Aftermath of the 2024 Noto Japan Earthquake (And Why It Took Scientists Completely By Surprise)

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Komentáře • 704

  • @astrumspace
    @astrumspace  Před 17 dny +59

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    • @all3ykat79
      @all3ykat79 Před 16 dny

      Where are your sources??? Can you reply with some please? I'd like to look at their data so I can check an idea as to its cause.

    • @kenkarish826
      @kenkarish826 Před 15 dny

      I lived in California and always rented apartments. Top floor. 😂😂😂

    • @gnekotv
      @gnekotv Před 13 dny

      truth

    • @DakotaFord592
      @DakotaFord592 Před 8 dny

      When are you going to make a video on white privilege? In what specific instances did White privilege assist you throughout your life? How did White privilege help you grow this CZcams channel? What are some of the ramifications of white privilege and why there are so many successful white CZcamsrs??

  • @LazyDT
    @LazyDT Před 18 dny +1045

    As a structural engineer, I'm saddened to see the incredible design and ingenuity that goes into seismic design of structures be misattributed to architects 😢

    • @dforrest4503
      @dforrest4503 Před 18 dny +49

      Good point.

    • @ianbecket3202
      @ianbecket3202 Před 18 dny +150

      Yeah, all architects do is make life harder for engineering - in any capacity

    • @andrewmitchell5807
      @andrewmitchell5807 Před 18 dny +14

      Yeah thats goofy

    • @greenthumb8266
      @greenthumb8266 Před 18 dny +43

      As a structural engineer, is there anything you know/learned about the geometry in relation to how structures behave that sticks out as counter-intuitive? Just curious

    • @janethumes4234
      @janethumes4234 Před 17 dny +32

      Geologist here. I bet on the structural engineers.

  • @gavinbelsen3690
    @gavinbelsen3690 Před 18 dny +997

    This is obviously the effects of Godzilla rising from his slumber.

  • @feiryfella
    @feiryfella Před 18 dny +535

    I've never forgotten that poor man trying to find his three cats he said saved his life from depression. I don't know if he ever did and it bothers me!

    • @sjain8111
      @sjain8111 Před 18 dny +13

      😿😿😿

    • @Scotia__
      @Scotia__ Před 18 dny +36

      Same! I hope he found them & they're all doing well now

    • @manitoba-op4jx
      @manitoba-op4jx Před 18 dny +14

      it's japan, he probably did.

    • @tomking2613
      @tomking2613 Před 18 dny +2

      Your lack of preposition bothers me...

    • @oceanlawnlove8109
      @oceanlawnlove8109 Před 18 dny +107

      ​@@tomking2613 Turns out not everyone is a native English speaker and grammar can be vastly different in other languages :00

  • @FoxrosePettipaw
    @FoxrosePettipaw Před 18 dny +295

    I was in Tokyo during that earthquake. We felt it even here. It was small but the longest one I've felt! Then we also felt the big aftershocks all day. Many people went to the shrines to pray for those on the peninsula. It was a haunting yet beautiful day. Seeing everyone distraught yet immediately jumping to help in whatever way they could.

    • @FoxrosePettipaw
      @FoxrosePettipaw Před 17 dny +24

      @BattleChicken-ij2qs let's not talk about conspiracy theories when real people died, buddy. Seriously. It was a natural disaster that killed and traumatized thousands. Nothing crazy about it. The Earth does what she does. And that's it. Also, don't reply to me. I won't reply because conspiracy theories shouldn't have room for discussion on such a serious, and recent topic.

    • @ttrreebboorr22000066
      @ttrreebboorr22000066 Před 17 dny +2

      Tbh people praying don't help anyone but themselves...

    • @freeculture
      @freeculture Před 15 dny +6

      @@ttrreebboorr22000066 well it happened in the day where they traditionally go to temples to pray for the new year, Japanese people aren't particularly religious but they were already there, might as well pray for them too. And lets not forget of the Haneda plane incursion crash because they were hurrying sending aid there.

    • @cherriberri8373
      @cherriberri8373 Před 15 dny +3

      ​@ttrreebboorr22000066 if you do not believe, that is okay, but it does a lot for them.
      I don't either.

    • @fsmando4679
      @fsmando4679 Před 15 dny +1

      I was there too during that time, was a bazar experience. This told me just how much that affected it.

  • @ppoad
    @ppoad Před 18 dny +138

    I experienced the 8.9 earthquake at Chile 27th of February of 2010. A little over 3 minutes of crazy chaos. There is no way to explain what is like to experience a high power earthquake, nature quickly humbles you…

    • @WilliamFord972
      @WilliamFord972 Před 17 dny +5

      8.9? That’s terrifying.

    • @freeculture
      @freeculture Před 15 dny +14

      @@WilliamFord972 Chile is actually the hottest earthquake spot on Earth, Japan is second. Chile had the strongest and longest (chain) of magnitude 9 registered in 1960, 1 hour long.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 Před 13 dny +4

      The first good size earthquake I experienced in Indonesia was extremely frightening. I ran out to my back yard and the land was rolling in a wave like manner. It felt like the ground was liquid. I'll never forget that first experience with earthquakes even though they're frequently felt here.

    • @cubanspy1231
      @cubanspy1231 Před 4 dny

      @@pakde8002 yeah the ground behaves like a viscoelastic fluid in earthquakes

  • @godalseif
    @godalseif Před 18 dny +195

    i was actually listening to a japanese live stream when it happened and i remember feeling so strange to be aware of an earthquake happening in real time on the other side of the planet. not from news after the fact or from data but from a normal person who was just chilling out having a conversation with the viewers. it really made me appreciate the internet, for all its faults we truly are more connected than ever

    • @benjaminsorenson
      @benjaminsorenson Před 17 dny

      Not real-time because albeit small there is a delay in what the streamer does and when you see it.

