Earthquake Science, and the Disaster That Created It

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  • What happened March 27, 1964? Alaska knows very well, . . . Join us to learn more about earthquakes with host Hank Green on this infusion of SciShow.
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ความคิดเห็น • 592

  • @uzimachi1
    @uzimachi1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Where I'm from people freak out when they feel an earthquake and they think it's divine punishment, so they all drop on their knees and pray for mercy. (no joke).
    I felt one when I was at the theater watching Nightmare on elm street reboot. And ironically it happened when Freddy Kruger appeared in front of a character. The screen was shaking, and everything else of course. Everyone freaked out, I was laughing with my popcorn.

    • @DanThePropMan
      @DanThePropMan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Some people go through life under the illusion that the entire body of humanity's knowledge is no greater than their own. It's incredibly annoying to deal with when this illusion presents itself, but it's also kind of sad. There's so much to learn if only they would bother to look. There's no shame in ignorance, but there is great shame in willful ignorance.

    • @Se7enAte
      @Se7enAte 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is great xD here in California nobody even reacts to an earthquake unless we hear the walls and ceiling breaking or stuff falling

    • @Nabend1402
      @Nabend1402 10 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      DanThePropMan That first sentence is very well put. So much more eloquent than "Some people think they know everything".

    • @DanThePropMan
      @DanThePropMan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ***** Thanks! That's just it, though, isn't it? It's not that they think they know everything; it's that they think no one knows anything.

    • @Nabend1402
      @Nabend1402 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Absolutely. It's the "My guess is as good as anyone else's" mindset.

  • @jbkjbk1999
    @jbkjbk1999 10 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Megathrust Earthquake souns like a pokemon move

    • @firestorm6505
      @firestorm6505 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Sounds like Primal Groudons signature move, if it was translated directly from Japanese -> English
      lol

    • @kolikooo1
      @kolikooo1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm pretty sure that "earthquake" is a pokemon move.

    • @firestorm6505
      @firestorm6505 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      kolikooo1
      It is, *Megathrust Earthquake* isn't (bold for clarity)

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Honestly it sounds more like an 80's porno...

    • @merrymachiavelli2041
      @merrymachiavelli2041 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ze Rubenator You just put the incredibly disturbing image of poke-porn in my head....a pokemon porn battle...oh god, I hate you.

  • @McJuggerNuggets
    @McJuggerNuggets 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'll never forget the great earthquake of Southern New Jersey...Just thought there was an 18-wheeler driving by...

  • @howarthe1
    @howarthe1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I had no idea that earthquake science was so young.

    • @yewknight
      @yewknight 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Geology as an entire field is relatively young. Plate tectonics which is our fundamental theory was only widely accepted a half a century back. Most of my professors were around when plate tectonics was a forbidden topic of study at most universities, a topic geologists only whispered about at the bars.

    • @Scoobywoo7447
      @Scoobywoo7447 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's because they're too scared of being wrong look up dutchsinse he predicts quakes he's figured out how it all works

    • @directoradk
      @directoradk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know right! You’d think they would be at it sooner.

    • @cameroncummings6838
      @cameroncummings6838 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ihhdbhh bcc has is the worst game I ever had and how much they have been so far and the same level I had to play with my kids I don’t even want them I had a bad time I would

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah... We developed nukes before we understood plate techtonics.

  • @derschmiddie
    @derschmiddie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    ... .Looking for the Faults in our Alaska

  • @firestorm6505
    @firestorm6505 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thanks Hank! For the _metric_ :D

  • @elpresidente9054
    @elpresidente9054 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There are 7 major plates. There are a lot more if you count minor plates e.g Juan de Fuca,Nazca plate etc.

  • @stiimuli
    @stiimuli 10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    First time I ever felt an earthquake was in Illinois while sitting on the floor watching tv after school. The house gently moved side to side for about 5 seconds. I had no idea what it was. In the midwest we aren't used to earthquakes but we're sure familiar with tornadoes...so being the smart kid I was, I ran outside and looked around for the twister.
    Did I say smart? I meant dumb as hell =/

    • @THATDUDEOFLIFE
      @THATDUDEOFLIFE 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah Illinoisans ftw

    • @wdfrelo
      @wdfrelo 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mine was the Virginia earthquake a few years ago.i was on a trailer for school waiting for the next class. My teacher yelled at us because she thought we were moving to trailer.

