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@@shawnwillsey Something very wrong with American education if so many have the idea that Tibet has been a sovereign state recently grabbed by China. Your national bias against communism is clearly affecting teaching or do you all believe what the papers tell you. Such poverty of knowledge has probably been the reason for the US getting into wars with all and sundry for well over 100 years. Lack of foreign policy nowse is what has resulted.
Shigatse is a wonderful area with lovely people. The Monastery has a large collection of ancient texts. Trees are rare in this area due to elevation. Buildings are built with sun dried mud bricks so they break easilyin an earthquake. Prayers for the people. 🙏
As I tell my students, this is a long-duration car crash with the Himalayas being the rising "crumple zone" of the vehicle. Unfortunately the quakes in that region tend to result in large fatality numbers. I sure hate to see that.
There's a reason the Japanese built their houses with post and beam somewhat flexible 'skeletons' and light weigh partitions. But then they Go and put the heavy tiles on the roof.
Thanks Shawn for the earthquake update. How said for the people who lost their lives and the damage that occurred. Really appreciate all you do for use.
Thank you Shawn for the in-depth analysis. It just goes to show how important the detail is. I wouldn't have expected to see a normal fault but as soon as you showed the neo tectonic maps, it made perfect sense. I remember my daughter telling me about studying crustal deformation in her final year and focussing on this particular fault system. She said in summary that the Indian plate boundary does some crazy stuff. Now I can see why. Brilliant. Thanks again.
Thanks for keeping me updated on the geological events going on around the world. Since I quit watching broadcast news, you have become my source of information for these types of events. I would also like to hear your take on the Ethiopian volcano situation.
Thanks for the explanation of the dynamics surrounding today’s Tibetan earthquake Shawn. Hopefully the number of people adversely affected remains low.
Thanks so much for this info. As soon as I heard about the earthquake I was looking forward to your analysis. As I've been in the region (Nepal and also near Everest, Bhutan, northern India) I am keen to learn how the situation is in those places. Your explanation made it much clearer.
Many thanks for your explanation about this earthquake. As soon as I heard about it, I was looking forward to your analysis. As I have been in that area (most of Nepal and near Everest, northern India, Bhutan) I was especially keen to learn how the situation affected those areas. Your analysis made it much clearer to understand what happened.
Thanks Shawn. I too received the alert last night. I'm sure the damage is terrible. There have been some 8's there in the past century that have been devastating. Thanks for the coverage. 🇺🇲🧙🏼♂️💙
Shigatse was the most beautiful and precious area I visited in Tibet many decades ago. The monastery was incredible with many monks and devoted pilgrims. I am sad to think of the devastation of this area. We also visited the village of Tingri which is even closer to the epicenter.
5:17 I love that you used this model. I’ve been following some of that guys work and he does some great modeling using everyday material. I think people respond to physical models a lot better than computer modeling. Anyways, thanks for using this. I’m sure he is grateful for it too
Saw a video yesterday about a M7.1 in the area . Watched it for all of 2 minutes & left because narrator said that China had 14 billion people & India had 7 billion people . I got scared about what other inaccuracies he may’ve had . Thanks for referencing other locations relative to this area !
Thanks Shawn for putting the quake into perspective. It's a sign of the times how little news coverage this terrible event has garnered here in the UK.
@@johnwelbourn3811 It was on WION world news (English) early this morning amongst other world channels. No use relying on BBC & C4. They are too busy with social engineering 🦋
Thank you for this video. I find it very interesting what is ongoing in Ethiopia with a lot of 4-5 earthquakes, cracks opening, mudpools erupting and very strong geysirs. If you have time to look into that it would be very welcome.
So so sorry for the terrible death toll and all the injuries... And it is freezing cold up there... :(( But I was really glad to have your take on this event, especially when I saw the beach ball on the USGS website earlier and recognized a normal fault (I thought: that's odd! And then: but what do I know?). So your analysis is very much appreciated :) Also, I think I've never heard of escape tectonics before, hmm... So much to learn! Thanks Shawn and thanks Amanda Jo. À bientôt ! :)
Thanks Shawn I knew about the formation of the Himalayas but never thought about how the whole of Tibet was being squeezed and distorted. Always something more to learn.
Thanks Shawn. At some point I would appreciate a more detailed explanation of the forces driving india northward so hard that it raises mountains instead of just being stopped when it hits another landmass. It boggles my mind that the underlying magma or other currents pushing it north from the southern hemisphere or so strong that it can raise mountains.
