Tsunami’s terrifying power is revealed in new clip as fresh 6.5-magnitude quake hits Japan

Mangaloretoday News Network

Japan, March 28: As news emerged today of yet another earthquake striking Japan, terrifying new footage from the original March 11 earthquake and tsunami shows the brutal and deadly power of the water that has claimed thousands of lives.

Leading edge: As alarm sirens blare over the city, the initial surge spills over barriers around Kesennuma Bay and begins running through the streets

 

Gone in seconds: Within a minute the carpark in the previous shot has been completely erased by the fast-flowing water - giving residents no time to react

 

Panning right: The amateur cameraman points his handheld camera to capture water pouring through the streets beyond - destroying everything in its path

 

Disaster zone: The tsunami’s devastation is now complete - what was once a thriving city no longer exists

Filmed from the top of a building in Kesennuma, around 300 miles north-east of Tokyo, the footage shows the surge of water cascading over coastline barriers around Kesennuma Bay as a tsunami alarm sounds.

It quickly turns into a furious torrent of water, sweeping everything away - including cars, ships and buildings - as it forces itself inland.

The sheer power of the water has to be seen to be believed. More unnerving is the sound of the tsunami crushing and grinding everything in its path.

The 5min 45sec clip begins as the leading edge of the tsunami has already struck, with cars being pushed over the bay’s surge barriers and being swept into a nearby car park.

Soon the wall of water is moving with incredible speed and rising fast - the barrier that had once looked like a mini waterfall is now now merely a ripple as the tide flows over it.

A storage building with a green roof in the middle distance of the shot begins to disintegrate under the immense force.


The camera pans to the right and focusses on another part of the city. Water can be seen flooding surrounding streets and buildings in the distance are being washed away as smoke rises from the ravaged city.

What was once the carpark below the cameraman’s vantage point is now a boiling and deadly body of water.

The unstoppable surge brings down power lines and street lights and then the green-roofed building breaks from its foundations and crashes into a multi-storey building in the foreground - spewing its contents into the surge as it is torn apart.

The cameraman pans right again and shows the full destruction of Kesennuma - the city is now reduced to partially submerged and shattered buildings.

Japanese authorities and the U.S. Geological Survey today announced that another quake, measuring 6.5 in magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of Japan today.

It is also in the Miyagi prefecture, where Kesennuma and many other cities and villages once stood.

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, But the warning was later withdrawn.

 

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