Thankfully, no injuries or deaths have been definitively traced to these past inland tsunami events at Lake Roosevelt. Let’s keep it that way. Only property damage (docks, businesses, boats, etc) have been recorded during past events. A photo exists of the tsunami wave right before it struck, but I do not own the licensing rights to the image in question which can be found on Facebook.
I was almost going to comment and say, See! I told y'all it wasn't an automated voice! It's called a cadence and good speakers have a distinctive cadence. 😌👍✨
@@robr135 no. AI is lazy and is a tool to make vids with zero knowledge or intelligence. It's searched from the web and auto narrated. None of those vids deserve views. It just takes from real people
I used to work on the orchard directly above these slides. They diverted a large Creek called Sherman Creek in the late 1800s and every year they saturate the soil for the fruit trees and hayfields above the slide areas. There are numerous slides all around the 100 + acre properties because of this. There is bedrock limestone and slate beneath the glacial till. The water from the creek irrigation saturates the glacial till, then it hits the bedrock and flows downhill and creates artificial springs downhill of the properties. Just thought this might be interesting info for y'all 😊👍🏼 Edit: I know this is also a natural phenomenon as there are other slides up and down the lake Roosevelt reservoir usually occurring wherever there are natural springs. I guess that the water table from the lake meeting with spring water output is a recipe for small landslides 🤔
It's nice to finally see the real human behind these *_awesome_* geology reports! I'm not a geologist but I watch every one for their clarity, informative value, and never alarmist (but genuinely alarming when justified) content. I live in the San Francisco East-bay area so am particularly interested in activity on the San Andreas and Hayward faults, as well as the Cascadia subduction zone. Thank you for your dedication and excellent presentations, a true gift to RUclips watchers!
The quality is too good to be AI. Also, he’s been making videos with pretty much the same style of voiceover years before AI voice synthesis got to the level of advancement we know today.
@@amberackerson5916 amber check out the Thunderbolts Project. specifically the research into how all this geology was formed. electric universe theory put forth by wall thornhill. the real was our planet and solar systems geology was formed is absurdly spectacular. let me know what you think.
yes! I live on Vashon island and nothing could ever convince me to live less than 50’ above the shoreline anywhere, especially in Puget Sound. I also had no idea he was in Washington state and I’ve been watching his videos for years! Sending this video to my ex because he always claimed it was an AI generated voice. We got into some stupidly heated arguments over that😂 I defended my geology guy so fiercely because I’m a rock nerd; I could not just let the AI accusations stand. Now I have proof!
This is going to be a fantastic Thanksgiving conversation. "Did you know we had a 30' tsunami the other day?" That's up there with the fun fact that we are the only state with a mountain range contained entirely within our border. Oh and remember my fellow Washingtonians, if anyone asks, the answer is yes, it constantly rains every day up here. Try California.
No doubt. I love living near water, too, and I had hoped to find a place where I can see the water from my house. Now I'm thinking maybe it's actually just fine I can't see any from here. Although I do have a tiny pond in my backyard. That's sounding quite sufficient because no tsunamis there. Lol
Definitely didn’t picture how you look when listening to you for a couple years now. No idea WHAT I thought you may look like though, but thanks for sharing! It’s always great to put a face to a voice!!
I live in Southeast King County and haven't heard anything on the local news outlets about this. I wonder how long it took the water to stop sloshing back and forth between the river banks? I took a Geology 101 class at Green River Community College in Auburn a couple decades ago, and am fascinated by the glacial deposits all over the place. Indeed, I am on a moraine and I constantly mow glacial river rocks in my back yard. Professor Nick Zentner from CWU covers a lot of this stuff on his channel also.
I've not seen your face before, what an absolute treat, I love getting a face to a voice I hold dear. I very much appreciate all that you continue to teach me in my time off from the old slavery.
i was today years old when i found out you were an actual human . ligit thought this was a generated voice . keep up the great work mate . big love from Australia
As usual, this video is outstanding in it’s educational value! I had no idea of the glacial makeup of the landslide area, or why the dam on the lake could contribute to landslides. Thank you so much for your hard work and the excellent teaching you do!
Fascinating ! And you have the most unique voice and delivery, as well as knowledge, far more mature than your cameo appearance. Congratulations, and keep educating us .
