@@UA-camexpert420 Megaquakes are a quite a bit more common than supervolcano eruptions I mean there have been 11 megathrust earthquakes across the planet since the year 2000 and 21 since the year 1900 whereas the last supervolcano eruption on Earth was either 1815 Tambora if you count VEI 7 as supervolcanoes or the Oruanui eruption of the Taupo volcano 26,500 years ago for a full blown VEI 8. If using the other definition of a supervolcano a Larege Ignious Province was the Columbia River Basalt which erupted in waves from 17 to 6 Million years ago in association with the Yellowstone hotspot. Quite a huge difference in rate of occurrence regardless of what metric you use to define a "supervolcano" For reference VEI or Volcanic Explosivity Index is also a logarithmic scale
We should worry about Indonesian volcanos. Toba, Tambora, and Krakatoa type volcanos or even the recent eruption in New Zealand could lead to global cooling, crop failure, and political instability in weaker nations.
Mel Ibarra BRUH, I WAS IN THE SHOWER WHEN THE MOST FREQUENT ONE OCCURRED .. but tbh, I stayed in because I had shampoo in my hair. So I kept showering.
Living in Oregon I've been in earthquakes before. Let me say that I'm very happy to no longer work in a tall building on the opposite side of the river from my loved ones. 😥
I just hope my wife and I are retired when it hits. I work for the city of Portland and she is a nurse. We would never see each other if the big one hit
@@wetsaltypickle That's what I used to worry about working in downtown Portland. When 9/11 happened and fighter jets were flying over all I could think of was what if they bombed the bridges? How would I get across the Willamette and get home to my, then, 6 year old son? I hope your retirement is not too far away.
Multnomah County moved the crisis line out of downtown because it's not going to be a good place to be. Thankfully I live on the east side where we got moved.
Me: has an intense fear of earthquakes Also me: Decides to watch this video all the way through, knowing I probably won’t sleep for the next three days because I live in the PNW and earthquakes freak me out man...
The scary part we're not remotely ready, I was born and raised in the Pacific NW. From the Cascade volcanoes to the region's earthquake hazards we've got a lot of work to do and it's not cheap.
Why be prepared for earthquakes when we can misallocate funds for wild fires just burn everything and make the air unbreathable so no one is living here by the time the mega quake hits. ☺
On March 27, 1964, a megathrust earthquake occurred in southern Alaska, centered somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez. It was a *magnitude 9.2 and lasted nearly 5 whole minutes.* It was the 2nd most powerful earthquake ever recorded (after the one in Chile). I was almost certain it would have been mentioned, but they skipped it. Not like you're obligated to, but I find it a crazy omission. Also, it was on the pacific coast - and the tsunami killed 5 people in Oregon and 12 in California, the same area he's talking about throughout the video.
I think there was two reasons: 1- The Alaska quake was in a more inhospitable zone that the Valdivia one, 2- The Valdivia quake wasn't alone: The previous day had three large quakes, the largest a 8.3 (The Concepción quake, also called the forgotten quake); the quake created a tsunami and also the blockage of a river that threaten with a massive flood to the city of Valdivia (The Riñihuazo); and two days later a volcano erupted (Puyehue volcano) The Valdivia quake is not only more studied than the Alaska one, but is also more reflective on what kind of previous or successive crisis can happen in places with large populations.
We're also overdue for a supernova visible to the naked eye and a good comet visible in the northern emisphere but here we are Living in the most boring astral timeline
Try Suspicious Observers here on UA-cam. Less boring than you'd think. He reports REAL science, solar eruptions and earthquakes and scientific papers. If you believe in Dark Matter you might be a bit bothered with his Plasma/Electric Universe perspective. Except that NASA is starting to catch up...
Yeah I want to live in a galactic alien war, not lame human interspecies war and LGBTQ, racial, blablabla boring human problems, wish I was born in the future when AI/Aliens or whatever brings a little bit of spice to our lives.
I'm from Arkansas and have lived here for all but 6 months of my life so I don't know much about earthquakes. This area gets little 2-3ish magnitudes here and there but it's extremely rare for anyone to even feel them. I've heard it has to do with all the natural gas fracking in this region. But last year, my wife and I lived in Washington (Sammamish) for around 6 months. Toward the end of our stay, I was laying awake in bed reading at about 3 or 4 AM one morning and one hit that I could actually feel very clearly. I can't remember the magnitude (I immediately looked on my earthquake app and it seems like it was around mid 4 to 5.0ish - maybe not that high - but a lot of people were reporting it and 3:19 - I remember seeing these plates and fault on the app and it was right along this area) but it felt like the entire building was made out of jello or something. I could feel the building swaying, the bed (an air mattress) wobbling and I could hear the building squeaking and settling. It was all fairly subtle - it didn't even wake my wife up - so I experienced our first earthquake alone lol.. We were on the 3rd floor so I was just about to wake her up and suggest we GTFO of there when it stopped. This was like a week after the entire building was evacuated when someone set their kitchen on fire. That's not easy on the 3rd floor with 2 cats, 2 dogs and an old lady in a wheelchair who lives alone across the hall. I got all 6 of us out but it turned out to just be a little grease fire.
I live in Arkansas. Information about the Mississipi River flowing backward is available in many science museums as well as Ar History school curriculum. I often wonder how we would deal with such a catastrophe. Probably as well as we deal with a tornado. Which is fair to middling, honestly. Probably a few hundred dead. And FEMA dragging its ass as usual.
My biggest thank you is for the strong recommendation at the end there, about educating *yourself* about what you can do to prepare. That's a huge help for a lot of people, on so many levels. Not just because it gives something active to DO, but also because it points out that resources exist! Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever realizes how much information is at our fingertips, not even on the internet but simply right there in an office in every county of every state in the US; not to mention the stuff that IS online and just as helpful. Weirdly I hear about earthquakes a lot here, or rather I hear people worry about them - I'm in Mississippi. Seems like we would be the farthest from any sort of shake, but turns out, one of the largest faults on the North American continent runs right underneath the river. Fun!
Oregon resident here. I always think while watching these that someone in the future will be watching this very video when the "big one" hits. Pretty scary. Hope early warning systems become much more of a priority here in Portland.
Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication
OK. Here we go: The San Andras and the Cascadian faults are connected. This was published in the past month. They may not shake simultaneously, but the one will magnify the other and if one goes off, I have nearly half a century of knowing the other will go as well. Maybe months later, but... It's like that children's song "Ten In A Bed". Seattle - the Puget Sound/Salish Sea region is more vulnerable than you are saying. The Sound itself will capture and magnify Tsunamis. Depending on where the epicenter is, the Sound could do more damage than the shaking. Not just to Seattle, but also Tacoma and all those islands. Some of them lack "high ground" to head for. More - Tacoma sits right under a volcano which, while currently quiet, is still considered Active. If it blows out the west side, or the north the lohar and ash damage will be immense. Portland deserves consideration. There is a volcano just east of the city and the south and west sides are increasingly urbanized. Also built on river silt, it's hardly more stable than Seattle on the Landfill. Living in Northern California I have these suggestions about being prepared: DON'T KEEP YOUR BOLT BAG IN A CLOSET. Find a place literally outside the door for it - but if your car is in underground parking? Not there. Look at photos of major shakes, you won't be able to go in to retrieve what you left behind in a panic. You want those meds and spare glasses and HEAVY LEATHER GLOVES, spare socks and other items (consider cigarettes to trade, or chocolate) where the collapsed house you ran from in the middle of the night isn't a pile of rubble on top of it. And when the shaking starts, unless you are used to it, you'll be out the door into the weather in your bare feet and underwear. No time to dress.
