Putting Your Finger on a Plate Boundary Fault!

[@WillowMoon2.0]

Bro touches the fault and unleashes a massive earthquake

[@OutThereLearning]

🤣

[@epic2993]

No nuts involved

[@kamilmeno1]

Yeah, just errupted here in iceland and its a big one, coincidence?

[@prodquindle]

"My fault."

[@SSS333-AAA]

It’s his villain power, he is known as the “Thug Shaker” and he Quakes the Earth with his evil plates.

[@MissesWitch]

Put your finger on the fault ❌ Repair the fault ✅

[@OutThereLearning]

;-)

[@verticalflyingb737]

Ah yes, casually applying flex seal on it, with several strips of flex tape for reinforcement, on a geological fault. Earthquakes are no more, millions will prosper.

[@mr_pigman1013]

@@verticalflyingb737earthquakes have fallen; billions must prosper

[@borekminer]

@@verticalflyingb737were gonna need to do that in a couple more places than just one

[@German_empire_1917]

You can't repair any plateau boundery fault.

[@Drakonus_]

Makes me wonder how strong that damn squirrel was.

[@Shadoxite]

We pay respects to the beloved squirrel 🐿🥜

[@dudemakememes878]

Scrat is a giga Chad, no one can kill him, even god because he's literally the god

[@Bajongus]

@@dudemakememes878that is literally the worst term possible to describe how powerful scrat is

[@dudemakememes878]

@@Bajongus skibidi rizz

[@justin_steen]

@@dudemakememes878 I am going to touch you

[@mbsaxman600]

I never knew plate boundaries could be seen this easily on the surface! That's so awesome!!

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep!

[@pengtwob]

have u even seen the san andreas fault?

[@jainysail2941]

And so thin at the same time, I thought they going to be huge tho, like the boundaries were like 1 kilometer huge line of hilly rocks, or smth like that...

[@thehistorical5928]

If you have seen a mountain or mountain range before there normally where the two fault lines meet

[@user-nk4td9bg6w]

@outtherelearning cool channel and answers, you deserve way more subs. should be allowed to transfer a couple million subs over to you from the hundreds of other useless brain-rot channels!

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

It's really nobody's fault, sometimes these plates just break. 😁

[@OutThereLearning]

:-)

[@complimentary_voucher]

Arrrgghghhhhhh!!!

[@reverseuniverse2559]

Mumma! Mia!! not!!! the! terracotta!!

[@StevenLubick]

Groan

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Noice

[@johnalexir7634]

What did one plate say to the other when blamed for an earthquake? "It's not my fault!"

[@OutThereLearning]

😄

[@Ellygator]

Awesome

[@drbasil]

🤣

[@mikehawk6918]

GET OUT

[@yagneshraviteja]

😂😂😂​@@mikehawk6918

[@shimrrashai-rc8fq]

Truly amazing to think that a seemingly innocent-looking "little" crack could actually be a profound Earth structural feature. I mean, you could literally miss that without a thought if you didn't know just where you were at and weren't looking specifically for it.

[@OutThereLearning]

Indeed so!

[@CTzons]

A good example of Looks can be decieving

[@Khann_2102]

​@@CTzons Yep, happens a lot in nature

[@mrcat5508]

@@OutThereLearningyou should watch Tom Scott’s video on this

[@jamesl8542]

is this a joke are are yall dumb?

[@rustyp69]

when tectonic plates were taught to me in preschool, I thought my teacher meant that there were invisible dinner plates hovering around in the air all around us

[@OutThereLearning]

I hope you have a different idea now?

[@PixelPalettes]

@@OutThereLearningNo, no, this is objectively funnier.

[@FakenameStevens]

I thought they were shaped like plates but more spherical so as to fit around the earth

[@BowChickaWow]

We can make a religion out of this

[@asxp2433]

my dad taught me them when i was very young and he used dinner plates as a demonstration so i didnt get the idea out of my head for years

[@TheKoosterify]

OP: *puts a finger and the plate break People in Japan: YAMEROOOOOO!!!!!!

[@imgvillasrc1608]

*Japan sinking intensifies*

[@zeeshanrabbani8125]

why did i read this in a anime voice 😂

[@CTzons]

*Fukushima is recreated in 2024*

[@Khann_2102]

Bro 😭

[@yussmarnawbri9415]

why i imagining the terrfied nhk news reader on 311 videos😂

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

Imagine if just putting a slight bit of pressure on that fault intersection could cause entire earthquakes in multiple countries 😳

[@OutThereLearning]

Sshhh! :-)

[@mikehawk6918]

If that were possible the USA would have weaponized it already

[@barlin4972]

I am glad that's not the reality! Imagine that kind of "godly" power in human hands.. :s

[@CTzons]

That would be very "bad" wouldn't it

[@HackerMann203]

It requires the most unexpected tool to do so A nut

[@michaelwoodhams7866]

This reminds me of a time when I was at a small evolution conference in Kaikura. We took a side trip to see the K-Pg boundary in a little gorge carved by a stream. The problem was that, while we knew it was there somewhere, we didn't have a geologist with us, so we had troubles locating it. Eventually we decided it was where there was the highest density of drilled holes, which we figured were from (probably student) geologists taking cores.

[@OutThereLearning]

Sounds like Woodside Creek. You are quite right, the KPg boundary is where the drill holes are.

[@arkansasoutpost]

There's a K-PG boundary layer exposed near Trinity Colorado. No drill holes, but you can see where the boundary's been dug out by collectors.

[@confuseatronica]

I took a class on earthquakes and volcanoes in college, and we had a field trip to FREMONT, CA to look at the Hayward fault. We walked all over town tracing the fault and seeing the surface effects, and the last stop was in a bar that was right on the fault and had a crack going through the concrete floor and into the ladies room. edit- my bad, it wasn't Hayward, it was Fremont which is the next town southeast of Hayward.

[@OutThereLearning]

Nice one lol!

[@d4b]

There's a small creek in Oakland that flows down a hill, makes a 90° turn as it then follows the Hayward fault for maybe 50 meters, and then another 90° turn as it continues down its "original" path from about 50 centuries ago. I took a picture of my standing with one foot on each side of the creek, as the earth ripped my feet apart at the blistering speed of one meter per century.

[@OutThereLearning]

@@d4b We have many similar offset rivers and other landforms in NZ too kzbin.info/www/bejne/gobWenyArN2Dj7csi=xuLN7Lzyqd1zeFRS

[@d4b]

​@@OutThereLearning Neat video; thanks! I think the difference is that the Hayward fault is constantly moving, more or less steadily, so the water was able to gradually follow the fault and use the same exit channel.

[@presidentskroob522]

Hi, I'm the female crack inspector Second door on the left...

[@ortherner]

Never knew plate boundaries could be very easily seen like this. I think seeing this plate boundary during an Earthquake would be very awesome.

[@OutThereLearning]

Even though the Alpine fault is hundreds of kilometres long, there aren't many locations at all where it is exposed like this. This is the best known. Cheers

[@米空軍パイロット]

You should look at the San Andreas Fault in California. Because it is a transform fault line, you can see where hills have been split and offset from their other halves.

[@snicklefritzed]

My tiny country (Costa Rica) sits on like 5 plates. I'd LOVE to see the fault where most of em' come together and grind and shift against each other

[@ForumArcade]

Why does your description sound sexual to me? Have I been on the internet too long?

[@DBT1007]

Wait what? You love to see them grinding? 🤔🤨⁉️

[@hexateron]

my condolences for the earthquakes

[@snicklefritzed]

@@DBT1007 I would love to see the spot where they all/most come together and witness it, yes. The fact that it happens is tragic and inevitable, I'd just like to see the fault with such detail like in this video.

[@worfoz]

Costa Rica only has one plate: Casado. The other ones do not matter.

[@lemancitriton260]

Legend has it, the squirrel is still causing it

[@embeddd]

that damn squirrel

[@user-jn7bq8wh1e]

Hey..his name is Scrat! And he's a sabre tooth squirrel

[@orangecitrus8056]

immortal tectonic god

[@billwindsor4224]

And click on this man’s video, “The Greatest Ever On-Land Fault Movement.” He is right there measuring the fault movement on the land, with both a drone and a long tape measure. It’s awesome 🏆🏆.

[@OutThereLearning]

Why thank you very much!

[@vladimirlenin5106]

0:18 you can say the earth is biting his finger

[@VPCh.]

Interesting, I'm surprised that it would be so well defined. I work in a greenstone shear zone type gold deposit and our shear zones are much less distinct. The fault zones are composed of hundreds of smaller faults and there isn't one single contact, but just many smaller ones and deformed zones.

[@BuilderBob1]

I legitimately thought this was some 3D mountain range model you had until I noticed the wet mud. Very cool stuff!

[@blackpanther6389]

Interesting. Would've been nice to see a wider shot or more panning of your surroundings. I couldn't feel the scope of such a planetary feature with the angles.

[@OutThereLearning]

This video has wider views: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8k

[@blackpanther6389]

@@OutThereLearning Thank you, just checked it out!

[@KarunaMurti]

I've touched the boundary too between Philliphine Sea Plate, Amurian plate, and Okhotsk microplate in Boso peninsula, Japan. Cooler than country boundaries.

[@trashwebsite_user01]

This is the coolest thing that ive seen in a while! Never thought id see something like this ... Kudos!

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks! That's great!

[@lancew5287]

From Costa Rica - thank you so much Julian for wonderfully presented videos! While on my one-and-only visit to NZ North Island a few years back I was constantly amazed at the unique rock formations which abound over there. 'Castlepoint', situated on the Eastern side of the Island was for me particularly fascinating.

[@OutThereLearning]

My pleasure!

[@BandidFourLife]

This is what I wanted to study along with Paleontology. It always fascinated me to see clear as day the physical evidence of the changes our world has gone thru.

[@wiregold8930]

Thank you for sharing. That little clip made my day!

[@OutThereLearning]

Great!

[@TheBigV_008]

Scary to think there must be some chance to lose your finger while you're touching the fault line, right? Like, what if the fault triggered at that exact moment and the plates overlapped, snapping your finger off!

[@OutThereLearning]

I'd probably also get buried in a rock fall...

[@TheBigV_008]

@@OutThereLearning Yeah lol, the "snap" would be a little bigger...big enough to devour you 😂

[@NathanHiberDive]

I'm sceptical it's that simple, wouldn't there be many cracks running in the vicinity of the double plate joint making it difficult to determine which belongs to which?

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for your question. The rocks on each side of the fault are absolutely distinct. You can see better on this more detailed video if you are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8ksi=yqtK0PBgUiSinaJJ Cheers

[@NathanHiberDive]

@@OutThereLearning Thanks, that video's certainly very well explained and convincing.

[@mo2cubing]

Reminds me of the Doctor Who quote when he was talking about a crack in a wall: "two pieces of space and time that should never have touched."

[@ElvisPresley4Hire]

Please a video marking a spot to see the spots move away from each other. Never doubted faults before but might as well prove it.

[@OutThereLearning]

In New Zealand the faults are mostly locked - meaning there is no movement along them except during earthquakes. Here is a GNS video that illustrates the point kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKPbpKB_fcaem5Isi=jxIAmic-A_kll2-M And here is another to show what happens to a marker across the fault when there is a quake: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIfXpXaknKhgodEsi=caZBhf13POytQbcj

[@ElvisPresley4Hire]

@@OutThereLearningthanks for that. Very kind

[@marasini]

Few days back, here in Nepal we got an opportunity for similar thing. It was plate boundary?? between Indian Plate and Euroasian Plate

[@OutThereLearning]

Wow!

[@German_empire_1917]

​@Dr.Kraig_RenThe thing that Indian landmass is shrinking due to collision between tectonic plates and at the speed of 2mm per year means if you're woke up 365 days later, you can see that Indian landmass is reduced.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

Interesting. So interesting in fact, that I may or may not randomly remember this at some point in the future.

[@beachbum4691]

Two reasons to "subscribe", the excellence of what is offered on this channel, and the wonderfully irreverent comments below :) = "it was already broken Mum, it wasn't me"

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks!

[@tomtommyl805]

and you can see a tiny little side fault caused by the main fault. Just like there is on other large faults (like all those little side faults near the San Andreas.) cool.

[@RandoComandoStudios]

hey would you mind taping those together thankssss really tired of the earthquakes

[@OutThereLearning]

Sure, next time I am down there 🙂

[@Hello_there497]

Wait wasn't it supposed to have fold mountains there? Perhaps the plates have decided to live together peacefully:)

[@OutThereLearning]

The fault is right beside the Southern Alps which are being pushed up to the East

[@atharvupadhyay4178]

That damn squirrel again

[@hoelefouk]

Did you try pushing one?

[@OutThereLearning]

Nooooooooooo! :-)

[@tudorique24]

can't wait for this to get 1 million views.

[@OutThereLearning]

That would be great :-)

[@DanielKolbin]

one of the touchings of all time

[@Klinoklaz]

i thought the two types of rock would be more distinguishable. the rocks don't look so different despite they are from two plates

[@OutThereLearning]

if you stand back a bit at the location you can see the difference very clearly, but they seem similar in this short clip. This video shows better if you are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8k

[@shedontanks]

Wow bloody brilliant pal

[@davidbarnes241]

Fascinating video, straight to the point and no waffling 👏👏👏

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks!

[@portechella]

Waffling 😂

[@michaelgrey7854]

Do you know my brother, Alan Grey? He is a geologist that works for NIWA.

[@OutThereLearning]

Not yet 🙂

[@ZarHakkar]

How big of a wedge would you have to drive into there before we start having a problem?

[@OutThereLearning]

Earthquakes / fault ruptures originate several kilometres down in the crust at a minimum, so messing around with it at the surface won't do much

[@melonbobful6940]

Is the boundary as discrete as a single crack? At the scale of a map of the whole south island you can point and say that part is the australian plate and over there is the pacific plate, but when you zoom in as close as you were at this site, is the plate boundary really as discrete a demarcation as one narrow, well defined crack or is it more of a wider zone tens of metres wide?

[@OutThereLearning]

Great question. It is in fact a discrete line as shown in the video. The rocks on either side are very different, with Pacific Plate rocks having been uplifted from around 30km depth and the Australian Plate rocks being superficial glacial gravels

[@melonbobful6940]

@@OutThereLearning Cool. Thanks for the info and that Gaunt Creek site is pretty special that's for sure. As scary as severe earthquake shaking is, it'd be so awesome to be there, during daytime, looking at the exact spot when it ruptured during the earthquake to see the surface rupture as it happens. That has to be your next video 😛.

[@OutThereLearning]

@@melonbobful6940 😏

[@LeroxYT]

If the plates move, like when a earthquake happens, would that rock there then grow? Because the pacific plate is overlapping the australian plate and goimg up.

[@OutThereLearning]

The rocks on the uplifted side would form a bit of an overhanging cliff that would largely collapse due to the shaking.

[@SC-RGX7]

So the geologist please help me, is that a new mountain or mountain range forming? Are the Collision of the plates converging , diverging or moving opposite to each other horizontally?

[@nighthawktt]

I love learning from these posts you upload. Thanks kindly for sharing knowledge 👍

[@OutThereLearning]

Cheers!

[@MeowImages]

Maybe a dumb question, but how would one know that this is the exact boundary line, and not just some random crack in a random rock? Both sides look similar to me

[@OutThereLearning]

Very fair question. The location has been studied by geologists for years. If you are interested this video should provide the answer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8k

[@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ]

Its all just really big rocks with cracks that shift all over at the end of the day

[@kiwizeppelin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8ksi=S2WwAmHkXDcvUgZv

[@carolineandrews7231]

I would love to go there and touch these plates for myself, just incredible. I am lucky enough to live in Aotearoa NZ, and I have walked/tramped/struggled!! up a river near Seddon where earthquakes tumbled massive boulders into the river, ( I'm not sure now of the name of the river), but now sadly unable to. Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge with us on these amazing videos on this channel for us to learn and enjoy.

[@OutThereLearning]

Thanks for enjoying the videos and sharing your enthusiasm! !

[@arkansasoutpost]

It doesn't look like much, but knowing that it's a plate boundary gives it a high Wow! Factor. I might go hunting for a geological boundary in Colorado this year. There are a couple of tuff formations (Fish Canyon and Carpenter Ridge tuffs) exposed near Alamosa, and I've tried to find a place where the transition is visible. No luck so far.

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep!

[@siddrokzinator]

Is it possible to insert a walnut between the two layers?? Asking for a squirell friend...

[@randomgeographer4410]

Make several photos and come back next year to see if there are differences. Ther have to be slight few centimeters of shift.

