This Earthquake Drowned the Pacific Northwest

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NOVA PBS Official

NOVA PBS Official

7 жыл бұрын

This earthquake drowned the Pacific Northwest long ago-and there’s still evidence of it today.
Find out more in “Making North America: Human”: to.pbs.org/2tNUffc
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Digital Producer
Saad Amer
Animation
Edgeworx Studios, LLC
Fluid Pictures
Poster Image
Earthquake Animation
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2017

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@glennkon
@glennkon 3 жыл бұрын
I used to dig huge holes for fun as a kid in my backyard, the home of which was comfortably on the top of a large ridge in West Van, in Vancouver, Canada. If I dug deep enough (around 80-100cm straight down) I would find a layer that was mostly sand with some organic particulate. That layer was about 15-20cm deep, and if I was lucky, I could find heavily aged seashells in it.. The shells, for me, said it plainly. At one point, in some way or another, the ocean had to have touched there and either continued to be there for a long period of time or that it must have arrived with great force. It is no small task, even for large, environmental disaster sized waves, to pick up and carry such a significant amount of debris, and to deposit it essentially on a ridgetop, high up from the current sea level. I have no idea whether or not this has been confirmed by geologists in the area, but this was my experience in digging deep holes for no purpose other than unbridled, childhood interest.
@marshwetland3808
@marshwetland3808 3 жыл бұрын
There's a great little book about it you can probably find at the library, by John Clague, but basically 10K years ago the Lower Mainland was pressed down about 1 km or so by glaciers, and they started to melt. Since then, the plate has been rebounding upwards, explaining the former higher sea level.
@carolmiller5713
@carolmiller5713 3 жыл бұрын
There’s plenty of proof of global warning in the past - seashells in the Grand Canyon & AZ desert, palm fronds in Iceland ice cores, etc.Here in WA state we have the scablands in the East when a huge glacial wall broke and walls of water, carrying huge boulders from miles away, covered the whole territory. It took until 1950s for geologists to figure it out. Fun to find these things out when we get older.
@rhymereason3449
@rhymereason3449 3 жыл бұрын
@@carolmiller5713: You're talking about the Missoula Floods - where 10,000+ years ago an ice dam in Montana repeated formed and broke up to 25 times by some accounts. Each cycle would create a massive lake that would create a flash flood across Idaho and Eastern Washingtion when the dam would break. The cycle repeated at an estimated 55 or so year cycle.
@carolmiller5713
@carolmiller5713 3 жыл бұрын
@@rhymereason3449 Yes. I watched some computer reenactments before I went there and it was really interesting to imagine. I guess a scientist back in the 50's put out that theory & everyone laughed at him!
@rockroll9761
@rockroll9761 3 жыл бұрын
closed dead clam shells on top of Mount Everest. When a clam dies it opens but these are all closed as if to say instantly buried. Did you know you can fit every continent on the planet in the Pacific Ocean alone and they are what five oceans. It's been estimated if you flattened the mountains and Rose the ocean Basin the water would cover all the globe for about 2 miles deep. And that's evidence of what we have around us ATM
@Amy-gn6zw
@Amy-gn6zw 6 жыл бұрын
We were warned about New Orlean’s too. It happened and everyone seemed shocked without a plan. So yes, it will happen again.
@MJLeger-yj1ww
@MJLeger-yj1ww 5 жыл бұрын
Everyone needs an emergency plan, evacuation plan, trouble is, in a huge crisis that could occur, it could be sudden and it won't do much good. The Earth goes through many changes and will again, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, mountains moving on the ocean floor that can cause massive floods on land, even a meteor or asteroid could cause an extinction like that which killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago! That seems like a long time, but when considering that Planet Earth is 4, 1/2 billion years old, it wasn't that long ago! Out of 1500 volcanoes, 500 are active and the latent ones could become active again and erupt, and most everything will have died out enough to cause another extinction the 6th mass extinction of the earth, IF Yellowstone doesn't blow and cause the 6th mass extinction first. But we humans of our species have only been on earth for about 200,000 years. Who knows what can happen in our future! We have satellites, sensors all over the world, and the possibility of destroying an asteroid or meteor headed for Earth (if it isn't too big!) but that won't stop another ice age or drought, or flood if it wants to happen, or 1500 volcanoes setting each other off all over the world, latent and active! There's not much we can do about that or climate change but the latter is possible if we quit polluting our air! But we can't stop another ice age or massive flood or sinkholes from happening! We bomb mountains to release snow but that didn't help Nepal and areas around there when the earthquake set off Avalanches on Mt Everest in 2015! It can happen on many other mountains as well. Probably the biggest threat is huge calderas erupting like Yellowstone and a few others whose eruption could cause a cloud that would block the sun! Then, in time, without sun, plant life will die, then the grazers who live on it and the crops that feed people and mass starvation would ensue. So what can we do? Elon Musk can only take a few people on his spaceship to Mars, and human life can't last there anyway! We need Earth's gravity or we will lose bone, muscle and brain tissue! So we better stop the 83 million more people on Earth every year from over-populating Earth, and take better care of our Planet that we have here!
@jaden01cortesi87
@jaden01cortesi87 5 жыл бұрын
@@MJLeger-yj1ww How do you propose that we stop the 83 million infants? I'm with you, we have to do something! I've spent the last 22 years researching this planet of ours only to discover that the Earth isn't as wonderful as depicted by the so called experts. My discovery? Every living creature on this planet always ends up dead, from one generation to the next,..all end up consumed by the planet. Obviously, there is something seriously wrong with this planet in that as Morrison stated ' no one gets out alive. ' But where do we go, that's the question,...after careful consideration, well, I'm hoping for Neptune. Mercury and Venus,..too hot. Mars is too close,,,,and besides red is a hostile color. Jupiter and Saturn, the shadows from the rings would no doubt drive one to insanity, and as for Pluto - ferrgeddaboutit - not a chance, too small, too far. Neptune,...that's the planet - no deaths reported to date from Neptune.