BTW, it's not La Bamba, he's singing 'La Palma' - the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge. 'Ridge High Fell Ins' - wait until you see what happens Christmas morning. Tremor Christ.
Lituya Bay in 1958. A 1600ish foot wave formed from........ A rock slide caused by an earthquake! Interesting that it only took a couple lives too. Had it been any where even sort of remotely populated... It'd have been a different story. Stay vigilant out there! I used to live and work out of Yakutat, so I feel ya about the feeling of being quite aware!
Same for me. I left the end of 2002 and ended up in NM in early 2011 for work. If my dad hadn't left the Air Force and gone to work for Boeing, I would have been born in Albq. I love it here.
this reminds me of that tsunami somewhere in the italian alps. they had built a dam and when they were filling it, they noticed that the slope on one side of the lake was slipping. eventually the whole side of the mountain collapsed and created a tsunami that went up the other side of the lake, flooded a village and killed lots of people.
Love this channel. Always boggles my mind how much the Earth is moving even when its a relatively small event like this. Massive swathes of the ground moving and sliding away is crazy to think about. Most amazing is the power of water to cause it. Cheers.
There have been 3 significant landslides in the Spokane Arm of Lake Roosevelt in the past 10-15 years. I always think about these while I'm fishing right next to the steep bluffs and hear rocks trickling down the cliffs the entire time.
Thank you so much for your very clear and informative videos. I truly enjoy learning from you. You are gifted at explaining things at a level that the average person can understand. It was wonderful to see you in person, too. I don't have Facebook, so I wish the person with the photo would allow ypu to share it with us.
You've picked up the modern mispronunciation of Roosevelt: the "Roos" part was always pronounced "rose" but people nowadays mispronounce it as "ruse." Something similar happened to the Cheneys, and now they're stuck with it!
@@geckoman1011 That's more a local knowledge thing. Someone asked me for directions to Puyallup once but the syllabic stresses were off and it took me a couple listens to figure out what they were trying to say. Most people outside the area wouldn't need to know how to pronounce city names, even one as big as Spokane. Roosevelt is more widespread on account of the historical figures that served as the eponym of many things with that name. A shift in pronunciation might imply a decrease in awareness of those figures.
Have you ever done any research into Atlantic Highlands, NJ? Not long after the 2011 Virginia earthquake, the elevated shorelines of Atlantic Highlands and its neighboring town Highlands started experiencing landslides. Although not large in area, these landslides damaged homes and disrupted traffic on the Henry Hudson Trail, a nature trail traversed by hundreds of people daily. Maybe more concerning is that these cliffs and slopes that make up the area are directly across the Raritan Bay from NYC. Mount Mitchell Scenic Overlook in Atlantic Highlands, the highest natural elevation on the Atlantic Seaboard from Maine to the Yucatán, sits within a mile of each landslide’s location. As a public worker at the time, I mentioned to the USGS surveyor who came to assess the impact that we had never experienced these landslides prior to the above mentioned earthquake. He didn’t dismiss the idea but seemed to treat it more of a curiosity than something noteworthy, and to be fair, we haven’t experienced any landslides since 2012. It’s something that’s always lingered in my mind, and what better place to mention it than here
Dead on to both connect the dots and be concerned. I live near enough to the USGS HQ and the USED TO BE a reliable source and resource for investigation of risk newly exposed.... Sadly I think most of that leadership and staff are now long gone, as the last 20+ years have been strangely uninterested in real geologic works govt security and pushing narratives out 😐
"Since 1967" My response was that this has happened before? Thank you for the information. I only recently learned about the singing stones park in Pennsylvania. I would love to hear your take, if you are looking for subject matter. Happy Thanksgiving!
My take, those are rock gnomes. There are a lot of 411 cases associated with them. They can lure people in and they are never seen again. Or so they say.
Words are insufficient to convey the depth of my disappointment that an "American football field" was used for scale, yet the volume of the displacement was not expressed in Olympic swimming pools.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I, too, live in WA and did not hear about this! On a side note, if anyone gets the opportunity to tour the dam and watch the evening laser show, DO IT! Rock climbing up there is also good as long as you stick to the stable basalt AWAY from the water's edge. 😊
I read the title and said “Wait, I live on Vancouver Island which is practically in Washington State and I never heard anything about this”😁 Thanks for this! Very interesting.