You are correct in all but the Tsunami in the puget sound. All current Tsunami models concerning the Cascadian subduction zone Tsunami enetering the Puget Sound that I have found show a max wave hight of 3 ft once it got to Seattle. Not that big a deal considering the I-5 corridor just collapsed, good chance parts of the Sea wall will collapse, most docks will be severely damaged........seattle was built on a sand bar/garbage heap so I wouldnt be suprised if in parts of the city the ground just collapsed. And while a 3 foot wave would cause plenty of flooding only those islands in the Puget Sound, they all are VERY hilly with lots of high ground. I was raised on those islands. 3 ft wave is spectator sport compared to the actual quake.
@@rowleyj31 As I said, depends on where the epicenter is, but secondary quakes in that sloshing basin will increase wave height. This has been modeled for the Humboldt Bay and the San Francisco Bay. And yes, Most of the downtowns of Seattle and Tacoma will make Loma Prieta's damage to the San Francisco Marina district look minor. The new Tunnel? Said to be stronger than necessary in the event of a shake, but it's not tested and it's still resting on mud, much of it. As for the Islands... Vashon and Whidby both stand a chance, there is so high ground, but I've been on Marrowstone. What happens to the Navy Base might be interesting to watch...
There are many people in this comment section who fantasize about mega earthquakes, but You will not want it! I survived a massive earthquake hitting Nepal that was of 8.1 magnitudes (this is little disputed). This monster took many of our friends and families leaving a huge scar in our country. These statistics may convenience you: Magnitude: 7.8 (Mw) or 8.1 Start date: April 25, 2015 Casualties: 8,857 dead in Nepal and 8,964 in total 21,952 injured 3.5 million homeless Depth: 8.2 km (5.1 mi) Total damage: 10 billion USD (about 50% of Nepal's nominal GDP). (source: Wikipedia) Therefore, don't wish for it!!!
Considering the level of poverty in Nepal, it would take several mega-quakes in North America to even come anywhere close to matching that sort of impact on the economy, infrastructure, & fatality numbers!
Take heart, this is normal in our world and we should always embrace this exciting event and be prepared to survive but it also depends to where you live. I will one day find a place to build my house over a bedrock but that would hard to find.
In high school trivia club. We had a question whose title was ‘Megathrust Quakes’. It was about the earthquake in Chile. And the question next to it was ‘Sailing Techniques’. Our poor teacher slipped and ended up saying ‘Megathrust Techniques’.
@@johnopalko5223 eh, it's not that bad. I had a teacher once answering a trivial pusuit question completely and absolutely horribly wrong. She was asked how many udders a cow has and answered "four" No joke, she did say that. And kept to her answer even when we (the students) tried to ask her multiple times if she was really sure about that. Most hilarious game I've ever had 😂
@@skbartistry2473 Well, not everyone knows the difference between an udder and a teat. Not nearly as potentially embarrassing as "Megathrust Techniques."
Puerto Rico has been getting struck with quakes nonstop. 6.3-6.7 (can't remember) was the most terrifying experience I've ever lived, following Hurricane Maria and it's aftermath. I've been terrified of sleeping in my room ever since it happened. I live next to the shore, and my urbanization has only 1 exit for all of us, which makes you drive towards the sea to then take a turn to be able to leave into the island. The quakes started December 28. The ground is still shaking at random strengths and intervals.
We dont do tsunami drills in Vancouver, but we do do earthquake drills. No ones concerned about the sea due to vancouver island. My university is one of the few structures that was built to withstand a mega-quake, as it was built within the last 5 years or so, and it has a very sophisticated alert system. Albeit with a few quirks. It went off once during a lecture shortly after an arson incident due to water damage from the sprinklers
me, sitting comfortably in the central europe (czech republic): mhm, yes, i know a lot about [looks at smudged writing on hand] shakey wakey soil is quaky
Question : Could a high magnitude quake cause Mt. Rainier to have a Lahar? I only ask because I live near Seattle and we could be triple hit. Mega thrust quake then tsunami and maybe lahar.
The answer is yes concerning unstable soil failures but not a Lahar as that requires ice melt to affect and quakes don't generally cause volcanic activity to occur as one of their results. Seattle is too far inland to worry about anything but small localized tsunamis caused by landslides and the like. The big ones would only strike the coastline.
If the volcano erupts simultaneously, yes, but as far as I know, megathrust earthquakes and volcanic eruptions do not happen at the same time...but I guess, it is possible. Avalanches are a possibility even if Rainier doesn't erupt, but avalanches don't travel as far as lahars. However, volcanic eruptions can be associated with quakes as the magma moves closer to the surface, but they're usually localized to the volcano. A five pointer did occur just before St. Helens erupted in '80. Like much of these phenomena, they need more research and observation.
A lahar implies massive snow melt, generally caused by a magma eruption. An earthquake is an unlikely reason for an eruption. The two are related by somewhat decoupled. Mt St Helens doth make a liar of me, in that an earthquake triggered a landslide that opened up the volcano, but that is not overly likely.
Rainier is a active volcano and outside of south america is considered the next major disaster waiting to happen in north america. I used to look up at her living in seattle and wonder what would happen, and after living in washington during mt st helens it's not an irrational fear.
Check out Nick Zenter's series on Pacific Northwest . He's a professor at Central Washington University. Great presentations on earthquakes, geology and other related subjects.
It also caused the Mississippi to flow backwards for a couple of days, as well as ringing church bells along the East Coast. There are a lot of places in the US vulnerable to earthquakes (NYC, DC and Charleston), but far less prepared than the West Coast. However, anything along the New Madrid fault would likely destroy bridges, railroads, pipelines and Mississippi River navigation locks & dams, bringing the US economy to a full stop for a couple of years, while destroying St. Louis, KC, Chicago and Memphis.
I've been to that lake a few times before. There were some restaurants there that had the greatest biscuits ever, plus some nice strawberry butter. On a serious note, I don't the neighboring cities are prepared for another big earthquake since the fault line has stayed quiet since then, so the buildings don't have anything to reduce the damage from the earthquake. I wouldn't be surprised that when the next big earthquake happens, it'll be a massacre.
As 2020 has been what it has been, I am a little worried about this now. Thanks. That's exactly what I needed to watch before bed. And can I just say how flippin' cool scientists are for figuring out the exact day of the last one?
