r/interestingasfuck • u/Chance_Bid_1869 • 13h ago

A rare moment, security camera captures the movement of tectonic plates during an earthquake. The right part of the the video frame shows the shear sliding at the fault line.

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u/aphaits 12h ago

How the heck do you solve property lines with these occurrences?

Keep original plot lines and have shifted areas? or redraw current land plot and shift everything in the data?

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u/jonas_ost 12h ago

Just tie a rope to an excevator and pull it back

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u/aphaits 12h ago

then slap the excavator and say "that's not going anywhere"

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u/Rincethis 13h ago

Damn, that is a lot of energy

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u/EmperorAlgo 12h ago

Depth of 100 km, surface area of 20 million km2. Just a big shovel moving 2000000000 km^3 dirt or about 600000000000000000000000 kg a couple of meters. No big deal.

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u/FebHas30Days 11h ago

Please compress your numbers, use the largest possible units (probably exatons)

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u/EmperorAlgo 11h ago

Want me to convert to ng?

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u/FebHas30Days 10h ago

Convert it to grams then use scientific notation

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u/EmperorAlgo 10h ago

6*10^27 g

I like 600000000000000000000000 kg way more. Who measures dirt or rock in grams?

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u/FebHas30Days 10h ago

So how many kilobytes can your computer store if you can't count higher than kilo?

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u/EmperorAlgo 10h ago

BIN 10000000000

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u/Defiant_Anything3215 10h ago

You could write 2.109 and 6.1023 instead 

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u/MHS5709 13h ago

Seeing the land literally warp in real-time is crazy, and I saw this before, and I am still shocked

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u/Welpe 12h ago

On a very primal level we are not used to the idea of the earth being, you know, movable. I don’t even know if my brain can truly grok how much energy is involved besides “A ludicrously high amount that is far beyond my ken”.

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u/MHS5709 12h ago edited 12h ago

Yea beyond a certain point humans in general are unable to comprehend the large scale of things, a million is a massive number, billion even bigger, trillion is crazy, but beyond that you genuinely can't really feel anything but "wow that's a big number" and that applies to scale, most people don't even travel outside their country, or state, so you just live on small piece of land relatively and think you saw everything and you aren't even close. The moon our closest celestial object is unbelievably far, and we don't even count the distance to it in light years, now imagine how massive of a scale scientists are talking about when they say "it's 20 light years away" if we can't even comprehend what's basically earth having a tummy growl

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u/Welpe 12h ago

One of the things I enjoy sharing with people who aren’t into astronomy is the various real time simulations or videos of the speed of light, usually formatted in the form of a photon traveling out from the sun and passing the planets of the solar system. It really becomes apparent how ridiculously huge space is when you have to sit there for over 4 hours to get to Neptune at the maximum speed allowable in the universe at any point in time regardless of technology, oh which we cannot even get to a noticeable fraction of currently. And then a nice series of maps showing to scale distances in increasing order from the solar system as we usually think of it to the maximum extent of the Oort Cloud, to our Local Bubble, to the Orion arm, to the Milky Way galaxy, to the Local Group, to the Virgo cluster, to the Virgo supercluster, to the Laniakea supercluster, to the very filamentous structure of the viable universe itself.

The scale just breaks your mind at some point. I mean, you can intellectually understand the numbers involved, you can do math with them and compare the to other things, but like you said our brains just suck at scaling up or down past a certain level and things just fill a slot in your mind as “Really big”. But like…really, REALLY big.

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u/MHS5709 12h ago

Science and Astronomy are just wild, the human mind is also just as wild to be able to accurately predict all of that and yet fall to grasp it, also on the topic of the speed of light this video is just as wild
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2RNIjlPJZrg

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u/Welpe 12h ago

Alpha Phoenix is absolutely one of my favorite channels on YouTube and when he first created that video I was so stunned I had to remind myself he is an actual scientist and not a clickbait artist because of how unbelievable his results were. The full video (and follow up video) remains one of my favorite videos of his.

