The Big One: How a megathrust earthquake could hit the Pacific Northwest

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@jonmitchell8281
@jonmitchell8281 3 ай бұрын
An excellent resource team!! Well done!
@billrobbins5874
@billrobbins5874 2 ай бұрын
Any mention of giant fir trees blocking road access?
@londonjames14
@londonjames14 Ай бұрын
@@billrobbins5874 stop with the metrics, not all Americans use it....yet
@TheMotArt
@TheMotArt 3 ай бұрын
I'm from Mexico City, and by experience I must say, the only thing that can protect you from an earthquake is luck... being in the right place at the right time is all it takes.
@franksalot114
@franksalot114 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info I will be sure to increase my luck stat.👍
@TheMotArt
@TheMotArt 2 ай бұрын
@@franksalot114 good luck bro 🫶
@pianowhizz
@pianowhizz Ай бұрын
That’s incorrect: the best prevention is moving home to a safer city + also ensuring your home is on top of bed rock - not on clay or reclaimed land.
@TheMotArt
@TheMotArt 24 күн бұрын
@@pianowhizz that's what I said, right place, right time. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to move to a better location.
@disposabull
@disposabull 23 күн бұрын
That isn't true at all. Turkey is a corrupt country, when they get hit with an earthquake tens of thousands lose their lives. Japan & the USA have much lower levels of corruption so they plan in advance, have building regulations that survive earthquakes and educate the population with videos like this so people know what to do. That preparation means you can survive an earthquake 10x worse than Turkey and only a handful of lives are lost.
@yogidemis8513
@yogidemis8513 2 ай бұрын
The Big one hits, nothing we can do except enjoy the ride and hope that you make it out alive. Mother nature has no remorse and we are all guests on her home.
@OperationRanch
@OperationRanch Ай бұрын
There is no “mother nature” you goose. Only Father God exists & is in control. Read Matthew 24
@Theqbhawk747
@Theqbhawk747 Ай бұрын
NO REMORSE - is the Truth No matter Where We Might LIVE WE ARE IN THE ENDING DAYS REGARDLESS of OUR BELIEFS And Mother EARTH has been warning Us Since 1999 & 911 was the signal that world war 3 was coming
@Theqbhawk747
@Theqbhawk747 Ай бұрын
@@OperationRanch You’ve been sleeping too long because Mother Earth is actually the Garden of Eden traveling through PORTALS - into other Dimensions. And Perhaps you don’t understand that everything started at ⭕️ Dimension And the 3RD Dimension has already ended while everyone is currently Self Judging themselves by pointing at the Mirror And this is why G⭕️D is spelled backwards represents the POINT. Plus the Antichrist has already arrived for CHOICES as 2024 = 8 (as above will be below) Because No Body can change anyBody else but But Themselves
@StanTheman-u2z
@StanTheman-u2z Ай бұрын
​@@tonyf.8858DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK MOTHER NATURE WILL LISTEN TO YOU?
@BC-li6zc
@BC-li6zc Ай бұрын
And you're wrong. We can start by preparing to have alternative shelter, food and water.
@sixela2607
@sixela2607 3 ай бұрын
I moved from Mexico City 6 years ago and have experienced a couple of strong earthquakes. I'm very impressed on how little is talked about "The Big One" here in Vancouver. I think the level of destruction and caos that it'll bring to the West Coast is very underrated. I went through the 2017 Mexico City-Puebla earthquake which was 7.1 and it was terrifying to live, now a 9.0 ... thinking about it gives me chills.
@patrickday4206
@patrickday4206 2 ай бұрын
Especially when it triggers Rainer to go boom
@finnsmom8470
@finnsmom8470 2 ай бұрын
Not only Rainier, but also Mt. Baker, on which you can view the steaming vents on it’s top, as my husband did when he climbed to the top about 12 yrs ago, but we also have to beware of all of the volcanoes that comprise the Cascades, especially Mt. Hood, near Portland and Mt. Shasta in Northern California……but those are just the larger, more well known volcanoes in the Cascades. We also have to be wary of the lesser known ones, which can still come to life, with enough pressure from the magma chambers and the gases it produces, like Mt. St. Helens; which before the earthquakes began increasing, with the mountain being their epicentre, until the fateful day, May 18th, when the huge lateral eruption, followed by lahars and volcanic ash being blown afar, to eastern WA and even Idaho occurred! Up until the St. Helens quakes began, months before it finally erupted, it was merely deemed a favourite camping, hiking, outdoor escape. But like St. Helens there other, lesser known volcanoes, 16 in total, that are not extinct and still pose a threat if they erupt. Given the Cascadian subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North America plate, rock forced under, melts, creating more magma and likely increases the pressure beneath the Cascadian volcanoes. Having been to St Helen’s in the aftermath of its eruption, it is amazing to see the multiple thousands of large growth trees, that were blown to the ground like match sticks. It looks very similar to the forests in Tunguska, Siberia, where an estimated 80 million trees were laid flat after the meteor atmospheric explosion of a rapidly incoming asteroid, 160-200 ft wide!!! Yes, the BIG ONE in the west Pacific Coast, could truly be an epic disaster!!!!!!
