This took a while. The production was plagued by a lot of computer issues again :( But now that the video is done I can finally see what can be done about it - I will figure something out. Sorry for splitting this into two parts but I couldnt possibly edit an 1 hour+ video like this. I know this make the topic so far a bit history heavy - I will talk more about the science next time.
Take as long as you need, can't rush art my friend! I think I speak for us all when I say that a longer wait is more than worth it for such high quality content. Splitting it into a two parter makes sense, I'm curious though, will there be an extended cut uploaded after they're both done? Or will they just be paired in a playlist or such? Keep up the great work, this and your last channel very quickly became some of my favourites on the entire site :)
THIS!!! THIS RIGHT HERE!!! This is the type of content that used to be on the History/Discovery channel. This is the type of content that is missing so dearly on television. This is what they took from us. Now everything's a reality show.
Don't expect more of that considering the way UA-cam is going. I hate to say it but I believe the future of educational content will move to other platforms soon. Educational content can't succeed on a platform where there is no means of public criticism (ie. dislike button)
That will never happen. Google is a business. They stream line making money as the first priority. The average person will not click or sit through quality content over click bait dog ass.
@@linuxguy1199 Nonsense. Educational content is thriving right now. Also, there is a massive means of public criticism, it's called a Comments Section. When it comes to topics like history, science, and the like, a "dislike button" does not show you whether or not the topic is correct, it tells you if the topic and how it is being discussed is popular or unpopular. And not to steal a quote from a whiney manchild like Ben Shapiro, but facts don't care about your feelings. If you disagree with something said in an educational video, write a comment. Make a response video. Write a blog post. Make a Twitter thread. Those are ways to provide constructive criticism. All a dislike button does is have you say "I no liek!". And that, without context, is worth than useless. That said, I like the dislike button, and have added an extension so I can still see dislikes. It helps with knowing whether a video is a scam or not. But it is useless when it comes to evidence-based topics like this.
@@piercepluenneke7438 But it is happening, right now. Channels like Our World, SciShow, and Your Dinosaurs are wrong get hundreds of thousands of views per video. PBS Eons, SEA, History of the Earth, and History Time get millions of views on their videos. Yeah, some people watch mindless videos. Some people watch documentaries. SOme people watch videos discussing history and science. Some people watch art channels. Most people watch various different things. It's OK to not watch educational content all the time. The audience is here.
Lot's of geologists chiming in, but as a historian, your use of primary sources is excellent. You've done a wonderful job putting the earthquakes in historical context.
No mention of the change of History no because either you do not know history or are helping invent it shame on all of you no doubt you deserve what is coming to you.
The quality of this is incredible. It's so close to being indistinguishable from a tv documentary. A proper National Geographic one at that. I don't know how many people worked on this, or for how long, but it's genuinely inspiring, educational, enthralling and enjoyable. It's amazing that this is UA-cam content! I really hope this channel gets the attention it deserves.
It's a lot of work editing a video like this. Perhaps they just have other things they'd rather do. Content creator isn't the worst job in the world, but a skilled person can aim a lot higher than that.
I have been an Earth Science Teacher for 30 years and this is some of the best content I have seen for this subject. Great Job! I look forward to part 2!
You brought back memories of the nun in my elementary school history class telling us about the New Madrid earthquake and how the river changed course. How Missouri and Illinois residents had lost or gained land based on the river change. She was so detailed and animated I was convinced she actually witnessed the event. She had documents, pictures and stories from survivors. I doubt teachers today are so intense or detailed in their history classes. Thank you for becoming the new 'teacher' and educating the public.
The quake made the river flow backwards creating reelfoot lake ..the lost land you speak of is Kaskaskia which was caused by separate event flooding.. and and when the river changes course the state does not lose that land, it just ends up in the other side of the river
@@billwilson3609 you're telling me if the red river in Texas, if the river changes the land automatically switches over??? I just looked at a map and can see places where Oklahoma land is south of the red River. I live along the middle Mississippi so I can spot these examples quickly
Even as a retired emergency manager somewhat familiar with the dangers of the eastern seismic zones, I have to say this is the best briefing on New Madrid I have ever seen. I'm sending the link to some of my still active colleagues.
Sad to see this channel hasn't uploaded in so long, but even so thank you for such great content. Some of the best documentaries I've seen on youtube. I hope the creator is doing well with the other things in his life! Thanks for what you've made here :)
I've watched this video several times now. Even if there isn't a part two, I'll be happy to remember this as one of the best documentaries I've seen. I hope the creator is well.
These are honestly some of the best produced and researched documentaries I've encountered - anywhere, let alone on youtube. Keep up the good work sir! I'm willing to wait as long as it takes for videos of this quality.
Let's took our time to appreciate this masterpiece documentary that has surpassed most conventional television documentary with far superior visuals and extensive information packaged in a beautifully crafted video.
He's a very intelligent young American. Few in earlier generations spoke to efficiently with crystal clear accuracy like that and when we did, it just flew over everyone's head for as as kid, they all told me to slow down when I was explaining something in detail or rattling off a ton of academic nonsense. However, he's really good at public speaking and keeping a clear line of thought. The level of knowledge today is truly astounding and it takes only a minute to find information and learn something that used to take many hours in a library.
Absolutely one of the best videos I have ever seen anywhere. Combining two of my favorite subjects, history and geology, in so integral a fashion that it pulls you along through the whole of it. This, along with the detail of research and evidence into what is practically unknown by most of the population, make it extremely valuable and informative and something that could actually help to prevent greater loss in the inevitable case that it happens again, whether sooner or later. I wish that it were even longer and more encompassing like, a stand alone from the Great Courses.
I remember exactly where I was for the 2011 east coast earthquake. 4th floor in the student union in my college in south jersey. It was so sudden. The entire building began to shake. Chandeliers rocked back and forth. No one had any idea what to do. I thought stand away from the windows possibly? But that’s what I’d prepared for for tornados. After a minute it subsides and we rushed outside. Everyone looked so shaken up; clearly they had a lot on their plates, so I decided to crack a few earthquake jokes which they immediately found fault in me for. 🤷🏼♂️
I was also in South Jersey when that happened. Out of all the possible reasons for my house to start shaking, an earthquake was the last thing I could think of. I remember the memes making fun of the East for freaking out over such a "small" earthquake-when California has deals with that magnitude of earthquake on a regular basis. While it was funny in the moment, I later found out just how far the damage reached. The next town over had some historical buildings that were damaged from that earthquake. None of the buildings here were built to withstand earthquakes like that, so it makes sense that it was damaged. But given how far away we were from the epicenter, it was still surprising that damage still happened.
Trees flying through the air because of earthquakes, even if distance and size were exaggerated, that's pretty damn terrifying. Sand blows of that size are mind boggiling. I'd love to see GPR/Sonar scans of what is going on down there, but at those sizes and depths, we'd struggle to get a full picture of it.
I would imagine those trees were thrown by massive sand blows. Geologists figured that the ground shaking to the southwest got as far as the Ark-La-Tex where cypress trees lining the Red River fell into the water and got stuck together creating massive river rafts near Alexandria and Shreveport. The rafts became covered with sediment and vegetation so settlers used them as bridges for their wagons. The geologists also believe that Caddo Lake was created by the NM quakes.
I thought first, too, that the testimony they read out loud must have had been exaggerated, by either the original source or through "editorial liberties", shall we say - the latter was very common in newspapers of the era, after all. However, when they then went on to explain the sheer size of the sandblows, in particular when compared to more "normal" sandblows, I realised it might just have been more legit than I gave it credit for. Truly terrifying forces at play, there.
Eyewitness in 1811: "Whilst the trees rushed from the forest, precipitating itself into the water with force sufficient enough to have dashed us into a thousand atoms." Eyewitness in 2023: "Da ground waz all like, tisk, i dunno, fookin' all like shakey n' shyte?!? And I be lyke, Daayymn!, Foool! Da phuuuck yo???"
I’m a lifelong Memphian who even studied geology at the University of Memphis. We did some digs on sand blows for a class in Craighead county Arkansas in I think 2003ish.… We were 8-12 ft below current ground level for the sand blows that developed during the 300 AD quakes. It’s beyond terrifying when you realize the scale and someone points out real life physical evidence of these massive quakes. Looking forward to the next part of this video series. I know we have a better understanding of what is going on geologically to cause such massive quakes here. Great video!
I was an inmate in Greenville Ms in 2011 and did emergency flood control work with the corps of engineers and the state of Ms on sandblows that were forming behind the levees on the Ms river when a lot of floodwater from thawing ice and snow from further north came down the river then. Seeing a phenomenon like that live was a once in a lifetime event.
@@zacharysmith4787 I used to live in Arkansas, in Jonesboro, and Rector, (my sisters still live in Arkansas) I now live in NC, and the New Madrid scares me greatly. I choose to subscribe to the theory that if the New Madrid ever goes BIG, Lake Michigan will drain into the Mississippi Bay. Which, regrettably, means everything along the Mississippi River Valley between the southern tip of Lake Michigan, and the Gulf of Mexico would be under water. I've been to Ephesus Turkey and seen what could happen to a city during an earthquake, but fear the worst.
@@earlwyss520 It looks like one of the embayment edges ends where the hills start near Pocahontas. So if your sisters ever need to evacuate, it sounds like they need to head towards Pocahontas and head northeast.
@@earlwyss520 The good news is the energy needed to open up that much rock would only be generated by the Earth crashing into another heavenly body. No amount of Earthquakes will cause this. As shown in the videos, part of the reason the New Madrid quakes can be felt so far away is because of the cold dense bedrock which is just going to ring like a bell versus rupture and crack. The Great lakes are above some of the deepest and thickest parts of the North American plate, with some of the northern parts in the Canadian shield being exposed to the surface nearly the same amount of time as Earth has existed.
I remember playing outside as a kid and feeling tremors around 2011. my parents wouldn’t believe me since we lived in central Ohio. It was after that incident in which I started researching about fault lines in the eastern United States. Unfortunately all I could find was the term new Madrid fault line. Thank you for creating this video as it explained a strange childhood occurrence of mine.
I was in my grandmas appt in Michigan, and she lived in the top floor of the appt so it was bizarre when I learned what happened. It’s only a matter of time until an actual substantial earthquake happens somewhere in the Midwest
Can you check records in 2011 for seismological activity in Ohio? Even if it was a small earthquake, it was no doubt picked up by someone and recorded if it truly did happen.
I grew up in New England and we were taught about a dead fault called Minute Man Fault Line, but Ive never been able to find a source on it when I try to look it up
@@razrv3lc Good idea. My dear aunt in northeast Ohio said they were aware of several small earthquakes (4.2 +/-) when I asked her about the earthquakes I had read about on the news as a result of fracking. She said they noticed them, but they weren't troubled.
As an engineering geologist who cut his teeth in neotectonics in the intracontinental seismic zone west of the New Madrid in Oklahoma (Meers Fault in SW Oklahoma), I appreciated the historical quotes/details you presented. Comparing the SF earthquake to the 1811/12 events is not doing justice to them though. This is due to the population density differences -which you did mention. SF bay did not run backwards, new water bodies on the scale of Reel Foot Lake did not form, people were not only "not able to stand" but were violently thrown into the air during the New Madrid events. Chimneys in Boston were toppled. I look forward to your second part with eager anticipation. (living in Illinois) Keep up the great work.
What struck me in the first and second accounts was the amount of erupting material coming up out from underground, sending jets of material and even trees high into the sky. This seems like volcanic activity. The narrator skipped over quite a bit of the discussion of giant trees being uprooted and sent flying and of burning trees being sent sky-high and coal erupting out of the ground while giant caverns form. It made me think of plasma cosmology or electric universe theory regarding geology. A charge differential underground connecting to ions in the upper atmosphere.
