Flying a small airplane over the San Andreas fault
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2020
- One of the largest earthquakes in United States history happened here in 1857. Fly a small airplane over the San Andreas fault and learn about one of the most infamous earthquake faults in the world. Follow along in my Grumman Tiger as we explore the Carrizo Plain and see from a unique perspective how this deadly earthquake fault has changed over thousands of years. The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake measured 7.9 on the richter scale. California is long overdue for another "Big One" from this massive fault.
See an the UNCUT FLYOVER of the San Andreas fault here: / wolficorn
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Music in this video:
Discovery by Delnova
With some malice by Francesco Dandrea
Meteor by Roman P
Morning Sunbeams by Yehezkel Raz
Breathe by Ian Post
It’s pretty enlightening to see it live rather then on a map.
Yeah, Californians don’t know the difference between then and than...
Tinkerginamama Agree friend! I learning more in this video than in Earth and Space science in high school.
For sure. CHEERS
@@bakarangerpinku Tut Tut
Enlightening
Years ago I took my small son in a plane over this same spot and pointed out that earthquake fault to him. I said, "That is the San Andreas earthquake fault line there, son." He replied, "Why do they call it the San Andreas fault....why not the...Mark Overman fault?" I replied, "I don't know son, it's not my fault!" Proud dad joke moment of my illustrious career.
Mark Overman 😂 epic!
Mark Overman 😂 😂 😂
Mark Overman good one! 😂
Great Touch Mark!!🤜🤛
Cheers
This is the best geography field trip I have ever been on. I didn't realise the San Andreas fault was so visually obvious.
Well done to share this online! 🤗🇦🇺
nuke wallace creek
I’ve walked inside of it. It’s terrifying. In some spots, the crack in the earth is pretty close to each other and so deep!
You have no idea how entertaining and educating these short videos are. As a non-American (Saudi here), I like to constantly learn about other countries, cultures, people…etc and these videos give me the perfect dose of knowledge to fit in between my daily routines.
Gave a deserved like. Keep ‘em coming.
Wow…the real Don Draper likes my video! Haha. Seriously…glad you enjoyed it. I’ll try to make some new videos soon!
This was a really impressive report! Great images and narrating all the way.
thx Dutchy!!
I love to learn about this stuff.
Completely agree! The selection of music for the video was also great. First three songs were amazing - only the last song was more standard fare. Very very good overall in my opinion!
@@Wolficorntv its always great to learn
Agreed! So very well done🏞🙏🏼
Hands down one of the best produced RUclips videos I’ve ever seen. You are DEFINITELY on to something here if you could make them longer. I’m sure it was a lot of work but damn was it good!
wow....glad you enjoyed it. I hope to make more in this format. And yes...it was a little short but I didn;t want to stuff it with filler.
@@Wolficorntv ,👍
Well said
Indeed, very good work!
@@Wolficorntv Glad that youtube recommended your channel. I make mine flyer16612 words. Of course, I gave my like and subscribed. And I think you'll keep flying higher and higher...
One of my favorite reasons for flying: perspective. You get a great sense of size and a dose of humility seeing your comparative smallness.
Indeed. As a kid living in L.A. and having experienced the 1971 Sylmar earthquake (scary af), I knew ABOUT the San Andreas Fault but was never given a complete picture of its size or length or even the reason it was there. Then Google Earth comes along, drones, and yes, these wonderful pilots, to provide a prospective we can't get on the ground, and it's simply fascinating -- and humbling. Two of the largest tectonic plates on the planet grinding past each other, and you can stand right on it -- drive over it daily.
Another fascinating flight would be along the entire length of the San Andreas from the Salton Sea to Cape Mendocino, just to see the different geographic and climatic settings as you trace the fault -- and just how many millions of people face the threat this massive plate boundary poses to those living on either side of it.
I needn't say, after so many already have, how incredibly well produced this video is. As a Brit I have heard so much of the San Andreas fault, but seen so little. Education is always priceless, so to put together such an informative, yet short and effective piece, would surely have Sir David Attenborough himself impressed.
artistically so well put together too ... the music was well chosen too to accompany the visual presentation! Bravo
very late reply but thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you liked it Steven!
Ft Tejon is where the last Grizzly bear was killed in the early 1900s...
I've driven alongside the San Andreas fault all my life...from Downey to Oroville...
