- incorrect. 700 earthquakes are detected in UK yearly, but too faint to be noticed - Almost 25,000 wildfires fought in England during summer in 2022/23 there were 321 deaths from wildfires - Interactive map reveals the 68 volcanoes that once covered the UK. they are now dormant, but does not mean they cannot be active at any time. - the deadliest super volcano sits under Greenland, and it has been showing activity in several areas. if it erupts, we could see extinction of the human race. - when hurricane Katrina came it was devastating. there were no warnings from the states or the president that it was going to be that bad, no evacuation's. by the time it turned into a cat 5 it was too late. one area brought all of their homeless and people from the prisons and jails to the football dome to be safe,. water got in the dome, and drown them all. parts of Louisiana went under water, again no evacuations. youd be surprised how many people in Florida refuse to leave their home in hurricanes, and die in the place they refused to leave when something goes wrong. the damage everywhere was devastating. especially in the SouthEast. i spent that hurricane in Orlando, to look at it put the fear of God in you! - On average, around 30 tornadoes are reported in the UK every year, according to the Met Office. In comparison, the USA gets around 1,250 reported tornadoes in an average year. -
4:10 look up the San Andreas Faultline. There have been several movies with regards to when the high-tension faultline in California will "snap" and cause never-before-seen catastrophic damage. That's the "Big one" being referenced.
Californian here. The big one CA is waiting will be never-before-seen magnitude and is said will rip the state apart along the San Andreas Fault. Wildfires occur often, sometimes at a magnitude unimaginable. That is why we have Wildfire Season. I used to hike and camp Mt St Helens because I have family in the area. I was there for the main eruption. Life continues to return to the slopes of the mountain but geologists continue to watch its activity closely. Always had earthquake drills at school. They can be scary but, for me, the rolling quakes are the worst. It is really freaky looking at the street as it rolls like the ocean waves rolling to shore. Of course, homes rolled, too. Those nauseate me. Yet, I was never more scared than going to Florida to visit my daughter. Gators and large wild pythons just freak me out. Yep, CA seems safer to me.
Is not going to happen cause you guys have higher morals and superior Mother Nature previliges, it’s true, I Read it on one of your tags that read, this item is known to cause cancer in the state of California…
Never run away in a straight line from a gator. They're surprisingly fast! Zigzag to slow them down. They'll also eat anything, including golf balls. This is why they're sometimes found on golf courses. Leave them alone and you'll probably be fine. Pythons aren't a serious threat to adults since they squeeze instead of injecting venom. I'd be more worried about water moccasins/cotton mouths. Very much venomous. Also, as a general southern thing, never touch Spanish moss. It contains bugs that bite.
My home, Tallahassee, Florida had 3 tornadoes in one day recently. There was massive damage but no deaths. A couple of years before that a dear and precious friend had a tornado form in the yard in front of her rural home and totally destroyed everything. It dissipated in her back yard. A tornado hit my g’parents’ home in 1955, took out the two barns, smokehouse, 3 chicken houses and the tin roof of the house. They said it sounded like a train.
Glad you weren't hurt on may 10th. I'm in Wellborn and was taking video of the storm when the massive oak tree in my yard came down on my house. Miraculously, no human, cats or dogs were harmed. Since we're rural, no one played attention, but there was a line of destruction and on my vid you can see everything start to swirl, until the tree came down. Leon county at least got FEMA, and rightfully so. Happily, Hurricane Debby made the damage to my home worse and FEMA came through for me. Just got a new roof. 😂
I arrived at Tallahassee a several hours after the 3 tornadoes hit on May. Most of the rental cars were unavailable because of the aftermath, but thankfully we finally managed to get one during our stay. Unfortunately the apartment my mom amd I were staying in was mostly out of power, so we were in pitch dark rooms majority of the time during the evenings. I saw the extensive damage the tornadoes did, especially at Leon County. I only heard one woman died by one of the tornadoes. All the other casualties was the trees and some houses. It was my first time seeing the aftermath of EF3 tornadoes. I hope Tallahassee recovered since then.
The area is called the "Ring of Fire" because of geotectonic action that is rich over there. To the point where the residents are used to the activities.
If I remember correctly, we where taught in school that the Great Chicago Fire was caused by a cow kicking over a lantern and catching the hay/straw on fire in a barn. But that could've been the other great city fire who's name I cant recall, I swear I remember learning about at least two of them.
You remember correctly about Mrs O’Leary’s cow. That story has been proved questionable. FYI the Chicago Fire Academy stands where the O’Leary barn was. Ironic!
"We don't have tornadoes, we don't have earthquakes, OR volcanoes! What DO we have???" You my good sir, have wild hedgehogs. And I am insanely jealous.
Lawrence didn't mention the large quake in the San Francisco area in the 80's. Can you imagine crossing a bridge from Oakland to San Francisco and the bridge breaks and colapses into the bay?
That one was televised, sort of; it was the 89 World Series, and it was just scary to watch. The one that affected us in Las Vegas though, was the Northridge Quake in LA, 1994; "only" a 6.7, but it was so strong, it lifted me up and out of my bed, and that was about 300 miles away.
Adam, I'm 63 and I have been in 2 earthquakes, 3 hurricanes and have seen 4 tornados, 2 of which were on my property. I live in NW Georgia. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans my brother and I went there to help people. It looked like a nuclear weapon hit the place.
We have two currently burning in Central California. The Coffee Pot Fire near me (Tulare County) has burned 14,000 acres and the Boone Fire (Fresno County) has burned almost 18,000 acres.
MY dad and I were on Mt St Helens the day the glaciers and groundwater boiled. We had found logging roads that went around the Red Zone, and we were in an ash covered clear cut, up close where my dad put up his automatic shutter camera on a tripod. We would wear face masks and listen to the radio, toss a ball or frisbee. I was generally miserable from all the itchy ash, but it was the wilds, so there was lots of stuff to get up to beyond the clearing, too. We went up there every Sunday, like an ongoing documentation project, but this was a Thursday he had off from work and I had an in-service day from school. He was selling shots of the steam and ash puffs, and the slow change of the mountain, to one of the local newspapers (mostly to help justify all the money he'd spent). A new steam puff started and just kept going, and there was a rumbling so low that you couldn't hear it, only feel it in your feet and teeth. We got in the truck and got the out of there, and the steam plume just kept going up and up. I remember thinking that I hadn't realized how high 'up' actually went, because I'd never seen clouds go so high. When we got down to Cougar, Washington it was pitch black at 3 o'clock, with ash coming down everywhere like heavy snow and there was a massive traffic jam. Everybody thought it was the big one and that the mountain was exploding. There were police directing traffic for evacuation. We had put nylon over our air intake to keep out the silica ash since we went up there all the time, where there was a lot. But not everyone had needed to yet, so there were a lot of cars choked out and stalled in the road where people were trying to move them out of the way. It was fearful madness and everyone was trying to hold it together, white knuckling their steering wheels, cursing, honking, my dad especially. I was a teenager, so I didn't really care, just watched everything, detached. Took us hours to get home. We never went back.
I remember watching the Cowlitz River in Longview when the mudflows from the Toutle River flowed into it. The school year ended early, and we were on water rationing for what seemed like ages. We had go bags for years in case the natural dam at Spirit Lake failed.
Loma Prieta was during the World Series, with Oakland playing San Francisco, both local teams. So a lot of people left work early to catch the game, and the quake happened during the opening of the game. Watching a light pole swing in a several foot arc, with the arm out of time, was a memory that stuck, along with cleaning up my landladies Depression Glass collection with a scoop shovel.
Look up the New Madrid seismic zone. It is located in central US, and there was an earthquake in the early 1800's that made the Mississippi River flow backwards. Volcanos are mostly located around the areas that tectonic plates meet.
3:55 The "Big One" in question is probably the San Andreas fault line slipping which would probably produce one of the worst earthquakes in US history. 7:42 There are so many volcanoes on the coasts of Pacific Ocean countries because there are subduction zones there where the Earth's crust is being recycled into the mantle and by extension causing lots of volcanic activity.