@@Nphen oooookay. except for the geological and physics explanation for this--for which there was ample evidence provided and still visible today--of the soil liquifaction / blowouts. The aerial views of these blowouts and sand that spilled out, the visible craters. The archaeological evidence of similar craters in other cities... Probably the ground imaging radar evidence of the vents that led to these explosions. There is plenty we do not know, but going to the LEAST probable theories in the face of existing evidence that seems to be fairly well corroborated by empirical evidence does not make sense. If this was a massive electrical / ionosphere plasma event, there would also have been stupendously noticable and constant aurorae for the duration of weeks or months, along with the tremors.
Given the 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria a few days ago, I have an even greater respect for what happened at New Madrid. Your reading that boatman's newspaper clipping into the video was excellent. His descriptions were vivid, and helped me visualise much better what it must have been like. Hair raising. You are excellent at making these videos. I will watch again and share them. Many thanks!
Fantastic information! As someone who experienced both the 6.8 Nisqually and 5.8 Mineral quakes you do an excellent job breaking down why the smaller Mineral quake felt so much more violent.
Ya, I was in Hawks Prarie less than a mile from the epicenter of the Nisqually quake. Scariest moments of my life, but will soon be dwarfed by the upcoming Cascadia Subduction zone rupture. Magnitude 9+ Hard to imagine over three thousand times bigger than our 6.8. Stay safe an God bless 🙏😇♥️
I’m 50 yrs old, born and raised in Chattanooga, TN. and I’ve always found it pretty shocking how *few people* here are aware New Madrid fault line even exists or that there ever was a huge earthquake along the Mississippi River. Sometimes, when you tell them about it, they just stare at you, big-eyed, like you’re growing a foot from your forehead.
We had a 4.5 just south of Watts Bar Dam a couple of years ago. I live 5 miles from the epicenter and I was laying in bed watching TV. I heard what I thought was a thunderstorm, then my bed felt like an air mattress floating on the lake. It was scary. Plus, the epicenter was about a mile from Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. That's scary, too. So they can happen around here, too!
There was a 4.0 that happened in southeast Missouri like a week ago, and EVERYONE felt that one, including myself in northeast Arkansas. I had heard reports that it was felt by some people several states away.
@@zacharysmith4787 I live in Searcy and no one that I have talked to felt it. Someone I know from northern AR said they felt it though. The dog noticed it first. Then they felt it.
Your videos are simply outstanding. What must be stressed I think is how much our modern day education system would benefit if people like you would make videos like this on everyday school subjects and topics. After watching your video I can now confidently say I could explain to a friend what happened in 1811 in New Madrid, why it happened and why it’s still such a dangerous place for earthquakes. I mean, the fact I can remember these points after only watching a 30 minute video, compared to studying a boring textbook for 30 minutes just shows how humans learn and what works.
Having lived in Mississippi my whole life, except for a year in Memphis, I was aware of a small amount of the details you provided. I even visited Reelfoot Lake one time. I enjoyed hearing the eyewitness account of those experiences. It must have felt like the end of the world for those closest to the event. Simply amazing!
I was really, REALLY hoping this channel wasn't dead. It's my favorite channel on all of UA-cam. Brilliantly crafted science videos explained with just enough detail and strung together with multiple disciplines in an organic fashion. This is what UA-cam was supposed to be built for.
I used to live around Reelfoot Lake that was formed by the third quake, and one of my jobs was telling people about how the lake formed. I am so excited to see people talking about the region and a fascinating piece of regional history that people don't know much about outside the area.
I just commented the same thing! I was born and raised in Martin, and we'd always take field trips out there. As an adult, I still go there all the time for the fishing and restaurants and even to visit the animals for the millionth time. You'd think everyone would know about an earthquake that is strong enough to create a permanent lake, but outside of our region, nobody's heard of them. It's wild.
I live in Martin right now and everyone knows this stuff and the earthquake room at the discovery park is something that we do when we go at our yearly trip 15 minutes over but it’s so cool to think that something sooo big happened in the tiny area we live in
I just was suggested this video and I loved it. I have missed these kinds of historical deep dives ever since I gave up cable for streaming services. Keep up the great work!
As a person that have lived most of my life near the New Madrid fault, this is a great explanation of what happened. Honestly, there is so much in this video that I was not aware of. I'm excited to see part 2!
Hello I would just like to tell you that I am very irritated by the way your people say Madrid. I understand it is not your fault, but it is your fault if you say it that way
@@bencollier4254 Who are my people? I didn't know I had those. But glad to see you Spanish conquistadors are still in the enslaving business. Very promising.
@@bencollier4254 Just because we use the name of Madrid does not mean we have to use the same pronunciation of it. Many names changed slightly in pronunciation going from one country to another. It does not mean they are wrong, just different. Also, "our people" are Americans and we can say it how we darn like.
@@bencollier4254 just to be clear, we say it like you do when we are referring to the city in Spain. Also, it's not like it's a Spanish colony anymore. You should hear the way some old southerners say, "Italian"or "Cairo". You would be appalled. Language is alive and it grows and changes. Please do not take offense.
I just did a graduate term paper on the Reelfoot Rift like a week ago! This is a great deep dive. I live in nearby Memphis, TN and one of the New Madrid faults actually travels through my city. The 1812 earthquake created a 12 mile long lake now named Reelfoot lake which sits directly on top of the most active fault in the rift and even made the entire Mississippi River run upriver! Its been long believed that eastern earthquakes are felt 10x more intensely than the earthquakes felt on the west coast due to the age of the rock layers east of the Rockies. Interplate earthquakes like these arent believed to produce monster 9+ earthquakes but I did a earthquake model of an 8.6 and all the structure between St. Louis, MO and Oxford, MS would likely receive major damage due to our lack of interest in retrofitting infrastructure. It a huge issue! Thanks for the video Deep Dive!
Yip, and that's when the Gulf of Mexico from New Orleans to south Texas looked like the Bahamas. All the brown silt and crap you see in Galveston is straight swill from every state that sits on the Mississippi starting in Minnesota...fertilizers, garbage, pee, all of it...goes south. They need to clean their crap before they dump it in the river to go south.
I live in a high rise apartment building in Philadelphia and it shook like it was on rubber bands. It wasn't scary to me, but it was a strange feeling. 😮
Just stumbled across this video and I gotta say, this is probably one of the best first impressions I have ever gotten from a youtube video. This is some fantastic work. The editing is extremely well done and it's clear to see how much passion and effort was put into it. The research and substance are spectacularly in-depth and thorough. Overall this is a great video from a soon-to-be-massively great channel. I look forward to your inevitable explosive growth, subscribed.
I think I'm "snake-bit": born in Los Angeles, grew up in Missouri in the Bootheel, and now live in Central Virginia! At 84, I realize that I could have planned better. Kidding aside, this is a great presentation and answered many questions about living in seismic zones. Thank you. I'm looking forward to your next presentation.
I understand that sentiment for sure. Born in CA myself and relocated to about 75 miles away from New Mardrid MO. I had no idea at the time we moved here. They have been predicting another huge quake in this area for the last 30-35 years that I’m aware of. We get quakes occasionally, just had two small ones about two weeks ago.
@@peternorton5648 I was stationed at Eaker AFB near Blytheville Arkansas in 1990 when they predicted the BIG ONE was going to hit. I was Security Police, and was guarding Nuclear Alert B-52s at the time. Imagine the international horror of a country loosing several hundred Nuclear weapons in an earthquake.
@@earlwyss520 I couldn’t even imagine the cluster of that magnitude were that to actually happen. I go down past the old airbase occasionally it’s now a commercial air freight operation but it all sat empty for many years before that. It kinda made me sad to see.
Geology, biology, history, and logical well crafted videos that are enjoyable to watch from this channel. What more could one want? Excellent job once again!
@@FlySuppaMayne Madrid, Spain and New Madrid, Missouri are not pronounced the same here. He's pronounced it correctly as far as us locals to the region are concerned.
Ever since I've watched your video on Mt. Paektu, I've been looking forward for a brand new release. Everything is just so well-done, so well-researched that it makes learning these sort of things enjoyable and genuinely interesting. From the editing, writing, and even the sounds, they're all of high quality; especially knowing that only one person is behind these works. Genuinely thank you for making these sort of videos, hope you and your channel keeps growing!
You've managed to present your content in such a manner that was captivating and incredibly informative. At the time of this comment I had just finished watching the video regarding the volcano that straddles China and North Korea. It is currently 0230 EST and I need to crash but wanted to write this in hopes that you know that your efforts are greatly appreciated.
It is so awesome when every now and then the algorithm pulls an absolute gem of a channel from the depths of UA-cam. Got recommended this video, subbed, watched all your videos in one sitting and can’t wait for part two!
Shame we never got a part 2 to this wonderful video. After this morning's quake in NJ, I came back to this for a refresher to dispel the chiding of Californians lol!
I've lived in Indiana for 40 years and we've had 2 earthquakes in my lifetime originating from the San Madrid Fault. Last one was in the early 2000s and i remember it vividly. I woke very early in the morning, around 4am, which i rarely ever do. I had my window open and the birds had just began to start chirping with the sunrise. I got on my computer and was drinking my coffee when I noticed, strangely enough, that the birds had stopped chirping and all was quiet. It was very eery and was like the saying "A Deafening Silence." About 10 minutes later after noticing this my house shook violently and i thought my neighbor had run into my house with his truck. After a few seconds of constant rumbling i realized it was an earthquake. We had minor aftershocks all day that day and it was easy for me to detect them because i worked in a liquor store at the time and every tremor big and small was broadcast from the bottles on the shelves giving their reports. Pretty wild. I'd imagine we're likely due for another one in the next few years if i had to guess. one of these days it'll be "The Big One."
@@4johnybravo animals all have a EQ detector... that's why some animals goes nuts pre EQ... (trivial fact: that "precognition" is also what is used in EQ warning systems especially in Japan, which is called P-wave )
I lived in Spencer. I was sitting in my desk chair and all of a sudden it started dancing across the floor and my waterbed went bananas. We had cracks in the walls and doors that wouldn’t shut after the quake.
From someone who grew up in the New Madrid seismic zone, one thing that gets brought up a lot to illustrate the damage to the area is the formation of Crowley's Ridge. It's a geological formation near Jonesboro AR that got pushed up due to strong earthquakes in the area (I forget precisely what year). The earthquakes in this region are no joke.
Thank you for referencing this... I looked up some topographical maps of the Crowley Ridge, which plainly display this ridge's island-like rise above the surrounding, flat embayment surface! Very dramatic!!
The town of New Madrid on hwy 55 has a rest stop there that is very interesting,, shows alot about the earthquake ..if you get a chance stop by there..
just came across your channel and boy are your videos top notch in quality and content alike. The dedication you put ,surely ,reflects in the videos and justifies the channel subscribers even though it has just 4 videos. Amazing!! looking forward for more of such interesting and educating videos Roman.
Some of the worst earthquakes occur in parts of Asia, where the various faults associated with the Himalayan orogeny can produce MASSIVE earthquakes with epicenters very near populated areas instead of offshore. Of course subduction zone megathrusts can be pretty damn nasty with the tsunamis as well... in general earthquakes are just very dangerous, especially if an area is unprepared.
I remember the large quake in Japan a few years ago. It came from the ocean on their sea facing area, but much damage occurred as well as many deaths. The most worry is that it was off the coast that was a location of a plant that caused damage.
If you look at the fault structure in the Himalayas it actually still looks quite like a subduction zone albeit one where both plates are continental so the plate sliding below is still more buoyant than the mantle below just resulting in a pileup of continental crust. Thus many of the fault systems in the Himalayas are in effect a variation on a megathrust fault and so naturally are quite devastating not unlike their marine cousins. On the bright side at least they don't produce Tsunamis though the landslides and dam bursts are extremely dangerous too and can appear suddenly with little warning. Especially when much of the crust is quite "gooey" under all that heat and pressure.
I'm waiting as patiently as I can for the conclusion of this video. I've been fascinated about this incident since I was a child almost 40 years ago. This is fantastically done, and your efforts are surely appreciated by the community. Thank you for your efforts!
