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  • Опубліковано 23 сер 2011
  • Seattle sits on the type of ground that would amplify the effects of an earthquake. Scientists can't offer a firm prediction when the next one will happen... only the certainty that it will.
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  • @alexc5243
    @alexc5243 3 роки тому +20

    I was in 1st grade living in Gig Harbor when the earthquake happened. We were in the middle of class and all sitting at our desks when everything in the room started shaking.
    I’ll always remember how well my first grade teacher handled the situation. Calmly, she just exclaimed “Oop, earthquake everyone! Everyone get under your desks,” as if we were just starting a new activity. She kept us all very calm.

    • @hwyy9046
      @hwyy9046 4 місяці тому

      What school did you go to?

  • @jrm21386
    @jrm21386 13 років тому +33

    I love Seattle!!! Beautiful city and amazing seafood.

    • @LoThebadass
      @LoThebadass 3 роки тому

      Why thank you

    • @40caltone
      @40caltone 2 роки тому +2

      Not anymore homeless everywhere

    • @jrm21386
      @jrm21386 2 роки тому +1

      @@40caltone People get what they vote for or tolerate...

    • @jimbomanivanh9697
      @jimbomanivanh9697 2 роки тому

      Not anymore 🥲 people moving in, houses getting expensive, and tax is getting stupidly high

    • @cellogirl11rw55
      @cellogirl11rw55 2 роки тому

      Now, it looks like 💩

  • @midnightreader8795
    @midnightreader8795 5 років тому +88

    Who's here form the Seattle 4.7 earthquake?

    • @m1a2d3i4n5
      @m1a2d3i4n5 5 років тому +2

      yep i woke up to it last night lol. didnt even know what was going on at first

    • @kurtsiecolferites2160
      @kurtsiecolferites2160 5 років тому +2

      Yup. It took me a minute to register what was happening and when I realized it was an earthquake I headed upstairs and hid under the kitchen table. Then I tried to comfort my totally terrified cats.

    • @baebee3
      @baebee3 5 років тому +2

      Anisa Dahir me xD

    • @baebee3
      @baebee3 5 років тому +3

      But I just slept through it

    • @idkbilly5021
      @idkbilly5021 5 років тому +1

      Anisa Dahir me

  • @chibiprussia5574
    @chibiprussia5574 6 років тому +148

    Where my fellow Washingtonians at :D

  • @nielsdaemen
    @nielsdaemen 3 роки тому +29

    Must be a wierd feeling living in Seattle knowing there's such a high risk of the entire city being distroyed in the next few decades 😨

    • @birdbathfromhell4088
      @birdbathfromhell4088 3 роки тому +1

      It is lol

    • @pammiewammy
      @pammiewammy 3 роки тому

      Yeah... It is..lol

    • @SylveonMujigaeOfficial
      @SylveonMujigaeOfficial 3 роки тому

      Would this be on the scale of the Hanshin earthquake of 1995?

    • @Iamalittlegoodatracing
      @Iamalittlegoodatracing 3 роки тому +5

      Actually their is a low chance of the whole city to get destroyed

    • @emmanuelmathews1718
      @emmanuelmathews1718 Рік тому

      @@SylveonMujigaeOfficial probably will be a combination of the 1995 quake and the more recent palu quake which caused many deaths from liquefaction and the resulting tsunami.
      The main risks in Seattle would probably be landslides and liquefaction. Basically turning the ground to liquid and worst case scenario the suburban hillside neighborhoods and most of port will slide into the bay.
      Look up footage of the Palu earthquake and you'll gain a pretty good picture of what might happen in an area like Seattle built on sediment deposits from the mountains.

  • @kikiwilliams1872
    @kikiwilliams1872 5 років тому +14

    I remember this 😐 I was in second grade and my mom worked downtown in pioneer square and was stuck forever!

    • @titamartinez162
      @titamartinez162 5 років тому +3

      I was in second grade too.

    • @yayalover123
      @yayalover123 5 років тому +1

      I waa in preschool. I remember the teacher telling us to get under the table.

  • @eligebrown8998
    @eligebrown8998 5 років тому +10

    I never knew about that one. They say if there's a 6.0 or bigger off the coast dont wait for tsunami warnings just run because there will be no time for a warning.

  • @Larsque
    @Larsque 13 років тому +2

    LOL, the guy's eating and he's like walking away chill style.

