Aftermath of the 2024 Noto Japan Earthquake (And Why It Took Scientists Completely By Surprise)

Our Patreon community is growing and we couldn't be more excited! As we grow, we're planning to expand into more content with Astrum Answers, stay tuned and don't forget to sign up to be part of these changes! (Patreon - bit.ly/4anEb5u)

As a structural engineer, I'm saddened to see the incredible design and ingenuity that goes into seismic design of structures be misattributed to architects 😢

This is obviously the effects of Godzilla rising from his slumber.

I've never forgotten that poor man trying to find his three cats he said saved his life from depression. I don't know if he ever did and it bothers me!

i was actually listening to a japanese live stream when it happened and i remember feeling so strange to be aware of an earthquake happening in real time on the other side of the planet. not from news after the fact or from data but from a normal person who was just chilling out having a conversation with the viewers. it really made me appreciate the internet, for all its faults we truly are more connected than ever

I was in Tokyo during that earthquake. We felt it even here. It was small but the longest one I've felt! Then we also felt the big aftershocks all day. Many people went to the shrines to pray for those on the peninsula. It was a haunting yet beautiful day. Seeing everyone distraught yet immediately jumping to help in whatever way they could.

I experienced the 8.9 earthquake at Chile 27th of February of 2010. A little over 3 minutes of crazy chaos. There is no way to explain what is like to experience a high power earthquake, nature quickly humbles you…

Worst thing to me was that the next day in Haneda airport, Tokyo, a JSDF plane with relief aid for those affected was about to take off and was hit by a landing passenger plane. The passengers were alright but 5 people in the hit plane died because of it, as indirect casualties.

I have been living in Japan since 2006 and living on 能登半島 (Noto Pennsula) in 能登町(Noto villdge)since 2017. I chose this area for its natural beauty and it truly is one of the most amazingly beautiful places in Japan and great for me and my wife who is Japanese and our spiritual practice. We have been experiencing earthquakes here since 2019 when the first one of the cluster hit. The earth quakes situated around Suzu and route 249 between Wajima, Sosogi Kaigan and Noroshi the tip of Noto pennsula. There were two big Earthquakes in 2023 in May. On January 1st 2024 the first one hit at 4:05 pm. It was about an magnitude 5. I live about 19 kilometers from the epacenter. The 7.5 happened exactly at 16:10 . Our area and from the start of it, I knew it was different and I told to run in leave the house so we immeaditely left as carrying our daughter as fast as we could out of our home but it was so to walk in that shaking. When you were out side everything around you is shaking and you don't know how long it lasted or when its going to stop. But when it calmed down it ended with most strangest sensation I have ever felt the the ground stopped shaking but there was a feeling where you were standing that something absolutely huge had fallen that far below the surface something was still shaking of falling down. That was a really weird part of actually experiencing the Noto earthquake. My family home was somewhat damaged and we were lucky to be safe and alive. Though our bathroom was destroyed and so were the pipes in our home and we still don't have water in our house. My wife and I still love living in Noto and will rebuild and continue to raise our famliy here. Any one who wants to live in Japan no mater where you live here there is a very good chance you will go through an earthquake.

I was on tour in that region just six weeks prior to that earthquake. You did a great job accumulating so much footage of the quake. There's a youtuber from that area that features a Shiba Inu they own. They were filming them walking him when the earthquake hit. The poor dog couldn't even stay standing, and you can see seams in the ground nearby opening and closing as the ground shook.

I was in Tokyo back in February this year for a few weeks and while in an office building I noticed the lamps begin to sway. I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, so small quakes are somewhat normal here and there. One coworker from Oregon just shrugged and kept working. My coworker that lives in DC had eyes as big as saucers. Incidentally, every desk in the office had a folding hard hat and a first aid kit under it, and closets full of emergency supplies in every area. One of the industrial buildings I visited sat on bearings and had signs outside advising not to stand within 50cm of the building since the Earth may move but the building won't. The gutter downspouts had rubber hoses to connect them to the drains for the same reason. I asked if I could go into the bearing area to see them and was politely told no.

In 1931 the same thing happened to Napier, New Zealand, where the earth lifted upward revealing land from under the sea, which is still used for productive means to this day

The April 5th 2024 - 4.8 - Earthquake in White House Station New Jersey took the USGS by surprise as well. We're having multiple every day since then, at least 135 earthquakes so far as of May 1st, 2024. This all coming from an unknown fissure adjacent to the Ramapo fault. Just felt a 2.9 this morning when I was sleeping. We've had a few aftershocks nearing 4. Only saving grace is it's severity is relatively lower compared to the active quakes in Japan. A lot of this video reminds me of the similar questions being asked about our local geological event.

Kind of a different approach for you and your team. I like it. Trust your information. Love the way you put the program together

There is an amazing video around, showing the dampener shpere on top of the Taipei 101 in action during the recent Taiwan earthquake.

I've always wanted to experience the amazing power of an earthquake , but maybe I should just be grateful to live in a tectonically inactive area 😮

This has really been a crazy year for geological events. I was watching videos covering the Taiwan earthquake and aftermath one night, only to experience one in my own house for the first time the next day

It's O-kh-otsk, kh is the same sound as ch in Scottish "Loch" or the Greek letter Chi (x), so it's pronounced Ochotsk / Oxotsk. Doesn't really matter but since you said Ok-hot-osk like 5 times I figured it's worth to point it out.

Unusual topic for this channel, but I'm here for it. If this is a sign of content to come, count me in :-)

The ONLY experience I had with an Earthquake, it was about 2008 in Grimsby (UK), I was working as a Bouncer at a club, it was about midnight, and suddenly ALL of the glass front vibrated like a kind of "b-b-B-B-BANG-B-B-b-b", it scared the hell out of everyone inside (especially me and my fellow door man on the door itself!). Turns out it was something like a 5.2 located around the Market Rasen area (about 16 Miles away). So, I can only imagine what 7s, 8s and even bloody terrifying 9s are like! 😕 😎🇬🇧