Making this 3D model and running the simulations took me a week of constant work. The BEST thing you can do for me is to watch this video for as long as possible without skipping ahead. This will make KZfaq recommend this video to more people. Let's spread more earthquake awareness around the world, together! :)

I am a citizen of Fukushima Prefecture who experienced M9.0. At the time, I lived in a 40-year-old house. All the family members survived, except that the tiles in the bathroom were slightly peeled off (there is almost no damage to this day). If you live in a country that experiences many earthquakes, please invest in just making sure your house is earthquake resistant.

7.8 M - This is fine 8.1 M - *gets vaporized*

Kudos to our construction techniques in Chile that a 8+ earthquake only a single building collapsed in the entire country

Enjoyed the sound effects in this video. I experienced an earthquake in Oregon in 1993 (5.6 magnitude and perceived intensity of VII on the Mercalli scale) and the thing I remember the most (beside the fear) was the NOISE! When the quake hit our house I swore a train had somehow hit us - and it was very noisy throughout, even though our home sustained no damage. I'd love an increase of the noise effects on these vids, which makes them much more real to my mind. Thanks for all you do.

On February 6, there were 2 earthquakes in Turkey within 24 hours. The first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7, a depth of 8.6 km and 65 seconds; The second earthquake had a magnitude of 7.6, a depth of 7 km and an impact duration of 45 seconds. It was felt in 11 cities. More than fifty thousand people died.

for those who don't know how the magnitude scale works: higher magnitudes mean stronger earthquakes, scaling exponentially. a magnitude 2 earthquake is 10 times stronger than a magnitude 1 and mag 3 is 10x stronger than mag 2 and so on. this eventually leads to a magnitude 7 earthquake which is 1 million times stronger than a magnitude 1 earthquake

I'm from Chile and I experienced the 2010 earthquake (27F) IX: I was 21 and it was at night and at first it was all noise, a rumble like a huge truck but very deep and low, and suddenly everything start to move slow and I was like "ok, this is something" and then the movement turns more and more high. My mom was looking to my little sister and was talking to her to calm down (mom lived the 1985 Algarrobo VIII-IX earthquake), so I try to ran to see my grandma (who lived the 1960 Valdivia XII earthquake) but I can barely walk and fall over my knees. She was laying in her bed praying, so I try to calm her down. I watched through the window outside and it was surreal: the houses and the electric poles moves just like the ground become fluid, forming waves. When the earthquake faded out, we talk a little bit and see if everything was ok, some neightbours come to see us and then grandma say "I don't know, but I'm tired, goodnight" and everyone go back to sleep. Yes, sleep, even with the aftershocks of V, VI or VII... Eartquakes here in Chile are now something so common that people barely get worried by. We even get a coctail called earthquake "Terremoto" (white wine, grenadine and pinneaple icecream).

Of course, there are other factors at work - especially soil type and construction methods as well as distance from epicenter - that greatly determine the probability of damage at various magnitudes. One of the things most people probably have yet to experience is the rolling motion (like waves) the shaking can produce during particularly strong earthquakes. If hovering above the ground, one could actually see the waves pulsate across the land.

I experienced a M9.0 earthquake in 2011, and even though I was 400 km away from the epicenter, the large tremors lasted for more than 6 minutes. It is hard to imagine how violent the shaking must have been at the nearest location.

I transposed the video to my viewing equipment, so I could slow it down and focus on each perspective. You have opened up an area of study I have often thought about and have come to the conclusion that only a few specialists would actually see and know how to deal with.I have studied earthquakes for years, although I'm a documentary researcher,with a history degree.You have given me much to learn.Keep it up I'm with you in this endeavor

Unbelievable! This is fascinating: the scale of this simulation is enormous. The channel has come a long way and it's a pleasure for me to have seen it grow from 300 subs to this. I hope we'll soon see larger and larger sims!

One of the most visually captivating earthquake simulations

I lived in Anchorage Alaska, and learned about the history of the Good Friday Earthquake in 1964. Back then anchorage wasn’t as developed with tall buildings or as populated as today, but the pictures of the destruction are horrifying. Second most powerful recorded earthquake, a 9.2 that lasted nearly 5 minutes! Caused landslides that changes the height of entire areas around the city and up Cook Inlet. Caused tsunamis up to 220 ft. Insane

I had several experiences with earthquakes, the largest was one of magnitude 8.8, fortunately in my country the infrastructure is anti-seismic, so my house and many others did not suffer much damage, only a few old or poorly built houses suffered damage. What is really more dangerous and destructive is the subsequent tsunami.