    • @boeman6702
      @boeman6702 Před 17 dny +33

      ​@@benjaminsorenson that's literally inconsequential to the point

    • @benjaminsorenson
      @benjaminsorenson Před 17 dny

      @@boeman6702 no, it's not. If it were real-time, it would be in person, not over the internet.

    • @boeman6702
      @boeman6702 Před 17 dny +34

      @@benjaminsorenson not you missing the main point and arguing over some stupid, insignificant semantic difference as if no one knows it
      Go off i guess

    • @Bageltin
      @Bageltin Před 17 dny +9

      ​@@boeman6702 some people just live and breathe rage bait lmao

  • @user-gm5lp1ny9w
    @user-gm5lp1ny9w Před 16 dny +33

    I have been living in Japan since 2006 and living on 能登半島 (Noto Pennsula) in 能登町(Noto villdge)since 2017. I chose this area for its natural beauty and it truly is one of the most amazingly beautiful places in Japan and great for me and my wife who is Japanese and our spiritual practice.
    We have been experiencing earthquakes here since 2019 when the first one of the cluster hit. The earth quakes situated around Suzu and route 249 between Wajima, Sosogi Kaigan and Noroshi the tip of Noto pennsula. There were two big Earthquakes in 2023 in May. On January 1st 2024 the first one hit at 4:05 pm. It was about an magnitude 5. I live about 19 kilometers from the epacenter. The 7.5 happened exactly at 16:10 . Our area and from the start of it, I knew it was different and I told to run in leave the house so we immeaditely left as carrying our daughter as fast as we could out of our home but it was so to walk in that shaking. When you were out side everything around you is shaking and you don't know how long it lasted or when its going to stop. But when it calmed down it ended with most strangest sensation I have ever felt the the ground stopped shaking but there was a feeling where you were standing that something absolutely huge had fallen that far below the surface something was still shaking of falling down. That was a really weird part of actually experiencing the Noto earthquake. My family home was somewhat damaged and we were lucky to be safe and alive. Though our bathroom was destroyed and so were the pipes in our home and we still don't have water in our house. My wife and I still love living in Noto and will rebuild and continue to raise our famliy here. Any one who wants to live in Japan no mater where you live here there is a very good chance you will go through an earthquake.

  • @morenauer
    @morenauer Před 18 dny +147

    Worst thing to me was that the next day in Haneda airport, Tokyo, a JSDF plane with relief aid for those affected was about to take off and was hit by a landing passenger plane. The passengers were alright but 5 people in the hit plane died because of it, as indirect casualties.

    • @GrayWolf-pv5uj
      @GrayWolf-pv5uj Před 16 dny +25

      To be correct, it was the Japanese Coast Guard plane. Not JSDF.

    • @YavorM-Yash
      @YavorM-Yash Před 16 dny +10

      ​@@GrayWolf-pv5ujand said plane wasn't given a clearance to be on the runway. Sad.

    • @GrayWolf-pv5uj
      @GrayWolf-pv5uj Před 16 dny +8

      @@YavorM-Yash Yeah, and a week ago couple of JMSDF helicopters are also collided each other and went down in the sea. All 8 aboard were dead. Japan hasn’t got many luck this year so far…

    • @mal2ksc
      @mal2ksc Před 14 dny +5

      As sad as that was, it could have been a _whole_ lot worse, if the airliner had landed just a bit shorter. I'm sorry for the people on the relief plane, but I'm also glad that's as far as the casualty list goes.

    • @dzzope
      @dzzope Před 14 dny +4

      ​@@mal2ksc This.
      As tragic as the results of that pilot's error was. It could have been much much worse if he stopped even a meter or so farther forward or the plane landing had done so a few meters shorter.

  • @YTho-ev1ej
    @YTho-ev1ej Před 14 dny +11

    In 1931 the same thing happened to Napier, New Zealand, where the earth lifted upward revealing land from under the sea, which is still used for productive means to this day

  • @brianfox771
    @brianfox771 Před 18 dny +60

    I was on tour in that region just six weeks prior to that earthquake. You did a great job accumulating so much footage of the quake. There's a youtuber from that area that features a Shiba Inu they own. They were filming them walking him when the earthquake hit. The poor dog couldn't even stay standing, and you can see seams in the ground nearby opening and closing as the ground shook.

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie Před 16 dny

      I have trouble finding that video, too many other videos with earthquacke, noto and 2024. Do you by chance remember the name of that video or youtuber?

    • @brianfox771
      @brianfox771 Před 16 dny +3

      @@jezusbloodie Yeah the channel is:
      SHIBA DOG RANMARU
      . and the video title is: Magnitude 7.6 earthquake. Shibe clings to the ground, trembling as it desperately tries to survive.

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie Před 15 dny

      @@brianfox771

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie Před 15 dny +4

      @@brianfox771 thank you kindly. That poor pupper.

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae Před 14 dny +3

      The opening and closing remind me of liquefaction. If you want to see something which might be shocking, the ground we are standing on is not as solid as we often think, we can really see that in the right earthquake circumstances, like in this video: Great Eastern Japan Earthquake - Liquefaction in Makuhari
      It's basically because of the high concentration of water in the ground, maybe burst pipes, etc.

