Watch Tsunami at Cape Hirota, near Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in New Channel | Channify

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The 311 tsunami at Cape Hirota, near the city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: If you study the video carefully, you can see that the tsunami comes in several sweeps, but without much retreating between those sweeps. The initial wave comes at 01:40, a second and highest one arrives at 10:30. It's interesting to see that in this case, the tsunami doesn't resemble a wave, but more a incredibly fast and high rising tide. The highest water level can be observed at 12:30. Its hard to see, but if you compare the height of the central power pole in the harbor with what's actually sticking out of the water at that moment (only the tip of the pole), then the tsunami height must've been easily ten meters or more.