clancy688's video: Tsunami at Ryoishi port near Kamaishi Iwate Prefecture

The 311 tsunami Ryoishi, a little fishing village a few kilometres north of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The village wasn't protected by the Kamaishi breakwater as Kamaishi itself was, so the waves turned out much bigger - up to 19.5 metres. You don't see an actual wave devastating Ryoishi, but rather a fast rising tide. At 4:14 you can see this "tide" rising at the seawall. This seawall is nine metres high, and it doesn't take the tsunami more than a minute to rise from nearly zero to those nine metres. And that's only the first wave. At 07:15 you can see the second wave approaching, while the water left over from the first one is still nine metres high. Two minutes later, the water level has doubled. And from then on it's only mayhem... At 29:00 you can see the remains of the nine metre high seawall - the second wave of the tsunami toppled and tore it apart.