1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles W. 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: Chuck Chuckers. I love you, Bryant, you're saying that or 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: that's my middle name. I love everybody. Sure, I'm in 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: high spirit city, Chuck. Things are moving, stuff is taking place, 8 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: things are coming to. Fruition is out of nowhere because 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: you were not feeling this way, like literally seconds before 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: we recorded. I don't know what you're talking about. Wow, 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: I'm in brass, dude. You can turn it on. You 12 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: know why, Chuck? Why? I can tell because you're drinking 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: your little energy drinking. Yes, I would call it an 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: energy soda, be little dream sailor. That was Yeah, you 15 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: really like that podcast? Into it? I thought it was good. 16 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: My favorite part was when we mentioned the doctor in Berkeley, 17 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: when you said, um boom or around or something like that. Yeah, 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: that's funny. Yeah, thanks, I thought um. I liked all 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: the nose breathing I did in that podcast. For some reason, 20 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: we just sit around talk about our whole podcast Hey, Chuck, Hey, Josh, 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: you did some time out in l A right. Yeah. So, um, 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: I know that you met Matthew McConaughey. You left that 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: story and uh keep for Sutherland's driver. Yeah, and him. 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: I saw him in the grocery store too, with his driver, 25 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: No with How did you know it was him that 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: a bucks? Some blonde babe actually got you? Um it 27 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: was Keith for Southernlandon. I mean it's unmistakable got you. 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: Um he's breathing, mouth breathing behind me in line. We're 29 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble one day for that. I know 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: he's a hot head too. He just got suited. He 31 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: like hit a photographer somebody did he really? Yeah? So 32 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: watch watch your back. Plus he knows his way around 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: a gun, Yes he does, and he's ruthless, as I 34 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: understand it from what I've seen on TV. I know 35 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: what you're about to ask me about Los Angeles. I 36 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: know you do, because we're doing how earthquakes work. So Chuck, 37 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: let's just cut to the chase, shall we. I have 38 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: never felt an earthquake out there, nor have I. I 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: was out there for four years, dude, and I was 40 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: there when earthquakes happened, and I never realized it and 41 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: felt anything. Friends of mine will be like, dude, did 42 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: you feel that this morning? Yeah? No, I have no idea. 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: Did they use a lot of that um honey that 44 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: comes in the Little Bear? Yes? Did they? They did, dude, 45 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: that's what they say. And Kelly Chuck, I've never experienced 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: an earthquake either. The closest um thing to an earthquake 47 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: story I have involves earthquake proofing. Let's hear it. Remember 48 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: my friend Hippie Rob, Hippy Rob did a little time 49 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: out in Uh, I'm so a fan of the honey Bear. Yeah, yes, 50 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: oh yeah, Hippy Rob did a some time out in 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: San Quentin. Actually really yeah, here's the thing. He was 52 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: not looking forward to doing San Quentin, I imagine, um. 53 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: And he finds out that right when he gets there 54 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: that um, he and all the other relatively light off 55 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: enders are going to be moved to Fulsome prison, which 56 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: was undergoing earthquake proofing construction. Right, so they were going 57 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: to keep all the light offenders at Folsome and then 58 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: move all the light offenders at San Quentin over to Folsom. 59 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: And then they moved all like the murderers and rapists 60 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: and peder asks to uh that we're at San Quentin. 61 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: Fo over to San Quentin. Wow, that's my earthquake story. 62 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: Good for Falsome. So Hippie Rob got off easy. He 63 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: was with light offenders in Falsome? Did he Did they 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: actually have to work on the earthquake proofing where they 65 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: put the work or was it just go? I don't 66 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: think so. Would you trust the guy named Hippie Rob 67 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: to earthquake proofs your prison? Would not? I wouldn't either. 68 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: So let's talk about earthquakes. Let's do it. Can I 69 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: you want a little history? I did some extra research. 