@rickschlosser6793
@rickschlosser6793 2 ай бұрын
A 9.0 releases 900-1000X the energy of a 7.0.
@CanuckTony
@CanuckTony Ай бұрын
I hope no flood mostly. We are at sea level 😢
@glennkemp7450
@glennkemp7450 Ай бұрын
We don't like to talk about it because it hurts real estate values.
@trevor9934
@trevor9934 3 ай бұрын
I am a Canadian (from Vancouver Island) and Kiwi living in NZ. I was there for the Christchurch earthquake (which was relatively local and not a tectonic quake), and given that experience I have serious concerns about the time taken to update standards and mitigation for such an earthquake. I would also like to see a critical assessment at Federal level of how Canada would react to support the west of Canada in such an event, given that according to first nations accounts, the last 'big one' was felt well into Alberta. Some review of the ability to ship support teams, and particularly supplies over the Rockies into the west of Canada. One must assume that train and road links will be cut, which leaves shipping by water and by air. Where is the information about the resilience of airfields and docking facilities, plus the routes emanating from those to ship critical resources? As I understand this the US is taking this issue more urgently and conducts drills for their military to engage to do post-quake resupply - has the Canadian Federal Government done such an assessment and done exercises in this area? If so, to what extend and what were the results?
@brianhouston5368
@brianhouston5368 Ай бұрын
The Canadian Armed Forces response would fall under Operation LENTUS, which responds to all natural disasters that overwhelm a region, and CAF response will vary as needed. Local West Coast military have also been conducting drills for years, specifically on how to respond to The Big One. They've trained for it. Will it be enough? Not with the potential damage forecasted. Military and emergency services in Canada have major personnel shortages right now, and need more funding and support to get ready for crises like this.
@MothKeeper
@MothKeeper Ай бұрын
Help? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 are you having a laugh? America don't help their own after hurricanes and trudeau couldn't organise anything... The BIG one means your on your own.
@carlascrivens1855
@carlascrivens1855 22 күн бұрын
This blows my mind..spent some of the best times of my life in Vancouver, back in the '80's..God Bless
@carlascrivens1855
@carlascrivens1855 22 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for this, I lived in Seattle back in the early '80's, right after Mt St Helen's blew and this was never talked about..I never knew..thank you again
@tanyajones5070
@tanyajones5070 Ай бұрын
Iam amazed at how many folks do not pay attention about this nor have knowledge about this, its shocking! Thank you for the well collect show i enjoyed it
@glennkemp7450
@glennkemp7450 3 ай бұрын
Back in the 90s this is all people talked about on the west coast. All old buildings, like the ones mentioned had to be seismicly upgraded, we were told to have earthquake kits and be prepared for "the big one". Then when the real estate boom started everyone stopped talking about earthquakes. I don't doubt that there is an earthquake risk but I have to wonder about the renewed interest in promoting it.
@slam5
@slam5 3 ай бұрын
the standard on how building is very different now than then. what you see now isn't remotely constructed in the same way as 80's. Just look at Vancouver House, you can't remotely build a place like that in the 80's.
@CanuckTony
@CanuckTony Ай бұрын
I have a kit etc. now, will I be home when it hits? We will see. Hope it happens in summer and not winter
@glennkemp7450
@glennkemp7450 Ай бұрын
@@CanuckTony It's good to be prepared wherever you are. After working 30 years for municipalities I can say that there is no real plan to deal with the aftermath of a major quake, you're on your own.
@jasonpeisley6031
@jasonpeisley6031 9 күн бұрын
The reason why it's being suddenly talked about again is, all the new research being done, and alot of jew findings being discovered since the 1980s and even 1990s
@drissakelnya3794
@drissakelnya3794 23 күн бұрын
We used to talk about this all the time in the early 90's, it was discussed in school in Vancouver, we had earthquake kits. I don't think it is as prevalent to discuss any longer out here.
