10 Strangest Things That Washed Ashore After A Tsunami

Hi everyone! From stranded buoys lost at sea to the thousands of rubber ducks, here at ten of the strangest things that have washed ashore after a tsunami. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. Football On March 11, 2011, a giant earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded by Japanese officials, and the fourth largest ever recorded in the world. This earthquake triggered a tsunami that enveloped the country. When the so-called Great East Japan Earthquake struck, the ensuing tsunami it generated left large swaths of rubble in its wake. 9. Motorcycle In April 2012, Peter Mark, a British Columbia resident, saw that a shipping container had washed ashore. However, its contents shocked him; when he opened it up, he found a complete motorcycle locked inside. 8. Blob of Yabuchi Jima Many news outlets reported this next object as washing ashore due to the 2011 Japanese tsunami, but it is actually entirely unrelated; in fact, the so called ‘Blob of Yabuchijima’ was discovered in 2010. But that does not make this discovery any less sensational. 7. Mussels, clams, and fish, oh my! One of the unexpected consequences of the 2011 tsunami? Massive amounts of foreign fish washing ashore from across the ocean. From Alaska to Hawaii, close to 300 species of assorted sea-farers moved from Japan to the opposite coast, riding on debris from the 2011 tsunami and washing ashore with their lives intact. 6. Oarfish Most of the items on our list have washed up after a tsunami, but the entry often comes before one, and may even signal its arrival. All over the world, people have seen the following creature wash ashore, and every time that it does, the rumors again begin to flow. Oarfish are long, mysterious creatures that swim some 3,300 feet below sea-level. 5. Village sign The damage that the 2011 tsunami inflicted upon Japan was immense. In the Iwate prefecture, much of the Tanohata village was literally swallowed into the ocean. While most of this debris is still swimming out at sea, this next piece of debris washed up far away from its original home. 4. Buoy In 2019, hurricane Dorian ravaged through the Bahamas and all the way up through the Southeastern United States and the East coast of Canada, leaving great destruction in its wake. A category 5 hurricane, it was the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. So when a huge navigation buoy washed up on a Florida shore after Dorian, it came as no surprise. 3. 28,000 rubber ducks While it was travelling from Honk Kong to the United States, a shipping crate was lost at sea. But since that happened in 1992, the 28,000 rubber ducks that were contained within that shipping crate have been roaming the oceans and washing ashore ever since. 2. 70-foot dock Here is another wild castaway from Japan’s 2011 tsunami. In June 2012, onlookers at an Oregon beach spotted an entire dock floating away from the shores of Agate Beach. After a storm jostled it around, it came to the shore. And it’s no wonder why people came from far and wide to give it a look. The dock, made from concrete, is 66 feet long, 19 feet wide, and 7 feet high – one of the biggest objects on our list to wash ashore. 1. Fishing boat There is one more striking piece of debris that washed up after the 2011 Japanese tsunami. On March 20, 2012, over a year after the tsunami, the Royal Canadian Air Force spotted a ship floating across Canadian waters. To their astonishment, this ship was a ghost ship, with no crew members on board. #discoveries #tsunami #originsexplained #beach #amazing #mysterious #boat #washedup #earthquake #top10