I was in Pheriche which is about 10km from Everest base camp when this woke us up. Very strange feeling to have the ground shaking beneath you. Thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been affected 😢
India has a couple of news channels on TH-cam. The Times of India is one, but I can't remember the other. They're easy to find if you're interested in news from South Asia.
Tibet has been a region of China since the middle ages. At the occasional periods of weakness in China outside actors attempt to sever the region. Most recently after the Chinese Civil War and prior to that the Revolution of Sun Yat Sen. Check the history rather than the propaganda.
Could easily cause avalanches and rockfalls. Might be another deadly season on Everest if it's climbing season right now. Im not sure on that. edit. I looked it up. March, April, and May is climbing season.
Just as a fyi, a couple of news teams on the ground on the day of the quake have posted livestream video and updates with more imagery from the epicentre. I saw some images of major road damage as well as damage to homes and other buildings. Many of the buildings in the rural areas of Tibet are old enough to precede understanding of how building styles can impact their response to earthquakes, so there are going to be a lot of them that came down, unfortunately. It's very sad situation. Additionally there was a fairly large earthquake on the northeastern edge of the plateau last week, which makes it seem the entire area has been more active than usual over the last week or two.
Go and ask the locals which country are they from, go and see who are rescuing lives. Why Dalai Lama in India has the authority to represent Tibetan people? It's hilarious as Pope in Vatican representing all Americans. Or give me any international document claiming Tibet as an independent country?
The Eurasian plate is much bigger relative to the Indian plate, but the Indian plate just keeps powering into it. What's dragging the Indian plate with so much force that it can keep building this massive rockpile rather than just coming to a stop?
Is the normal faults the result of the coin purse action that Nick zentner popularized? Ie north south compression causing east west tension? Extension?
Thanks for the update. I have friends in the north of Nepal that felt the quake and in the north of China that didn´t. What do you think about the earth rift that seems to be forming in Ethiopia? Many 1000nds of people have been evacuated as the earth rumbles non-stop and mud geisers are appearing everywhere.
Thank you Shawn. You are a great humanitarian. Concerns about the human factors ofcourse come first~Sir Edmund Hillary and his work in Nepal remains dear to most new zealanders. The fault pattern of the himalayas I'd never seen before- explains alot. I was under the impression that it was all up lift - excuse the puns.
I dont suppose many on this channel checked Asian news outlets on this. The rescue services were hard at since first light. They have the direct authority of the national leadership.
Thanks Shawn for this geologist's view of the Indian subcontinent's structure that gives an insight into its tectonic underpinning. What I'd like to see is a map showing the likelihood of seismic events coupled with population density and building construction techniques. I noticed the buildings (and people living therein) during the Japanese earthquake of 2011 survived remarkably well. Unfortunately much was destroyed by the following tsunami. Relatively little loss of life due to the earthquake, as huge as it was, because Japan has such high building standards, standards not affordable in most of the rest of the world. Many years ago, during the mid Carboniferous, when I was in high school, I remember reading of the horrific loss of life that occurred due to historic Chinese earthquakes and when a large one struck China (50 years ago?) followed by "official" Chinese government reports of "only a few causalities," I knew it would be in the hundreds of thousands and I was right. As a result of this latest quake, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the official number of reported causalities to great increase, maybe into the thousands. I never understood why these earthquakes caused such huge number of fatalities until I toured Egypt many years ago. I saw how people in poor countries are crowded into multi-story and poorly, --- very poorly --- reinforced brick or stone structures that take only the slightest (sometimes no) motion to cause them to pancake down, one floor collapsed on top on another or tip over, shatter and shower masonry into the streets. When touring the suburbs of Cairo, and having dinner as a guest in one such multi-story building, I was horrified at what I was seeing and nervous all the time I was in that apartment lest there should be even a slight shake. If ever an earthquake struck Lower Egypt, even a minor one, the shaking would be amplified by the deep alluvial soils, their buildings so poorly and cheaply constructed and the high density of people living in those buildings would result in a death count in the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.
I just saw a volcano erupting in Ethiopia, Dofen I believe, mass evacuation. It’s rhyolithic, don’t know if you were interested or not but it’s a different kind of eruption for sure.
