1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah, and Phoenix, Arizona. We're coming to 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: see you. Yes, we are, so come see Yes, why don't. Yeah, 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: we put out the call to Salt Lake City and 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: said should we come there? And tickets are going gangbusters. 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: You guys really responded. Yeah, we thought you were just like, 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,760 Speaker 1: this is all just a joke, but no, it's turning 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: out quite well. We're gonna be there October twenty three 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: at the Grand Theater in Salt Lake City, and then 9 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: the next night we'll be in Phoenix at the Van Buren. 10 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: And we can't wait to see you, guys, So please 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: come out and see us. And if you want tickets, 12 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: you can go to s y s K live dot 13 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: com for those. And Chuck and yes to our friends 14 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: down and Melbourne. Boy, we are super psyched because you 15 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 1: love us and you sold us out very quickly. So 16 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: we have added a second show that I believe is 17 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: actually an earlier show, isn't that right? Yeah, it's a 18 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: five thirties show. I believe that Melbourne is the one 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: that we added, and it's gonna be cool. It's gonna 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: be like a sweet little Mattinee. Yeah, we call that 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: happy Hour in our kind tree. Yeah that's right. So 22 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: make sure you guys bring a slab each. That's right 23 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: in Perth and Brisbane. Step it up. Yeah, that's right. 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: So if you want to come see us, go to 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: s Y s K Live. Whether you're in the US, 26 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: whether you're in Australia, whether you're in New Zealand, it 27 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You can go to the same site and 28 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: hang out with us and there you go. See you 29 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: guys soon. Welcome to Stuff you should know from how 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant, and 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: there's Jerry over there. Tristan's reign of terror is over. 33 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: Jerry had him killed. Yeah, he shouldn't have tried to 34 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: take her place. I mean, he got what he deserved. 35 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: Now there's just a grease spot on the carpet. Yeah, 36 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: it was gross. You didn't have to leave him there 37 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: for a week, Jerry. I thought that was a little weird. 38 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: Also to bring in a acid bath into this, you right, well, 39 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: it made sense when she dissolved him in acid. Can 40 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: I say something Yes, the two that we're recording today, Yeah, 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: I feel like are such kind of classic core stuff. 42 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: You should know e things. I know what you're gonna 43 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: say that. I'm surprised we haven't done them yet. I 44 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: searched probably three times, maybe five Chuck, Yes, they doesn't 45 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: like we've gone over this stuff before. It. I can't, 46 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: for the life of me figure out what it is. 47 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: The closest I could come possibly was rogue waves, yeah, 48 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: for sure, or how yeah, or how nuclear meltdowns work 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: when we when we talked specifically about the Fukushima incident. Yeah, 50 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: I think that had to be what it is. Because 51 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm still a little paranoid that we've covered this before. Yeah, 52 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: I am too, So we're paranoid together. Yeah, but we'll 53 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: we'll fail together there if we re record an episode 54 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: that we have done before. But it's okay, we'll be 55 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: all right right, everybody right, all right? So both of 56 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: our listeners, uh, Chuck and Buck. Wow, I know, isn't 57 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: that random that one of our two listeners is also 58 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: named Chuck? Did you see that movie? No? You know 59 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: that was a movie, right, Yeah, there was a movie 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: called Chuck and Buck. Was it a porno? Not exactly? Well? 61 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: What was what was it about? It was? You know, 62 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: Mike White, right, No, you'd recognize him. He's an actor 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: and a writer, one of my favorite writers in Hollywood, 64 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: and he it was his first little indie film, starring 65 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: him and one of the brothers, one of the filmmaking brothers, 66 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: the Wise Brothers. Man. You were not talking my language 67 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, anyway, it was. It was him and 68 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: he played sort of a creepy guy that had unhealthy 69 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: crush on this other guy, and it got made for 70 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: some very uncomfortable circumstances. You're talking about, I now pronounce 71 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: you chucking, Larry. I know the movie you're talking about. 72 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: I never saw that one either. Oh hey, speaking of dude, 73 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: I saw Norm McDonald stand up Dog. Is it great? Yes? 74 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: Probably probably the best stand up on Netflix right now. 75 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: I've been meaning to watch it and he's just a 76 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: it's it's he's at his peak. It's great. I don't 77 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: want to talk it up too much. Just go in 78 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: there fresh. It's just good Norm McDonald's stand up. You 79 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: don't want to talk it up too much other than 80 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: saying that it's the best thing, right. Yeah, I'm actually 81 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: downplaying it right now. That's how good it is. Yeah, 82 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: I gotta check that out. Alright, so back to it. 83 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: We actually started off talking about tsunamis and we veered 84 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: off right back in it. Now are back in it, 85 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: so or we'll talk about some of the more famous tsunamis, 86 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: like they've definitely been in the public consciousness over the 87 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: last in this millennium so far, just because there's been 88 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: two colossally huge ones that cause so much destruction. Um. 89 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: Which is ironic because we're finally now getting to the 90 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: point where we can warn people early about a tsunami, 91 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: and yet two of the worst tsunamis in history, whether 92 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: it's through the human toll or the financial toll, occurred 93 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: within eight years of each other, within the last twenty years. 94 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: It's it's kind of surprising. What you know a little 95 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: more about tsunamis. Yeah, so uh, and I found our 96 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: own article to be pretty good. Actually, well it was 97 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: written by three people, for goodness, how can that go wrong? 