@markwyner even with this explanation, I kept thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me

@markwyner That's cool as shit! We always think of the ground as so stable, but...

@markwyner 😳

@markwyner If you look at the buildings to the LEFT, you can see what looks like a rain barrel on the roof fall to the ground and splash water everywhere, as well as the small blue shack get twisted and collapse

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WOW! it's almost too weird to believe, but there it is...

@markwyner if you saw that in a movie you'd be like 'no room in budget to speak to an actual geologist, huh?'

@markwyner wow..

@markwyner, what tower? I see only a pylon (and a utility pole) over there.

@markwyner Huh. I thought I was well over the Christchurch earthquakes, but watching that it turns out I was wrong.

@markwyner wild that the land decides "na I'm over here now" crazy clip that

@markwyner WOW

@markwyner cool and terrifying.

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Pretty cool.

And what a rapid slip—no wonder things shake like they do.

Never had the experience myself though.

Closest I've come is a few days in Denpasar before a rumble there a week or so after departure.

@markwyner holy shit thats a lot of movement

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On one hand, cool!

On the other hand, omg, I don't want to be anywhere near there

@markwyner That's what I think my Geology teacher would call a strike-slip fault. Probably a lousy place to build further buildings, may wanna leave that spot as open wilderness.

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San Franciscan here. I was here for the Loma Prieta quake in 1989.

These days I'm an obsessive, compulsive doom scroller, but I can't get past this vid. I keep watching it over and over and over. Every time I notice something new. My current fave is the rip that opens in the road as it passes the doomed little shed. The cracks in the pavement opening and closing is pretty fascinating, too. I've seen the aftermath. There was torn up pavement all over town. But this is the first time I saw it happening. Actually, I missed most of the Loma Prieta action. I was indoors in North Beach, in bed, screwing. And yeah, I know it's a cliché, but we really did feel the earth move.

@markwyner wow! That's wild!

@markwyner it's like a planetary scale rubix sphere!

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Driveway will need some sealing.

@markwyner holy mother of god 😳

@markwyner Whoa. That was something.

@markwyner That's amazing. To actually see across the fault and see the other side moving. I'm impressed at how gracefully the power line tower collapsed, I suppose the lines kept it from toppling.

@markwyner
Oh wow, that was both cool and terrifying!

@markwyner does the hardware store sell a "1/8th" house number so they can update their address?

@markwyner If you look close through the gate, you can see the sidewalk do a perfect split

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It's like half the landscape is just leaving the train station...

@markwyner Wow! Just incredible.

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The ground should not move.
The ground should not move!
The ground should not move?
The ground, please don't move.

@markwyner

🤯🤯🤯🤯

@markwyner the crust is 10s of miles DEEP and the plates are 1000s of miles wide. the surface of the earth is mere tissue paper compared to the forces and movements involved!

@markwyner that's so fucked i don't like the ground moving like that no siree

@markwyner that is quite a large shift!!!

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We are utterly dwarfed by the forces in this universe.

@markwyner Terrifyingly awesome! 😬

@markwyner “Secondary prefabricated cabin 2”. Sturdy cabin, given how stable these recordings are!

@markwyner

This would make land surveys and property lines interesting. A house that now on the wrong property...

@markwyner I've watched this several times. Resolution is terrible, and the amount of things that are going on ... impressive.

@markwyner @dusk this is super cool! Woooo

@markwyner That pylon was not prepared at all.

@markwyner @ai6yr in case you hadn't already seen this

@markwyner it looks like the left side with our camera is lifted above the right side of the rapture during the slide. That's really interesting!

@markwyner Yoinks. Time to update the property register. That map is no longer correct 😬

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the incredible amount of FORCE need for that. bonkers.

@markwyner Wow!!!