Im chilean, and i can confirm that a 6.4 earthquake...its maybe particularly remarkable, we would mention it on dinner and thats it. 7.9 is not ok, this is strong, we should be aware if there is a tsunami alert (for those living in the coast), you would have some trouble standing still, but no more than a scare, especially those afraids of warthquakes. 8.8 ah... year was 2010, i was sleeping...then... nope nope nope nope. If that thing is more than a 8.5 brewing up there, i sincerily hope you are not there when it shakes off. If you are curious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Chile
Japanese here, and it's a similar circumstance with us upper 5 (how we measure) and below isn't too typically remarkable to talk of unless something breaks like the local takoyaki stand...
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was only a 6.2, but the epicenter was actually inside the city limits and very close to the surface, so it was very intense and did a lot of damage.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and I am absolutely terrified of this happening all the time, when I'm real anxious I can almost feel the shaking start but it's just me
If the buildings are made for withstanding earthquakes everything will be fine, take a word from a Chilean who has lived through a 8.8 one without even waking up from it
Sharcc I don’t live there anymore but the PNW. My hometown is in a lahar path. You have like 10-15 min after an eruption to get to higher ground. I think St Helens scared everyone lol
Very nice coverage of this. As someone on the Oregon coast it is scary to see how many people don’t either know, believe, or care. It is not something we have to obsess about but practical preparation such as knowing tsunami inundation zones and where to go, or having a bug out bag, or securing furniture with earthquake straps is really important. Knowing to stop, drop and cover and hold on might just save your life if it happens. Also there is a tip of counting during the shaking which can keep you calmer and give you a better perspective of the time passing as things shake, fall and break around you.
Im reading this comment inthis time of 2020 and feeling like i wouldnt be surprised if this actually happened now as i read your comment and write this reply.
I worry about people on the coast in Oregon. There is basically one, two-lane road running down the coast. Getting out of any town will be a nightmare and the road is too damn close to the ocean in many places.
Yeah, I noticed that in Astoria. Saw tsunami signs pointing the way to higher ground but damn if hits in the summer, as busy as it was, that'll be a mess!
Take a look at where exactly Oregon's fuel reserves are held. Other earthquake-prone states spread their fuel reserves out. Ours are along beaches and rivers in a small area of the state, where soil liquefaction is a major concern. It's all around not good.
I've been told time and time again since elementary school that we're "overdue" for a 9.9 magnitude earthquake, and that it could last up to two weeks. Most people in my area are woefully under-prepared (including my household). I've never heard anyone give the "Juan" in Juan de Fuca such a phlemy sound. lol. xD
Greeting from Seattle. My good friend is retired from the US department at the UW. He recently shared we have no real means of predicting theses events up here. Go fig. Thanks for posting this video.
Katherine Robertson - as a resident of Oregon, I’ve learned a lot about it over the last ten or so years. My kids have had to practice drills in school for what to do if it hits. Of course we also have to worry about being between two “over-due” high risk volcanoes, too.
Atheynm I always had to do drills in school here too. I just can’t believe that I’ve never ONCE heard about the Cascadia subduction zone EVER before this... 😳 you’d think it would at least be mentioned somewhat what with its potential for such damage. 🤷♀️
Excellent video. There is also a significant risk in the Pacific Northwest of mega-vucanism. These volcanic events in that region are recurrent and occurring in intervals spanning thousands of years, but when they occur, they are much more devastating than the anticipated mega-quake could be.
If we could, it would be unpredictable and unreliable, at best. Even if we could extract energy through the duration of any Earthquake, we likely wouldn’t have much energy after that, as it was only being generated while the Earth was shaking. I’d personally opt for thermal energy more than quake energy.
I remember learning about the Cascadia subduction zone in second grade and the substitute teacher I had in that science class made it sound like we were due for a megaquake really soon. That day, my fear of earthquakes seriously increased. I’m still terrified of earthquakes to this day even though I’ve slept through a magnitude 3.6 earthquake
There are large sections in Seattle where the ground will almost instantly liquefy unfortunately. Pretty much everything from 5 to the sea. That's scary as heck.
You should advocate at your school! Maybe they just need a push. Talk to a teacher or counselor. Send your schoolmates this video on a social media platform they use, add a short description of the danger, and ask to sign a petition to get earthquake training taught at school. And ask them to send it to other classmates. Get a friend or two to advocate with you so it's not all on you.
I live on Vancouver Island. Prime disaster zone. We've only had one earthquake I actually felt, and I try and live like there's not a huge chance of dying if it hits... but sometimes I have horrible nightmares where I wake up and feel an earthquake, and because I'm shaking so much I go into panic. I try and remind myself and find something around to show that it's me shaking, and not the earth... but yeah.
The early warning systems for earthquakes here in Japan are amazing. Depending on the quake, you can potentially get up to 30 seconds warning before it hits. I lived in the Tohoku region when the 2011 quake struck, and although my area didn't get any physical damage (the shaking was a 4 on the Shindo scale for us), we had power outages and food and gasoline shortages for weeks because the supply trucks/trains were mostly diverted to the disaster areas. A quake of that size doesn't affect just the areas that receive the brunt of the shaking, so it's important to have a plan and supplies ready.
@@murphynuglene3714 5 minutes... man , I can't even, ... Here's a little experiment, Sit quietly with no music or TV for 30 seconds just get a sense of time. Now up that to 5 minutes.... I can't imagine the ground shaking like that for 5 freaking minutes, I'm pretty much panicing after 45 seconds of shaking....
In Seattle, the power went out for 2 hours in the afternoon in February about 5 years ago. In a small area 4 blocks wide and about 12 blocks long. People were loosing their minds. Not worried about disasters, I'm worried about people after the disaster.
In 2001 we had the 6.8 Nisqually quake in Western Washington. I was in 6th grade and it happened during lunch. We all got under the tables and I remember the feeling, that rather than just shaking, the floor was rolling beneath me in big waves. I don't want to contemplate what an earthquake ten times stronger would feel like and hope it doesn't come in my lifetime.
Avery Milieu as certified old person who was a toddler during the Cuban missile crisis...yep. We lived near a military base so we were pretty sure we were in the first round targets.
Being from the UK is nice when you never have to worry about any of this stuff. We never have serious earthquakes, hurricanes, natural forest fires, tsunamis, and the weather (although it rains a lot) is pretty calm, cold in winter, warm-ish in summer.
Contact Japan to get that early warning system going as we have an early warning system that will trigger an all points alarm to out smart phones for any quake over the Japanese intensity scale of 4 ( Different from the magnitude scale where intensity scales is a measure of destructive potential, not energy release ). Didn't have that back in 2011 but now it is good peace of mind
If you live in a earthquake prone zone, I highly recommend the channel dutchsinse. He has shown time and again how accurate his predictions are and they're very helpful! It's always good to have a little bit of heads up.
@@Lalabaster just on UA-cam for now. He's still streaming on twitch. And he is pretty good, I've learned a lot from him to the point I can tell what's happening as well
As a pacific northwest resident I can confirm this def ain't new to us, but to friend's who arn't from the west coast I've told about the pending megaquake find this terrifying lol.
