The Earthquake That Lasted Two Centuries

[@koriuk5032]

"We'll call them umm Mike... and Alistair... because those are their names" Oh you rascal Hank!

[@theanthill22]

I came here to say this but less whimsical British nanny and more lazy American space nerd.

[@OmegaMegalodon]

should call them Tom and Jerry. lol

[@denizhantutar1680]

"My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but people call me Giorgio"

[@mrfreekill]

Seems like a shot at Ray William Johnson who never uses anyone's names but makes them up all the time.

[@bramstedt8997]

@@mrfreekillonly us old folk would get that reference

[@4RILDIGITAL]

The magnitude of these events is genuinely awe-inspiring. It almost grants a new perspective on the grand timeline of our planet.

[@timgibson3754]

Yep It's great to just jabber away

[@xpndblhero5170]

That's awesome your hair is going back to normal.... You should see Paul Brodies hair after his treatments. It went from curly to poofy and he says it's a different texture too.... So cool to see so many people being treated for cancers and getting better, it makes me confident in the treatments. Keep up the great work Hank and Sci Show crew... 😊❤

[@magnusbjarni]

I don't think most people really realize how fast new cancer treatments are being developed, how many cancers are getting tackled and how good cancer treatments are becoming. I mean, in the 60's, cancer was basically a death sentence. In the 80's your chances were bleak, but much better. But you weren't likely to live for long. In the 2000's, it was getting better, but still kinda considered a death sentence and treatments were still brutal. Today, cancer treatment can be far less intrusive, takes less time and fewer surgeries. Your odds of surviving cancer are not just higher, but odds of it not returning are better than even just a few years ago. Cancers are still deadly and will continue to be one of the top causes of deaths in humans, but our methods of fixing cancer's and various other diseases has gotten so much better than in the future, brain diseases will become the biggest threat and are probably already gonna be responsible for more deaths than not on a yearly basis. Diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia or Parkinson's. It's not just a win for Hank, his family and friends or his audience, but it's a win for humanity. We are getting better at treating cancers and survival rates are improving every year.

[@xpndblhero5170]

@@magnusbjarni - Exactly my point, it's gotten so good now that people go in w/ a growing tumor and come out weeks later w/ no tumor because of treatment and surgery that removed all of it but back then they could barely shrink a tumor.... Now we have options for treatment before surgery, if it's needed at all, it's so crazy but also super cool.

[@justalonesoul5825]

@@xpndblhero5170 Yeaaah but still mostly if you have enough money to pay for treatments. Specially if you want the new ones. Or the ones barely available or still practically experimental, then we're talking huge money. In some "developped" countries, your health insurance will cover some of these treatments. But I've heard there's at least one of the biggest, most advanced countries on Earth that doesnt even provide universal healthcare to its citizens, so we're back to being able to pay for all of it. Or you're left to your own device... Meanwhile, that one country has military spendings superior to all the 9 other countries below it on the list, combined. Choices were made. Yeah, treatments are getting incredibly more efficient. I've worked myself on stability analysis of some of those newer ones involving cytotoxics linked to antibodies. Yet, many cancer patients in the world will never benefit from them. A tad depressing if you ask me.

[@justalonesoul5825]

@@magnusbjarni Please read my comment above for a first point I wanted to make in this convo ; and to your own comment (which has absolutely nothing "wrong" with it), I wanted to add that unfortunately, while we're making huge progress in how to treat cancer, we're still doing very little to address the actual causes, which on the contrary, come from problems that are in fact intensifying in some or most instances, like all out pollution, from the air we breathe to the food we eat or the water we drink. At least, hopefully, our knowledge is building up and maybe someday enough people will see that it's our way of life and our human societies in themselves that are causing many of those cancer cases. And treatments will remain difficult or impossible to access for many patients without massive policy changes.

[@ashafenn]

Every time i watch something about volcanos i remember my older brother telling me when i was about three that volcanos were how the earth farted.

[@ferretyluv]

That would be more like geysers. A volcano is more like diarrhea.

[@anyascelticcreations]

You made me literally laugh out loud. Thanks for that. 😂

[@bazpearce9993]

Sounds fair to me. A fart is just biological outgassing.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Cute!

[@johannageisel5390]

He is not wrong. And subduction zones are where the Earth noms up its old skin.

[@tenchuu007]

Have scientists considered the possibility of a Missouri kaiju stirring in its sleep?

