@@rubenvanlaar8552 I have no good news, we humans are WIth you all the best we can. Be strong as you can helping others. Fear feeds on itself. I cannot imagion your suffering, but sincerely care.
I'd like to suggest an episde on Pahvant Butte in the Black Rock volcanic field in Utah. It has a couple of interesting features. It erupted under the water of Lake Banneville and was still active when Lake Benneville suddenly lowered 300 feet or so. There is a flat plateau near the top that was at the original water level. After the lake lowered it started makingn a second flat plateau at the lowered lake area before the lake broke through again and drained completely. On one side there is a feature called the lace curtain. It is a weird lava cliff with holes and forms in the lave. That was underwater when it was formed. Anyway, it might be worthy of one of your programs.
I’ve briefly covered it in two other videos but was honestly thinking about discussing it in depth. Makes people think about the rapid changes an area can go, being underwater (in a lake) and now is a desert. It’s a fun tuff cone!
@@GeologyHub I think the lace curtain is fascinating. It was formed as lava flowed into the lake. Maybe the gnarly holes and shapes were from wave action as the lake level dropped over several months.
this is one of your better videos. same great presentation and very heavy on information which as usual is relevant to the area. I'm not sure why im pegging it as 'one of the best' other than it being topical to the devastation being suffered in and around the area; but that is enough :)
Lithospheric drip did it for me. I've never heard of the term before while my ancient books leave the colorado plateau without a reason for the drastic elevation of it as an unknown oddity. Oh maybe they have re-vamped some theory in the vast timeframe since I last read a subject related book? More than likely. Much appreciated, heavy on the information as we do need it, some way more than others.
@@leebarnes655 There isn't really agreement on what is going on with the Colorado Plateau exactly though there is starting to be an understanding that the current models are insufficient to explain western North America. This is linked with a larger situation I've learned from Nick Zentner's livestream series guests is that there is a section of the geological community which refuses to accept results from seismic tomography, paleomagnetic data and in some cases igneous petrology results that don't conform with their opinion. For example in terms of Seismic tomography there appears a ridgeline of lower velocity propagation usually interpreted to be thermally buoyant material which lies beneath the Rio Grande Rift Valley and Colorado Plateau up to Yellowstone before sharply turning west into Idaho beneath the Snake River Plane then maintaining sharp jagged jumps it meanders through Oregon and northern California and connecting to the Juan de Fuca Ridge. To the East/North you have the Juan de Fuca/Farallon plate which in the form of a fast velocity feature extends down deep into the mantle connecting with huge slab walls that descend to the core mantle boundary. Given the way the thermal upwelling Ridge/fault like structure meanders through the American Southwest before reconnecting with the East Pacific Rise as it reemerges from under the North American continent in the Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez I can only surmise this must represent the Pacific Plate boundary. There is a newer emerging paradigm which sees plates as continuous structures between the crust and upper mantle with continental material of course being buoyant lower density masses of rock floating in these crustal/mantle plates in this picture. With that context and the way that the thermal upwelling boundary maintains a rigid structure throughout the upper mantle featuring a sharp compositional discontinuity it seems to me that the best explanation is that North America has gotten caught onto the Pacific plate but as the continent continues to push to the southwest its getting underplated by the Pacific but the pacific is moving to the northwest and so its getting caught. However as this is an upwelling plate boundary it means that you are heating the continent from below effectively like a blowtorch which causes the rock to melt and eventually dripping away down into the mantle. Based on the work by Robert Hilderbrand there are multiple contact points along the southern Rocky Mountains i.e. the Texas lineament which have corresponding counterparts up in the Canadian Rockies i.e. Lewis and Clark Lineament which suggests a major crustal translation to the Northwest occurred around 50 Ma via major slip strike faults eventually stopping because the sheering effect reached the old craton of North America the Laurentian shield. However because North America's trajectory remains unchanged this suggests the uplift and sheering is in the process of repeating the process all over again ripping off the bunch of accreted terranes that were pushed in to fill the gap as well as a chunk of the North American Craton which has been holding back the translation and thrusting it to the Northwest up into Canada. The Colorado Plateau is exactly the region of craton that is getting sheered off the continent creating the Basin and Range in the process. The main point of contact which serves of the fulcrum of rotation where this sheering is occurring is of course Yellowstone the hotspot plume of which appears to lie along a mantle depth triple junction, hence why everything to the west has a clockwise rotation. I also wonder if some of the building strain on the craton may be getting transferred into the craton at large possibly explaining the reactivation of the New Madrid since the past sheering/translation events have occurred along existing sutures and rift scars.
@@Dragrath1 Thanks so much for the detailed catch up lesson, couldn't have been done better. Of course there is going to be push back, this is a hotly debated subject matter to start with. A big fan of Nick's work as well, I missed that lesson entirely. Just a WOW reply you did for my innocent remark, but it was an intense, while totally delightful read. I'm going to save that one and keep it in Nick's folder here.
Living in CO, being from WY, my eyes are on Yellowstone’s caldera more than quakes, as snow doesn’t easily melt in temps below freezing for weeks, the magma rising, swarms ⤴️, most unreported by USGS!
I noticed that you hadn't mentioned the other potentially active volcano Koruhüyüğü; which can be seen on Google maps at 36.81°N / 36.61°E, it's cinder cones I think and has an old darkish lava flow. That one was closer than any of the other volcanoes mentioned in the video as it sits on the fault line where the M7.8 struck.
those two earthquakes didn't surprise me too much. Anatolia is one of the few areas on Earth as dangerous as, yet outside of the pacific Ring of Fire. The deaths also didn't surprise me. Tall buildings in a poor region with high population density don't mix well with extremely dangerous seismic activity.
