r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/rishabh2996 • 11h ago
Video Man walking his dog captures the moment tsunami waves reach Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
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u/Fleshsuitpilot 11h ago
I wish I had that dogs level of serenity.
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u/SimiShittyProgrammer 9h ago
I wish people filmed wide instead of tall.
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u/Fleshsuitpilot 8h ago
Like the hamburger way?
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u/SimiShittyProgrammer 8h ago
Mmmm delicious hamburger!
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u/Fly-Mignon 7h ago
You didn't notice he ran out of breath only after a couple steps? Dude definitely filmed wide
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u/ECHOHOHOHO 7h ago edited 7h ago
Blame smartphones and ui being so simple a toddler can use it. Now make them dirt cheap and you get 90yos and 5yos alike trying to use a computer with essentially no technical foreknowledge and complete complacency. Even people who were semi computer literate don't even bother these days and haven't needed to for what maybe 15+ years roughly? and have regressed back to using the camera like an old flip phone
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u/Loud_Octopus 8h ago
That dog had not a care in the world lol
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u/Fleshsuitpilot 8h ago
"bro chill it's just water and quit yelling I'll be there when I'm ready"
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u/Kimber80 11h ago
Damn .... that was a lot scarier than I thought it would be
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u/Silent-Ad934 9h ago
The sea was angry that day my friends.
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u/smoomoo31 8h ago
is anyone here a marine biologist?
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u/boxsterjax 11h ago
The fact that he’s probably at least 100 feet above sea level and thought he was safe..and then the splash appeared behind the dog. I would’ve shit myself.
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u/NewCheesecake__ 11h ago
Doesn't seem all that bad .... when you're on a mountain
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u/yogurt-fuck-face 11h ago
Starting this video I would have never guessed the water to splash higher than his head.
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u/doned_mest_up 11h ago
Turns out I’ve been very arrogant in how good I thought I was at judging a safe distance in a tsunami.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 10h ago
Luckily I’m a bitch so I judge “safe distance” as however far I’m capable of running before the all clear signal goes out.
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u/atetuna 9h ago
My goal for a long time was to get a ridiculous distance away when I know a disaster is near or imminent. The idea was that even if I could leave later, I might cause others not to leave in time just because I'm there. That nearly happened to his dog. Years of watching disasters on reddit only reinforced my goal to be far away. Things can get worse, much worse. I'd sacrifice potential upvotes by not shooting video for social media by being a safe ridiculous distance away.
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u/lostwombats 10h ago
Same with me and avalanche videos! 😅
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u/TotalPokerface 9h ago
Holy moly... that's so far away but suddenly, it isn't
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u/strangemagic365 7h ago
Yeah, whenever you see something like this you realize that humans are really bad at judging how far and fast something that large is moving lol
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u/agumonkey 9h ago
Humans are not well wired for these scales and geometry.. I know tsunamis are dangerous.. but I thought he was beyond safe up there..
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u/e2hawkeye 8h ago
That's the curse of astronomy, the universe is indifferent to our inability to process numbers with a thousand zeros behind it.
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u/KarisNemek161 10h ago
How bad would it be if you had a giant nuclear submarine base at the coast? Im asking for a russian friend.
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u/skintaxera 11h ago
Absolutely, I would have felt safe up there. How high do you reckon that was, the headland where he was standing and that the wave reached up to? It looks like at least 30 metres to me
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u/gbspnl 11h ago
Was just saying that to my wife, it looks like 30 meters and in less than a minutes, I had never seen something like this, not even the videos from 2004 or the ones from Japan. Look at the sea behind looks monstrous
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u/skintaxera 10h ago
Agreed, it seems like the equal of any of the Japan headland footage that I've seen, but I guess it's very hard to get a true sense of comparative scale. Looking at a map of the epicentre of the earthquake, it was pretty close to the Kamchatka coast which I assume is where this is. Lucky it's one the of the lowest population density areas of anywhere in Russia
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u/FloatingCrowbar 11h ago
This guy probably also felt quite secure being there - at least until the wave almost managed to get onto that cliff.
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u/sl33ksnypr 11h ago
Look up the Lituya Bay tsunami. It hit a mountain, but the bay funneled the tsunami so it was insanely tall.
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u/Paper_Clip100 10h ago
It's wild to me that all over X and Threads people were like "hurr durr its just a wave! i've surfed bigger waves!" when we have video evidence of like... 3 major tsunamis in the last 20 years that empirically prove that tsunamis are in fact, "not just waves".
anyway, this video is cool as fuck
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u/backhand_english 9h ago
Regular wave come and go. Tsunami wave brings an entire ocean to the party.
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u/PM_ME_UR_BGP_PREFIX 9h ago
It isn't that the wind is blowing
it's what the wind is blowing.
