Japan earthquake & Tsunami - Shocking video - Missing 18000 people | Tokyo
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Japan earthquake and Tsunami An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea, scientists say. The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing island of Nishinoshima, around 1000 kilometres south of Tokyo. It now covers 1.26 square kilometres. The island's craters are currently spewing out 200,000 cubic metres of lava every day - enough to fill 80 Olympic swimming pools - which is accumulating in its east, scientists said. "If lava continues to mount on the eastern area, part of the island's slopes could collapse and cause a tsunami," warned Fukashi Maeno, assistant professor of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo. He said a rockfall of 12 million cubic metres of lava would generate a one metre tsunami that could travel faster than a bullet train, hitting the island of Chichijima - 130kms away - in around 18 minutes, he said. Chichijima, home to about 2000 people, is the largest island in the Ogasawara archipelago, a wild and remote chain that is administratively part of Tokyo. "The ideal way to monitor and avoid a natural disaster is to set up a new tsunami and earthquake detection system near the island, but it's impossible for anyone to land on the island in the current situation," Maeno added. An official from the Japan Meteorological Agency, which monitors earthquakes and tsunamis, said the agency is watching for any signs of anything untoward. "We studied the simulation this morning, and we are thinking of consulting with earthquake prediction experts ... about the probability of this actually happening, and what kind of measures we would be able to take," he said. Japan's northeast was ravaged by a huge tsunami in March 2011, when a massive undersea earthquake sent a wall of water barrelling into the northeast coast, killing more than 18,000 people and wrecking whole towns.
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thelegend27 could've destroyed that tsunami
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Why are people still driving around??
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Whoa what anime is this ?
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so sad.. so sad..
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ts£unami
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What were these people saying?
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Starting at around 5:55 is something worse that you'd expect in a science fiction movie. A black liquid mass like "The Blob" only millions of times bigger. I would have lost my mind seeing that come at me.
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😢😢😢😢😢😢
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ांेेे टचस्क्रीन
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That's some crazy shit right there.
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NONDAE BAYO
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CLICKBAIT vid !!! You suck
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listen to these japanese scientology cunts trying to run psyops. i cant believe japan lets scientology cunts run and take over their peoples program. not to mention loyalty abuse. thats why i have no friends and community. coz i dont give a fuck about people like you. my race or not.
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Tsunami yo mommy
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heartbreaking
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the bird fly and disappeared @ 1:47
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Deus tenha misericórdia de nos
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This and the example of the Japanese people were the reason I became Buddhist.
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tsunami and earthquakes is scary more scarier it gets more dangerous it can be i am happy whear i life no water no earthquakes no tsunami you guys don't know me i am special red head i do special Olympics i'm not joking i am going to whear my gold medals, silver medals and bronze medal i won first, second and thred place on special me and special Olympics friends we do sports, Christmas praid and Christmas party woohoo yeah special Olympics we called roadrunner i want my special Olympics team name roadrunner it is good name for my special Olympics team go roadrunner i picked that name i am a leader of my team i got plannes for my team to get more gold medal on tracking field all the running, botchy other and me and my special Olympics friends are going bowling alley i hope i can get stricks