WATCH: Tourist's insane footage of Earth opening up during 2011 Japanese earthquake

This newly released amateur video shot my an American tourist in Japan captures the incredible power of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake like never before, as he inexplicable straddles massive fissures in the planet's surface to get never-before-seen footage of the cracks opening and closing in the Earth and squeezing underground water to the surface.

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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011, and was one of the four most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the world. Centered 70 kilometers east of the Oshika Peninsula, the quake took down over 127,000 buildings and triggered a 40.5-meter-high tsunami, resulting in 15,889 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,601 people missing across twenty prefectures.