  • @wyndstryder
    @wyndstryder 13 років тому +10

    I was a mile from the epicenter for this and, though I grew up in So. Cal. and was used to earthquakes, the difference was unnerving.
    I was used to abrupt, shaking and loud. What happened that day was like being on a ship in high seas with no sound at all, just the undulating ground and the sound of the houses and trees around me groaning and swaying.
    They say the quake was only a few minutes but, being so close the the source, it lasted a good ten minutes or longer o.O

    • @jpkjnn6733
      @jpkjnn6733 6 років тому +2

      Scot Crawford yikes. Thanks for relating your experience. Very interesting to hear from someone who was actually there.

    • @cellogirl11rw55
      @cellogirl11rw55 2 роки тому

      We get a different type of earthquake here called a strike-slip earthquake. This happens when two tectonic plates collide and rub against each other in the upper mantle. They don't cause as much noise as the kind you get in California, but boy, they do make you gallop. Olympia, which lies directly across the Puget Sound from the epicenter, moved 20 feet north, fracturing the 4th and 5th avenue bridges.

    • @soundautomatic1
      @soundautomatic1 2 роки тому

      Yeah, subduction earthquakes feel waaaaay different. That earthquake felt like the ground had turned into a trampoline that someone else was jumping up and down on.

    • @cellogirl11rw55
      @cellogirl11rw55 2 роки тому

      @@soundautomatic1 For sure. Right before it hit, he ran out the door to come get me from school because our family dog started spinning in circles, and, having been raised on a farm, he had seen cattle do that before earthquakes, so he knew something was about to happen. It hit right as he was leaving, and he was thrown from his vehicle.

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 Рік тому

      It wasn't 10minutes. I was here too.. maybe a minute.

  • @pammiewammy
    @pammiewammy 3 роки тому +4

    My city... Everyday is a blessing

  • @darthbalgarus6986
    @darthbalgarus6986 2 роки тому +2

    I lived in Eastern Washington at the time of this disaster. Even that far away it felt like we were rocking back and forth on a boat

    • @danka2000
      @danka2000 5 місяців тому

      Yes.. I was living in Spokane was in class at Spokane Falls Community College and we felt it. Felt like a boat.

  • @ArdnthatN00b
    @ArdnthatN00b 4 роки тому +8

    I finally know why Frasier has left the building

  • @Myhopeisinhim
    @Myhopeisinhim 13 років тому +3

    I remember this one, we felt it when I lived in Chilliwack, too.

  • @carasmussen27
    @carasmussen27 4 роки тому +3

    I live in Portland and felt it. I will always remember it because it was our anniversary.

  • @Yumi_Jay
    @Yumi_Jay 2 роки тому +1

    I remember this earthquake and I live across the puget sound from Seattle. Even my dad and stepmother felt it in Clark County. My half sister wasn't born until August of that year.

  • @krisbaran62
    @krisbaran62 5 років тому +11

    City government knows about that but they build tunnel anyway

  • @linkrules678
    @linkrules678 12 років тому +6

    Haha my mom told me I was asleep during this! I was one and I live in Bremerton

  • @justmee9441
    @justmee9441 3 роки тому +1

    I was at pier 36 (uscg base) when it happened. I watched my weld shop (built over an old pier) split in half and the weld table fell in the water below!

  • @Icdezines
    @Icdezines 5 років тому +3

    But rainier tho....ive tried climbing that behemoth....its definitely to be respected...hopefully the recent quake didn’t disturb its sleep

    • @rebelfighter5249
      @rebelfighter5249 3 роки тому

      Doubt a 4.7 would do anything. But a Cascadia 9.0 with a tsunami special? Yeah, that's a different story.

  • @thomasplaysroblox3027
    @thomasplaysroblox3027 7 років тому +15

    I was at the skatepark skateboarding then I felt shaking and then their was cement breaking out the bowl and then I was running for my life

    • @HJWhitehall
      @HJWhitehall 6 років тому +2

      I was in the city of Seatac when the quake hit. It was pretty cool.

    • @anniep2837
      @anniep2837 5 років тому +1

      Yikes

    • @dkfldk_
      @dkfldk_ 5 років тому +1

      I dont think u were born

    • @Jadecrest123
      @Jadecrest123 4 роки тому

      I was in my apartment on Capitol Hill, lights went out, but just a few cracks to the building.

    • @anyahammad4762
      @anyahammad4762 3 роки тому +2

      @@josepaco8907 wow lol

  • @teddytac253
    @teddytac253 5 років тому +2

    I remember this day like it happened yesterday. I was at Jennie Reed elementary in Tacoma and after all the earthquake drills we went thru, my teacher was the only one freaken out with her hands in the air lookin everywhere wonderin what was goin on while me and all the 4th grade students were already under our desks screamin to her to get under her desk.

