My step mother’s father was a geologist who was a member of one of the teams that put together the risk analysis for a potential Cascadia subduction zone quake. The historical record uncovered and the implications for present day danger were so alarming that he not only left the Pacific Northwest, he moved to Europe and never came back.
Well, sad to say with what I've seen and researched, technically no where is always 100% safe with the deformed cratons interconnected faults. Hope it wasn't Britain or Ireland, probably never heard of the marian visions that talk about that and other major geo events. For st Patrick's promise, Ireland is gonna sink never to rise again, Britain goes under and comes back up. Note its geologically, its sandwiched between two can be bad faults, and yes the ancient Somerset beach one that goes through Mann's is back online now.
I live in Chile. I'm old enough to have lived through 2 major ones and an infinite number of smaller ones. (Though I wasn't born for the big 1960 one). Our major ones have a tendency to shift the earth's axis .... it happened in 2010 when we had a rather big 8.8 one.
i live in arizona. as long as you can survive the summer heat this place is nice and calm. we dont really have major life ending events like earth quakes, hurricanes, or tornados luckily. (we do get earthquakes and tornadoes but so small and so remote they dont cause much problem besides being exciting to hear about)
Seattleite here. You missed two things: 1) We DO get earthquakes on a somewhat regular basis that can wake us up or shatter the odd window. 2) A 9.2 will have enough force to loosen the glaciers on Mt Rainier, if not awaken it or one of its brethren. Don't worry, it's worse than you think.
The volcanoes here are plenty worrying, but that north american plate that's doing all the compressing also includes yellowstone. Who knows what suddenly gaining an inch or two of breathing room will do out there?
@@Trygon Those are very different places with very different processes going on. To my knowledge, the magma deep under the Yellowstone region is not being held there by geologic tension which a west coast earthquake, however large, could snap open.
Once upon a time on Vancouver Island I went to see the first Disney starwars film with my mom. 1/3 into the movie there was an earthquake, probably a 3-4 on the scale. Everyone started standing up, putting their snacks down and kind of just waiting to see if there was more to come. My mother - Bless her heart - thought it was some kind of movie effect and didn't notice everyone standing because she was so engrossed in the movie. She looked up at me and just whispered 'that was so cool! How did they do that?!'. She was stunned when I told her it was an earthquake. So funny looking back.
Chilean here, I just wanted to say that we are lucky to have earthquakes so often (like with 15~20 years of difference), because that way we are forced to have better quality of buildings and houses, most of old houses in Chile can't survive the quakes, so the ones that are standing right now have been proved by the circumstances.
Also, if you have smaller earthquakes often, it releases the pressure when its managable instead of giving you a single massive quake every couple thousand years.
@@Markle2k True, but imagine if the fault in chile was like the one in the video, where the pressure just builds up quietly for ages until it all goes off at once.
Hell even some of the old houses in Chile are built like bunkers. Many have survived over 7 large earthquakes (7.0+) by now and are still standing. And the earthquake culture in Chile is very unique. People there know how to respond to disasters. All Chileans have a built-in seismometer at this point, and they'll only take cover when they feel the quake is anything over a magnitude 7.5. And all Chileans now instinctively know to evacuate the coast and head for the hills after every major quake. This is why Chile is one of the only countries in the world that can brush off magnitude 7.5 - 8.5 quakes like it is nothing. If the quakes Chile gets hit anywhere else on Earth, then they would cripple that nation and the economy.
In the early 80s I stayed with someone who had a ranch that the San Andreas fault ran through. Some people showed up from (as I recall) a university. They placed measuring devices into the fault line, then quit for lunch. When they returned they tried to remove one of the devices and they could not get it out of the ground. In about 90 minutes the plate had moved enough to trap some of their equipment. I saw that with my own eyes. They were pretty stimulated about the amount of movement in that short time. The ranch owner is dead and now I’m old, but I sure remember that. It took place in December 1981.
I lived in Anchorage when was 7 years old and the 1964 Good Friday earthquake hit. Although there were no earthquake meters at the time, I've seen estimates of it being anywhere between a 9.2 t0 9.5 earthquake. It was terrifying. To this day, I (and anyone else I've met who lived through it) cannot speak of it without crying. I was in Seattle during the 6.8 Nisqually earthquake in 2001. It was nothing compared to the Good Friday earthquake. At 6.8, the Nisqually earthquake made the ground feel like a gentle rolling wave with the sound of thunder coming from underground. It lasted for less than one minute. The Good Friday earthquake made the ground shift violently back and forth with so much force that everyone standing outside fell to the ground, only to stand back up and then be hurled to the ground in another few seconds. It lasted for 4.5 minutes, but felt like it went on forever. My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over. I don't remember sounds besides people screaming and houses sounding like they were pulling apart. As a young girl scout, I remember our troop was on a guided walk in a State forest. The forester pointed out that the trail we were walking was directly over the fault of the Good Friday earthquake. She pointed out a tree that had grown directly over the fault line. The tree, still upright, had been ripped in half with one half located about 15 ft. from the other half. To this day, the memory of that sight is still mind-bending. I recognize the photo of downtown Anchorage shown in the video. My father went into town a few days after the quake and took a movie of Anchorage's streets. We watched those films regularly. My dad was an air force pilot and flew over Valdez on a reconnaissance mission. From the air, he took a movie of the port, the wrecked docks, the large ships sitting atop crushed homes, and washed out roads. We watched that movie regularly, too. As an adult in Seattle, I discovered that my neighbor had lived in a community near Valdez that was not as affected by the tsunami. All of her friends in Valdez perished. Many years later, my mother told us that my father always slept with his boots on for the next year or so after the earthquake. Now living in the Seattle area, I have always made my housing choices based on staying out of tsunami range and knowing the geology of the area I live in (to minimize impacts from earth movement). I do enjoy going out to the coast now and then but must admit a certain nervousness until I get back to safer ground.
"My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over." --- Trying to visualize this in my mind was far creepier than I would have expected.
My dad was in a harbour down in North Island, New Zealand, standing next to his dinghy which was pulled up on the sand at the low water mark ( which was about 100 Mtrs from high water, in that narrow shallow bay ), cutting up some fish he had caught. And the tsunami from that quake got to him. With no noise, the water just rose up, with a walking speed remorselessness about it. He grabbed onto the side of the boat, and was lifted off his feet and climbed aboard, turned round and looked and the ocean was forcing into the harbour. Out by the harbour mouth it was already at high water mark ( which meant that the water level had risen 3 mtrs or so, about 10 feet ) , and further in the harbour was a noticeable bulge which was the water building up as it forced into the narrow part of the harbour. He was raced faster and faster up the harbour, and was lifted above the mangroves and then the water went back out, leaving his dinghy sitting in a cow pasture that is about 9 feet above high water mark. It wasn't a significant tsunami in most other places in NZ, that harbour often has heavy effects because of how the Island it is on relates to the structure of the large body of water between it and the mainland. Water presses down between Great Barrier Island and the Mainland, and forces up the narrow harbours on the West side of the Island.
I attended a training session about disaster preparedness held near Everett, WA about 20 years ago. One of the local USGS geologists was a presenter. He said we need to have our emergency preps stored well away from buildings and buried (with lid access) to protect them from earthquake damage so we could actually retrieve them when we need them. He said we will need them and our buildings/homes aren't likely to be standing to get our preps from inside. He said our go bags needed to be kept next to the door we will be exiting through. Very chilling to listen to how he, personally, was preparing for such a recently discovered threat. I have been prepping since Mt. St. Helen's blew, myself, so the concept of prepping wasn't new to me. It pretty much was to everyone else there. I live about 15 miles EAST of I-5 and avoid WEST of it like the plague.
@@libbylee9722 it actually does help. The Nisqually quake barely registered where I am. I realize the big one will still be nasty 15 miles east of I5, but it won't be anywhere near as deadly.
Geological engineer here. Wood frame residential homes do quite well in earthquakes actually, usually with just minor damage. If you're in a multi-story multi-family structure you might be slightly concerned about the buildings performance, and if in an old URM building I would want to stay close to the exit if possible. Those could be damaged catastrophically in Portland and Seattle.
Im west of I5 but im in the country on 40 acres.....anyone in or near a decent sized city is already toast.....i could go a year with no trips to town can you??
One element of my job is to ensure corporate data survivability by backing up data at redundant, geographically seperated data centers. While inspecting one San Francisco firm, we discovered they had no redundant data backup. When I enquired, the VP rolled his eyes at me and said " Ive heard [earthquake] predictions all my life, but other than a small tremor here and there, there hasnt been ANYTHING to worry about!" This is the problem. People have no frame of reference. They think it wont happen because it hasnt yet happened to THEM.
In California the San Andreas releases frequently, Cascadia not very much. This has lead California to build accordingly. Up north they haven't been building to withstand earthquakes, so the damage will be catastrophic!!
"I've never had a house fire so why should I bother with smoke detectors?" It's like the folks who move back to an area after a "100 year flood" thinking that they're safe for another century, as another 100 year flood is a long way off. Predictions, whether of the likelihood a major Cascadia quake or flood events are based on historical data. They paint in broad strokes a rough timeframe in which we can expect a major disaster and, if we're smart, plan to mitigate the results. With climate and ocean currents showing rapid change, I think a lot of weather algorythms are going to have a hard time keeping up, as the historical data of centuries may have lost its predictive value. But it's our nature as human beings to become complacent, either through never experiencing a natural disaster or, perversely, having survived one and operating under the assumption of random immunity from another.
My dad is Alaskan and survived the 1964 quake, but lost several friends. He moved to Europe when he was 20 and this was partially motivated by that earthquake he and his family barely survived.
@@hpinchen9451 I read something about the risk of it's next erruption being a super one is rather low. Yes, it will cause destruction but it won't wipe Italy off the map. Still happy to not live in Naples. They don't have a plan how they'd evacuate the city in case of even a minor eruption and it has around 3 million citizen living in Naples.
@@hpinchen9451 The Phlegraean Fields aren't a super volcano and it's extremely unlikely that it will have any form of widespread devastating. It can potentially have a new caldera-forming eruption, specifically around the Pozzuoli port but even that can potentially be thousands of years away.
I currently live in this Cascadia zone. It’s scary how many people don’t take this possibility seriously. I plan to move inland soon and can’t wait as this has been a huge source of anxiety and nightmares for me.
I have a couple relatives in Seattle. They don't seem to be interested at all in what could happen. I live in big tornado country(North Alabama). But tornados can be forecast, and I can go to a shelter(we have amazing public shelters here, that can withstand an F5). You never know when an earthquake will hit, and if you survive the earthquake, how long do you have before the tsunami? I'd move away as fast as I could.
@Paul Wheeler I hate Don Lemon lol. Not everyone who hates Trump is a liberal. Of course Obama had scandals, he's a president. Every single one has had scandals. W Bush, Trump, and Clinton's were more scandalous presidents though.
Has anyone else been binge watching these videos? I’ve been stuck watching/listening to them every day for hours on end, mainly listening to them at work. So addicting.
As a geologist living near San Francisco, both the Cascadia and San Andreas Fault Systems are of great concern to me, not only for major earthquakes but for huge tsunamis. It always fascinates, and dismays, me that surveys of factors considered of importance to potential home buyers, the first priority is “view”, the last priority is “geologic safety”. Even though the most modest “entry level” home starts at about $1.5 million where I live, buyers can’t be bothered to get a geologic report, or even read the ones that have already been done for the specific property. Then when their houses fall down, they go around shouting “why didn’t anyone tell me?!” Nor do very many buy earthquake insurance, it’s really expensive and only pays 75% of the value of the home. I can’t afford it myself.
The San Andreas is unlikely to produce any significant tsunami because it's located almost entirely on land and it's not a thrust fault, so there would be minimal vertical change to the sea floor
People in California are insane. Why do they build houses on steep hills, with no foundation, propped up on stilts? Those hills are prone to landslides, whether there's an earthquake or not. They're little more than sand dunes. Worst of all, the houses are built on narrow, winding streets, where it's nearly impossible to drive fire engines. Those hills are also prone to fires, caused by the Santa Anna Winds, and nearly impossible to fight (See documentary, "Design for Disaster"). As far as earthquakes go, I'd be far more concerned about the Mississippi River valley. The New Madrid Fault caused a series of big earthquakes, during the winter of 1811-1812. No one knows the exact magnitude, but it was estimated around 8. If something that big should happen again, cities like St. Louis and Memphis would be destroyed. They're not ready for it. Neither is Charleston, S.C. They had a big one (August 31, 1886). They're due for another. There shall be earthquakes, in divers places. Can you imagine an Alaska-sized earthquake hitting Toronto or Miami?
