[FulcrumPilot]

I wonder what it would have looked like on the beach that morning just before the big waves struck the shore. May be like this if one had binoculars:




who is going to get the real pictures of the wall of water coming at them though first?

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...0508678.htm?1c

[SeSawaya]

except that it was supposily going 500 mph. that would make it very hard to capture

[FulcrumPilot]

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
except that it was supposily going 500 mph. that would make it very hard to capture

Help! my head is bleeding!

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by FulcrumPilot:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...0508678.htm?1c

Your link requires registration. Homey don't play that.

[FulcrumPilot]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Your link requires registration. Homey don't play that.

Posted on Mon, Dec. 27, 2004
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Hunt Is on for Dramatic Tsunami Pictures

DAVID BAUDER

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Besides grateful relatives, tourists returning from Asian countries struck by the killer tsunami are likely to be met by news agency representatives hunting for video of the cataclysmic event.

"There will still be, I think, the definitive shot, the wall of water," Sandy MacIntyre, director of news for Associated Press Television News in London, said Monday.

American TV networks have been rushing reporters and camera crews to countries affected by the disaster. As they cover the aftermath, there's also an intense effort to find video of the event as it happened, to convey the awesome power of the natural phenomenon.

APTN is competing fiercely with another news agency, Reuters, to acquire video. APTN producers were sent to six airports in Europe and Asia on Monday to ask tourists if they had captured the scene on their home video cameras, MacIntyre said.

CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC covered the story heavily Monday, often running the same video clips over and over.

The most arresting shot was taken from the roof of a building at Pa Tong beach in Thailand, showing a giant wave crashing into the shore and spilling into buildings and onto streets. It was taken by an Australian tourist and acquired by an Australian television station as soon as he arrived in Sydney, said Anna Murray, an APTN news editor.

Another frequently seen clip showed a pool overrun by a wave, with terrified sunbathers trying to run away. It was shot by a tourist in Sri Lanka, Murray said. Another shot shows a different pool being overtaken by ocean water pouring in from over a hill.

News agencies must depend on amateurs for this video. Many may still be traumatized by the event and may not realize what they caught on camera, MacIntyre said.

"Obviously there weren't news crews staking out the beaches," said Chuck Lustig, ABC News director of foreign news.

Like the steadily climbing death toll, the story should continue to unfold over the next several days.

"There are still places where journalists haven't been yet - or even relief agencies and government workers," Lustig said.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by FulcrumPilot:
Posted on Mon, Dec. 27, 2004
Click here to find out more!

Hunt Is on for Dramatic Tsunami Pictures

DAVID BAUDER

Associated Press
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Thanks

[FulcrumPilot]

NZer tells of 'wall of foam, sand and white water'
28 December 2004

"What was coming towards us was a wall of foam, sand and white water," recounts New Zealander Michael Clark who was on a cruise off a small low-lying island in the Maldives on Sunday morning when a powerful tsunami rocked southeast Asia.

"It hit the island and went literally over the island and into the lagoon. Then it decided to come towards us."

Officials in the Indian Ocean archipelago believe 52 people drowned and 70 people are missing after the tidal waves which struck about 10.30am local time. Six of the Maldives 200 inhabited islands have been evacuated.

The small cruise ship, which Mr Clark works as a crew member on, was about half a nautical mile off the atoll, south of the capital Male, when he noticed a surge in the lagoon water he initially thought was caused by a freak wave.

"There was a wall of water, only about two-feet tall, but there was an incredible amount of water behind it surging forward," he told National Radio via satellite telephone.

"It literally sucked all the water inside the atoll out to sea again and then it came back in again about three times."

The wave washed over the tiny island, which was about 120m by 40m and used by resorts as a picnic spot, he said.

"There was a lot of furniture on the island and it all got washed out so there were tables and chairs and people's personal effects. Things were washed around all over the place."

The six island residents managed to get safely to a house which was raised out of the reach of the water.

Mr Clark's ship was now moored outside its base on the eastern side of the island group.

"We can't refuel, we've got no food and we can't go anywhere either."
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That gives you some more imagery. It seems like it wasn't one huge wave, it must have been more like a solid wall of water moving in, like described above.

[FulcrumPilot]

more pictures here:

http://chinese.cari.com.my/myforum/v...222939&fpage=1

[tavilach]

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
except that it was supposily going 500 mph. that would make it very hard to capture

No, no. The Tsunami goes at that speed in the open ocean, with a small amplitude. As it approaches the shore, it slows down considerably, and its amplitude rapidly increases (to around 10 meters from the surface in this case).

[spatterson]

Very, very sad :-(

[wdlove]

A terrible scary situation.