    • @tylorkelley4766
      @tylorkelley4766 3 роки тому +1

      Yes! Jennie Reed. My mom went there. I grew up in Gig Harbor. I was I. 6th grade and I kinda thought it was fun 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @teddytac253
      @teddytac253 3 роки тому +1

      @@tylorkelley4766 thats awesome haha what a small world

  • @TheHuntress1992
    @TheHuntress1992 8 років тому +1

    I was in 3rd grade in my classroom in Leavenworth Washington when this earthquake struck. And the best part? Feb 28th is my birthday. What a gift to get for your birthday. I had nightmares for weeks.

    • @anniep2837
      @anniep2837 5 років тому

      LEAVENWORTH IS THE BEST OMG UR LUCKY TO LIVE THERE THOUGH!

    • @squigga5957
      @squigga5957 5 років тому

      My birthday is on Feb 21

  • @Jason51559
    @Jason51559 9 років тому +1

    I remember this I was in Elm school on air base I was at lunch eating and that happen I hate it

  • @rx7dude2006
    @rx7dude2006 3 роки тому +1

    Ill never forget it, it was really a rolling quake, not super violent.

  • @joshuagenes
    @joshuagenes 5 років тому +1

    Frank Gonzales tsunami expert worked for NOAA at this time. 2:23 He's a nice guy.

  • @user-bj1fs8ev8i
    @user-bj1fs8ev8i 5 років тому

    Im moving back to washington for college and i am extremely scared of earthquakes. I lived in South Korea 15-16, and it was the first time i ever experienced large earthquakes (2, one was one of the largest SK ever got in recorded history). I hope I will be overcome my fear, but something about the earth being taken from my feet and me not being able to do anything about it is terrifying...

  • @smokymcpot5917
    @smokymcpot5917 2 роки тому

    This happened on my 21st birthday. I remember it well

  • @shrekogre1528
    @shrekogre1528 4 роки тому +1

    This is the shrek comment you’ve been looking for

  • @somegalfromcan
    @somegalfromcan 13 років тому +1

    I remember this earthquake - I felt it in Victoria. It was moving day for me - and I was concerned the boxes would fall on me.

  • @FroztiProductions
    @FroztiProductions 7 років тому

    I was in kindergarten and slept through it. about 30 minute drive from Seattle.

  • @sliver-fox-thot-patrol
    @sliver-fox-thot-patrol 2 роки тому

    I remember this. I was in middle school, just left the cafeteria and wondered why the trees were moving when there wasn't any wind.

  • @erikfassett
    @erikfassett 11 років тому +1

    your missing that Seattle is in washington

  • @cellogirl11rw55
    @cellogirl11rw55 2 роки тому

    People forget about Olympia. We had the worst damage of all. According to Wikipedia, Olympia jumped 20 feet north that day.

  • @anniep2837
    @anniep2837 5 років тому +10

    Actually tho the Cascadia (aka the big one) is gonna be a bit more damaging in Portland.

    • @hi-xe9ry
      @hi-xe9ry 5 років тому +1

      I wanna move to Montana

    • @splashnskillz37
      @splashnskillz37 5 років тому +1

      @@hi-xe9ry Yellowstone supervolcano is there

    • @adelle3068
      @adelle3068 5 років тому

      GeographyGamerii not the tsunami part

    • @hi-xe9ry
      @hi-xe9ry 5 років тому

      @@splashnskillz37 and I oop

    • @splashnskillz37
      @splashnskillz37 5 років тому

      @@hi-xe9ry 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @urbanshammer
    @urbanshammer 13 років тому

    @130starfish we get earthquakes a lot too. the whole west coast does.

  • @eschdaddy
    @eschdaddy 4 роки тому +2

    Well, don’t blame Texas, it wasn’t our fault!

  • @clashed13
    @clashed13 13 років тому

    nice

  • @thunderdragon8341
    @thunderdragon8341 2 роки тому

    I remember this quake I was in my college math class on the 6th floor when it hit

  • @JustMe-cl4qc
    @JustMe-cl4qc 5 років тому

    They know this an yet seattle keeps building and growing. Recently Mount Rainer Mt Hood an Mt St Helens and areas nearby have been shaking

  • @SKpivot
    @SKpivot 13 років тому

    Nice way to wake up :D

  • @eskomoWon
    @eskomoWon 5 років тому

    Greetings from California.

  • @rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021
    @rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021 5 років тому +1

    There’s also the Cascadia Subduction Fault in the Pacific Ocean

    • @michaellovely6601
      @michaellovely6601 4 роки тому

      If this fault line ruptures; Eugene OR, Salem OR, Portland OR, Olympia WA, Tacoma WA, Seattle WA, and Vancouver Bc, Canada would be royally screwed beyond belief. The earthquake would probably be just as strong as the infamous magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the northeastern coast of Japan and would generate a devastating tsunami.