[@lorekeeper685]

Probably

[@sophierobinson2738]

😊

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Yeah but there’s no way Missouri would be that interesting so it can’t be true

[@bridgetsmith8196]

@@teathesilkwing7616 😂😂😂😂 as someone living in Missouri I can confirm

[@StormTheSquid]

Paul Bunyon is a Kaiju and had decided to visit the state.

[@TheDexCrafter]

Hanks curly era, im all for it! :)

[@andrewgrasman8951]

I love it he looks so great

[@thehellyousay]

my mother had that happen after her chemotherapy, too. it didn't stay curly.

[@lakrids-pibe]

The broccoli haircut is so hot right now.

[@alterherrentspannt]

Hank looks off-brand in that T-shirt, and his curly hair. ;D

[@maebhryan3040]

"We'll call them Mike and Alistair, because those are their names" 😁

[@killerlork]

This slayed me

[@halfatrex4555]

I always love talking to people about New Madrid. My university was in the areas that have those earthquakes (though there were apparently aftershocks all the way up to Peoria from one when I was younger) and me and one of my music profs spent more time talking about that in one of my lessons than we did music related things.

[@Nazuiko]

Peoria mentioned let's gooooo

[@MrScorpianwarrior]

@@NazuikoHuge win

[@timgibson3754]

so

[@justalonesoul5825]

I like to think that there might actually be some "musical" aspect in it, in fact. Like with periodicity etc. Just that the scale is way too big for our senses. A very loud and powerful Earth song ;-)

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Good to see you looking so well Hank. Great episode, a bunch of new facts I'd not heard of before.

[@emraldmars]

I love that you touched on the New Madrid earthquakes and the sheer weirdness of the fault zone, it is what got me into geology. Interestingly enough, most of the zone is in the path of totality, and I want to try to make it to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, just north of New Madrid

[@cyrilio]

OMG, Hank has curly hair now!

[@kariannecrysler640]

lol My curls got cut as a child & came back in my late teens. It worked out because the whole time it was straight, feathered hair was a thing lol

[@DrakonBlake]

He looks more like John Green than ever

[@MissingTiramisu]

Ever heard of a perm? Not saying that’s true but what better time to do such a thing?

[@jocaleb0236]

@@MissingTiramisuit’s from chemo I think! It does a lot to your body and can mess with hair growth permanently

[@Dr904]

Apparently. After having cancer, some peoples hair grow out looking very different

[@danielhale1]

There's a lot of channels/videos out there that will lure me in with an interesting premise, then faff about for 10+ minutes before actually addressing the point of interest. This video saved the two-century earthquake till the end, but everything discussed leading up to that was interesting and worth the time. Thank you for continuing to run such a cool channel! I'm really happy to see your treatment is going well!

[@jessicakyle6855]

Over here in the UK, it’s also been raining for the past 2million years.

[@justalonesoul5825]

Belgian here, I hear you! Well hopefully we get a little less than you thanks to your islands 😉

[@kariannecrysler640]

🎵 we didn’t start the fire. It was always burning 🎵 😉

[@WindsorMason]

I was waiting to hear that!! Came so close.

[@chingachgook9718]

ah, indigenous generational knowledge... thanks! I'm not alone in the world!🤗

[@killerlork]

Just not quite since the world's been turning

[@tiffanymarie9750]

Eons call out! Love crossovers 🦖

[@nathantron]

This episode made me think of something really cool. You guys should do an episode or two on the "Most Beautiful places on Earth, and the science behind them." You could send some of your team to vacation in those areas too and do some field research. It might be a pretty amazing video and give a lot of people some ideas on places to visit too.

[@adlockhungry304]

That’s a fantastic idea!!! There’s the obvious ones, like the Grand Canyon, Mt Fuji, Mt Kilimanjaro, but there are some slightly less obvious ones that would be awesome to cover. A couple that come to mind: Kuang Si falls in Laos, Point Reyes in California, and Halong Bay in Vietnam.

[@justalonesoul5825]

That sounds like marine biology for some of the people I know😄

[@zerodadutch6285]

My husband and I will be along the path of the eclipse. Texarkana(35 minutes from us) is trying to get some tourism into town with it. So we should be able to see it from the park on the Texas side.(Note here texarkana is actually a town split along the Arkansas and Texas borders for anyone interested)

[@Amarieb29]

Was not expecting the New Madrid Quakes to be the one from the title! I live in St. Louis, and overall I'm not sure we take the risk seriously enough here, but we probably moved toward being a lot safer due to a crack pot guy in 1990 who predicted a massive earthquake would happen Dec 3rd of that year and cause massive destruction across the Midwest. I was a little kid and I can remember the near panic and tons of public safety messages about what to do during an earthquake and how we should all be preparing, with reasonably good advice aside from inducing that panic. Nothing happened of course. But one of my friends dads sent her to school in one of his hard hats from work that day. (and no one made fun of her that I can remember, we maybe wished we had hard hats too...) I used to work in a building that was built a few years after that, and it's built to very strong earthquake standards, with base isolators and more, even though those kind of protections still aren't required.

[@EnigmaNeko]

When talking about the New Madrid fault line's really bad earthquake, SciShow could've mentioned that the Mississippi River altered it's course and flowed backwards for a bit of time as well...along with church bells as far away as Boston ringing. I would love for SciShow to do an episode about the worst ever earthquake to hit North America, The Alaska Earthquake. I think it occurred in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

[@kathleenjordan6875]

How about Good Friday in 1963 or 1964?

[@justalonesoul5825]

Worst ever *recorded* and documented 😉 Fairly certain there were much, much worse in North America if we could go a few centuries or millenia back. I'd bet that if native american oral tradition was still much more alive, they could probably tell us a few stories on such topic!

[@ADHD.Penguin]

Hank, it is great to see you on your feet and in front of the camera 💯

[@Rubinsmom]

This channel always has the perfect video to watch with my boyfriend, a science teacher.

[@greenman6141]

Woof, an episode that could have been made just for me, in that it hits so many areas that I find fun and fascinating in 15 glorious minutes with the crowning glory of seeing our Hank.

[@hexshadowman]

I was born and raised in indianapolis, and I'm going back up to witness the eclipse with my brother in april. Might have to get us matching shirts for that. Really looking forward to it! If you actually are going to Indianapolis and that wasn't just a gag, Broad Ripple is a great time if you have a chance to explore the city.

[@kingbbarry]

I am very happy just to see Hank back and in full swing.

[@bugsy8404]

so happy to see hank looking better and still making wonderful educational content after the cancer fight and chemo, we love you!!!

[@lalababayaga]

I grew up in Missouri and in the 90s they thought the next BIG ONE was coming so everything in our schools was strapped to the wall. Bookshelves, TV carts, etc.

[@danieldole9423]

The best explanation for the New Madrid earthquake I've can think of is that it is a a result of the long term redistribution of mass by the Mississippi River. I've read that there is about a 10 miles thick layer of soil off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico as half a continent's worth of sediment is transported south by the Mississippi. That huge mass is pressing down on the southern edge of the continent. This results stress to the north, and the New Madrid earthquake is the last time some of that stress got relieved.

[@hzaagman8005]

3:04 The Stromboli volcano isn't *on* Sicily, the volcano is on its own namesake island north of the northeastern tip of Sicily.

[@MrSneakyGunz]

Lookie 👀 that mop on Hank's head. I love it! I'm glad you're doing well, sir. ❤

[@MrNikorasuburayanto]

I've actually lived my whole life (32yrs) on what's known as Crowley's Ridge on the New Madrid fault line and we have tiny little quakes all the time but 99% of the time you can't even tell it's happening unless it's completely quiet and you're sitting absolutely still. I can honestly say I've never noticed one but the news and the Internet always tell me when one has occured.

[@PineappleForFun]

Im surprised that natural nuclear reactor in Oklo wasn't mentioned. Having a uranium deposit that routinely goes critical as it floods and lasted for hundreds of thousands of years seems up there with a coal seam fire. And as a science bonus once we figured out what had happened we were able to use it to see if the fine structure comment had changed in the intervening couple billion years.

[@bridgetsmith8196]

I love hearing about the mystery of the New Madrid!!! Would love to hear even more!

[@patriciaaturner289]

Thank you, Hank, for pronouncing New Madrid correctly!

[@essaboselin5252]

I'm actually scanning the comments to see how many people were complaining that he didn't say "Mah-drid"!

[@mtest3136]

Good to see you brother

[@nicholasalbeck7114]

That episode was like a dream of consciousness and it was awesome

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

Great episode. Glad to see Hank in good health and great spirits.

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

Lookin good Hank 🔥🔥

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

He didn't mention that the Missions River flowed backwards at one point. I was visiting Southern Illinois University in 1968. There was an earthquake. I was told that it caused the University library to shake back and forth. It shook the building I was in. It was at least 4 if not 5 stories. The group I was with ran out of that building as fast as we could.