@kruszer
@kruszer 3 ай бұрын
I'm from Ottawa but I'm grateful that I somehow knew that hiding under a table was the correct course of action during an earthquake! I was alone on the second floor of a 120 year-old house in San Diego in 2010 when a 5.7 hit - and it was terrifying! It was instinct to dive under the sturdy desk I'd been sitting at once the floor started sliding underneath me, It felt like the entire house was rolling back and forth like it was on wheels. The walls were moving back and forth too, like the entire house was a cube of jello. I was expecting the desk and I to end up on the lawn and I've never been so scared in my life! And THAT was just 5.7 for almost a minute - not the big one for 4 or 5 minutes! Trust me: You're not going to want to be standing up when it hits and things start falling off walls around you! You're going to want to hide under the first thing you see as you scream for it to stop!
@ShonnMorris
@ShonnMorris 2 ай бұрын
That 2010 earthquake was a 7.2. It was 110 miles away but it was a 7.2 and it broke water mains in at least two places in San Diego.
@brianprez3169
@brianprez3169 3 ай бұрын
Great job on this. That is a reporter/journalist masterpiece. Thanks
@TripleDeano
@TripleDeano 3 ай бұрын
That highway will be a death trap
@larrylambrick5404
@larrylambrick5404 3 ай бұрын
If your on it
@sncy5303
@sncy5303 2 күн бұрын
It actually depends on what type of building you are in. For example, if you are in a concrete slab building, don't stay inside! They will pancake. Brick buildings, you may be better off inside, as falling brick is a risk. The advice to go under a table or other sturdy structure only applies if you are in an earthquake proof building.
@cb8597-q6l
@cb8597-q6l 3 ай бұрын
Years ago in a UBC geology class, the prof told us that if the under-water Fraser River outwash plain collapses in a submarine landslide during a big earthquake, the resulting tsumani could be hundreds - you read that correctly - hundreds of feet high and wash RIGHT OVER some of the Gulf Islands. It would reach Vancouver Island within 10 minutes.
@gambit3228
@gambit3228 3 ай бұрын
Wow!!
@tracyjohnson2992
@tracyjohnson2992 3 ай бұрын
This is why i mentioned it talks about the city of Vancouver but not the island., Or are those people classed as collateral damage in this scenario, i mean really it doesn't sound to me ready right now. People are not going to be calm on this day i can tell you that much.
@patrickday4206
@patrickday4206 2 ай бұрын
And then Rainer goes off 😮
@angelicfedora1950
@angelicfedora1950 3 ай бұрын
This is good to see, there are very few 'big one' videos that discuss the Canada side, they're mostly from a US point of view. However, it's a shame though that other areas around the Lower Mainland weren't also covered, after all the shaking won't stop at Vancouver! How far inland will the effects be felt for instance. The other thing you didn't mention (unless I missed it ) was the Disaster Support Hub Locations around Vancouver which can be found on the City of Vancouver website. I have added this to the route list for our contractors at work in case a disaster happens during the work day.
@gambit3228
@gambit3228 3 ай бұрын
I’ve heard it will be significant up to Langley.
@christopherwanamaker828
@christopherwanamaker828 3 ай бұрын
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@KajunMs39 2 ай бұрын
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@susanfernandes7748
@susanfernandes7748 2 ай бұрын
Don't forget to deal with the toilet issues. I have a big supply of kitty litter, plastic bags and TP. Plastic bag into the toilet bowl, kitty litter in the bottom and layer the kitty litter on top. Store the bags outside until the whole thing is resolved.
@kimberlytokarskiwilburn7502
@kimberlytokarskiwilburn7502 2 ай бұрын
The kitty litter is an excellent idea, you should try the Armen Hammer lightweight. It only weighs like 7 pounds the whole container and it clumps better and smells better than a lot of the other clumping letters that I have found and it is reasonably priced for the quality that you get.
@seanbaskett5506
@seanbaskett5506 22 күн бұрын
If this happens, there is simply no way we could ever recoup the damages, knowing that building codes are ancient and outdated. We're f*cked when that happens.
@Dparsons022
@Dparsons022 Ай бұрын
I had a dream of this many times. I’m from the island and I had one a few months ago and woke up crying. Terrified. I felt my head vibrate from the shaking so strong and then I was shown the tsunami coming.
@lak1294
@lak1294 3 ай бұрын
Excellent, in-depth analysis that highlights the reality of the Big One hitting the B.C. coast and what it would be like. Great job, CityTV!!
