GEOL 101 - #19 - Nisqually Earthquake

[@MurphdogMandates]

Hey Sir! No was a young E4 stationed at The Naval Hospital Bremerton when the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake hit. I was on the 7th floor of the Naval Hospital, teaching, when the quake caused the building to sway back and forth with about 8 abrupt jolts. I could literally see the wave of the earth movement swimming through the ceiling and major wall cracks running down the stairwells. It was a quake I will never forget!!!

[@edwardcarrington3531]

Hey man just wanted to say thank you for putting this information out for free. Ive learned a lot in a short amount of time from you

[@GeologyNick]

Thanks for the nice comment, Edward.

[@jodiuhron1979]

Same here! I’m in Pittsburgh, and so I obviously can’t attend an actual class in Washington! Also, still can’t afford to even attend online if it were an option. So, this is fantastic! I somehow came across the Rocky Mountains formation video and have been hooked since! I know I’m a few years late on this video, but it’s all still relevant info. Thank you, Nick, for posting these videos!

[@justinsimpson436]

We can't thank you enough for sharing your 101 course here on youtube. We look forward to class every night after work. It's been fun to have the student dynamic, too. We love you, Nick!

[@margreetanceaux3906]

Was glued to the screen - again, but this time with stronger glue. My first visits to the US (including coast near Seattle, surroundings of Spokane, and then southward through Utah) were in the seventies. So this idea of California collapsing into hell, was what I grew old with. Thank you so much for clarifying Juan de Fuca!

[@valeriehenschel1590]

Nisqually: in Sequim having breakfast in beam ceiling with plate glass windows restaurant. Husband kept eating (23 yrs Alaska), I headed out the door with others (Native of WA, well trained). No damage or books on floor at home. Post & B house anchored to living rock in Olympic Foothills.

[@davidshoddy5648]

I was teaching at a high school 50 miles away from the Nisqually Quake epicenter. The primary waves hit and no one realized it was an earthquake. Strange grinding and groaning sounds were coming from the walls and the top of the room. I looked up at the ceiling and it sounded like someone was pushing a heavy cart with squeaky wheels above our floor and just as quickly I remembered it was a single story building so no one was up there pushing a cart. We looked around with puzzled looks on our faces and one student said in a very smart alecky tone, "Is it an earthquake?" When the secondary waves hit the shaking started and it was suddenly very clear it was an earthquake. The classroom had a back wall composed entirely of windows with an exit door to a field behind the high school and another student asked in a considerably more worried tone, "Should we get outside?" I said no, but if it gets any worse get under your desks. (In retrospect we all should have gone under our desks immediately upon realizing it was an earthquake.) The best part of the quake was when the surface waves hit and it felt like we moved up and to the side and then back down and to the other side for three or four big rollers. I noticed an aquarium that was sloshing water up and over the sides. We were far enough away we didn't get any violent shaking and the school building was undamaged. The whole experience was fun and exciting with just enough shaking to be a little scary. I can imagine how terrifying it will be when a magnitude 9 subduction quake hits and releases 900 times (or maybe even a little more than that) the energy compared to the Nisqually Quake.

[@lawrencetate1329]

I was a 40yo software engineer living on I5 near Mt. Baker in 2001. I was at home and my first clue came as an impression that a large truck was driving by. The jerky side-to-side motion started to build and objects began moving, like the bric-a-brac. I had a pretty good seismic instrument at hand, a swinging chandelier right above the table I was working at. By the end of it, I was thinking about evacuating and the chandelier was swinging about 100 degrees of arc in line with the hypocenter, I figured from later information. Now I understand why it was so widespread. I was far from the hypocenter but strongly shaken anyway. This is the first classroom setting I've seen Nick in. He gets to say a lot of what he can't say in his public lectures, which adds to the enjoyment. I wonder if he's become jaded to praise because I'm sure he gets plenty. I've seen most of his public lectures on KZbin. Best lecturer I've seen. I currently live in a highrise (built in 2016) in NW downtown Portland with Juan D. on my mind.