The thrusting lines are incredible...they always reminded me of Giant Dinosaur feet ...yeah..kids imagination...but they really look like T-REX feet... just my two cents....
I've experienced plenty of earthquakes in California...
Sylmar, Whittier, Northridge Oroville seen the street rolling like ocean waves!
You should see the shock system they have built in to that 75 story building in downtown LA...I worked on it for a year and a half in 89-90...
This video gave me serious production envy. Beautifully done, looked like a professional educational film one could expect from the Discovery Channel. Love to see that your channel is growing and it's no surprise why. Keep up the great work!
Glad you found it interesting. I find that area so interesting. It's only appropriate that I was awoken by a 4.2 earthquake early this morning, centered right where my airplane is hangared.
imagine flying over the fault line then suddenly you notice that it opened up a lil bit 😅
well luckily you'd be quite safe while in an airplane
It won’t because those are transform plates
@@dready529 not really, Everything on earth even those in the air, can be affected by something on land. We're literally in a bubble.
@@TuberoseKisser You don't get it do you
@@dready529 They are affected too.
This was a really top notch production. The way you portrayed the little creek being offset over the years was really well done and I learned a ton, too!
thx Stephen!
@@Wolficorntv nobody was out there ...did you have to stop to reuel
The best view I have ever had! Thanks so much for sharing!
"That's not my fault." - St.Andrew
#humorpotamus, I see what you did there, clever.
Bryan, excellent production value, without being over-produced. Plus, dude, I learned a lot. Keep up the awesome work! Thx. Wayne
thx!!! I love to learn this stuff and pass it along
My thoughts exactly! It was informative but not boring and these would be excellent in classrooms.
@@cbc5863 spot on. I had lots of trouble staying focused in school. This would have had me locked in and learning
Beautiful shots. Very professional.
This is all San Andreas fault
Very witty..haLMHO
When we had the 7.1 earthquake last year in Ridgecrest the land lifted about 15-20 feet in some places, instantly. There was also about 5 feet of lateral slip in some areas. If you want more info on that quake series let me know. I have a very unique perspective of those events.
I felt both of those big Ridgecrest shakers down here in LA. Would love to hear your perspective.
I'd love to see a video of that area!
I am 30 miles east of LA and I felt both but the latter one was a horizontal micro~shaking that I could tell was far away. I just hope we do not have any big ones or moderate ones around here.
Geeze! 15 to 20 feet!! That would be really really scary!
this video will be way more important that it already is one day.
@@burtmottola3948 Sorry but what planet did you say you were from ?
An added geology note is that Baja California is on the Pacific Plate and thus split off the North American Plate down Mexico way and moved northward and westward, forming the Sea of Cortez.
John Steinbeck wrote a good book about his and a buddy's voyage there.
Thanks, I didn't know he wrote a book about the Sea of Cortez
Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts aboard the Western Flyer.
Great video! I've been hoping to see this kind of perspective of the San Andreas fault for a log time, Thanks for providing one.
These videos are AMAZING! Absolutely the best aviation content on youtube right now.
Thx Arel!!!!
It is just a matter of when the BIG one will hit. When that happen, it won't be just two people that will die like in 1857.
SO foolish to allow, if not encourage, development along here. Oil drilling further perforates the crust. Humans can be some ignorant fools!
@@katiekane5247 ---No, man's activities such as well drilling or any other activity are insignificant to mother nature's overwhelming tectonic plate movements of nature as we have here in the State of California!
Traditional Values you sound like Darth Vader there 😂
“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
So true, a testament to how important human beings think they are. We are insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe and even on this planet.
@@katiekane5247 Aloha 47 years ago I read in the divers magazine that the storage of nuclear waste and old salt mines was causing the Earth's core to heat up and the glaciers would melt and the oceans would be 14 ft higher there is no such thing as climate change that is what is happening I know it's true just like I know Jesus is true I saw him bless your heart
Seriously dude. OUTSTANDING video! Short and sweet but extremely well made and very informative. Keep it up. You just got a new subscriber.
CFII here! Just came here to say this is one of the best general aviation productions I’ve seen on RUclips. Stellar editing and camera work. Great job and thanks for the great videos!
Thx man! Appreciate the comment. I've been slow getting new content out lately but I have some interesting videos in the works.
