Completely terrifying video of the ground during the Japanese Quake!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

http://www.dump.com/2011/03/12/crazy-video-of-the-ground-shifting-during-the-japanese-quake-video/
It is terrifying. The land is like FLOATING like a boat. This part of the island was built up by land fill and basically has liquified. The ground is moving weird. I have never seen a video like this before. It just just AMAZING!
Duckie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear YellowRubberDuckie!

Pretty darned interesting, all right...

It was better when he stood still and allowed the camera to capture the ground's motion, which he did some of the time.

Quite impressive!

Thanks for sharing...

:scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I know, right?

Most of the time the videos you see are buildings shaking and things hurdling off shelves. You ever actually get to see the ground MOVING! This guy is fantastic with a camera!
You're welcome!
Hope you are well! :hi:

[RebelOne]

3. He stated he was "kind of nervous"

At that point I would have been running for cover.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. Not really so much cover...

...but more like ground that wasn't liquefying beneath my feet.

[Sabriel]

5. That was...disturbing.

It also gives a sense of how long the quake went on for.

Freaky.

[kwassa]

6. Landfill construction often collapses in earthquakes ....

much of fallen freeways and buildings in the Northridge and Loma Prieta quakes in California were built on either landfill or sandy soil.

Near where I lived in LA, both the section of the Santa Monica Freeway at Fairfax and the nearby Kaiser Permanente parking garage were built on landfill, and both collapsed.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. I was on a bridge when the "spring break quake" struck Oregon in 1993

The bridge actually rippled.

(It struck at five-thirty in the morning, but I was on my way to the airport to catch a seven AM flight.)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. That sounds terrifying.

I was walking across a foot bridge from a parking structure into a mall, and I suddenly thought "I am going to die if we have an earthquake right now. God I can't imagine what went through your mind.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. I was so sleep-deprived that I didn't realize it was an earthquake

I temporarily lost control of the steering and thought I'd hit a patch of ice, especially when I saw the car ahead of me swerving too.

By the time my sleepy brain realized what was happening, I was off the bridge.

[Aristus]

8. I understand that that is how Port Royal, Jamaica was destroyed.

The ground liquified during an earthquake, and the city slid into the Caribbean Sea.