Tsunami Dunedin NZ

Footage of St Clair & St Kilda beaches in Dunedin, NZ around estimated
arrival time of Tsunami from Chile's 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
Basically a non-event...filmed between 7:35am to 9:00am Sunday 28th feb
2010.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• earthquake
• tsunami
• zealand
• new
• nz
• chile
• Premiere_Elements_4
• kilda
• dunedin
• clair
• 8.8
• st

[22ness0hayden]

Thanks for the vid. Now I'm really homesick! I used to have a place in Beach Street near the roundabout. Been in London 8 years now. :-(

[StKildaSurfer]

@22ness0hayden Hope you get the chance to duck back here soon :) St Clair is still just as beautiful. Not much has changed aside from a couple of new buildings & a bit more erosion to Middles. Probably have to pay a bit more for a spot in Beach Street these days though!!

[Coolboy81]

The waves at the end seem very likely to be the tsunami in a weakened form. They look and behave similar to the Japan tsunami waves that hit the west coast of the US this year, theirs too were weakened from the long travel across the Pacific and behaved in the same way in many areas.

[StKildaSurfer]

@Coolboy81 Thanks for the comment. Having seen footage from the States of the Japan tsunami, there are definitely similarities. To me it seems likely. Being a surfer, I spent most of that morning just watching the waves (thinking why wasn't I just out there getting some!!) & that set was unusually larger than any of the others on the day. I know that it doesn't matter how small the swell is, you'll always get random bigger sets, but a couple of things about this one were interesting...

[StKildaSurfer]

@StKildaSurfer ...Firstly, the set didn't just hit one section of the beach, it hit all the way along to Lawyers Head, a streatch of a couple of km's. This doesn't generally happen unless it is a very solid, long period swell, which wasn't the case on this morning. Secondly, the timing was virtually exactly when the tsunami was predicted to hit. Coincidence, maybe, but my suspicion is, it probably isn't.

Thanks again for the comment, appreciate your thoughts.

[StKildaSurfer]

@Honas21 Interesting comment, hear where you're coming from, especially with whats going on around the world at the moment. I debated about putting this up at the time (12 months ago now - hard to believe) but I liked the footage, even if it was uneventful in the end. What I was trying to do was capture the feeling of the day. No one really knew what was going to happen & there was definitely a sense of tension in the air, which was quite surreal given how beautiful the day was...

[Ecalpon55]

Lovely camera work thanks. And looks like a nice place. Glad it was a bit of an anti-climax- though seems like some people would have liked to see the place flattened and the cars and property washed out to sea!

[pipefita]

Bro get a hobby

[StKildaSurfer]

@1881cassandra Glad you liked it. All the best :)

[1881cassandra]

Thanks for the footage, Love NZ, have not been as far as Dunedin, been to Christchurch, saw Sep 2010 quaqke, what a shame, but than the Feb one just ruined it all. Love Dunedin it is very pretty!

thanks again

[burnybrosnan]

Nice bit of ironic humour.!

[xhemexx]

yeah i think those series of waves at the end there may have been the tsunami remnant.