They are. Its just physics, you can only stress something so much before something has to give. Here in Nz, there's been a major quake roughly every 300 years, sometimes it gets delayed by a couple decades or so, but they always come. We're expecting another one sometime in the next 50 or so
One of the most fascinating pieces of Megathrust evidence is the sunken forest! It's an entire forest that is now a salt marsh. All the Cedars are bleached, dried out pillars all over the area and they all died the same day. The landslip "slump" caused by a Cascadia rip caused an entire region to fall below sea level. Wild! It's beautiful but soooo eerie!
It would most likely be over before you realized what was happening. I don't mean that in a "you'll be dead" kind of way, the ones i've experienced there's been a few seconds of shaking and i think "huh, that's wierd... wait, that was an earthquake." And that was it.
My job site (the county crisis line) was moved from downtown Portland, Or because most of the 'downtown' area will most likely experience catastrophic liquefaction resulting in bad, bad things.
We don't usually get earthquakes in my area maybe once a year there would be a magnitude 3 or 4 or something, but this year sometime around september-december we started getting some pretty strong earthquakes, around 5 - 6.8! It also happens quite frequent since September. I think 3 strong earthquakes have occurred since around September, and several aftershocks would happen after them. The latest one happened last week, it was a magnitude 6.8. The epicenter was in Padada, it's actually getting closer to my city.
scishow: don't worry about supervolcanoes
scishow: worry about megaquakes.
Mega earthquake= supervolcano eruption
@@archenema6792 word
@@archenema6792 Mt. St. Helens has southern Washington covered for Rainier. All the mountains in the PNW are in cahoots!
@@UA-camexpert420 Megaquakes are a quite a bit more common than supervolcano eruptions I mean there have been 11 megathrust earthquakes across the planet since the year 2000 and 21 since the year 1900 whereas the last supervolcano eruption on Earth was either 1815 Tambora if you count VEI 7 as supervolcanoes or the Oruanui eruption of the Taupo volcano 26,500 years ago for a full blown VEI 8. If using the other definition of a supervolcano a Larege Ignious Province was the Columbia River Basalt which erupted in waves from 17 to 6 Million years ago in association with the Yellowstone hotspot.
Quite a huge difference in rate of occurrence regardless of what metric you use to define a "supervolcano"
For reference VEI or Volcanic Explosivity Index is also a logarithmic scale
We should worry about Indonesian volcanos. Toba, Tambora, and Krakatoa type volcanos or even the recent eruption in New Zealand could lead to global cooling, crop failure, and political instability in weaker nations.
-The megaquack is coming!
-You mean megaquake, right?
-No, the megaquack! *the earth shakes as the echo of a giant quack is heard*
We need a video meme of this 😂😂
Howard awakens
Is this the horse sized duck they warned us about?
😂😂😂
You mean Moby Duck?? /longestjohnsreference
Living in California, my biggest fear is using the bathroom when a strong earthquake hits.
Mel Ibarra
BRUH, I WAS IN THE SHOWER WHEN THE MOST FREQUENT ONE OCCURRED .. but tbh, I stayed in because I had shampoo in my hair. So I kept showering.
@@seandaily6344 Your a madlad bro😮
My fear is having sex and not being able to tell if it’s my hips moving or the house.
Just think how many people have actually been sitting in porta-potties when a big quake kicks in.
British Columbian here. Might be a bit morbid, but mine is a strong earthquake happening while I'm at an optician's office D:
Living in Oregon I've been in earthquakes before. Let me say that I'm very happy to no longer work in a tall building on the opposite side of the river from my loved ones. 😥
I just hope my wife and I are retired when it hits. I work for the city of Portland and she is a nurse. We would never see each other if the big one hit
@@wetsaltypickle That's what I used to worry about working in downtown Portland. When 9/11 happened and fighter jets were flying over all I could think of was what if they bombed the bridges? How would I get across the Willamette and get home to my, then, 6 year old son?
I hope your retirement is not too far away.
One reason I love living on the Eastside. I dont have to cross the Willamette. Oh, I have about 25 years before I can retire lol
@@wetsaltypickle Oh! Lol I thought it was just few years away, but he said something like 50 years so you should be good. 😃
Multnomah County moved the crisis line out of downtown because it's not going to be a good place to be. Thankfully I live on the east side where we got moved.
Me: has an intense fear of earthquakes
Also me: Decides to watch this video all the way through, knowing I probably won’t sleep for the next three days because I live in the PNW and earthquakes freak me out man...
phienixfire maybe consider moving to someplace in the interior of the continent like Iowa?
This is what is called bravery.
Aisha Abdi I was pretty surprised when we had one in North Carolina.
The scary part we're not remotely ready, I was born and raised in the Pacific NW. From the Cascade volcanoes to the region's earthquake hazards we've got a lot of work to do and it's not cheap.
Why be prepared for earthquakes when we can misallocate funds for wild fires just burn everything and make the air unbreathable so no one is living here by the time the mega quake hits. ☺
On March 27, 1964, a megathrust earthquake occurred in southern Alaska, centered somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez. It was a *magnitude 9.2 and lasted nearly 5 whole minutes.* It was the 2nd most powerful earthquake ever recorded (after the one in Chile). I was almost certain it would have been mentioned, but they skipped it. Not like you're obligated to, but I find it a crazy omission.
Also, it was on the pacific coast - and the tsunami killed 5 people in Oregon and 12 in California, the same area he's talking about throughout the video.
I think there was two reasons: 1- The Alaska quake was in a more inhospitable zone that the Valdivia one, 2- The Valdivia quake wasn't alone: The previous day had three large quakes, the largest a 8.3 (The Concepción quake, also called the forgotten quake); the quake created a tsunami and also the blockage of a river that threaten with a massive flood to the city of Valdivia (The Riñihuazo); and two days later a volcano erupted (Puyehue volcano)
The Valdivia quake is not only more studied than the Alaska one, but is also more reflective on what kind of previous or successive crisis can happen in places with large populations.
Cascadia subduction zone resident checking in. And I lived 30 minutes from the Copalis Ghost Forest.
We're also overdue for a supernova visible to the naked eye and a good comet visible in the northern emisphere but here we are
Living in the most boring astral timeline
Davide Tramontana, hey, at least we exist during the period when the distance between the Earth and moon is perfect for excellent solar eclipses.
@@evilsharkey8954 and the luminiferous age, no less. Think of all the trillions of years after the last star burns out! Talk about boring!
For real? I gotta look that up now
Try Suspicious Observers here on UA-cam. Less boring than you'd think. He reports REAL science, solar eruptions and earthquakes and scientific papers. If you believe in Dark Matter you might be a bit bothered with his Plasma/Electric Universe perspective.
Except that NASA is starting to catch up...
Yeah I want to live in a galactic alien war, not lame human interspecies war and LGBTQ, racial, blablabla boring human problems, wish I was born in the future when AI/Aliens or whatever brings a little bit of spice to our lives.
