Has anyone seen this on National Geographic?

I was up late last night and was flipping through the channels when I saw a show called Witness: Disaster in Japan on NGC. This is some of the most terrifying video captured by the people that lived through the quake and the soon to follow massive tsunami. The video was really good and a lot of it I have never seen on Youtube or the news. Just simply amazing anyone lived through this.

Makes you wonder if you have prepped enough for something like this. If you get the chance watch it you'll be shocked by the amount of power both the tsunami and quake had.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...-6666/Overview

I watched this last night also.
Really nasty
I too am amazed that more didn't die and I really feel for the folks over there.
About the only way to prep for something like this is to not live at sea level.

Its extremely traumatic experience even for those who were 200 miles away. My aunt and her family are moving to Singapore. She hasn't had any work since the event.

Wow, that is incredible. I'm thankful that many were able to survive. My prayers go out to those in Japan.

Saw a promo for it but haven't seen the show yet.

looks very interesting.

watching video from japan as well as chile, new zealand and haiti really adds to my skepticism of global warming.

nature can shuffle us off at any time.

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Saw a promo for it but haven't seen the show yet.

looks very interesting.

watching video from japan as well as chile, new zealand and haiti really adds to my skepticism of global warming.

nature can shuffle us off at any time.

The power that mother nature can release in a blink of an eye is more than we ever could in a 1000 life times that's for sure.

Some of the video shows how long and hard the earth shook for was just amazing. In some places it lasted a full 6 minutes or so. That would freak me the hell out

thing that gets me is that we are expected to rush in and rebuild.

Umm, where were the Japanese when Katrina wiped out the gulf coast?

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thing that gets me is that we are expected to rush in and rebuild.

Umm, where were the Japanese when Katrina wiped out the gulf coast?

You didn't get a Sony TV? [Tooth]

Another thing that gets me with this shit.... I feel sorry for these that went through that in Japan, it was/is devastating. But whenever something like this happens in the good ole USA where's all the support? Where's the fund raisers? [Rant1]

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You didn't get a Sony TV? [Tooth]

Another thing that gets me with this shit.... I feel sorry for these that went through that in Japan, it was/is devastating. But whenever something like this happens in the good ole USA where's all the support? Where's the fund raisers? [Rant1]

kinda where I was going with my Tantrum before I self-Edited.

I Do truly feel sorry for the folks.
My Wife's Cousins are there in the thick of it.
Screw it, Let them rebuild it.

But if a wall of Shit 40 foot high Covered the plains from Foothills to the Mississippi river you can bet no one would donate a fucking roll of Charmin to help us.

Blame Molon_Labe... I wasn't going to rant but he made me.[LOL]

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kinda where I was going with my Tantrum before I self-Edited.

I Do truly feel sorry for the folks.
My Wife's Cousins are there in the thick of it.
Screw it, Let them rebuild it.

But if a wall of Shit 40 foot high Covered the plains from Foothills to the Mississippi river you can bet no one would donate a fucking roll of Charmin to help us.

Blame Molon_Labe... I wasn't going to rant but he made me.[LOL]

Just cuz the US media doesn't report it ..................... don't mean it didn't happen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ricane_Katrina

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thing that gets me is that we are expected to rush in and rebuild.

Umm, where were the Japanese when Katrina wiped out the gulf coast?

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Another thing that gets me with this shit.... I feel sorry for these that went through that in Japan, it was/is devastating. But whenever something like this happens in the good ole USA where's all the support? Where's the fund raisers? [Rant1]

For a starter The Japanese is holding 800 billions in our debt and keeps on buying as the older T Bill mature. The US does not hold any other countries' TBill. The reason the japanese or for any matter the chicom buys out our debt is to maintain strong Dollar (not happening thanks to Nobama) to keep strong importation of their products.

Believe it or not, US disasters have always drawn more foreign aids than any other disasters abroad. The reason? Brownie point to do business with us.
Katrina?

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An article in the April 29, 2007 Washington Post claimed that of the $854 million offered by foreign countries, whom the article dubs "allies," to the US Government, only $40 million of the funds had been spent "for disaster victims or reconstruction" as of the date of publication (less than 5%).

Here you go....

Afghanistan
Donated $100,000 to the hurricane victims.

Albania
Donated $308,000.

Argentina
Made offers of help and assistance. Argentina also dispatched an elite team of bilingual mental health professionals.

Armenia
Pledged $200,000 and made offers of help and assistance.

Australia
A$10 million (approximately US$7.5 million), and a team of 1,000 emergency response officers immediately. Donated A$20 million to American Red Cross.

Austria
140 specialists of the AFDRU were put on stand-by. Their focus was to have been on providing clean water with portable water-treatment plants. Within the EU Emergency Assistance for Katrina, Austria set up a communication network using IT and communication equipment for assistance/support, provided 10 sets petrol driven dirty water pumps, 500 pieces tarps/plastic sheeting and 300 camp beds.

Azerbaijan
Donated $500,000.

The Bahamas
Pledged $50,000.

Bahrain
Donated $5 million.

