Captured The Big Japan Earthquake On Video 3-11-2011

I captured this video of the big earthquake while shopping on the 3rd floor (terminal 1) in Narita International Airport in Tokyo Japan. The quake started as a long 15 second temblor which gave me time to grab my camera. My wife and I were returning from our vacation in the Philippines. We were suppossed to connect to Chicago and then St. Louis, Mo. but ended up camping in Gate 70 until Saturday evening. Our trip to the Philippines was similar. We flew to Dallas from STL to bypass the Chicago snow storm. In Dallas our first plane was taken out by de-icing problems. We boarded another plane and a water line broke, then the crew was over on their legal flight time so we had to spend the night in Texas. They made us leave our checked luggage on the plane so we had to buy new clothes and toiletries since we didn't have everything in our carry on luggage. Once we saw the news, we consider ourselves lucky!

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• tokyo earthquake
• narita airport earthquake

[4bluesfans]

you acted so calm

[acquamarine28]

I really like the cold blood and discipline japanese have during these moments. Here in Italy everyone would run like crazy, assuming the buildings wouldn't collapse

[LOLZpersonok]

I have no idea of what would happen if an earthquake like that one happened where I lived. Thank God for their tough building code!

[TheUnrealLonewolf94]

Lmao when he looked back at that shelf I was like damnnnn lol

[kennyknight7]

@bobdonda I agree. I'll try to upload some more short videos of our time at the airport. There are just so many clips to go through and edit and none of them are labeled. lol.

[kennyknight7]

@bobdonda We were returning to the U.S. from our vacation in the Philippines. Our connecting flight was in Japan. We had time to shop while waiting for our flight. My wife had just walked out of the store in the video when the earthquake began. We were probably in one of the safest places in Japan for an earthquake.

[bobdonda]

@kennyknight7 glad to hear you told the airport employees you appreciate them... customer service and dealing with demanding people is crazy enough on normal days, I never want to know what it's like dealing with those customers under 10 times as much pressure.

just letting the employees know you're on their side can release so much of the stress and anger from dealing with the bad customers

[bobdonda]

@kennyknight7 Just curious, why did you return to the US? Were you concerned there would be more earthquakes, did you want to not be near the damaged/flooded areas, did you have concerns about nuclear radiation, etc? Did you suddenly leave when you had a job there or anything like that?

None of my business I know, I'm just curious about the situation. I would have been pretty concerned about it, and I can't imagine what it would have been like living in one of the heavily damaged areas.

[Hardbass11]

The Earthquake was stronger at Narita than it was in the downtown Tokyo area. Why is that?

[SUPERMODZCHANNEL]

Lol um I think where having an earth quake. Hmm let me check. OH shit yup

[kennyknight7]

@Perropery I'm glad you are ok and hope the recovery is going well. I know that it can take years to rebuild.

[Perropery]

@kennyknight7 veru impressive anyway. I'm from Chile, I was in the 8.8 earthquake. Some buildings crushed against the ground, like "alto rio" in concepción . Greetings.