"And right now, there's an earthquake this size brewing in the Pacific Northwest" (3:16)
Me, living in Washington: *put it back*
I'm from Arkansas and have lived here for all but 6 months of my life so I don't know much about earthquakes. This area gets little 2-3ish magnitudes here and there but it's extremely rare for anyone to even feel them. I've heard it has to do with all the natural gas fracking in this region. But last year, my wife and I lived in Washington (Sammamish) for around 6 months. Toward the end of our stay, I was laying awake in bed reading at about 3 or 4 AM one morning and one hit that I could actually feel very clearly. I can't remember the magnitude (I immediately looked on my earthquake app and it seems like it was around mid 4 to 5.0ish - maybe not that high - but a lot of people were reporting it and 3:19 - I remember seeing these plates and fault on the app and it was right along this area) but it felt like the entire building was made out of jello or something. I could feel the building swaying, the bed (an air mattress) wobbling and I could hear the building squeaking and settling. It was all fairly subtle - it didn't even wake my wife up - so I experienced our first earthquake alone lol.. We were on the 3rd floor so I was just about to wake her up and suggest we GTFO of there when it stopped. This was like a week after the entire building was evacuated when someone set their kitchen on fire. That's not easy on the 3rd floor with 2 cats, 2 dogs and an old lady in a wheelchair who lives alone across the hall. I got all 6 of us out but it turned out to just be a little grease fire.
don't forget, the Mississippi once flowed backwards after an Eastern quake....
REALLY?
Louie Salvador really, In 1811 and 1812 they had a Series of earthquakes in New Madrid, Missouri and the Mississippi flowed backwards. Google it.
@@wraithleader2906 I see! So many hidden and unknown interesting facts hiding beneath my feet!
Thank you!
And I thought Mississippi’s spelling was impressive
I live in Arkansas. Information about the Mississipi River flowing backward is available in many science museums as well as Ar History school curriculum. I often wonder how we would deal with such a catastrophe. Probably as well as we deal with a tornado. Which is fair to middling, honestly. Probably a few hundred dead. And FEMA dragging its ass as usual.
My biggest thank you is for the strong recommendation at the end there, about educating *yourself* about what you can do to prepare. That's a huge help for a lot of people, on so many levels. Not just because it gives something active to DO, but also because it points out that resources exist! Sometimes I wonder if anyone ever realizes how much information is at our fingertips, not even on the internet but simply right there in an office in every county of every state in the US; not to mention the stuff that IS online and just as helpful.
Weirdly I hear about earthquakes a lot here, or rather I hear people worry about them - I'm in Mississippi. Seems like we would be the farthest from any sort of shake, but turns out, one of the largest faults on the North American continent runs right underneath the river. Fun!
Oregon resident here. I always think while watching these that someone in the future will be watching this very video when the "big one" hits. Pretty scary. Hope early warning systems become much more of a priority here in Portland.
i think we should be using more earthquake-resisant buildings and different kind of buildings
What a coincidence, Megathrust Earthquake is the name of my Tom Jones death metal cover band.
SaiyanHeretic It’s not unusual
What a coincidence, Megathrust Fault is what my college girlfriend called it when she told me to be rougher, but we got hurt instead
@@tiaxanderson9725 Winner!!
Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication
Don't forget to wear the white pants with the pecker-pocket.
OK. Here we go: The San Andras and the Cascadian faults are connected. This was published in the past month. They may not shake simultaneously, but the one will magnify the other and if one goes off, I have nearly half a century of knowing the other will go as well. Maybe months later, but... It's like that children's song "Ten In A Bed".
Seattle - the Puget Sound/Salish Sea region is more vulnerable than you are saying. The Sound itself will capture and magnify Tsunamis. Depending on where the epicenter is, the Sound could do more damage than the shaking. Not just to Seattle, but also Tacoma and all those islands. Some of them lack "high ground" to head for. More - Tacoma sits right under a volcano which, while currently quiet, is still considered Active. If it blows out the west side, or the north the lohar and ash damage will be immense.
Portland deserves consideration. There is a volcano just east of the city and the south and west sides are increasingly urbanized. Also built on river silt, it's hardly more stable than Seattle on the Landfill.
Living in Northern California I have these suggestions about being prepared: DON'T KEEP YOUR BOLT BAG IN A CLOSET. Find a place literally outside the door for it - but if your car is in underground parking? Not there. Look at photos of major shakes, you won't be able to go in to retrieve what you left behind in a panic. You want those meds and spare glasses and HEAVY LEATHER GLOVES, spare socks and other items (consider cigarettes to trade, or chocolate) where the collapsed house you ran from in the middle of the night isn't a pile of rubble on top of it.
And when the shaking starts, unless you are used to it, you'll be out the door into the weather in your bare feet and underwear. No time to dress.
You are correct in all but the Tsunami in the puget sound. All current Tsunami models concerning the Cascadian subduction zone Tsunami enetering the Puget Sound that I have found show a max wave hight of 3 ft once it got to Seattle. Not that big a deal considering the I-5 corridor just collapsed, good chance parts of the Sea wall will collapse, most docks will be severely damaged........seattle was built on a sand bar/garbage heap so I wouldnt be suprised if in parts of the city the ground just collapsed. And while a 3 foot wave would cause plenty of flooding only those islands in the Puget Sound, they all are VERY hilly with lots of high ground. I was raised on those islands. 3 ft wave is spectator sport compared to the actual quake.
@@rowleyj31 As I said, depends on where the epicenter is, but secondary quakes in that sloshing basin will increase wave height. This has been modeled for the Humboldt Bay and the San Francisco Bay.
And yes, Most of the downtowns of Seattle and Tacoma will make Loma Prieta's damage to the San Francisco Marina district look minor. The new Tunnel? Said to be stronger than necessary in the event of a shake, but it's not tested and it's still resting on mud, much of it.
As for the Islands...
Vashon and Whidby both stand a chance, there is so high ground, but I've been on Marrowstone. What happens to the Navy Base might be interesting to watch...
@@AveryMilieu the tunnel would the LAST place I would want to be if the big one hit.
@@rowleyj31 Total agreement! I may not take it even once "just for the experience".
I just love this channel. They are always teaching me cool and interesting things i didn't know of yet.
I am allergic to Earthquakes.
what do you break out in?
Eugene! I love your videos :)
Same
There are many people in this comment section who fantasize about mega earthquakes, but You will not want it! I survived a massive earthquake hitting Nepal that was of 8.1 magnitudes (this is little disputed). This monster took many of our friends and families leaving a huge scar in our country. These statistics may convenience you:
Magnitude: 7.8 (Mw) or 8.1
Start date: April 25, 2015
Casualties: 8,857 dead in Nepal and 8,964 in total 21,952 injured 3.5 million homeless
Depth: 8.2 km (5.1 mi)
Total damage: 10 billion USD (about 50% of Nepal's nominal GDP).
(source: Wikipedia)
Therefore, don't wish for it!!!
Considering the level of poverty in Nepal, it would take several mega-quakes in North America to even come anywhere close to matching that sort of impact on the economy, infrastructure, & fatality numbers!
Too late. I already wished for it. Oops.
Same then i moved to the east coast of us which is wayyyy safer. But its highly accepted that its 7.8 not 8.1
Take heart, this is normal in our world and we should always embrace this exciting event and be prepared to survive but it also depends to where you live. I will one day find a place to build my house over a bedrock but that would hard to find.