    • @_Eamon
      @_Eamon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wy'Kia
      I slept through that... it was my only chance to feel an Earthquake and I slept through it :(

    • @wdfrelo
      @wdfrelo 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stefko Stravanek most of the kids were running around they missed it too. At least you could say you slept through one.

    • @MakeMeThinkAgain
      @MakeMeThinkAgain 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you familiar with the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12? Everyone along the Mississippi river should know about that.

  • @rubyc6252
    @rubyc6252 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used to watch these for fun (and still do) but now they're actually helping me with my schoolwork. I send my gratitude to the Sci Show team :)

  • @patricioramos9439
    @patricioramos9439 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Here in Chile if isn't a 7 or higher, we don't even get up the bed...
    Great video!

  • @Walter.Kolczynski
    @Walter.Kolczynski 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Description of subduction at 4:10 isn't particularly accurate. The mantle, in general, isn't molten, and the oceanic crust doesn't wholesale melt into the mantle. In some cases, seismologists have traced the subducting plate all the way to the core-mantle boundary. Melting in the mantle is localized, occurring where there are chemical, temperature or pressure changes. For instance, water released from subducting oceanic crust changes the chemistry of the surrounding rock and results in the partial melting that fuels the stratiform volcanoes on the overriding plate.

    • @sethoday1731
      @sethoday1731 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do seismologists trace the subducting plate? I'm interested in details like this.

    • @Walter.Kolczynski
      @Walter.Kolczynski 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@sethoday1731 Like the answer to most of these questions about the interior of the Earth: seismic waves from earthquakes.
      The speed of seismic waves is slower through the subducting slab than it is in the surrounding mantle (because the slab is wetter and colder). This creates differences in the travel times of seismic waves travelling through the slab (and also subtle reflections). Using the worldwide seismograph network over multiple earthquakes, geophysicists are able to create 3-D reconstructions of the low-speed section corresponding to the slab.

  • @ducomors
    @ducomors 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "most of the sciesmic activity, all over the world, take place along the edge of oceanic plates and continental plates. there are 7 of them all told"
    7 main plates* there are many more called secondary or tertiary plates. these include the Arab and Indian.
    Just wanted to clear that up for anyone else wondering, because of a dropped description.

  • @infinix610
    @infinix610 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    So why did the 1964 earthquake happen? It's because the Faults in our Earth were Looking for Alaska.

  • @EdEditz
    @EdEditz 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    'The Fault in our Sta...erm...Planet' :)

  • @impguardwarhamer
    @impguardwarhamer 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    where where you before my geography exam huh hank?
    HUH HANK?!

    • @emilyc2748
      @emilyc2748 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me to!! My Geography test on this was on Wednesday!!

    • @supermonkeywtf09
      @supermonkeywtf09 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      haha mine is this Friday, thanks for the material Hank!

    • @ShahulHameed-xh1yo
      @ShahulHameed-xh1yo 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@supermonkeywtf09 mine is tomorrow which is also friday😂

  • @gobgobbins4529
    @gobgobbins4529 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just found this video. It was not in my subscriptions tab. I check youtube daily as I watch it more than any other source of media. Just wanted to let you know that an avid fan that checks your stuff regularly just happened to see this video a week after it was uploaded.

  • @Axioanarchist
    @Axioanarchist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mom was 3 years old and living in Alaska when this happened. My grandmother remembers it pretty well.

  • @punishalltrolls
    @punishalltrolls 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:00 mesosphere often refers to a layer of the atmosphere.
    i prefer the term mantle.

  • @Kyermemehtar
    @Kyermemehtar 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm fascinated by all the science, really I am, but I can't get over the awesomeness of Wegener's pipe!

  • @sanjaykawan3091
    @sanjaykawan3091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first time I felt an earthquake was when i was on a school trip to Manali and Shimla. When we were returning to Ahemdabad,we stopped in Amritsar.during the night,we felt a magnetitude 4 earthquake.I was on the bed when my friends came and told that we should get out of the hotel.my teacher scolded some students who did not come out of the hotel because they were watching pal pal dill ke pass.

