As a geographer who has watched many videos on the potential for a megathrust earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, I found this brief video to be an excellent introduction to a complicated topic. It would benefit from editing to correct errors in pronunciation of place names and minor issues of content, such as when the tsunami hit the coast of Japan. Strong graphics and balanced commentary enhance the presentation, making the material easier to grasp. A list of suggested readings below the video would be useful for those who wish to explore the topic further. Overall, really well done!
Came to the comments to say the same thing. As for further exploration of the topic, central Washington university has an excellent lecture series on RUclips on PNW geology. Highly recommend.
You are mentioning Nick Zentner the Geology Professor from whom I have learned so much about plate tectonics and about the subduction zone. He has said that Yellowstone volcano is really a "Hot Spot" just like Killawa on the big island in Hawaii. He is on the internet and is a great teacher! @@jeffersonstatecrash
Great video! I remember reading that the Cascadia fault also has the potential to trigger the San Andreas fault line. Apparently 8 of the previous Cascadia quakes caused a chain reaction. If that were to occur, we could see the entire western coast of North America impacted from Canada to Mexico. Hope it doesn't happen in my lifetime!
Love seeing your graphics getting better with each video! And the research quality is keeping up! I can really feel how much work you've put into this one. Easily my favorite video on your channel so far!
I lived in SF for 30+ yrs. People often talked about "The Big One" but no one every worried about it and certainly never altered their lives about it. Buildings are built to withstand earthquakes. (Except Millenium Tower, heh, heh, heh.) Que sera as they say. The quake to worry about will be on the New Madrid Fault. All those midwestern towns and cities made up of old buildings of unreinforced masonry are going to tumble.
Key areas of SF are built on fill, and the ground will liquify. So you can build strong buildings but if they are on fill, good luck. I suspect that at some point, insurance companies will stop writing policies for these properties.
My solution is a personal hot air balloon powered by 10,000 solar panels in each home to float high above the tsunami...or escape the terrible places like Seattle and Portland.
What has recently come into focus is that when the Cascadia shook back in 1700, the San Andreas, and the Hayward Faults also shook at the same time. I did my research and the USGS finally admitted this within the last 2 years. We always hear about Washington, Oregon, Canada being hit hard, but how hard with all of Northern and Southern, California also be hit by the MegaQuake and the Mega tsunami because we are going to get slammed also.
Really well done. When transplants to California ask about the San Andreas I’m often asking if they’ve ever heard of the nightmare fuel that is the CSZ. The answer has always been no.
I live in WA state and a study was done on the impacts to transportation after the big one hits, and they determined that all but two bridges and overpasses would collapse. Of the two bridges that could withstand the earthquake, one is used by trains and the other only leads to a small farming island of little importance. It will be completely devastating.
I live on Vancouver Island and I am halfway up the island and at this point I have told everyone I know to always carry anything they need for a few days of survival in their vehicle, because the upper Highway that connects the island has massive Bridges every 20 minutes or so going over big rivers and valleys,, and there is nothing in between,, to be honest we have a secondary Low Highway that goes through all the small Beachside communities and takes twice as long to get up and down Island but anytime I'm driving I try to take that,, as much as it would suck being stranded between two big bridges that have blown out I don't want to be on one of those big Bridges when it hits
And yet, residents in Ocean Shores, WA, the city likely to have the highest fatality in a CSZ tsunami, has cut through the dunes in 5 places to allow tourist vehicles to drive on the beach. The worst vehicle cut is at Chance A La Mar West Blvd which has a max 17' elevation through dunes that are 23' high. When the subsidence drops the entire coastline 6' prior to the tsunami, the gaps will only be 11' elevation. No one in Ocean Shores, FEMA, WA EMD, etc. will explain why opening the dunes to a tsunami flow is acceptable. But they won't fix that.
The dunes will liquify with the quake, along with other sandy areas along the coast region. Look up soil liquification for details. This is a known action of larger earthquakes.
I grew up in Michigan and have never experienced earthquakes but I moved to Washington State in 2009. I’ve always been concerned about earthquakes here, thankfully I haven’t experienced one yet. Not that I could feel anyway but it’s scary to think about. I started to learn about them when I moved here so I wouldn’t be absolutely clueless when it does happen.
