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Of all the videos to come out of Japan recently, I find this one the most interesting. That swaying effect is incredible.

Water pipes and water tables?

Now its going to be Japan aid, every year something like this happens, Haiti, Katrina, Sri Lanka etc..

Their infrastructure is going to be raped once this is over and done with.

The SHEAR magnitude of it all.

wtf man i'd get the hell out of that place

Looks like the bay is trying to take back its territory.

It's ground water forced up and basically related to sand "volcanoes". This is formed due to liquefaction (Salt Lake City will get the same thing when our earthquake comes. This happens all the time in earthquakes if the land is an ancient seabed, has ground water near the surface, or any other situation that is similair like this reclaimed land.

Don't worry about it too much unless it's a huge one (which would be rare). The big problem is that since it acts like quicksand all the buildings (or anything weighing the right amount) will sink into the ground.

So when they say "It's bad luck to step on the cracks in the pavement/sidewalk" that's what they were talking about...

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That's actually a friend of mine who recorded this video so I can verify that this is from the day of the quake.

Damn Nature, you scary!

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wtf man i'd get the hell out of that place


And go some place safer, like California.

Seriously though that some obvious liquidification going on right there. Lets quote Wikipedia:

"Soil liquefaction describes a phenomenon whereby a saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress"

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*related http://videosift.com/video/Earth-Opening-and-Closing-During-Japan-Earthquake-of-2011