We've seen this at Lake Powell (res) on the AZ border due to the same reasons. The wave wasn't terribly destructive since it's surrounded mostly by high clifts. I'm sure the marinas got a little rocking.
Washington has been the place of several slides. They include the Oso mudslide, the one that occurred with the Mount St. Helen's eruption, and the Wellington avalanche in 1910. At least the ones regarding Lake Roosevelt haven't killed anyone.
The whole state is dotted with high risk landslide zones, largely from our glacial history. This one would very likely have had fatalities if it happened in the summer. Boats out fishing and recreating, full campgrounds along the shores, etc…
Woo hoo we get to see you ! Love your accent. Where are you from originally. Oh, by the way, Love your channel. So so informative. Brief, but packed with info.
My roommate and I were learning about the Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica. The documentary said it produced "mile high tsunamis" here on the West Coast of the US. Just for fun, would you someday talk to us about what that would've been like? How far inland do mile high tsunamis go anyways? 🤔🌊
I have lived in Washington State my entire Life. This is the first time hearing about these slides. I am much more familiar with slides in the Puget Sound Region involving Glacial Till and Clay. I currently live within 1 miles of the large slow moving slide on Rattlesnake Ridge and can see it easily from my house on Ahtanum Ridge.
Excellent explanation. Commenters are also helping explain these events. I'm hoping to make a geology tour of Washington soon and I'll definitely add a trip to Lake Roosevelt now. Thank you for your insights.
Honestly never gave thought of such a subject as this affect inland water sources. But the explanation and graphics is interesting. This could be a subject to explore more in future videos.
Is all or most of Washington State's dirt composed of glacial till? Digging a small hole is impossible around here because you can't stop running into spud sized rocks that lead to other bigger rocks. Three feet down we come to gravel. Nice drainage, but not too stable for foundations if Mt. Rainier gets-a-going.
Thank-you for all your geological videos. I know about the huge wave that occurred in Alaska in the 1970(?)’s on a narrow islet. This is the first time I have had heard of a tsunami occurring on a reservoir hundred’s of miles away from the sea. I think that there recently was another landslide in Greenland. I hope that the Islands of Hawaii are doing some planning for this!! I believe large chunks of the Big Island have fallen into the ocean in a similar manner!!
For the last year or so, there's been construction (demolition) on highway 97 near Summerland in the Okanagan Valley to prevent this scenario from happening. It's pretty much the same geology.
I read about inland tsunami and seiche waves that come from both earthquakes and landslides while at the UW library. Working on water and now racing hydroplanes here in the NW , I always watch for big red circles on the maps . Water can slosh even when the quake is way far away . I ran a marine store in 2003-4 I think , several boat owners came in and bought all my big boat fenders. The last one said a quake in Denali had hit Seattle’s Lake Union at just the right frequency and a whole line of boats on one shore all moved 3’ at once, popping their big fenders. A slide up around a bend could also send a wave that seems out of place . If it happens while in the boat, well that will be a new thrill . I recently rode and drove a hydro at Lake Chelan ,basically below Roosevelt but similar topography and those massive hills sorta loom . The deep middle would hide that tsunami by the way , at Chelan the Lady of the Lake puts off waves that don’t appear until they hit the shallow water. The 90 seconds wasn’t how long it was visible I bet , figure it rose as it crossed the maybe 2 mile wide lake ( really the Columbia River but Dam ) showing up the last 30 seconds. As a Fisherman, I also can read the charts and even see the shelf’s where past slides have left their mark . On Puget sound, you can see bright colored trees where the Evergreens hadn’t had time to repopulate. In the 70’s , West Seattle had a bunch of slides. The rows of condos on Alki beach are mostly where the worst was , but all around that area had clay oozing after October/ November downpours. The past Irrigation history likely sealed the fate of that land . They grow the crops up away from the river to get more light , etc . but the downslope land starts to change. Had there been no Dam , I wonder if such a wave would be possible? South of Chelan, on I-97 , I remember seeing what I thought was an old slide that left big blobs in the river valley . Thanx for posting this story that hasn’t been on local news.
