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What even is cloud computing? Why would I need one when I have a physical computer? Like, for research projects that need a lot of computing power? Seems pretty niche but I guess a few people here are actual researchers but that's gotta be like 1 in 10,000 viewers.
Yeah, I went to their website and it doesn't seem they offer anything a regular drone worker from the masses could use, just a service for businesses/institutions. Weird lol. Like advertising for industrial food driers or something.
the fact that scientists used trees to determine both the year of the earthquake in this video as well as the year in which the norse arrived in what is now Canada is honestly mind-blowing to me
Native peoples in NE USA have stories handed down about the earthquake and tsunami. They’re fascinating. Also, you should have used pictures of the Marina District houses in San Francisco after the Loma Prieta Quake (World Series quake, Bay Quake 89) to show the results of liquefaction.
Hank, I really like your writing and presentation style. Humorous and very clear, explaining even complicated subjects in an entertaining and understandable way.
I remember having read in an old National Geographic magazine article about New York's Central Park that some rocks there were a sign of an ancient big earthquake. And that they meant another big earthquake was going to happen in New York, eventually. Chilean here. As we have quakes on a daily basis, architecture is meant to resist them; even the ancient one was. How could a city like New York withstand even the lesser of the big earthquakes?
Now that is a rhetorical question. There would be major damage and loss of life. That would be the case on the Gulf Coast, too. When I trained to be on a Community Emergency Response Team, a civilian auxiliary for first responders, the text we used had a chapter on earthquakes. I saw pictures of pancaked floors in buildings, and where there might be survivors, and decided I was fine with just the hurricanes and mass shootings.
Los terremotos de Chile! My parents have numerous stories of them. My dad actually has vague memories as a 3-year-old of the largest quake in history, in 1960.
0:40 I'm hoping that you are referring to the lower 48 because I'm pretty sure Alaska's 1964 Good Friday Earthquake (9.2) was a megathrust and stronger than 1700 Cascadia Earthquake (9.0).
@@robertfaucher3750 The statement was "...So officially, the United States has never actually had an earthquake like this in its history..." I was pointing out that the statement could have been worded a little better. True, the Pacific Northwest was stuck by an earthquake and tsunami before the US existed (1776), but there has been a an earthquake and tsunami of similar nature that occurred since (1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska). The US has the Cascadia and the Aleutian subduction zones. I thought it would be important to make that explicitly clear the lower 48 has not had and earthquake like this in its history.
@@OmuYasha1990 They were explicitly talking about the West coast, including diagrams of the Jaun De Fuca and Cocos plates. Since they were only talking about an earthquake on the West coast, it is entirely accurate to say there hasn't been an earthquake "like that" since the country was started. Just how important is your clarification, anyway? Is anyone going to be humiliated in life or fail a class because you didn't offer that distinction? You said it was important to make explicitly clear... so who is theoretically saved from trouble by your kind offering? What situation is a person going to be in where they need this important information to be explicitly clear? Or is the answer no one, and you just like to feel smart? I guess the second part.
A quake on this fault would be devastating for the coastal communities, but people who don't live here often don't understand that the major PNW cities are not on or near the Pacific Ocean coast. A magnitude 9 out on the fault will not be felt as a 9 in Seattle, Tacoma or Portland. An 8 on the New Madrid fault by the Mississippi River would be far more devastating in overall damage, imho.
So what? That tsunami is still going to come right in the Puget Sound. There would still be enormous damage. Meanwhile the largest recorded earthquake in Mississippi was a 4.7. "IMHO" your comments about a 9.0 happening in Mississippi are based on fantasy, while the idea of a 9.0 on the West coast is guaranteed eventually. A 4.7 out here is so common no one cares.
Can one earthquake set off another? If nearby faults are all close to giving, would a nearby quake be a trigger? Could a quake in LA set off one in San Francisco, and that set off Cascadia?
Every time a quake happens, it changes the stresses in the crust that could, in some situations, lead to a greater amount of pent up energy along a different, but nearby fault.
You missed lake sediments. See NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) New Zealand. The alpine fault is our big one, recent research of alpine lake sediment has given much more insight.
"...the United States has never actually had an Earthquake like this in its history..." The 1964 Alaska Earthquake was a subduction zone thrust earthquake with a moment magnitude of 9.2, and there have been others of about the same magnitude in the Aleutians, (1946, 8.6Mw, 1957, 8.6--9.1Mw, and others) though, being in the Aleutians, they didn't cause anywhere near the damage of the Good Friday Quake, which, in turn, would pale in comparison to what a Cascadia quake, in the much more densly populated Pacific Northwest, would do, but they have happened.
