3/23/11 Original Tsunami Videos from the past 48 hours: mostly original uploads.

It's been two weeks since the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devistated northern Japan and now that people who lived in the affected regions are now getting to areas with restored power and more importantly internet (besides the bare necessities such as food shelter and water) they have gone ahead and stated uploaded the videos they captures on their cell phones.

I'm not one who is a disaster hunter but this one hits rather close to home.  Makes me really appreciate the time I spent there just this past year.

I decided to put together a compilation of videos uploaded in the past 48 hours, not that you can't find them yourselvs but because I had to sift through 90% crap.  What constitutes as crap uploads are
1. people filming new programs and uploading them.
2. poeople putting the word tsunami or 津波 and exploiting popular search terms.
3. people who put up fake crap to promote their business or organization.

What I was looking for was original sources uploaded from the people who shot the videos (or in some cases, friends they knew).  I actually searched Japanese videos for the true source and found 95% of the videos in Japanese.  I spent nearly three hours scouring YouTube so I thought that I would not let all that work go for naught.  So here you are, original footage shot and uploaded by the ones who survived.

This first one was is the only one that was a capture from a news broadcast. You might have seen this one already but this is the first instance since the original broadcast where I've seen the video in it's entirety unedited. Other news sites cut out the end where you see the people standing on the rubble of a destroyed house.



This eye opening sequence was filmed at the shore where the guy realized the tsunami was coming and ran for higher ground just in time, all the while still filming.



This is a series of 9 videos taken from a sports promotion support store. The people sat by as their town gets flooded on the second floor. Be sure to watch all 9 videos showing the waters coming in and then finally receding. Here's their blog and story with pictures. http://blog.canpan.info/suport2007/



Video taken at top of mouth of river apartment. After realizing the it will hit his house, he runs in to save his dogs.



Part 1 of girl filming her town being flooded. She cries at the shock of seeing this.





Extremely dramatic crappy video of waves rushing in to town. Not original source but I couldn't' find it anywhere so this is the best I could do.



Video taken at a factory tour. Begins as water comes in, then with force causes trees to tobble against building. Later you see the entire industrial area underwater. This person has uploaded only one video.



These next three videos show waves coming in and washing a fishing port.







This one is only here because it shows how after the tsunami destroyed the port, ships out at sea came back safe and sound despite the debris and damage.



Waves crashing through tsunami wall from high up.



Another port town flooded. Very good long footage.



This last video was just of an area flooded and cars being washed away. If you look at the user, he's actually a stock car driver and has some very exciting in car videos from the past year of racing.

I hope you enjoyed these sorted out videos. I thought that my time wasted will be your time saved!

EDIT***
This is really cool. Follow this link. This person took it upon himself to go to a shelter and record video letters so that their friends and family can know they are safe!
http://www.youtube.com/user/yyokoyama504