Sitting here in South Mississippi waiting for Hurricane Francine to pass over us. Starting to get stronger wind and rain in the last hour. Hopefully, it will pass over quickly and we’ll start getting back to normal tomorrow. Katrina was a different story. We lost over 200 huge oak trees on our farm. Took us over 2 years to get everything cleaned up, repaired, and rebuilt. We were without power for 6 weeks and it was horrendously hot and humid. A complete nightmare that I hope we never have to deal with again.
We live near the gulf, it most definitely will happen again. People always call us and ask if we’re evacuating, I always reply, to where & how. Who wants to ride out a hurricane in a traffic jam?
Arizona is dealing with a few wildfires right now. As a matter of fact we have one that is close enough that I can see the smoke from my apartment. Then on top of the smoke from that one we're also seeing haze from the fires in Southern California as well.
Adam, I was in North Carolina when a Hurricane came through in the early 90's trees down all over houses in our neighbored. In Florida in the 90's when one came over north of Orlando. I'm In Missouri now and had a tornado touch down not far from where I lived in Pleasant Valley, Mo about 13 or so years ago. Where I live now (Grain Valley, Mo) had a tornado "bounce" over us the 1st time I had granddaughter by myself 7 years ago. Me and her stayed in the basement and it hit the town east of us. A few months ago a tornado touched ground and bounced by us just a few blocks over in the middle of the night. We got woke up by the alarms and went straight to the basement. On my way to work in the morning I saw the wreckage. Just daily life for us depending on where you live.
I've lived in "Tornado Alley", as the region from Texas in the south to Nebraska and Iowa in the north is called, for most of my life, so I have lived through many tornado warnings, though I have thankfully never been injured or suffered any significant property loss from one. My family did nearly lose our lives to a tornado once, though, despite being several states and 1000 miles away when it hit. When I was 4 years old, my dad was a finalist for a position as the chief of police for a small town in south central Kansas. My parents had already chosen a house to buy if he got the position. The town ended up choosing someone else, so we ended up not buying the house and eventually moved to another state. 4 years later, we turned on the news to find out that a terrible tornado had just hit that town in Kansas. They showed footage of the destruction wrought by the storm, and we suddenly realized that we were looking at the completely devastated ruins of the neighborhood we had planned to live in, and even saw what was left of the house we were going to buy! It seems that my dad not getting hired for that job had ultimately saved our lives...
As I watch this, there are three large, multi-thousand acre wildfires raging in Southern California. I live in Las Vegas and today the air is so smoky due to wind currents bringing the smoke over the mountains into Southern Nevada, it’s not healthy to be outside long. Vegas is a valley high in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the air coming over the mountains tends to settle in the valley until winds blow it east.
I remember the Quebec ice storm that brought down power lines, massive swaths of forests, covered most of the province in ice. Most people were left without power for weeks as the ice was so heavy and thick it crumpled most of the telecommunication towers…Destroyed so much property and houses and cars…It was one of the worst disasters I had seen on TV growing up…
Yes, the big one refers to the large quakes that happen every couple hundred years. This is possible because of how big the San Andreas, not the game, fault line is.
NJ has a dormant volcano Rutan Hill it last erupted 100 million years ago. It’s private property now. This past April my area had an earth roll which was 4.8 that was felt on the east coast
Mount St Helen's happened when I was a kid and, this is weird, butwhat I vividly remember was that starting about a year afterwards, the Washington apples got enormous. The minerals in the ash that exploded all over fed the soil and created years of giant apples. I don't know why that's what I remember most, but it is.
Back in 2011, there was an earthquake in Virginia, that measured 5.8 here in NJ. We also had one originating from North Jersey 5 months ago that originated in North Jersey, measuring 4.8 We've also had a few wildfires in the Pine Barrens. One was so bad, the trees died, but are still standing.
Funny story ….. I was giving a client a healing Reiki Session ……2When that VA earth-quack hit ….. my client said …… is this supposed to happen during a healing Reiki session …… No ……. as a former CA I had to check the swinging lights to declare we just had an earth-quack
During the tornado season (March 15 thru June 15), we here in Oklahoma usually embrace them but we’ve had some VERY close calls. While most if not all storms have resulted in fatalities, we know what to do when they come around. Easiest way for us to know if one’s coming, if the temp goes from warm to cool in a split second. And our sirens are tested weekly on Saturday at noon (local time). And ironically because of the movie Twister, it made some meteorologists out of people and storm chasers as well. Like Glen Powell’s Tyler Owen’s said in Twisters: If you feel it, CHASE IT!
I live in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. We get lots of wind and HUGE thunder and lightning. A long while back, an earthquake traveled down the mountains from the north. It ended where we were in a HUGE BOOM. It was so loud and strong it woke everyone up and shook the crap out of the house. We had no clue what was happening. We thought the neighbor, about a mile away, blew himself or his still up...lol This happened around 2 AM. We went out and checked things out and nothing was on fire or damaged anywhere we could see. We didn't know what happened until later in the morning when the news told us about the earthquake.
Thing about tornadoes is that some form extremely fast. Back in 1973, I was in Little League Baseball and was at practice at a field approximately 4 blocks from home, it was a beautiful spring day, almost cloudless and warm but not hot (for Texas). The coach was alarmed when the sky to the west/SW grew darker & especially so when it took on that sickly greenish tint that all seasoned "Tornado Alley" denizens recognize as trouble. He dismissed practice & offered to drive everyone home that didn't have a ride. I told him I lived close & had my bike & he said "take-off & get home!" I rode about two blocks & the storm hit. I took refuge next to a church that had concrete walls with protrusions from the corners, from the brunt of the wind. After the tornado (I found out later) passed, I took off to the brick Post Office half a block away & was offered refuge by the people working there in a back room, reinforced for security. When the storm had mostly dissipated, they let me call home where my relieved mother sent my father to pick me up at the PO. This all happened in a span of about 30 minutes! Growing up in "Tornado Alley" causes one to have a heightened sense of awareness about the weather or suffer the consequences. 😉🤠
There is a residential area, Rancho Palos Verde, in California that is slowly sliding down the hill. Services were cut off to the town because it's a fire risk if the lines snap.
My stories are mild, but still show how common things are. When I lived in AZ, I experienced several monsoon microbursts, dust storms, and flash floods. When I lived in SoCal, I experienced a belly tickler. I think it was 5.0ish. I was like...woah, is that an earthquake? Yeah. That's what that is. Now in Minnesota, I've been adjacent to 2 tornadoes. An EF0 passed 3 blocks from my place. That's a baby that just wreaked havoc with lawn furniture, garbage cans, trees, and power lines. The other, I was at a buddy's house and an EF2 decided to show up. Besides the above damage there were many roofs gone. One house...the whole side wall was gone. It looked like a doll house. His garage got totally jacked, cuz the neighbor's enormous tree. There have been many occasions when I walk out in the morning and smell campfire. Then I'm like Oh Canada is on fire again. That sucks. Forests are cool. One summer the smog was very bad, as in I couldn't see the city skyline 1/2 mile away from me. The sunsets were wild....breathing, not so much.
I went through 2 earthquakes when I lived in California. the first one I never knew happened because I was scuba diving at the time. the ocean moves anyway. the second one, I was on the 1st floor of my townhouse. the whole place started swaying. I was fine but stuff got knocked off the walls. I submitted my resignation the next day. Today, there is a huge fire in San Bernadino. I live in Vegas. Not only could I smell the smoke in the air all the way into the living room when my roommate opened the front door - But you can see the smoke in the air.
The majority of the west coast and PNW get what we call the "wildfire season". (It also extends up into Canada and over to Alaska) It's fairly normal for July - September (sometimes October) to be very very dry and very hot. It's also not out of the norm to just have a red tint to the sun for a while. Here in Idaho we even have fire danger boards that park rangers/firefighters will update to show the potential danger level of fires starting. It's also why commercial fireworks are considered illegal in states out west and not in the rest of the country. Because those fireworks have a much higher chance of catching something on fire here, where as in the rest of the country it's more humid and wet, so things don't catch on fire as easily.