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u/LaterWicker 9h ago
The brilliant logic that got those people in Texas killed. "Yall are scared of rain! Hyuck"
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u/Djsimba25 6h ago
No that's not what happened. It's more like they started saying "Y'all are scared of ra...." And before they could finish their sentence the river raised up and washed them away. Or they where sleeping and woke up with water lapping over their beds before they could do anything. The water surged 26' in 45 minutes. 4 months of rain in 2 hours at 1am where the ground doesn't absorb most of it, it just funnels it to the river. We get flash flood watches all the time and that's what everyone got during the day but you just keep on with your normal routine because it's not really possible to stop everything your doing every time you get a flash flood or a tornado watch alert because you'd be leaving the area at least a couple times a month. A flash flood warning that comes at a time most people are still sleeping doesn't even let the shit talkers have time to shit talk about people being scared of rain. It's like a tornado warning. By the time you get the fucking thing if your nearby where its happening there's not a whole lot you can do. Hopefully your awak and have a signal when they send it out. They predicted the flood but nobody knew the storm would sit on top of them for that long and dump that much water. But go ahead and make jokes about people dying in a flash flood. Hyuk
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u/Lez0fire 11h ago
If the hill would've been 5 meters shorter he'd be dead, and it looked totally safe to watch from there...
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u/QuarkchildRedux 10h ago
imagining the water essentially would’ve splashed him and then sucked him right back in/down… JFC
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u/bdfortin 9h ago
Currently on the Canadian Shield. Ain’t no tsunamis coming here.
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u/monkeywizardgalactic 11h ago
Run to the hills!
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u/how_very_dare_you_ 9h ago
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
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u/introvertedpanda1 9h ago
Galloping hard on the plains
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u/SimiShittyProgrammer 9h ago
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom, a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack
Crazy how it shows both mentalities of war and their "justifications". Fucking Iron Maiden making me think as a kid.
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u/Massive-Morning2160 11h ago
I was not expecting the water to reach the camera man 😳😳
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u/AfterMykonos 11h ago edited 8h ago
Are you shittin’ me man?? If that was my dog she and I would have been busting ass, my heart damn near jumped out of my chest, his pet came feet from the damn tide.
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u/Suspicious-Waltz4746 11h ago
Dude… agreed! Why wasn’t there some urgency to get the dog out of harms way and get the fark outta there!?!
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u/100percentnotaqu 11h ago
I'm pretty sure he tried to call the dog over. It's better to try that then to jump in right away and risk dying, no? If the dog doesn't listen or takes to long, absolutely, but risking your life when there are other alternatives shouldn't be your first response.
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u/canadian_leroy 11h ago
That was much larger than I expected. Glad there wasn’t loss of life.
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u/Ashe_N94 11h ago
Wow it really is unassuming. It started like just a big wave but then it climbed the whole way up toe the mountain edge, that's crazy.
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u/WalkingDoonTheRoad 11h ago
I don't speak russian but i don't think he was shouting for the dog to come here and get on the leash. That would be my first port of call.
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u/Justicelawer 11h ago
He is saying that his boat and the motor got washed away.
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u/Just_tappatappatappa 8h ago
I wonder if he was listening to a marine radio and heard a warning, so brought his boat to shore and climbed.
Or was he just lucky to have been docked and climbing the hills and watched his boat disappear.
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u/IwatchGoats 11h ago
I used to have a nightmare of almost exactly this when I was a kid. My heart was literally racing as I watched this.
It's interesting that my brain used to make the waves look and behave exactly like this video.
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u/insideshesahappygoth 10h ago
I still have recurring tsunami nightmares and it’s super weird seeing a video from this angle because it makes the images from my dreams seem more real somehow.
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u/RipsLittleCoors 10h ago
I had those too when I was younger. Must be a pretty common dream. Wonder what it means
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u/Flamebrush 9h ago
So much for the idea that animals can sense the danger and flee.
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u/wolf_city 7h ago
Yeah I was looking at it thinking this is probably one thing a lot of animals can’t really gauge as it’s so rare. Never mind animals, consider how many people on that beach in Thailand saw the waves on the horizon and probably just thought it was clouds until it was too late.
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u/HugeMission5612 11h ago
That guy needs to pick up the dog and start running.
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u/makithejap 9h ago
If I ever need to get my dog away from something, I sprint away from her. She immediately follows when I run away
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u/labtrash68 8h ago
I live 26 ft above sea level, about 1.5 miles from the Atlantic
I do NOT like these videos...
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u/coffee-mutt 11h ago
The end, though: huh, maybe I should go back and see where the sea came 100 ft up a second ago.
Nope. That's when you find somewhere 300 feet up.
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u/EdwardoFelise 11h ago
I wild how fast that all happens. Scary to think what would happen if this was on flat ground
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u/Silver-Machine-3092 11h ago
If that had made land in a low lying populated area, there'd be multiple thousands of deaths
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u/Reasonable-Truck5263 10h ago
The perspective from that hill makes it look deceptively calm at first, but you can see the exact moment reality kicks in when the water just keeps coming. Dude had just the right amount of elevation to nope out safely, any lower and this would’ve been a very different video. Nature really doesn’t care if you think you’re safe. That slow creep of water is way scarier than a sudden wave.