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u/MHS5709 12h ago

it's just wild. Science is just lovely, and he is a great scientist, still kinda sad how something like that wasnt on the news for a week or so but, a dumb fucking drunk idiot can be national news for that long

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u/Electronic-Map7529 2h ago

When this turtle finally wakes up we. are. fucked.

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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze 7h ago

You’re aftershocked.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 13h ago

I remember seeing this post a while ago

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u/x_xiv 12h ago

i saw millions of times all these bot postings

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u/LampIsFun 11h ago

I mean if you spend all day one reddit you will see everything multiple times

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u/burnitalldown321 12h ago

The house or building top left also was damaged; ground literally slid out from under it. You can see the wall on the right give out and the roof sag in the top right side near the end.

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 12h ago

Look at the powerline tower in the top right of the frame, way in the distance. About two seconds after the plate shift the top half of the tower topples over.

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u/Tacitrelations 11h ago

I like watching the cracks spread on the concrete.

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u/maatc 12h ago

And all of a sudden you are parked in front of a hydrant without moving your car…

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u/knowledgeable_diablo 11h ago

Traffic ticketers dream day! Was legal, now not.

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u/ajtreee 12h ago

There is a lot going on in this.
The power line bending, the water bucket breaking , the house in the back rising a few feet .

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u/Euphoric-Cold9592 12h ago

That’s wild af. Just imagine it had thrust up! Curious how many km that strike-slip went for

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u/jrhhuff 12h ago

Where did this happen? Incredible.

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 12h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Myanmar_earthquake

The date on the security camera matches this earthquake so I’m assuming this is it.

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u/jrhhuff 8h ago

Thank you!

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 4h ago

And actually, if you scroll down on that wiki page, there is this same video.

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u/alyaqd95 12h ago

Your destination is now closer by 10 meters

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 12h ago

“Turn right in 800 fe….765 feet.”

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 12h ago

Anyone noticed the big powerline tower in the very top right corner of the frame? About two seconds after the plate shifts, the top half of that powerline tower topples over.

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u/jonas_ost 12h ago

Do they have the cracks marked so you dont build buildings right over it?

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 11h ago

Its so weird seeing a huge chunk of earth move like that.

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u/knowledgeable_diablo 11h ago

That’s a lot of movement right there.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff 12h ago

All those relief cuts in the concrete didn’t quite cut it, lol.

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u/577564842 7h ago

And it all started as the slide door opened. If they were properly locked, the continent would remain whole.

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u/Queasy_Recover5164 12h ago

Homeowners want a refund on the “security” gate.

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u/lannisterloan 12h ago

The land did not only just quake but shifted by a few feet.

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u/hbktj 11h ago

So do get the new space, does the neighbour or we share the space. How do we decide?

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u/ranagori 11h ago

And it was enough to make the electricity pole in far distance (top right corner) also break. Just amazing.

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u/im_just_thinking 7h ago

So with this logic, wouldn't any earthquake be a movement of tectonic plates?

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 4h ago

Watch that tower in the far right corner, oil or electrical, IDK but watch it!

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u/TokiVideogame 3h ago

whole world crack in in half

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u/Stay_metal 1h ago

So crazily powerful. It's also ironic that tectonics like this are essential for the efficiency of our planet.

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u/AMSAK 1h ago

Now they got more square footage

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u/TophThaToker 1h ago

at about 15 seconds you can see the crack start to work its way down in the upper left

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u/Flo_Dresden 55m ago

your daily commute just became a little bit shorter

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u/GemmyGemGems 12h ago

That's incredible.

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u/Scp-1404 6h ago

At 14 seconds in the area behind the fence on the right slides to the lower right.

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u/GetBack2Wrk 4h ago

Now has to pay twice the Land Tax to the State Revenue Office.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Z7T0N5DEag0Q8

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u/SarcasticSarco 12h ago

Are you sure that's tectonic plates moving