Cascadia: The Earthquake that will Destroy Westcoast America

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  • @suzannemarker9896
    @suzannemarker9896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7262

    My step mother’s father was a geologist who was a member of one of the teams that put together the risk analysis for a potential Cascadia subduction zone quake. The historical record uncovered and the implications for present day danger were so alarming that he not only left the Pacific Northwest, he moved to Europe and never came back.

    • @razorransom1795
      @razorransom1795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +320

      Well, sad to say with what I've seen and researched, technically no where is always 100% safe with the deformed cratons interconnected faults. Hope it wasn't Britain or Ireland, probably never heard of the marian visions that talk about that and other major geo events. For st Patrick's promise, Ireland is gonna sink never to rise again, Britain goes under and comes back up. Note its geologically, its sandwiched between two can be bad faults, and yes the ancient Somerset beach one that goes through Mann's is back online now.

    • @fprice212
      @fprice212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      Please don't day that, i live in Washington state 😪

    • @danielstr8101
      @danielstr8101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +220

      id say its a 100% chance before 2030 if not 2027. from my reading. your step mom was smart

    • @pamelafernandezdelareguera4893
      @pamelafernandezdelareguera4893 4 ปีที่แล้ว +317

      I live in Chile. I'm old enough to have lived through 2 major ones and an infinite number of smaller ones. (Though I wasn't born for the big 1960 one). Our major ones have a tendency to shift the earth's axis .... it happened in 2010 when we had a rather big 8.8 one.

    • @kasuraga
      @kasuraga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      i live in arizona. as long as you can survive the summer heat this place is nice and calm. we dont really have major life ending events like earth quakes, hurricanes, or tornados luckily.
      (we do get earthquakes and tornadoes but so small and so remote they dont cause much problem besides being exciting to hear about)

  • @mosesmarlboro5401
    @mosesmarlboro5401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1048

    As someone who digs subway tunnels in Los Angeles for a living, this is concerning to say the least.

    • @pickles9440
      @pickles9440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      MosesMarlboro are they really doing that?

    • @MrMarkar1959
      @MrMarkar1959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      wonder if anybody prospector's are panning out the diggings?

    • @boastyy
      @boastyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Take a dog to work with you mate.

    • @suzettebavier4412
      @suzettebavier4412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I should Think SO‼️ Scarey‼️‼️‼️

    • @zaftred8777
      @zaftred8777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Imagine hearing "Fool! You've doomed us all!"

  • @danrazzaia3152
    @danrazzaia3152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +605

    Seattleite here. You missed two things:
    1) We DO get earthquakes on a somewhat regular basis that can wake us up or shatter the odd window.
    2) A 9.2 will have enough force to loosen the glaciers on Mt Rainier, if not awaken it or one of its brethren.
    Don't worry, it's worse than you think.

    • @uzidoesit357
      @uzidoesit357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Dude, we get one off haida gwaii almost monthly

    • @Trygon
      @Trygon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The volcanoes here are plenty worrying, but that north american plate that's doing all the compressing also includes yellowstone. Who knows what suddenly gaining an inch or two of breathing room will do out there?

    • @scotte4765
      @scotte4765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@Trygon Those are very different places with very different processes going on. To my knowledge, the magma deep under the Yellowstone region is not being held there by geologic tension which a west coast earthquake, however large, could snap open.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Which is why you should make sure your windows aren't odd.

    • @lisarmia
      @lisarmia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your earthquakes near Seattle are probably caused by the Seattle fault, and not the Cascadian Mega Thrust.

  • @bizoumorte
    @bizoumorte 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +137

    Once upon a time on Vancouver Island I went to see the first Disney starwars film with my mom. 1/3 into the movie there was an earthquake, probably a 3-4 on the scale. Everyone started standing up, putting their snacks down and kind of just waiting to see if there was more to come. My mother - Bless her heart - thought it was some kind of movie effect and didn't notice everyone standing because she was so engrossed in the movie. She looked up at me and just whispered 'that was so cool! How did they do that?!'. She was stunned when I told her it was an earthquake. So funny looking back.

  • @senor.molina
    @senor.molina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Chilean here, I just wanted to say that we are lucky to have earthquakes so often (like with 15~20 years of difference), because that way we are forced to have better quality of buildings and houses, most of old houses in Chile can't survive the quakes, so the ones that are standing right now have been proved by the circumstances.

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Similar to Japan, I guess.

    • @cerwile1
      @cerwile1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Also, if you have smaller earthquakes often, it releases the pressure when its managable instead of giving you a single massive quake every couple thousand years.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@cerwile1 Chile has the largest recorded quake in history and the 6th in Bio-Bio. 9.5 and 8.8 Mo. 1960 and 2010, respectively.

    • @cerwile1
      @cerwile1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@Markle2k True, but imagine if the fault in chile was like the one in the video, where the pressure just builds up quietly for ages until it all goes off at once.

    • @AirShark95
      @AirShark95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Hell even some of the old houses in Chile are built like bunkers. Many have survived over 7 large earthquakes (7.0+) by now and are still standing. And the earthquake culture in Chile is very unique. People there know how to respond to disasters. All Chileans have a built-in seismometer at this point, and they'll only take cover when they feel the quake is anything over a magnitude 7.5. And all Chileans now instinctively know to evacuate the coast and head for the hills after every major quake. This is why Chile is one of the only countries in the world that can brush off magnitude 7.5 - 8.5 quakes like it is nothing. If the quakes Chile gets hit anywhere else on Earth, then they would cripple that nation and the economy.

  • @cmd31220
    @cmd31220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1266

    Not gonna lie, I was fully expecting this to be 2020's final boss

    • @DylanMcMullen
      @DylanMcMullen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Would've been too much of a blessing

    • @lschnitzer7770
      @lschnitzer7770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      The problem is that it's growing stronger the longer it's stuck

    • @DylanMcMullen
      @DylanMcMullen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@lschnitzer7770 good

    • @sacheencollecutt5583
      @sacheencollecutt5583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      2021 said to 2020: "Hold my beer"...

    • @friesareyummy
      @friesareyummy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Paul Wheeler I hate Don Lemon lol. Not everyone who hates Trump is a liberal. Of course Obama had scandals, he's a president. Every single one has had scandals. W Bush, Trump, and Clinton's were more scandalous presidents though.

  • @MrDlt123
    @MrDlt123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +991

    One element of my job is to ensure corporate data survivability by backing up data at redundant, geographically seperated data centers. While inspecting one San Francisco firm, we discovered they had no redundant data backup. When I enquired, the VP rolled his eyes at me and said " Ive heard [earthquake] predictions all my life, but other than a small tremor here and there, there hasnt been ANYTHING to worry about!"
    This is the problem. People have no frame of reference. They think it wont happen because it hasnt yet happened to THEM.

    • @darklord220
      @darklord220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      We never learn.

    • @bthemedia
      @bthemedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Use multiple cloud regions for storing backups.

    • @garybulwinkle82
      @garybulwinkle82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      In California the San Andreas releases frequently, Cascadia not very much. This has lead California to build accordingly. Up north they haven't been building to withstand earthquakes, so the damage will be catastrophic!!

    • @murraystewartj
      @murraystewartj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "I've never had a house fire so why should I bother with smoke detectors?" It's like the folks who move back to an area after a "100 year flood" thinking that they're safe for another century, as another 100 year flood is a long way off. Predictions, whether of the likelihood a major Cascadia quake or flood events are based on historical data. They paint in broad strokes a rough timeframe in which we can expect a major disaster and, if we're smart, plan to mitigate the results. With climate and ocean currents showing rapid change, I think a lot of weather algorythms are going to have a hard time keeping up, as the historical data of centuries may have lost its predictive value. But it's our nature as human beings to become complacent, either through never experiencing a natural disaster or, perversely, having survived one and operating under the assumption of random immunity from another.

    • @lyndaphillips5006
      @lyndaphillips5006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      APAN and CHILI' WHEN CAN THIS GUY "EXPLAIN" HIS EXPERT FINDINGS OF CASCADIA AND CALIFORNIA ? WRONG TITLE TOTALLY !

  • @Stkrrook
    @Stkrrook 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    I attended a training session about disaster preparedness held near Everett, WA about 20 years ago. One of the local USGS geologists was a presenter. He said we need to have our emergency preps stored well away from buildings and buried (with lid access) to protect them from earthquake damage so we could actually retrieve them when we need them. He said we will need them and our buildings/homes aren't likely to be standing to get our preps from inside. He said our go bags needed to be kept next to the door we will be exiting through. Very chilling to listen to how he, personally, was preparing for such a recently discovered threat. I have been prepping since Mt. St. Helen's blew, myself, so the concept of prepping wasn't new to me. It pretty much was to everyone else there. I live about 15 miles EAST of I-5 and avoid WEST of it like the plague.

    • @libbylee9722
      @libbylee9722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I also live about 15 miles east of I-5. Lets be real, 15 miles wont help AT ALL.

    • @Stkrrook
      @Stkrrook 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@libbylee9722 it actually does help. The Nisqually quake barely registered where I am. I realize the big one will still be nasty 15 miles east of I5, but it won't be anywhere near as deadly.

    • @DirtFlyer
      @DirtFlyer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Geological engineer here. Wood frame residential homes do quite well in earthquakes actually, usually with just minor damage. If you're in a multi-story multi-family structure you might be slightly concerned about the buildings performance, and if in an old URM building I would want to stay close to the exit if possible. Those could be damaged catastrophically in Portland and Seattle.

    • @hughjunit2503
      @hughjunit2503 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Im west of I5 but im in the country on 40 acres.....anyone in or near a decent sized city is already toast.....i could go a year with no trips to town can you??

    • @Stkrrook
      @Stkrrook 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@hughjunit2503 I certainly can!

  • @erinrising2799
    @erinrising2799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    as an Oregonian, I wanted to say thank you for pronouncing our state correctly, and curse you for making it impossible to sleep tonight.

    • @starman2k209
      @starman2k209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Can anyone say "ORYGUN" ?

    • @kayskidf1
      @kayskidf1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@starman2k209 sounda more like"organ"

    • @willlavine1105
      @willlavine1105 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      diddo in the second part

    • @primovid
      @primovid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tonight, only?

    • @chronosschiron
      @chronosschiron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oregino?