Who tf wishes for earthquakes
In high school trivia club. We had a question whose title was ‘Megathrust Quakes’. It was about the earthquake in Chile. And the question next to it was ‘Sailing Techniques’. Our poor teacher slipped and ended up saying ‘Megathrust Techniques’.
Sailing technique? Well you know what they say about the motion of the ocean
Poor teacher! At that point all you can really do is blush and carry on.
@@johnopalko5223 eh, it's not that bad. I had a teacher once answering a trivial pusuit question completely and absolutely horribly wrong. She was asked how many udders a cow has and answered "four"
No joke, she did say that. And kept to her answer even when we (the students) tried to ask her multiple times if she was really sure about that. Most hilarious game I've ever had 😂
@@skbartistry2473 Well, not everyone knows the difference between an udder and a teat. Not nearly as potentially embarrassing as "Megathrust Techniques."
@@AtarahDerek
Dickite and Arsenolite are 2 of my favorite suggestive minerals!
Puerto Rico has been getting struck with quakes nonstop. 6.3-6.7 (can't remember) was the most terrifying experience I've ever lived, following Hurricane Maria and it's aftermath. I've been terrified of sleeping in my room ever since it happened. I live next to the shore, and my urbanization has only 1 exit for all of us, which makes you drive towards the sea to then take a turn to be able to leave into the island. The quakes started December 28. The ground is still shaking at random strengths and intervals.
I'm furious that in this whole video the 64 quake in Alaska wasn't mentioned even in passing.
We dont do tsunami drills in Vancouver, but we do do earthquake drills. No ones concerned about the sea due to vancouver island. My university is one of the few structures that was built to withstand a mega-quake, as it was built within the last 5 years or so, and it has a very sophisticated alert system. Albeit with a few quirks. It went off once during a lecture shortly after an arson incident due to water damage from the sprinklers
I love that you use video from the one day of the year PDX had any snow.
Lol, I was hoping someone would point that out
I noticed that too.
me, sitting comfortably in the central europe (czech republic): mhm, yes, i know a lot about [looks at smudged writing on hand] shakey wakey soil is quaky
First reaction was click bait, but saw it was Sci show and realized I was going to get some objective facts. Not fear mongering. Love y'all
Question : Could a high magnitude quake cause Mt. Rainier to have a Lahar? I only ask because I live near Seattle and we could be triple hit. Mega thrust quake then tsunami and maybe lahar.
The answer is yes concerning unstable soil failures but not a Lahar as that requires ice melt to affect and quakes don't generally cause volcanic activity to occur as one of their results. Seattle is too far inland to worry about anything but small localized tsunamis caused by landslides and the like. The big ones would only strike the coastline.
If the volcano erupts simultaneously, yes, but as far as I know, megathrust earthquakes and volcanic eruptions do not happen at the same time...but I guess, it is possible. Avalanches are a possibility even if Rainier doesn't erupt, but avalanches don't travel as far as lahars. However, volcanic eruptions can be associated with quakes as the magma moves closer to the surface, but they're usually localized to the volcano. A five pointer did occur just before St. Helens erupted in '80. Like much of these phenomena, they need more research and observation.
Live fifteen miles from Mt. Rainier, but I checked and I luckily live out of the way of the likely paths a lahar would take.
A lahar implies massive snow melt, generally caused by a magma eruption. An earthquake is an unlikely reason for an eruption. The two are related by somewhat decoupled. Mt St Helens doth make a liar of me, in that an earthquake triggered a landslide that opened up the volcano, but that is not overly likely.
Rainier is a active volcano and outside of south america is considered the next major disaster waiting to happen in north america. I used to look up at her living in seattle and wonder what would happen, and after living in washington during mt st helens it's not an irrational fear.
Check out Nick Zenter's series on Pacific Northwest . He's a professor at Central Washington University. Great presentations on earthquakes, geology and other related subjects.
Go wildcats🐾🐾
Recommend especially:
earthquakes - ua-cam.com/video/UJ7Qc3bsxjI/v-deo.html
volcanoes - ua-cam.com/video/NcreTTI9Rew/v-deo.html
He's great!
One of the most informative videos possible without massive ads. Thank you patreon. 🙌
If you know how small Coalinga is, you'd know $50 million is about the whole town.
So true! I went to elementary school there. One stop light & a K-mart was basically it.
50 mil only there, any other state it would be 50 grand
IKR, what's scary is if that $50 million is in 1980s money and not adjusted for inflation.
Jason Wood where is cunalinga exactly? Is it near fellatio?
@@brettelliott4116 Your wordplay is impressive, you're clearly very good with your mouth.
California: exists
Faults: It's free real estate
the san andreas fault during an earthquake: *_PARKOUR!_*
Landslides, wildfires, droughts, and volcanoes: “we’re coming, too”
At least it aint japan with 4 faults
Fault Lines: *exist*
Starving settlers: Its Free Real Estate
More like
Faults: exists
California pioneers: It's free real estate
Seattle resident here. It's been nice knowing you guys. 😕
Everyone tends to focus on the west coast. No one seems to talk about the New Madrid fault.... The last major earthquake there created a lake!
It also caused the Mississippi to flow backwards for a couple of days, as well as ringing church bells along the East Coast. There are a lot of places in the US vulnerable to earthquakes (NYC, DC and Charleston), but far less prepared than the West Coast. However, anything along the New Madrid fault would likely destroy bridges, railroads, pipelines and Mississippi River navigation locks & dams, bringing the US economy to a full stop for a couple of years, while destroying St. Louis, KC, Chicago and Memphis.
Even living in southern IL, nobody talks about it much. We know a lot more about tornadoes.
I think it's because the Cascadia Subduction Zone's rupturing is more imminent, supposedly, and because the PNW is next door to California.
I've been to that lake a few times before. There were some restaurants there that had the greatest biscuits ever, plus some nice strawberry butter. On a serious note, I don't the neighboring cities are prepared for another big earthquake since the fault line has stayed quiet since then, so the buildings don't have anything to reduce the damage from the earthquake. I wouldn't be surprised that when the next big earthquake happens, it'll be a massacre.
Megaquake sounds like the name of a Syfy original
Close. Megafault. It starred Brittany Murphy in one of her last roles, ER's Eric La Salle, and This Is Us' Justin Hartley.
There was an aracnoquake about giant spiders from an earthquake
@@tudorjason LOL, I know, I saw it.
If it's on SyFy it'll be "SharkQuake"... Somehow.
2020 : Hmm.. interesting..
This makes me want to put together an emergency go-bag. And stock up on water. And learn to communicate over radio. And take a first aid course.
Thank you Michael, you just made the west coast real estate prices plummet and people can afford to live there.
amazing video, very informative and helpful and the short but covering format is excellently executed !
7:05
"I can see my house from here! ... Crap."
As 2020 has been what it has been, I am a little worried about this now. Thanks. That's exactly what I needed to watch before bed. And can I just say how flippin' cool scientists are for figuring out the exact day of the last one?
Im chilean, and i can confirm that a 6.4 earthquake...its maybe particularly remarkable, we would mention it on dinner and thats it.
7.9 is not ok, this is strong, we should be aware if there is a tsunami alert (for those living in the coast), you would have some trouble standing still, but no more than a scare, especially those afraids of warthquakes.
