Why California's BIG EARTHQUAKE Hasn't Hit Yet

[@cjyoung7372]

It's stuck in L.A traffic

[@cameron00148]

You WRONG for that! 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😭 but you ain't wrong....🤧😴

[@TonyMagana-u9m]

@@cjyoung7372 🤣🤣🤣

[@denver0102]

Best comment! 🏆

[@kimwarner1681]

Hahahaha 😂

[@mmlsharp0587]

Malibu traffic

[@DeniseDDS]

Strangely, you did not mention that LA has had 15 earthquakes in the 4.0 range so far this year. Three of them have woken me up in the last 2 weeks. This is the highest number of quakes we have had in recorded history in this period of time.

[@jimmydee1130]

You must sleep a lot

[@cassandrarose2108]

@squibbelsmcjohnson not what she said AT ALL

[@suegundisalvus1152]

It really has been extra active the last couple of weeks. At least where I am in SoCal.

[@Andre-Nader]

ChatGPT hasn't been updated for 2024 so his script is delayed.

[@mr.watermelon4094]

@@Andre-Nader omm bru 😭 ts felt like uh powerpoint presentation osrs nmms 🤣

[@sagetmaster4]

Eventually this video will age poorly

[@JamesBraun-o5t]

@@sagetmaster4 Yeah, I’m expecting it to hit before I finish this video.

[@sunshineimperials1600]

And knowing how this year has been, this video will age like milk probably sooner than later.

[@christianvalentin5344]

@@sunshineimperials1600 with all the stuff going on in 2020 I’m a tad surprised the Big One didn’t hit SoCal then.

[@Cuz.im.batman]

@@JamesBraun-o5t I just paused the video and went to check the news.... just incase the big one came

[@Creekwoods3]

I live in san diego I’m dead

[@Oatmeal_66]

There's no real good answer to this except there just hasn't been one yet.

[@JuanEnriqueFloresJr]

Yep

[@illegal_space_alien]

Except Geoff now jinxed it, and it will be very soon.

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

I suppose my concern is about people who believe "it will never happen. I've lived here X number of years and..." Like the folks in New York who mocked the weather forecast before Sandy, only to cry and say "I never thought it would be this bad!" Or folks around New Orleans who snickered about a major hurricane hitting their city with "They always turn away at the last minute." Until Katrina didn't. Being prepared when you have time to work with is not "living in fear." It's being ahead of the game. I remember our family tradition growing up in Florida. First day of summer vacation the whole family went hurricane shopping. We got our stock of food and water for three days together, got fuel for the Coleman stove, plywood for the usual purposes, etc. The times we got hit and didn't evacuate (which we did on occasion) we sat in the front yard beforehand and watched everyone frantically running to Home Depot and grocery stores and panicking because all the batteries and water were sold out. If there was no storm, we had a big cookout the first of November and built a new doghouse for our dogs out of the plywood. Nothing was wasted. Nobody panicked because we "didn't think it would actually happen to us." Wonder who would be scoffing about bolting that heavy bookcase to the wall after it fell over on their kids if "it" did happen. You know what they say about hindsight...

[@Tirra227]

😂😂😂

[@Tirra227]

​@ille😂😂😂😂gal_space_alien

[@Argelius1]

"Soon" or "overdue" in geologic time is much different than human time.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

@@Argelius1 So how long do we have until it comes?

[@saiyanofsteel]

@@MASTEROFEVIL A few years, a few decades. Even a century or more is possible.

[@t.kersten7695]

even a chance of 99% is depending on the time scale. this could happen in the next decade but it could also happen in one million years from now.

[@steveberkson3873]

@@Argelius1 We were waiting for ‘the big one’ when I was kid LA/SD ‘50s-60s ..there was some rumbles,we were ‘familiar’ with smaller ‘rumbles’ ..could happen tomorrow or next century ..

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

@@Argelius1 Exactly. Humans struggle to comprehend so many things that take place over time periods longer than "years." Geologic time isn't measured in months or years.

[@brenchtoast6730]

I remember in a geography of CA class I took in 2010 that the "big one" could happen at any time on a geologic time scale. Meaning, it can happen any time in the next few hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years.

[@roseappelhoff9282]

🤣😂🙏🍀🌠 after rereading your comment Mr. Toast.

[@Curt_Randall]

Even if it happens 100 years from now, that is still just around the corner, geologically speaking.