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I grew up in Indiana and while we had tornados come close we never got hit. My dad didn't want us being scared so we'd have storm parties when there were tornado watches on our patio. Snacks, a radio, and a skim board for surfing the rain puddles and you are good to go!
Subduction zones give us earthquakes, volcanoes, good soil and valuable minerals, and beautiful scenery. The western U.S.'s share of the Ring of Fire is a blessing. (with a price)
We live near L.A. for 25 years, went through at least a thousand of them from 2 through 7. Also went through several dozen wildfires. Used to drive home from work while burning embers bouncing off my car. By chance we lived in Portland OR from 1975 to 1985 and we were woken up when St Helens erupted in 1980.
The volcanoes show where the edges of tectonic plates are located. There are also some that show up in spots where the earth's crust is thinner. Hawaii is a stationary hot spot where the lava created a string of islands as the plate passed over it.
I live in Northern California and we have little temblors where I live all the time. I live near some geysers and not far from Calistoga, which is highly geothermal, hence all the hotsprings. It's also a caldera. Some people dispute that, but really, then where does all the obsidian around here come from? But I was down south of San Francisco when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit in 1989 and that was very scary. When we finally made it through SF, which took hours, I looked back and you couldn't even tell there was a city there. The power was completely out and the only light was the whole Marina on fire. Wild fires around here have been insane over the last few years. I've been evacuated three times, but I'm lucky, I know a lot of people who've lost everything. The town of Paradise, California was almost completely wiped out. Fortunately, our firefighters have learned a lot and have gotten extremely good at getting almost all of them put out quickly. That being said, just north of me, very close to where Paradise burned, the Park fire, which started on July 24th from arson, is still burning, although now 99% contained. I remember Mt St. Helens blowing, too. I was 11 yrs old and even as far south as I live from the volcano (across the whole state of Oregon and the top part of California) we had a layer of ash on everything. Have you reacted to any videos about the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens?
I'm in the midwest, near the great lakes, and the western wildfire smoke drifts this far. Last year and this year we've had air quality warnings. That's not to say we don't also get wildfires but nothing like the west coast. I have a very good friend in California and fairly often we play video games together online. Several times she would causally say "oh an earthquake" while we're playing. Obviously small ones but that would be pretty weird to experience even little ones often.
Fun fact: Oregon is the most volcanically active of the contiguous States. The San Andreas Fault, which responsible for most of the large earthquakes in California is a Strike So Fault. Each side is sliding past the other and the "crack" extends straight down. That type of fault is thought to create quakes of a maximum of around 7.5-8.0. The offshore Juan de Fuca fault, which extends from the Oregon/California border to Vancouver BC is a subduction fault. The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the Pacific Northwest. That type of fault is capable of a maximum of 9.0-9.8. Although that doesn't seem like a big difference. Each while number difference in the scale represents a 30X multiplier. So, The Big One Californians talk about is nowhere near what THE BIG ONE we in the Pacific Northwest will produce. Plus ours will include massive tsunami.
Living in Michigan, I have never seen a tornado, forest fire, volcano, hurricane and although my husband noticed a slight earthquake, I didn't. It was centered in a state below us.
Don't have any pics (pre smart phone), but my Dad and I were driving up to Green Bay to do a little gambling and right before Manitowac, Wi., right there on Lake Michigan were 3 water spouts. These are water tornados as we call them. They reached down from the clouds to the water. Glad we weren't fishing!
"The BIG ONE" that he's referring to is the fact that the San Andreas fault line runs through California from the Gulf of California to the Pacific Ocean, and most expect that at some point, a huge earthquake will split that section (South Western California including the Baja Peninsula) completely away from the Continental US and sink it into the ocean like Atlantis. Causing untold damage, loss of life and tidal waves to other shores. Sort of like folks dread a massive volcanic eruption of Yellowstone National Park super volcano at some point, like world ending cataclysm
The Chicago Fire was accidentally started by a cow belonging to a female named Catherine O'Leary that knocked over a lantern which ignited a small fire and since the buildings and everything around in that time were pretty much made of wood it spread like a Forrest fire and Chicago became one big giant campfire.
I couldn't begin to count how many tornadoes I've experienced, BUT but all of them happened because of the two hurricanes I lived through. The first one was Frederic. It literally spun hundreds of tornados. Watching tall pine trees start to twist like a child's top and then it's twisted off and disappears. Over and over. The second hurricane was Elena, and I lived through that one in the hospital.....having a baby girl. Thankfully I missed Katrina y one weekend. We had been in New Orleans to have an early birthday for my daughter. So we missed that one, BUT then, my daughter and husband spent Hurricane Ivan while in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Both of those first two was while I lived in Mobile, Alabama.
Glad he mention the Galveston hurricane of 1900. I've mentioned it to you before, Adam. It's really an amazing story. I think the weather channel did a special based on the book, Isaac's Storm. See if you can find it. Heartbreaking stories.
Adam! I know that you're in Northern Ireland - but even this American could figure out the painting was depicting the famous scene when the Spanish Armada appeared... while Sir Francis Drake was playing "bowls"! lol.
Growing up in Illinois a tornado hit my hometown and right after we had a small earthquake. Since moving to FL I have been through a few hurricanes and during one a tornado went through our yard. Also have felt a few earthquakes down here.
I was born and raised in California and one earthquake we had near my home it felt like the ground dropped about a foot. It felt like when you forget about a step on the stairs but didnt fall. Now I live in Washington state (too far for the volcanos to do anything where I live) but we get sooooo many wildfires every year
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2-9.3 Million were struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate, and reached a Mercalli intensity up to IX in some areas.
I've been through a 6.8 quake up here in Western Washington. We're on two major fault systems. And of course, I was alive and here when St. Helens went off. We have several dangerous volcanoes that, especially with Mount Rainier, when--not if--it erupts again could destroy a lot of lives. We also get massive wildfires in the eastern part of the state.
10-17-1989 Earthquakes San Francisco 7.3. The “plates” shift and cause a kind of ripple effect. I was outside during that one, and watched the ground roll. I had two brothers on the Bay Bridge toll plaza at the time. There have been larger in Southern Ca, and there will be a bigger one in Northern CA. It just is what it is. I’m in Texas now, I’m far enough away from the coast for Hurricanes, but we were not safe from the rain of Harvey. Tornadoes, no one is safe from those things, it’s just a probability issue.
I live in Oregon, just above California, but "The Big One" is something almost everyone in the Pacific North West has heard about at least once. It's a terrifying reality, but not really something we can do anything about, so no one really dwells on it. "The Big One" refers to a massive and devastating earthquake that is believed to be imminent as a result of the geology in our area. There's a major plate subduction zone called the Cascadia Subduction Zone just off of the coast of Oregon. The Pacific tectonic plate is slowly pushing the Juan de Fuca plate under the North America plate. The plates moving is creating a build up of pressure that will eventually lead to massive and devastating earthquakes. All that pressure has been building for over 300 years now. The last "Big One" was a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in January of 1700 that we know about thanks to evidence that geologists have found of a huge tsunami happening in Japan back then (Really big earthquakes here on the west coast of the US tend to result in really big tsunamis for Japan). According to Oregon's hazards and preparedness page, scientists are predicting a roughly 37% chance of a megathrust earthquake of 7.1+ magnitude in this area occurring in the next 50 years. Big enough earthquakes can also trigger tectonic plate movement elsewhere, so it's believed that "The Big One" in Oregon can trigger the impending "Big One" brewing in California, or vice versa, but I don't know too much about California's plate tectonics beyond the fact that they expect their "Big One" to come from the San Andreas fault. None of this even gets into the size of the aftershocks and tsunamis that can follow and earthquake of that size. Fortunately, earthquakes are decently familiar in this region, and our state governments are aware of the issue, so some steps are being taken to prepare as best we can. Our infrastructure and building codes have improved a lot too. It's definitely still going to be absolutely devastating, but hopefully not as devastating as it could have been.