98 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: Including Robert Lamb. Well, always stand up for that guy's writing. Uh. So, 99 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: tsunami is uh. We have just discovered the word. First 100 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: of all, it is the Japanese word obviously uh. And 101 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: the T s u of tsunami means harbor and the 102 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: n a m I means waves, and that is what 103 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: a tsunami is. It is a series of waves generally, 104 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 1: or a or a wave. Although we will clear up 105 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: it's not exactly what you might think from Hollywood movies. No, 106 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: it's really really really not. Yeah, but it's in the ocean, obviously, 107 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: and these things can be as high as a hundred 108 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: feet and get this, they can travel up to and 109 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: in fact, the two thousand four tsunami traveled about three 110 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour, and that is not at land, 111 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: but through the ocean. Three miles. Yeah, and I've actually 112 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: seen them that they're clocked at six hundred miles per hour. Man, 113 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: can you imagine? No? I really can't. And I also 114 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: have trouble with the math itself, Like there's some weird 115 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: formula are calculating how fast the tsunami is traveling. But 116 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: it's a square root of the G force times I know, 117 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: times the depth of the ocean where the tsunami originated. 118 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: That's I don't understand how that equals how fast the 119 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: tsunamis traveling. So I'm just gonna take it for their 120 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: word that they can get up to six hundred Yeah, 121 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: that's crazy. So all right, let's talk about tsunami. So 122 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: tsunami is a what most people think of as a 123 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: giant wave. It's not necessarily what you're thinking of, like 124 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: you said, Chuck, but it is a wave in some way, 125 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: shape or form, and it follows a lot of the 126 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: um It has a lot of the same same um 127 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: traits or characteristics of a wave that you see like 128 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: on the surface of the ocean when you're sitting there 129 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: on the beach and the waves are rolling in. Technically 130 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: that's it's the same family. That's the little brother of 131 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: a tsunami. And so any kind of wave has a 132 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: couple of components to It has the trough, which is 133 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: the lowest point, has the crest, which is the highest 134 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: point and and happiest point generally. Yeah, typically that's where 135 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: the surfers like to hang out. Um, you measure them 136 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: from the height of the crest to the trough. That's 137 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: the wave height, right, and then the distance between the 138 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: crest of one wave and the crest of another is 139 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: one wave length. So it's weird to think of because 140 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: you think of the wave is just like you know, 141 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: the part that's kind of curving up out of the 142 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: ocean that you see in like graphic design or something 143 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: like that. Right, the wave is actually much bigger than that. 144 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: It goes from the front the top of the crest 145 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: all the way forward and includes the back of the 146 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: wave in front of it. Technically that's one wave, and 147 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: and it includes the trough and the crest. So bam, 148 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: that's a wave, whether it's a tidal wave or an 149 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: ocean so or his wife. Right. And then the frequency, 150 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: which is uh, what you would call the wave period. 151 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: Is it the time for two waves in a row 152 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: to hit the same point. Yeah, So if you like 153 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: had a booie and a wave went past and then 154 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: another wave went past the time between, that's the wave period, right, yeah, 155 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: or if you were a booy Sure, we should maybe 156 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: do one on I don't know if it's big enough 157 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: for a full episode, but undertow would be kind of 158 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: interesting to cover at some point. I'm surprised we haven't 159 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: done that one either. Yeah, that's uh. Last time I 160 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: was at in Charleston, Day two and three were fine, 161 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: but that first day was an incredible undertow and they 162 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: even talked about it on the news. It was pretty dangerous. Yeah, 163 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: so were you in the water, Oh, Yeah, I was 164 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: having fun. But it's one of those things where you're 165 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: playing in the water and you look up it's like, wow, 166 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: Emily is a mile away. Now, yeah, that's very dangerous. 167 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: It was really carrying me down the beach and the 168 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: skin has been peeled off your ankles and calves. Well, yeah, 169 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: you're just fighting through it, right until you eventually say, 170 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: I'm forty seven years old, What the heck am I doing. 171 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go lay down right with a with a 172 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: gin and tonic, right, So you've got to figure it out, Chuck. 173 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: You know that I have my moments. So when we're 174 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: talking about waves on an ocean. Back to waves, by 175 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: the way, when when you're talking about waves on an ocean, 176 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: like the waves people normally think of, um, those are 177 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: actually generated by wind. And we definitely talked about this 178 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: somewhere before. Yeah, it's pretty interesting because I think most 179 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: people think of gravitational pull and things like that atmospheric 180 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: pressure and they contribute, but wind is kind of the 181 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: most common way that a wave will form, right, And 182 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: it does so by basically on a molecular level. And 183 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: this this article really goes into granular detail, but basically 184 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: air molecules push water molecules along and create these circular patterns. 185 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: Not circular on top of the surface, but if you're 186 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: looking at like a cross section of the water, circular 187 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: from the top into the water, usually down about a 188 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: meter underwater, and they can get higher and higher as 189 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: the wind gets stronger and stronger, right, yeah, And these 190 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: little guys are known as capillary waves, which is the 191 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: cutest wave, I guess. Uh. And then they just keep 192 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: circling around vertically like you said, until eventually it you know, 193 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: it's sort of dissipates the deeper it goes, obviously it does. 194 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: But so depending on how strong the wind is, when 195 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: that wave starts to whip up and froth up and 196 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: and and get like the back to it, right, yeah, 197 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: it's it has more surface for the wind to press on. 198 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: So the wind now can push it along even further, 199 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 1: so it can pick up height, speed, velocity, all that 200 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: jam and it can get kind of big and they 201 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: can get kind of fast. But the point is this, 202 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: what you're seeing is now water being pushed along. What 203 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: you're seeing is the transfer of kinetic energy from the 204 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: wind into water, and what a wave is the movement 205 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: of that energy. Through water. Yeah, it's an important distinction. 