In this compilation video, we have a look at some incredible clips of earthquakes from all over the world. Be sure to like and subscribe if you enjoyed this content. Thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next one!
I was in Osaka during the Great Hanshin Earthquake that pretty much razed Kobe. Even in Osaka the tremors were so severe, first time in my life I froze in shock and couldn't even scream like it happens in nightmares. I was amazed by the resilience of the Japanese people to recover and rebuild in such a short time after the quake.
I have been through several earthquakes in California. My first reaction was usually “Is this really happening or am I in a dream?” It definitely takes your brain a while to process.
I am a 73 yr. old who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since middle school. In high school, one of my teachers was talking about earthquakes when, suddenly, an earthquake struck. It literally rippled through the class room; we could see it travel in waves across the floor! So strange, and yet pretty cool, too! If you are in an earthquake, try to get out of the building you’re in. Forget the silly notion of standing in a doorway…have you ever seen the aftermath of an earthquake and seen rubble scattered with free standing doorways?! No! If you can’t get out of the building, go under a desk. And always cover your head. Stay clear of windows and other glass objects. If possible, find a supported “triangle” area to get into…such as the open area between a bed, dresser, and other piece of furniture. And still cover your head! Even in a relatively mild earthquake, things can fly across the room and hit you in the head and kill you.
I've always gone for under the table, it's a big mahogany table and has 6 legs and can hold quite a bit of weight if something fell on it! The last quake I felt was about 3 or 4 years ago and I was in bed watching TV when I felt it. it was only about a 3.5 or so and the epicenter was over 100 miles away, nothing like the ones I experienced while living in California with its major long faults! I didn't even move from my bed. It lasted about 10 to15 seconds or so, but they are always a bit scary because you don't know if it will get worse! Planet Earth is very active, and she likes to "shake her booty" from time to time, especially around the Ring of Fire! So, if you are in that region, make certain things in your house CAN'T fly around to hit you and PLAN ahead what to do if one strikes; have an escape plan and a place to meet that everyone in your household knows, and have a drill one in a while so if one does happen, you can all act quickly.
@@lol-wv7ve There are several physical ailments that can cause shakiness. Your grandma should ask her physician about it, if there is concern. I've seen patients with neurological disorders or diseases, who can still play the piano. It can depend on what part of the brain is affected. Sometimes it is easier to type than to write with a pen or pencil for some people!
Right I'm watching this to get my mind prepared for "earthquake season." Hopefully there will be nothing major this year. North bay has put me through enough disasteds with the last few fire seasons. Stay safe!
I've lived through the 9.2 earthquake in Alaska. Don't remember much about it though because I was only 4. But the biggest one here recently was the 7.2 in 2018. Broken glass everywhere! But what got me was the fact that the fridge opened and threw the milk out and then closed again. You couldn't stand or walk during the quake or it would throw you on the floor. Scary!
@@HalwenGreenleafthat was my former school! and yeah we were drilled on that every month (i think) if not every month it was every quarter. im lucky though because where i was at the time of that quake quite a few panels fell and i could have def been injured if i didnt duck and cover :)
@@carlosramirez6661 he was one if the coolest teachers back at that school, don't think he teaches there now that i think about it. definitely a student's favorite
My sister experienced a very small tremor when she lived on the Canadian praries. She was relaxing on her couch when her folding closet doors started to rattle. She shouted, "Quincy cut it out!", thinking it was her cat being a nuisance. Then she noticed that Quincy was sleeping on the opposite end of the couch. That was when she noticed that the chandelier was swinging back and forth. She said she couldn't imagine how people lived through a strong earthquake because even that small tremor was kind of scary.
the noise from an earthquake travels faster, like 4-5 seconds in advance, and humans can also hear it especially at night when there are no other noises
I lived in California for 23 years and only felt some mild ground motion from medium quakes far away. In one month in Bali in 2018 there were dozens of mag 6-7 quakes on the next island over, Lombok, with thousands of fatalities. We saw a sloshing pool, shaking buildings, and one even struck while we were in a taxi. It was an action-packed month with an eruption from Mount Agung and a lunar eclipse too. But my most dangerous moments were dodging the crazy scooter riders in Seminyak!
Sorry for the bad experience of crazy motorbike riders in Indonesia, especially in Bali. Do you miss earthquakes and volcanic eruptions while on vacation in Indonesia? From November until now there have been more than 500 earthquakes throughout the Indonesian province, the 5.2M Karang Asem earthquake (Bali) on December 13 until now more than 100 aftershocks😂
Japan is an earthquake-prone country and we are used to most earthquakes. In addition, indoors are safer because the building is highly earthquake-resistant.
@@Tac-shiestyI’ve only been in a mag 4 but to me it felt very subtle. I noticed my bed shaking (almost as if someone was shaking it but obviously that wasn’t the case). I ended up having to go to google to see if I was hallucinating or if it was an earthquake. Haha it was a quake.