70 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: Let's hear it. So before nineteen fifteen, we didn't really 71 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: have much of a conception of what was going on 72 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: geologically with with the continents, right? Was it just anyone's 73 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: gas at that point? Yeah? I think you or I 74 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: could have come up with adequate theory. We'd be like 75 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: ghosts or something like that. Um, but the ghosts was 76 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: not an acceptable explanation for a guy named Alfred Wegner. Uh, 77 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: he's a German clearly because his last name because with 78 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: a W, but I pronounced it with a V, which 79 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: is a dead giveaway for a German is a German, 80 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: right um. So Wagner Um was actually an astronomer by training, 81 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: but he was fascinated with geology, and he became increasingly 82 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: fascinated when he found out that there had been fossils 83 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: identical plant in animal fossils found um on the let's see, 84 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: that would be the east coast of South America and 85 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: the west coast of Africa. And at the time, the 86 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: predominant theory was that there were land bridges that were 87 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: now under water and that's how these species would have 88 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: gotten together. Wegner he thought, I don't know that that's 89 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: entirely true, and he also noted that Africa kind of 90 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: looked like it could fit into South America. Interesting point. 91 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: So he started thinking about it and think about and 92 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: he realized that some he he postulated about three million 93 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: years ago, all of the continents were hooked together, which 94 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: he called one big, stinking massive land right in Greek, 95 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: that would be Pangaea. And uh so Pangea starts to 96 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: break apart, and basically Wevegner uh postulated that the the 97 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: continents were in fact still drifting. He thought that they 98 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: were basically plowing along the ocean, and it was due 99 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: to centrifugal force and title movement. And title movement, it 100 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: makes sense for the time. It's back in UM. He 101 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: was right about the continents drifting. We know that, but 102 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: not with the centrifugal force the title movement. One of 103 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: his rivals calculated that UM, for the tides to move 104 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: a continent, that that kind of force would actually stop 105 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: the rotation of the Earth in less than twelve months. 106 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: So that wasn't it. But he was right about the 107 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: continents drifting. UM. He was pretty much ridiculed during his lifetime. 108 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: But in the nineteen fifties and sixties, as we got 109 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: more and more acquainted with UM, the the actual ridges 110 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: along the plates, uh, they figured out that Vegner had 111 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: been right. The continents were in fact drifting, not in 112 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: the way he thought. Right, go, go Vegner, that's the 113 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: history lesson. That's good. And I didn't know that. I know, 114 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: I told you it was extra research. And that's continental 115 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: drift theory. Right. Once we figured this out that actually 116 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: the what is that the lithosphere, the surface of the 117 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: Earth which all these different plates make up, are actually 118 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: moving along the atheneos sphere, which is this layer of 119 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: rock that Actually it is a lubricantant behaves like a 120 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: liquid because of the heat and pressure, right, right, So 121 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: it's the goop in between the plates that's kind of 122 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: cushioning everything. Right. And we figured this out. I didn't, 123 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: You didn't, but you know, geologists did. Um and we 124 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: once we figured it out, we realized that that explains 125 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff like volcanoes, um, trenches, yes, mountains 126 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: under ocean, uh, bridges under the ocean. But most importantly 127 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: this podcast, it also explains Yeah, volcanoes, plate tectonics, earthquakes. 128 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Earthquakes, no volcanoes, Okay, tsunami. Well so wait, 129 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna switch mid podcast and do how volcanoes work. 130 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: Let's just make it up. Yeah, it really does. It 131 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: explains earthquakes, uh, and it all makes sense. And I 132 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: love plate technico tectonics. Who doesn't, you know, just the 133 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: thought of our earth. I don't know. Stuff like this 134 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: makes me feel insignificant in a good way, that that 135 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: you know, we're kind of on this earth humans and 136 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: we think we're all that, but we're really pit the 137 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: whim of whatever the Earth decided to do. There was 138 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: something going on at the core that we didn't know 139 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: about right now, and all of a sudden everything started 140 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: going haywire. We'd be powerless. Oh yeah, so I kind 141 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: of like