I actually worked in the FEMA Cascadia table top exercise. This is where experts in their respective fields estimated the damages, and how quickly emergency crews could respond, also, how long it would take to recover. Everything this video says is exactly what the exercise determined. I was part of the Portland portion. In Portland, the downtown area will be subject to liquifaction. Buildings that are brick will of course, simply fall apart, everything else will sink into what will turn into quicksand. There will be bridges still standing, but the approaches will have been sunk. I-5 will be impassable. The Portland Airport will be unusable as it is also built on soil that is subject to liquefaction. Of course the dams on the Columbia will have failed, meaning flooding and total loss of power from that source. Railroads will also have failed, as their bridges will have been destroyed, and parts of the lines will also suffer sinking as they are next to the Columbia, Willamette, and other rivers. So, evacuating millions of people will not be possible, via North/South routes.. What about East (West will also be impossible as that is closer to the fault and will totally have been wiped out.). Well, guess what, there is no viable route East. How about long term? PGE Engineers said that power would take about 3 years to bring back. So, even if water and sewer lines had not been broken (which of course they will have been totaled) no pumping could take place. People will be stuck, no way to get in to deliver aid, no way for them to leave. Remember that 3 day emergency supply you are supposed to have?? Won't do you any good.
@@juliebraden Actually, since there is no real escape, I think that it will be a bit of the lord of the flies situation. Again, when there is no power, there will be no water as the water system requires power to pump water up into those water towers. The same thing with the sewer system, it requires power and water to pump sewage through the plants. (Of course, it can and does spill over into the rivers. Thus depriving folks of that source of fresh water.) The deaths that happened during the earthquake, and tidal wave will be minor in comparison to what happens after. Again, no way in or out for a very long time (Of course there will be trickle, but nothing that will make much of a difference.) Seattle will be in better shape, as they will have sea access, assuming Mt Rainer doesn't erupt because of the earthquake.) The rest of the coast could be OK for the same reason. The Willamette valley will be toast.
@@richj120952 the town of Aurora , OR just dealt w/ that water tower scenario-- from the pwr outtages during ice storm in Oregon Feb 2021 I think. Two other Oregon towns had to lend them generators
@@juliebraden The governments in Oregon and the Willamette Valley have been shorting the safety of their population for many years. Back in Portland, there was a plan to install a freeway from Mt Hood to Portland. Then they took that money and put in their light rail that doesn't really reduce traffic, but they did get a shiny new thing to get the voters to vote them back into office, and in one case into Congress. Traffic is a real mess still. (OK, 2020 reduced it, but it is coming back soon.) That freeway would have provided an East/West exit from the Valley when the Cascadia fault event actually happens.
I received an email from one of our Oregon state senators a few years after the New Zealand quake that said this same thing. He said we all better be prepared for at least 3 weeks because we were on our own for at LEAST that long. That the state would not be coming to help us because the state would not be ABLE to help us if the quake is as big as they expect it to be. And that things like flooding, liquefaction & damage to the infrastructure would make travel to affected areas dangerous if not impossible. It basically said to expect help from no one but yourself & encouraged people to make a earthquake plan together with close neighbors. It was not a reassuring email. But I put together a good emergency kit after that. Now after watching this, I think I better update that kit. ASAP. I'm sure most of the food, water & medicine are expired. It's easy to get complacent & time goes by so quickly .. but if we aren't prepared, we won't stand a chance of surviving at all. This was seriously the wrong video to watch right before bed.
Dear Simon! How are you? My name is Orestis Dionyssios Vonk. I am half Dutch half Greek. Mother is Greek and my father is Dutch. I live in the Greek island of Zakynthos (very famous by a lot of your drunk fellow countrymen 😜) this island wat hit by a huge earthquake in August 1953 . Also the neighbouring islands of Kefalonia and Itaka (island of Odyssey) tens of thousands of people lost there homes. Honderds died and thousand left for other countries for a beter life! 90% of the infrastructure of these islands was destroyed. The British navy was the first one to help people (thank you for that!) like my grandfather and mother (my mother was born one year after that). It’s a very unknown story in Europe and the world. Yet it was a huge disaster for people who had just suffer: A Nazi Germany and Italian occupation and a Greek civil war! I always watch your videos. I have learnt so much from you (thank you for that too :) I really hope that you want to look in to this subject!
I live in Greece, a relatively earthquake-prone country, and I've been laughing at my German mother for being afraid of them. I need to go apologise. Maybe get her some flowers too. Or a hardhat.
Coming from someone who's lived my entire life in the pacific northwest, you shouldn't live here without an emergency plans for natural disasters earthquakes or not. If it's not an earthquake it'll be a savage wildfire. Either way you don't want to wait until it's happening to figure out what you're gonna do.
Even if you don't live to see any earthquake, you need to have some cash, food, water, supplies (including for pets) and personal items (meds, documents, etc.)... My extended family didn't lose anything in the earthquakes or snowstorms or anything but there have been two families that lost their houses in fires, and people have lost jobs or lost family members who were the breadwinners. Having supplies buys you time. My best friend's house burned down and they couldn't go back in, and they had to get a hotel room paid for by the red cross, but they didn't have any food or cooking tools, or hygiene stuff or anything. I mean nary a granola bar. Like it just sets you up for cascading failures. How are they supposed to go to work if they can't get their work clothes? Or if the clothes burned up in the fire? What if they can't buy new clothes because they had to spend their money on cookware and food? What if their car keys were in the house and burned up? What if the hotel doesn't accept their pets? Etc. Do yourself a favor!
*especially if you live in an apartment. I'm really worried my idiot neighbors are going to shoot one of us through the wall or light the place on fire
You cant really plan for something like cascadia tho. Even fema's plan starts off with the assumption that everything west of interstate 5 is destroyed. If you live in a tsunami area what can you do beside run to higher ground? I think people should have emergency food and water but in the case of this type of earthquake that isnt going to help you.
I know, its foggy nearly every damn day. I don't think you see the sun down there. We used to go to Reedsport all the time to fish druing the summer. It was always foggy or low clouds.
Simon, your timing is atrocious, this video would have been entertainingly scary in 2012 but now it's apocalyptically horrifying in 2020. Keep up the good work, now I have to make my Fallout shelter float now.
I can still remember learning about the Cascadia megaquake back in 2016, when it was exactly halfway between "entertainingly scary" and "apocalyptically horrifying".
I’m almost viewing it as a ray of hope. A clean sweep, people get back to what’s important instead of what one self described “billionaire” says should be
1982, my ship pulled into a harbor on Talcauno, Chile. The harbor bottom was about 50 feet deep. NOW, THERE IS NO HARBOR AND THAT AREA IS NOW NEAR SEA LEVEL.
2020: August: Cascadia Fault earthquake September: Yellowstone supervolcano eruption October: Nuclear war November: Earth gets hit by an asteroid strike December: Aliens attack
It's really nice to hear the oral histories treated as useful records of past events. Growing up in the PNW, it sometimes feels like local history begins in the 1800s and everything before that just gets relegated to a very impersonal archaeology.
@@darylb5564 True. The scientists got only the approximate year based on the carbon and tree ring dating, and the exact date and time came from the detailed tsunami records written by the Japanese. The oral legends definitely supplemented their research though.
That goes right across the USA. I recently got a book from my library about pre-USA history of the Americas. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the right head-space to actually read it, but I hope to soon. There were an estimated 50 - 80 MILLION natives died by being hunted, starved, frozen, or from disease brought by Europeans.
A friend in my university days spent several summers examining coastal deposits in Oregon and found area after area that have been tilted and then falling back level over and over, showing that as the subduction zone pressure builds sections of the crust along the coast tilt from the pressure and then when a big quake hits the slabs of crust drop back to level, which complicates a quake because while the ground is shaking it's also tilting.
Honestly that's also through oral tradition so maybe it evolved into that haha. Could be ancient mortal kombat fans talking about raiden vs shang tsung It's odd though, all the oral tradition I've been involved with its be really difficult to talk and tell stories
In Oregon, this earthquake is pounded into our heads via school. They basically tell us "yeah there is an earth quake that's supposed to come every 300 years, but it's late and can come anytime. So let's hope we don't dir
I realize this may be a bit trite by now, it seems to be quite good advise " To live as if every day is the last." Our future is not assured, just think hard about this Covid 19 situation.
@@edwardo2518 I am "thinking hard" about the Covid situation. Look at the death toll compared to 2019. You are being lied to. Hopefully this is good news to you.
@@jasoncole2876 In the beginning the MSM quoted that if no precaution was taken 2.2 million people would die and if precaution was taken 1.2 million would die in the U.S. How people forget news from one day to the next day.
In Portland, we say "if the ground shakes, look to the mountain." Not only is Cascadia due, but so is Mount Hood erupting. So either quake or volcano eruption, your pick.
@@vjs4539 nice to know you're totally okay with the death 46 million people just because 40% of them don't follow the same political ideology as you. Few people are aware that only 43% of registered voters in California are Democrats, 40% in Washington, and only 34% in Oregon. I mean, we do have like 8-10 parties, not just two, but hey, killing tens of millions to wipe out a few Democrats... I sure hope you don't believe in a deity, because it'll be really awkward to explain your reasons for writing that comment when it's brought up against you in the afterlife.
I remember one earthquake. I was babysitting my neighbors chickens and one day after I was there for an hour, they all squated down spreding thier wings down on each side while I grabbed a tree and hung on. Lasted @ 5 minutes but I was thrilled by the experiance. Kudos to the chickens for the warning.
. repent know Jesus/God, everyone. your eternal soul with Him.. is your name written in the Lamb's book of life. That is the list of possible place to retire for eternity.
@@brandonbam1 revere God /know Jesus.. take Him where ever you go..He knew you, yet while you knit in your mother's womb He cares for you. Jesus is Lord of all
@dotdotdashed I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would nappen if healthcare became unavailable... hence the mask mandates and the distancing stuff many people don't want to follow
@Alex Evans bro, 1 in 100 is still alot of people, thats 3.6 million in the US alone, doesnt sound like much but if you went to a school with 200 students 2 of them will die, 20 in a school of 2000, and on and on and on, just cause "well a lot of people aren't dying" doesn't mean you're right oh and you are just objectively wrong about the "why aren't more rural Chinese people dying than westerners" as even if China was trust able, which they aren't, unless Chinese people have a gene that stops them dying from pneumonia that no one else has, which they don't, then they'd dying at a much higher rate, now does that make sense?
@Alex Evans UK, that’s my point, anyone who is saying they have the same death rate as a western countries whilst also not having as good healthcare is lying They are running out of ventilators world wide as the cases spiked the ventilation manufacturing was already at 100% And the school analogy still works, still 1 in 100 people be it 1 in 100 colleagues or 1 in 100 peers, it’s just a way to put it in perspective
I live 20mins outside Spokane, Washington and we had a very weak 2.7 tremor the other day. They happen once in a while in Eastern Washington, but usually so weak that we don't feel anything. Just like the one from the other day.
Living in Oregon all my life, there's this funny comfort and discomfort people have. East coast, you get hurricanes and giant snowstorms, further west you get tornadoes and more snowstorms, down in Cali it's earthquakes and fires all the time, but here in the PNW it's always quiet. It just rains a lot. But there's that looming idea that one of these days, one of those volcanoes are gonna go off again or that that big earthquake is gonna hit and everything is gonna go tits up immediately. I'd rather take this than dealing with a new hurricane ever year honestly.
Lived in Florida my whole life and while we do get hurricanes, at least they come with a few day's notice. Unlike an earthquake, I won't be waking up at a new address.
As a Californian that lives between the San Andreas and Hayward Faults, I keep my dishes in the lower kitchen cabinets and the Tupperware up above. Oh, and a helmet and swim fins close at hand.
good luck with the swim fins. Though you probably needn't be worried about a tsunami anyway. They're terrifying, but if you live a few miles inland or up, no worries at all.
Can say that I've felt two good ones 3-4 on the scale on Vancouver island, notably my high school English teacher tossed us away from our desks so she could hide under it for us. That was the one that damaged some buildings in Washington state that year some time around 2003. the second one was while I was in college and it felt like some one dropped a fridge on our house, woke up my room mate who said it was like a bell ringing through the basement off the bedrock. You feel em or hear them.
My mom was in Alaska during the 64’ quake, she was 11 years old living in anchorage. She said it seemed to thrash her around for what felt like forever even tho it only lasted 5 minutes. Lol “only” that’s a long time for a earthquake.
Minutes turn to hours during a life threatening event. Interesting how that happens, not that I desire time change by life threatening events, not at all.
Growing up in California I've felt my fair share of earthquakes, some that were even pretty scary (though I did sleep through the Northridge Quake in '94) a 5 minute Earthquake is TERRIFYING. I can't even imagine what that would be like. A quake that lasts longer than two seconds is enough to frighten you. 5 minutes? That's 300 seconds of what would be severe shaking. Anyone that's dealt with earthquakes before know that is no joke at all.
