> Whoa that second link.. that guy is so lucky this didn't turn into a full blown tsunami.

That is what a full blown tsunami looks like, based on watching many YouTube videos on the subject.

Bear in mind this is only a minute of footage. If the water keeps coming in like that for an hour it will eventually reach the person shooting this video.

The scary thing about tsunamis is that they look fairly innocent in the beginning. And five minutes later there’s ten feet of water moving very fast with houses and cars in it.

Here’s a good example of how it can go from looking harmless to terrifying in 25 minutes: https://youtu.be/P8qFi74k2UE

That's a sobering video. It doesn't look like much... at first. The power and violence of the water really has to be seen to be appreciated.

Edited to add:

On March 11, 2011, large parts of the city were destroyed by the tsunami which followed the Tōhoku earthquake. The island of Ōshima and its 3,000 residents, included in the city limits, was isolated by the tsunami which damaged the ferry connections.[7] After the tsunami, spilled fuel from the town's fishing fleet caught fire and burned for four days.[8] As of 22 April 2011, the city had confirmed 837 deaths with 1,196 missing.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesennuma

Wow. Watching the people's attitude change, from puttering around in slippers joking about the first quaint little trickle, to full judgement day, within twenty minutes.

Wow! Someone else already mentioned it, but this so "interestingly unusual" to "apocalyptic" in twenty minutes it's hard to fathom. Thanks for sharing the link I personally had no idea!

The term 'tidal wave' has been deprecated for some time, as they are not gravity-driven, but it does capture how the wave does not just break on the shoreline like an ocean roller, it keeps on coming.

This is a real tsunami, just not really really big, they are partially protected by a reef. It's not a slow eruption (check out the shockwave in one of the videos, heard in New Zealand). There was a smaller bang yesterday.

Some of these communities have nothing but a coast!

It's probably in a Jared Diamond book somewhere about shifting expectations depending on where you grow up, some people can't imagine that people live in a place where you can't hear the sea, because they only knew that.

Also, for those that have some high areas, chances are the high areas are a volcano. If it is, it likely is an active volcano, as this region is on the ring of fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire)