Chicxulub Tsunami-2.mov

65 million years ago a 10 km diameter asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico. Of the many consequences of the impact, this video simulates the expected tsunami. Paleogeographic map by
C. R. Scotese. The movie revisits and updates a previous You Tube "Chicxulub Tsunami.mov".

[@lemorab1]

This is the first time I've seen a paleogeographic map of what the earth's land masses looked like 65 million years ago. Thank you!

[@MelanieCravens]

Yes, thank you. I like seeing where things were and weren't.

[@derekstaroba]

I found trilobites and other marine fossils in missouri middle usa when i was a kid. Could it be possible that they arrived on q tsunami 65 million years ago?

[@gheart8278]

Lies

[@7inrain]

@@derekstaroba Trilobites went extinct at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago, long before the Chicxulub asteroid struck. So your marine fossils most probably lived somewhere between 500 to 300 million years ago when Missouri was under water.

[@jip5889]

@@derekstarobait’s more likely the layer you found it in used to be the bottom of the sea. America used to be split in two north to south by an ocean.

[@thedefenestrator2994]

As someone who was there… yeah the tsunami was the least of our worries. I was thankfully 501km away so while I can’t hear anymore, I’m still alive. The ash winter was a bummer though.

[@rafaelgames720]

if were counting oc's then mine would be in hell (room 744, before hitler's room)

[@MozTheBoz]

Good to know Keith Richards browse these parts of the internet...

[@bootblacking]

How did you survive the 1200° rain of glass from the impact blowout?

[@mattwebb5276]

Yeah that ash cloud was shit but at least it was warm that day 😳😊

[@leeroquemore8713]

Dinosaurs were a little tough. Especially the predators. Omnivores ate all the good vegetation. Mammals are a big improvement to cuisine. More for the Masters of this planet🕶

[@Bsquared1972]

Could you run the simulation to show what would have happened if the asteroid landed in the middle of the Atlantic?

[@gregrohsful]

Why? It didnt.

[@juliusnepos6013]

He said what if

[@2011568]

I think theres a great chance your mother would be mine

[@Enzi_Meteori_902]

I am curious too would be nice to see a giant ripple from the middle of the ocean before hitting land

[@ScienceMan314]

@@gregrohsful Keyterm: “What if”

[@typhoon-7]

The "England to be" is actually "Scotland to be". The Scottish Highlands are some of the oldest mountains in the world and that's them poking out of the north Atlantic 65 Mya.

[@ChrisParkman-jn6qx]

U r correct

[@largeymargey5651]

Honestly the majority of the land there is actually Ireland to be, with around half of modern day Scotland there

[@adrienaugustin6520]

Little bit of Wales also there I think

[@gailforce]

That was Scotland and Northern Ireland from the Caledonian oregeny. The rest of the UK and Ireland was from a different plate

[@DeadEyeJedi]

@@gailforce Didn't know that, but it makes sense, since Welsh slate, I'm pretty sure, is older than much of the surface of the Earth. That's what made it so popular, no fossils.

[@crnivitez4995]

I'd love to see a Chicxulub event simulated for a deeper part of the Atlantic like you did with your first video. I absolutely adore these videos that demonstrate the utter magnificence of phenomena that occured in our planet's past, you earned a subscriber.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

It would make waves as high as it's depth anywhere, with asteroids that big. If it hit the Mariana Trench, you'd get 39000+ ft waves at the source. Given how little energy was lost as it traveled the ocean here, it would drown the globe except for maybe the highest peaks on each continent.

[@cs77smith67]

@@callmeshaggy5166 that scary but I wonder if the Wave 🌊 would be that high by the time it hit the Coast?

[@brandonn6099]

@@callmeshaggy5166 There is a limit to how much water gets displaced. This isn't an earthquake with a large amount of displacement for a small wave height, which can travel across an ocean and lose very little height. This wave has massive height but relatively little width. Though far bigger than any earthquake, compared to its height, it will not travel far. I would love to see the simulation though. That overpressure displacement is quite the thing.

[@reldwob22]

0:24 0:24 0:26

[@commanderwayan]

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[@suelybaptista7087]

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[@gavochino]

this is wholesome

[@iamabominati0n970]

the notification is a surprise one, to be sure, but a welcome one

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

The force is strong with this comment

[@keterpatrol7527]

Thank you for your continued existence. I havent seen videos like these anywhere else.

