San Andreas is the most famous and gets all the attention. However, most geologists are actually more worried about the Hayward Fault which runs through the east San Francisco Bay area and is through dense urban areas most of its length. If you google "America's most dangerous fault" the Hayward Fault is what shows up. In fact, before 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake was one that happened in the 1860s on the Hayward Fault. The Northridge quake didn't happen on the San Andreas Fault. It was caused by a previously unknown blind thrust fault.
Actually, geologists are pretty much on the same page in noting that the Cascadia Subduction Zone off of Oregon and Washington is the most dangerous fault, by far, and is the one most likely to cause the greatest natural disaster in US history. th-cam.com/video/76b_WGzCI54/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PBSTerra
Bc who cares abt San Francisco...San Andreas is alot more famous it seems. And it's in the Grand theft auto game. No one wants to believe that it could all be taken away bc of a dang earthquake lol
@Accentor100 yes and what I'm saying is no one cares abt the reality of San Francisco getting destroyed. They only care abt San Andreas bc its more "famous" lmao
The people in the Bay Area are more concerned about the Hayward Fault, running right underneath Oakland and Berkeley. The Hayward is long overdue for a big one
The gravity recovery and Climate experiment (GRACE measurements) reveals that major earthquakes (Mw 5 and above) always occur in the dry stage, indicating drought and associated groundwater extraction is an important trigger for major earthquakes.
@@alwaysyouramanda The largest earthquake ever recorded was in the tropics (Chile, May 22, 1960: Magnitude 9.5). The second-largest earthquake ever recorded was in the sub-Arctic (Alaska, March 27, 1964: Magnitude 9.2). The climate had absolutely no impact in either event.
@@bartonpercival3216 I'm willing to bet my property taxes relative to the value of my two CA homes is much lower than that of 90% of owners of homes in other states.
Me watching this from Mexico City we just had a 7.7 on the same day, Sep 19, as big quakes like the 7.1 Sep 19 2017 quake that killed 500+ people, and the Sep 19 1985 quake that killed 40k people. This time only two people died an improvement thanks to early warning seismic alarms that will trigger both on loud speakers throughout the city and on your phone indicating how strong a quake is and how much time you have to get out of your building. Most of the time we get about a minute before the ground actually starts shaking
I enjoy your videos, even though I don’t always agree with everything you say. However, in this video you made the comment that it was the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant that caused by far the most damage after the 2011 mega-quake. This is way, way, way off. Sure, the melt-down was bad, but how can you skip over the tsunamis that destroyed dozens of cities and towns and killed over 20,000 people? The damage to the power plant and the impacts of the meltdown barely even register compared to the destruction from the tsunamis.
To understand this insensitive comment you have to understand the selfish and the selfish self contrived mindset of a typical person from California.... Being so self important it's hard to see anything outside your little cushy bubble
Since I'm born and raised in Los Angeles I'm familiar with the San Andreas Fault but that's not what I'm worried about, it's the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Native Bay Area resident here. When people here refer to "The Big One" it doesn't refer to "California splitting in half". People here are referring to the next occurrence of a 1906-level magnitude earthquake event.
Very good video. Good graphics and little technical details. My family has been in California 247 years. My great grandfather experienced the great 1857 earthquake. I live in a small community in the middle of a forest and on the earthquake fault line. The “big one” will destroy most of our homes and the subsequent fires will finish the rest. I am in the process of retrofitting my house for earthquake and fire.
You mean WILL, and it will not be pretty the damage it will inflict. They are slowly trying to retrofit stuff but its too little too late before it comes, so if you at all in that area have a boogie bag at the ready.
It caused the Mississippi to river to to flow backwards the last time that it had an earthquake in the 1800s and changed the course of the Mississippi River
Didn't know the Richter scale was based on time. I thought it was based on intensity. Also thought the subduction and fault were closer in proximity and interaction. Very helpful.
Did you completely forget about tsunamis? Also I think you gave incorrect info about 2011 earthquake. Main damage was because of tsunamis, not due to Fukushima plant. Check your sources - and other sources.
Absolutely a very shocking and sobering video! I was in San Francisco in October 89 at the World Series and survived that! I was in Anchorage AK in 2004 visiting my parents when the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami occurred!!! Luckily the Tsunami alert was canceled but felt Earthquakes albeit smaller the same day! In 2018 I was in Anchorage again with the 7.0 shaker! My parents were in the 64 Great Alaska Earthquake 9.2 and survived that! I was born 4 years later in 68!
The Hayward fault in the Bay Area is ready to go anytime, too... supposedly it's more worrisome than the San Andreas as far as likelihood to give a serious shaking to a densely populated area soon.
Yes, but thankfully the Hayward fault can't produce a large quake like the San Andreas fault. Geologists predict the biggest shake on the Hayward fault would be around maybe a 6.8. But yes the H F does run thru pretty heavy populated areas including Cal Berkeley
Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in southern California cause much less damage in Los Angeles than the Northridge quake because L.A. is so far from the San Andreas Fault. We feel the quakes here (such as the one in Landers), but the effect are extremely minor compared to quakes that happen on faults that run under the city. The Newport/Inglewood fault has the potential to do much, much more damage to L.A. than the San Andreas.
I loved to visit relatives growing up. It was magical. So beautiful. My father worked for the Oregonian before moving to LA to work for the LA Examiner.
USGS developed a series of papers / studies as part of the ShakeOut earthquake scenario series. Well worth a read if you’re interested in the various impacts of a regional earthquake. Definitely an event you want to see on TV versus living through such an event.