I was taking a Physical Geology class during the Diablo Canyon demonstrations. I remember the professor saying that he wasn't a political animal, but the idea of building nuclear reactors in that area was insane. He also liked showing slides of houses perched on cliffs in California and estimating how long it would be before the occupants woke up in the ocean.
NEVER trust a professor. PARTICULARLY in California!!! Commies all. BUT........ Houses built on ocean cliffs all along the west coast from mexico into canada........DO seem to be eternally ASKING FOR IT. Hope they're all liberals.
@@dudeanderson2401 what's wrong with her is she's fed up to bloody hell with idiotic commieliberals destroying everything they touch & running out of California because they can't discern a scamming lying politician to save their lives & then repeat the insanity in the new state they move to!
@@MsLiberty101 "commieliberals running everything" I see you've been brain washed well, just like those commies you hate. Never understood how ya'll could see everything wrong with the other parties but not your own. They all suck ass and are ruining America buddy. The common people need to stop in fighting and demand better from your government.
One thing everyone forgets in the scenario, is Mt. Rainier. At the very minimum, you will have avalanches coming at you at frightening speeds. If you have deep shaking, it could affect the volcano itself.
Great video, Simon. I watch this over and over. At the end, you said, " I won't ask if you enjoyed this..." of course I enjoyed it, man. It is scary and stimulating and causes a release of dopamine, the reason for everything. You are the best, Simon.
2001 quake in Washington State i was in a large warehouse working. I lay under my work bench watching a huge concrete floor roll as if it were water, it didn't crack, it didn't break, it didn't crumble. It rolled. I remember being fascinated by this, I was waiting for it to fall apart but it just rolled wave after wave.
In that quake, but in Oregon, my desk was right next to a giant glass window. Everyone in the office came running to see what was shaking the building. Being from California, I said it’s an earthquake. Everyone started telling me no it wasn’t, and continued to stand at the glass window. I didn’t even have room to move backward to get under my desk with the crowd of people surrounding me. I’m glad it was strong enough to endure.
I was working at a plant in Auburn that day and my office was maybe 15 steps from the front door. I didn't follow the protocol at all and ran outside. Seeing the parking lot rolling like that was something I don't want to see again.
I am a land surveyor and civil engineer in Western Oregon near Salem. I have discussed 'the big one' with many people, and I am constantly astounded at how little people know about it. Most of the people have never even heard of it, and if you discuss it, most think that you are a crazy conspiracy theorist. That's because 'the big one' is almost never in the news.
I live in Portland. Everyone I know has heard about it. But most dismiss it as implausible or not serious. My mother is extremely stressed about it, to the point where she wants to live in a car, rather than stay in an apartment. I have to remind her that newer construction is earthquake resistant and if she lives in her car, she’s have to deal with the fires that start as a result of the quake and she’ll get squashed by falling trees and debris, not to mention the earth swallowing her whole. I think about it enough to know I should have real estate investments in a safe location. And live away from the epicenter.
I grew up on the coast of Washington just south of Victoria BC. Learning about the "big one" coming absolutely terrified me as a teen. I've now moved eastward to a town just south of Vancouver BC 😅 right on the I5. Still not quite far away enough to be in the clear, but much better odds and definitely on higher ground.
@Plant Ster Poor you! You want to experience an earthquake for real? Go to Indonesia, Japan, Alaska or South America. They are increasing in size and frequency. Sheer terror.
I was born and raised on the west coast, over 68 years ago, and I've felt my share of sizable quakes including the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in the Bay Area. While we were all aware of the San Andreas fault, little was taught in the schools about the Cascadia subduction zone. Only many years later as a tour bus driver around the Grand Canyon area did I begin to really study geology, and understand what power the movements of tectonic plates have. The Richter scale is inadequate to describe the devastation.
@@Markle2k Yes, I've read quite a bit about it since; many had thought that buried trees found were evidence of eruptions from Mount Rainier, until they studied further and discovered that the trees were felled (and buried) from seaward, not landward.
I wanna say it was 2015 when a huge article about the Cascadia quake was making waves, and as someone who was living in Seattle at the time, I went full into research mode. They have a lot of information available about landslide risks, liquifaction risks, where the shaking has historically been the strongest, and a large (but not comprehensive) record of at-risk buildings - it was very nice to have. Weirdly, they also have a worst-case scenario that they describe, but it's not a 9.2 Cascadia quake, but rather a much smaller 6 or so on the more shallow Seattle fault line, specifically during a soccer match. It was still scary, but helped me sleep at night a little better. Wish my new city had such comprehensive resources.
Oh Simon, you forgot the cherry on the apocalyptic sundae: there are a bunch of volcanos along the PNW coast as well. After the earthquake, tsunami and fire, Mt Rainier and the other pointy mountains in the region could erupt, causing not only ash clouds, but massive lahars that will flood the cities from the east. Seriously, you weren’t kidding when you said it would be the largest disaster the US has ever witnessed. But, let’s not tempt 2020 by giving it anymore ideas, eh?
And it’s likely all the volcanoes from Mt Lassen in California north to Mount Meager in British Columbia are fed by the melted rock from the subduction zone, so add multiple volcanic eruptions to the mega quake and tsunami.
Ah yes, Lahars, the psycho brother of landslides and pyroclastic flows, literally boiling meltwater mixed with mud that instantly turns to concrete when it stops moving.
Yep so if anyone wants to see Crater lake in the near future your odds run down of it not being there the way it is now. I always find it odd they call it a Crater, its a caldera. Beautiful Skiing on Shasta gone, and maybe even Mt. St Helens will go again.
@@chrisduitsman2918 No, not necessarily. The subduction quakes we've had, like the Japan quake did not trigger any volcanic activity. The only time this would happen would be if a volcano was already ready to blow prior to the earthquake. Mount St. Helens could perhaps erupt because it has been somewhat active, the rest of the series likely would not.
I am in Port Orchard and have already experienced a 9.2 earthquake...the 1964 Great Alaska quake. You cannot even imagine the power of the earth moving for 5 minutes. Back then the population was low. We had very few tall buildings. The J.C. Penny's building had just opened. It had three stories and was totally devastated. I have no money to move, but am always prepared for an earthquake! I would move if I was you.
I won't discourage you there, this won't get better or go away but I won't HAARP on it here so everyone doesn't get conCERNEd, I hope you know what that means, all I can do is hope.
"If you live in the PNW you've probably never experienced a 4.0 quake". Me distinctly remembering my house violently shaking a few months ago from a 6.5 magnitude quake...And there's been two 4.0 quakes in the last 3 days.
"71,000, as many will run to the hills".... I think you forget how absolutely moronic some people in America can be.... We'd rather stand there and take a selfie.
A scary good one Simon, well done! Btw, u were born to do this job. Ur skills as a storyteller n narrator r superb. Keep it going my friend, there r many who try this but few out in the world as good as you! 😊
The lack of communicating potential dangers in your area regardless wherever you live is a danger in itself and is unacceptable as a good citizen to your community
I'm curious though..I'm from Santa Barbara, it's right on the coast but our beaches face south, not west, and the channel islands a few miles offshore run the length of town and block most offshore weather.. would we be safe?
I live in Seattle, so this is a common topic. A careful review of our bridges has made it virtually certain that at least 300 will fail when the earthquake hits, presuming a mere 9.0 magnitude. This includes total collapse of the interstate 5 bridge at the border of Oregon and Washington, effectively cutting off western Washington from the world, except through it's two mountain passes that cross the Cascades. The bridge problem is a very serious one. Few people care though, because it hasn't happened yet.
@@skystriker1238 Good point and a lot of people are leaving alredy(for some reasons),but it's the 4-5th largest egonomy(if California was a state)fallout would be"unpleasant"to put it lightly.
I live in Western WA. Grew up just west of Olympia. The Nisqually quake might not be the biggest thing out there, but at 11 years old, it was a huge deal, and my only first hand experience. We were in school that day. There were two emergency drills that day; one was a lock down, other was fire. Coming in from the fire drill I remember saying something like "what's next, an earthquake drill". Seemed like 5 minutes later, but the earthquake was no drill. Mostly brick school took a fair bit of damage but nothing fell. Mom worked at the school, so me and my sister were home pretty quickly. House was fine other than the 500 gallon propane tank on its side. There were a couple aftershocks, the biggest of which I slept through. Woke up with my bookcase on the bed lol. I think that event as a whole sparked something in me, because to this day I love natural disasters. Not the deaths... that would be horrible. But the intense and raw nature is a big rush for me. Been through a tornados in the midwest (minor but it came right through the back yard) and even though I was old enough to know better, I would have been out playing in it if my mom didn't have a hold on me like Thanos holding his gauntlet. Floods, windstorms, ice storm...especially when power is out for weeks, I love it.
I hate to break it to you, but Epidimiologist have been waiting about 50 years for a global pandemic to reoccur- it's the long lull that was the surprise...
Wow perfect timing for this… I live in California and we’re dealing with a resurgence of Covid and now I can be reminded about a greater disaster that could happen anytime… Awesome
I live in thousand oaks CA. Last summer we had a large earthquake and it literally felt like my upstairs apartment was swaying up and down like i was on a boat. I yelled out to God and i begged him for mercy. It is a very helpless feeling when you are in your bed and then yhe house is shaking and i live alone, so im scared because honestly i think a big one is coming soon.
When we were planning to move to Washington state, I checked USGS for sea level changes and projections. I was happy ( at the time) to learn our area actually rose 13 inches (sea level dropped) in a hundred years. Great I thought. No flooding concerns. Flood insurance was easy to get. No problem. Now my only comfort is that we've lived a full life...we're 300 meters from a mountain path...but it will probably bury us in trees and dirt on one hand as the water and our house and dock chases us down on the other. Or the 'rona gets us. Or the murder hornets. Most likely it will be heart diseases, but hey, I'm an optimist.
Actually, the rise in land level has to do with the subduction of the Juan de Fuco plate under the North American plate. There is a 'catch' where the plates push against each other, causing the land to bend and rise. Eventually the catch will release, causing a likely 9.0 earthquake. The last one was in 1700. The sea level is not falling!
@@stacywestly64 The western cascades in Washington have risen **30ft** in the last 100 years because of the subduction. (Lesser rises westward) When the big one happens, while the tsunami can't reach Seattle, the drop in land level will cause Puget Sound to fill (permanently) all of Seattle between I-5, Elliot Bay, Downtown, and Boeing Field. An area which up a hundred years ago was tidal mudflats.
Since central America is usually overlooked here it is a bit of our history: ancient mayans believed that the world was divided into quadrants and in each piece a different faction inhabited. At the center was the great city of tikal in Guatemala's rain forest. Beneath it all was a giant crocodile that shaked the earth as it moved. Some tails suggest a turtle that shaked the earth to hide from the crocodile.
I have a BA in History and have found ancient legends has limited value apart from establishing that an event happened at all. The mechanism for the event and its wider impact are almost always unknown to its participants. That being said the genesis of legends across cultural and regional lines describing some common effect is powerful confirmation when the latter observer lays them side by side. Love your channel!
Not to downplay the terrible losses of the earthquakes Simon mentioned, I am always amazed at how many docos forget that the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, (also caused by a subduction earthquake) and the tsunamis which followed, killed over 250,000 people.
@@lemardyc Thanks captain obvious. "ALSO CAUSED BY A SUBDUCTION ZONE."
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I'm a chilean, and as a chilean everytime I see Chile mentioned in anything I get really excited. I lived trough the 8.6 earthquake we had 10 years ago. Not fun at all, really scary.
I live south of Seattle. Can you tell us how your life was affected after the quake 10 years ago and how long it took for life to return to normal?
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@@tudorjason For me personally i didn't know there were aftershocks after an earthquake, so when i learned that we we're going to be having more earthquakes and tremors for a year or so, that left me really scared of using elevators, the subway or being in a high floor. Luckily our country has a very strict construction code, and not many buildings were affected. The reconstruction took only a few years, although some small villages near the coast got almost completely destroyed by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. Also the city that was most affected by the earthquake required military presence and a curfew to stop the looting of stores. For some months no one could travel because there was no gas and the highways were in pretty bad condition. It took like 6 months to go back to normal life, 1 year to stop the aftershocks and a few more years to reconstruct the most affected villages. Fun fact: when such a strong earthquake hits, you can see blue lights in the sky, very similar to lighting but without sound. There are many theories but no one really knows why that is. It felt like the end of the world for a minute.
I live outside of Seattle and we have small earthquakes a couple of times a year. I was woken up at 3am less than a year ago from a 4.2. Most earthquakes here are pretty deep, so we don't have the shaking as they do in southern California, but there is often some shaking like the one that woke me up. I have known about a possible devastating quake since my childhood. I'm sure we're taught about it in elementary school. At schools, we sadly now have active shooter drills as often as earthquake drills. (I teach Washington State History.) The Makah tribe on the farthest western corner of Washington has a fascinating history. They are the whale hunters, actually chasing and killing Orca from giant canoes. There was a Makah village that was unearthed, having been preserved like Pompeii. It was covered by a mudslide after an earthquake.
