Lol, if the landscape started to slide past my home, it would be on the market that day and I would move. I can build to survive a hurricane, a tornado, a flood, fire….but if the earth decides to just swipe left on my property…not much can be done about that.
I lived in California for 31 of my 34 years. You never get used to the earthquakes, and they have a way of making you realize that you are insignificant and out of control.
If this was your house and it didn't fall in this quake, and you didn't build on the actual rupture zone, then you would be OK actually. This is actually about one of the largest quakes a fault system like this can produce. But I can see where you might feel uncomfortable about it.
Tension is on both sides. You can see things in the distance shake in one direction at the end of the move, and things on the near side shake in the opposite direction.
... especially when you have a frame of reference that remains in the same place. My eyes were like dinner plates when the ground behind the right side of the gate took "just a step to the right..."
Came down here to say this. I've always read about the ground moving during earthquakes, but to see one really puts it into perspective and is kind of terrifying.
it moved a good 4 or 5 feet? look at the lights/stakes through the fence. one emerges from behind behind a post, and other ends up behind that same post.
I was standing on street with views a couple of kilometres long each way, and down a side street which branched off where I was standing, when a strong aftershock of an earthquake that gave my hometown a right kicking struck - and before I felt anything move I could see waves coming to me along the street - a multi lane road with a wide concrete median. The most amazing thing to me, after it seemed I was standing on an ocean for a few seconds (as the wave passed) - was that...
When I was a kid I was in an earthquake in Papua and a wooden boardwalk I was on did that wave thing and I rode it while watching the nails pop out like a string of crackers. Being a kid, I thought it was the best ride ever.
As someone who used to teach Geology (one of my favorite sections was earthquakes), I would totally have used your comment as an illustration of how earthquakes literally create a wave that propagates through the earth. How cool that you got to witness that!
In 2011 after Christchurch was kicked good and proper by a shallow 6.5 quake that gave the entire city centre a -2.5g kick up it's arse we had 10,000 after shocks that year, lots of opportunity to have experiences with quakes and their consequences. It was the third 6+ quake we had in six months and only two buildings completely failed. Unfortunately happening at lunch time on a Tuesday that did some harm.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
A shall retire to my manor home: secondary prefabricated cabin 2
willpostanything
Who's fault is that?
yuugian
Reasonably certain the non-camera side moved, probably more. The power tower collapsed just after it stoped
Poopoopeepeevagina
I understand why people used to think it was gods that did this
charondaboatman
Lol, if the landscape started to slide past my home, it would be on the market that day and I would move. I can build to survive a hurricane, a tornado, a flood, fire….but if the earth decides to just swipe left on my property…not much can be done about that.
SerialChickenLover
I lived in California for 31 of my 34 years. You never get used to the earthquakes, and they have a way of making you realize that you are insignificant and out of control.
nojustsayitdont
If this was your house and it didn't fall in this quake, and you didn't build on the actual rupture zone, then you would be OK actually. This is actually about one of the largest quakes a fault system like this can produce. But I can see where you might feel uncomfortable about it.
HumansArePrettyNeat
House slid just far enough to get out of free delivery range.
Bobby360
Wow!
Narsuaq
Earthquakes are weird.
UwUxDNuzzelsYou
holy crap that terrifying
ryan2one3
Took me a while to watch beyond the concrete. Lol
LeftRightThere
You can see the roof buckle in the distance
StrangePaegan
I had to watch multiple times because I felt like I couldn't trust my eyes but, yup, that background did slide to the side!
dwolvin
SerialChickenLover
My first thought, as a former Californian: “What’s the big deal? A new crack formed.” And then I saw the other crack that formed.
Sililossanura
Seen this twice in the past 20 years first hand. Its nuts. NZs South Island has been hit hard twice in the past 20 years.
Zootsoot
Give a whole new nuance to the word “heave”.
YouAreNotLeBeouf
Damn earth, you scary
coffeeandprozac
On the one hand: I'm hoping nobody was seriously hurt.
On the other hand: my inner 12 year old fascinated by stuff like this is giddy to see it!
MuseMatar
First time I only saw the cracks in the driveway form and was "meh".
Second watch though... oh boy. That's scary.
onecowboytoo
Look at the power tower in the upper right corner.
Over400
Ditto
KleptoKea
Same here I was like "Dang those are some big cracks in the concreeeee HOLY SHIT the background just shifted"
sakasiru
Imagine if that shift was a bit to the left right through your house ...
ShadusMacAoidh
In 1989 it did it right through the middle of a stadium during game 3 of the world series.
nojustsayitdont
Saw this on Shawn Wilsey's channel today. Looks incredible.
RuffleMyFluffles
Dang, wouldn't this be a nightmare for surveyers since everything just shifted?
JaelitheKitty
Power line tower in the upper right kind of toppled over also
Roqinn
See the electrical tower in the background, right side, collapse?!?