@susansage7218
@susansage7218 Ай бұрын
Early on, not mentioned .. plan for your pets too!!! Don’t leave them behind!
@allenra530
@allenra530 Ай бұрын
As a retired geologist I am pleased that the news media have not forgotten about the threat. The movie, San Andreas, was riddled with Hollyweird fantasies and falsehoods, but if they were to move the tsunami several hundred miles to the north, it could happen like the one in 2011 in east Japan. Vancouver, BC would be hit much later than in Aberdeen, WA, but it would still get hit. I was in Arequipa, Peru in 1979 in a 6.4 earthquake and the only thing that kept the death toll low was that it happened between 0500 and 0600. The city center was mostly deserted and all of the glass panes in the office buildings that popped out of their frames made a pile of broken glass between 6 and 15 inches deep on the sidewalks.
@RAGER90210
@RAGER90210 3 ай бұрын
Who’s here after that 4.0 Earthquake this morning lol
@Railfan513
@Railfan513 3 ай бұрын
Me my dog got woken up by the earthquake so it shows that my best rough guess is that “the big one” will happen in the next 1 to 3 years that’s my very rough guess
@DH-qz2so
@DH-qz2so 3 ай бұрын
4:05, woke me up! Thought is was the neighbors dead maple tree, hitting our house!
@lololFloro
@lololFloro 2 ай бұрын
Slept right thru it lol
@BronsonDoucet-d6b
@BronsonDoucet-d6b 2 ай бұрын
It felt like somebody was shaking my bed or teasing me
@rhaythangz
@rhaythangz 2 ай бұрын
here after hearing another eartquake that occurs last night close to Richmond lol.. 2nd eartquake in a week.
@BeeHappyLitteBee
@BeeHappyLitteBee 10 күн бұрын
Wow, very good and informative video
@mikecadman-u9r
@mikecadman-u9r 2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately in today’s economy and the prices of everything skyhigh it’s almost Impossible to plan ahead let alone 2weeks or more worth.
@soulbreaker1467
@soulbreaker1467 Ай бұрын
Theres a way no one tells you buy now just leave a reserve little by little build it mosly food that can go lomg without the need of refrigeration and goes well for a good while this is a reserve for a potencial crisis to survive not a gourmet medical kits also can be built to time little by little built it and get the most important stuff that can save your life this is somethinf each household should have it mosly when you live in areas where crisis can start
@iam106racing2
@iam106racing2 Ай бұрын
It's easy to spend 20 dollars on a few items every time you go to the store or sporting goods store.
@christinamain2829
@christinamain2829 3 күн бұрын
Im so grateful to live in Eastern Washington and have the Cascades between me and the carnage that will undoubtedly unfold when this happens. I honesty believe this will be the biggest natural disaster the world has never seen 😮
@cadamo3
@cadamo3 3 ай бұрын
What an excellent report. Kudos.
@rossgee2950
@rossgee2950 3 ай бұрын
Why did you not address liquefaction of sedimentary basins; i.e., all of the Fraser valley and any other river basin on the west coast.
@l.c.3150
@l.c.3150 2 күн бұрын
They will be accused of catastrophizing. So many crazy comments on the “bomb cyclone” which killed people. They need to balance education with major extreme fear and panic.
@mytruthmylife8725
@mytruthmylife8725 2 ай бұрын
I feel it coming in my soul 😢 i love in Tacoma Washington, we would be greatly impacted as well. Is that ling?
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
Depending on where you are in Tacoma, you'll probably be better off than Seattle or Olympia - Tacoma is on bedrock, not landfill which is subject to liquefaction and amplifies the shaking. just stay out of buildings over 3 stories and stay out of brick buildings.
@Dparsons022
@Dparsons022 Ай бұрын
I do too
@karenlebeter4196
@karenlebeter4196 2 күн бұрын
Puget Sound will slosh back and forth, but tiny bit later after Aberdeen disappears.
@Uzkodas
@Uzkodas 2 ай бұрын
I’m from the US version of Vancouver in Washington State and I have to say that there have been a few times I lost some sleep because of the Cascadia Subduction zone
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj 2 ай бұрын
Most people do not believe that the big earthquake will come in their lifetime.
@Addisonmoreno
@Addisonmoreno 2 ай бұрын
Yes, the classic "leave this problem for the next generation" move. Part of the Top 10 Wise Decisions a Society Can Make.
