[REAL ATC] California HIT BY A 7.1 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE | Major Airports Closed!

[@donprather742]

"We don't feel anything, Southwest 660".. I didn't realize piloting for Southwest was so emotionally draining.

[@analogman9697]

LOL!

[@mikereilly8776]

Ha.. you got in before me

[@IntoTheNothing1]

Flying for anyone is emotionally draining. Lol

[@MelodyStark]

That pilot is my spirit animal...

[@jonesjones7057]

@@IntoTheNothing1 haha. Exactly.

[@peterawsome]

I see some confusion in the comments so let me clear it up... This video is from July 5th of this year (07/05/19) referencing the 7.1 earthquake that hit Ridgecrest, there was also a 3.5 earthquake shortly after midnight last night on 10/20/19 in Compton. VASAviation just had funny timing with this video, again this video NOT referencing last nights smaller quake.

[@DanSlotea]

Some people have the attention span of a fly? It says 05/JUL/2019 right at the beginning 0:07

[@stevelewis9993]

JustaGthing thank you for clearing that up. Getting ready to call sister in CA to make sure she was ok.

[@danieldavis5622]

Shoutout to the SouthWest, “yeah it was hard to distinguish from that light breeze earlier” 😂😂😂😂

[@SWEmanque]

That explains the landings...

[@ke6gwf]

California pilot probably lol

[@beijingkoala4]

It wasn't an earthquake, my flight student was landing next door :D

[@justanotheraviator2357]

This is underrated

[@VASAviation]

Haha! Good one!

[@Belchmaster41]

@@VASAviation 7.1 is pretty strong, but I wonder why they didn't know that

[@LycanWitch]

just a fyi for those who arent from Southern California, those in the LA Area (such as myself), and LAX airport, the shaking was equivalent to an aftershock or small earthquake for us, as the earthquake occurred near Ridgecrest, CA and was centered about 120 miles away from Los Angeles/LAX

[@StarSaphire9981]

Really admire the ATC calmness despite the earthquake. They did an amazing job by continue doing their work despite the shaking. Very professional.

[@JohnF677]

I was surprised that they were still landing traffic during the quake and before a runway inspection had taken place.

[@bodybait]

landing versus take off. That was a triple 777 if it was coming from the pacific I am sure it just wants to land. You probably don't have an earth quake alternate. And you have no idea what is going to happen in the next 5 minutes. (get on the ground)

[@afh7689]

@@bodybait But they should have plenty of extra and reserve fuel to hold for at least an hour.

[@raidzor5452]

It is much easier and less expensive to hold a plane on the ground rather than in the air. Plus the departing one is much heavier, that’s why you need a runway inspection. Also it is relatively safe to land and take off from a runway during an earthquake as long as it doesn’t have any high objects nearby.

[@alejandroblanco2754]

An earthquake could open a gash in the runway and catch a gear

[@bodybait]

@@afh7689 Tell the captain that not me.

[@andrewnikolaev2387]

Hey man, thanks a lot for this materials. It helps us to make a good NON ROUTINE operations training with young atc’s. Good language skills. Phraseology. Assistance. Yeah, we don’t have something like this here in Russia. Thank you much.

[@VASAviation]

My pleasure!

[@iatsd]

Christ, no - never, ever use US ATC as a training model for anything other than how not to follow icao standards.

[@Dfpijgyt564s65sgt]

We’re gunna let the landing heavy 777 do the runways inspection, ops car you can stay put 😂😂😂

[@VMCAviationVideos]

Haha, how about instruct the 777 to go-around and do the runways inspection first

[@nmpls]

Couldn't tell it apart from wind. WN660 is the true Californian here.

[@carlozzz2205]

2:36 Top ten rappers that Eminem is afraid of

[@rxtrro]

underrated comment lmao

[@sherryc6228]

After dispatching for law-enforcement for eight years, air traffic controller‘s truly rock. For every ATC out there, thank you for your hard work, and keep your head up even after a bad day

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

Quite literally, for the ATCs in the tower during that earthquake.

[@stevenshillinger775]

Thank you VASAvaition for another great production. Much appreciated and good day.

[@VASAviation]

Thank you for watching!

[@heyjakeay]

Was my first earthquake experience being on holiday in LA... always interesting to hear the ATC side of things!

[@heyitsvos]

Legend has it it’s still shaking up there

[@frankunderwood1632]

Wow ! Real professionalism. Excellent video, thank you.

[@WendyKS93]

I've been through an earthquake and that was on the east coast and believe once was enough. May I hopefully never have to go through that again. Can't imagine what people in California go though where they have the big ones. Thanks for sharing this.

[@editsbyshock]

I was taxiing in Phoenix when the ground controller asked if anyone was feeling the ground move and said the cab was swaying side to side! We felt it all the way in Arizona!

