Holy shit, that's so surreal! The lack of destruction is unsettling to me; to see this much mass being shifted around so quickly, I would expect to see huge plumes of dust and debris or something. But this was... almost gentle. Like a developer just highlighted a group of assets and dragged them all 20 feet to the side.
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Did you see the power pole tower thing on the right? No dust, but there's much more damage than what we can see.
This is a picture from the quake in 2012 that hit southern New Zealand
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/dust-clouds-above-christchurch
From seeing images like this, I expected a dust cloud too
I had to ask myself if I just saw the entire right half of the screen shift down and when it switched to 2x speed I was shocked that it did.
Thought I was going to see a crack appear on the driveway, that's what I was watching originally. Then it happened and I was like "What? The driveway stood still and the rest of the Earth just lurched forward?" Holy shitballs
This is what reminds you: we are bugs on this planet.
And very soft and squishy ones at that...
Hoky FUCK that is crazy
That is equal parts terrifying and cool as fuck!
The amount of power on display here is staggering. I don't even have a way to compare it to anything else. It's truly terrifying.
"Sorry, your house is now overstepping property lines. You must now destroy it and rebuild it 6 feet to the right"
I wonder how this actually works. Because technically property lines shifted too. And in many places, official property lines are still demarked with some sort of marker on the ground, not by GPS.
I'm pretty jaded to things, thanks to seeing so much shit online. This, however, made my jaw drop. Unbelievably cool to see this.
No thank you to the Earth.
Seriously though kind of wild how simple the whole thing is. Like less dramatic than its portrayal by Hollywood by a long shot.
Less dramatic and a lot more terrifying
Man... plate tectonics are fucking wild, dog.
If you think that is wild Venus just randomly decides to completely swallow its entire surface every once and a while and the build a new one.
although we have no evidence of it ever happening to earth there is no reason it necessarily couldn't happen one day.
Think about this the earths crust is only 19 miles thick (30km) that is less than I used to drive to work
The Earth's crust is only 1/200 the thickness of the earth, an unknown geologic change could cause the entire surface to reshape over night.
And you'd still be expected to work the next day
Watching that gave me a sensation similar to how I would describe the feeling you get coming to a stop in an elevator.
All that mass moved in basically one second. That’s a shitton of energy.
That is absolutely incredible.
I wonder if youd feel yanked on either side of it. Like one side is clearly going to feel as though the ground moved under them, but i wonder if it felt that way on both sides? Were they both moving relative to stationary earth or did only one of them move?
My understanding from reading Wikipedia is that both sides are moving opposite against each other, so from the observation side, it looks much faster than it would look if observed directly above.
Yeah that would be my guess. You can see ton of damage on the far side, clearly more than just the random shaking of an earthquake. It looks like the tower gets yanked out from underneath itself, so that side is definitely getting yanked. I didnt see a clear shot of the damage on this side outside of the shed getting ripped in half, but that could be chalked up to it being on the fault line. And honestly it wasnt as wild as I would've expected given how much each side moved. Id've figured the shed would've gotten clearly ripped in half.
Strike slip gang
Neat
Jesus Christ
Allegedly
I hope nobody was in the building in the background left. It looks like the rupture went right under it and did it's best to split the building in half.
Also hope no one was on the transmission-tower in top-right. (53seconds)
Cut in half, then suspended from the power lines.