@Dparsons022
@Dparsons022 Ай бұрын
But she’s coming
@terryquinn7765
@terryquinn7765 Ай бұрын
That’s interesting, most people think that Jesus will come back in there lifetime. Who’s more right? 🤷‍♂️
@Bai183
@Bai183 Ай бұрын
@@Addisonmorenothis is not a problem we can solve lol. It could happen right now or in 100 years. The only thing we can do is build stronger which has been done especially by school boards in the lower mainland. Not sure how other places are preparing.
@brizzchizz7302
@brizzchizz7302 Ай бұрын
It’s coming tomorrow
@1111VerticalUpdraft
@1111VerticalUpdraft Ай бұрын
Prayers go out. 💯
@aisle_of_view
@aisle_of_view Ай бұрын
I was in the 94 Northridge quake. Stash some small denomination currency at home, supermarkets will have no way to process electronic payments for several days or weeks. Everyone scrambled for drinking water, so store some beforehand. It gets really boring with no power, so have some actual books around for entertainment. Also, it's a very PTSD inducing event if it's a big quake, some people get very scrambled and depressed.
@elizabethabbott5297
@elizabethabbott5297 Ай бұрын
I agree with those who say that not enough thought is given to this; what are the chances that a major event will hit; will just getting under a table save someone... it seems beyond that kind of precaution as sensible as it is but still... what would really happen if we were hit by a massive wave.
@smmurden
@smmurden 2 ай бұрын
I’d say if any place has taught us about the importance of what your city is built on, look to Mexico City. The science is there!
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
What I think is cool is that they are studying the episodic tremor and slips or slow quakes to see if they can se those to predict the big subduction earthquakes. there seems to be some correlation but not enough yet. these days we have the technology to learn much more when they occur.
@cadamo3
@cadamo3 3 ай бұрын
What a novel way to get rental prices to go down: a report on the big one.
@Matanumi
@Matanumi 3 ай бұрын
Rental? RENTAL!? LOL.... try the entire GDP the whole freaking country
@sueDcdn3
@sueDcdn3 3 ай бұрын
Sure 🙄!
@H.O.P.E.1122
@H.O.P.E.1122 2 ай бұрын
Excellent report. I think Vancouver and other PNW areas need to move faster in retrofitting, moving from research to action on vertical evacuation structures and addressing transportation issues.
@robertwhite3247
@robertwhite3247 Ай бұрын
A lot of good points and perspectives covered. Oddly there is a notable ommission. There is mention of the basin under Metro Vancouver and no mention of the work that has been underway to examine the effects of it and other effects in the region like liquefaction.
@shirleylangton7967
@shirleylangton7967 3 ай бұрын
A very interesting and informative video.
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj 2 ай бұрын
Oh , no sugar coating it for if a 9 or more earthquake hit Vancouver or any place a lot of those buildings are coming down in Vancouver and uncountable people will die through this bad earthquake.
@Dparsons022
@Dparsons022 Ай бұрын
Exactly
@meredithmoon
@meredithmoon 2 ай бұрын
Why is the title "could" hit? Not a matter of if, but when...
@redbarchetta8782
@redbarchetta8782 2 ай бұрын
A 9.0+ can last for 5 minutes or more with shaking worse then what we felt during the Nisqually earthquake a few years back. I am hoping we don't see it soon, but I fear we will.
@JCisReal
@JCisReal 2 ай бұрын
And how about the aftershocks from an earthquake that big?😮
@mike464477
@mike464477 Ай бұрын
Mother Nature is in charge!
@notyourbestie
@notyourbestie 3 ай бұрын
where the most expensive houses be found are where the worst natural disaster will occur. human's karma
@larailfan1714
@larailfan1714 2 ай бұрын
I’ve heard from a couple sources that Seattle will be spared from the worst of it because it’s a significant distance inland and the earthquake will weaken by the time it gets that far. Do you know if there is any truth to that?
@yvopardillo8909
@yvopardillo8909 15 күн бұрын
I heard much regarding the collapse of buildings, while minimizing the huge loss of life that would likely occur!!
@jasonjamesbisson
@jasonjamesbisson 3 ай бұрын
Vancouver could potentially be wiped off the map 😮
@rosettaridge6446
@rosettaridge6446 3 ай бұрын
Its the tsunami that will follow as well
@steveswhirld
@steveswhirld 3 ай бұрын
🤣
@RaisedxFist
@RaisedxFist 3 ай бұрын
​@@rosettaridge6446 Richmond, by itself will disappear under the water, YVR will be a boat port. Not sure about the other neighbouring cities as they are all on 'hills' or well above water.