LOL - I had just calmed down my guy friend about San Andreas, assuring him that even IF the "big one" were to come, California wouldn't fall into the ocean. Then I told him that the bigger danger was the Cascadia fault line. I explained how there would tsunamis that would probably make the "Boxing Day" tsunami look like a bathtub. Oh, and there'd probably be a volcano... He never wants to go back to the West coast... hee hee hee
Whenever the Juan de Fuca plate gets the jiggles, most of California is likely to be okay. It's just geometry; the state curves east, particularly leaving basically all of SoCal safe aside from some minor rebound effects. And while San Andreas is a fun movie, the narrow mouth of the San Francisco bay almost totally kills tsunami effects.
@@westrim I pretty much know this, but my guy friend had already decided Yellowstone was going to erupt any minute and was trying to figure out if he could survive it. I got him convinced it probably won't erupt without warning. Then he turned his attention to the San Andreas fault, because he watches stupid movies. That's why I told him that the Cascadia subduction zone was probably more scary. He's a nice guy but not really all that together on things - thinks stuff in movies can really happen.
@@alwaysyouramanda San Andreas is a strike/slip fault and everything on the west side of the fault is headed to Alaska rather than falling in the ocean. That's not to say that washing away might not happen, but it isn't going to "fall into the ocean." After all, north of San Francisco it does go into the ocean, but none of that is going to happen any time soon. Certainly not in his, or probably your, lifetime. And I'm pretty sure I'm going to die before either of you...
The San Andreas fault is going to hit us at any point. When, we don't know. However- it 💯 will at any given moment. Secondly, the strength of the San Andreas fault will lend itself to the Cascadia fault...causing it to hit..Wreaking further havoc. This is the most recent data through the Government site.
I've been waiting four decades for the big one and, while I've experienced a number of earthquakes in the 7s, none of them have been the big one. Luckily, this has given us a bunch of time to build shit better. I know I helped build a block wall that is purported to be able to withstand a 9.0 earthquake with 90 mph wind at the same time and it was just for a damn 6 foot tall brick wall. Codes for actual buildings have to be more intense so probably most structures here will be ones in which you can survive during even a very intense earthquake. I look forward to earthquakes, not because I want people to die or get hurt or I want to see shit destroyed, but because I think earthquakes are exciting and interesting. I do hope that I am around here and live to feel the big one. Lord knows I've waited for longer than was predicted for it to happen. Maybe during this next cycle of solar maximum.
Sure it’s exciting till you have to live with the after math which may very well include a tsunami. All services like water and power out and no fire service or medical treatment will get old real quick
@@honghong3153 I live nearer to the San Andreas Fault than to the ocean and this fault is not known to make tsunamis anyway. In any case, there are hills to run to here if there were to somehow be the sort of tsunami that would reach here and I do also swim reasonably well, not that it would be possible if the wave were to carry all the debris from the ocean to here along with it. Always good to know how to swim though. Thanks!
Nobody died as a direct result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. However, in 2018 one worker in charge of measuring radiation at the plant died of lung cancer caused by radiation exposure. (Britannica)
San Andreas isn't the fault line California's should worry about . the San Andreas is no capable producing earthquakes above an 8. You would worry more about the Cascadia fault witch is far far far more scary
The entire barrier between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates is a powder keg. Seismologists have said that when the plates slip, it will resemble what happened in Chile 60 years ago. Which means at least magnitude 9.5, if not the first recorded Magnitude 10.
Sadly, the San Andreas isn't the truly scary one. "The big one" tends to be a localized event. It's the Pacific Northwest i'm worried about. That one IS coming and WILL be a catastrophy on a national scale.
You're wrong about the 1994 LA earthquake. The epicenter was in Reseda but was called the Northridge earthquake. It was a new fault according to Lucy Jones at Caltech in Pasadena. The earthquake was an up and down movement, not side to side. I lived about 5 miles from the epicenter and experienced the earthquake first hand. It was incredibly violent. The 1971 Sylmar earthquake was part of the San Andreas fault line, I believe.
I lived in Nothridge for both the Sylmar and Northridge quakes. I was 11 years old when the 1971 Sylmar quake hit. I ran from my 2 second story bedroom while everything was falling down in front of me. Very strong rolling waves. I lived in my own home in Northridge in 1994 a few miles from the epicenter. My wife and I ran from our bedroom and both fell over our dinner table and chairs. I thought the train near our house had derailed and was going though our home. Water and gas lines ruptured and we had to evacuate. Our cat was killed by dogs running wild from all the down walls. Riots, earthquakes, fires and politics caused me to plan my move to AZ in 2003. As of 2015 I have lived on very solid ground in a very safe city in Maricopa County. I loved growing up in Southern California but have no regrets having left. The lower San Andreas hasn't slipped in over 300 years. It has over15 feet of built up pressure. The fault is the equivalent of being 18 months pregnant. When it goes all hell will break loose.
The 71 Sylmar and 94 Northridge quakes were thrust faults in different areas. The only sizeable quakes that have hit directly on the San Andreas in the 1900's are the 1906 and 1989 in northern CA and a few in Parkfield. All the other quakes were elsewhere in the State that have been large and have caused significant damage and death were nowhere near the SAF.
Anyone remember the book The Late Great State of California? Outdated but remains fascinating, heart-breaking, as it points out the loss of art works, architecture, food crops, famous people...quite the good read.
7:16 Most of the destruction in the Sendai/Fukushima area was caused by the *tsunami*. The nuclear meltdown was bad, but didn't actually do as much damage nominally speaking.
