I am Japanese. This earthquake was very shocking. Foreign tourists in the disaster area, if you are in trouble, please talk to a Japanese person nearby. We will help you, even if there is a language barrier.

Man that’s horrifying being in those buildings as the quake happens. I do hope everyone will be ok and no body dies or gets severely injured. My thoughts are with you all in Japan.

I experienced a mild after shock while visiting Guatemala when i was a young man many years. I can't describe the feeling of total helplessness as the earth quietly moved beneath my feet. I can't imagine experiencing a full-blown earthquake. I hope everyone was ok in this quake in Japan.

So much respect to Japanese people! No panic, no screams, admiration!

Admirable aspects of Japan: 1) The best earthquake and tsunami warning systems in the world, 2) Strict engineering and building codes that keep modern structures safe and standing, 3) A population that remains calm and mostly unpanicked during disasters, and 4) A total lack of looting after a disaster. I don’t think anyplace in the world comes up to their standards.

So scary, praying for Japan

Pray for Japan, it looks scary. I wish everyone is ok and stays healthy.

As someone who has also lived in an area prone to large earthquakes and seen major destruction, I hope the people of Japan remain safe and the damage is minimal. Prayers form Pakistan.

Such cool and disciplined people- no panic amidst the disaster

I’ve been living in Japan for 25 years. From Japan, we are overwhelmed by the big earthquake even 1/1. Whether we live in the nearest place hit by that, we are praying. I hope everyone is safe🙏 FYI Today, Ishikawa Prefecture, where a major earthquake and tsunami occurred, is famous for the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, which houses numerous modern art pieces created both domestically and internationally since 1980. It is renowned as a tourist destination

Much Respect and love to the architects and engineers!!!! Happy new years!!

This is so scary. I was on vacation in Japan and left right when the earthquakes started, on the same night, almost in the same hour. Its so hard to think that I was just there a few hours before all this started. RIP to the 48 that died.

Its amazing how their buildings are structured for these type of tragedies.

I hope everyone is ok after those earthquakes. I am praying for the people in Japan

I opened KZfaq to this. an tsunami and an earthquake, what a horrible way to start the year, but hopes and prayers to all of Japan🙏💕

What a way to start off the new year like that, that's insane!! I hope everyone in Japan managed to stay safe that day!

I wish everyone in Japan will be safe and endure the disaster. And I’m also shocked by their composure during the crisis. That’s something I want to learn from them.

My heart goes out to those in affected Japan and all of Japan. Im so sorry. I hope people are ok. Please be ok.

Watching this video brought back how we all felt when we had the major earthquakes in Christchurch. The fear came rushing back. I have been through two tornadoes , when lived in the USA and two major earthquakes and earthquakes are worse.

Japan has very beautiful people. Much love and prayers to everyone.

dang, I'm sorry this happened to you all, especially on today of all days.. Such an awful, and ominous way to start the new year.. Japan is such a special place, my prayers are with you all in hopes of minimal loss of life and damages, & hopes of a swift recovery..

I've only been in a 4.3 and I was 200 miles away. I thought I was just feeling odd from a long days work. I hope you guys are okay over there.

😢 That is awful, I now see why it must be hard to live in Japan hope everyone is ok

Hope everyone is ok ! Love you Japan !

Here in upstate New York it is rare to experience earthquakes. At least ones that can be felt A couple decades ago or so we had one and it is an incredibly eerie experience.

I know not everyone won't go unharmed, or loose their their lives, but may your precious souls find the strength to deal with this tragedy, and the aftermass of this horrid disaster 🙏. Australia is thinking of you all.

Praying for the people living in the region. Head towards safety.

May God give all the people of Japan strenght and patience to get through this. My prayers goes out from my heart, to the people of Japan, to the people of the Philippines who reside there and all others who call this country home. God be with you.

Japan in our hearts.

I feared for the person standing below the signs

May God Bless the people of Japan

Greetings from Tennessee. I am looking at our shelves throughout the house and pondering the mess we would have if we had an earthquake.

I am Japanese.The place where I live is not damaged at all, but I cry a lot when I see the comments here.There are so many good people in the comments section here that no one is happy about the earthquake in Japan.

