World’s largest 3D earthquake simulation channel on RU-vid! My channel focuses on realistic 3D earthquake simulations of a variety of virtual structures and types of buildings from around the world. Some of my work has been featured by various international media news outlets and it has also been published on other large RU-vid channels such as GeologyHub and CaSeismograph for educational purposes. This channel’s content was also featured on the Curiosity Channel in a recent documentary called “Forecasting the Big One”.
These simulations along with my piano music (Spotify/RU-vid: "Pardon my Piano") are part of a new project called "In Terra Pax" that aims to bring financial and emotional support to victims affected by earthquakes around the world.
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This becomes rather scary when you remember that in the last days, the earth is going to get hit with such strong earthquakes that everything gets literally leveled.
Damn, I was subscribed since you had like 2k subs and then I forgot your channel for month and this popped up in my recommendations page I’m still impressed that you still continue doing this, that must takes tons of work in blender to make this detailed simulations It’s simply impressive, very impressive
The problem with the steel tower is that although they remain standing, the floor and walls come out and you will fall if you are at the top or be buried if you are at the bottom.
The steel-reinforced World Trade Center gave up, in less than an hour, with no earthquake at all It was standing, and then, all of the sudden, it was down, FAST! I wonder how that happened.
I am a Japanese who experienced a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in March 2011. I was an elementary school student at the time and was in school. The shaking was just like this video, and I prepared myself for death. I still think it's a miracle that I'm still alive.
What is so bad about Missouri, is that its on a shitload of sand/sediments. There is a video on RU-vid that explains why a quake would be so bad because of all the liquefaction. A lot of that land was not there, and it was created by sediments settling off shore which created the coast as we know it, all the way into Missouri. Imagine large buildings sinking into the ground, even if they manage to keep together. Remember - unstable ground shakes a LOT harder as illustrated by the 6.3 quake in the middle of Christchurch NZ, which only lasted 10 seconds, but caused tons of damage that larger previous 7.0 to 7.5 quakes that hit the area not long before. The last and most destructive quake in the series of quakes in New Madrid in the 1800's was on a thrust fault which would be gnarly to have such a long lasting quake of that kind, and amplified by the unstable ground. Many of the high-rises in the surrounding cities would likely be seriously damaged, if not flattened. There is a VA hospital that they reduced the height of the building by a little more than half because of this concern. Sand volcanoes had popped up out of nowhere during the series of quakes they had. Luckily, most if not all the huge buildings in Chicago would be fine especially Sears, Hancock, and other larger steel cages and newer style RC buildings, and even older one like Marina City Club. I heard the largest in the series of these quakes was a loosely believed to be up to 7.8, although later studies mentioned that it most likely was in the lower 7's, which would make sense since they are not very big faults. Personally, I would rather deal with an 8.2 from the southern portion of San Andreas snapping, or even likely worse with Puente Hills snapping and topping off at 7.5 (thrust fault) which run directly under DTLA, than being around to experience even a high 6 to low 7 magnitude quake snapping off in New Madrid! Most of the LA basin is like a bowl of jelly and San Andreas 7.8-8.2 will be a good 2 minutes possibly more because of the waves bouncing back and forth between the mountains. On the east of the rockies, the ground is different, and the shaking will affect a MUCH larger area compared to CA, and that is what will suck so badly since the damage will be widespread. Even in areas with Mercali at only 5-6, you likely not see collapsed buildings, but likely some damage. It would be incredibly costly, horrible, and a huge toll on humans lives, and the ones lucky enough to escape death/injury will have their livelihoods completely turned upside down! There was an interesting book I read on this regarding the accounts of sailors that travel up and down the Mississippi River, and a lot of boats were capsized as shoreline collapsed into the river and created temporary waterfalls in some areas, and the river more resembled rapids as the water flow reversed for some time. This is very common with rivers by the way that are near big quakes and is nothing new - It happened in the Kern County quake in CA which was a very big 7.5 magnitude and a 9-10 on mercali scale in that area. In the New Madrid quake, there were towns along the river where liquefaction caused them to drop into the water and countless poor folks perished, sand and mud volcanoes, and countless trees and even hills swallowed into the ground. On RU-vid, look up the history of the US back when the great lakes were formed, and how the south coast of the south was created to get a better understanding of why this would be such a perfect shitstorm when that fault eventually snaps again!
None of these structures are realistic. No shear walls, no elevator or staircase shafts... I'm on the 18th floor (out of 22) of a condo in typical Eastern European style... The wall between my living room and my kitchen is 6 meters long and 40cm thick. The edges of the building are Г-shaped massive concrete frames, the elevator shafts have 60cm thick walls. No earthquake-prone country builds on columns only.
I did not intend to create realistic buildings in this simulation. Just to showcase different construction materials. For a realistic simulation check my recent construction material comparison
I thought the Foundation would crack on illustration video, but not. it's clearly the foundation, the strongest and probably made of steel and concrete