We live here in the East Bay area and have been spending the past couple years prepping with solar panels with battery backup, food and supplies. I'll let the experts argue which fault line will hit in the next big earthquake. I'm ready.
I live in the Pacific Northwest. I always find it dismissive of our importance when videos such as yours continually point out how a big Cascadia earthquake could cause an earthquake along the San Andreas fault in CA, but you and others never mention what the odds are of a San Andreas fault earthquake contributing to a Cascadia earthquake up here. What gives?
@@craiggillett5985 . I was speaking of ALL the videos that I have seen on this subject, not just this one. If researchers have the time and means to study whether a Cascadia earthquake would cause an earthquake in Southern CA, they should be capable of equally addressing the reverse senario. The only reason that they don't is because they see us in the NW as "less important", which is infuriating.
@@weworks78117.5 isn't enough to rock the whole state. And that's not a big one either. It's a large quake but a big one is 9+, which the San Andreas is incapable of
@@weworks7811 the San Andreas isn't capable of a quake bigger than 7.5, and even that is questionable because seismologists found that quakes such as the 1906 SF, 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 north ridge, etc earthquakes were caused by blind faults not attached to the SA fault. San Andreas is a strike slip fault, the most active and least energetic fault type.
@@weworks7811 yeah, if you have zero understanding of seismology. The Cascadia fault is what's gonna bring a big one, and that's going to hit the northern half of Northern California, and not even directly
Damned if you do, damned if you don't: wood framed houses flex, whereas brick & mortar or stone masonry buildings crack and deteriorate over time from the constant battering of small earthquakes in the region - too small to feel, but the stress builds up in brittle, nonflexible materials. So in even a moderate M5-6 quake, brick, masonry, and adobe structures can crumble. That's why most California residences are wood frame. Fire resistent AND flexible materials are too expensive for all but massively-funded skyscrapers and the like. There used to be an entrepaneur injecting glass into wood and selling it to be used as a building material but I don't know what happened to that after that - builders, not homebuyers, drive the market.
We build in timber and steel frame here in New Zealand, cladding is usually wooden or very light weight with steel roofs. All designed to manage our daily earthquakes and in anticipation of 8.5+, our hard asset infrastructure is also built to withstand 8.5 + earthquakes. Remember the big one in Japan was 9.5- largest ever recorded.
WHAT?? The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan was NOT at Fukushima and the Nuclear Power Plant did not wipe out 400 miles of coastline and kill the most people. The Tsunami was the big player there. Please check your facts. I was there. Saw it in first person.
Good channel. Would like to know what might happen if, in addition to an earthquake, there was a major NW volcanic eruption, say at Mt. Shasta, Mt. Hood, or Mt. St. Helens. How much of the NW and the continental US would be affected, short-term and long-term? Thanks.
Always be prepared Californians..I have had multiple precognitions of events that later happened in knowing, visions and dreams. In 2001 I was a passenger traveling to Costa Mesa on a work trip. I saw a vision which took about15-20 minutes about an earthquake. It seemed to be a 7.2 where I was, but in my gut I believed the epicenter to be north of L.A. about at Santa Barbara. Some drivers in the vision drove off freeway bridges, others We're swerving wildly sort of in sync. From my experiences I believe this quake will happen. I also FELT the quake over an hour later, and thought it was really happening. I was on a break between exams for certification for my job, and completely sober and otherwise preoccupied. I never travel up north from where I live since. I also had a premonition of our Easter quake 1 week before it happened, the 6.9 in San Diego. The timing is not usually given to me,but that time it was.
Any chance one will happen this week? I'm in Anaheim for the next 6 days and I remembered a dream nearly 3 weeks ago about a big earthquake that happened in Southern California.
...just my thoughts here, there has always been a lot of chatter about "the big one" along the San Andreas and it's related fault zones...my "what if" scenario is simply how about a series if lower magnitude quakes, say sixes and sevens with a couple of eights thrown in, all happening over a 24 to 48 hour period, or longer? All with noticeable land movements? Then southern Cascadia snaps with a large eight to nine which is about normal for that area off southern Oregon...
E G White, a writer, and known for prophesying, wrote that a high end earthquake will hit California, and SF, and LA will go into the ocean, just before Chrust's second coming.
I don't know if anybody could be prepared enough for the "big one". Also it will likely trigger other fault lines and additional earthquakes in a domino effect.
Literally ANYWHERE in the US IS at risk for natural disasters. West Coast has Earthquakes, Wildfires and cyclones. Middle of the country has major tornadoes, south and East Coast has Hurricanes, up north has snow storms and blizzards. Literally EVERYWHERE IN THE US
Did you even see the videos of the tsunamis absolutely leveling Japan? Saying that some radiation particles getting released into the air was more catastrophic than entire cities literally getting swept away by the ocean is an insanely delusional take.
Am in Sierra Foothills North and would like a ocean view....(sorry only being snarky ! ). Experienced 4 big shakes (south and north) and now live in high wildfire area. But very glad not to be in high tornado area as saw one and never want to ever again. Just hoping CA has a major disaster slush fund hidden away as they are spending money like crazy.
Aaaahhh so California will not full into the ocean? Also I am pretty sure the cargo ships will just take their cargo to Florida through the Panama Canal if an earthquake hits hard enough to stop trade in Cali.
It seems like when it comes to earthquakes, the "Big One" you are referring to is the Southern Big One ( San Andreas). Whereas the " Big One" in your area (Cascadia) is the Northern Big One.