Thankfully, no injuries or deaths have been definitively traced to these past inland tsunami events at Lake Roosevelt. Let’s keep it that way. Only property damage (docks, businesses, boats, etc) have been recorded during past events. A photo exists of the tsunami wave right before it struck, but I do not own the licensing rights to the image in question which can be found on Facebook.
Gideon here, thank you for making this video!
I thought you lived in Arizona
So.good to see you! Proof.youre not AI 😂
Love your coverage ❤ thank you
@@whiteknightcat He does he was acting out a local as it said in the disclaimer caption for that skit.
Thank you so much for putting yourself on cam while speaking.
Im so tired of the trolls claiming AI
Was just about to post the same comment. So sick of those idiotic comments.
@@MaddyN999 exactly. They really grind my gears
He's shown his face before, e.g. when he went to Iceland to shoot videos.
I don’t know, have you seen Zuckerberg lately?
I was almost going to comment and say, See! I told y'all it wasn't an automated voice! It's called a cadence and good speakers have a distinctive cadence. 😌👍✨
the nonchalant face reveals are everything
🤔
He's revealed his face several times before.
Everyone is doing this now to prove their not AI. I could care less if something is AI if the content is proper. AI is a tool nothing more.
@@robr135 no.
AI is lazy and is a tool to make vids with zero knowledge or intelligence.
It's searched from the web and auto narrated.
None of those vids deserve views. It just takes from real people
@@robr135 AI uses same word combinations and are soulless,
I used to work on the orchard directly above these slides. They diverted a large Creek called Sherman Creek in the late 1800s and every year they saturate the soil for the fruit trees and hayfields above the slide areas. There are numerous slides all around the 100 + acre properties because of this. There is bedrock limestone and slate beneath the glacial till. The water from the creek irrigation saturates the glacial till, then it hits the bedrock and flows downhill and creates artificial springs downhill of the properties. Just thought this might be interesting info for y'all 😊👍🏼
Edit: I know this is also a natural phenomenon as there are other slides up and down the lake Roosevelt reservoir usually occurring wherever there are natural springs. I guess that the water table from the lake meeting with spring water output is a recipe for small landslides 🤔
@@bryanbradford2742 that's actually very interesting information 👍 thank you
Thank you.
Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write it!
In ni ni b😅
Interesting: made me think of how meltwater channels under glaciers can escalate slippage speed …
I'm going to have to show this video to my 5th grade students on Monday. We have been studying tsunamis. This is a great example!
That's fantastic!
It's an interesting subject for kids
Downside is when they start "experimenting" in their bathtubs!
And a great example of tsunamis inland, which I didnt realize could happen
Great idea! Did you read the comment from @bryonbradford2742, someone familiar with this area? I think this is interesting..
@@Sharks.are.friends yes, that is one of the pieces we discussed.
It's nice to finally see the real human behind these *_awesome_* geology reports! I'm not a geologist but I watch every one for their clarity, informative value, and never alarmist (but genuinely alarming when justified) content. I live in the San Francisco East-bay area so am particularly interested in activity on the San Andreas and Hayward faults, as well as the Cascadia subduction zone. Thank you for your dedication and excellent presentations, a true gift to RUclips watchers!
My best takeaway from this video is that the narrator is a human, not A.I. generated.
The quality is too good to be AI.
Also, he’s been making videos with pretty much the same style of voiceover years before AI voice synthesis got to the level of advancement we know today.
Nah just ai voiced for a good portion. Just trained to sound like him
@@wazaagbreak-head6039 No his voice is just monotone
Well, there was Max Headroom....
This is my first video from this channel and, I don’t mean to be insulting, but it sure sounds AI to this newbie
So satisfying to finally put a face on the voice. Thanks for the trust 💙
LOL. He's shown pictures of his face multiple times in videos before.
Watch his trip to Iceland.
1st for me aswell
Finally realize his voice isn’t just digital.
It's never the face I imagine. 😂
i love the content and the way you present it. never click-bate, right to the point, explained completely and clearly. all facts. love it
Agree 100%!
@@amberackerson5916 amber check out the Thunderbolts Project. specifically the research into how all this geology was formed. electric universe theory put forth by wall thornhill. the real was our planet and solar systems geology was formed is absurdly spectacular. let me know what you think.