Shouldn't the Housing Association, Building Architects, Permit and Inspector Commission take Responsibility for this Tragedy and Horror in Turkiye....these people should be held accountable for the damages and loss of Lives...... ‼⁉️.. prayers and hope the people can get out of this somewhat successfully.....however, nothing can replace, losing your love ones....🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸
@@kaypee4704 unfortunately many country's building standards are substandard. Yet, if it is legally allowed by the govt. Then its therefore not held responsible since standards are so low. Thats reality in many countries across the world.
Nah, they're very different. New Madrid is in the middle of a plate, with some very weird geology going on causing earthquakes in a location where you wouldn't expect any. Meanwhile the earthquakes in Turkey took place on faults between sizable (not quite major) plates, and the area has a very long history of severe and dangerous earthquakes. According to Wikipedia, THREE of the sixteen deadliest earthquakes in human history (this obviously only includes those where documentation exists) took place in this area - all three had a death toll of at least 130 000.
@@LeyrannThe liquefaction in that New Madrid earthquake is terrifying. The fact you can still see the sand I guess “erupted” onto the surface from satellite is crazy.
@@Leyrann When the North Anatolian Fault fails near Istanbul, the death toll in Turkey and Syria will look like a skinned knee in comparison. That's a dreadful thing to say, but I believe authorities and experts expect the death toll to be around There are around 260,000 buildings at medium to high risk of collapse in Istanbul. something like 16 million people in and around Istanbul. It will be a disaster on the order of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people. It will probably be worse with the amount of rubble in the streets. Streets are narrow in the city. It will be horrible. I'm really fond of the Turkish language. I think it's beautiful. I will be very sad when that quake occurs as I am now for those in Southeastern Turkey. I've lived near San Francisco for 13 years and lived in the Los Angeles area for nearly 20 years during the time when we had a number of large quakes (6+ mag) in the 1990s. Gives me shivers thinking about a mag 7+ around here. Scary.
How can the earthquakes in Turkey have been felt in Greenland? Also, I read somewhere that because of the huge magnitudes that it would trigger earthquakes in the near future all over the world. Is this true. You arre one of my favorites. Your channel is so interesting Thank you for all the work you put into your videos.
at this time death toll is 9k but im sure it will be more than 15 20k after every building is searched. the quake affected so large an area that even though everyone (disaster and emergency management team, search and rescue team, military, firemen, police, miners, construction engineers and many voluntary groups and other teams from tens of helping countries) workd day and night, my guess is 20-30% of affected areas lack rescue teams and help. the area is 8/1 of turkey's surface area. this is really hard
also we did know that the areas are in risk of quakes for many years and there are great regulations for buildings so that they will stan when the quake happens. however bastard people of turkish building contractors doesnt obey these and they are not supervised. i hope someday we will learn from our mistakes and take things seriously
btw i live in erzincan where the greatest quake in turkey happened, magnitude of 7.9 which killed 32k people in 1939. we are also at great risk of collapsing in 10 15 years or so
The Chesapeake Bay (Meteor) Impact Basin in Hampton Roads, Virginia, might make a good topic. 35 MYA, a meteor hit what is now the lower Chesapeake Bay. Best preserved wet-target impact basin on planet. It's why Virginia Rivers that flowed South East veer sharply East at their mouths. This was the Susquehanna River Valley, which went out to the edge of the Continental Shelf, up to the end of the last Ice Age. The Dismal Swamp nearby in the City of Cheaspeake (and North Carolina) may have been created by an impact a few million years ago, also.
I always enjoy your videos. But any slight suggestion; because you're discussing technical matters maybe slow down your speech a little bit so that people can digest it properly. Thanks.
Would you be interested in doing a video on the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake of the 1700s, and looking at the potential for another imminent (relatively speaking) megathrust earthquake produced by that fault line.
The news seems to keep referring to all the earthquakes after the 7.8 as aftershocks instead of two major earthquakes. Did they simply not get the memo, or is there disagreement about this in the geologic community?
They are very much separate events as they took place on separate faults. You could classify it as a 'triggered earthquake' but not a foreshock/mainshock.
I saw some photos of a very distorted paved road that was shifted a few meters in one direction. Now I cannot find it or the one of a similarly twisted rail road track. Can you find it and share them in another update. Please an thank you.
I think this is the image you are looking for : After the earthquakes, 3-4 meters of movement on the ground and surface cracks are evident in the image : trthaberstatic.cdn.wp.trt.com.tr/resimler/1992000/tren-raylari-1992305_2.jpg
A few days ago I uploaded a video about my weird college language textbooks and one was my Arabic textbook. Both of my professors were from Syria and one moved back there when his Fulbright scholarship expired! I'm sure one of my former professors was likely there and the other one likely had family there, and the first thing I thought when I heard the news was that some of the UA-camrs I watch who make food videos were just there. I hope my former professors and their families are ok! How tragic, their governments are incompetent and the world should help
This lithospheric drip is a new phenomenon for me. Is it related to back-arc spreading at all? Like, the African plate is subducting under the Anatolian plate, but inland of this arc of subduction, is there back-arc spreading which causes volcanism (like in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado - these areas are well-inland of the plate boundary, but they have many volcanoes that have erupted in the past 10,000 years)?
Does the melting of the ice sheets sometimes cause these dips in the crust, and subsequent then after a time the crust normalisation leading to some volcanoes?? I'm not sure I understand what you meant as lithosphere as I thought that was part of the atmosphere.
A suggestion for these earthquake videos: given that there have been so many victims and help needed, would it be nice to suggest viewers donate to Red Cross or another organization providing relief at the end of the video? I really like all the videos you produce, although I think you talk just a little too fast without much in the way of pauses and text is also on screen for too short a time. I have to pause the video to read those sometimes.
