Are We Overdue for a Megaquake?

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If you live in the U.S. you may have heard that the Pacific Northwest is supposedly overdue for an earthquake of colossal, devastating proportions. If that’s true, how can we better understand the threat and be prepared for the day it comes? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- REFERENCES: https://www.seattle.gov/emergency-management/hazards/earthquake https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/mag-intensity/ https://pnsn.org/outreach/about-earthquakes/magnitude-intensity https://crew.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/crew-shallow-final-2009.pdf https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/14/4/1468/541663/subduction-zone-megathrust-earthquakes https://www.usgs.gov/news/earthword-subduc

Published 2019-12-12 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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