You got my thought process as a washington resident completely correct.
It’s cool that he’s from here, I never knew!
yes! I live on Vashon island and nothing could ever convince me to live less than 50’ above the shoreline anywhere, especially in Puget Sound.
I also had no idea he was in Washington state and I’ve been watching his videos for
years! Sending this video to my ex because he always claimed it was an AI generated voice. We got into some stupidly heated arguments over that😂 I defended my geology guy so fiercely because I’m a rock nerd; I could not just let the AI accusations stand. Now I have proof!
@@Just_Sara he lives in Arizona. He had a disclaimer
This is going to be a fantastic Thanksgiving conversation. "Did you know we had a 30' tsunami the other day?"
That's up there with the fun fact that we are the only state with a mountain range contained entirely within our border.
Oh and remember my fellow Washingtonians, if anyone asks, the answer is yes, it constantly rains every day up here. Try California.
Crazy how many waterways like this one can produce huge waves in seconds. Gotta pay attention when you live near water
No doubt. I love living near water, too, and I had hoped to find a place where I can see the water from my house. Now I'm thinking maybe it's actually just fine I can't see any from here. Although I do have a tiny pond in my backyard. That's sounding quite sufficient because no tsunamis there. Lol
@@TroutWest yup. Especially if those waterways are near cliffs or mountains
Definitely didn’t picture how you look when listening to you for a couple years now. No idea WHAT I thought you may look like though, but thanks for sharing! It’s always great to put a face to a voice!!
Thank you for these tidbits. And it was great to see your face. I do like putting a voice with a face in general.
I live in Southeast King County and haven't heard anything on the local news outlets about this. I wonder how long it took the water to stop sloshing back and forth between the river banks? I took a Geology 101 class at Green River Community College in Auburn a couple decades ago, and am fascinated by the glacial deposits all over the place. Indeed, I am on a moraine and I constantly mow glacial river rocks in my back yard. Professor Nick Zentner from CWU covers a lot of this stuff on his channel also.
Hey “neighbor” 👋🏼👋🏼
Why would king county acknowledge the existence of eastern Washington? Lol
No damage to the food supply or electricity supply to the west side so it's not news worthy for them.
GRCC class of '73 here. :-)
I found this and Professor Zenter's channels during the lockdowns.
I've not seen your face before, what an absolute treat, I love getting a face to a voice I hold dear. I very much appreciate all that you continue to teach me in my time off from the old slavery.
i was today years old when i found out you were an actual human . ligit thought this was a generated voice .
keep up the great work mate . big love from Australia
As usual, this video is outstanding in it’s educational value! I had no idea of the glacial makeup of the landslide area, or why the dam on the lake could contribute to landslides. Thank you so much for your hard work and the excellent teaching you do!
Fascinating ! And you have the most unique voice and delivery, as well as knowledge, far more mature than your cameo appearance. Congratulations, and keep educating us .
A face reveal that we did not expect but somehow we needed.
In case no one else has, I would add there has been a lot rain in this area, at least by local standards. Just more water lubricating the slides.
Certainly the past week, that's for sure
Spring breakup looks to be very muddy.
Amazing, I was just right up there. Correction: the landslide came out of megaflood gravel deposit.
I live along a fjord in Southeast Alaska. We are well aware of this possibility here.
@@jonathanrichardson469 in a place like that you'd be very silly not to be 🙂
@@scrappydoo7887 You wouldn't have said that in a real face to face conversation...silly dog.
BTW, it's not La Bamba, he's singing 'La Palma' - the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge. 'Ridge High Fell Ins' - wait until you see what happens Christmas morning. Tremor Christ.
That song was released right around the same time as the biggest tsunami in recorded history took place. Interesting.
Lituya Bay in 1958. A 1600ish foot wave formed from........ A rock slide caused by an earthquake! Interesting that it only took a couple lives too. Had it been any where even sort of remotely populated... It'd have been a different story. Stay vigilant out there! I used to live and work out of Yakutat, so I feel ya about the feeling of being quite aware!
Thanks as always, Geology Hub!
You can see the fault lines behind the slide. There will definitely be another one in that area
Geez I was one of those Washington folks you did an impression of... well done.