GSN - Global Seismographic Network 0 About 150 seismic station around the glove, and USGS is part of it and gets their data. very important since it provide far better 3D resolution of depth of an earthquake and its location. USGS has a page on it if you seach and there is a map of where the stations are.
I know this is probably not the place to put this question, but what is taking place in Ethiopia? I have some friends from there any they are having many earthquakes near two volcanoes. They are concerned there is going to be an eruption.
It's unfortunate that Shawn's choice of geographical description has set off so many people, as there's lots of interesting geology in this video. Yes, China annexed Tibet against the latter's will and it is still an issue for many, many people. And it is doubly unfortunate because *there are so many war drums now beating for a war (by the US) against the PRC that **_these issues will increase in relevance_** even if a science presenter wishes them not to.*
Areas of the world with lower economic advantages often use non-reinforced masonry (mud brick, grouted rock, non reinforced concrete, etc.) for structures. Those buildings have lower survivability when the ground moves simply because those structures crumble with the induced shear loads. We see this again and again and there is no real answer to this because the reality is, that those people cannot afford more robust construction and they just have to take their chances.
New sub here greetings from Australia. Have a look at the Sun's activity as it is approaching its grand solar maximum not a Carrington or dinosaur event hopefully.
BTW, there was a very large earthquake in Khatmandu some years ago which destroyed all the historical buildings, and I recall Google donating the streetview data to help rebuild them. Won't be pretty when the government of China decides India has gotten a litte too close and pushes it back out to sea 🙂
mate you have 132k subs and still don't have a proper microphone. that's incredible. there are even other headsets that do an adequate job. that thing is absurd for a 132k sub channel.
It’s not for lack of trying. I’m a one man show and have gone through several options. I have a nice desk mounted boom mic but had trouble getting it dialed. It’s likely something on my settings and believe me I have spent hours fiddling and trying to get it dialed. At this point, good enough is good enough until a sound engineer walks in my door.
@@shawnwillsey Ok well I'm here now. It's the headset. Throw it. 1. make sure u have a high end PCI-e soundcard with an external interface where you plug in the mic. 2. Then make sure the microphone input level is never in the red on your video recording software. 3. use a limiter if u need to deal with excessive background noise or want to tighten up the vocal recording. 4. or buy a high end headset if u prefer that set up but the voice wont ever be as good.
@@shawnwillsey How can I lose you when you can simply copy and paste anything into a search? Just look for "what are the best pci-e soundcards with external interface"
@@shawnwillsey I said "How can I lose you when you can simply copy and paste anything into a search? Just look for "what are the best pci-e soundcards with external interface"" - but YT's fash censor did what fash censors do.
Wow! I have never heard anything like this before. Geology is complicated. Maybe someone will say that it’s now more complicated than quantum physics. 😳😵💫
So, it appears that that mass to the right is getting smooshed into the Pacific plate too. Might that mean that Japan and the Philippines are going to be compressed, resulting in rising elevation? Just a thought. I certainly hope the death toll doesn't rise.
I don't think the Tibetans will appreciate you describing Tibet as a region of China. It was annexed by China and the Tibetans continue to suffer major human rights abuses. Essentially, Tibet is what Putin wants to achieve in Ukraine.
Numerous dams are built on the Tibetan Plateau.Trans Himalayan railway is also coming to connect Tibet and Nepal.Why nobody is talking about that? Dams can also induce earthquakes.Human made disaster!
India slammed into China doing at least 5 miles an hour. That is a faster car crash which makes more sense. When all the slabs that subducted so fast in the plate tectonics 10000yrs ago are melting now. With that melting you going to get a lot of water released making the magma thinner causing a lot of volcanos, water steaming up and earthquakes around tectonics plates. Tsunami time!. Earth is warming up but when all this chaos slows down, we will be in a new ice age. I wouldn’t want to live near any coast are volcanoes.
OK Shawn, Bye Bye. You made an incredibly ignorant statement about Tibet being southern China and when people called you out on it you erased their comments. I'm a Nick Zentner follower and pretty much a follower of you. Not any more. I wonder now about your belief in freedom and the importance of supporting same world wide.
The country is called China. The map, showing country names, is correct and is what is used by scientists. Science is a cooperative international enterprise.
I have a collection of maps and atlases from before 1950 that all refer to the independent country of Tibet. People are lying to you about a well documented history.
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Just FYI, Tibet is not a part of china. It was invaded by china in the 1950s.