  • @jaymzx0
    @jaymzx0 Před 17 dny +34

    I was in Tokyo back in February this year for a few weeks and while in an office building I noticed the lamps begin to sway. I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, so small quakes are somewhat normal here and there. One coworker from Oregon just shrugged and kept working. My coworker that lives in DC had eyes as big as saucers.
    Incidentally, every desk in the office had a folding hard hat and a first aid kit under it, and closets full of emergency supplies in every area. One of the industrial buildings I visited sat on bearings and had signs outside advising not to stand within 50cm of the building since the Earth may move but the building won't. The gutter downspouts had rubber hoses to connect them to the drains for the same reason. I asked if I could go into the bearing area to see them and was politely told no.

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie Před 16 dny +6

      "The earth may move but the building won't."
      Imagine being on a break, escaping the sun in the shade of the facility under a chorus of cicadas which falls silence. Suddenly, from your frame of reference, the building's wall accelerates at ca. 24 m/s² (peak ground accelartion of the Noto earthquacke, so disregarding foreshocks) towards your face, giving you just about exactly enough time to start contemplating your impending fractured skull.
      It would take about 0.31 seconds to tranverse the 50 centimeters. The average human reaction time is 0.25 - 0.3 seconds!
      I wonder what the peak lateral displacement of the ground compared to the building is during such a quacke, i couldn't quickly find anything about that.

    • @eh1702
      @eh1702 Před 15 dny +1

      @@jezusbloodie But won’t the same movement affect you too? if you’re lucky, standing there, the earth could either move you away from the building, or the jolt will cause you to fall or stagger away from it. If not, I guess you could accelerate towards the wall that’s accelerating towards you.

  • @nickrider5220
    @nickrider5220 Před 18 dny +39

    I've always wanted to experience the amazing power of an earthquake , but maybe I should just be grateful to live in a tectonically inactive area 😮

    • @kevinestrada900
      @kevinestrada900 Před 18 dny +13

      Yes, you don’t want to experience one. I live In Los Angeles, California.. I still traumatized from our big Earthquake from 94’

    • @wolfxlover
      @wolfxlover Před 18 dny +6

      It feels just weird like woah the ground is moving, objects are shaking...grounds don't move...:0
      I'd say they always shock me a little. I got scared enough from a 5.3 one that even now many years later I think I get PTSD, when I can't tell if I'm shaking or the ground is shaking. I also slept with my shoes on for a few weeks because aftershocks kept me afraid.

    • @davidconner-shover51
      @davidconner-shover51 Před 18 dny +2

      I live in a relatively quiet part of the Rockies, still get them occasionally. Born in SoCal, but strangely enough, the strongest one I've experienced was in the Boston area.
      I have felt and seen several remote tremblors on one job I had. regularly, it was a factory atop a 1/4 mile long slab of concrete. I remember feeling the ground sway a bit, and the lights swinging after a rather large Mexico City earthquake back in the '90s, 2000 miles away

    • @weaksause6878
      @weaksause6878 Před 18 dny

      I've felt a few 1.4 and 2.2s and stuff until a couple weeks ago there was the 4.9 in Lassen I was near. Weak ones are fun. I wouldn't want to experience a strong one.

    • @S.Clause
      @S.Clause Před 17 dny +2

      You’re a dog, so you’re more sensitive to earthquakes than us. I hope you live out the remainder of your days with a good owner and proper care.

  • @Knight_Kin
    @Knight_Kin Před 18 dny +29

    The April 5th 2024 - 4.8 - Earthquake in White House Station New Jersey took the USGS by surprise as well. We're having multiple every day since then, at least 135 earthquakes so far as of May 1st, 2024. This all coming from an unknown fissure adjacent to the Ramapo fault. Just felt a 2.9 this morning when I was sleeping. We've had a few aftershocks nearing 4. Only saving grace is it's severity is relatively lower compared to the active quakes in Japan. A lot of this video reminds me of the similar questions being asked about our local geological event.

    • @freeculture
      @freeculture Před 15 dny

      I don't feel anything 3 or less especially while sleeping. But honestly anything 5 or under is nothing, just remember each number means 10 times more than the previous.

    • @mal2ksc
      @mal2ksc Před 14 dny +1

      There may be a correlation between seismic activity and the solar maximum, maybe it has an effect on our magnetic field which in turn would affect the _source_ of that magnetic field, deep inside the planet.

    • @Nick77ab2
      @Nick77ab2 Před 7 hodinami

      If you know geologyhub, he's native to New Jersey and went over the possible cause of them in a video.

  • @RuiLeTubo
    @RuiLeTubo Před 18 dny +25

    There is an amazing video around, showing the dampener shpere on top of the Taipei 101 in action during the recent Taiwan earthquake.

  • @thedarkknight1971
    @thedarkknight1971 Před 17 dny +8

    The ONLY experience I had with an Earthquake, it was about 2008 in Grimsby (UK), I was working as a Bouncer at a club, it was about midnight, and suddenly ALL of the glass front vibrated like a kind of "b-b-B-B-BANG-B-B-b-b", it scared the hell out of everyone inside (especially me and my fellow door man on the door itself!). Turns out it was something like a 5.2 located around the Market Rasen area (about 16 Miles away). So, I can only imagine what 7s, 8s and even bloody terrifying 9s are like! 😕
    😎🇬🇧

  • @windowboy
    @windowboy Před 16 dny +6

    I live in Tokyo. Certainly was a sad time with that earthquake in Noto. The psychological effects on people, on a New Year’s Day, what should be a fresh beginning. 😞

  • @-wenschow907
    @-wenschow907 Před 18 dny +72

    It's O-kh-otsk, kh is the same sound as ch in Scottish "Loch" or the Greek letter Chi (x), so it's pronounced Ochotsk / Oxotsk.
    Doesn't really matter but since you said Ok-hot-osk like 5 times I figured it's worth to point it out.