I might understood wrong but did u say no subduction fault? The fault line from Mersin until Adriatic Sea is a subduction zone where the Africa slides under Turkey and Greece; and a part of the Africa actually subducts almost until Isparta.
In GH's previous video, he explains that these earthquakes are due to the Arabian plate pushing into the Anatolian plate without subduction. I don't know how this process interacts with the adjacent subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 yes actually the quake where it took place is a junction. There's North Anatolian fault, East Anatolian fault are the main ones then, Arabian plate fracture (which goes all the way down to end of the Dead Sea) and a African subduction zone . All these are meeting Kahramanmaraş (except The North Anatolian Fault)
big earthquake can trigger volcanoes with 2 action, 1/ helping break an existing fault, and helping release inner volcanoes magma or gas pressure toward surface. 2/ change gas status, like soda, if you shake magma, the gas tend to augment the pressure and can help magma break free toward surface. the same g but like i said, the eq can be a trigger, not a cause...and like geologyhub said, the volcanoes in turkey dont have subduction, and their magma chamber are not very active and not ready to burst.
Ağrı, Erciyes, Süphan volcanoes are among the largest volcanoes in Turkey and the world. Can the volcanic movements that will start here trigger all the fault lines in the world?
Volcanic activity is not expected due to these recent earthquakes. However, it should not be forgotten that the probability of a volcanic eruption until 2100 in Turkey is higher than the probability of not erupting, and precautions should be taken.
After the earthquakes, 3-4 meters of movement on the ground and surface cracks are evident in the image : trthaberstatic.cdn.wp.trt.com.tr/resimler/1992000/tren-raylari-1992305_2.jpg
I request a vid about the intentional triggering of volcanic eruptions, I am sure the topic was discussed back when nukes were first developed but I've never seen anything about it
Tesla had an earthquake patent after successfully causing one it seems - seems the‘govt’ took ALL his research…. after he died a pauper despite >1,000 patents, including a ‘flying saucer’ object using ‘mag-lyft’ technology as I’ve read, seen evidence underground systems in DUMBS worldwide do which some call centuries beyond tech we know of , others claim his patents are from the past (Tartaria)! As I wasn’t there, I can only speculate as to who knows what let alone what any governments knows or is capable of🤷🏻♀️?! Irregardless of the cause, the devastation is 💔, and I 🙏it’s NOT the tip of the iceberg I believe it to be!
Is the southern fault the same one where the earthquake that annihilated Antioch was? Top ten most deadly natural disaster in history right there. And that was only a 7.2 from what I understand. It was the fire that happened after that wiped everything and everyone out.
It's close, but i'm not 100% sure. It's possible it's the Dead See Transform fault which is another fault line. But Antioch is almost located exactly at the junction of where the two fault lines meet.
Making broad sweeping statements is a good way to get your weeny stepped on. I stated the other day that some earthquakes have been associated with later volcanic eruptions, sometimes a year or so later, and not necessarily in the same region or country. It is my understanding from the paper that the underlying mechanism isn't well understood considering the distances between the epicenters and subsequent eruptions, nor was a definite correlation established. Now if you have some empirical data proving that this quake absolutely CAN NOT cause one of the mentioned volcanoes to eventually erupt, then I'm sure that your audience would be interested in seeing it.
A note about pronunciation of Erciyes: In Turkish, the sound of c (not ç) always is like dj in djinni. Or like the consonant sound of y in Spanish. Thus, Erciyes sounds like Er-djee-es.
Looking like the big one is coming very soon now for Cali get ready gonna be bigger then this one I bet but very sad for turkey rip to the people effected
You are Just Admazing! (Joke= give you eggs and you make omelets!! Oxox from UK (traumatised just to know as much as I have so far) please people donate to reputable charities. The interest will pass and the months to recover the dead will continue. I trust international Red Cross is Red Crescent.
The 7.5 didn't affected anyone despite being somewhat faraway from the 7.8? In wiki, it shows zero deaths and injuries for it and neither anything on any damage done.
Mount Ararat is the place where according to tradition Noah's ark rested after the biblical flood. This is easily the most epic looking mountain on the planet, raising 4400 meters above the surrounding area.
Finally, thanks for this nice research and sharing. But being a scientist is based on learning the Qur'an. Please compare the relevant segments. You can find the disasters you encounter in your daily life.
Actually, the communities should be looking at the data coming back to map what is going on. Your comment on the Colorado boundary is not correct. There is a subducted plate pushes under the North American plate and as we all know it as the Juan DeFuca plate. It is the reason we have the Colorado plateau. With the extensive mapping that could be done by all of the energy release, we should find that this is part of the African plate diving into the mantel causing the volcanoes. The upper drift to the west that cause the earthquakes are actually from upper layer Anatolia plate. Speculation of course until mapping occurred.
OMG! What the hell caused this giant rift near Antakya, Turkey, during the earthquakes!?!? In the video, it appears that thick marble or quartz layers are snapped in two. Other video I watched earlier show much of fault where there are simply lateral shifts. ua-cam.com/video/IiDvo-xTinY/v-deo.html This video blew me away. I know that a years earlier quake, I believe it was in Iran, created a 15 foot (feet or foot?) scarp in just a few seconds. I have never seen anything like this.
got a moment to contemplate how boyles law influences terra forming? i have a postulation for you all which relates to what happened in turkey on feb 6th. in the few months leading up to february 6h, turkey underwent a series of massive floods. these floodwaters soaked into all the faultlines in turkey. turkeys faultlines must've been geothermally extremely hot for those subterranean floodwaters to rapidly expand and induce the schism we witnessed on feb 6th. thing is; theres a trend towards a biblical flood occurring at solar maximum. so when normally dry faults start becoming inundated with floodwater in 2025, earth will undergo a massive tectonic shift.