I lived in Los Angeles for 40 years, and those dogs have got it right. Earthquakes are always preceded by a sudden dropping sensation (about a couple of inches). That allows about half a minute to escape, or to brace yourself in the nearest doorway. Eventually it will become a reflex. If you are in a car, it feels like all 4 tires are going flat; stay in your car.
Dogs detect the pressure wave released by earthquakes, these move much faster than the shear waves and are not always detected by people. Do not take cover in a doorway. This myth is perpetuated by old mud huts, where the doorways had wood and were more sturdy. In modern homes, the doorways are no stronger than the rest of the home. Find something to take cover under, and hold on. Do not try to run outside.
@@SamaelMoneyStein For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received-that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:31
I know this is an old video but the part where Simon says the average person in the northwest has never felt a quake over 4.0 is nuts. I think just about everyone in Oregon and Washington felt the Nisqually Quake of 2001 which was under a 7.0 but was widely felt and occurred for more than a solid minute
I felt the Niqually quake at work in North Vancouver Canada. It was so weird I was on the phone. I was saying to the person on the phone why are the janitors polishing the floors with a mechanical floor polisher. Then I got, wait we have carpet. The vibration got louder. Then things began to shake. My office window popped in and out like a diaphragm. Causing enough persure to blow papers across the desk. Clearly nothing like downtown Nisqually but blowing papers across my desk was interesting to see.
While listing death tolls, an admittedly and literally morbid exercise, you should have listed the worst death toll from a mega-thrust earthquake that generated a massive tsunami, in particular the Dec 26th of 2004 Sumatra Earthquake, a quarter million dead mostly from the tsunami. It ranks among the top 5 in intensity, also over 9. For the record, the scale used is no longer the Richter Scale but the Moment Magnitude scale, although the numbers are similar in size and it is also logarithmic.
@@whoops8412 Definitely. I was teaching a course called "Volcanoes in Human History" and it was particularly macabre. In particular I used clips from various videos and one on Krakatau's 1883 eruption included very good, and thus pretty horrific, injury makeup, but much less intense than the driver's ed videos they see. Fortunately it was a brief clip, and it engendered a lively discussion about human physiology and related topics.
I lived in San Francisco for a long time. Once, when working in a building downtown on the 22nd floor, there was an earthquake. Though "minor", in the range of 3, I felt the building swaying and then worse, a grinding sound, as if it was being gnawed by the buildings on either side. Although all this lasted only about 10 minutes, it seemed very long. Yes, I was scared. It happened again when I worked in the then new Pyramid Building..I was on the 52nd floor. It stood alone so there wasn't a building nextdoor to scrape against -- though I don't know how that would have worked had there been. But it was breathtaking up there feeling it sway. This too didn't last long. I think some smaller buildings were damaged. I was grateful not to have then experienced "the big one", which my colleagues and I had talked about. I then moved to Germany, moved into a house in a small town and felt an earthquake there, where the only visible damage was a crack in a wall. The epicenter was about 10 km away and it had been a minor quake of about 3.
My dad was in college in Oregon when the new cascadia research was being done in the 80s. When it was my turn to go to college in Vancouver BC, moving into those new glass high-rise apartments he said, “You really don’t want to be living here during an earthquake. The whole PNW is almost 100 years overdue for a Big One.” He meant like a 1964 earthquake where we grew up, and personally got a taste of in 2018.
My step mother’s father was a geologist who was a member of one of the teams that put together the risk analysis for a potential Cascadia subduction zone quake. The historical record uncovered and the implications for present day danger were so alarming that he not only left the Pacific Northwest, he moved to Europe and never came back.
Well, sad to say with what I've seen and researched, technically no where is always 100% safe with the deformed cratons interconnected faults. Hope it wasn't Britain or Ireland, probably never heard of the marian visions that talk about that and other major geo events. For st Patrick's promise, Ireland is gonna sink never to rise again, Britain goes under and comes back up. Note its geologically, its sandwiched between two can be bad faults, and yes the ancient Somerset beach one that goes through Mann's is back online now.
Please don't day that, i live in Washington state 😪
id say its a 100% chance before 2030 if not 2027. from my reading. your step mom was smart
I live in Chile. I'm old enough to have lived through 2 major ones and an infinite number of smaller ones. (Though I wasn't born for the big 1960 one). Our major ones have a tendency to shift the earth's axis .... it happened in 2010 when we had a rather big 8.8 one.
i live in arizona. as long as you can survive the summer heat this place is nice and calm. we dont really have major life ending events like earth quakes, hurricanes, or tornados luckily.
(we do get earthquakes and tornadoes but so small and so remote they dont cause much problem besides being exciting to hear about)
Seattleite here. You missed two things:
1) We DO get earthquakes on a somewhat regular basis that can wake us up or shatter the odd window.
2) A 9.2 will have enough force to loosen the glaciers on Mt Rainier, if not awaken it or one of its brethren.
Don't worry, it's worse than you think.
Dude, we get one off haida gwaii almost monthly
The volcanoes here are plenty worrying, but that north american plate that's doing all the compressing also includes yellowstone. Who knows what suddenly gaining an inch or two of breathing room will do out there?
@@Trygon Those are very different places with very different processes going on. To my knowledge, the magma deep under the Yellowstone region is not being held there by geologic tension which a west coast earthquake, however large, could snap open.
Which is why you should make sure your windows aren't odd.
Your earthquakes near Seattle are probably caused by the Seattle fault, and not the Cascadian Mega Thrust.
As someone who digs subway tunnels in Los Angeles for a living, this is concerning to say the least.
MosesMarlboro are they really doing that?
wonder if anybody prospector's are panning out the diggings?
Take a dog to work with you mate.
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Imagine hearing "Fool! You've doomed us all!"
Once upon a time on Vancouver Island I went to see the first Disney starwars film with my mom. 1/3 into the movie there was an earthquake, probably a 3-4 on the scale. Everyone started standing up, putting their snacks down and kind of just waiting to see if there was more to come. My mother - Bless her heart - thought it was some kind of movie effect and didn't notice everyone standing because she was so engrossed in the movie. She looked up at me and just whispered 'that was so cool! How did they do that?!'. She was stunned when I told her it was an earthquake. So funny looking back.
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Chilean here, I just wanted to say that we are lucky to have earthquakes so often (like with 15~20 years of difference), because that way we are forced to have better quality of buildings and houses, most of old houses in Chile can't survive the quakes, so the ones that are standing right now have been proved by the circumstances.
Similar to Japan, I guess.
Also, if you have smaller earthquakes often, it releases the pressure when its managable instead of giving you a single massive quake every couple thousand years.
@@cerwile1 Chile has the largest recorded quake in history and the 6th in Bio-Bio. 9.5 and 8.8 Mo. 1960 and 2010, respectively.
@@Markle2k True, but imagine if the fault in chile was like the one in the video, where the pressure just builds up quietly for ages until it all goes off at once.
Hell even some of the old houses in Chile are built like bunkers. Many have survived over 7 large earthquakes (7.0+) by now and are still standing. And the earthquake culture in Chile is very unique. People there know how to respond to disasters. All Chileans have a built-in seismometer at this point, and they'll only take cover when they feel the quake is anything over a magnitude 7.5. And all Chileans now instinctively know to evacuate the coast and head for the hills after every major quake. This is why Chile is one of the only countries in the world that can brush off magnitude 7.5 - 8.5 quakes like it is nothing. If the quakes Chile gets hit anywhere else on Earth, then they would cripple that nation and the economy.
In the early 80s I stayed with someone who had a ranch that the San Andreas fault ran through. Some people showed up from (as I recall) a university. They placed measuring devices into the fault line, then quit for lunch. When they returned they tried to remove one of the devices and they could not get it out of the ground. In about 90 minutes the plate had moved enough to trap some of their equipment. I saw that with my own eyes. They were pretty stimulated about the amount of movement in that short time.
The ranch owner is dead and now I’m old, but I sure remember that. It took place in December 1981.
Wow. That's an interesting story and info. This thing is inevitable. Thank you for sharing
How interesting. Was that ranch in Parkfield, CA by chance? Great burgers at the Parkfield cafe!
@@Dhobby517 I don’t recall. That was December 1981. I do recall that we were close to Ronald Reagan’s ranch. A look at a map may refresh my memory.
@@Dhobby517 Oxnard.
Yes, these plates involve lots of slow slippage.
I lived in Anchorage when was 7 years old and the 1964 Good Friday earthquake hit. Although there were no earthquake meters at the time, I've seen estimates of it being anywhere between a 9.2 t0 9.5 earthquake. It was terrifying. To this day, I (and anyone else I've met who lived through it) cannot speak of it without crying. I was in Seattle during the 6.8 Nisqually earthquake in 2001. It was nothing compared to the Good Friday earthquake. At 6.8, the Nisqually earthquake made the ground feel like a gentle rolling wave with the sound of thunder coming from underground. It lasted for less than one minute. The Good Friday earthquake made the ground shift violently back and forth with so much force that everyone standing outside fell to the ground, only to stand back up and then be hurled to the ground in another few seconds. It lasted for 4.5 minutes, but felt like it went on forever. My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over. I don't remember sounds besides people screaming and houses sounding like they were pulling apart. As a young girl scout, I remember our troop was on a guided walk in a State forest. The forester pointed out that the trail we were walking was directly over the fault of the Good Friday earthquake. She pointed out a tree that had grown directly over the fault line. The tree, still upright, had been ripped in half with one half located about 15 ft. from the other half. To this day, the memory of that sight is still mind-bending. I recognize the photo of downtown Anchorage shown in the video. My father went into town a few days after the quake and took a movie of Anchorage's streets. We watched those films regularly. My dad was an air force pilot and flew over Valdez on a reconnaissance mission. From the air, he took a movie of the port, the wrecked docks, the large ships sitting atop crushed homes, and washed out roads. We watched that movie regularly, too. As an adult in Seattle, I discovered that my neighbor had lived in a community near Valdez that was not as affected by the tsunami. All of her friends in Valdez perished. Many years later, my mother told us that my father always slept with his boots on for the next year or so after the earthquake. Now living in the Seattle area, I have always made my housing choices based on staying out of tsunami range and knowing the geology of the area I live in (to minimize impacts from earth movement). I do enjoy going out to the coast now and then but must admit a certain nervousness until I get back to safer ground.
fascinating, thanks for sharing
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Holy shit. I cannot believe how terrifying it would've been to live right through that, thank you for sharing! And I hope you're alright nowadays!
"My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over." --- Trying to visualize this in my mind was far creepier than I would have expected.
My dad was in a harbour down in North Island, New Zealand, standing next to his dinghy which was pulled up on the sand at the low water mark ( which was about 100 Mtrs from high water, in that narrow shallow bay ), cutting up some fish he had caught. And the tsunami from that quake got to him.
With no noise, the water just rose up, with a walking speed remorselessness about it. He grabbed onto the side of the boat, and was lifted off his feet and climbed aboard, turned round and looked and the ocean was forcing into the harbour.
Out by the harbour mouth it was already at high water mark ( which meant that the water level had risen 3 mtrs or so, about 10 feet ) , and further in the harbour was a noticeable bulge which was the water building up as it forced into the narrow part of the harbour.
He was raced faster and faster up the harbour, and was lifted above the mangroves and then the water went back out, leaving his dinghy sitting in a cow pasture that is about 9 feet above high water mark.
It wasn't a significant tsunami in most other places in NZ, that harbour often has heavy effects because of how the Island it is on relates to the structure of the large body of water between it and the mainland. Water presses down between Great Barrier Island and the Mainland, and forces up the narrow harbours on the West side of the Island.
I attended a training session about disaster preparedness held near Everett, WA about 20 years ago. One of the local USGS geologists was a presenter. He said we need to have our emergency preps stored well away from buildings and buried (with lid access) to protect them from earthquake damage so we could actually retrieve them when we need them. He said we will need them and our buildings/homes aren't likely to be standing to get our preps from inside. He said our go bags needed to be kept next to the door we will be exiting through. Very chilling to listen to how he, personally, was preparing for such a recently discovered threat. I have been prepping since Mt. St. Helen's blew, myself, so the concept of prepping wasn't new to me. It pretty much was to everyone else there. I live about 15 miles EAST of I-5 and avoid WEST of it like the plague.
I also live about 15 miles east of I-5. Lets be real, 15 miles wont help AT ALL.
@@libbylee9722 it actually does help. The Nisqually quake barely registered where I am. I realize the big one will still be nasty 15 miles east of I5, but it won't be anywhere near as deadly.