  • @dianebrewster3219
    @dianebrewster3219 ปีที่แล้ว +821

    I lived in Anchorage when was 7 years old and the 1964 Good Friday earthquake hit. Although there were no earthquake meters at the time, I've seen estimates of it being anywhere between a 9.2 t0 9.5 earthquake. It was terrifying. To this day, I (and anyone else I've met who lived through it) cannot speak of it without crying. I was in Seattle during the 6.8 Nisqually earthquake in 2001. It was nothing compared to the Good Friday earthquake. At 6.8, the Nisqually earthquake made the ground feel like a gentle rolling wave with the sound of thunder coming from underground. It lasted for less than one minute. The Good Friday earthquake made the ground shift violently back and forth with so much force that everyone standing outside fell to the ground, only to stand back up and then be hurled to the ground in another few seconds. It lasted for 4.5 minutes, but felt like it went on forever. My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over. I don't remember sounds besides people screaming and houses sounding like they were pulling apart. As a young girl scout, I remember our troop was on a guided walk in a State forest. The forester pointed out that the trail we were walking was directly over the fault of the Good Friday earthquake. She pointed out a tree that had grown directly over the fault line. The tree, still upright, had been ripped in half with one half located about 15 ft. from the other half. To this day, the memory of that sight is still mind-bending. I recognize the photo of downtown Anchorage shown in the video. My father went into town a few days after the quake and took a movie of Anchorage's streets. We watched those films regularly. My dad was an air force pilot and flew over Valdez on a reconnaissance mission. From the air, he took a movie of the port, the wrecked docks, the large ships sitting atop crushed homes, and washed out roads. We watched that movie regularly, too. As an adult in Seattle, I discovered that my neighbor had lived in a community near Valdez that was not as affected by the tsunami. All of her friends in Valdez perished. Many years later, my mother told us that my father always slept with his boots on for the next year or so after the earthquake. Now living in the Seattle area, I have always made my housing choices based on staying out of tsunami range and knowing the geology of the area I live in (to minimize impacts from earth movement). I do enjoy going out to the coast now and then but must admit a certain nervousness until I get back to safer ground.

    • @mehere8038
      @mehere8038 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      fascinating, thanks for sharing

    • @psynurse
      @psynurse ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Wow! Thanks for sharing!

    • @StellarCrackhead42
      @StellarCrackhead42 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Holy shit. I cannot believe how terrifying it would've been to live right through that, thank you for sharing! And I hope you're alright nowadays!

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva ปีที่แล้ว +41

      "My brother said he was watching the trees, sway so much that the tops of the trees would touch the ground, stand back upright, and then sway in the opposite direction and touch the ground again; over and over." --- Trying to visualize this in my mind was far creepier than I would have expected.

    • @uncletiggermclaren7592
      @uncletiggermclaren7592 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      My dad was in a harbour down in North Island, New Zealand, standing next to his dinghy which was pulled up on the sand at the low water mark ( which was about 100 Mtrs from high water, in that narrow shallow bay ), cutting up some fish he had caught. And the tsunami from that quake got to him.
      With no noise, the water just rose up, with a walking speed remorselessness about it. He grabbed onto the side of the boat, and was lifted off his feet and climbed aboard, turned round and looked and the ocean was forcing into the harbour.
      Out by the harbour mouth it was already at high water mark ( which meant that the water level had risen 3 mtrs or so, about 10 feet ) , and further in the harbour was a noticeable bulge which was the water building up as it forced into the narrow part of the harbour.
      He was raced faster and faster up the harbour, and was lifted above the mangroves and then the water went back out, leaving his dinghy sitting in a cow pasture that is about 9 feet above high water mark.
      It wasn't a significant tsunami in most other places in NZ, that harbour often has heavy effects because of how the Island it is on relates to the structure of the large body of water between it and the mainland. Water presses down between Great Barrier Island and the Mainland, and forces up the narrow harbours on the West side of the Island.

  • @rascal0175
    @rascal0175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1226

    In the early 80s I stayed with someone who had a ranch that the San Andreas fault ran through. Some people showed up from (as I recall) a university. They placed measuring devices into the fault line, then quit for lunch. When they returned they tried to remove one of the devices and they could not get it out of the ground. In about 90 minutes the plate had moved enough to trap some of their equipment. I saw that with my own eyes. They were pretty stimulated about the amount of movement in that short time.
    The ranch owner is dead and now I’m old, but I sure remember that. It took place in December 1981.

    • @ajl2232
      @ajl2232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Wow. That's an interesting story and info. This thing is inevitable. Thank you for sharing

    • @Dhobby517
      @Dhobby517 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      How interesting. Was that ranch in Parkfield, CA by chance? Great burgers at the Parkfield cafe!

    • @rascal0175
      @rascal0175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@Dhobby517 I don’t recall. That was December 1981. I do recall that we were close to Ronald Reagan’s ranch. A look at a map may refresh my memory.

    • @rascal0175
      @rascal0175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Dhobby517 Oxnard.

    • @HappyQuailsLC
      @HappyQuailsLC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, these plates involve lots of slow slippage.

  • @mamasmae8021
    @mamasmae8021 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    I currently live in this Cascadia zone. It’s scary how many people don’t take this possibility seriously. I plan to move inland soon and can’t wait as this has been a huge source of anxiety and nightmares for me.

    • @itsnotthesamething
      @itsnotthesamething ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I have a couple relatives in Seattle. They don't seem to be interested at all in what could happen. I live in big tornado country(North Alabama). But tornados can be forecast, and I can go to a shelter(we have amazing public shelters here, that can withstand an F5). You never know when an earthquake will hit, and if you survive the earthquake, how long do you have before the tsunami? I'd move away as fast as I could.

    • @willbetts
      @willbetts ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Come to Boise!

    • @seanbarnes1151
      @seanbarnes1151 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@willbettsmaybe Boise will come to you instead!

    • @wiseauserious8750
      @wiseauserious8750 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Salem welcomes you

    • @GasStationBird
      @GasStationBird ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@seanbarnes1151 why are you Palestinian

  • @kakisse79
    @kakisse79 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    My dad is Alaskan and survived the 1964 quake, but lost several friends. He moved to Europe when he was 20 and this was partially motivated by that earthquake he and his family barely survived.

    • @hpinchen9451
      @hpinchen9451 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Where in Europe? Italy has one of the largest super volcanoes in the world
      In the Naples Basin. Campo Flagrani… It could erupt any moment

    • @Nutmeg-
      @Nutmeg- ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@hpinchen9451 I read something about the risk of it's next erruption being a super one is rather low. Yes, it will cause destruction but it won't wipe Italy off the map. Still happy to not live in Naples. They don't have a plan how they'd evacuate the city in case of even a minor eruption and it has around 3 million citizen living in Naples.

    • @Arcticun
      @Arcticun ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hpinchen9451 The Phlegraean Fields aren't a super volcano and it's extremely unlikely that it will have any form of widespread devastating. It can potentially have a new caldera-forming eruption, specifically around the Pozzuoli port but even that can potentially be thousands of years away.

    • @hpinchen9451
      @hpinchen9451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Arcticun but they are part of the Caldera that encompasses the Bay of Naples and beyond are they not?

    • @hpinchen9451
      @hpinchen9451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Latest research I’ve seen indicates the magma chambers are extremely volatile which could trigger a super volcanic event ….

  • @flowersnaught9380
    @flowersnaught9380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +552

    Me living on the san Andrea's fault line poking at it with a stick

    • @vulthuryol8051
      @vulthuryol8051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      "C'mon, do your thing"

    • @solomongrundy1618
      @solomongrundy1618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      *TF2 CRIT NOISE*

    • @richardhead1848
      @richardhead1848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This is where you hear that stupid "shot on iphone" meme music.

    • @lostpony4885
      @lostpony4885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watching im all "get out of the house"

    • @emmahealy4863
      @emmahealy4863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      haha I always love throwing rocks at loose looking cliffs at the brach

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +959

    As a geologist living near San Francisco, both the Cascadia and San Andreas Fault Systems are of great concern to me, not only for major earthquakes but for huge tsunamis. It always fascinates, and dismays, me that surveys of factors considered of importance to potential home buyers, the first priority is “view”, the last priority is “geologic safety”. Even though the most modest “entry level” home starts at about $1.5 million where I live, buyers can’t be bothered to get a geologic report, or even read the ones that have already been done for the specific property. Then when their houses fall down, they go around shouting “why didn’t anyone tell me?!” Nor do very many buy earthquake insurance, it’s really expensive and only pays 75% of the value of the home. I can’t afford it myself.

    • @davelawless6874
      @davelawless6874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      $1.5M you must be riiiiich 😅🤑👏🏻👍🏻

    • @brandonskalsky5484
      @brandonskalsky5484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      The San Andreas is unlikely to produce any significant tsunami because it's located almost entirely on land and it's not a thrust fault, so there would be minimal vertical change to the sea floor

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      People in California are insane. Why do they build houses on steep hills, with no foundation, propped up on stilts? Those hills are prone to landslides, whether there's an earthquake or not. They're little more than sand dunes. Worst of all, the houses are built on narrow, winding streets, where it's nearly impossible to drive fire engines. Those hills are also prone to fires, caused by the Santa Anna Winds, and nearly impossible to fight (See documentary, "Design for Disaster").
      As far as earthquakes go, I'd be far more concerned about the Mississippi River valley. The New Madrid Fault caused a series of big earthquakes, during the winter of 1811-1812. No one knows the exact magnitude, but it was estimated around 8. If something that big should happen again, cities like St. Louis and Memphis would be destroyed. They're not ready for it. Neither is Charleston, S.C. They had a big one (August 31, 1886). They're due for another. There shall be earthquakes, in divers places. Can you imagine an Alaska-sized earthquake hitting Toronto or Miami?

    • @c8Lorraine1
      @c8Lorraine1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      WHY ARE YOU STILL LIVING IN SF ?
      As a geologist, you should know better.
      Don’t say your job is keeping you here.
      What’s wrong with that assertion

    • @raltog8654
      @raltog8654 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Is there any point getting a geologic survey? If it goes you're all in trouble.

  • @libbylee9722
    @libbylee9722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Simon has never been to an Oregon beach if that sunny place is the image he pulled.

    • @j50wells
      @j50wells 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I know, its foggy nearly every damn day. I don't think you see the sun down there. We used to go to Reedsport all the time to fish druing the summer. It was always foggy or low clouds.

  • @Smellbringer
    @Smellbringer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +740

    "When the big one hits, Nevada will be wine country." - Robin WIlliams

    • @jasonirwin4631
      @jasonirwin4631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      The beach front property in Arizona joke is going to take on a meaning.

    • @dingleberryhandpump802
      @dingleberryhandpump802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@jasonirwin4631 Learn to swim

    • @self-transforming_machine-elf
      @self-transforming_machine-elf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      ​@@dingleberryhandpump802 Learn to swim

    • @juststained
      @juststained 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      "see you down in Arizona Bay.."

    • @marieduran6286
      @marieduran6286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      LOLOLOL!!! That is one good way of looking at it.