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@@shawnwillsey Something very wrong with American education if so many have the idea that Tibet has been a sovereign state recently grabbed by China.
Your national bias against communism is clearly affecting teaching or do you all believe what the papers tell you.
Such poverty of knowledge has probably been the reason for the US getting into wars with all and sundry for well over 100 years. Lack of foreign policy nowse is what has resulted.
Shawn please put mic away of your mouth or buy something better.
@@cjay2 When you invade something and take it, you own it... ask the British... If Tibet was free, the Dali Llama could go home... he can not.
Shigatse is a wonderful area with lovely people. The Monastery has a large collection of ancient texts. Trees are rare in this area due to elevation. Buildings are built with sun dried mud bricks so they break easilyin an earthquake. Prayers for the people. 🙏
As I tell my students, this is a long-duration car crash with the Himalayas being the rising "crumple zone" of the vehicle. Unfortunately the quakes in that region tend to result in large fatality numbers. I sure hate to see that.
There's a reason the Japanese built their houses with post and beam somewhat flexible 'skeletons' and light weigh partitions. But then they Go and put the heavy tiles on the roof.
Thanks Shawn for the earthquake update. How said for the people who lost their lives and the damage that occurred. Really appreciate all you do for use.
Thanks for the very informative video about the region. We can count on you to keep us up to date on things going on in the world
Thank you! You and your team are so awesome at gathering information on these events.
Good of you to recognise that the American world outlook is poor, ideology bound and marked by self interest.
Thank you Shawn for the in-depth analysis. It just goes to show how important the detail is. I wouldn't have expected to see a normal fault but as soon as you showed the neo tectonic maps, it made perfect sense.
I remember my daughter telling me about studying crustal deformation in her final year and focussing on this particular fault system. She said in summary that the Indian plate boundary does some crazy stuff. Now I can see why. Brilliant. Thanks again.
Excellent explanation, Shawn and AmandaJo!! Best online!!!
ShawnJo! 😅
Thanks for keeping me updated on the geological events going on around the world. Since I quit watching broadcast news, you have become my source of information for these types of events.
I would also like to hear your take on the Ethiopian volcano situation.
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Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thank you Shawn. Another well explained, brilliant video.
Thanks!
Thanks for your kind support.
Thanks for the explanation of the dynamics surrounding today’s Tibetan earthquake Shawn. Hopefully the number of people adversely affected remains low.
Thanks so much for this info. As soon as I heard about the earthquake I was looking forward to your analysis. As I've been in the region (Nepal and also near Everest, Bhutan, northern India) I am keen to learn how the situation is in those places. Your explanation made it much clearer.
Many thanks for your explanation about this earthquake. As soon as I heard about it, I was looking forward to your analysis. As I have been in that area (most of Nepal and near Everest, northern India, Bhutan) I was especially keen to learn how the situation affected those areas. Your analysis made it much clearer to understand what happened.
Thank you for the update Shawn.
Thanks, Mandy Jo, for the good work you've done all along. ❤
Informative as always Mr. W
Thanks Shawn. I too received the alert last night. I'm sure the damage is terrible. There have been some 8's there in the past century that have been devastating. Thanks for the coverage. 🇺🇲🧙🏼♂️💙
Shigatse was the most beautiful and precious area I visited in Tibet many decades ago. The monastery was incredible with many monks and devoted pilgrims. I am sad to think of the devastation of this area. We also visited the village of Tingri which is even closer to the epicenter.
5:17 I love that you used this model. I’ve been following some of that guys work and he does some great modeling using everyday material. I think people respond to physical models a lot better than computer modeling. Anyways, thanks for using this. I’m sure he is grateful for it too
Saw a video yesterday about a M7.1 in the area . Watched it for all of 2 minutes & left because narrator said that China had 14 billion people & India had 7 billion people . I got scared about what other inaccuracies he may’ve had . Thanks for referencing other locations relative to this area !
Thanks Shawn for putting the quake into perspective. It's a sign of the times how little news coverage this terrible event has garnered here in the UK.
@@johnwelbourn3811 It was on WION world news (English) early this morning amongst other world channels. No use relying on BBC & C4. They are too busy with social engineering 🦋
Thanks for the update. It’s the most informative.
Thank you Shawn. Wasn’t aware of the earthquake.
The GPS relative motion map of the region is amazing. I never knew that so much of Asia was being extruded out to east! Thanks Shawn!