Geological engineer here. Wood frame residential homes do quite well in earthquakes actually, usually with just minor damage. If you're in a multi-story multi-family structure you might be slightly concerned about the buildings performance, and if in an old URM building I would want to stay close to the exit if possible. Those could be damaged catastrophically in Portland and Seattle.
Im west of I5 but im in the country on 40 acres.....anyone in or near a decent sized city is already toast.....i could go a year with no trips to town can you??
@@hughjunit2503 I certainly can!
One element of my job is to ensure corporate data survivability by backing up data at redundant, geographically seperated data centers. While inspecting one San Francisco firm, we discovered they had no redundant data backup. When I enquired, the VP rolled his eyes at me and said " Ive heard [earthquake] predictions all my life, but other than a small tremor here and there, there hasnt been ANYTHING to worry about!"
This is the problem. People have no frame of reference. They think it wont happen because it hasnt yet happened to THEM.
We never learn.
Use multiple cloud regions for storing backups.
In California the San Andreas releases frequently, Cascadia not very much. This has lead California to build accordingly. Up north they haven't been building to withstand earthquakes, so the damage will be catastrophic!!
"I've never had a house fire so why should I bother with smoke detectors?" It's like the folks who move back to an area after a "100 year flood" thinking that they're safe for another century, as another 100 year flood is a long way off. Predictions, whether of the likelihood a major Cascadia quake or flood events are based on historical data. They paint in broad strokes a rough timeframe in which we can expect a major disaster and, if we're smart, plan to mitigate the results. With climate and ocean currents showing rapid change, I think a lot of weather algorythms are going to have a hard time keeping up, as the historical data of centuries may have lost its predictive value. But it's our nature as human beings to become complacent, either through never experiencing a natural disaster or, perversely, having survived one and operating under the assumption of random immunity from another.
APAN and CHILI' WHEN CAN THIS GUY "EXPLAIN" HIS EXPERT FINDINGS OF CASCADIA AND CALIFORNIA ? WRONG TITLE TOTALLY !
1:45 - Chapter 1 - The orphan wave
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Shadow of the thunderbird
8:15 - Chapter 3 - The beast below
12:40 - Mid roll ads
13:50 - Chapter 4 - Finding the fault
17:10 - Chapter 5 - Disaster
20:00 - Chapter 6 - Drowning man
Wormwood is coming. Look at the Black Hole Sun on his right..🪐🔴☄🙏🏽🥰
Oh ignition, thank you. All the mythology was eating my soul.
My dad is Alaskan and survived the 1964 quake, but lost several friends. He moved to Europe when he was 20 and this was partially motivated by that earthquake he and his family barely survived.
Where in Europe? Italy has one of the largest super volcanoes in the world
In the Naples Basin. Campo Flagrani… It could erupt any moment
@@hpinchen9451 I read something about the risk of it's next erruption being a super one is rather low. Yes, it will cause destruction but it won't wipe Italy off the map. Still happy to not live in Naples. They don't have a plan how they'd evacuate the city in case of even a minor eruption and it has around 3 million citizen living in Naples.
@@hpinchen9451 The Phlegraean Fields aren't a super volcano and it's extremely unlikely that it will have any form of widespread devastating. It can potentially have a new caldera-forming eruption, specifically around the Pozzuoli port but even that can potentially be thousands of years away.
@@Arcticun but they are part of the Caldera that encompasses the Bay of Naples and beyond are they not?
Latest research I’ve seen indicates the magma chambers are extremely volatile which could trigger a super volcanic event ….
I currently live in this Cascadia zone. It’s scary how many people don’t take this possibility seriously. I plan to move inland soon and can’t wait as this has been a huge source of anxiety and nightmares for me.
I have a couple relatives in Seattle. They don't seem to be interested at all in what could happen. I live in big tornado country(North Alabama). But tornados can be forecast, and I can go to a shelter(we have amazing public shelters here, that can withstand an F5). You never know when an earthquake will hit, and if you survive the earthquake, how long do you have before the tsunami? I'd move away as fast as I could.
Come to Boise!
@@willbettsmaybe Boise will come to you instead!
Salem welcomes you
@seanbarnes1151 why are you Palestinian
Not gonna lie, I was fully expecting this to be 2020's final boss
Would've been too much of a blessing
The problem is that it's growing stronger the longer it's stuck
@@lschnitzer7770 good
2021 said to 2020: "Hold my beer"...
@Paul Wheeler I hate Don Lemon lol. Not everyone who hates Trump is a liberal. Of course Obama had scandals, he's a president. Every single one has had scandals. W Bush, Trump, and Clinton's were more scandalous presidents though.
Dammit, Simon, stopp putting ideas in 2020's head!!!!
😆😝😂😂
Looks like it just struck in Alaska today.
Hurry up and happen
My thoughts exactly!
Yeah, really. Isn't Covid-19 bad enough?!
Me living on the san Andrea's fault line poking at it with a stick
"C'mon, do your thing"
*TF2 CRIT NOISE*
This is where you hear that stupid "shot on iphone" meme music.
Watching im all "get out of the house"
haha I always love throwing rocks at loose looking cliffs at the brach
Has anyone else been binge watching these videos? I’ve been stuck watching/listening to them every day for hours on end, mainly listening to them at work. So addicting.
I am quarantined with bacterial pneumonia. These are keeping me from going nuts with boredom!
@@LeoDomitrix Feeling any better? Hope you get well soon.
I remember geology was taught in grade schools
As a geologist living near San Francisco, both the Cascadia and San Andreas Fault Systems are of great concern to me, not only for major earthquakes but for huge tsunamis. It always fascinates, and dismays, me that surveys of factors considered of importance to potential home buyers, the first priority is “view”, the last priority is “geologic safety”. Even though the most modest “entry level” home starts at about $1.5 million where I live, buyers can’t be bothered to get a geologic report, or even read the ones that have already been done for the specific property. Then when their houses fall down, they go around shouting “why didn’t anyone tell me?!” Nor do very many buy earthquake insurance, it’s really expensive and only pays 75% of the value of the home. I can’t afford it myself.
$1.5M you must be riiiiich 😅🤑👏🏻👍🏻
The San Andreas is unlikely to produce any significant tsunami because it's located almost entirely on land and it's not a thrust fault, so there would be minimal vertical change to the sea floor
People in California are insane. Why do they build houses on steep hills, with no foundation, propped up on stilts? Those hills are prone to landslides, whether there's an earthquake or not. They're little more than sand dunes. Worst of all, the houses are built on narrow, winding streets, where it's nearly impossible to drive fire engines. Those hills are also prone to fires, caused by the Santa Anna Winds, and nearly impossible to fight (See documentary, "Design for Disaster").
As far as earthquakes go, I'd be far more concerned about the Mississippi River valley. The New Madrid Fault caused a series of big earthquakes, during the winter of 1811-1812. No one knows the exact magnitude, but it was estimated around 8. If something that big should happen again, cities like St. Louis and Memphis would be destroyed. They're not ready for it. Neither is Charleston, S.C. They had a big one (August 31, 1886). They're due for another. There shall be earthquakes, in divers places. Can you imagine an Alaska-sized earthquake hitting Toronto or Miami?
WHY ARE YOU STILL LIVING IN SF ?
As a geologist, you should know better.
Don’t say your job is keeping you here.
What’s wrong with that assertion
Is there any point getting a geologic survey? If it goes you're all in trouble.
as an Oregonian, I wanted to say thank you for pronouncing our state correctly, and curse you for making it impossible to sleep tonight.
Can anyone say "ORYGUN" ?
@@starman2k209 sounda more like"organ"
diddo in the second part
Tonight, only?
oregino?
I actually worked in the FEMA Cascadia table top exercise. This is where experts in their respective fields estimated the damages, and how quickly emergency crews could respond, also, how long it would take to recover. Everything this video says is exactly what the exercise determined. I was part of the Portland portion. In Portland, the downtown area will be subject to liquifaction. Buildings that are brick will of course, simply fall apart, everything else will sink into what will turn into quicksand. There will be bridges still standing, but the approaches will have been sunk. I-5 will be impassable. The Portland Airport will be unusable as it is also built on soil that is subject to liquefaction. Of course the dams on the Columbia will have failed, meaning flooding and total loss of power from that source. Railroads will also have failed, as their bridges will have been destroyed, and parts of the lines will also suffer sinking as they are next to the Columbia, Willamette, and other rivers. So, evacuating millions of people will not be possible, via North/South routes.. What about East (West will also be impossible as that is closer to the fault and will totally have been wiped out.). Well, guess what, there is no viable route East. How about long term? PGE Engineers said that power would take about 3 years to bring back. So, even if water and sewer lines had not been broken (which of course they will have been totaled) no pumping could take place. People will be stuck, no way to get in to deliver aid, no way for them to leave. Remember that 3 day emergency supply you are supposed to have?? Won't do you any good.
o.......m........g........
no pwr for months? yrs?
how r we gonna make it thru this aftermath??? ayeayeayeaye
@@juliebraden Actually, since there is no real escape, I think that it will be a bit of the lord of the flies situation. Again, when there is no power, there will be no water as the water system requires power to pump water up into those water towers. The same thing with the sewer system, it requires power and water to pump sewage through the plants. (Of course, it can and does spill over into the rivers. Thus depriving folks of that source of fresh water.) The deaths that happened during the earthquake, and tidal wave will be minor in comparison to what happens after. Again, no way in or out for a very long time (Of course there will be trickle, but nothing that will make much of a difference.) Seattle will be in better shape, as they will have sea access, assuming Mt Rainer doesn't erupt because of the earthquake.) The rest of the coast could be OK for the same reason. The Willamette valley will be toast.
@@richj120952 the town of Aurora , OR just dealt w/ that water tower scenario-- from the pwr outtages during ice storm in Oregon Feb 2021 I think. Two other Oregon towns had to lend them generators
@@juliebraden The governments in Oregon and the Willamette Valley have been shorting the safety of their population for many years. Back in Portland, there was a plan to install a freeway from Mt Hood to Portland. Then they took that money and put in their light rail that doesn't really reduce traffic, but they did get a shiny new thing to get the voters to vote them back into office, and in one case into Congress. Traffic is a real mess still. (OK, 2020 reduced it, but it is coming back soon.) That freeway would have provided an East/West exit from the Valley when the Cascadia fault event actually happens.
I received an email from one of our Oregon state senators a few years after the New Zealand quake that said this same thing.
He said we all better be prepared for at least 3 weeks because we were on our own for at LEAST that long. That the state would not be coming to help us because the state would not be ABLE to help us if the quake is as big as they expect it to be. And that things like flooding, liquefaction & damage to the infrastructure would make travel to affected areas dangerous if not impossible.
It basically said to expect help from no one but yourself & encouraged people to make a earthquake plan together with close neighbors.
It was not a reassuring email. But I put together a good emergency kit after that.
Now after watching this, I think I better update that kit. ASAP.
I'm sure most of the food, water & medicine are expired. It's easy to get complacent & time goes by so quickly .. but if we aren't prepared, we won't stand a chance of surviving at all.
This was seriously the wrong video to watch right before bed.
Dear Simon! How are you? My name is Orestis Dionyssios Vonk. I am half Dutch half Greek. Mother is Greek and my father is Dutch. I live in the Greek island of Zakynthos (very famous by a lot of your drunk fellow countrymen 😜) this island wat hit by a huge earthquake in August 1953 . Also the neighbouring islands of Kefalonia and Itaka (island of Odyssey) tens of thousands of people lost there homes. Honderds died and thousand left for other countries for a beter life! 90% of the infrastructure of these islands was destroyed. The British navy was the first one to help people (thank you for that!) like my grandfather and mother (my mother was born one year after that). It’s a very unknown story in Europe and the world. Yet it was a huge disaster for people who had just suffer: A Nazi Germany and Italian occupation and a Greek civil war! I always watch your videos. I have learnt so much from you (thank you for that too :) I really hope that you want to look in to this subject!
I live in Greece, a relatively earthquake-prone country, and I've been laughing at my German mother for being afraid of them. I need to go apologise. Maybe get her some flowers too. Or a hardhat.
Well this aged horribly
Lol.... To funny... I'd go with the hard hat on.. Does she throw things... Lol...
Is this about the earthquake in the Aegean Sea in October?
As the son of German mother I would fill the hardhat with flowers and favored confection.
You want to really scare her? Show her videos of Alaska (1964) and Yellowstone Park (1959). Those earthquakes were huge!
Coming from someone who's lived my entire life in the pacific northwest, you shouldn't live here without an emergency plans for natural disasters earthquakes or not. If it's not an earthquake it'll be a savage wildfire. Either way you don't want to wait until it's happening to figure out what you're gonna do.
You shouldn't live ANYWHERE without emergency plans.