I miss washington, born and raised 😢 I moved to nm a couple years ago. Cool video!
Why not move back?
@brandon9172 my boyfriend got a job in nm, hopefully one day
@@krischristiansen9609NM needs smart people to fill jobs
The education system in NM is not good
Enjoy the beauty of NM, and stay away from abq
Same for me. I left the end of 2002 and ended up in NM in early 2011 for work. If my dad hadn't left the Air Force and gone to work for Boeing, I would have been born in Albq. I love it here.
@@feeberizer different scenery for sure, I love to take pictures of the stars and monsoons here. Cloudcroft and ruidoso kinda give me my forest fix 😄
Thank you for your hard work and consistent quality presentations. It's a joy to see you as well as hear you... :)
Wow thanks for the notice of this event as well as the explanation.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
this reminds me of that tsunami somewhere in the italian alps. they had built a dam and when they were filling it, they noticed that the slope on one side of the lake was slipping. eventually the whole side of the mountain collapsed and created a tsunami that went up the other side of the lake, flooded a village and killed lots of people.
The Vajont Dam.
Thank you for another fascinating video. Cheers from England
Love this channel. Always boggles my mind how much the Earth is moving even when its a relatively small event like this. Massive swathes of the ground moving and sliding away is crazy to think about. Most amazing is the power of water to cause it. Cheers.
There have been 3 significant landslides in the Spokane Arm of Lake Roosevelt in the past 10-15 years. I always think about these while I'm fishing right next to the steep bluffs and hear rocks trickling down the cliffs the entire time.
Thank you so much for your very clear and informative videos. I truly enjoy learning from you. You are gifted at explaining things at a level that the average person can understand. It was wonderful to see you in person, too. I don't have Facebook, so I wish the person with the photo would allow ypu to share it with us.
You've picked up the modern mispronunciation of Roosevelt: the "Roos" part was always pronounced "rose" but people nowadays mispronounce it as "ruse." Something similar happened to the Cheneys, and now they're stuck with it!
Kind of like how people say Spo-CANE instead of Spo-can
@@geckoman1011
That's more a local knowledge thing. Someone asked me for directions to Puyallup once but the syllabic stresses were off and it took me a couple listens to figure out what they were trying to say. Most people outside the area wouldn't need to know how to pronounce city names, even one as big as Spokane.
Roosevelt is more widespread on account of the historical figures that served as the eponym of many things with that name. A shift in pronunciation might imply a decrease in awareness of those figures.
I live in Washington state too...
Your report is the only one I have heard 😊
Look up 'The Spokesman Review' they did an article on it the other day.
Thanks for surprise 🖖🏽🙂🌍🕉😃
We like your work.
Namaste
Nice to see you on-camera! Keep up the good work.
Aww I love your face! 😂 Your channel is the best! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Dude! You look just like I pictured in my head! That's crazy and cool!
Nice to see you this time!
Firstly I'm very glad no one was hurt, or worse
Secondly, it was really lovely to see you face, Tim ❤
Glacial lakes are filling up in the Himalayan region, the possibility of landslides and tsunami like a year before cannot be ruled out.
I thought the voice was AI until you came on camera😂
Learning something new today! Thank you!
Have you ever done any research into Atlantic Highlands, NJ? Not long after the 2011 Virginia earthquake, the elevated shorelines of Atlantic Highlands and its neighboring town Highlands started experiencing landslides. Although not large in area, these landslides damaged homes and disrupted traffic on the Henry Hudson Trail, a nature trail traversed by hundreds of people daily. Maybe more concerning is that these cliffs and slopes that make up the area are directly across the Raritan Bay from NYC. Mount Mitchell Scenic Overlook in Atlantic Highlands, the highest natural elevation on the Atlantic Seaboard from Maine to the Yucatán, sits within a mile of each landslide’s location. As a public worker at the time, I mentioned to the USGS surveyor who came to assess the impact that we had never experienced these landslides prior to the above mentioned earthquake. He didn’t dismiss the idea but seemed to treat it more of a curiosity than something noteworthy, and to be fair, we haven’t experienced any landslides since 2012. It’s something that’s always lingered in my mind, and what better place to mention it than here
Dead on to both connect the dots and be concerned.