Idiots when building Seattle used fire hoses to wash the cliffs down to fill in the swamp land then built on that. Liquefaction will take out much of Seattle and it won't need a 9.0 to accomplish that.
This will undeniably be a catastrophic event, but it might not be as bad as a repeat of the 1812 New Madrid earthquakes which will happen in the middle of North America and whose effects will be felt over a huge part of the USA.
This is why I moved from the Pacific Northwest. When this thing finally slips it will be the worst earthquake in recorded US history (think the Tohoku Earthquake of 2011).
The Juan de Fuca moves in a clockwise direction because of the directions the other two plates are moving. This complicates things. The Geology of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia is very complicated as well. Much of it is made up of terranes that formed in the Pacific because of volcanism or terranes from other places. Europe and Mexico part of the mix. The hot spot now in Montana is theorized to have been in the Pacific or created by picking up terranes.
You are so right! I have learned all about the Cascadia Zone and that the Cascade Mountains are here because of the zone and are in relation to it. I learned it and lots more from Geology professor Nick Zentner who is at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.
Don't forget the New Madrid fault and the 1862 flooding of the Central Valley in California, which is supposed to happen with some regularity. I won't live to see any of it, but my grand daughters are going to live in "interesting times." 🙂
I've seen and read several presentations about the Cascadia subduction zone. They all have varying numbers of quakes accredited to the zone over the last 5000 years. The more conservative say these occur every 500 years or so. The ones that include more quakes put the period between quakes at about 250 years. If the latter, the northwest is overdue by 50 years with a better than 50 percent possibility of a major quake in the next few years. Also, the ones including more quakes have a number of smaller ones below the titanic 9+ level. A quake may occur that's well below that in strength. Say a 7 to 8. While still very destructive, it would be less so than a 9+.
You are correct. Just prior to saying these quakes occur every 300 to 500 years, his own graph showed a 10,000 year span with 39 quakes. Rounding it slightly, that comes to one on average every 250 years. Not 300 to 500. That, in my opinion, makes this entire conversation much more relevant in current times.
I live on the south end of Vancouver Island and have definitely felt earthquakes, albeit small ones. We also get the occasional tsunami alert, and once a year at work, we go through our disaster plan. Hopefully "the big one" doesn't happen in my lifetime, but I have no control; all I can do is prepare as best I can.
I live in western Arkansas. We have the big fault near Mark Tree, Arkansas. In 1811-1812., it produced a series of sever quakes over a period of months. The Mississippi River ran backwards briefly during these quakes. This series of quakes was felt over large areas.
Interesting YT suggested this video for me, possibly b/c I just made my Big Seattle Earthquake prediction video a week ago. My research & maths point to very likely within 2 years - & possibly as soon as early 2024!
I'm very curious how you've reached that conclusion! I've been studying isometrics every day for the last 2 years, so I do know quite a bit about it, but you sounded very sure, so I thought I'd do a quick little test. I looked up every earthquake in Turkey for the last 166 years. Of the dozen listed, only 3 were 7.7 or stronger. The distance in time between the first & second was 83 years & about 2 1/2 months. The distance in time beween the second & the third was 83 years & about 1 1/2 months. BAM! Isometrix - i just love it. 👍@@blondegirlsezthis8798
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions cannot be reliably estimated using math. Almost all forecasts using this method turn out to be wrong. I wish it could be done; but there's just too many variables under the ground that researchers can only estimate. With that said, if this Seattle earthquake does occur in the next two years, I will make every effort to find your video, and offer a sincere apology!
I know this is slightly nit picky, but Puget Sound is pronounced PewJet Sound. Not being a local you wouldn't have known that., so no biggie really. A lot of local names are from Native American culture, Puget Sound however is not one of them. The sound is named after Peter Puget who accompanied George Vancouver on his exploration of the areas waterways. Now on to the CSZ. When it ruptures, it will devastate pretty much the entire western coastline of the US and Canada (and possibly Mexico Russia, China etc from the Tsunami's), as well as wipe out pretty much everything west of Interstate 5 in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. The damage to everything East of Interstate 5 will also be massive. The costs will be measured in potentially millions of lives and trillions of dollars. The CSZ is why I NEVER go to the coast.
That annoyed me when I heard it mispronounced. Very often I hear mispronounced names by narrators. Before speaking or recording, they should check the proper pronunciations.