  • @TheTimtam112
    @TheTimtam112 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So, the fault in our boundaries?

  • @robertgotschall1246
    @robertgotschall1246 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I first took an undergraduate geology course at UNLV in 1965 we were given mimeographed inserts about plate tectonics because it wasn't covered in our text books.

  • @awesomesaucellama
    @awesomesaucellama 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually experienced my first earthquake last week, and it was on the Wasatch Fault. It's awesome that this video was posted only two days after it happened, just as I was getting more curious about the way earthquakes work. Good job scishow.

  • @XavierEyez
    @XavierEyez 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Faults in our Plates by Hank Green.

  • @julienrockingham54
    @julienrockingham54 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was in Puerto Rico for two years and we had three earthquakes, one of which knocked me off my feet, it was terrifying!!!

  • @viktorzhang4209
    @viktorzhang4209 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was the first well made document/video in a while. Good job Scishow!

  • @koppadasao
    @koppadasao 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Good Friday? I don't think so. March 27, 1964 was a bad Friday for the Alaskans.

    • @KCStyleZ001
      @KCStyleZ001 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why can't I remove your comment?!

    • @visage535
      @visage535 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      KCStyleZ001 Only SciShow can remove it

    • @koppadasao
      @koppadasao 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a new youtube name I can use spaces and punctuation now too :D YAY! :DDDDDDDD Incorrect. I can remove comments too.

    • @koppadasao
      @koppadasao 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a new youtube name I can use spaces and punctuation now too :D YAY! :DDDDDDDD Like that. ;)

    • @visage535
      @visage535 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Koppa Dasao Mind blown

  • @vanmaren962
    @vanmaren962 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video!

  • @ego877
    @ego877 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ty for helping me out

  • @deep_fried_analysis
    @deep_fried_analysis 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome intro! Great vid!

  • @Hope-kl6gy
    @Hope-kl6gy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Watching this in Alaska, the second it ended there was (is as I'm typing this) a tremor. Go figure.

  • @WRMuenzberg92130
    @WRMuenzberg92130 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent!

  • @ericaashby7310
    @ericaashby7310 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a REALLY good episode!

  • @adambukowski2472
    @adambukowski2472 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hank, subducted plates don't melt in the mantle, they go all the way down to the core.

  • @MusicMLady
    @MusicMLady 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    There are 7 main tectonic plates, but there are several smaller ones which play a crucial role in tectonic events.

  •  10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This pretty much sums up my first chapter that I have to learn for my Geography Finals! Thanks a bunch.

  • @italynoone4801
    @italynoone4801 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    For anyone who doesn't know, some of the biggest city in alaska, Anchorage, sunk into the ocean. I live in Alaska and my teacher was telling me about when the earthquake happened, he lost half of his paper route that day. You can still go visit there today. The road just suddenly gets really steep near the ocean.

  • @KustomFu
    @KustomFu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I felt my first earthquake ever, a few months ago! In Florida!!!! (it was centered in cuba)

    • @James_Haskell
      @James_Haskell 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's called the epicentre FYI :)

    • @yo388
      @yo388 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      When was that? I live in south Florida and didn't know there was an earthquake.

    • @KustomFu
      @KustomFu 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Michael Tilton I don't know, google cuba 2014 earthquake and it might say, there was some video of people in FL on the news talking about feeling it

    • @yo388
      @yo388 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I did, they claimed it could be felt in my town but I had no idea it happened and saw nothing about it on the news.

    • @smoothdelgato
      @smoothdelgato 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Castro is attacking!!! Prepare the nukes!!!!

  • @sophierobinson2738
    @sophierobinson2738 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was there for BayQuake '89 (Coalinga). Really weird experience. Just before it happened (maybe 20 seconds) our cat ran through the house and jumped through the kitchen window, and our four goldfish dove for the bottom of the tank. I felt the New Madrid quake in '68, and another small quake in CA. Geology was one of my favorite subjects.

  • @lupusandcorvus1629
    @lupusandcorvus1629 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    in south carolina we have a massive fault directly beneath charleston. it can be even more destructive than the one in alaska, in fact it decimated the immediate vicinity in the 1800's. people are saying it's time for it to happen again, and i must request you make an episode concerning this, as it could affect areas as far as DC.