In my country, there were two major earthquakes of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude. Hundreds of thousands of people died, hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed. While watching this video, I am amazed at how people laugh because while those people were laughing there, people were dying in our country. I understand that we are not doing what we should.
That building in Mexico City wasn't completely evacuated when the quake hit. There's a video of some dude recording inside the building and you see the moment the floor collapses on top of the one below. Mexico has a seismic alarm system, and it usually sounds at least a minute before an earthquake hits Mexico City to give people some time to evacuate or seek safer places to take cover, but on September 19th 2017 when that particular tremor hit the city, that alarm sounded like 30 seconds into the earthquake because the epicenter was way too close to the city so not everybody was able to flee. The Civil Safety Agency in Mexico also advices against evacuating buildings if you can't make it outside in less than a minute. That's why some buildings, especially skyscrapers, have "secure areas" marked inside that are supposed to be more resistant in case of an earthquake.
Distance from the epicenter is the key, that 8.4 on Chile was very far away, so the Airport got hit by it as a 6.x But near the epicenter devastation was everywhere. This year we got hit by a 7.7 just 100km away and it is the strongest one I've ever felt, even stronger than a 8.1 because that one was 225km away, but it damaged way more homes in my region because decades ago the construction codes were non-existent.
@Zugget (lol) 😆" I KNOW. RIGHT?.... Everyone around Him was freakin out but He just kept calm and strode through fallen merchandise and panicked-stricken occupants. "
Grew up in Whittier, CA and have experienced dozens of quakes. The Northridge and Whittier quakes really stayed with me. Even some of the smaller ones get your heart going because you’re waiting for it to ramp up exponentially within the next few seconds though usually it doesn’t, you know that it certainly can, because at one time or another it has. I’d say on average it takes someone a week to shake it off (pardon the pun) and at least a month or even years to shake off a larger quake. What’s crazy is how different they can feel in relation to where the epicenter is. Whittier felt like we were going to die. The epicenter being directly below shakes the ground like a repetitive “uppercut” and it’s an insanely loud, violent attack! If you’re several miles away you can almost hear it approaching and when it hits, it can be sort of a wave or a side to side action. Then there are really deep ones that can make you feel nauseated and the movement is really subtle. An earthquake is like a box of chocolates… but not in a good way.
Lived in California all my life, I was only 6 when the Whittier one hit so I don’t really remember it but Northridge and Landers have always stuck with me. I’m terrified of EQ because of those two.
I'll never forget 22 February 2011 at 12.51 pm when Christchurch was hit. I was at work in the city. 185 people died, many seriously injured and the city today is still recovering.
You gotta love the Asian guy grabbing his drink when the shaking started. While the guy is talking about that’s the biggest earthquake he’s been in, the Asian guy is sitting there taking a drink of his beverage. Lol
That WAS something else... CDMX 2017🙏. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and have experienced many major earthquakes in my life: SF /1989 (!!)... and while living in Turkey, Philippines, Thailand (2011!!), Japan, and the center of Mexico City. That said, the 2017 earthquake in Mexico was... !!!! To this day, when I hear the earthquake warning alarm from CDMX, I break out into a sweat... Maybe because of too many times being woken up in the dead of night during the numerous aftershocks and running down five flights of stairs. I need a drink just thinking about it. Ha! Greetings from Kobe, Japan.
I live in Canada where earthquakes are few and far between, and even then, they're usually small ones. In the area where I live, especially, they're practically unheard of. I think my grandmother experienced a very mild one when she was a little girl. Otherwise, nothing. Ground's pretty stable over here, luckily! 😅 I can't imagine what it must feel like to be in one, must be scary! 😱 And to think I'm planning to visit Japan soon... I better brace myself! 😵💫😭😆
7:15 Not gonna lie, that’s really scary. Suddenly an earthquake happens and the person runs to the door, then the power turns off. I would’ve freak out.
I have a very improved hearing so I also listen earthquakes some seconds before they strike. Those are the P waves, who travel faster, while the shaking is produced by the S waves
Growing up on the San Andreas fault line, I was shaken up all the time. But THIS?!😬! Plus we had cats. So we almost always had a warning. Buildings there are built to withstand earthquakes. But I’m not sure they’d survive Japan’s, & other regions very well.
Anyone else here after the 6.4(?) Humboldt county earthquake on 12/20/22. It's been a month but I'm still fascinated and looking up earthquake stuff, probably the strongest I've felt an earthquake even though I've lived throughout California all my life.
Zagreb quake 5.5 on Richter scale is in the end. That was the scariest morning in my life. We were in lockdown and the whole city was so silent and then seconds change my life forever.
I was living in Berkeley, near SF, on Oct 1989. We experienced a 7.1 earthquake the epicenter of which was near San Jose... Quite frightening I must say. SOme 35 eyars later I keep a vivid memory from this event !