[@thejuandrr]

I lived at Sunlight Waters but made the drive daily to Downtown Seattle. Supporting a family, and knocking down an extra $5 an hour as a UNION Carpenter for going to THAT side of the mountains made it worth it. Working on about the 17th floor or so of a new tower. I was doing pickup work alone and had like a 18" rip of O/S Gypboard nestled in the crook of my arm. This was outside on a lunch/sundeck area. I had just started up my 10 ft ladder(not fall arrested 'cause I was AWAY from the edge)and on about the 2nd to 3rd step up when it started a SHAKIN! I thought it was the ladder at first but then it was obviously not! Man oh man, the strange sound of fury, ALL the towers shaking, structural steel mid hoist being let go to swing, a 30' tall granite-looking corner plinth first held onto by the ironheads and then commanded to let it go & swang, I saw men on Spider Staging swinging, manned Boom Lifts swaying and then ALL the office workers boiling out into the streets - it was something to witness! Then . . . silence . . . then a cacophony of sound! Not sure I even made it over the hill that night what with our respective families to check on and etc. Needless to say, it took many, many months for Construction to get back to normal downtown(Cranes re-certified etc.)though I'm sure I was moved to another, less impacted jobsite elsewhere~!

[@adriennegormley9358]

I live in Silicon Valley and I have vivid memories of the Loma Prieta quake; I was still at work. But what I wanted to talk about was one of my besties from high school in Santa Clara, who with her hubby and kids moved to the Seattle Area. She was born and raised in Santa Clara County (San Jose, Santa Clara), but she was living in Marysville WA for the Nisqually quake. What she grew up with here in CA, she went through uncounted earthquake drills in school. So, she was in shoe store in Maryville when the Nisqually Quake hit. Whee! But she took all her training in quake safety form growing up, PLUS the years she was on the Cabrillo college campus police in her younger years and what she learned as cop crowd control, and organized that shoe store to survive.

[@eastwind6820]

I remember the 1965 Seattle quake. My first earthquake adventure. Moved to Bakersfield a DP promptly lost track of the quakes I experienced.

[@dennydargan8731]

One of my earliest memories is of being held by my mother, my older sister hanging on to moms dress, in the back yard during the 1949 quake. The house, barn, and all the out buildings, power poles etc. swaying, the ground was bouncing us around. I wasn't old enough to be afraid, but I surely was impressed.

[@matthewjewkes9659]

Good video Nick. Love your work!

[@denniskraak3637]

A big thank you Nick, from the Netherlands. You’re an inspiration!

[@briane173]

I lived in L.A. when the Sylmar earthquake occurred 2/9/71 (You called it the San Fernando earthquake, and admittedly the _town_ of San Fernando is right near Sylmar and the quake's epicenter; we referred to it locally as the Sylmar Quake). Worst earthquake _I'd_ ever experienced. I lived in Long Beach which was a good 40 miles from the epicenter, and I might as well have been 5 miles away. The shaking was severe. The fact that this is over 50 years ago makes me feel awfully old. I was still in Middle School when this happened.

[@kathleensayce6035]

More Nisqually quake memories: I was at the Port of Ilwaco, working next door to a new building. The quake hit, the builders dropped sheets of plywood and tools from 2-3 stories up and rappelled down to the ground. People went out to the dock to see if the water level was changing (it was not), so we stayed at work in our office. The builders quit for the day, shaken by riding that bucking building for a few minutes.

[@amyspanne5629]

In the 2001 Nisqually earthquake I was driving I-5 under the Convention Center in Seattle when rocks came down on the freeway from the overpass and my car felt like I had 4 flat tires at once. But this was a cake-walk compared to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake when I was a grad student at UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz had a lot more shaking and and aftershocks went on for weeks.

[@alicemiller3139]

Nick, finally getting around to watching all of your sessions and loving all of them. You asked why so many people are under the opinion that a portion of CA is going to slip into the ocean. I believe it’s a political reason more than anything else. CA is a very liberal state and most conservatives just shake their heads in disbelief. I will leave the comment at that as I truly appreciate you not typically bringing politics into your sessions.

[@tedharrison4109]

Thank you again, especially for the spaghetti analogy.

[@rnm1745]

At work in Ballard, in the liquefaction zone, I vividly remember all the power poles swaying far enough to completely tighten the wires between poles. Also, our server racks bolted to the floor were slamming against the wall for maybe 30 seconds.

[@Aschmorr]

You’re a trip Nick, I wanna be your student one day but for now I’m happy to be a townie 🙃😎😁😁😁

[@alexv6324]

I was up in Auburn, WA when this happened and I remember that day vividly. I was in class at the local community college and I rember everything starting to rattle. Our teacher walked us outside and then I remember everything rolling. Like we were standing on a boat in choppy water, except I was on a paved walkway and then I remember the trees swaying in a way that I hadn't seen before.