[@brianmiller2877]

Best treatment of this aspect of the impact that I’m aware of. Appreciate that you state equations, conditions, and assumptions. Special thanks for portraying the continents as they were “on the day of”!

[@Corium1]

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[@cholulahotsauce6166]

My stonks

[@RightIsRight_LeftIsWrong]

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[@npcperson2158]

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[@dylwhs]

Thanks for making this. I have never thought about what the world looked like back then, and how continental drift has pushed the eastern and western Atlantic coastlines apart... This video makes that evident and so the tsunami of the even all the more immense.

[@carlosalbertolatorre2709]

Todo son supuestos nadie sabe la verdad absoluta, son simulaciones de lo pudo pasar, no se sabe porque nadie estuvo ahi...para saberlo con exactitud tendriamos que tener una maquina del tiempo e ir al lugar de los acontesimientos y verlo con nuestros propios ojos....lo demas son especulaciones.

[@MyUsernameisDifferent]

This is such an underrated channel, I love this!

[@alkh3myst]

Thanks for showing the impact equations. Our teachers always wanted us to show our work.

[@KentoKei]

this channel is one of those small but high quality channels and I love it

[@jakegrist8487]

This was the perfect video format. Just interesting information. Thank you for not playing annoying music or blasting some text to speech voiceover. Great video.

[@jsdp]

I have followed this channel in some form or another for my entire time on this platform. Strangely I have become some form of attached to the videos that you release. I am not one for parasocial relationships, and one with a nameless, faceless, and voiceless creator should be impossible! But I do hope you are doing well, wherever you are in life. You could die tomorrow, or just decide to stop uploading, and we would be none the wiser. I do not even know if you are in your mid twenties or your late seventies! Very cathartic to sit back and watch one of these. Hope you keep it up mate, and hope you are content with how life is playing itself out.

[@Mahpoosaylips]

I looked up the guy behind this channel, he’s a geologist at I think a university in California or for the usgs, I think he’s in his 50’s too

[@screamingmimi90]

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[@dukecity7688]

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[@bridgecross]

From what I've heard recently, it was the "ballistic ejecta" that really put the nail in the coffin. Even life on the opposite side of the globe couldn't escape. When that much material came back down, the atmosphere heated to oven-like temperatures. Nothing above ground or out of the ocean was unaffected.

[@chrisandme23]

Thanks

[@AntilleanConfederation]

If true. How come life survived.

[@bridgecross]

@@AntilleanConfederation 1) Much of life under water, oceans, lakes, swamps, rivers. That would save amphibians, fish, some reptiles, etc. 2) Anyone burrowed or buried a few centimeters underground. That would save a few reptiles, early mammals, some birds.

[@michaelmartin9022]

First weeks of heat, then centuries of cold. Also pieces of rock blasted into orbit randomly falling back with nuke-like impacts and perhaps tsunami of their own.

[@vihtormch7512]

In fact it was winter that came right after. Plants couldn't really withstand years without sun. No plants - no herbivore and so on

[@lheojan6320]

I'm glad you come back....

[@Kohl293]

For one beautiful moment, Mississippi was underwater. Great video!

[@braydenparton9578]

I just wanted to say to keep doing what you're doing as it's very informative.

[@hallcody3]

Heck yes! I fricken love these videos, great work and thanks for putting these simulations on KZbin. I find them fascinating and very informative.

[@dallassegno]

informative in what way? you getting prepared ha ha ?

[@hallcody3]

@@dallassegno mostly the historical stuff he mentions but I got ya, you gave me a little laugh. Thanks 😊

[@edithgruber2125]

I watched your older simulation video with modern geography and I hoped that you'd revisit this at some point. So I'm really excited that you managed to get elevation maps for the Atlantic and surrounding continents 65 Ma ago and run the simulation again. Great stuff! Also thanks for sharing the equations and the thought process that went into it. During the video, it went a bit too fast to follow but I remember something from studying physics as a part of my meteorology degree.

[@notahotshot]

I would love to see a ground level pov of the waves at different locations.

[@ryancappo]

The movie Interstellar has a good scene of a huge wave like this… But it would be good to know how high the modern tsunamis have been to compare the damage to what this one was.

