As a former engineer, a former faculty member at OHSU/SOD I would like to see our universities look into the impact of transport/logistics disruption on food/health channels. It is not unreasonable to expect that roads, the rails, and riverways will be impassable for 4-8 months. - fuel supplies will dwindle at 2 months (or faster) - electrical grid will take more than two months to get power out of the damaged substations (or longer) - medicines will run out when the local pharmacies are looted. - Hospitals will likely have less than 2 weeks supply of general anesthetics when the rate of consumption due to mass casualties is considered. - Many MDs, DOs, nurses do not live within 10 miles of their place of employment. So, while staff may exist, they may not be able to get to their usual/accustomed worksite... only 30% of the entire staff WILL be onsite when the Big One hits. - Airlifting supplies has big issues as well. There are a very limited number of airfields which can accommodate anything bigger than a half-loaded C-130. And a great many of these are sited on liquifaction zones. I live in a county of 80K people with one 5 bed "hospital" and a number of our Docs live on the far side of the Willamette. We have NO resident MDs in our town of 8k. Nor in the neighboring town of similar size. I think I'm the only resident dentist. I can head/neck triage (part of my faculty duties at OHSU) and communicate to outside medical resources (former HAM operator, have a GMRS) but there will be no local power generation, refrigeration for med storage, etc. The biggest number of 'beds' we have are in geriatric care facilities, and they are full-up prior to any medical emergency. And sadly, if there IS a plan that expects contributions from beyond the 5-bed hospital, these plans, needs, contingencies have not been communicated to those of us who are residents in the county. Running a real emergency response can't be done 'on-the-fly'. It has to be planned. It CAN be planned, but we just lack the resources and commitment. It's not a political thing (AT ALL), it is a ground-up thing. What are you going to do when your neighbor who eats out 4 times a week shows up on our doorstep looking for food. I guarantee you, they will come peacefully only once. I'm not saying "meet them with a gun"; I'm saying have a plan such that they can be fed, their minor wounds can be addressed and major injuries put in a triage-and-care facility. And have all the players buy into it, ahead of time. Just my 2 cents
Exactly! I remember when Gov. Kate Brown sent out a press release saying to be prepared because it might be up to six months before help came. 6 months?! I was astonished. It's clear that we can't count on any help from the state. 😮❤
These are hard truths. Without some massive new civil engineering to roads and bridges, there will be horrific additional loss of life in post Cascadia quake and tsunami due to lack of food, fuel, and medical supplies. Resource deprivation will promptly lead to deterioration of social order in isolated communities, small and large alike. Almost every community west of the coastal range will be essentially cut off. The best hope for post-disaster relief and evacuation may very well be using sea lift and boats, as the roads without bridges and destroyed by land slides. Hardening port facilities for this contingency may be a cost effective investment to facilitate deployment of relief and post quake evacuation.
Redding, CA here - I believe we are a FEMA Staging Area when the Cascadia goes. Thank you for all of this info. I hope your words will be incorporated in a plan. Clearly, you are very knowledgable.
I live on an island in South Puget Sound. We have a bridge that's likely to fail in a major earthquake because of its age and design. We have a volunteer emergency planning organization. We have captains for each area of the island each captain has a survey we tried to keep updated with who lives in each house so we know who to look for an emergency or collapse. We used to have a volunteer fire department, but that's now part of the county and only intermittently staffed. You could approach your local county about starting a CERT program for civilian emergency training. It goes from everything from CPR to fire suppression to triage in of a mass casualty event.
You are spot in and backed up by the history of natural disasters in just our lifetime, it is a community effort of cooperation, planning and carring out of community plans for a disaster. The hard part is getting your community on board to develop plans and implement them. It only takes a few willing people to present the idea to city government and bring your neighbors into the idea of setting their community up to survive a disaster.
Earthquake survivor here. Loma Prieta '89 epicenter 6 mi from m.y house. I was still @ work at 5:04 when most had left. From the conference room window I could see smoke and buildings collapsing on Pacific Ave. When the shaking stopped, I scrambled over filing cabinets and debris and got out of the building -- without my purse and car keys. Tip #1 put a hide a key on your car. There overpass had collapsed and the buses weren't running. A kind soul still left at the center drove me home via the back route, some 20+ miles. My chimney and much inside was down. Neighbor homes collapsed others jumped off their foundations. In all of this were were only minimal death/injuries caused by the quake, but an extra strain for water, etc on medical facilities. Again, have a plan, people. The biggest issue is water. Have your water figured out. Tip #2 My best advice is to keep a 5 gal bucket handy. The water will quit after the power goes out. There will still be water in the lines, so fill your buckets. This will be washing and toilet flushing water. You must know that being able to flush that toilet will seem like heaven!. Alternatively, keep a camp toilet & bags around. Banks and stores won't work, so Tip #3 keep small bills in your emergency stash to pay cash for what's available. I put my Weber kettle in the front yard and pulled a roast out of the freezer to cook forever (wood fire) and neighbors brought tortillas. We slept outside for a few nights until the after shocks receded. Tip #4 Feed your neighbors. And #5 I opened the hatchback of the car and turned on the radio in Spanish for my neighbors who had no idea what was going on. The gov't I worked for was good and the buses started running in a few days so I could go back to work and start clean up.Cal Trans was relatively prompt at getting the overpass on Hiway1 repaired although we did have to use alternative route for months. I don't think a subduction EQ, such as Cascadia, will have the earth rolling effect of a slip-plate,== I could stand in my front yard and see the earth rolling. And the sound of it was unreal!!! but the same personal preparedness should be taken. Water, small bills, toilet, radio. We didn't have cell phones, so I don't know how they would be affected. I just know you should be able to camp at home. If your camping gear is in order, you'll do fine. Just stay out of the water LOL.
@@judithmcdonald9001 Good points but the Oregon coastal towns are much more isolated than is the Bay, so logistics are going to be much more difficult. I have a water filter I use for backpacking ,it requires no power, filter is good for 100,000 gallons, fits in the palm of my hand and can filter even standing water with no issue.Water is life
I live in a hurricane zone, and these suggestions you gave are pretty much how we handle disasters here. After we were hit by a hurricane, we had our Weber grill out, and at night our neighbors an us got together and cooked our thawing meat on grills, and ate together. Not only were we prepared, we all got to know each other better. Be Prepared isn't a motto just for Scouts.
As a lifelong resident of Cascadia, I so appreciate the work of all these brilliant scientists working to understand what might inevitably happen in this area that I adore. The one huge piece of the puzzle that is lacking is communication to the public. In Japan, they are very used to earthquakes and the public is very informed about disaster preparedness and emergency alert systems. Here in the PNW the only public literature I ever see that reminds me about the earthquake risk is when I go to the Coast and see tsunami evacuation route signs. We need more of a campaign to inform people of the risk and how soon they might be alerted before catastrophic shaking occurs. That information would cause more people to consider what they would do and prepare as best they can.
The definition of "imminent" is "about to happen." While this may be broadly true in geologic time, the title is deliberately misleading. The use of click bait is not worthy of science and there is nothing new here that has not been known and reported on for decades.