[@justme-dm7sb]

I was living in an RV and had worked nights. I was sound asleep and I thought the neighbor kids were rocking my trailer. I got up pissed, yelling at the kids to knock it off. I opened the door to chase them and it was eerie silent. The ground stopped shaking and the phone rang. A friend of mine in Toledo was freaking out because her sisters fish were all getting flung out of the tank onto the floor. I live closer to Kalama but out in the mountains. That was a seriously rockin quake.

[@haroldhenderson2824]

At 21:00, "It is NOT Kansas!" You got that correct. During the month of December (2020), we had a swarm of earthquakes. Strongest was around 4.0 on the Richer scale. Most were 2.5 to 3.2. All were located within a few miles of each other. Seemed to be associated with a minor fault in the area.

[@jasonlawler9674]

I have experinced many earthquakes. Favorite was Whittier Narrows when i was facing the San Gabriel Mtns and saw the waves crossing the open softball field. The dust rose up off the tops of the range for as far as i could see.

[@eastwind6820]

I felt that one in Bakersfield!

[@clairedeiotte8898]

Yup was in Shoreline Wa. Richmond Beach. Foors rolled like waves ! Though the washer was out balance!! Then we got under the door frame and tables

[@MrLeatherman23]

My daughter was twenty and lived with me in Oregon City. I was 43. She came out of her room doing what I call the Elevated, multi I directional, high speed panic. We walked outside, against her best wishes, and watched the street lights wave back and forth. Fun for me but, still, A little terrifying for her. She learned that day a bit about fatalism... I was in first grade during the earthquake in Seattle in the early sixties and watching my older brother run home screaming for Dad. I never let him forget that!

[@MrFmiller]

I was working for the Ferry System in the office at the Colman building uphill from the Ferry Terminal next to Pioneer Square. It was the day after the Fat Tuesday celebration. A sweeper was cleaning up debris, lots of broken glass, lots of noise. Felt the building jolt, thought the sweeper ran into the building but the jolting continued. I and others ran to an interior doorway. Others ran to the windows. We yelled to them to get away from the outside of the old brick building. Glass was breaking and bricks were falling. Mustered in the parking lot. Very scary at the waterfront in Seattle. The area is very fragile.

[@waltdavis9543]

On the 35th floor of the Key Tower in downtown Seattle. Shaking so hard all the ceiling tiles were falling.

[@richardstephens3642]

You reminded me of the Tacoma earthquake in 1965 when I was in kindergarten watching the school flagpole sway back n forth as the waves in the ground went by

[@malcolmcog]

I worked in Californiay in 1994 at a company that digs out Borax from the desert. Staying in a hotel in Santa Clarita I woke up when the fire alarm went off. Went out into the corridor and we all went outside as it was early morning and cold. Standing aroung waiting to go back to bed there was a tremor, and aftershock, that was not too scary ! That was the Northridge earthquke. The office I worked in was damaged, the outdoor pool of the hotel cracked and all the water ran out. In the morning we found it was a severe quake with many casualties and Route 18 by I5 collapsed with a few folks killed.

[@baldknobfarmstead5167]

Lol F-words are welcomed in our life. I was 19 in a John Deere 8300 lagoon pumping and manure spreading and I thought the hose I was pulling got hung up. I reached for my radio and the guys yelled "we are having an earthquake"! The corn field looked like a wave. I loved it!

[@janehallstrom7628]

I was at home between Belfair and Tahuya WA when the whole house rocked, items fell and it seemed to last for several minutes. Terrifying. Fascinating series Nick.

[@peasanthill5255]

Way to go, Nick, rerunning of this lecture on the 50th Sylmar EQ anniversary on the Loma Prieta EQ date. ( BTW, I lived 7 miles from the 1971 Sylmar epicenter. It was big, even for a Cal guy.)

[@briane173]

I just now noticed that this segment streamed live exactly 50 years to the day after the Sylmar earthquake in 1971, as we discuss the Nisqually quake of February _2001,_ almost exactly _30_ years after Sylmar. The Sylmar quake holds real significance with me as I was living in L.A. at the time and it was - and still is - the worst earthquake I'd ever experienced.