The farralon plate remnants is now thought to be the source of stress build up in the new Madrid seismic zone. Interesting how both areas are waiting for the big one and are possibly caused by the same thing despite the distance.
That was a really nice Video. I hope my comment helps the video get a bit more attention from the Algorithm so more people can see a well produced video :D
This is very interesting on explaining how this forms two parallel mountain ranges, and why the coast ranges aren't volcanic. I don't remember ever seeing any one address this before.
There isn't any evidence of that happening. If you think about it, after learning what cause volcanoes to erupt, shaking isn't going to cause them unless one is ready to erupt in the next month anyway.
This video includes new information I've never heard before. Including the "scraping" of the plate that creates the coastal mountains, and the estimated time for the northern stretch of the Cascadia Subduction Zone to rupture versus the southern stretch.
I live on central Vancouver Island near the north end of the subduction zone, I hope to not be alive when the next mega-quake hits here, it will likely be devastating
I am curious to know how much of this Cascadia Fault snapped? (The entire length?) Can we figure out where on that fault was the epicenter? Also, compare that to the fault off the coast of Banda Ache and ask the same questions--just to get an idea of how big this coming quake will be.
Been saying this shit my entire life and they'll be saying it after I'm gone. Geological events are meaningless when your lifespan is a mere blip on a geological scale. Either it happens, or it doesn't. You can't even prepare for something like this.
Yellowstone going off is something to worry about more than this, it'll be easier to recover from a large earthquake than Yellowstone which will be worldwide devastation for decades.
Thankful Vancouver Canada allocate huge funding to do seismic upgrade to major infrastructures since 2014. But we still need more to prevent catastrophic events after a magnitude 9 or larger earthquake, such as emergency power and essentials for people to survive until the rescue arrived
Check your narrator's pronunciation: The Willamette, the major river in Portland, Oregon, is pronounced Wil-LAM-met, and Puget Sound in Seattle, Washington, is pronounced PEW-jit Sound.
I live in Northwestern Calif. & all my life have heard about the BIG one. I'm pretty sure everyone from Canada to California knows it's bound to happen. The only question is when.
I mean, you can’t forecast specifically when it will hit but you can definitely tell if there is a high risk, and the probability that it will occur in a given timeframe. Being knowledgeable and prepared is different from being an alarmist.
@@Deepsideactually depending on what you were quoting it might have been 10 hours after because you see the International Date Line Between the west coast and Japan,, 😮
This video MAY have contained some worthwhile information, however, your choice of music completely devalued anything you might have wanted to say, IF you even had something of value to say.
..I don’t need ‘white flashes’ between ‘scenes’ in order to stay ..awake. Dang, had to cut this one short - though, I’m a former Oregonian having moved to solid ground.
Humans can predict what happened millions of years ago, and can predict earthquakes 50 years from now. But can't predict a rain storm a week or 2 from now
You forgot to mention the many many times the South JDF has set off the San Andreas and that there have been full margin ruptures of both JDF and San Andreas at the same time. If you really get into it F.E.M.A is quoted as saying everything west of Freeway 5 will be toast if there is a full margin rupture that sound like fun NOT, it may even set off a few volcano's. Have a nice day all.
When will we leave the coasts and go to safe distances inland from catastrophic storms, floods and earthquake regions. For some reason we we build all kinds of infrastructure and powerplants even reactors in an area prone to disaster that destroys that crap. Moving now will save lives and know it will happen again and again and again.
Copalis is pronounced 'Co-Pay-liss" and the 'S' in USGS is "Survey," not "Service." Also, Puget is pronounced "Pyoo-git." Willamette was also mispronounced.
Only someone truly from the PNW would be so offended by mispronunciation of local landmarks that are very honestly difficult for even non-local Americans to pronounce.
I met a guy yesterday who had indian ancestors. One had a memory of when the Mississippi ran backwards. He had swum in it. Mayv the New Madrdid fault quakno. No newspapers then.
Err waiting to see someone suggest that we inject fracking chemicals near the fault lines, to lube it up and reduce the potential energy via many smaller quakes. That process has happened in other places where fracking chemicals were widely injected.
Everyone knows it's COMING, what nobody knows is when. OP doesn't know either which means this video is 100% sizzle and 0% steak. It's a nothingburger.