Kinda curious about Carbon-14 dating. How is it possible for that not to decay until it is part of something? It has gotta be true since it is widely used. But I can't fathom how the stuff knows to start decaying.
@@aiko9393 Yup, carbon-14 atoms are constantly decaying with a half-life of about 5700 years, and constantly being created by cosmic rays hitting nitrogen-14 atoms in the atmosphere. This creates a (nearly-)constant proportion of carbon-14 relative to the usual (stable) carbon-12. And since living things are continually exchanging carbon with the atmosphere (directly by breathing, and indirectly through food they eat), their own proportion of C-14 stays about the same as long as they're alive.
Well I am certainly interested to know when they find out when the next the big one is going to happen here in california. And no I'm not talking about how it will compare it to the 1989 earthquake that well I was only a one year old when that happened and was definitely quite massive, but I'm talking about in comparison to I think it was 1906 which was even bigger and was incredibly devastating. When's the next that big one coming because it is expected pretty much at any point
People know there could be "a big one" on the west coast of the US of A, so of course they all pile in there with tech companies, movie studios and rich people's houses, cos 'murica... :P
Thank goodness the Big One will only happen in the US! Love your videos and this channel, but not thrilled that you fell prey to the US Weather Forecaster Syndrome - which leaps from Washington to Alaska like the giant landmass in between is of no import.
@@samarnadra Thank you Sam. Referencing the land across from the Juan de Fuca plate. It's Canada. Sorry, but it always makes me a bit crabby that we're lumped in with the US or leapt over. Especially Vancouver Island, visible on the map at 11:51. Vancouver Island is roughly the same size as Belgium (30,688 km²)or Taiwan (36,193 km²), and much bigger than Israel (20,770 km²), Kuwait (17,818km²) and Jamaica (10,991 km²). Edited to correct video location reference
That story originally came from a video from someone(a doomsayer) who also says Yellowstone Volcano, which has erupted several times in the past, will destroy all of North America in our lifetime, even though all the Geological evidence of past eruptions show that is clearly not the case. The West Coast of North America has had major earthquakes in the past (as this video and others shows) and will have them in the future, yet The West Coast is still here. The Juan de Fuca plate has been sliding under North America for tens thousands of years and will continue to do so until it is totally gone, which will not happen for tens thousands of years from now. Yet the West Coast of North America is still here.
Not that far north. Monterrey Bay and San Francisco Bay didn't see Spanish outposts until the 1770s. And Alaska didn't get Russian settlements until the 1740s-1800s.
If life is direct creation why is so complex . Counter intuitive. Like your brain processing images at back of your head .but your eyes are at the front . Much anatomy and the genome has ate as if it had readjust older models.
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What even is cloud computing? Why would I need one when I have a physical computer? Like, for research projects that need a lot of computing power? Seems pretty niche but I guess a few people here are actual researchers but that's gotta be like 1 in 10,000 viewers.
Yeah, I went to their website and it doesn't seem they offer anything a regular drone worker from the masses could use, just a service for businesses/institutions. Weird lol. Like advertising for industrial food driers or something.
Tree rings have always got the receipts, man. I'm half convinced at this point that tree rings could tell me where I left my car keys.
the fact that scientists used trees to determine both the year of the earthquake in this video as well as the year in which the norse arrived in what is now Canada is honestly mind-blowing to me
@@samarnadra The trees see all. The trees know all. All praise the trees!
@@Gruvmpy all is fun and games until the tree start to speak
Absolutely fascinating. It blows my mind the ways that scientists have developed to read the past.
Method 1 is basically looking for PTSD syntoms in tress
Stuff like this really rocks my world.
Native peoples in NE USA have stories handed down about the earthquake and tsunami. They’re fascinating. Also, you should have used pictures of the Marina District houses in San Francisco after the Loma Prieta Quake (World Series quake, Bay Quake 89) to show the results of liquefaction.
I think you meant to say native people's in the NW USA rather than NE USA which would be New England up to Maine.
Once a year I go on a Cascadia fault line deep dive. This morning was it, and then this came up! Thanks for the good info as always!
Hank, I really like your writing and presentation style. Humorous and very clear, explaining even complicated subjects in an entertaining and understandable way.
Pft. You would.
Nah, me too. He's the best!
yes
I remember having read in an old National Geographic magazine article about New York's Central Park that some rocks there were a sign of an ancient big earthquake. And that they meant another big earthquake was going to happen in New York, eventually.