[@pay1441]

I was at CWU, in Ellensburg, in the L & L building (Language and Literature) awaiting professor Schneider's arrival for my 200 level German language class when it hit. Shortly after, classes were cancelled for the rest of the day and campus maintenance wouldn't let us back into the dorms (I was in Meisner at the time) until they completed a safety inspection. Nice to have the afternoon off, but our nerves were rattled a bit.

[@sherimatukonis6016]

I was in Lakewood/Tacoma. Almost no damage there, but my stove walked a few feet across the kitchen, the movie camera fell off the book shelf and the road looked like rolling waves. It was really pretty cool.

[@johnjunge6989]

Watched Roberts video, real informative!

[@markparham3759]

@Nick_Zentner the San Fernando Quake was my first I was 2 and lived in LA at the time.

[@JPaterson8942]

I was in 3rd grade in Spanaway, WA. I remember my pencil fell off the desk.... Then the shaking started. That's probably what started my interest in geology.

[@mikekaup5252]

Nick is right about the drive on the coast rte 101 is fantastic but don't miss the coast road in Oregon. If you like to fish stop anywhere you see the lava at the waters edge and fish off the rocks for Starry Flounders, they taste as good as halibut! It took me 20 minutes to catch a nice big one!

[@sweethoneybee273]

I was at home in Everett, reading about earthquakes when it hit. I was initially confused when the mobile home started swaying, wondering if my brains n was playing tricks on me. When I realized it was an actual earthquake, I ran outside. I freaked when horizontal s-shaped waves started slithering across the surface of the ground towards me. When they stopped, I relaxed and just enjoyed enjoyed the ride. What a trip!

[@annotten7413]

There was a small earthquake here on the east coast about 8 years ago. I was a few hundred miles from the epicenter and still felt the ground moving like crazy. I can’t imagine going through a big one. I friend of mine was in Japan and said they have them over there almost weekly

[@cellogirl11rw55]

I was in this earthquake. I was at school just a few miles away from the Nisqually Delta in Lacey. That rubber band description was incredibly accurate. It was this thunderous sound, and then- BOOM! The earth dropped away from the school and part of the roof collapsed. I learned later that the building moved 20 feet north.

[@jessicaclementz6735]

Nisqually quake: Tacoma WA, near 72nd and Oaks Streets. My house lurched up and then down, chandelier never hung the same. Son was 2 and dove right under the dining room table.

[@johnjunge6989]

8.5 was New Madrid, in the heart of the Mississippi River, South of St Louis, North of Memphis - they happen everywhere. We still have minor ones every month or two today yet.

[@markrancourt5430]

Diving under my workbench and a HP6038 leaving a dent in the floor. Airfield across the street having sand coming up through the runway.

[@snchilders]

There was a book in the late '60s called "The Last Days of the Late Great State of California" . Good read.

[@tinkmarshino]

I was in Portland Oregon at a restaurant talking to a dispatcher in Seattle as the quake started there.. as I was trying to keep her calm it suddenly started to shake in Portland. I was inside a cafe sitting in a booth as the windows started to quiver like jello (only remembering after that I should have gotten away from the window) I looked out at my phone truck and it was bouncing like a hip hopper on fire.. My First earth quake!

[@andyevans2336]

Was working on the 9th floor of the Thomas Foley Federal building in Spokane ,Wa. Whole building gently swaying to and fro..... Whee!

[@sheetmetalhead]

Great energy today Nick, and not just from the quakes 🤓

[@almeisam]

I was at a McDonald's in Lacey (about 4 miles south of the epicenter), ran outside, watched the light poles swinging back and forth, and my car rocking forwards and backwards while also rocking side to side, with my terrified wife inside of it.

[@MrRmeadows]

I was 30 some and at friend from WSU's apartment in Kent WA. 3rd floor of a 3 floor building. There was a bump and I am like what? Dave wanted me to stand in the doorway. I just wanted to get the xxx out. Felt safer outside. We waited for shaking to stop to go out. Figured there might be an after shock.

[@mikekirk1513]

Nisqually earthquake up in Vancouver BC the telephone poles were rocking back and forth.

[@greggwilson5221]

I was at CWU geography lab, felt queezy (no breakfast!) then noticed the overhead lights swaying and someone said there's been an Earthquake in Seattle!!

[@johnjunge6989]

Have you gotten use to them? My 1st one was in San Diego and my buddy and his wife never knew it until morning.

[@thejuandrr]

another GREGG - I love it! -constantly gotta fight for my extra 'G', birth certificate Gregg NOT Gregory or Greg!

