Tsunami Fever

I am obsessed with Tsunami stories and the amateur videos that came out of the tragedy.

As a former geology major turned minor, I find the functions of the earth to be a fascinating subject. Several years back, I discovered a tsunami site branching off from the USGS (http://usgs.gov) site that discussed devastating tsunamis in Hawaii and how they led to the creation of the early warning system in the Pacific. The website I visited had some crude footage of a tsunami, but it was so grainy and unclear that it left me searching for more, but I was never able to find the definitive video of a tsunami, something that left me feeling frustrated, but still determined to find one. Unfortunately, on December 26th I got my wish.

There were many videos that came out of this tragedy and tons of pictures. One thing that really amazed and humbled me was the effort of the international community of bloggers in their endeavor to get the videos and pictures out to everyone so that the enormity of this disaster was clear.

Some of the most amazing efforts can be found in the following locations:

Jordan Golson's Cheese & Crackers Blog site became enormously popular when he posted the first videos coming out of Thailand. Once he was posted on Drudge, his numbers went through the roof. He had mirror sites all over the internet and then he raised the bar of videoblogging to a new level through the use of bit torrents:
http://candc.mirror.unitedemailsystems.com/

These two sites have some of the most comprehensive and unique videos from the tragedy:
http://waveofdestruction.org/videos/
http://www.asiantsunamivideos.com/