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

Oops Mississippi River

[@Wolfie54545]

@@kathrynsamuelson1983Just edit your comment

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

@@Wolfie54545 I tried at the time but couldn't. You would have known that if you had read the reply. And I would have appreciated a please.

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

@@Wolfie54545 Apparently you didn't notice that I did. I will no longer reply to you as you have a lack of courtesy

[@Dovietail]

My ancestor broke his leg when the new Madrid quake threw him against the ROOF of his cabin...and I felt a wee temblor in Columbia, MO, while in grad school in 2012. It is so amazing to think it could be the SAME cluster still settling down!

[@haroldjones8521]

I was born and lived my first 14 years just a few miles to the north of New Madrid. We experienced a lot of tremors then (the '50s and '60s). Our farm was one of the places that the earthquake refugees fled to. Unfortunately it was an abysmal swamp, freezing in the winter and filled with malaria laden mosquitoes. Thanks for pronouncing New Madrid and Missouri correctly.

[@linjie1213]

It makes me happy to see Hank doing better

[@heavymetalbassist5]

Thanks Hank😊

[@sifridbassoon]

SO happy to see you back! Stay good, bro. 😘 I think about New Madrid every time I drive across that I40 bridge into Memphis! 😮

[@LordStarbeard]

HANK! It's good to see you so energetic!

[@donalddench608]

You're looking good. I'm glad you're doing well.

[@Holy.HannaH]

Reading the old newspaper articles of first-hand accounts of the new madrid earthquake is absolutely wild. Some talked about the river rising up in front of them causing waterfalls and the river to flow backwards before slamming back down and leaving fissures. Couple years ago I had a dream a bunch of bears were running through the forest past me & my sisters making the whole ground shake. Turned out to be an actual eaethquake happening while I slept😂🤣🤷‍♀️

[@lizsteilkie]

Great show Hank love your brain sir...

[@RalphEllis]

One of the coal seams under Coventry is also on fire. About 1,500 ft down. Cause by mining activity introducing oxygen, but almost impossible to put out. R

[@AeronHale]

You're looking great Hank good to have you back dude!

[@chasehicks7465]

Looking good sir, keep it up 🙏👍

[@byal9000]

We already got our glasses and are pulling the kids out of school to go see totality. It's just a 1.5 hour drive down into the thick of it. Here's to hoping the weather is good. :)

[@garner6583]

Looking good bud! Hopefully your health is too. We all love you

[@General12th]

Hi Hank! Who knew natural disasters could be so... generational?

[@markchapman6800]

I've driven more or less past Mt Wingen several times (it's near a major inland highway) but didn't know about it and so never thought to pop in to have a look. Re: eclipses, there's a total one due in my part of the world in 2028 which will alas only be partial (albeit 99.4%) over Mt Wingen, so I couldn't quite manage a twofer there.

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

Oh my goodness I love the t-shirts and totally buying two of them. We are driving all the way from Southern California to Dallas to see it.

[@SegmentW]

Hello Hank, Hope you're all doing well at SciShow

[@kewakl8891]

Hank, you are looking very well.

[@doncripemc3certifiedsr.med326]

Hank's real talent of combining a huge intellect with humor is absolutely magnetic.

[@reginat5749]

Yay, almost 15 minutes of SciShow today!

[@guccimainz5454]

My schools doing research for NASA for this event and I’m on the team! Super excited for it!

[@munnychoudhury]

I also had cancer treatment and my hair grew back a different colour and texture! Crazy, lols 😆 PS. The medical team told me that this might happen. Apparently it's not unusual after cancer treatments. PPS. Love to all the people around the world who are going through cancer and also love to all peoples suffering from any serious medical issues. 💕💫💥🌈🖖🤓

[@matthewwriter9539]

That first sentence is a HUGE understatement.

[@LaurieAnnCurry]

Love me my sci show & Hank!!! Hank, you’re more than welcome to come hang out with us about an hour and fifteen minutes from Indy. The Spencer area; we’ll have good food and excellent peeps!

[@mickellis8747]

I live in Sydney and I've been to Burning Mountain. I called in there to have a look one time in 1988 on a return journey from Queensland. The place is surreal and you'd swear it was a volcanic vent of some sort and I can see how it was originally thought to be volcanic. The smell of sulfur in the air was overpowering and the ground is hot and bare. I'd say at a guess it was originally ignited by a bushfire which are very prevalent in our part of the world. It's a very interesting place.

[@matthewstivers4915]

Lookin good hank ❤

[@MechakittenX]

Also thanks for this, I've went back into my obsession with volcanoes lately.