@ns 3421 in part, thats what the cov-fefe(lli) directive was all about.. fefelli means to swear falsely.. as for what i suggested above, as a potential source for the 400kms of faultine movement isn't false. boyles law of liquids and gasses is legitimate a.f. after 6 years of cov-fefe rocketfuel nerve gas, the nitrogen peroxide dotards are really struggling with cognitive functions.
There's something I'm wondering about. Can you be sure that these earthquakes are volcanic or not? Couldn't the world be coming to an end? Scientists who read every book first read the Qur'an.
there is something called "geo-engineering". i read articles and have seen videos here on you tube about this topic. it was mentioned that earthquakes could be triggered. that certain people would be very interested in such technology is a given, but does a technology like this already exist? regarding the recent event, in that particular region, one might get the idea that it does...
Even if there WAS a way to cause earthquakes - which theres not - the amount of energy required would be astronomical. There simply arent enough power plants in the world to create that much power, especially not without anyone noticing, and there isnt any way to turn that energy into an earthquake. Too many problems with this.
I've read speculation on methods to 'lubricate' a fault, the idea being to relieve stress in a series of small, relatively harmless quakes in a fault that's building up to a disastrous one, but even if such methods could be developed, the political will would have to be there to use them. As for weaponizing the process, well established methods of causing massive destruction, death and suffering are already available.
I really like this site, but there are way too many illustrative short videos. It would be better to show a current aerial view of the volcano or other subject. Drawing arrows on photos is a good technique. Your graphics & cartoons are good and they aren’t so frequent they are overwhelming.
You can pay for the footage. Either someone has to be paid to go to Turkey. But by then it will be too late. You can pay for live footage but both someone else would've had to filmed it and this channel would have to know who specifically found it. Even after all of this, this endeavor would be expensive and not worth it. The last time someone asked this was during a video of volcanoes around the Bering Sea. The only solace here is that South Central Turkey isn't an isolated place and at least there are roads nearby. Long story shortened; you are more than welcome to help the channel grow. Either get the footage for the channel or help with whatever monetarily you can to aid the channel in growth. Just don't expect an immediate return with the latter.
I can prove to you what science has discovered hundreds of years later, one by one, from the verses and suras of the Qur'an. For example, the numbers 7 and 77 are frequently mentioned in the Qur'an. Now go and search. Why these numbers? 🇹🇷👆
I follow you. Please research these holy mountains in Turkey and Ottoman History. Start from the Quran. You can translate. Not believing in God is folly.
yeah .. and has been happening for millions of years since the Earth was cobbled together, a long time before your mythological caca stories were made up
What an ugly sentiment. You enjoy the death and suffering of tens of thousands of ordinary innocent people because you don't like the opinions or actions of a few people who may belong to the same religion? Btw, karma is a tenet of the Hindu religion, and Turkey has long been one of the most secular of all countries with a majority Muslim population. Perhaps more secular than the US is these days.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 There ARE NO INNOCENT mUSLIMS. I have actually had to fight them as has my oldest son. You can stay nice and safe because of people like my Son and myself being willing to die for you
These recent earthquakes in Turkey will NOT result in a volcanic eruption in the country.
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@@oilfreak710He is an expert in this field unlike you!!
Posting from Latakia, Syria. WE NEED GOOD NEWS; we're scared shitless of another big quake! Not a single building made it unscathed.
@@rubenvanlaar8552 I have no good news, we humans are WIth you all the best we can.
Be strong as you can helping others.
Fear feeds on itself.
I cannot imagion your suffering, but sincerely care.
I wasn't to worried to much about a volcanic eruption but more so about further sizable quakes. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I'd like to suggest an episde on Pahvant Butte in the Black Rock volcanic field in Utah. It has a couple of interesting features. It erupted under the water of Lake Banneville and was still active when Lake Benneville suddenly lowered 300 feet or so. There is a flat plateau near the top that was at the original water level. After the lake lowered it started makingn a second flat plateau at the lowered lake area before the lake broke through again and drained completely. On one side there is a feature called the lace curtain. It is a weird lava cliff with holes and forms in the lave. That was underwater when it was formed. Anyway, it might be worthy of one of your programs.
I’ve briefly covered it in two other videos but was honestly thinking about discussing it in depth. Makes people think about the rapid changes an area can go, being underwater (in a lake) and now is a desert. It’s a fun tuff cone!
@@GeologyHub I think the lace curtain is fascinating. It was formed as lava flowed into the lake. Maybe the gnarly holes and shapes were from wave action as the lake level dropped over several months.
this is one of your better videos. same great presentation and very heavy on information which as usual is relevant to the area. I'm not sure why im pegging it as 'one of the best' other than it being topical to the devastation being suffered in and around the area; but that is enough :)
Lithospheric drip did it for me. I've never heard of the term before while my ancient books leave the colorado plateau without a reason for the drastic elevation of it as an unknown oddity. Oh maybe they have re-vamped some theory in the vast timeframe since I last read a subject related book? More than likely. Much appreciated, heavy on the information as we do need it, some way more than others.
@@leebarnes655 There isn't really agreement on what is going on with the Colorado Plateau exactly though there is starting to be an understanding that the current models are insufficient to explain western North America. This is linked with a larger situation I've learned from Nick Zentner's livestream series guests is that there is a section of the geological community which refuses to accept results from seismic tomography, paleomagnetic data and in some cases igneous petrology results that don't conform with their opinion.