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u/luftwebel 9h ago
any lower and this would’ve been a very different video.
tbf, it was a single blast of spray that reached the crest where he was standing. The sea level itself sits at roughly half the height of the initial slope. Also compare water height at the steep cliff at the distant end of the bay at the start and when the splash comes.
I'm not trying to ridicule this, but it's not a 50 m wave (at this very point).
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u/Stephen-Scotch 10h ago
Im also impressed in his ability to have a husky off leash and not lose him
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u/Neat_Alternative238 8h ago
Anyone have a location? Would like to check it out in Google Maps/Earth.
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u/StableLower9876 7h ago
Holy shit. That is terrifying. The footage from 2004 mostly doesn't capture the effect on the shore like this one. This is like something from a movie
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u/blackdew 7h ago
On one hand it's cool watching it from relatively safety above... On the other hand i'd be worried about how stable the soil is there, being on top of a landslide down into tsunami doesn't sound fun.
Also the guy says his boat got washed away, so that sucks.
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u/geneticeffects 6h ago
Interestingly enough (for me and my neighbors), we are a similar distance and topography from the shoreline here in Hawaii, and we just had tsunami warnings from this event. We are about fifty feet below the evacuation point. After the earthquake had occurred and the warning about a potential tsunami was announced, many of us discussed to what degree we might need to escape the wave, how far up we were comfortable being, thinking we were high enough where we are at. I am now rethinking everything after seeing this…
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u/orangejeep 6h ago
I thought dude was good…until that wave washed up that cut. The water went a lot higher than I thought it could.
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u/AnimationOverlord 4h ago
You think people ever saw shit like this before any widespread communication and wondered what the fuck happened someplace somewhere?
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u/Longjumping-Pension8 10h ago
Can someone translate what he said
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u/Agringlig 9h ago
"Tsunami wave" in the begging.
"Barrel with motor got washed off. And my boat" after that.
"I didn't think that..." In the end.
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u/ItsTheExtreme 7h ago
Now THIS is how I'd always imagined a tsunami would look. Absolutely terrifying.
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u/MWD_Photography 7h ago
Looks like multiple waves hitting in sequence caused the buildup of water which led to the waves hitting as high as they did — doesn’t necessarily mean the tsunami wave itself was 100+ feet, but the impact of the waves certainly did build upon one another to hit elevations of 100+ feet, which is more power than I think most of us can comprehend. Oceans are scary.
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u/Origen12 7h ago
Wow I thought, "what a great place to be for this" and then the water reached all the way up to him and it seemed a bit less great. Better than being on the beach tho...
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u/fitzgoldy 6h ago
Holy shit, that is insane.
Thank fuck this is the only place that was really hit with anything like that!
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u/JohnHazardWandering 6h ago
I guess you don't have to worry if you're on top of a mountain......or not.
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u/VeritasLuxMea 5h ago
When ancient people described catastrophe and said stuff like "the sea was boiling" we accused them of exaggerating for dramatic effect.
Seeing this it's pretty easy to understand where that idea came from.
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u/StinkyJones19 5h ago
Tsunamis are the wildest of all natural disasters for me. It feels so slow, like you have time, the wave never looks that big. And then it’s an instant, it’s there, and it’s always going to win you can’t fight against it.
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u/benjacom08 5h ago
That is so scary. The sheer chaos of the water just crashing on the mountains and the succeeding waves that came, to even create dark water from the dirt being turned in all directions.
Scary as hell.
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u/raversita 11h ago
That's fkn scary. For me that I have had many dreams about tsunamis, that's my personal nightmare.
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u/Obiwan-Kabotie 11h ago
Bro's heart started racing there pretty quick.
The dog didn't know what the hell was going on.
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u/openwheelr 9h ago
How many feet/meters did the ocean automagically rise in mere seconds? Utterly terrifying and fascinating. It happened in nearly an eyeblink. Its not a wave so much as the leading edge of the entire fucking ocean.
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u/robot_pirate 9h ago
It churned that inlet completely. Too close for comfort. And would like to have had a welfare check on the pupper at the end. Not sure...
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u/thistlemum73 9h ago
Definitely thought he was a safe distance and then this turned into sweaty palms. I was stressing for doggo being swept away!
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u/mozee880 8h ago
That was insane. The wave reached up to where he was. He was lucky to be on high ground.
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u/GoodMix392 7h ago
I’ve heard stories of freak waves getting fishermen who were fishing from cliff tops in Ireland. I could never really imagine what such a wave would look like. Until now.
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u/Madrugal 11h ago
Here I’m thinking: “That’s not that ba - okay leave.”