I mean, we talk about some of it happening in the past.. but it’s very much what happens to large populations that wind up starving. Thirst would drive this issue too, since we are wired to feel hungry when thirsty- as food is the most reliable source of hydration (water usually being rarer and harder to find in its pure form.) I give it 2 weeks tops. If we’re cut off from rescue, people will be killing and eating other people just to maintain comfort.
Yes its coming soon But dont know when But it will hit Very strong and damage Building 🏢🏢 I just ask People to 🙏🙏 Pray And ask God for forgiveness And take care of every body Bless everyone threw The night USA
An earthquake would probably improve the state of California however if the whole state or even part of it sunk into the ocean then it would help improve the rest of America that's for sure.
@@floperauwu8866 My comment shocks you but not the total turd California has turned into? Americas economy wound suffer and lose but our society would win a profit. If the people of California and the politicians don't want to embrace what makes this country great namely the Constitution and Bill Of Rights then the rest of us fellow Americans don't need California or any of these other American history hating states. Just My Thoughts...
It's a strike slip fault. Nothing is moving up or down. Nothing is going into the ocean. And it's not gonna cause a big one. The San Andreas fault is only capable of a 7.6 at worst, that's not a "big one"
A lot of this video is misleading in regards to the San Andreas Fault and it's specific activity. Ridgecrest 2019, Northridge 1994, Loma Preita 1989, these earth quakes were not on the San Andreas fault system. The San Andreas Fault is the biggest and most famous fault, but it isn't the cause of most of the Earthquake activity in California. California has a vast number of faults that carve up it's crest, many of which are invisible because they are Blind Faults, which is why the San Andreas is so famous (we can see it). The San Andreas however is certainly capable of causing great damage throughout the state depending on which portions rupture.
An earthquake on the San Andreas would not cause a tsunami. Tsunami's are caused when the shape of the ocean floor is changed due to a thrust fault earthquake. That is when a layer of crust is forced up and over the lower layer of crust. Thats called a thrust fault. The SAF is a slip strike, where the 2 plates slide past each other. Search for videos of Dr. Lucy Jones. She goes into simple yet great detail and will debunk alot of myths in regards to earthquakes and how the seismic system works.
San Andreas is the most famous and gets all the attention. However, most geologists are actually more worried about the Hayward Fault which runs through the east San Francisco Bay area and is through dense urban areas most of its length. If you google "America's most dangerous fault" the Hayward Fault is what shows up. In fact, before 1906, the great San Francisco earthquake was one that happened in the 1860s on the Hayward Fault. The Northridge quake didn't happen on the San Andreas Fault. It was caused by a previously unknown blind thrust fault.
And what about the Garlock Fault?
Actually, geologists are pretty much on the same page in noting that the Cascadia Subduction Zone off of Oregon and Washington is the most dangerous fault, by far, and is the one most likely to cause the greatest natural disaster in US history. th-cam.com/video/76b_WGzCI54/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PBSTerra
Bc who cares abt San Francisco...San Andreas is alot more famous it seems. And it's in the Grand theft auto game. No one wants to believe that it could all be taken away bc of a dang earthquake lol
@@ktxoxie772 Not caring about something does nothing to change the reality.
@Accentor100 yes and what I'm saying is no one cares abt the reality of San Francisco getting destroyed. They only care abt San Andreas bc its more "famous" lmao
The people in the Bay Area are more concerned about the Hayward Fault, running right underneath Oakland and Berkeley. The Hayward is long overdue for a big one
The gravity recovery and Climate experiment (GRACE measurements) reveals that major earthquakes (Mw 5 and above) always occur in the dry stage, indicating drought and associated groundwater extraction is an important trigger for major earthquakes.
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"Climate" has nothing to do with earthquakes.
😮 incoming…
@@davidlafleche1142 😂😂😂😂 that’s like saying the sun has nothing to do with our weather
@@alwaysyouramanda The largest earthquake ever recorded was in the tropics (Chile, May 22, 1960: Magnitude 9.5). The second-largest earthquake ever recorded was in the sub-Arctic (Alaska, March 27, 1964: Magnitude 9.2). The climate had absolutely no impact in either event.
Great video! Native Bay Area resident here and you covered all the basics of our situation here in CA
Famine would directly result in cannibalism. We are so condensed.. and not many have more than 1-2 weeks of food at water.
Except high taxes, and bad government!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍
@@bartonpercival3216you probably don’t even live in California lmfao 😂
@@producerhubb4394 born & raised in the SF Bay Area. Anymore stupid assumption's?
@@bartonpercival3216 I'm willing to bet my property taxes relative to the value of my two CA homes is much lower than that of 90% of owners of homes in other states.
Me watching this from Mexico City we just had a 7.7 on the same day, Sep 19, as big quakes like the 7.1 Sep 19 2017 quake that killed 500+ people, and the Sep 19 1985 quake that killed 40k people. This time only two people died an improvement thanks to early warning seismic alarms that will trigger both on loud speakers throughout the city and on your phone indicating how strong a quake is and how much time you have to get out of your building. Most of the time we get about a minute before the ground actually starts shaking
I enjoy your videos, even though I don’t always agree with everything you say. However, in this video you made the comment that it was the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant that caused by far the most damage after the 2011 mega-quake. This is way, way, way off. Sure, the melt-down was bad, but how can you skip over the tsunamis that destroyed dozens of cities and towns and killed over 20,000 people? The damage to the power plant and the impacts of the meltdown barely even register compared to the destruction from the tsunamis.
I came here to say this as well, the meltdown caused ZERO deaths associated to radiation, the area has been cleaned and residents are now moving back.