Belarus
Helped out and offered medical assistance

Belgium
Offered 3 Medical teams of 31 personnel, logistic team of 10 personnel, coordination team of 4 personnel, civil engineering team of 10 personnel, diving team, and also balloon-lamps, low and high capacity pumps and small generators.

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Made offers of help and assistance.

Brunei
Donated $1 million.

Cambodia
The king donated $20,000 to match the $20,000 Cambodian government donation.

Canada
Main article: Canadian response to Hurricane Katrina
September 5, 35 military divers were poised to depart by air Sunday from Halifax and Esquimalt, B.C., for the New Orleans area. September 4, On the request from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Canada sent thousands of beds, blankets, surgical gloves and dressings and other medical supplies. On September 2 the Government of Canada announced it was sending three warships along with a Coast Guard vessel, and three Sea King helicopters to the area. Over 1,000 personnel are involved in the operation, including engineers and navy divers. The Canadian Heavy Urban Search and Rescue out of Vancouver was in Louisiana from September 1, due to security they started their mission on Sept 3. Ontario Hydro, Hydro-Québec, and Manitoba Hydro, along with other electrical utilities, had crews set to go to the affected areas. On September 2 Air Canada participated along with U.S. member airlines of the Air Transport Association, in a voluntary airline industry initiative to support rescue and relief operations. Money donations although where very high, the province of Alberta alone threw in 5 million dollars. Although it is hard to put an exact number on Canadian cash donations because of some Canadians donating directly to the American agencies, Canada is widely believed to be the highest international donor nation, and was the only country in the world to supply direct military assistance in addition to civilian donations and supplies as the US Government declined direct military support from all other nations.

Chicom out of all of them...
On September 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will offer $5 million along with emergency supplies, including 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets, immediately for disaster relief. China also offered to send medical care and rescue workers if they were needed. This aid package consisting of 104 tons of supplies later arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas. A chartered plane carrying the supplies arrived on September 7.

Republic of China (Taiwan)
Pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort, plus supplies.[16]

Colombia
Made offers of help and assistance.

Cuba
One of the first countries to offer aid, Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors and 26 tons of medicine. This aid was rejected by the State Department. Also, before the 2006 World Baseball Classic, Cuba said they would donate their share of the winnings to Katrina victims to ensure the United States embargo against Cuba was not violated. However, after the tournament, the U.S. government refused to allow the donation.

Cyprus
Offered $50,000.

Czech Republic
Offered rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment.

Denmark
Offered water purification units.

Djibouti
Offered $50,000.

Dominica
Offered police to monitor hard-hit areas.

Dominican Republic
Offered rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

Ecuador
Made offers of help and assistance.

Egypt
Sent 2 C-130 planes loaded with blankets, medical equipment, and canned food.

El Salvador
Offered to send troops to help keep order in New Orleans.

Equatorial Guinea
Pledged $500,000.

Finland
The Finn Rescue Force—the group consists of 30 firemen was offered by the Finnish Government but refused. The Finnish Red Cross sent three Red Cross logistics experts.
$100,000 was given by the Finnish government to be distributed by U.S. authorities. A Finnish cruise ship, Finnjet, operated by Silja Lines, was sent to Baton Rouge for use by the LSU Department of Medicine. 9,000 sheets, 1,000 pillowcases, 200 small tarps, 200 first aid kits, 120 cooler cases and 3,500 thermo sheets were sent to Little Rock for distribution in Louisiana. Nokia donated $1 million to the U.S. Red Cross and matched employee contributions at 100 percent. Mobile phones were donated to shelters in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
Additionally Finland offered 300 tents, a water purification unit, sterile gloves, bed sheets, pillow covers, tarps and first aid kits.

France
Main article: French response to Hurricane Katrina
Concrete help was refused by the US government initially, however on September 2, Condoleezza Rice said that the US authorities would assess the situation and contact French authorities accordingly. On September 4, US authorities formally requested French assistance. France offered disaster relief stocks prepositioned in Martinique (600 tents, around 1000 beds, 60 electrogenic groups, 3 pumps, 3 water purification stations, 1000 folding jerricanes and other material). A 35-person team of the Sécurité civile (Civil defence) from Guadeloupe and Martinique were made ready, and a 60-man "catastrophe intervention" aeromobile detachment were prepared to be ferried from mainland in a short time. The Ministry of Defence offered 2 planes already in the zone and 6 more from mainland France, and two ships of the French Navy (probably the BATRAL Francis Garnier or Champlain, and the frigate Ventôse) and a 20-person team of emergency medical specialists. The non-governmental organisation Télécoms sans frontières and the company Véolia environnement offered aid in communications and water management, respectively. On September 7, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs stated that an Airbus Beluga from Toulouse with 12,7 tonnes of supplies flew to Mobile, Alabama, after a brief stop in the UK to load more food. Two Casa airplanes from Martinique landed in Little Rock, Arkansas, ferrying tents, covers and 1000 rations of food for 24 hours.

Gabon
Pledged $500,000.

Georgia
Made offers of help and assistance.

