Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Seismic surveillance just gets better all the time and offers us better ways to connect the dots. I remember living in Aptos and taking my dogs on long hikes into Nisene Marks. The Loma Prieta trail was something I was very familiar with. I was on a walk in 1984 and heard like a muffled roar, the creak of trees as they swayed and dust from the side of the hill coming down. There are very deep canyons in that park and the trails can be narrow. (The sea shells found on the sides of the cliffs is an indicator of where these mountains come from.) No mention on the news...or maybe there was but I missed it (not much internet back then). Years later and I'd moved to Oregon when I heard about the '89. Hope you can see that park first hand. It's so popular, they probably don't allow dogs off leash anymore.
What is interesting is I have been keeping track of earthquakes for over ten years, and I had to look it up, and sure enough, I had counted 39 earthquakes 5.0 and higher, with four of them 6.0 and higher, and this was on the 11th of April, 2012.
Hi Leslie. Actually, the estimated magnitude for probably the largest quake in the U.S. is the Good Friday quake of 1964 (M9.2) in Alaska. The 1700 M8-9 Cascadia subduction zone quake off the Pacific Northwest is also in the range. The New Madrid quakes are estimated at M7.5-M8, which uncertainty is within the range of the 1906 SF quake (M7.9). And of course, this piece focuses on Northern California, because the station is in San Francisco and naturally caters to its local audience. Thanks kindly for the note.
@@leslietaylor4458 According to the USGS, the largest of the New Madrid quakes was only the 18th largest quake in the USA. Refer to web.archive.org/web/20161213052427/earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/10_largest_us.php
The corporate media bias is strongly against it. Better to keep you focused on celebrity's nonsense, scary criminals and other diversions. Pooh, did you hear what __________ Kardashian just said/did/wore/said/lost/found whatever.
In the UK it appeared under weird science about some shockwave that went around the and scientists couldn’t explain it at the time. This story had it ran now to explain what caused the shockwave.
@@lahaina4791 I know, I lived in LA for 20 years. Went over the Grapevine many a time. If you drive on Elizabeth Lake road you are driving on the SA Fault and you can (or could, some years ago) see a 17 foot offset caused by the 1857 quake.
I miss this man. Especially the puppy, anyway! Gee we make new discoveries everyday guys haha. These seismologists think they know everything all the time lol.
Explains it won't likely happen again by saying: "This kind of an earthquake is unheard of." BUT, we just HEARD of it! I am not liking the sound of this.
ive lived in california my whole life and never experienced but one quake, that was a 3. something, than i moved to hawaii, there i experienced a 4.5, that is what gave me my passionate interest in quakes. Now im back in calfornia and have only felt a very small one, im talking small because no one else felt it, it was just enough to cause my hanging wine glasses to clatter for a second. i guess it does have to depend on where it is im located but im 28 years old now and have only felt 2 very small quakes in cali. i think it may be over hyped.
Don't bet on it. Ask some folks who were in SF in '89. Or Sylmar in '71. Or Northridge in '94. Just consider yourself lucky that you've lived in places/ times where there was no activity.
Hi Investor...in fact, all the faults in the Bay Area are known collectively as the San Andreas Fault system. The boundary between the large NAP and Pacific plates isn't a distinct single line, but in fact, is visualized better as a pack of cards with the overall slip of the system taking place over numberless and often nameless faults, of which the Hayward fault is one. Thanks for asking for the clarification, though, as the documentary could have done more to spell that out.
The quakes that followed the April quake "were large earthquakes, potentially damaging earthquakes..." Only potentially damaging? There was no actual damage? How is that a big deal?
Even though there are a lot of people on this planet, there is still a lot of land we don't occupy. All it would take is to have a shallow, strong earthquake under a populated area. The news casters even said they aren't prepared.
Huh, how is learning why earthquakes occur not significant? Also i read him as saying he doesn't know what damage offured. No doubt people were injured and property damaged.
I’ve been through every quake in Southern California since 1972. ( the Sylmar quake. I was 9. It’s a way of life. We get around 500 tiny earthquakes a day. Most you do not feel. If you do feel one of those it’s like water off a ducks back. I don’t enjoy earthquakes, but there is long time between big ones. “NORMALLY?”
Why they call it 2012 east indian ocean earthquake? I mean east indian ocean can be western autralia, or antartica , why not just specific like 2012 northern sumatra earthquake?
Hi Fatal...this piece deals with quakes triggered specifically on a strike-slip fault. There are many larger quakes that resulted from failure of a thrust fault.
It appears that we humans are responsible for this: 260. Due to the nature of the geography of the planet, the land, the mountains, the forests, oceans and inland waters, the movements only happen gradually, however, unstoppably, for which the unstoppable and irrational and increasingly excessive overpopulation and its irresponsible destruction machinations and elimination machinations will be around 85% of the cause. @t I have turned to my spiritual studies to change into a true human being and to not be confused seeing all these changes to planet Earth.