I live near enough to the USGS HQ and the USED TO BE a reliable source and resource for investigation of risk newly exposed....
Sadly I think most of that leadership and staff are now long gone, as the last 20+ years have been strangely uninterested in real geologic works govt security and pushing narratives out 😐
"Since 1967" My response was that this has happened before? Thank you for the information.
I only recently learned about the singing stones park in Pennsylvania. I would love to hear your take, if you are looking for subject matter.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My take, those are rock gnomes. There are a lot of 411 cases associated with them. They can lure people in and they are never seen again. Or so they say.
Words are insufficient to convey the depth of my disappointment that an "American football field" was used for scale, yet the volume of the displacement was not expressed in Olympic swimming pools.
And what's with "Olympic-sized swimming pools" anyways? Why not "average Hollywood-back-yard-sized swimming pools"?
Took the words right out of my mouth. I, too, live in WA and did not hear about this!
On a side note, if anyone gets the opportunity to tour the dam and watch the evening laser show, DO IT! Rock climbing up there is also good as long as you stick to the stable basalt AWAY from the water's edge. 😊
Anywhere there’s a cliff near a lake or deep river there’s a possibility that it could happen!
I read the title and said “Wait, I live on Vancouver Island which is practically in Washington State and I never heard anything about this”😁 Thanks for this! Very interesting.
We've seen this at Lake Powell (res) on the AZ border due to the same reasons. The wave wasn't terribly destructive since it's surrounded mostly by high clifts. I'm sure the marinas got a little rocking.
Hello fellow Washingtonian. I too did a "Wait...WTF?" when I read your headline.
The lesson to take away: A lake shore next to the mountains isn't necessarily in ideal place to set up your home.
It's about time we see who this man
Realtor tried to sell me some of that land about 4 years ago
I feel like whenever you show your face its always during the most random videos. Kinda funny.
1:35 RIP dock at Ricky Point
And the dock at the fish hatchery too.
Washington has been the place of several slides.
They include the Oso mudslide, the one that occurred with the Mount St. Helen's eruption, and the Wellington avalanche in 1910.
At least the ones regarding Lake Roosevelt haven't killed anyone.
The whole state is dotted with high risk landslide zones, largely from our glacial history. This one would very likely have had fatalities if it happened in the summer. Boats out fishing and recreating, full campgrounds along the shores, etc…
Thank you for this video. Well presented and every question that came to mind, you seemed to answer right after.
Finally got to see your face! You have a very strange voice..not in a bad way😊
It's distinctive. ✨
@@dianepusateri5841 he's a good egg 👍
@WildAlchemicalSpirit yes..that a good description.
My daughter was at the water that morning it definitely was creepy seeing those waves come in and not knowing what caused it. This is great info.
Since its November it's not that busy there. Had it happened on July 4th it would have been bad.
Greetings from Vancouver Washington. Keep up the good work 💪💯
You're the Anton Petrov of geology and your followers enjoy seeing you during your presentations. Keep it coming. Excellent video. Thx.
Very interesting, thanks
Woo hoo we get to see you ! Love your accent. Where are you from originally. Oh, by the way, Love your channel. So so informative. Brief, but packed with info.
I love your videos, very informative i cant stop watching lol
I wasn't expecting to see an event 30 miles from me get covered on RUclips.
It would have been interesting to witness, from a safe distance. A very good thing it didnt happen five months earlier.
Wait, you live in Washington too? That's awesome
This was a micro landslide tsunami compared to the 1958 Lituya Bay 1700 ft tsunami, created by a incredibly massive landslide
You always teach me something interesting! Thanks for the video!
Ooh! I like this format
My roommate and I were learning about the Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica. The documentary said it produced "mile high tsunamis" here on the West Coast of the US. Just for fun, would you someday talk to us about what that would've been like? How far inland do mile high tsunamis go anyways? 🤔🌊
I have lived in Washington State my entire Life. This is the first time hearing about these slides. I am much more familiar with slides in the Puget Sound Region involving Glacial Till and Clay. I currently live within 1 miles of the large slow moving slide on Rattlesnake Ridge and can see it easily from my house on Ahtanum Ridge.
Crazy! I was just fishing there a week ago.