Chilean here. As we have quakes on a daily basis, architecture is meant to resist them; even the ancient one was. How could a city like New York withstand even the lesser of the big earthquakes?
Now that is a rhetorical question. There would be major damage and loss of life. That would be the case on the Gulf Coast, too.
When I trained to be on a Community Emergency Response Team, a civilian auxiliary for first responders, the text we used had a chapter on earthquakes. I saw pictures of pancaked floors in buildings, and where there might be survivors, and decided I was fine with just the hurricanes and mass shootings.
Los terremotos de Chile! My parents have numerous stories of them. My dad actually has vague memories as a 3-year-old of the largest quake in history, in 1960.
Liquifaction Photos were from the Christchurch NZ earthquake, I lost my garden path in that quake. It's still there, just buried from the liqufaction
Slickensides! Good ol' geology.
WOW, This is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and FASCINATING
0:40 I'm hoping that you are referring to the lower 48 because I'm pretty sure Alaska's 1964 Good Friday Earthquake (9.2) was a megathrust and stronger than 1700 Cascadia Earthquake (9.0).
Didn't they specify Pacific Northwest?
@@robertfaucher3750 they did
@@robertfaucher3750 The statement was "...So officially, the United States has never actually had an earthquake like this in its history..." I was pointing out that the statement could have been worded a little better. True, the Pacific Northwest was stuck by an earthquake and tsunami before the US existed (1776), but there has been a an earthquake and tsunami of similar nature that occurred since (1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska). The US has the Cascadia and the Aleutian subduction zones. I thought it would be important to make that explicitly clear the lower 48 has not had and earthquake like this in its history.
@@OmuYasha1990 forgot that Alaska was admitted to the union in 1959
@@OmuYasha1990 They were explicitly talking about the West coast, including diagrams of the Jaun De Fuca and Cocos plates. Since they were only talking about an earthquake on the West coast, it is entirely accurate to say there hasn't been an earthquake "like that" since the country was started.
Just how important is your clarification, anyway? Is anyone going to be humiliated in life or fail a class because you didn't offer that distinction? You said it was important to make explicitly clear... so who is theoretically saved from trouble by your kind offering? What situation is a person going to be in where they need this important information to be explicitly clear? Or is the answer no one, and you just like to feel smart? I guess the second part.
Local oral history also corroborates the January 1700 date.
I remember seeing sand blows in Indiana when we lived there when I was a kid.
Two earthquake related videos in a row... If there's a third, I'll assume you're trying to warn us about something.
That cave idea was cool. Ok, a little iffy but cool just the same.
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Laughs in Christchurch resident knowing the street the liquefaction picture was taken on.
Absolutely fascinating
A quake on this fault would be devastating for the coastal communities, but people who don't live here often don't understand that the major PNW cities are not on or near the Pacific Ocean coast. A magnitude 9 out on the fault will not be felt as a 9 in Seattle, Tacoma or Portland. An 8 on the New Madrid fault by the Mississippi River would be far more devastating in overall damage, imho.
So what? That tsunami is still going to come right in the Puget Sound. There would still be enormous damage. Meanwhile the largest recorded earthquake in Mississippi was a 4.7. "IMHO" your comments about a 9.0 happening in Mississippi are based on fantasy, while the idea of a 9.0 on the West coast is guaranteed eventually. A 4.7 out here is so common no one cares.
Can one earthquake set off another? If nearby faults are all close to giving, would a nearby quake be a trigger? Could a quake in LA set off one in San Francisco, and that set off Cascadia?
The North Anatolian Fault seems to go in a series of quakes from east to west.
This pattern has only been recognised in the last few decades.
The kaikoura in New Zealand earthquake in 2016 caused 27 other faults to rupture.
yes, either in the form of "Earthquake swarms" or aftershocks
Every time a quake happens, it changes the stresses in the crust that could, in some situations, lead to a greater amount of pent up energy along a different, but nearby fault.
Yup! It's all internal stresses as the crust is pushed along, it gives whenever it wants to
My thoughts immediately go to Stradavari making violins out of the more compressed sides of earthquake stressed trees,crystal content etc..
Shout out from Oregon! 🙌
You missed lake sediments. See NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) New Zealand. The alpine fault is our big one, recent research of alpine lake sediment has given much more insight.
That's amazing
scishow’s on a real earthquake kick huh
Second earthquake video in a few days Hype 😍
I’m sending a theme with this week’s videos
Radiometric dating doesn't just measure how much radioactive material there is but also how much daughter product there is too.