  • @richj120952
    @richj120952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

    I actually worked in the FEMA Cascadia table top exercise. This is where experts in their respective fields estimated the damages, and how quickly emergency crews could respond, also, how long it would take to recover. Everything this video says is exactly what the exercise determined. I was part of the Portland portion. In Portland, the downtown area will be subject to liquifaction. Buildings that are brick will of course, simply fall apart, everything else will sink into what will turn into quicksand. There will be bridges still standing, but the approaches will have been sunk. I-5 will be impassable. The Portland Airport will be unusable as it is also built on soil that is subject to liquefaction. Of course the dams on the Columbia will have failed, meaning flooding and total loss of power from that source. Railroads will also have failed, as their bridges will have been destroyed, and parts of the lines will also suffer sinking as they are next to the Columbia, Willamette, and other rivers. So, evacuating millions of people will not be possible, via North/South routes.. What about East (West will also be impossible as that is closer to the fault and will totally have been wiped out.). Well, guess what, there is no viable route East. How about long term? PGE Engineers said that power would take about 3 years to bring back. So, even if water and sewer lines had not been broken (which of course they will have been totaled) no pumping could take place. People will be stuck, no way to get in to deliver aid, no way for them to leave. Remember that 3 day emergency supply you are supposed to have?? Won't do you any good.

    • @juliebraden
      @juliebraden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      o.......m........g........
      no pwr for months? yrs?
      how r we gonna make it thru this aftermath??? ayeayeayeaye

    • @richj120952
      @richj120952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@juliebraden Actually, since there is no real escape, I think that it will be a bit of the lord of the flies situation. Again, when there is no power, there will be no water as the water system requires power to pump water up into those water towers. The same thing with the sewer system, it requires power and water to pump sewage through the plants. (Of course, it can and does spill over into the rivers. Thus depriving folks of that source of fresh water.) The deaths that happened during the earthquake, and tidal wave will be minor in comparison to what happens after. Again, no way in or out for a very long time (Of course there will be trickle, but nothing that will make much of a difference.) Seattle will be in better shape, as they will have sea access, assuming Mt Rainer doesn't erupt because of the earthquake.) The rest of the coast could be OK for the same reason. The Willamette valley will be toast.

    • @juliebraden
      @juliebraden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@richj120952 the town of Aurora , OR just dealt w/ that water tower scenario-- from the pwr outtages during ice storm in Oregon Feb 2021 I think. Two other Oregon towns had to lend them generators

    • @richj120952
      @richj120952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@juliebraden The governments in Oregon and the Willamette Valley have been shorting the safety of their population for many years. Back in Portland, there was a plan to install a freeway from Mt Hood to Portland. Then they took that money and put in their light rail that doesn't really reduce traffic, but they did get a shiny new thing to get the voters to vote them back into office, and in one case into Congress. Traffic is a real mess still. (OK, 2020 reduced it, but it is coming back soon.) That freeway would have provided an East/West exit from the Valley when the Cascadia fault event actually happens.

    • @cheskal
      @cheskal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I received an email from one of our Oregon state senators a few years after the New Zealand quake that said this same thing.
      He said we all better be prepared for at least 3 weeks because we were on our own for at LEAST that long. That the state would not be coming to help us because the state would not be ABLE to help us if the quake is as big as they expect it to be. And that things like flooding, liquefaction & damage to the infrastructure would make travel to affected areas dangerous if not impossible.
      It basically said to expect help from no one but yourself & encouraged people to make a earthquake plan together with close neighbors.
      It was not a reassuring email. But I put together a good emergency kit after that.
      Now after watching this, I think I better update that kit. ASAP.
      I'm sure most of the food, water & medicine are expired. It's easy to get complacent & time goes by so quickly .. but if we aren't prepared, we won't stand a chance of surviving at all.
      This was seriously the wrong video to watch right before bed.

  • @keepcalmyouexist358
    @keepcalmyouexist358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    I live in Greece, a relatively earthquake-prone country, and I've been laughing at my German mother for being afraid of them. I need to go apologise. Maybe get her some flowers too. Or a hardhat.

    • @hhjohn2766
      @hhjohn2766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Well this aged horribly

    • @marinigrey4913
      @marinigrey4913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol.... To funny... I'd go with the hard hat on.. Does she throw things... Lol...

    • @LakeofCrystalclan
      @LakeofCrystalclan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is this about the earthquake in the Aegean Sea in October?

    • @timan2039
      @timan2039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As the son of German mother I would fill the hardhat with flowers and favored confection.

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You want to really scare her? Show her videos of Alaska (1964) and Yellowstone Park (1959). Those earthquakes were huge!

  • @hyper_nova09
    @hyper_nova09 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love your Geographics channel, it's one of my favorites. Thanks!

  • @christian2418
    @christian2418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +465

    Coming from someone who's lived my entire life in the pacific northwest, you shouldn't live here without an emergency plans for natural disasters earthquakes or not. If it's not an earthquake it'll be a savage wildfire. Either way you don't want to wait until it's happening to figure out what you're gonna do.

    • @SamIAm10262
      @SamIAm10262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You shouldn't live ANYWHERE without emergency plans.

    • @no_peace
      @no_peace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Even if you don't live to see any earthquake, you need to have some cash, food, water, supplies (including for pets) and personal items (meds, documents, etc.)... My extended family didn't lose anything in the earthquakes or snowstorms or anything but there have been two families that lost their houses in fires, and people have lost jobs or lost family members who were the breadwinners. Having supplies buys you time. My best friend's house burned down and they couldn't go back in, and they had to get a hotel room paid for by the red cross, but they didn't have any food or cooking tools, or hygiene stuff or anything. I mean nary a granola bar. Like it just sets you up for cascading failures. How are they supposed to go to work if they can't get their work clothes? Or if the clothes burned up in the fire? What if they can't buy new clothes because they had to spend their money on cookware and food? What if their car keys were in the house and burned up? What if the hotel doesn't accept their pets? Etc. Do yourself a favor!

    • @no_peace
      @no_peace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      *especially if you live in an apartment. I'm really worried my idiot neighbors are going to shoot one of us through the wall or light the place on fire

    • @iraniansuperhacker4382
      @iraniansuperhacker4382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You cant really plan for something like cascadia tho. Even fema's plan starts off with the assumption that everything west of interstate 5 is destroyed. If you live in a tsunami area what can you do beside run to higher ground? I think people should have emergency food and water but in the case of this type of earthquake that isnt going to help you.

    • @apophispnw5717
      @apophispnw5717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Most people here probably have no plans at all. They just assume “eh they’ve been talking about it for the last 50 years, it’s not ever gunna happen”.

  • @billm7035
    @billm7035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +856

    “We don’t expect this will happen again anytime soon”, The CDC describing a more deadly SARS type outbreak in 2014

    • @MarcelaElviraTimis
      @MarcelaElviraTimis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @dotdotdashed I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would nappen if healthcare became unavailable... hence the mask mandates and the distancing stuff many people don't want to follow

    • @richardhobbs7360
      @richardhobbs7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Alex Evans bro, 1 in 100 is still alot of people, thats 3.6 million in the US alone, doesnt sound like much but if you went to a school with 200 students 2 of them will die, 20 in a school of 2000, and on and on and on, just cause "well a lot of people aren't dying" doesn't mean you're right
      oh and you are just objectively wrong about the "why aren't more rural Chinese people dying than westerners" as even if China was trust able, which they aren't, unless Chinese people have a gene that stops them dying from pneumonia that no one else has, which they don't, then they'd dying at a much higher rate, now does that make sense?

    • @richardhobbs7360
      @richardhobbs7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Alex Evans UK,
      that’s my point, anyone who is saying they have the same death rate as a western countries whilst also not having as good healthcare is lying
      They are running out of ventilators world wide as the cases spiked the ventilation manufacturing was already at 100%
      And the school analogy still works, still 1 in 100 people be it 1 in 100 colleagues or 1 in 100 peers, it’s just a way to put it in perspective

    • @snieves4
      @snieves4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @dotdotdashed do all lives matter?

    • @snieves4
      @snieves4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @dotdotdashed why did you make an ignorant factually incorrect statement that leads to fracturing the effort needed to get us through a pandemic?

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    1:45 - Chapter 1 - The orphan wave
    4:35 - Chapter 2 - Shadow of the thunderbird
    8:15 - Chapter 3 - The beast below
    12:40 - Mid roll ads
    13:50 - Chapter 4 - Finding the fault
    17:10 - Chapter 5 - Disaster
    20:00 - Chapter 6 - Drowning man

    • @kingdomofhope3371
      @kingdomofhope3371 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wormwood is coming. Look at the Black Hole Sun on his right..🪐🔴☄🙏🏽🥰

    • @eave01
      @eave01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh ignition, thank you. All the mythology was eating my soul.

  • @Laura-S196
    @Laura-S196 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks!

  • @SRFriso94
    @SRFriso94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1624

    Simon: "The next mega quake is 70 years overdue."
    2020: _Sits quitely in the corner taking notes._

    • @sportster306
      @sportster306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @waylon lewin hey bro, ever, heard, of, a comma? ,,,,,,,

    • @matronista
      @matronista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sportster306 But didn’t say anything about original commenter typing “quitely” instead of “quietly”.

    • @matronista
      @matronista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great comment!

    • @sportster306
      @sportster306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@matronista I recognized it, but it is a minor and common error compared to the blatant non use of grammatical marks.

    • @matronista
      @matronista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sportster306 That’s ok. Right before I made my earlier comment, I corrected someone’s “looser” to “loser”. That really gets under my skin. Lol

  • @kre8or465
    @kre8or465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    "some say the fight was between thunderbird and Transformer"
    I immediately imagined Optimus Prim punching Zaptos in the face.

    • @KaladinVegapunk
      @KaladinVegapunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly that's also through oral tradition so maybe it evolved into that haha. Could be ancient mortal kombat fans talking about raiden vs shang tsung
      It's odd though, all the oral tradition I've been involved with its be really difficult to talk and tell stories

    • @jacleesx2022
      @jacleesx2022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong it was Voltron kicking Megazord's ass

    • @jamiebarba5701
      @jamiebarba5701 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Optimus Prime

    • @maudglazbrooke1287
      @maudglazbrooke1287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If it was Transformer vs Phoenix we'd be talking X-Men crossover then we'd have a Micheal Bay movie so the plot really wouldn't matter.

    • @SuperAntichicken
      @SuperAntichicken 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's hope it goes down like that

  • @Josh-gv3ir
    @Josh-gv3ir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    In Oregon, this earthquake is pounded into our heads via school. They basically tell us "yeah there is an earth quake that's supposed to come every 300 years, but it's late and can come anytime. So let's hope we don't dir

    • @teamridgeback
      @teamridgeback 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup

    • @edwardo2518
      @edwardo2518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I realize this may be a bit trite by now, it seems to be quite good advise " To live as if every day is the last." Our future is not assured, just think hard about this Covid 19 situation.