I was on the shore a few hours after it happened completely unaware of what had occurred earlier
Great video well done
Nice to see you in a video again Tim!
Excellent explanation.
Commenters are also helping explain these events.
I'm hoping to make a geology tour of Washington soon and I'll definitely add a trip to Lake Roosevelt now.
Thank you for your insights.
Holy shit that’s your real voice!??? I thought this way AI the entire time!?!😂
Being in the PNW myself, you had me going at the start.
Honestly never gave thought of such a subject as this affect inland water sources. But the explanation and graphics is interesting. This could be a subject to explore more in future videos.
Is all or most of Washington State's dirt composed of glacial till?
Digging a small hole is impossible around here because you can't stop running into spud sized rocks that lead to other bigger rocks.
Three feet down we come to gravel. Nice drainage, but not too stable for foundations if Mt. Rainier gets-a-going.
No. Areas in south eastern washington have loam soils. Very fine and fertile. Can be 100s of feet thick in places.
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thank you.
love your videos
just look forward to you so much!!❤
Now I can put a face to the voice...
So cute :)
Thank-you for all your geological videos. I know about the huge wave that occurred in Alaska in the 1970(?)’s on a narrow islet. This is the first time I have had heard of a tsunami occurring on a reservoir hundred’s of miles away from the sea. I think that there recently was another landslide in Greenland. I hope that the Islands of Hawaii are doing some planning for this!! I believe large chunks of the Big Island have fallen into the ocean in a similar manner!!
Local here, There is a photo circulating that captures the land slide and the wave before it crashed into Ricky point.
Thank goodness noone was hurt! Never heard this on the national news!!!😮
Wow ! Next time I am near it , I will drive up to see the area .
Go to Colville Flats down hw 25. It's just across the water and you can see it.
For the last year or so, there's been construction (demolition) on highway 97 near Summerland in the Okanagan Valley to prevent this scenario from happening. It's pretty much the same geology.
Spirit Lake sends its regards.
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I live here above the resivor in Kettle lol. Never expected this to hit the world news. We have landslides often just not one so big for awhile.
its usually called 'Seiche' if its an enclosed body of water -- often induced by a landslide that terminates into a lake or reservoir.
The scallops on the shoreline are impressive. All that sediment will eventually raise the lake floor level since it can't move downstream past the dam
I read about inland tsunami and seiche waves that come from both earthquakes and landslides while at the UW library.
Working on water and now racing hydroplanes here in the NW , I always watch for big red circles on the maps .
Water can slosh even when the quake is way far away .
I ran a marine store in 2003-4 I think , several boat owners came in and bought all my big boat fenders. The last one said a quake in Denali had hit Seattle’s Lake Union at just the right frequency and a whole line of boats on one shore all moved 3’ at once, popping their big fenders.
A slide up around a bend could also send a wave that seems out of place .
If it happens while in the boat, well that will be a new thrill .
I recently rode and drove a hydro at Lake Chelan ,basically below Roosevelt but similar topography and those massive hills sorta loom .
The deep middle would hide that tsunami by the way , at Chelan the Lady of the Lake puts off waves that don’t appear until they hit the shallow water.
The 90 seconds wasn’t how long it was visible I bet , figure it rose as it crossed the maybe 2 mile wide lake ( really the Columbia River but Dam ) showing up the last 30 seconds.
As a Fisherman, I also can read the charts and even see the shelf’s where past slides have left their mark .
On Puget sound, you can see bright colored trees where the Evergreens hadn’t had time to repopulate.
In the 70’s , West Seattle had a bunch of slides. The rows of condos on Alki beach are mostly where the worst was , but all around that area had clay oozing after October/ November downpours.
The past Irrigation history likely sealed the fate of that land .
They grow the crops up away from the river to get more light , etc . but the downslope land starts to change.
Had there been no Dam , I wonder if such a wave would be possible?
South of Chelan, on I-97 , I remember seeing what I thought was an old slide that left big blobs in the river valley .
Thanx for posting this story that hasn’t been on local news.
I normally have similar thoughts when watching these. To see how much is happening meanwhile the environment is chill here is always kinda strange
Man I was confused by the title, I'm in the same boat as you and was wondering how I hadn't heard anything about it.