r/PublicFreakout • u/shimizuuuwu • Oct 06 '24
Justified Freakout from 2018 Minutes before tsunami.
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u/simplekindaman13 Oct 06 '24
Hard watch, hard listen
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u/KatagatCunt Oct 06 '24
The pain in his voice is heartbreaking.
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u/HubeiSpicyLung Oct 06 '24 edited 27d ago
It's a good thing the video told me I felt that or otherwise I wouldn't have known.
Haha holy shit I thought people hated these stupid captions, apparently not.
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u/BigRedCandle_ 29d ago
I don’t even think this is an edgy comment, the captions did feel quite unnecessary to me.
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u/jfsoaig345 29d ago
Agreed, captions like this are my pet peeve honestly. Unnecessary and redundant and takes me out of it.
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u/Cthulhu8762 29d ago
This helps people that are deaf. You might be taken out of it but others now understand
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u/OrneryError1 29d ago
You're downvoted but you're right. The captions on this video were the most obnoxious and useless I've ever seen.
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u/KatagatCunt Oct 06 '24
Well I wasn't really paying attention to the words on the screen, just watching the water and listening to his voice... But ok.
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u/RuairiSpain 29d ago
He saved a lot of people by seeing the wave and then sounding the alarm.
Hero!
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u/Wheel-Reinventor Oct 06 '24
Shit that man crying got me. He helped how he could and saved a lot of people, but he was probably thinking that there's someone down there that he could've saved if he was somehow louder or quicker. It must be so fucked up to see people about to die in front of you and not be able to do anything.
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u/Haunting_Barnacle_31 Oct 06 '24
How terrifying to see this and there’s nothing you can do. This is so damn sad. RIP to all the victims
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u/MJB9000 29d ago
Question how did he know about the tsunami incoming? Did he just see the big wave? Or see an alert on his phone? Genuinely curious
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u/misterO5 29d ago
Hard to tell bc the video is shaking but before a tsunami occurs the water will recede far back into the ocean before pushing forward. Look up tsunami videos, usually people find it interesting and go out into the now exposed ocean floor which doesn't work out well.
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u/ruler_gurl 29d ago
I think he saw it, It looked pretty definitive to me, and I've never seen one in person. I'm guessing it might not have his first rodeo.
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u/SomethingAbtU Oct 06 '24
Any place that is prone to tsunamis should have loud sirens and tsunami detectors in the water. Many places already have them and it's not an expensive system to setup. This poor guy having to scream for people attention and feeling so helpless because he can only do so much, was hard to watch. There is no escaping once the waves are minutes away. An early warning system would give everyone plenty of time to get to higher ground or more inland. I know this happened some years back and I hope they have a system in place.
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u/bluediamond12345 Oct 06 '24
I was just thinking this. We have tornado alarms in the US, places where tsunamis or hurricanes exist should have a series of ‘horns’ close to the beaches that will sound off when a tsunami is coming. I pray for all those in the path of such destruction.
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u/Bitt3rGlitt3r 29d ago
Many places do have tsunami warning systems, but unfortunately they're not everywhere
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u/gunsof 29d ago
Lack of warnings on the arrival of the tsunami, coinciding with the Christmas and New Year holiday season in the nation, and night time setting in the area contributed to the large loss of life. With 426 deaths, the tsunami was the deadliest volcanic tsunami in recorded history in Indonesia since the 1883 Krakatoa tsunami, which originated from the same island.[7]
Following the tsunami, Indonesian authorities installed multiple emergency early warning systems in tsunami-prone areas. The newer system would detect any significant disturbances on water levels, including changes caused by volcanic activity or undersea landslide.[8]
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u/chadwicke619 29d ago
I mean, the waves were less than minutes away in this video and tons of people clearly managed to escape to safety, so I’m not sure the whole “there is no escaping” thing is necessarily true. I feel like the people below could have made it to the guy filming in 30 seconds of concerted effort from anywhere we can see in the video, pretty much.
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u/Direct_Club_5519 Oct 06 '24
the video cuts out right before a huuuge wave hits.
