Any tsunami video I look at barely looks like a 20 feet wave hitting shore. But wikipedia tells me there have been dozens of 100+ feet tsunamis even in the last 10 years.
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Tsunamis aren’t usually large waves like you see surfers ride, they are usually just large surges of water. There are plenty of videos of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami in Japan which reached over 100 feet, you can see what that looks like.
Because tsunamis like those are exceptionally rare, known ones mostly happened before cameras were invented, or happened in middle of nowhere.
If big tsunamis happened in areas with huge populations, nobody will be around after it passed to upload any videos.
Tsunamis aren’t usually large waves like you see surfers ride, they are usually just large surges of water. There are plenty of videos of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami in Japan which reached over 100 feet, you can see what that looks like.
Tsunamis aren’t usually large waves like you see surfers ride, they are usually just large surges of water. There are plenty of videos of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami in Japan which reached over 100 feet, you can see what that looks like.
Because tsunamis like those are exceptionally rare, known ones mostly happened before cameras were invented, or happened in middle of nowhere.
If big tsunamis happened in areas with huge populations, nobody will be around after it passed to upload any videos.
Because tsunamis like those are exceptionally rare, known ones mostly happened before cameras were invented, or happened in middle of nowhere.
If big tsunamis happened in areas with huge populations, nobody will be around after it passed to upload any videos.
Because the waves don’t reach hundreds of feet when they approach the shore. The increased drag from the bottom of the ocean slows down the wave, while the top of the wave doesn’t experience that drag. This mismatch in speed causes the wave to collapse as it approaches the shore.
Probably for the same reason there aren’t many survivors. It’s extremely destructive, and in the off chance a camera had been positioned in the exact place to catch it at the right time chances are it won’t survive either.
I think reasonable people would be too busy trying to get to safety rather than to film impending doom coming at them. And if they did, the chances of a device surviving all that water and impact are slim.
Because the waves don’t reach hundreds of feet when they approach the shore. The increased drag from the bottom of the ocean slows down the wave, while the top of the wave doesn’t experience that drag. This mismatch in speed causes the wave to collapse as it approaches the shore.
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