[@qarljohnson4971]

Hank's shirt caught my eye. "Path of Totality" (and the black & white orbs) tells me that it's somehow about the upcoming solar eclipse. But couldn't find out what "ékleiisis" actually means. Using an online ancient Greek translation site, it is seen as Turkish. Any further exposition?

[@marctelfer6159]

It's meant to be "ÉKLEIPSIS" (ἔκλειψις - "eclipse"), with the overlapping sun and moon being the curved upper parts of "P" and "S". I read it as "ÉKLEIISIS" too until I went to the DFTBA Store to check it out

[@kathyfox5193]

Looks icelandic to me. But I'm wondering too.

[@vikvavs55]

It's ÉKLEIPSIS -- the one orb is the hoop on the "P". Ékleipsis (ἔκλειψις) is the og Greek.

[@kathyfox5193]

Okay, it's a shirt sold by this channel. You are right, it's about eclipses, and an imaginary rock band.

[@mcv2178]

Ekleipis - eclipses, that is a pi character you are seeing as a double 'ii'

[@victoriawilliams6156]

No one tells a good story like Hank.

[@mirthenary]

Mount Yasur? Yessir!

[@outsideaglass]

Yup I'll be at my family's ranch in Texas for the eclipse, can't wait! We already have the glasses though. :)

[@katiekorell9776]

Looking good Hank.👍 Love the new hair!!🙂

[@davidcox3076]

I grew up on the New Madrid fault line. One of my earliest memories is of a strong tremor. Mom had just set the table and the silverware and glasses started rattling. I had no clue what was going on. But my parents explained it afterward. I didn't fully understand the process. I had a terrible fear that a chasm had open in the ground and swallowed up all my toys in the yard. Fortunately, the next morning, they were all still there.

[@jacksonstarky8288]

No mention of the Siberian Traps? I guess it's probably the best-known example... and it was covered well by PBS Eons. I'd never previously heard of three of these four.

[@kellydalstok8900]

I really envy everyone who lives in the path of the total eclipse. I was lucky enough to see one in 1999 while on holiday in Normandy. It was magical. We drove towards Étretat, but got stranded in Honfleur because traffic on the highway had come to a halt. We were following the secondary road. Honfleur has a beautiful harbour at its centre and hundreds of people had gathered around it. It was cloudy all morning, but just before the moon moved in front of the sun the clouds lifted. The light changed, the birds fell silent and then the people did too. The total eclipse was so beautiful. And then the light returned, people applauded as if they had been watching a play, then they dispersed and it became cloudy once more.

[@typacsk]

Looking good, Hank!

[@jackaltair6950]

So,if dinosaurs started dominating land during the rainy season,that means that the the rain may have caused an extinction to some other animals that was ruling land,and my question is,what animal is that that made the dinosaurs play second place ?

[@BrawlArena]

I didnt know this channel existed. Been missing out.

[@EmilyJelassi]

Love the curly hair, Hank!! 😊❤

[@Dragrath1]

The Carnian Pluvial Episode is associated with the Wrangellia terrain but while this terrain is part of North America today there is a growing body of evidence to suggest the system of exotic terrains it is entangled with formed out in the Panthalassan ocean as part of a large subduction complex which began to collide with North America during the Jurassic. This terrain has been shifted not considerably today after the termination of major subduction zones along the southern margins of the Pacific lead to a net northward movement of the Pacific relative to North America contributing and leading to the Sevier and Laramide orogenies in North America as the various arcs collided with the continent. As for the New Madrid seismic zone it isn't the only "new" area of seismic activity and seems to correspond with some considerable changes which have all began within the 20 or so million years following the formation of the basin and ranger 17 Ma. Notably to the northwest of the New Madrid you have the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone where an ancient fault from the Appalachian orogeny has become reactivated as a normal fault. Further to the Northwest however up in New England we have the most dramatic activity with the dramatic uplift of the landscape due to the sudden emergence of a source of deep mantle upwelling within the last 10 million years leading to the Adirondack dome which continues to form as the cratonic basement of North America is thrust into the sky leading to vast quantities of soil/sedimentary rock layers getting sloughed/slumped off. From seismic tomography the mantle here is abnormally warm but perhaps more strikingly is that deeper down in the upper mantle there is a much more pronounced broader more abnormally buoyant mantle which looks suspiciously like the models of a mantle plume head predicted by mantle plume theory. There is also the active Rio Grande rift valley system and the intersecting Jemez Lineament with seems to be a reactivated old subduction scar where in geologically recent times volcanic activity has begun to occur. Like the Now Madrid and Wabash valley these are all Northeast Southwest trending ancient fault scars which have recently become active after hundreds of millions to billions of years of inactivity. To add to this picture seismic tomography identifies a continuation of the East Pacific Rise beneath North America connecting directly to the snake river plain and Yellowstone hotspots before joining with the Rio Grande rift valley system and then eventually darting south east via a series of transform offset upwelling zones which reconnect with the East Pacific Rise proper through the gulf of California and associated extensional volcanic systems. If Robert S. Hildebrand's work looking at the combined paleomagnetic seismic tomographic and igneous petrological data sets then the basin and range province including its most recent expansion the Colorado plateau into what was formerly the North American craton are likely consequences of the mounting strain building up beneath the NA continent and the East Pacific Rise & the ridge line hotspot Yellowstone which had built up the large basaltic plateau of Siletzia + Yakutat prior to them colliding with NA ~50 Ma and which show a clear signal in igneous petrology that they were once a pacific analog of Iceland which in the case of the oldest dated rocks began forming at around the same time 58 Ma. Anyways in his model the Basin and Range formation initiates because the strain building up in the craton finally reached a breaking point splitting the craton apart and creating the marvelous grand canyon as the only two other features like it are in the East African rift system.