[@Tirra227]

😮

[@SolaricSage116]

@@Curt_Randall Even if it is 500 years, it's still around the corner.

[@SolunaStarlight]

Exactly what I was thinking. I feel like you can't even really say "why hasn't 'the big one' happened yet" until at least 2050 or something.

[@rogaineablar5608]

Cascadia scares me WAY more than San Andreas. FEMA director said everything west of I-5 will be toast.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

LOL, "Casscadia" is the name of one of the villains in my series (book one). 💪😎✌️

[@TYZyi5ss]

But that's near Seattle and Vancouver, right? Will that impact California as well?

[@edgarruben5754]

@@rogaineablar5608 agreed. We also have the Garlock fault here in LA to worry about

[@mikiilee4277]

The cascadia big one would cause the San andreas to trigger

[@mikochops]

@@rogaineablar5608 true, but san andreas is so close to densely populated areas, causing much more damage and deaths

[@jimmydee1130]

Human Time vs. Geologic Time. The southern San Andreas can have intervals of 100 years to 400 years between events. Your Grandchildren may miss the next one. Besides - the splinter faults closer to populated areas likely pose a bigger danger

[@Tirra227]

😮😮😮

[@ohmy-7370]

exactly. the Newport-inglewood fault could disrupt all 6 major highways on the west side. we also have a major off shore strike-strip fault that runs from santa monica to the mexican boarder that isn’t widely understood, but they know it can produce upwards of a 7.9.

[@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070]

Not to mention, human activity may delay the quake beyond the geological precedent.

[@jimmydee1130]

@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 Human activity? Goodness gracious what are you talking about? Are you daft?

[@Sacto1654]

What really worries me is that the Los Angeles Basin has a bunch of earthquake faults that are much shallower to ground level than the San Andreas Fault. These shallower faults means even a Magnitude 7.5 quake could cause a huge amount of destruction and casualties on their own.

[@petuniasevan]

I grew up in Southern California and experienced the February 1971 Sylmar (San Fernando) earthquake at age 7. It hit right at 6:00 AM PST, and was of magnitude 6.6. I lived about 33 miles from the epicenter so it wasn't bad where I was. It was severe enough to kill 65 people in the San Fernando Valley area, most of them in the Olive View and VA hospitals. We were VERY lucky that it happened at 6 AM and not an hour or two later, when the freeways would have been clogged with cars. Overpasses collapsed at the junction of the 5 and 210 freeways. It would have been hundreds dead, if not more.

[@paulbrungardt9823]

I was there too ---Inglewood-- there are no atheists during a major earthquake -- people all start praying to God.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The Loma Prieta one was far worse. That one hit HARD where I was. I won't go into it, but that was a lllooonnng DAY. 😂🤣😂

[@raymondsiewert2720]

I was 13, and lived 9 miles from the epicenter of the 71' Sylmar quake. And l have been through every other major earthquake in Southern California including the Northridge, Whittier, Landers, Big Bear etc. All of them within 30 miles of the epicenters !. The Big One, will make all of those seem like a tremor. It will be the most traumatic experience any individual will go through in their lifetime. Even soldiers that have been to war !.

[@ericbolstad3619]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat I lived in Sand Canyon just over the hill from Sylmar when the 71-quake hit, I was a mile from the epicenter, and it was my very first earthquake experience!

[@jimmydee1130]

@@raymondsiewert2720 You must have moved a lot.

[@scottclapson]

Watching from Los Angeles we have had a bunch of smaller 4-5 point quakes recently too. A little more than what feels normal at least to someone who’s lived here for decades. That could be part of it as the smaller quakes could be releasing some of that potential energy. Malibu, South Pasadena and other areas have been hit with quakes that size recently and felt them all in the downtown area very strongly.

[@riah9549]

@@scottclapson exactly. we’ve been getting a lot of earthquakes lately, and even though they’re just rumbles it makes me wonder if the big one is coming soon

[@Calizen]

@@riah9549it’s probably the opposite, the smaller earthquakes mean there’s tension being released *so* that the big one doesn’t happen

[@sagetmaster4]

​@@Calizen it could mean either

[@pamalahalpert4063]

@@scottclapson just last week there was two earthquakes like 15 minutes apart in the IE

[@SheilaPatterson]

@@sagetmaster4 lol sounds like my plants. Yellow leaves? Might be under-watering, or it might be over-watering. Who knows! 😅

[@rad4924]

Here in New Zealand, we're also waiting the "The Big One" to send our capital city of Wellington back underwater. In 2011 a big one hit... and destroyed Christchurch, a city previously thought of reasonably safe. This would be the equivalent of expecting a big quake to hit Los Angeles, only to have Las Vegas get destroyed instead.