This year will be bad with disaster's for China but next year will be a very very bad year for California earthquake will have effects on yellow stone volcano but our Lord has said that the earth will go through growing pains
When you do videos about America, we don't have Netflix. We are the miles inches based on. So when you make a video about America use? How many miles per how many inches are? How many feet?
I live on an Island and for 60 years people have predicted earthquake castrophy , the earthquakes we have had are not the issue its the crazy people trying to scare everyone 😅
If you really want to learn about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic activity go to the source not to a RUclips video. You would go to the Icelandic Met Office or the USGS site and other legitimate sites. There are literally thousands of earthquakes and volcanoes going off every year. It is not shocking. It is just what the planet Earth does.
As a geographer who has watched many videos on the potential for a megathrust earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, I found this brief video to be an excellent introduction to a complicated topic. It would benefit from editing to correct errors in pronunciation of place names and minor issues of content, such as when the tsunami hit the coast of Japan. Strong graphics and balanced commentary enhance the presentation, making the material easier to grasp. A list of suggested readings below the video would be useful for those who wish to explore the topic further. Overall, really well done!
thank you for the feedback!
Came to the comments to say the same thing. As for further exploration of the topic, central Washington university has an excellent lecture series on RUclips on PNW geology. Highly recommend.
@@Deepside Don't forget the South Carolina fault system; which I believe may run all the way up to Canada (Matthew 24:7, KJV).
They have really forgotten about certain fault lines. So many other distractions.
You are mentioning Nick Zentner the Geology Professor from whom I have learned so much about plate tectonics and about the subduction zone. He has said that Yellowstone volcano is really a "Hot Spot" just like Killawa on the big island in Hawaii. He is on the internet and is a great teacher! @@jeffersonstatecrash
Great video! I remember reading that the Cascadia fault also has the potential to trigger the San Andreas fault line. Apparently 8 of the previous Cascadia quakes caused a chain reaction. If that were to occur, we could see the entire western coast of North America impacted from Canada to Mexico. Hope it doesn't happen in my lifetime!
Me too.
Love seeing your graphics getting better with each video! And the research quality is keeping up! I can really feel how much work you've put into this one. Easily my favorite video on your channel so far!
thank you! It'll only get better from here :)
I lived in SF for 30+ yrs. People often talked about "The Big One" but no one every worried about it and certainly never altered their lives about it. Buildings are built to withstand earthquakes. (Except Millenium Tower, heh, heh, heh.) Que sera as they say. The quake to worry about will be on the New Madrid Fault. All those midwestern towns and cities made up of old buildings of unreinforced masonry are going to tumble.
Right now, the new Madrid fault is definitely of secondary concern to the cascadia subduction zone
There are pIenty of buidings in Washington, Oregon, and Northern CaIifornia that wiII not make it through the coming PNW quake.
Key areas of SF are built on fill, and the ground will liquify. So you can build strong buildings but if they are on fill, good luck.
I suspect that at some point, insurance companies will stop writing policies for these properties.
@@ey3z4ya Right now, the New Madrid fault is of primary important as compared to the Cascadia Subduction zone. You have it backwards.
This was one of the best descriptions I've seen out of many dozen.
Love seeing these cascadia quake videos show up in my feed every few weeks now. She must be getting ready to blow soon. I live in Port Angeles 🎉🌊
Bro saying that like it a good thing 💀
My solution is a personal hot air balloon powered by 10,000 solar panels in each home to float high above the tsunami...or escape the terrible places like Seattle and Portland.
I ate at Taco Bell and I'm ready to blow😂
Great vid man!
thank you!
I live in central Oregon near Mt Bachelor. Not that far from Mt Hood. I feel tremors.
What has recently come into focus is that when the Cascadia shook back in 1700, the San Andreas, and the Hayward Faults also shook at the same time. I did my research and the USGS finally admitted this within the last 2 years. We always hear about Washington, Oregon, Canada being hit hard, but how hard with all of Northern and Southern, California also be hit by the MegaQuake and the Mega tsunami because we are going to get slammed also.
Mega slammed
Really well done. When transplants to California ask about the San Andreas I’m often asking if they’ve ever heard of the nightmare fuel that is the CSZ. The answer has always been no.