@michaelfox4661
@michaelfox4661 3 ай бұрын
Bay Area Hayward fault is coming!
@RaisedxFist
@RaisedxFist 3 ай бұрын
@@michaelfox4661 Cascadia and San Andreas are joined together in the middle I'm pretty sure.
@carol-annbailey4895
@carol-annbailey4895 2 ай бұрын
What an awesome documentary
@nickyb7266
@nickyb7266 3 ай бұрын
People in Richmond need to start thinking of moving. This will be the first to go
@jax-sx9pk
@jax-sx9pk 3 ай бұрын
Despite the 5 minutes of back clapping and hero music at the end, I am left more concerned after this coverage, not less.
@skylartoth8047
@skylartoth8047 3 ай бұрын
It's going to be scary, even scarier if it happens in the dead of night, lots of casualties.
@WillFitnesslife
@WillFitnesslife 3 ай бұрын
No mention of it hitting in the middle of night...people should also be aware these occur at any hour and to always be prepared.
@RobertFalconer1967
@RobertFalconer1967 3 ай бұрын
@@WillFitnesslife If it happens in the middle of the night you’re almost certainly done for.
@zenwilds2911
@zenwilds2911 2 ай бұрын
I learned something by coincidence in Cali. I had fallen asleep with two empty glasses on my night table. Usually I go to bed with one water glass, but I had a migraine that day and drank both glasses before bed. Woke up because both glasses clinked on each other. The sound woke me up. Now I go to sleep with empty candle glass jars in an empty drawer. If any shaking happens, that will wake me up and alert me. Also now sleep with steel toed boots, shorts, and a flashlight by my bed. I keep a case of water in my closet.
@Zarih67
@Zarih67 2 ай бұрын
Very interesting. But what’s up with the loud dramatic music?
@dancooper8551
@dancooper8551 2 ай бұрын
Great video!
@lagseova
@lagseova 2 ай бұрын
The lesson in megaquakes is that any emergency planning will be next to useless if communications go down, if firehalls and hospitals become danger zones, if debris makes travelling even if only walking is impossible, if bridges are rendered dangerous, if gas lines are ruptured, if electrical wiring is everywhere as well as glass and wrecked cars and other vehicles, if the internet is inoperable - you get the picture. Plan for the worst and then double down on that worse case scenario. Imagine the worst and then expect that to be exceeded. Just saying that even in Japan which was way more prepared for earthquakes than we are over 20,000 people died. We need a plan of action that includes the military and every emergency crew in the province to have a coordinated plan of getting into the lower mainland in a really fast and efficient way, which means mobilizing every available helicopter, ATV and large vehicles in rescue efforts. And remember that Seattle, Portland and northern California will have their hands filled with dealing with the same fashion. Assume that few people who survive will know what to do and that rescue services will take hours and days to recover enough to get into full operational mode.
@GopuAhammad
@GopuAhammad Ай бұрын
this is such an engaging video, really well done! i appreciate how it breaks down such a complex topic. however, i can't help but feel a bit skeptical about the likelihood of a megathrust earthquake hitting the Pacific Northwest anytime soon. while it's important to be prepared, some of the fears presented seem a bit exaggerated, don’t you think?
@AndyCue
@AndyCue Ай бұрын
great channel
@martinprice8263
@martinprice8263 2 ай бұрын
Let's make a movie. Aftermath. That guy that braves the submerged cites diving and salvaging needed things.
@Annamerc77
@Annamerc77 22 күн бұрын
Here after the 7.0 in California
@darstar217
@darstar217 2 ай бұрын
When it happens on the southern section of the fault, it also tends to trigger earthquakes on the northern San Andreas fault.
@lastlines09
@lastlines09 3 ай бұрын
Basically, you will be up the creek without a paddle.
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
one of these days, I'll be watching one of these videos when it happens.
@ArifMalik-mn9df
@ArifMalik-mn9df 2 ай бұрын
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
@celinawilliams9525
@celinawilliams9525 3 ай бұрын
❤ this update thank you
@fortuna240
@fortuna240 3 ай бұрын
why drown out the information with the annoying background music?
@Matanumi
@Matanumi 3 ай бұрын
Because its a mainstream media production
@joesutherland225
@joesutherland225 2 ай бұрын
One localized tsunami happen not long ago just east of Vancouver. I believe it was Chehalis lake and was only a few years ago less than 10.