  • @nnonotnow
    @nnonotnow Před 18 dny +13

    Kind of a different approach for you and your team. I like it. Trust your information. Love the way you put the program together

  • @Reticulating-Splines
    @Reticulating-Splines Před 18 dny +7

    This has really been a crazy year for geological events. I was watching videos covering the Taiwan earthquake and aftermath one night, only to experience one in my own house for the first time the next day

  • @johnmcnulty4425
    @johnmcnulty4425 Před 18 dny +45

    It still surprises me that I lived in nearby Niigata prefecture for 2 years and never experienced an earthquake.

    • @masterxyr
      @masterxyr Před 18 dny +1

      almost anti-climatic? a little 4 would have been decent experience for memory and reference ig

    • @ligmasack9038
      @ligmasack9038 Před 18 dny +6

      @@masterxyr we sleep through a 4.0 in Alaska...

    • @efdangotu
      @efdangotu Před 18 dny +4

      Dang. Ask for your money back.

    • @gavriloking5637
      @gavriloking5637 Před 18 dny +2

      You clearly have not lived their long enough. Noto was experienced throughout Kanto.

    • @shadetreec6013
      @shadetreec6013 Před 18 dny +2

      ​@@ligmasack9038I've been in California 47 years and have never felt one.

  • @jesusvieira7180
    @jesusvieira7180 Před 18 dny +19

    Not the photoshoped thumbnail😭😭😭

    • @IndividualEns
      @IndividualEns Před 18 dny +1

      It's not photoshoped, it's Ai generated, which is kinda a trend now

    • @fishiefish6179
      @fishiefish6179 Před 18 dny +7

      Definitely photoshopped. You can see the same water color pattern is just shifted away from the coastline

    • @jesusvieira7180
      @jesusvieira7180 Před 18 dny +2

      @@fishiefish6179 exactly

  • @kabadisha
    @kabadisha Před 18 dny +25

    Unusual topic for this channel, but I'm here for it. If this is a sign of content to come, count me in :-)

  • @Tser
    @Tser Před 18 dny +12

    I hope that the lessons and research are taken to heart here in the Pacific Northwest of North America before the big Cascadia quake hits, but I don't feel particularly hopeful.

    • @goldenhate6649
      @goldenhate6649 Před 18 dny +2

      With how bad the politics in that region are destroying the cities and their structural integrity, I presume we would see mass destruction that would see entire cities abandoned.

    • @ysccl
      @ysccl Před 18 dny

      Some of us are aware of Cascadia as we have classes on our natural disasters, though they are NOT taken to heart by the majority of people here, if even aware. Those disaster classes are an obscure option/elective where I went. Goldenhate got it right, though.

    • @Tser
      @Tser Před 13 dny

      @@goldenhate6649 It's very very expensive to bring things up to code to even have a chance of withstanding a 9+ magnitude earthquake... and since it's a "sometime in the future will happen" thing I think it's easy for people to get mad when money could be spent on other things that seem more pressing Right Now. I think it's human nature, because unlike some parts of the ring of fire, we don't have bad earthquakes often. Just Really Bad ones every few hundred years. Since it hasn't happened in anyone's lifetime, or their parents' lifetime, or their parents' parents' lifetime, it's harder to convince people that's where our money should be spent. (I of course just wish I HAD the money to retrofit where I live, but I don't, so fully expect to die lol)o

  • @tomaspreece3126
    @tomaspreece3126 Před 18 dny +72

    There is an ancient japanese saying... "9 out of 10 earthquakes prefer Chile" 🇨🇱

    • @normanmimsiii7944
      @normanmimsiii7944 Před 17 dny

      Ancient...or old? Did Japan navigate to Chile before the 1800s? If so, cool, I didn't know that

    • @tomaspreece3126
      @tomaspreece3126 Před 17 dny +4

      @@normanmimsiii7944 I'm just joking here 😅... But yes we have earthquakes constantly

    • @Bageltin
      @Bageltin Před 17 dny

      oh dang hows life in chile?

    • @itsdokko2990
      @itsdokko2990 Před 16 dny +3

      @@Bageltin
      things have been rather quiet in seismic terms, TOO QUIET i would say, at least for me as a northern chilean
      on every other term, please get me out of here

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 Před 16 dny +1

      ​@@itsdokko2990
      Chile out bro!

  • @TheErik249
    @TheErik249 Před 18 dny +30

    If you watch a pool of recently effused lava, as it cools and more effuses from the ground, you can see the surface cooling, cracking, sliding away from the source.
    It folds. It wrinkles.
    Sometimes other newly cooled slabs slide underneath other cooled slabs.
    That is a short, condensed, miniaturized version of Earths crust and its activity over the course of geologic time.
    All of this occurs because of a heat source beneath the surface.
    It is Amazing to ponder the fact that Earth's heat source has continued To produce an unimaginable Amount of heat for such a long time.
    A massive ball of nickel iron theorized to be approximately 13,000°F, And spinning Producing an electromagnetic field that protects us.
    Whoever engineered and developed this thing, My compliments!

    • @SquawkingSnail
      @SquawkingSnail Před 18 dny +4

      Poetry!