I remember about 20+ years ago, I was visiting a friend’s apartment outside of Riverside. I looked out to his backyard and saw a ravine. My friend laughed and said it was part of the San Andres earthquake fault. I just shook my head in disbelief that the city or county would allow an apartment built so close to it.
no doubt mexico it's so wild and pretty
It's right outside Palm Springs. Believe me, property land values aren't going down either. If you survive the catastrophe earthquake. You may have beach front property.
The freeways are built on it too
@@aaronshamburger942 Is this true? Would they really do that?
@@laureldevine a quick way to depopulate😭
@0:50 I cant get over how the sea of clouds looks being held back by that mountain range, absolutely beautiful.
I taught AP Environmental Science at a school just just north of Burbank CA. I remember my classes and the look on their faces when i would explain how there was sooooo much to see and explore right in their own back yards. The CA aqueduct was an hour drive away, the SA fault, the high desert and LA Basin, pacific ocean, central valley farms which are the bread baskets of the US. I kept pushing them to have their parents take them to these places during the summer time. thank you for the video!
My dad was an air force pilot, and I'm a geologist. I lived on the San Andreas for 4 years at Norton AFB. Your videos are spectacular. Thank you.
Really? My dad was a AF pilot based at Norton as well! I was actually born when he was there. I think he was there 72-75-ish.
It does look like a giant long scar. Out planet is Soo incredibly beautiful and has Soo many depths. To bad these humans are destroying it!!
Yes. Its a pity, that so many people do not recognize and are not aware of this beautyful planet, we live on, for such a short time.
Thank You for this video !
hey can i ask if you eat animal products?
Darkmann yes, you may.
The fault would've been there anyway if we never existed, but yes we are ruining the planet.
@@darkmann12 In case you planned on implying that only vegans care about the planet... I don't think those two things are necessarily linked.
This is where I live. Well, not exactly but close to carrizo plains. I've visited a couple of times but never knew the history of the fault. Felt many shakes here on the Central Coast. You can cross over both sides at Parkfield over the bridge. Thanx for the views.
First time I've seen that overhead view of the river been shifted. Cool!
Very informative and visually stunning.
Thanks for sharing info about the music. Morning Sunbeams added to my playlist.
I used to read about this when I was a young lad. I really thought the crack was the fault of some guy called san andreas.
Wow - great job. I love field trips!
thx! me too!!
I love going places in my mind. Sometimes it a long trip back. Lol
I live two miles from Loma Preita....
In the mountains of Santa Cruz.
I had no idea that it was so beautiful.
Thank you.
Have heard many times about geographic plates and fault lines, but in the video, saw the picture of it, for the first time ever. Thank you
During the early 1960’s I lived in La Mesa, CA, east of San Diego. Twice, a lesser fault that was east of Los Angeles slipped dramatically. We got a good shake in La Mesa both times. We also felt the great Alaska earthquake of Good Friday 1964. When the Earth shakes it does get your attention.
Damn, that Alaska quake had to have been huge for you to feel it all the way in California.
@@michael85225 I’m stretching my memory here, but I remember Richter 9.2, 15 minutes duration. A Tsunami followed and wiped out Valdez, AK among others. That Tsunami went down the west coast. When it reached San Diego/Coronado it had died down quite a bit. The high water mark on the beach near the Hotel del Coronado was way higher than high tide and left behind many shells. I still have the shells that I collected on Easter Sunday 1964. I suggest you view the archival movies of the damage that occurred in Anchorage, AK that day.
@@michael85225 you must have bad reading skills. Writing 101, allows you to write in the first person interchangeably. From one experience to another. Giving the narration of experience, to comparison.
Thank you for taking me with you on this wonderful flight! Just unbelievable and great!
That's amazing seeing the San Andreas Fault from the air! Awesome video! Interesting that Los Angeles is on the Pacific Plate while San Bernandino to the East is on the North American Plate. There's a lot of mountains between them and that is why! Thanks for sharing
We’re building our new house on our project just off of Hwy 1 on the coast of N. CA. The fault runs 3 miles east of our new house 😬
Loved seeing the fault from this perspective. Thank you!
GREAT FLIGHT THANK YOU BE SAFE
This was so cool. The editing, the narration, the cinematography, the music. I'm invested now!
Glad you enjoyed it Ronald!
Loved this video.
