Nothing on the Venezuela earthquakes?

[putnam6]

Nothing on the Venezuela earthquakes?

Would really like to hear what the "experts" here think, its horrific


https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/20699...92236?s=20

[andy06shake]

Nothing on the Venezuela earthquakes?

Would really like to hear what the "experts" here think, its horrific


https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/20699...92236?s=20

The current picture would seem to be that Venezuela was hit by a rare double quake sequence.

With a "magnitude 7.2 quake followed about 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5 quake."

The hardest hit areas would seem to include Caracas and the coastal region.

I count myself lucky i hail from a nation with low seismic activity.

Horrific indeed.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Nothing on the Venezuela earthquakes?

Would really like to hear what the "experts" here think, its horrific


https://x.com/BackpirchCrew/status/20699...92236?s=20

The truth of my "expertise" is just being a geoscience major and a religious studies minor. 

And its not terribly in depth. Alot of mineral composition and chemistry, types of rock formations, morphology, layers, tectonics, and a horrible amount of math statistics as high as nonlinear equations. 

Most my in-depth knowledge comes from studies read after graduating and Wikipedia pages. 

Undergrad is undergrad. It qualifies you to look at mud cores for ExxonMobil in Nowhere, ND. A "mudlogger." Maybe analyzing data at a desk if you're lucky. Pay is meh.

As for Venezuela - I dont know offhand.  

Looking into it. It was a doublet with right lateral strike-slip motion at the boundary of the Caribbean and South American plate. 

This one is actually interesting, because its a really weird seismic zone. Instead of one dominant fault at the plate boundary its a fractured crust. A "diffuse boundary." Which means its a fragmented mess of interconnected fault zones and shifting blocks that transfer energy easily.

NOT AT ALL LIKE THE SAN ANDREAS. 

Doublets ARE THE NORM at diffuse boundaries, because the crust is almost shattered into relatively tiny blocks shifting around in a more chaotic interaction, unlike the along the San Andreas where its more uniform slipping..

The Area where this happened...



... make it extremely prone to EXACTLY this type of event.

[putnam6]

The truth of my "expertise" is just being a geoscience major and a religious studies minor. 

And its not terribly in depth. Alot of mineral composition and chemistry, types of rock formations, morphology, layers, tectonics, and a horrible amount of math statistics as high as nonlinear equations. 

Most my in-depth knowledge comes from studies read after graduating and Wikipedia pages. 

Undergrad is undergrad. It qualifies you to look at mud cores for ExxonMobil in Nowhere, ND. A "mudlogger." Maybe analyzing data at a desk if you're lucky. Pay is meh.

As for Venezuela - I dont know offhand.  

Looking into it. It was a doublet with right lateral strike-slip motion at the boundary of the Caribbean and South American plate. 

This one is actually interesting, because its a really weird seismic zone. Instead of one dominant fault at the plate boundary its a fractured crust. A "diffuse boundary." Which means its a fragmented mess of interconnected fault zones and shifting blocks that transfer energy easily.

NOT AT ALL LIKE THE SAN ANDREAS. 

Doublets ARE THE NORM at diffuse boundaries, because the crust is almost shattered into relatively tiny blocks shifting around in a more chaotic interaction, unlike the along the San Andreas where its more uniform slipping..

The Area where this happened...

[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...42ea6b.jpg]

... make it extremely prone to EXACTLY this type of event.

Thanks, thats what I was looking for... the whole subject intrigues me, go to Zaphod for aircraft and you are the earthquake whisperer.

Figured it was different than San Andreas, but not sure exactly how. reports of damaged buildings syill undergoing full collapse, and "the composition of the ground has changed" in some areas.