@@adley.j I'm from East Prairie MO and you are right not Ki row but Kay row..lol im about 20 miles from cairo and 15 miles from new Madrid lived here all my life
As a geologist, I appreciate the attention to detail in this video. You explain every concept, correctly and informatively. Unlike a lot of other videos, this one gets all the right points across effectively. For example, in the video you say "boundary zone", which is more correct than a boundary line since plate boundaries consists of many micro-faults over a given area, which collectively make up the plate boundary.
One thing not mentioned here were the smells that occurred during these quakes. There were many accounts of foul smelling odors and gas release from the ground and from the water released by the sand blows. I imagine it would be quite horrible as all that decaying wet organic matter trapped under the river and under all that sand in clay would generate a lot of methane, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, etc. It would all mostly be absorbed by the water but once the water is not under pressure from being deep in the earth its all going to be released at once like opening a bottle of shaken up of soda. I would not be surprised at all if some of the releases accumulated up enough in some places to be toxic to people but didn't kill anyone just due to how few people were around then. That is most certainly not the case today though.
The phenomena you describe is actually very real, and did in one instance of catastrophe kill over 1700 people. It was a deep lake, somewhere in Africa I believe, where gasses - in particular, CO2 - had accumulated at the bottom, but due to the high water pressure, was kept in solution in the depths. Something, they're not quite sure what exactly, disturbed it. (Could be an earthquake, a landslide, plenty of things.) The lower waters were mixed up into the upper layers, resulting in the pressure decreasing rapidly, and immense amounts of non-breathable gas came out of solution and rose to the surface. To make matters worse, CO2 is actually heavier than air, meaning that concentrations of it will cling to the surface for some time before dispersing. So the gas erupted from the lake, and came creeping like an invisible cloud of death beyond the banks, and into the villages beyond. People and animals alike were just asphyxiated where they stood, leaving a scene of bodies and carcasses having seemingly just dropped dead everywhere. Edit: Joe Scott made a great video about this (here on UA-cam), titled "... And Then 1700 People Died." Can recommend.
I was glad to see this coverage as someone who has been nervous about the Cascadia Subduction zone for a few years. I guess even if it spits out a 8.5+ Richter quake it wouldn't compare to this long distance, sinking, explosion, etc. stuff.
The greatest damage in the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 (the World Series quake, which I felt in sacramento, 120+ miles away, was in the landfill areas of SF, especially in the Marina district. We visited months later and many cracks were noted in sidwalks and buildings. The San Andreas is overdue for a big one. The 1916 quaked displaced the earth by 16 feet in the Point Reyes area. There is an 'Earthquake Trail' in the National Seashore which shows it. Fascinating.
@@coopergates9680 same, but i personally dont believe in it anymore. its all fake news lol. i havnt felt a single earthquake since the one in like 2000
Yes! I've been waiting so long for a new upload from this channel. I found the video about Mt Paektu at random and was completely blown away by the production quality and level of research. I've watched the other two videos as well and was dying for more. What's more, this is the type of topic I personally enjoy the most. I'm so excited to watch this.
Good work, Deep Dive. I live close to the epicenter of the 2011 Va Quake and did a lot of study about it afterward. Because of the density of the soil in this area, I came to the conclusion that the East coast wouldn't need a quake too much stronger than the one in 2011 (5.9) to do a lot of damage all up and down the East coast - damage that would occur especially because no buildings are designed for it. There are quite a few old faults in the area around that quake that are considered to be of little consequence but... you have to wonder about that as well. I also remember reading about 1-2 years later that seismologists began to consider the area a bit more active and consequential than previously thought. If I remember correctly, they attributed the 2011 quake to land movement over old mountain ranges. This topic has come to mind lately as there have been some small rumblings just recently around South and North Carolina. I kind of get a feeling we may feel something again over the next year. I was on a hill at the time and could hear the shockwaves traveling up the valley. I thought maybe a passenger airliner was heading for the house. Nothing made sense for about 8 seconds and then the house started to shake. Was quite the experience.
As someone that witnessed the shaker of 2011 personally, I remember I couldn't sleep right for a few days while dreading an aftershock. I was that paranoid.
Being that my hometown is just a few miles from New Madrid in Missouri, I can confirm that there is a kind of ominous legend surrounding the earthquakes, and the topic of when the "big one" may happen again is pretty common. Great video!
It will catch ppl off guard. I have family in Tennessee, and it really is a concern. The truth is, it will happen again! No doubt! Could be in two years, could be in 100. It’s a surprise quake.
This was amazing. Just randomly popped up in my feed and I was entranced by research done. I feel like the people who wrote those articles 210 years ago were speaking directly to us, you did a fantastic job. Also living in Kansas City, I distinctly remember that 2016 earthquake. It is the 2nd I've felt in my life, the first being in Melbourne Australia in 2009. I can't wait for Part 2!
I was in the Alaska earthquake back in 1964, I think It was, and it was something to behold. We lived in between two canyons. And had a view of a Finger of land that extended about 1mile out from the ground. It had a large hotel at the end, some boat docks, and a bunch of fish and crab canneries on it so the boats would be able to unload their cargo to them. And while we were watching, we slowly watched the land start to sink in the water. Until It almost disappears. Thankfully the boat owners could get their boats heading out to sea two rides out the waves and any tsunami. About that time, the middle of the inlet split down the middle, and the water separated, rolling back from one side and then the other.! then smack the two sides came together, and a tall geyser of sand ejected. The rolls just kept on rolling, each one in their direction. My brother hollered that the other canyon had a giant caterpillar rolling down the mountain, I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. It took days before we saw dad again. No phones back then.
@@lindawarnke5150 E BOATO DIZ ELE BIDEN . EU TENHO AGORA TESTEMUNHAS COM O MUNDO INTEIRO DESTE BOATO QUE PODE MOSTRAR E DELATAR . SOBRE OS DIREITOS HUMANOS . DESTES BOATOS .#
I remember when that earthquake hit Virginia in 2011 and honestly it was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced. I was napping so its kinda surreal to wake up to your entire bedroom shaking. A family friend had her concrete porch and wall of her house crack because of it. It was so damn weird.
I remember when an Earthquake hit Kentucky. It was several years ago, but we felt it up here in Southern Ohio. I was in a bank at the time lol. That was the last Earthquake around here i believe.
I really enjoy how the animation slides gracefully from one thing to another instead of harsh jump cuts. It is a pleasure to watch and relaxing for the eyes. So sick and tired of jump cuts every few seconds, I swear it has to cause attention deficit. That's before I even get into the research, fantastic! Not many have heard of the New Madrid quake, much less the crazy stuff it did. Maybe most heard the Mississippi flowed backward, but few know why
When are we going to get part 2? I know these great documentaries take a very long time to produce because their quality is bar none, but it's been a year! Thank you for pt 1!
Give him a chance. He already told us that he is having computer problems. He said when he gets them straightened out he will work on the next part. Please be patient.
@@RissaFirecat because computer problems take over a year, of course. Hopefully his computers stop having problems and start working in the next 5 years or so. I'm not being impatient I'm just wondering when the next one is coming.
Five stars. An EXCELLENT video, better in terms of intelligent writing, well done and thorough research, and a lack of hyperbole and exaggeration putting it head and shoulders above most documentaries available anywhere. One of the best videos I have seen in a long time.
I love how informative and to the point your content is, unlike others who focus more on being as overly annoying as possible. Can't wait to see part 2!
Heck yes! You may only upload a couple times a year, but they're some of the best uploads of the entire year every time! Such great quality and always interesting topics nobody else knows much about in such great detail, I always look forward to watching!
Dude ive been on youtube for the past 6ish years and this is ultimately what I want to see from this site. Well done on the video, truly informative and pleasant to watch
Astounding work. This is as professional and well done as ANY broadcast documentary I've seen. The New Madrid fault has fascinated me for decades, and this video certainly scratched that itch. Thank you, and Sub'd!
Amazing content! Can’t wait for part 2 I’m on the central Jersey coastline, and in the months after the earthquake in Virginia, there were several small landslides in the town that I worked in (and for), and another in the town in which I lived. This is in an area that had not seen frequent landslides before or since. When we mentioned that to the inspector/surveyor who had come to assess the situation, our mention of the earthquake was basically shrugged off. Not in a malicious way. Just in a dismissive way in which it wasn’t worth contemplating due to being so outside the established realm of consideration. This is an area with coastal hills on relatively loose soil moored by woodlands, so there is some erosion that occurs over time, but nothing on a scale that occurred after that earthquake. As someone who saw those hills close up every day and helped manage the land for the town, I personally think the two are related, though it would be hard to make more than a circumstantial case to the USGS, and to be fair, we didn’t plead with the surveyor at the time.
We are only dimly aware of what goes on beneath our feet and little curiosity - billionaires vacation in the heavens, they do nor burrow sadly - new ideas progress slowly, especially scary ones!!! Good luck man and avoid the hills!!
I ...enjoyed... the 1994 Northridge quake at close range (about 10 miles)... my trailer literally hopped up and down by about 6 inches for around 20 seconds, but miraculously did not come off its blocks. (I was parked on exposed bedrock.)
Yea a whole bunch of landslides occured like days after because a hurricane/ tropical storm came through, also there's literally a database of all the landslides in the us location mapped by location as well as any relevant information, and its not like there was a lack of lanslides around the state in 2011 but yet there are none actually from the time the quake happened. Still it doesnt seem like they are particularly rare in the state either since theres 345 recorded in the last 150 years or so. But if you want to find more than circumstantial evidence as to what caused those landslides I'm sure they are recorded on that map, but I would suggest checking the weather before they happened specifically in regards to rainfall for a period of time before and see if the area had received above average amounts in the months before. If it doesnt ad up then theres more evidence on your theory!
Man these are the type of videos I crave on UA-cam, I have minimal background with this sort of stuff but I love watching videos of random topics just because they are interesting. This is exactly what I look for! Been a year since your last video but would love to see more
11:24 That’s actually pretty cool that he mentioned being “dashed into a thousand atoms”, considering that Dalton’s atomic theory had only come out a few years before this statement was made in 1803.
That would be the more modern chemistry view on the atom. The idea that matter was comprised of tiny indivisible parts has been around since the ancient Greeks in the 5th century BCE.
I wonder how much was artistic license on the part of the reporter and how much was the words of the sailor. Papers tended to have quite flowery language in that era.
I first read about this when I was a child. The one thing that really drove home the magnitude of this, was when I read that the aftershocks we're so severe, and went on for so long after the initial quake, that people cut trees so they fell in East/West directions. Then when the aftershocks began, they would jump onto the trunks. Because they had observed that when cracks would open up in the ground, they would run North/South. This provided some safety against being swallowed up in the earth when the cracks closed back up again. And those were just the aftershocks.
yes most people having never been in a earthquake don't realize it's not really the ground shaking it's that the ground becomes like liquid. Think Dune when the worm comes and everyone is just sinking into the sand...that is what is happening to the buildings just less and in pulses.
I'm patiently awaiting part 2. This is a wonderful explanation of the New Madrid Fault. It's the first time I've heard the first hand accounts of what happened. Great narrative, directly to the point, and a wonderful learning experience. Thank you!!!
This is easily one of the most impressive and interesting video-essays I've seen so far. Such incredible data analysis and visualization with a great explanation. Incredible!
My wife is from California and when we lived in Tennessee, she told various people that it was more dangerous to have an earthquake here. We even felt one when we lived in Clarksville.
This is a great documentary that I will try to show colleagues. I am an architect in Tennessee who has known for many years about the New Madrid earthquake danger and how under-prepared Memphis and our state is for a future quake. This documentary is needed to wake people to reality.
See John Kilpatrick prophesy or John Paul Jackson prophetic headline. When American politicians stick their noses into Israeli business and divide their land, God will split America. Out of the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, let everything be established. It's not a matter of if, but when.