100% ❤😮 I don't understand why they would interview some 20-something who just heard about this 'for the first time' and thinks that that's news! Hopefully, U of O and the state are a little more prepared than this! 😮❤
Robert, you are correct regarding use of imminent in the title. While the scientific recognition of the geologic phenomenon is not new, continuing to raise the threat publicly has utility. Having worked to raise awareness of the quake, I see only a minority of the population both recognizes the threat and is acting to prepare for this probable event. As you likely know, far more efforts are needed to minimize the effects of this probable quake.
@@jaymacpherson8167 agree, but the perception of immanence when the time frame for an event may be decades or centuries results in disappointment and dismissal among most people who may also question the science and the scientists as a result. This is a scenario that has played out again and again. Witness the tragically widespread apathy and delay in addressing climate change because the predicted disasters, too often portrayed as immanent, were decades in manifesting.
Exactly! This isn't new news by any stretch! And if that's a problem why don't we have those public service announcements like we did in the old days?! 😮 Sure, we made fun of them but at least we knew what to do in an emergency.
I think that because the earth has all these moving tectonic plates and the tilt and magnetic poles are always changing, even though slowly at times; no part of the West Coast should get comfortable thinking that their fault will continue to move laterally in the area where they live. Changes are occurring beneath the surface which we may not detect until they manifest themselves as otherwise.
Well, they raise question and indicate activity, but don’t answer. Weary of forever-wondering stories of science that never go anywhere, unable solve worrisome questions raised or assert actions needed that require more money or attention. We get nothing from anyone official. Oregon appears infected with California’s Wait Until Tragedy, Then Beseech Funds style that leaves people wanting.
You showed them setting their sensors in the ground ahead of some quarry tests, but didn't tell us the results of those readings! 😫 What did they find?
This is a recent video. The team may not have analyzed & published the data yet. I think they should've stated if that is the status of their study at this time.
The loss of life, especially among the massive elderly population, will be one of the harder things for Coastal residents to be able to handle in the aftermath. Loss of access to medicine also being, in some cases, more important than loss of access to food.
I've been following this subject since it was first reported in SciAm. There are reasons why we can't make evacuation routes and it it's purley ridiculous. The City of Orting wanted to build a pedestrian bridge for school children to evacuate to higher ground across the river. An environmental impact statement was the road block there. I fear there will be other such issues post-cascadia with thos once in leadership explaining, "mistakes were made."
You are correct, and this video should be edited to correct that error. There are also inland magnitude 4-6+ temblors throughout the region, including in major metropolitan locations, on a fairly frequent basis. Strong temblors near or over magnitude 6 occurred in Seattle, WA & Salem, OR in the past 30 or so years, for example (Google the Nisqually quake & Scotts Mills quake). Microquake swarms are a constant feature along an area between I-5 & the coast from northern California to British Columbia. You can track major, minor, and microquakes in the region by going to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) website.
pls... need another video detailing the history of these quakes, their effects, what it would mean today, and how long scientists think it'll be till the next one
❤ Yes! It would be good to get some actual facts of what we're going to see when this earthquake hits and where we're going to see it! Also, what sort of plan the state government has and what resources they have to put into action would be good. 😮
I’m glad there are scientists out there who are even open to the possibility that we could learn to predict earthquakes in the future. I’ve seen a lot who really aren’t, and we definitely never will be able to predict earthquakes with that attitude.
Somewhere I missed the 'Big Picture" of what is going to happen here in Washington and Oregon. Okay, I get the science of earthquakes, just tell me what I need to prepare this for her in SW Washington 136 ft. above sea level after the big shakeout.
It seems even worse than that. I live in Portland and have been feeling uneasy about it and have considered where else to move for the last couple of years. It won't just be a "need to live off grid" for a few weeks kind of situation. There will be a certain amount of chaos, devastation, stress and unplanned for issues for anyone in a city like looting, live wires, broken gas lines, unusable roads, collapsed bridges, trapped humans and animals, necessary but not accessible medical care, etc. It's going to be really horrific. It would be easier to navigate if even a third of the population in an area had proper emergency first aid training of any kind or any kind of survival skills but that isn't the reality. The more of these videos I see the more I just don't want to be here if it goes down. The west coast is rumbling and most are not prepared. Even the food and water stash I have could be ruined if my shelves or cabinets were damaged or the basement became inaccessible.
@@xxroguex1If the m7-9 hits, more like three months. Massive coastal 90' tsunami damage, all major roads destroyed and impassable, massive scale of destruction and casualties that will completely overwhelm the national disaster response infrastructure.
@@xxroguex1people east, too, because we don't realize how important tne west side is to supplies and communication... i was told even our internet connections and satellite tv feeds come through Seattle (in Washington). All of that will be disrupted, so we need to plan ahead, too. People think i am nuts, but that's ok.
❤ Exactly. There are much better videos than this that describe in detail what's going to happen in general. I would like to see specifically which parts of Oregon are going to react and how. The state's been working on this for a long time it should be fairly well mapped out! 😮
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How many Tsunami evacuation centers are in clatsop county or tillamook county? I count zero. Astoria, Warrenton, seaside, cannon beach, tillamook, I can’t name a single tall structure for tsunami evacuation… not to much preparedness happening in my opinion. But I can count multiple tiny home parks that are new and multiple new rehab facilities.
These communities do have tsunami evacuation routes with gathering sites in safe zones. Some of these gathering spots have supplies in secured structures or containers. I agree that evacuation structures would be beneficial for tsunamis under 30' in height. Problem is, most of the taxpaying property owners of OR coastal communities are well-to-do out-of-area folks who don't reside there. They keep vacation homes there. Most have consistently failed to invest in the community and they vote against funding for many things, including upgrading and building safer structures. OPB documentary "Unprepared" covers that problem, and many others. You can find it on TH-cam.
This is excellent information, but I had to turn off the audio when the ominous music started. Just had the captions on and waited for that music to end and the narrative to begin.
awesome report, thanks, want to know what to expect in willamette valley too -- o yes we had a 4 quake in springfield a few years ago and off coast often -- so that's a bit mistaken to say . .
The PNW has plenty of smaller earthquakes that originate in the numerous shallow faults that exist in Oregon and Washington. Yes, the earthquakes from subduction zones are catastrophic, but the shallower ones still happen.
I endured 30 years of countless magnitude 4 and 5 quakes, plus the bigger Northridge and Sylmar quakes in CA before finally moving out of the state. (Northridge shook me out.) And I went to Oregon, where the prediction of a big 9 quake looms over my head. Sounds quirky but that does not worry me as much. It''s the constant reminders of all the 4s and 5s in CA that cause so much anxiety. Far more anxiety than a big 9 quake that may or may not happen in my lifetime.
Dr. Bill McGuire's book: "Waking the Giant" was a fascinating read. I happened to stumble on the topic of climate change and its impact on geophysical activity during my research into the reversibility of climate change about 20 years ago and followed it up by with reading the book a few years later. So I suspect 'the big one' will happen sooner rather than later. My two kids are living on the west coast and so it is of particular concern to me.