I used to live in Temuco a city in the region of La Araucania in Chile I "Survived" the 2010 earthquake wich in the city was of 8.1 in the Seismological Moment Magnitude Scale or IX on mercalli, and 8.8 I the epicenter. I remember that night vividly as I was peacefully slepping with my parents (I was 9 years old) and I woke up immediately after the earthquake started I will never forget how I felt, and I'm not joking when I say that my body was literally jumping in the bed I was like riding a Wave, I was that type of movement constantly for minutes, while I didn't know what the hell was happening I remember seeing outside and seeing literally the lights and cables on the Poles exploding in a greenish color one by one and car alarms sounding everywhere. Fun fact, my dad I don't know how but managed to get up and go downstairs while the earthquake was on full blast just to save our new TV that he bought no more than weeks ago. Anyways, we lived in a newly constructed house no more than 3 years old so I was up to date with the last rules and regulations that our country asks to construction companies in buildings so the house didn't have a single scratch anywhere only our things like glasses and plates where broken. After the earthquake I got a little more in tune since I was still half asleep but not really scared, our neighbor come to us to ask if we were OK since he was a police officer, we decided to stay downstairs just in case waiting for the energy to come back, I remember felling Many "réplicas" which are mini earthquakes after the main event which were around VI and VIII constantly trough the days after, Not so fun fact only 550 people died Supposedly which compared to other smaller earthquakes on other countries is a miracle that just that many people died mainly by the tsunami which the people were not alerted because of a confusion And last fact this earthquake ejected an amount of energy similar to 800,000 atomic bombs, Hiroshima bomb to be exact Here in Chile we are so used to earthquakes that we don't care anymore until I goes like X in mercalli since every year there are thousands of mini earthquakes everywhere in our country

Can't believe in my eyes ! When the Earthquake's scale get 7.8, the moment of a huge modern skyscraper falling down take me to San Andreas The Movie immediately ! Always be stucked in your video when The Cities's Scale Earthquake Video On-air ! Your Big Fan in Vietnam!

These videos are amazing! Thank you for your hard work! I look forward to seeing more. 🙂

it depends on how the foundation and structure are built. Since i've experienced a mag 6.3 earthquake but the damage that we got was minuscule compared to the one that this video showed while other houses that is built differently crumbled.

Absolutely love your work! Thank you so much for all the effort you put into your videos. They just keep getting better and better. Keep it up!

I'm really amazed by this video, showing how destructive the earthquake can be. By the way, I'm a citizen of Indonesia's Aceh Province who experienced M9.2 earthquake in 2004 (7 years old right on the date it happened) and intraplate earthquake doublets measured M8.6 and M8.2 in 2012 (during my junior high school year).

I found it quite interesting. I was surprised how well the train survived. Just wobbling a little. I think that using flexible material is more better for Earthquake resistance than solid material. But a more solid foundation. Apparently theres some foundations that are set on tracks. With wheels and pulleys. Designed to wave and bend and flex. Preventing the worst of the damage. But im no expert. I just find this stuff interesting. Its good to know that people are out there. Trying to prevent harm.

POV: The concrete tower: And i'm still standing after all this time, looking like a true survivor 14:56

Went through a 4.0 two years ago. It was my first earthquake and it literally sounded like a rockslide and a freight train. I remember everyone coming out of their houses afterwards wondering what happened. This was an area that doesn’t get strong (

The mix of real sounds and then music on the replay is perfect!

Amazing video as always also those angles are sooo cool!

Amazing video and love how it's so crisp. The whole thing is kick ass. Beyond gorgeous

Amazing, like always!

Great video! Very interesting to see the progression. Of magnitudes. It would be I threshing to see a timeplot of the acceleration / response spectrum alongside (down in the corner of video) while shaking is going on. Great stuff!

Love your videos! Good as always

I love your videos! Keep up the great work! :D

commenting mainly to boost you in the algorithm but god i love your work! there is so much detail and as a fellow blender user i feel for your computer ahah

Would be cool to have more first person shots, like from the ground, nice video!