I love your animations!
thank you! I love your channel!
The juan de fuca plate is like a giant wedge jammed in between the pacific and continental plates
I live in WA state and a study was done on the impacts to transportation after the big one hits, and they determined that all but two bridges and overpasses would collapse. Of the two bridges that could withstand the earthquake, one is used by trains and the other only leads to a small farming island of little importance. It will be completely devastating.
Well, wear three masks, get extra boosters, and drink more of the kooky koolaid and the earthquakes will go away. And if they don`t just blame racism.
I live on Vancouver Island and I am halfway up the island and at this point I have told everyone I know to always carry anything they need for a few days of survival in their vehicle, because the upper Highway that connects the island has massive Bridges every 20 minutes or so going over big rivers and valleys,, and there is nothing in between,, to be honest we have a secondary Low Highway that goes through all the small Beachside communities and takes twice as long to get up and down Island but anytime I'm driving I try to take that,, as much as it would suck being stranded between two big bridges that have blown out I don't want to be on one of those big Bridges when it hits
In Seattle*
@@bzuulu the study was for SW Washington and NW Oregon.
That makes more sense @@fluffbabiesRcrazy
And yet, residents in Ocean Shores, WA, the city likely to have the highest fatality in a CSZ tsunami, has cut through the dunes in 5 places to allow tourist vehicles to drive on the beach. The worst vehicle cut is at Chance A La Mar West Blvd which has a max 17' elevation through dunes that are 23' high. When the subsidence drops the entire coastline 6' prior to the tsunami, the gaps will only be 11' elevation. No one in Ocean Shores, FEMA, WA EMD, etc. will explain why opening the dunes to a tsunami flow is acceptable. But they won't fix that.
The dunes will liquify with the quake, along with other sandy areas along the coast region. Look up soil liquification for details. This is a known action of larger earthquakes.
Dunes will be about as useful as an umbrella in a nuclear blast.
I grew up in Michigan and have never experienced earthquakes but I moved to Washington State in 2009. I’ve always been concerned about earthquakes here, thankfully I haven’t experienced one yet. Not that I could feel anyway but it’s scary to think about. I started to learn about them when I moved here so I wouldn’t be absolutely clueless when it does happen.
If I move to Seattle, it will be a 9 plus.
Idiots when building Seattle used fire hoses to wash the cliffs down to fill in the swamp land then built on that. Liquefaction will take out much of Seattle and it won't need a 9.0 to accomplish that.
Huh??
This will undeniably be a catastrophic event, but it might not be as bad as a repeat of the 1812 New Madrid earthquakes which will happen in the middle of North America and whose effects will be felt over a huge part of the USA.
This is why I moved from the Pacific Northwest. When this thing finally slips it will be the worst earthquake in recorded US history (think the Tohoku Earthquake of 2011).
The Juan de Fuca moves in a clockwise direction because of the directions the other two plates are moving. This complicates things.
The Geology of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia is very complicated as well. Much of it is made up of terranes that formed in the Pacific because of volcanism or terranes from other places. Europe and Mexico part of the mix. The hot spot now in Montana is theorized to have been in the Pacific or created by picking up terranes.
You are so right! I have learned all about the Cascadia Zone and that the Cascade Mountains are here because of the zone and are in relation to it. I learned it and lots more from Geology professor Nick Zentner who is at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.
The explanation of the way rock behaves below the surface is intriguing
This...the Yellowstone...OMG 😮
Don't forget the New Madrid fault and the 1862 flooding of the Central Valley in California, which is supposed to happen with some regularity. I won't live to see any of it, but my grand daughters are going to live in "interesting times." 🙂
@@DesertRat332fair to explain ? Would love to read
I've seen and read several presentations about the Cascadia subduction zone. They all have varying numbers of quakes accredited to the zone over the last 5000 years. The more conservative say these occur every 500 years or so. The ones that include more quakes put the period between quakes at about 250 years. If the latter, the northwest is overdue by 50 years with a better than 50 percent possibility of a major quake in the next few years. Also, the ones including more quakes have a number of smaller ones below the titanic 9+ level. A quake may occur that's well below that in strength. Say a 7 to 8. While still very destructive, it would be less so than a 9+.