I was working in Charleston, WV in 2011 and not only felt the earthquake, but it shook the building I was in enough to believe a truck or heavy piece of equipment which was doing work outside had hit the building. While ultimately there was no serious or obvious damage done in my area, to think this was from an earthquake some 200 miles away *and* from a relatively small quake measuring just 5.8 is kinda terrifying.
I am in DC and can assure you if that quake had lasted more that a minute, my rowhouse would have collapsed. The east coast is skating on very thin ice when it come to earthquakes.
I’m in Northern Virginia, closer to that quake epicenter and I legit thought we were under attack until I felt the ground move. You could hear the roar of the quake before the movement. It was insane.
@@ceciland18 I lived there when it happened, close to Richmond. That was the freakiest thing that's ever happened to me!! Freakier still was how long it lasted. Started soft, got worse and worse over a few minutes and slowly rumbled for a while AFTER that. My mom described it like a helicopter had landed on the roof.
I was working at an airport in Greenville, SC in 2011 when the Virginia quake hit. It felt and sounded like a large jet had landed. When I quickly left one job in a hangar to park the jet... It wasn’t there! The Control Tower reported the quake within a few minutes and that settled that... A few weeks later another quake hit (a relatively local epicenter confirmed on tv just hours later). It felt like an airliner had flown just a few feet above my apartment.
I was in school in NC and the teacher tried to say the earthquake was just from the construction going on nearby. The shaking lasted way too long to be due to any large construction equipment and with no noise from some horrible accident it was clear that it was an earthquake. I heard about the VA earthquake later that day on the news which confirmed it. Super weird to experience and for a science teacher to not even recognize it as an earthquake lol
The New Madrid area still gets multiple earthquakes every year just not this severe. Surprisingly states like Indiana and Missouri have earthquake drills in schools and some work zones just in case it ever gets bad.
I made my son and daughter in law agree to maintain earthquake insurance on the their house. They laughed until a year later they felt the earthquake. Phone call was quite interesting.
I live in western KY and felt one back in 08 while in a grain truck after we dumped grain. I thought my dad jumped in the back and shook the truck, but he didn't come back out until 10 minutes later and asked if I felt the quake. We had drills in school as well
I'm from that area (about an hour north). We started doing that when I was in school back in the '90s. A 4.6 earthquake struck that year - still the strongest I've ever felt, and boy did we notice it....
It's wonderful how high quality this is, you take the time to talk in astonishing detail without cutting topics or explanations like other channels do, and I love that I'll be waiting for part two
This content is very timely for me, I live close to New Madrid and experienced my first 4.0 earthquake a few weeks ago. Many people that didn’t grow up in the area had no idea that earthquakes were even a possibility in this area.
That quake a couple weeks ago felt like deep rumbling underground to me. Back in the 90s, there was another quake that felt like a giant slammed a fist into the ground. I was just a kid but I remember it being very sudden and sharp.
I lived in East St. Louis back in the late 60s (1968) when early one morning we felt the ground shake and were thrown out of bed. Very frightening. The epicenter was Dale, Illinois It ended up being a 5.4 mag. With all the chemical plants now in the area even one of that magnitude would be a disaster today.
@@Toronto_downtown Yes it is pronounced the way the video creator says it. My source is growing up and living in Missouri. It's very weird, but that's just how it is.
We need more content like this on UA-cam. Don't worry about splitting up the videos, since longer videos might scare off viewers who might not have time to watch for an hour or more at a time. I can't wait for part 2!
Reminds me of my younger years back when television actually used to show decent documentraies. Exceptionally well-crafted, good sir. Very much looking forward to part 2.
Hi..just stumbled upon this...I couldn't stop watching...things I never knew in any History classes in school..Thank you for the knowledge and cant wait to see part 2
I’m sitting here drinking water from the aquifer that you mentioned. This was a very well done dive into the history. Growing up I recall 1 earthquake that we had, 60 miles from New Madrid, in cracked some wallpaper. The scary part are the stories from those who lived through the 1811-1812 quakes, they said that you could stand on a hill and watch the tremor roll across the land, moving the hills themselves. I wonder if that was from sand blows that didn’t explode.
The naturalist John Audubon was staying with a Kentucky farm family during the New Madrid earthquakes. Said he observed the corn fields from his second floor bedroom and said they rose and fell several feet like waves in the ocean.
I was only 13 and home alone for the 2011 earthquake. We lived on a dead-end road, and my first thought was that someone was very violently trying to break into the house. As a kid who’s only lived in Pennsylvania, earthquake wasn’t even on my radar as a possibility. Fantastic research and presentation - instantly subbed and looking forward to more!
I can't help but laugh at that, I'm sorry. I've never experienced an earthquake here in Alabama but the air force base nearby set off an explosion or some kind of sonic boom that shattered the windows of the section 8 housing nearby. That's the closest I've ever been, I was probably less than 12 years old. I was the only one of my four siblings to stay home that day because I was super sick. I remember mom telling me not to move until she put on her shoes so she could pick me up from the glass. I was too scared to anyways lol
I suppose most people have nominally heard of the New Madrid earthquake, that "changed the course" of the Mississippi River. This presentation puts everything in perspective in terms of how much, how far and why. I don't suppose anything this informative was available in my late 60's and early 70's school aged years, but I thoroughly understand and appreciate the knowledge now. As a retired over-the-road trucker, I've driven all over that area likely a hundred times. Since geology has always fascinated me, I would have liked to view that area and recognized the tell-tale signs almost 200 years later. Whatever production Issues you experienced did not diminish the value of the content whatsoever! I'll be looking forward to further opportunities to learn from your programs. "Rock" on!
I didn’t learn about the New Madrid earthquakes until I was an adult. I remember staring at a book about it and wondering why I had never learned about this in school. I graduated in 2002.
@@bordershader it's just so happens that USGov chose trucks as primary goods transport. All logistics guys are unsung hero (except that deliveryman who kicked my parcel)
This was truly a Deep Dive into the subject. Electrifying, expansive, breathtaking. I have had my consciousness raised. I take my hat off to you for the amount of research, clarity, and organisation of information you have provided. Many thanks!
This took a while. The production was plagued by a lot of computer issues again :( But now that the video is done I can finally see what can be done about it - I will figure something out. Sorry for splitting this into two parts but I couldnt possibly edit an 1 hour+ video like this. I know this make the topic so far a bit history heavy - I will talk more about the science next time.
you make banger videos
Semangat, waiting your next videos
Take as long as you need, can't rush art my friend! I think I speak for us all when I say that a longer wait is more than worth it for such high quality content. Splitting it into a two parter makes sense, I'm curious though, will there be an extended cut uploaded after they're both done? Or will they just be paired in a playlist or such?
Keep up the great work, this and your last channel very quickly became some of my favourites on the entire site :)
Thank you! you're very underrated!
Finally you're back. My most fave video is regarding Mt Baekdu in South Korea.
THIS!!! THIS RIGHT HERE!!! This is the type of content that used to be on the History/Discovery channel. This is the type of content that is missing so dearly on television. This is what they took from us. Now everything's a reality show.
Agreed 👍🏼
I hear ya. Discovery use to be a great place to learn. Now all you see is people trying to get rich by gold or booze.
But they have an explanation for these earthquakes.
Aliens - insert meme here
I miss old discovery channel
There is no way you made that comment on your own. Aliens helped you.
Educating people? Pfft, no. Let's fill everyone's brains with reality show BS, just to make us all dumber.
UA-cam needs more content like this. Thoughtful, high quality information without all the pandering and click bait.
I agree
Don't expect more of that considering the way UA-cam is going. I hate to say it but I believe the future of educational content will move to other platforms soon. Educational content can't succeed on a platform where there is no means of public criticism (ie. dislike button)
That will never happen.
Google is a business.
They stream line making money as the first priority.
The average person will not click or sit through quality content over click bait dog ass.
@@linuxguy1199 Nonsense. Educational content is thriving right now. Also, there is a massive means of public criticism, it's called a Comments Section.
When it comes to topics like history, science, and the like, a "dislike button" does not show you whether or not the topic is correct, it tells you if the topic and how it is being discussed is popular or unpopular. And not to steal a quote from a whiney manchild like Ben Shapiro, but facts don't care about your feelings.
If you disagree with something said in an educational video, write a comment. Make a response video. Write a blog post. Make a Twitter thread. Those are ways to provide constructive criticism.
All a dislike button does is have you say "I no liek!". And that, without context, is worth than useless.
That said, I like the dislike button, and have added an extension so I can still see dislikes. It helps with knowing whether a video is a scam or not. But it is useless when it comes to evidence-based topics like this.
@@piercepluenneke7438 But it is happening, right now. Channels like Our World, SciShow, and Your Dinosaurs are wrong get hundreds of thousands of views per video. PBS Eons, SEA, History of the Earth, and History Time get millions of views on their videos.
Yeah, some people watch mindless videos. Some people watch documentaries. SOme people watch videos discussing history and science. Some people watch art channels. Most people watch various different things.
It's OK to not watch educational content all the time. The audience is here.
Lot's of geologists chiming in, but as a historian, your use of primary sources is excellent. You've done a wonderful job putting the earthquakes in historical context.
Yes!
No mention of the change of History no because either you do not know history or are helping invent it shame on all of you no doubt you deserve what is coming to you.
well at the end of the day some stuff just links... Historical event Vs Geological types Vs Geological science... just like MCU right? #it'sConnected
@@mischelle9530 Yes!!! Burn the witches 🔥 🧙
@@Shadow__133 burn the witches or believers and say it happened to witches.
Drops 4 of the most fascinating video essays ever. Vanishes.
Hope you're ok, DD.
THEY got to him
this is the kind of content that deserves millions of subs. Keep up the outstanding work!
LaPalma could be the trigger causing a Tsunami on the East Coast USA.
LaPalma could be the trigger causing a Tsunami on the East Coast USA.
Yes he's good. New Zealand speaking; magnitude 6.5 is just a little quake.
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Why?
Yep this is going into my editing inspiration scrapbook
Your channel is awesomeness
Agree. Beautifully done.
What's that ?
Facts
Stellar editing
The quality of this is incredible. It's so close to being indistinguishable from a tv documentary. A proper National Geographic one at that. I don't know how many people worked on this, or for how long, but it's genuinely inspiring, educational, enthralling and enjoyable. It's amazing that this is UA-cam content! I really hope this channel gets the attention it deserves.
Agree.
I hope the creator of this is okay because this channel is top tier and it doesn't make sense that they would up and quit creating something so great.
It's a lot of work editing a video like this. Perhaps they just have other things they'd rather do. Content creator isn't the worst job in the world, but a skilled person can aim a lot higher than that.
Right tho! Dude made 4 videos and has over 12 million views... He needs a team to help keep this going!
@@justinmontgomery9526 he has another channel named facts in motion idk why he moved channels but he hasnt posted there in 2 years
"He died in COVID"😢
@@Celeste23235 That is indeed sad news. May he rip.
I have been an Earth Science Teacher for 30 years and this is some of the best content I have seen for this subject. Great Job! I look forward to part 2!
You brought back memories of the nun in my elementary school history class telling us about the New Madrid earthquake and how the river changed course. How Missouri and Illinois residents had lost or gained land based on the river change. She was so detailed and animated I was convinced she actually witnessed the event. She had documents, pictures and stories from survivors. I doubt teachers today are so intense or detailed in their history classes. Thank you for becoming the new 'teacher' and educating the public.
The quake made the river flow backwards creating reelfoot lake
..the lost land you speak of is Kaskaskia which was caused by separate event flooding.. and and when the river changes course the state does not lose that land, it just ends up in the other side of the river
@@leslietaylor4458 Not if you live along the Red River in Texas.
No... teachers today would explain this as caused by the white male , then make everyone fill with up with that most destructive of emotions, guilt
@@billwilson3609 you're telling me if the red river in Texas, if the river changes the land automatically switches over??? I just looked at a map and can see places where Oklahoma land is south of the red River. I live along the middle Mississippi so I can spot these examples quickly
@@MiyamotoMusashi9 Cancel earthquakes, they're racist.