Thr fact you did this is amazing. Thank you!

In 2016, several major earthquakes occurred in Kumamoto. The largest one was M7.3. However, not a single house meeting Japan's latest earthquake-resistance rating of 3 collapsed! Very surprising!

now imagine how it felt in valdivia 1960

Thats an good video and I subscribed! :)

Quel bel ensemble, que de détails, merci et bravo !

I once experienced a 5.9 earthquake and your simulation was very accurate! Kudos for that 👍

Really enjoying this vid. That big glass building is so ominous!

This is a lot of work, great video

Wow! This is really cool :3

Really cool👍🏻

This is really interesting. We don't get earthquakes here in SD, at least not anything significant, and it's always intriguing to see how different architectures hold up under the stress. Props to the little white building for holding out!

I know this might be a trade secret, but I for one would like to learn on how to model / code those different joints and forces which affect them. Looking to create some destructible environments in real time. Anyway, cool video!

I think it would be really interesting to see this same kind of experiment, but with different cities and their building codes. Like a 7.4 in Tokyo, San Francisco, NYC, Barcelona, Dubai, Taipei, etc.

Is that the public library building from a previous video, a little behind and to the left of the crane? Cool to see it make a return!

Great as always. It's a little game, watching these, thinking okay this building will probably fail at Magnitude / rating X, and it keeps going. Not surprised however to see everything obliterated at XII though. If you had to design a structure, EQS, or show one that's built, what would you pick to survive a XII?

One of the best simulations I've ever seen

Please do more interior replays, I think they're quite cool!

Good video, very interesting. I preferred the ambient city noises to the music.

this was so cool

A well made video 😊

I was in the 8.8 earthquake in Chile in 2010 and not even half of the buildings that appear in this video fell... What type of building are they based on to do this?!

Thank you,greatimgs from Croatia

THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!

That's an incredible simulation😮. I subscribe.

I didnt expect sound from building to win but i still love it

My heart goes out to everyone involved.

I survived 7.8 and 7.5 double earthquake and many aftershocks up to 6+ it happened this year yet I recall it like vivid dream. Even tho our lives changed drastically for weeks, we had to sleep outside and many people died. it still feels like a vivid memory that never happened

Are you able to make a replica of the wtc when the explosion occurred and flattened to the ground ?

i want to watch this video all day i love iT!

I suggest you make a video depicting main types of bridges, how each type can withstand the most punishing earthquake magnitude. This can give vital clues about bridge engineering around seismically active areas, and help choose which type of bridge is safe for each area's earthquake severity average in relation to construction viability.

Love the animation! I experienced a 6.8 Earthquake in Morocco 😅

I don't understand why so many games would be so insanely good that they'd be this realistic. It's been bothering me since childhood that there weren't strong physical effects on buildings, I won't go into details now, but it would be awesome to have one like this, it would be an insanely good simulator! 😃😃

I have been fascinated with earthquakes and plate tectonics ever since I was a kid of 7yo when I experienced the 1971, M6.6, San Fernando Earthquake. I was as fascinated and thrilled as I was frightened. We lived in an old, 1920s, rancho style house that suffered only very minor, cosmetic damage despite only being about 20-miles from the epicenter. I was hooked from that day forward. I got the same kind of thrill watching your sims. What software did you use for building the models and running the earthquake sim? Is it bullet hard body physics or is it something more custom? I would love to experiment with doing earthquake sims myself. I do have Cinema 4D 2024 for my day job, and Houdini Apprentice for learning that very high learning curve 3D package that is used in many of the top VFX houses for doing various types of destruction sims among many other types of sims as well as just being a great general 3D production package (if you don't mind having to create extremely complex node graphs to put it all together that is). I don't know if the sim software has the capability but, I would love to see fracturing of the individual component meshes as well as dust, and debris sims.

I am a resident of Chile, known for its seismic activity. I witnessed an 8.8 magnitude earthquake a few years back. Fortunately, due to strict building regulations, only a few older structures sustained structural damage.