[@SLChandlerP]

@@rad4924 I was scrolling the comments looking for a kiwi to comment about how 'we are waiting for "Our The Big One." to hit Wellington.' while shaking my head no why do you have to question where is it. Completely agree with what you said about Christchurch they thought they were safe and then got hit by three big quakes in span of 18 months and 1000s of aftershocks for years after. Everyone thought the South Island was safe from big quakes, since most active fault lines were in the North Island.

[@denelson83]

You mean Portland, right? It's not the LA area geologists are really worried about, but Cascadia.

[@david.e.miller]

I was in the Primm Valley Casino (on the Nevada-California border) when the Hector Mine earthquake struck on October 16, 1999. The giant chandeliers swayed back and forth, the floor rumbled, and dust fell from a trembling ceiling. Some people fled the casino, but no damage resulted from the magnitude 7.1 quake. Since that time, I've felt a few gentle rollers here in Las Vegas. But they didn't originate from the fault lines located right here in the city.

[@ETHAN_YANG_Main]

At least the highest the San Andreas can produce is 8.3. I think people should be more focus on Cascadia (The really Big One) rather than just California because that can produce tsunamis unlike San Andreas.

[@PoeCompany]

10:28 if you want to skip to the question

[@paulbrungardt9823]

Thank you -- I was going to leave page because I didn't need a semester course on geography.

[@MilIMeta]

Fr this video could've been 2 mins long If he wouldn't repeat himself over and over

[@Electrobuzz17]

Wish i had seen this earlier. Wasted 10 mins by getting global geology lessons and some world history 😢😢

[@pearly872]

@@MilIMeta Correct, they like to re-enforce their Media-Hype position to instill fear and confusion amongst the public. They will create fear to sell their "service".

[@TheGhostGuitars]

I think the West Coast oughter more worry about the Cascadia than the San Andreas. Cascadia will be the more disastrous that'd make the worst the San Andreas can do look minor in comparison.

[@reddixiecrat]

This video was disappointing. Talks very little about San Andreas for the first 10 minutes. Never says why they expect there to be a big one, never shows if any criteria has been met, and never shows any clues to whether or not it’s getting close.

[@jimmydee1130]

Agreed. And all the focus on the Salton Sea!!!! The Salton is very very shallow - avg 26 feet. It's not like removing the "weight" of it will matter much. That valley was completely dry from 1500 to 1907, don't forget.

[@kevinnorth1224]

I agree also. 15 minutes of backstory only to say we don’t know. Clickbait. This author is “pushing” videos on Instagram so I’m going to block that user.

[@eraymonds]

@jimmydee1130 cool info - are you a geologist or someone who "does their own research?"

[@jimmydee1130]

@@eraymonds We know the Salton Sink has gone through periods when it was "full" and "bone dry" over the last several thousand years, depending on in-flow from the Colorado., just as there was no singular "Ice Age" but a serious of them over the past million+ years, I suggest reading more.

[@t.kersten7695]

@@kevinnorth1224 he is probably just advertizing his content on different platforms to get more interested viewers. just like companies tend to advertize in different medias and places too

[@debmanrique6466]

I remember my father talking about it in the 70's!

[@EarthquakeSim]

Can’t wait to watch this video! I’m happy you’re covering this topic :)

[@burkestorti4586]

Yea, my grand father (age 16), his siblings & parents, survived the "BIG ONE". they were living in San Francisco in 1906.

[@andsoitbegins464]

@@burkestorti4586 Wow! That really WAS the "big one"!

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

I remember the Tool song begging for the end of LA, "one great big festering neon distraction, I have a suggestion to keep you all occupied, Learn to Swim Learn to Swim Learn to swim."

[@Statsy10]

"Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay!"

[@gosnooky]

"H"

[@raymondsiewert2720]

Never mentioned the "Landers/Big Bear " twin quakes ! 7.3 and 6.6 3 hours apart. One dozen aftershocks above 5.5 over the next 2 years. Then 6 years later in the same region, the 29 palms 7.0 . There was really something going on in that region of Southern California at that time. It tore a crack in the earths crust 56 miles long with up to 12 feet displacement.