    • @jasoncole2876
      @jasoncole2876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@edwardo2518 I am "thinking hard" about the Covid situation. Look at the death toll compared to 2019. You are being lied to. Hopefully this is good news to you.

    • @gregme5601
      @gregme5601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jasoncole2876 In the beginning the MSM quoted that if no precaution was taken 2.2 million people would die and if precaution was taken 1.2 million would die in the U.S. How people forget news from one day to the next day.

    • @liamwinter4512
      @liamwinter4512 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oregon spelling champion

  • @robert-zj7ef
    @robert-zj7ef 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    1982, my ship pulled into a harbor on Talcauno, Chile. The harbor bottom was about 50 feet deep. NOW, THERE IS NO HARBOR AND THAT AREA IS NOW NEAR SEA LEVEL.

  • @rhov-anion
    @rhov-anion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +470

    In Portland, we say "if the ground shakes, look to the mountain." Not only is Cascadia due, but so is Mount Hood erupting. So either quake or volcano eruption, your pick.

    • @unfriendlyjack4223
      @unfriendlyjack4223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      WildRhov
      An earthquake on a big cascadia scale, I'd say both have a fair chance of happening.

    • @vjs4539
      @vjs4539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The planet would be better off without the people in Portland, Seattle, and California.

    • @mauidano13
      @mauidano13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      VJ S be careful what you wish for

    • @rhov-anion
      @rhov-anion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@vjs4539 nice to know you're totally okay with the death 46 million people just because 40% of them don't follow the same political ideology as you. Few people are aware that only 43% of registered voters in California are Democrats, 40% in Washington, and only 34% in Oregon. I mean, we do have like 8-10 parties, not just two, but hey, killing tens of millions to wipe out a few Democrats... I sure hope you don't believe in a deity, because it'll be really awkward to explain your reasons for writing that comment when it's brought up against you in the afterlife.

    • @unassumingaccount395
      @unassumingaccount395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@vjs4539 sorry bro i dont speak alabama

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    Remember when we welcomed in 2020 with hopes it would be better than 2019?

    • @brendaseigler3923
      @brendaseigler3923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yep !!

    • @janiceduncan7908
      @janiceduncan7908 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well the Dems and crooked Piglosi are still there. That's a problem.

    • @beth8991
      @beth8991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@janiceduncan7908 maybe they will all be home when it happens. Let them feel first hand what they always avoid.

    • @beth8991
      @beth8991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Plant Ster Poor you! You want to experience an earthquake for real? Go to Indonesia, Japan, Alaska or South America. They are increasing in size and frequency. Sheer terror.

    • @Romin.777
      @Romin.777 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was sick during new years eve, as sick as i never had been before.

  • @sportsmag6148
    @sportsmag6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1826

    Simon: "It's unlikely it will happen in your lifetime"
    2020: "Hold my Corona"

    • @dianapovero7319
      @dianapovero7319 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I hate to break it to you, but Epidimiologist have been waiting about 50 years for a global pandemic to reoccur- it's the long lull that was the surprise...

    • @VanillaMacaron551
      @VanillaMacaron551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      People win lotteries every day with far smaller odds.

    • @TheWolfsnack
      @TheWolfsnack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      .....shouts over to the Yellowstone Caldera to join in on the fun....

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      that unfortunate beer...

    • @goldenhate6649
      @goldenhate6649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@TheWolfsnack Yellowstone is growing, but they have confirmed we will be dust by time it ruptures.

  • @germfreepizzawi1839
    @germfreepizzawi1839 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Has anyone else been binge watching these videos? I’ve been stuck watching/listening to them every day for hours on end, mainly listening to them at work. So addicting.

    • @LeoDomitrix
      @LeoDomitrix ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am quarantined with bacterial pneumonia. These are keeping me from going nuts with boredom!

    • @someblokecalleddave1
      @someblokecalleddave1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LeoDomitrix Feeling any better? Hope you get well soon.

    • @jeffdunnell6693
      @jeffdunnell6693 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember geology was taught in grade schools

  • @jwayneair
    @jwayneair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3225

    I feel like Cascadia and Yellowstone are making plans for a date...

    • @vikiwalters8767
      @vikiwalters8767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

      The real date is when Cascadia and San Andreas hook up

    • @vikiwalters8767
      @vikiwalters8767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? actually go watch the Geographics on Yellowstone, probably nothing to worry about there!

    • @rodinunez5967
      @rodinunez5967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      More like smash and pass (;

    • @Comuniity_
      @Comuniity_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@vikiwalters8767 why not a thruple

    • @Comuniity_
      @Comuniity_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@vikiwalters8767 were always talking worst case, and Yellowstones worst case it definitely worrying

  • @wagz2003
    @wagz2003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    Well, we can cross that general area off of my "possible places to retire" list.

    • @brandonbam1
      @brandonbam1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's expensive as fuck here . After hearing this I'm going my ass back to Wisconsin asap lol

    • @kurtklimisch7498
      @kurtklimisch7498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Moved from Michigan 30 years ago. This is the most beautiful place in the world. I would not trade those 30 years for 60 years in the mid-west.

    • @caldy206
      @caldy206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Eastern Washington will still be here and maybe some nice new waterfront property.

    • @SuperReznative
      @SuperReznative 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      . repent know Jesus/God, everyone. your eternal soul with Him.. is your name written in the Lamb's book of life. That is the list of possible place to retire for eternity.

    • @SuperReznative
      @SuperReznative 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brandonbam1 revere God /know Jesus.. take Him where ever you go..He knew you, yet while you knit in your mother's womb He cares for you. Jesus is Lord of all

  • @rickfox4068
    @rickfox4068 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    One thing everyone forgets in the scenario, is Mt. Rainier. At the very minimum, you will have avalanches coming at you at frightening speeds. If you have deep shaking, it could affect the volcano itself.

    • @zachs8765
      @zachs8765 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      and mt adams, mt hood etc

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Mt. Rainier: "Hi there! Remember me?"

    • @jasondrummond9451
      @jasondrummond9451 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@zachs8765 And Mount Baker - looming above the 2.6 million people of Vancouver.

    • @MishaSims
      @MishaSims ปีที่แล้ว +14

      exactly. i live in portland, oregon that has two active volcanos, mt. tabor and mt. hood. i'm worried about the volcanos not the earthquakes

    • @WhalienDNA
      @WhalienDNA ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I wonder if it will impact yellowstone, as well, since it’s a subduction zone…

  • @traildude7538
    @traildude7538 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    A friend in my university days spent several summers examining coastal deposits in Oregon and found area after area that have been tilted and then falling back level over and over, showing that as the subduction zone pressure builds sections of the crust along the coast tilt from the pressure and then when a big quake hits the slabs of crust drop back to level, which complicates a quake because while the ground is shaking it's also tilting.

  • @dadzawa_actual
    @dadzawa_actual 4 ปีที่แล้ว +344

    "71,000, as many will run to the hills".... I think you forget how absolutely moronic some people in America can be.... We'd rather stand there and take a selfie.

    • @ShadyLady988
      @ShadyLady988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      At least we'll have some amazing live stream videos to watch from those who stayed in place and pulled out phones.

    • @andrewjones-productions
      @andrewjones-productions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ..more likely to want to try shooting at it.

    • @FRANKBURNSONE
      @FRANKBURNSONE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think you meant to say "I think you forget how absolutely moronic (Almost all) people in California Are!" Leave the rest of us out of it.

    • @jasonanfinson9346
      @jasonanfinson9346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      One things for sure...all the idiots will buy up all the toilet paper

    • @SuperReznative
      @SuperReznative 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FRANKBURNSONE 👍🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦❤️

  • @dustonc1
    @dustonc1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +891

    The first rule of living on Cascadia Subduction Zone: DON'T TALK ABOUT CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE!

    • @haramanggapuja
      @haramanggapuja 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      My son and daughter-in-law live in Portland. They don't even like to hear us ask about it. Ignorance is bliss. They are in Nirvana.

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bruce: Rule six-there is no rule six!

    • @mattandmegandiercks8809
      @mattandmegandiercks8809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The lack of communicating potential dangers in your area regardless wherever you live is a danger in itself and is unacceptable as a good citizen to your community

    • @KaladinVegapunk
      @KaladinVegapunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm curious though..I'm from Santa Barbara, it's right on the coast but our beaches face south, not west, and the channel islands a few miles offshore run the length of town and block most offshore weather.. would we be safe?

    • @mattandmegandiercks8809
      @mattandmegandiercks8809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Odin Satanas Technically your still on the west coast North American plate with the Pacifc plate west of you and underneath you. Stay safe god bless

  • @biblereading2316
    @biblereading2316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    "Mostly quiet, but occasionally apocalyptic" 😂

  • @orestisdionyssiosvonk4906
    @orestisdionyssiosvonk4906 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dear Simon! How are you? My name is Orestis Dionyssios Vonk. I am half Dutch half Greek. Mother is Greek and my father is Dutch. I live in the Greek island of Zakynthos (very famous by a lot of your drunk fellow countrymen 😜) this island wat hit by a huge earthquake in August 1953 . Also the neighbouring islands of Kefalonia and Itaka (island of Odyssey) tens of thousands of people lost there homes. Honderds died and thousand left for other countries for a beter life! 90% of the infrastructure of these islands was destroyed. The British navy was the first one to help people (thank you for that!) like my grandfather and mother (my mother was born one year after that). It’s a very unknown story in Europe and the world. Yet it was a huge disaster for people who had just suffer: A Nazi Germany and Italian occupation and a Greek civil war! I always watch your videos. I have learnt so much from you (thank you for that too :) I really hope that you want to look in to this subject!

  • @stevyd
    @stevyd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    As a Californian that lives between the San Andreas and Hayward Faults, I keep my dishes in the lower kitchen cabinets and the Tupperware up above. Oh, and a helmet and swim fins close at hand.

    • @hosmerhomeboy
      @hosmerhomeboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      good luck with the swim fins. Though you probably needn't be worried about a tsunami anyway. They're terrifying, but if you live a few miles inland or up, no worries at all.

    • @hexedmarionette
      @hexedmarionette 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      don't forget the snorkel!

    • @MissMyMusicAddiction
      @MissMyMusicAddiction 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hexedmarionette or the shark repellant.
      and mostly the sunscreen.

    • @rogerhelbig9458
      @rogerhelbig9458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why the helmet and swim fins?

    • @antonbruce1241
      @antonbruce1241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rogerhelbig9458 Well, since she lives in the Bay Area, it's not such a bad idea....