[@OutThereLearning]

No gradual movement. Been tested.

[@evilsharkey8954]

I would have thought the Pacific Plate would be the subducting plate, or is it a strike slip fault?

[@OutThereLearning]

Mainly strike slip, with a component of uplift to the east (Southern Alps). Continental vs continental collision, no subduction.

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

I'm guessing this fault goes way deep, right to the bottom of the plates. When there's an eartquake slip is there enough heat from the friction to melt the rock, locally, and would this molten rock lubricate the slip enough to make the slip even bigger?

[@builderbuilder616]

That top surface of the Australian plate, is exactly how I'd imagine the surface to look like. All ground up, fractured rock as though it's been through a stone crusher.. 👌

[@OutThereLearning]

Yep

[@farpurple]

Are they relatively moving ornonly when earthquake? Or those are stable?

[@OutThereLearning]

They don't move except during earthquake ruptures. Ie they don't creep slowly between earthquakes, cheers

[@_Mazarine]

I believe this was from when about the Washington area and Australia were smashing together and breaking apart many times, correct?

[@_S.H_]

I am interested in Geology and would love to know how scientists determine this is the fault line.

[@OutThereLearning]

This video should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8k

[@sa5er1234]

How can we tell you are not just pointing towards a random rock there?

[@OutThereLearning]

That is a very fair point. This video should show you more of the context: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8ksi=dNJxg_27_oh3IhxC

[@Zcon18]

Are you sure? I thought that plates had more of a griadent then that there wasn't any spesific region that was this plate then another. Tom Scott points this out when talking about "the bridge between contents" for the North American plate and the Eurasian Plate, the bridge doesn't really connect the two different plates: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5zLlml_jp6Viq8

[@OutThereLearning]

The video link on the description will show more clearly that it is a precise boundary

[@VoxelMusic]

That damn squirrel

[@OutThereLearning]

I know...

[@AdityaKantKushwaha]

Maybe you just touched the tallest mountain peak of Future Earth

[@robertlipka9541]

Different plates but same rock on both sides? OR this is just a crack roughly along plates?

[@OutThereLearning]

Very different rock on both sides! The Pacific Plate rock is highly mrtamorphosed, having been pushed up from over 30km depth over a long period of time. The Austr Plate rocks are young glacial gravels

[@Deezorz]

Wouldn’t this constantly be ever so slightly grinding over each other? I’d expect to see dust coming off from vibrations and it actually being potentially dangerous to be near

[@OutThereLearning]

Nope. It only moves during an earthquake rupture, roughly every 250 to 300 years.

[@Deezorz]

@@OutThereLearning aah that makes sense. Thanks!

[@yocats9974]

I expected him to mention that he could feel some kind of vibration

[@skrrrrrrrrt]

Are there any other places on earth where you can see plate boundaries on land?

[@OutThereLearning]

Yes - quite a few - the San Andreas fault in California or the Anatoli Fault in Turkey are a couple of examples

[@mattlm64]

How do you define the boundary so precisely? I'd have thought there would be multiple cracks along the fault-line. It doesn't look like two types of rock unless that is the case?

[@OutThereLearning]

The rock types are very distinct. See this other more detailed video if you are interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8ksi=UBy2JZQh2GF8aCFv

[@mattlm64]

@@OutThereLearning OK thanks, will take a look.

[@roger5059]

This is a cool video but i don't think these are two different continental plates. The whole topic is pretty complex but i would recommend a video by tom schott about the continental plates in iceland.

[@OutThereLearning]

Have a look at the video on the description. It will give you more context.

[@Angryslimee]

​@@OutThereLearning I think Roger5059 was trying to say the crack we see on the surface of the Earth is not the actual boundary between the tectonic plates. The actual boundary is deep underground where the two tectonic plates meet. So the "placing my finger on the plate boundary fault" doesn't really make sense since it just for being at a location where the effects of the tectonic plate movements can be observed.

[@flyingproofficial]

Bro forgot he ain't scrat

[@benjamingreenan1313]

“And now I can put my finger on that fault” famous last words

[@OutThereLearning]

🙂

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

To the average person this would have just been another rock with a crack Thank you for pointing out the significance of this

[@OutThereLearning]

True - you would easily walk past it without realising!