For example in terms of Seismic tomography there appears a ridgeline of lower velocity propagation usually interpreted to be thermally buoyant material which lies beneath the Rio Grande Rift Valley and Colorado Plateau up to Yellowstone before sharply turning west into Idaho beneath the Snake River Plane then maintaining sharp jagged jumps it meanders through Oregon and northern California and connecting to the Juan de Fuca Ridge. To the East/North you have the Juan de Fuca/Farallon plate which in the form of a fast velocity feature extends down deep into the mantle connecting with huge slab walls that descend to the core mantle boundary. Given the way the thermal upwelling Ridge/fault like structure meanders through the American Southwest before reconnecting with the East Pacific Rise as it reemerges from under the North American continent in the Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez I can only surmise this must represent the Pacific Plate boundary. There is a newer emerging paradigm which sees plates as continuous structures between the crust and upper mantle with continental material of course being buoyant lower density masses of rock floating in these crustal/mantle plates in this picture.
With that context and the way that the thermal upwelling boundary maintains a rigid structure throughout the upper mantle featuring a sharp compositional discontinuity it seems to me that the best explanation is that North America has gotten caught onto the Pacific plate but as the continent continues to push to the southwest its getting underplated by the Pacific but the pacific is moving to the northwest and so its getting caught. However as this is an upwelling plate boundary it means that you are heating the continent from below effectively like a blowtorch which causes the rock to melt and eventually dripping away down into the mantle.
Based on the work by Robert Hilderbrand there are multiple contact points along the southern Rocky Mountains i.e. the Texas lineament which have corresponding counterparts up in the Canadian Rockies i.e. Lewis and Clark Lineament which suggests a major crustal translation to the Northwest occurred around 50 Ma via major slip strike faults eventually stopping because the sheering effect reached the old craton of North America the Laurentian shield. However because North America's trajectory remains unchanged this suggests the uplift and sheering is in the process of repeating the process all over again ripping off the bunch of accreted terranes that were pushed in to fill the gap as well as a chunk of the North American Craton which has been holding back the translation and thrusting it to the Northwest up into Canada. The Colorado Plateau is exactly the region of craton that is getting sheered off the continent creating the Basin and Range in the process.
The main point of contact which serves of the fulcrum of rotation where this sheering is occurring is of course Yellowstone the hotspot plume of which appears to lie along a mantle depth triple junction, hence why everything to the west has a clockwise rotation. I also wonder if some of the building strain on the craton may be getting transferred into the craton at large possibly explaining the reactivation of the New Madrid since the past sheering/translation events have occurred along existing sutures and rift scars.
@@Dragrath1 Thanks so much for the detailed catch up lesson, couldn't have been done better. Of course there is going to be push back, this is a hotly debated subject matter to start with. A big fan of Nick's work as well, I missed that lesson entirely. Just a WOW reply you did for my innocent remark, but it was an intense, while totally delightful read. I'm going to save that one and keep it in Nick's folder here.
Living in CO, being from WY, my eyes are on Yellowstone’s caldera more than quakes, as snow doesn’t easily melt in temps below freezing for weeks, the magma rising, swarms ⤴️, most unreported by USGS!
💖🇹🇷 🙏 💖🇸🇾
Thank you for reporting Geologyhub.
I noticed that you hadn't mentioned the other potentially active volcano Koruhüyüğü; which can be seen on Google maps at 36.81°N / 36.61°E, it's cinder cones I think and has an old darkish lava flow. That one was closer than any of the other volcanoes mentioned in the video as it sits on the fault line where the M7.8 struck.
I was thinking about it too! It's located exactly where the fault runs through
@@elric_310 I've read that it last erupted in 1222 AD and the Smithsonian incorrectly states it's in Syria.
@@Chacanger Yea it's weird. And apparently very little is known about it unfortunately. Might've had other eruptions...
Hmm, sorry for forgetting to mention this complex. But my point stands. No suspicious quakes at that complex.
Was this earthquake in Turkey triggered by human by any chance?? Any sience acitivity around??
those two earthquakes didn't surprise me too much. Anatolia is one of the few areas on Earth as dangerous as, yet outside of the pacific Ring of Fire. The deaths also didn't surprise me. Tall buildings in a poor region with high population density don't mix well with extremely dangerous seismic activity.
Shouldn't the Housing Association, Building Architects, Permit and Inspector Commission take Responsibility for this Tragedy and Horror in Turkiye....these people should be held accountable for the damages and loss of Lives...... ‼⁉️.. prayers and hope the people can get out of this somewhat successfully.....however, nothing can replace, losing your love ones....🙏🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸
@@kaypee4704 unfortunately many country's building standards are substandard. Yet, if it is legally allowed by the govt. Then its therefore not held responsible since standards are so low. Thats reality in many countries across the world.
These earthquakes (without the volcano factors) remind me of what you've told us about the New Madrid Zone earthquake sequence in the USA.
Nah, they're very different. New Madrid is in the middle of a plate, with some very weird geology going on causing earthquakes in a location where you wouldn't expect any. Meanwhile the earthquakes in Turkey took place on faults between sizable (not quite major) plates, and the area has a very long history of severe and dangerous earthquakes. According to Wikipedia, THREE of the sixteen deadliest earthquakes in human history (this obviously only includes those where documentation exists) took place in this area - all three had a death toll of at least 130 000.
@@LeyrannThe liquefaction in that New Madrid earthquake is terrifying. The fact you can still see the sand I guess “erupted” onto the surface from satellite is crazy.
@@Leyrann Ahhhhhh yesyes. Great points.