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u/wannabe_inuit 29d ago
And that wave levels anything that's left. You only see water, no trace of the buildings or even debris of any sorts.
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u/Iridismis Oct 06 '24
Unfortunately I could see myself underestimating a situation like this. I might be standing and staring far too close to danger for far too long.
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u/Good_Association8261 Oct 06 '24
I was thinking the same thing while watching this. "Hey, it doesn't seem THAT bad, might flood a few houses close to the water and that's that." Then the destruction came.
Nature is not to be underestimated, holy hell.
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u/tilthenmywindowsache 29d ago
The thing that really throws people about understanding tsunamis is that they aren't traditional waves. Waves have a peak (crest) and a valley or trough, between the waves where the water is lower, which is the classic wave shape.
A tsunami isn't a wave like that. The crest of the wave is just the entire ocean coming in at that height, so if you have a 10 foot tsunami, there's no trough behind it, it's just a wall of water that will go inland as far as the power of the water will allow it to.
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u/yoshhash 29d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Smith, a schoolgirl, is credited with similarly saving many lives, she was the only one in a huge crowd to recognize the signs but was not believed at first. Only when a stranger heard her and added that there was an earthquake a couple hours ago somewhere nearby, did people, including her parents, finally start to realize she was right
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u/tilthenmywindowsache 29d ago
Do you live on a coast? Most people who live on a coast with seismically active faults are told explicitly to be extremely aware of the ocean.
Even on days with no earthquakes, sneaker waves can be deadly if you aren't paying attention.
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u/Iridismis 29d ago
Do you live on a coast?
Nope. Middle of Europe, no coast anywhere near me. (And those that would be closest are rather tame as far as seismic activity is concerned, I think 🤔 Tho treacherous waves are probably a risk with any ocean - or even any larger body of water.)
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u/Phainkdoh 29d ago
Unless I’m mistaken, this here is the second wave:https://youtube.com/shorts/ETK2VM9-UHI?si=MZsWCZ17XPtIDjXj And it's horrifying.
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u/Wrath7heFurious Oct 06 '24
Is it just me or did that wave not even look that big? Holy jehosaphat that is incredible damage instantly. I mean this is legit horrifying. Mother nature, still undefeated.
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u/NickFotiu Oct 06 '24
It minimizes it to call it a wave. People probably think it's a huge tidal wave six stories tall. It's actually the entire sea level changing, so it's not a what we see surfers riding.
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u/Vreas 29d ago
Most tsunamis are barely noticeable out at sea because of how deep the ocean is. The shift in liquid mass is dispersed out over miles iirc and doesn’t turn until a wave until depths become more shallow pushing all the water up.
Reasons boats will sail out to sea to avoid tsunamis as opposed to staying on shorelines if possible.
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u/SippingSancerre 27d ago
Tsunamis out in the open ocean can travel over 500 miles per hour but have wavelengths hundreds of miles long and as such, are barely perceptible by people on ocean-going vessels that encounter them.
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u/nzerinto Oct 06 '24
Movies completely exaggerate tsunamis, and unfortunately I think that’s the only reference a lot of people have of them.
They can be fairly deceptive, because it just looks like a slightly bigger than normal wave. The difference being there’s a massive amount of water behind it, and it just keeps surging.
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u/Funpop73 Oct 06 '24
I think the only way a tsunami can look like movies is if it’s the rare and hopefully never in our lifetimes mega tsunami.
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u/BeautifulArtichoke1 Oct 06 '24
Idk the one with spiderman and Naomi watts was pretty realistic. Scary shit.
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u/SudoDarkKnight Oct 06 '24
I don't know why but calling the actor spider man just kinda made me laugh
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u/kickaguard 29d ago
He's always Spiderman now. It was strange that he didn't use his powers during the tsunami.
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u/ProposalWaste3707 29d ago edited 29d ago
Well I'd think the primary issue is that there are tsunamis of varying sizes. This may have been a smaller one, but some can be extremely catastrophic very far inland, very movie like.
