10. The 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Watching live as that first Tsunami wave began to engulf the coast of Japan, you could easily believe you were tuning into a post-apocalyptic environmental dystopia like The Day After Tomorrow. With an aerial panoramic view that seemed to encompass acres of land, the wave seemed to move eerily slow on television as it swept away anything that wasn’t firmly tied down. While just a few years earlier these kinds of images would not even seem possible to be broadcast to the whole world, it has soon become a horrific reality. The world which once seemed so large suddenly felt intimate and small. While these moments were being broadcast, we got the first hints that something was going wrong at The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the true gravity of the event began to take hold. 16,000 people died as a result of the natural disaster.
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