@@Leyrann When the North Anatolian Fault fails near Istanbul, the death toll in Turkey and Syria will look like a skinned knee in comparison. That's a dreadful thing to say, but I believe authorities and experts expect the death toll to be around There are around 260,000 buildings at medium to high risk of collapse in Istanbul. something like 16 million people in and around Istanbul. It will be a disaster on the order of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people. It will probably be worse with the amount of rubble in the streets. Streets are narrow in the city. It will be horrible. I'm really fond of the Turkish language. I think it's beautiful. I will be very sad when that quake occurs as I am now for those in Southeastern Turkey. I've lived near San Francisco for 13 years and lived in the Los Angeles area for nearly 20 years during the time when we had a number of large quakes (6+ mag) in the 1990s. Gives me shivers thinking about a mag 7+ around here. Scary.
Man you are incredibly interesting. Thank you.
How can the earthquakes in Turkey have been felt in Greenland?
Also, I read somewhere that because of the huge magnitudes that it would trigger earthquakes in the near future all over the world. Is this true.
You arre one of my favorites. Your channel is so interesting
Thank you for all the work you put into your videos.
Suggestion for future video: what causes hotspots? Is it something like lithosperic drip on a larger scale?
While the human tragedy is justly the focus of most reporting, it's good to learn the geology of the region in order to better understand this event.
i live in turkey, i did not know much about volcanoes before, now i have interest learning it.
I am so saddened by the loss of life. There was no way to predict or protect.
at this time death toll is 9k but im sure it will be more than 15 20k after every building is searched. the quake affected so large an area that even though everyone (disaster and emergency management team, search and rescue team, military, firemen, police, miners, construction engineers and many voluntary groups and other teams from tens of helping countries) workd day and night, my guess is 20-30% of affected areas lack rescue teams and help. the area is 8/1 of turkey's surface area. this is really hard
also we did know that the areas are in risk of quakes for many years and there are great regulations for buildings so that they will stan when the quake happens. however bastard people of turkish building contractors doesnt obey these and they are not supervised. i hope someday we will learn from our mistakes and take things seriously
btw i live in erzincan where the greatest quake in turkey happened, magnitude of 7.9 which killed 32k people in 1939. we are also at great risk of collapsing in 10 15 years or so
There are ways to protect. Don't build tall shoddy buildings for one.
The Chesapeake Bay (Meteor) Impact Basin in Hampton Roads, Virginia, might make a good topic. 35 MYA, a meteor hit what is now the lower Chesapeake Bay. Best preserved wet-target impact basin on planet. It's why Virginia Rivers that flowed South East veer sharply East at their mouths. This was the Susquehanna River Valley, which went out to the edge of the Continental Shelf, up to the end of the last Ice Age. The Dismal Swamp nearby in the City of Cheaspeake (and North Carolina) may have been created by an impact a few million years ago, also.
I always enjoy your videos.
But any slight suggestion; because you're discussing technical matters maybe slow down your speech a little bit so that people can digest it properly.
Thanks.
Would you be interested in doing a video on the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake of the 1700s, and looking at the potential for another imminent (relatively speaking) megathrust earthquake produced by that fault line.
The news seems to keep referring to all the earthquakes after the 7.8 as aftershocks instead of two major earthquakes. Did they simply not get the memo, or is there disagreement about this in the geologic community?
I can't really speak to this particular situation. But the news is usually not super accurate unfortunately
They are very much separate events as they took place on separate faults.
You could classify it as a 'triggered earthquake' but not a foreshock/mainshock.
I saw some photos of a very distorted paved road that was shifted a few meters in one direction. Now I cannot find it or the one of a similarly twisted rail road track. Can you find it and share them in another update. Please an thank you.
I think this is the image you are looking for :
After the earthquakes, 3-4 meters of movement on the ground and surface cracks are evident in the image :
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@@Geology_ thank you! Any way you can find the shot of shifted highway pavement? It’s even more dramatic than the twisted tracks.
Hi Lydia. If you type in ‘hatay reynanlı yolu’ you will find it.
It's sad what happened, but I love how you said the fault lines "lit up like a christmas tree" 😂
My son has been asking for a video on Balls Pyramid.
That's a relief, the people there are suffering more than enough already.
I would like to hear about the New Madrid fault. Also what caused the uplift of the Ouachita Mountains.
Fascinating - I had not heard of lithospheric drip…any other examples besides CO?
Daily uploads go crazy
You've gotten me interested in learning more about geology... Can you recommend some books to get me started?
A few days ago I uploaded a video about my weird college language textbooks and one was my Arabic textbook. Both of my professors were from Syria and one moved back there when his Fulbright scholarship expired! I'm sure one of my former professors was likely there and the other one likely had family there, and the first thing I thought when I heard the news was that some of the UA-camrs I watch who make food videos were just there. I hope my former professors and their families are ok! How tragic, their governments are incompetent and the world should help
This lithospheric drip is a new phenomenon for me. Is it related to back-arc spreading at all? Like, the African plate is subducting under the Anatolian plate, but inland of this arc of subduction, is there back-arc spreading which causes volcanism (like in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado - these areas are well-inland of the plate boundary, but they have many volcanoes that have erupted in the past 10,000 years)?
That was a really interesting video, let's hope it settles for at least a while
Will you make video about recent eruption of Karangetang?
Does the melting of the ice sheets sometimes cause these dips in the crust, and subsequent then after a time the crust normalisation leading to some volcanoes?? I'm not sure I understand what you meant as lithosphere as I thought that was part of the atmosphere.
Lithos = rock, Atmos = vapor
@@aiwendil1478 thank you
A suggestion for these earthquake videos: given that there have been so many victims and help needed, would it be nice to suggest viewers donate to Red Cross or another organization providing relief at the end of the video? I really like all the videos you produce, although I think you talk just a little too fast without much in the way of pauses and text is also on screen for too short a time. I have to pause the video to read those sometimes.
