Japan ground cracking open and moving.

reply to post by Quasi


While I do appreciate the video the guy was shooting, the dog and I would have been running a lot faster to anywhere but there. When the ground moves back and forth and sounds like waves lapping, yes it is very scary.
Had he not been there we wouldn't have known what was going on. So yes I appreciate men who take chances but its a good time for him to listen to the dog.

I really have nothing to add...I am absolutely in awe at such a bizarre sight.

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Either that or I'd find myself a boat....like QUICK! I'd imagine that section has settled down by now...You'd think it would make the news if a whole section of reclaimed land suddenly disappeared into the ocean. At the time though I would have found the closest boat....and sat inside it till I knew the ground wasn't disappearing below my feet!!

Could it be that this park has been built over a lake? Surely if Japan was about to sink into the sea the mainstream media would be alerting us to it instead of talking about a Nuclear explosion.

That said, amazing video!

How big an area ae we talking about here?

I am looking for detailed maps of the Tokyo Bay area, just to gain an Idea oh how catastrophic it would be,if that area did slide into the sea.

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Thanks for sharing this. I have always wanted to witness something like this (safely) in person. To see the ground that we normally take for granted as being solid, move and undulate, reminding us that the ground beneath our feet is just a relatively thin layer that is floating on top of our molten core.

all the video needed was the cameraman to fall down a crack and Superman to save him....

The guy who filmed this was either dumb or unconscious to just stay relax seeing this... If I'd be witnessing this I'd be running to the hills asap! When the ground beneath is as solid as Jello, what can you expect to happen when there's another small earthquake?

They'll be lucky as hell if this area doesn't get swept away by a landslide!

could that be water pipes under the park?
freaky if it isnt cuz that should mean theres alot of not solid space underneath japan. imagine if the ground collapses

If I didnt know any better (and I don't), but it looks to me like there's a bigger picture here...........It looks like the island of Japan may actually split in half. Looks like a piece of Japan may actually get swallowed by the waters.

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That had better not be FEMA!!!

reply to post by P-M-H

could that be water pipes under the park?
freaky if it isnt cuz that should mean theres alot of not solid space underneath japan.

No, if you listen to the guy in the video, that part of Japan is on a piece of reclaimed land, where part of a bay used to be apparently. As has been said numerous times now, it appears as though that part of the land has been shaken loose and might sink into the sea.

This is called Liquefaction. "In geology, liquefaction refers to the process by which saturated, unconsolidated sediments are transformed into a substance that acts like a liquid.

Earthquakes can cause liquefaction where loosely packed, water-logged sediments come loose from the intense shaking of the earthquake."

reply to post by Quasi


Everywhere the guy looked in the video there was a surface crack. I personally would not be making a video because it looked like a piece of where he was located would just float apart from everything... Like ice breaking off of an iceberg...

Originally posted by Quasi
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I really think that the people of Japan had enough suffer, but for some reason i don't think this is the last of it.

Maybe they should stop worshipping idols. God would not be mad then. Just sayin'..

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Wonder why? The US does it.

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Yikes, that is really scary. I would want to get the heck out of there if I saw that. I been outside when there was an earthquake. I feels weird. Last year I felt a good size earthquake on Easter day and I thought it was awsome. I was in the backyard hanging out and the ground started to shake. The earthquake in Japan looks way to scary and it be scary to see water to come out of the ground like that and cracks moving.

Duct tape will fix that crack. There's nothing duct tape can't fix.

uh...Dude, drop the cam and run!

That's my scientific analysis.

Since I've never seen anything like this in my own experience or on YouTube (et al), I am quite alarmed.

I once heard (and I don't remember where I heard it, but that source says it was Japanese) that the best place to go during an earthquake is a bamboo stand. The stalks won't really hurt you if they fall over, and the root system will hold together even if cracks form in the ground.