8.8 ah... year was 2010, i was sleeping...then... nope nope nope nope. If that thing is more than a 8.5 brewing up there, i sincerily hope you are not there when it shakes off.
If you are curious:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Chile
Japanese here, and it's a similar circumstance with us upper 5 (how we measure) and below isn't too typically remarkable to talk of unless something breaks like the local takoyaki stand...
My favorite part is the accuracy we're capable of to measure the magnitude of the earthquake without any tools.
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was only a 6.2, but the epicenter was actually inside the city limits and very close to the surface, so it was very intense and did a lot of damage.
I live in the Pacific Northwest and I am absolutely terrified of this happening all the time, when I'm real anxious I can almost feel the shaking start but it's just me
If the buildings are made for withstanding earthquakes everything will be fine, take a word from a Chilean who has lived through a 8.8 one without even waking up from it
@@felipeoyarzun5424 whoa without even waking up! That's wild! I'm glad you're okay and you're buildings are well built
Takes me back to volcano & earthquake drills in school :’)
where do you live where your school is close enough to active volcano to have a VOLCANO DIRLL
same 😂 that and tsunami as well as typhoon....japan is all kinds of geologically (and weather) not well (￣▽￣;)
Sharcc I don’t live there anymore but the PNW. My hometown is in a lahar path. You have like 10-15 min after an eruption to get to higher ground. I think St Helens scared everyone lol
Your voice is very nice and calming and easy to follow. Thank you
Dude looks straight up from an early 2000s nu metal band.
Very nice coverage of this. As someone on the Oregon coast it is scary to see how many people don’t either know, believe, or care. It is not something we have to obsess about but practical preparation such as knowing tsunami inundation zones and where to go, or having a bug out bag, or securing furniture with earthquake straps is really important. Knowing to stop, drop and cover and hold on might just save your life if it happens. Also there is a tip of counting during the shaking which can keep you calmer and give you a better perspective of the time passing as things shake, fall and break around you.
It would be funny and scary if one of these earthquakes hit a couple of minutes after this vid is uploaded, or even while I'm writing this comment
Im reading this comment inthis time of 2020 and feeling like i wouldnt be surprised if this actually happened now as i read your comment and write this reply.
A 3.0 hit within 10min of me watching this video
Blanca Nevarez screw this year
I am writing this comment after a 6.7 mag earthquake jolted our region.
@@jyotishmanhazarika6486 wow, stay safe
I worry about people on the coast in Oregon. There is basically one, two-lane road running down the coast. Getting out of any town will be a nightmare and the road is too damn close to the ocean in many places.
Yeah, I noticed that in Astoria. Saw tsunami signs pointing the way to higher ground but damn if hits in the summer, as busy as it was, that'll be a mess!
Take a look at where exactly Oregon's fuel reserves are held. Other earthquake-prone states spread their fuel reserves out. Ours are along beaches and rivers in a small area of the state, where soil liquefaction is a major concern. It's all around not good.
I've been told time and time again since elementary school that we're "overdue" for a 9.9 magnitude earthquake, and that it could last up to two weeks. Most people in my area are woefully under-prepared (including my household). I've never heard anyone give the "Juan" in Juan de Fuca such a phlemy sound. lol. xD
A 9.9 earthquake that lasts for two weeks? What kind of drugs were your teachers on?
Quakes dont last anywhere near that long.
Hello from Chile! I survived an 8.8 earthquake.
Bless you
Nobody:
SciShow: LOOKOUT! A Megaquake is behind you!
Greeting from Seattle. My good friend is retired from the US department at the UW. He recently shared we have no real means of predicting theses events up here. Go fig. Thanks for posting this video.
As a Nor Cal native (Silicon Valley), I have always heard of the San Andreas Fault but never once of the Cascadia Subduction Zone...
Katherine Robertson - as a resident of Oregon, I’ve learned a lot about it over the last ten or so years. My kids have had to practice drills in school for what to do if it hits. Of course we also have to worry about being between two “over-due” high risk volcanoes, too.
I've heard about it in Washington a little, but there is definitely more public awareness of San Andreas than our own tectonic activity.
I'm from southwestern Canada, so we don't have the San Andreas to worry about, but Cascadia is a BIG deal.
Atheynm I always had to do drills in school here too. I just can’t believe that I’ve never ONCE heard about the Cascadia subduction zone EVER before this... 😳 you’d think it would at least be mentioned somewhat what with its potential for such damage. 🤷♀️
Excellent video. There is also a significant risk in the Pacific Northwest of mega-vucanism. These volcanic events in that region are recurrent and occurring in intervals spanning thousands of years, but when they occur, they are much more devastating than the anticipated mega-quake could be.
My question is can we trap or absorb the waves produced my earthquake and maybe use it as energy of some kind?
If we could, it would be unpredictable and unreliable, at best. Even if we could extract energy through the duration of any Earthquake, we likely wouldn’t have much energy after that, as it was only being generated while the Earth was shaking.
I’d personally opt for thermal energy more than quake energy.
Foxcheetah I mean the energy released by earthquakes is massive so I think it’s reliable for a good amount of time.
I remember learning about the Cascadia subduction zone in second grade and the substitute teacher I had in that science class made it sound like we were due for a megaquake really soon. That day, my fear of earthquakes seriously increased. I’m still terrified of earthquakes to this day even though I’ve slept through a magnitude 3.6 earthquake
Me: **lives in Washington**
**Chuckles** I'm in danger
Michael is the best!
“we’re overdue for a megaquake” “yellowstone is overdue for an eruption” you think mother nature operates on human schedules?
Here I am, hoping that the good 'ol native american spirits prevent anything happening here in Michigan.
And then Yellowstone decides to exist...
Betelgeuse had better hurry up and explode already. I want to still be alive when it happens :(
@@DragoniteSpam Ikr, I wanna see that shit
It's a god-damn expression, Jesus
You mean math and physics?
One of your better videos. Very informative.
As a person who lives in Utah on one of the biggest fault lines, if this earthquake comes I’m dying no cap
There are large sections in Seattle where the ground will almost instantly liquefy unfortunately. Pretty much everything from 5 to the sea. That's scary as heck.
omggggg my small town was mention and the school hasnt been doing earthquakes drills often
You should advocate at your school! Maybe they just need a push. Talk to a teacher or counselor. Send your schoolmates this video on a social media platform they use, add a short description of the danger, and ask to sign a petition to get earthquake training taught at school. And ask them to send it to other classmates. Get a friend or two to advocate with you so it's not all on you.
Michael is probably the best presenter you guys have. always want to listen to what he has to say :)
I'm ok with it being doomed. I'll start collecting my scrap metal for the thunderdome
Fuck yeah. Time to go Mad Max!
I live on Vancouver Island. Prime disaster zone. We've only had one earthquake I actually felt, and I try and live like there's not a huge chance of dying if it hits... but sometimes I have horrible nightmares where I wake up and feel an earthquake, and because I'm shaking so much I go into panic. I try and remind myself and find something around to show that it's me shaking, and not the earth... but yeah.