[@discoverglobeliving]

I remember visiting California in 2019 during the Ridgecrest earthquakes-felt a small tremor but nothing like the 'Big One' everyone talks about. It's surprising how it hasn't happened yet, despite all the predictions!

[@jimmydee1130]

Because you were likely well over 100 miles way.

[@surfernorm6360]

there are no real pridictions just news hype as long as california has regular earrth quakes to relive stress on the san andreas things will be ok the coastal plate is moving north and will always do that . the worst thing is to not have small earthquakes which will make the big one worse.

[@quaoar213]

The BIG ONES occur on subduction zones. SoCal is nowhere near a subduction zone. The type of shaking for minutes just dont happen nearly as often and if a large quake occurs, it lasts for seconds, not minutes

[@Tirra227]

😮

[@laurabaumgras-pearce5699]

I live in Michigan and like 10 ish years ago we actually had a tiny earthquake and I felt it! I was sitting in my kitchen and felt my house wobble slightly, at first I thought maybe the washing machine was unbalanced. I'm so glad we don't have big serious earthquakes here!

[@RowdyJr]

As somebody from Mississippi, I am glad that we don't got earthquakes too! 😂👌 Hurricanes are our own catastrophic events that is even more scarier. Same way with tornados but tornados happen out of nowhere randomly just like earthquakes.

[@Composedblackness]

I think one element of this that you should touch which would probably require a whole video is the impact of blind thrust faults and the fact that there’s a huge blind thrust fault under downtown LA. Love your content

[@shandonmeadows8620]

There is one forgotten detail about the new Madrid earthquake fault line here in Missouri-You forgot to mention that when the 1812 earthquake happened and when the Missouri river reversed flow going north word for a few, that all of the soils and surrounding banks around the Mississippi from St. Louis down to Memphis Tennessee, all had soil liquification happening such a severe case that even diaries and historical context from that earthquake can be found to show just how violent it really was.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

In 2011, The Washington D.C. area experienced a minor quake. I live in Maryland and we felt it. It wasn't that bad, but it did cause some cracking damage to the Washington Monument and some other stone buildings in the area. I also heard some say the foundation of their houses were cracked.

[@andrewgates8158]

How bad was the monument cracking?

[@cyndimontanaro2902]

I lived in Northern Virginia then and remember it! As a native Californian, I was so freaked out to feel a significant shake on the opposite coast and I remember seeing the cracks in the Washington Monument. A quake doesn't have to be very large to cause problems in that area!

[@jayandjlps]

That was a 5.8, that's pretty moderate. Almost a 6.0 isn't minor at all

[@animetwilight75]

@@LyleFrancisDelp i felt it all the way in philly! it was my first earthquake, was 12 years old at the time and i remember running out the bathroom and watching our lamps and dressers shake and everyone running outside to comprehend what just happened. now i live in socal

[@albeit1]

Trying to predict when the next earthquake will strike is like trying to predict in what order all the regular customers will arrive at a coffee shop.

[@Dronkey64]

I think I just felt it at 3ish am 😢😢 my heart is still pounding! Hope everyone is safe.

[@SuzanneYoung-l3h]

What about the 7.3 that hit the Yucca Valley area in 92? It was a series of faults that fractured north of the San Andreas. My house had a crack that ran through from north to south across the street and beyond. There were foreshocks and many aftershocks. Could these series of quakes relieved some of the stress?

[@Aviationguy-b7r]

The reason is bc caseoh is still learning how to jump and eventually he will

[@ienjoywatchingyousleep9431]

I love seeing these random Caseoh jokes 🤣

[@Xmarkthings]

YES😂 why dont the people realize this? its so OBVIOUS my bookie Case is behind all this

[@kazuma8486]

once hes CAPABLE of jumping

[@vsznry]

The whole Pacific Coast is waiting... Us for "The Big One" down here & Them for "Cascadia" up there. 12:13 I think Practical Engineering could model & test this lol.

[@sueerickson9988]

Where the San Andreas stops, the Cascadia begins at Cape Mendocino. A strike slip to a subduction zone. Are to two related? I think so.