@cordellscott
@cordellscott 4 жыл бұрын
@@MJLeger-yj1ww I'm having lots and lots of kids :P And we love eating Mcdonalds
@MJLeger-yj1ww
@MJLeger-yj1ww 4 жыл бұрын
@@cordellscott Fine! McDonalds will help you to reduce the population in time before your tribe reaches middle age!
@tetornow
@tetornow 4 жыл бұрын
Before Katrina, the people of New Orlean's looked upward as the boats passed on the Mississippi River. They knew DAMN WELL that a major hurricane could and would take out the city. The majority did next to nothing. It will be the same when the Cascadia goes. Like New Orealn's, you will hear a chorus of survivors complain about how the "government" did not save them when it would be basically their own responsibility to prepare or (better yet) move out of the danger zone.
@generalkenobi470
@generalkenobi470 4 жыл бұрын
Recent findings conclude that the Cascadia subduction zone is more complex and volatile than previously believed. In 2010, geologists predicted a 37 percent chance of an M8.2+ event within 50 years, and a 10 to 15 percent chance that the entire Cascadia subduction zone will rupture with an M9+ event within the same time frame. Geologists have also determined the Pacific Northwest is not prepared for such a colossal quake. The tsunami produced could reach heights of 80 to 100 feet (24 to 30 m).
@smashypeople
@smashypeople 4 ай бұрын
I'm on top the mountain... I am safe. for now.
@Aluminata
@Aluminata 3 жыл бұрын
"Will it happen again?" ? The question is when.
@MrManfly
@MrManfly 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the Nez Perce were around in 1700 to see it happen?
@nikolaisikes6245
@nikolaisikes6245 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrManfly Many native tribes in the PNW told tales of gods fighting in the sea and this resulted in a huge wave that wiped everything out on the shoreline and they never built their villages on the coast again.
@gyozadumpling5402
@gyozadumpling5402 3 жыл бұрын
@@nikolaisikes6245 Another interesting thing about the native's stories is that they almost always described the earthquake as occurring at night when the villagers were going to sleep. Tsunami records from japan would correlate to a Cascadia earthquake that occurred at about 9 pm, just as the natives have told in their traditions. Pretty interesting in my opinion.
@wicked_deftlady
@wicked_deftlady 3 жыл бұрын
Of course it will! Our beautiful planet is alive.
@danielbless7778
@danielbless7778 3 жыл бұрын
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@nancydeis7121
@nancydeis7121 3 жыл бұрын
I really love how you phrased your comment. If only humans had enough sense and respect for our beautiful planet to not do everything possible to destroy it and its beauty
@that1guy524
@that1guy524 4 жыл бұрын
The quake in Japan back in 2010 had something similar happen. Will never forget seeing that damage it has created. Such unbelievable force pushing cars and buildings. It Will be scary to see again on our coastline.
@mas96
@mas96 Жыл бұрын
2011
@stul2224
@stul2224 5 жыл бұрын
A similar event took place about 8,000 years ago ( minutes in geologic time ) in a similar area and brought a 30' tidal wave almost 40 miles inland in Washington. Today - it would wipe out much of that area.
@DfsOutlier
@DfsOutlier 5 жыл бұрын
of course it will happen again eventually, it's a subduction zone.
@markbrown332
@markbrown332 4 жыл бұрын
Not a matter of if but, when! And most importantly how much will it slip ?! The longer it takes the more tension is released 🤔
@annahuber2085
@annahuber2085 3 жыл бұрын
@@markbrown332 let's hope it's enough to wipe them out
@victorr8783
@victorr8783 3 жыл бұрын
@@annahuber2085 are you crazy
@badxmemezz1242
@badxmemezz1242 3 жыл бұрын
@@annahuber2085 bro what-😐
@originalketchup7498
@originalketchup7498 3 жыл бұрын
Look up the Cascadia quake
@kerrbear1980
@kerrbear1980 3 жыл бұрын
This was too short. I feel like i need more information lol.
@takeit1229
@takeit1229 3 жыл бұрын
There's the whole video, it's in the description. They didn't make that very clear.
@JasonJason210
@JasonJason210 3 жыл бұрын
I know. I got excited when I saw the title. Imagine if it had been a 50 minute documentary with CGI and what not.
@ReformedOrderPart2
@ReformedOrderPart2 4 жыл бұрын
I currently live in Seattle, WA. I lived in a place up on Capitol Hill just off of I-5 in having an insane view of downtown Seattle, Queen Anne Hill, the Space Needle, & parts of Lake Union. I awoke to see a fog based cloud formation that was literally a wall of thick clouds that looked like a giant tsunami that went as far as I COULD SEE from one end of town to the other. I had even taken a picture of it with my phone. I had also had a dream in which I awoke, to find my bedroom carpet wet & water in my living room. Wasn't until I got there from the bedroom that I saw the tops of West Seattle & Queen Anne Hill as "islands" in only half of the Space Needle sticking up out of the still waters in just the stem of the structure remaining.....
@emeraldent
@emeraldent 3 жыл бұрын
You should be good on the hill! I live down by the market, all silt land! Only renting, lol, probably headed inland in near future, ha
@juliajane4066
@juliajane4066 6 ай бұрын
learn to swim, loser!
@gasaxe6056
@gasaxe6056 5 жыл бұрын
30 years ago I worked day and night beefing up buildings schools airports and government stuctures for this event. It still hasn't happened but will when we least expect it.