[@wesjenkins5160]

Seattle, Ballard 18th ave & 85th st. Sidewalk rolled in 2 waves to to the south approx 30 sec after initial shock.

[@barbarawenk8643]

I was 15 in the San Fernando Valley in 1971 and the earthquake was a jolt and rolling for a while it made the walls sound like a freight train.

[@irenalane9422]

On TV, showed bubbles of water coming up thur sand, reminds me of Mima Mounds. I was in Roseburg, Oregon, didn't feel it.

[@markbike5288]

Dateline: Richland Washington, 170miles (289km) from epicenter, February 28, 2001. Short story: felt waves on my admittedly shaky chair at my computer. Longer story: I figured it was because I was tired/jetlagged etc after traveling from Taipei on February 28th, at 9:30AM Taipei time. After getting in to Pasco, WA on February 28, 9:15AM PST , -no typo-, I settled in and was catching up and playing around on my computer. Felt a wiggle, I figured, OK, I'm just really tired, and went to bed. Rested up, I go to the local bar and grill, and somehow someone mentioned quake. I said, "What quake?" and then was notified about it. I went home, logged on to my local ISP, and then to the USGS website, and found that 140+ fellow geeks had already posted their (Modified Mercalli index) impressions of the event.

[@markrancourt5430]

Boeing 2-122 bldg right on the Duamish River. Across the road from the airport. It rocked 🙃

[@janetvaughn5183]

In seattle, remember the noise of the Space Needle rocking on its foundation

[@btaylor9788]

Mt. Pleasant, Mi here watching your videos

[@thesarge1969]

When I was stationed on the east coast, they kept telling me that the west coast was going to fall into the ocean, I just told them, Nah, The east coast sucks so much, IT KEEPS IT UP. I started to say that in 1969

[@johnjunge6989]

A couple of years ago I was in San Diego visiting a old HS friend. During the night they had a 5.5 quake. I was rolled in bed, they never felt it ,when we discussed the next morning. Ha a any of the Townies gotten use to them?

[@sophievieira2873]

I am so sorry that I missed this yesterday. Nick it is Mendo, Mendocino, Men-dough-see-no I love you

[@dorisnewirk5916]

Always seem to be a few hours behind but have made each lesson from Greenbank Whidbey Island

[@WalterHildahl]

I remember the Nisqually earthquake. I live in Mountlake Terrace,15 miles North of Seattle. I ran out of my house and sat on the driveway ,facing south, with my legs on the ground. I was surprised to find that I could feel the seismic waves pass under me AND that I could tell the direction that they were coming from, {the south}. If I had had the present of mind, I believe that I could have counted the number of waves.

[@dorisnewirk5916]

I was at a meeting at Overlake Hospital, pulled a stranger to the 3rd floor edge of the parking garage, watched the world move for several second. We parted ways never saying a word. My husbands was working at Ivar's they evacuated the dock but he was still his desk unaware of the earthquake LOL

[@adamlewellen5081]

I was sick in bed in 89. Got tossed out of bed onto my face and everything on the shelves fell on me. I was 7 in richmond ca on the mud flats. Liquefaction baby

[@michaelbarret1147]

Is there any diffrence in the ammount of earthquakes in the 4 seasons? More in summer spring maybe? Does frozen ground rezist movement like in winter?

[@maxinee1267]

I was in my bathroom taking a shower all soaped up my son shouting at me to run out of the house with him, I kept rinsing off. finally gaabbed a towell, but did not go outside felt liks our house was rolling like on the ocean

[@adamlewellen5081]

Good mic, not sure how big classroom is but good signal. And pickup and clarity good. 5x5 🎙️

[@ethelmarshall1466]

Was the earthquake in 1964 part of the juane fuccia plate shift? Ethel in Florida. I was in the one in Feb 2001. Living in Portland Oregon then.my first earthquake.

[@justme-dm7sb]

There is nothing like the smell of a freshly broken stick.....simply nothiing like it.

[@easyfreshify]

Does it live stream on KZbin?

[@mykofreder1682]

Don't understand KZbin copyrights, I got to assume you have relinquished your copyright if you publish something on a free channel like KZbin, at least when part is reshown on the same free channel in a similar context.

[@adamlewellen5081]

Nimitz aka cypress structure. My grandparents were red cross incident commanders. Thay retired post 911...........