206 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: I think there really is, because if you if you 207 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: are at one point and you see a wave and 208 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: you touch it, and you somehow scramble forward and catch it, 209 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: when it's like fifty yards down or towards shore, you 210 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: touch it again, you're actually touching two different bits of water. 211 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: That's not the same water moving from point A to 212 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: point B. It's the energy moving through it, and it is. 213 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: It's it's it's a bit of a brain buster if 214 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: you start to overthink it, but it's also extraordinarily simple 215 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: if you don't. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so that's that's 216 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: a wave. Okay, that's a surface wave. Tsunamis are not 217 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: like that. No, And if you if you want to 218 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: understand how a tsunami is for armed and I think 219 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: we talked about this in earthquakes as well, which is 220 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: why it all rings so familiar. But that is not always, 221 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: but that is generally what kicks off in in in 222 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: the case of the most too recent devastating ones, what 223 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: kicks off the tsunami will be an underwater earthquake, and 224 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: those happen. If you took out all the ocean's water, 225 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: you would really just need to think of the sea 226 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: floor just like you would the rest of ah, the 227 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: hard stuff on the earth. Yeah, well put you know 228 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Yeah, no I do. It's like if 229 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: you're on a on a mountain and you come to 230 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: a valley, it's the same thing that's just underwater. Yeah. So, 231 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: like this is where we talk about plate tectonics, that 232 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,599 Speaker 1: we have these huge plates, a series of them that 233 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: make up what's called the lithosphere. Uh, and that is 234 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: the top layer of the Earth, and they make up 235 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: everything that you see, including what's underwater, and they float 236 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: on top of the Stennis year. Do you think I 237 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: said that correctly? I think so. And I remember talking 238 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: about this is sort of a is that the lube? Yeah, 239 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: the hot magma lube. So because it's it's not exactly lub, 240 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: but it's almost like hot asphalt more, you know what 241 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like it's a solid, but it's a very 242 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: viscous solid. Right, And so those plates float on top 243 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: of the athenisphere, and there are boundaries between the plates, 244 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: and where those boundaries connect, all sorts of things can happen. Right. 245 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: You can have one plate going upward while the other 246 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: plates going downwards, so they're sliding alongside each other. You 247 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: can have one um, you can have them pushing up 248 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: into one another, and you have mountain ranges. Then you 249 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: can have ones where one slips under another one and 250 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: that creates ocean trenches when it's underwater. But you have 251 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: to think about this. This isn't happening quickly. This happens 252 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: at the rate of about um an inch, about two 253 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: and a half centimeters per year. That's how slowly these 254 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: things are moving when they're interacting with one another. Yeah, 255 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: but they're they're huge, and it's a lot of force 256 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: even though it's going slow. So what you were talking 257 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: about is subduction. UM. And sometimes in cases of subduction, 258 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: you can have a lighter plate that just sort of 259 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: snaps upward. Uh, when they meet each other and they 260 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: say hi, lighter plate snaps up, and that's what causes 261 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: the earthquake and a tremendous amount of of rock and 262 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: force shoot directly upward from the floor of the ocean. Right, 263 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: So now a tsunami has just been born, because that's 264 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: what it is. Right with a normal wave, you've got 265 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: wind blowing the water or wind blowing through the water. 266 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: You have with a tsunami, this huge release of energy 267 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: upward through the water column towards the surface. And this 268 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: this energy is like, yeah, we're going up and right 269 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: when it hits the surface, it really comes in contact 270 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: with gravity that says no, you're not. They go, yeah, okay, 271 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: we're going outward then, and they it spreads outward. And 272 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: this article gives a great analogy because it really drives 273 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: home what we're dealing with here. If you take a 274 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: pebble and you throw it into a pond, it makes 275 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: that ripple. Right, it's the same exact thing, but rather 276 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: than a rock going into the water, this is the 277 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: force of of um an earthquake under the water going 278 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: upward out right. And so that upward out movement that 279 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: is the tsunami waves that are being created, and it 280 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: spreads outward in different ripples, just like if you throw 281 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: a rock in the pond. Should we take a break? 282 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: I think we should. I'm getting kind of worked up now. 283 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: I love it. Uh, it's the earth sciencest man, that's 284 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: your jam. Yeah they yeah, that's true. All right. So 285 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about the 286 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: speed of a tsunami and how that happens right after 287 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: this off? You know, stop, you know stop? All right, 288 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 1: So when we left off, I promised talk of tsunami speed, 289 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: and this is where it gets a little like, uh, 290 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: this is where like if you've learned it from movies, 291 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: then you've probably learned the wrong thing. Because the tsunami 292 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: moves the fastest in deep water. So when a tsunami 293 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: is going three hundred miles an hour, and and you're 294 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: of course you're monitoring things, which we'll talk about with 295 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: all all sorts of advanced equipment. But if you're just 296 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: looking with your naked eye, and the tsunami is going 297 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: at three miles an hour through the ocean, you might 298 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: see like a three ft high if that on the 299 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: surface of the of the ocean. Where you where things 300 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: really take action is when it gets close to shore, 301 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: because it really slows down and it gets a lot 302 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: taller because it's shallower water, right like the the shelf, 303 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: the coastal shelf that gets shallow and shallower pushes it upward, 304 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: so it slows and grows taller. Right, Yeah, depending on 305 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: the topography of what's going on. Wherever the tsunami is 306 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: reaching shore, it's gonna have a big difference, of course. 307 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: But the point is is it's compressing all this energy 308 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: upward as it gets closer and it slows down, and 309 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: it's like it's very difficult to to grasp how enormous 310 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: the tsunami um waves are, especially considering that what like 311 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: three ft like a meter maybe of of surface water 312 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: will be disturbed to to look like a wave like 313 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: a normal wave, right, but that wave goes all the 314 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: way down to the ocean floor, often miles. So you 315 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: have basically what amounts to a three mile tall wave 316 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: that's a tsunami rather than you know, a wave that 317 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: you see on the surface it's maybe six ft tall, 318 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: and then it's disturbing water three ft under the water. 319 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: This is a three mile tall wall of water moving 320 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: out in a ripple formation in in what's called the 321 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: wave train. So successive waves like those ripples spreading out 322 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: from that pebble um that are three miles tall and many, many, 323 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: many miles across, just coming at you. Basically, Yeah, and 324 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: when I said slow down, you know, thirty to forty 325 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: at land is still really fast. Obviously it's not three 326 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 1: but um, you know, right before this tsunami happens on land, 327 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: it can be really creepy. On shore, You're gonna notice 328 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: this beach water rising and falling in a odd ways, 329 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: and sometimes it will suck all that water out. And 330 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: I believe that movie, Uh The Impossible, didn't it show that. 331 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, I've seen that in a movie and 332 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: it's really creepy looking, and apparently that's it is actually 333 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: very creepy looking in real life too. It's not like 334 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: a movie thing. It can suck all that water out, 335 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: and it may not look like a movie wave coming in. 336 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: It's more likely to look like just a huge flood 337 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: coming your way right right, like a very fast moving tide, 338 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: which is I think one reason people call them tidal waves, 339 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: even though the tides have nothing to do with it. 340 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: But it doesn't look like that huge wave that you 341 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: see in like um the Day after Tomorrow or something 342 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: like that. It's it's it's like a very fast moving, 343 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: fast rising flood water. And this on this fast moving 344 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: floodwater you have like huge raging rivers on top of 345 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: the water too. It's just this huge, chaotic, massive water 346 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: that is um that is moving inland very quickly and 347 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: with an enormous amount of destructive force. Yeah, and then 348 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: once it gets there, depending on where it lands, you 349 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: might have like areas that were you think are sheltered 350 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: because of high dunes, or you're in an inlet or 351 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: a bay. Sometimes they can act as like funnels. Like 352 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 1: if the tsunami goes through there, you just don't know 353 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: what kind of destructive power it's going to have until 354 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: it interacts with the topography and the land features that 355 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: it hits. No, but it does do some interesting stuff. 356 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: So um when So, first of all, that one thing 357 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: where the the bay or the harbor or whatever gets 358 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: the water sucked out of it's called drawback, and they've 359 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: studied that and actually concluded what you're seeing is the 360 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: trough of the way. That's the trough of the first 361 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: tsunami wave. So if that's the part that reaches land first, 362 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: the trough, that's gonna have drawback. So it's not always 363 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: going to have drawback, just only if the trough drives first. 364 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: The crest could arrive first, and then all you're seeing 365 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: is this floodwater coming out of nowhere. But um, there's 366 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: also supposedly the sound of a freight train or a 367 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: jet coming at you. So it's like a horrific sound too, 368 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: that's coming with this wall of water. But one of 369 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: the other things, um, I think you're about to talk 370 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: about was wrap around effect. Yeah, and that's along like 371 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: a coastline. When I sort of I sort of thought 372 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: of it as like, uh, or maybe it's harbor resonance. 373 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: Like I'm not sure which is which. But when you 374 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: have like a fish tank and you imagine just shaking 375 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: it with your all your force and it's just banging 376 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: off of interior walls, is that around No, that's harbor resonances. 377 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: But that is so you know when you're doing that, right, Like, 378 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: it just picks up more and more forced with each movement, 379 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: each oscillation from one side to the other. Right Imagine, 380 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: I know they're like, please stop, surely this is illegal, um, 381 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: but they imagine that happening in the harbor, like that's 382 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 1: what happens in the harbor. So it just gets even 383 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: more destructive. But the wrap around effect, this article just 384 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: totally completely gets it wrong. It's not the wraparound effect 385 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: at all. So the referround effect is if you have 386 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: a tsunami wave, remember these are many many miles across 387 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: and they're coming inland if they encounter, say like a 388 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: barrier island. This is a little island, right, You would 389 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: think that the barrier island would slow it down, maybe 390 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: make it, um take it a little easier on the 391 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: land the shoreline behind the barrier island. It doesn't do 392 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: that at all. The barrier island actually amplifies the tsunami 393 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: wave and they couldn't figure out how, but they knew 394 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: that it could amplify it by like but it doesn't 395 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: make any sense. So they started studying it. And I'm 396 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: not sure