Anniversary of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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5. Every year I start watching a few but then can't stop, it's horrible and fascinating.

Another documentary I like is "Children of the Tsunami," and there was one where survivors were interviewed but I can't find it.

As you said, each place was different. One factor was paying attention to the "tsunami stones," old stone markers where tsunami waters had reached in the past, with warnings not to build below the marker. People evacuating to higher ground in 2011 told of frantically urging others to do the same and being ignored. Too much faith in seawalls and technology, not enough being terrified of the power of nature (and living by a Better Safe Than Sorry philosophy) and teaching history.

Our neighborhood emergency siren went off at 2:46 this afternoon, the time of the earthquake. To remember.