  • @Rockstar97321
    @Rockstar97321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I am a land surveyor and civil engineer in Western Oregon near Salem. I have discussed 'the big one' with many people, and I am constantly astounded at how little people know about it. Most of the people have never even heard of it, and if you discuss it, most think that you are a crazy conspiracy theorist. That's because 'the big one' is almost never in the news.

    • @jeffdunnell6693
      @jeffdunnell6693 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They don’t teach geology in schools anymore,this was taught in grade schools in the fifties

    • @graceg3250
      @graceg3250 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I live in Portland. Everyone I know has heard about it. But most dismiss it as implausible or not serious. My mother is extremely stressed about it, to the point where she wants to live in a car, rather than stay in an apartment. I have to remind her that newer construction is earthquake resistant and if she lives in her car, she’s have to deal with the fires that start as a result of the quake and she’ll get squashed by falling trees and debris, not to mention the earth swallowing her whole. I think about it enough to know I should have real estate investments in a safe location. And live away from the epicenter.

    • @RosePetal-j2i
      @RosePetal-j2i 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My son in law in Tacoma is in denial

    • @Rockstar97321
      @Rockstar97321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RosePetal-j2i isn't that a river in Egypt?

    • @Rockstar97321
      @Rockstar97321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Tacoma aroma ...

  • @mland2012
    @mland2012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +850

    It's really nice to hear the oral histories treated as useful records of past events. Growing up in the PNW, it sometimes feels like local history begins in the 1800s and everything before that just gets relegated to a very impersonal archaeology.

    • @TheNuclearNihilist
      @TheNuclearNihilist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That's actually an incredibly poignant observation 🤔

    • @darylb5564
      @darylb5564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think they use the carbon date and the written history. The oral history just makes for an entertaining tail

    • @TheAerialgreen
      @TheAerialgreen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@darylb5564 True. The scientists got only the approximate year based on the carbon and tree ring dating, and the exact date and time came from the detailed tsunami records written by the Japanese. The oral legends definitely supplemented their research though.

    • @sbkenn1
      @sbkenn1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That goes right across the USA. I recently got a book from my library about pre-USA history of the Americas. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the right head-space to actually read it, but I hope to soon. There were an estimated 50 - 80 MILLION natives died by being hunted, starved, frozen, or from disease brought by Europeans.

    • @louschwick7301
      @louschwick7301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well, as u've seen in the video, oral histories are kinda difficult to sift thru for information because often they quickly become legend

  • @virginiadare1587
    @virginiadare1587 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Almost 47 years (since birth) in Western Washington state and I've felt one earthquake in February 2001. You can't really sweat the big stuff.

  • @jestami
    @jestami 3 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    "Ur gonna die and all ur loved ones will fall with you..... Anyways, dont forget to support todays sponsor, Curiosity stream"

    • @SwedeProof
      @SwedeProof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🤣 😱 🤣 😱 🤣 😱 🤣 😱

    • @WarEagleTimeMachine
      @WarEagleTimeMachine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well if it counts for anything Curiosity Stream is really enjoyable.

    • @tonefaulcon9729
      @tonefaulcon9729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @zoranlojanica
      @zoranlojanica 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we're all gonna die eventually, without a doubt. But I would get out of that area if I lived there

  • @Shabo0117
    @Shabo0117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Living in Oregon all my life, there's this funny comfort and discomfort people have. East coast, you get hurricanes and giant snowstorms, further west you get tornadoes and more snowstorms, down in Cali it's earthquakes and fires all the time, but here in the PNW it's always quiet. It just rains a lot. But there's that looming idea that one of these days, one of those volcanoes are gonna go off again or that that big earthquake is gonna hit and everything is gonna go tits up immediately. I'd rather take this than dealing with a new hurricane ever year honestly.

    • @brandon9172
      @brandon9172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You'll be saying that until it actually happens, in which case you'll immediately wish it were hurricanes instead 😂

    • @alexanderreynolds6018
      @alexanderreynolds6018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Move to Denver and the only thing you'll ever have to worry about is a minor snow storm every year in March!

    • @oliverford9325
      @oliverford9325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kinda like jellystone. We sit back and have a beer when some geologists screech about the big pop.

    • @o_sch
      @o_sch ปีที่แล้ว

      Midwest great lakes area is just like that except minus the earthquakes. The lakes mitigate any storms to not do much damage or be very severe.

    • @Bloodwhiner
      @Bloodwhiner ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lived in Florida my whole life and while we do get hurricanes, at least they come with a few day's notice. Unlike an earthquake, I won't be waking up at a new address.

  • @hankhillsnrrwurethra
    @hankhillsnrrwurethra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    I was taking a Physical Geology class during the Diablo Canyon demonstrations. I remember the professor saying that he wasn't a political animal, but the idea of building nuclear reactors in that area was insane. He also liked showing slides of houses perched on cliffs in California and estimating how long it would be before the occupants woke up in the ocean.

    • @rollinmckim4719
      @rollinmckim4719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      NEVER trust a professor. PARTICULARLY in California!!! Commies all.
      BUT........ Houses built on ocean cliffs all along the west coast from mexico into canada........DO seem to be eternally ASKING FOR IT. Hope they're all liberals.

    • @dudeanderson2401
      @dudeanderson2401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@rollinmckim4719 the hell is wrong with you. It’s a long coast, you know they aren’t all one thing.

    • @MsLiberty101
      @MsLiberty101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dudeanderson2401 what's wrong with her is she's fed up to bloody hell with idiotic commieliberals destroying everything they touch & running out of California because they can't discern a scamming lying politician to save their lives & then repeat the insanity in the new state they move to!

    • @gu3sswh075
      @gu3sswh075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Frances Van Siclen vote in person to make sure they don't tamper with your vote!

    • @aliale4488
      @aliale4488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MsLiberty101 "commieliberals running everything" I see you've been brain washed well, just like those commies you hate. Never understood how ya'll could see everything wrong with the other parties but not your own. They all suck ass and are ruining America buddy. The common people need to stop in fighting and demand better from your government.

  • @panl22
    @panl22 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great video, Simon. I watch this over and over. At the end, you said, " I won't ask if you enjoyed this..." of course I enjoyed it, man. It is scary and stimulating and causes a release of dopamine, the reason for everything. You are the best, Simon.

  • @mbainrot
    @mbainrot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    "Mostly quiet, but occasionally apocolyptic" - Simon 2020

  • @LolUGotBusted
    @LolUGotBusted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Me: I'm shook
    Simon: Not yet you aren't

  • @TheYacu
    @TheYacu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +497

    Dammit, Simon, stopp putting ideas in 2020's head!!!!

    • @ydelysuarez2548
      @ydelysuarez2548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😆😝😂😂

    • @alecmartin0180
      @alecmartin0180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Looks like it just struck in Alaska today.

    • @Keepers2011
      @Keepers2011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hurry up and happen

    • @roohamm2456
      @roohamm2456 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts exactly!

    • @GaryR55
      @GaryR55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, really. Isn't Covid-19 bad enough?!

  • @janethagaman9075
    @janethagaman9075 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I remember one earthquake. I was babysitting my neighbors chickens and one day after I was there for an hour, they all squated down spreding thier wings down on each side while I grabbed a tree and hung on. Lasted @ 5 minutes but I was thrilled by the experiance. Kudos to the chickens for the warning.

  • @kevinmcfarley156
    @kevinmcfarley156 4 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    You didn't mention that along this earthquakes zone from California to Canada, there are seven active volcanos. Some of them will erupt.

    • @CathPresbyter
      @CathPresbyter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yep so if anyone wants to see Crater lake in the near future your odds run down of it not being there the way it is now. I always find it odd they call it a Crater, its a caldera. Beautiful Skiing on Shasta gone, and maybe even Mt. St Helens will go again.

    • @chrisduitsman2918
      @chrisduitsman2918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@CathPresbyter Don't forget about Mt. Rainier, that'll also probably erupt either during or shortly after the main quake.

    • @a2shillam
      @a2shillam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hahaha. That's why it's called the Pacific Ring of Fire 🔥.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@chrisduitsman2918
      No, not necessarily.
      The subduction quakes we've had, like the Japan quake did not trigger any volcanic activity.
      The only time this would happen would be if a volcano was already ready to blow prior to the earthquake.
      Mount St. Helens could perhaps erupt because it has been somewhat active, the rest of the series likely would not.

    • @carolweaver3269
      @carolweaver3269 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      TY Kevin that will help.

  • @shadowhenge7118
    @shadowhenge7118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    I'd imagine that the longer Cascadia goes without slipping, the more energy is stored up, and that "overdue-ness" becomes a death-o-meter.

    • @musaran2
      @musaran2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Correct.

    • @FastEddy1959
      @FastEddy1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Unless the pressure is getting relieved through an on-goin series of unremarkable “micro-quakes”.
      Just as possible, not as dramatic.

    • @JerryEricsson
      @JerryEricsson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@FastEddy1959 Indeed, it could be that a mud flow has lubed the Cascadia and it is sliding along like an egg on a butter filled Teflon fry pan.

    • @sunshineNshit
      @sunshineNshit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JerryEricsson I hope so! My sister moved to Seattle two years ago.

    • @gungasc
      @gungasc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A strike slip fault is the most dangerous one when talking about earthquakes.

  • @DM-qp7do
    @DM-qp7do 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    2001 quake in Washington State i was in a large warehouse working. I lay under my work bench watching a huge concrete floor roll as if it were water, it didn't crack, it didn't break, it didn't crumble. It rolled. I remember being fascinated by this, I was waiting for it to fall apart but it just rolled wave after wave.

    • @charamia9402
      @charamia9402 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's absolutely fascinating! Waves in a presumed rock solid surface!

    • @KevinBreak
      @KevinBreak ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I saw my concrete floor rolling here in Los Angeles in 1988 during an M5 one night

    • @jeffreywitkop6158
      @jeffreywitkop6158 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I felt the Oakland quake in Santa Monica. I swear the ground movement was a roll. Just like a bunch of open ocean waves!

    • @kiyacosan5591
      @kiyacosan5591 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In that quake, but in Oregon, my desk was right next to a giant glass window. Everyone in the office came running to see what was shaking the building. Being from California, I said it’s an earthquake. Everyone started telling me no it wasn’t, and continued to stand at the glass window. I didn’t even have room to move backward to get under my desk with the crowd of people surrounding me. I’m glad it was strong enough to endure.

    • @kensprague5616
      @kensprague5616 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was working at a plant in Auburn that day and my office was maybe 15 steps from the front door. I didn't follow the protocol at all and ran outside. Seeing the parking lot rolling like that was something I don't want to see again.