Even as a retired emergency manager somewhat familiar with the dangers of the eastern seismic zones, I have to say this is the best briefing on New Madrid I have ever seen. I'm sending the link to some of my still active colleagues.
Sad to see this channel hasn't uploaded in so long, but even so thank you for such great content. Some of the best documentaries I've seen on youtube. I hope the creator is doing well with the other things in his life! Thanks for what you've made here :)
He just takes his time on his videos
@@badomen7199sadly I heard that he left UA-cam :(
made 4 videos and dipped, crazy@@niklassteinhauser5191
@@niklassteinhauser5191 from whom?
Ady why@@niklassteinhauser5191
I've watched this video several times now. Even if there isn't a part two, I'll be happy to remember this as one of the best documentaries I've seen. I hope the creator is well.
Same here. Although tons of UA-cam documentaries have great editing, not many have such a cool and unique subject and sources as this one
@@LoganNagol The "Hard Shock:" The New Madrid Earthquakes.
Was there a part 2 though?
Really?🥴
@@LoganNagolk
These are honestly some of the best produced and researched documentaries I've encountered - anywhere, let alone on youtube. Keep up the good work sir! I'm willing to wait as long as it takes for videos of this quality.
Let's took our time to appreciate this masterpiece documentary that has surpassed most conventional television documentary with far superior visuals and extensive information packaged in a beautifully crafted video.
That was indeed very interesting. Looking forward to part two and instant subscribe as well.
I absolutely agree! 💯
He did a wonderful job with this!
He's a very intelligent young American. Few in earlier generations spoke to efficiently with crystal clear accuracy like that and when we did, it just flew over everyone's head for as as kid, they all told me to slow down when I was explaining something in detail or rattling off a ton of academic nonsense. However, he's really good at public speaking and keeping a clear line of thought. The level of knowledge today is truly astounding and it takes only a minute to find information and learn something that used to take many hours in a library.
And the dramatic reading of the extraordinary eyewitness accounts!
Absolutely one of the best videos I have ever seen anywhere. Combining two of my favorite subjects, history and geology, in so integral a fashion that it pulls you along through the whole of it. This, along with the detail of research and evidence into what is practically unknown by most of the population, make it extremely valuable and informative and something that could actually help to prevent greater loss in the inevitable case that it happens again, whether sooner or later.
I wish that it were even longer and more encompassing like, a stand alone from the Great Courses.
The earth is getting ready for the big one. Read The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
I remember exactly where I was for the 2011 east coast earthquake. 4th floor in the student union in my college in south jersey. It was so sudden. The entire building began to shake. Chandeliers rocked back and forth. No one had any idea what to do. I thought stand away from the windows possibly? But that’s what I’d prepared for for tornados. After a minute it subsides and we rushed outside. Everyone looked so shaken up; clearly they had a lot on their plates, so I decided to crack a few earthquake jokes which they immediately found fault in me for. 🤷🏼♂️
Of course, you with the puns, even over here. It's a talent of yours certainly.
Good to see you Evan
Budum tiss
I was in upstate NY, mowing my lawn on a lawn tractor. Completely missed the whole thing...
@@NotMe6044 nice profile picture. I can see that you're a man of culture as well.
I was also in South Jersey when that happened. Out of all the possible reasons for my house to start shaking, an earthquake was the last thing I could think of. I remember the memes making fun of the East for freaking out over such a "small" earthquake-when California has deals with that magnitude of earthquake on a regular basis. While it was funny in the moment, I later found out just how far the damage reached.
The next town over had some historical buildings that were damaged from that earthquake. None of the buildings here were built to withstand earthquakes like that, so it makes sense that it was damaged. But given how far away we were from the epicenter, it was still surprising that damage still happened.
Trees flying through the air because of earthquakes, even if distance and size were exaggerated, that's pretty damn terrifying. Sand blows of that size are mind boggiling. I'd love to see GPR/Sonar scans of what is going on down there, but at those sizes and depths, we'd struggle to get a full picture of it.
I would imagine those trees were thrown by massive sand blows. Geologists figured that the ground shaking to the southwest got as far as the Ark-La-Tex where cypress trees lining the Red River fell into the water and got stuck together creating massive river rafts near Alexandria and Shreveport. The rafts became covered with sediment and vegetation so settlers used them as bridges for their wagons. The geologists also believe that Caddo Lake was created by the NM quakes.
Spoiler alert:
Really fucking scary shit is going on down there :D
I thought first, too, that the testimony they read out loud must have had been exaggerated, by either the original source or through "editorial liberties", shall we say - the latter was very common in newspapers of the era, after all. However, when they then went on to explain the sheer size of the sandblows, in particular when compared to more "normal" sandblows, I realised it might just have been more legit than I gave it credit for. Truly terrifying forces at play, there.
Eyewitness in 1811: "Whilst the trees rushed from the forest, precipitating itself into the water with force sufficient enough to have dashed us into a thousand atoms."
Eyewitness in 2023: "Da ground waz all like, tisk, i dunno, fookin' all like shakey n' shyte?!? And I be lyke, Daayymn!, Foool! Da phuuuck yo???"
I’m a lifelong Memphian who even studied geology at the University of Memphis. We did some digs on sand blows for a class in Craighead county Arkansas in I think 2003ish.… We were 8-12 ft below current ground level for the sand blows that developed during the 300 AD quakes. It’s beyond terrifying when you realize the scale and someone points out real life physical evidence of these massive quakes. Looking forward to the next part of this video series. I know we have a better understanding of what is going on geologically to cause such massive quakes here. Great video!
I was an inmate in Greenville Ms in 2011 and did emergency flood control work with the corps of engineers and the state of Ms on sandblows that were forming behind the levees on the Ms river when a lot of floodwater from thawing ice and snow from further north came down the river then. Seeing a phenomenon like that live was a once in a lifetime event.
I live pretty close to Jonesboro in Craighead Co. If the New Madrid decides to go again, that whole town will be destroyed. Same with Memphis.
@@zacharysmith4787 I used to live in Arkansas, in Jonesboro, and Rector, (my sisters still live in Arkansas) I now live in NC, and the New Madrid scares me greatly. I choose to subscribe to the theory that if the New Madrid ever goes BIG, Lake Michigan will drain into the Mississippi Bay. Which, regrettably, means everything along the Mississippi River Valley between the southern tip of Lake Michigan, and the Gulf of Mexico would be under water. I've been to Ephesus Turkey and seen what could happen to a city during an earthquake, but fear the worst.
@@earlwyss520 It looks like one of the embayment edges ends where the hills start near Pocahontas. So if your sisters ever need to evacuate, it sounds like they need to head towards Pocahontas and head northeast.
@@earlwyss520 The good news is the energy needed to open up that much rock would only be generated by the Earth crashing into another heavenly body. No amount of Earthquakes will cause this. As shown in the videos, part of the reason the New Madrid quakes can be felt so far away is because of the cold dense bedrock which is just going to ring like a bell versus rupture and crack. The Great lakes are above some of the deepest and thickest parts of the North American plate, with some of the northern parts in the Canadian shield being exposed to the surface nearly the same amount of time as Earth has existed.
The worst part about finding this channel is I'm still coming back a year later to watch these again hoping that one day he will return.
Same here, Worst part is UA-cam search can't even find it, I always have to find it on my history
@@martincosentinebaeza I struggle to find it on UA-cam's search function. I go to my list of subscriptions and Ctrl+F "Deep Dive"
I guess I should add that he had another channel before that, and there's no new content there for years either, so I guess it's not happening
@@jeffbenton6183 may i know what his other channel is please?
I remember playing outside as a kid and feeling tremors around 2011. my parents wouldn’t believe me since we lived in central Ohio. It was after that incident in which I started researching about fault lines in the eastern United States. Unfortunately all I could find was the term new Madrid fault line. Thank you for creating this video as it explained a strange childhood occurrence of mine.
I was in my grandmas appt in Michigan, and she lived in the top floor of the appt so it was bizarre when I learned what happened. It’s only a matter of time until an actual substantial earthquake happens somewhere in the Midwest
That’s so cool , I’m glad your childhood self got their question answered lol.
Can you check records in 2011 for seismological activity in Ohio? Even if it was a small earthquake, it was no doubt picked up by someone and recorded if it truly did happen.
I grew up in New England and we were taught about a dead fault called Minute Man Fault Line, but Ive never been able to find a source on it when I try to look it up
@@razrv3lc Good idea. My dear aunt in northeast Ohio said they were aware of several small earthquakes (4.2 +/-) when I asked her about the earthquakes I had read about on the news as a result of fracking. She said they noticed them, but they weren't troubled.
As an engineering geologist who cut his teeth in neotectonics in the intracontinental seismic zone west of the New Madrid in Oklahoma (Meers Fault in SW Oklahoma), I appreciated the historical quotes/details you presented. Comparing the SF earthquake to the 1811/12 events is not doing justice to them though. This is due to the population density differences -which you did mention. SF bay did not run backwards, new water bodies on the scale of Reel Foot Lake did not form, people were not only "not able to stand" but were violently thrown into the air during the New Madrid events. Chimneys in Boston were toppled.
I look forward to your second part with eager anticipation. (living in Illinois) Keep up the great work.
Greetings from Medicine Park.
What struck me in the first and second accounts was the amount of erupting material coming up out from underground, sending jets of material and even trees high into the sky. This seems like volcanic activity. The narrator skipped over quite a bit of the discussion of giant trees being uprooted and sent flying and of burning trees being sent sky-high and coal erupting out of the ground while giant caverns form. It made me think of plasma cosmology or electric universe theory regarding geology. A charge differential underground connecting to ions in the upper atmosphere.
Today,whats more SCARY,...is that there are all those NUCULAR POWER PLANT'S all along the MISSISSIPPI,etc..all the way to the OCEAN..!
@@Nphen oooookay. except for the geological and physics explanation for this--for which there was ample evidence provided and still visible today--of the soil liquifaction / blowouts. The aerial views of these blowouts and sand that spilled out, the visible craters. The archaeological evidence of similar craters in other cities... Probably the ground imaging radar evidence of the vents that led to these explosions. There is plenty we do not know, but going to the LEAST probable theories in the face of existing evidence that seems to be fairly well corroborated by empirical evidence does not make sense. If this was a massive electrical / ionosphere plasma event, there would also have been stupendously noticable and constant aurorae for the duration of weeks or months, along with the tremors.
@@gravityhypernova Wow you are wicked smart , not being a smart ass , I mean it ! So is Nathan ! Interesting conversation .
Given the 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria a few days ago, I have an even greater respect for what happened at New Madrid.
Your reading that boatman's newspaper clipping into the video was excellent. His descriptions were vivid, and helped me visualise much better what it must have been like. Hair raising.
You are excellent at making these videos. I will watch again and share them. Many thanks!
The "Hard Shock:" The New Madrid Earthquakes.
I was stationed in turkey during those quakes. Terrifying the ground groans like wood in a house
@@crazychase98 Ooh! That gives me goose bumps!
Hope you have a good Turkiye Day.
Fantastic information! As someone who experienced both the 6.8 Nisqually and 5.8 Mineral quakes you do an excellent job breaking down why the smaller Mineral quake felt so much more violent.
Ya, I was in Hawks Prarie less than a mile from the epicenter of the Nisqually quake.
Scariest moments of my life, but will soon be dwarfed by the upcoming Cascadia Subduction zone rupture.
Magnitude 9+
Hard to imagine over three thousand times bigger than our 6.8.
Stay safe an God bless 🙏😇♥️
I’m 50 yrs old, born and raised in Chattanooga, TN. and I’ve always found it pretty shocking how *few people* here are aware New Madrid fault line even exists or that there ever was a huge earthquake along the Mississippi River.
Sometimes, when you tell them about it, they just stare at you, big-eyed, like you’re growing a foot from your forehead.