[@WastedDad]

I would love to see that video

[@TUCSONTITO73]

WHAT DISTURBS ME IS WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WILL WANT TO WAIT FOR IT TO HIT LIKE YOU MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO , YOU SAID IT YOURSELF THAT THERE WOULD BE MAYHEM & CARNAGE NOBODY WILL EVER WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@garylagstrom3864]

I live in Santa Monica California (Los Angeles County) used to live in San Francisco. My house is new and built to current earthquake codes for California and the office I work in has been retrofitted to current California earthquake codes. I have a storm shelter with a month’s worth of food and supplies in the case of an actual earthquake emergency. I forgot to add the biggest earthquake I was in: Loma Prieta in San Francisco October 17th 1989. I was at the A’s-Giants World Series game! 15 seconds of pure adrenaline and fear! I’m glad I wasn’t on the Bay Bridge and especially not on the Cypress Expressway!

[@mybackhurts7020]

I used to say I was waiting for my beach front property in the desert😂

[@robynkolozsvari]

it's funny, but to me "The Big One" refers primarily to the Cascadia Subduction Zone quake by default (i'm sure that's entirely unrelated to my living in Oregon lol)

[@Toxic-po6yb]

I think you’re right, the real big one is the cascadia fault

[@Supershark83]

Great info and graphics, Geoff. One of my favorite subjects 👏👏👏👏

[@stevebragg4256]

Superman stopped Lex Luthor's stolen missle from hitting the fault line years ago. No Marina Del Lex.

[@williamwilkins3084]

According to Mad magazine's parody of that movie, Superman never made it in time and it blew up California AND him.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Some real doot-dah-dooze here. Regular Bill Burr clones for certain.

[@JayL781]

No one's in a hurry for the big one ....Easy.... Don't wake it.. I do not want to be all shook up. I'm more concerned about the PG&e hikes or why eggs are so much?

[@granddeer2974]

Within one minute of a strong earthquake, someone will come to this video and say “well this aged poorly”

[@ElicBehexan]

I live in Central Texas and I have never felt an earthquake. My mother lived for about a year in Sacramento. She said they would leave in the morning and return to find the pictures were tilted. She never felt any quakes. Until she went to China. On the way back from an Elderhostel visit to China, the group was overnight in Japan, close to the airport in Tokyo. Her roommate that day was from California. She called my mother in and told her to sit on the bed. That was when suddenly the whole room was shaking. She told me that if she never felt another earthquake it would be too soon.

[@Aguanga_cowboy007]

1994 I was living in New Hall. The apartments my parents and I lived in were new (the top of Lyons Ave by camping world) and the week after we unpacked our last box, we got the red flag on our building. People in panic were fleeing the area probably not aware on how badly damaged Interstate 5 was (not to mention the 14 (?) Heading towards Palmdale). I think the humorous side of it all is the shock started to wear off when the sun started to come up (people realized hair wasn't brushed, no makeup, everyone in boxers and pajamas).

[@joannloos17]

“Learn to swim”. Ænema by Tool. (I lived on the San Andreas and Hayward faults until I was 40. I now live on the Cascadia)

[@ChrisNoonetheFirst]

Ah yes, trading earthquakes for volcanos

[@joannloos17]

@@ChrisNoonetheFirst we’ve got faults up here too. I remember when mt st Helens blew. I was I Seattle for folklife festival and had to drive down I-5 to Corvallis past the Tuttle River. I was in Oakland when the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit, about 5 miles from the collapsed Cypress Structure. I’m waiting for the Cascadia fault on the San Juan de Fuca plate to go. Even with the volcanos and earthquakes, I prefer the west coast. Tornadoes terrify me. I guess it’s what you grew up with….

[@ExistingSmiles]

We have had a few earthquakes this year, i live in southern California for reference- i don’t know how strong they were but since we always have a few a year they’re pretty normal, the worst one i can remember was when i was little, it was pretty big. the tree at our church fell over, our neighbor’s roof fell in, and it made horrible potholes and cracks in our streets

[@TommyThomson777]

Your site is fantastic! So informative . I wish I could afford one of your cool beautiful maps.

[@grahamrankin4725]

The Big One is also expected here in Oregon with Portland expected to get worse of it.