Yeah, every year up here in Seattle we have a Shake It Out event, meant to raise awareness and practice disaster preparedness. When the Big One finally hits, which could be tomorrow or a hundred years from now, experts predict everything west of I-5 will be destroyed.
yeah, I was in Dallas and saw one all the way across the city. but it didn't do much damage and didn't last long, but when i was in college I went to Wichita Falls (North of Dallas) and helped with the aftermath. We were only able to stay for the day. but it was just Tragic
Probably the best way to learn about the volcanoes that ring the Pacific is to look at the *w- i- k- i* for 'The Ring of Fire" (hate the algorythms that will yank anything taking someone away from here) Anyway, it's a good place to start with a lot of internal links where you might want a deeper dive. Hawaii's volcanoes are a little different in that they are what's called 'hot spot' volcanoes, ie a large and deep up-welling of magma that the techtonic plates move over. The spot stays still wile the plates move and where it finds a crack - poof! A volcano comes up! There is a whole chain of undersea mountains made of ancient volcanoes stretching from Hawaii to northern Russia showing the slow movement of the Pacific plate over the centuries. Another item to read *there*. Have fun! And thanks for the great reaction here. 😀
Several years ago there were fires along the coast and inland of Oregon, I live 50 miles from where they were and we were separated by the Coastal Mountains and still suffered from the smoke and poor air quality.
We here throughout Louisiana today have been through a cat 2 hurricane 🌀. It just left the greater New Orleans area a couple of hours ago. Now it has moved on to the Northshore across Lake Pontchartrain.
Mt St Helen’s death toll was high because people refused to leave. The governor did everything that could be done, right up to going to homes to escort them out
I live near a bunch of volcanoes, but I know all the likely lahar and pyroclastic paths, so I avoid those and have made very sure I don't live in the line of fire. In the unlikely event of a major eruption, my home should be fine, though we could be cut off from electricity for several days or weeks. Before I existed, it was very boring and I don't want to go back to that any time soon, so I'm very careful about where I choose to live.
I've been in a couple of hurricanes, several tornadoes, quite a few earthquakes, including the huge one in 1989 in California. Closest I have been to a tornado, 60 ft.
"The Big One": We're fairly certain that a large enough earthquake will send everything west of the San Andreas fault line sliding off into the ocean. We all watch in anticipation (some, rather rapturously).
I’ve been in 3! One when I was a child, have pictures and our house moved about 20 ft, second one when I was 14 yrs old, smaller but on the ground coming right at us! Third Nov 17, 2013 in Washington Illinois! All in Illinois and I survived because of basements!
I've been through multiple tornadoes! We had one hit our house on Mother's Day last year and we had a tree land on the house, and had it not caught partially on the power line, it would've landed directly on me as I was sleeping based on where the tree landed! I'd send you pictures, but I don't know where to send them
yes, valcanos can be in the middle of the ocean. hell, there's a mountain that is technically taller than everest but it is around 4k meters under water and 6k meters above . for a total of 10k meters which is over 1k more than everest
Virginia is a good state to come to, most hurricanes go by with relatively little damage compared to Florida. We do have the occasional tornado but I’ve lived here since 1968 and have never seen one, there has been the odd one that has hit in surrounding areas but not very many.
A subduction zone is a point where tectonic plates are grinding against each other as one slides under the other. The Pacific plate is sliding under the North American plate. They grind against one and other until the pressure causes there to be a powerful and sudden movement, that's the earthquake.
Not my house but my cousins front yard tree (with a 3 foot diameter) was picked up and shoved, root ball first, through their front window, into their living room.
I’m from Texas and have watched many tornados. That’s right I said watch because many southerns will immediately go stand on our porch with a drink and go watch the sky. Many times we watch many tornados form and start to come down and can’t reach the ground so they suck back up and aren’t an issue besides very heavy wind. It’s quite beautiful and e are so use to them wee really don’t seem to be even fazed by most. We practice what to do when a tornado is dangerous from the time we were in kindergarten. However we are even terrified when the inevitable fire tornado, f5s,or multi vortex storm hits (no joke these are real look them up)
For “The big one” based on what I heard would only be the staring point since there is the risk of it causing the Yellowstone super volcano erupting as well.
Earthquakes happen as the Tectonic Plates shift around, & they're basically solid rock floating on magma (liquid rock.) The churning magma causes the solid rock on top of one plate to grind against other plate's rock & that's the quake. "The Big One" is the expected MAJOR shift that will dramatically change the landscape of California that many are expecting is an eventuality, but in geographic terms "eventual" can mean a few thousand years. The same magma that fuels the tectonic movement that is the rubbing in California, comes to the surface in other areas, & once magma comes out it gets called lava. So the same forces that fuel the California Earthquakes also fueled Mt. Saint Helens. Speaking of changing names the same kind of phenomena that is called a "tornado" on land, is called a "waterspout" if it happens at sea, and yes it changes names if it comes ashore.
California is currently on fire. I live in a neighboring state, that is also experiencing fires, but I'm closer to the California fires and at around 300 miles away I can smell the smoke outside and our air quality has been greatly affected. 😢
Weather Report from Daytona Beach!! It’s currently 81 degrees & has rained every day for the past 4 days!!! Mother Nature is taking care that you have a beautifully blessed trip to Orlando. I just pray you don’t get caught in our Indian summer!! ❤❤❤
Adam, do a little reading on plate tectonics and continental drift. It will help you understand the dynamic forces behind those earthquakes (and tsunami) and volcanos.
You need to watch the video on Paradise California. A wild fire burned the town to the ground. There’s video taken by drivers as they’re trying to flee the fire. It’s unbelievable and scary. Many cars just completely went up in flames with people inside. It’s a must see !
Thats called the "ring of fire" more like the horseshoe of fire but those are caused by the tectonic place being forced against eachother. Causes the earth to open up and make volcanoes
Nobody actually knows the real death total for the 1925 Tri State Tornado BECAUSE without communication and because there were people who lived way away from other people, etc, some have said the death toll country have reached way, way higher.
Yes, California is waiting for an 8.5 or higher. That will most likely be the "One" they're waiting for. Edit: I mean it makes sense Australia only has one active volcano. They have to deal with being Australia.
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Hang in there, Donna. My thoughts and prayers are with you. I would guess the ban was a mistake.
Try almost TEN centuries ago on that 10whatever hurricane!!!
- incorrect. 700 earthquakes are detected in UK yearly, but too faint to be noticed
- Almost 25,000 wildfires fought in England during summer in 2022/23 there were 321 deaths from wildfires
- Interactive map reveals the 68 volcanoes that once covered the UK. they are now dormant, but does not mean they cannot be active at any time.
- the deadliest super volcano sits under Greenland, and it has been showing activity in several areas. if it erupts, we could see extinction of the human race.
- when hurricane Katrina came it was devastating. there were no warnings from the states or the president that it was going to be that bad, no evacuation's. by the time it turned into a cat 5 it was too late. one area brought all of their homeless and people from the prisons and jails to the football dome to be safe,. water got in the dome, and drown them all. parts of Louisiana went under water, again no evacuations. youd be surprised how many people in Florida refuse to leave their home in hurricanes, and die in the place they refused to leave when something goes wrong. the damage everywhere was devastating. especially in the SouthEast. i spent that hurricane in Orlando, to look at it put the fear of God in you!
- On average, around 30 tornadoes are reported in the UK every year, according to the Met Office. In comparison, the USA gets around 1,250 reported tornadoes in an average year.
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4:10 look up the San Andreas Faultline. There have been several movies with regards to when the high-tension faultline in California will "snap" and cause never-before-seen catastrophic damage. That's the "Big one" being referenced.
Californian here. The big one CA is waiting will be never-before-seen magnitude and is said will rip the state apart along the San Andreas Fault. Wildfires occur often, sometimes at a magnitude unimaginable. That is why we have Wildfire Season. I used to hike and camp Mt St Helens because I have family in the area. I was there for the main eruption. Life continues to return to the slopes of the mountain but geologists continue to watch its activity closely. Always had earthquake drills at school. They can be scary but, for me, the rolling quakes are the worst. It is really freaky looking at the street as it rolls like the ocean waves rolling to shore. Of course, homes rolled, too. Those nauseate me. Yet, I was never more scared than going to Florida to visit my daughter. Gators and large wild pythons just freak me out. Yep, CA seems safer to me.