Holy guacamole, imagine being on Mt Everest during that quake. Sends shivers down my spine. 😵💫
The only way I would be on Mt Everest is via google earth :)
Thank you for this video. I find it very interesting what is ongoing in Ethiopia with a lot of 4-5 earthquakes, cracks opening, mudpools erupting and very strong geysirs. If you have time to look into that it would be very welcome.
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Thanks Shawn really enjoy your input ( and Mandy Jo)
Thanks again Shawn. You are Idahos Best. So instructional and informative.
Thank you for sharing (Sharing is caring )
Great info! Learned something new
I did not know about "escape tectonics." I always wondered why that area looked that way. Now I cannot unsee it!! Thanks!
Ty, Shawn
Thanks for your time Shawn. Keep safe and well. Jim from Dartford UK.
Thank you and Amanda Jo for this informative video. Hopefully rescue attempts are successful.
So so sorry for the terrible death toll and all the injuries... And it is freezing cold up there... :((
But I was really glad to have your take on this event, especially when I saw the beach ball on the USGS website earlier and recognized a normal fault (I thought: that's odd! And then: but what do I know?). So your analysis is very much appreciated :)
Also, I think I've never heard of escape tectonics before, hmm... So much to learn! Thanks Shawn and thanks Amanda Jo. À bientôt ! :)
Thank you Shawn.
Thanks Shawn and Amanda Jo for all the info!
Appreciate your thoughts on this 👏👏
Appreciate your background info and update Shawn,.
Thankyou for the update.
Thanks for the update and clarifying that this is a convergent zone.
Thanks Shawn I knew about the formation of the Himalayas but never thought about how the whole of Tibet was being squeezed and distorted. Always something more to learn.
The diagram showing extensional forces was excellent.
So sorry to hear about damages and loss of life.
Thanks Shawn. At some point I would appreciate a more detailed explanation of the forces driving india northward so hard that it raises mountains instead of just being stopped when it hits another landmass. It boggles my mind that the underlying magma or other currents pushing it north from the southern hemisphere or so strong that it can raise mountains.
Thanks for sharing this informative video. 😊 Very much appreciated!
I was in Pheriche which is about 10km from Everest base camp when this woke us up. Very strange feeling to have the ground shaking beneath you. Thoughts and prayers go out to all who have been affected 😢
India has a couple of news channels on TH-cam. The Times of India is one, but I can't remember the other. They're easy to find if you're interested in news from South Asia.
I noticed that UGS does have citizen science feedback from the area.
Was reported on India's world news channel WION immediately after the quake,
Tibet has been a region of China since the middle ages. At the occasional periods of weakness in China outside actors attempt to sever the region. Most recently after the Chinese Civil War and prior to that the Revolution of Sun Yat Sen. Check the history rather than the propaganda.
Thanks Shawn. Our thoughts go out to the survivors.
very near to mount everest...
that could by a ironic day for some mountenclimber.
Could easily cause avalanches and rockfalls. Might be another deadly season on Everest if it's climbing season right now. Im not sure on that. edit. I looked it up. March, April, and May is climbing season.
Thanks for update
Thanks again shawn. Rob butler has done a good video about the Himalayan geology
Just as a fyi, a couple of news teams on the ground on the day of the quake have posted livestream video and updates with more imagery from the epicentre. I saw some images of major road damage as well as damage to homes and other buildings.
Many of the buildings in the rural areas of Tibet are old enough to precede understanding of how building styles can impact their response to earthquakes, so there are going to be a lot of them that came down, unfortunately.
It's very sad situation.
Additionally there was a fairly large earthquake on the northeastern edge of the plateau last week, which makes it seem the entire area has been more active than usual over the last week or two.
Not a part of the world I’ve travelled to or all that familiar with, so thank you for your explanations.
It is not the Tibet region of China - it is Tibet, currently invaded by China.
Thanks for pointing that out. It was driving me nuts and I wondered if it bothered anyone else.
@@briancooley2977i was going to say the same
Go and ask the locals which country are they from, go and see who are rescuing lives. Why Dalai Lama in India has the authority to represent Tibetan people? It's hilarious as Pope in Vatican representing all Americans. Or give me any international document claiming Tibet as an independent country?
@@sysphominahugo1766 You sound a lot like an outraged Chinese troll.
The longer the arrows at 7:30 the faster the velocity?
Yes.
Thanks Shawn. There is a lack of news here about this quake.