To understand this insensitive comment you have to understand the selfish and the selfish self contrived mindset of a typical person from California.... Being so self important it's hard to see anything outside your little cushy bubble
I was expecting a tsunami mention as well since it was so devastating and caused loss of life.
@@keithadams812 way to go, you're prejudiced and unknowing.
California's earthquakes are puny compared to Alaska's.
Since I'm born and raised in Los Angeles I'm familiar with the San Andreas Fault but that's not what I'm worried about, it's the Yellowstone supervolcano.
if that blows all of it California will be a dust bowl
Learn to swim than. No excuses.
Not in your lifetime. Hope that helps
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Dude!
Los Angeles is also a Seaport. You’re saying redundantly.
@@honghong3153
Dude!
Los Angeles is also a Seaport. You’re saying redundantly.
Native Bay Area resident here. When people here refer to "The Big One" it doesn't refer to "California splitting in half". People here are referring to the next occurrence of a 1906-level magnitude earthquake event.
Which is the worst it can get. The scenario Hollywood, doomsday preppers, and random astrologers depict is literally impossible.
Very good video. Good graphics and little technical details. My family has been in California 247 years. My great grandfather experienced the great 1857 earthquake. I live in a small community in the middle of a forest and on the earthquake fault line. The “big one” will destroy most of our homes and the subsequent fires will finish the rest.
I am in the process of retrofitting my house for earthquake and fire.
better learn how to swim
Could you talk about the Great New Madrid Earthquake zone. In one day it might generate a massive Earthquake.
You mean WILL, and it will not be pretty the damage it will inflict. They are slowly trying to retrofit stuff but its too little too late before it comes, so if you at all in that area have a boogie bag at the ready.
It caused the Mississippi to river to to flow backwards the last time that it had an earthquake in the 1800s and changed the course of the Mississippi River
Northridge was not on the San Andreas fault. It was a blind thrust fault under San Fernando valley.
Didn't know the Richter scale was based on time. I thought it was based on intensity. Also thought the subduction and fault were closer in proximity and interaction. Very helpful.
It is based off of intensity, I think you just misunderstood his words
well i understood it as based on time too so maybe he just doesn’t know how to explain
Did you completely forget about tsunamis? Also I think you gave incorrect info about 2011 earthquake. Main damage was because of tsunamis, not due to Fukushima plant. Check your sources - and other sources.
@@restondesi tsunami only happen when a fault line is in the ocean. So Cali can't have a tsunami
Absolutely a very shocking and sobering video! I was in San Francisco in October 89 at the World Series and survived that! I was in Anchorage AK in 2004 visiting my parents when the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami occurred!!! Luckily the Tsunami alert was canceled but felt Earthquakes albeit smaller the same day! In 2018 I was in Anchorage again with the 7.0 shaker! My parents were in the 64 Great Alaska Earthquake 9.2 and survived that! I was born 4 years later in 68!
The Hayward fault in the Bay Area is ready to go anytime, too... supposedly it's more worrisome than the San Andreas as far as likelihood to give a serious shaking to a densely populated area soon.
Yes, but thankfully the Hayward fault can't produce a large quake like the San Andreas fault. Geologists predict the biggest shake on the Hayward fault would be around maybe a 6.8. But yes the H F does run thru pretty heavy populated areas including Cal Berkeley
Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in southern California cause much less damage in Los Angeles than the Northridge quake because L.A. is so far from the San Andreas Fault. We feel the quakes here (such as the one in Landers), but the effect are extremely minor compared to quakes that happen on faults that run under the city.
The Newport/Inglewood fault has the potential to do much, much more damage to L.A. than the San Andreas.
Here in Los Angeles, we prefer our ground shaken, not stirred! 👍
The Hayward Fault, in the East Bay, is the true sleeping fault in California. And, it's due for another visit.
There's a really great book written about this by Marc Reisner, called A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate.
No excuses. Learn to swim
It could shake the bay anytime, its been 144 years and it was supposed to shake the Bay 4 years ago
I'm sorry you live in Portland lol. It used to be one of the best cities in the country like 15-20 years ago.
I loved to visit relatives growing up. It was magical. So beautiful. My father worked for the Oregonian before moving to LA to work for the LA Examiner.
USGS developed a series of papers / studies as part of the ShakeOut earthquake scenario series. Well worth a read if you’re interested in the various impacts of a regional earthquake. Definitely an event you want to see on TV versus living through such an event.
Where can I find that information?
Cali had better be more concerned about the theft of water from the Colorado drying up. Much more immediate than this possibility.
LOL - I had just calmed down my guy friend about San Andreas, assuring him that even IF the "big one" were to come, California wouldn't fall into the ocean. Then I told him that the bigger danger was the Cascadia fault line. I explained how there would tsunamis that would probably make the "Boxing Day" tsunami look like a bathtub. Oh, and there'd probably be a volcano... He never wants to go back to the West coast... hee hee hee
Whenever the Juan de Fuca plate gets the jiggles, most of California is likely to be okay. It's just geometry; the state curves east, particularly leaving basically all of SoCal safe aside from some minor rebound effects. And while San Andreas is a fun movie, the narrow mouth of the San Francisco bay almost totally kills tsunami effects.
@@westrim I pretty much know this, but my guy friend had already decided Yellowstone was going to erupt any minute and was trying to figure out if he could survive it. I got him convinced it probably won't erupt without warning. Then he turned his attention to the San Andreas fault, because he watches stupid movies. That's why I told him that the Cascadia subduction zone was probably more scary. He's a nice guy but not really all that together on things - thinks stuff in movies can really happen.