    • @interstellarsurfer
      @interstellarsurfer Před 18 dny +4

      Earth is just a cooling glob of supernova debris. That's interesting enough.

    • @efdangotu
      @efdangotu Před 18 dny

      So many ignore electrical induction. Earth is bathed in a positive ion wind constantly inducing effects on the surface of the crust, drawing electrical storms into the sky to repair a leaky capacitor.

    • @juangrnde8637
      @juangrnde8637 Před 18 dny +3

      We're technically made of planets

    • @SquawkingSnail
      @SquawkingSnail Před 18 dny +2

      @@juangrnde8637 which are made from? 😁

  • @thedarkknight1971
    @thedarkknight1971 Před 17 dny +5

    01:11 - I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT THOSE PLACES WITH 9.0s!!! 😮 Blimey! THAT must have felt like HELL! 😕
    😎🇬🇧

  • @dunccameron3283
    @dunccameron3283 Před 18 dny +15

    Really enjoyed this one Alex! I’m teaching a course at my Uni (Uni. Of Manchester UK) and I’ve suggested they look at Astrum of a great example of a video podcast as a great example for their examination by video podcast. Keep up the awesome work, I’m genuinely delighted to be a patron on Patreon 😊

  • @inakafever8253
    @inakafever8253 Před 4 dny

    I live in Ishikawa, Japan albeit south of where the earthquake struck. I haven't seen many people talking about the disaster since then and it's still causing damage to peoples lives. Even in Japan, the national news focuses on other stories a lot. But, people are still displaced and vital resources remain elusive to the people up there. It's refreshing to see and learn about some of the science behind this kind of disaster. It can bring a different perspective and appreciation to the destruction and chaos.

  • @rotteneffekt4416
    @rotteneffekt4416 Před 17 dny

    Over the course of a coupe of years, I've found this channel to be something that takes me back to the young me in the school library. I appreciate every episode.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh Před 8 dny

    I saw a number of clips here that I hadn't encountered before, and I appreciated seeing them.

  • @LossyLossnitzer
    @LossyLossnitzer Před 17 dny +1

    It caught me off guard; I did not expect it there and all the aftershocks. Thank you for this content.

  • @toyama307
    @toyama307 Před 18 dny +4

    I live in the prefecture next to Ishikawa. See my handle name. It was pretty wild to experience that amount of shaking. Ive felt plenty of earthquakes in my time here (including the tohoku one) but nothing like that. All the older people who i know say that that was the first time to feel such a large quake here. No real damage at home just a few broken glasses. I remember that maybe 30 seconds before the main quake there was another one so we were thinking about earthquakes when it struck. The thing that sticks in my mind is watching our two cars rocking from side to side

    • @toyama307
      @toyama307 Před 18 dny +2

      Another thing that was weird is how quick we all got used to the aftershocks. As was said in the video this area of Japan doesnt get too many earthquakes and when we do get one people often talk about them. After the Noto earthquake there was so many that we got used to them even though many were bigger than most quakes we had experienced before. Havent felt any for a while now which is nice

  • @rafaelfcf
    @rafaelfcf Před 18 dny +11

    Sometimes, I forget Earth is just another planet.

    • @kjj26k
      @kjj26k Před 18 dny

      Not really.
      Earth is wholly unique among known planets in so many ways, all this tectonic activity being one of them.

    • @oceanlawnlove8109
      @oceanlawnlove8109 Před 18 dny +1

      ​@@kjj26ktectonic activity doesn't happen on other planets?

    • @WilliamFord972
      @WilliamFord972 Před 17 dny

      @@oceanlawnlove8109No other planet in our Solar System has active plate tectonics. I’m sure some planet out there has active plate tectonics, but we’ve never seen it-nor would we be able to from this distance.

    • @oceanlawnlove8109
      @oceanlawnlove8109 Před 17 dny

      @@WilliamFord972 cool fact

  • @kote-kino
    @kote-kino Před 6 dny

    I live in Osaka and I clearly felt the highest shake in Noto even more than 400 km away. I immediately understood that something terrible had happened somewhere, because the waves I felt were slow and very large: it was really scary! I turned on the TV and realised what was happening. Thanks Alex for the wonderful documentary, interesting and well done as always.

  • @awildcyclistappears
    @awildcyclistappears Před 17 dny +2

    For two times I was in Japan (2019 and 2023, both times for over 35 days) I've experienced earthquakes each time being there. It is a humbling experience that reminds me, that I'm not the above the Earth, but that she is above me.

  • @alaskajdw
    @alaskajdw Před 18 dny +4

    Your videos are fantastic

  • @scottogden8509
    @scottogden8509 Před 17 dny +2

    We had an earthquake in the Grimsby UK, damaged houses and set off car alarms... and we are not on a fault line. Woke thousands of people up. Even me.. everything was shaking and swinging.

  • @RomoRooster
    @RomoRooster Před 18 dny +11

    I'm glad I live in Appalachia, it's a disaster free zone other than occasional flooding or snow storms

    • @JeannetteReed
      @JeannetteReed Před 18 dny +3

      Puleeeese, how do you insure rain? Wash your car, carefully, wax, buff. Couldn't hurt to be grateful yet...aware that flukes are a thing Because they rarely happen. 🎉

    • @iciajay6891
      @iciajay6891 Před 18 dny +1

      I live on the Canadian shield. Only thing we get in my area are sonw storms. Not tornadoes, no floods etc. Not earthquakes over 2. And luckly no forest dires due to the tarpography.