Odd given the fact that th mechanism that drives tectonic plate acitivity is the earth's core, with climate and weather having nearly zero impact on plate activity.
@brothermayihavesomeloops7048 I took several geologic classes in college although it wasn't my major. We had a professor ask the class how the would end. Several people answered the typical---war, pollution, climate change, volcanoes, etc. He said that unless we get hit by some very large asteroid that would split the Earth in half, that it would end this way---The Earth's core would cool down in about a billion or so years. No more plate tectonics which means no more earthquakes, uplifting or volcanoes. The Earths core is the only engine driving the plates. This would only leave weathering as the mechanism for change. After about a billion and half years, the Earth would be covered by a shallow ocean and would remain so until the Sun goes supernova.
@ Mass changes to the earth's surface can induce earthquakes. For example, filling the world's largest dam in China set off a major one around 15 years ago. Many died, including children when their school collapsed.
Falling branches is why . Near the edges of clearcuts . Its called widow makers and its fucking killed 10s of thousands of loggers over 1000’s of years
We do get moderate earthquakes Seattle has experienced several. I don't know what planet your scientists were educated on, but the Northwest does not exist in western Oregon, there is Vancouver across the river, Seattle, Spokane, another Vancouver in British Columbia which has to relocate from American Columbia (which is what Oregon was originally called: COLUMBIA, Seattle has had recent 7magnatude quakes in 49, 65, & 01 & a few 5's in-between. The biggest threat west of the Cascades is land slides. The worst landslide in the USA occurred recently at Oso, in North Snohomish County in WA state killing 49. A section of forest & clearcut land slipped from the mountain holding it up due to excessive rain which today we call normal which are named Atmospheric Rivers, they are no longer identified as simply a warm or cold front. Today rivers float above us, go figure? That have killed many people with a potential to kill 30,000 people all at once. There is a petrified forest at the bottom of Lake Washington next to the Mt Baker neighborhood of Seattle. 30,000 people live there today. Earthquakes are known for triggering landslides & imagine if that area slid off the rocks it holds onto today. Not only do all the people there die, a giant 200' tidal wave is flowing from Lake Washington east slamming into Mercer Island, and then smashing into the wealthiest part of Bellevue on the Eastside of the lake not to mention taking out the entire Evergreen Point floating bridge & quite possibly the i-90 floating bridge which incidentally has the only "floating railroad" on the planet costing billions to build & still not operating because finally someone has seen there are serious issues when building a floating railroad like... derailments and sending 200 people trapped in an "iron hearse" to the bottom of the 400' deep Lake Washington. That's less than a neighborhood but you get the idea. ..
Exactly! I had a USGS earthquake app on my phone for a while. I had to set it to only alert to magnitude 5 or greater so it wouldn't go off every 5 minutes! Oregon has numerous earthquakes every year. ❤
I worry because for some reason the pnw has cut itself off from most form of transportation or goods because there is only a few major corridors going across the mountains or from across to the east. My town itself only has one main road, i think we would learn quickly to create some side routes that are safe and multiple lanes for evac.
Ah, I wondered what happened to all of that. I used to hear about it in the news regularly... then nothing! 😮 It seems like the issue only comes up when the state wants money to build some big new project.
@tallthinwavy3 Exactly! That's how it goes when you get posers in key political positions. I would love to see more actual engineers in those positions myself! ❤️ Unfortunately, it seems like most engineers don't like the politics! 😮
Were the Mima Mounds near Olympia formed by a megaquake? Unconsolidated debris in a contained geometry under oscillation will form chaotic freak waves Megajokhulhaups out of a subglacial Salish Sea, pressurized by a higher subglacial great Lake in the High Okanogan of BC connected to Salish by tunnel channels (Lesemann) through low mountain passes of the Cascades (and Olympics) (Nelson 2024). I suspect the primary outlet was not Glacial Lake Missoula but the Salish Outwash at Olympia.
When this fault goes, it'll be much greater damage than anything you could dream of with the San Andreas fault. Y'all need to get better prepared out there than you are now. I don't think anybody has any idea
Hard hats are very effective for keeping you dry under the hood in the Pacific Northwest. I often wear one myself. I'm not worried about getting hit by a meteor but water can carry a lot of BTU,s off your head.
Mt St Helen looks almost like a capstone or a wellhead; kind of actually looks like both. As if a vertical and a horizontal, you know longitude and latitude areas could be connected. That caldera to the East and that tectonic plate to the south with Mt St Helen right there. As a smokestack. We cannot underpin the Earth endlessly.
The Cascadia fault when triggered will probably also trigger the San Andreas fault, so it could be worse than anticipated. Some studies say a million casualties but that's just in the Pacific NW.
I get safety is all important, but I really don’t understand why you are all wearing helmets??? Life outside is a football game , such a confrontation with nature . Why no helmets in the classroom ? This is a very dangerous subject to read about .
Hunters often mistake humans for their targets. Since they are university researchers it’s typically mandated when out doing field work to reduce liability.
Whe. Will humans realize we are insignificant in the overall scheme of the universe?we are like ants living on a savanna with elephants all around...we will get stepped on its amatter of time...all the research and supposed preparedness is merely a formality in man's quest for survivorship....all the food we eat contain. Cancer producing ingredients..violence and lawlessness is rampant...man's. Inability to live in harmony will result in a catastrophic end to most of our species. We pretend to be in control. The truth is a difficult thing to admit when we are guilty
In the Pacific Northwest we all wear helmets all the time, because between bicycling, motorcycling, rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing, etc. there's just no reason to ever take them off. Can't be too safe you know!
"Planning" is one thing, actually "doing" is completely different. I can plan on barbecuing on the weekend, but unless I actually do it, it doesn't happen.
I've been saying this for a long time. All movement along fault lines needs to be closely monitored. Documentation to show stress zones of no even movement. Those areas are possible large scale quake sites. The Cascadia Fault is also long been an area that's highly dangerous. And long dormant. Overdue for spontaneously shifting.
Lots of people know about Cascadia. Many people agree we should prepare. Most of my friends/acquaintances think that prepping for this isn't necessary...too much money spent on something that "probably" won't happen. Government is the same thing way...too much money preparing for the future when we need the money on today's problems. 😢
I don't want to bring people down but this is a fact. Our infrastructure will take years and years to upgrade. When will our cities will set aside funding for this? I hope soon. We built houses of cards throughout the PNW. I believe 9.0 can snap ankles. Just saying this is a big thing that can happen.
There has been quite alot of planning and doing around the I5 corridor especially at the JBLM military bases. They have a road planned and being built so suppies can get out from planes landing there. I don't hear much anymore about the Shake out earthquake drills. Much of your survival will be due to your own personal awareness of your surroundings. Like..don't run out into the sidewalk and street if you have things that could fall on you. Don't get near windows. When you go somewhere have your car prepared with survival in mind. Water, snacks, blankets, warm coat, flashlights, good walking shoes are just a few simple items to always have in your car. Keep gas in your car and have a gas can and spare tire. I keep scissors, knife, paper towels, rags, and a tarp in there along with bandaids. You will have to take care of yourself!!