We have this false sense of security here in SoCal. The ocean is right there and if it’s so disturbed, we WILL wash away.
@@alwaysyouramanda San Andreas is a strike/slip fault and everything on the west side of the fault is headed to Alaska rather than falling in the ocean. That's not to say that washing away might not happen, but it isn't going to "fall into the ocean." After all, north of San Francisco it does go into the ocean, but none of that is going to happen any time soon. Certainly not in his, or probably your, lifetime. And I'm pretty sure I'm going to die before either of you...
The San Andreas fault is going to hit us at any point. When, we don't know. However- it 💯 will at any given moment. Secondly, the strength of the San Andreas fault will lend itself to the Cascadia fault...causing it to hit..Wreaking further havoc. This is the most recent data through the Government site.
I am born in San Pedro. And raised in L A...the 1971 Sylmar......and the 1989 North Ridge....was my first Quake experience 😮
I've been waiting four decades for the big one and, while I've experienced a number of earthquakes in the 7s, none of them have been the big one. Luckily, this has given us a bunch of time to build shit better. I know I helped build a block wall that is purported to be able to withstand a 9.0 earthquake with 90 mph wind at the same time and it was just for a damn 6 foot tall brick wall. Codes for actual buildings have to be more intense so probably most structures here will be ones in which you can survive during even a very intense earthquake.
I look forward to earthquakes, not because I want people to die or get hurt or I want to see shit destroyed, but because I think earthquakes are exciting and interesting. I do hope that I am around here and live to feel the big one. Lord knows I've waited for longer than was predicted for it to happen. Maybe during this next cycle of solar maximum.
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Sure it’s exciting till you have to live with the after math which may very well include a tsunami. All services like water and power out and no fire service or medical treatment will get old real quick
@@honghong3153 I live nearer to the San Andreas Fault than to the ocean and this fault is not known to make tsunamis anyway. In any case, there are hills to run to here if there were to somehow be the sort of tsunami that would reach here and I do also swim reasonably well, not that it would be possible if the wave were to carry all the debris from the ocean to here along with it. Always good to know how to swim though. Thanks!
They planning for a +11.0 Earthquake to hit Cali soon, Good Luck with that!
Nobody died as a direct result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. However, in 2018 one worker in charge of measuring radiation at the plant died of lung cancer caused by radiation exposure. (Britannica)
It (the meltdown) was preventable too
San Andreas isn't the fault line California's should worry about . the San Andreas is no capable producing earthquakes above an 8. You would worry more about the Cascadia fault witch is far far far more scary
The entire barrier between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates is a powder keg. Seismologists have said that when the plates slip, it will resemble what happened in Chile 60 years ago. Which means at least magnitude 9.5, if not the first recorded Magnitude 10.
I learned german as a child but have had nobody to speak to since I was a child. So babel also helps me maintain my childhood german.
Sadly, the San Andreas isn't the truly scary one. "The big one" tends to be a localized event. It's the Pacific Northwest i'm worried about. That one IS coming and WILL be a catastrophy on a national scale.
You're wrong about the 1994 LA earthquake. The epicenter was in Reseda but was called the Northridge earthquake. It was a new fault according to Lucy Jones at Caltech in Pasadena. The earthquake was an up and down movement, not side to side. I lived about 5 miles from the epicenter and experienced the earthquake first hand. It was incredibly violent. The 1971 Sylmar earthquake was part of the San Andreas fault line, I believe.
I experienced both.
My house in Sylmar was two blocks away from the VA hospital that collapsed. But it is not part of the San Andres fault line.
I lived in Nothridge for both the Sylmar and Northridge quakes. I was 11 years old when the 1971 Sylmar quake hit. I ran from my 2 second story bedroom while everything was falling down in front of me. Very strong rolling waves. I lived in my own home in Northridge in 1994 a few miles from the epicenter. My wife and I ran from our bedroom and both fell over our dinner table and chairs. I thought the train near our house had derailed and was going though our home. Water and gas lines ruptured and we had to evacuate. Our cat was killed by dogs running wild from all the down walls. Riots, earthquakes, fires and politics caused me to plan my move to AZ in 2003. As of 2015 I have lived on very solid ground in a very safe city in Maricopa County. I loved growing up in Southern California but have no regrets having left. The lower San Andreas hasn't slipped in over 300 years. It has over15 feet of built up pressure. The fault is the equivalent of being 18 months pregnant. When it goes all hell will break loose.
The 71 Sylmar and 94 Northridge quakes were thrust faults in different areas. The only sizeable quakes that have hit directly on the San Andreas in the 1900's are the 1906 and 1989 in northern CA and a few in Parkfield. All the other quakes were elsewhere in the State that have been large and have caused significant damage and death were nowhere near the SAF.
Anyone remember the book The Late Great State of California? Outdated but remains fascinating, heart-breaking, as it points out the loss of art works, architecture, food crops, famous people...quite the good read.
7:16 Most of the destruction in the Sendai/Fukushima area was caused by the *tsunami*. The nuclear meltdown was bad, but didn't actually do as much damage nominally speaking.
Great video!
We live here in the East Bay area and have been spending the past couple years prepping with solar panels with battery backup, food and supplies. I'll let the experts argue which fault line will hit in the next big earthquake. I'm ready.
Cascadia is gonna be the big one, San Andreas is at worst capable of a 7.6, which is a substantial quake but not quite a "big one"
I live in the Pacific Northwest. I always find it dismissive of our importance when videos such as yours continually point out how a big Cascadia earthquake could cause an earthquake along the San Andreas fault in CA, but you and others never mention what the odds are of a San Andreas fault earthquake contributing to a Cascadia earthquake up here.