God bless Japan. Please take care. 🙏 From Philippines.

I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to experience the power of these earthquakes. I hope there is minimal loss of life.

PRAY FOR JAPAN 🇯🇵🇯🇵

So, so sorry for Japan from a seismic country Chile. South america 😢

I’m in Tokyo, and felt it. My family and I had just returned from a bike ride around the park and were just settling down to eat when our building started swaying. We live in a tall high rise, and it felt like being on ship in a rough sea, the doors were swinging open and shut, and I could see the building next to ours swaying was well. But the New Year’s earthquake was a drop in the bucket compared to the 2011 quake, which I also remember quite clearly. I was in LA for the ‘92 and ‘94 quakes, and in Oakland in ‘89. I’m pretty immune to being surprised by earthquakes by now.

wow that lasted a long time 😢😢. I know that scary feeling living in an active area as well. 😢😢

That must be the most awful feeling. Prayers for the people of Japan. All those folks walking through the shopping center and no one is looting…

The quaking is so violent, especially indoors in a confined room....it just looks super overwhelming.

They sure know how to build .

This is terrifying... I feel sad this is happening to Japan! 😢

I really like the Japanese brothers and please stay safe. May God protect human and animal life. Let us pray for everyone there. God bless this great nation that is Japan 🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢🙏🏻😢

Praying for you all! God Bless! 🙏

We need to UNITE and pray for Japan❤

Can you imagine how many structures are damaged ? Some will have to be torn down. Frightening

Man this gave me memories of the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami. When I was living in Japan at the time. And evacuated after the warnings of the tsunami from local Japanese people of the Earthquake devastating shake. Prayers out to all families and Japan 🇯🇵. From US 🇺🇸.

I'm Japanese. Some people put comments about "Why didn't the guy run away from big sign board?" The guy was at Kanazawa station where is near epicenter. They had seismic intensity 7.The level doesn't let you walk. Not correct that He didn't run away.He couldn't. And,to all prayers for Japan, thank you very much from bottom of my heart. I hope it is movies,but sadly real. My friend isn't posting "I'm safe" at X until now(9hours passed). Please pray with me for his safe.😢

I pray to anyone reading this that you never have to experience an earthquake,.... The way your heart rips out of your chest is unreal. your legs turn to jelly and you know you need to move but even the air feels like you are shaking within it. These videos bring the bile to my mouth..... I hope everybody involved is safe and recovering, I am so sorry to Japan. they have already experience this before in 2009.

It’s so scary to watch this. I hope everything is fine.

Es terrorífico 😢admiro su cultura, en momentos tan dificiles saben comportarse cibilizadamente , seguro q nostros estariamos corriendo y empujando por todos lados sin ningun resentimiento de poder ayudar alas demas personas 😢.

You can tell the buildings were built to withstand an earthquake. If that had occurred in another country, about 50,000 would have died.

I lived in japan from 96-2000. I still have nightmares from being in a 10th story apartment during earthquakes. And those were just regular tremors. I cant imagine the horror of an 8.0.

I experienced two earthquakes..one in Idaho USA and Montana USA. They are Scarey! It felt like the earth beneath my feet was going up and down and back and forth. I will never forget! 😊❤

Hope Everyone in Japan safe.

Thankfully Japan’s building codes take these into account.

Man earthquakes are scary...I rather endure hurricanes or tornadoes than earthquakes at least you can somewhat prepare or runaway from those

Prayers prayers and prayers again for EVERYONE IN JAPAN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Prayers for Japan ... Please stay safe and strong! 神が日本人を災害から守り、命の損失がありませんように。

Bless their heart ❤️

My prayers to Japan...from Philippines...

wow bring me back the memory of 2011 when I was in Japan

Amazing how long the shaking lasts

I feel so bad for Japanese and i hope the people are okay😭😱😭😭 .

Everything is so shiny and clean there.

That’s terrifying.🙏🏾

I'm gonna say this but... 🤷🏽‍♂️ That's the difference between there and here, in America. If that would have happened here, after that earthquake...I bet a lot of people would of been shoplifting and everything taking what they could take. Hope no one was seriously hurt.