[@mikekaup5252]

In 1964 Seattle earthquake I was standing at the side door to my school (O,Dea) and as soon as the time to enter came an Irish Christian Brother came running at top speed Knocking kids out of the way to escape the quake. He taught religion. In the big Alaska quake my uncle who worked as a dispatcher in the tower pulled up late in his VW bug. As he reached up to turn the car off the tower collapsed killing a lot of his coworkers. Years later he said that he was late because he was a alcoholic. Goes to show you!

[@marshaezell1546]

Dang! Just missed you LIVE! From Sonora, CA near Yosemite.

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

15:47 And now! I can see by the look in your eyes. I could be talking about the f***ing Civil War! Omg! Hahahaha. I wish I took this class in University. Hahaha. To have a University professor cursing 🤬. LMAO. I love you Nick! You’re such a relatable and great storyteller. You know your audience.

[@dwightmansburden7722]

Lol I watch Nick die on the inside a little bit trying to teach a bunch of 19 year old kids 🤣

[@wildedibles819]

Much love xoxox

[@swanee327]

Mound, MN? Watertown says HI!

[@rattrap8819]

How is the Pacific plate moving to the NW AND subducting under the North American plate(moving East)?

[@lizj5740]

The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault, which means the two plates are "sliding" past one another. Also, you have one of your directions incorrect: the North American Plate is moving SW.

[@rattrap8819]

I should have watched the whole lesson before commenting. It is the Juan de Fuca plate that is subducting under N. American plate. Love learning from Capt. Nick.

[@justme-dm7sb]

And the Pacific plate is moving east under (or up against?) the North American plate. The Waun de Fuca plate is moving east under the North American plate. Commonly called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. I do know Waun de Fuca goes under. It looks on the suface like San Andraes is crashing the 2 together and building mountains as the pressure builds and the 2 lands slide horizontally across each other. Fascinating at any rate. I live for the Cascadia subduction. It may be what kills me but I want to see it happen. Its going to happen no matter what. I want to see it. And yes I do live in SW Washington. Very, very close to Mt. St. Helens. I lived through that eruption, now I want to live through this subduction. I want to experience the breathing earth at its wildest. These events put everything into perspective for me. I prep for them and hope they happen before any more war.

[@dennisstorie4604]

In Laredo, Texas today

[@kellyhorton1462]

That was great.

[@skittles5347]

I was in Montesano, WA working at a doctor's office. Have you ever tried to file away a patient's chart when the earth starts to swell up, roll and then growl and moan? HA! I have never seen or heard the earth make such vile groaning noises as with what I heard during this earthquake. I looked outside and the wave action veritically displaced the parked cars probably 2 to 3 ft.

[@saminam2228]

I don't remember anything but my mom said I shouted stop it quack

[@danielhawthorn2967]

Ned Ziggler... gotta love him

[@adamlewellen5081]

S.f. bay area geology please 🥺???

[@michaelhusar3668]

At 16:00, dropped F bomb, but didn't say "sorry Patrick".

[@catibree1]

so, out of all of the lecture information, that was the only piece of information you grasped????

[@D45VR]

Nick is the modern day Mr Chips

[@douglindeman4719]

Nick needs a stunt double at time's,lol

[@XRPMcLoo]

Olympia and freaking scary!

[@jodiuhron1979]

So, the Nisqually Earthquake happened hours before Dale Earnhardt Sr was killed near the end of the Daytona 500. Wow, what a day!

[@wiregold8930]

Friggin A&E blocked episode #20 on copyright grounds. The 'text book racket' has a long reach ...

[@irenalane9422]

Stress and strain. Blow up a balloon, strain, it blows apart with too much elastic strain. BAM, BOOM!

[@harleyb.birdwhisperer]

Student: Note to self; Plan to leave this place PDQ.

[@jonathandickson5698]

Let me know if you do an episode about the 30Nov18 quake in AK.

[@Ellensburg44]

Will make sure to drop everything and email you, Jonathan.

[@irenalane9422]

Is the western edge of California acting like an exotic terrace? Might it become an island in the future? Until it lands somewhere? Irena in LETHA, IDAHO

[@lizj5740]

Hello, Irena. The western edge of California is the eastern edge of the Pacific Plate, which extends all the way to Japan. California is not a small, separate piece. It travels west with the entire Pacific Plate, so it is not acting like an exotic terrane.

[@RussellSenior]

Mend-O-cino

[@terrilandry8753]

Corpus Christi, Texas says howdy