JinButOnHisPhone
I believe they now need to build additional pylons
BatmanAndCradleRobin
so like how many fucking pipes need to be replaced
nojustsayitdont
5
PhailRaptor
Yes
PalaverQuader
things are not ok at prefabricated cabin-2
BreakablePotato
We have no idea where prefabricated cabin-1 even went.
KevinStrexcorp
Imagine coming home and your house is 10 feet further down the road than you remember (and totalled, but that would be less surprising)
FatBastardVegetarian
"Recalculating." Your gps, probably
DeadWhiteMale
I've always wondered about property boundaries after the earth moved. How do they determine who owns what? What are the new boundaries determined?
nojustsayitdont
I as well. I guess it depends on where you live. Would be interesting though to know.
Revyloution
I was also curious. The rabbit hole leads to the answer:
"The more money you have, the more land you can claim after a disaster"
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Might be cool to know where this is.
MantisTobagganMD
Secondary prefabricated cabin-2
FairfaxJack
It's about 6 feet to the right of where it used to be
flagbasher
Myanmar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OeLRK0rkCE
astromoondoggie
They’ll let you know as soon as it stops moving
Rayplays
Thazi, Myanmar
myotheralt
It's at the neighbors address now.
XRay0976
Along a fault line
newsguycraigevans
Imgur. It's an image sharing app. But that's not important right now.
QuartzPoker
Surely, you can't be serious?
notapuppy
I am, and don't call me Shirley
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Thank you. I appreciate the effort to be unhelpful.
Oblok
Oh, that is so amazing, and there is so much to watch in the video. I wonder which ground moved (changed its lat. and long.).
Oblok
Follow up: I keep coming back, it's mesmerizing. Imagine the views out your windows being permanently shifted... Just, wow.
DrNick
Tension is on both sides. You can see things in the distance shake in one direction at the end of the move, and things on the near side shake in the opposite direction.
yuugian
Reasonably certain the non-camera side moved, probably more. The power tower collapsed just after it stoped
Maverickaura
that could have been caused by the other tower its connected to shifting, as well. it got pulled over by its cables not by the movement.
yuugian
I could see that, but with it only starting to fall as the movement stopped. it looks like the abrupt stop knocked it over. To me, anyway
vmos
That's not the proper name for those things, but it's the one that I'll be using from now on
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
*tower of power
theb1ackduck
My name is Pylon Power, my Daddy woz Tower Power…we’re related to the other Power’s , ya know Magnetic, Super….
isthisjunkmail
I guess I’ve always kind of understood that this is what happens…but to see the earth shift by a couple feet that fast is wild.
Chronomechanist
The ground is not supposed to be liquid.
TsubakiTragic
... especially when you have a frame of reference that remains in the same place. My eyes were like dinner plates when the ground behind the right side of the gate took "just a step to the right..."
Rule63Revan
Came down here to say this. I've always read about the ground moving during earthquakes, but to see one really puts it into perspective and is kind of terrifying.
L1ttl3J1m
And that was only a small one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zV2wmZsNnA
ilikeyoumorethan
it moved a good 4 or 5 feet? look at the lights/stakes through the fence. one emerges from behind behind a post, and other ends up behind that same post.
Knightendae
Power Tower crumbled in the background too
Beelsebooob
And this was a fair distance from the epicentre. Nearer the centre the fault moved around 20ft.
Fentex
I was standing on street with views a couple of kilometres long each way, and down a side street which branched off where I was standing, when a strong aftershock of an earthquake that gave my hometown a right kicking struck - and before I felt anything move I could see waves coming to me along the street - a multi lane road with a wide concrete median. The most amazing thing to me, after it seemed I was standing on an ocean for a few seconds (as the wave passed) - was that...
Fentex
...any concrete was intact afterwards. But it was, it flexed as the waves travelled through it.
Brunitski
When I was a kid I was in an earthquake in Papua and a wooden boardwalk I was on did that wave thing and I rode it while watching the nails pop out like a string of crackers. Being a kid, I thought it was the best ride ever.
FossilGirl
As someone who used to teach Geology (one of my favorite sections was earthquakes), I would totally have used your comment as an illustration of how earthquakes literally create a wave that propagates through the earth. How cool that you got to witness that!
Fentex
In 2011 after Christchurch was kicked good and proper by a shallow 6.5 quake that gave the entire city centre a -2.5g kick up it's arse we had 10,000 after shocks that year, lots of opportunity to have experiences with quakes and their consequences. It was the third 6+ quake we had in six months and only two buildings completely failed. Unfortunately happening at lunch time on a Tuesday that did some harm.
solmazer
Oh shit! I was only looking at the gate! "That gate is only wobbling a little.. what is the big- .. Oooo... OOHHHH!! WHAAAT??!"
StarscreamAndHutch
Watch the power tower in the distance
unsneakyLurker
The power pole visible through the gate shows the movement most dramatically.
isthisjunkmail
Oh dang! Nice catch.
PastureofMuppets
And the house in the upper left