[@LukeNukem82]

Imagine doing all this math, only to be told by a flat earther that space doesn't exist.

[@gheart8278]

But it doesn't. Read my comment, you might learn something!😄

[@damianbieniek3926]

​@@gheart8278your brain doesnt exist

[@gheart8278]

@@damianbieniek3926 show me one side impact crater either on the Moon or Earth. Stop being a brainwashed repeat puppet without observing the facts! 🙄

[@gheart8278]

@@damianbieniek3926 show 1 side impact crater on the Earth or Moon. Good luck! 😉

[@damianbieniek3926]

@@gheart8278 show earth being flat and prove it with your math, good luck.

[@MinogFarted]

YES! Damn, i thought you was going to be gone for a year again

[@Jakeiscool456]

Wow you’ve been making videos since a long time I’m so proud that you’re back

[@jerrypolverino6025]

I really enjoyed this video and the difficult work in modeling. Big thank you.

[@ibelieveyou2066]

David Attenborough,did an excellent,as usual,very informative programme on Chicxulub. From the dinosaurs point of view, miles away,a few hours after the initial impact. Even include a fossil of a turtle that was impaled by wood when the tsunami pushed it on to land.

[@IronClique]

Poor turtle

[@maazwaseem8313]

Big fan of your content :) If its an interesting way to go, could you run a simulation on what would have happened if Chicxulub hit the Mariana Trench? I saw one other channel talk about this possibility and....I wanna see the devastation via simulation :p Also I wanna know....what software do you generally use to create these scenarios?

[@tomsalzano8120]

Thank you for such a detailed simulation ( backed by the equations ). I've run through this a few times now, and it gives such a good picture of the chain of events from so many different aspects and vantage points. Truly excellent ( and fascinating ) modeling of the event.

[@wasabista1613]

This is brilliant work. Fascinating and informative. Thank you.

[@kwillow12]

MOST excellent! I wonder if one day you can do an estimate of the effects of the meteor calving (a'la Lucifer's Hammer) with bits striking the Atlantic ocean and maybe even land? This is so fascinating to view. I hope you enjoy making these videos! Thank You!

[@MelanieCravens]

A fellow fan of 'Lucifer's Hammer'! I just replaced my second well-read paperback copy. Want a chuckle? I have a calendar that has an event a day (i.e. Black Cat Day. Pumpkin Day. Etc). This year (2023) 'Hot Fudge Sundae' Day actually fell on a Tuesday! Of course, I couldn't let the day pass without reading the whole 'Hot Fudge Sundae' description of the comet...while eating a hot fudge sundae.

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

Brilliant! I've been trying to explain this to science-curious for decades and here you take ALL the onus off me! 👍😎🖖

[@sdarms111doug9]

Nice done, I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting!

[@spacepenguin4304]

The dude is finally back ! you know it's gonna be a nice night when ingomar200 uploads

[@chasemclain6235]

The legend is back!

[@davsaltego]

I’m not a mathematician by any stretch of even the most imaginative imagination, but thank you for including the equations. It adds to understanding the phenomenon itself, and how you created the models. Well done!

[@bssn9469]

Outstanding! Fantastic content, thank you.

[@filipp3702]

What kind of software do you use to make those amazing simulations?

[@thewakeup5459]

I wonder how big the wave would be if it dropped in the center of the Atlantic or Pacific

[@muhammadrifqi7308]

Much bigger than when it hit the gulf of mexico certainly, but fascinatingly, dinosaurs would survive the impact if that was what happened

[@kalyannatarajan1695]

Very well done and amazing job with the evocative captions…….👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏

[@robbiegregg]

Great simulation! It would be interesting to replicate the calculation but for modern day (ie current geography). And to play out "what if" scenarios if a similar asteroid hit earth. Could also look at the various "near miss" asteroids ..

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

Hey, really cool video, man! I especially enjoyed how you displayed the math for kinetic energy, as well as the run-up heights across the globe. The tsunami aspect of Chicxulub never really occurred to me. I've always focused on the atmospheric impact, but the fact that ~10m run-ups were reaching the then-hidden corners of Africa is certainly not a joke!