We experienced a very minor earthquake in the NYC area maybe a decade ago. It was just a slight tremor, but I was sitting inside my apartment and thought I was having a dizzy spell because the floor was moving. I even heard the cement pillars grinding. It was nothing as severe as this but still let me shaken because of what could have happened.

🙏love Japan, sending prayers💕

I'm seriously crying at this very moment by stopping at the 0:51 mark to type while muting The Simpsons in the background as I'm viewing all the way here in Phoenix, AZ and my 29 years of breathing on this earth, I couldn't even fantasize in my autisitc brain how it feels to be in a natural disaster like this alongside engulfed by a tsunami! Seeing the 2nd. video of the parents trying to stay in place with their baby as I can hear him/her in the background struck my bony heart knowing how deadly earthquakes can be since my state doesn't go through any type of natural disasters since we're far inland and was worried that 2024 will end up being a horrific start! It's awful enough to witness earthquakes from Eastern Turkey last February that many people's lives were lost to outside of Rabat in Morocco for example a couple months later if I recall and now this?! The earth is just trembling apart and can barely hold herself together which worries me a ton on how unbalance nature can be and how us human beings that don't have to live through these conditions take our planet for granted! *PLEASE HANG IN THERE JAPAN!* I'm so darn upset to see how your new year has to be in trembles which makes me more blissful beside my lack of mental health to not live in these daunting conditions across the Pacific! Mon. Jan. 1st. 2024 @ 10:00am.

Japan had suffered so many tragedies, our thoughts and pray for the people in Japan, love from Saudi Arabia

What a way to roll into the new year, I pray that the Japanese people can recover from this in a quick and timely manner.

Reminds me of 3:42 pm Azores Portugal January 1, 1980. I was there when it happened.

Praying for all of those in Japan I’m so sorry they had to experience this on New Year’s

Fun fact: earthquakes on the moon can last an hour because there are no large bodies of water to help absorb the tremors. I hope nobody was injured. The japanese are brilliant and have designed buildings to handle quakes like these.

I was in Japan for a military exercise in the early 2000s. We experienced around an 8.0 I believe. It was extremely shocking. It felt like you moved across the room every couple of seconds. Complete powerlessness. Also experienced some mild California earthquakes. Yet nothing compared to the typhoon/volcano eruption simultaneously in the Philippines in the 1990s. The cataclysmic event lasted a few days. It looked like midnight outside and the winds were howling and the ground shook for days. Afterwards the ash was stacked around 6 feet high all around us, and the military had evacuated us a few islands away already. We were stationed at Clark Air Force base, which was devastated and forced to close. Evacuating on so many Navy ships and helicopters was cool for a kid, but the sense of awe and terror during the main eruptions has never left me. Nature is metal.

So sorry 😱

You can't understand or imagine the horrors of this earthquake through the Videos

I admire the courage to keep living in earthquake zones.

That first video in rhe subway station was scary.

Prayers for Japan

We're days away from LAs 30th anniversary of the Northridge Quake. I feel for them. Quakes are no joke.

Very sad news. Pray for Japan.

I love you all in Japan!!❤🙏🏼

Having been thru a few in Ca...it's the spookiest feeling. The noise, like a freight train.

🙏 sending love an prayers from Minnesota to the ppl of Japan❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Notice how there was zero looting and people were helping each other. Japan's civil engineering speaks for itself! I hope they get through this fast. God save Japan!

All the love and best wishes to Japan. In many places in the US, this would lead to instant looting.

Oh god help us all humans be good this year

My god, what's happening in the new year, prayers for their safety

Prayers For Japan

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In America that mall would have been looted. And more chaos would have ensued.

What is it you don't see? LOOTING !!!!!

This is why I left California. I couldn't bear the idea of spending the rest of my life sitting around waiting for the Big One to hit.

God Bless the People of Japan 😢❤❤

Prayers to you Japan...be safe...it could have been much worse I think...

I can't imagine how scary it would be on a high floor of a high-rise building! 😮

prayers for japan 🙏🙏🙏