We had a 4.5 just south of Watts Bar Dam a couple of years ago. I live 5 miles from the epicenter and I was laying in bed watching TV. I heard what I thought was a thunderstorm, then my bed felt like an air mattress floating on the lake. It was scary. Plus, the epicenter was about a mile from Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. That's scary, too. So they can happen around here, too!
There was a 4.0 that happened in southeast Missouri like a week ago, and EVERYONE felt that one, including myself in northeast Arkansas. I had heard reports that it was felt by some people several states away.
I lived in Chattanooga years ago and was almost at moccasin bend when a small one hit.
Because American typically, don't really have much general knowledge
@@zacharysmith4787 I live in Searcy and no one that I have talked to felt it. Someone I know from northern AR said they felt it though. The dog noticed it first. Then they felt it.
Your videos are simply outstanding.
What must be stressed I think is how much our modern day education system would benefit if people like you would make videos like this on everyday school subjects and topics.
After watching your video I can now confidently say I could explain to a friend what happened in 1811 in New Madrid, why it happened and why it’s still such a dangerous place for earthquakes. I mean, the fact I can remember these points after only watching a 30 minute video, compared to studying a boring textbook for 30 minutes just shows how humans learn and what works.
Imagine what society might be like if we consumed and made content more like this.
This video is very well done, thank you!
@@armandoa5787 - not as sad as your need to belittle them for it.
This kind of stuff is why I no longer watch tv. I haven’t seen programming like this in years.
Having lived in Mississippi my whole life, except for a year in Memphis, I was aware of a small amount of the details you provided. I even visited Reelfoot Lake one time. I enjoyed hearing the eyewitness account of those experiences. It must have felt like the end of the world for those closest to the event. Simply amazing!
I was really, REALLY hoping this channel wasn't dead. It's my favorite channel on all of UA-cam. Brilliantly crafted science videos explained with just enough detail and strung together with multiple disciplines in an organic fashion. This is what UA-cam was supposed to be built for.
I used to live around Reelfoot Lake that was formed by the third quake, and one of my jobs was telling people about how the lake formed. I am so excited to see people talking about the region and a fascinating piece of regional history that people don't know much about outside the area.
I just commented the same thing! I was born and raised in Martin, and we'd always take field trips out there. As an adult, I still go there all the time for the fishing and restaurants and even to visit the animals for the millionth time. You'd think everyone would know about an earthquake that is strong enough to create a permanent lake, but outside of our region, nobody's heard of them. It's wild.
I live in Martin right now and everyone knows this stuff and the earthquake room at the discovery park is something that we do when we go at our yearly trip 15 minutes over but it’s so cool to think that something sooo big happened in the tiny area we live in
I just was suggested this video and I loved it. I have missed these kinds of historical deep dives ever since I gave up cable for streaming services. Keep up the great work!
As a person that have lived most of my life near the New Madrid fault, this is a great explanation of what happened. Honestly, there is so much in this video that I was not aware of. I'm excited to see part 2!
Careful what you wish for lol
Hello I would just like to tell you that I am very irritated by the way your people say Madrid. I understand it is not your fault, but it is your fault if you say it that way
@@bencollier4254 Who are my people? I didn't know I had those.
But glad to see you Spanish conquistadors are still in the enslaving business. Very promising.
@@bencollier4254 Just because we use the name of Madrid does not mean we have to use the same pronunciation of it. Many names changed slightly in pronunciation going from one country to another. It does not mean they are wrong, just different. Also, "our people" are Americans and we can say it how we darn like.
@@bencollier4254 just to be clear, we say it like you do when we are referring to the city in Spain.
Also, it's not like it's a Spanish colony anymore.
You should hear the way some old southerners say, "Italian"or "Cairo". You would be appalled.
Language is alive and it grows and changes.
Please do not take offense.
I just did a graduate term paper on the Reelfoot Rift like a week ago! This is a great deep dive. I live in nearby Memphis, TN and one of the New Madrid faults actually travels through my city. The 1812 earthquake created a 12 mile long lake now named Reelfoot lake which sits directly on top of the most active fault in the rift and even made the entire Mississippi River run upriver! Its been long believed that eastern earthquakes are felt 10x more intensely than the earthquakes felt on the west coast due to the age of the rock layers east of the Rockies. Interplate earthquakes like these arent believed to produce monster 9+ earthquakes but I did a earthquake model of an 8.6 and all the structure between St. Louis, MO and Oxford, MS would likely receive major damage due to our lack of interest in retrofitting infrastructure. It a huge issue! Thanks for the video Deep Dive!
Yip, and that's when the Gulf of Mexico from New Orleans to south Texas looked like the Bahamas. All the brown silt and crap you see in Galveston is straight swill from every state that sits on the Mississippi starting in Minnesota...fertilizers, garbage, pee, all of it...goes south. They need to clean their crap before they dump it in the river to go south.
I am pretty sure the Hernando De soto Bridge is retrofitted
Why live in Memphis? Seems like a real problem for Memphis if this zone pops again
I'm so glad to see this event getting more attention! I never see it talked about.
Yes out of sight out of mind if people don't see it people don't think about it
Anyone else watching because of today’s east coast earthquake??
Yes!
Nope
@@rzn2258 okay 😀
I live in a high rise apartment building in Philadelphia and it shook like it was on rubber bands. It wasn't scary to me, but it was a strange feeling. 😮
I live in New Jersey about 5 miles from the epicenter. My apartment shook like Jello. We’ve been experiencing aftershocks since.
Just stumbled across this video and I gotta say, this is probably one of the best first impressions I have ever gotten from a youtube video. This is some fantastic work. The editing is extremely well done and it's clear to see how much passion and effort was put into it. The research and substance are spectacularly in-depth and thorough. Overall this is a great video from a soon-to-be-massively great channel. I look forward to your inevitable explosive growth, subscribed.
Go watch the other videos, they are likewise as magnificent.
I think I'm "snake-bit": born in Los Angeles, grew up in Missouri in the Bootheel, and now live in Central Virginia! At 84, I realize that I could have planned better. Kidding aside, this is a great presentation and answered many questions about living in seismic zones. Thank you. I'm looking forward to your next presentation.
Hey Grandpa!
I understand that sentiment for sure. Born in CA myself and relocated to about 75 miles away from New Mardrid MO. I had no idea at the time we moved here. They have been predicting another huge quake in this area for the last 30-35 years that I’m aware of. We get quakes occasionally, just had two small ones about two weeks ago.
Well hello neighbor, I'm in Central Virginia too in Orange County 🙂
@@peternorton5648 I was stationed at Eaker AFB near Blytheville Arkansas in 1990 when they predicted the BIG ONE was going to hit. I was Security Police, and was guarding Nuclear Alert B-52s at the time. Imagine the international horror of a country loosing several hundred Nuclear weapons in an earthquake.
@@earlwyss520 I couldn’t even imagine the cluster of that magnitude were that to actually happen. I go down past the old airbase occasionally it’s now a commercial air freight operation but it all sat empty for many years before that. It kinda made me sad to see.
Geology, biology, history, and logical well crafted videos that are enjoyable to watch from this channel. What more could one want? Excellent job once again!
More videos, is really the only thing I could ask for.
@@FlySuppaMayne
Madrid, Spain and New Madrid, Missouri are not pronounced the same here.
He's pronounced it correctly as far as us locals to the region are concerned.
@@WiseSnake Who the hell cares how he is proninounces it. vido/
This is Biblical Prophecy fulfilling itself in our very eyes.
@@FlySuppaMayne ELE FEZ O MESMO COM O TALIBAM AFEGANITAN . ME COLOCANDO NO MEIO DE UM FOGO CRUZADO . #
we miss you deep dive ❤
Ever since I've watched your video on Mt. Paektu, I've been looking forward for a brand new release. Everything is just so well-done, so well-researched that it makes learning these sort of things enjoyable and genuinely interesting. From the editing, writing, and even the sounds, they're all of high quality; especially knowing that only one person is behind these works. Genuinely thank you for making these sort of videos, hope you and your channel keeps growing!
Thanks for the lovely comment.
You've managed to present your content in such a manner that was captivating and incredibly informative. At the time of this comment I had just finished watching the video regarding the volcano that straddles China and North Korea. It is currently 0230 EST and I need to crash but wanted to write this in hopes that you know that your efforts are greatly appreciated.
It is so awesome when every now and then the algorithm pulls an absolute gem of a channel from the depths of UA-cam. Got recommended this video, subbed, watched all your videos in one sitting and can’t wait for part two!
Shame we never got a part 2 to this wonderful video. After this morning's quake in NJ, I came back to this for a refresher to dispel the chiding of Californians lol!
Can't wait for Part II. This was incredibly insightful and so well done, it didn't even feel that long.
I've lived in Indiana for 40 years and we've had 2 earthquakes in my lifetime originating from the San Madrid Fault. Last one was in the early 2000s and i remember it vividly. I woke very early in the morning, around 4am, which i rarely ever do. I had my window open and the birds had just began to start chirping with the sunrise. I got on my computer and was drinking my coffee when I noticed, strangely enough, that the birds had stopped chirping and all was quiet. It was very eery and was like the saying "A Deafening Silence." About 10 minutes later after noticing this my house shook violently and i thought my neighbor had run into my house with his truck. After a few seconds of constant rumbling i realized it was an earthquake. We had minor aftershocks all day that day and it was easy for me to detect them because i worked in a liquor store at the time and every tremor big and small was broadcast from the bottles on the shelves giving their reports. Pretty wild. I'd imagine we're likely due for another one in the next few years if i had to guess. one of these days it'll be "The Big One."
South Indiana?
@@4johnybravo animals all have a EQ detector... that's why some animals goes nuts pre EQ... (trivial fact: that "precognition" is also what is used in EQ warning systems especially in Japan, which is called P-wave )
@@4johnybravo Animals always sense danger. Stay woke!
@@4johnybravo I was in a loosely constructed bunk bed, and so I was awoken to being shook about half a foot back and forth. Was quite the experience.
I lived in Spencer. I was sitting in my desk chair and all of a sudden it started dancing across the floor and my waterbed went bananas. We had cracks in the walls and doors that wouldn’t shut after the quake.
From someone who grew up in the New Madrid seismic zone, one thing that gets brought up a lot to illustrate the damage to the area is the formation of Crowley's Ridge. It's a geological formation near Jonesboro AR that got pushed up due to strong earthquakes in the area (I forget precisely what year). The earthquakes in this region are no joke.
I sctually live in that area, town of Paragould
Thank you for referencing this... I looked up some topographical maps of the Crowley Ridge, which plainly display this ridge's island-like rise above the surrounding, flat embayment surface! Very dramatic!!
The town of New Madrid on hwy 55 has a rest stop there that is very interesting,, shows alot about the earthquake ..if you get a chance stop by there..
and see the fault lines.............
the nature center in jonesboro has a presentation on it (or did haven't been to it in the better part of 10 yrs)
just came across your channel and boy are your videos top notch in quality and content alike. The dedication you put ,surely ,reflects in the videos and justifies the channel subscribers even though it has just 4 videos. Amazing!! looking forward for more of such interesting and educating videos Roman.
Some of the worst earthquakes occur in parts of Asia, where the various faults associated with the Himalayan orogeny can produce MASSIVE earthquakes with epicenters very near populated areas instead of offshore. Of course subduction zone megathrusts can be pretty damn nasty with the tsunamis as well... in general earthquakes are just very dangerous, especially if an area is unprepared.
Yeah, the earth throwing an unexpected tantrum does sound like it would be dangerous
I remember the large quake in Japan a few years ago. It came from the ocean on their sea facing area, but much damage occurred as well as many deaths. The most worry is that it was off the coast that was a location of a plant that caused damage.
If you look at the fault structure in the Himalayas it actually still looks quite like a subduction zone albeit one where both plates are continental so the plate sliding below is still more buoyant than the mantle below just resulting in a pileup of continental crust. Thus many of the fault systems in the Himalayas are in effect a variation on a megathrust fault and so naturally are quite devastating not unlike their marine cousins. On the bright side at least they don't produce Tsunamis though the landslides and dam bursts are extremely dangerous too and can appear suddenly with little warning. Especially when much of the crust is quite "gooey"
under all that heat and pressure.