  • @keltzy
    @keltzy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wanna say it was 2015 when a huge article about the Cascadia quake was making waves, and as someone who was living in Seattle at the time, I went full into research mode. They have a lot of information available about landslide risks, liquifaction risks, where the shaking has historically been the strongest, and a large (but not comprehensive) record of at-risk buildings - it was very nice to have. Weirdly, they also have a worst-case scenario that they describe, but it's not a 9.2 Cascadia quake, but rather a much smaller 6 or so on the more shallow Seattle fault line, specifically during a soccer match. It was still scary, but helped me sleep at night a little better.
    Wish my new city had such comprehensive resources.

  • @mattb2382
    @mattb2382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3352

    Ah so that's what 2020 is getting us for xmas.

    • @barbaralindhjem1582
      @barbaralindhjem1582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Nope..... it's for holloween.

    • @stlkngyomom
      @stlkngyomom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Karma is individual and collective,guess we've been bad this year...

    • @skystriker1238
      @skystriker1238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @@stlkngyomom It's the west coast, it's not like it's a bad thing tbh

    • @samkin73
      @samkin73 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Probably

    • @stlkngyomom
      @stlkngyomom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@skystriker1238 Good point and a lot of people are leaving alredy(for some reasons),but it's the 4-5th largest egonomy(if California was a state)fallout would be"unpleasant"to put it lightly.

  • @tjanderson8800
    @tjanderson8800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    My mom was in Alaska during the 64’ quake, she was 11 years old living in anchorage. She said it seemed to thrash her around for what felt like forever even tho it only lasted 5 minutes. Lol “only” that’s a long time for a earthquake.

    • @KatharineOsborne
      @KatharineOsborne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The tsunami from that quake wiped out the downtown from my hometown on Vancouver Island. I left 5 days after high school graduation.

    • @SS-lt5fo
      @SS-lt5fo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The apocolypse bingo

    • @LuvBorderCollies
      @LuvBorderCollies 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Minutes turn to hours during a life threatening event. Interesting how that happens, not that I desire time change by life threatening events, not at all.

    • @ktvindicare
      @ktvindicare 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Growing up in California I've felt my fair share of earthquakes, some that were even pretty scary (though I did sleep through the Northridge Quake in '94) a 5 minute Earthquake is TERRIFYING. I can't even imagine what that would be like. A quake that lasts longer than two seconds is enough to frighten you. 5 minutes? That's 300 seconds of what would be severe shaking. Anyone that's dealt with earthquakes before know that is no joke at all.

    • @penismightier9278
      @penismightier9278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ktvindicare We were in Vegas when the Northridge quake hit. It was strong enough to wake us up in the hotel.

  • @jakegrist8487
    @jakegrist8487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I live in Seattle, so this is a common topic. A careful review of our bridges has made it virtually certain that at least 300 will fail when the earthquake hits, presuming a mere 9.0 magnitude. This includes total collapse of the interstate 5 bridge at the border of Oregon and Washington, effectively cutting off western Washington from the world, except through it's two mountain passes that cross the Cascades. The bridge problem is a very serious one. Few people care though, because it hasn't happened yet.

    • @wingerding
      @wingerding 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't think the words mere and 9.0 magnitude go together lol!

    • @tamekkaknuth9612
      @tamekkaknuth9612 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tamekka 320 s.roosevelt st

  • @BradLancaster86
    @BradLancaster86 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Can say that I've felt two good ones 3-4 on the scale on Vancouver island, notably my high school English teacher tossed us away from our desks so she could hide under it for us. That was the one that damaged some buildings in Washington state that year some time around 2003. the second one was while I was in college and it felt like some one dropped a fridge on our house, woke up my room mate who said it was like a bell ringing through the basement off the bedrock. You feel em or hear them.

  • @cruzanbum3108
    @cruzanbum3108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +882

    That moment you realize the 2012 Mayan calendar probably meant 2021.

    • @101TexanNativez
      @101TexanNativez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Riiiight!!!! They got everything else wrong 'on purpose'. Thats a very smart and probably true account of what may have happened 😳

    • @marquise7200
      @marquise7200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No when you find out it’s 2012 in Ethiopia u might just rob a bank

    • @stormrungaming
      @stormrungaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Were just bad at translations.. I mean.. III could be 1 2 or 2 1..

    • @3RI6UY0
      @3RI6UY0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Do some research, the next grand conjunction happens Dec 21 2020

    • @MsValeriaHeart
      @MsValeriaHeart 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🙄

  • @giovannibautista2515
    @giovannibautista2515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +450

    As a Californian living in Los Angeles I’m just praying that the earthquake won’t happen while I’m taking a shit

    • @racafritz
      @racafritz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Mine is in the shower.

    • @fredferd965
      @fredferd965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      It doesn't matter. If you live in Los Angeles (a true cosmic hell hole) you already ARE in the shit....

    • @giovannibautista2515
      @giovannibautista2515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@fredferd965 true true thank you democrats

    • @racafritz
      @racafritz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@giovannibautista2515 You do know that actual normal people live here, not just political reps?

    • @racafritz
      @racafritz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fredferd965 Look at you living in a perfect world! Gosh, if only everyone had your perfect life!😒

  • @jacobhuff3748
    @jacobhuff3748 4 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    Simon, your timing is atrocious, this video would have been entertainingly scary in 2012 but now it's apocalyptically horrifying in 2020. Keep up the good work, now I have to make my Fallout shelter float now.

    • @jessn.2665
      @jessn.2665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Im kind of in the mindset like; fuck it! Just add it to the pile!

    • @tessie7e777
      @tessie7e777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’m thinking, awesome shelter in place is keeping us OFF the beaches. Win!!!

    • @davehallett3128
      @davehallett3128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Good luck noah

    • @knightwing5169
      @knightwing5169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I can still remember learning about the Cascadia megaquake back in 2016, when it was exactly halfway between "entertainingly scary" and "apocalyptically horrifying".

    • @jandrews6254
      @jandrews6254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m almost viewing it as a ray of hope. A clean sweep, people get back to what’s important instead of what one self described “billionaire” says should be

  • @larafaith84
    @larafaith84 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I live 20mins outside Spokane, Washington and we had a very weak 2.7 tremor the other day. They happen once in a while in Eastern Washington, but usually so weak that we don't feel anything. Just like the one from the other day.

  • @thomasdarby6084
    @thomasdarby6084 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I was born and raised on the west coast, over 68 years ago, and I've felt my share of sizable quakes including the 1989 Loma Prieta quake in the Bay Area. While we were all aware of the San Andreas fault, little was taught in the schools about the Cascadia subduction zone. Only many years later as a tour bus driver around the Grand Canyon area did I begin to really study geology, and understand what power the movements of tectonic plates have. The Richter scale is inadequate to describe the devastation.

    • @lll9107
      @lll9107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's what she said.

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Richter scale isn't in use anymore. The Magnitude scale is what's used now.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The Cascadia Subduction Zone wasn't well understood until relatively recently. The drowned forests were not recognized until 1986

    • @thomasdarby6084
      @thomasdarby6084 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Markle2k Yes, I've read quite a bit about it since; many had thought that buried trees found were evidence of eruptions from Mount Rainier, until they studied further and discovered that the trees were felled (and buried) from seaward, not landward.

    • @VanillaMacaron551
      @VanillaMacaron551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Markle2k Even tectonic plates were only first understood in the 1960s

  • @reneejackson3298
    @reneejackson3298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

  • @Gala-yp8nx
    @Gala-yp8nx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1728

    What did the Earth say about the earthquake? “Sorry, It’s my fault.”

  • @lisabeloved
    @lisabeloved ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I grew up on the coast of Washington just south of Victoria BC. Learning about the "big one" coming absolutely terrified me as a teen. I've now moved eastward to a town just south of Vancouver BC 😅 right on the I5. Still not quite far away enough to be in the clear, but much better odds and definitely on higher ground.

  • @DERIKTHEGENERAL
    @DERIKTHEGENERAL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I really appreciate your inclusion of indigenous accounts of events, as too often is oral tradition ignored

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      For sure. It's very interesting.

    • @melteddali8000
      @melteddali8000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kyle Whitehead this is a ludicrous way of looking at those myths and oral traditions.

    • @jawknee4088
      @jawknee4088 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Malk Von Batshit agreed. science over mythos.

    • @unbroken1010
      @unbroken1010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jawknee4088 mythos is science just coded

    • @jawknee4088
      @jawknee4088 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@unbroken1010 Nope.

  • @alternavent
    @alternavent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Where I live in Oregon, I can see four volcanos from the roof of my house and there are 4 reservoirs up stream from my neighborhood...

    • @TheTower51
      @TheTower51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Howdy fellow Oregonian

    • @zLukeePs3
      @zLukeePs3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nice knowing you mate.

    • @sirgodricenwardsaier9074
      @sirgodricenwardsaier9074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Have you considered moving elsewhere until 2020 is over?

    • @WornDownSaint
      @WornDownSaint 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How’d you feel watching the Pompeii episode?? Lmao

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And you still live there?

  • @swagnificent6503
    @swagnificent6503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    Just retired Navy, living in Bremerton wa. I’m just gonna go ahead and sell my house🏆

    • @rollinmckim4719
      @rollinmckim4719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Move to Jackson Hole.
      Ha ha!

    • @bluewaters3100
      @bluewaters3100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I am in Port Orchard and have already experienced a 9.2 earthquake...the 1964 Great Alaska quake. You cannot even imagine the power of the earth moving for 5 minutes. Back then the population was low. We had very few tall buildings. The J.C. Penny's building had just opened. It had three stories and was totally devastated. I have no money to move, but am always prepared for an earthquake! I would move if I was you.

    • @theangriestcatintheworld
      @theangriestcatintheworld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@anshuuu9708 1964, in Alaska. (Re-read her comment) :)

    • @swagnificent6503
      @swagnificent6503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mr. & Mrs Smith stupid sailor

    • @eyeswideshut2800
      @eyeswideshut2800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I won't discourage you there, this won't get better or go away but I won't HAARP on it here so everyone doesn't get conCERNEd, I hope you know what that means, all I can do is hope.

  • @jayehum5019
    @jayehum5019 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Not to downplay the terrible losses of the earthquakes Simon mentioned, I am always amazed at how many docos forget that the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, (also caused by a subduction earthquake) and the tsunamis which followed, killed over 250,000 people.

    • @lemardyc
      @lemardyc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Different fault

    • @jonahmoran3751
      @jonahmoran3751 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lemardyc Thanks captain obvious. "ALSO CAUSED BY A SUBDUCTION ZONE."

  • @Ceyrenn460
    @Ceyrenn460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +843

    Just something else to add to 2020's arsenal

    • @generalhyde007
      @generalhyde007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Or maybe 2021’s arsenal.

    • @JohnnyOTGS
      @JohnnyOTGS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This has been an issue for years now. This would be America's 2011 Japan disaster if this were to occur.