The longer it takes, the stronger it'll be
But maby the stronger isnt the strongest
The early warning systems for earthquakes here in Japan are amazing. Depending on the quake, you can potentially get up to 30 seconds warning before it hits.
I lived in the Tohoku region when the 2011 quake struck, and although my area didn't get any physical damage (the shaking was a 4 on the Shindo scale for us), we had power outages and food and gasoline shortages for weeks because the supply trucks/trains were mostly diverted to the disaster areas. A quake of that size doesn't affect just the areas that receive the brunt of the shaking, so it's important to have a plan and supplies ready.
HE FORGOT ALASKA!!!!
Wesley Wren That what was thinking. The 9.2 in the 60’s in Valdez.
Also left out the Indian Ocean quake in 2004 but I don't think there was a need to mention every single one.
@@sharonbruno2789 Yes, that one.
5 whole minutes of shaking like crazy
@@murphynuglene3714 5 minutes... man , I can't even, ... Here's a little experiment, Sit quietly with no music or TV for 30 seconds just get a sense of time. Now up that to 5 minutes.... I can't imagine the ground shaking like that for 5 freaking minutes, I'm pretty much panicing after 45 seconds of shaking....
In Seattle, the power went out for 2 hours in the afternoon in February about 5 years ago. In a small area 4 blocks wide and about 12 blocks long. People were loosing their minds.
Not worried about disasters, I'm worried about people after the disaster.
0:45 "This mounting pressure" -- I see what you did there.
Bring it on! it's 2020!
I hope this happens. It’d be exciting to see the chaos.
Right
Twat.
Great video, and very well spoken
As an oregonian, I'm hoping its world record quake but also scared out of my mind
There's something heartwarming about the idea of a call going from the Pacific northwest to Japan saying "A quake just started. Prepare for tsunami".
Cool, I get to experience my first earthquake. This event surly does carry some magnitude.
If you live in Portland look into your local NET (Neighborhood Emergency Team). We are always looking for more members.
The title should be: Are Californians overdue for a megaquake.
I legit thought a world-wide earthquake was coming.
"californians"
California isn't in the PNW.
In 2001 we had the 6.8 Nisqually quake in Western Washington. I was in 6th grade and it happened during lunch. We all got under the tables and I remember the feeling, that rather than just shaking, the floor was rolling beneath me in big waves. I don't want to contemplate what an earthquake ten times stronger would feel like and hope it doesn't come in my lifetime.
I hope I’m the first to go when it happens.
haha me too. I spend 3/4 of my day over the fault line
Im rooting for you guys
Just Some Guy without a Mustache was going to make a joke but nah..good luck to all of us.
During Cold War my parents expressed a similiar sentiment about being Nuked. Best if one is at ground zero.
Avery Milieu as certified old person who was a toddler during the Cuban missile crisis...yep. We lived near a military base so we were pretty sure we were in the first round targets.
"Creating rifts and mountains, putting a lot of stress on the rocks beneath our feet. This 'mounting' pressure..." I see what you did there.
I don't see nothing wrong with a little push and grind
A little push and grind
We’re talking about a *megathrust* here buddy nothing small
Seein this made me laugh n then seein fossil dudes comment was a downer.but bump n grind is still in me head so it takes away the downer.lol
Smi-Le Nguyen That’s a bold statement coming from someone named after the sound a horse makes
@@fossilfountain i thought horses go neigh.
Being from the UK is nice when you never have to worry about any of this stuff. We never have serious earthquakes, hurricanes, natural forest fires, tsunamis, and the weather (although it rains a lot) is pretty calm, cold in winter, warm-ish in summer.
What if a megaquake is over due for us
Hi bigfoot hope your having a good day
10% chance over the next 50 years is really small odds.
Contact Japan to get that early warning system going as we have an early warning system that will trigger an all points alarm to out smart phones for any quake over the Japanese intensity scale of 4 ( Different from the magnitude scale where intensity scales is a measure of destructive potential, not energy release ). Didn't have that back in 2011 but now it is good peace of mind
If you live in a earthquake prone zone, I highly recommend the channel dutchsinse. He has shown time and again how accurate his predictions are and they're very helpful! It's always good to have a little bit of heads up.
I wouldn't go that far. He is 'offline' now anyways.
@@Lalabaster just on UA-cam for now. He's still streaming on twitch. And he is pretty good, I've learned a lot from him to the point I can tell what's happening as well
As a pacific northwest resident I can confirm this def ain't new to us, but to friend's who arn't from the west coast I've told about the pending megaquake find this terrifying lol.
"Overdue" implies that megaquakes are timed on some sort of geological clock.
They are. Its just physics, you can only stress something so much before something has to give. Here in Nz, there's been a major quake roughly every 300 years, sometimes it gets delayed by a couple decades or so, but they always come. We're expecting another one sometime in the next 50 or so
One of the most fascinating pieces of Megathrust evidence is the sunken forest! It's an entire forest that is now a salt marsh. All the Cedars are bleached, dried out pillars all over the area and they all died the same day. The landslip "slump" caused by a Cascadia rip caused an entire region to fall below sea level. Wild! It's beautiful but soooo eerie!
I'm praying that it won't happen. It'll fix everything or so I was told.
I live in Washington state, right next to the Puget sound. Thanks for giving me more anxiety. 😬
If it happened last time 1700 and if it happens every 500-600 years so 1700+500= 2200 :)
good thing i live in florida...
Where at? I'm on the emerald coast
*laughs in hurricane*
eh y’all are screwed every year with hurricanes so
Please include Alaska more often, we had a earthquake in 2018 and it showed how infrastructure changes and warning systems can save lives.
Dante's Creak? Anyone? I will see myself out.
I live on the Oregon coast and there were some quakes a few hours south of here a couple weeks ago👀
I am so glad I live in a region without earthquakes. I think I would die of fright if I ever experienced one 😂
Iv experienced around 15 earthquakes before and there kinda fun except when I was little and it was at night and I would hide under my covers
It would most likely be over before you realized what was happening. I don't mean that in a "you'll be dead" kind of way, the ones i've experienced there's been a few seconds of shaking and i think "huh, that's wierd... wait, that was an earthquake." And that was it.
Earthquake veteran here I think I'd take an earthquake over a tornado any day
trust me as someone who felt the tōhoku earthquake, most below magnitude 6 are not that bad, even the ones that can knock you out of your chair 😂😂😂
The ones below 8 are quite fun actually, at least in countries where you know you'll be safe like Chile
My job site (the county crisis line) was moved from downtown Portland, Or because most of the 'downtown' area will most likely experience catastrophic liquefaction resulting in bad, bad things.
if the faults in the earth cause earthquakes, would the fault in our stars cause a starquake?
yeah dude, check out neutron stars starquakes
We don't usually get earthquakes in my area maybe once a year there would be a magnitude 3 or 4 or something, but this year sometime around september-december we started getting some pretty strong earthquakes, around 5 - 6.8! It also happens quite frequent since September. I think 3 strong earthquakes have occurred since around September, and several aftershocks would happen after them. The latest one happened last week, it was a magnitude 6.8. The epicenter was in Padada, it's actually getting closer to my city.