@@Dragrath1 There are even a couple very odd volcanoes up on the Tibetan plateau
Still wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the PNW when the Cascadia subduction fault line finally goes.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the abundance of detail the man on the river went into, and to have that account survive!
Total mad lad must have been scared out of his wits.
Definitely not living in the TikTok / Twitter era of 144 characters.
I'm waiting as patiently as I can for the conclusion of this video. I've been fascinated about this incident since I was a child almost 40 years ago. This is fantastically done, and your efforts are surely appreciated by the community. Thank you for your efforts!
That was 5 months ago so I'm thinking we won't get a part 2. 😞
@@ipickedsomething 10 months since original video
@@kevinvideos7020 More than a year
@@adrienaugustin6520 I know, it's heartbreaking because this channel showed so much promise.
Are you still waiting??
Would love to see an update about the earthquake in New Jersey today!
My stress level dropped exponentially when he explained his pronunciation of "New Madrid"
I was going to say that lol
He said it perfect
There’s also a town in IL close to southeast missouri called Cairo - it’s pronounced “Kay-row”
@@adley.j I'm from East Prairie MO and you are right not Ki row but Kay row..lol im about 20 miles from cairo and 15 miles from new Madrid lived here all my life
I’m from Lilbourn, which is just a few miles West of New Madrid, and he pronounced it perfectly. It’s the only reason I came to the comments, lol
Dude you need to upload more frequently. Your channel is a gold mine!
As a geologist, I appreciate the attention to detail in this video. You explain every concept, correctly and informatively. Unlike a lot of other videos, this one gets all the right points across effectively. For example, in the video you say "boundary zone", which is more correct than a boundary line since plate boundaries consists of many micro-faults over a given area, which collectively make up the plate boundary.
Oh no I was looking for part 2 😭. This was an amazing video. Take your time and I hope you’re well creators of the video !:)
One thing not mentioned here were the smells that occurred during these quakes. There were many accounts of foul smelling odors and gas release from the ground and from the water released by the sand blows. I imagine it would be quite horrible as all that decaying wet organic matter trapped under the river and under all that sand in clay would generate a lot of methane, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, etc. It would all mostly be absorbed by the water but once the water is not under pressure from being deep in the earth its all going to be released at once like opening a bottle of shaken up of soda. I would not be surprised at all if some of the releases accumulated up enough in some places to be toxic to people but didn't kill anyone just due to how few people were around then. That is most certainly not the case today though.
The phenomena you describe is actually very real, and did in one instance of catastrophe kill over 1700 people.
It was a deep lake, somewhere in Africa I believe, where gasses - in particular, CO2 - had accumulated at the bottom, but due to the high water pressure, was kept in solution in the depths. Something, they're not quite sure what exactly, disturbed it. (Could be an earthquake, a landslide, plenty of things.) The lower waters were mixed up into the upper layers, resulting in the pressure decreasing rapidly, and immense amounts of non-breathable gas came out of solution and rose to the surface. To make matters worse, CO2 is actually heavier than air, meaning that concentrations of it will cling to the surface for some time before dispersing.
So the gas erupted from the lake, and came creeping like an invisible cloud of death beyond the banks, and into the villages beyond. People and animals alike were just asphyxiated where they stood, leaving a scene of bodies and carcasses having seemingly just dropped dead everywhere.
Edit: Joe Scott made a great video about this (here on UA-cam), titled "... And Then 1700 People Died." Can recommend.
The moment you mentioned that the Basin is basically just a giant sand pit, I knew exactly where you were headed.
Liquefaction is horrifying.
I was glad to see this coverage as someone who has been nervous about the Cascadia Subduction zone for a few years. I guess even if it spits out a 8.5+ Richter quake it wouldn't compare to this long distance, sinking, explosion, etc. stuff.
The greatest damage in the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 (the World Series quake, which I felt in sacramento, 120+ miles away, was in the landfill areas of SF, especially in the Marina district. We visited months later and many cracks were noted in sidwalks and buildings. The San Andreas is overdue for a big one. The 1916 quaked displaced the earth by 16 feet in the Point Reyes area. There is an 'Earthquake Trail' in the National Seashore which shows it. Fascinating.
@@coopergates9680 You need to be concerned about Mt. Rainier.
Most of the sand is gone. Its the fissures that are more worrisome if it were to happen again.
@@coopergates9680 same, but i personally dont believe in it anymore. its all fake news lol. i havnt felt a single earthquake since the one in like 2000
Yes! I've been waiting so long for a new upload from this channel. I found the video about Mt Paektu at random and was completely blown away by the production quality and level of research. I've watched the other two videos as well and was dying for more. What's more, this is the type of topic I personally enjoy the most. I'm so excited to watch this.
In case you don't know, the same guy used to publish similar videos on another channel called Facts In Motion. Well worth checking out.
@@asdu4412 thanks! I'll go take a look
Great video. Hope the creator of Deep Dive is doing well. Would love to see more!
Good work, Deep Dive. I live close to the epicenter of the 2011 Va Quake and did a lot of study about it afterward. Because of the density of the soil in this area, I came to the conclusion that the East coast wouldn't need a quake too much stronger than the one in 2011 (5.9) to do a lot of damage all up and down the East coast - damage that would occur especially because no buildings are designed for it. There are quite a few old faults in the area around that quake that are considered to be of little consequence but... you have to wonder about that as well. I also remember reading about 1-2 years later that seismologists began to consider the area a bit more active and consequential than previously thought. If I remember correctly, they attributed the 2011 quake to land movement over old mountain ranges.
This topic has come to mind lately as there have been some small rumblings just recently around South and North Carolina. I kind of get a feeling we may feel something again over the next year.
I was on a hill at the time and could hear the shockwaves traveling up the valley. I thought maybe a passenger airliner was heading for the house. Nothing made sense for about 8 seconds and then the house started to shake. Was quite the experience.
As someone that witnessed the shaker of 2011 personally, I remember I couldn't sleep right for a few days while dreading an aftershock. I was that paranoid.
@@runezunn6655 I slept through that itty bitty shaking in 2011.
@@brandondavis7777 Some people slept through it, some didn't. I'm not used to earthquakes so that's my story.
I really liked reading your comment
I remember it too. I was in school at the time. Was in Drama class, meanwhile the High school collapsed nearby. It was terrifying.
Being that my hometown is just a few miles from New Madrid in Missouri, I can confirm that there is a kind of ominous legend surrounding the earthquakes, and the topic of when the "big one" may happen again is pretty common. Great video!
actually having lived in New Madrid, it was always a thought in the back of my head.
From there
Is it pronounced Mad-rid or Ma-drid?
It will catch ppl off guard.
I have family in Tennessee, and it really is a concern. The truth is, it will happen again! No doubt!
Could be in two years, could be in 100. It’s a surprise quake.
@@KelseyDunlevy mad rid. New Mad rid.
This was amazing. Just randomly popped up in my feed and I was entranced by research done. I feel like the people who wrote those articles 210 years ago were speaking directly to us, you did a fantastic job.
Also living in Kansas City, I distinctly remember that 2016 earthquake. It is the 2nd I've felt in my life, the first being in Melbourne Australia in 2009. I can't wait for Part 2!
I was in the Alaska earthquake back in 1964, I think It was, and it was something to behold. We lived in between two canyons. And had a view of a Finger of land that extended about 1mile out from the ground. It had a large hotel at the end, some boat docks, and a bunch of fish and crab canneries on it so the boats would be able to unload their cargo to them. And while we were watching, we slowly watched the land start to sink in the water. Until It almost disappears. Thankfully the boat owners could get their boats heading out to sea two rides out the waves and any tsunami. About that time, the middle of the inlet split down the middle, and the water separated, rolling back from one side and then the other.! then smack the two sides came together, and a tall geyser of sand ejected. The rolls just kept on rolling, each one in their direction. My brother hollered that the other canyon had a giant caterpillar rolling down the mountain, I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. It took days before we saw dad again. No phones back then.
ELE PODE ARMAR TUDO CONTRA NOS . E SO ME DAR UM TOK . PORQUE QUEM TEM NA MÃO A SOLUÇÃO TEM A SAIDA . #
@@lindawarnke5150 E BOATO DIZ ELE BIDEN . EU TENHO AGORA TESTEMUNHAS COM O MUNDO INTEIRO DESTE BOATO QUE PODE MOSTRAR E DELATAR . SOBRE OS DIREITOS HUMANOS . DESTES BOATOS .#
I slept through the 2016 earthquake. I woke up a few minutes after it happened to a huge number of text messages about it.
Deep Dive where are you? Where's part 2? This videos are amazing 😭
I remember when that earthquake hit Virginia in 2011 and honestly it was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced. I was napping so its kinda surreal to wake up to your entire bedroom shaking. A family friend had her concrete porch and wall of her house crack because of it. It was so damn weird.
Bro: Stop shaking the house, dude!
Me: HOW THE F@CK CAN I SHAKE A HOUSE!?
I remember when an Earthquake hit Kentucky. It was several years ago, but we felt it up here in Southern Ohio. I was in a bank at the time lol. That was the last Earthquake around here i believe.
That was August 23rd, 2011, my 60th Birthday, I am in PA
I remember that earthquake. We felt that all the way up in Harford County Maryland. I know Washington DC got hit pretty good.
I really enjoy how the animation slides gracefully from one thing to another instead of harsh jump cuts. It is a pleasure to watch and relaxing for the eyes. So sick and tired of jump cuts every few seconds, I swear it has to cause attention deficit. That's before I even get into the research, fantastic! Not many have heard of the New Madrid quake, much less the crazy stuff it did. Maybe most heard the Mississippi flowed backward, but few know why
I'll tell you what I would not be in D.C. Durring one.
vidio/
The MTV era editing has made a mess of younger minds and created much worse focused attention.
Another top tier informative video that I would honestly pay for but is instead free. Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone
When are we going to get part 2? I know these great documentaries take a very long time to produce because their quality is bar none, but it's been a year! Thank you for pt 1!
Wondering the same thing.
Give him a chance. He already told us that he is having computer problems. He said when he gets them straightened out he will work on the next part. Please be patient.
@@RissaFirecat because computer problems take over a year, of course. Hopefully his computers stop having problems and start working in the next 5 years or so. I'm not being impatient I'm just wondering when the next one is coming.
maybe hes been warned off not to do it
@@RissaFirecatdude your delusional, there won't be a part 2 or another upload. He's moved on, you should too
Five stars. An EXCELLENT video, better in terms of intelligent writing, well done and thorough research, and a lack of hyperbole and exaggeration putting it head and shoulders above most documentaries available anywhere.
One of the best videos I have seen in a long time.
I love how informative and to the point your content is, unlike others who focus more on being as overly annoying as possible. Can't wait to see part 2!
Heck yes! You may only upload a couple times a year, but they're some of the best uploads of the entire year every time!
Such great quality and always interesting topics nobody else knows much about in such great detail, I always look forward to watching!
Dude ive been on youtube for the past 6ish years and this is ultimately what I want to see from this site. Well done on the video, truly informative and pleasant to watch
Astounding work. This is as professional and well done as ANY broadcast documentary I've seen. The New Madrid fault has fascinated me for decades, and this video certainly scratched that itch. Thank you, and Sub'd!
As a geologist, this is very well researched and thought out. Can't wait for part two!
Amazing content! Can’t wait for part 2
I’m on the central Jersey coastline, and in the months after the earthquake in Virginia, there were several small landslides in the town that I worked in (and for), and another in the town in which I lived. This is in an area that had not seen frequent landslides before or since. When we mentioned that to the inspector/surveyor who had come to assess the situation, our mention of the earthquake was basically shrugged off. Not in a malicious way. Just in a dismissive way in which it wasn’t worth contemplating due to being so outside the established realm of consideration. This is an area with coastal hills on relatively loose soil moored by woodlands, so there is some erosion that occurs over time, but nothing on a scale that occurred after that earthquake. As someone who saw those hills close up every day and helped manage the land for the town, I personally think the two are related, though it would be hard to make more than a circumstantial case to the USGS, and to be fair, we didn’t plead with the surveyor at the time.
