Posted on 12/30/2004 11:18:05 AM PST by Ambient
You won't see a 30 foot wave. The wave would be 30 ft. at the beach level, but anybody that close would not have survived it. By the time they get inland they are smaller, but still deadly. Look at the video from Indonesia.
I'm amazed at the video we DO have, unbelievable that anyone could survive any of it.
That picture is almost unbelievable. I wonder how the photographer survived. What a frightening death for those about to go under.
>Most of the places where video has survived (at least so >far) did not get the "wall of water" single wave.
Yes, the places that got the big ones aren't here to tell about it. I hear today that there are whole islands that have dissapeared and villages with 150,000 in them are lifeless now.
bump for later
Unbelievable. My original reaction was considerably more vulgar.
All I keep getting is ' closed'....what am I doing wrong?
I havent seen a "30" but the height is from tough to tip and I am not sure if that includes the tidal surge which seems like that was the bulk of the damage
The basic problem in terms of what these look like and what people expect is caused by two things:
1) Movies like "Deep Impact" depicting large curling waves
2) Assorted Cable documentaries that insert footage of big wind-caused tubular curling waves on the north coast of Oahu and whatnot into Tsunami documentaries, because (until last week) there was so little actual footage of tsunamis that looked impressive.
The thing about these tsunami waves is they "break" well offshore. Thus there's no big smooth wall of water marching inland....I think the fact that they've already broken for the most part makes them look a bit smaller on video than they actually are.
The picture you posted is not from this past week. This picture is from a Pacific tsunami that happened a couple of years ago.
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