Is not going to happen cause you guys have higher morals and superior Mother Nature previliges, it’s true, I Read it on one of your tags that read, this item is known to cause cancer in the state of California…
There’s a whole 9 minute Tool song about this.
Never run away in a straight line from a gator. They're surprisingly fast! Zigzag to slow them down. They'll also eat anything, including golf balls. This is why they're sometimes found on golf courses. Leave them alone and you'll probably be fine. Pythons aren't a serious threat to adults since they squeeze instead of injecting venom. I'd be more worried about water moccasins/cotton mouths. Very much venomous. Also, as a general southern thing, never touch Spanish moss. It contains bugs that bite.
My home, Tallahassee, Florida had 3 tornadoes in one day recently. There was massive damage but no deaths. A couple of years before that a dear and precious friend had a tornado form in the yard in front of her rural home and totally destroyed everything. It dissipated in her back yard. A tornado hit my g’parents’ home in 1955, took out the two barns, smokehouse, 3 chicken houses and the tin roof of the house. They said it sounded like a train.
My grandparents lived in Quincy. I remember watching a hurricane g through. Fascinating.
My mom was in a tornado as a teenager and she said it sounded exactly like a train.
Glad you weren't hurt on may 10th. I'm in Wellborn and was taking video of the storm when the massive oak tree in my yard came down on my house. Miraculously, no human, cats or dogs were harmed. Since we're rural, no one played attention, but there was a line of destruction and on my vid you can see everything start to swirl, until the tree came down. Leon county at least got FEMA, and rightfully so. Happily, Hurricane Debby made the damage to my home worse and FEMA came through for me. Just got a new roof. 😂
I arrived at Tallahassee a several hours after the 3 tornadoes hit on May. Most of the rental cars were unavailable because of the aftermath, but thankfully we finally managed to get one during our stay. Unfortunately the apartment my mom amd I were staying in was mostly out of power, so we were in pitch dark rooms majority of the time during the evenings. I saw the extensive damage the tornadoes did, especially at Leon County. I only heard one woman died by one of the tornadoes. All the other casualties was the trees and some houses. It was my first time seeing the aftermath of EF3 tornadoes. I hope Tallahassee recovered since then.
Those volcanoes are called the "Ring of Fire"
The area is called the "Ring of Fire" because of geotectonic action that is rich over there. To the point where the residents are used to the activities.
that's my ass after eating bhut jolokia spiced chicken wings.
@@rimehoarfrost3059 That's why Popsicle's were invented! (Hint. Ya DON'T eat them!)
@@JeffC-dj3gd 😂 learned something today. Guess the flavour doesn’t matter. Probably something with milk is better.
@@rimehoarfrost3059 "Milkshake" in the nether regions is the result of that!😶🌫
At this very moment, Hurricane Francine, a Cat 2 hurricane is heading to Louisana.
I'm riding thru it right now.
It just left us in the greater New Orleans area a couple of hours ago. Heading for the Northshore now as a tropical storm.
@@wintermoondardar1277 yall be safe !!!
Yep canals over flowed and flooded. Dil car got totaled from the water.
If I remember correctly, we where taught in school that the Great Chicago Fire was caused by a cow kicking over a lantern and catching the hay/straw on fire in a barn. But that could've been the other great city fire who's name I cant recall, I swear I remember learning about at least two of them.
You remember correctly about Mrs O’Leary’s cow. That story has been proved questionable. FYI the Chicago Fire Academy stands where the O’Leary barn was. Ironic!
Yes it was the cow
"We don't have tornadoes, we don't have earthquakes, OR volcanoes! What DO we have???"
You my good sir, have wild hedgehogs. And I am insanely jealous.
Lawrence didn't mention the large quake in the San Francisco area in the 80's. Can you imagine crossing a bridge from Oakland to San Francisco and the bridge breaks and colapses into the
bay?
That one was televised, sort of; it was the 89 World Series, and it was just scary to watch. The one that affected us in Las Vegas though, was the Northridge Quake in LA, 1994; "only" a 6.7, but it was so strong, it lifted me up and out of my bed, and that was about 300 miles away.
I remember this one & I live in Wisconsin.
It was on TV & it was horrible. Many people
were trapped or crushed on that bridge.😭
Adam, I'm 63 and I have been in 2 earthquakes, 3 hurricanes and have seen 4 tornados, 2 of which were on my property. I live in NW Georgia. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans my brother and I went there to help people. It looked like a nuclear weapon hit the place.
In the past week, 100,000+ acres have been absolutely scorched by three separate wildfires in Southern California
Covering vegas with its smoke the last few days, to note.
We have two currently burning in Central California. The Coffee Pot Fire near me (Tulare County) has burned 14,000 acres and the Boone Fire (Fresno County) has burned almost 18,000 acres.
MY dad and I were on Mt St Helens the day the glaciers and groundwater boiled. We had found logging roads that went around the Red Zone, and we were in an ash covered clear cut, up close where my dad put up his automatic shutter camera on a tripod. We would wear face masks and listen to the radio, toss a ball or frisbee. I was generally miserable from all the itchy ash, but it was the wilds, so there was lots of stuff to get up to beyond the clearing, too. We went up there every Sunday, like an ongoing documentation project, but this was a Thursday he had off from work and I had an in-service day from school. He was selling shots of the steam and ash puffs, and the slow change of the mountain, to one of the local newspapers (mostly to help justify all the money he'd spent). A new steam puff started and just kept going, and there was a rumbling so low that you couldn't hear it, only feel it in your feet and teeth. We got in the truck and got the out of there, and the steam plume just kept going up and up. I remember thinking that I hadn't realized how high 'up' actually went, because I'd never seen clouds go so high. When we got down to Cougar, Washington it was pitch black at 3 o'clock, with ash coming down everywhere like heavy snow and there was a massive traffic jam. Everybody thought it was the big one and that the mountain was exploding. There were police directing traffic for evacuation. We had put nylon over our air intake to keep out the silica ash since we went up there all the time, where there was a lot. But not everyone had needed to yet, so there were a lot of cars choked out and stalled in the road where people were trying to move them out of the way. It was fearful madness and everyone was trying to hold it together, white knuckling their steering wheels, cursing, honking, my dad especially. I was a teenager, so I didn't really care, just watched everything, detached. Took us hours to get home. We never went back.
I remember watching the Cowlitz River in Longview when the mudflows from the Toutle River flowed into it. The school year ended early, and we were on water rationing for what seemed like ages. We had go bags for years in case the natural dam at Spirit Lake failed.
“Do not park in the Red Zone.”
Advice from Gracie Allen.
Loma Prieta was during the World Series, with Oakland playing San Francisco, both local teams. So a lot of people left work early to catch the game, and the quake happened during the opening of the game. Watching a light pole swing in a several foot arc, with the arm out of time, was a memory that stuck, along with cleaning up my landladies Depression Glass collection with a scoop shovel.
All those volcanoes are called The Ring of Fire.
Look up the New Madrid seismic zone. It is located in central US, and there was an earthquake in the early 1800's that made the Mississippi River flow backwards.
Volcanos are mostly located around the areas that tectonic plates meet.
3:55 The "Big One" in question is probably the San Andreas fault line slipping which would probably produce one of the worst earthquakes in US history.
7:42 There are so many volcanoes on the coasts of Pacific Ocean countries because there are subduction zones there where the Earth's crust is being recycled into the mantle and by extension causing lots of volcanic activity.
Sitting here in South Mississippi waiting for Hurricane Francine to pass over us. Starting to get stronger wind and rain in the last hour. Hopefully, it will pass over quickly and we’ll start getting back to normal tomorrow. Katrina was a different story. We lost over 200 huge oak trees on our farm. Took us over 2 years to get everything cleaned up, repaired, and rebuilt. We were without power for 6 weeks and it was horrendously hot and humid. A complete nightmare that I hope we never have to deal with again.