[@maxrockatansky3896]

Have you published a paper regarding the modeling, I think it's really interesting regarding the model and the paper could be built upon by future research to have a compressive understanding of this impact an potentially future impacts.

[@theprinceofallsaiyans5830]

Cant cause then he would have to back up his claims.

[@MasculinityMindset]

Really interesting, watched all the way through, thanks.

[@michigannative2951]

That was really cool. Recently I’ve learned about the Carolina bays the story goes that a meteor hit near Ottawa and blasted a plume of ice chunks into the atmosphere at low earth orbit and they crashed down into the east coast and created these bays in the Carolina’s? But this was neat to see, do you think the ocean swell into the Mediterranean ocean could have caused a back flow event in Northern Africa or the Nile delta region?

[@501Mobius]

Can you simulate what would happen if across the mid Gulf of Aqaba was separated at the 700 meter depth level into two walls of water apart by 100 meters. All the way down to the sea floor. Then suddenly released to crash together? What would the recoil be like?

[@PolyGonzo505]

Awesome video! Would love to see a tsunami sim for the Hiawatha Impact around the younger dryas period 😍, thanks again for all the sim vids ✊

[@zyxw2000]

Thank you for spelling Chicxulub correctly.

[@h.f6364]

the icon is back

[@maddoxmonteza]

This is a great video glad youtube recommended this

[@erinmac4750]

This is an amazing simulation of that event, making it even clearer how devastating it was to our planet. 💜🌎🍀

[@buggi_zak]

i can’t be the only one who wants to know what software is used to generate these tsunami and landslides

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

Very nice simulation - though one detail that is definitely not correct is the speed, or shape of the pressure wave. As a shock wave, it'd have a very sharp leading edge in terms of pressure, and relatively quickly and exponentially decay back to ambient pressure afterwards, not the triangle wave you modeled. And a very strong shockwave like this one moves faster than the speed of sound - in air, a shockwave with a 3.5 atm (~50 psi) overpressure will be travelling at twice the speed of sound, and there will be a wind blowing outwards at (just behind the shockwave) ~0.6 times the speed of sound behind it. I am guessing especially the shockwave travelling faster would weaken the coupling between shockwave and tsunami even further compared to your simulation, though the different shape of the pressure field might enhance it.

[@wndiua7566]

I like your funny words magic man

[@ferebeefamily]

Thank you for the video.

[@antipattern0]

Good job Adric

[@NardoVogt]

"For most life on earth, that was not a good day..." Could come out of a Douglas Adams novel

[@joaoialima]

Hi, could you run a simulation of the impact of the mega-tsunami from La Palma in Recife, a city in the northeast of Brazil with around 4 million people in its metro area, and made in very very low terrain, most taken from the rivers and sea. Recife was founded by the Dutch when they occupied the region in the XVII century “imitating” their own low lands. The curiosity is that Recife has the first synagogue in the Americas and the jews explelled together with the Dutch migrated to North America and helped to found New Amsterdam/New York.

[@colubrinedeucecreative]

FASCINATING! Thank you, this satisfied my fundamental problem in that often when past disasters are animated they use present maps, this really brings into perspective what the earth plates looked like then. I do wish that everything was done like this. For instance I wondered about the Shiva crater and went looking.

[@ThomasEWalker]

Amazing sim! Very cool! Thanks!

[@dustyk103]

I think it would’ve been cool, or if you superimposed modern typography and state’s boundaries over the map the whole scenario. Also overlay the blast zone and burn zone. I’m sure there’s tons of ejecta damage, too. Excellent video! I wonder, could some of that ejecta end up in space and not come down? Like maybe end up on the Moon or other planets? “Look! I found fossilized life on Mars!”

[@warbuzzard7167]

Very likely there was debris from this even driven into lunar orbit and even to the Martian surface. Good call here!

[@mnomadvfx]

@@warbuzzard7167 The Martian surface? I think you are reaching there. Reaching Mars would require being launched at a specific trajectory from earth at just the right time in Mars orbit of the sun (and Mars relative orbit to Earth) so that it did not simply pass Martian orbital path entirely before carrying on toward the outer solar system or being captured by Jupiter's gravity well.

[@warbuzzard7167]

@@mnomadvfx We've found Martian rocks on the Earth from Martian impacts. NOT far-fetched to think some achieved escaped velocity to migrate to Mars' orbital plane and distance.