You are correct. Just prior to saying these quakes occur every 300 to 500 years, his own graph showed a 10,000 year span with 39 quakes. Rounding it slightly, that comes to one on average every 250 years. Not 300 to 500. That, in my opinion, makes this entire conversation much more relevant in current times.
I live on the south end of Vancouver Island and have definitely felt earthquakes, albeit small ones. We also get the occasional tsunami alert, and once a year at work, we go through our disaster plan. Hopefully "the big one" doesn't happen in my lifetime, but I have no control; all I can do is prepare as best I can.
Someone should make a video on the effects going East. The food, electronics, medical , roads, travel
I live in western Arkansas. We have the big fault near Mark Tree, Arkansas. In 1811-1812., it produced a series of sever quakes over a period of months. The Mississippi River ran backwards briefly during these quakes. This series of quakes was felt over large areas.
I believe that is the New Madrid fault there.
The recent (2017) and next year's total solar eclipses intersect over that area. Coincidence....? I think not. It's a ominous warning!
@@badactor3440 oh please
Interesting YT suggested this video for me, possibly b/c I just made my Big Seattle Earthquake prediction video a week ago. My research & maths point to very likely within 2 years - & possibly as soon as early 2024!
very interesting, I would love to hear more about your research!
math is the least reliable way to predict earthquakes
I'm very curious how you've reached that conclusion! I've been studying isometrics every day for the last 2 years, so I do know quite a bit about it, but you sounded very sure, so I thought I'd do a quick little test.
I looked up every earthquake in Turkey for the last 166 years. Of the dozen listed, only 3 were 7.7 or stronger. The distance in time between the first & second was 83 years & about 2 1/2 months. The distance in time beween the second & the third was 83 years & about 1 1/2 months.
BAM! Isometrix - i just love it. 👍@@blondegirlsezthis8798
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions cannot be reliably estimated using math. Almost all forecasts using this method turn out to be wrong. I wish it could be done; but there's just too many variables under the ground that researchers can only estimate. With that said, if this Seattle earthquake does occur in the next two years, I will make every effort to find your video, and offer a sincere apology!
@@MarcusBP ruclips.net/video/3_49b9x709w/видео.htmlsi=gFHaLE1Iewz6sp2L
I know this is slightly nit picky, but Puget Sound is pronounced PewJet Sound. Not being a local you wouldn't have known that., so no biggie really. A lot of local names are from Native American culture, Puget Sound however is not one of them. The sound is named after Peter Puget who accompanied George Vancouver on his exploration of the areas waterways. Now on to the CSZ. When it ruptures, it will devastate pretty much the entire western coastline of the US and Canada (and possibly Mexico Russia, China etc from the Tsunami's), as well as wipe out pretty much everything west of Interstate 5 in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. The damage to everything East of Interstate 5 will also be massive. The costs will be measured in potentially millions of lives and trillions of dollars. The CSZ is why I NEVER go to the coast.
That annoyed me when I heard it mispronounced. Very often I hear mispronounced names by narrators. Before speaking or recording, they should check the proper pronunciations.
brb packing my things
The farralon plate remnants is now thought to be the source of stress build up in the new Madrid seismic zone. Interesting how both areas are waiting for the big one and are possibly caused by the same thing despite the distance.
That was a really nice Video. I hope my comment helps the video get a bit more attention from the Algorithm so more people can see a well produced video :D
thank you, I appreciate it!!
Nice another up and coming education channel all for it! The market is huge now but this is a good thing, just hard to grow tho
This is very interesting on explaining how this forms two parallel mountain ranges, and why the coast ranges aren't volcanic.
I don't remember ever seeing any one address this before.
With that large an earthquake, wouldn't that increase chances for nearby volcanos to erupt?
Don't believe it. This page is just as unreliable as Christo Aivalis.....both Klickbait Klan.
There isn't any evidence of that happening. If you think about it, after learning what cause volcanoes to erupt, shaking isn't going to cause them unless one is ready to erupt in the next month anyway.
Puget Sound is pronounced "PYOU-jet".
It's Grays Harbor County, not Gray County.
Yep, pew- jet sound
This video includes new information I've never heard before.
Including the "scraping" of the plate that creates the coastal mountains, and the estimated time for the northern stretch of the Cascadia Subduction Zone to rupture versus the southern stretch.