that insignificant feeling occasionally. I mean we're powerless 142 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: to you know, baseball size hail. Yeah exactly, you know, 143 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: let alone the movement of continents. Yeah, you want some stats, Josh, Chuck, 144 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,679 Speaker 1: I knew you'd bring those up. There are actually many, many, 145 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: many earthquakes all the time. Uh, you just don't feel 146 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: them all. They don't get attention if you don't feel them, 147 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: and they don't get attention if they're not where people are, 148 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: which a lot of them are as well or away 149 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: from people. Uh, there's one earthquake every eleven seconds, Josh. 150 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: That's eight thousand per day, about three million per year. Actually, 151 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 1: the U S Geological Survey maintains the site Chuck um 152 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: that has like updated earthquake activity around the world. Did 153 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: you know about, let's see, six hours ago, there was 154 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: a six point seven earthquake UM in Papua New Guinea. Dude, Really, 155 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: that's big. It's a pretty cool sit Anything over seven 156 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: is the major scale is a big time major. Yeah, 157 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: we'll get to the Richter scale and if you don't 158 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: give it away. So, yeah, that many earthquakes is a lot, 159 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: but you don't feel them if they're if they're must 160 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: them are deep underground, right or in uninhabited areas exactly, 161 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: And so unless it's in a may your city or 162 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: something and killing folks, it's not gonna make the news. 163 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: But speaking of killing folks, have got one more stat 164 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: I like this one. One point five million people have 165 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: died from earthquake related activity in the last hundred years alone. 166 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: And you know, earthquakes get a really bad rap, chuck, 167 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: because really most of those debts are attributed to you know, 168 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: collapse structures or tsunamis or mud slides generated by the 169 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: earthquake exactly. The earthquake just opens up, the earth opens up, 170 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: and he swallowed into it like the movies, except in Superman. 171 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: Yeah remember that. Yeah, he reversed it. That dude flying 172 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: very fast, and he liked the Lex Luthor's girlfriend doing 173 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: so too. He did crickets, Josh, I think we should 174 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: get back to tectonics. Okay, let's talk about plates under 175 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: the earth and what can happen. Basically when these things 176 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: meet up. The two plates meet up, right, which where 177 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: they where two plates meet is of it's a fault, right, right. 178 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: You probably heard of the San Andrea's fault line in California, 179 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: very famous. Fault faults are where most earthquake earthquakes happen. 180 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: I keep on say volcanoes, it's so weird. So, uh, 181 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: what happens when plates get together is they can do 182 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: a couple of things. They can move apart from each other. Uh. 183 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: In that case, the magma comes out, Magma turns into 184 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: lava that cools and hardens, and then it kind of 185 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: reforms as part of the structure. So we should he 186 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: uses through and then makes it more solid, right, and 187 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: then it cools and you have a new land mass form. 188 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: Exactly right. We should also probably point out here to 189 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: any um people who believe in the hollow earth theory 190 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: that we're discussing this based on the notion that the 191 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: Earth's core is molten. Okay, yeah, sure, so go ahead 192 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: and chuck disclaimer there. What kind of fault was that 193 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: that you just described? Well, no, that wasn't a fault. 194 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 1: That's just what happens when the plates move apart. When 195 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: the plates pushed together one oftentimes one will go underneath 196 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 1: the other. Like they'll meet up and then one will 197 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: slide onto the other one and it dissolves basically at 198 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: that point. And the final thing josh Ish the plates 199 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: can slide against each other, so they just kind of 200 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: pass in the night, basically, just kind of moving by 201 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: each other very slowly. And all these different things that 202 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking about where these plates meet, that is where 203 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: we get to the faults. Right there, there's four kinds, right, 204 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: the S and D. There's four kinds that can they 205 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: either go vertically or horizontally. As far as the faults 206 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: are concerned, You've got the normal fault and the reverse fault. 