What Happens if Sea Levels Drop by 1000 Metres?

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[calvin_]

This is hard to explain in english, but as a chilean, we have a terrible "problemo":

Our coast is 6430 km lenght (4000 miles), and right in front of all of our coast, from north to south, it is located the Peru-Chile Trench, that delineates the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. This trench is the responsible for all the earthquakes that we have in Chile, and is very deep (at 8000 meters under the water, 4.9 miles), and located only at 160km or 100 miles from the coast, under the water.

So, if the sea level drops by 1000 meters, all of our coast cities will be located in front of an unbelievable huge fall, very inclined, similar to a cliff. It's like if those cities where built in the middle of a very high mountain. The water will be very far away, and it will be very hard to find some land to build in those places.

[koharumi]

You Forgot to mention that the arctic ocean is now a salty sea/lake

[GS-pfkf]

7:13 Unintentionally, you've solved the major issue between Greece and Turkey regarding how much of Aegean sea belongs to each country. Thank you so much!

[IosifStalin]

Canada - We have more land
China to its neighbours - You will have no land

[MintyGamingYT]

0:12 not North Korea just forgetting about the UK

[agermandown]

"However Australia has bigger problems, it is connected to Indonesia" DAMN

[jediknight]

Can you imagine how many wars this would start?

[Guillaumelapomme]

"The Falkland Islands are now connected to Argentina" .... me: oh boy... here we go again

[monkeybrelin]

An interesting thought, thanks for the video. The only suggestion I would add is, it would have been nice if on the 'new' layout you'd superimposed the old layout somehow (faint outline/faint colour etc) so it would have been much easier to see how significant the changes would be. Again, well done.

[thallessorrilhameirabarros]

New challenger unlocked: walking from Canada to UK

[jhulvincentcalabia]

"Taiwan is now connected to China"
Taiwan: Oh hell naw!

[HollywoodF]

It’s funny thinking of Denmark and Netherlands— two countries so associated with the sea— to be landlocked.

[JawddmJustaguy]

“If I remove a country or two it will look weird” *removes the largest countries in the world

[hammy]

casually realizing how many new wars would start over lands if this ever happened

[galreserve]

Japan:
-Welcome to Japan empire
Korea:
Ah sh it here we go again!

[birdgod]

In this map, the lake in between the borders between Canada and Greenland would become the deepest and largest lake on Earth. It would get up to 7000 ft deep.

Also, many shores would now be way difference, since instead of you being able to walk around the shore and it only gradually getting deep, it would instantly drop thousands of feet

[createdforthemoment]

Team Aquas been real quiet since Magma expanded the land....

[Edwardi]

if sea levels dropped by 1000 meters The Florida man would inherit the earth.

[deathtoraiden]

>Sea drops 1000 Meters
>Portugal
>"BUT IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES..."

[shadhinov]

Italy: gets connected to Tunisia directly by land.
Hannibal barca of carthage: Rolls in his grave like a beyblade