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69Liters t1_j6zkjp5 wrote

A lot of footage I’ve never seen before including of the tremendous earthquake that preceded the tsunami. I also hadn’t realized so many people were killed!

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GunnieGraves t1_j7089ii wrote

Quake was a 9.1. Most powerful ever in Japan and 4th most powerful since 1900 when they started measuring with modern techniques. Lasted for 6 minutes.

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vinng86 t1_j720xbr wrote

The 220+ separate aftershocks above a 5.0 was also shocking to me as well.

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hootlaska t1_j72a96n wrote

In anchorage a few years ago there was a big quake at Xmas time, the one that broke the on-ramp from airport road to Minnesota drive. Scary in the moment, but the aftershocks are worse in terms of mental health, over 220 aftershocks “above 5.0” sounds terrible

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not_right t1_j737w15 wrote

6 minutes of that would feel like an absolute eternity

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mindsnare t1_j71gygx wrote

It's amazing the natural disasters that have happened in the last 20 years that people seem to have just completely forgotten about.

In 2004 an earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed almost a quarter of a million people.

In 2010 300000 people were killed in an earthquake in Haiti. Crickets.

It's absolutely wild. I'm not suggesting we're bad people or anything, or what the reasoning is, but it's pretty mind boggling.

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SarcasticAssClown t1_j71kb7j wrote

Some years ago I was in Banda Aceh, the town on the tip of Sumatra where the 2004 tsunami made first landfall. They have a tsunami museum there, and a generator ship that used to be in the harbor is also maintained as a monument where the tsunami dropped it - some two or three kilometers inland on top of a house. Blew my mind to be honest...

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dis690640450cc t1_j727k9s wrote

Well there were all those Americans posting videos callously saying that this was “pay back for Pearl Harbor”. Because apparently dropping two nuclear bombs on them was not “pay back” enough. I think a lot of this forgetting is caused by a lack of caring or outright disregard.

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kehoeman t1_j721l36 wrote

The 2004 Tsunami was massive news at the time.

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Merzeal t1_j71gort wrote

Some of the repeated footage is also at a far higher quality than I have seen. I remember watching coverage live.

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