207 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: Those are vertical faults, right, So the normal fault is 208 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: where the plates actually move away from one another. The 209 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: reverse fault is where they moved together, right, And then 210 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: you have ones that that move horizontally, which I think 211 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: the San Andrea's fault is is a horizontal fault. Is 212 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: it a thrust fault? I think it's either a thrust 213 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: fall or strike slip fault. Okay, so it's basically the 214 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: same thing, except along along horizontal lines rather than vertical. Right, 215 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: But no matter which way they're moving, they can be 216 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: moving apart, moving together horizontally or vertically. UM. All fault 217 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: lines are basically where plates are still pressing together very tightly, right, 218 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: and when when they pressed together, they're eventually going to 219 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: get locked because of friction, right, But the pressure is 220 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: still going. They still want to move. So all this 221 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: potential energy is being built up, and as it builds 222 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: and builds and builds, the pressure eventually overcomes the resistance 223 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you have a slip. It breaks, 224 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: it does, and that's that's actually the epicenter of the 225 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: focus of the earthquake where that happens right there. That 226 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: is the key, that is what an earthquake is, Yes, 227 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: is when the initial fault break or more that happened 228 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: later on occur. We really paid that out in a 229 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: dramatic fashion, didn't we. Yeah, it didn't feel that dramatic 230 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: to me. It will when we listen to that, maybe 231 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: because I know the ending, so chuck right, they can't 232 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: believe you gave it away. So fault zones, that's that's 233 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: where there's lots of faults together connected, right. Yeah, So 234 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: one of those one of those faults slipping one of 235 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: that UM a place where the potential energy you turns 236 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: kinectic all of a sudden can actually trigger um faults, 237 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: or it can actually trigger movement along other faults that 238 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: are connected those fault zones you mentioned, right, That's why 239 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: earthquakes often happen in a series. It's more than more 240 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: than one, right, and they almost always happened along the faults. 241 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: But I know that very uh one, very famous earthquake 242 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: in eighteen eleven and eighteen twelve, which I didn't Did 243 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: that happen in like December thirty one, in January one 244 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: or what? I don't know. That's a good point twelve 245 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: one long earthquake. Yeah, it would be. We'll find out 246 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: about that. But that occurred in the middle of a plate, 247 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: in the middle of the North American continental Plate, which 248 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: is odd at the time, but it was They found 249 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: out later that deep beneath the earth that was in 250 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: fact a six hundred million year old fault zone. So yeah, 251 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: there you have it. Yeah, so it's it's some way 252 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: or another there's a fault zone involved. Indeed, so chuck um, 253 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: we actually have a way to measure earthquakes. We measure 254 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: them through their seismic waves, right, make waves, which seismic 255 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: waves are the energy that radiates from their focus and 256 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: it it acts as a wave much like a wave 257 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: in water, right, like if you were to throw sound 258 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: waves rock and a pond, that kind of thing. There's 259 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: there's two different types of waves, two major types of waves. 260 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: You have body waves and you have surface waves. So 261 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: let's talk about body waves first. Yes, they move through 262 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: the inside of the earth, the inner part of the earth. Right. 263 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: And well there's two different kinds of it's primary and 264 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: secondary body waves waves, pea waves or s waves. It's 265 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: easy to remember mnemonic induction and lucid dreaming, etcetera. Right. 266 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: They travel about one to five miles per second. The 267 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: pea waves too. Yeah, and they're actually they can move 268 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: through solid liquid or gas. Yes, they cannot be stopped. No, 269 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: so they can actually go from one end of the 270 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: Earth to the other. Well, they do too every time. 271 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: Isn't that correct? I don't know. I think that's what 272 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: it says. We'll find out. Uh. And these these the 273 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: pea waves, actually they affect the stuff that they're moving, 274 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: like say, rock horizontally, so it shakes back and forth 275 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: on a horizontal plane. Okay, And like you said, they're 276 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: the fastest, so they get there first. But I got 277 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: the impression that they caused the least amount of damage. 