[MacGorilla]

I saw video of it hitting a resort in Thailand. It was weird. At first it looked like the ocean w was driven in by wind, like a hurricane but then I watched palm trees get uprooted and cars tossed around like toys and I was...was...just awestruck.

[historylme]

Yeah, I saw it in the French news, bodies thrown everywhere. Quite sad.

[SeSawaya]

wow those are good pictures, not what I expected at all though. I thought it would be a huge wall of water like in the 1st post.

[Kitschy]

Link to some of the movies.

Just imagine you're swimming at the beach when this happens. How awful...

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

[Wiskedjak]

I've no doubt that what a tsunami looks like as it approaches shore is absolutely nothing like what Hollywood has taught us it looks like. Isn't the typical image we have of waves:



caused by wind?

It's not unlike the image we had of airplanes crashing into buildings before 9/11. The Hollywood image of that event would have had the plane crashing into the side of the building, exploding dramatically and leaving a huge gaping crater; as opposed to the actual event with the plane getting swallowed by the building and leaving a relatively small hole (not much bigger than the plane itself) I was almost as shocked by how the planes just disappeared into the buildings as I was by the event itself.

[Face Ache]

Bodies of victims of the tsunami that hit on Sunday lie on Khao Lak beach, about 900 km south of Bangkok.

Terrible.

Amazing satellite photos: http://www.digitalglobe.com/sample_imagery.shtml

[d4nth3m4n]

tsunamis don't break like normal waves. their wavelength is too long. it's just a big surge.

[voyageur]

^The m4n from Hawaii would know.
Speaking of which, if you ever find yourselves in Hilo, Hawaii, check out the little Tsunami Museum; it's worth a visit.

[d4nth3m4n]

i just lived there. i'm home now where i grew up. ithaca.

and the 1946 tsunami was something else. there are stories floating around the island of this guy who saw his house floating out into the surf, swam out there, grabbed some personal effects and then surfed back in on a plank from his floor.

all over hawaii on the coast are these huge green and yellow sirens for the tsunami warning system. what most people don't understand is that you just have to go uphill about 50ft to totally avoid the brunt of it. though if you happen to live on an atoll you're pretty screwed.

[voyageur]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool how they had these marker posts along the hilly shore in Kauai: "Climb above this marker to be safe during a tsunami warning".

[f1000]

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
I've no doubt that what a tsunami looks like as it approaches shore is absolutely nothing like what Hollywood has taught us it looks like.

No doubt about it: Hollywood special effects are almost invariably absurd and violate all known laws of physics. Tsunamis don't have to be mile high monsters to kill large numbers of people. Babies drown in toilet bowls for crying out loud.

A huge swell of water 10 feet high and hundreds of feet deep is going to knock people over and move cars and large objects around. It angers me how idiotic and apathetic many of those amateur video shooters sound as they "ooh" and "ahh" at the crashing waves. The swollen waters may not look like much from the upper stories of a reinforced concrete hotel, but three feet of fast moving water can quickly sweep a person off his feet and drown him. Each of those videos is probably capturing the invisible deaths of dozens if not hundreds of beachgoers submerged under tens of feet of incoming ocean.

[xi_hyperon]

The movie below is one of the scarier ones I've seen of the tsunami. You'll need VLC to view it.

It was taken at beach level and the people didn't run until it started breaking on the shore.

Option-click (won't run within the browser). It may take a couple of minutes to download.

koh_lanta_thailand.avi

[Face Ache]

[d4nth3m4n]

HOLY SH*T!

[AlfaMunky]

Must see before and after pictutes. You see entire cities swept off the face of the earth.

Tsunami Before & After

[Secret__Police]

Originally posted by AlfaMunky:
Must see before and after pictutes. You see entire cities swept off the face of the earth.

Tsunami Before & After

Those digitalglobe pics are amazing.

[Komisar]

Originally posted by Face Ache:
Images snipped

Wow those are really good photos

[Oneota]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Your link requires registration. Homey don't play that.

An FYI for future reference:

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Lets you get around sites that require registration (not for money-making, but for tracking purposes. It's not a way to steal, but to maintain privacy).

[JohnM15141]

It is astonishing that the mother you see here running into the surf to warn her children survived, as well as her children! It looks like they are doomed...I found this news link:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274460,00.html

Originally posted by Face Ache:

[Komisar]

Originally posted by JohnM15141:
It is astonishing that the mother you see here running into the surf to warn her children survived, as well as her children! It looks like they are doomed...I found this news link:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274460,00.html

I'm glad they are ok... It would be horrible if they didn't survive

[the_glassman]

Who's the babe in the picture? Hope she made it out as well.

[Siggi_arni]

Also see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_In...ean_earthquake

[argod]

This one is quite gruesome.

http://img145.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...uumiita4ft.jpg