@savagex466-qt1io
@savagex466-qt1io 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly for doing so. I remember I was on Vancouver island. 3rd floor in a apartment. I felt my 1st quake. scared me good i ran for the door my friend purposly blocked me lol telling me " just stay injoy it lol " crazzy guy
@jameskelly8294
@jameskelly8294 5 жыл бұрын
You remember the 2001 quake? Wild
@SoulfulTruth
@SoulfulTruth 5 жыл бұрын
The January 1700 cataclysm was far more catastrophic than the fake experts imagine - dozens of historic documents tell us the horror - when the next one comes - almost all of North America will be destroyed.
@savagex466-qt1io
@savagex466-qt1io 5 жыл бұрын
@@SoulfulTruth whats a 1700 cataclysm ? what do you mean ?
@SoulfulTruth
@SoulfulTruth 5 жыл бұрын
@@savagex466-qt1io Seismologists tell us what you see in this link - but dozens of independent historic records from c1700 tell us it was a cataclysm that destroyed an entire continent and nearly destroyed almost all of North America with colossal tsunami waves and the eruption of thousands of volcanoes: www.google.com/search?q=january+1700+cascadia+earthquake&rlz=1CAPPDO_enUS819&oq=january+1700+cascadia+earthquake&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.13955j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 In other words, seismologists do not understand the 1700 Cascadia quake and their forecast for the next one is also all wrong - the decimation will be far worse - and it's coming soon.
@jettyeddie_m9130
@jettyeddie_m9130 5 жыл бұрын
It’s ludicrous and absolutely preposterous and DANGEROUS to think it’s not
@krane15
@krane15 3 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, the earth settles down as it cools, which is what gives man a chance to exist.
@jazzer396
@jazzer396 3 жыл бұрын
@@krane15 It settles, but it will take quite a while yet to stop for reasons too complicated to explain in a youtube comment (but not that much more complicated to learn). To expect the tectonic plates to just stop is ridiculous, and if it had stopped then we would be in much bigger trouble as well, since quite a bit of the heat transfer from the earth is due to this.
@demelof1913
@demelof1913 6 жыл бұрын
It kind of blows my mind that these layers of Rick have such a story to tell. I live in the sf bay area which has SO many different things going on geologically, and the more I understand it the more I see how the land's history is right there.
@whitneyconnolly3927
@whitneyconnolly3927 4 жыл бұрын
Think it wasn't till the late 1960s that shifting plates was actually accepted as more than a theory. Check out the Rockies were formed.
@zethify6384
@zethify6384 4 жыл бұрын
Demelo F move right now the streets of sf are gonna be wiped
@rightnowiseverything2521
@rightnowiseverything2521 3 жыл бұрын
Rick peels like an onion
@LuckyBaldwin777
@LuckyBaldwin777 3 жыл бұрын
@@zethify6384 The subduction zone is near Portland and Seattle, not San Francisco.
@leenaright3949
@leenaright3949 5 жыл бұрын
Oroville Dam is 464 miles above Ridgecrest. If it fails, disastrous flooding and loss of life will occur. It is already close to maximum capacity. I sincerely hope officials will make it a priority to check the structural health of the dam in the light of these two very strong quakes. 😐
@rsgolden3566
@rsgolden3566 3 жыл бұрын
I saw something like this in a vision in 2009, while on the Central coast. In the vision I saw the edge of the ocean lift up hundred feet and Slam back down. As it slammed back down huge tidal waves crushed everything and destroyed the central coast. I was told to tell the people, but no one has listened. In 2016 I was told the Flood Cometh.
@alandugan9310
@alandugan9310 3 жыл бұрын
Here on you tube, Professor Nick Zentner, a geology teacher at Central Washington Universty, is live streaming a geology 101 class. You can watch all his classes here on you tube. He talks about the work that Bryant Atwater is doing. They know an earthquake happened in 1700 because Japan was keeping written records. Japan recorded a tsunami in January of that year. They even have the time the quake happened. It is estimated the quake on the west coast near Washington state was a 9 on the Richter scale. Lots more info on Zentner’s channel. Zentner is a character and fun to learn from. It’s getting late and 2 drinks in but I’ll try to write an edit with the specific episode relating to this video soon.
@alandugan9310
@alandugan9310 3 жыл бұрын
Here’s the video I was talking about...Nick Zentner Geology 101 #22, Sumatra Japan.
@ourlifeinwashington4114
@ourlifeinwashington4114 5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Browns Hydro plate theory explains so much over such a massive planet. Scary.
@joyhavana7785
@joyhavana7785 4 жыл бұрын
I like Expanding Earth theory better
@awesomeferret
@awesomeferret Жыл бұрын
It's tragic how many people in coastal cities delude themselves into thinking that the sea rising a few feet in a few hundred years is a huge deal when they don't seem to care about the fact that at any time, their entire city could become permanently underwater within a matter of minutes.
@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 3 жыл бұрын
1700. Those dead trees are 321 years old. Those trees died 32 years before George Washington was born. I love this stuff.
@AP-57
@AP-57 3 жыл бұрын
Ikr. Its crazy to think that we could touch something older than, and existed during the life of the first POTUS. Those trees are older than America itself.
@cfromcass
@cfromcass 5 жыл бұрын
That WAS fascinating.
@sikoo31
@sikoo31 3 жыл бұрын
If I live out my whole life without being murdered I might get to see this happen
@SP_3333
@SP_3333 3 жыл бұрын
😂
@lancefitchett1699
@lancefitchett1699 3 жыл бұрын
Stay outta portland
@PolicyThwonk
@PolicyThwonk 3 жыл бұрын
This is actually incorrect. Near Cascadia, it's the Juan de Fuca plate that is subducting under the North American Plate, not the Pacific Plate.