Same... well I'm in Hattiesburg but yea.
We live near the gulf, it most definitely will happen again. People always call us and ask if we’re evacuating, I always reply, to where & how.
Who wants to ride out a hurricane in a traffic jam?
Arizona is dealing with a few wildfires right now. As a matter of fact we have one that is close enough that I can see the smoke from my apartment. Then on top of the smoke from that one we're also seeing haze from the fires in Southern California as well.
Adam, I was in North Carolina when a Hurricane came through in the early 90's trees down all over houses in our neighbored. In Florida in the 90's when one came over north of Orlando. I'm In Missouri now and had a tornado touch down not far from where I lived in Pleasant Valley, Mo about 13 or so years ago. Where I live now (Grain Valley, Mo) had a tornado "bounce" over us the 1st time I had granddaughter by myself 7 years ago. Me and her stayed in the basement and it hit the town east of us. A few months ago a tornado touched ground and bounced by us just a few blocks over in the middle of the night. We got woke up by the alarms and went straight to the basement. On my way to work in the morning I saw the wreckage. Just daily life for us depending on where you live.
I've lived in "Tornado Alley", as the region from Texas in the south to Nebraska and Iowa in the north is called, for most of my life, so I have lived through many tornado warnings, though I have thankfully never been injured or suffered any significant property loss from one. My family did nearly lose our lives to a tornado once, though, despite being several states and 1000 miles away when it hit. When I was 4 years old, my dad was a finalist for a position as the chief of police for a small town in south central Kansas. My parents had already chosen a house to buy if he got the position. The town ended up choosing someone else, so we ended up not buying the house and eventually moved to another state. 4 years later, we turned on the news to find out that a terrible tornado had just hit that town in Kansas. They showed footage of the destruction wrought by the storm, and we suddenly realized that we were looking at the completely devastated ruins of the neighborhood we had planned to live in, and even saw what was left of the house we were going to buy! It seems that my dad not getting hired for that job had ultimately saved our lives...
As I watch this, there are three large, multi-thousand acre wildfires raging in Southern California.
I live in Las Vegas and today the air is so smoky due to wind currents bringing the smoke over the mountains into Southern Nevada, it’s not healthy to be outside long.
Vegas is a valley high in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the air coming over the mountains tends to settle in the valley until winds blow it east.
I remember the Quebec ice storm that brought down power lines, massive swaths of forests, covered most of the province in ice. Most people were left without power for weeks as the ice was so heavy and thick it crumpled most of the telecommunication towers…Destroyed so much property and houses and cars…It was one of the worst disasters I had seen on TV growing up…
Yes, the big one refers to the large quakes that happen every couple hundred years. This is possible because of how big the San Andreas, not the game, fault line is.
NJ has a dormant volcano Rutan Hill it last erupted 100 million years ago. It’s private property now. This past April my area had an earth roll which was 4.8 that was felt on the east coast
Mount St Helen's happened when I was a kid and, this is weird, butwhat I vividly remember was that starting about a year afterwards, the Washington apples got enormous. The minerals in the ash that exploded all over fed the soil and created years of giant apples. I don't know why that's what I remember most, but it is.
Back in 2011, there was an earthquake in Virginia, that measured 5.8 here in NJ. We also had one originating from North Jersey 5 months ago that originated in North Jersey, measuring 4.8
We've also had a few wildfires in the Pine Barrens. One was so bad, the trees died, but are still standing.
Funny story ….. I was giving a client a healing Reiki Session ……2When that VA earth-quack hit ….. my client said …… is this supposed to happen during a healing Reiki session …… No ……. as a former CA I had to check the swinging lights to declare we just had an earth-quack
During the tornado season (March 15 thru June 15), we here in Oklahoma usually embrace them but we’ve had some VERY close calls.
While most if not all storms have resulted in fatalities, we know what to do when they come around. Easiest way for us to know if one’s coming, if the temp goes from warm to cool in a split second. And our sirens are tested weekly on Saturday at noon (local time).
And ironically because of the movie Twister, it made some meteorologists out of people and storm chasers as well. Like Glen Powell’s Tyler Owen’s said in Twisters: If you feel it, CHASE IT!
I live in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. We get lots of wind and HUGE thunder and lightning. A long while back, an earthquake traveled down the mountains from the north. It ended where we were in a HUGE BOOM. It was so loud and strong it woke everyone up and shook the crap out of the house. We had no clue what was happening. We thought the neighbor, about a mile away, blew himself or his still up...lol This happened around 2 AM. We went out and checked things out and nothing was on fire or damaged anywhere we could see. We didn't know what happened until later in the morning when the news told us about the earthquake.
Appalachian fault line right?
Thing about tornadoes is that some form extremely fast. Back in 1973, I was in Little League Baseball and was at practice at a field approximately 4 blocks from home, it was a beautiful spring day, almost cloudless and warm but not hot (for Texas). The coach was alarmed when the sky to the west/SW grew darker & especially so when it took on that sickly greenish tint that all seasoned "Tornado Alley" denizens recognize as trouble. He dismissed practice & offered to drive everyone home that didn't have a ride. I told him I lived close & had my bike & he said "take-off & get home!" I rode about two blocks & the storm hit. I took refuge next to a church that had concrete walls with protrusions from the corners, from the brunt of the wind. After the tornado (I found out later) passed, I took off to the brick Post Office half a block away & was offered refuge by the people working there in a back room, reinforced for security. When the storm had mostly dissipated, they let me call home where my relieved mother sent my father to pick me up at the PO. This all happened in a span of about 30 minutes! Growing up in "Tornado Alley" causes one to have a heightened sense of awareness about the weather or suffer the consequences. 😉🤠
There is a residential area, Rancho Palos Verde, in California that is slowly sliding down the hill. Services were cut off to the town because it's a fire risk if the lines snap.
My stories are mild, but still show how common things are.
When I lived in AZ, I experienced several monsoon microbursts, dust storms, and flash floods.
When I lived in SoCal, I experienced a belly tickler. I think it was 5.0ish. I was like...woah, is that an earthquake? Yeah. That's what that is.
Now in Minnesota, I've been adjacent to 2 tornadoes. An EF0 passed 3 blocks from my place. That's a baby that just wreaked havoc with lawn furniture, garbage cans, trees, and power lines.
The other, I was at a buddy's house and an EF2 decided to show up. Besides the above damage there were many roofs gone. One house...the whole side wall was gone. It looked like a doll house. His garage got totally jacked, cuz the neighbor's enormous tree.
There have been many occasions when I walk out in the morning and smell campfire. Then I'm like Oh Canada is on fire again. That sucks. Forests are cool. One summer the smog was very bad, as in I couldn't see the city skyline 1/2 mile away from me. The sunsets were wild....breathing, not so much.
That 1871 fire burned from one side of Michigan to the other and killed hundreds
I went through 2 earthquakes when I lived in California. the first one I never knew happened because I was scuba diving at the time. the ocean moves anyway. the second one, I was on the 1st floor of my townhouse. the whole place started swaying. I was fine but stuff got knocked off the walls. I submitted my resignation the next day.
Today, there is a huge fire in San Bernadino. I live in Vegas. Not only could I smell the smoke in the air all the way into the living room when my roommate opened the front door - But you can see the smoke in the air.
The majority of the west coast and PNW get what we call the "wildfire season". (It also extends up into Canada and over to Alaska) It's fairly normal for July - September (sometimes October) to be very very dry and very hot. It's also not out of the norm to just have a red tint to the sun for a while. Here in Idaho we even have fire danger boards that park rangers/firefighters will update to show the potential danger level of fires starting. It's also why commercial fireworks are considered illegal in states out west and not in the rest of the country. Because those fireworks have a much higher chance of catching something on fire here, where as in the rest of the country it's more humid and wet, so things don't catch on fire as easily.
I grew up in Indiana and while we had tornados come close we never got hit. My dad didn't want us being scared so we'd have storm parties when there were tornado watches on our patio. Snacks, a radio, and a skim board for surfing the rain puddles and you are good to go!