I might understood wrong but did u say no subduction fault? The fault line from Mersin until Adriatic Sea is a subduction zone where the Africa slides under Turkey and Greece; and a part of the Africa actually subducts almost until Isparta.
In GH's previous video, he explains that these earthquakes are due to the Arabian plate pushing into the Anatolian plate without subduction. I don't know how this process interacts with the adjacent subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 yes actually the quake where it took place is a junction. There's North Anatolian fault, East Anatolian fault are the main ones then, Arabian plate fracture (which goes all the way down to end of the Dead Sea) and a African subduction zone . All these are meeting Kahramanmaraş (except The North Anatolian Fault)
So with this being said, what’s your thoughts on the theory that the 1990 Luzon Earthquake caused the eventual 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption?
I asked the exact same thing a few days ago.
@@bmjfilms9912 Great minds 🧠👈🏻
big earthquake can trigger volcanoes with 2 action,
1/ helping break an existing fault, and helping release inner volcanoes magma or gas pressure toward surface.
2/ change gas status, like soda, if you shake magma, the gas tend to augment the pressure and can help magma break free toward surface. the same g
but like i said, the eq can be a trigger, not a cause...and like geologyhub said, the volcanoes in turkey dont have subduction, and their magma chamber are not very active and not ready to burst.
Ağrı, Erciyes, Süphan volcanoes are among the largest volcanoes in Turkey and the world. Can the volcanic movements that will start here trigger all the fault lines in the world?
Volcanic activity is not expected due to these recent earthquakes. However, it should not be forgotten that the probability of a volcanic eruption until 2100 in Turkey is higher than the probability of not erupting, and precautions should be taken.
After the earthquakes, 3-4 meters of movement on the ground and surface cracks are evident in the image :
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I request a vid about the intentional triggering of volcanic eruptions, I am sure the topic was discussed back when nukes were first developed but I've never seen anything about it
Tesla had an earthquake patent after successfully causing one it seems - seems the‘govt’ took ALL his research…. after he died a pauper despite >1,000 patents, including a ‘flying saucer’ object using ‘mag-lyft’ technology as I’ve read, seen evidence underground systems in DUMBS worldwide do which some call centuries beyond tech we know of , others claim his patents are from the past (Tartaria)! As I wasn’t there, I can only speculate as to who knows what let alone what any governments knows or is capable of🤷🏻♀️?! Irregardless of the cause, the devastation is 💔, and I 🙏it’s NOT the tip of the iceberg I believe it to be!
Could a Lithospheric Drip theoretically happen anywhere on Earth?
Good question!
Drip, but yeah...
Is the southern fault the same one where the earthquake that annihilated Antioch was? Top ten most deadly natural disaster in history right there. And that was only a 7.2 from what I understand. It was the fire that happened after that wiped everything and everyone out.
It's close, but i'm not 100% sure. It's possible it's the Dead See Transform fault which is another fault line. But Antioch is almost located exactly at the junction of where the two fault lines meet.
One can only hope
Making broad sweeping statements is a good way to get your weeny stepped on. I stated the other day that some earthquakes have been associated with later volcanic eruptions, sometimes a year or so later, and not necessarily in the same region or country. It is my understanding from the paper that the underlying mechanism isn't well understood considering the distances between the epicenters and subsequent eruptions, nor was a definite correlation established. Now if you have some empirical data proving that this quake absolutely CAN NOT cause one of the mentioned volcanoes to eventually erupt, then I'm sure that your audience would be interested in seeing it.
I see the fault lines connect now USGS had them not even connected
I have read that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are more frequent during a grand solar minimum.
A note about pronunciation of Erciyes:
In Turkish, the sound of c (not ç) always is like dj in djinni. Or like the consonant sound of y in Spanish. Thus, Erciyes sounds like Er-djee-es.
he is not speaking in Turkish .. in case you were not paying attention
A 4.5 earthquake just happened at the eastern Turkiye, why so far from the fault line?
Looking like the big one is coming very soon now for Cali get ready gonna be bigger then this one I bet but very sad for turkey rip to the people effected
2010 Haiti earthquake: 100k-200k dead.
How many egyptian cities were found under water?? How big is that dip you mention..
1:23 "With this being said"
And reading allows people to learn. 🕋 🇹🇷👆🇦🇿 Süphan, Erciyes, Ağrı ("Hz.Nuh" Aleyhisselam)
I have answer WOW signal and sent it to space may be to constellation Sagitarius.
This is so terrible for the Turkish (and Syrian) people.
You are Just Admazing!
(Joke= give you eggs and you make omelets!!
Oxox from UK (traumatised just to know as much as I have so far) please people donate to reputable charities. The interest will pass and the months to recover the dead will continue. I trust international Red Cross is Red Crescent.
Didn't you say this in the previous video that it was extremely unlikely to cause an eruption?
He did but not everyone will hear a one sentence statement and this is far much in depth!
The 7.5 didn't affected anyone despite being somewhat faraway from the 7.8? In wiki, it shows zero deaths and injuries for it and neither anything on any damage done.
What 7.5 are you talking about, as the 7.5 that hit Syria after the 7.8 in Turkey was NOT an aftershock and the devastation is beyond comprehension!!
Mount Ararat is the place where according to tradition Noah's ark rested after the biblical flood. This is easily the most epic looking mountain on the planet, raising 4400 meters above the surrounding area.
Assalamlekum, what could be relation to mount Arafat and earth quake at turkey. Mount Arafat is at saudi ,you see any important connectivity?
@@anwarhusaain8929 ARARÁT HEGY,,,, NEM TUDSZ OLVASNI?????????
It is 5,165 meters tall. Europe's tallest peak overall.