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u/SippingSancerre 27d ago
It's because tsunamis in movies are almost always caused by meteor impacts, which DO cause ridiculously high waves, hundreds or thousands of feet high, moving faster than the speed of sound. Only impacts can cause waves like that though (to include massive landslides like the Lituya Bay incident in Alaska that caused a wave in a lake that was over 1000' high -- which incidentally was witnessed and survived by at least two people).
The overwhelmingly vast majority of tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, which of course are also clearly devastating, just not as immediately dramatically so as those extinction-level events in the movies.
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u/Free_Gascogne 29d ago
Tsunamis in media have been exaggeratted to be huge waves that create immediate havoc. What is deadly about Tsunami is not the crash of the wave but the increasing tide. Its deadly to stay on the ground level of a building, its deadly to stay out in the open where large debris can get you or you can drown.
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u/ProposalWaste3707 29d ago
Tsunamis will come in different sizes - depends on size of the event that caused it and distance.
This might just be a relatively small one.
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u/shittycables Oct 06 '24
When was this happened? Where?
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u/DrakeRowan Oct 06 '24
This... seems like the 2018 Sulawesi tsunami, but I could be wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Sulawesi_earthquake_and_tsunami
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u/Drak_is_Right Oct 06 '24
Compared to the 2004 tsunami this felt like lapping waves. That one was just a huge roaring one sided rush many miles inlane.
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u/Deakros Oct 06 '24
I can confirm it is at least in Indonesia based on the language. I think DrakeRowan is correct, it may be in Sulawesi.
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u/azalago Oct 06 '24
For some better news, there was a tsunami in Thailand in 2004 that was correctly predicted by a 10 year old girl based on a lesson in school. The massive tsunami killed 200,000 people, but thanks to the girl's warning, every person in her hotel was spared. https://youtu.be/6C3CJX1-d_8?si=06FYQGEbFwRiZENk
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u/G0LDLU5T Oct 06 '24
The voice at the end when he’s still repeatedly yelling “tsunami” on autopilot even though there’s no one left to save… 🙁
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u/Kenjamin91 Oct 06 '24
Those people were not moving nearly as quick as they should have. Cheese it!
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u/nzerinto Oct 06 '24
At one point someone next to the camera guy says they (the people taking their sweet time to get to safety) are stupid. I concur.
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u/brutalanglosaxon 29d ago
I called my Japanese friend after the 2011 tsunami to make sure that he was okay and all he talked about was the local nightlife.
Apparently there was a huge rave.
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u/UsernameChecksOut_69 29d ago
You can really sympathise with him, seeing a place and people that you know and love just wiped out like that in mere minutes. Makes me reflect how lucky I am not to live anywhere near such risks.
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u/Checkmynumberss Oct 06 '24
Seems like the people in the cars would have lived. It stopped rising and never went over the hoods. I was thinking they were going to doe for sure and wondering why they didn't jump out and try to get higher but they luckily made the right choice here
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u/mentalshampoo 29d ago
Another wave was incoming. The water keeps rushing in with these tsunamis and often doesn’t stop.
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u/Ultimakey 29d ago
So would they have been better off trying to get out of the car and hope to swim or was it just impossible at that point?
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u/mentalshampoo 29d ago
Swimming would be disastrous considering all the debris and the speed and power of the water.
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u/whatisthishere_guy 29d ago edited 29d ago
I’ve always wondered if there is intelligent life out there where their world is mostly land. They end up with their own NASA researching outer space or whatever. Come across our planet, see that it’s mostly water and wonder how crazy it would be to live on a planet like that. Just looking at earth from above, it really just looks like water is about to engulf the whole thing.
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u/Chris_Bs_Knees 29d ago
I live in Hawaii and as a kid I went to the Tsunami museum in Hilo for a field trip and for months afterwards I was completely terrified of them and refused to go near the ocean. I was able to get over it and have no issues with the ocean now but god did this video just take me back a little
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u/blablayoyoyolo Oct 06 '24
He repeatedly yelled "come up, come up. tsunami, water water...mam come up! Tsunami!" Then at one point he yelled "Don't run down, come up! what idiots, come up there's no time!" Then the rest he was saying "this is tsunami, this is tsunami, my god"
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u/Angus950 Oct 06 '24
People think a tsunami is a big tidal wave because of hollywood. But its actually far more terrifying then that. Its just the sea level suddenly rising x amount of feet basically instantly.