What gives?
Lol, that would require an understanding of tectonics, not to mention some detailed research before stringing a 15 min video together 😉
@@craiggillett5985 .
I was speaking of ALL the videos that I have seen on this subject, not just this one.
If researchers have the time and means to study whether a Cascadia earthquake would cause an earthquake in Southern CA, they should be capable of equally addressing the reverse senario. The only reason that they don't is because they see us in the NW as "less important", which is infuriating.
FYI, video starts @ the 2:00 minute mark.
7:00 tbh
Will the houses in LA be cheaper for the rebuild ? That's all I care about
No they're gonna replace it all with high rise buildings and conveniently forget to account for affordable housing in the budget
I think is gonna happen pretty soon.
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@@weworks78117.5 isn't enough to rock the whole state. And that's not a big one either. It's a large quake but a big one is 9+, which the San Andreas is incapable of
@@weworks7811 the San Andreas isn't capable of a quake bigger than 7.5, and even that is questionable because seismologists found that quakes such as the 1906 SF, 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 north ridge, etc earthquakes were caused by blind faults not attached to the SA fault. San Andreas is a strike slip fault, the most active and least energetic fault type.
@@weworks7811 the San Andreas fault is constantly slipping, it's a strike slip.
@@weworks7811 yeah, if you have zero understanding of seismology. The Cascadia fault is what's gonna bring a big one, and that's going to hit the northern half of Northern California, and not even directly
Damned if you do, damned if you don't: wood framed houses flex, whereas brick & mortar or stone masonry buildings crack and deteriorate over time from the constant battering of small earthquakes in the region - too small to feel, but the stress builds up in brittle, nonflexible materials. So in even a moderate M5-6 quake, brick, masonry, and adobe structures can crumble. That's why most California residences are wood frame. Fire resistent AND flexible materials are too expensive for all but massively-funded skyscrapers and the like. There used to be an entrepaneur injecting glass into wood and selling it to be used as a building material but I don't know what happened to that after that - builders, not homebuyers, drive the market.
We build in timber and steel frame here in New Zealand, cladding is usually wooden or very light weight with steel roofs. All designed to manage our daily earthquakes and in anticipation of 8.5+, our hard asset infrastructure is also built to withstand 8.5 + earthquakes. Remember the big one in Japan was 9.5- largest ever recorded.
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WHAT?? The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan was NOT at Fukushima and the Nuclear Power Plant did not wipe out 400 miles of coastline and kill the most people. The Tsunami was the big player there. Please check your facts. I was there. Saw it in first person.
Good channel. Would like to know what might happen if, in addition to an earthquake, there was a major NW volcanic eruption, say at Mt. Shasta, Mt. Hood, or Mt. St. Helens. How much of the NW and the continental US would be affected, short-term and long-term? Thanks.
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Any of those volcanoes would have to be "primed" to erupt in order for a massive earthquake to trigger an equally massive eruption.
Always be prepared Californians..I have had multiple precognitions of events that later happened in knowing, visions and dreams. In 2001 I was a
passenger traveling to Costa Mesa
on a work trip. I saw a vision which
took about15-20 minutes about an earthquake. It seemed to be a 7.2
where I was, but in my gut I believed
the epicenter to be north of L.A. about
at Santa Barbara. Some drivers in the vision drove off freeway bridges, others
We're swerving wildly sort of in sync. From my experiences I believe
this quake will happen. I also FELT the quake over an hour later, and thought it was really happening. I was on a break
between exams for certification for my job, and completely sober and otherwise preoccupied. I never travel up north from where I live since. I also had a premonition of our Easter quake 1 week
before it happened, the 6.9 in San Diego. The timing is not usually given to me,but that time it was.
Any chance one will happen this week? I'm in Anaheim for the next 6 days and I remembered a dream nearly 3 weeks ago about a big earthquake that happened in Southern California.
Those are not precognitions. Seek a psychologist
...just my thoughts here, there has always been a lot of chatter about "the big one" along the San Andreas and it's related fault zones...my "what if" scenario is simply how about a series if lower magnitude quakes, say sixes and sevens with a couple of eights thrown in, all happening over a 24 to 48 hour period, or longer?
All with noticeable land movements?
Then southern Cascadia snaps with a large eight to nine which is about normal for that area off southern Oregon...
Seattle and Portland will be devastated.
By cascadia, not San Andreas
An estimated $65 billion in damage 8:23 is peanuts to the U.S. government. We send that much or more to Ukraine just to stir up trouble.
Terra Seismic - Two Centuries of California Earthquakes - The Northridge Earthquake, 1994
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E G White, a writer, and known for prophesying, wrote that a high end earthquake will
hit California, and SF, and LA will go into the ocean, just before Chrust's second coming.
I don't know if anybody could be prepared enough for the "big one". Also it will likely trigger other fault lines and additional earthquakes in a domino effect.
If this one happeneds is over...it will be INSANE...it won't be even the same...California L.A IS DONE..
Thanks very interesting video, glad I don’t live on the West Coast 🏄🏻♂️
Literally ANYWHERE in the US IS at risk for natural disasters. West Coast has Earthquakes, Wildfires and cyclones. Middle of the country has major tornadoes, south and East Coast has Hurricanes, up north has snow storms and blizzards. Literally EVERYWHERE IN THE US
I grew up in Ca.they teach you what to do in Earthquake do not go out outside turn off gas, get away from windows get in doreways pray..
