M7.0 Earthquake Simulation for Hayward Fault, California

[Zeronieo]

Im moving out of Cali in 2 weeks. Hopfully it can wait that long before having a huge quake!

[maximme]

why doesnt it go north ? the effect olny goes south....

[Bugstomper2]

Put on your hard hat and jump in your helicopter, quick!

[Chammy92243]

Why are the waves heading South South East instead of upwards and West?

[Armistice023]

@Chammy92243 Underlying geology is my guess. Rocks transmit the movement better that sand, so it would make sense that the granite makeup of the Sierras would transmit that movement better than the softer soils of the bay. Same would be saying water conducts electricity better than wood. Again, that's just my guess

[zapthycat]

@Armistice023 Actually, bedrock muffles the movement. Sand will amplify it. Being on a rock or boulder would be the safest place in an EQ, you will still feel it, but it wouldn't knock you over. Being on sand or even worse, landfill, it'll shake you harder and anything built on it will fall to pieces.

[zapthycat]

@Chammy92243 Because the fault is "unzipping" from north to south. If the EQ starts at the south of the fault, the shockwaves will go west. That's the the USGS guy told me when I asked the same question...

[ModestDanny]

But why does it say 1000x exaggeration?

[antigen4]

because it is. all the displacements are exaggerated or multiplied by 1000 - otherwise you wouldn't see ANYTHING happening. the video tries to show you the geographic distortions that would happen under those conditions.

[cnselif]

does anyone know which simulating programme was used for making this video?

[Legomania81]

darn! i live in Newark CA and the violent is running right where I live!

[recto89]

Look This video shows that if the Hayward Fault goes off soon we might end up with the same problems as the People of Haiti had to face last week and the People of Eureka had to face the week before.

[Msshanibo808]

i live in richmond ca

[writofmandamus]

watch this video is gonna get so commented on soon when the hayward fault does rupture. Hopefully we'll all still be alive to look back on it...

[mmikemoore]

Note the exaggeration is 1000x. As to buildings, there are tens of thousands of building with either soft first stories, or are unreinvorced brick. Then the loss of power, communications, transportation due to road/bridge failures, landslides, traffic lights outages, plus the unknowns. Maybe a dam failure, airport runway damage. Will retrofits survive? It will be the worst American disaster in history.

[jorniker]

i live on the hayward fault

[lmaoarandy]

FUCK i live like right on da fucking fault

[tectonaguy]

7.0, though powerful, probably wouldn't do much to buidlings these days. Your grandma might yell at you for breaking her favourite tea set for years afterwards, but with modern earthquake area building regulations, the worse damage, in my opinion, would be cracked windows, tiles shaken off roofing and minor damage to roads...

[mayaantares]

Actually, the conservative estimates put a 7.0 quake on the Hayward fault as having major damage to the East Bay since the fault hasn't let go for a very long time. Most of the buildings here are not entirely retrofitted, since they were here before a lot of current regulations were in place. Trust me, I live less than a mile from the center of Downtown Oakland and we feel it when there's two or a three.

[ivegotamnesia]

at least im not in the red area but fuck that shits guna suck ass wen it happens

[neilutubename]

c'mon! there's no way that a 7.0 on the Hayward fault would look like this. Compare this simulation with that of the 1989 loma prieta simulation. That one was a 6.9 and it looked nothing like this.

[redisk]

simulations are known to change after 20 years of tech advancements

[mrtokitime]

89 Loma Prieta quake's depth of fault was over 10 miles deep I believe that lessen the strength of motion shaking. Hayward fault's simulation may look pretty severe because the fault would rapture right on surface rather than over 10 miles deep like Loma Prieta's quake.

[recto89]

I think if a 7.0 quake were to happen on the Hayward Fault or the New Madrid Fault in the Eastern Half of the USA. Then we all would have problems bigger than the victims of the 2010 Haiti Quake.

[SnowVixen89]

I'm waiting for it.

[green8o5]

WHEN iS THiS SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN..i LiVE iN RiVERSiDE CA...DO yOU KNOW..??