@carvalone3076
@carvalone3076 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic animation!!
@leswehman11
@leswehman11 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting stuff here. New subscriber from Tampa, Fl.
@iainmackenzieUK
@iainmackenzieUK 3 жыл бұрын
Nice to hear about an environmental disaster where the fault is not blamed on humans for a change....
@rhianimal19
@rhianimal19 6 жыл бұрын
not if, when
@TonyBrown-lf5nj
@TonyBrown-lf5nj 4 жыл бұрын
23 rd this month two days from now supposedly we shall see ,if those who calls themselves Gods prophets are speaking truth .if this man is accurate judgement of our nation has begun ,And most all our American churches are APOSTACY houses just as Jesus said would be in the end times. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJpggJRlq8WtZ4U.html watch
@titanusghidrah6867
@titanusghidrah6867 4 жыл бұрын
Spiffy Turtle ITS IF
@interstate3551
@interstate3551 4 жыл бұрын
@@TonyBrown-lf5nj FOH with that religious bullshit. Earthquakes have been happening long before those fairytales ever came to be.
@scomo532
@scomo532 4 жыл бұрын
All the more reason to make as much of the time you gave until it does happen
@freedomthroughspirit
@freedomthroughspirit Жыл бұрын
The answer is resoundingly yes. Beyond the obvious preparation, not much we can do. But it is fascinating how much the soil and trees reveal what happened and when (along with human records from Japan and the Native peoples, etc.).
@Jabootie-oz1cb
@Jabootie-oz1cb 5 жыл бұрын
1969 -1979 Lived the now Haida Gwaii. Natives said Islands will crumble into the sea. How did they know the sheerness of the West Coast Queen Charlotte Islands? Google Maps, BIZARRE!
@stvp68
@stvp68 4 жыл бұрын
Trying to figure out where they had the cameras placed during the canoe sequence
@boogiedownforever
@boogiedownforever 6 жыл бұрын
I love the narration. This dudes voice is better than golf voice. So peaceful and intelligent sounding. Sounds like the dude from the documentary of the Laos Plateau
@Bonstergirl
@Bonstergirl 5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking he sounds like a younger Nick Zentner.
@wearealljustclowns
@wearealljustclowns 5 жыл бұрын
Serious threats will be from liquefaction. Much of the land is that soil from previous quakes and itll turn the ground to liquid, this can be slow, or very fast. As well as the tsunamis that will go in land potentially much further then thought as the land collapses.
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 5 жыл бұрын
Unchained, the ground will drop on the coast not really anywhere else. Tsunamis will go inland not much further than thought by scientists. You see, science goes by evidence, not by paranoia.
@jamdwn1946
@jamdwn1946 5 жыл бұрын
@@jollyandwaylo New Coastline a coming!
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 5 жыл бұрын
@@jamdwn1946 Could you expand on this thought? You might know what you are saying but I can't read your mind from this far away.
@bluewaters3100
@bluewaters3100 4 жыл бұрын
@@jollyandwaylo The thing about tsunamis is that they ricochet off one coastline onto another. They can be very unpredictable. We have lots of islands and fiords in this area.
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 4 жыл бұрын
@@bluewaters3100 They really aren't that unpredictable if you know where the quake is centered. For instance, there is no evidence to suggest that a tsunami will hit Seattle when the big quake hits the coast.
@MrSim_76
@MrSim_76 3 жыл бұрын
I live in Canada, in a seismically active area with some weak earthquakes and some big ones in the past. I wouldn't live in the west coast, even if the sight on the Pacific is beautiful. I think that this area will endure the same event than Japan and Indonesia. It's just a question of when.
@georgeroberts613
@georgeroberts613 4 жыл бұрын
Drown the PNW? Really? I know it wiped out a coastal fishing town of sixty thousand in Japan in 1700 from the subsequent wave.
@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16
@WiiLoveWeather7-12-16 4 жыл бұрын
I think the town was called Mito
@VanillaMacaron551
@VanillaMacaron551 3 жыл бұрын
the whole PNW will be affected by the earthquake but only coastal areas will be hit by the tsunami as well.
@kristinesharp6286
@kristinesharp6286 3 жыл бұрын
I wish there would be more information about plate movement. It’s all climate this and that. There are reasons the land rises or sea rises besides the glaciers melting/freezing at the poles.
@kjnightbird1772
@kjnightbird1772 4 жыл бұрын
I had read in the past, that this repeating earthquake triggers a corresponding tsunamis in Japan. Yes, it last hit them in 1700. They even made megalithic stone markers warning future generations NOT to build below its marking line. This quake has been going on for thousands of year. ⏳📉🌎🌊🌏
@davidmehnert6206
@davidmehnert6206 4 жыл бұрын
⛩🏮🎎🥡🥣🍱🍜🥢🍝
@pureadrenline
@pureadrenline 3 жыл бұрын
HAHA I love how they just end it with “Will it happen again?” with no explanation. Of course it will! 😂
@DementedCaver
@DementedCaver 3 жыл бұрын
The question really is when will it happen again?
@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't even play Jenga in a place like that... it could go at any second
@pureadrenline
@pureadrenline 3 жыл бұрын
@Henry John lol not really. It’s happened repeatedly over hundreds of thousands of years it’s 100% going to happen again. The earth doesn’t just stop doing it’s thing because we’re here 💀
@traekas7228
@traekas7228 3 жыл бұрын
You must live inland, Kayla. I don’t. I shouldn’t have watched this.
@pureadrenline
@pureadrenline 3 жыл бұрын
@@traekas7228 I live in California bro lmfao.
