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  • By: kevin
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  • Updated: 24-Jul-07
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  • While watching this home made video I saw the people running from the beach. I guess I don't understand in the first place if they knew it was coming, why they would be there. How many lives were lost because they felt the need to gawk at it? It's a show of force from Mother Nature and a true tragedy. And to Elsje...we pray for the safety of your friends.

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    • There is not always a retreat

      Someone said that seeing the sea retreat back is a telltale sign of an impending tsunami. This is only true if you are on one side of the underwater earthquake. Every wave is made up of 2 waves, each travelling in opposite directions. On one side, there will be a dip in the sea travelling in front of the wave (hence the retreat of the water), on the other there is no dip just a wave. When the tsunami struck Thailand, the Thai side of the wave had the dip. The wave that travelled the other direction had no dip and hence the people on those parts of the world had no warning. Just a 90ft wave travelling at 110mph.

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    • In Japan at the time

      The japananese seemed to be fine calling it "Tsunami", and in Kenkyusha, New Collage Japanese-English Dictionary (5th ed.) "津波" (Tsunami) means sesmic sea wave as well as tidal wave.

      Nihongo wakaran nara katteni teigi o shinaide kudasai.

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    • EDUCATION

      If only everyone in the world had been taught that if you see the sea RETREATING there was a SEISMIC SEA WAVE (the CORRECT name) approaching! The sea always goes OUT first! Then the first seismic sea wave arrives. The term "tidal wave" is incorrect, because these waves are not caused by the TIDES! And unfortunately, the Japanese word, "Tsunami" simply means "tidal wave!"

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    • tsunami = harbour wave

      tsu = harbour
      nami = wave

      By Jumbles 1164652779 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • That happened

      A English girl who was taught about tsunami's in her geography lesson a week before it happen saved a beach full of people.

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  • Still in shock!! Have family on the island of Java. Thank you Lord, they are fine. Still missing friends in Sumatra. Please pray for them. Thank you.

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  • Tsunami storm big slam

    WOW!!!!!Ive never seen something like it now a chair pushed HAHA!!.Like the day after tommorrow.So it rocked!!!!!yo its like MASS tornados.And freeze that is big.

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  • holy!

    OMgwtf hax!?!?!??!

    By impendingtruth 1154552128 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • at least...

    this video's about the real tsunami!
    hotel meridien,khao lak ,phuket ,thailand. dec.26-2004

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  • Just run you fool!!

    By Blackbeat 1134769003 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • you dont know where to go !

    I was in Turkey with a streaming river and you dont know where to go !!
    Nature is so damm hard sometimes

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  • wow

    wow

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  • scary

    wow, that would have been soo scary. I wish we were there to help all the vicims to passed away from this.

    By Melly 1106566758 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Tradegy happening at Tsunami!

    Good thing that someone took good look at that disaster! He may be getting a prize for that camera!

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  • God Bless Their souls

    By LadyKK 1104945179 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • :((((((

    OH seriously mind blowing video !! by the way what abt those foreigners who were shooting this video ???? I hope they are still alive !!

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