This video has a title that doesn’t describe the content well. The content is not very informative too-it is mostly about people planning to work together-but with no real results added. Also, some of the limited facts and information presented about the Cascadia subduction zone are not well presented, IMO.
“Crashing.” Want to lose your credibility in one minute or less? Just exaggerate or make it clear to the audience that you do not understand simple definitions of words you’ve chosen to scare them with.
I wanna lose my credibility. There is a fault line I've been watching for 40 years. It starts in Mexico goes to the Sierra's goes all the way up the Sierra's, goes over to the Cascade's, goes up the Cascade's and around the bend of Alaska. In the last ten years it has made side fault lines to the San Andreas and side lines to the Hayward fault line. Try to find that on a map.
@@lauriemass3439 In all my years I have never heard a geologist say tectonic plates crash into one another. 3rd graders know that tectonic plates are in constant contact with each other under immeasurable force until they reach that breaking point where they release all that energy and slip. Tell it like it is without exaggeration. Crashing implies the plates are separated, moving at speed and then colliding.
@@JetSkiSuper7 you're correct 99 percent of the time they don't crash. The ancient Sierra fault line does crash. If you can find it as it disappears from the Internet most of the time. The crashing makes makes and/ or breaks mountains.
"imminent" is subject to broad interpretation. i.e. The CSZ produces megathrust earthquakes every 300 to 500 years. The southern part of the CSZ has earthquakes every 240 years on average.
How could the Colonists have "forgotten" something about North America? They were new arrivals. If they were not aware, it was bc the indigenous people didn't tell them.
😂❤ The safety gear may be a prop to make them look like serious professionals? Idk, but if they really were serious about the eminent threat, shouldn't they be wearing them in the classroom?
I just know if you're Driving from Forks down to the Olympia Area along the Coast...you better make sure you have a Full Tank because it's a Long Drive that feels like Forever...with next to no Amenities or Gas Stations! That's a lot of Empty Forrested Land...Hoarding! 🙄
"Absolutely no reason it should be catastrophic." besides that its called an earthquake. Are we all going to live in earthquake proof land boats? No one is immune from misfortune. Are earthquake related building codes worth it or do they just price out many potential builders?
Many buildings for example in Seattle are made of bricks which will totally not stand up to even a 6.8 earthquake. These are being worked on slowly to be more stable. Builders just need to be aware of the ground and materials they are using. It doesn't have to be anymore expensive.
I have the only piece of land upside down in my mountain area. I live at the base of a very high mountain that looked like part of it slid in the past. I'm not a geologist but hv cple grad degrees. Anyway, I was informed of the geological description when I purchased the property. I have always wondered when my land literally turned upside down. It is flat but no other area where I live is the same. I do not want to list my location. Further, I have felt apprx 5 earthquakes from Eureka South area and I'm 2-3 hour drive from there. I hope someone studies this mountain behind me. Also my Tolowa friend told me the river rose inland near an old village when the 1700's eq happened. It is mentioned in their cultural history.
Yes, but with exception of the already known sediment layers of the sea floor and in river banks of past events, that indicate a very close time frame averaging out at approximately 246 years between quakes. The last one was in 1705-ish.
“Imminent” While it’s possible that a CSZ earthquake could occur tomorrow, it’s just as likely that it could be 50 years from now, or 100 years from now. Even as long 300 years from now wouldn’t be outside the past range of intervals. “Possible” would be a much more accurate description of the odds of an earthquake occurring in your lifetime. Be smart, strap your home to the foundation. Make sure your homeowners insurance covers earthquakes. Have a natural disaster plan, all the usual supplies, water, food, first aid,medication‘s… And then, don’t worry about it.
Other viewers, LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE for science. I couldn't get more than 1 minute into this. No, the "people who lived here for the past millennia" didn't know about seduction zone earthquakes. They had recently passed-down memories of the last one (1700) and not a detailed or even mythical history of thousands of years of experiences before that. Also, "Colonial Settlers" (Astoria was founded in 1811) could not have "forgot" that history since they were not here to experience it in the first place. The deceptive text has nothing to offer, and is unworthy of further attention since it has already demonstrated gross misinformation in the introduction. You suck at science.
As a former engineer, a former faculty member at OHSU/SOD
I would like to see our universities look into the impact of transport/logistics disruption on food/health channels.
It is not unreasonable to expect that roads, the rails, and riverways will be impassable for 4-8 months.
- fuel supplies will dwindle at 2 months (or faster)
- electrical grid will take more than two months to get power out of the damaged substations (or longer)
- medicines will run out when the local pharmacies are looted.
- Hospitals will likely have less than 2 weeks supply of general anesthetics when the rate of consumption due to mass casualties is considered.
- Many MDs, DOs, nurses do not live within 10 miles of their place of employment. So, while staff may exist, they may not be able to get to their usual/accustomed worksite... only 30% of the entire staff WILL be onsite when the Big One hits.
- Airlifting supplies has big issues as well. There are a very limited number of airfields which can accommodate anything bigger than a half-loaded C-130. And a great many of these are sited on liquifaction zones.
I live in a county of 80K people with one 5 bed "hospital" and a number of our Docs live on the far side of the Willamette.
We have NO resident MDs in our town of 8k. Nor in the neighboring town of similar size.
I think I'm the only resident dentist.
I can head/neck triage (part of my faculty duties at OHSU) and communicate to outside medical resources (former HAM operator, have a GMRS)
but there will be no local power generation, refrigeration for med storage, etc. The biggest number of 'beds' we have are in geriatric care facilities, and they are full-up prior to any medical emergency.
And sadly, if there IS a plan that expects contributions from beyond the 5-bed hospital, these plans, needs, contingencies have not been communicated to those of us who are residents in the county.
Running a real emergency response can't be done 'on-the-fly'. It has to be planned.
It CAN be planned, but we just lack the resources and commitment. It's not a political thing (AT ALL), it is a ground-up thing.
What are you going to do when your neighbor who eats out 4 times a week shows up on our doorstep looking for food.
I guarantee you, they will come peacefully only once. I'm not saying "meet them with a gun"; I'm saying have a plan such that they can be fed, their minor wounds can be addressed and major injuries put in a triage-and-care facility. And have all the players buy into it, ahead of time.
Just my 2 cents
Exactly! I remember when Gov. Kate Brown sent out a press release saying to be prepared because it might be up to six months before help came. 6 months?! I was astonished. It's clear that we can't count on any help from the state. 😮❤
These are hard truths. Without some massive new civil engineering to roads and bridges, there will be horrific additional loss of life in post Cascadia quake and tsunami due to lack of food, fuel, and medical supplies. Resource deprivation will promptly lead to deterioration of social order in isolated communities, small and large alike. Almost every community west of the coastal range will be essentially cut off. The best hope for post-disaster relief and evacuation may very well be using sea lift and boats, as the roads without bridges and destroyed by land slides. Hardening port facilities for this contingency may be a cost effective investment to facilitate deployment of relief and post quake evacuation.
Redding, CA here - I believe we are a FEMA Staging Area when the Cascadia goes.
Thank you for all of this info. I hope your words will be incorporated in a plan. Clearly, you are very knowledgable.