  • @xgoodnightsunrise
    @xgoodnightsunrise 13 років тому

    I was here for this, ha! 2nd grade actually. :)

  • @rubymartinez2741
    @rubymartinez2741 4 роки тому +6

    I never felt a earthquake and I live very near Seattle.

    • @mma22456
      @mma22456 2 роки тому

      You must not have been there in 2001.

  • @So_Sea
    @So_Sea 2 роки тому

    I remember this

  • @somegalfromcan
    @somegalfromcan 13 років тому

    @gavinpop Yes - basically it is the water between the islands off the coast of Washington and Seattle.

  • @VexylObby
    @VexylObby 13 років тому

    NINTENDO 64! OH MY GOOOOD!!!!

  • @johngates450
    @johngates450 2 роки тому

    I remember hearing the Earthquake thinking initially it was my Washer out of Balance..Then I opened my front door and stood in the doorwell..Ironically our dogs were right on my tail. I went outside to check on my daughter playing in neighbors yard and seen there windows look like plastic rippling..
    It stopped and asked my daughter if she was OK which she was w neighbor. Called my school where I worked as a Custodian and made sure they were all ok...Pretty scary for sure..)

  • @T4C0M4
    @T4C0M4 2 роки тому

    I love in Tacoma great place

  • @richienash6346
    @richienash6346 3 роки тому

    I live right next to Seattle

  • @urbanshammer
    @urbanshammer 13 років тому

    @iFoxyFox puget sound? is connected to the pacific ocean?

  • @chena3
    @chena3 13 років тому

    Mt Rainier [ volcano ]
    about 80 miles from Seattle...
    where ya gonna run ?

  • @bensonmarktasi3634
    @bensonmarktasi3634 3 роки тому

    I love seattle

  • @Wolfsbane909
    @Wolfsbane909 13 років тому

    well they already have that sound machine that scans already, how much does that machine cost?

  • @thinklarge21
    @thinklarge21 13 років тому

    saw that opening shot....was thinking.....that is a worn down looking area

  • @marsbars4767
    @marsbars4767 3 роки тому +1

    0:33 That looked like George Lucas

  • @badpiggies988
    @badpiggies988 Рік тому

    My parents were working at their offices in Redmond (where the buildings literally swayed!) and I didn’t exist yet. And my house is on that sediment bowl 😳

  • @erikfassett
    @erikfassett 11 років тому

    that is not major (major is lots of building flat!)

  • @TatiaNasdaq
    @TatiaNasdaq 13 років тому

    @CrazyCrystalLuv ok, ty

  • @Aarongrubbworm
    @Aarongrubbworm 13 років тому

    the natural phenomena (plural) is so cool and yet so scary
    what do you think?

  • @urbanshammer
    @urbanshammer 13 років тому

    @oxidindigo 6.7, i remember it too

  • @FutureTillionaire
    @FutureTillionaire 13 років тому

    >.< I thought this video was about the recent Wash, DC earthquake

  • @billeybop
    @billeybop 13 років тому

    I was in the needle yesterday having dinner when it fell to the ground. I was slightly hurt!

  • @ooka7705
    @ooka7705 5 років тому

    0:19 we got em

  • @urbanshammer
    @urbanshammer 13 років тому

    @GordanMFreeman falling debris, sinkholes, tsunami, etc etc. the woman who died was old and died from a heart attack

  • @TatiaNasdaq
    @TatiaNasdaq 13 років тому

    Why is video called "Washington Quake" if it's about Seattle?? Or am I missing something?

  • @robloxmaster2138
    @robloxmaster2138 5 років тому

    I was 2 year old now I’m 9 but my family moved to Sunnyside

  • @alanochanman
    @alanochanman 13 років тому

    @FlipUpCoconutKing you mean 5 earthquakes, 1 in D.C., 1 in Colorado, 2 in Cali, 1 in Peru

  • @violetcarolann5478
    @violetcarolann5478 5 років тому

    this like really scares me.

  • @bharat5491
    @bharat5491 4 роки тому +1

    I searched for January 2001 Earthquake at Gujarat, India on Republic Day of India 01/26/2001

  • @RealJudyi
    @RealJudyi 5 років тому +1

    Till remember this...ahh 5th grade.

  • @LilChaggz
    @LilChaggz 13 років тому

    The Asian at 3:10 was like "Are you really freaking out over this?"

  • @football.edits0625
    @football.edits0625 4 роки тому

    Who’s here from Oregon Earthquake 6.3 in the Pacific Ocean

  • @musicdork4ever
    @musicdork4ever 13 років тому +1

    "Fortunately, there was just one death" wow. could you say that any nicer?