Give this man more subs

Depth and soil composition are huge factors influencing the destructive effects of an earthquake. The closer to the surface the hypocenter is, and the sandier the soil, the more destructive. It’s like an atmospheric nuclear explosion, the closer it is to the surface and the more exposed you are, the worse the effects.

i like your video,the so relax and satisfied

no way, there is a building still survive

Living in Alaska, I've experienced two 7.1 quakes (2016 and 2018) and it's like riding in a car, but the car is driving on the worst kept, bumpy road you can think of at 30 mph

I remember experienced 8.2 SR in West Java, Indonesia, I don't remember I think in 2009, it caused tsunami along south coast of the island, its core deep under ocean bed, I was just toodler and terrified that day

The skyscrapers held up surprisingly well.

That M8.1 literally looked like an explosion with everything falling at once!!!

This was super-cool interesting to watch. Could you please tell me what music you used? I know you use Epidemic but I was just wondering what the track was because I really liked it.

In 2022, The number of the Richter scale is 6 i think. That was a scariest night in Dhaka. BANGLADESH

On 6 May, 1976,.there was an earthquake centered in Friuli Italy ....and we felt it in southern Germany near Stuttgart 554Km away .......I'm from California ,but that one scared me most

平成28年熊本地震を経験したことはあるが、夜中に大きな地震を2度も経験することが家が壊れるかもしれないと感じることよりも恐ろしく、今でも忘れることが出来ない。 I have experienced two big earthquakes in Kumamoto during the night. Those made me much more frightened than feeling like my house might be destroyed; I still can't forget them.

That may happen if the epicenter is directly under a city. Most earthquakes happen on fault areas or in the ocean. I've experienced earthquakes up to 8.1 in my life and where I live (a city in the pacific ring of fire) a 6.1 will barely cause any damage and a 7 will not take down urban bridges or concrete houses.

I'm quite surprised that only one building remained standing after that intensity XII quake.

4.8 is when it becomes scary. I've personally experienced 6 and it was insane; can't imagine what it is above that.

Im from Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul's big earthquake is so close, and professionals saying it'll be around 7.5-7.8, and over 400.000+ people gonna be de@d and millions of people gonna be homeless because of the poor conditions of most of buildings in Istanbul. it will be impossible to send help to the Istanbul. Whoever seeing this comment, please do not forget the people of Istanbul after that incident because there are over 20 Million people living in Istanbul and fall of Istanbul will cause a huge crisis through the world, trust me. There is no way to prevent crisis after the fall of Istanbul.

Hello 👋 I really liked your new video could you plz do a freedom tower earthquake simulation :)

I don't know why I'm watching this. I should be ignoring it since I live DIRECTLY on the San Andreas fault line. Any minute could be life changing, and we are definitely due for a Big One. But I must say, this is an impressive model. Also love the sim city 3000 esque music.

Hi, good job! How reliable is this simulation? Which parameters did you use for the building materials and structure arrangement?

首先，非常感谢您的视频，它们非常令人兴奋，但我想知道您何时发布最新的教程视频，以及您是如何在模拟不同地震时做到的？您如何处理这些地震数据？期待您的回复。

Hey incredible video. As I live in turkey I experienced a bunch of these bad boys but I don't think a highway would break down at 6.5 magnitude. In my city none of the highways were damaged (more than cracks) at 7.2 magnitude.

And The Train Is Still Fine.

Depende de la profundidad, aca en la mesa de los santos en Bucaramanga colombia es el lugar con mayor actividad sísmica y cuando hay 6.5 el mayor daño han sido grietas que no superan los 2 metros de alto o de ancho

that was great!!! I arrived late but I loved the design of the city!

Even in my city, the capital, might have a magnitude over 6 earthquake. This video let me know how severe the damage could be.

Cool

4:15 I remembered that music from Frizeris

📜🖊 Note to self: Stay on trains during earthquake" 📜🖊

Oh wow this is impressive! I just wish that soon we will have computers that are powerfull and affordable enough to run these kind of simulations in real time. I am using Algodoo 2D physics program to make my videos, but the program is very limited and it takes me up to a month to build and test the buildings on my 12 yo laptop 😁

This happened to Melbourne Australia a couple years back 4-5 I think

Top-clasd simulation, although modern city buildings do not crumble or collapse during earthquakes of the magnitudes shown here.

This is nice and I’m super late

this video taught me that its always best to live in white square buildings like the one in the bottom right.