Tsunami Footage - Patong Beach

Amateur camcorder footage of the 2004 tsunami disaster. Rooftop view of two huge waves battering buildings along coastline of Patong Beach, then zoomed-in footage of flooding of city streets.

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News & Politics

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• Tsunami
• Footage
• Patong
• Beach

[MrDomburger]

Those People from 0:09.. i was like :O

[salvadory]

@totallysickawesome it isnt there but those other speeds were reported by local media and scientists- rough estimates ofcourse

[totallysickawesome]

@salvadory that doesnt look like even 50 mph.

[BlueChipNinja]

@Gaara7177 they live on an island dude, pretty much every town is on the beach.

[Gaara7177]

And that's what you get for deciding to build a town on the beach.

[salvadory]

@odiumimbues well try being bombarded by cars trees roofs glass etc while trying to keep your head above water while the water moves 75-200 mph as it hits

[tristan01101]

@inachu It's Dutch. But I'm pretty sure he's wasted. It's hardly discernible

[inachu]

hes speaking gaelic or what?

[momoandmiz]

It's not the water that kills you, it's the debris- cars, heavy furniture, etc. And a lot of people don't know how to swim, yknow.

[PicnicHikeMusic]

@odiumimbues

A question of scale (hard to see from a distance). Look carefully at the beginning - those little obects on the beach are people. That wave completely engulfs the beach with a 20 ft wall of water. Anyone still there had no chance. (Banda Ache wave was 60 feet).

Rememeber, regular 20 ft waves you see simply crash. A tsunami wave goes back for miles - it does NOT crash. Essentially, the whole ocean rises up many feet for a period of minutes. Very different and very scary.