I am from the L.A. area, and as a child I remember small earthquakes shaking our home and things would fall off the shelves. After we moved to Oregon we would drive back to Southern California to visit our relatives every other year. Then the big earthquake hit San Francisco, and then Northridge. After this we flew to L.A. 😂 My dad said he didn’t want to be on a bridge when an earthquake happened.
Your flying over the San Andreas fault line was really informative. Thank you for taking the time to show this to us all.
Thx for the anecdote and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Flying is an excellent way to appreciate these often theoretic concepts of Geography.
Lovely areal footage , explanation .
1st video , subscribed
California is such a beautiful state. Love to see it from the air. Thanks for making this!
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
It's only beautiful from the air. Los Angeles is a cess pool of corruption and fantasy.
@@homertalk now now homer, be nice!! I've lived here 11 years and while it's got some issues (as does everywhere), it's a good place to be.
@@Wolficorntv I'll be nice, I live here too. It's changed a great deal.
@@homertalk I didn't know you lived here. Well in that case, you have earned the right to trash talk all you want hahahaha.
Amazing footage. Amazing commentary. Amazing music, very complementary. Amazing story. All that makes amazing video. I am subscribing!
I miss all the nature of California, from mountains to oceans, gorges to deserts and great weather. Thanks for taking us for a ride.
over ten years ago I took the dirt road along the carizzo plain (soda lake rd?). wasnt sure if I was allowed to, but it was stunning! It was when flowers were blooming and it seemed like each hill was painted a different color.
Thank you! Excellent production, visually informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
absolutely stunning. it was so nice to "fly by" the san andreas fault using mapping tools back in college, but this is completely on another level
Thats some really good content! the editing and the narration are great. And its the best view i've ever seen from the fault, well done!
Thanks for this. Fascinating!
I Grew up in Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley and fully experienced the Sylmar quake in 1971, And the Northridge quake in 1994. Felt a little of the Coalinga quake in 1983 too.
Looking back, my takeaway is that the natural world (or the universe) doesn’t care about my safety or piece of mind. Puts things in perspective.
I also felt Northridge quake I was living in Riverside was pregnant at the time. When I was young felt a 7.5 hit El Centro CA 1979. It was bad was alone at the house. A really bad one hit Mexicali/imperial valley on Easter 2010. Part of living in Cali I am here now in TX worry about tornadoes but at least you are warned.
I was living in Long Beach during the Sylmar quake, and as bad as it shook there 35 miles from the epicenter, I can only imagine how bad it was in the Valley. That's the worst quake I'd ever been through; 2nd worst would be the Borrego Mtn quake in '68, but in Long Beach it was nowhere near as intense as Sylmar. Lots of rolling, sloshed a bunch of water out of our pool; but the S waves by the time they reached Long Beach was just a slow roll and lasted maybe 20 seconds.
This was an amazing and very detailed video. Great job! It’s so nice actually seeing it from a height vs just in pictures lol
Very captivating video as well as informational, fantastic cinematography mate! Music as well superb, I subbed 👍
The New Madrid earthquakes was one of the biggest Earthquakes in the contiguous Untied States in recent history. The magnitude of the December 16, 1811, event ranged from M6.7 to M8.1, whereas the ranges for the earthquakes of January 23 and February 7, 1812, were M6.8-M7.8 and M7.0-M8.8, respectively. In Alaska on March 27, 1964 at 5:36 PM local time, a M9. 2 earthquake rocked the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. The San Andreas still has the potential to beat it's M7.9 record. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Nice experience thanks - blessings, miracles and immunity
Music was great also!
Thanks Wolficorn, what a joy you must get being able to do that!! Thanks again for sharing your experience with us. I'm Australian; like millions out there, it takes someone special like you who has the ability, means, skill, knowledge and no fear lol of flying plus a considerate and thoughtful manner to additionally share this with us.. May God bless you and continually keep your endeavors safe! You've got my vote and subscription through this. I look forward to seeing your past videos and what you have for us in the future. Bye ;)
I love comments like yours. Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. More cool stuff coming!!
Wow really great video awsome shots of the the terrain and commentary keep it up man!
Well done Bryan - great work! Informative and entertaining .. and you make it all look oh so easy - the mark of someone who really knows his stuff :)
Excellent. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice! Thank you. I would love to go fly this with you sometime and learn more. I love small planes and checking out isolated areas you would never see by car.
This should be shown to Geography students in High School. Brilliant photography put together with easy to understand descriptions. Great job!
thx! actually awhile ago a teacher commented that she was gonna do just that! So cool.
