I happen to be a professional seismologist researcher who hates to leave his mothers basement. This is an unbelievable opportunity for me. Thank you for this.
@devperzero A magnitude 7 in the Richter scale earthquake generates waves with around 2 million gigajoules of energy, if I still remember it correctly. To put that in perspective, that's the equivalent to 2 petajoules, which is 2 megatons of explosive power. The biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated (Tsar) had a force of about 50 megatons, or 50 petajoules of energy in the moment of the blast. A scale 7 earthquake releases around 5% of energy compared to the Tsar bomb multiplied by thousands of times during those 30-60 seconds of earthquake, since the earthquakes are compiled by seismic waves (imagine the water waves when you throw a stone, each wave has that amount of energy). If you want yet another perspective on the other side of the scale, the nuclear bomb dropped in Nagasaki during WW2 had roughly 20 kilotons of energy. That's 0.02 megatons, which is equivalent to 1% of the energy released by each wave, so you'd have to drop 100 bombs that were dropped in nagasaki to create the force that a single seismic wave has from a scale 7 earthquake. That's the amount of force needed to create this. The scariest thing is that a scale 7 is not scary at all if you compare it for example to a 7.5 or even an 8. The biggest recorded earthquake was a 9.5 in 1960 (in Chile, I believe). The richter scale works like this: Between whole numbers, the amount of energy is multiplied by roughly 32 times. So a scale 8 would be around 64 million gigajoules and a scale 9 would be around 2 trillion gigajoules, or 2000 petajoules. That's the energy equivalent to, PER SEISMIC WAVE, the explosion of 100 tsar bombs OR 250 THOUSAND Nagasaki-like bombs. And that's a 9, not a 9.5. It's insane. You can get somewhat specific if you take the geology factor in, but I'm not from New Zealand nor I know their geology, so I'll stick with this. I answered your question with a line and got a bit excited. Sorry guys :P
Crazy thing is, compare the thickness of earth and water. There's only a few % of water on earth even less fresh water. And its still massive and dangerous to us. You got to respect the raw power of earth. 😁💪
Awesome video for an awesome event. Thank you for explaining that fault scarp, I'd been looking at the aerial images for the last week or so and I couldn't quite wrap my mind around it being uplift and not man made... Strange, I know, but from the air it looked like a concrete wall.
This earthquake occurred on the 14th of November 2016 local time when the day was barely 2 minutes old. Local time was 1 hour ahead of UTC so 11:02pm on the 13th of November 2016 UTC.
Fault propagation the speed the rock initially breaks along the fracture, much like how fractures in glass propagate faster then the eye can see. Only after the crack has formed, the rock on either side of the newly formed fracture can start to move, at a slow walking pace, forming the fault scarp. The velocity of crack propagation is approximately the speed of sound in rock (or indeed glass). Also, interestingly, the reason a balloon pop is so loud is not just because of the sound of escaping air, it's also due to the ripping of plastic that happens at supersonic speed (this creates a sonic boom like how a whip cracks).
Are there any videos that show the mass of land moving upwards? Doesn't have to be from the New Zealand earthquake, in general are there any recorded on video?
just a tiny example of what can happen....this is uplift. there can also be subsidence, where the ground drops metres at a time...2 and half to 6 or more !! Nature Rules !!
Well, it's more of a perspective thing. Imagine ants on a big rock plate that suddenly moves and ruptures and raises in a portion. From their perspective it takes a HUGE force,from ours...doesn't. So this time we are basically the ants on the rock that are amazed of the force but actually it's " normal " if we think how small we are compared to earth and the power of it.
Hi! I know that number sounds impressive, but in reality all it is the speed of sound in that medium. For example if you had a kilometer long wooden stick with point A being the end you're holding and point B being at the end of the stick. If you then suddenly moved point A forward by any amount, it would take a little bit less than 1/3 of a second for the movement to propagate through the stick to point B. (For reference, the speed of sound in wood is anywhere between 3,300-3,600 meter/second.) This is exactly what is happening with tectonic plates in an earthquake. While, I haven't formally studied plate tectonics yet, that's next semester, I think I can help give you a better understand of what is actually going on. Let's say that the hypocenter is 3km away from the epicenter and moves 3 meters in 10 seconds. 0.3 m/s is 1.08 km/hr. The speed at which this movement will propagate through the land is much greater than 1.08km/hr, it is in fact roughly 3 km/s. If it was 1.08km/hr it would take a little less than 3 hours for the movement make it's way through 3km of earth. In reality, the propagation of the movement happens all in one second. When point A starts moving at t=0s, point B will start moving at t=1s. When point A stops at t=10s, point B will stop at t=11s. I hope this clears up any misconceptions!