  • @KEandJRAllenFamily
    @KEandJRAllenFamily Рік тому

    I live right under one of the bigges5 fault lines in the state

  • @WhipperSnapper551
    @WhipperSnapper551 Рік тому

    Ok, I live in Washington and I didn't know there was earthquakes here.

    • @sherimatukonis6016
      @sherimatukonis6016 Рік тому

      About every 30-50 years for moderate 6 or 7's,,, every 200-600 years for a 9+. It's been 321 since the last 9+. It sounds scary, but if you're smart... It really isn't. 99.997% survive just fine. Just stay away from bricks and glass and unreinforced concrete buildings. Wood (houses) usually do ok.

  • @Idtelos
    @Idtelos 13 років тому

    Peru Earthquake today(August 24th), NG comes out with another earthquake vid. Predatory adverticing.

  • @urbanshammer
    @urbanshammer 13 років тому

    @somegalfromcan uh yeah, i know. i was responding too another person. i live in seattle

  • @TatiaNasdaq
    @TatiaNasdaq 13 років тому

    @snowbal12345 elementary school education... where? in america? oh, wait, i've never been there!! how surprising is that?

  • @tomrausch7014
    @tomrausch7014 3 роки тому

    Might be easier to accept if they actually pronounced city and major River names correctly.
    Oh well, I looked at an earthquake map for east of Portland. Looks like we are ok here in Sandy, OR.

  • @PatriciaBurns
    @PatriciaBurns 5 років тому +10

    Everymountain (continent) and islandwill be moved out of their places before the Sixth Seal appearance of the Lord. The mountains and islands will be adrift.
    This is the final event of the Fourth Seal.

    • @ecuadorexpat8558
      @ecuadorexpat8558 5 років тому

      That is the exact effect of a coming Magnetic Pole shift when the crust of the earth slips around the core and all the continents will be dislocated and swim upon the sea all broken up

  • @cbwavy
    @cbwavy 13 років тому

    thumbs up if u were in the east coast earthquake yesterday

  • @katyboebaty9193
    @katyboebaty9193 3 роки тому +1

    I was in math class when this happened.

  • @-stewie-
    @-stewie- Рік тому

    Fortunately only one death?! Bruh it should be “Sadly there was one death” or “Unfortunately there was one death”

  • @bestwr5
    @bestwr5 3 роки тому +1

    The Famous 6.8 magnitude earthquake

  • @charlottenasise5105
    @charlottenasise5105 5 років тому

    Those sound wave harm and kill ocean life.

  • @jacobriggs8185
    @jacobriggs8185 17 днів тому

    Still waiting for the big one

  • @ahmadmukhlis24
    @ahmadmukhlis24 13 років тому +1

    0:19 Launching Windows XP

    • @mz2003
      @mz2003 3 роки тому

      It's Windows Whistler not Windows XP. Because Windows XP was release on October 25 2001

  • @Idtelos
    @Idtelos 13 років тому

    @NirvanA3361 someone does not know REM.

  • @SkylerPDX
    @SkylerPDX 13 років тому

    tricky tricky, washington.. washington...

  • @shanchilly
    @shanchilly 13 років тому

    @BowWow452 lol ikr!

  • @jage5256
    @jage5256 5 років тому

    And I was going to move to Seattle. Forget that. Wyoming here I come. Rather be frozen than quaking.

    • @zkrjgaming2618
      @zkrjgaming2618 5 років тому

      We don't get earthquakes often so your fine

    • @EASbear
      @EASbear 3 роки тому

      But you will get a Yellowstone eruption.

  • @PopVideoMeanings
    @PopVideoMeanings 13 років тому

    why does this look like it was videoed in the 80's?

  • @alxjandro2836
    @alxjandro2836 8 років тому

    my dad survived that earth quake and he was ALONE

  • @Ipoonthecasbah
    @Ipoonthecasbah 13 років тому

    killer fish throw at 3:01

  • @Idtelos
    @Idtelos 13 років тому +1

    it's the end of the world as we know it...and I'm feeling fine!!!

  • @ipurpletardtrippyG
    @ipurpletardtrippyG 13 років тому

    HULK SMASH!!!!! *from under ground?*

  • @scooby172
    @scooby172 13 років тому

    @movania89 wtf are you talking about, the earthquakes i been in happened during the afternoons and evenings. lol.

  • @kpfighter
    @kpfighter 13 років тому

    Well, time to move out of Seattle

  • @madjoker6934
    @madjoker6934 2 роки тому

    I was born 3 days after this earthquake