278 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: Then you have secondary waves, right, secondary body waves. Yeah, 279 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: that's the problem. Well, they're the first problem because they 280 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: displaced rock perpendicularly to the direction of the wave. Right. 281 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: So you remember the movie Tremors, So you remember the 282 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: worms going underground and it was displacing dirt up on 283 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: the Earth's surface. Same thing. That's like, that's like a 284 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: secondary wave and s wave. I love that you're quoting 285 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: tremors are scientific? Backup. I love that one. You It's 286 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: great spread ward classic. So so actually that was Kevin Bay. Yeah, 287 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: that was such a good one. It's probably one of 288 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: my top five. Yeah. Um, so let's let's talk about 289 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: surface waves you want, Well you should actually just say 290 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: real quick though, that they don't travel through solid material, 291 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: the secondary so they stopped liquid the liquid Earth's core, 292 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: or if you believe in hollow war theory, they would 293 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: stop when it became hollow because it doesn't travel through 294 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: gas apparently either, right, Yeah, they would stop at the 295 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: temple of Doom. Yeah, according to dollarwar theory. Can we 296 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: talk about surface waves yet? Yes, we're there. Let's see it. 297 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: They're like more like the waves in a body of water, right, 298 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: they move the earth up and down. Did you see 299 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: some of the pictures in this article. This is a 300 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: really cool article for pictures. There's actually a page, picture 301 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: page of nothing but earthquake aftermath pictures and they're cool 302 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: interactive things too. When you talk about the plate shifting, 303 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: some animations you can click on. Did you see the 304 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: one with the railroad tracks? What was that, Peru? I 305 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: don't remember. There's a picture in this article of railroad 306 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: tracks that um basically just make a perfect s because 307 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: of the surface waves that hit it during an earthquake. Well, 308 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: and the crops that shifted to that being in a 309 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: straight line, they had the wave in them. Yeah, so 310 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: that's all due to surface waves. Surface waves are the 311 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: ones that caused the most damage as far as we're concerned. 312 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: If you're like, you know, a mole man or something, 313 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: you're probably going to be more afraid of secondary body 314 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: waves up top side. We're afraid of, you know, the 315 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: surface waves. The l waves are long waves is what 316 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: they're called as well, top top dwellers that we are, right, 317 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: so they caused the worst damage, and because they move 318 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: the earth up and down, like you said, a wave, 319 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: a water wave in the ocean, Yeah, exactly, which we don't. 320 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: We don't build our buildings generally to withstand wave like motion. No. Well, 321 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: they've done a lot of work though, to build buildings 322 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: that can rock back and forth and move a little 323 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: bit and have the foundation shift. It's called earthquake. What 324 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: we were talking about reinforcement. Sure, some of my apartments 325 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: in l A actually had were reinforced. You could tell, 326 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: like in the walls they would have these bars running 327 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: up in stuff. But yeah, as far as in the 328 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: Japan's on like the cutting edge of of earthquake proofing 329 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: of everything. Yeah, yeah, a lot of earthquakes in Japan. 330 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: Huh Yeah, and robots and volcanoes. Where are we now, Josh? 331 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: You want to talk about Richter scale yet or I 332 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: think that's the inevitable conclusion. So, Josh, the Richter scale 333 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: is uh, as most people know, records a magnitude of 334 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: the earthquake. Um. It's logarithmic, so that means that the 335 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 1: whole number jump means it increases tenfold. So a six 336 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: on the Richer scale is actually ten times as powerful 337 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: as the five, and the nine times as powerful as 338 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: the seven. How about that. Yeah, that's serious business. And 339 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: what the Richer scale does is it measures that that 340 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: wave amplitude of the seismic energy of a quake. And um, 341 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: so that's the one you always hear about, Like I 342 