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chodadog 12-30-2004 01:26 PM
Okay, i don't think the one i posted is the actual tsunami either. It looks very similar to picture number 2 on this slideshow (same pic?), which was taken 4 hours after it hit. The one posted before mine is the picture after (number 3) and according to that website is showing the water receding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4134703.stm

I wonder if any satellite pictures actually caught the wave itself as it was about to hit the shore. Call it morbid curiousity, but i really want to see what it looks like.

SuckOnThis 12-30-2004 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by OzMan
I know what you mean. I was looking for the 50 foot high Tsunami video like in the movies given all the tourists with camcorders. The one they keep showing of the wave breaking over the pool is like any seawall on an average day.

As was said in above posts maybe the big waves didn't hit the tourist areas or maybe all those camcorders are floating around with bodies right now.

However, there is a lot of misinformation in this thread.

For all you living in cave for the last week, the waves don't hit the beach at 100 200 300 or more miles per hour. They slow down dramatically depending on the shape of the ocean floor as they approach the coast. There was one report I read of a guy that saw the first wave coming and was getting all his family off the beach into a building when he realized his son was still down the beach. He had time to run down to the waters edge grab his son and got about 50 yards before the wave caught up with them (they survived)..He wouldn't have been able to do this with a 100 MPH wave.

Waves in Hawaii do start hundreds or thousands of miles away, from storms and occasionally earthquakes near Japan, Alaska etc. There is nothing to stop them reaching Hawaii without losing strength as it's all open ocean. The shape of the beach determines what the water will do when it gets there but the bigger swell at Waimea washes over the road on occasion.

Everyone greatly underestimates the power of water; well actually its momentum. Momentum comes from mass and speed. If you have one or the other or both you have a lot of momentum.

It only takes water one foot deep flowing at ten miles per hour to knock you off your feet. So think about the power of a large mass of water say five feet deep flowing at 30 MPH up the beach and one mile inland. If you are in its path you will be carried away inland and then carried back out to sea, repeated four or five times as you get hit by everything along the way. Stationary suff like trees and buildings as well as debri that is moving like you are.


Good post. :thumbsup

Chichio 12-30-2004 02:08 PM
Maybe you're looking for it to break like the surfable waves in Hawaii. This was already said but how a wave breaks is basied upon the floor of the ocean at the point where it comes in. Hawaii just happens to have nice breaking waves. These tsunami waves are just walls of water that come surging on to the land.

emthree 12-30-2004 02:12 PM
You'll have to watch a few hundred vids to get a better idea of how powerful those things were.

smit 12-30-2004 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by demented

wow that shit was moving fast :helpme

StuartD 12-30-2004 02:24 PM
the thing about this is that it was "unexpected" as in... no one knew it was coming. How do you video tape something that you don't know is there until it's on top of you?

That's why there was so much death and destruction in the first place. The vids and pics you see are from people who realized AFTER it all started and even then it was well after because your first reaction is to freak out, find safety and THEN film.

If people knew about it ahead of time, then yes... there would have been some pics and vids of the initial waves hitting.

hova 12-30-2004 02:30 PM
there are some vids around with the big waves, but the power of those waves is to strong to understand if you were not there

sperbonzo 12-30-2004 02:40 PM
There is another factor here.....the difference with waves that are 20 or 30 feet high that come into pipeline on the north shore of Hawaii is that the wave is high, but not deep (front to back) It is a narrow peak, looking at it from the side.

The difference with a large tsunami is that the water level behind the wall of water is higher than the water level in front of the wave....it is as if the water is moving in a block, rather than a very large ripple, which is what the average Hawaiin wave is. If you look at a Tsunami from the side, it would look more like a step up, than a narrow peak. This is why the water just keeps moving inland like a sudden flood, as apposed to just breaking on the shore like a normal wave.

TonyL 12-30-2004 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
There is another factor here.....the difference with waves that are 20 or 30 feet high that come into pipeline on the north shore of Hawaii is that the wave is high, but not deep (front to back) It is a narrow peak, looking at it from the side.

The difference with a large tsunami is that the water level behind the wall of water is higher than the water level in front of the wave....it is as if the water is moving in a block, rather than a very large ripple, which is what the average Hawaiin wave is. If you look at a Tsunami from the side, it would look more like a step up, than a narrow peak. This is why the water just keeps moving inland like a sudden flood, as apposed to just breaking on the shore like a normal wave.
Ahhh nice post.

ArkansasDave 12-30-2004 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Entropy
Wow knarly currents!

Ron 12-30-2004 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
There is another factor here.....the difference with waves that are 20 or 30 feet high that come into pipeline on the north shore of Hawaii is that the wave is high, but not deep (front to back) It is a narrow peak, looking at it from the side.

The difference with a large tsunami is that the water level behind the wall of water is higher than the water level in front of the wave....it is as if the water is moving in a block, rather than a very large ripple, which is what the average Hawaiin wave is. If you look at a Tsunami from the side, it would look more like a step up, than a narrow peak. This is why the water just keeps moving inland like a sudden flood, as apposed to just breaking on the shore like a normal wave.
That makes sence yes... good explanation

xclusive 12-30-2004 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by lazycash
xclusive "Damn that is an amazing pic... "


Not sure i'd call Battus amazing, but to each his own.
LOL you bastard


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