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cloudphorest t1_j70949h wrote

I remember watching this unfold Live on TV. Incredible and terrifying.

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nailbunny2000 t1_j710176 wrote

Yeah, it was like a movie. I remember that wave of water going over the low flat land and seeing a car driving down the road, all of a sudden a big burning boat riding a wave of debris is nearly crashing into the car and they barely get away.

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gundumb08 t1_j71o2ua wrote

It's strange, in movies they always showed tsunamis as a big, arching wave. Somehow, real tsunamis are more terrifying, because it's not one big wave, it's a constant push / flow of water that just doesn't stop.

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typed_this_now t1_j715r99 wrote

I was driving home from uni and heard on the radio it was all kicking off. Turned the tv on and gave my mate a call whose parents and young siblings were living in Japan at the time. Took waaaay to long to get in contact with the family. Very scary afternoon.

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DrunkenlySober t1_j72f6p6 wrote

The strength of water is almost incomprehensible

Even seeing it live is almost unbelievable

I think it’s also why people won’t respect even a mild wave when they should

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TGish t1_j72on6n wrote

It’s why people die trying to cross fast moving streams. “Oh it’s not even knee deep” yeah but that hoe is MOVING and has a ton of force

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NaloraLaurel t1_j7345wp wrote

After reading up on natural disasters of the past and reading about massive floods in almost every civilization around the world, it truly is terrifying.

And knowing how little we know about our ocean floor. Everything could just get washed away and sink and all that’s left is the giant rocks we stacked up.

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DrunkenlySober t1_j73595u wrote

The scariest disasters are known as mass extinction events. There have been 5 in the history of the earth. These disasters add numerous species to the extinction list

The last one was 66 million years ago and killed 75% of all species. The gap between these events has been as short as 20 million years and as long as 130 million years

The scariest of these events is an asteroid collision. Hard to detect, can happen out of nowhere, and absolutely devastates the earth including very extended environment changes

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NaloraLaurel t1_j738ek9 wrote

5 that we know of 😂 I’m willing to bet catastrophic floods are far FAR more common than we think. I mean just look at the clear signs of water erosion that blasted through Mesopotamia and the top portion of the continent. Clearly visible on google earth.

I think how little we know about the rock we live on and it’s history is the scariest thing to me.

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