Subduction zones give us earthquakes, volcanoes, good soil and valuable minerals, and beautiful scenery. The western U.S.'s share of the Ring of Fire is a blessing. (with a price)
We live near L.A. for 25 years, went through at least a thousand of them from 2 through 7. Also went through several dozen wildfires. Used to drive home from work while burning embers bouncing off my car. By chance we lived in Portland OR from 1975 to 1985 and we were woken up when St Helens erupted in 1980.
The volcanoes show where the edges of tectonic plates are located. There are also some that show up in spots where the earth's crust is thinner. Hawaii is a stationary hot spot where the lava created a string of islands as the plate passed over it.
I live in Northern California and we have little temblors where I live all the time. I live near some geysers and not far from Calistoga, which is highly geothermal, hence all the hotsprings. It's also a caldera. Some people dispute that, but really, then where does all the obsidian around here come from?
But I was down south of San Francisco when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit in 1989 and that was very scary. When we finally made it through SF, which took hours, I looked back and you couldn't even tell there was a city there. The power was completely out and the only light was the whole Marina on fire.
Wild fires around here have been insane over the last few years. I've been evacuated three times, but I'm lucky, I know a lot of people who've lost everything. The town of Paradise, California was almost completely wiped out. Fortunately, our firefighters have learned a lot and have gotten extremely good at getting almost all of them put out quickly. That being said, just north of me, very close to where Paradise burned, the Park fire, which started on July 24th from arson, is still burning, although now 99% contained.
I remember Mt St. Helens blowing, too. I was 11 yrs old and even as far south as I live from the volcano (across the whole state of Oregon and the top part of California) we had a layer of ash on everything. Have you reacted to any videos about the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens?
I'm in the midwest, near the great lakes, and the western wildfire smoke drifts this far. Last year and this year we've had air quality warnings. That's not to say we don't also get wildfires but nothing like the west coast.
I have a very good friend in California and fairly often we play video games together online. Several times she would causally say "oh an earthquake" while we're playing. Obviously small ones but that would be pretty weird to experience even little ones often.
Fun fact: Oregon is the most volcanically active of the contiguous States.
The San Andreas Fault, which responsible for most of the large earthquakes in California is a Strike So Fault. Each side is sliding past the other and the "crack" extends straight down. That type of fault is thought to create quakes of a maximum of around 7.5-8.0. The offshore Juan de Fuca fault, which extends from the Oregon/California border to Vancouver BC is a subduction fault. The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the Pacific Northwest. That type of fault is capable of a maximum of 9.0-9.8. Although that doesn't seem like a big difference. Each while number difference in the scale represents a 30X multiplier. So, The Big One Californians talk about is nowhere near what THE BIG ONE we in the Pacific Northwest will produce. Plus ours will include massive tsunami.
Living in Michigan, I have never seen a tornado, forest fire, volcano, hurricane and although my husband noticed a slight earthquake, I didn't. It was centered in a state below us.
Don't have any pics (pre smart phone), but my Dad and I were driving up to Green Bay to do a little gambling and right before Manitowac, Wi., right there on Lake Michigan were 3 water spouts. These are water tornados as we call them. They reached down from the clouds to the water. Glad we weren't fishing!
In 2013, in South Dakota we had a big ass snow storm called Atlas. We got 12 feet of snow in 3 days, and the power was down for 4 weeks
"The BIG ONE" that he's referring to is the fact that the San Andreas fault line runs through California from the Gulf of California to the Pacific Ocean, and most expect that at some point, a huge earthquake will split that section (South Western California including the Baja Peninsula) completely away from the Continental US and sink it into the ocean like Atlantis. Causing untold damage, loss of life and tidal waves to other shores. Sort of like folks dread a massive volcanic eruption of Yellowstone National Park super volcano at some point, like world ending cataclysm
Hurricane Andrew in 1992 was a cat 5+ storm. I was without power for six weeks after surviving a dead on hit in Miami.
The Chicago Fire was accidentally started by a cow belonging to a female named Catherine O'Leary that knocked over a lantern which ignited a small fire and since the buildings and everything around in that time were pretty much made of wood it spread like a Forrest fire and Chicago became one big giant campfire.
I couldn't begin to count how many tornadoes I've experienced, BUT but all of them happened because of the two hurricanes I lived through. The first one was Frederic. It literally spun hundreds of tornados. Watching tall pine trees start to twist like a child's top and then it's twisted off and disappears. Over and over. The second hurricane was Elena, and I lived through that one in the hospital.....having a baby girl. Thankfully I missed Katrina y one weekend. We had been in New Orleans to have an early birthday for my daughter. So we missed that one, BUT then, my daughter and husband spent Hurricane Ivan while in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Both of those first two was while I lived in Mobile, Alabama.
Glad he mention the Galveston hurricane of 1900. I've mentioned it to you before, Adam. It's really an amazing story. I think the weather channel did a special based on the book, Isaac's Storm. See if you can find it. Heartbreaking stories.
Adam! I know that you're in Northern Ireland - but even this American could figure out the painting was depicting
the famous scene when the Spanish Armada appeared... while Sir Francis Drake was playing "bowls"! lol.
Growing up in Illinois a tornado hit my hometown and right after we had a small earthquake. Since moving to FL I have been through a few hurricanes and during one a tornado went through our yard. Also have felt a few earthquakes down here.
I was born and raised in California and one earthquake we had near my home it felt like the ground dropped about a foot. It felt like when you forget about a step on the stairs but didnt fall. Now I live in Washington state (too far for the volcanos to do anything where I live) but we get sooooo many wildfires every year
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2-9.3 Million were
struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was caused by a rupture along the fault between the Burma Plate and the Indian Plate, and reached a Mercalli intensity up to IX in some areas.
My German friends are also terrified by the weather in the US, especially tornadoes and flash floods.
I've been through a 6.8 quake up here in Western Washington. We're on two major fault systems. And of course, I was alive and here when St. Helens went off. We have several dangerous volcanoes that, especially with Mount Rainier, when--not if--it erupts again could destroy a lot of lives. We also get massive wildfires in the eastern part of the state.
10-17-1989 Earthquakes San Francisco 7.3. The “plates” shift and cause a kind of ripple effect. I was outside during that one, and watched the ground roll. I had two brothers on the Bay Bridge toll plaza at the time. There have been larger in Southern Ca, and there will be a bigger one in Northern CA. It just is what it is.
I’m in Texas now, I’m far enough away from the coast for Hurricanes, but we were not safe from the rain of Harvey. Tornadoes, no one is safe from those things, it’s just a probability issue.
I'm in North Mississippi, USA at the moment and we won't know how fun things might be come the morning. Fun stuff. Cherrio, folks.
I live in Oregon, just above California, but "The Big One" is something almost everyone in the Pacific North West has heard about at least once. It's a terrifying reality, but not really something we can do anything about, so no one really dwells on it.
"The Big One" refers to a massive and devastating earthquake that is believed to be imminent as a result of the geology in our area. There's a major plate subduction zone called the Cascadia Subduction Zone just off of the coast of Oregon. The Pacific tectonic plate is slowly pushing the Juan de Fuca plate under the North America plate. The plates moving is creating a build up of pressure that will eventually lead to massive and devastating earthquakes. All that pressure has been building for over 300 years now.
The last "Big One" was a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in January of 1700 that we know about thanks to evidence that geologists have found of a huge tsunami happening in Japan back then (Really big earthquakes here on the west coast of the US tend to result in really big tsunamis for Japan). According to Oregon's hazards and preparedness page, scientists are predicting a roughly 37% chance of a megathrust earthquake of 7.1+ magnitude in this area occurring in the next 50 years. Big enough earthquakes can also trigger tectonic plate movement elsewhere, so it's believed that "The Big One" in Oregon can trigger the impending "Big One" brewing in California, or vice versa, but I don't know too much about California's plate tectonics beyond the fact that they expect their "Big One" to come from the San Andreas fault. None of this even gets into the size of the aftershocks and tsunamis that can follow and earthquake of that size.