who someone's gonna call them they for now, 397 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 1: but um, they they figured out what happens is the 398 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: tsunami wave is split into two by this island, and 399 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: for a very brief time, when they come back together, 400 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: they are basically doubled in force. It's like two waves 401 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: together now with this force, and it amplifies it onto 402 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: the land behind it and makes it way worse. That 403 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: kind of makes sense if a picture it in my head. Well, 404 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: they actually do have cool pictures of it too, I 405 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: think on a Noah site. So look up like wrap 406 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: around effects tsunamis and it shows like you know, just 407 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: part one, two, three, four and all these I think 408 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: six pictures and it really drives at home. But I mean, 409 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: it definitely does make sense, but it also intuitively doesn't 410 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: at all, you know. Yeah, And you know, obviously they've 411 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: been in the news in the last like ten or 412 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: fifteen years, like you said, and the devastation that can 413 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: happen from a tsunami is just it's immense because people 414 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: live along coastlines and and we'll get to early warning later, 415 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: but no matter what kind of early warning you have, 416 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: you making get some people out of there, but it's 417 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: gonna wreck everything in its path. And that happened very 418 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: famously recently a couple of times. In December twenty six, 419 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: two thousand four, in the Indian Ocean, there was a 420 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: massive nine point one magnitude earthquake that apparently it shook 421 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: buildings twelve hundred miles away in Thailand. Yeah, that's a 422 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: big one. And they always you know, the I guess 423 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: the big mac version of earthquakes is Hiroshima bombs, right, 424 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: the magnitude of twenty three thousand Hiroshima atomic bombs. Yeah. No, 425 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: small earthquake, no, not at all. I think the next 426 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: most recent one was in nineteen sixty. The next biggest 427 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 1: one is in nineteen sixty and it was like a 428 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: nine point four to nine point six, and this is 429 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,239 Speaker 1: a nine point one, So it was no sloutch as 430 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: far as earthquakes go. But the thing about this, the 431 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: two thousand four um earthquake that hits Sumatra, it was 432 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It 433 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: killed like about two hundred and thirty thousand people and 434 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: ruined No. I can't like if you go through the 435 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: list of like deadly tsunamis over history. Um. I mean 436 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: the next the next largest I saw was one in 437 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: Japan in um. I think that yeah, the nineteenth century 438 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: that killed twenty thousand people, so a tenth of the 439 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: two thousand four tsunami. And the reason why it was 440 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: so deadly was it hit eleven different countries that were 441 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: fully engorged with tourists on the holiday season. Um, so 442 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: there were a lot of people there, including a lot 443 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 1: of people who had never really been introduced to tsunami 444 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: preparedness or knew what was going on. If there was drawback, 445 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: and I think there may have been. Actually I think 446 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: I saw a footage of the drawback for that one, 447 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: So you're right, Um, people were kind of like going 448 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: out into the harbor, like, what's this And when that happens, 449 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: when the drawback happens and you're seeing the trough of 450 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: that first tsunami wave, you have seconds, maybe minutes to 451 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: get away, not go closer to it. Yeah, but it 452 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't have made a difference in that case. Probably not. 453 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: You know, it hit and it was enormous and huge, 454 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it just it killed a lot of 455 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: people very quickly, because even if you do have the 456 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: time to do it, you have to get no less 457 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: than a mile inland and or no less than a 458 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: hundred feet above sea level, and you have a very 459 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: short time to do that. So my friend Dave Barnhart, 460 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: who listens to the show, Hey Dave, he is a 461 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: documentary filmmaker UM for nonprofits, and he he went down 462 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: there and did a series of documentary updates over the years. 463 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: He and I can't remember how many people, but he 464 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: followed specifically the lives an aftermath of of several different 465 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: individuals and families. Uh, and you know, went down there 466 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: himself and shot this stuff, I believe in Indonesia, and um, 467 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's still following up but he 468 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: did it for many years and I saw a lot 469 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: of this stuff and he won some awards for it. 470 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: Is just just unbelievable, the stories of devastation and then 471 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: perseverance for some of these people that like started over 472 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: with nothing in the worst, most unsanitary, devastating conditions. You 473 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: can imagine living in, Yeah, I can. I was gonna say, 474 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: I can image me. I can't imagine. Yeah, I mean, 475 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: it's just heartbreaking to see this stuff, like quarter a 476 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: million people. It's just it's hard to even fathom. There. Um, 477 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: there's this one story you mean got obsessed with at 478 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: the time him about a kid named baby eighty one. 479 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: He was like the eighty first baby to be brought 480 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: into I think a hospital in Sri Lanka or something afterward, 481 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: and there was this huge like media publicity circus around 482 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: whose kid it was, and supposedly they're reporting that there 483 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: was like nine different families claiming him and there was 484 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: a huge battle over it, when really it was just 485 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: this one poor family who knew that it was their 486 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: son and who went to go make a claim, but 487 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: they they actually got arrested for trying to take the 488 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: baby out of the hospital and had to wait like 489 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: a month before they got him back through like a 490 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: d n A test. But it's just like like, first 491 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: of all, tsunami. Secondly, their baby gets swept away out 492 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: of the mom's arms in the tsunami. And then when 493 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: they finally find out the babies alive, they go to 494 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: take him back and they can't, and just like the 495 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: idea that that they have to prove that it's their son, 496 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: it just kept getting worse and worse and worse, and 497 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: apparently they had to move because they were known as 498 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: the Tsunami Family. Here's the last little bit for you. 499 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: They went and appeared on Good Morning America in the 500 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: United States and told their story. When they got back, 501 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: they were denied disaster aid because everyone assumed that they 502 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: had been paid for their appearance and that they didn't 503 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: need the money even though they hadn't been paid for it. 504 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: Isn't that awful? Yeah, I mean, one family that happened 505 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: to all of that. The story of the movie The 506 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: Impossible is a true story and an amazing story and 507 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: uh just a tough movie to watch, you know. Yeah. 508 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: So I was thinking back, like I saw that within 509 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: the last year or so, I think, and I was 510 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: thinking back to like some of those scenes, and now 511 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: that I'm thinking about, I'm like, how did they even 512 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: shoot that stuff? Like how it doesn't make any sense? 513 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: Like did they did they flood a town somewhere and 514 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: start filming and the actors in there, because that's what 515 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: it looks like. For sure? It was. It was pretty 516 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: remarkable what they did, like cinematically for sure. But you're 517 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: absolutely right, it's it's very tough to watch for sure. 518 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: Uh So that was UM two four and then just 519 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: what seven or eight years ago in two thousand eleven 520 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: in March, and we definitely talked about this in nuclear meltdown, 521 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: but the tsunami that hit Japan, this one had a 522 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: had a horrific effect in and of itself just from 523 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: the tsunami. I don't know what the final death toll, 524 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: but it was well over four or five thousand. I 525 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: think I think the official death tolls now at twenty 526 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: thousand dead. Oh wow, because I knew for a while 527 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: they were just people missing. Man. I think they finally 528 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: combined them all and just said twenty thousands the official 529 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: death toll. The the damage is upwards of three hundred 530 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: and nine billion US dollars it's the it's the most 531 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: expensive natural disaster in history. Well, yeah, and this one 532 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: was noted not only for its uh for its devastation 533 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: and for human life and money, but obviously the generation 534 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: er of the how do you pronounce it? Fukushima Nuclear 535 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: facility that was where it made. I don't know about 536 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: the most news, but that's what really set this one apart. 537 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: You had a tsunami disable a nuclear reactor for a 538 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: brief time, which is bad news. Yeah, it's like it's 539 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: shut down like it should because I guess they had 540 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: seismic detectors that are like tripped an automatic like safeguard system, 541 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: but the power got knocked out, so there wasn't any 542 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: cooling system. And it's not like it just goes from 543 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: incredibly hot nuclear reaction to you know, room temperature immediately. 544 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: You need to keep cooling it down, and they didn't. 545 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: And apparently from that meltdown. And I don't remember talking 546 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: about this in the episode. This is insane, but the 547 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: the meltdown created radiation that tore apart the water vapor. 548 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: That's amazing, and so the hydrogen separated and so the 549 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: place filled with hydrogen gas and it started exploding and 550 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: that's what blew a hole in the reactor and created 551 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: the leak. I don't remember that. That's nuts. I wonder 552 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: if that was found out afterward and not available to 553 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: us at the time. I'll bet you're right. That sounds 554 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: like something that they like. I don't. I don't even 555 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: know if at the time we recorded they knew how 556 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: the breach occurred. Yeah, because we did. We recorded within 557 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: like a week or so of it happening. I think so. Um, 558 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: that place is still still like way hot. They're sending 559 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,959 Speaker 1: they sending robots now. They're trying to figure out what 560 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: robot to use, and they haven't hit on it quite 561 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: yet because the place melts robots that go in to 562 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: try to clean up mess. Yeah. Yeah, all right, Well 563 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break, talk a little bit about 564 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: how we're getting better at predicting earthquakes, and then also 565 00:33:50,600 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: what it means for marine life. Right after this stop no, 566 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: you know stuff, you know? Okay, Charles, we're back. I 567 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: also want to say real quick before we do that. Um, 568 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: there are two at least two articles, and I believe 569 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: they're written by the same guy who went and covered 570 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: the two thousand eleven UM tsunami in the aftermath. One 571 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: is called Ghosts of the Tsunami. It's called It's It's 572 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: I think in the London Review books. It is amazing. 573 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: It's about how these these people in Japan like live 574 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: among ghosts as far as they're concerned. They see like 575 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: ghosts everywhere of their the people who died in the tsunami. 576 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: It's one of the better articles I've ever read in 577 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: my life. The other one is The School Beneath the 578 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: Wave and that wasn't the Guardian and um it's it 579 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: tells the tale of this one specific school that um 580 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: this guy who covered the tsunami knew all these different 581 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: stories and all these tales um that came out of it, 582 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 1: and this one, I believe he says that he um 583 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 1: put off writing about until last because it's so terrible 584 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: because the whole school of children just got swept away 585 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: by the tsunami, because the grown ups wouldn't listen to 586 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 1: the kids who they'd trained to re respond correctly to 587 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: a tsunami, and they just wouldn't listen to him, and 588 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 1: and it just swept away basically his whole villages group 589 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 1: of children. Would they have gotten out, Yeah, if they 590 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: listened to the kids, probably most of if not all, 591 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: would have survived. Man. Yeah, it's it's a tough one 592 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: to read, for sure, but both of them are definitely 593 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,720 Speaker 1: worth it. Uh So when it comes to predicting these 594 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: um obviously in the same with earthquakes and tornadoes in 595 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: any natural disaster, what they're trying to do is just 596 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 1: get better and better about getting as much time beforehand 597 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,919 Speaker 1: as possible. Because, uh then this article very simply points out, 598 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: like there's you cannot stop it. There's nothing you can do. 599 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: You can't build anything that can thwart or divert a tsunami. 