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u/dragonfliesloveme Oct 06 '24
What are those buildings, were there people inside of them 😥
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u/ToastedRage2 Oct 06 '24
The red building on the right at the beginning looks like it says cafe. The others might have been restaurants or shops. Unfortunately there most likely were people inside. This looks the 2018 Sulawesi tsunami which had over 4k deaths.
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u/screename222 29d ago
Ok, probably the most legitimate 'freakout' I've seen on this sub... Fark that
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u/gwawill Oct 06 '24
Oh my goodness, this is so terrifying to watch. And it's sad that things will only get worse as we neglect global warming...
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u/AcmeCartoonVillian Oct 06 '24
Yes they do. Situational awareness is key. some very important questions to always ask oneself and be prepared to act fast: (not just for tsunamis)
- "Wait, where did (the ocean) go"
- "Why is it suddenly dark"
- "Why are all the animals quiet/leaving"
- "Why are all those people yelling and waving"
- "what is that loud noise"
- "What Is that siren"
- "Why is my phone buzzing"
Situational cues like this can save lives for more than just Tsunamis
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u/kaioh023 29d ago
I don't usually take advice from cartoon villians but you're spot on with this ! Great comment
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u/AcmeCartoonVillian 29d ago
to be fair as a carton villain I'm normally the reason most of these things are happening
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u/denimdaddy619 Oct 06 '24
Redditors unable to resist from quipping at a video of death and disaster:
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u/tidderite Oct 06 '24
Well thank fucking god for that text on the video. I am so dumb I would have never understood any of it without someone telling me what I can see with my own eyes.
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u/Muffin_Appropriate 29d ago
Glad it said the same thing over and over in slightly different ways for 3 minutes
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u/SpongederpSquarefap 28d ago
Fucking hate these dumb shit videos
It's like everyone is a fucking moron
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u/Capital_Broccoli926 Oct 06 '24 edited 29d ago
There are megatsunamis
They can have extremely large initial wave heights in the hundreds of metres, far beyond the height of any ordinary tsunami.
While the tallest megatsunami ever recorded (Lituya Bay in 1958) reached a run-up height of 520 metres (1,720 ft). It is also possible that much larger megatsunamis occurred in prehistory; researchers analyzing the geological structures left behind by prehistoric asteroid impacts have suggested that these events could have resulted in megatsunamis that exceeded 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in height.
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u/Blunted_Insomniac Oct 06 '24
What language is he speaking? At some points it sounds like Spanish or Portuguese but he’s saying “Allah” at the end
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u/Sk8rboyyyy Oct 06 '24
No siren? 🚨
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u/skmo8 Oct 06 '24
That's what I was wondering. It would be interesting to know what the political dynamics are that have susceptible coastal communities without the most basic warning systems.
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Oct 06 '24
Where is this?
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 29d ago
Looks to be the beach.
Probably Indonesia? They have a strong Muslim population. Them, Japan, Thailand and a few other places get blasted with Tsunamis every so often. I mean any coastal area can get them, but I believe they have major fault lines near their shores.
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u/regr8 Oct 06 '24
It would be rather unfortunate to later find out they don't understand the word tsunami
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u/chasing_daylight Oct 06 '24
Why would they not understand it? It's the same word in Japanese as it is in Indonesian.
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u/xbryandm 29d ago
Is there not a tsunami lookout with sirens for this?! Like how we have tornado sirens in the u.s
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u/strumpster 28d ago
These content thieves add a soundtrack and some commentary and pretend they're upgrading or enhancing a video. Nope, there just ripping it off
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u/edwardcullengirl 27d ago
And this is why I stay far away from the water when I do go to the beach, which is rare. Those poor people.
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u/mentalshampoo 29d ago
Why does this video need the crappy text that adds nothing and only serves to distract from what you can see?
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u/SensuahL Oct 06 '24
Crazy how much destruction happened in 3 minutes