  • @juststeveschannel
    @juststeveschannel 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a high school teacher who lives & works along the San Andreas and was busy going through my VidCon schedule today, this video gave me a great idea for how to improve shows like this or Crash Course and other edutainment channels. Need to polish it up but hopefully by VidCon I'll be able to pass it on. Could make these almost as fun as the days of Bro'hood 2.0 and even better as an educational tool. Not complaining, excited. Thanks. (Happy Subbable patron)

  • @Onychoprion27
    @Onychoprion27 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I climbed Mt. St. Helens right after it was removed from level-3 eruption status and while I was at the top there was a 3.7 earthquake centered 500 meters beneath our feet. It wasn't a strong quake, but it was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.

  • @TheThestudent52
    @TheThestudent52 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    alas, chiles 1960 valdivia earthquake, w/ 9.5 richter and the a power that made hills disapear is ignored once again

  • @mercybellafiore3677
    @mercybellafiore3677 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Actually Hank, there are 12 tectonic plates: The Antarctic Plate, Australian Plate, Eurasian Plate, South American Plate, African Plate, Middle-Eastern Plate, Indian Plate, Caribbean Plate, Pacific Plate, Nazca Plate, Scosha Plate, and North American Plate.

  • @thecoolestcatintown641
    @thecoolestcatintown641 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually live right next to the that fault from idaho to utah and a lot of people say a very large earthquake could happen any time I live in Provo Utah so that's scary

    • @rivitraven
      @rivitraven 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes there's a fault running through Missouri. Due to the "70 year rule" (theory sort of) it is estimated that every 70 years a major earthquake is supposed to happen on a major fault line. I personally think it's very lose in truth as many major fault lines have gone without earthquakes for twice as long.

  • @sophielarsen3352
    @sophielarsen3352 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was in school, I used to work at the local science centre and they chose to showcase the unique local geology. The centre sits on exposed bedrock and the entrance is actually a rock tunnel. A fault line goes through it and it's on the rim of an ancient meteor crater so you can actually see shatter cones. It's pretty freaking neat.

  • @blue62945
    @blue62945 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for a great , interesting videos

  • @whereisangie
    @whereisangie 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    really interesting!

  • @MartijnvandeStreek
    @MartijnvandeStreek 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Faults and Alaska. Common themes in the Green brothers' works ;)

  • @toffeeFairy
    @toffeeFairy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, but i've learned about this and more about earthquakes in school.

    • @iamnothyperTREE
      @iamnothyperTREE 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed, some of the points are slightly cringy though, it's a good way to briefly look over things but describing the NA Plate as lighter gives off a bad impression... It's less dense than the pacific, that's why the pacific subducts

  • @theoneunderwater
    @theoneunderwater 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hank, I'm proud of you for not making a Fault in our Stars joke.

  • @dylansimpson7831
    @dylansimpson7831 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As someone living near three plates (southern British Columbia, Canada), earthquakes scare me

  • @CorbinSchmorbin
    @CorbinSchmorbin 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hank makes a couple of comments here that make it sound like the mantle of the Earth is made of molten magma. It is actually mostly solid rock due to the enormous pressures with only small patches that melt.

  • @jacobpeterson934
    @jacobpeterson934 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool

  • @kolbyjackcheeseable
    @kolbyjackcheeseable 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live near the Wasatch Fault... just waiting for the day there's a huge earthquake. There's actually crazy people who build their houses on the fault line.