@tudorjason
@tudorjason 5 жыл бұрын
I would like to think people in the PNW are more consciously aware of a Cascadia megathrust happening someday relatively soon. There are lahar evacuations signs in some areas because of Mount Rainier. Earthquake and lahar drills occur on a consistent basis. Once in a while, there is a news story somehow related to earthquakes, lahars, and tsunamis. And because we do live in earthquake country, there is a sense of being prepared to be on our own for least 3 days, if not 7.
@evilsciencelab3854
@evilsciencelab3854 3 жыл бұрын
Sad that this documentary got the geology horribly wrong. The Pacific Plate is not subducting under the North American plate here in the PNW; it is an entirely different plate called the Juan de Fuca plate which is subducting under the North American continent, and it is specifically this plate which is the cause for the Cascade Range volcanoes and mountains. The Pacific Plate is not even moving in the same direction. Sloppy geology.
@classicrockcafe
@classicrockcafe 5 жыл бұрын
1700 was the time of the explorers, such as Sir Francis Drake and Vitus Bering. I wonder if some explorers were never heard from again because of this quake. If Drake and Bering were in the path, they would have never been heard from again. And the places named after them would not bare their name.
@aldoa1988
@aldoa1988 3 жыл бұрын
😳
@aldoa1988
@aldoa1988 3 жыл бұрын
I’m sure a lot of Native Americans died too
@jpstenino
@jpstenino 5 жыл бұрын
well produced video
@2nd_snideelf144
@2nd_snideelf144 5 жыл бұрын
It's a PBS series.
@charleslong5373
@charleslong5373 5 жыл бұрын
A massive at least magnitude 8 earthquake hit the Cascades in 1705. Its predicted these quakes happen about once every 300 years. We are overdue.
@tetornow
@tetornow 4 жыл бұрын
---to 500 years.
@braydenparton9578
@braydenparton9578 3 жыл бұрын
@@tetornow Actually it's 900 but the average is 570-590.
@steveclapper5424
@steveclapper5424 5 жыл бұрын
So it was roughly 400 years ago? The earth and all these forces live in deep time, we do not.
@kerrysmith1899
@kerrysmith1899 5 жыл бұрын
300 years ago.
@dougharker9913
@dougharker9913 6 жыл бұрын
YES IT WILL !
@logandonley8851
@logandonley8851 4 жыл бұрын
Is it me or does this dude look like a younger version of Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls
@drbrown2402
@drbrown2402 5 жыл бұрын
Just Wait For It...
@ooka7705
@ooka7705 5 жыл бұрын
There are two faults near eachother, The Cascadia Megathrust and the Cascadia Subduction Zone
@waltbullet1287
@waltbullet1287 4 жыл бұрын
Good bye California!!!!
@xenonautica
@xenonautica 4 жыл бұрын
I didn’t see who made the video so I was expecting some Conspiracy Stuff- Then I realized it’s that big flood thing that happens. A very- happy?- surprise. But uhhhh Yeah the flood thingy is really interesting and there’s a lot more to it then what was said in the video. I recommend looking it up
@mikerichardson1791
@mikerichardson1791 4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure it will happen many more times this last one was probably not the first time.
@davidcraig9779
@davidcraig9779 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the earth is growing and it is 'shedding' bone (rock) so it can grow. If the layers are higher, doesn't that suggest expansion?
@sandyfarley5765
@sandyfarley5765 5 жыл бұрын
Yes as I am the great great great grand daughter of 1st land owner of the Oregon coast Lattie creek is now Nahalum bay
@brandonu.6422
@brandonu.6422 5 жыл бұрын
Lovely area for sure. I'm moving to the Oregon coast this year, we'll see how that goes.
@trainman1209
@trainman1209 4 жыл бұрын
You might be kin to Chris Farley. SNL. And other great movies!
@complimentary_voucher
@complimentary_voucher 3 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure there were people there before your settler ancestor, if that's what you're saying. Just a thought. Apologies if you're indigenous.
@notyou1567
@notyou1567 4 жыл бұрын
A 700 mile crack....reminds me of a woman I once met.
@satsat247
@satsat247 4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@melodiefrances3898
@melodiefrances3898 Жыл бұрын
Kind of a dumb question at the end. Will it happen again? After just demonstrating that it absolutely will
@alicia122175
@alicia122175 5 жыл бұрын
So I'm still asking myself..is it going to happen again? Plz give us a part 2 so we can know what is the answer to that...
@alicia122175
@alicia122175 5 жыл бұрын
I believe u n it is very unfortunate
@seanrojas
@seanrojas 3 жыл бұрын
Yes it will happen again. It’s a matter of when not if. Probably in the next 200-300 years but possibly some time sooner
@VanillaMacaron551
@VanillaMacaron551 3 жыл бұрын
they've dug down far enough to find something like 18 sand layers and therefore know full Cascadia rips happen every 500 years but there are also partial rips (also huge and devastating) around every 300 years - more so on the southern end of the plate boundary. So basically any time ....
@phapnui
@phapnui 5 жыл бұрын
It started. Small quakes all over the place.
@ScoobieSwisher7413
@ScoobieSwisher7413 5 жыл бұрын
How did that work out?
@rmhutchins7
@rmhutchins7 5 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@ResoluteMujigae
@ResoluteMujigae 3 жыл бұрын
I am guessing the magnitude of this ancient earthquake is at least 8.5, much more powerful than the 1995 Kobe and 1906 San Francisco earthquakes.
@ter8330
@ter8330 4 жыл бұрын
Does the water come inland for 15 miles??? Anyone know HOW FAR? Interesting..!