Even if you don't live to see any earthquake, you need to have some cash, food, water, supplies (including for pets) and personal items (meds, documents, etc.)... My extended family didn't lose anything in the earthquakes or snowstorms or anything but there have been two families that lost their houses in fires, and people have lost jobs or lost family members who were the breadwinners. Having supplies buys you time. My best friend's house burned down and they couldn't go back in, and they had to get a hotel room paid for by the red cross, but they didn't have any food or cooking tools, or hygiene stuff or anything. I mean nary a granola bar. Like it just sets you up for cascading failures. How are they supposed to go to work if they can't get their work clothes? Or if the clothes burned up in the fire? What if they can't buy new clothes because they had to spend their money on cookware and food? What if their car keys were in the house and burned up? What if the hotel doesn't accept their pets? Etc. Do yourself a favor!
*especially if you live in an apartment. I'm really worried my idiot neighbors are going to shoot one of us through the wall or light the place on fire
You cant really plan for something like cascadia tho. Even fema's plan starts off with the assumption that everything west of interstate 5 is destroyed. If you live in a tsunami area what can you do beside run to higher ground? I think people should have emergency food and water but in the case of this type of earthquake that isnt going to help you.
Most people here probably have no plans at all. They just assume “eh they’ve been talking about it for the last 50 years, it’s not ever gunna happen”.
I really appreciate your inclusion of indigenous accounts of events, as too often is oral tradition ignored
For sure. It's very interesting.
Kyle Whitehead this is a ludicrous way of looking at those myths and oral traditions.
@Malk Von Batshit agreed. science over mythos.
@@jawknee4088 mythos is science just coded
@@unbroken1010 Nope.
Simon has never been to an Oregon beach if that sunny place is the image he pulled.
I know, its foggy nearly every damn day. I don't think you see the sun down there. We used to go to Reedsport all the time to fish druing the summer. It was always foggy or low clouds.
I feel like Cascadia and Yellowstone are making plans for a date...
The real date is when Cascadia and San Andreas hook up
@Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? actually go watch the Geographics on Yellowstone, probably nothing to worry about there!
More like smash and pass (;
@@vikiwalters8767 why not a thruple
@@vikiwalters8767 were always talking worst case, and Yellowstones worst case it definitely worrying
"When the big one hits, Nevada will be wine country." - Robin WIlliams
The beach front property in Arizona joke is going to take on a meaning.
@@jasonirwin4631 Learn to swim
@@dingleberryhandpump802 Learn to swim
"see you down in Arizona Bay.."
LOLOLOL!!! That is one good way of looking at it.
Simon, your timing is atrocious, this video would have been entertainingly scary in 2012 but now it's apocalyptically horrifying in 2020. Keep up the good work, now I have to make my Fallout shelter float now.
Im kind of in the mindset like; fuck it! Just add it to the pile!
I’m thinking, awesome shelter in place is keeping us OFF the beaches. Win!!!
Good luck noah
I can still remember learning about the Cascadia megaquake back in 2016, when it was exactly halfway between "entertainingly scary" and "apocalyptically horrifying".
I’m almost viewing it as a ray of hope. A clean sweep, people get back to what’s important instead of what one self described “billionaire” says should be
1982, my ship pulled into a harbor on Talcauno, Chile. The harbor bottom was about 50 feet deep. NOW, THERE IS NO HARBOR AND THAT AREA IS NOW NEAR SEA LEVEL.
Just something else to add to 2020's arsenal
Or maybe 2021’s arsenal.
This has been an issue for years now. This would be America's 2011 Japan disaster if this were to occur.
I want to see the murderous hornets first!
Bra.
@@JohnnyOTGS -- Worse. Fukushima would be paddy-cakes by comparison.
2020:
August: Cascadia Fault earthquake
September: Yellowstone supervolcano eruption
October: Nuclear war
November: Earth gets hit by an asteroid strike
December: Aliens attack
"Earth gets hit by an asteroid strike" is an interesting way of saying "Trump reelected".
sounds good.. sign me up for the tour :)
So in short 2020 is the end of earth.
aliens are only pencilled in for now. we have Great Cthulhu waking as a standby
@Wrong Think basically the end of the US with any of them
It's really nice to hear the oral histories treated as useful records of past events. Growing up in the PNW, it sometimes feels like local history begins in the 1800s and everything before that just gets relegated to a very impersonal archaeology.
That's actually an incredibly poignant observation 🤔
I think they use the carbon date and the written history. The oral history just makes for an entertaining tail
@@darylb5564 True. The scientists got only the approximate year based on the carbon and tree ring dating, and the exact date and time came from the detailed tsunami records written by the Japanese. The oral legends definitely supplemented their research though.
That goes right across the USA. I recently got a book from my library about pre-USA history of the Americas. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the right head-space to actually read it, but I hope to soon. There were an estimated 50 - 80 MILLION natives died by being hunted, starved, frozen, or from disease brought by Europeans.
Well, as u've seen in the video, oral histories are kinda difficult to sift thru for information because often they quickly become legend
A friend in my university days spent several summers examining coastal deposits in Oregon and found area after area that have been tilted and then falling back level over and over, showing that as the subduction zone pressure builds sections of the crust along the coast tilt from the pressure and then when a big quake hits the slabs of crust drop back to level, which complicates a quake because while the ground is shaking it's also tilting.
"some say the fight was between thunderbird and Transformer"
I immediately imagined Optimus Prim punching Zaptos in the face.
Honestly that's also through oral tradition so maybe it evolved into that haha. Could be ancient mortal kombat fans talking about raiden vs shang tsung
It's odd though, all the oral tradition I've been involved with its be really difficult to talk and tell stories
Wrong it was Voltron kicking Megazord's ass
Optimus Prime
If it was Transformer vs Phoenix we'd be talking X-Men crossover then we'd have a Micheal Bay movie so the plot really wouldn't matter.
Let's hope it goes down like that
In Oregon, this earthquake is pounded into our heads via school. They basically tell us "yeah there is an earth quake that's supposed to come every 300 years, but it's late and can come anytime. So let's hope we don't dir
Yup
I realize this may be a bit trite by now, it seems to be quite good advise " To live as if every day is the last." Our future is not assured, just think hard about this Covid 19 situation.
@@edwardo2518 I am "thinking hard" about the Covid situation. Look at the death toll compared to 2019. You are being lied to. Hopefully this is good news to you.
@@jasoncole2876 In the beginning the MSM quoted that if no precaution was taken 2.2 million people would die and if precaution was taken 1.2 million would die in the U.S. How people forget news from one day to the next day.
Oregon spelling champion
In Portland, we say "if the ground shakes, look to the mountain." Not only is Cascadia due, but so is Mount Hood erupting. So either quake or volcano eruption, your pick.
WildRhov
An earthquake on a big cascadia scale, I'd say both have a fair chance of happening.
The planet would be better off without the people in Portland, Seattle, and California.
VJ S be careful what you wish for
@@vjs4539 nice to know you're totally okay with the death 46 million people just because 40% of them don't follow the same political ideology as you. Few people are aware that only 43% of registered voters in California are Democrats, 40% in Washington, and only 34% in Oregon. I mean, we do have like 8-10 parties, not just two, but hey, killing tens of millions to wipe out a few Democrats... I sure hope you don't believe in a deity, because it'll be really awkward to explain your reasons for writing that comment when it's brought up against you in the afterlife.
@@vjs4539 sorry bro i dont speak alabama
I remember one earthquake. I was babysitting my neighbors chickens and one day after I was there for an hour, they all squated down spreding thier wings down on each side while I grabbed a tree and hung on. Lasted @ 5 minutes but I was thrilled by the experiance. Kudos to the chickens for the warning.
Well, we can cross that general area off of my "possible places to retire" list.
It's expensive as fuck here . After hearing this I'm going my ass back to Wisconsin asap lol
Moved from Michigan 30 years ago. This is the most beautiful place in the world. I would not trade those 30 years for 60 years in the mid-west.
Eastern Washington will still be here and maybe some nice new waterfront property.
. repent know Jesus/God, everyone. your eternal soul with Him.. is your name written in the Lamb's book of life. That is the list of possible place to retire for eternity.
@@brandonbam1 revere God /know Jesus.. take Him where ever you go..He knew you, yet while you knit in your mother's womb He cares for you. Jesus is Lord of all
“We don’t expect this will happen again anytime soon”, The CDC describing a more deadly SARS type outbreak in 2014
@dotdotdashed I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would nappen if healthcare became unavailable... hence the mask mandates and the distancing stuff many people don't want to follow
@Alex Evans bro, 1 in 100 is still alot of people, thats 3.6 million in the US alone, doesnt sound like much but if you went to a school with 200 students 2 of them will die, 20 in a school of 2000, and on and on and on, just cause "well a lot of people aren't dying" doesn't mean you're right
oh and you are just objectively wrong about the "why aren't more rural Chinese people dying than westerners" as even if China was trust able, which they aren't, unless Chinese people have a gene that stops them dying from pneumonia that no one else has, which they don't, then they'd dying at a much higher rate, now does that make sense?
@Alex Evans UK,
that’s my point, anyone who is saying they have the same death rate as a western countries whilst also not having as good healthcare is lying
They are running out of ventilators world wide as the cases spiked the ventilation manufacturing was already at 100%
And the school analogy still works, still 1 in 100 people be it 1 in 100 colleagues or 1 in 100 peers, it’s just a way to put it in perspective
@dotdotdashed do all lives matter?
@dotdotdashed why did you make an ignorant factually incorrect statement that leads to fracturing the effort needed to get us through a pandemic?
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we're all gonna die eventually, without a doubt. But I would get out of that area if I lived there
I live 20mins outside Spokane, Washington and we had a very weak 2.7 tremor the other day. They happen once in a while in Eastern Washington, but usually so weak that we don't feel anything. Just like the one from the other day.
Living in Oregon all my life, there's this funny comfort and discomfort people have. East coast, you get hurricanes and giant snowstorms, further west you get tornadoes and more snowstorms, down in Cali it's earthquakes and fires all the time, but here in the PNW it's always quiet. It just rains a lot. But there's that looming idea that one of these days, one of those volcanoes are gonna go off again or that that big earthquake is gonna hit and everything is gonna go tits up immediately. I'd rather take this than dealing with a new hurricane ever year honestly.
You'll be saying that until it actually happens, in which case you'll immediately wish it were hurricanes instead 😂
Move to Denver and the only thing you'll ever have to worry about is a minor snow storm every year in March!
Kinda like jellystone. We sit back and have a beer when some geologists screech about the big pop.
Midwest great lakes area is just like that except minus the earthquakes. The lakes mitigate any storms to not do much damage or be very severe.
Lived in Florida my whole life and while we do get hurricanes, at least they come with a few day's notice. Unlike an earthquake, I won't be waking up at a new address.
Feels a little weird to “like” this video...but you know what I mean.
I love it.
Yes, I do.
@@balferono4568 It was interestingly.... interesting.
BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PALM TREES!?
"I support this content"
As a Californian that lives between the San Andreas and Hayward Faults, I keep my dishes in the lower kitchen cabinets and the Tupperware up above. Oh, and a helmet and swim fins close at hand.
good luck with the swim fins. Though you probably needn't be worried about a tsunami anyway. They're terrifying, but if you live a few miles inland or up, no worries at all.
don't forget the snorkel!
@@hexedmarionette or the shark repellant.
and mostly the sunscreen.
Why the helmet and swim fins?
@@rogerhelbig9458 Well, since she lives in the Bay Area, it's not such a bad idea....
Can say that I've felt two good ones 3-4 on the scale on Vancouver island, notably my high school English teacher tossed us away from our desks so she could hide under it for us. That was the one that damaged some buildings in Washington state that year some time around 2003. the second one was while I was in college and it felt like some one dropped a fridge on our house, woke up my room mate who said it was like a bell ringing through the basement off the bedrock. You feel em or hear them.
My mom was in Alaska during the 64’ quake, she was 11 years old living in anchorage. She said it seemed to thrash her around for what felt like forever even tho it only lasted 5 minutes. Lol “only” that’s a long time for a earthquake.
The tsunami from that quake wiped out the downtown from my hometown on Vancouver Island. I left 5 days after high school graduation.
The apocolypse bingo
Minutes turn to hours during a life threatening event. Interesting how that happens, not that I desire time change by life threatening events, not at all.
Growing up in California I've felt my fair share of earthquakes, some that were even pretty scary (though I did sleep through the Northridge Quake in '94) a 5 minute Earthquake is TERRIFYING. I can't even imagine what that would be like. A quake that lasts longer than two seconds is enough to frighten you. 5 minutes? That's 300 seconds of what would be severe shaking. Anyone that's dealt with earthquakes before know that is no joke at all.
@@ktvindicare We were in Vegas when the Northridge quake hit. It was strong enough to wake us up in the hotel.