[@TankTheSpank]

Wrong date lol. This happened in july

[@editsbyshock]

TankNSpank I know. As I said, we could feel this earthquake in Arizona.

[@FevnorTheWolf]

I didnt feel that one, but i know ALOT of people said they felt it as far east as Mesa. however, most of them said it was barely noticeable. Like oddities with water in pools and stuff.

[@comment2009]

To put this in perspective, the 1989 Loma Prieta quake shut down San Fran., Oakland, San Jose and numerous regional, municipal airports for a while. It initiated the rebuild / reinforcement of older towers in California.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Refresh my memory cuz I wasn't even alive at the time, but was that the quake where there was a baseball game going on and the stands were evacuated onto the field?

[@gregorytownsend9066]

HauntedShadowsLegacy yes

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

I remember this well from my perspective in Tennessee. Wasn’t a World Series game going on? I remember in those days, cable news was CNN and the first televised reports on location coming in were heartbreaking. The colossal damage done and lives lost on interstate highway over- and underpasses and elsewhere was unbelievable and horrendous. It took days to get to some of those people. We stayed glued to the 24-hr news coverage and it was awful. Our hearts went out to our Cali friends then, and continue to because we all know Cali sits on top of active faults.

[@crabbysaviation1056]

It wasn’t a earthquake it was Ryan air landing

[@jimjacobs1789]

Ryan Air at LAX? The guy must be just a little lost.

[@VMCAviationVideos]

WOW, I'm really surprised that they continue giving landing and takeoff clearances before they did the runway inspection.

[@CatBoiAnimationsIsEpic]

Bro i remember that earthquake! I live in northern california But i was visiting family in southern california for 4th of july... we were all playing apples to apples when everything started shaking so we all ran outside and i could see the powerlines outside of the house shaking! Its stop like 10 seconds later But it was very scary because i has never felt that big of an earthquake ever...

[@lvsluggo007]

I live in Las Vegas, and had just gotten home from a trip to San Diego. Was sitting at my computer checking email and all the sudden I felt like I was on a ship in heavy seas. First earthquake I'd felt in Las Vegas in quite some time. After hearing what a massive one it was it was no wonder we felt it in Las Vegas..

[@markmnorcal]

Pools in my town over 400 miles away were rolling.

[@CarlosSanchez-en6mr]

My god, it sounds like you’re telling a story of how it felt to be hit by an astroid, surprised you didn’t end it by saying “And I died”

[@CatBoiAnimationsIsEpic]

Ok it was not that bad, BUT at the moment it was terrifying. And i had not felt any earthquake in a few years so it was scary

[@V8_Diva]

My friends and I live within 20 miles of LAX, but luckily, we were in japan during the earthquake. It was midnight when we heard about it. We had left 7/3/19. Flew on AA169, 787-9 one of the nicer aircraft I've been on.

[@AaronShenghao]

Someone call the Rock

[@Sdfsoepvmsywocmzyw]

He’s busy owning the Kansas City Chiefs

[@captaincoleslaw174]

Not sure if you’re aware, there was a piper crash on final at KRDU yesterday. I’d love to hear the recordings.

[@census3370]

I was heading back home to LA from MZT. I had a connecting flight at PHX, we were on the taxiway heading for the runway until we got delayed because of the Earthquake. My mom felt it she said it was bad.

[@SW-uy1kr]

Must’ve been some damn good suspension on that thing

[@Quasihamster]

That moment when VASAviation brings you a video you expected from Suspicious Observers. :)

[@rustyneuron]

I like the professional economy of language on obviously crowded communications and chaotic situation.

[@chunkychuck]

A technical note, the Richter scale is not used, it is the Magnitude Moment scale.

[@iatsd]

So very very wrong

[@Trek001]

Maggie would have given the ground a good talking to and then took off

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

Trek001 • 😆👍

[@btrdangerdan2010]

John Wayne Airport is also very busy airspace too when the earthquake happened.

[@StephenCole1916]

I like my earthquakes the same way I like my drinks, shaken, not stirred...

[@jaimeblancopinto8130]

Can you please do a video showing some of the special handoffs/messages from ATC to QF7879 while preforming the 19hr 16 min flight?

[@VASAviation]

I don't think nothing interesting is in there

[@jaimeblancopinto8130]

VASAviation - oh alright 👍👍

[@stevecummings2703]

Surely if you feel you need a runway inspection you send the aircraft on final around? Don’t let it land if there’s a possibility of damage! The standards really are shit in the states.

[@juspain1]

Hey question, we had an earthquake in Utah today next to the airport and it shut the airport down for several hours. Is there anyway you could post the air traffic control tower conversation from that? Thanks 🙏🏻

[@marysmith-zy2sw]

yeah we tend to have those quite often

[@AkshayAshok]

Maybe the natures way of saying Happy ATC day..!!!