[@joshyoung1440]

When Hank mentioned Mt. Saint Helens, I thought he was gonna say "one day it's just chilling there; the next day it's still chilling, it's just not there, it's all over the place."

[@TheAnarchitek]

Mt St Helen's eruption in 1980 lasted a little longer than a few days! I was there in late July, almost three months later, and it erupted FIVE TIMES, in a matter of a few hours. My brother lived in Mattawa, about 115 miles east of St Helens, and he was shoveling ash off his roof through the rest of the year, lest it cave in! The New Madrid earthquake raised a ridge minimum ten feet high, for 300 miles!

[@charlesbryant3287]

Welcome back

[@markedis5902]

The Carnian Pluvial episode. Ever been to Scotland

[@GooberFace32]

🤣

[@lindsaynic]

I live right in the path of totality and I’m so stoked! I was also living in the path of totality in 2017. And I was able to see an annular eclipse in 1994! I’m beyond excited to see another total eclipse in my lifetime.

[@sophierobinson2738]

1968, New Madrid shook our little house near Hopkinsville, KY. I believe it measured 4.6. If it hadn’t been a couple of days after my mother’s funeral, I would have been pleased by it.

[@kedgedragon6163]

I grew up in St Louis, lived for a time in the St Francis uplift. It seems to me that there is a constant twisting in center of continent. Like a wrinkle in the middle of a made bed that gets sheet pulled at edges

[@FortisKnight]

Master Hank, sir, it is good to see you in front of the green screen agin. It would be SciShow without your presence. Hang in there, ok?

[@carterjanssen265]

Damn Hank that fro tho!

[@ellenhobbie6491]

My home town, just east of Rochester, is in the path of totality. Except for the high probability of cloudiness, I will be watching from the banks of Lake Ontario

[@stephaniehight2771]

I have been intending to go to Dallas for the eclipse, and I made my hotel reservations yesterday. Woo-hoo!

[@willythewyno]

I love you Hank

[@yanjulio]

Rocking that curly hair!!!!

[@marco48395]

That was fun!!!:)

[@dpcooper381]

He said all this and never took a breath. Impressive!

[@TheChrisLeone]

Looking good!!!

[@southerneruk]

Made me smile the way he says Madrid, he says it as Mad-Rid and not as Ma-drid as in the Spanish city of Madrid

[@dreamchasergarage690]

April 8, zone of totality is a 20 min drive. Already booked the day off work :)

[@AILIT1]

Ok. I grew up in the US East Coast. I had no idea there were regular quakes that close to me.

[@ferretyluv]

Remember the 2010 quake? Well we got a 2.4 one last month and possibly another one tonight.

[@AILIT1]

@@ferretyluv I do remember that one actually. I didn't feel it but everybody was talking about it. I was in Georgia at the time.

[@essaboselin5252]

We get plenty of little ones. I remember there were about 4 in a row where I was driving at the time, and I had no idea. The only one I ever felt was the 2010 quake.

[@philliperilus]

Glade you looking good big dawg...

[@JediBearBob]

Path of Totality would be a good name for a rock band.

[@irighterotica]

It totally would.