Japanese woman recording her cat right before the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck.
Japanese woman recording her cat right before the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck.
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Japanese woman recording her cat right before the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck.
The way the earthquake started to build up half way was terrifying.
According to Wikipedia
Casualties :
15,896 deaths
6,157 injured
2,537 people missing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
Earthquakes are such a totally bizarre thing to see on video considering I grew up in Australia.
I didn’t experience any land movement until I was 24 and in Tokyo when there was a slight tremor. I couldn’t imagine being there for something of this magnitude and watching the actual earth crack open as everything oscillates back and forth.
Jesus, that is one weird-looking cat.
Poor cat! (and humans and other animals too)
> The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku’s Iwate Prefecture,[31][32] and which, in the Sendai area, traveled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.[33] The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in)
Just from the wiki, holy fuck what a mover! 40 waves sounds absolutely unreal, Day After Tomorrow like. Then it fucking shifted the entire planet a lil bit.
That earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), and increased earth’s rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day.
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What does filming the cat have to do with the incoming earthquake? It’s not like the cat could sense anything..but people connect any dots together I guess
Why does the cat sound Japanese too
What about the cat? It was like 5 seconds of cat. >:-(
>地震が起きる約１５分前
About 15 minutes before the earthquake…
>猫がこたつに入ろうとしていたんですが
My cat wanted underneath the kotatsu…
>これは予知してたんでしょうか・・・
Perhaps he was predicting it…
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No, he wasn’t predicting squat. It’s early March. In Eastern Japan. Where (most) apartments and homes have no insulation. Where it is still quite chilly, even cold. The cat just wanted some warmth, and just happened to want it 15 minutes before the earthquake. I’m pretty sure animals can’t sense earthquakes **15 minutes** before they happen.
Even cat looks Japanese.
That’s fucking terrifying!
It felt like that earthquake lasted 10 minutes!
I was at work in Tochigi prefecture when that earthquake hit. I didn’t make it to my home, 30 kilometers away, for almost a week due to closure of major highways and traffic gridlock as people had to navigate the rural roads, many of which had no working traffic lights, and many people trying to find a gas station that had gasoline. I spent those days at a coworkers watching television which was nothing but video of destruction from the tsunami.
That was 7 years ago but I still get emotional when I think about it.
What the fuck is she doing recording? Get the fuck out of the house.
The duration of that earthquake was something else. I have experienced a small handful of 3.5 ish quakes. The first time I was in my apartment I thought a snowplow went by and then I was like?? is the neighbor moving furniture?? and then after a second or two I realized it was an earthquake. But no sooner had I realized what was happening it was over.
A 2 minute sustained earthquake would scare the shit out of me.
The TV warning system was quite impressive. It looks like when an earthquake is detected it broadcasts over all the channels, no delay with a live view. That’s pretty awesome. Same for the missiles I guess.
Is it weird I’ve never experienced a earthquake?
I’m a respiratory therapist and there is a type of ventilator called an oscillator that can deliver small breaths very rapidly (in the range of 3 to 14 cycles per second).
I live in Maryland, and remember waking up to the 4.1 earthquake in 2011 in Virginia (as someone from the Eastern seaboard, I have little experience with earthquakes). When I woke up feeling the vibration, the first thing that came to my head is “7 Hertz.”
I can’t imagine how powerless you’d feel in a situation like that. Must be terrifying.
As a guy from a stable region, this thing is terrifying.
I wonder what people in the past thought of earth quakes. This much power just literally shaking your whole world is terrifying knowing what we know. I wonder what people of the past who experienced this would think. Probably just some wrathful god.
あらためて身が引き締まる思いです南海トラフにしかり安全な場所などどこにもない現実です
I’ve been in a few earthquakes. Not one of them lasted more than 30 seconds. This shit was terrifying.
I’ve been in a few 10-15 second earthquakes but holy shit
Good thing that TV was tied down. Then the show switches to the super useful warnings.
Korea’s had a few smallish earthquakes in the past few years. I was about an hour away from the epicenter of one and it caused my apartment to shake for like 5-10 seconds and it freaked me out. I cannot even begin to imagine how horrifying an earthquake of this magnitude must be.
That fucking couch survived.
“tsunami” … oh shit I know that word…
I’m surprised that someone in Japan isn’t aware of some of the basic safety protocols in an earthquake. Hey, let’s stand near windows and by heavy tvs and shelving.