[@edgarruben5754]

Cascadia

[@Toxic-po6yb]

@@grahamrankin4725 that’s the cascadia fault, much much worse

[@rickazca774]

Been through 3 in L.A. 1971, 1987, and 1994. The '94 quake was over 7.0. It threw me out of my bed and destroyed my apartment. They called it 6.7 rumor had it so they insurance companies wouldn't have to make huge payouts. That one was big. Unlike rain, snow, tornados and hurricanes, they just cant predict earthquakes. They come out of nowhere.

[@aaronkaplan3220]

I live about 15 minutes from the San Andreas fault in San Bernardino, I can go drive to the 138 pull over to the side and just explore the fault line, the rocks are so incredible with insane formations

[@LunaBella2006]

They've been saying that for ages. I was 8 years old when I first heard it now I'm 48. I lived in LA as a child so I was scared.

[@elizabethwarman9028]

The same thing happened before the January 1994 6.7 Earthquake. I firmly believe smaller quakes occur before a major quake.

[@jamesdobrovnik]

Very good research young man.

[@jimmyc7803]

as a casual student of the radical theory of plate tectonics in the 1960’s I found this fascinating. thanks.

[@Alphafonz]

You can’t talk about earthquakes and not talk about Loma Prieta!

[@HomieJuanKenobi688]

On February 27, 2010, I experienced the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, and as a structural engineer, I can tell you that if a 7.5 or higher earthquake strikes Southern California, the consequences could be devastating. About a third of the buildings may collapse, potentially resulting in thousands of deaths. Another third could catch fire due to disrupted water supplies, power outages, and limited access for firefighters, leading to even more casualties. The remaining third may fall victim to fires caused by rioting. And if the earthquake triggers a tsunami, it could claim thousands more lives. Be prepared, as such an event could happen at any time.

[@punker4Real]

1857 Fort Tejon earthquake Magnitude 7.9

[@BellaMirelli]

In the northwest we have the same thing. Were supposed to have a devastating one thats supposed to hit between pretty much anytime and a few hundred years from now. And its becoming a huge conversation in Portland in relation to infrastructure these days.

[@Bothomas-vm5hz]

I recently came across a 2004 mini series film called 10.5 its literally like 4 hours long, It was Hard to find this full series but some of the content is very good to watch and is well detailed in the story. Its not really a popular film but i found it very interesting

[@davidcwitkin6729]

Cali's Big One is on a Group Holiday, sharing an island getaway with the Cascadia Fault, New Madrid, Naples and Istanbul. When these ladies come home, though, it's gonna be a shattering experience all over.

[@cczeneditz]

Me living in california : 😧

[@gilgarcia3008]

Where I lived in Southern California the Northridge quake shook for nearly two minutes. I lived through that one, the Sierra Madre Quake, the Whittier Narrows Quake that was about ten miles from my house, and damaged many older buildings. The Narrows quake popped steel riveted beams at the ALCOA plant where I worked. I also experienced many more quakes from 4 to 5 magnitude. Also since I’ve been retired living in El Paso we’ve had two here.

[@jimmydee1130]

It shook for about 15 seconds. Just SEEMED like two minutes.

[@gilgarcia3008]

@@jimmydee1130 no it kept shaking where I lived close to the LA river, and had my kids freaked out because it wouldn’t stop shaking. Believe me I know the difference between 15 seconds and a minute or more.

[@jimmydee1130]

@@gilgarcia3008 I was wrong. And so were you. REALLY wrong. "Lasting approximately 8 seconds and achieving the largest peak ground acceleration of over 1.7 g, it was the largest earthquake in the area since 1971". From Wikipeda. Take it up with the USGS. And living near the River has nothing to do with it.

[@3rdandlong]

You also forgot to mention that over the past several months, Portland has had over a dozen shakers averaging 2.5. There was one back in 2001 that was a 4.6. And there was one along the coast that was felt in the Willamette Valley about 60 miles away around 88-89.

[@TheSateef]

i moved to SF in Aug 1989, a month before the loma pretta earthquake. i don't live in CA anymore so maybe they should thank me!

[@joycegonzalez4704]

Very Informative...Thanks

[@bigpappadadgutierrez1276]

Each of these faults have a direct connection to the Cascadia Fault. In 1700 the Cascadia shook a 9.0 and cause the San Andreas and Hayward Faults. It wasn't til later as of 3-5 years ago that the USGS came to this study and findings.

[@mendynoma4272]

Nice presentation.

[@leslymaguire8564]

your audio is much improved. I like the speaking style.