@brandonstyles1125
@brandonstyles1125 29 күн бұрын
On the coast of Tsawwassen definitely scared and have had a plan for a while but you never know how much time you actually have to run.
@tss9886
@tss9886 2 ай бұрын
Sediment can liquify in an earthquake. God help you if that occurs in Vancouver. Think of what was solid ground becoming liquid.
@markmaloney8154
@markmaloney8154 2 ай бұрын
Very informative. Investigated journalism is quite rare these days. Good job Nima Rajan and City News...
@Enn-
@Enn- Ай бұрын
I'd love to see CityNews do an article like this on the strange phenomena of "newscaster voice". Maybe they can find some form of treatment.
@JimminyCricket604
@JimminyCricket604 2 күн бұрын
Bring it on!!
@jannaolsen3557
@jannaolsen3557 3 ай бұрын
Don't stress on the economy or health care, let's worry about a megaquake that will happen someday, likely after the vast majority of us will be dead.
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj
@Bobbyjean-vi4sj 2 ай бұрын
We are over 150 years for a huge earthquake here in BC
@ElleMolinaChannel
@ElleMolinaChannel 16 күн бұрын
Hey actually ther e is a huge huge one too here in the Midwestern airport..huge sourdhough possibly rocking here in the midwest
@tammysims8716
@tammysims8716 2 ай бұрын
I never dreamed St. Helens would erupt and cause catatastrophic irrevocable destruction. Never say never. Good luck California.
@rudybriskar5267
@rudybriskar5267 Ай бұрын
I live north of there on the Fairweather fault. Thankfully I live next to the mainland and there are several islands between the open ocean and the island that I live on.
@NickBrowning-lk1oj
@NickBrowning-lk1oj 3 ай бұрын
Just had a 6.5 the other day North island
@kdramaoma
@kdramaoma 8 күн бұрын
Im sorry, but this is very misleading!! No roads will be drivable or ridable by bike or scooter near the beaches. Where I live in WA near the coast, our entire peninsula (which is basically a flat sandbar) is expected to drop ten feet by the EQ before the tsunami even arrives. It is infuriating that the governments of both US and Canada do not fund vertical towers NOW. Our luves do not matter because we do not have the high population numbers of East Coast cities. It will be luck on who survives. I've made my peace with it for myself but the kid's deserve vertical towers for a chance.
@anniebieber19
@anniebieber19 6 күн бұрын
I completely agree with you. Not only am I a former 911 Dispatcher, having gone through every major earthquake from Sylmar to Northridge, I've studied geology & seismology for 40 years. Call me an armchair expert if you wish to be critical, but I believe the effects of a subduction zone quake are grossly underestimated. One only has to look at the Tohoku quake and tsunamis, which hit the best prepared country on the planet for such events to see even they were unprepared for that mega disaster as dozens of their Tsunami evacuation centers were completely over topped by water. The experts here are not factoring in potential underwater landslides, Japan didn't, which caused a secondary tsunami to join the other raising that waves height to 40 meters, or about 120 feet. I just pray this doesn't happen in my lifetime. It isn't a matter of if, but when...
@rickschlosser6793
@rickschlosser6793 2 ай бұрын
Makes a good case to keep a solar panel, battery and StarLink setup. An earthquake won’t take out satellites. Plus, if you have large round jugs of water, keep them on the floor, not on their side on a shelf where they will shake/roll off the shelf.
@Dr.Gortman
@Dr.Gortman 2 ай бұрын
When I was attending Elementary school in Edmonton, we luckily were able to go on a week long camp in Tofino. The First Nations gentleman who mentioned that huge earthquake and subsequent Tsunami. Reminded me after all this time of a Elder who came and shared stories, with us. I’m sorry I can’t remember everything he said, but one story that stood out in relation to this documentary, was a story about a Thunderbird that dropped a Whale into the ocean and caused that mega tsunami. I know I most likely Butchered the story unintentionally.
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
Actually that's pretty close to what any of these videos have reported the story to be.
@devildoc492
@devildoc492 3 ай бұрын
Good presentation yet the way some of those interviewed were dancing around real answers on the actual extent of destruction might try out for Dancing With the Stars.
@sueDcdn3
@sueDcdn3 3 ай бұрын
Research deep yourself! You will find many answers.
@mountain2816
@mountain2816 2 ай бұрын
How high is the safety height when tsunami hits ?