Most of the coastal mountains are not caused by scraping, only the Olympic Mountains which are not volcanic.
I live on central Vancouver Island near the north end of the subduction zone, I hope to not be alive when the next mega-quake hits here, it will likely be devastating
Bravo! Subscribed
I am curious to know how much of this Cascadia Fault snapped? (The entire length?) Can we figure out where on that fault was the epicenter? Also, compare that to the fault off the coast of Banda Ache and ask the same questions--just to get an idea of how big this coming quake will be.
Great video. FYI, it’s “will-am-it” not “willmit”, and “pew jit” isn’t “pug it”.
thanks!
@@Deepside of course. Don’t get me wrong, truly a good recap and informational. It’s just that I live in the area so I know the local pronunciation 😂🤤
If they can even say poo jit* sound that is close.
Good thing General Aviation has a plan in place to help in the aftermath with the West Coast General Aviation Response Plan
Been saying this shit my entire life and they'll be saying it after I'm gone. Geological events are meaningless when your lifespan is a mere blip on a geological scale. Either it happens, or it doesn't. You can't even prepare for something like this.
I mean, you actually can prepare. You can’t prevent all injury and damage, but you can significantly mitigate it. Look at Japan.
Yellowstone going off is something to worry about more than this, it'll be easier to recover from a large earthquake than Yellowstone which will be worldwide devastation for decades.
Yellowstone hasnt erupted in an extremely long time, “the big one” is something that happened regularly every 300~ years
Would Eastern Washington feel this?
Thankful Vancouver Canada allocate huge funding to do seismic upgrade to major infrastructures since 2014. But we still need more to prevent catastrophic events after a magnitude 9 or larger earthquake, such as emergency power and essentials for people to survive until the rescue arrived
It may or may not be worse than the Anchorage quake, which was also subduction-caused. Kudos on pronouncing "Juan de Fuca" right!
Check your narrator's pronunciation: The Willamette, the major river in Portland, Oregon, is pronounced Wil-LAM-met, and Puget Sound in Seattle, Washington, is pronounced PEW-jit Sound.
I live on the coast, right at the southern tip of the JDF plate. We do get lots of little quakes here, but I guess we're due for a bigger one...
I live in Northwestern Calif. & all my life have heard about the BIG one. I'm pretty sure everyone from Canada to California knows it's bound to happen. The only question is when.
Audio engineers may have been a little distracted by the visual representation.
Very well done. No "fear mongering". It will eventually experience a "full rip" but most likely not in our lifetimes. Thanks for being truthful!!!!
It's coming this year 2024
@@debraolson7553 I seriously doubt that. A partial rip possibly, but not a full rip.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! C'mon dude, even the experts can't predict.
I mean, you can’t forecast specifically when it will hit but you can definitely tell if there is a high risk, and the probability that it will occur in a given timeframe. Being knowledgeable and prepared is different from being an alarmist.
Quite interesting to learn that the 1700 Cascadia earthquake caused a tsunami on a Japanese island 10 hours before! I think it was 10 hours later.
good catch! Yes, it was 10 hours later. Sorry for the mistake!
@@Deepsideactually depending on what you were quoting it might have been 10 hours after because you see the International Date Line Between the west coast and Japan,, 😮
Yellowstone I live 200 miles from there thats what I'm worried about savvy
Good, informative content but I respectfully suggest that the background music should go.
Cascadia doesn't produce small quakes
Unless you consider an 8 small ..
@sherimatukonis6016 8 are bad idk whst he tlsking biut
This video MAY have contained some worthwhile information, however, your choice of music completely devalued anything you might have wanted to say, IF you even had something of value to say.
You mean the barely audible drone playing in the background? You must be easily annoyed
@@ey3z4ya Read the thread. Other people are complaining about the music.
If the new madrid fault goes off again it'll make this fault line look like childs play
Wrong
Why is it a competition
I live in Indiana, so we don’t have to worry about this.
What would a full margin tear on the SJDF fault look like for SF Bay Area.
where are the sources, especially Atwater findings and plot of historic earthquakes
..I don’t need ‘white flashes’ between ‘scenes’ in order to stay ..awake. Dang, had to cut this one short - though, I’m a former Oregonian having moved to solid ground.