[@macjonte]

Do you have audio from Stockholm Arlanda ARN (Sweden)? There was a plane there today where the engine caught fire during takeoff. Flight LPA259 19:35 local time bound for a town called Karlstad (KST). Aircraft type is a Swedish made Turboprop Saab SF3 (340). Airplane capacity: 36. airline: Air Leap (airleap.se with no info, not on facebook page either.) everyone survived without injuries.

[@VASAviation]

Copied

[@nielsmallant2710]

0:46 "roger Im feeling it"*

[@hadrienperrin1830]

Thanks for the vid, I was in the hospital after my son was just born, it rolled pretty hard but thankfully only from side to side. Wasn't it reported at 6.9 in the end ?

[@DannyBeeVegas]

I live in Las Vegas and we felt it down here. I was actually in a casino when the main quake and one of the larger aftershocks and the chandeliers were shaking like crazy.

[@cubie3835]

This guy was so much calmer than the guy at Anchorage, here they're like: "We just lost our radar, use extreme caution!" The guy at Anchorage: "FEDEX, GO AROUND! FEDEX, GO AROUND!"

[@p.m.3082]

The epicenter for that 2018 quake was only about 12 miles from ANC. Also much of Anchorage is built on alluvial clay that is prone to liquefaction, I think the ceiling tiles were falling on those guys.

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

Anyone remember the plane landing during the movie Earthquake?

[@quinton1661]

This is a stark difference to the Anchorage PANC video "FEDEX HEAVY GO AROUND" "FEDEX HEAVY GO AROUND" - same magnitude, completely different type of earthquake.

[@poker_18rs92]

I wonder why they allowed the Delta 777 to land before inspecting the runway?

[@valjean2036]

PokerRun388 cause its delta .

[@abel1997at]

Vasa a United airlines flight UE59 777-300ER that was heading to San Francisco diverted to newark international airport is there any way u can find out why and make a vid out of it ?

[@LadyTarasque]

was randomly thinking the other night, that it's too bad we don't have anything from Japan's 2011 earthquake.. would have been really interesting to hear how things were handled during something of that magnitude o-o (feel like i'm being morbid wanting to hear the traffic from such a tragic event, even if no one died at the airports o-o [afaik])

[@chrisbam9635]

I’m scared because I was thinking about an earthquake and hoping it will never happen, and I saw this vid when I was thinking about it 😬

[@msjdb723]

Eerie.

[@DanSlotea]

Earthquakes will ALWAYS happen, no matter what you hope for.

[@hithere-iu4mk]

I was on a plane about to land at SAN when that happened

[@SnowFoxParty]

Glad you are okay

[@ryabow]

Minor correction to the opening description: earthquake was a 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale. I don't think any country uses Richter anymore

[@bullracing1]

Nah, My country is still using richter

[@VASAviation]

My country still uses Richter

[@ryabow]

@@VASAviation that's surprising, but alright. Here in the US, we switched like 2 decades ago to moment magnitude, cus Richter was inaccurate, and didn't have a measurement for more powerful earthquakes.

[@springbok4015]

Richter scale is incorrect. The magnitude is measured as Moment Magnitude Scale.

[@hyperspeed1313]

Earthquakes aren’t rated using the Richter scale despite the continued attachment to the term. 7.1 is most likely the moment magnitude of the earthquake, though USGS guidelines are to just say “magnitude” without stating the scale.

[@Nussholzmobiliar]

Hyperspeed1313 true, with a 7.1 richter scale the tower wouldnt be standing anymore!

[@VASAviation]

Roger

[@vanessaruiz4705]

@@Nussholzmobiliar why not? there are much bigger earthquakes than 7.1 and most buildings remain in place. In some countries, if properly prepared for earthquakes, all buildings withstand.

[@Nussholzmobiliar]

Mara Ram I might have neglected the fact that the epicenter was far away from the airport, thats pretty important factor :) sorry

[@Christopher-hx6xm]

The engine was running you probably cant feel right off

[@ahmadsamadzai8255]

I was in LA and thought I was having a major hangover from drinking too much the night before. lol

[@d2027132911]

Is it this one? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38905415/executive 3,5 Magnitude, not 7,1...

[@VASAviation]

See date at the beginning

[@aarohivijh]

At 3:00, Tower cleared Ops on to two runways in the same clearance.

[@natemcdonagh3760]

You moved to los angles who’s fault was that ? 😂

[@Hannymcfee]

I live in england so I never felt it

[@ghjiop23]

Really? Thought England was rather close.

[@raidzor5452]

0:48 It’s “Yeah, I’m feeling it”

[@krakenmetzger]

These California controllers are much calmer than Anchorage. FEDEX GO AROUND!