    • @justagirlwithadream2933
      @justagirlwithadream2933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I want to see the murderous hornets first!

    • @YuSoMadBra
      @YuSoMadBra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bra.

    • @marilynguinnane4663
      @marilynguinnane4663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JohnnyOTGS -- Worse. Fukushima would be paddy-cakes by comparison.

  • @eyeborg3148
    @eyeborg3148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +957

    2020:
    August: Cascadia Fault earthquake
    September: Yellowstone supervolcano eruption
    October: Nuclear war
    November: Earth gets hit by an asteroid strike
    December: Aliens attack

    • @StfuFFS
      @StfuFFS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      "Earth gets hit by an asteroid strike" is an interesting way of saying "Trump reelected".

    • @blubbber
      @blubbber 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      sounds good.. sign me up for the tour :)

    • @jamesfracasse8178
      @jamesfracasse8178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      So in short 2020 is the end of earth.

    • @corin418
      @corin418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      aliens are only pencilled in for now. we have Great Cthulhu waking as a standby

    • @davidlalas
      @davidlalas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @Wrong Think basically the end of the US with any of them

  • @nickvoelker7180
    @nickvoelker7180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "If you live in the PNW you've probably never experienced a 4.0 quake". Me distinctly remembering my house violently shaking a few months ago from a 6.5 magnitude quake...And there's been two 4.0 quakes in the last 3 days.

    • @LVRugger
      @LVRugger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I came here to say this. In my first 3 years living in Seattle we had several 3-4 quakes. Then the Nisqually in 2001. I moved to Vegas.

    • @scottlemiere2024
      @scottlemiere2024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We get moderate to large quakes in the area every few years.

  • @timpoolssentientbeanie5646
    @timpoolssentientbeanie5646 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I know this is an old video but the part where Simon says the average person in the northwest has never felt a quake over 4.0 is nuts. I think just about everyone in Oregon and Washington felt the Nisqually Quake of 2001 which was under a 7.0 but was widely felt and occurred for more than a solid minute

    • @Glennn7
      @Glennn7 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also felt in southwestern BC, Canada.

    • @kathyorourke9273
      @kathyorourke9273 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, fish tank slopping and cabinet doors opening and banging shut. Like a cartoon! In Hillsboro Oregon.

    • @bernmcnicholl8345
      @bernmcnicholl8345 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I felt the Niqually quake at work in North Vancouver Canada. It was so weird I was on the phone. I was saying to the person on the phone why are the janitors polishing the floors with a mechanical floor polisher. Then I got, wait we have carpet. The vibration got louder. Then things began to shake. My office window popped in and out like a diaphragm. Causing enough persure to blow papers across the desk. Clearly nothing like downtown Nisqually but blowing papers across my desk was interesting to see.

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    I'm a chilean, and as a chilean everytime I see Chile mentioned in anything I get really excited. I lived trough the 8.6 earthquake we had 10 years ago. Not fun at all, really scary.

    • @tudorjason
      @tudorjason 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I live south of Seattle. Can you tell us how your life was affected after the quake 10 years ago and how long it took for life to return to normal?

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      ​@@tudorjason For me personally i didn't know there were aftershocks after an earthquake, so when i learned that we we're going to be having more earthquakes and tremors for a year or so, that left me really scared of using elevators, the subway or being in a high floor. Luckily our country has a very strict construction code, and not many buildings were affected. The reconstruction took only a few years, although some small villages near the coast got almost completely destroyed by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. Also the city that was most affected by the earthquake required military presence and a curfew to stop the looting of stores. For some months no one could travel because there was no gas and the highways were in pretty bad condition. It took like 6 months to go back to normal life, 1 year to stop the aftershocks and a few more years to reconstruct the most affected villages. Fun fact: when such a strong earthquake hits, you can see blue lights in the sky, very similar to lighting but without sound. There are many theories but no one really knows why that is. It felt like the end of the world for a minute.

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Bless your heart

    • @jessicacanfield5408
      @jessicacanfield5408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I bet that was very traumatic glad you made it through

    • @Kurotaisa
      @Kurotaisa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh hey, I lived in La Serena for 2015's 8.3. That was a bad week. We're damn lucky about building codes, huh?

  • @shark180
    @shark180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Future Humans: We stopped global warming!
    Earth: Great! Here's a mega quake for you guys to play with

    • @SpaceBearEngineer
      @SpaceBearEngineer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Toss in a couple supervolcanos, a magnetic field inversion, and an asteroid for good measure.
      No matter how you cut it, single-planet species are just waiting to become fossils.

    • @justbrowsing6327
      @justbrowsing6327 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha your funny.

    • @Thraser999
      @Thraser999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joe Blow not to mention the incoming ice age...

  • @MrJulioreneriosgarci
    @MrJulioreneriosgarci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Since central America is usually overlooked here it is a bit of our history: ancient mayans believed that the world was divided into quadrants and in each piece a different faction inhabited. At the center was the great city of tikal in Guatemala's rain forest. Beneath it all was a giant crocodile that shaked the earth as it moved. Some tails suggest a turtle that shaked the earth to hide from the crocodile.

  • @daniellecheree
    @daniellecheree ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I live in thousand oaks CA. Last summer we had a large earthquake and it literally felt like my upstairs apartment was swaying up and down like i was on a boat. I yelled out to God and i begged him for mercy. It is a very helpless feeling when you are in your bed and then yhe house is shaking and i live alone, so im scared because honestly i think a big one is coming soon.

  • @Jarekthegamingdragon
    @Jarekthegamingdragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    "A dark and miserable evening, a normal night in the PNW where it never stops raining." As an Oregonian, it's just rain my guy. If you want miserable winters go to the midwest. We have incredibly moderate weather that I'll take over heat any day.

    • @MrKago1
      @MrKago1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      as someone who once spent a summer at the threshold of hell, otherwise known as Bakersfield CA, you are correct. you can always bundle up in the cold. but you cant take anything off for heat past naked. that and the sun will burn your frickin skin off if you're pale.

    • @lerkzor
      @lerkzor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I have lived in the Puget sound, SoCal, Utah, Arizona, Florida, and north-central USA. NOPLACE is perfect.
      Gloomy in the pacific northwest, expensive and smoggy in southern cali, hotter than hell in Arizona, restrictive in Utah, too damn sweaty in Florida, and in the northcentral area it alternates between way WAY too cold and extremely hot&muggy - but the damn wind never stops.
      Of them all, I have to say that Washington was the most beautiful.

    • @off_mah_lawn2074
      @off_mah_lawn2074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      As a Washington native I have to counter and say that our winters are damn depressing

    • @heatherwanderer777
      @heatherwanderer777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Well except this upcoming week, idk who angered the sun but its supposed to be 90?!? wtf? Native Oregonian, I'm gonna melt

    • @CameronBoyes
      @CameronBoyes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      As we say in BC, you don't have to shovel rain

  • @petematthews9346
    @petematthews9346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    While listing death tolls, an admittedly and literally morbid exercise, you should have listed the worst death toll from a mega-thrust earthquake that generated a massive tsunami, in particular the Dec 26th of 2004 Sumatra Earthquake, a quarter million dead mostly from the tsunami. It ranks among the top 5 in intensity, also over 9. For the record, the scale used is no longer the Richter Scale but the Moment Magnitude scale, although the numbers are similar in size and it is also logarithmic.

    • @elliotw5918
      @elliotw5918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nice! Thanks for that

    • @whoops8412
      @whoops8412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I remember that! So many died 😰 thank you for comment I hadn’t thought about this since it happened all those years ago.
      Science can be macabre

    • @petematthews9346
      @petematthews9346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@whoops8412 Definitely. I was teaching a course called "Volcanoes in Human History" and it was particularly macabre. In particular I used clips from various videos and one on Krakatau's 1883 eruption included very good, and thus pretty horrific, injury makeup, but much less intense than the driver's ed videos they see. Fortunately it was a brief clip, and it engendered a lively discussion about human physiology and related topics.

    • @mike04574
      @mike04574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t know how it was overshadowed

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I heard that the Richter scale was replaced by the Lundquist scale...

  • @COctagons
    @COctagons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Simon: "It has a 1 in 10 chance of hitting in the next 50 years."
    2021: "You a gamblin' man, Si?"

    • @WormholeJim
      @WormholeJim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      If it was 1 in 10 chance to win in the lottery, I'd ask my boss to just pay me in lottery tickets. Just saying.

    • @loke6664
      @loke6664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wonder what the chance for a global pandemic 2020 was?
      "Never tell me the odds"...

    • @Hadesfirst
      @Hadesfirst 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loke6664 probably not even that low :')

    • @ngantnier
      @ngantnier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@loke6664 Saddly there will be much worse pandemics to come. With millions of us currently dying it sounds terrible, but this is a minor pandemic. Immagine a small pox epidemic, h1n1 flu or something with the lethality of SARS with the transmission rate of SARS-COV-2. We'd be talking 30% mortalities even in young people. Instead of the current 0.1% or so (still horrible and preventable).
      I hope this pandemic prepares us for what is inevitably to come.

    • @loke6664
      @loke6664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ngantnier True, but we don't know when that will happen. The last great pandemic was 1918-1920 (or possibly 1919, there are arguments about that) so the next could hit tomorrow or in 100 years. I think it was Rommel that said "Plan for the worst but hope for the best".
      The dangerous thing with covid isn't that it is very deadly like ebola but that it has a very high infection rate. Now, the Spanish flu did mutate and became far deadlier so I hope we get a vaccine pretty soon but even if it doesn't (which seems likely) the next thing could be both deadly and highly contagious.
      Just being lazy and hope the next wont hit in another 100 years would be a huge mistake.

  • @MichaelJohnson-gh7ls
    @MichaelJohnson-gh7ls ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in Western WA. Grew up just west of Olympia. The Nisqually quake might not be the biggest thing out there, but at 11 years old, it was a huge deal, and my only first hand experience. We were in school that day. There were two emergency drills that day; one was a lock down, other was fire. Coming in from the fire drill I remember saying something like "what's next, an earthquake drill". Seemed like 5 minutes later, but the earthquake was no drill. Mostly brick school took a fair bit of damage but nothing fell. Mom worked at the school, so me and my sister were home pretty quickly. House was fine other than the 500 gallon propane tank on its side.
    There were a couple aftershocks, the biggest of which I slept through. Woke up with my bookcase on the bed lol.
    I think that event as a whole sparked something in me, because to this day I love natural disasters. Not the deaths... that would be horrible. But the intense and raw nature is a big rush for me. Been through a tornados in the midwest (minor but it came right through the back yard) and even though I was old enough to know better, I would have been out playing in it if my mom didn't have a hold on me like Thanos holding his gauntlet. Floods, windstorms, ice storm...especially when power is out for weeks, I love it.

