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My favorite part of this entire demonstration is when the shark kept going flying. 😂

Whos here after that 8.8 👀

It’s actually insane how good of a teacher you are. Thank you for all the educational content

Watching this after the news of the 6th largest earthquake off the coast of Russia… sending prayer to Hawaii. ❤️

@0:49  You didn’t have to kill my boy jaws like that though 😂

The seawater receding from the shore, that happened during 2004 tsunami, felt like something straight out of movie - surreal yet utterly terrifying!
Nobody had ever seen something like that before. The ocean pulled back so far and so fast that people could walk down miles into what used to be the sea. The receding happened so fast, Fishermen rushed out, chasing the fish left flopping on the exposed seabed, some even claiming the temporarily revealed land, not realizing something was wrong. The saying "calm before the storm" took on an entirely horrifying new meaning that day, as it stayed calm and empty for around 2 hours - long enough for everyone to get comfortable with what was still eerie. Nobody could've even imagined what was coming.

Then the first wave struck, at speeds of 800 km/h (roughly the speed of a passenger plane flying at cruising altitude), measured staggering 33ft in height - roughly the height of a three-story building (some areas in Sri Lanka it was recorded towering 41ft!).
And rest was history…

What followed was devastation on a scale we’d never seen before. My country alone lost over 30,000+ lives. Entire communities were erased in seconds. That day, the world saw what an actual “tidal wave” was, a term now globally known by its Japanese term: "tsunami". It's been 21 years now, but every time that word is spoken, it sends a chill down the spine of everyone who lived through it. We know—deep in our bones—how close we all were to the brink.

No matter how much we think we’re in control, humanity is just one misalignment - in nature’s balance - away from being wiped out completely, before we even realize it.

YouTube algorithm knowing exactly what it's doing with those timely recommended videos.

11:12 One thing that screwed over Japan during one of the tsunamis is just mind blowing.  During one of the tsunamis, they said the wave was such and such height and it was 2 feet below the max height for their flood wall, not knowing that the earthquake had caused the ground to sink about 3 feet so the wave just rolled right over the top of the now shorter wall.

If there was an Oscar category for science documentaries, this should surely be nominated.  The thought flow in the narrative and the animation are just so good.

Hi Sabin, I have seen and used many tsunami education video as a geophysicist who study subduction and tsunami, but this is one of the best tsunami one I have ever seen. You did a great job, Sabin. I am especially amazed by how realistically and accurately you animate all different processes, though exaggerated sometime. Especially, I am amazed by how you animate the tsunami waves shoaling and breaks at the coast and make the big splash; I am interested in how you did that. Anyway, I think many classes could use your video to do educations. Thank you so much for making this video❤.

Really appreciating content. Schools can't teach us like that.🙏

The angle of the sea floor near the shore also has a great impact on wave height. Most videos of tsunamis do not include 30 meter waves, but rather endless volumes of water being pushed ashore at an unrelenting rate, but without the theatrical "Wave off Kanagawa" exaggeration.

Tsunamis and Earthquakes are among the worst scenerios a population of any kind would never be willing to be in: very nice video and let's work together!

I have no idea how this video went through my playlist, but I am so happy it did. I think I want to cry. The fact that I was able to grasp such a complicated topic in one watch is too overwhelming!! I am so ready to tell everyone I know. Ooh what a day 😍🥰🤩

Geologist here: the “trench” you mentioned along the Cascade range in this video is not a plate boundary. The plate boundary you are referring to is the North American and pacific convergent boundary that resides off the shore of Washington and Oregon. The cascade range itself is a backarc volcanic chain that forms as a result of this off-shore convergent boundary

I'm here after the Dhaka, Bangladesh's 5.8 magnitude earthquake, that was depth in 10km and it felt so horrible for 15seconds. There are also 3 aftershocks. All these 4 earthquakes within 32hours.

May Allah forgive us and keep us alive.

Beautiful animations! Love the visualization of the different types and effects

For those who didn't know it was 67 years ago today (07/09/1958) that the Latuya Bay tsunami was generated by a huge landslide that had been triggered by a 7.8 moment magnitude earthquake. The tsunami struck around 10:00 at night. Latuya Bay obviously "rose to the occasion".

Perhaps the best YouTube video. This is how YouTube SHOULD be. Thank you. I can't stop watching. ❤