  • @TigerHawk709
    @TigerHawk709 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Geologist, this was a nice refresher. :)

  • @NToB36
    @NToB36 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    very informative :)

  • @yewknight
    @yewknight 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love the geology videos but there are a few things that need to be corrected:
    1) The mantle is dominantly a solid fluid. It is not a liquid. That is to say it is a mess of crystals slowly creeping past one another. There is a common misconception that the earth is full of hot magma waiting to bubble up to the surface and this is just not true. At divergent boundaries the decrease in pressure changes the local thermodynamic character sending some chemicals into a liquid state which then rise and freeze at the surface.
    2) Subducted plates do not just sink back into the earth and melt like an ice cube in water. As gravity pulls the giant slab of earth down it rapidly releases volatiles locked up in mineral structures which rapidly become unstable as pressure and temperature increase. These slabs continue to drive through the fluid (but solid) mantle until they reach a depth of about 660km where things become complicated. There is a major thermodynamic barrier where slab behavior is still not entirely understood. Some slabs seem to get stuck at this depth and others push on to the mantle-core boundary.
    EDIT: Hank, you should do a video on why the interior of the earth is NOT molten. Hint: www.geo.mtu.edu/~hamorgan/Images/earth_geotherm1.gif

  • @DieselWeasel
    @DieselWeasel 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hearing the word "fault" so much gave me an Animaniacs flashback because of their "Quake" song.
    "Whose fault? Whose fault? The San Andreas' fault. 'Cause Mr. Richter can't predict 'er kicking our asphalt."

  • @leggycleggyweggy4600
    @leggycleggyweggy4600 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    omigosh a geology episode :D

  • @mrjacobwilson24
    @mrjacobwilson24 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here in Oklahoma (USA), there's been a recent uptick in earthquakes. Some people attribute this uptick to increased fracking (hydraulic fracturing). It's interesting to consider fracking within a plate tectonic framework...

  • @gburro4579
    @gburro4579 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Content selection is pretty good. However pace is maybe 20% too fast for most of the target audience, AND -- the biggest issue -- WAY too much time is spent on the talking head -- 80-90% of the screen time should be on the relevant graphics, and the dialog keyed to pointing out the salient features of those images.
    Thanks for this work.

    • @MysLed
      @MysLed 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could not agree more with you on this! I know that I've mentioned the same issue on another interesting video of theres a while back as well.

  • @TheNickloyd
    @TheNickloyd 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Faults in Our Earth

  • @gracer3803
    @gracer3803 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys should do an episode on the science of being nervous, as in why you feel like you're going to pee yourself and why you get butterflies, either on SciShow Crash Course Psychology

  • @Koshunae
    @Koshunae 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where I live, there's a fault line that runs through my city. There are some minor earthquakes every few years or so.

  • @JasonArmond
    @JasonArmond 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So you're saying before this quake, we didn't understand the Faultlines in our Stars, but after Looking for Alaska, we have a better handle on it.
    Um, Paper Towns.

  • @annajeffreys3550
    @annajeffreys3550 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah, geology rocks!

  • @celinelogue3677
    @celinelogue3677 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    i live in ireland i have been to earthquake zones before but never experianced one

  • @michaelweis4756
    @michaelweis4756 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The name of said meteorologist actually was Alfred Wegener

  • @marshalice
    @marshalice 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    and with 100 that do damage, I think you mean 100 that do significant damage, because for example Groningen (not that I live there) still has a lot of earthquakes, while none (as far as I know) actually did that much damage, but a lot of small ones can still make buildings collapse, so there are more that do damage.

  • @daveharrison84
    @daveharrison84 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    More time was given to Alaska in this video than all of Crash Course US History

  • @aulusive
    @aulusive 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had a small 2.5 magnitude here in western NC a few days ago, which is rare. They've been happening more though, and each time everyone freaks out.

    • @matprlz
      @matprlz 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool story bro, though a lorry truck driving past your house would structurally cause larger shockwaves.

    • @aulusive
      @aulusive 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      No shit. I didn't feel it but my nephew said he did and got all excited.

  • @PinkChucky15
    @PinkChucky15 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe I had never heard of the Alaskan Earthquake.

  • @AveryMilieu
    @AveryMilieu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tectonic Dancing!
    Thanks.

  • @ufewlufewlx605
    @ufewlufewlx605 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only ever felt one earthquake here in the UK, we don't really get them here but there was one about 4.2 on the scale, it felt like I was on a train and the sofa was moving a bit. Still made me run to the door where I though it was safer. A real one must be very frightening indeed, that was only a tremor really.

  • @Love2Destroy
    @Love2Destroy 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do more Geology related videos

  • @unowned9117
    @unowned9117 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't know if you have done this show idea yet (i'm a scishow noob) but during this piece you mentioned a scientist whose career was ruined by offering a correct theory. Im sure there are other scientists who have suffered this fate... what a great show!