    • @mred8002
      @mred8002 Před 18 dny +4

      I’m sure the Madras won’t affect you in future, then.

    • @hleth4888
      @hleth4888 Před 14 dny +2

      The geologic attenuation isn't great for Appalachia, but most buildings are single story wood which can survive low magnitude occilations fine

    • @mred8002
      @mred8002 Před 14 dny +1

      @@hleth4888 true. Not a lot of high-rise or brick construction, and few cities. With the proximity to the Madras, that might increase risk, but if affected there will be bigger problems elsewhere. Almost bought a house and lad there. A few miles from a Superfund site, i later learned.

  • @christianmittasch8972
    @christianmittasch8972 Před 16 dny +2

    The force to lift up the beach is absolut amazing.

  • @SoundsoftheUniverse0422
    @SoundsoftheUniverse0422 Před 18 dny +16

    I think there's a new magma hotspot forming below Noto, or maybe an old hotspot making its way up again due to the movement of plate tectonics and that the crust below Noto is much thinner.

    • @Lisa1111
      @Lisa1111 Před 18 dny +3

      I concur.

    • @goldenhate6649
      @goldenhate6649 Před 18 dny +7

      Ground deformation on this scale, if due to volcanism, would be insane. Normally deep refills of magma chambers move the earth maybe, at most, a couple centimeters.
      This, this would be a tambora size, or larger, eruption. There are no gas vents or sign of volcanism yet, so this magma is DEEP.
      Of course, this is assuming this is volcanic in nature.

    • @Marble_Sharp840
      @Marble_Sharp840 Před 18 dny +3

      I was thinking the same thing. It's probably a mantel plume hotspot rising up to the surface. It's definitely volcanic especially when earthquake swarms are involved.

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Před 18 dny +4

      If there were a magma plume forming the signs of that would have been observed before now. The uplift was clearly a result of the earthquake. So the big question(s) is what was behind the earthquake swarm and what in turn is its connection to the major earthquake.
      Without more data I think it is presumptuous to speculate on what is going on there. imo

    • @tuunaes
      @tuunaes Před 9 dny

      Monitoring earthquake waves allows mapping structures deep under Earth's surface.
      That's how magma chambers under Yellowstone and mantle plume feeding them have been mapped.
      So plumes under Japan would have likely been found already.
      Also plumes are very long lived producing eruptions continuously in geological time scale. So little reason to think one of them had been taking holiday just because human specie appeared on this rock.

  • @ruperterskin2117
    @ruperterskin2117 Před 18 dny

    Right on. Thanks for sharing.

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Před 17 dny

    Thank you, Alex! 🫨

  • @andoryus
    @andoryus Před 18 dny +62

    I was about to go to sleep because I have a test tomorrow afternoon. It's 3AM but I don't care, it's my first time being this early to an Astrum upload!

    • @Ann-op5kj
      @Ann-op5kj Před 18 dny +8

      Your sleep for your test is far more important as this video will still be here after you pass 🩷😆

    • @ramchandrakaranje5853
      @ramchandrakaranje5853 Před 18 dny

      All the best for your test 👍. I have been in same situation before 😂😂

    • @andoryus
      @andoryus Před 18 dny

      @@Ann-op5kj You are right but I'm very prepared and confident haha I appreciate the concern though! I will definitely pass 😊

    • @Channelinterrupted
      @Channelinterrupted Před 18 dny

      3am?! Wow... It's 1030am here

    • @treystephens6166
      @treystephens6166 Před 18 dny +1

      It’s 1:40pm in the State of Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

  • @ZETAGeTh
    @ZETAGeTh Před 18 dny +17

    From Chile here, saying hello

  • @zam6877
    @zam6877 Před 18 dny +1

    Since the subject of volcanic activity was raised,
    either there is little data on relative movement of the adjacent smaller plates
    or no significant movement
    I wish you had mentioned some information on this...

  • @MaxCheng95
    @MaxCheng95 Před 18 dny +2

    The earthquake also unexpectedly caused another (I’d say near) tragedy: JAL516 collision in Tokyo Haneda airport the very next day. The Japan Coast Guard plane that A350 ran over was an emergency scramble to send supplies to Noto for rescue relief

  • @ImRezaF
    @ImRezaF Před 15 dny

    I was in an AEON mall near Narita airport when it happened. In Chiba, the earthquake felt just a little sway but i keep up with the news the whole day.

  • @Bluelagoonstudios
    @Bluelagoonstudios Před 3 dny

    I experienced it once, my girlfriend and I were sleeping early morning, and I woke up and noticed the room was shaking, it was just like a dream, it took a few seconds to get up, and both run outside. The quake was in the Netherlands, and we never experienced something like this. In the news they said this was a "small" quake, it makes you thinks what a big quake must feel.

  • @kernfel
    @kernfel Před 17 dny +2

    Thank you for this! I'd followed the earthquake live from a safe distance, but despite the continued stories of human tragedy run by the NHK, I'd never followed up on what had happened physically. The tsunami warnings were much higher than what the later same-day reporting showed, and I remember wondering whether that was due to the land sinking a little and thereby triggering unreasonable sea level readings. Turns out I may have been half right!

  • @robinbinder8658
    @robinbinder8658 Před 15 dny +1

    my god..... the forces.... the way the ground shears..... the coastline rise.... incomprehensible...

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh Před 8 dny

    Since this area is quite rural, it still has a lot of older, traditional-style Japanese homes. You can see in a number of videos how these collapsed due the wooden walls swaying significantly which destabilized the buildings enough for the roofs, heavy with ceramic tiles, to fall to the ground.