In 1000 years someone will say that it took 100 million years for that to raise 3 KM! Then someone will come along and say it only took one second! In the conversation will continue with it being stated that the earth is only 7000 years old. Another person chimes in and says the earth is billions of years old and it takes millions and billions of years for these things to take place! Really?🤔
GOOGLE Mountains built within minutes take thousands of years to crumble IS mountains continuously rising for millions of years Human cattle robotically repeats it despite what they see: Large chunks of the Alps falling on an almost daily basis, as the Alps and all other mountain chains are reduced at an increasingly faster pace.
From China landlsides to New Zealand's earthquakes: echoing the sound of the last trumpets black-see-white.blogspot.com/2011/02/mountains-built-within-minutes-take.html
Hello, I work for Reuters and saw this video. Did you film this? If so we would love to include it on our service with your permission. I'd be very grateful if you could email me at pola.grzanka@thomsonreuters.com . Thank you very much, Pola.
I happen to be a professional seismologist researcher who hates to leave his mothers basement. This is an unbelievable opportunity for me. Thank you for this.
No he reads non-peer reviewed news articles on seismologists whenever they happen.
He also watches youtube videos that feature seismologists when available, strictly for research I assume.
Imagine being there and seeing that happen - would have been incredible. Land rising in front of you in a couple of minutes.
Superb exposure. amazingly clear tectonic implications regarding abruptness of rupture and overall rupture mechanism. thanks for post
@devperzero
A magnitude 7 in the Richter scale earthquake generates waves with around 2 million gigajoules of energy, if I still remember it correctly.
To put that in perspective, that's the equivalent to 2 petajoules, which is 2 megatons of explosive power. The biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated (Tsar) had a force of about 50 megatons, or 50 petajoules of energy in the moment of the blast. A scale 7 earthquake releases around 5% of energy compared to the Tsar bomb multiplied by thousands of times during those 30-60 seconds of earthquake, since the earthquakes are compiled by seismic waves (imagine the water waves when you throw a stone, each wave has that amount of energy).
If you want yet another perspective on the other side of the scale, the nuclear bomb dropped in Nagasaki during WW2 had roughly 20 kilotons of energy. That's 0.02 megatons, which is equivalent to 1% of the energy released by each wave, so you'd have to drop 100 bombs that were dropped in nagasaki to create the force that a single seismic wave has from a scale 7 earthquake.
That's the amount of force needed to create this.
The scariest thing is that a scale 7 is not scary at all if you compare it for example to a 7.5 or even an 8. The biggest recorded earthquake was a 9.5 in 1960 (in Chile, I believe). The richter scale works like this: Between whole numbers, the amount of energy is multiplied by roughly 32 times. So a scale 8 would be around 64 million gigajoules and a scale 9 would be around 2 trillion gigajoules, or 2000 petajoules. That's the energy equivalent to, PER SEISMIC WAVE, the explosion of 100 tsar bombs OR 250 THOUSAND Nagasaki-like bombs. And that's a 9, not a 9.5.
It's insane.
You can get somewhat specific if you take the geology factor in, but I'm not from New Zealand nor I know their geology, so I'll stick with this. I answered your question with a line and got a bit excited. Sorry guys :P
Real MVP here.
Crazy thing is, compare the thickness of earth and water. There's only a few % of water on earth even less fresh water. And its still massive and dangerous to us. You got to respect the raw power of earth. 😁💪
Tnkx for explanation, to get a bit of understanding how much force u need to create. That's sick
Awesome video for an awesome event.
Thank you for explaining that fault scarp, I'd been looking at the aerial images for the last week or so and I couldn't quite wrap my mind around it being uplift and not man made... Strange, I know, but from the air it looked like a concrete wall.
1.5 meters? that's at least 2 meters, or that guy is really really short. for all you americans, 6 feet is about 1.8 meters
My thoughts exactly...
that happened so fast that the animals couldn"t move deeper in the sea ? scary shit...
farkin scary!
This earthquake occurred on the 14th of November 2016 local time when the day was barely 2 minutes old. Local time was 1 hour ahead of UTC so 11:02pm on the 13th of November 2016 UTC.
3 km/s!? I guess some fish are in orbit around the earth now.
Just looked it up, escape velocity on earth is 11.2 km/s
it was 3km/s horizontal speed along the fault, that's not the speed it moved upwards. Which would be much slower (but probably still quite fast)
Fault propagation the speed the rock initially breaks along the fracture, much like how fractures in glass propagate faster then the eye can see. Only after the crack has formed, the rock on either side of the newly formed fracture can start to move, at a slow walking pace, forming the fault scarp. The velocity of crack propagation is approximately the speed of sound in rock (or indeed glass). Also, interestingly, the reason a balloon pop is so loud is not just because of the sound of escaping air, it's also due to the ripping of plastic that happens at supersonic speed (this creates a sonic boom like how a whip cracks).