Awesome
"...the United States has never actually had an Earthquake like this in its history..." The 1964 Alaska Earthquake was a subduction zone thrust earthquake with a moment magnitude of 9.2, and there have been others of about the same magnitude in the Aleutians, (1946, 8.6Mw, 1957, 8.6--9.1Mw, and others) though, being in the Aleutians, they didn't cause anywhere near the damage of the Good Friday Quake, which, in turn, would pale in comparison to what a Cascadia quake, in the much more densly populated Pacific Northwest, would do, but they have happened.
Cool.
Kinda curious about Carbon-14 dating. How is it possible for that not to decay until it is part of something? It has gotta be true since it is widely used. But I can't fathom how the stuff knows to start decaying.
It decays, but constantly replenished because the living things eat those carbon molecules.
@@aiko9393 Yup, carbon-14 atoms are constantly decaying with a half-life of about 5700 years, and constantly being created by cosmic rays hitting nitrogen-14 atoms in the atmosphere. This creates a (nearly-)constant proportion of carbon-14 relative to the usual (stable) carbon-12.
And since living things are continually exchanging carbon with the atmosphere (directly by breathing, and indirectly through food they eat), their own proportion of C-14 stays about the same as long as they're alive.
I watched liquefaction in Nicaragua in the early eighties. It swallowed a building up to it's second storey!
Your shirt looks like a "knock-off" Canadian lumber-jacket.
Good on ya. 😉
Well I am certainly interested to know when they find out when the next the big one is going to happen here in california. And no I'm not talking about how it will compare it to the 1989 earthquake that well I was only a one year old when that happened and was definitely quite massive, but I'm talking about in comparison to I think it was 1906 which was even bigger and was incredibly devastating. When's the next that big one coming because it is expected pretty much at any point
I just made a comment on another video that showed 99 comments already so I just needed to do it twice in a row. -Phill, Las Vegas
I prefer a tree ring circus
SCIENCE!
People know there could be "a big one" on the west coast of the US of A, so of course they all pile in there with tech companies, movie studios and rich people's houses, cos 'murica... :P
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Get these crypto spambots out of here
Jan 25th, 1700 (maybe the 26th)
Slickenslides? Seriously? 😆
Precise date of January 26, around the year 1700. Lol
Yay 😁
Thank goodness the Big One will only happen in the US! Love your videos and this channel, but not thrilled that you fell prey to the US Weather Forecaster Syndrome - which leaps from Washington to Alaska like the giant landmass in between is of no import.
@@samarnadra Thank you Sam. Referencing the land across from the Juan de Fuca plate. It's Canada. Sorry, but it always makes me a bit crabby that we're lumped in with the US or leapt over. Especially Vancouver Island, visible on the map at 11:51. Vancouver Island is roughly the same size as Belgium (30,688 km²)or Taiwan (36,193 km²), and much bigger than Israel (20,770 km²), Kuwait (17,818km²) and Jamaica (10,991 km²). Edited to correct video location reference
Wait till the new Madrid fault strikes again. It's going a devastating disaster.
I was going to move to Port Angeles myself. Then, found out about the Juan de Fuca plate…😪 everything west of I-5 will be wiped out. It’s too bad
That story originally came from a video from someone(a doomsayer) who also says Yellowstone Volcano, which has erupted several times in the past, will destroy all of North America in our lifetime, even though all the Geological evidence of past eruptions show that is clearly not the case. The West Coast of North America has had major earthquakes in the past (as this video and others shows) and will have them in the future, yet The West Coast is still here. The Juan de Fuca plate has been sliding under North America for tens thousands of years and will continue to do so until it is totally gone, which will not happen for tens thousands of years from now. Yet the West Coast of North America is still here.
If a tree was grown in a controlled environment where the conditions didn't change would the tree grow without rings.
If it didn't hibernate in winter then maybe.
There is a connection between our sun and earthquakes no one speaks about.
ELEZRA - very sly to allude to something none discuss. How effortlessly silly of you. You very funny!
Isn't there any written record dating the last colossal earthquake? Wasn't there already a spanish colony in the area?
Not that far north. Monterrey Bay and San Francisco Bay didn't see Spanish outposts until the 1770s. And Alaska didn't get Russian settlements until the 1740s-1800s.
@@AaronOfMpls Thank you
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So, trees aren't completely useless after all...
Excuse me, fruit, nuts and the fossilised trees that make up coal and oil. 😁
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@@nenben8759 I'm guessing that's a hard "no".
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If life is direct creation why is so complex .
Counter intuitive. Like your brain processing images at back of your head .but your eyes are at the front .
Much anatomy and the genome has ate as if it had readjust older models.
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