@danielnsikanjoshua306
@danielnsikanjoshua306 4 жыл бұрын
Here, doing my homework for this season of acceleration :)
@SandpiperN121PP
@SandpiperN121PP 6 жыл бұрын
I used to live there and people are only fooling themselves when they say it will never happen. It "IS GOING TO HAPPEN" ... not if... BUT WHEN! It is long overdue and that entire region is not retrofitted for such an event. They (geologist say) that when it does... everything from the coastline to the cascades is at risk. There will be nowhere to run to because if the earthquake doesn't kill you... the tsunami or the lahar from the mountains will.
@jsandusky6957
@jsandusky6957 6 жыл бұрын
Why would there be lahars, which are volcanic mudflows? Does an earthquake inevitably cause a volcanic eruption? Where would these eruptions be?
@bobmissingham2835
@bobmissingham2835 6 жыл бұрын
Sharon I
@artcurious807
@artcurious807 6 жыл бұрын
The 9.0 that hit Japan is very similar, according to there records a major tsunami hits the east coast about every 900 to 1,000 years. Its just part of living on the Pacific Rim. Same with the US, West coast a major fault rupture will happen, we should start preparing now by building more highways to get people away from the coast, building larger concrete buildings on ball joint foundations, putting up flood gates inland to stop or slow a tsunami. We can spend a billion dollars now or Trillions of dollars after the disaster hits.
@whiteknightcat
@whiteknightcat 6 жыл бұрын
JSandusky69, I think she's conflating two different things, one of which is the consequences of Mt. Rainier erupting. The whole Sea-Tac area is built on the debris from previous eruptions, but as I said, a totally different event.
@jedrobertson3206
@jedrobertson3206 6 жыл бұрын
Nothing's "overdue" these things aren't cyclical. They occur on average every x years. But the chance of them occurring at a given instant is independent of the last occurrence. "Every 1000 years" just means 0.1% chance per year in this instance.
@JoeyIndolos
@JoeyIndolos 3 жыл бұрын
I was surprised at the end at the mention of 1700; I had no idea it was that recent. When the scientist he was with was described as a paleoseismologist, I had thoughts of prehistoric times.
@joefox9875
@joefox9875 3 жыл бұрын
That's what it sounds like. That time when European colonists were discovering America, and Dinasaurs walked the earth.
@snaplash
@snaplash 3 жыл бұрын
Hmm, I'm thinking of moving to WA. I think I need to be looking for lots on the highest ground possible..
@user-qr2gd7me6c
@user-qr2gd7me6c 3 жыл бұрын
100 miles inland, and no where near a Cascade volcano, esp not Mt Ranier
@mbww8572
@mbww8572 3 жыл бұрын
Read the Wikipedia article. They know the exact date of the 1700 event: Jan 26. Cheers.
@gremlinuk1968
@gremlinuk1968 4 жыл бұрын
yep,,
@AnnaLexi
@AnnaLexi 4 жыл бұрын
*_A couple of years ago I had a dream that a big earthquake tsunami happened like this!! I lived in Washington & was seeing black & water come towards us.._* *_& I live in Northern California never even been to Washington before!! The dream was so vivid & scary.._*
@sidauthur7836
@sidauthur7836 2 жыл бұрын
The natives stories for this event are quite interesting. Since they were the only witnesses at the time. Pretty much an eagle god picked up a whale and dropped it into the sea. Though sometimes the eagle is the villain attacking an innocent whale or the eagle was the hero.
@hankadelicflash
@hankadelicflash 5 жыл бұрын
That's a healthy rain forest if I ever saw one...
@bestamerica
@bestamerica 5 жыл бұрын
' the earthquake is a natural globe around the world... because of hot core / hot magma inside the earth
@scomo532
@scomo532 4 жыл бұрын
Earthquakes are the planet’s way of saying hello. The plates gotta move, cause the magma tells them to.
@frederick7538
@frederick7538 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@JohnLee-db9zt
@JohnLee-db9zt 3 жыл бұрын
Well, when?
@gingercox6468
@gingercox6468 4 жыл бұрын
I would think some record could be found documenting this event?
@nextoftin276
@nextoftin276 3 жыл бұрын
No? We were on the other side of the country in 1700, we wouldn't have a clue that it happened at the time. And the Indians living there at the time didn't have a written language for another 100 years or more.
@VanillaMacaron551
@VanillaMacaron551 3 жыл бұрын
Yes that's how they know the exact date and time it happened, Japanese written records. The PNW event in 1700 caused "an orphan tsunami" in Japan - a tsunami that came from nowhere, without the preceding local earthquake that usually accompanied tsunamis in Japan.
@jimw83296
@jimw83296 4 жыл бұрын
cascadia is part of the ring of fire. it connects also to the san andreas fault system.
@dianebyers5704
@dianebyers5704 5 жыл бұрын
Ooooweee! Signs and wonders.
@tetornow
@tetornow 4 жыл бұрын
Probably because we are more aware of them. None the less - yes.
@saireygamp62
@saireygamp62 3 жыл бұрын
Copalis, grew up there
@jasonschmidt9569
@jasonschmidt9569 3 жыл бұрын
Anyone bother to check what was going on with the sun at that time? Look it up
@rosalieholland25
@rosalieholland25 5 жыл бұрын
If this happened 300 years ago...chances are it will happen again. People keep talking about how the San Andreas Fault will form all the way up past Oregon and Washington swallowing majority of the west coast...I have no idea where to move when this happens😂
@remnassi578
@remnassi578 5 жыл бұрын
East coast
@MJLeger-yj1ww
@MJLeger-yj1ww 5 жыл бұрын
That isn't what will annihilate the West Coast of America, the eruption in the Cascade Fault will be responsible for that! But San Andreas and Hayward Faults could happen on land causing what the Cascade will do in the ocean! And if Yellowstone caldera blows, the whole world will be affected and the 6th mass extinction could ensue! Planet Earth is very active! It has been for 4, 1/2 billion years and will continue to be active!
