saw the video and decided to pray about it.
Causality... I has it.
musubk 11 months ago 3
Looks slow on video. How could it reach US that fast when it's speed so slow?
varnavruz 11 months ago
@varnavruz i deep water the wave travels much faster
kingorderve 11 months ago
@varnavruz same reason a long train takes forever to stop....the sheer weight of the water kepts it moving.
mangocracker 11 months ago
@varnavruz it's also scale. You are looking at something very big. If you focus on the cars driving, you will be able to get it a bit better
quietthunder 11 months ago 2
Would have gotten a lifetime achievement award & a dinner with Steven Spielberg if it had the shore impact.
heroineworshipper 11 months ago 4
@blink1420 Oh, lord. Prayer cooties.
claudiaquat 11 months ago
Guile theme would go awesome with this.
SONIC BOOOM
rason110290 11 months ago 2
@rason110290 You'll probably need to loop it several times, it's gonna be a while before that wave reaches us.
ItsShinyTime 11 months ago
The vids always stop just before impact....like we were kids needing censor protection.
NeeAnderTall 11 months ago
RUN IT'S GOING TO DROWN OUR INNOCENT ICEPLANT!
thefastpassguys 11 months ago
that's one scary tsunami, I hope the sea lions are ok.
siliconsurf 11 months ago 2
This beats my crappy iPhone photo of the same event
keeruq 11 months ago
OH THE HUMANITY!
PacificHessian 11 months ago
its crazy how we can feel the affect of something so far away. thanks for sharing the footage.
ghettonyndian23 11 months ago 3
Thanks for being there to capture this and for sharing.
BarbR7 11 months ago 5
@neocon70: the bible doesn't mention anything about the Japanese earthquake so therefore the Japanese earthquake doesn't exist.
lukebccb 11 months ago 51
HOLY SHIT! TIME TO MOSEY!
Galactic123 11 months ago
@neocon70 so can a plane. god aint that cool
jibberfishal 11 months ago 12
Thanks for sharing
uh8myzen 11 months ago
Remember Pearl Harbor you bastards!
Ebonius 11 months ago
CARS WHY YOU DRIVE THERE?! Don't you know WATER is coming?!
spatiality 11 months ago 3
@spatiality Uh, no, they don't. This is more than ten hours after the earthquake, and it's literally thousands of miles.
fashnek 11 months ago 4
It seems so small compared to the distruction that the earthquake did but its still pretty amazing to see. Thanks for sharing.
BethRosePizana 11 months ago
OMG, quick, saunter away
loopothebutcher 11 months ago 17
Circular.
Japan would not exist *physically* if it wasn't for the forces that created this earthquake event.
All persons who think rationally and have done their reading understand what I mean as opposed to the morons who-can't-think-for-shit idiots who throw in "god" and "mother earth" whenever these events occur.
lukebccb 11 months ago
i live on the bay in san carlos and i didnt notice a damn thing...
wish i would have been looking, pretty amazing sight to see.
i hope japan makes a quick and steady recovery, my thoughts are with them...
my bf is half japanese and has relatives in tokyo.
Shramir 11 months ago 2
Unbelievable!
littlebrat672 11 months ago
That's amazing. I didn't know the waves penetrated that far into the bay.
wmnguyen 11 months ago 4
wow, glad that's all we got hit with
vanness5 11 months ago 7
This is a very accurate shot of the area this morning. I live in Albany, and was on the Bay Bridge at 9:20 am, and this was the wave I saw passing Treasure Island. This shot is of Powell Street, a small peninsula street into the bay.
eleanoreadams 11 months ago
Is it real tho?look to the right.
xr6lad 11 months ago
Toy Story 4: TSUNAMI
electricvisions 11 months ago
What time was this taken?
philthy73 11 months ago
I live in the North Bay, so I wonder if im really protected by the mountains...
SoopremeBeing 11 months ago
Wow that thing is slow moving; I feel like I could outrun it.
LivyLovesTCR 11 months ago
@LivyLovesTCR Outcrawl it almost
ojoo 11 months ago
Amazing how far that wave front has travelled.
sphoney 11 months ago 78