  • @georgeecheveste6545
    @georgeecheveste6545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Due to the Coronavirus, I asked myself, "Can things get any worse?"
    Now I know they can. :(

    • @alexandernichols413
      @alexandernichols413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always, always... 😕

    • @davidmiedema2950
      @davidmiedema2950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dont worry the earthquake has to wait its turn until after the october unprecedented solar storm and the november yosemite supervolcano...😜

    • @stevencooke6451
      @stevencooke6451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Never ask that.

    • @rollinmckim4719
      @rollinmckim4719 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can always get worse.
      Can always get better.

    • @brianpayne4549
      @brianpayne4549 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      George Echeveste so we have you to thank for all of this? Lol, j/k

  • @marcpeterson1092
    @marcpeterson1092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    9:08. "This isn't an ideal world." Thanks, Simon. I hadn't noticed.

  • @kymbloom9572
    @kymbloom9572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    Oh Simon, you forgot the cherry on the apocalyptic sundae: there are a bunch of volcanos along the PNW coast as well. After the earthquake, tsunami and fire, Mt Rainier and the other pointy mountains in the region could erupt, causing not only ash clouds, but massive lahars that will flood the cities from the east. Seriously, you weren’t kidding when you said it would be the largest disaster the US has ever witnessed.
    But, let’s not tempt 2020 by giving it anymore ideas, eh?

    • @lilagtook
      @lilagtook 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And it’s likely all the volcanoes from Mt Lassen in California north to Mount Meager in British Columbia are fed by the melted rock from the subduction zone, so add multiple volcanic eruptions to the mega quake and tsunami.

    • @elizabethjansen2684
      @elizabethjansen2684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      dead on target

    • @lhaviland8602
      @lhaviland8602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      There is no evidence that mega-thrust earthquakes are associated with an increase in volcanism from the related subduction zone thankfully.

    • @CamaroAmx
      @CamaroAmx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It seems 2020 has a good enough imagination as it is without our help.

    • @elipticarc8992
      @elipticarc8992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ah yes, Lahars, the psycho brother of landslides and pyroclastic flows, literally boiling meltwater mixed with mud that instantly turns to concrete when it stops moving.

  • @HollieBenji
    @HollieBenji 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    We moved away from PDX a year ago. Not going to lie, this was a factor. I was in a minor/moderate quake as a kid, but it was eye opening as to how ill prepared most are. We became low key preppers to make sure we could survive alone for a few months if the megathrust hit.

  • @stephenrioux6821
    @stephenrioux6821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    I lived in Los Angeles for 40 years, and those dogs have got it right. Earthquakes are always preceded by a sudden dropping sensation (about a couple of inches). That allows about half a minute to escape, or to brace yourself in the nearest doorway. Eventually it will become a reflex. If you are in a car, it feels like all 4 tires are going flat; stay in your car.

    • @rock_man
      @rock_man 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Dogs detect the pressure wave released by earthquakes, these move much faster than the shear waves and are not always detected by people. Do not take cover in a doorway. This myth is perpetuated by old mud huts, where the doorways had wood and were more sturdy. In modern homes, the doorways are no stronger than the rest of the home. Find something to take cover under, and hold on. Do not try to run outside.

    • @SamaelMoneyStein
      @SamaelMoneyStein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haahhaahh clowns 🤡 every where in this comment section

    • @sydney7462
      @sydney7462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Careful about hiding in doorways, a lot of people get hurt when the door swings around hits them in the face

    • @chaserobertson8822
      @chaserobertson8822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@SamaelMoneyStein For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received-that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures.
      1 Corinthians 15:3-4
      So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
      Acts 16:31

    • @claycassin8437
      @claycassin8437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@SamaelMoneyStein Sorry, I have not seen any others besides you. We don't like clowns here, though.

  • @nikisquier8542
    @nikisquier8542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I live outside of Seattle and we have small earthquakes a couple of times a year. I was woken up at 3am less than a year ago from a 4.2. Most earthquakes here are pretty deep, so we don't have the shaking as they do in southern California, but there is often some shaking like the one that woke me up. I have known about a possible devastating quake since my childhood. I'm sure we're taught about it in elementary school. At schools, we sadly now have active shooter drills as often as earthquake drills. (I teach Washington State History.) The Makah tribe on the farthest western corner of Washington has a fascinating history. They are the whale hunters, actually chasing and killing Orca from giant canoes. There was a Makah village that was unearthed, having been preserved like Pompeii. It was covered by a mudslide after an earthquake.

  • @seminoldschool7032
    @seminoldschool7032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    Feels a little weird to “like” this video...but you know what I mean.

  • @graxmccoar8678
    @graxmccoar8678 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was in the eastern Coast Range foothills W of Salem OR for the 1999 Nisqually quake, on the phone with someone 20 miles from it in Washington when the quake started. My friend could see that it was moving South, and how fast, as it reached puddles. He'd thought it was the train at first. We stayed on the phone until the first vibration got to my place along with the noise you don't exactly 'hear', then ran for outdoors. Out in the country there are trees. Poles with powerlines. Streams and ponds held in place by unreinforced berms. Running away from an earthquake sends you out of your building to where there's all that stuff waiting to fall on you, and you run back to the strongest doorway and see small gaps overhead and things that should be structurally squared, but aren't. You end up in the middle of a road on any sort of flat land where there aren't any overhead wires or places the road could collapse into, or out in a pasture that you hope isn't supported by many many feet of wet sand and mud that is being vibrated into bottomless slop. Then you wait, until it seems to have finished, thinking about how there is *no place to go*. Nisqually wasn't even a BIG quake.

  • @mikefm4
    @mikefm4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    One of the few times you’ll hear me say thank god I live in Cleveland

    • @TheeCuyahogaChippewa
      @TheeCuyahogaChippewa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. I’m over on E.71st.

    • @royrodgersmcfreely2858
      @royrodgersmcfreely2858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Right on, let's all just post our neighborhood for strangers online.

    • @TheeCuyahogaChippewa
      @TheeCuyahogaChippewa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Lol I’m not worried about anyone knowing my neighborhood. Just thought it was cool someone else was from Cleveland and watched the same video I did. 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @thegoldenw
      @thegoldenw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ohio is the last bastion of civilization

    • @Voo504Doo
      @Voo504Doo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      E 1999 my niggaaaa

  • @joelllamas3367
    @joelllamas3367 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    growing up in Mexico city all my life and living thru countless earthquakes, I can guarantee you that this documentary is 100% accurate . great work

  • @robbier6389
    @robbier6389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Thunderbird vs Transformer: Don't tell Michael Bay about that one... It sounds like an awful movie just waiting to happen.

  • @bradmatz4150
    @bradmatz4150 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A scary good one Simon, well done! Btw, u were born to do this job. Ur skills as a storyteller n narrator r superb. Keep it going my friend, there r many who try this but few out in the world as good as you! 😊

  • @valrie1650
    @valrie1650 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    My dad was in college in Oregon when the new cascadia research was being done in the 80s. When it was my turn to go to college in Vancouver BC, moving into those new glass high-rise apartments he said, “You really don’t want to be living here during an earthquake. The whole PNW is almost 100 years overdue for a Big One.” He meant like a 1964 earthquake where we grew up, and personally got a taste of in 2018.

  • @corneliuswowbagger
    @corneliuswowbagger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    I was at a geological conference at Portland University when the building was being retrofitted for earthquakes. The hardware being installed in the walls was impressive. Essentially huge shock absorbers. At another we saw the complexity of the Seattle area and indications of water levels rising to 1000 feet as a result of past Tsunamis that entered Puget Sound via Straight of Juan de Fuca and were magnified by the geometry of the sound. I have geologist friends, who ended up in the Seattle area and others who retired there, but I’m staying on the very stable top of this Allegheny Mountain the better part of the Continent away!

    • @brooke6138
      @brooke6138 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm planning to move from Missouri to Seattle this May once I graduate with my Geological Engineering degree, and I'd be lying if I said this isn't making me start to reconsider...

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brooke6138 Missouri is also overdue for another megaquake, as I hear it. But don't end up near Wyoming because the volcano under Yellowstone Park is overdue for an eruption. And there's been so few tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma recently that they're overdue to another bad year.

    • @curbozerboomer1773
      @curbozerboomer1773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billolsen4360 As George Carlin once said..."One day the Earth is going to shake us humans off, just like a dog shakes off a bad case of fleas"!..This "Mother Earth" concept we embrace has to stop now...the Earth is a non-committal, non-caring environment, wherein 99% of all previous life forms have gone away already. Your own mother loved you--but not Mother Earth!

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@curbozerboomer1773 Wise words!

    • @Edgar-kl6us
      @Edgar-kl6us ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, even though the East Coast, is somewhat potentially more stable, when the big one does impact the cascading region, it will more than likely be like straightening the sheets on a bed, … and it might just show, how potent Old Momma Nature’s wrath can be, … generally, it takes me a couple of good flips of the bedding to get it to where I’d like for it to settle upon the bed, so who is to say, that it’ll just only take one good shake to get it to settle where we’d like for the land to fall, …??? It might cause Yellowstone to awaken, and upset the other 3 continental divides to open up, … (by that, I indicate that the Rockies could jam up another 1, 500 to 6,000feet taller, the Mississippi River, get into a much tighter squeeze, in the New Madrid region, & the Appalachian mountains to also increase in height, … making more of a rumpled sheet mess of the USA, than it already is, … He, is not yet done with mankind, and we must accept whatever mercies He may bestow upon us, … the OldMan UpStairs has plans for mankind, but no one knows what is in our futures, …and He has always watched over me, & mine, may He continue to do so, …

  • @jeankroeber2481
    @jeankroeber2481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I lived in San Francisco for a long time. Once, when working in a building downtown on the 22nd floor, there was an earthquake. Though "minor", in the range of 3, I felt the building swaying and then worse, a grinding sound, as if it was being gnawed by the buildings on either side. Although all this lasted only about 10 minutes, it seemed very long. Yes, I was scared. It happened again when I worked in the then new Pyramid Building..I was on the 52nd floor. It stood alone so there wasn't a building nextdoor to scrape against -- though I don't know how that would have worked had there been. But it was breathtaking up there feeling it sway. This too didn't last long. I think some smaller buildings were damaged. I was grateful not to have then experienced "the big one", which my colleagues and I had talked about. I then moved to Germany, moved into a house in a small town and felt an earthquake there, where the only visible damage was a crack in a wall. The epicenter was about 10 km away and it had been a minor quake of about 3.

    • @Emiko0807
      @Emiko0807 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      10 min? Did you mean 10 seconds?

    • @jayflo714
      @jayflo714 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your long story went no where.