The airport was hard hit and completely inoperable

https://x.com/GenomicSETI/status/2070290...04190?s=20

Just saw a video of a man looking for his infant son in a collapsed building yelling through a window in a collapsed wall and they dragged the baby out covered in dust/debris but amazingly alive.

https://x.com/EmmanuelInvest/status/2070...35259?s=20

Quantum Physics
@QuantumSciencce
·
9m
Death toll from Venezuela earthquake rises to 164, more than 11,000 people reported missing

[worldstarcountry]

Well we may as well get some visuals of the devastation. Funny thing is IdeomotorPrisoner and I were having a discussion in the Cajon Pass Hell Gate and I requested op's knowledge regarding the quake we had felt in Florida the prior week.

Guess where my curiosity took me to asking about after?

 IS there any way whatever happened down here could in any way be a clue to the impending disaster you are referring to in the OP? Or if not by itself, what about as part of a wider pattern occurring in other locations

I was not exactly on point with my line of questioning, but clearly the fabric of my question was answered the next day.


 
 


I wonder if the collapsed structures were simply much older not up to standard structures, because most  of  the buildings around what actually collapsed were fairly stable and undamaged. I guess Venezuela stays up to date with Earthquake resistant construction standards.

[worldstarcountry]

Don't forget there was also a 6.9 outside in Japan the same  day.

[putnam6]

Well we may as well get some visuals of the devastation. Funny thing is IdeomotorPrisoner and I were having a discussion in the Cajon Pass Hell Gate and I requested op's knowledge regarding the quake we had felt in Florida the prior week.

Guess where my curiosity took me to asking about after?
I was not exactly on point with my line of questioning, but clearly the fabric of my question was answered the next day.

[Video: https://youtu.be/407aXqFFyDE] [Video: https://youtu.be/O9ZHze4Qqao] [Video: https://youtu.be/k6RdjfowWrY]

I wonder if the collapsed structures were simply much older not up to standard structures, because most  of  the buildings around what actually collapsed were fairly stable and undamaged. I guess Venezuela stays up to date with Earthquake resistant construction standards.

Some of the buildings may be up to code, but not nearly enough.

[putnam6]

Don't forget there was also a 6.9 outside in Japan the same day.
[Video: https://youtu.be/rnk7LcGZDxE]

Thats supposedly a once-every-1000-year event....

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Thanks, thats what I was looking for... the whole subject intrigues me, go to Zaphod for aircraft and you are the earthquake whisperer.

Figured it was different than San Andreas, but not sure exactly how. reports of damaged buildings syill undergoing full collapse, and "the composition of the ground has changed" in some areas.

The airport was hard hit and completely inoperable

https://x.com/GenomicSETI/status/2070290...04190?s=20

Just saw a video of a man looking for his infant son in a collapsed building yelling through a window in a collapsed wall and they dragged the baby out covered in dust/debris but amazingly alive.

https://x.com/EmmanuelInvest/status/2070...35259?s=20


[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...d765d.jpeg]

This is earthquake is also related to why they have so much damn oil. Well, the ground deformation anyway.

So here's the America's angle, and the career I turned down.

How Venezuela got its absurd amounts of shallow low quality crude oil is pretty cool. 

During the cretacious Venezuela was a passive continental margin (like The Atlantic Coast) and the oceans were almost anoxic. Algea and plankton still thrive in shallow margin waters in low oxygen because the anoxic oceans dont vertically mix layers, leaving a nutrient rich layer fed by continental outflow. 

But when organic material dies it clumps together and sinks through the unmixed water column. This get buried over time.

in Venezuela it was buried by the plate driven rise of the Andres (Cordillera). As the continent was forced upwards the shallow sea subsided, and kept subsiding and getting covered by sediment until it was deep enough to be heated back to the surface. It was basically squeezed out of hotter deeper layers into cooler more porous rock like sandstone above.  Then it gets trapped by mudstone or shale and collects in shallow reservoirs.*

* which is a misnomer. Please dont make me explain how liquids can exist inside rock again like with the biblical flood mantle water thread, as that was painful.

But because these traps exist in very temperate areas interaction with water and microbes degrade the crude into highly viscous barely valuable shit.

But its easy to get to and there is a lot of it.

[fwki]

Thank goodness the oil industry escaped major damage...
Damage from quakes limited at Venezuela's oil infrastructure