@Jabootie-oz1cb
@Jabootie-oz1cb 5 жыл бұрын
@@MJLeger-yj1ww Does that make my life more meaningful?
@Jabootie-oz1cb
@Jabootie-oz1cb 5 жыл бұрын
I Don't know where I'm a goanna to go, when the Volcano Blow.
@MJLeger-yj1ww
@MJLeger-yj1ww 5 жыл бұрын
@@Jabootie-oz1cb If you mean Yellowstone, there's NO WHERE you can go, it will cause the 6th mass extinction. I live fairly close so I will be toast, but as that ash cloud crowds out the sun, plants will die and then those that graze on them, crops will die and those who eat them (us) so aircraft won't even be able to fly as the cloud will envelop Earth rapidly! Kiss the world goodbye, then, perhaps in a few million years, other life will begin. Or maybe aliens will decide to come here since all the evil, warring humans are gone, and make use of this planet!
@robbjoyce
@robbjoyce Жыл бұрын
That is one of my favorite paddles.
@kevinhoward9593
@kevinhoward9593 Жыл бұрын
i wonder what the earthquake was rated at.
@dumbcat
@dumbcat Жыл бұрын
i think it was 4 out of 5 stars
@thetourist6567
@thetourist6567 4 жыл бұрын
that makes the ground vibrate, but nothing that makes the ground vibrate as much as my mother-in-law comes in 😂
@JustLikeHeaven77
@JustLikeHeaven77 6 жыл бұрын
There is a major fault line that runs from Greenland through the Great Lakes and south near the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. It branches out like tree limbs into many states between the Rocky and Smoky mountains. Yellowstone National Park is a volcano that has a crater with a radius of 44 miles. Many scientists have said when it erupts it will cause a massive shift of the Earth. They've also made note of the faultline. Yellowstone is overdue for eruption.
@CalvinHodgson
@CalvinHodgson 6 жыл бұрын
Bob Wiley, I was not aware of a fault line along the north US. Do you have a map or article. If it is a fault it is extinct or inactive since there isn't much seismic activity along there.
@crand20033
@crand20033 6 жыл бұрын
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (/ˈmædrɪd/), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the southern and midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. When it goes there will be a lot of destruction.
@JustLikeHeaven77
@JustLikeHeaven77 6 жыл бұрын
Calvin Hodgson It is a different kind of fault line. It is pulling apart, rather than overlapping. I don't know exactly everything about it. I haven't studied it. I was just interested and read some things. Also the terrain is mostly dirt and mud along the Mississippi River. There are earthquakes, but they are deep within the earth and are not often felt. If you look at an earth map you can see it. From Greenland through the Great Lakes and south near the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico through Panama and over into the Pacific Ocean side if south america.
@rhianimal19
@rhianimal19 6 жыл бұрын
You are talking about the North American craton, not so much a fault zone. It runs dowm thru the old Appalachians into TX, then back up thru NM in the Rio Grande rift valley, then thru the Rockies int Canada.
@amberbryeans114
@amberbryeans114 6 жыл бұрын
David Crandall that’s really scary. I live in Blytheville Arkansas and there have been quite a few earthquakes in this region. One a few months ago shook my house I was asleep it scared the crap outta me. Scared a lot of folks around here. My biggest fear is being asleep and a sinkhole opening up and swallowing me
@ladytenor9876
@ladytenor9876 6 жыл бұрын
The answer to the final question is "YES". Actually, we're overdue. 😐
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 5 жыл бұрын
Lady, no, it isn't overdue. I know your desire for doom porn makes you wish you could see people suffering but you're probably going to have to go elsewhere in the world but you have lots of choices since you want to watch people suffering.
@Dummmy999
@Dummmy999 4 жыл бұрын
@@jollyandwaylo um well we r over due
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 4 жыл бұрын
@@Dummmy999 Again, NO, we are not overdue. I don't know where people have gotten that meme but it seems popular. We have just now entered the period of the shortest interval between the large quakes. We are hundreds of years away from being 'overdue'. The area off of northern California seems to slip about twice as often as the Pacific NW part of the fault, so they might be overdue but not the portion of the fault off the Pacific NW.
@miguellopez3392
@miguellopez3392 4 жыл бұрын
@@jollyandwaylo from what I've seen there is no real interval, it could be another 300 years or 20 years.
@jollyandwaylo
@jollyandwaylo 4 жыл бұрын
@@miguellopez3392 I don't know what you mean by 'real' interval but I was speaking of the intervals between large earthquakes on that fault line. Yes, it could occur at any time but it is by no means, 'overdue'. People seem to want a catastrophe or at least they seem to want to imagine one.
@peterjarnes25
@peterjarnes25 3 жыл бұрын
Whoa!
@beehead5661
@beehead5661 4 жыл бұрын
The land that subsided as much as 5 feet during the earthquake in 1700 does not appear to have risen back up to its previous level, at least not where the ghost forest is located. I think that this fact would weigh against another fault release coming soon. Of course, there are a myriad of other things going on that could cause one to happen soon. I would not live permanently or own property close to the coast along that zone.
@VanillaMacaron551
@VanillaMacaron551 3 жыл бұрын
the science shows it stays lower
@gregorcutt1199
@gregorcutt1199 3 жыл бұрын
Please do more with this host from the Smithsonian. He is so much more pleasant, and less sanctimonious, than Neil Tyson.
@amiyacuteyyrodriguez3080
@amiyacuteyyrodriguez3080 4 жыл бұрын
On I my for people who died 💔😭 but it is ok I live in Texas and I'll be okay I know but people who live in the sea I my sorry for you guys 💔😢😭😭😭
@MatanuskaHIGH
@MatanuskaHIGH 3 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t it be a volcano ash layer?