Germany
Two German Army Airbus planes landed in Florida with about 25 tons of food rations to be transported to the disaster area. Further planes were prepared. Germany offered airlifting, vaccination, water purification, medical supplies including German air force hospital planes, emergency electrical power and pumping services. The aid was ready to go on German air force and chartered planes. A team of specialists from THW (German federal agency for technical relief) were planning technical measures and logistics in close contact with local authorities. A team of 89 flood fighting specialists and 5 medical personnel were dispatched from Ramstein Air Base to Louisiana by the United States Air Force. They brought 15 high performance pumps (10 pumps with a capacity of 15,000 litres per minute and 5 pumps with a capacity of 5,000 litres per minute) and 28 vehicles.[22] On Saturday, September 10 at 4:30 p.m., the THW started the first 15,000 litre pump at pumping-station No. 19. Three other 15,000 litres pumps followed. The drainage of New Orleans would have taken much more time if these pumps and the THW specialists had not been provided.[23]
The Minister-President of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate addressed a letter to the commanders of the American forces stationed in his state offering financial support to those affected by the flooding.
Another German Air Force cargo plane carrying several thousand military rations (MRE) was denied entry into US airspace since, according to US authorities, they were not certified BSE-free. This was disputed by German authorities, pointing out that they were BSE-free according to NATO rules, that US soldiers would eat them regularly during joint operations (e.g. Afghanistan) and that these meals fully complied to UN rules.

Greece
Offered $85,000,[25] two cruise ships to house those left homeless, a rescue team, and supplies.

Guatemala
Made offers of help and assistance.

Guyana
Made offers of help and assistance and organized a telethon to raise money for victims.

Honduras
Offered 135 flooding and sanitation experts.

Hungary
Pledged $5,000 and offered to send a Special Search and Rescue Team, and also five doctors.

Iceland
Offered $500,000.

India
India offered to contribute $5 million to the United States Red Cross for relief and rehabilitation of the victims. They also offered to donate medicines and large water purification systems for use in households and small communities in the stricken areas, where potable water was a key concern.[26] India sent tarps, blankets and hygiene kits. An Indian Air Force IL-76 aircraft delivered 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the Hurricane Katrina victims at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas on September 13, 2005.[27]

Indonesia
Offered to send 45 doctors and 155 other medical staffers and 10,000 blankets to help survivors.

Iran
Offered to send humanitarian aid and 20 million barrels (3,200,000 m3) of crude oil.

Iraq
Pledged $1 million to the Red Cross via the Red Crescent.

Republic of Ireland
Offered to send 30 members of the Irish Defence Forces. The Irish army would have supplied thousands of ready meals, tents, blankets, water purification services and medical aid, including first aid kits, crutches and wheelchairs. The group would have included about ten experts in stress debriefing. Six of the troops would have operated two water purification plants. The Irish Government also announced it is to provide initial funding of EUR 1.2 million for the victims.

Israel
Offered field hospitals and hundreds of doctors, nurses, technicians and other experts in trauma, natural disasters and public health.
An Israeli airlift arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas with an eighty-ton shipment of humanitarian aid, including baby food, diapers, water, ready-to-eat meals, clothes, tents, blankets, mattresses, stretchers, first aid kits, wheelchairs, and other medical supplies.
The Magen David Adom began "United Brotherhood Operation," which sent a plane-load of supplies and financial assistance.
IsraAid sent a delegation of medical personnel, psychologists, and experienced search-and-rescue divers. The 18-member team — which included physicians, mental health professionals, trauma specialists, logistics experts and a special unit of Israeli police divers — arrived in St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines Parish on Sept. 10 and spent a week and a half assisting fire department search-and-rescue squads and sitting in on daily planning meetings that included local leadership and a complement of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), police, military and fire representativesmedical team.[30]
Five universities in Israel welcomed displaced American students from the affected areas and invited both undergraduate and graduate students to continue their studies in Israel.[31] In particular, medical students unable to attend the Tulane University in New Orleans can attend Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine.

Italy
Italy offered to send two Hercules C130 cargo aircraft fitted with emergency aids, including 300 Adult camp beds, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, 1 suction pump, 6 lifecrafts, 11.200 chlorine tablets, 5 units of large first aid kits, baby food formula pumps, tents and power generators. Italy also offered to send some experts of the Protezione Civile to help coordinating relief efforts in the damaged area.

The 2nd half of the list including The Japanese govt and private contribution continues on wikipedia.

Most of the pledge were turned down by our State Department.
As bad as Katrina was, we had ample warning. The Japanese was hit by something that was not predictable. I am not sure where you guys are going with this, but I would rather donate my tithe to the Japanese than to the Obama administration.

Back on path, just goes to show that it took a tsunami to take out Japan's buildings...If a quake of the same magnitude were to hit CA, OR, or WA, buildings would be falling like dominos, and the death toll would be much higher.

I often wondered if the guys in the smaller buildings sat there laughing at the Guys swaying to and fro in the tall buildings, Then when the Tsunami came they are all like "Aww fu**!"