The Eurasian plate is much bigger relative to the Indian plate, but the Indian plate just keeps powering into it. What's dragging the Indian plate with so much force that it can keep building this massive rockpile rather than just coming to a stop?
Thoughts on the activity in Ethiopia?
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I was wondering if the earthquake swarm in Ethiopia had any influence in pushing the Somalia plate to India towards China/Nepal area?
No, very distance and totally different plate boundary.
Is the normal faults the result of the coin purse action that Nick zentner popularized? Ie north south compression causing east west tension? Extension?
Thanks for the update. I have friends in the north of Nepal that felt the quake and in the north of China that didn´t.
What do you think about the earth rift that seems to be forming in Ethiopia? Many 1000nds of people have been evacuated as the earth rumbles non-stop and mud geisers are appearing everywhere.
Would also like to hear from you on what’s happening in Ethiopia 🙏
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Thank you Shawn. You are a great humanitarian. Concerns about the human factors ofcourse come first~Sir Edmund Hillary and his work in Nepal remains dear to most new zealanders. The fault pattern of the himalayas I'd never seen before- explains alot. I was under the impression that it was all up lift - excuse the puns.
I dont suppose many on this channel checked Asian news outlets on this. The rescue services were hard at since first light. They have the direct authority of the national leadership.
Thanks Shawn for this geologist's view of the Indian subcontinent's structure that gives an insight into its tectonic underpinning. What I'd like to see is a map showing the likelihood of seismic events coupled with population density and building construction techniques. I noticed the buildings (and people living therein) during the Japanese earthquake of 2011 survived remarkably well. Unfortunately much was destroyed by the following tsunami. Relatively little loss of life due to the earthquake, as huge as it was, because Japan has such high building standards, standards not affordable in most of the rest of the world.
Many years ago, during the mid Carboniferous, when I was in high school, I remember reading of the horrific loss of life that occurred due to historic Chinese earthquakes and when a large one struck China (50 years ago?) followed by "official" Chinese government reports of "only a few causalities," I knew it would be in the hundreds of thousands and I was right. As a result of this latest quake, I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the official number of reported causalities to great increase, maybe into the thousands.
I never understood why these earthquakes caused such huge number of fatalities until I toured Egypt many years ago. I saw how people in poor countries are crowded into multi-story and poorly, --- very poorly --- reinforced brick or stone structures that take only the slightest (sometimes no) motion to cause them to pancake down, one floor collapsed on top on another or tip over, shatter and shower masonry into the streets.
When touring the suburbs of Cairo, and having dinner as a guest in one such multi-story building, I was horrified at what I was seeing and nervous all the time I was in that apartment lest there should be even a slight shake. If ever an earthquake struck Lower Egypt, even a minor one, the shaking would be amplified by the deep alluvial soils, their buildings so poorly and cheaply constructed and the high density of people living in those buildings would result in a death count in the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.
Escape tectonics - cool term for that process.
I just saw a volcano erupting in Ethiopia, Dofen I believe, mass evacuation. It’s rhyolithic, don’t know if you were interested or not but it’s a different kind of eruption for sure.
there is no eruption yet
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Why are there no volcanos there?
its likely the main quake. it seems the earth is resistent to 8.0 pluses lately. do you know when was the last time there was an 8.0 and higher?
GSN - Global Seismographic Network 0 About 150 seismic station around the glove, and USGS is part of it and gets their data. very important since it provide far better 3D resolution of depth of an earthquake and its location. USGS has a page on it if you seach and there is a map of where the stations are.
Did earthquake effect mont Everest?
I know this is probably not the place to put this question, but what is taking place in Ethiopia? I have some friends from there any they are having many earthquakes near two volcanoes. They are concerned there is going to be an eruption.
"Southern china"?
It's unfortunate that Shawn's choice of geographical description has set off so many people, as there's lots of interesting geology in this video. Yes, China annexed Tibet against the latter's will and it is still an issue for many, many people. And it is doubly unfortunate because *there are so many war drums now beating for a war (by the US) against the PRC that **_these issues will increase in relevance_** even if a science presenter wishes them not to.*
It was shallow and big, never a good combination for those on the surface.