Bro I'm in NJ too. 609 area code?
We are only dimly aware of what goes on beneath our feet and little curiosity - billionaires vacation in the heavens, they do nor burrow sadly - new ideas progress slowly, especially scary ones!!! Good luck man and avoid the hills!!
I just bought a book about this.
I ...enjoyed... the 1994 Northridge quake at close range (about 10 miles)... my trailer literally hopped up and down by about 6 inches for around 20 seconds, but miraculously did not come off its blocks. (I was parked on exposed bedrock.)
Yea a whole bunch of landslides occured like days after because a hurricane/ tropical storm came through, also there's literally a database of all the landslides in the us location mapped by location as well as any relevant information, and its not like there was a lack of lanslides around the state in 2011 but yet there are none actually from the time the quake happened. Still it doesnt seem like they are particularly rare in the state either since theres 345 recorded in the last 150 years or so. But if you want to find more than circumstantial evidence as to what caused those landslides I'm sure they are recorded on that map, but I would suggest checking the weather before they happened specifically in regards to rainfall for a period of time before and see if the area had received above average amounts in the months before. If it doesnt ad up then theres more evidence on your theory!
Man these are the type of videos I crave on UA-cam, I have minimal background with this sort of stuff but I love watching videos of random topics just because they are interesting. This is exactly what I look for! Been a year since your last video but would love to see more
This video is what the internet was intended for. Entertaining and thought provoking knowledge. Amazing job. Can't wait for Part 2.
It is refreshing to see a well made documentary.
11:24 That’s actually pretty cool that he mentioned being “dashed into a thousand atoms”, considering that Dalton’s atomic theory had only come out a few years before this statement was made in 1803.
That would be the more modern chemistry view on the atom. The idea that matter was comprised of tiny indivisible parts has been around since the ancient Greeks in the 5th century BCE.
The word atom before atomic theory just meant tiny bits. That's why the atom was called the atom, it was tiny bits.
I wonder how much was artistic license on the part of the reporter and how much was the words of the sailor. Papers tended to have quite flowery language in that era.
I first read about this when I was a child. The one thing that really drove home the magnitude of this, was when I read that the aftershocks we're so severe, and went on for so long after the initial quake, that people cut trees so they fell in East/West directions. Then when the aftershocks began, they would jump onto the trunks. Because they had observed that when cracks would open up in the ground, they would run North/South. This provided some safety against being swallowed up in the earth when the cracks closed back up again.
And those were just the aftershocks.
That's brilliant!
yes most people having never been in a earthquake don't realize it's not really the ground shaking it's that the ground becomes like liquid. Think Dune when the worm comes and everyone is just sinking into the sand...that is what is happening to the buildings just less and in pulses.
Such interesting information, and how brilliant these people were.
@@robertstutesman7764 it depends on the soil type, but often earthquakes do not lead to liquification.
@@triciac1019 Well the ones who weren't brilliant didn't get to write their accounts.
Please where is the next deep dive video! I think I’ve binged this video like 12+ times now. Dying for more Deep Dive videos
I'm patiently awaiting part 2. This is a wonderful explanation of the New Madrid Fault. It's the first time I've heard the first hand accounts of what happened. Great narrative, directly to the point, and a wonderful learning experience. Thank you!!!
This is easily one of the most impressive and interesting video-essays I've seen so far. Such incredible data analysis and visualization with a great explanation. Incredible!
My wife is from California and when we lived in Tennessee, she told various people that it was more dangerous to have an earthquake here. We even felt one when we lived in Clarksville.
I just discovered your channel. I love all your videos. I can't wait for part two in this series! I especially loved all the primary sources.
This is a great documentary that I will try to show colleagues. I am an architect in Tennessee who has known for many years about the New Madrid earthquake danger and how under-prepared Memphis and our state is for a future quake. This documentary is needed to wake people to reality.
Suffice it to say, Memphis is pretty much doomed should another big one hit.
@@SupersuMC along with alot of other states i mean those quakes can be felt as far as Maine
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See John Kilpatrick prophesy or John Paul Jackson prophetic headline. When American politicians stick their noses into Israeli business and divide their land, God will split America. Out of the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, let everything be established. It's not a matter of if, but when.
I was working in Charleston, WV in 2011 and not only felt the earthquake, but it shook the building I was in enough to believe a truck or heavy piece of equipment which was doing work outside had hit the building. While ultimately there was no serious or obvious damage done in my area, to think this was from an earthquake some 200 miles away *and* from a relatively small quake measuring just 5.8 is kinda terrifying.
I am in DC and can assure you if that quake had lasted more that a minute, my rowhouse would have collapsed. The east coast is skating on very thin ice when it come to earthquakes.
I’m in Northern Virginia, closer to that quake epicenter and I legit thought we were under attack until I felt the ground move. You could hear the roar of the quake before the movement. It was insane.
@@ceciland18 I lived there when it happened, close to Richmond. That was the freakiest thing that's ever happened to me!! Freakier still was how long it lasted. Started soft, got worse and worse over a few minutes and slowly rumbled for a while AFTER that. My mom described it like a helicopter had landed on the roof.
@@ceciland18 When the quake started I wonder why is the trash trunk was speeding down our very narrow and short street.
I was working at an airport in Greenville, SC in 2011 when the Virginia quake hit. It felt and sounded like a large jet had landed. When I quickly left one job in a hangar to park the jet... It wasn’t there! The Control Tower reported the quake within a few minutes and that settled that... A few weeks later another quake hit (a relatively local epicenter confirmed on tv just hours later). It felt like an airliner had flown just a few feet above my apartment.
I was in school in NC and the teacher tried to say the earthquake was just from the construction going on nearby. The shaking lasted way too long to be due to any large construction equipment and with no noise from some horrible accident it was clear that it was an earthquake. I heard about the VA earthquake later that day on the news which confirmed it.
Super weird to experience and for a science teacher to not even recognize it as an earthquake lol
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Definitely would like to see the part 2 for this!
The New Madrid area still gets multiple earthquakes every year just not this severe. Surprisingly states like Indiana and Missouri have earthquake drills in schools and some work zones just in case it ever gets bad.
I made my son and daughter in law agree to maintain earthquake insurance on the their house. They laughed until a year later they felt the earthquake. Phone call was quite interesting.
I live in western KY and felt one back in 08 while in a grain truck after we dumped grain. I thought my dad jumped in the back and shook the truck, but he didn't come back out until 10 minutes later and asked if I felt the quake. We had drills in school as well
I live in southern Indiana and we didn’t have earthquake drills in school. I’m not even sure if I’ve ever felt an earthquake honestly.
I'm from that area (about an hour north). We started doing that when I was in school back in the '90s. A 4.6 earthquake struck that year - still the strongest I've ever felt, and boy did we notice it....
@@spockgirltrekkie8226 that’s crazy cause I live in the Kansas City metro and we had to and you’re closer by far so maybe it’s just a Missouri thing
It's wonderful how high quality this is, you take the time to talk in astonishing detail without cutting topics or explanations like other channels do, and I love that
I'll be waiting for part two
This content is very timely for me, I live close to New Madrid and experienced my first 4.0 earthquake a few weeks ago. Many people that didn’t grow up in the area had no idea that earthquakes were even a possibility in this area.
I'm from Pocahontas and that earthquake was the first one I had ever felt. Talk about a new situation!
That quake a couple weeks ago felt like deep rumbling underground to me. Back in the 90s, there was another quake that felt like a giant slammed a fist into the ground. I was just a kid but I remember it being very sudden and sharp.
I lived in East St. Louis back in the late 60s (1968) when early one morning we felt the ground shake and were thrown out of bed. Very frightening. The epicenter was Dale, Illinois It ended up being a 5.4 mag.
With all the chemical plants now in the area even one of that magnitude would be a disaster today.
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The Appalachian mountains were once larger then the Himalayas. They didn’t get that big by sitting still.
@@zacharysmith4787 first for me also, I was only a couple miles from the epicenter. I think my kids are traumatized
You did a phenomenal job on this video... research is key and you seem to have nailed it.
Growing up in the New Madrid seismic zone and living here still today, thank you for bringing attention to a little discussed area and event.
Do you pronounce Madrid the same way as in this video? asking since you live there.
It is more closely pronounced as New Mad Rid. And not like Madrid, Spain.
@@Toronto_downtown Yes it is pronounced the way the video creator says it. My source is growing up and living in Missouri. It's very weird, but that's just how it is.
We need more content like this on UA-cam. Don't worry about splitting up the videos, since longer videos might scare off viewers who might not have time to watch for an hour or more at a time. I can't wait for part 2!
Reminds me of my younger years back when television actually used to show decent documentraies. Exceptionally well-crafted, good sir. Very much looking forward to part 2.
Hi..just stumbled upon this...I couldn't stop watching...things I never knew in any History classes in school..Thank you for the knowledge and cant wait to see part 2
I’m sitting here drinking water from the aquifer that you mentioned. This was a very well done dive into the history. Growing up I recall 1 earthquake that we had, 60 miles from New Madrid, in cracked some wallpaper. The scary part are the stories from those who lived through the 1811-1812 quakes, they said that you could stand on a hill and watch the tremor roll across the land, moving the hills themselves. I wonder if that was from sand blows that didn’t explode.
Some of this stuff sounds like what I imagine super volcanos do.
The naturalist John Audubon was staying with a Kentucky farm family during the New Madrid earthquakes. Said he observed the corn fields from his second floor bedroom and said they rose and fell several feet like waves in the ocean.
I was only 13 and home alone for the 2011 earthquake. We lived on a dead-end road, and my first thought was that someone was very violently trying to break into the house. As a kid who’s only lived in Pennsylvania, earthquake wasn’t even on my radar as a possibility. Fantastic research and presentation - instantly subbed and looking forward to more!
I can't help but laugh at that, I'm sorry. I've never experienced an earthquake here in Alabama but the air force base nearby set off an explosion or some kind of sonic boom that shattered the windows of the section 8 housing nearby. That's the closest I've ever been, I was probably less than 12 years old. I was the only one of my four siblings to stay home that day because I was super sick. I remember mom telling me not to move until she put on her shoes so she could pick me up from the glass. I was too scared to anyways lol
@@ItBeThatWaySometimes Felt it in Toronto. Every single floor joist creaked at once
I was 12 at my friends house jumping on the bed in NY. We didn’t even notice because we were jumping so much. Whoops.
I suppose most people have nominally heard of the New Madrid earthquake, that "changed the course" of the Mississippi River. This presentation puts everything in perspective in terms of how much, how far and why. I don't suppose anything this informative was available in my late 60's and early 70's school aged years, but I thoroughly understand and appreciate the knowledge now. As a retired over-the-road trucker, I've driven all over that area likely a hundred times. Since geology has always fascinated me, I would have liked to view that area and recognized the tell-tale signs almost 200 years later. Whatever production Issues you experienced did not diminish the value of the content whatsoever! I'll be looking forward to further opportunities to learn from your programs. "Rock" on!
I didn’t learn about the New Madrid earthquakes until I was an adult. I remember staring at a book about it and wondering why I had never learned about this in school. I graduated in 2002.
God bless truckers! My job would be impossible without them!
@@kittybitts567 I don't think God is blessing any one of us who drives & pollutes His creation, but hey, you do you.
@@bordershader it's just so happens that USGov chose trucks as primary goods transport. All logistics guys are unsung hero (except that deliveryman who kicked my parcel)
@@bordershader Oh good grief.. Lol
This was truly a Deep Dive into the subject. Electrifying, expansive, breathtaking. I have had my consciousness raised. I take my hat off to you for the amount of research, clarity, and organisation of information you have provided. Many thanks!