Fortunately, earthquakes are decently familiar in this region, and our state governments are aware of the issue, so some steps are being taken to prepare as best we can. Our infrastructure and building codes have improved a lot too. It's definitely still going to be absolutely devastating, but hopefully not as devastating as it could have been.
And isn't the Cascadia "big one" at risk of triggering the San Andreas fault? Also the San Andreas fault has its own "big one" to worry about.
Yeah, every year up here in Seattle we have a Shake It Out event, meant to raise awareness and practice disaster preparedness. When the Big One finally hits, which could be tomorrow or a hundred years from now, experts predict everything west of I-5 will be destroyed.
yeah, I was in Dallas and saw one all the way across the city. but it didn't do much damage and didn't last long, but when i was in college I went to Wichita Falls (North of Dallas) and helped with the aftermath. We were only able to stay for the day. but it was just Tragic
Probably the best way to learn about the volcanoes that ring the Pacific is to look at the *w- i- k- i* for 'The Ring of Fire" (hate the algorythms that will yank anything taking someone away from here) Anyway, it's a good place to start with a lot of internal links where you might want a deeper dive. Hawaii's volcanoes are a little different in that they are what's called 'hot spot' volcanoes, ie a large and deep up-welling of magma that the techtonic plates move over. The spot stays still wile the plates move and where it finds a crack - poof! A volcano comes up! There is a whole chain of undersea mountains made of ancient volcanoes stretching from Hawaii to northern Russia showing the slow movement of the Pacific plate over the centuries. Another item to read *there*. Have fun! And thanks for the great reaction here. 😀
In California we have 5 seasons. Spring, Summer, Fire,Fall, and Winter.😊
Several years ago there were fires along the coast and inland of Oregon, I live 50 miles from where they were and we were separated by the Coastal Mountains and still suffered from the smoke and poor air quality.
We here throughout Louisiana today have been through a cat 2 hurricane 🌀. It just left the greater New Orleans area a couple of hours ago. Now it has moved on to the Northshore across Lake Pontchartrain.
Mt St Helen’s death toll was high because people refused to leave. The governor did everything that could be done, right up to going to homes to escort them out
I live near a bunch of volcanoes, but I know all the likely lahar and pyroclastic paths, so I avoid those and have made very sure I don't live in the line of fire. In the unlikely event of a major eruption, my home should be fine, though we could be cut off from electricity for several days or weeks. Before I existed, it was very boring and I don't want to go back to that any time soon, so I'm very careful about where I choose to live.
"Dragons!..oh" was hilarious
I've been in a couple of hurricanes, several tornadoes, quite a few earthquakes, including the huge one in 1989 in California.
Closest I have been to a tornado, 60 ft.
"The Big One": We're fairly certain that a large enough earthquake will send everything west of the San Andreas fault line sliding off into the ocean. We all watch in anticipation (some, rather rapturously).
We also get lightening storms every summer which can be severe!
I’ve been in 3! One when I was a child, have pictures and our house moved about 20 ft, second one when I was 14 yrs old, smaller but on the ground coming right at us! Third Nov 17, 2013 in Washington Illinois! All in Illinois and I survived because of basements!
I've been through multiple tornadoes! We had one hit our house on Mother's Day last year and we had a tree land on the house, and had it not caught partially on the power line, it would've landed directly on me as I was sleeping based on where the tree landed! I'd send you pictures, but I don't know where to send them
yes, valcanos can be in the middle of the ocean. hell, there's a mountain that is technically taller than everest but it is around 4k meters under water and 6k meters above . for a total of 10k meters which is over 1k more than everest
Virginia is a good state to come to, most hurricanes go by with relatively little damage compared to Florida. We do have the occasional tornado but I’ve lived here since 1968 and have never seen one, there has been the odd one that has hit in surrounding areas but not very many.
A subduction zone is a point where tectonic plates are grinding against each other as one slides under the other. The Pacific plate is sliding under the North American plate. They grind against one and other until the pressure causes there to be a powerful and sudden movement, that's the earthquake.
February 2024 Texas and Oklahoma experienced the largest wild fire in US history. North and east of Amarillo. It burned 1.3 million acres.
Not my house but my cousins front yard tree (with a 3 foot diameter) was picked up and shoved, root ball first, through their front window, into their living room.
I’m from Texas and have watched many tornados. That’s right I said watch because many southerns will immediately go stand on our porch with a drink and go watch the sky. Many times we watch many tornados form and start to come down and can’t reach the ground so they suck back up and aren’t an issue besides very heavy wind. It’s quite beautiful and e are so use to them wee really don’t seem to be even fazed by most. We practice what to do when a tornado is dangerous from the time we were in kindergarten. However we are even terrified when the inevitable fire tornado, f5s,or multi vortex storm hits (no joke these are real look them up)
My guy forgot to mention the huge yearly wildfires in Alaska and the thousands of earthquakes we get per year
Yes, Adam! Wow. Tectonic plates.
Live in Iowa. We go outside when the tornado sirens come on. I’m sure this is not uncommon in the Midwest.
That is the pacific Ring of fire where something like 75% of all volcanos reside.
My parents were teenagers living in western Montana when mt. Saint Helen’s erupted and they said ash from it came down like snow.
Comets are cold....in space. When they scream through the atmosphere at 65,000 mph they are, in fact, not cold anymore.
7:41 that is called the Pacific Ring of Fire.
For “The big one” based on what I heard would only be the staring point since there is the risk of it causing the Yellowstone super volcano erupting as well.
Earthquakes happen as the Tectonic Plates shift around, & they're basically solid rock floating on magma (liquid rock.) The churning magma causes the solid rock on top of one plate to grind against other plate's rock & that's the quake. "The Big One" is the expected MAJOR shift that will dramatically change the landscape of California that many are expecting is an eventuality, but in geographic terms "eventual" can mean a few thousand years.
The same magma that fuels the tectonic movement that is the rubbing in California, comes to the surface in other areas, & once magma comes out it gets called lava. So the same forces that fuel the California Earthquakes also fueled Mt. Saint Helens.
Speaking of changing names the same kind of phenomena that is called a "tornado" on land, is called a "waterspout" if it happens at sea, and yes it changes names if it comes ashore.
California is currently on fire. I live in a neighboring state, that is also experiencing fires, but I'm closer to the California fires and at around 300 miles away I can smell the smoke outside and our air quality has been greatly affected. 😢
Weather Report from Daytona Beach!! It’s currently 81 degrees & has rained every day for the past 4 days!!! Mother Nature is taking care that you have a beautifully blessed trip to Orlando. I just pray you don’t get caught in our Indian summer!! ❤❤❤
Adam, do a little reading on plate tectonics and continental drift. It will help you understand the dynamic forces behind those earthquakes (and tsunami) and volcanos.
I live Indiana. Ive recorded 130 mph straight line wind before. Ove seen 2 tornadoes this year and i sae the massive one in henryville from a distance
We're actually about to be hit by a hurricane right now.
9:33 I thought my computer screwed up. 😂
There was one earthquake that hit during a baseball playoff game. It was wild watching in real time.
NY State has had 29 tornadoes this summer! Nothing like what the Midwest of course. they were EF 2
You need to watch the video on Paradise California. A wild fire burned the town to the ground. There’s video taken by drivers as they’re trying to flee the fire. It’s unbelievable and scary. Many cars just completely went up in flames with people inside. It’s a must see !
It was the Camp Fire.
There are underwater volcanoes, so some of them marked are probably underwater.
The same storm system he's talking about at the beginning absolutely trashed parts of my town. Tore apart neighborhoods.
Thats called the "ring of fire" more like the horseshoe of fire but those are caused by the tectonic place being forced against eachother. Causes the earth to open up and make volcanoes
Southern California had a baby quake near Malibu this morning.
Nobody actually knows the real death total for the 1925 Tri State Tornado BECAUSE without communication and because there were people who lived way away from other people, etc, some have said the death toll country have reached way, way higher.
Yes, California is waiting for an 8.5 or higher. That will most likely be the "One" they're waiting for. Edit: I mean it makes sense Australia only has one active volcano. They have to deal with being Australia.