Finally, thanks for this nice research and sharing. But being a scientist is based on learning the Qur'an. Please compare the relevant segments. You can find the disasters you encounter in your daily life.
Actually, the communities should be looking at the data coming back to map what is going on. Your comment on the Colorado boundary is not correct. There is a subducted plate pushes under the North American plate and as we all know it as the Juan DeFuca plate. It is the reason we have the Colorado plateau. With the extensive mapping that could be done by all of the energy release, we should find that this is part of the African plate diving into the mantel causing the volcanoes. The upper drift to the west that cause the earthquakes are actually from upper layer Anatolia plate. Speculation of course until mapping occurred.
OMG! What the hell caused this giant rift near Antakya, Turkey, during the earthquakes!?!? In the video, it appears that thick marble or quartz layers are snapped in two. Other video I watched earlier show much of fault where there are simply lateral shifts. ua-cam.com/video/IiDvo-xTinY/v-deo.html This video blew me away. I know that a years earlier quake, I believe it was in Iran, created a 15 foot (feet or foot?) scarp in just a few seconds. I have never seen anything like this.
cause of the weight of water by building damp
The Chile 9.5 tigger the volcano to erupt
got a moment to contemplate how boyles law influences terra forming?
i have a postulation for you all which relates to what happened in turkey on feb 6th.
in the few months leading up to february 6h, turkey underwent a series of massive floods.
these floodwaters soaked into all the faultlines in turkey.
turkeys faultlines must've been geothermally extremely hot for those subterranean floodwaters to rapidly expand and induce the schism we witnessed on feb 6th.
thing is; theres a trend towards a biblical flood occurring at solar maximum.
so when normally dry faults start becoming inundated with floodwater in 2025, earth will undergo a massive tectonic shift.
@ns 3421 in part, thats what the cov-fefe(lli) directive was all about.. fefelli means to swear falsely..
as for what i suggested above, as a potential source for the 400kms of faultine movement isn't false. boyles law of liquids and gasses is legitimate a.f.
after 6 years of cov-fefe rocketfuel nerve gas, the nitrogen peroxide dotards are really struggling with cognitive functions.
There's something I'm wondering about. Can you be sure that these earthquakes are volcanic or not? Couldn't the world be coming to an end? Scientists who read every book first read the Qur'an.
there is something called "geo-engineering". i read articles and have seen videos here on you tube about this topic. it was mentioned that earthquakes could be triggered. that certain people would be very interested in such technology is a given, but does a technology like this already exist? regarding the recent event, in that particular region, one might get the idea that it does...
Even if there WAS a way to cause earthquakes - which theres not - the amount of energy required would be astronomical. There simply arent enough power plants in the world to create that much power, especially not without anyone noticing, and there isnt any way to turn that energy into an earthquake. Too many problems with this.
I've read speculation on methods to 'lubricate' a fault, the idea being to relieve stress in a series of small, relatively harmless quakes in a fault that's building up to a disastrous one, but even if such methods could be developed, the political will would have to be there to use them. As for weaponizing the process, well established methods of causing massive destruction, death and suffering are already available.
I really like this site, but there are way too many illustrative short videos. It would be better to show a current aerial view of the volcano or other subject. Drawing arrows on photos is a good technique. Your graphics & cartoons are good and they aren’t so frequent they are overwhelming.
You can pay for the footage. Either someone has to be paid to go to Turkey. But by then it will be too late. You can pay for live footage but both someone else would've had to filmed it and this channel would have to know who specifically found it. Even after all of this, this endeavor would be expensive and not worth it. The last time someone asked this was during a video of volcanoes around the Bering Sea. The only solace here is that South Central Turkey isn't an isolated place and at least there are roads nearby.
Long story shortened; you are more than welcome to help the channel grow. Either get the footage for the channel or help with whatever monetarily you can to aid the channel in growth. Just don't expect an immediate return with the latter.
I can't understand the last sentence's meaning.
Yes 'cause this guy gets to travel all to volcanoes *all* the time. /s
The "th" in "lithosphere" isn't pronounced "s", but "th", as in "think" or "thing", mate. This is obvious.
"This is obvious." - you know what else is obvious? You being a dick.
I can prove to you what science has discovered hundreds of years later, one by one, from the verses and suras of the Qur'an. For example, the numbers 7 and 77 are frequently mentioned in the Qur'an. Now go and search. Why these numbers? 🇹🇷👆
I follow you. Please research these holy mountains in Turkey and Ottoman History. Start from the Quran. You can translate. Not believing in God is folly.
To solve something, first believe in it. And then trust the science. Because it is the first command of the Quran. It's "Read".
that's absolutely NOT how you pronounce Erciyes
Erdjiyes
speaking as a geologist. lithospheric drift in this contact is nonsense
Literally this is biblical
yeah .. and has been happening for millions of years since the Earth was cobbled together, a long time before your mythological caca stories were made up
Not unless you change the definition of Literally or biblical.
And now incorporate the 12000 year cycle in to this data
Does my heart good to see the mUSLIMS get a dose of KARMA
I've never seen evidence of Karma. Only good and bad things happening to good and bad people with no discernable difference
What an ugly sentiment. You enjoy the death and suffering of tens of thousands of ordinary innocent people because you don't like the opinions or actions of a few people who may belong to the same religion? Btw, karma is a tenet of the Hindu religion, and Turkey has long been one of the most secular of all countries with a majority Muslim population. Perhaps more secular than the US is these days.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 There ARE NO INNOCENT mUSLIMS. I have actually had to fight them as has my oldest son. You can stay nice and safe because of people like my Son and myself being willing to die for you
learned something new :P Lithospheric Drip. btw saw some chatter on the big dam there is reason for concern there ?