.....we're sure it rattled Mt.Everest,.......alot of people up on it now,,,prayers from land o' lakes,wi.😮
Areas of the world with lower economic advantages often use non-reinforced masonry (mud brick, grouted rock, non reinforced concrete, etc.) for structures. Those buildings have lower survivability when the ground moves simply because those structures crumble with the induced shear loads. We see this again and again and there is no real answer to this because the reality is, that those people cannot afford more robust construction and they just have to take their chances.
New sub here greetings from Australia. Have a look at the Sun's activity as it is approaching its grand solar maximum not a Carrington or dinosaur event hopefully.
BTW, there was a very large earthquake in Khatmandu some years ago which destroyed all the historical buildings, and I recall Google donating the streetview data to help rebuild them. Won't be pretty when the government of China decides India has gotten a litte too close and pushes it back out to sea 🙂
It's a shame we have to refer to Tibet as "China."
Looks to be many after shocks happening
mate you have 132k subs and still don't have a proper microphone. that's incredible. there are even other headsets that do an adequate job. that thing is absurd for a 132k sub channel.
It’s not for lack of trying. I’m a one man show and have gone through several options. I have a nice desk mounted boom mic but had trouble getting it dialed. It’s likely something on my settings and believe me I have spent hours fiddling and trying to get it dialed. At this point, good enough is good enough until a sound engineer walks in my door.
@@shawnwillsey Ok well I'm here now. It's the headset. Throw it. 1. make sure u have a high end PCI-e soundcard with an external interface where you plug in the mic. 2. Then make sure the microphone input level is never in the red on your video recording software. 3. use a limiter if u need to deal with excessive background noise or want to tighten up the vocal recording. 4. or buy a high end headset if u prefer that set up but the voice wont ever be as good.
@@abody499 You lost me on #1 but I have #2 and 3 covered.
@@shawnwillsey How can I lose you when you can simply copy and paste anything into a search? Just look for "what are the best pci-e soundcards with external interface"
@@shawnwillsey I said "How can I lose you when you can simply copy and paste anything into a search? Just look for "what are the best pci-e soundcards with external interface"" - but YT's fash censor did what fash censors do.
Wow! I have never heard anything like this before. Geology is complicated.
Maybe someone will say that it’s now more complicated than quantum physics. 😳😵💫
So, it appears that that mass to the right is getting smooshed into the Pacific plate too. Might that mean that Japan and the Philippines are going to be compressed, resulting in rising elevation? Just a thought. I certainly hope the death toll doesn't rise.
Shawn's been lifted some weight. Lookin healthy.
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So far no climbers have died from this quake in the mount everest area so that's good news
I don't think the Tibetans will appreciate you describing Tibet as a region of China. It was annexed by China and the Tibetans continue to suffer major human rights abuses. Essentially, Tibet is what Putin wants to achieve in Ukraine.
@Raven-Creations In the future, they will say Russia's Ukraine.
Numerous dams are built on the Tibetan Plateau.Trans Himalayan railway is also coming to connect Tibet and Nepal.Why nobody is talking about that? Dams can also induce earthquakes.Human made disaster!
Southern China? Tibet is not southern China. It has been annexed. Sheesh and you're a geologist? 🙄
They don't mind erasing Tibet and Tibetans Identity.
Then geologist you'd want to get abreast of historically correct national boundaries - - geography is scarcely unrelated.
Not China but in Tibet .
India slammed into China doing at least 5 miles an hour. That is a faster car crash which makes more sense.
When all the slabs that subducted so fast in the plate tectonics 10000yrs ago are melting now. With that melting you going to get a lot of water released making the magma thinner causing a lot of volcanos, water steaming up and earthquakes around tectonics plates.
Tsunami time!.
Earth is warming up but when all this chaos slows down, we will be in a new ice age.
I wouldn’t want to live near any coast are volcanoes.
OK Shawn, Bye Bye. You made an incredibly ignorant statement about Tibet being southern China and when people called you out on it you erased their comments. I'm a Nick Zentner follower and pretty much a follower of you. Not any more. I wonder now about your belief in freedom and the importance of supporting same world wide.
I try to keep politics and divisiveness out of my geology world. I am personally very much in support of Tibet.
@shawnwillsey thank you.
The country is called China. The map, showing country names, is correct and is what is used by scientists. Science is a cooperative international enterprise.
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was it always called China?...
Like tibet seperate at one time like Taiwan?
I have a collection of maps and atlases from before 1950 that all refer to the independent country of Tibet.
People are lying to you about a well documented history.
"...is what is used by scientists. Science is a cooperative international enterprise."