600 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: So the only chance that people have a survival is 601 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 1: getting as early warning as possible to get as many 602 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: people out of there as possible. We'll still destroy the 603 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: towns and villages and cities, but at least you could 604 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: save some human lives. And unfortunately a lot of I mean, 605 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 1: it's getting much better, but most of the studying takes 606 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: place afterward, so you can try and get better about before. Yeah, 607 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: and one way that you study tsunamis is through things 608 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: like UM eyewitness reports. Yeah, you go, you go look 609 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,799 Speaker 1: to see how high the debris made it up to. Yeah, 610 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: and how far it went, Yeah, how wide it was. Um, 611 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: some of the debris will end up like on the 612 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: other side of the world. Old sometimes if the tsunami 613 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: is big enough, because remember you hear about the tsunami 614 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,160 Speaker 1: where it hit, you know, the closest place to place 615 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,440 Speaker 1: it devastated the most, whether it was Sumatra in two 616 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: dozen four or um Japan in two dozen eleven. But 617 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,920 Speaker 1: like that, say, like the japan one, it took it 618 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,800 Speaker 1: carried stuff all the way over to California, like it 619 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,760 Speaker 1: goes in both directions. It's just California was way further away, 620 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,439 Speaker 1: so it didn't experience the destruction like Japan did, which 621 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: was right up on the place where it happened. Yeah. 622 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: So you know, equipment wise, they use UM buoys out 623 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: in the ocean, They use tide gauges. They have tide 624 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,959 Speaker 1: stations that measure just the smallest little changes in sea level. 625 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: They do have seismograph stations that record you know, underwater 626 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 1: earthquake activity UM and anything apparently that's seven point five 627 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 1: or higher that is under the ocean. Earthquake wise, is 628 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,319 Speaker 1: when an official tsunami watches issued, right, so when the 629 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: tsunami watches issued, then you won't hear about it quite yet. 630 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 1: They that means that they start checking out their gauge stations. 631 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:14,319 Speaker 1: And if the gauge station reports a tsunami, right, um, 632 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 1: I think it's I don't know if it's a I 633 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 1: guess it's a change in tide is what the gage 634 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: station measures, right, So if there's a sudden change in 635 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,399 Speaker 1: tide that doesn't coincide with the title schedules, will say, yeah, 636 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: that's a tsunami, send out the alarm and then they 637 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 1: alert every like the public through text messages or TV 638 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: or you know, the Paul Revere. However they do it, 639 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: how early can they do? You know, how early they 640 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: can get this stuff? Now? I I saw minutes for 641 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,399 Speaker 1: for the two thousand eleven one, which like that's all 642 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: that In some cases, that's all you need. If you're 643 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: in a tall building, you just keep going up, that 644 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: can help. Or if you are close enough, you're getting 645 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 1: your car and start driving as far inland as you can. 646 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: Minutes can help. And they actually think that the death 647 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,600 Speaker 1: toll would have been way higher in Japan had they 648 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,560 Speaker 1: not learned as much from the two thousand four tsunami 649 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 1: and set up emergency systems like they had that the 650 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 1: death toll would have been much worse. It's just the 651 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: reason why it got as high as twenty thousand is 652 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,120 Speaker 1: because it was such a big tsunami, like it topped 653 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 1: like a hundred and almost a hundred and thirty feet. 654 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: It was just enormous. That's that's what accounted for the 655 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: destructive force. Yeah, And the whole time I was researching 656 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,080 Speaker 1: this stuff, I didn't see anything in our article that 657 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: talked about sea life because I was thinking, what's it 658 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: like to be a fish? When three three hundred mile 659 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: an hour tsunami rolls through and Uh, it can be devastating, 660 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: Like the base of the wave can completely change and 661 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 1: rewrite the topography of the c floor. Um, really bad 662 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 1: erosion will happen. And the what they called the benthic ecosystem, 663 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: which is the you know, the very sea bottom ecosystem 664 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,440 Speaker 1: with all the crustaceans and sea snails and worms and stuff, 665 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,480 Speaker 1: it can just wreck it. Uh. Coral reefs can be destroyed. 666 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: Um And in fact, in two thousand four, UH it 667 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,239 Speaker 1: completely wrecked the coral reefs around the Indian Oceans, coastlines, 668 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: seagrass beds, mangrove forests, all these wetlands can be super 669 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: vulnerable and then species invasion, like you were saying, stuff 670 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: can move thousands and thousands of miles. That happens with 671 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:36,520 Speaker 1: sea life too, so you can get an algae. Uh 672 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: And in fact they have recorded like algae and other 673 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 1: organisms and like oregon that came from Japan that have 674 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,000 Speaker 1: never been there before. So sometimes that can be bad. 675 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: Some you know, sometimes it works out and they just say, 676 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: all right, we'll set up camp here. But they can 677 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 1: displace native species, so that's all a consideration. And could 678 00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 1: not find anything specifically about literally in the water, like 679 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 1: what happens to a whale that's yeah, that's swimming along 680 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: and then three miles an hour comes through, Like does 681 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,200 Speaker 1: it just go kaboom and the whale explodes kind of 682 00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: thing because I could kind of see that happening. I 683 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,360 Speaker 1: don't know, or is it just like being in a 684 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: washing machine for a minute and then the whale is 685 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 1: like what the heck was that all about? What a rush? 686 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 1: Hopefully hopefully chuck let me let me We have some 687 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 1: very very sharp listeners who I'll bet some of which 688 00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: are marine biologists, So we want to hear from you guys, 689 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: what happens to a whale that gets hit by a tsunami. 