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saluksic t1_j73jgtd wrote

Reply to comment by slickmitch in 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days (2023) [00:48:35] by LetMeSleep21

18:30 ish for completely unreal images of a city being carried over fields by a black wave. This is something else, I've never see anything like this.

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dugongfanatic t1_j74v3ph wrote

If you want to see an absolute HORROR of tsunami footage, I recommend watching Boxing Day tsunami footage. The Bandeh Aceh footage is some of the most terrifying film in history in my opinion and I was raised in the rotten dot com age. There is nothing on this planet that could’ve prepared me for that, it’s unreal. I believe there’s only one known existing video of the tsunami actually hitting.

In some ways I think it’s worse because of the lack of preparation. I went through a tsunami deep dive/research phase a few years ago - had a design project regarding disaster prep materials and the content really grabbed me. Historical research and first person accounts of natural disasters became a bit of a passion project after that assignment.

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ermahglerb t1_j779jb1 wrote

Yeah that tsunami was many many times worse than Japan's, mainly because there was no real warning system in the less developed countries that were hit. I think over 200,000 people were estimated to have been killed.

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dugongfanatic t1_j78lr5c wrote

Upwards of 230k, an absolutely incredible loss of life across the globe

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