[YouSmellProductions]

tommorrw

[SnowVixen89]

It has not happened yet. I believe that it could happen soon, but I hope that the ones who are at risk hang in there. I may not have any family members residing in California, but I care for them as well as the rest of the world.

[AdventureStudying]

And for the person with the profile "yeahduckies" I'm gonna tell ya. Yes, houses are sometimes completely destroyed and stuff like that in earthquakes.

[AdventureStudying]

It is going to be so DANG sad!

[AdventureStudying]

One of these days, POW!! Right in the old kisser!

[yeahduckies]

im so terrified by earthquakes. but lots of people are. but if this hit lets say a random city...los angeles, would they be hit really badly that houses could collapse or stuff like that? i live in new york but i have family out in los angeles thats why im wondering

[GeneralHospitalmob]

so that's the south bay . i live on the eastside of san jose. will that make much of a difference?

[GeneralHospitalmob]

question. will san jose feel the massive 7.0 quake in a serious sense? or will it be reduced to like a 5.0 because of how far we our from the vaunt line in oakland?

[septentrionale]

Actually, since a good deal of the south bay is built on mud and sand, it is entirely possible that San Jose will be super hard-hit, regardless of shaking quotient.

[notdafn1]

where there is smoke there is fire. Weather modifying machines are real. Look up haarp. the reason for your preparation is because fema and the powers that be have already set it up to take place, you're just being desensitized. Wake up people, our lives are hanging in the balance. They know what's going to happen before it happens because they cause it. It's called genocide!

[dietzchris]

california is due for an massive earthquake

[SnowVixen89]

I know. That is what I've been trying to tell other youtubers who were making light of this. This is serious, dude!

[Jodatoa]

So If I stay in Union City which is between Hayward and Fremont, would that put me in the "red" area or the danger zone?

[TheBohemianOwls]

You guys realize that a 7.0 is 10x greater then a 6.0 and not doubled? So if it's a 7.5 it will be about 6 times greater then the loma prieta in strenth but since the loma prieta was 70 miles away from Oakland the quake will really be about 20x greater then 1989. What i don't get is why Oakland will suffer worst then Alameda. Alameda is like 30% landfill and marsh.

[hyphymex510]

thats it im out....ima live in the middle of assia

[ig0tsh0t]

calm down, it says 1000x exxageration on the top of the screen, below M7.0 Earthquake Simulation

[x11115]

where did you get the impression i'm not calm dork? if a person post a video like this it should be in the video description. obviously not everyone is going to look at the fine print while watching the video.

[nikidizzi2]

hahahahaha!!

[x11115]

not accurate. a small building might shake that much but not the entire land mass. if that happened everything would be leveled beyond comprehension.

[ImpliedBodyMan]

Some of those USGS guys need some serious visualization assistance.

[penpen125]

I wish this won't happen again :)

[psychodelicdragon]

glad we don't have those in texas panhandle

[mmuskratt]

Glad we don't have tornadoes every year.

[vizarx]

wait wait ... wats the point of this vid... were ganna hav another, bigger earthquake soon?

[BeondaPale]

:20 so long Oakland

[novan3]

Who ordered the burrito??

[theblackwidower]

Does the earth actually ripple like that during a real earthquake? I gotta see a video of that.

[hurdl3thed34d]

im no expert but i believe it does from vids i have seen

[inthefade]

The article that this video is from says this:

"The ground motion is exaggerated by 1,000 to help with the visualization."

[audiotactix]

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back in 1989 i was standing in a large field (in vacaville, ca) about 60 miles east of the epicenter, you could see what looked like waves rolling across the field.

[neotoy]

Kind of useless without a legible key.. I'm assuming that the red zone is basically obliterated? Honestly only idiots would build in this area after 1906..

[inthefade]

Yeah this video is pretty unclear, mainly because it goes along with this article:

blog(dot)wired(dot)com/wiredsc­ience/2008/10/video-earthquak(­dot)html

You'd think that Wired would know enough to include the link to the article in the video description...

[bobbyyFc]

OMG its a sign .... Science Help us

[987wolf987]

wow nice effect it's as if it's bleading

[smnk3]

wow.. we were doing about this just today :D

[MiniMaxis468]

cool

[victorcelmare]

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