[@tuan_ha]

Video starts at 10:24

[@paulthomson2466]

The 1906 San Fransisco earthquake is when the entire city committed Insurance fraud, nobody had "Earthquake Insurance" but a lot of folks had "Fire Insurance" so the city burned for 3 days

[@KMartin1311]

Coachella Valley resident here, near Salton Sea about 30 miles as the crow flies. The Salton Sea area has been experiencing periodic earthquake outbreaks over the past few years, but none of them approaching Magnitude 5. It's been primarily hordes of very weak to minor quakes ranging from 2.0 to 3.9 which can really only be noticed in the immediate area of the epicenter. I believe the "strongest" during the last quake swarm was a 4.5 and many didn't even notice it until it was reported by USGS. If I had to wager a guess, the swarm of smaller quakes has been releasing a lot of the pressure buildup and that's why we, at least in the Coachella Valley region, haven't experienced anything over an M5.0 since 2021. The last 6.0+ was in 1999, and 7.0+ in 1992. Both of those, though, had epicenters in the mountain areas north of the Coachella Valley region. One in Big Bear, the other in the Yucca Valley area.

[@scpatl4now]

People forget that the Salton Sea as we know it is only about 150 years old created by a breach in the colorado river banks that diverted water into the Salton Sink. That's a blink in geologic time. It's doubtful that is going to affect the San Andreas fault in that short amount of time

[@jimmydee1130]

Agreed. and remember it only averages 25 feet deep. How much does 25 feet of water weigh compared to the thousands of feet of rock beneath it (which weighs more than water.....duh).

[@Coldfire840]

I feel the drying of the salton sea is a 2 prong negative. It reduces weight, but it also removes lubrication, so its going to postpone the release of energy and its going to make the release of energy rougher and because the land mass is lighter, and this part is less believed and more just with the momonet and is a thought thats saying the energy released is going to be more shallow, or at least may begin more shallow with its initial release allowing the deeper movement, making it particularly shaky when starting (picture cabnets emptying themselves in 2 movements with the earth moving perpendicular to the face of the closed door, if the reader were to be standing at that cabnet they would likey get hit in the face with the door or plates or whatever is in the cabnet/cupbaoard) into a more psychologically managable event as the grounds begin to release their grip of eachother and move but for a duration mixing in some further shallow to mix it up. then a couple large, possibly larger than the original, aftershocks within 2 years being shallow as well and this or these finalizing this event in its entirety. but just to be clear this is what ive got brewing in my mind for this unknown potentially earth altering but more likely just gonna be societal and biological damage with only expected or anticipated geological changes...again not a scientist, just throwing out a theory

[@christopherwanamaker828]

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[@Nostrudoomus]

So sad, there are soo many answers in history and people don’t know history! California’s earthquake history was created by the very large lakes that formed near Baja 100 years ago and longer. Those lakes grew very large whenever there was a wet winter, water is very heavy so that weight caused the large earthquake seen in California history.

[@09Silverbull]

It’s not our fault, it’s San Andreas’ fault.

[@anderd333]

As I recall from a geology course back in 1977, there are two areas on the San Andres which have not moved in a very long time, and those are the expected trigger points to the "big one". One was NE of LA, and the other towards SF, I forget where exactly. Has this changed? I never really saw an answer to the video title, in the video?

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

its stuck in another multiverse .

[@joebehrdenver]

From the local (CA) news, it sounds like the next "Big One" may well be on the Hayward Fault east of San Francisco.

[@zzygyy]

36 years since the last big quake in SF. Who knows

[@geneotrexler8246]

Good video 👍🏼

[@nitemare1004]

i remember in spring of 2005 my brother's girlfriend's mother thought that there was going to be the BIG one that summer, so she packed up (just the moster) and left the state and moved to Georgia. 19 years later and nothing...

[@Killersanchez256]

Here in Kern County we felt a good amount of earthquake shocks around 5.4 a month or two ago. It wasn't so bad where I was, but some videos had peoples objects in homes tossed everywhere. Similar thing happened in Ridgecrest in 2019 as discussed in the video.

[@ExzaktVid]

The fact that youve been waiting for it to heppan is kinda disrespectful, people could lose their live and then you’re just like “I can’t wait for cities with millions of people to be leveled to the ground!”

[@zombiem3mes441]

As a californian who will be impacted from the big one. It's not that deep for it to be considered him being "disrespectful" Most people are expecting this to happen

[@flyingjew2994]

So? I live in California, and I would not mind if it happened. So many things could be studied.