Are there any videos that show the mass of land moving upwards? Doesn't have to be from the New Zealand earthquake, in general are there any recorded on video?
none.
just a tiny example of what can happen....this is uplift. there can also be subsidence, where the ground drops metres at a time...2 and half to 6 or more !! Nature Rules !!
Awesome, I've never seen such a clear fault.
You should have seen the wasted sea life around the coast ,crayfish and paua (abalone) by the trailer load .
Wow! That would've been phenomenal to see in happen in person.
not advised tho xd
Over here, on camera, there's a meter and a half of uplift. Oh by the way over there, it's 6 meters. But we're not going to show that. Bye!
trust me there are places where theres numerous reports of up to 5.5m of uplift in places as well as 10m horizontal displacement in others too.
I believe it, but why not film that area!
you've misunderstood what he said he meant laterally
wow , how much energy(power) needs to this...??!! unbelievable
Well, it's more of a perspective thing. Imagine ants on a big rock plate that suddenly moves and ruptures and raises in a portion. From their perspective it takes a HUGE force,from ours...doesn't. So this time we are basically the ants on the rock that are amazed of the force but actually it's " normal " if we think how small we are compared to earth and the power of it.
Very cool!
3 km second :O
Hi! I know that number sounds impressive, but in reality all it is the speed of sound in that medium.
For example if you had a kilometer long wooden stick with point A being the end you're holding and point B being at the end of the stick. If you then suddenly moved point A forward by any amount, it would take a little bit less than 1/3 of a second for the movement to propagate through the stick to point B. (For reference, the speed of sound in wood is anywhere between 3,300-3,600 meter/second.)
This is exactly what is happening with tectonic plates in an earthquake. While, I haven't formally studied plate tectonics yet, that's next semester, I think I can help give you a better understand of what is actually going on. Let's say that the hypocenter is 3km away from the epicenter and moves 3 meters in 10 seconds. 0.3 m/s is 1.08 km/hr. The speed at which this movement will propagate through the land is much greater than 1.08km/hr, it is in fact roughly 3 km/s. If it was 1.08km/hr it would take a little less than 3 hours for the movement make it's way through 3km of earth. In reality, the propagation of the movement happens all in one second. When point A starts moving at t=0s, point B will start moving at t=1s. When point A stops at t=10s, point B will stop at t=11s.
I hope this clears up any misconceptions!
Tony Spalony
wow thanks
Thanks.
damn
That was such a clear fault o.O
Этоже мегалитическая кладка! Склярова на вас нет!
Cyka blyat rush B!
Does anyone know where this man's accent is from? Thank you in advance.
Pretty sure he's from New Zealand.
that is fucking... amazing and interesting
Уфологи будущего будут утверждать, что это рукотворная стена и то, что наши технологии не позволяли её воздвигнуть =)
Whoa!
the bikini bottom emerges
wish I could have seen this as it happened.
Zealandia rises again!
holyfuck man... scarry
In 1000 years someone will say that it took 100 million years for that to raise 3 KM! Then someone will come along and say it only took one second! In the conversation will continue with it being stated that the earth is only 7000 years old. Another person chimes in and says the earth is billions of years old and it takes millions and billions of years for these things to take place! Really?🤔
That's my hole - it's shaped like me!
drr drr drr drrrr
It's New Zealand's fault
That's some delicious lobsters!
ahi pueden construir mas edificios de la mision vivienda venezuela
gday bruce
How are ya bruce?
that's what happens its called LIFE
crazy fungirl Tectonic plates can do just fine without LIFE, you are wrong.
Bibble babble I mean it's called WORLD
это только начало!
whose fault is this?
What's caused it?
GOOGLE
Mountains built within minutes take thousands of years to crumble IS mountains continuously rising for millions of years
Human cattle robotically repeats it despite what they see:
Large chunks of the Alps falling on an almost daily basis, as the Alps and all other mountain chains are reduced at an increasingly faster pace.
From China landlsides to New Zealand's earthquakes: echoing the sound of the last trumpets
black-see-white.blogspot.com/2011/02/mountains-built-within-minutes-take.html
Hello, I work for Reuters and saw this video. Did you film this? If so we would love to include it on our service with your permission. I'd be very grateful if you could email me at pola.grzanka@thomsonreuters.com . Thank you very much, Pola.
Bugger all those spoilt Cray and a couple cod even. Arr
Some people know to much
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