Tsunami video: Dramatic images emerge from California coast
Dramatic video has emerged showing damage and high surf as a tsunami generated from the devastating Japan earthquake hit California's shores on Friday.
TV choppers were over Santa Cruz as the waves tossed around boats. There were several surges, giving videographers several views.
NBC3 in Eureka captured some of the only video images of waves destroying parts of the Crescent City harbor and throwing boats around.
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EDITOR'S PICKS:
Listen close to the audio for the Cresent City footage; one of the guys is asking his wife; "I could be down there running away from that wave".
What a genuine expression of intelligents!
Posted by: Bird Gieda | March 12, 2011 at 09:21 AM
Reeeeal "dramatic"... Haha
Posted by: Lucia | March 12, 2011 at 09:21 AM
dramatic images ...
sure, almost as "dramatic" as the nuclear catastrophe happening right now in japan.
Posted by: Tine | March 12, 2011 at 10:25 AM
I saw film of some guys standing on low ground in front of a tsunami taking pictures and I couldn't believe someone could be so dumb. Then I heard on the news that one of those people was carried off by the water and died. I just don't get it.
Posted by: zygion | March 12, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Very nice job!!! beautiful starts and ends...
Posted by: Tina | March 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM
beautiful jobs!!!!
Posted by: Tina | March 12, 2011 at 12:44 PM
If my last comments posts, I apologize. I wasn't thinking and it was callous given that someone lost a life.
Posted by: mountains | March 12, 2011 at 12:55 PM
The Crescent City footage sounds like it was filmed by Beavis and Butthead... What idiots to be standing that close. In this part of NorCal they also have sleeper waves which have killed many people standing out on rocks and such, so in that area it's never a bright idea to do this.
Posted by: CW | March 12, 2011 at 01:03 PM
@ Bird Gieda: it would help your case if you spelled intelligence correctly.
I've been a strong swimmer for 40 years and I wouldn't want to be caught in that.
Posted by: JJ | March 12, 2011 at 01:11 PM
I still don't understand why with all the pre-warning, none of these boat owners came down to this marina and got their boats out of the harbor?
Posted by: Bob | March 12, 2011 at 04:54 PM
Is it the end of the world as we know it or just another unfortunate natural disaster inflicted upon us by some unknown forces...nature or maybe even God?? It is the year 2011...could it be a sign or marker of the things to come? I couldn't help but just think about it, with all the debate on the Mayans and the supposed predictions of the apocalypse coming in the year 2012...December 20, 2012 to be exact was the approximate prediction...but I don't think all their predictions were always correct...were they? What do you think??
Posted by: Claire | March 12, 2011 at 05:30 PM
@ Bird Gieda......it's spelled..............."intelligence" kinda funny huh?
Posted by: Tim | March 12, 2011 at 07:05 PM
In the Crescent City Tsunami Surge video, the rocks in the distance seem unaffected by the surge.
It's difficult to tell how large they are, how far away, or the depth of the water. If the water around them is deep enough the tsunami surge should be minimal where they are--even as it climbs the beach.
Good video, thank you for sharing.
Posted by: WN | March 12, 2011 at 08:03 PM
Mr Richard Sato,a telephone company lineman, working atop a pole at Hilo in 1946, told: "My pole was on the shore in front of an auto dealer's window, looking down at the harbor.I noticed suddenly,the water of the harbor retreated, exposing the harbor bottom,grounding many anchored boats. People along the shore started walking with curiousity down into the exposed harbor bottom. I kept on with my cable splicing work while watching the scene.Then a tall crashing wave came suddenly catching those people,destroying the auto dealer's showroom at my feet,while my pole lurched from the impact of that wave. Soon all that water retreated, again emptying the harbor and I scrambled down my pole and made my way to high ground.
Posted by: Robert Arvid | March 13, 2011 at 06:27 AM
hey Bird Gieda,
Good job making fun of people. Too bad you cant spell intelligence.
Posted by: intelligents | March 13, 2011 at 12:43 PM
When I was getting ready for work yesterday, I caught an inteview w/ Bill Nye the Science Guy. The reporter asked him what may cause such abnormal events to occur on earth. He responds that all this is very normal for the earth and will always happen. Makes you think: we don't own the earth, we are of the earth and she can destroy us at anytime.
Posted by: Edgexxi | March 13, 2011 at 04:03 PM
Oooh a tsunami coming in you say. Let's all run down to the beach, stand real close and watch it. That's not dangerous or anything. Gross, how those people make this look like it's a spectator sport.
Posted by: hijk | March 13, 2011 at 05:16 PM