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: talked about that one in Pepua, New Guinea was a 343 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: six point seven, right, which is large. Anything below a 344 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: three generally doesn't get much attention. This is just a 345 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: little tremor my micro quake. It's kind of hard to say. 346 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: And that's the that's the vast majority of earthquakes or 347 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: three year less. Right. Yeah, you won't see anything below four. 348 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: You won't see a lot of damage going on. But 349 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: anything seven and above is a pretty serious business. And 350 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: then the record is a nine point five. I looked 351 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: this up nineteen sixty Chile. Right, you're ready for some 352 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 1: stats of my own? Look at you. I mean, imagine 353 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: at nine point five on the Richter's kill it's immense. Um, 354 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: there were sixteen hundred and sixty five people killed, three 355 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: thousand injured, in two hundred thousand homeless in Chile alone, um, 356 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: along with five hundred and fifty million dollars in damage 357 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: property damage nine sixty. So that's ninety that's the impression 358 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: I have you. Um, it created a tsunami that killed 359 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: sixty one people and caused seventy five million dollars with 360 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: the damage all the way in Hawaii, you're kidding, And 361 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: in Japan and there were a hundred and thirty eight 362 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: deaths and fifty million dollars worth of damage. Yeah, and 363 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: it just kind of goes on from there. You know, 364 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: what they said about that eighteen ten slash eleven earthquake 365 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: in Missouri was that they could the church bells in 366 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: Boston rang from the from the reverberation. I know that's nuts. Yeah, 367 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: I want to verify that. But big old earthquake right there. 368 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: So what you're talking about though, with the assessing the 369 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: damage that is actually the Mercali scale, the damage done 370 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: by the earthquake, which has figured out many days or 371 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: weeks later, not like the Richter scale. I call that 372 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: the y us God scale, right. Yeah, it's it's described 373 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: in Roman numerals up to twelve, which you can also 374 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: say is x I I and x i I is 375 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 1: where there um is evident structural damage. The ground is 376 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: opened up, sure like in the movies. Yeah. Um, and 377 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: there's been at least the tsunami or mudslide or some 378 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: other disaster. Yeah, my brother felt the earthquake when he 379 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: was in l A. Did he look handsome and much 380 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: more exciting things happen to him out there? His He 381 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: he said it felt like a buzzing, like a real 382 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: loud buzzing, and then he looked at his closet and 383 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: the clothes were shaking, and you know it's over then, 384 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, as soon as you realize what's going on, 385 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: it's over. Yeah. I read about the nineteen o six 386 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: San Francisco earthquake. They said that the sensible duration of 387 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: the earthquake it was a minute really, which I imagine 388 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: probably felt like an hour, killed three thousand people. Well, 389 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: that's that just goes to show you the kind of 390 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: devastation if it only takes sixty seconds to wreak, that 391 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: kind of havoc what's going on and fires that broke 392 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: out after buildings collapsing, very scary stuff. So, Chuck, Well, 393 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: we can't predict earthquakes. We do need to close with that. 394 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: I think. Okay, they've come a long way and determining 395 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: the the epicenter, and they can predict after shocks pretty 396 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: well now, and they can say, hey, do you to history, 397 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: you you're likely to have an earthquake because we think 398 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: things are moving in your area. The plates may be moving, 399 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: but they can't accurately say when it's gonna happen. Yeah. 400 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: I remember being a little kid, and I think some 401 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: scientists came out and said, there's going to be a 402 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 1: massive earthquake and you know San Francisco or California that's 403 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: going to basically cause the state to break off. That's 404 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: a pretty fun thing. But they couldn't They couldn't say 405 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: when it was gonna happen. They said within the next 406 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: X number of decades. Scare a student day at your school. Yeah, 407 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: so if you have any relatives in California, they will 408 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: likely die. And I do have relatives in California too, 409 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: you did at the time. I still