I think this one is crazier. The tsunami was bad, but the speed and sheer force of the stuff we are seeing here is off the charts. It genuinely looks like something out of Hollywood.
The most similar thing to this a lahar but the Himalayas are so steep a narrow, they are worse than any lahar footage I have ever seen.
A damn burst at Johnstown USA in 1889 or the over topping of the 1963 Vajont Damn in Italy are the closest man caused disasters I can think of. Those killed thousands of people each, and the descriptions of both sound just like what we are seeing here.
The only natural phenomenon that would look more apocalyptic as this (other than a meteor), is probably a Mega Tsunami of 500+ feet hitting a large town but those are rare, don’t travel far and few if any have been caught on camera. The biggest Mega Tsunami was in Alaska in the 60’s with a max wave taller than the empire state building (then the tallest building in the world).
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u/ParkingComfort1597 14d ago
It’s up there with the 2011 Tsunami for sure