I was taking a Physical Geology class during the Diablo Canyon demonstrations. I remember the professor saying that he wasn't a political animal, but the idea of building nuclear reactors in that area was insane. He also liked showing slides of houses perched on cliffs in California and estimating how long it would be before the occupants woke up in the ocean.
NEVER trust a professor. PARTICULARLY in California!!! Commies all.
BUT........ Houses built on ocean cliffs all along the west coast from mexico into canada........DO seem to be eternally ASKING FOR IT. Hope they're all liberals.
@@rollinmckim4719 the hell is wrong with you. It’s a long coast, you know they aren’t all one thing.
@@dudeanderson2401 what's wrong with her is she's fed up to bloody hell with idiotic commieliberals destroying everything they touch & running out of California because they can't discern a scamming lying politician to save their lives & then repeat the insanity in the new state they move to!
Frances Van Siclen vote in person to make sure they don't tamper with your vote!
@@MsLiberty101 "commieliberals running everything" I see you've been brain washed well, just like those commies you hate. Never understood how ya'll could see everything wrong with the other parties but not your own. They all suck ass and are ruining America buddy. The common people need to stop in fighting and demand better from your government.
One thing everyone forgets in the scenario, is Mt. Rainier. At the very minimum, you will have avalanches coming at you at frightening speeds. If you have deep shaking, it could affect the volcano itself.
and mt adams, mt hood etc
Mt. Rainier: "Hi there! Remember me?"
@@zachs8765 And Mount Baker - looming above the 2.6 million people of Vancouver.
exactly. i live in portland, oregon that has two active volcanos, mt. tabor and mt. hood. i'm worried about the volcanos not the earthquakes
I wonder if it will impact yellowstone, as well, since it’s a subduction zone…
Great video, Simon. I watch this over and over. At the end, you said, " I won't ask if you enjoyed this..." of course I enjoyed it, man. It is scary and stimulating and causes a release of dopamine, the reason for everything. You are the best, Simon.
2001 quake in Washington State i was in a large warehouse working. I lay under my work bench watching a huge concrete floor roll as if it were water, it didn't crack, it didn't break, it didn't crumble. It rolled. I remember being fascinated by this, I was waiting for it to fall apart but it just rolled wave after wave.
That's absolutely fascinating! Waves in a presumed rock solid surface!
I saw my concrete floor rolling here in Los Angeles in 1988 during an M5 one night
I felt the Oakland quake in Santa Monica. I swear the ground movement was a roll. Just like a bunch of open ocean waves!
In that quake, but in Oregon, my desk was right next to a giant glass window. Everyone in the office came running to see what was shaking the building. Being from California, I said it’s an earthquake. Everyone started telling me no it wasn’t, and continued to stand at the glass window. I didn’t even have room to move backward to get under my desk with the crowd of people surrounding me. I’m glad it was strong enough to endure.
I was working at a plant in Auburn that day and my office was maybe 15 steps from the front door. I didn't follow the protocol at all and ran outside. Seeing the parking lot rolling like that was something I don't want to see again.
I am a land surveyor and civil engineer in Western Oregon near Salem. I have discussed 'the big one' with many people, and I am constantly astounded at how little people know about it. Most of the people have never even heard of it, and if you discuss it, most think that you are a crazy conspiracy theorist. That's because 'the big one' is almost never in the news.
They don’t teach geology in schools anymore,this was taught in grade schools in the fifties
I live in Portland. Everyone I know has heard about it. But most dismiss it as implausible or not serious. My mother is extremely stressed about it, to the point where she wants to live in a car, rather than stay in an apartment. I have to remind her that newer construction is earthquake resistant and if she lives in her car, she’s have to deal with the fires that start as a result of the quake and she’ll get squashed by falling trees and debris, not to mention the earth swallowing her whole. I think about it enough to know I should have real estate investments in a safe location. And live away from the epicenter.
My son in law in Tacoma is in denial
@@RosePetal-j2i isn't that a river in Egypt?
The Tacoma aroma ...
9:08. "This isn't an ideal world." Thanks, Simon. I hadn't noticed.
I grew up on the coast of Washington just south of Victoria BC. Learning about the "big one" coming absolutely terrified me as a teen. I've now moved eastward to a town just south of Vancouver BC 😅 right on the I5. Still not quite far away enough to be in the clear, but much better odds and definitely on higher ground.
Simon: "The next mega quake is 70 years overdue."
2020: _Sits quitely in the corner taking notes._
@waylon lewin hey bro, ever, heard, of, a comma? ,,,,,,,
@@sportster306 But didn’t say anything about original commenter typing “quitely” instead of “quietly”.
Great comment!
@@matronista I recognized it, but it is a minor and common error compared to the blatant non use of grammatical marks.
@@sportster306 That’s ok. Right before I made my earlier comment, I corrected someone’s “looser” to “loser”. That really gets under my skin. Lol
Remember when we welcomed in 2020 with hopes it would be better than 2019?
Yep !!
Well the Dems and crooked Piglosi are still there. That's a problem.
@@janiceduncan7908 maybe they will all be home when it happens. Let them feel first hand what they always avoid.
@Plant Ster Poor you! You want to experience an earthquake for real? Go to Indonesia, Japan, Alaska or South America. They are increasing in size and frequency. Sheer terror.
I was sick during new years eve, as sick as i never had been before.
I was born and raised on the west coast, over 68 years ago, and I've felt my share of sizable quakes including the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in the Bay Area. While we were all aware of the San Andreas fault, little was taught in the schools about the Cascadia subduction zone. Only many years later as a tour bus driver around the Grand Canyon area did I begin to really study geology, and understand what power the movements of tectonic plates have. The Richter scale is inadequate to describe the devastation.
that's what she said.
The Richter scale isn't in use anymore. The Magnitude scale is what's used now.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone wasn't well understood until relatively recently. The drowned forests were not recognized until 1986
@@Markle2k Yes, I've read quite a bit about it since; many had thought that buried trees found were evidence of eruptions from Mount Rainier, until they studied further and discovered that the trees were felled (and buried) from seaward, not landward.
@@Markle2k Even tectonic plates were only first understood in the 1960s
I wanna say it was 2015 when a huge article about the Cascadia quake was making waves, and as someone who was living in Seattle at the time, I went full into research mode. They have a lot of information available about landslide risks, liquifaction risks, where the shaking has historically been the strongest, and a large (but not comprehensive) record of at-risk buildings - it was very nice to have. Weirdly, they also have a worst-case scenario that they describe, but it's not a 9.2 Cascadia quake, but rather a much smaller 6 or so on the more shallow Seattle fault line, specifically during a soccer match. It was still scary, but helped me sleep at night a little better.
Wish my new city had such comprehensive resources.
Oh Simon, you forgot the cherry on the apocalyptic sundae: there are a bunch of volcanos along the PNW coast as well. After the earthquake, tsunami and fire, Mt Rainier and the other pointy mountains in the region could erupt, causing not only ash clouds, but massive lahars that will flood the cities from the east. Seriously, you weren’t kidding when you said it would be the largest disaster the US has ever witnessed.
But, let’s not tempt 2020 by giving it anymore ideas, eh?
And it’s likely all the volcanoes from Mt Lassen in California north to Mount Meager in British Columbia are fed by the melted rock from the subduction zone, so add multiple volcanic eruptions to the mega quake and tsunami.
dead on target
There is no evidence that mega-thrust earthquakes are associated with an increase in volcanism from the related subduction zone thankfully.
It seems 2020 has a good enough imagination as it is without our help.
Ah yes, Lahars, the psycho brother of landslides and pyroclastic flows, literally boiling meltwater mixed with mud that instantly turns to concrete when it stops moving.
You didn't mention that along this earthquakes zone from California to Canada, there are seven active volcanos. Some of them will erupt.
Yep so if anyone wants to see Crater lake in the near future your odds run down of it not being there the way it is now. I always find it odd they call it a Crater, its a caldera. Beautiful Skiing on Shasta gone, and maybe even Mt. St Helens will go again.
@@CathPresbyter Don't forget about Mt. Rainier, that'll also probably erupt either during or shortly after the main quake.
Hahaha. That's why it's called the Pacific Ring of Fire 🔥.
@@chrisduitsman2918
No, not necessarily.
The subduction quakes we've had, like the Japan quake did not trigger any volcanic activity.
The only time this would happen would be if a volcano was already ready to blow prior to the earthquake.
Mount St. Helens could perhaps erupt because it has been somewhat active, the rest of the series likely would not.
TY Kevin that will help.
Just retired Navy, living in Bremerton wa. I’m just gonna go ahead and sell my house🏆
Move to Jackson Hole.
Ha ha!
I am in Port Orchard and have already experienced a 9.2 earthquake...the 1964 Great Alaska quake. You cannot even imagine the power of the earth moving for 5 minutes. Back then the population was low. We had very few tall buildings. The J.C. Penny's building had just opened. It had three stories and was totally devastated. I have no money to move, but am always prepared for an earthquake! I would move if I was you.
@@anshuuu9708 1964, in Alaska. (Re-read her comment) :)
Mr. & Mrs Smith stupid sailor
I won't discourage you there, this won't get better or go away but I won't HAARP on it here so everyone doesn't get conCERNEd, I hope you know what that means, all I can do is hope.
Almost 47 years (since birth) in Western Washington state and I've felt one earthquake in February 2001. You can't really sweat the big stuff.
"If you live in the PNW you've probably never experienced a 4.0 quake". Me distinctly remembering my house violently shaking a few months ago from a 6.5 magnitude quake...And there's been two 4.0 quakes in the last 3 days.
I came here to say this. In my first 3 years living in Seattle we had several 3-4 quakes. Then the Nisqually in 2001. I moved to Vegas.
We get moderate to large quakes in the area every few years.
Me: I'm shook
Simon: Not yet you aren't
Master Yoda: You will be. You. Will. Be
Priceless!!! :)
I just laughed so hard 💀💀
"71,000, as many will run to the hills".... I think you forget how absolutely moronic some people in America can be.... We'd rather stand there and take a selfie.
At least we'll have some amazing live stream videos to watch from those who stayed in place and pulled out phones.
..more likely to want to try shooting at it.
I think you meant to say "I think you forget how absolutely moronic (Almost all) people in California Are!" Leave the rest of us out of it.
One things for sure...all the idiots will buy up all the toilet paper
@@FRANKBURNSONE 👍🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦❤️
A scary good one Simon, well done! Btw, u were born to do this job. Ur skills as a storyteller n narrator r superb. Keep it going my friend, there r many who try this but few out in the world as good as you! 😊
The first rule of living on Cascadia Subduction Zone: DON'T TALK ABOUT CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE!
My son and daughter-in-law live in Portland. They don't even like to hear us ask about it. Ignorance is bliss. They are in Nirvana.
Bruce: Rule six-there is no rule six!
The lack of communicating potential dangers in your area regardless wherever you live is a danger in itself and is unacceptable as a good citizen to your community
I'm curious though..I'm from Santa Barbara, it's right on the coast but our beaches face south, not west, and the channel islands a few miles offshore run the length of town and block most offshore weather.. would we be safe?
Odin Satanas Technically your still on the west coast North American plate with the Pacifc plate west of you and underneath you. Stay safe god bless
I live in Seattle, so this is a common topic. A careful review of our bridges has made it virtually certain that at least 300 will fail when the earthquake hits, presuming a mere 9.0 magnitude. This includes total collapse of the interstate 5 bridge at the border of Oregon and Washington, effectively cutting off western Washington from the world, except through it's two mountain passes that cross the Cascades. The bridge problem is a very serious one. Few people care though, because it hasn't happened yet.
I don't think the words mere and 9.0 magnitude go together lol!
Tamekka 320 s.roosevelt st
Ah so that's what 2020 is getting us for xmas.
Nope..... it's for holloween.
Karma is individual and collective,guess we've been bad this year...
@@stlkngyomom It's the west coast, it's not like it's a bad thing tbh
Probably
@@skystriker1238 Good point and a lot of people are leaving alredy(for some reasons),but it's the 4-5th largest egonomy(if California was a state)fallout would be"unpleasant"to put it lightly.
I live in Western WA. Grew up just west of Olympia. The Nisqually quake might not be the biggest thing out there, but at 11 years old, it was a huge deal, and my only first hand experience. We were in school that day. There were two emergency drills that day; one was a lock down, other was fire. Coming in from the fire drill I remember saying something like "what's next, an earthquake drill". Seemed like 5 minutes later, but the earthquake was no drill. Mostly brick school took a fair bit of damage but nothing fell. Mom worked at the school, so me and my sister were home pretty quickly. House was fine other than the 500 gallon propane tank on its side.
There were a couple aftershocks, the biggest of which I slept through. Woke up with my bookcase on the bed lol.
