ANN reports… A driver found an elderly woman on the road.
As soon as we got into the car together, the tsunami… Looks like 2 people are safe
After the Noto earthquake occurred in Japan on New Year’s Day, a video showing a tsunami hitting an elderly woman about 9 seconds after she got into her car is attracting attention.
Asahi News Network (ANN) released a video on the 8th saying it was captured immediately after the earthquake in Notojo, Ishikawa Prefecture. The video appears to be video from the vehicle’s black box.
The video shows a woman walking slowly along the Notojo coastline with a cane.
The vehicle passes the woman once and heads toward a higher place, then turns back and heads toward the woman.
The male driver said, “There was an earthquake. Doesn’t it go up? What are you doing? Doesn’t it go up? “Get in the car,” she said, putting the woman in the car.
When the woman asks, “What happened to everyone?” the man replies, “Everyone moved up.”
The tsunami was captured on video just 9 seconds after the woman boarded the vehicle. The tsunami comes from the coast and hits her residential area at high speed.
The video also showed a tsunami chasing a car with a loud noise. The village was covered by the tsunami.
According to ANN, the vehicle was evacuated and the two occupants were safe.
ANN also released this video through the video sharing site YouTube. The number of views of the video exceeded 2.54 million as of 11:35 am on the 9th.
Earlier, at 4:10 pm on the 1st, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred on the Noto Peninsula. As of 9 a.m. on the 9th, the number of deaths was 180.
Due to the strong earthquake, a tsunami of more than 1m20cm was observed in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, 50cm in Nanao City, and 80cm in Toyama City.
Professor Fumihito Imamura, in charge of tsunami engineering at Tohoku University, presented analysis results showing that the first tsunami wave hit Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, one minute after the earthquake occurred. . “It appears that the tsunami struck before residents had time to begin evacuation,” the Yomiuri Shimbun explained.
Source: Donga
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