WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: Skyquakes 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:16.439 Thinking Sideways. I don't you never know stories of things 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.440 we simply don't know the answer too. Well, Hi there, everybody, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.320 and welcome back to Thinking Sideways the podcast. Welcome back 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.000 for everybody who's been with us before, Hi there, and 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.200 welcome for the first time for anybody that hasn't. Who 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.599 hasn't I think everybody in the world listens to us 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:40.200 now quiet not exactly. Well, today we're gonna we're gonna 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.080 go into a subject that I kind of feel like 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.920 maybe I stole out from under Devon because Devin likes 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.040 to do the stories about weird noises. Yeah, and I 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.960 sort of it's been like working on that megalithic episode 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.320 that may or may not happen, and I just got 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.600 distracted and suddenly I was like, what are we doing 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:02.320 this week? And I was like, oh, sky quakes. Steve, Yeah, 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.840 she tried to stab him, but yeah, the drama of 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:12.400 the show, ye stuff. Yeah, well, let's talk about skyquakes. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.320 Skyquakes are a weird phenomena. Depending on where you are 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.279 in the States, in the continental United States or or 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.200 maybe in other countries, you'll hear them named a number 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.120 of different things up. You'll hear them called the Guns 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:35.080 of Seneca, the Moodest Noises fog guns, Mr. Poofer's, the 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.640 baronsl guns. These things have a lot of names and 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:45.000 names very regional. Yeah, absolutely, um, but but they're all over. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.759 But you know, that kind of gives you an idea 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.200 that what we're talking about isn't focused in any one region. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.520 It's this is a global phenomenon that's been going on 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.760 for a long time. It has been going on for 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.280 quite long, hundreds of years. Hundreds of years. Yes, yes, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.240 we have accounts from a long time ago, which we'll 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.520 we'll actually get to here briefly. Uh So, let's do 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.280 this so just to kind of give kind of the 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:15.000 basic rundown of skyquakes, Typically they're reported in coastal areas 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.000 and and that can be you know, on the coast 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.720 of the ocean or a large lake or occasionally large 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:27.160 rivers like the Danube or um the Mississippi things like that, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.320 and or the Ganges was the other one that I 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.520 was thinking of. Usually, what happens the sky is clear. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.320 If there are clouds, they're not very big and specifically 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:43.240 they're not thunderclouds. Yes, they're just nice white, poofy clouds 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.799 against the blue sky out of nowhere, there will be 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.960 an extremely loud boom. And these things, these noises are 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:56.760 sometimes uh described as sounding like a cannon or artillery 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.120 going off. And you know, it's not always just one. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:06.120 Sometimes there can be several in a row, one after 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.600 the other. So it's not as if there's one event 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.679 causing a single boom. We're talking in multiples. Yeah. The 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.840 one that I have heard, the only one that I've 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.079 actually heard recording of. It sounds like a big boom 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.760 followed by somewhat three somewhat smaller booms and you know, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.880 almost like a machine gun kind of thing, kind of 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.720 kind of just kind of a rhythm there. Yeah. Well, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.239 and as Devon was was briefly alluding to that, they've 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.519 been around for a long time. We've known about them 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.520 when the European settlers came to the northeast of the 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.840 United States, the Iroquois evidently told them. The Indians of 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.600 the area told them that they had heard the noises before, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:48.440 and they explained it as the Great Spirit continuing his 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.760 work on shaping the earth, because evidently it was a 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:58.200 work in progress. Well, well, it actually kind of is changing. Yeah, Um, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.680 so you know, I could try and describe these a lot. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.920 But what I figured it was the best thing to 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.480 do was to take the recording that one of the 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.520 recordings that I found online and play that for everybody 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.480 so that you can kind of get an idea of 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.440 what this sounds like. Now, the clip that we're gonna 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.480 we're gonna put in here, there are car alarms and 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.119 there are dogs barking in the background, and I'm gonna 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.719 try and ease that out as much as possible, but 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.000 it will be very obvious when the sky quake happens, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.440 and it is extremely loud, to just be prepared for that. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.479 So there you go, very obvious. It does sound like 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:04.560 cannon's it really, it doesn't sound like carl arms, it does. