Computer Simulation of an Earthquake | California Academy of Sciences

Many faults cut across California’s coastal region. What might an earthquake look like along the Hayward Fault? This simulation depicts one scenario.

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[thejourney]

This 7.1 in Searles Valley got me thinking now. 7.5.19

[novoice]

god damn earthquakes got me getting ready for when the big one hits

[LossyLossnitzer]

This video ended really quickly I wanted to hear more like how if it ruptured how it might trigger it more famous neighbor. Sometime I wonder how they analyse how often these fault occur since there are so many faults in California some of them must merge into one big jolt. Like does the Cascadia fault trigger the southern faults?

[rlbcage_]

Everyone be here after what happened in California

[freedomthroughspirit]

Glad to see the Rodgers Creek fault being shown here as part of the Hayward fault, thank you. It does indeed seem to be connected.

[prettypesos]

we just had a 4.5 along this fault line & it felt SCARY 💔

[klausmaerz]

Except when the big one hits the destruction will be as far south as San Diego and as far North as Seattle. Not to mention Tijuana and Vancouver respectively.

[raudiaz]

When I checked search engine for the history of Earthquakes, I have got conflicting reports for the San Francisco area and surrounding (such as Stockton, Sacramento, Wine Country north) I found one that seems to have the majority on one list. From the 1830s to 1906 there were Three-7.0 or larger (7.8 was 1906) and Eight-6.5 to 6.9 quakes. then the 50 years of silence until the 1950s when a large 6.8 hit. "The forgotten quake" of san Francisco which did some serious damages by no deaths or one person died from a Heart Attack so they weren't sure back then if it was coincidental. from 1978 to 1989 there were lots of 5.0 quakes. I remember quakes smaller (like 3.5) every few months in the early-mid 1980s. and what people didn't know was San Francisco had a big 5.9 quake ( or big moderate) 3 months before the 1989 Quake. That was also in the Santa Cruz area but shook the hell out of our home in the Sunset District (which was built on Sand Dunes in the 1950s and had some liquefaction type intensity. it's like an amplifier of shaking. then 3 months later, I was working near the water's edge outside of SFO and the quake threw us all around like ragged dolls. the scariest thing I ever encountered. I been in a near-death car accident and motorcycle accident but you have no time to respond.. it happens and it's over. this came out of nowhere. shook and rolled. like standing up on a boat fishing off the side and a big set of wake waves hit you. felt like water under us. that's landfill and liquefaction. like what happened in the Marina District of San Francisco. And I saw the smoke across the bay from Oakland's Cypress Freeway that collapsed. but not liquefaction. That highway was sagging. should of been condemned. Blah blah.. Corona Virus Lockdown Rant. -Get well everyone

[anantkulkarni]

That's really a good clip, but not in detail. California academy of sciences should give a detailed explanation so that students and the general public will come to know about it.

[debrawitherspoon]

I saying may prayers for all mankind amen and amen

[originalfilmbot]

The Virtua Fighter version of a simulation

[joe]

does insurance cover earthquakes in these high risk areas? id imagine the rates are pretty high if they do

[sammhy]

Orange county doesn't look that bad

[urielasoriano]

i live in california and a earthquake happen i was in my mom and dad room i took my pet dog name cookie i ran and i was so shook oof

[kokfahchong]

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[redpilled]

Umm, where's the rest of it? The video ends in the middle of talking about what would happen!

[jiannedomael]

very informative, may we use some parts of the video for our school proj? we assure to give u proper credits, thank u in advance!

[raudiaz]

it could be 1/16th the shake of 1906. yet it could kill tens of thousand of people and injure up to a quarter of a million more. and the flooding and fires that follow would probably account for most of that. there were Three 7.0 or larger quakes between the early mid part of the 19th century to 1906 and something like 7 or 8 6.5 or greater. all in a 65 year period just in Northern California and mostly the Bay Area. the 50 years that followed was called the quiet period. though there was the "Forgotten 5.5 quake in San Francisco in 1950s". the thing that bothers me is when we get a massive or very large quake on the Hayward that is 7.0 or just under/over. it might be the new loud period of quakes. we might get more larger or same size quakes on the Hayward again or the San Andrea's or Green Valley (etc) over and over for decades. The bay Area's political side loves to red-tape and delay repairs. it was proven in the 1989 quake. There should be a program to speed up the process of releasing funds and repairing much sooner than later. or Silicon Valley business will just plain leave.

[Actkqk]

Come to Chile. We don't need simulations and a 7.0 is like nothing for a great part of us (no joke)...

[Thingsyourollup]

How many tax dollars did it take to make this 2 minute long uninformative video?