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  • @michaelschneider2874
    @michaelschneider2874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I was working on an old dock on the Southern edge of Lake Union in Seattle when a estimated 5 hit in 1964 . When it hit my first thought was the dock was collapsing ! I spun around to jump on one of the boats and froze when I saw the Space Needle swaying against the grey sky !

  • @chrisshotwell4442
    @chrisshotwell4442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Picture-in-picture would be great when the speaker is referring to a slide.

  • @damon6717
    @damon6717 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whats interesting, is if ya take time out of the equation. There is a 100% Chance of a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake

  • @garylagstrom3864
    @garylagstrom3864 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m in Santa Monica California but have lived in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Spokane Washington. I have friends in Seattle, Tacoma, Bainbridge Island and Port Angeles Washington! I pray they will not experience a M9.0 or above. I’ve been through 6.9 in San Francisco during the A’s-Giants World Series baseball ⚾️ game in 89 and felt Northridge in 94 as the Santa Monica Freeway was down for months!!! I have family in Anchorage Alaska and my dad was stationed in the Air Force there in 1964 M9.2 temblor. My heart ❤️ goes out to all of us on the West Coast!

  • @GaryR55
    @GaryR55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    About the Space Needle, there is a TH-cam video of KING5's 1965 video of news coverage of the 7.0 quake that hit Seattle at that time. Specifically, the effects of the quake on the Space Needle are graphically mentioned in this coverage and it sounded as though the structure survived the quake very well. As an engineering/architectural draftsman for 31 years (retired, now), I can speak to the structural design of the Space Needle. It was an excellent structural design that has withstood earthquakes and high winds for nearly 60 years without damage.

    • @brucewettin
      @brucewettin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it was built to withstand a 9.0

  • @marcosmota1094
    @marcosmota1094 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    While catching up on old news I've gone back and looked over maps of the tsunami that hit Japan. Most of their nuclear power plants are on their *east coast and exposed to the Pacific,* where their meticulous historical records mention tsunamis as far back as *1,300* years. Why pick the east, to better protect them from China or Russia? Why run different procedures and hardware for each generator? The *hubris and complacency* just adds up when you consider the warnings from Indonesia. The same applies to the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The level of disconnect from reality is just staggering. Seattle has utility gas check valves, but California doesn't. San Francisco wants to ban gas appliances and replace them with what? How many buildings have mass dampeners or columns with attenuators...questions questions while time runs out.

    • @mccunicano
      @mccunicano 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Only 5 of the country's 16 extant nuclear plants are on the Pacific coast: Onagawa, Fukushima 1, Fukushima 2, Tokai, and Hamaoka. However, tsunami hit nearly every coast of Japan, not just the Pacific.

    • @flobie1kenobi
      @flobie1kenobi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah it's crazy, but humans do what humans do. We could sit here and legislate, code, and tax dollar our way to try and prevent every unfortunate event in human history and future, or we can just live our lives. Humans will move/migrate when things are not fit for sustainment. It's just such a slow process, but for some reason we have this survivalist mentality to put every thing in super fastforward. We live on earth, that is a risk in itself. Life is fragile, but that doesn't mean we have to bubble wrap every facet of our lives.

  • @michaelschneider2874
    @michaelschneider2874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If the Cascadia Subduction Zone cuts loose with a level Nine off the southern tip of B.C. , what is the likelihood of an increase in vulcanism along the Cascade Mountain Chain of active volcanoes ???

    • @mckenzieraynor8436
      @mckenzieraynor8436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably fairly high. St Helen's might be more active, but big ones like rainier are dormant. I'm not sure though, not a scientist

    • @adrianne9549
      @adrianne9549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are all waking up, magma is moving into the volcanoes and they are venting steam. Emergency management associates you tube channel has details.

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is NO geological evidence that past cascadia events have set off any eruptions, so not likely.

    • @missjddrage1111
      @missjddrage1111 ปีที่แล้ว

      More than likely it'll high enough to trigger multiple volcanoes.. or at least cause disruption to the sea bed where all our WWII sunken ships, with explosive material still on board, to perhaps ignite in a forcing of nature's catastrophic endeavors. 🤔🕵

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@missjddrage1111 no recorded history of earthquakes causing volcanos to erupt. Besides, it'll be bad enough without all that...

  • @karraral-bahathly6990
    @karraral-bahathly6990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are people allowed to go to town meetings whenever?

    • @SeattleChannel21
      @SeattleChannel21  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This event was recorded at Town Hall Seattle. Here's a link to their calendar of events: townhallseattle.org/event-calendar/

  • @alanmarston8612
    @alanmarston8612 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the second time that I have attempted to watch your program??? Someone needs to fire the camera person.

    • @bryanthompson12
      @bryanthompson12 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      what's wrong with the camera?😀

  • @vincentzack
    @vincentzack 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happens if the earthquake last 5 to 10 minutes?

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That'd be a 9+ and nearly everything breaks west of I-5.

    • @vincentzack
      @vincentzack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sherimatukonis6016 Yes...big trouble. Tsunamis, Landslides, Fires. Of course it will happen when least expected. I just hope people will be safe.

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vincentzack as long as I'm not on the toilet at the time, I'll be happy enough. Lol

  • @donaldfrazier5244
    @donaldfrazier5244 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    As long as you’re talking about the population centers there’s a plan but here in podunk we are toast

  • @meripederson8379
    @meripederson8379 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So why is camera focused on speaker?

  • @jameshill1740
    @jameshill1740 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A more thorough way of dealing with the moment, is to look at modern day footage of the xmas tsunami and Japan 2007. That is filled with all kinds of real time human responses to these doomsday scenarios. Have a plan!! Know where high ground is, meaning, Know where the goal post are and get there in real time with plan b maped out!!!!

  • @christophernovak9128
    @christophernovak9128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes I love this because its a real event my name is Chris Novak that's what I agree with could a 10.9 or higher chance. 12.0 in subduction. Zone in Chile. Not cascades. Do you agree with. Me

  • @LyleRobertSmith2
    @LyleRobertSmith2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I will never ever sit inside a structure during an earthquake and anyone who does great. I will get out much faster. The biggest disaster in US history good luck to you!! I’ve got earthquake insurance.

  • @JanaTeague-r3c
    @JanaTeague-r3c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gonzalez Timothy Perez Steven Anderson Richard

  • @henrychoy2764
    @henrychoy2764 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    shake and bake martini - STIRRED, not shaken

  • @ayatullah2936
    @ayatullah2936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Biggest spartan race say to your supper computer figure out british one's

  • @thosyoung373
    @thosyoung373 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many of the statements made by Erin Wirth either minimize the potential of a CSZ earthquake, are cherry-picked for the least-likely outcome, or are simply inaccurate. For example, she stated that a rupture of the CSZ would be a 100-second event, which is completely inaccurate given the length of the fault zone and the speed of propagation of the P and S waves. In many cases, she picked the least-damaging, most-favorable aspects of such a rupture.
    Cherry-picking these factors presented an unrealistic outcome, mixing various chosen aspects which are highly unlikely or almost impossible to occur in the combinations she discussed. Minimizing the possible outcomes is not in the interest of public welfare and safety: tell the truth, no matter how unpalatable it might be politically, and stick to facts paleoseismologists have discovered.

  • @davincidanielson928
    @davincidanielson928 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't buy it