[@colinc892]

I can't believe these are in our stars. Amazing

[@seansingh4421]

Keep an eye for a squirrel with an acorn. He might just be lurking around near this fault

[@arbendit4348]

Now grab a drill and start drilling the fault until you hear a rumbling sound

[@Garthaxius]

what happens if you try to push them apart? could you make a gap if you had enough leverage?

[@OutThereLearning]

That would be difficult, as the fault is compressional, having pushed up the Southern Alps over the last 10 million years! You would have to push the tectonic plates into reverse!

[@PeterS-r4o]

So given the amount of movement on the fault how come there isn't much more shattering of the material adjacent to it ?

[@OutThereLearning]

That's a good question. Infact the rock on the Pacific plate is really mushed up (Fault Gouge, Cataclasite) and highly metamorphosed. It is much older and has been crushed along the fault for much longer than the young glacial gravels of the Australian plate.

[@minimino9878]

Does tham mean the Australian plate subducted?

[@Gameboi9865]

The way the camera shakes when he touches the fault, making it look like an earthquake is gonna happen 😭

[@iceleague012]

Another great video, thanks for sharing! We're lucky to live in such a geologically interesting part of the Earth, and even luckier to have this channel ;)

[@mastershooter64]

wow that's so cool!

[@OutThereLearning]

It is!

[@15secondsdrawings]

What type of rock is that?

[@OutThereLearning]

Relatively young gravels on the right, fault gouge and cataclasite on the left.

[@deolihp]

I’m ignorant here but how was the fault line found to the T ?

[@OutThereLearning]

Fair question. The rocks on either side are totally different. If you watch the video link in the description it should give you the picture.

[@deolihp]

@@OutThereLearningthank you

[@Deliveredfromevil]

Oh wow that’s so cool!!!

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

Two plates touching. Kind of sus 🤨

[@CHUNKYNUGGET666]

Why isn’t there grind marks between them? Why does it look like a rock that’s cracked in half? I’m surprised not to see empty spaces, instead of each side sharing the same diverts and rises along the crack.. weird

[@OutThereLearning]

Great question. Have a look at this longer video which shows more detail of the fault close up, especially towards the end: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHu2Y42He9aFq8k

[@eihcra_]

how does one find a plate boundary

[@OutThereLearning]

Great question. You look at the rocks and landscapes at a regional scale, and then find the fault line where two quite different environments meet. Years of geological mapping, building up the picture

[@maxopaladinos]

So if those places move a bit, is it possible that magma (lava) would leak a bit?

[@OutThereLearning]

No - there is no active volcanism associated with the Alpine Fault,cheers

[@maxopaladinos]

@@OutThereLearning Cheers! 🥂

[@cosmicturbulence]

Thanks for the video! Are they mylonites in this area?

[@mushmello526]

How do you know it's that crack and not the one besides it?

[@chaosruby9792]

Transform is sliding, they are plate boundaries!

[@curtisbrummitt5470]

dude would've split the planet in half if he pushed a bit harder

[@timkimmel9935]

I guess that's another valid reason to want to go to New Zealand.

[@staryoshi06]

Wouldn’t want to drop your keys in there.

[@dylanbuchanan6511]

“Heh, I wonder if I push just a WEEEEE bit harder…” *crack* “Oh SH**!”

[@ChaosXOtaku]

some duct tape would fix that right up

[@dastanjan320]

So when an earthquake hits, these cracks can be visibly seen moving and rubbing one another?

[@OutThereLearning]

Absolutely!

[@SupersuMC]

​@@OutThereLearning Wouldn't that be something to watch.

[@Aranimda]

There's nothing that a bit of ducttape can't fix.

[@StudioUAC]

I always wondered. could you start an earthquake if you set of a stick of dynamite on the fault line?

[@OutThereLearning]

No, earthquakes start off a minimum of several kilometres below the surface.

[@samuelleandro2275]

I don't think you understand that it would be a dynamite stick against two entire tectonic plates that have an average weight of 40 sextillion tons. Can a bacteria move you by hitting your skin?

[@C4Cole05]

So what you're saying is for the price of plane ticket and a hammer and chisel I can potentially change the course of the earth forever... Count me in!

[@OutThereLearning]

Not guaranteed, but you could try :-)