Humans can predict what happened millions of years ago, and can predict earthquakes 50 years from now. But can't predict a rain storm a week or 2 from now
I'm 65 so I hope this happens sooner rather than later.
You forgot to mention the many many times the South JDF has set off the San Andreas and that there have been full margin ruptures of both JDF and San Andreas at the same time.
If you really get into it F.E.M.A is quoted as saying everything west of Freeway 5 will be toast if there is a full margin rupture that sound like fun NOT, it may even set off a few volcano's.
Have a nice day all.
is this dutchsinse burner account?
That was 11 months ago
the sky is falling the sky is falling ^_-
When will we leave the coasts and go to safe distances inland from catastrophic storms, floods and earthquake regions. For some reason we we build all kinds of infrastructure and powerplants even reactors in an area prone to disaster that destroys that crap. Moving now will save lives and know it will happen again and again and again.
When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salt n sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars.
We can only hope.
Can I have your house?
Sounds like what just happened in Japan, a massive slip fault tsunami.
I would like to know why y'all saying 50 years. Its literally going to happen at anytime any day. The evidence of that is very clear
Copalis is pronounced 'Co-Pay-liss" and the 'S' in USGS is "Survey," not "Service."
Also, Puget is pronounced "Pyoo-git."
Willamette was also mispronounced.
Only someone truly from the PNW would be so offended by mispronunciation of local landmarks that are very honestly difficult for even non-local Americans to pronounce.
I met a guy yesterday who had indian ancestors. One had a memory of when the Mississippi ran backwards. He had swum in it. Mayv the New Madrdid fault quakno.
No newspapers then.
Small chump change compared to New Madrid Zone.
This is categorically false. Also, not sure why it has to be a competition? Too much hometown pride perhaps?
@@Dnttou0497 very true,and nothing wrong with pride. Do you wake up ButtHurt?asking for a friend
hi
Dutchsinse (earthquake channel) sent out message today. All forms of his Internet access have been cut off!!!!😢
Oh yes, your blessed soothsayer Dutch knows all! 🙄
good video but you need to work on how to pronounce northwest place names.
Err waiting to see someone suggest that we inject fracking chemicals near the fault lines, to lube it up and reduce the potential energy via many smaller quakes. That process has happened in other places where fracking chemicals were widely injected.
'Fracking' could potentially trigger an earthquake.
@@ethereal369 Yup. Small scale experimentation first?
Everyone knows it's COMING, what nobody knows is when. OP doesn't know either which means this video is 100% sizzle and 0% steak. It's a nothingburger.
Well Eventually Yea!
This year will be bad with disaster's for China but next year will be a very very bad year for California earthquake will have effects on yellow stone volcano but our Lord has said that the earth will go through growing pains
At least once a week, someone comes out with a Cascadia earthquake is coming video.
When you do videos about America, we don't have Netflix. We are the miles inches based on. So when you make a video about America use? How many miles per how many inches are? How many feet?
Learn how to write in English before criticizing someone’s use of the metric system because it “isn’t American.”
I live on an Island and for 60 years people have predicted earthquake castrophy , the earthquakes we have had are not the issue its the crazy people trying to scare everyone 😅
What island and where
@@Joe_Monkey_Rogan Beside the Salish sea..........also called Paradise by locals😉
There is no getting ready for it
That’s a joke 😊
I hope there's no nuclear power plants in that area or the devastation will be atrocious
So they must relocate pack up small and big businesses and employees people then clear off demolition the lands. Before wormwoody build hits the seas.
Good
Hasn't Steve Kerr demanded it to be vaccinated?
It's OK
1 I am sure the Government will Save us all 😃
If you really want to learn about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic activity go to the source not to a RUclips video. You would go to the Icelandic Met Office or the USGS site and other legitimate sites. There are literally thousands of earthquakes and volcanoes going off every year. It is not shocking. It is just what the planet Earth does.
Yet, nothing.
I like your channel pictur change, not as agresive
Thank you. I am going for a bit of a change as a transition into more science related videos.
Not cascades. New Madrid
That's a completely different fault
No where near there buddy
a great shaking is in the future. The sky will cry dust and the sun will go to sleep
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I live in ky and realy dont want California to have that earth quake. I dont want people hurt
Great content, but Jesus Christ. The asmr narration was overbearing !
what do you mean by that. how can I improve for next time?
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