@RyanPurcell
@RyanPurcell 3 жыл бұрын
"...the worst earthquake to hit North America since human beings arrived here." It happened on 1700... I was thinking prehistoric times since Native Americans were here for centuries. Not sure if that's what he meant and that was relatively close in time to us now.
@williamthepleaser1
@williamthepleaser1 Жыл бұрын
"as long as people have been here". 14000 years ago.
@junethomas5143
@junethomas5143 4 жыл бұрын
Yes I believe there will be an earthquake in California I lived in Norwalk California and they had an earthquake I was 14 on my way to school and side walks were cracking into everythang was shaken so yes I was scared we did not have school all that day so a we could thank about what happen in the earthquake.
@didymos32
@didymos32 3 жыл бұрын
the beauty and terrifying thing about living in california by the ocean coast
@lilbrig6016
@lilbrig6016 3 жыл бұрын
Me being grateful I live in the midwest
@cowboysandindicas3635
@cowboysandindicas3635 3 жыл бұрын
Living in California seemed terrifying to me even before I watched this.
@gyozadumpling5402
@gyozadumpling5402 3 жыл бұрын
@@lilbrig6016 The Midwest actually has a pretty high earthquake risk because of the New Madrid seismic zone, which generated several magnitude 7 and 8 earthquakes in the 1800s.
@ninablackman8752
@ninablackman8752 5 жыл бұрын
There was an earthquake off the coast of indonesia that they estimate was a M9. The tsunami was devastating. It impacted countries on bothsides of the pacific. In 2011 an M9 earthquake stuck off the coast of Japan. For an m9 earthquake the damage was not what you would expect. The tsunami that resulted leveled the northeast coast of japan and caused a nuclear meltdown. The pacific NW is not as prepared as Japan is for earthquakes so there will be more damage from the tremor. All you can do with a tsunami is run...fast...as soon as you feel the tremor. The great Alaska quake was devastating. The resulting tsunami washed towns away. The earthquake off the coast of Indonesia "warped" the earth, caused it to wable on it's axis and shortened our day. I am thinking it was 2008. Thats how much control we do not have. I see all this conspiracy stuff all over but the reality is we are at the mercy of mother earth. If we continue to build cities on active fault lines and at the base of active volcanos, we have to accept our fate. Our "government" organizations warn us and all we can do is talk about conspiracies.
@eliteglobal6090
@eliteglobal6090 5 жыл бұрын
and it happens again in indonesia
@DAYBROK3
@DAYBROK3 5 жыл бұрын
Philip Messina sorry your father does not control the earth quakes any more then it controls the weather.
@bryanst.martin7134
@bryanst.martin7134 5 жыл бұрын
When half of your government is conspiring to overrule your rights, then I would say conspiracy awareness is prudent for anyone not looking to be another statistic. If you don't accept the fact, then you are misled. Too trusting.
@jerrynewberry2823
@jerrynewberry2823 5 жыл бұрын
@Charles Fleury II You will find 80% of the science today politically motivated if for nothing else funding. Climate change is the prime example that you would know. Democrats are not giving out money to disprove it. The breeding habits of the African toad is political. Prime example of a dogooder bringing a species in to solve a problem and getting out of hand. Fla. Is overrun by these things in certain areas now, and they are trying to eradicate them now. People in New York don't want their money spent on a toad that doesn't affect them....political...Do you follow?
@jerrynewberry2823
@jerrynewberry2823 5 жыл бұрын
@Charles Fleury II I don't think you followed my thought. Be well.
@paulbegansky5650
@paulbegansky5650 3 жыл бұрын
Wish it would but even larger
@sugarmamma6969
@sugarmamma6969 3 жыл бұрын
Yes it will happen again.The question is when?
@billnboo4u
@billnboo4u 5 жыл бұрын
its thee end of the world as we know it and i feel fine
@queenmaryellen
@queenmaryellen 4 жыл бұрын
ME 2🌠
@jbdancers
@jbdancers 4 жыл бұрын
Every day... it’s the end of the world somewhere 🤷🏻‍♀️ (for someone)... 🎵
@guyh.4553
@guyh.4553 4 жыл бұрын
I know this river! I lost a 20# King salmon there!
@sdarms111doug9
@sdarms111doug9 3 жыл бұрын
Yes... it will
@LotsofStuffYT
@LotsofStuffYT 3 жыл бұрын
It happens every 250 to 800 years. Everyday the chance increases.
@patrickdoyle9369
@patrickdoyle9369 3 жыл бұрын
What we need to know is when did it happen before 1700, maybe then you might be able to put things in place to avert disaster
@jeremyripton
@jeremyripton 3 жыл бұрын
Lol....What could stop or divert a subduction event?..maybe a grease gun to inject a smooth runway into the fault.....Imagine the after effects? 😄
@JenkemSuperfan
@JenkemSuperfan 6 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the comeback!
@UTubeGlennAR
@UTubeGlennAR 6 жыл бұрын
Mother Earth has been changing continualy for 4.5 BILLION years . Does this answer the question adequately?
@joemctaggart3920
@joemctaggart3920 5 жыл бұрын
Yep
@lornajean7286
@lornajean7286 5 жыл бұрын
First of all no has lived that long to say how long we have been here
@jamesyoungblood555
@jamesyoungblood555 5 жыл бұрын
The earth is only about seven thousand years old. Check your bible out for the truth. Shalom
@thelmathomas3437
@thelmathomas3437 5 жыл бұрын
Billions of years stfu
@thelmathomas3437
@thelmathomas3437 5 жыл бұрын
Monica vega thank you so much you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!
@heronimousbrapson863
@heronimousbrapson863 3 жыл бұрын
Well will it???
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