I think that event as a whole sparked something in me, because to this day I love natural disasters. Not the deaths... that would be horrible. But the intense and raw nature is a big rush for me. Been through a tornados in the midwest (minor but it came right through the back yard) and even though I was old enough to know better, I would have been out playing in it if my mom didn't have a hold on me like Thanos holding his gauntlet. Floods, windstorms, ice storm...especially when power is out for weeks, I love it.
Simon: "It's unlikely it will happen in your lifetime"
2020: "Hold my Corona"
I hate to break it to you, but Epidimiologist have been waiting about 50 years for a global pandemic to reoccur- it's the long lull that was the surprise...
People win lotteries every day with far smaller odds.
.....shouts over to the Yellowstone Caldera to join in on the fun....
that unfortunate beer...
@@TheWolfsnack Yellowstone is growing, but they have confirmed we will be dust by time it ruptures.
As a Californian living in Los Angeles I’m just praying that the earthquake won’t happen while I’m taking a shit
Mine is in the shower.
It doesn't matter. If you live in Los Angeles (a true cosmic hell hole) you already ARE in the shit....
@@fredferd965 true true thank you democrats
@@giovannibautista2515 You do know that actual normal people live here, not just political reps?
@@fredferd965 Look at you living in a perfect world! Gosh, if only everyone had your perfect life!😒
Thunderbird vs Transformer: Don't tell Michael Bay about that one... It sounds like an awful movie just waiting to happen.
Ah I love what u did there
Go Quileute Tribe.
It's freaky thinking it could literally happen while I'm watching this.
Where I live in Oregon, I can see four volcanos from the roof of my house and there are 4 reservoirs up stream from my neighborhood...
Howdy fellow Oregonian
Nice knowing you mate.
Have you considered moving elsewhere until 2020 is over?
How’d you feel watching the Pompeii episode?? Lmao
And you still live there?
Wow perfect timing for this… I live in California and we’re dealing with a resurgence of Covid and now I can be reminded about a greater disaster that could happen anytime… Awesome
get rekt
Yay distractions?
I'd imagine that the longer Cascadia goes without slipping, the more energy is stored up, and that "overdue-ness" becomes a death-o-meter.
Correct.
Unless the pressure is getting relieved through an on-goin series of unremarkable “micro-quakes”.
Just as possible, not as dramatic.
@@FastEddy1959 Indeed, it could be that a mud flow has lubed the Cascadia and it is sliding along like an egg on a butter filled Teflon fry pan.
@@JerryEricsson I hope so! My sister moved to Seattle two years ago.
A strike slip fault is the most dangerous one when talking about earthquakes.
I live in thousand oaks CA. Last summer we had a large earthquake and it literally felt like my upstairs apartment was swaying up and down like i was on a boat. I yelled out to God and i begged him for mercy. It is a very helpless feeling when you are in your bed and then yhe house is shaking and i live alone, so im scared because honestly i think a big one is coming soon.
When we were planning to move to Washington state, I checked USGS for sea level changes and projections. I was happy ( at the time) to learn our area actually rose 13 inches (sea level dropped) in a hundred years. Great I thought. No flooding concerns. Flood insurance was easy to get. No problem. Now my only comfort is that we've lived a full life...we're 300 meters from a mountain path...but it will probably bury us in trees and dirt on one hand as the water and our house and dock chases us down on the other. Or the 'rona gets us. Or the murder hornets. Most likely it will be heart diseases, but hey, I'm an optimist.
Dont forget anyurism.... The silent killer
Tldr
Actually, the rise in land level has to do with the subduction of the Juan de Fuco plate under the North American plate. There is a 'catch' where the plates push against each other, causing the land to bend and rise. Eventually the catch will release, causing a likely 9.0 earthquake. The last one was in 1700. The sea level is not falling!
@@stacywestly64 The western cascades in Washington have risen **30ft** in the last 100 years because of the subduction. (Lesser rises westward) When the big one happens, while the tsunami can't reach Seattle, the drop in land level will cause Puget Sound to fill (permanently) all of Seattle between I-5, Elliot Bay, Downtown, and Boeing Field. An area which up a hundred years ago was tidal mudflats.
@@stacywestly64 thanks for repeating what simon says for our amerikan viewers. Glad to see you studied the video
Since central America is usually overlooked here it is a bit of our history: ancient mayans believed that the world was divided into quadrants and in each piece a different faction inhabited. At the center was the great city of tikal in Guatemala's rain forest. Beneath it all was a giant crocodile that shaked the earth as it moved. Some tails suggest a turtle that shaked the earth to hide from the crocodile.
History?
"Mostly quiet, but occasionally apocolyptic" - Simon 2020
Sounds like my ex amirite bois?
sounds like farting!
I never said that
Famous last words!
I have a BA in History and have found ancient legends has limited value apart from establishing that an event happened at all. The mechanism for the event and its wider impact are almost always unknown to its participants. That being said the genesis of legends across cultural and regional lines describing some common effect is powerful confirmation when the latter observer lays them side by side. Love your channel!
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
What?
@@workhardism luckily for you, that joke went over your head
😂🤣
@@perrydowd9285 I concur! 😁
Dark humor at its finest.
And the good, uplifting news just keeps on coming....
This is isn't new and I find this presenters manner highly condescending and irritating
2020 going out with biggest quake! ? !!!
"Mostly quiet, but occasionally apocalyptic" 😂
Sounds like antifa/blm
Sounds like one of my ex girlfriends 😂
Not to downplay the terrible losses of the earthquakes Simon mentioned, I am always amazed at how many docos forget that the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, (also caused by a subduction earthquake) and the tsunamis which followed, killed over 250,000 people.
Different fault
@@lemardyc Thanks captain obvious. "ALSO CAUSED BY A SUBDUCTION ZONE."
I'm a chilean, and as a chilean everytime I see Chile mentioned in anything I get really excited. I lived trough the 8.6 earthquake we had 10 years ago. Not fun at all, really scary.
I live south of Seattle. Can you tell us how your life was affected after the quake 10 years ago and how long it took for life to return to normal?
@@tudorjason For me personally i didn't know there were aftershocks after an earthquake, so when i learned that we we're going to be having more earthquakes and tremors for a year or so, that left me really scared of using elevators, the subway or being in a high floor. Luckily our country has a very strict construction code, and not many buildings were affected. The reconstruction took only a few years, although some small villages near the coast got almost completely destroyed by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. Also the city that was most affected by the earthquake required military presence and a curfew to stop the looting of stores. For some months no one could travel because there was no gas and the highways were in pretty bad condition. It took like 6 months to go back to normal life, 1 year to stop the aftershocks and a few more years to reconstruct the most affected villages. Fun fact: when such a strong earthquake hits, you can see blue lights in the sky, very similar to lighting but without sound. There are many theories but no one really knows why that is. It felt like the end of the world for a minute.
Bless your heart
I bet that was very traumatic glad you made it through
Oh hey, I lived in La Serena for 2015's 8.3. That was a bad week. We're damn lucky about building codes, huh?
I live outside of Seattle and we have small earthquakes a couple of times a year. I was woken up at 3am less than a year ago from a 4.2. Most earthquakes here are pretty deep, so we don't have the shaking as they do in southern California, but there is often some shaking like the one that woke me up. I have known about a possible devastating quake since my childhood. I'm sure we're taught about it in elementary school. At schools, we sadly now have active shooter drills as often as earthquake drills. (I teach Washington State History.) The Makah tribe on the farthest western corner of Washington has a fascinating history. They are the whale hunters, actually chasing and killing Orca from giant canoes. There was a Makah village that was unearthed, having been preserved like Pompeii. It was covered by a mudslide after an earthquake.
I lived in Los Angeles for 40 years, and those dogs have got it right. Earthquakes are always preceded by a sudden dropping sensation (about a couple of inches). That allows about half a minute to escape, or to brace yourself in the nearest doorway. Eventually it will become a reflex. If you are in a car, it feels like all 4 tires are going flat; stay in your car.
Dogs detect the pressure wave released by earthquakes, these move much faster than the shear waves and are not always detected by people. Do not take cover in a doorway. This myth is perpetuated by old mud huts, where the doorways had wood and were more sturdy. In modern homes, the doorways are no stronger than the rest of the home. Find something to take cover under, and hold on. Do not try to run outside.
Haahhaahh clowns 🤡 every where in this comment section
Careful about hiding in doorways, a lot of people get hurt when the door swings around hits them in the face
@@SamaelMoneyStein For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received-that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:31
@@SamaelMoneyStein Sorry, I have not seen any others besides you. We don't like clowns here, though.
I know this is an old video but the part where Simon says the average person in the northwest has never felt a quake over 4.0 is nuts. I think just about everyone in Oregon and Washington felt the Nisqually Quake of 2001 which was under a 7.0 but was widely felt and occurred for more than a solid minute
Also felt in southwestern BC, Canada.
Yes, fish tank slopping and cabinet doors opening and banging shut. Like a cartoon! In Hillsboro Oregon.
I felt the Niqually quake at work in North Vancouver Canada. It was so weird I was on the phone. I was saying to the person on the phone why are the janitors polishing the floors with a mechanical floor polisher. Then I got, wait we have carpet. The vibration got louder. Then things began to shake. My office window popped in and out like a diaphragm. Causing enough persure to blow papers across the desk. Clearly nothing like downtown Nisqually but blowing papers across my desk was interesting to see.
While listing death tolls, an admittedly and literally morbid exercise, you should have listed the worst death toll from a mega-thrust earthquake that generated a massive tsunami, in particular the Dec 26th of 2004 Sumatra Earthquake, a quarter million dead mostly from the tsunami. It ranks among the top 5 in intensity, also over 9. For the record, the scale used is no longer the Richter Scale but the Moment Magnitude scale, although the numbers are similar in size and it is also logarithmic.
Nice! Thanks for that
I remember that! So many died 😰 thank you for comment I hadn’t thought about this since it happened all those years ago.
Science can be macabre
@@whoops8412 Definitely. I was teaching a course called "Volcanoes in Human History" and it was particularly macabre. In particular I used clips from various videos and one on Krakatau's 1883 eruption included very good, and thus pretty horrific, injury makeup, but much less intense than the driver's ed videos they see. Fortunately it was a brief clip, and it engendered a lively discussion about human physiology and related topics.
Don’t know how it was overshadowed
I heard that the Richter scale was replaced by the Lundquist scale...
"...it will be the end of everything you've ever known. So I won't ask if you enjoyed that video"
Nice, love from Vancouver Island...
Yup, looks like we’ve got hell on earth to look forward to. Hooray...
That moment you realize the 2012 Mayan calendar probably meant 2021.
Riiiight!!!! They got everything else wrong 'on purpose'. Thats a very smart and probably true account of what may have happened 😳
No when you find out it’s 2012 in Ethiopia u might just rob a bank
Were just bad at translations.. I mean.. III could be 1 2 or 2 1..
Do some research, the next grand conjunction happens Dec 21 2020
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“There are multiple ways for Cascadia to rupture; from ahhhh to EUGHGHHH” 😂😂😂😂
Oh Simon, you crack me up x
What did the Earth say about the earthquake? “Sorry, It’s my fault.”
😗😳😀
NoOOooOoOoOoooOooOOOooOo
Good one dad
Smart ass jokes🤣🤣
So good!!!😂
growing up in Mexico city all my life and living thru countless earthquakes, I can guarantee you that this documentary is 100% accurate . great work
I lived in San Francisco for a long time. Once, when working in a building downtown on the 22nd floor, there was an earthquake. Though "minor", in the range of 3, I felt the building swaying and then worse, a grinding sound, as if it was being gnawed by the buildings on either side. Although all this lasted only about 10 minutes, it seemed very long. Yes, I was scared. It happened again when I worked in the then new Pyramid Building..I was on the 52nd floor. It stood alone so there wasn't a building nextdoor to scrape against -- though I don't know how that would have worked had there been. But it was breathtaking up there feeling it sway. This too didn't last long. I think some smaller buildings were damaged. I was grateful not to have then experienced "the big one", which my colleagues and I had talked about. I then moved to Germany, moved into a house in a small town and felt an earthquake there, where the only visible damage was a crack in a wall. The epicenter was about 10 km away and it had been a minor quake of about 3.
10 min? Did you mean 10 seconds?
Your long story went no where.
I lived near Seattle for 30 or so years and experienced 2 or 3 quakes that I could both feel and see so you're not quite right there.
To make things even worse many of trees in southwest Oregon are what the fire department calls "Gasoline on a stick."
Simon your beard should be listed as a UNESCO world heritage site
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Too right it is!!
Luke newton,, your chin already is.
It's not that epic
My dad was in college in Oregon when the new cascadia research was being done in the 80s. When it was my turn to go to college in Vancouver BC, moving into those new glass high-rise apartments he said, “You really don’t want to be living here during an earthquake. The whole PNW is almost 100 years overdue for a Big One.” He meant like a 1964 earthquake where we grew up, and personally got a taste of in 2018.