I live on an island in South Puget Sound. We have a bridge that's likely to fail in a major earthquake because of its age and design. We have a volunteer emergency planning organization. We have captains for each area of the island each captain has a survey we tried to keep updated with who lives in each house so we know who to look for an emergency or collapse. We used to have a volunteer fire department, but that's now part of the county and only intermittently staffed. You could approach your local county about starting a CERT program for civilian emergency training. It goes from everything from CPR to fire suppression to triage in of a mass casualty event.
You are spot in and backed up by the history of natural disasters in just our lifetime, it is a community effort of cooperation, planning and carring out of community plans for a disaster. The hard part is getting your community on board to develop plans and implement them. It only takes a few willing people to present the idea to city government and bring your neighbors into the idea of setting their community up to survive a disaster.
Earthquake survivor here. Loma Prieta '89 epicenter 6 mi from m.y house. I was still @ work at 5:04 when most had left. From the conference room window I could see smoke and buildings collapsing on Pacific Ave. When the shaking stopped, I scrambled over filing cabinets and debris and got out of the building -- without my purse and car keys. Tip #1 put a hide a key on your car. There overpass had collapsed and the buses weren't running. A kind soul still left at the center drove me home via the back route, some 20+ miles. My chimney and much inside was down. Neighbor homes collapsed others jumped off their foundations.
In all of this were were only minimal death/injuries caused by the quake, but an extra strain for water, etc on medical facilities. Again, have a plan, people.
The biggest issue is water. Have your water figured out. Tip #2 My best advice is to keep a 5 gal bucket handy. The water will quit after the power goes out. There will still be water in the lines, so fill your buckets. This will be washing and toilet flushing water. You must know that being able to flush that toilet will seem like heaven!. Alternatively, keep a camp toilet & bags around.
Banks and stores won't work, so Tip #3 keep small bills in your emergency stash to pay cash for what's available.
I put my Weber kettle in the front yard and pulled a roast out of the freezer to cook forever (wood fire) and neighbors brought tortillas. We slept outside for a few nights until the after shocks receded. Tip #4 Feed your neighbors. And #5 I opened the hatchback of the car and turned on the radio in Spanish for my neighbors who had no idea what was going on.
The gov't I worked for was good and the buses started running in a few days so I could go back to work and start clean up.Cal Trans was relatively prompt at getting the overpass on Hiway1 repaired although we did have to use alternative route for months.
I don't think a subduction EQ, such as Cascadia, will have the earth rolling effect of a slip-plate,== I could stand in my front yard and see the earth rolling. And the sound of it was unreal!!! but the same personal preparedness should be taken. Water, small bills, toilet, radio. We didn't have cell phones, so I don't know how they would be affected. I just know you should be able to camp at home. If your camping gear is in order, you'll do fine. Just stay out of the water LOL.
@@judithmcdonald9001 Good points but the Oregon coastal towns are much more isolated than is the Bay, so logistics are going to be much more difficult. I have a water filter I use for backpacking ,it requires no power, filter is good for 100,000 gallons, fits in the palm of my hand and can filter even standing water with no issue.Water is life
I live in a hurricane zone, and these suggestions you gave are pretty much how we handle disasters here. After we were hit by a hurricane, we had our Weber grill out, and at night our neighbors an us got together and cooked our thawing meat on grills, and ate together. Not only were we prepared, we all got to know each other better. Be Prepared isn't a motto just for Scouts.
What happened with the sensors and the quarry blasts?
As a lifelong resident of Cascadia, I so appreciate the work of all these brilliant scientists working to understand what might inevitably happen in this area that I adore. The one huge piece of the puzzle that is lacking is communication to the public. In Japan, they are very used to earthquakes and the public is very informed about disaster preparedness and emergency alert systems. Here in the PNW the only public literature I ever see that reminds me about the earthquake risk is when I go to the Coast and see tsunami evacuation route signs. We need more of a campaign to inform people of the risk and how soon they might be alerted before catastrophic shaking occurs. That information would cause more people to consider what they would do and prepare as best they can.
The definition of "imminent" is "about to happen." While this may be broadly true in geologic time, the title is deliberately misleading. The use of click bait is not worthy of science and there is nothing new here that has not been known and reported on for decades.
100% ❤😮 I don't understand why they would interview some 20-something who just heard about this 'for the first time' and thinks that that's news!
Hopefully, U of O and the state are a little more prepared than this! 😮❤
Robert, you are correct regarding use of imminent in the title. While the scientific recognition of the geologic phenomenon is not new, continuing to raise the threat publicly has utility. Having worked to raise awareness of the quake, I see only a minority of the population both recognizes the threat and is acting to prepare for this probable event. As you likely know, far more efforts are needed to minimize the effects of this probable quake.
@@jaymacpherson8167 agree, but the perception of immanence when the time frame for an event may be decades or centuries results in disappointment and dismissal among most people who may also question the science and the scientists as a result. This is a scenario that has played out again and again. Witness the tragically widespread apathy and delay in addressing climate change because the predicted disasters, too often portrayed as immanent, were decades in manifesting.
@@pilgrimwings1295 ???? Is this a Russian AI bot?
@@robertmoye7565 A living, breathing, American citizen.
The only thing in life that’s truly secure is that nothing is secure.
Gonna be interesting when this pops off.
Not wrong, it will be scary. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
@@robertg-g2lignorance is only ever Bliss for the dead.
More of this please...excellent video
Wow, this is amazing! I can tell a lot of effort went into making this video. I can't wait to see more!
Not all of us have forgotten
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Exactly! This isn't new news by any stretch! And if that's a problem why don't we have those public service announcements like we did in the old days?! 😮
Sure, we made fun of them but at least we knew what to do in an emergency.
I think that because the earth has all these moving tectonic plates and the tilt and magnetic poles are always changing, even though slowly at times; no part of the West Coast should get comfortable thinking that their fault will continue to move laterally in the area where they live. Changes are occurring beneath the surface which we may not detect until they manifest themselves as otherwise.
This is very professional! Good job guys!
Well, they raise question and indicate activity, but don’t answer.
Weary of forever-wondering stories of science that never go anywhere, unable solve worrisome questions raised or assert actions needed that require more money or attention. We get nothing from anyone official. Oregon appears infected with California’s Wait Until Tragedy, Then Beseech Funds style that leaves people wanting.
I'm really grateful that these young people are on it. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
They’ve been saying this for 40 years
40 years in geologic time is like a blink of the eye
So What? You think just ignoring it is intelligent?
Sooner or later, things will move. Stay tuned.
Long-term data gathering is helpful the longer it goes on. If a rhythm or pattern can be found, humans can improve safety measures.
You showed them setting their sensors in the ground ahead of some quarry tests, but didn't tell us the results of those readings! 😫 What did they find?
I totally agree and would like to know as well.
This is a recent video. The team may not have analyzed & published the data yet.
I think they should've stated if that is the status of their study at this time.
The loss of life, especially among the massive elderly population, will be one of the harder things for Coastal residents to be able to handle in the aftermath. Loss of access to medicine also being, in some cases, more important than loss of access to food.