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.320 It sounds like artillery or thunder or a cannon or something, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.360 but it does sound like artillery to me. Yeah, it's 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.120 really weird. I have a theory, but I'm gonna wait 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.520 till later, Oh, until we get into the theory section, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.720 because that's where we're at. Because literally listening to this 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.480 the sky quake, that gives you a good idea of 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.640 what it is, and there are so many places that 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.720 they've happened that it's not worth going into everyone. It's 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.680 much simpler just to kind of get into what the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.839 theories are of what is causing me. Yeah, well, I'm 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.960 going to tell you what my theory. It's like. My 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.680 theory is, is um a gigantic alien starship in the 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.760 in the atmosphere and they teleported out basically to go 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.119 into warp or whatever. They just vanished from the spot 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.880 that they were in, which is immediately filled by air 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.160 rushing in, creating a big kaboom a. Yeah, so that's 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.839 that's one theory. Okay. Well, Joe let us off with 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.480 the most fantastical theory. Yeah, no, he didn't, because actually 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:10.880 the first theory is pretty fantastical. Yeah. This first theory 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.720 says that these are government experiments with e m p 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.800 s that are causing this noise. Okay, and now just quickly, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.640 how do they explain the fact that it's been going 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.679 on for They don't. That's they don't. That's an issue 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.479 with the thing. And we can just go ahead and 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.280 say that if the government is has something going on 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.120 like this, they would probably um propagate stories of it 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.080 happening for a long time possibly or maybe or maybe 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.880 they ripped the space time continuum and the noises are 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.760 reflected back in time. That's just as crazy teleported back 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.160 in time to plant stories. There you go, there you go. Well, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.400 here's here's the main thing that drives this e MP 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.919 government conspiracy theory, because this really is kind of a 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:04.039 conspiracy theory. It's all based around an event that is 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.480 referred to as the Bell Island boom. Okay, not enough 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.720 for clarity by e MP. You're talking about electromagnetic pulse. Yes, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:16.480 electromagnetic pulse. That is absolutely correct. Bell Island is located 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:21.320 on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland. Yeah, it's it's it's 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:32.080 it's right, not New Jersey. It's not New Jersey. No, no, okay, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:36.760 no Newfoundland is It's in Canada. It's in the Atlantic. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.880 It's kind of like one of their farthest islands to 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.320 the east. It's it's it's not a small place. But 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:50.160 what happens is April second night, there's a huge booming 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.960 or some people, depending on the source, describe it as 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.920 the sound of an explosion. And according to the reports, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.440 there's a lot of damage of the houses in the area, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.560 and I'm guessing this is from a concussive blast. Windows, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.600 broken windows, and evidently the power lines in the area 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.280 were fried out, melted. You see it described as vaporized, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.800 and a couple of the things. Um. Now, the thing is, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.480 unlike most of the booms that we're going to talk about, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.760 there was a something physical left behind, and that was 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.960 holes in the ground. There were two holes left in 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.880 the ground and they were let's see here, they were 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:38.200 three feet across and two ft deep, which doesn't really 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.600 match up with a lot of the stuff that that 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.680 we get from the these skyquakes, because they yeah, I 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.360 think it, I think it is. But there's there's a 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.520 lot of fantastical stuff that goes on with the story 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.480 of Bell Island, but we're going to leave most of 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.839 that behind because what we want to do is we 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.200 want to focus on this this electromagna at a pulse theory. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.800 Parts according to the theory that this is some government 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.320 body that's responsible for this, and a lot of stuff 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.800 will point to, well, it was the Americans or it 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.880 was the Russians. Um, you've got to kind of take 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.800 a look at what happened at the time with this 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.560 and why they think it's an electromagnetic pulse. One of 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:26.920 the things is that with an e MP there's no radiation. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.880 Typically there's no touchdown point like these holes in the ground. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.680 But by radiation, you mean there's no like atomic radiation. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.920 You just set up an a box. There's no really 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:42.920 high frequency radio. There's no through radiation. Yes, but but 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.000 you know what I'm saying that Hiroshima, Yeah, that kind 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.960 of stuff that gets into your blood and kills you. Correct, Yeah, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.880 that's where I'm getting at. And and so of course 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.440 all the electronics is fried and hosed and you can't 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.160 use your iPhone. Well, people say that this must have 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.000 been an exp periament by a government body and one 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.960 of the and again, this is a government body, whether 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.840 they did it intentionally or not. So nobody says whether 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:15.000 they were nefariously targeting Bell Island or just accidentally touchdown there. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.880 What adds a ton of fuel to the fire, though, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.280 is the fact that two sciences from the Los Alamos 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:30.000 National Laboratory came to Bell Island to investigate. Now you might, um, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.080 you know, I didn't write down their names, and that's 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.800 my bad, but you might recognize the name Los Alamos 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.040 National Laboratory because they're the ones who were involved in 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.240 the development of the first A bomb. So people point 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.800 to that as, oh, well, those guys at that terrible 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.199 place that did this must have done that thirty some 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.720 twenty some years later, some years later, working on the 0:10:54.760 --> 0:11:00.320 next kind of big leap in warfare. Maybe, I mean 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.920 it's possible. I mean, the whole mp effect of atomic 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.439 nuclear weapons was known back in those days, as far 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.800 as building the really teeny little nuke that that could 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.640 just that would just tune so that it would just 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.319 happen more than just emit radiation, more so the explosive 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.360 force and all that would Maybe they were working on 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.160 something like that the time. I don't know, And I've 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 also seen in some stuff that I've read, and this 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.040 was more you know, fictional accountings. There is the fact 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.320 that you can detonate a nuke several miles up and 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.000 the radiation won't get won't hurt people like it would 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.880 when it detonates on the ground, but the electromagnetic pulse 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:46.280 will still affect electronics. Yeah, theoretically, there's the idea that 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.320 they were testing something high in the atmosphere and something 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.000 fell or you know, there's people who say it's some 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.520 kind of lightning because in the reports of Belle Island 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.960 they talk about some giant bold that it was quote 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.280 unquote seen from space. I've never seen that picture, by 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.040 the way. Yeah, I mean, I guess they think it's 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.920 it's a fair theory to think that. You know, if 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.720 they were going to test something like this, right, they 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.199 would probably be testing it over open water instead of overland. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.400 You know. They accidentally detonated it close to land and 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.240 too close down low, you know, so it actually did 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.679 for a bunch of stuff. It landed with some debris. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.560 I guess. I'm I can kind of get behind. I mean, obviously, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.440 like it's not my favorite, but like I also can't 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.600 talk my way into this. I can talk my way 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.920 out of this way faster than I can talk myself 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.600 into the problem with this as an explanation for sky 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:48.120 quakes is it's only one incident and it is very new. Yeah, yes, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.120 but I am willing to say that it could be 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:56.440 a good explanation for Belle Island specifically. Yeah, I could. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.520 I could see some credence there. Let's move to the 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:04.360 next theory, though we've got meteors. This one's actually really 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.440 pretty straightforward. In the idea is that people say that 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:12.640 what they're hearing is the sound of the sonic boom 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:18.560 caused by a meteor entering the atmosphere. Uh. Well, you know, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.080 it turns out that evidently, typically a meteor when it 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.360 when it hits the atmosphere and it starts to burn up. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.440 This happens a hundred kilometers or about sixty miles above 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:33.760 the Earth's surface. Because sound travels slower than light, people 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:39.920 might see a shooting star and then minutes later hear 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.960 the boom, and so they wouldn't recognize it. And if 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.559 it's a day time, they're not gonna notice this bright 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:50.080 spot in the sky. That kind of makes sense. Evidently 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.400 it takes about from that distance up. It takes about 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.679 five minutes for sound to reach from sixty miles up 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.040 to the surface down to the surface of the Earth. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.840 So there's there's some scientific credence to that doesn't explain 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.560 why it's only coastal regions, It doesn't. You're absolutely right, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:12.320 And this this occurrence of meteors making noise, This is 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:18.040 what is evidently referred to as electrophonic meteors. In other words, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.040 a meteor that is heard, like the one that that 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.920 exploded over Russia year two. Yeah, you know, I mean 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.920 they come in and they basically heat up and then 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.920 explode and disintegrate and create a huge boom. Well, and 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.600 and that's the issue is that if it was meteors 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:37.520 that we're hitting and exploding, even if they're not big ones, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.160 you would think that we would find some kind of 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.920 debris on a more regular basis than we do unless 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.760 they're hitting the water. That's but yeah, I think about 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.920 it in the atmosphere and then it's just lots of 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.640 little particles. Yeah. But the thing about it is is 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.840 that large meteor is that explode like that make a 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.480 big noise, they're not. They're kind of rare. Yeah. And also, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.680 like we have a lot of scientists, I'm pretty sure 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.200 that somebody would be like, oh, hey, because they track 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.200 it when things like hit the atmosphere. They tracked that stuff, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.440 so like it would be pretty unreasonable to think that, like, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.240 if this is such a widespread phenomenon that somebody wasn't like, oh, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.440 you know what I'll do is I'll look at all 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.040 of the like pretty large meteors that are capable of 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.240 making the sound and see if they like correlate or not, 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.240 because that would have happened. Now. The one thing that 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.920 I do think about that. You know. The issue that 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.720 we had is, well, this happens kind of around coastal areas. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.360 There's one thing that you do have to remember, which 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:40.600 is the air above the ocean tends to be cooler 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.560 than the air above land. So it could be that 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.120 they're hitting that cold air front and because they're so hot, 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.840 they're hitting that blast of cold air and that might 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.120 be causing them to actually shatter and explode rather than 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.600 just to continue to burn up as they're going through 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.640 warmer air. Does that make sense? Would be almost like 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.040 a hitting a wall. I mean, I'm hearing what you're saying, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.480 but I don't think that science follows like this is 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.200 just again I just suddenly I was like, oh, well, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.040 you know it is cold rare. That could be an explanation, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.840 but yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, next we have 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:21.840 and this is what I really find funny. Yeah I do. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:28.240 Is it's gas venting or burping parts. It's earth farts. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:36.320 Whous I am twelve years old? Again? This this does 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.960 actually kind of explain possibly why this is in coastal areas. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.080 What it is is the idea is that methane gas 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.280 is trapped underneath a lake or underneath the ocean, and 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.440 this is caused from the bat breakdown of organic materials, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.640 whether they be plants or animals, and then at some 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.840 point they seep upward and they come up in a 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.000 great explosion out of the water. But why would they 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:09.560 explode versus just like bubbling up and leaking into the atmosh. Yeah, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.000 that's that's somebody's gotta be there to light a Yeah, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.720 that's that's the problem is that if it was gas, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.760 I mean, that would be a huge amount of gas 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.560 to let's ignore the explosion for a session. That would 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.320 be a huge amount of gas to cause such a 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.919 giant bubble that it makes that concussive blast as it 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.080 just breaks the surface of the water and then the 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.480 water claps back into play. Yeah, you'd be seeing a 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.320 lot more dead aquatic light. Okay. And if it is 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.359 an explosion, okay, what's causing that explosion? And why haven't 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.760 there been reports of flames of any kind round the 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.920 skyquake issues? Yeah. The and the thing about it is 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.399 it's like when methane or oil or whatever leaks up 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.800 from the ocean bottom or wherever it just sort of seeps, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.040 it doesn't usually come up and you know it doesn't 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:01.199 come out and outflowing. Now I'm trying really hard to 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.920 not make all the fart joke. The next theory is 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:08.560 actually really closely related to the methane gas which this 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.919 actually is a theory that there's a rapid just oxygen, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:18.400 but a rapid air release from the collapse of underwater caves. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.800 And again this one kind of says, well, it's the 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.440 noise from the cave collapsing in the air rushing out 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.760 and all the debris underwater falling. But I personally, that's 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.479 a lot a lot of caves collapsing underwater if they 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.600 were the case. The thing about it is is caves 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.040 tend to be pretty stable. They've been there for millions 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.399 of years. Yeah, I know. That's why I feel if 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.080 I'm I used to do a little caving, and if 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.879 I'm in a natural limestone cave, I feel far safer 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.439 than I than I would feel like if I were 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.480 in a tunnel like the Highway tunnel example. Yea earthquake 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.280 or something like that, you know, because I mean, this 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.440 thing has been through all kinds of earthquakes. So also, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.359 nderwater caves typically don't have much air. Usually they're filling 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.000 with water usually, I mean sometimes they have like a 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.119 little bit of like air at the top or whatever. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:14.040 But and if it collapses, the air doesn't all get 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.480 out at once, A lot of debris comes down in 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.080 the air. The air it sort of fizzles out between 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:24.120 all the debris. It's soda. So I think the perfect description, yeah, exactly, 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.720 it would sound like soda. So the cave collapsing is 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:35.000 a bad thing. Yeah. Yeah. The next Yeah, the next 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.280 one that we have here actually really I kind of 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.640 like this one. And this is that these sounds are 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.560 caused by earthquakes, and there's there's a bit of science 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.760 that we need to go into to help flush this out. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.000 I'm seeing words like S wave and P wave and yeah, 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.840 and I actually abbreviated a bunch of big science words. Okay, okay, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:03.000 earthquakes cause seismic waves, which are low frequency energy waves 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.600 that travel through the surface of the Earth. Now, seismologists, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:14.480 those are guys who study earthquakes. No, they measure the 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.000 seismic waves. Us that twice in one sentence, and they 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:22.280 you know, that's how they determine how strong an earthquake is. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.720 So that's when you hear the rector scale is what 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.320 we hear a lot to determine or to describe the 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.200 strength of an earthquake. Okay, and most people are probably 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.080 pretty familiar with that that description. Here's where it gets 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.520 a little trickier is that the seismic waves are composed 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:43.000 of actually two different kinds of waves. We've got a 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.639 pea wave and an S wave, and the pea wave 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.040 typically will be described it's the name is primary wave 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.479 and S wave is secondary wave. The pea wave is faster, 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:58.000 so it and it also is a compressional wave. Now, 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:03.040 what that means is that it compresses and expands material 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.280 in the same direction that it's moving. So if you 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.640 think of a slinky that's laying on the floor sideways 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.760 and you shook it, how it it the it travels 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.720 back and forth horizontally. Yeah, So the P wave is 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.080 the one that shakes your house inside to side and 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.000 causes it to follow up its foundation. Uh, somewhat yes, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.760 somewhat yes. And then we've got the S wave and 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:25.880 that's the slower of the two. So it's the one 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.320 that shows up second, because they don't always show up 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.199 at the same time. That's why you can have a 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:36.080 difference in an earthquake and hit in stages and after shocks. Yeah, 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:40.080 and the S wave is responsible for actually shaking the 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:44.360 ground up and down as well as side to side 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.040 in the opposite direction of the pea wave. So if 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.400 the pea wave is going directly in front of you, 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.480 the S wave will make the ground heave up and 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.800 down and left and right of where you're you're viewing. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.880 I see, yeah, it's uh. I think the pe waves 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:03.480 are what they measure often for like the pre shocks, 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.119 because they can you can um you can send them 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:08.960 ahead of time, because that's the one that's easier. You 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.960 can hear it coming. Well, that's and that's actually a 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.040 perfect segway because it turns out the pea wave is 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.480 the one that is making and carrying a lot of 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.680 the sound that has heard when earthquakes happen. So the 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:30.080 theory goes that really low magnitude earthquakes, so we're talking 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.879 on the Richter scale anywhere between one point oh to 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:37.600 three point notes, so these are very small. You can't 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.440 really feel them, and especially if they're really deep, by 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.359 the time the wave reaches the surface of the earth, 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:49.679 it's shaking power is gone. For the most part, but 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.320 the sound is still traveling with it, and so that 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.760 sound is released and that's what we hear. Is this 0:22:57.880 --> 0:22:59.960 the surface of the earth and basically acting like a 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:04.640 gigantic speaker vibrating and creating sound waves, and it's Yeah, 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.440 it's rock. So the sound travels through it, and some 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:13.960 material obviously will allow the transmission of sound better than others, 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:18.040 I believe, Correct me if I'm wrong here, guys. Coastal 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.960 areas are usually rich in things like limestone. Is that correct? 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.520 Which is that not correct? I don't I don't know 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.480 if they're anymore rich than anywhere. Well, they are rich 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:32.200 in tectonic plates. Well, but what I'm looking at is 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.679 I'm looking at coastal areas usually are composed of the 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:39.119 same general and this is a very general statement kind 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:41.680 of rock compared to what you would find and say, 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:45.639 the center of this country or continent. And I'm thinking 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:47.320 that maybe part of this is that if it's a 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.160 less dense rock, that sound can travel easier and not dissipate. 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:53.360 I don't know, I might be screwing up that part 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:59.080 of the science. But there is actually a recorded episode 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:04.880 of a lot of booming sounds from low magnitude earthquakes 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.560 in Spokane, Washington back in two thousand and one, and 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:14.080 a series of booming sounds were heard, and they figured 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:18.080 out that there were a series of very very small 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.800 earthquakes that happened, and they were actually really close to 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:25.040 the Earth's surface, so the sound came through, but because 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:26.879 they were so weak, they didn't have a lot of 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:31.400 power to shake things up, no pun intended. So that's 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:38.240 that's an idea that it's it's some kind of seismic activity. Yeah, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.120 it does make sense. Coastal regions are you know, they 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:46.440 have more earthquakes often because that's where the that's where 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:48.600 you know, the tectonic plates are like really coming together. 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:51.880 It's like very often where like the shelves, that's where 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:54.520 you get the like the upheaval and the underflows. I 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:55.919 don't know, I mean, I guess it makes sense. But 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.160 also on the same token, like they tracked that stuff 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.040 pretty heavily. I mean, the fact that they could track 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:04.680 that there were earthquakes in Spokane that caused those booms 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:06.840 would make me think that if it was the cause 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:08.359 of all of the other ones, that they would be 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.760 able to track that there were also things there The 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:17.240