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
well, the structure of Japan's subduction zone is very similar to our and their tsunami was 30 METERS = 90 feet - but if varies on where you are in relation to where the rupture is
@mountain2816
@mountain2816 2 ай бұрын
@@sherimatukonis6016 thank you for the reply
@TheSimba1960
@TheSimba1960 Ай бұрын
They would be completely overrun as were the Japanese in 2011 and they have much more experience with both earthquakes and tsunamis. Also the female reporter doesn't have to SHOUT to be heard - she has a microphone. Why do American reporters always shout?
@SaanichtonMinistries
@SaanichtonMinistries 2 ай бұрын
You can not run from them... you can pray. There will be people who can not walk and who are injured.
@beofonemind
@beofonemind 3 ай бұрын
This IS the reason I do not live in California. Otherwise thats where I'd be. I hope I am no longer on the planet when this happens.
@coltonward3609
@coltonward3609 2 ай бұрын
Im sure it's a beautiful place but their policies are so bad make the whole continent worse. Or least the things we're shipped.
@joannevanegmond592
@joannevanegmond592 3 ай бұрын
I don’t know what school system the fellow was talking about near the end we had duck and cover drills going on in School District 66 on Vancouver Island thirty/forty years ago. Heck we realized that Lake Cowichan is on a fault line and is very susceptible to intense shaking even with mild earthquakes.
@melissastory1993
@melissastory1993 3 ай бұрын
I don’t know, but I know in the Okanagan they didn’t. I think now they just have that one drill he was talking about, but when I grew up in Greater Victoria SD61, we had them in the 90’s for sure. All the time.
@Railfan513
@Railfan513 3 ай бұрын
Don’t for get that they discovered a fault line under neath elk lake right by the rowing building
@aPoLiGiZe9
@aPoLiGiZe9 7 күн бұрын
Nima Rajan 😍❤️
@esteads2.010
@esteads2.010 3 ай бұрын
every few years the same story is told, a fresh edu-doc to keep it in the fore front of our minds, to be always thinking of awaiting doom and horror just under our feet, thank you for the new fear, same as the old fear.
@WELSONTSORIANO
@WELSONTSORIANO 14 күн бұрын
Here in the Philippines, when the big one happened, I don't know what would have happened in the Philippines, especially metro Manila and the neighboring provinces.
@terpnoid
@terpnoid 3 ай бұрын
Very informative
@captbad9313
@captbad9313 Ай бұрын
None of those old buildings will be left standing.
@karenlebeter4196
@karenlebeter4196 2 күн бұрын
Do fire departments have maps showing natural gas lines to houses/neighborhoods? What about propane tanks? This could help save lives of firefighters and the public.
@jeaninecalderon121
@jeaninecalderon121 2 ай бұрын
were gonna be toast here in La Push Wa were right on the coast, paddles up my tribe, i dont think our canoes will help us, even tho we had Paddle to Seattle in 1989. scary af
@sherimatukonis6016
@sherimatukonis6016 2 ай бұрын
some of our ancestors survived... some of the residents of the costal areas will this time also... I'm 300+ above sea level and well inland so I'll shake, but no tsunami. Good luck to you.
@jeaninecalderon121
@jeaninecalderon121 2 ай бұрын
@@sherimatukonis6016 praying everyone survives
@shanemcconnell1736
@shanemcconnell1736 Күн бұрын
Do you see what goes on in Seattle and Portland these days? I think they could use a big cleanup, so like a 500 foot wave might just be what the doctor ordered.
@JenniferInTheWorld
@JenniferInTheWorld 2 ай бұрын
I have niece out there in Tacoma Washington I keep telling her & husband leave but they don’t believe it I guess that’s in them but we still visit them with my family
@monamajor4913
@monamajor4913 Ай бұрын
Dont get under a table such done thing to do while building colaspse on you, get out and away from buildings
@ddoommiinniicc
@ddoommiinniicc 27 күн бұрын
Yo idiot, you can’t even stand up in a 9 magnitude earthquake. You aren’t leaving the building
@dorianf1456
@dorianf1456 3 ай бұрын
Im curious hoo much shaking would be felt in the eastern fraser valley?
@gambit3228
@gambit3228 3 ай бұрын
Great question!
@DH-qz2so
@DH-qz2so 3 ай бұрын
The 4.1 that happened the other morning at 4am, woke me up!
@dorianf1456
@dorianf1456 3 ай бұрын
@@DH-qz2so really! Interesting.
@Charlie-zi5ew
@Charlie-zi5ew Ай бұрын
Don't wait for government help when Trump and his administration of incompetent jackasses take over. Help yourself and your family any way you can.
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