do. Hey, Aunt Barbe, Okay, yeah, 410 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: Aunt Barbe, Aunt Barbe, cousin just me and cousin Wolf 411 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: along with cousin Peter, cousin John, and I think that's 412 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: it out there. Oh and uh aunt Donna. Wow, yeah, 413 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: well they live in California. Wolf he actually you want 414 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: to know a wolf he story. This may or may 415 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: not make it in the final version. But I'll tell you, Chuck, 416 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: um cousin. Wolfe was born Eric Wolf right his first 417 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: middle name. When he was like eleven or twelve, he 418 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: decided he preferred the name wolf more. So he got 419 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: his parents permission and went down to the Clerk of 420 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: Courts and changed his name to Wolf Eric and he's 421 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: been Wolfie ever since. That's pretty funny. What a guy. Uh. 422 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: And then, um, I guess we already kind of talked 423 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: about building construction. Is when the uniform building putt came about, 424 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,399 Speaker 1: and it's it's a set of standards basically two people 425 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: have to follow now, right, whether you're in fulsome prison 426 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: San Quentin, Japan, you gotta follow certain standards. Sure, oh yeah, 427 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: especially Chile. So that's earthquakes in a nutshell. And we're 428 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: not doing this one again unless they figure out that 429 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: the continental drift theory was complete rubbish, right yeah. Oh, 430 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,719 Speaker 1: and also we should probably tell people, Chuck, there's an 431 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: article on how to survive an earthquake at how stuff 432 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: works dot com. You can type of five earthquake in 433 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: the handy search parts, save yourself a few keystrokes and 434 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: that will bring that right up. Good idea. And also 435 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: you can just type in earthquakes and I will also 436 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: bring up the how earthquakes work article with all those 437 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: super cool pictures. Right, yeah too, listener mail buddy, Okay, Josh, 438 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call this sleep paralysis deluge. It was 439 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: a deluge, wasn't it. Yeah, last well, it will be 440 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: last week now, a couple of weeks ago, probably when 441 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: this is released. We had a listener bail from drowsy 442 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: Dug in Oregon who had the pick suit man. He 443 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: was awake but couldn't move and very frightened and apparently 444 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: everyone on the face of the earth, and this is 445 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: sleep paralysis. But us and I had heard of sleep paralysis, uh, 446 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: never done a whole lot of research on it, but 447 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: rest assured we will do an episode on this now. 448 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: So here's the delusion of paper cup chuck. Yeah. Well, 449 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: I also want to say I did not respond to 450 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: any of those emails, and I am very sorry, but 451 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,479 Speaker 1: we got literally over a hundred of them and I 452 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: just didn't have time. But it did read them, so 453 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: no offense people. And out of all the emails we 454 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: got about that one from medical and psychological professionals, I 455 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: went with Madeleine, our new thirteen year old fan because 456 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: hers was so good. Hey, guys that just listen to 457 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 1: your podcast with Drowsy Doug. It sounds like what happens 458 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: to me. I would be laying in bed and wake up. 459 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: Unfortunately I'm too lazy and tired to get up. But 460 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: then I would see things out of this world. Like 461 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: one time I woke up and I was too tired 462 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,679 Speaker 1: to get up, and I saw it seems to be 463 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: a common thing, And I saw in my huge half 464 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: a sofa sized mirror my sister. Half her body was 465 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 1: in the mirror, frozen while the rest of her was 466 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: bending and moving around on my dresser. Awesome. Another time 467 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: I saw army guys getting pulled onto my roof. Please 468 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: don't give me any cures for this, because I like 469 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: seeing Navy seal guys climbing to my roof. So that's 470 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: from Madeleine, and Madeleine sounds like you my have a 471 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: little case of sleep paralysis. But as long as there's 472 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: no pig suited people or don't worry faces, we'll follow 473 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,719 Speaker 1: up with the podcast on this and condition. And a 474 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: lot of people sounds like they have it. Actually a 475 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: lot of people that run in Yeah, they're right there 476 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 1: with Doug. Keep making these promises, don't you. Yeah, we'll 477 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: do it all right. 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