  • @jonhwalsh4900
    @jonhwalsh4900 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    COOL !

  • @zaaxi7424
    @zaaxi7424 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This would've helped for my A2 geography exam I took on the 12th June

  • @nkimbrell728
    @nkimbrell728 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    we are on a big ass ball spinning guys. My mind is blown. imagine us all on a giant spinning ball.

  • @belahahn3433
    @belahahn3433 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    pipelines rise up out of the ground during liquefaction, the petrol inside makes the pipes buoyant

  • @bharatoo9
    @bharatoo9 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hank, noticed the way you pronounced himalaya, if you wanna make it more accurate go with 'him-aa-luh-ya', it's a combination of two words 'Hima' (Snow) and 'Aa-luh-ya' (Home) :) Cheers!

  • @Snailman3516
    @Snailman3516 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey! Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift, not the theory of plate tectonics. You should know this, Hank, you did a video on him.

  • @coreylando6608
    @coreylando6608 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's funny is that Hank recently missed a question about faults in SciShow Quiz Show that he talked about in this video xD

  • @Tfin
    @Tfin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    They didn't have kilometers in 1964 Alaska. :-)

    • @chandlerkelly8691
      @chandlerkelly8691 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A kilometer is just a unit of measurement.

    • @Tfin
      @Tfin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      No, man, sending them to Alaska is hella expensive with the international shipping. They didn't get their first kilometer until the late '90s.

    • @sannou5248
      @sannou5248 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      R3Testa are you high?

    • @Tfin
      @Tfin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sannou No, I live in the lower 48.

    • @Soaplify
      @Soaplify 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kinda dumb when you consider there is 49 states below Alaska

  • @sabrinarosario6499
    @sabrinarosario6499 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't believe you guys dint mention the Puerto Rico Trench.....its so hard to find information about it even here on the actual island.

  • @brandondavidson4085
    @brandondavidson4085 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is weird to think about the Earth's crust just being thick slabs of dirt that float on an ocean of lava underneath it.

  • @AllisonMarlyn
    @AllisonMarlyn 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your diagram of the San Andreas fault is incorrect, as it shows that the North America plate and the Pacific plate are moving in opposite directions. In fact, they are both moving in the same direction, but the North America plate is moving slower than the Pacific plate, giving it the illusion that they're moving in opposite directions (this is a pretty common mistake that people make).

  • @SeaHorseOo
    @SeaHorseOo 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi. Always fascinating to follow your work. I got a nice ridiculous question for you: Would it be possible for someone on the moon to jump high enough that he would hurt himself when he falls down? Or ridiculously worst, put himself in orbit?
    Thanks

  • @tomchaude8999
    @tomchaude8999 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn would have appreciated this video so much when I was still studying plate tectonics in school! Still a great video

    • @tomchaude8999
      @tomchaude8999 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out EarthquakeProtect!

  • @dreamkiller189
    @dreamkiller189 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    i feel an earthquake almost every year sometimes more than once, one con of living in south california

  • @cheeseloverHPfan
    @cheeseloverHPfan 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Scishow, can you guys do something/ have you done anything on the creation of crude oil? Because school is confusing me.

  • @krystlecorona5684
    @krystlecorona5684 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool

  • @einarivarsson
    @einarivarsson 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, the mid Atlantic plate goes through Iceland, not around it :)

  • @Nonkosherian
    @Nonkosherian 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    can you do a show on the earthquakes we get here in the midwest?

  • @shady4091
    @shady4091 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    On a scale of Good Friday to The Worst Friday, I rate that a Sub Par Friday.

  • @xDAAAZEx
    @xDAAAZEx 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    We had a mini earthquake on the UK a few years ago, the first one in about 250 years

  • @MrRodeduivel
    @MrRodeduivel 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, Alaska got a GOOD hit on that FRIDAY

  • @nutbunnie656
    @nutbunnie656 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Christchurch New Zealand so I know what its like to be in a large earthquake not a very pleasant experience

  • @TheSpartanFactor
    @TheSpartanFactor 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy shit, Hank. You made Geology interesting.