I've been following this subject since it was first reported in SciAm. There are reasons why we can't make evacuation routes and it it's purley ridiculous. The City of Orting wanted to build a pedestrian bridge for school children to evacuate to higher ground across the river. An environmental impact statement was the road block there. I fear there will be other such issues post-cascadia with thos once in leadership explaining, "mistakes were made."
Wow! 😮 That's crazy. 😢
Could be tomorrow, could be a hundreds of years. Geologic timescale. Great video
Actually in the scale of things, it is much more frequent than geologic scale.
That was awesome being able to see you guys out there in the field!
Finally!!! Grateful this is being taken seriously. Keep up the great work
One of these guys said we don't get the magnitude 4 or 5, but there are magnitude 4 quakes along the fault off the coast where i live in Oregon
Right?! Listening to these "experts" makes me more concerned than the states' lack of preparedness. 😮
You are correct, and this video should be edited to correct that error. There are also inland magnitude 4-6+ temblors throughout the region, including in major metropolitan locations, on a fairly frequent basis. Strong temblors near or over magnitude 6 occurred in Seattle, WA & Salem, OR in the past 30 or so years, for example (Google the Nisqually quake & Scotts Mills quake).
Microquake swarms are a constant feature along an area between I-5 & the coast from northern California to British Columbia.
You can track major, minor, and microquakes in the region by going to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) website.
They all lie like a rug
i live on Portlands west slope about 300 feet above where my house will be after this quake
@brothermayihavesomeloops7048 Greeeeaaaaaat
pls... need another video detailing the history of these quakes, their effects, what it would mean today, and how long scientists think it'll be till the next one
❤ Yes! It would be good to get some actual facts of what we're going to see when this earthquake hits and where we're going to see it! Also, what sort of plan the state government has and what resources they have to put into action would be good. 😮
I’m glad there are scientists out there who are even open to the possibility that we could learn to predict earthquakes in the future. I’ve seen a lot who really aren’t, and we definitely never will be able to predict earthquakes with that attitude.
Somewhere I missed the 'Big Picture" of what is going to happen here in Washington and Oregon. Okay, I get the science of earthquakes, just tell me what I need to prepare this for her in SW Washington 136 ft. above sea level after the big shakeout.
You need to be prepared to be self-reliant for at least 3 weeks.
It seems even worse than that. I live in Portland and have been feeling uneasy about it and have considered where else to move for the last couple of years. It won't just be a "need to live off grid" for a few weeks kind of situation. There will be a certain amount of chaos, devastation, stress and unplanned for issues for anyone in a city like looting, live wires, broken gas lines, unusable roads, collapsed bridges, trapped humans and animals, necessary but not accessible medical care, etc. It's going to be really horrific. It would be easier to navigate if even a third of the population in an area had proper emergency first aid training of any kind or any kind of survival skills but that isn't the reality. The more of these videos I see the more I just don't want to be here if it goes down. The west coast is rumbling and most are not prepared. Even the food and water stash I have could be ruined if my shelves or cabinets were damaged or the basement became inaccessible.
@@xxroguex1If the m7-9 hits, more like three months. Massive coastal 90' tsunami damage, all major roads destroyed and impassable, massive scale of destruction and casualties that will completely overwhelm the national disaster response infrastructure.
@@xxroguex1people east, too, because we don't realize how important tne west side is to supplies and communication... i was told even our internet connections and satellite tv feeds come through Seattle (in Washington). All of that will be disrupted, so we need to plan ahead, too. People think i am nuts, but that's ok.
❤ Exactly. There are much better videos than this that describe in detail what's going to happen in general. I would like to see specifically which parts of Oregon are going to react and how. The state's been working on this for a long time it should be fairly well mapped out! 😮
I really appreciate this info and how you broke this down for both Ca and the PNW.
The evidence was rinsed away by rains and snow
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How many Tsunami evacuation centers are in clatsop county or tillamook county? I count zero. Astoria, Warrenton, seaside, cannon beach, tillamook, I can’t name a single tall structure for tsunami evacuation… not to much preparedness happening in my opinion. But I can count multiple tiny home parks that are new and multiple new rehab facilities.
These communities do have tsunami evacuation routes with gathering sites in safe zones. Some of these gathering spots have supplies in secured structures or containers.
I agree that evacuation structures would be beneficial for tsunamis under 30' in height. Problem is, most of the taxpaying property owners of OR coastal communities are well-to-do out-of-area folks who don't reside there. They keep vacation homes there. Most have consistently failed to invest in the community and they vote against funding for many things, including upgrading and building safer structures.
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This is excellent information, but I had to turn off the audio when the ominous music started. Just had the captions on and waited for that music to end and the narrative to begin.
And what's with the vocal fry? That's when I turn off the audio.
10.1 prophecy year ago Seattle California 🙏
awesome report, thanks, want to know what to expect in willamette valley too -- o yes we had a 4 quake in springfield a few years ago and off coast often -- so that's a bit mistaken to say . .
Informative clip!
The PNW has plenty of smaller earthquakes that originate in the numerous shallow faults that exist in Oregon and Washington. Yes, the earthquakes from subduction zones are catastrophic, but the shallower ones still happen.
I endured 30 years of countless magnitude 4 and 5 quakes, plus the bigger Northridge and Sylmar quakes in CA before finally moving out of the state. (Northridge shook me out.) And I went to Oregon, where the prediction of a big 9 quake looms over my head. Sounds quirky but that does not worry me as much. It''s the constant reminders of all the 4s and 5s in CA that cause so much anxiety. Far more anxiety than a big 9 quake that may or may not happen in my lifetime.
Good memories of my time in the U of O geology program in the early 2000s.
Dr. Bill McGuire's book: "Waking the Giant" was a fascinating read. I happened to stumble on the topic of climate change and its impact on geophysical activity during my research into the reversibility of climate change about 20 years ago and followed it up by with reading the book a few years later. So I suspect 'the big one' will happen sooner rather than later. My two kids are living on the west coast and so it is of particular concern to me.
Odd given the fact that th mechanism that drives tectonic plate acitivity is the earth's core, with climate and weather having nearly zero impact on plate activity.
@brothermayihavesomeloops7048 I took several geologic classes in college although it wasn't my major. We had a professor ask the class how the would end. Several people answered the typical---war, pollution, climate change, volcanoes, etc. He said that unless we get hit by some very large asteroid that would split the Earth in half, that it would end this way---The Earth's core would cool down in about a billion or so years. No more plate tectonics which means no more earthquakes, uplifting or volcanoes. The Earths core is the only engine driving the plates. This would only leave weathering as the mechanism for change. After about a billion and half years, the Earth would be covered by a shallow ocean and would remain so until the Sun goes supernova.
@ Mass changes to the earth's surface can induce earthquakes. For example, filling the world's largest dam in China set off a major one around 15 years ago. Many died, including children when their school collapsed.
Falling branches is why . Near the edges of clearcuts . Its called widow makers and its fucking killed 10s of thousands of loggers over 1000’s of years
You guys have the coolest jobs! Thank you!
When???????
