JAPAN - The Earthquake - 15 Minutes Live-Cam

[AsahinaKimi]

[PearliePoo2]

1. Holy crap...that is so frightening.

How people had the cool to keep their cameras going is unbelievable. It gives you the feeling of almost being there. Horrific. I was actually feeling motion sickness just watching!
Thanks for posting this video.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I was in the earthquake of 1989 in San Francisco..

I think that was like a 7.0, and it was pretty bad, but it didn't last as long as this one did, nor have the same magnitude. I am so glad we never had a follow up Tsunami.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. The clip of the dude in the oil refinery...

No way man. If that was me, I don't care HOW bad the ground is rocking and rolling, I'd be BOOKIN' in the other direction. Best possible speed even if on my hands and knees.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. good point..

one spark and ka blooey!

[Hissyspit]

6. That's footage of them running out later in the video.

[Hissyspit]

5. Holy shit

The water coming up through the ground.

So much of that footage I'd never seen before.

[AsahinaKimi]

9. That happens during an earthquake

Any water in the ground is pushed to the top. I think its called liquefaction. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction) We saw it here, during the 1989 earthquake in the Marina District. That land was all reclaimed land.. and houses sunk into it as they burned from the gas pipes breaking.

[Unknown Beatle]

7. DAMN!

Jaw dropping scary!

[marble falls]

8. I'll be staying here in the US, where the frac-quakes are still under 6.0.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Sadly, a lot of Americans can't relate to this because these aren't Americans.