3D Supermarket - 10 Earthquakes Comparison

Watch this 3D Supermarket being tested for 12 different sized earthquakes!
This project took me a full week of work to finish.

I hope these simulations will bring more earthquake awareness around the world and educate the general public about potential earthquake related hazards. SHARE this video on social media
to spread more awareness about
earthquake damage!

Huge thanks to @CaSeismograph for becoming sister channels! They are streaming a live seismograph from Los Angeles, California, 24/7. Make sure you check all their educational resources on their website! Important!!

This earthquake collapse simulation was created in Blender 3D with the Bullet Constraints Builder (BCB - a structural simulation code made by @KaiKostack ) which extends Blender´s basic physics functionality with a sophisticated toolset to simulate load dynamics in building structures.
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[mckenzie]

I feel like it’s important to mention, especially for those who don’t know, in earthquake prone areas, buildings are made to be able to sway a bit with the earthquake, so the building swaying as the earthquake is happening is actually normal and realistic in the simulation.

[westoonc]

Can we take time to appreciate that the workers cleaned the store again and again so fast?

[Reckoning]

I experienced a 7.4 earthquake in Japan once. Scariest sh’t ever.
It’s not even the ground shaking and you can hold onto nothing as you’re thrown around like a rag doll that is the most terrifying. it’s the sound that the ground is making that gives the whole moment a very surreal touch. It sounds like an angry giant bull that is charging at you. Deep and rumbling. Makes you feel powerless and terrified like a little ant in between the fingers of a human who has the intention of crushing you.
Nature is as terrible as it is beautiful.

[viablue]

My thought process quickly went from “Jeez, that would be such a hassle to clean up, I feel bad for people who have to deal with that” to “Okay, is there a way to survive in this situation, where would you hide to give yourself the best chance of not being crushed to death?”

Powerful earthquakes are truly terrifying…

[yoongzy]

I feel bad for the workers who have to clean up the mess.

[nightcode]

I think it's really impressive for the shelves to stay mostly undamaged and upright for anything less than a gigantic asteroid strike.Someone should build the store as sturdy as these shelves.

[HimanshuSuvarna]

This simulation does a great job at showing the level of movement experienced while inside a building but I hope the viewers don't take the damage shown at face value. In real life, the strain on the building's pillars, especially in larger buildings will cause the building to collapse way earlier than shown in the building, crushing everything underneath. Earthquakes are one of the most terrifying phenomenons to be caught unprepared for.

[terrafray]

Props to the cameraman for recording and surviving earthquake all the way up to scale 12.

[bobbyd.roberson]

That Chixulub one was crazy... thoughts and prayers for any dinosaurs caught in a supermarket when that happened 🙏

[RavenhearstCactus]

IMO, the reason the shelving units did so well in this simulation is because they're short - only 3 shelves - so their center of gravity is closer to the ground. If the simulation showed full-sized units that you would actually see in stories (or the giants in Costco), the shelves would have toppled over sooner because their center of gravity is higher up.

[smitastic]

I remember what my Structural Geology professor in college always said, "earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do".

[alexia]

Labeling each level with what percentage of G it was was so helpful, I have never before had a way of picturing what types of forces were involved in an earthquake. However I have fallen off a chair before! So I am fairly familiar with what, say, 80% of that acceleration would feel like. Also, apparently buildings are not constructed to be moved faster than the speed of gravity, they just shred at 1.5g+ . The simulation of chicxulub was unexpected but so cool, I have not had any kind of reference frame for that, and given that the building seems to cave in instantly, the catastrophic forces involved seem to overtop even this simulation

[tachacubbins]

After we had the 8.8 earthquake in 2010 (Chile) the supermarkets implemented straps in the alcohol sections in order to protect wine bottles and other similar glass packages. They have currently relaxed and even though we're always aware we can experience a 8+ earthquake anytime, they've decided they are taking the risk 😂 so I feel sorry for the cleaning staff in advance

[catofsnow_]

Living in an earthquake prone country I could tell you that people here won't even bat an eye for anything under level 5, and usually only start to go "hm. this might be a concern" over level 6, so it's actually pretty eye-opening to see how bad the things we consider "dismissable" would've looked from a different perspective

[sdcb]

the fact that the entire roof of the building collapsed before a single shelf fell over is honestly something i never would've expected.

[roisi]

0:11 Intensity 1
0:21 Intensity 2
0:30 Intensity 3
0:39 Intensity 4
0:52 Intensity 5
1:11 Intensity 6
1:35 Intensity 7
2:19 Intensity 8
3:11 Intensity 9
4:04 Intensity 10
5:54 Intensity 11
6:41 Intensity 12

[IridescentPigsie]

what I learned: no matter how intense the earthquake: if I'm caught by it in a supermrket, the safest place to be is in a fruit crate (up until 10, when the roof came down on them) They and the fruit in them barely move ;-) ) Great work, really interesting to watch!

[pandorabox]

Fun fact: depending on where they are standing, most people usually don't notice when it's a 5th grade and below. It's a 6th grade and above when things start falling off. We had an 8.1 here in Mexico and and the building I was at it felt like how the 6th degree was depicted here, stuff thumbling everywhere and doors swinging back and forth. But some people who were in poorly constructed buildings experienced it like the 11 degree one. The way it feels/looks is very relative

[Harry]

Today, April 5th, 2024, at 10:20 am 4.7/8 was felt in NJ

[PrncsKaters]

When I was a freshman engineering student in college, we were touring one of the facilities with an earthquake simulator lab. I was the only California kid in the whole group and the looks on everyone else’s faces when the professor explained — with an erector set model and a machine — that California buildings intentionally sway back and forth for earthquakes. And the students didn’t believe me when I told them we mostly ignore and/or don’t notice and/or sleep through anything under about a 5.