I live in the Inland empire.
I literally hear Gangplank Galleon every intro.
Good video. Only complaint I have is that it took over half the video to get to the part where you talk about what's actually in the title.
Did you even see the videos of the tsunamis absolutely leveling Japan? Saying that some radiation particles getting released into the air was more catastrophic than entire cities literally getting swept away by the ocean is an insanely delusional take.
Another reason to move out the bay.
Thanks bro we got a 4.4 yesterday
Would A Nuclear -War be easier to cope with ? Maybe what is meant by " WORMWOOD".
This isn't Lex Luther's doing. Where's Superman?
Am in Sierra Foothills North and would like a ocean view....(sorry only being snarky ! ). Experienced 4 big shakes (south and north) and now live in high wildfire area. But very glad not to be in high tornado area as saw one and never want to ever again. Just hoping CA has a major disaster slush fund hidden away as they are spending money like crazy.
How many died Please
Aaaahhh so California will not full into the ocean? Also I am pretty sure the cargo ships will just take their cargo to Florida through the Panama Canal if an earthquake hits hard enough to stop trade in Cali.
No excuses. Learn to swim. 9 or 10. I knew it.
10 at Mexico lately. Will come to California soon.
This sounds way better than the Pacific Northwest tsunami 💀
It seems like when it comes to earthquakes, the "Big One" you are referring to is the Southern Big One ( San Andreas). Whereas the " Big One" in your area (Cascadia) is the Northern Big One.
Nevada would become beach front property.
People might reconsider the taxes they agree to pay once they realize the way help does not come.
Agree to pay??? You say that as if the IRS won't end you for missing a dollar
What about the February 9th 1971 and the 1998 Witter earthquakes? Love from Marysville, California
What if the enemy drops a Nuke on downtown L.A?
You are about to have the Big One! Get ready for the southern San Andreas fault rupture
San Andreas isn't a subduction fault. It isn't capable of anything bigger than a 7.6.
So you’re telling me one day Sacramento will now be the bay that’s scary
It's one year later and nothing has happened. All clear, everyone.
Does it intersect with cascadia?
Is this line also what is creating the Gulf of California?
It’s wild to me how little we actually talk about cannibalism.
I mean, we talk about some of it happening in the past.. but it’s very much what happens to large populations that wind up starving. Thirst would drive this issue too, since we are wired to feel hungry when thirsty- as food is the most reliable source of hydration (water usually being rarer and harder to find in its pure form.) I give it 2 weeks tops. If we’re cut off from rescue, people will be killing and eating other people just to maintain comfort.
....would have "SHAKEN," not would have "SHOOK." Shaken is the proper past participle.
JUST WAIT TILL MAY
Yes its coming soon
But dont know when
But it will hit
Very strong and damage
Building 🏢🏢
I just ask
People to 🙏🙏
Pray
And ask
God for forgiveness
And take care of every body
Bless everyone threw
The night
USA
I would say, finally a day off!
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Plates r on the move. 1st, Papua New Guine, 2nd Taiwan, & 3rd, Mexico..
The Hayward Fault will produce a big earthquake.
How huge would a tsunami be with that huge quake? Who would be affected?
Watching this and holding a monkey's paw. fingers crossed lol
Here from 9 23 23 california
An earthquake would probably improve the state of California however if the whole state or even part of it sunk into the ocean then it would help improve the rest of America that's for sure.
your comment shocked me
@@floperauwu8866 My comment shocks you but not the total turd California has turned into? Americas economy wound suffer and lose but our society would win a profit. If the people of California and the politicians don't want to embrace what makes this country great namely the Constitution and Bill Of Rights then the rest of us fellow Americans don't need California or any of these other American history hating states. Just My Thoughts...
It's a strike slip fault. Nothing is moving up or down. Nothing is going into the ocean. And it's not gonna cause a big one. The San Andreas fault is only capable of a 7.6 at worst, that's not a "big one"
Wollen wir ins kino gehen?
What if Gulf of Mexico was land
A lot of this video is misleading in regards to the San Andreas Fault and it's specific activity. Ridgecrest 2019, Northridge 1994, Loma Preita 1989, these earth quakes were not on the San Andreas fault system. The San Andreas Fault is the biggest and most famous fault, but it isn't the cause of most of the Earthquake activity in California. California has a vast number of faults that carve up it's crest, many of which are invisible because they are Blind Faults, which is why the San Andreas is so famous (we can see it). The San Andreas however is certainly capable of causing great damage throughout the state depending on which portions rupture.
I like in northern California and I hope it hits soon this state deserves what ever is coming from mother earth
They say it will happen one day or another
Nothing yet
its probally going to take a while but in itemlabels universe it is tommorow
That’s not too many people dead though.
It's coming, this year 💙❤️🐂
is it due to go off
How deep a tsunami can go in the west coast after a big earth quake of San Andreas fault ?
The San Andreas will not trigger a tsunami, since it's a strike/slip fault, meaning the earth moves laterally, not up and down.
An earthquake on the San Andreas would not cause a tsunami. Tsunami's are caused when the shape of the ocean floor is changed due to a thrust fault earthquake. That is when a layer of crust is forced up and over the lower layer of crust. Thats called a thrust fault. The SAF is a slip strike, where the 2 plates slide past each other. Search for videos of Dr. Lucy Jones. She goes into simple yet great detail and will debunk alot of myths in regards to earthquakes and how the seismic system works.
Scary
If it hit, Then i would just head to vice city.
😉I predict that an earthquake will erupt in my shorts at any time. Gas-lines will be broken. 🤢