[@Isawwhatyoudid]

So the Southeast was a terrible place to be 65 million years ago, a terrible place to be 160 years ago, and a terrible place to be now.

[@ksoman953]

This is brilliant work!

[@G6JPG]

Made a wonderful change to not have any added audio!

[@andrewkmac3507]

Can you please do a pole shift simulation.

[@Chaggy1978]

Good idea.

[@TheGeeMaster1337]

We are a truly elite community of disaster enthusiasts.

[@kwillow12]

What I find fascinating is the reducing such an enormous explosion to equations. Wish I'd had better math education, so I could be even more interested.

[@aapex1]

Very interesting and informative! Thanks for the effort.

[@phaiz55]

Neat video but very frustrating for the animations to be constantly interrupted by walls of text.

[@j.j.c.s2802]

It's certainly one way of looking at it. Well done and a good effort.

[@robertwalker6023]

Surf up dudes😎🤘😂

[@RugMann]

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[@pstrzel]

Can you do a simulation where the earth is flat and the asteroid goes right through and the oceans drain out?

[@xanderunderwoods3363]

This is so awesome!

[@dlsamson]

Fascinating exploration. Thank-you

[@peterclarke3990]

What evidence do you have of the geographical layout of the Earth 65 million years ago, or is it pure conjecture?

[@DonnyBrisco]

Look, fairy tales. 65 million years ago is such B'S.

[@ReincarnationofiForgor]

It's just like the bible. A complete lie.

[@NeocadeX]

​@@ReincarnationofiForgorShow us the proof that its a lie.

[@ReincarnationofiForgor]

@@NeocadeX There is none. Also, it's spelled "it's"

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

I love reenactments like this! 👍

[@earlinemcgahen3931]

Did you input the effects of the methane in the region on your simialation

[@JoeDuddy]

What a lovely mix of units in your peak overpressure formula!

[@sierra659]

loved the sound effects

[@finlandball1939]

Yo! He’s uploaded again! Hussah!

[@teddyghioto]

All i need is cool tunes good bud and big waves

[@jnkoa33]

Excellent. Thank you very much

[@noneofyourbizness]

very interesting. love the closing line/word.

[@conorwho1240]

love that this was recommended to me at 2am

[@WoodysAR]

Great! First video I"ve been excited to click on in quite awhile! Did you make this?

[@thisguy555]

Figured I should watch the whole video before I commented so I backtracked and erased the first brainless thing I said. That out of the way, Great video! First one I’ve seen take into account the different topography and location of landmasses and all the while kept it light hearted 😂 nicely done 👍🏻

[@alexmeanin8049]

Very nice simulation, awesome work, accept my respect.

[@yahwehisfaithful2583]

Ty excellent video

[@gribbo001]

Hey Ingomar…can you do one for the supposed impact in southern Indian Ocean near Madagascar circa 5-6000 years ago? Live in Perth and apparently a 200m tsunami went over this area? Thanks. George

[@alexdetrojan4534]

Great simulation. 👍

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Great video very insightful 👍👍

[@avisionchrist]

Such a great video 🙏☀️

[@HC-cb4yp]

Seems like an odd coincidence that the Gulf of Mexico LOOKS like the rim of a crater but we consider the giant, killer meteor to only have created a much smaller crater in one small section of that area? I think the entire gulf IS the crater rim...

[@nomansland3840]

I got a question that no one can answer. But I'll ask anyway. Would it be felt or heard of you where in the salt lake area back than?.

[@onoken4531]

The magnitude of the facts gives me chills.

[@comradecid]

i found that running the video at 50% speed helps follow the progression on the animations in the rare instances he actually shows any

[@brettbrannon4775]

Great visual of this event😁

[@seanbaskett5506]

This is one of those channels run on pure passion. I have watched this for a while, and am utterly ashamed I never hit subscribe until now. In the same vein as that Dr. Schultz guy (and his light gas gun) you see on the Discovery Channel anytime an impact is being discussed. He goes nuts with every shot. So it is with science.

[@randymillhouse791]

Looking FORWARD to it! 👍

[@johngallo7383]

Bonkers! If that happened now... Life as we know it would change. For many! Thanks for the vid! 👍👍