[@marcadiadd5681]

11:47 to skip to an actual discussion of the question

[@FreemanJS91]

Regarding the Salton Sea, the area in the past was also the site of the larger Lake Cahuilla, which existed from the last ice age to the 16th century. Some say the weight of that giant lake and the water seeping into the fault may have made it more prone to large quakes in the past. If I recall correctly there are two large ruptures which respectively occurred in the 1100s and 1400s which made the fault break from today’s Salton Sea to the city of Parkfield. The ruptures would have had to have been between 8.1 and 8.3 on the moment magnitude scale.

[@DavidJohnRedwood]

I live in New Zealand, and we have several faults that could go anytime. The big one nearest me in Christchurch is the Alpine Fault. The Aust and NZ plates rub together and then "go off" approximately every 300 years and the last one was in 1717. There is going to be a huge amount of damage done when we get it. The timing and severity, like San A, can not be predicted, but especially if it's a 7 or 8 mag quake, it will not be pretty.

[@2eight997]

The big one left, cost of living was too high .

[@lordraiden5398]

I lived in Culver City during the January 1994 Northridge earthquake. I was not waiting around for the big one. I was gone by fall of 1995.

[@zontzooit2415]

I remember our teacher would tell us this in kindergarten and elementary schools but im already out of school completely 💀

[@hizacaine]

You have "The Big One" location in the wrong place. Cali gets lots of little ones like the '89 Loma Prieta that make the millions of state's residents nervous, but they actually relieve the tension so the big ones don't happen, yeah they do make lots of scars that never heal over, note the San Andreas faults and the mountainous West side of the state but they're little really teeny shakers. One the other hand, the big one is going to be big. The Cascadia Megathrust will be an extended duration destroyer that will wreck everything West of I-5 from Vancouver Canada to Cape Mendo. Its been happening about every 400 years and we're overdue by about 125 years so this time it's going to bigger than the 1700 event that was 8.7 -9.2.

[@elizabethwarman9028]

Years ago in Las Vegas, someone asked me which would I rather go through earthquake or Hurricane. I said earthquake, been in a Cat 3 Hurricane on the Big Island in 1974. I will take an earthquake any day.

[@TheDrummer4yahweh]

The Dutchsinse Method of earthquake forecasting is the forefather of seismic forecasting that will be included with the weather forecasting portion of network news…

[@TheSmoke420TiresBbqGuns]

Been waiting along time like this guys thousands of years old lol

[@MendoboysTV]

Shocked you didn’t talk about the Juan De Fuka juncture off the Humbolt County Coast in CA, within the last few years there’s been numerous 6+ magnitude earthquakes, I was caught in the 6.8 that hit last year & it was a crazy experience

[@MendoboysTV]

The last two actually hit EXACTLY a year apart from each other, which was an interesting fact

[@Geminixlol]

To make it short, stress , man made stress . Cannot predict . Saved you watching it

[@youshouldrunn]

I have inferred that increasing pressure under Kilauea volcano in the Pacific does have a minor effect on the activity around the ring of fire. Similar to an ice hockey table when pressure increases the land seems to move easier, also rebounding to and from regions. Considering we have so many fault zones in California, i really think that one 7.0 mag. in the South Pacific equates to 3-5+ magnitude 2.5+ on the West Coast, broken up because of how many fault and shear zones we have.

[@gawebm]

All kinds of info that have nothing to do with the title. Stopped watching. Switched to "don't' recommend channel"

[@Tirra227]

😮😢😮😢

[@denelson83]

It won't happen in SoCal. It will happen in Del Norte. It is called Cascadia.

[@dennis2376]

This brings up the question is how did the tectonic plates came to be? Always interesting. There is no reason to worry about earthquakes, because we just do not know when they will hit and we will still not be ready for it. Thank you.

[@martypoll]

When I moved to Berkeley, CA in 1976 and "The Big One" very definitely meant San Francisco. Public messaging was that it would happen in the next 30 years back then too. I was there for the 1987 Loma Prieta earthquake (6.9). There is a small industry selling earthquake supplies for homeowners who can expect little assistance in the first 3-5 days. The good news is that building standards quickly adjusted for the seismic potential. The bad news is that only 10-15% of homeowners have earthquake insurance. I moved out of CA in 2017.