We do get moderate earthquakes Seattle has experienced several. I don't know what planet your scientists were educated on, but the Northwest does not exist in western Oregon, there is Vancouver across the river, Seattle, Spokane, another Vancouver in British Columbia which has to relocate from American Columbia (which is what Oregon was originally called: COLUMBIA, Seattle has had recent 7magnatude quakes in 49, 65, & 01 & a few 5's in-between. The biggest threat west of the Cascades is land slides. The worst landslide in the USA occurred recently at Oso, in North Snohomish County in WA state killing 49. A section of forest & clearcut land slipped from the mountain holding it up due to excessive rain which today we call normal which are named Atmospheric Rivers, they are no longer identified as simply a warm or cold front. Today rivers float above us, go figure? That have killed many people with a potential to kill 30,000 people all at once. There is a petrified forest at the bottom of Lake Washington next to the Mt Baker neighborhood of Seattle. 30,000 people live there today. Earthquakes are known for triggering landslides & imagine if that area slid off the rocks it holds onto today. Not only do all the people there die, a giant 200' tidal wave is flowing from Lake Washington east slamming into Mercer Island, and then smashing into the wealthiest part of Bellevue on the Eastside of the lake not to mention taking out the entire Evergreen Point floating bridge & quite possibly the i-90 floating bridge which incidentally has the only "floating railroad" on the planet costing billions to build & still not operating because finally someone has seen there are serious issues when building a floating railroad like... derailments and sending 200 people trapped in an "iron hearse" to the bottom of the 400' deep Lake Washington. That's less than a neighborhood but you get the idea.
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Exactly! I had a USGS earthquake app on my phone for a while. I had to set it to only alert to magnitude 5 or greater so it wouldn't go off every 5 minutes! Oregon has numerous earthquakes every year. ❤
I worry because for some reason the pnw has cut itself off from most form of transportation or goods because there is only a few major corridors going across the mountains or from across to the east. My town itself only has one main road, i think we would learn quickly to create some side routes that are safe and multiple lanes for evac.
State of Oregon cut the budget for strengthing existing buildings about 20 years ago. Time is running out. Get earthquake insurance now.
Ah, I wondered what happened to all of that. I used to hear about it in the news regularly... then nothing! 😮 It seems like the issue only comes up when the state wants money to build some big new project.
@windywednesday4166 budget for political correct projects are more than voters safety
@tallthinwavy3 Exactly! That's how it goes when you get posers in key political positions. I would love to see more actual engineers in those positions myself! ❤️ Unfortunately, it seems like most engineers don't like the politics! 😮
Were the Mima Mounds near Olympia formed by a megaquake? Unconsolidated debris in a contained geometry under oscillation will form chaotic freak waves Megajokhulhaups out of a subglacial Salish Sea, pressurized by a higher subglacial great Lake in the High Okanogan of BC connected to Salish by tunnel channels (Lesemann) through low mountain passes of the Cascades (and Olympics) (Nelson 2024). I suspect the primary outlet was not Glacial Lake Missoula but the Salish Outwash at Olympia.
Thank you to everyone involved . Nature is very beautiful yet so mysterious and scary .
When this fault goes, it'll be much greater damage than anything you could dream of with the San Andreas fault. Y'all need to get better prepared out there than you are now. I don't think anybody has any idea
No, we don't! It's going to be catastrophic. 😮❤ Unfortunately, this video didn't help me understand it any better than I did before.
@@windywednesday4166 You can start researching it now Wendy. There are a lot of articles about it lately. Just do a google search.
@@windywednesday4166Research : Prepare for Level 10 Parts 1 & 2
I have been ready for this for years.
How have you prepared?
@RuinedTemple food water supplies exit strategy .
Hard hats are very effective for keeping you dry under the hood in the Pacific Northwest.
I often wear one myself.
I'm not worried about getting hit by a meteor but water can carry a lot of BTU,s off your head.
Leave it to the U of O to pose a question and leave it unanswered....
That’s because it’s an ongoing process. There are no magic answers.
Mt St Helen looks almost like a capstone or a wellhead; kind of actually looks like both. As if a vertical and a horizontal, you know longitude and latitude areas could be connected. That caldera to the East and that tectonic plate to the south with Mt St Helen right there. As a smokestack.
We cannot underpin the Earth endlessly.
Thank you! Going to use this as a cultural discussion for my Native students.
our boa was very good at predicting earthquakes
What did it do prior to a quake?
@@maryjohnstone1051 stood straight up in his enclosure, for 3 days! he was so accurate, we activated a phone tree
The Cascadia fault when triggered will probably also trigger the San Andreas fault, so it could be worse than anticipated. Some studies say a million casualties but that's just in the Pacific NW.
I get safety is all important, but I really don’t understand why you are all wearing helmets??? Life outside is a football game , such a confrontation with nature . Why no helmets in the classroom ? This is a very dangerous subject to read about .
because your 🧠 is the consistency of jello.
Hunters often mistake humans for their targets. Since they are university researchers it’s typically mandated when out doing field work to reduce liability.
Whe. Will humans realize we are insignificant in the overall scheme of the universe?we are like ants living on a savanna with elephants all around...we will get stepped on its amatter of time...all the research and supposed preparedness is merely a formality in man's quest for survivorship....all the food we eat contain. Cancer producing ingredients..violence and lawlessness is rampant...man's. Inability to live in harmony will result in a catastrophic end to most of our species. We pretend to be in control. The truth is a difficult thing to admit when we are guilty
Rain drops fall at a rate of 32 feel per second, per second of fall distance. The helmets will protect them. 🤗
In the Pacific Northwest we all wear helmets all the time, because between bicycling, motorcycling, rock climbing, mountaineering, skiing, etc. there's just no reason to ever take them off. Can't be too safe you know!
"Planning" is one thing, actually "doing" is completely different. I can plan on barbecuing on the weekend, but unless I actually do it, it doesn't happen.
We get tons of smaller eq’s pay attention do better research
Imminent means anytime in the next 500 years then?
Keep up the good work!
The music is a bit loud on this. I'm finding it difficult to hear what is being said.
I've been saying this for a long time. All movement along fault lines needs to be closely monitored. Documentation to show stress zones of no even movement. Those areas are possible large scale quake sites. The Cascadia Fault is also long been an area that's highly dangerous. And long dormant. Overdue for spontaneously shifting.
I've heard the same thing about the San Andreas for 60 yrs. Still waiting.
Ah come on. Imminent? About as imminent as dropping dead from a massive heart attack? I guess
Lots of people know about Cascadia. Many people agree we should prepare. Most of my friends/acquaintances think that prepping for this isn't necessary...too much money spent on something that "probably" won't happen. Government is the same thing way...too much money preparing for the future when we need the money on today's problems. 😢
Clicked to hear hard details, found only generalities.
Research: Prepare for level 10 Parts 1 & 2
Could cause a big enough tsunami to put out fires in California!
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The noise of this production - some call it "background music" - makes it effectively unwatchable.
We live in the Jaws of the Dragon. But he's right we can mitigate damage at kind as we are truthful with ourselves about the events we're facing.
I don't want to bring people down but this is a fact. Our infrastructure will take years and years to upgrade.