  • @sjp35productions6
    @sjp35productions6 Před 17 dny

    Funny, this happened to me this afternoon in CA. Just a 4 banger, but it was centered about 25 miles due east of my home. No damage, just creaky walls, two small jolts, and a little more shaking for a couple seconds. Just another day in the paradise of OC.

  • @acm_1985
    @acm_1985 Před 12 dny

    09:30 Side fact: as shown in the footage You used, they constructed Tōkyo Skytree like ancient pagodas. So it is ancient knowlage combined with new technology.

  • @bluewaterboof82
    @bluewaterboof82 Před 17 dny

    4:00 I thought those little specks in the middle of the sea were something stuck to my phone and I sat there for a good bit trying to scrape them off 😂

  • @justinratcliff7766
    @justinratcliff7766 Před 17 dny +1

    I was in Hiroshima when the Noto quake hit. I was very impressed with the early warning that preceded it by at least 20 seconds across the entirety of broadcast systems. Japanese people are as hard as nails. They rise up again and again and again. Ganbatte!

    • @f87115
      @f87115 Před 14 dny

      Seems smart, repeating the same results 😂😂😂

  • @GalopaWXY
    @GalopaWXY Před 17 dny

    I started watching anime Japan Sinks yesterday, this is right on point xD

  • @carlholdt1042
    @carlholdt1042 Před 18 dny +1

    Fascinating!

  • @mandygershon8603
    @mandygershon8603 Před 17 dny +1

    I live in Alaska. We are grateful for our earthquake building codes. Some of our tall buildings are made to sway. It can be nauseating during a 7.0.

    • @seed.meditation
      @seed.meditation Před 10 dny +1

      The more it will be flexible the more it will be sustainable for quakes. My support with you.

  • @crushermach3263
    @crushermach3263 Před 14 dny

    9:40 Wait wait wait, so you're telling me that not only was Sprout Tower from Pokemon a real practical design, it has a real life analog in the hecking Tokyo Skytree?! I'm blown away.

  • @HansMilling
    @HansMilling Před 15 dny

    I remember a photo from the 2024 earthquake of a building that had fallen on its side. It was completely intact. So the engineers build it very strong. Very impressive.

  • @andersthons
    @andersthons Před 18 dny

    Awesome video

  • @rift8966
    @rift8966 Před 18 dny

    I would look to see if there's some sort of recent magnetic scan of the area to see if maybe a weak spot in the crust is forming there from something like a mantle plume. If it's not due to plate tectonics, it's generally caused by magma moving beneath the surface.

  • @fitrapratama1734
    @fitrapratama1734 Před 14 dny

    i live in kaga city, ishikawa, japan when the first quake hit noto, my reaction was, "whoa, an earthquake" and still laying around in my room because the quake didnt that strong and i had experience earthquake in my country indonesia, and then my phone ringing warned me for big quake will occur and i decided to go out of my apartment room, because in japan when earthquake warning sent to your phone it means that the magnitude will be over 4 richter

  • @Dabebo-xk2bt
    @Dabebo-xk2bt Před 18 dny +9

    Very interesting and enjoyed it and was educational.

  • @crazy137788
    @crazy137788 Před 17 dny

    I live in Otsu. It's about an 5 and a half drive away. Me and the family. We're just chilling at home and I saw my cup of water moving and then I felt the room moving slightly. We were fine but i also live near the Japanese defense Force local base. For about 2 weeks I saw helicopters fly across lake biwa everyday going to Noto. My wife hads a friend that lives there and she was find but her house damaged heavily.

  • @saurabhsurve9247
    @saurabhsurve9247 Před 17 dny

    Cant wait to see your take on k2-18b

  • @Not_all_as_it_seems
    @Not_all_as_it_seems Před 14 dny

    I would like to know more on the ground deformation created by this earthquake. Any suggestions on where to look?

  • @emmacavalier
    @emmacavalier Před 10 dny

    I was in Tokyo on new year’s day. Felt the building sway and the tv almost fell off the wall.

  • @alaskajdw
    @alaskajdw Před 18 dny

    Thanks!

  • @greendeane1
    @greendeane1 Před 18 dny

    During my first night in Japan while in the Army, an earthquake struck and moved my bed (while I was in it) across the large room.

  • @eh1702
    @eh1702 Před 15 dny

    Very interesting. I had not even heard of this earthquake at all! (Maybe because of the New Year holiday?). PS, heads-up from a sometime EFL teacher, with “inexorable” , the stress pattern is “inEXorable”.

  • @justinspriggs2979
    @justinspriggs2979 Před 18 dny +2

    4m lift is insane. thats like the beginnings of a super volcano eruption

    • @axle.student
      @axle.student Před 18 dny

      When you pocket altimeter now says you are underground lol

  • @epiccurious3536
    @epiccurious3536 Před 17 dny +1

    It seems pretty reasonable based on the shape of the Noto peninsula along with all the other things noted in the video that the peninsula is the rim of a huge caldera created by a super eruption in the distant past. I'm surprised this possibility wasn't considered. It seems so obvious.