Great video! Thank you very much for posting.
This is an amazing yet powerful piece of the world, truly helped me envision my work on natural disasters, thankyou!!
That was fascinating! Thanks a bunch for sharing
Thank you for your quality video. Was a real treat to watch.
Thank you for doing this video and for sharing it with the world. It was well done.
This was a really cool video. I have never seen the fault line like that. Very impressive and informative.
thx for watching!
I would like this video a whole lot more if I was wearing a black shirt with a Wolficorn logo on it.
Whose with me?????
Seriously! When do we get to buy Wolficorn T-shirts??? I'd be first in line to get one.
@@dennissmith918 Bryan!!!! If you don't start selling them I'm going to lol
@@dennissmith918 he has the best logo in Aviation
I will make this happen soon!!!
@@Wolficorntv I'd wear one.
Only wish it was longer. Great video my man. Wanted to see more.
I stopped at San Juan Bautista just to see a small portion of this fault. I'd love to see this from your view. Thank you for sharing.
Great video... Thx!
Very educational, sorry when it was over. Well done!
Thank you for taking the time out of your day and flying and showing us this ....thank you ...your a awesome person!!!
Thx Joeann! I'm glad you liked it.
That was nice to fly with you over San Andreas fault. I used to hear about it a lot. Now I saw it from above too. Thanks.
Would love to see a video of the area north of Hwy 198 on Hwy 25 towards the Pinnacles . The San Andreas rift zone is visible just east of Hwy 25.
Would like to see one over the Transverse Ranges showing how the fault formed and influences them.
I’m buying property near the fault. The US Government will pay me to live there.
Absolutely incredible video... Hope you enjoyed your stay in Texas.
Your videos are incredible and mesmerizing. Please continue doing these.
Thanks Brandon!!! Glad you're enjoying them. I've got some cool projects in the works. Stay tuned!
Thanx, much appreciated for the interesting and rare views as well as flying with you. Very educational. God bless. Need more of this!
Really interesting video.
Great job!
Very nice wideo Wolficorn! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is honestly amazing- best video on RUclips
I have always been interested in the San Andres fault and wonder what it would look like from the air. Thanks to your video, I have a better idea of what it looks like from the air and also I have a better understanding of it’s geographical location.
Thank you.
Wonderful, thanks! Any plans to fly more of the San Andreas fault segments that are visible at the surface?
Thx Dan! It's not it my plans now. i've got some other ideas to explore, but you never know!
Man this video is amazing. What an awesome view, I hope it never gets old for you
Excellent choice of music!
Visuals were breathtaking!
Thank you!
Excellent video - shots, editing music, storytelling. Most enganging and informative.
As somebody from EU with a totally different landscape this is really interesting to see. Great video. Crazy to think how Earthquakes are a legit danger for certain areas while mine for example nobody ever really experienced one.
Also interesting to see the San Andreas Fault with the current Apple Fires situation happening.
What was really crazy was the morning that I released this video (Friday) we had a 4.2 earthquake wake us up and the epicenter was right where my airport is!
Very cool mini-documentary. I definitely learned something new. Keep recording sir!
Glad you liked it! I have some other similar projects I plan to shoot whenever I get the time
Great job of putting it in perspective.
"It only moves when an earthquake occurs" - no, an earthquake occurs when it moves.
Very interesting. Next time you fly over the faults, film the fires!
Excellent post. Really enjoyed it.
Really appreciate..... Greatful for your contributions.
1:46 "and while it only moves when an earthquake occurs..." I would say the opposite is true, it moves and an earthquake occurs.
Lots of opinions out there concerning this.
Yeah, that is the quake.
@@Wolficorntv what opinions? It is common knowledge that earthquakes are generated due to movement of faults
@@partha1331 I didn't make it up...it appeared in my research before making this video. The earthquake is the release of energy from the built-up tension because there is no movement. There is a ting called aseismic creep where some movement sloooooooooowly occurs along some faultlines.
@@Wolficorntv job well done!
Arguing with these folks doesn't matter. Keep up the great work💯💯
Mother nature she had an awsome power nothing on this earth can be match with her or win over her. We human must respected her.
What a great video. Came across the video absolutely by chance, thoroughly enjoy this so much 👍
Awesome. Glad you found me!
I've been looking for something like this for years. Glad you decided to do this.
More to come!