Planet Earth is a VERY active planet! Seismologists and scientists who study earthquakes, say that about 20,000 earthquakes occur around our globe every year: that's about 55 per day! As a Californian most of my life until the last few years, I've felt my share of earthquakes over the years, and even one that was about 3.5 here in the northwest inland a couple of years ago! But in 1989, I was standing on Market St. in San Francisco, waiting to catch a bus to my car on the Coastside so heard about the earthquake on the radio in the car. I had just been standing where glass panes from the building above me crashed down, lucky I had been gone about five minutes! I drove to the post office and asked the gal there if she felt it, and she said "Oh YES!" I didn't know about the freeway collapsing until after I got home and saw the TV news. When I was a child, there was a big one in L.A. and my mother said that everyone ran out of the house onto the lawn and people were screaming, my sister screamed but my mother said I just fainted in a little heap on the lawn! I still have the old clock that fell off the mantle and broke its face in that quake! I had it repaired years later when I found it at my parent's place in the storeroom after they had passed away. I still have it over my fireplace on my mantle now and it still works just fine and has quite a gong for a medium-size mantle clock! I'm probably not going to feel one very often where I live now, but I fear sinkholes far more than earthquakes, so I won't even visit Florida anymore! I think there will be a time in a few years, with the glaciers melting, that coastal cities will be flooded, but what our Earth does all the time somewhere, is nothing like the nuclear war that humans could cause to really damage our Earth!
@@whatsit2ya247 I did not follow the masses in the California exodus! I won't live south of about the 42nd parallel! Too hot and humid! If this global warming continues for another 100 years like scientists expect, I may move to Alaska, Canada or Norway! Even Oregon and Washington and parts of Idaho have already been ruined by ex-Californians, same with Montana and Wyoming! And Colorado and Nevada have been ruined by them for a long time now; I want no part of any of it! New Mexico and Arizona have had their share of people moving there from California also, but its heat keeps some people away.
I was in California for a few years and supposedly slept through a pretty big earthquake. Then again, I've also slept halfway through a category 3 hurricane. Too bad now I can be woken up by a deer farting in the yard.
@@amymoriyama6616 LOL, Amy! I have lots of deer around my house here in the country, but I've never heard one fart! I had a little two-point buck that grazed in the grass in back of my house and laid down to chew its cud about 15 feet from my living-room window! I sneaked on the floor and moved closer to the window and slowly stood to watch him for a while. He came back several nights in a row and then I didn't see him anymore. I'm here in the country now, so out of the earthquake area; I've only felt one here that I can remember, and it was several years ago and only a 3.5 and just for maybe ten seconds or so, which can seem like a long time when its shaking! But I get a lot of summer thunderstorms and lightning displays here. Fairly hot in the summer and snow, which I love, in the winter. I never got really scared in earthquakes, but I've never really been in a severe one that I felt, because I was driving during the last big 1989 one in the San Francisco area, and didn't feel it, but I had friends who were affected by it. I probably won't feel one often here in the mountains, but Earth is very active and I remember reading about the earthquake on Mt. Everest, so mountains are not exempt from quakes!
You can tell when it's an earthquake prone area and people look more irritated than scared. Especially the Alaska video, they just look like: 'Ugh! This again? pffft!'
Which was worse? I'd guess Ridgecrest. I was walking down a street in Berkeley when the '89 one struck. It was so sudden! I felt myself picked up and literally thrown off the curb several feet into the street, landing on my hands and knees. Knocked me silly and it took me a few seconds for things to stop spinning and to realize that a quake had happened. The big clue was that suddenly hundreds of car alarms began going off. It was a very short quake though, probably only lasted a few seconds. It seems like Ridgecrest was longer and more frightening. It was certainly stronger, iirc.
Tip: If a earthquake happends inside a building, run outside fast, if the exit is to far away hide under a table so there can no longer fall heavy items on your head. If you are outside don't stand near building they can maybe collapse. Stay safe out there
I experienced my first massive earthquake earlier this year in the Syrian Turkey earthquake as i live in Syria it was truly horrifying and i am still traumatised by it.
I can't imagine being caught in a serious earthquake. I once felt a very mild one, no damage at all, and it left me thinking "What the heck was that" I read a book about the 1906 quake in San Francisco and it mentioned how the horses in the stables and streets were freaking out well before the earth was shaking.
When working just kitty-corner to the Bank of America building in San Francisco years ago, I knew someone who worked at the B of A and took me to the basement to see the giant round balls that looked like huge ball bearings in all 4 corners of the building. They were there so the whole building could move with a quake. San Francisco's bedrock is about 250' down in the dirt surface, so that's why S.F. shakes so much during a quake!. I was gone from my 32 story highrise office building about 20 minutes when the 1989 quake struck and collapsed the Nimitz Freeway. I was in the car on my way home so didn't feel it but I saw it on the news when I got home. But the next day at work, I was told that the top floors really felt the sway! I'm glad I missed that! Now, I live two states away, inland northwest so feel a bit safer from the tremors, although we had about a 3.5 one several years ago. I was in bed and certainly felt the shake but wasn't concerned. Thankfully, it didn't last more than 10 or 15 seconds, but you knew what was happening!