  • @yspegel
    @yspegel Před 14 dny

    I KNEW IT!!!! Already had this feeling days got longer 🤣

  • @BrandyBalloon
    @BrandyBalloon Před 17 dny

    I find it fascinating that the shaking of an earthquake is just a side effect of what's really happening. It's the vibration caused by rock grinding against rock as the sides of the fault slide past each other. Strain builds up in the thin crust, caused by the thermal currents in the mantle beneath, until it can't take any more and "slips". The slips usually occur at existing faults (i.e. cracks) but of course there's always a first time - the faults weren't always there. To imagine what's happening, if there's a cup on your desk, push it sideways with your finger, slowly increasing the pressure until the friction can't hold it still and it suddenly slips sideways - that's kind of what an earthquake is.

  • @TheFranzzzNL
    @TheFranzzzNL Před 17 dny

    Nice fotoshop on the before and after coastline photo... but i have never seen a surf break thats ever exactly the same this has to be a first...

  • @rhysdavy5032
    @rhysdavy5032 Před 16 dny

    @6.57 the night side of the planet showing lights in the West Australian outback 😂😂😂

  • @chefscorner7063
    @chefscorner7063 Před 13 dny

    I was 1 mike from the epicenter of the Northridge Earthquake in 1996. To give you an idea of the shaking, I'm 6ft and weighed about 220lbs at the time. I was being thrown around my bedroom that's about 15ftx15ft like I was a toy doll. I'd hit one wall only to get thrown into the opposite wall. Scared the heck out of me.

  • @jason4130
    @jason4130 Před 18 dny +1

    Are earthquakes always somewhat balanced? They ever directional? Like stop-and-go traffic.

  • @carltuckerson7718
    @carltuckerson7718 Před 18 dny

    Mega-backthrust as the leading edge of the subduction thrust faults work their way into the backarc basin (Sea of Japan).

  • @phoneuser3d20
    @phoneuser3d20 Před 10 dny

    6:46 that beach would make a fine tourist trap.

  • @Kni0002
    @Kni0002 Před 17 dny

    B1M meets Astrum and we get this great video!

  • @albertvanlingen7590
    @albertvanlingen7590 Před 15 dny +1

    Reminds me of the USs New Madrid earthquakes in the 1800s.

  • @OBrasilo
    @OBrasilo Před 15 dny

    Earthquake swarm, land uplift... sounds eerily similar to what's going on at Campi Flegrei in Italy, though there hasn't been a big earthquake there (yet).
    It is also worth nothing that the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum was preceded by a large earthquake.

  • @darketta
    @darketta Před 13 dny

    Makes me think a volcano is gathering or creating under that area or something is shifting/moving. I'd be looking in the water at sea floor level and trying to do sonar or something. That land may grow or fall depending on what's happening.

  • @DIASENREDS
    @DIASENREDS Před 18 dny

    I live in indonesia, on the java island sitting directly above the ring of fire. earthquake is a common occurrence here but those earthquake in japan is on another level.

  • @lesliepropheter5040
    @lesliepropheter5040 Před 18 dny +1

    When you mention earths rotation changing here, after this 7.6 eq, perhaps adding together all of the other occurrances that have changed earths rotation, such as the Chinese building the Three Gorges dam in 2006 or the earthquake in Turkeye, 2023 7.8 which moved the earth 13 feet, these things add up. Indonesia had a 9.0 earthquake 2004 as well which killed over 230,000….Of course Japan had a 9.0 in 2011. Now Iceland is spreading drastically. Thank you

  • @JintoLin
    @JintoLin Před 18 dny +6

    Wild to see how much the landscape changed after the quake. I know of Hawaii being created by volcanoes which makes sense but never thought of the idea Quakes can change coastlines that dramatically.

    • @goldenhate6649
      @goldenhate6649 Před 18 dny +2

      Happens in megathrust earthquake.
      Issue being, this isn’t a megathrust. Though it could be a plate pushing in the bottom of another, or its volcanic. The latter being the biggest concern if in fact true.

  • @robertsontirado4478
    @robertsontirado4478 Před 14 dny

    I did not hear about this. Wow.

  • @jayc222
    @jayc222 Před 14 dny

    I live 800 miles from the nearest plate boundary but we can still get earthquakes. Fault lines spread well into their respective plates.

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  • @dex1lsp
    @dex1lsp Před 17 dny

    Your pronunciation of "Okhotsk" needs some work for sure, but this is a great video nonetheless! Very fascinating! That 4-metre rise at the coast is absolutely mind-blowing. 🤯

  • @jtroulston6733
    @jtroulston6733 Před 18 dny

    serious theory: Could a chunk of a place be knocked loose if the friction between all those plates in different directions could knock it loose, then what would happen?
    Another idea: Could the earthquakes in Noto be due to plates meeting underneath the surface?

  • @janastratmann-severin1892

    It is normal for volcanoes to form near tectonic fault lines. Perhaps one is rising underground. The land uplift also suggests this. I don't want to hope so, but it's possible.

  • @l.mcmanus3983
    @l.mcmanus3983 Před 18 dny +1

    I wonder if whatever is happening is the latest effect from some sort of geological process that caused the peninsula to form in the first place. Early inflation from a rising hotspot set to become a super volcano in millions of years?

  • @samuelpo3378
    @samuelpo3378 Před 18 dny

    6:42 that's crazy, never knew that earthquakes have such huge impacts

  • @NothingXemnas
    @NothingXemnas Před 15 dny

    Given that the Earth is already slowing down because of the Moon's tidal forces, an Earthquake further accelerating the process is crazy to think about. That said, it is crazy how much the peninsula has risen.

  • @alanrobinson4318
    @alanrobinson4318 Před 16 dny

    Is it possible that a chunk of a plate is breaking off due to the stress of the other plate pushing underneath ? This, also, could be a precursor for volcanic activities.

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