[@reynirheidbergstefansson2343]

That earthquake was a lot closer to ANC than this was to LAX.

[@rriverz6836]

I remember feeling this

[@terrylyu6881]

What's shakin, tower

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

Flying is safer than driving .

[@StigsCanadianCousin]

How can they land without checking the runway but not depart?

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Probably smth about avoiding running out of fuel? I do believe they'd've been fine for a few minutes, tho.

[@joespittle1]

I got scared and thought it happened last night or smtg

[@saintchuck9857]

Why would you be scared of an earthquake that happened last night?

[@Nilguiri]

They asked for a runway inspection and yet cleared aircraft to land before it was done? Sounds legit.

[@m_swizzy22]

Ryanair are good at funding earthquake quality landings

[@arham-abbas]

Comments counter says 1 I see 4 Yeah KZbin is broke.... And by the way those controllers do an amazing job they were like can't leave the building for just an earthquake. Gotta save the planes first!

[@juliusreiner5733]

Can someone please clarify why the tower references San Diego

[@Jason-dg5we]

That wasnt the tower that was approach control telling the airplanes in the air that it was rolling down in san diego, thats where the tracon is located

[@locomike1219]

"moment magnitude" scale, not Richter.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Yup, Richter's been out of fashion for decades.

[@margaretmathis4775]

Scary!

[@afh7689]

Very surprised the pilots would land and not want to hold for a few minutes for an inspection.

[@cedricye1767]

When I land in GeoFS

[@leechjim8023]

I thought this was in' 94!

[@꿀벌-x6o]

Does anyone know what date this took place on?

[@kin0025]

Video says 05 July 2019 at the start

[@PrograError]

see start of video

[@꿀벌-x6o]

Thanks

[@DanSlotea]

0:07

[@3516mos]

So is this real time?

[@kin0025]

5th July

[@DanSlotea]

0:07

[@AccountInactive]

0:48 we'll be enroute 😋

[@phapnui]

Is the Big One coming?

[@andiirdiansyah3154]

Happy atc international day

[@ELGee1]

When was this? 7.1 ??

[@DanSlotea]

did you watch the video? It says when, at 0:07

[@ELGee1]

@@DanSlotea skipped to the audio

[@Jeff-sc1gh]

lol I was shook when the earthquake hit

[@jakey2_085]

I felt this and also wrote the transcript for this

[@terrymalone6086]

What do you mean saying you "wrote the transcript for this"?

[@freddy4672]

I call clickbait if you don’t pick the date in the title.

[@VASAviation]

Roger

[@vanessaruiz4705]

clickbait means the video doesnt show what the title says, and that is not the case.

[@optic3894]

It says the date in the beginning of the video

[@saintchuck9857]

Then you're an idiot

[@Exentity]

Hey vasaviation!!

[@VASAviation]

Hey!

[@TankTheSpank]

This happened July 5th 2019

[@jakesnussbuster3565]

No shit, as the video says

[@markmnorcal]

Anyone else see that meteor last night 9pm Pac. Time.?

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

Click Bait title. The date should be in the title.

[@vanessaruiz4705]

.... no. The video shows exactly what the title says. That's not click bait. Also he put the date on the first seconds of video so if you dont want to watch it just close it.

[@saintchuck9857]

How is the title clickbait?

[@rogerscottcathey]

Why do people think its funny to start a sentence with a retort or reply to a proposition? A query is turned into an assertion. Like "When" or "That moment" tropes have proliferated and evidently the penners dont realise the massive groans they've elicited. They are the new puns of the internet. They are embarrassingly trite. Theyre not even stupid enough to be funny.

[@saintchuck9857]

What are you on about?

[@jbreezy101]

Change the title

[@VASAviation]

Why?

[@ocsrc]

First I am hearing about an earthquake in L.A. News doesn't report the news anymore

[@testfortester7131]

Fake

[@VASAviation]

Fake? Oh no! This really happened

[@patcat75011]

It was a 2.6 not 7.1

[@jaanfo3874]

July 5th, 2019. Earthquake was a 7.1 centered near Ridgecrest, CA (about 120 miles NE of LAX)

[@DanSlotea]

0:07. You didn't watch the video.

[@Jack-zy6ik]

my father diead on that southwest flight... RIP DAD

[@gmagain]

Which southwest flight? There were no plane crashes caused by the earthquake...

[@grundergesellscahftmkii6196]

What ?

[@Lanzottv]

I think that was last year’s accident (flight 1380). The flight in this video and last year’s are NOT the same kid but yes same airlines. Rip tho

[@cyclingcycles7953]

@@Lanzottv The passenger who unfortunately died on that flight was a woman, so I don't even know what OP is talking about.

[@OmgMyutubeaccount]

@@cyclingcycles7953 just someone looking for attention