When will our cities will set aside funding for this?
I hope soon. We built houses of cards throughout the PNW.
I believe 9.0 can snap ankles. Just saying this is a big thing that can happen.
There has been quite alot of planning and doing around the I5 corridor especially at the JBLM military bases. They have a road planned and being built so suppies can get out from planes landing there. I don't hear much anymore about the Shake out earthquake drills. Much of your survival will be due to your own personal awareness of your surroundings. Like..don't run out into the sidewalk and street if you have things that could fall on you. Don't get near windows. When you go somewhere have your car prepared with survival in mind. Water, snacks, blankets, warm coat, flashlights, good walking shoes are just a few simple items to always have in your car. Keep gas in your car and have a gas can and spare tire. I keep scissors, knife, paper towels, rags, and a tarp in there along with bandaids. You will have to take care of yourself!!
This video has a title that doesn’t describe the content well. The content is not very informative too-it is mostly about people planning to work together-but with no real results added. Also, some of the limited facts and information presented about the Cascadia subduction zone are not well presented, IMO.
“Crashing.” Want to lose your credibility in one minute or less? Just exaggerate or make it clear to the audience that you do not understand simple definitions of words you’ve chosen to scare them with.
I wanna lose my credibility. There is a fault line I've been watching for 40 years. It starts in Mexico goes to the Sierra's goes all the way up the Sierra's, goes over to the Cascade's, goes up the Cascade's and around the bend of Alaska. In the last ten years it has made side fault lines to the San Andreas and side lines to the Hayward fault line. Try to find that on a map.
@@lauriemass3439 In all my years I have never heard a geologist say tectonic plates crash into one another. 3rd graders know that tectonic plates are in constant contact with each other under immeasurable force until they reach that breaking point where they release all that energy and slip. Tell it like it is without exaggeration. Crashing implies the plates are separated, moving at speed and then colliding.
@@JetSkiSuper7 you're correct 99 percent of the time they don't crash. The ancient Sierra fault line does crash. If you can find it as it disappears from the Internet most of the time. The crashing makes makes and/ or breaks mountains.
I just moved to Oregon coast from Nevada desert. Dammit
You didn’t say anything… just that you’re also studying it. Is anyone finding anything?
"imminent" is subject to broad interpretation. i.e. The CSZ produces megathrust earthquakes every 300 to 500 years.
The southern part of the CSZ has earthquakes every 240 years on average.
ThebApostles thought Jesus's return was imminent, too. You have to think it is so you are not complacent or lose faith
@TheLakingc Brone Age folklore and plate tectonics are worlds apart.
Yapping about colonization is hilarious.
How could the Colonists have "forgotten" something about North America? They were new arrivals. If they were not aware, it was bc the indigenous people didn't tell them.
There was a 5.? earthquake in Seattle in 196? It was shaky
Very informative!!!
Cascadia subduction zone starts in Mendocino California it’s not only in Oregon buddy we have all three types of faults
And extends to the top of Vancouver Island.
Critical info for us living in the Pacific Northwest, but I really think all the safety gear is a tad overkill
😂❤ The safety gear may be a prop to make them look like serious professionals? Idk, but if they really were serious about the eminent threat, shouldn't they be wearing them in the classroom?
If they can get data from quarry blasts, what about data from Mount 🌋 St. Helens!?
I just know if you're Driving from Forks down to the Olympia Area along the Coast...you better make sure you have a Full Tank because it's a Long Drive that feels like Forever...with next to no Amenities or Gas Stations! That's a lot of Empty Forrested Land...Hoarding! 🙄
The music is annoying and distracting.
We do not need this right now Oh my God we do not need this right now.
Its probably not gonna happen in this century
"Absolutely no reason it should be catastrophic." besides that its called an earthquake. Are we all going to live in earthquake proof land boats? No one is immune from misfortune. Are earthquake related building codes worth it or do they just price out many potential builders?
Many buildings for example in Seattle are made of bricks which will totally not stand up to even a 6.8 earthquake. These are being worked on slowly to be more stable. Builders just need to be aware of the ground and materials they are using. It doesn't have to be anymore expensive.
But remember, a computer model is only as the info put into it
I have the only piece of land upside down in my mountain area. I live at the base of a very high mountain that looked like part of it slid in the past. I'm not a geologist but hv cple grad degrees. Anyway, I was informed of the geological description when I purchased the property. I have always wondered when my land literally turned upside down. It is flat but no other area where I live is the same. I do not want to list my location. Further, I have felt apprx 5 earthquakes from Eureka South area and I'm 2-3 hour drive from there. I hope someone studies this mountain behind me. Also my Tolowa friend told me the river rose inland near an old village when the 1700's eq happened. It is mentioned in their cultural history.
There has been record numbers of tremors, meaning tension along the fault is happening. It will happen
Could be in next 10,000years....im scared
Yes, but with exception of the already known sediment layers of the sea floor and in river banks of past events, that indicate a very close time frame averaging out at approximately 246 years between quakes. The last one was in 1705-ish.
Or tomorrow. You should be.
Could be 10,000 years, but based on the average frequency of past quakes we are overdue.
Its sooner than anyone thinks. Research: Prepare for Level 10 Parts 1& 2
So they're spending billions to build a new Interstate Bridge, just in time for the Big One to take it out...😂
“Imminent” While it’s possible that a CSZ earthquake could occur tomorrow, it’s just as likely that it could be 50 years from now, or 100 years from now. Even as long 300 years from now wouldn’t be outside the past range of intervals. “Possible” would be a much more accurate description of the odds of an earthquake occurring in your lifetime. Be smart, strap your home to the foundation. Make sure your homeowners insurance covers earthquakes. Have a natural disaster plan, all the usual supplies, water, food, first aid,medication‘s… And then, don’t worry about it.
Are you telling me we could be ducked?!
Maybe the earthquake will swallow all the trash on the ground that’s all over the state?
Watching to see if they blame climate change for this too.
OMG 🙄, what is wrong with you?
@ I have pattern recognition skills, and I’m not contextually retarded so I guess to the common leftwit, there is something wrong with me.
I can't fcking wait.
Why does everyone have a helmet on but her??
❤😂 IDK, was she the one in the red shirt?
we got a lotta lava tubes that works like shock absorbers so we'll be good
keep flying over lol
Maybe another word than “imminent “?
This was dumb and uninformative.
The hard hats are nothing like helEts.
Other viewers, LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE for science. I couldn't get more than 1 minute into this. No, the "people who lived here for the past millennia" didn't know about seduction zone earthquakes. They had recently passed-down memories of the last one (1700) and not a detailed or even mythical history of thousands of years of experiences before that. Also, "Colonial Settlers" (Astoria was founded in 1811) could not have "forgot" that history since they were not here to experience it in the first place. The deceptive text has nothing to offer, and is unworthy of further attention since it has already demonstrated gross misinformation in the introduction. You suck at science.
Seduction zone earthquakes.
Love the hard hats and reflective safety vests. Disappointing to see the absence of safety eyewear. 😹😹😹
Yes, 😂❤ The hard hats make them look professional, but the glasses would have made them look smart! 😮