690 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: And that's us asking from our eight year old hearts. 691 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: We're gonna go play with our tonka trucks now while 692 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,760 Speaker 1: we wait for the answer. Yeah, and of course anything 693 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,360 Speaker 1: within the you know, I'm not sure how much distance, 694 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,840 Speaker 1: but anything close to the inland part will just be 695 00:41:54,960 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: washed ashore. So, I mean millions and millions of bits 696 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 1: of sea life are now deposited on dry land. Yeah, 697 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,480 Speaker 1: and we should say so so for the the unfortunate ones. 698 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,280 Speaker 1: I mean, there, if you're a fish and you're getting 699 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,439 Speaker 1: smacked around with this debris now like you're getting run 700 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,240 Speaker 1: into a house, that'll kill you. Um, there's all sorts 701 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 1: of obstacles that aren't out in the water that are 702 00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 1: now in your way because you're being pushed inland in 703 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: this huge surge of floodwater. One of the other destructive 704 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:30,120 Speaker 1: forces of tsunamis is that they recede and when they 705 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: received they take all that stuff back out with them too. 706 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,279 Speaker 1: So maybe your house survived the initial inundation, but it's 707 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 1: not necessarily going to survive all that debris being pulled 708 00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,880 Speaker 1: on it. As it's all pulled back outward into the 709 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,799 Speaker 1: ocean too. They just go from bed to worse, from 710 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 1: moment to moment basically. Well, and I don't I think 711 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: it slipped by. I don't think we mentioned too that 712 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: it's no, it's not just that first wave like you 713 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,040 Speaker 1: can get secondary flood pushes up to like an hour 714 00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: and a half later. Yes, thank you, So that whole 715 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,719 Speaker 1: wave rain. Right, You get the initial wave, and you 716 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,399 Speaker 1: get another one or the initial flood water, and then 717 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,759 Speaker 1: another one another one. Um. Yeah, I saw actually up 718 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,960 Speaker 1: to like a couple hours later, and people have died 719 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,919 Speaker 1: going back thinking after the right exactly. They go back 720 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: and then it's like nope, here comes around too. Yeah, 721 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,360 Speaker 1: I can't believe we haven't done this one before. We 722 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 1: definitely have. And I looked a bunch. Yeah, I did too. 723 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,719 Speaker 1: Um And I also tried every word combination I could 724 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,560 Speaker 1: think of, and nothing came up. I even tried spelling 725 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: it s o O in a M. I that sounds 726 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 1: like us man. Um, I got one more, you're ready. 727 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:48,879 Speaker 1: The tallest tsunami wave ever recorded. It was in Lituya Bay, Alaska. 728 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: It reached five hundred and twenty meters or se dred 729 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:58,000 Speaker 1: and ten ft above sea level. Can you imagine. I mean, 730 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,839 Speaker 1: that's like the tallest skyscrapers. It's up there for sure, 731 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,920 Speaker 1: just coming at you. Well, if you want to know 732 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: more about tsunami's you can search that word. Don't spell 733 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,799 Speaker 1: it s O O N A M I. It's spelled T, 734 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,759 Speaker 1: s U and A M. I think uh in the 735 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,839 Speaker 1: search bar at house touff Works dot com. And since 736 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,239 Speaker 1: I spelled some stuff, it's time for listener mail. I'm 737 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,400 Speaker 1: gonna call this story from a nice lady from a 738 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,000 Speaker 1: strawberry farmer. How about that? Those are great stories? Hey, guys, 739 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: stumbled upon your podcast and have become obsessed. My husband 740 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 1: and I own a strawberry farm. Doesn't that sound lovely? 741 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,840 Speaker 1: It really does. What a nice way to live, you know, man, 742 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,279 Speaker 1: And I recently started listening while I'm working outside. The 743 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: other day I was walking the fields and listening to 744 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,200 Speaker 1: an older one on cremation and a story. My mom's 745 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,799 Speaker 1: dad passed away in the early nineties when I was 746 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: very young. Two thousand twelve, my grandma lost the family 747 00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,680 Speaker 1: home in Long Island, New York to Hurricane Sandy. My 748 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,080 Speaker 1: mom had an additional home in Florida, UH and moved 749 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,399 Speaker 1: there the following summer, my mom and dad drove out 750 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: to New York to pack up what was left to 751 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 1: the house before it was going to be demolished. My 752 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,400 Speaker 1: parents found this little wooden box with no labels. But 753 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 1: Dad tried to open it and could not, and unknown 754 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,880 Speaker 1: to my mom at the time, he put it in 755 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,600 Speaker 1: the van drove it back home to Wisconsin. When my 756 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 1: mom found it, she asked my grandma what it was 757 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,480 Speaker 1: and she replied, Oh, yeah, that's your father. I'm just 758 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,480 Speaker 1: trying to do my best long Island accent. Needless to say, 759 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,400 Speaker 1: they were glad that they were unsuccessful in opening the box. 760 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,759 Speaker 1: My mom rightfully labeled the box and now we all 761 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,919 Speaker 1: get to see Grandpa every time we visit their home. 762 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for entertaining me while I walked up and down 763 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 1: rows of strawberries, checking on plants and weeds eight acres 764 00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,080 Speaker 1: at a time by hand, mother lawn or hand prune 765 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,840 Speaker 1: ten acres of strawberry plants. She's just rubbing it in now. Ps. 766 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,440 Speaker 1: We ever do a show in Milwaukee? Well, Danielle Clark, 767 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,760 Speaker 1: we have done a show in Milwaukee and it was great, 768 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:06,799 Speaker 1: So I'm sure we'll come back at some point. Yeah, 769 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,120 Speaker 1: or maybe both, because I think we found out like 770 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,080 Speaker 1: they don't actually drive down the road to one another. 771 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,400 Speaker 1: It's weird. It is weird. Well, if you have a 772 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,480 Speaker 1: great story about something we talked about, like dan Yelle 773 00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,800 Speaker 1: thinks by the way, Danielle Um, if you want to 774 00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,600 Speaker 1: let us know about it, you can tweet to us. 775 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,359 Speaker 1: We're all over Twitter. You can check us out on 776 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,960 Speaker 1: Facebook or on that too. 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