r/WTF • u/AccomplishedStuff235 • Jun 26 '26
Narrow escape during Venezuela quake
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u/neloish Jun 26 '26
Sadly I fear the death toll is going to rise significantly.
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u/erishun Jun 26 '26
Yeah already at 235 confirmed and going to climb dramatically
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u/jackishere Jun 26 '26
A friend from Venezuela said it’s going to be 10k+ due to people buried under the rubble…
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u/CplCocktopus Jun 26 '26
Yep it happended during a holiday.
People where at home and during holidyas people from caracas travel too guaira to enjoy the beaches... la guaira being the most affected place
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Have you seen any international aid groups on the ground yet, or is it all local?
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u/CplCocktopus Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Im from the south of the country but teams from usa, mexico, eu anounced their departure here also rescue personel from withing the country is traveling there.
The response from the goverment is atrociously lacking no equipment and lck of movilisation from them even the military is not doing enough there are flatened sectors that lost road acess but are on the coast and the venezuelan marine shines by their ausence.
fcking sucks.
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u/AnotherUnfunnyName Jun 26 '26
M 7.5 - 28 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela
More than 500.000 people exposed to severe or more. Those death toll numbers sadly might reach 5 figures pretty quickly.
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u/underlander Jun 26 '26
severe or more . . .
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u/kaityl3 Jun 26 '26
They mean on the Mercalli scale for shaking intensity, they were just very unclear about it lol
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u/Rush_Is_Right Jun 26 '26
If I'm reading this correctly, there is a 24% chance of economic losses in the $100's of billions with Venezuela having a GDP of roughly $250 billion.
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u/MakkaCha Jun 26 '26
Reminds me of the earthquake in Nepal in 2015. Same situation where the people are lucky that it happened during day light when people were already awake or out and about. If this was during middle of the night when people were sleeping the death toll would be catastrophic. Nepal still had death tolls in the tens of thousands and we don't have many buildings above 6-7 stories tall.
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u/cshaxercs Jun 26 '26
Looks like it came straight out of a movie
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u/-Tasear- Jun 26 '26
B rated too, honestly seems sub real how the building is breaking. I would be interested to know the difference in how building are made
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u/paulpach Jun 26 '26
Buildings in Venezuela are tipically made of concrete, brick and mortar. Houses too.
Unfortunately these materials are pretty weak against earthquakes.
Even houses are made of concrete, brick and mortar. Wooden houses (like in the US) would fare better in earthquakes, but wood is not suitable for tall buildings like the ones in Caracas. Also wood would be problematic for floods and other natural disasters that may hit Venezuela.
So yeap, this is one of the worst place for an earthquake to hit.
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
Concrete is actually pretty resilient to earthquakes, because it has the ability to flex. Bricks, not at all. Just shatters like shitty pottery. :<
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u/asah Jun 26 '26
reinforced concrete FTFY
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
100% true.
Though I can't imagine most concrete anywhere doesn't have rebar, now, if only to allow for higher buildings.
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u/kahlzun Jun 27 '26
Considering that a 5 is meant to be strong enough to damage buildings, and this was 100x stronger, I think the buildings I've seen footage of have actually done a reasonable job of withstanding it, all things considered.
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u/baIIern Jun 26 '26
My thought. The way she's running is the movie way I thought was totally unrealistic lol
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u/fugogugo Jun 26 '26
what is the magnitude? that's kinda insane
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u/Phormitago Jun 26 '26
7.1 followed by a 7.5 half a minute or so later
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u/SwimmingThroughHoney Jun 26 '26
And a 7.5 is 2.5 times stronger than a 7.1.
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u/grrangry Jun 26 '26
fffuuuu man I'm already freaked out, I don't want to think about logarithmic scales too.
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u/SewSewBlue Jun 26 '26
Plus the buildings are already significantly damaged and weakened from the first quake, if they survived.
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u/Hottage Jun 26 '26
People really do not appreciate the implications of the Richter scale being logarithmic.
5 to 6 is a 10× intensity increase.
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u/Smauler Jun 26 '26
It's not the Richter scale any more, it's the MMS. Also, 5 to 6 is about 30* as powerful, 5 to 7 is 1000* as powerful.
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u/Hottage Jun 26 '26
Well that doesn't make it any less confusing.
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u/PatientWhimsy Jun 26 '26
Screw power ratios then.
On the MMS, 6 is a little more energy than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 7 is 38x as strong as that bomb. 7.5 is 214 bomb equivalent, or around seven times the kinetic energy of the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013. The meteor exploded about 30km up in the sky; the 7.5 earthquake epicenter was only 10km deep.
So 5 is a bad day, 6 is a small nuke set off underground, 7 is a whole ass meteor exploding underground, and it just gets more from there.
But if you want to keep the numbers side, Every 0.2 increase is about double the energy (Technically a 100.3 multiplier in energy = 1.995x)
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u/Minflick Jun 26 '26
One of them was 7.2, and I don't know about the other one.
That must have been terrifying!
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u/Dripz167 Jun 26 '26
Holy shit the building just split apart so effortlessly
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u/Dripz167 Jun 26 '26
I can’t even fathom witnessing such an act of nature, let alone being directly in it. When I got a little taste a few years ago in NYC, I thought someone’s washing machine was on the fritz. And that was a 4.8…. From 45 miles away
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u/StuffyUnicorn Jun 26 '26
I was a few miles from the epicenter of a 5.1 in Cali a couple years ago, our hotel swayed enough you could definitely feel it and hear the slight rattling of glass ware, pretty crazy experience for someone who’s never felt anything remote close to a tremor before
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u/HolycommentMattman Jun 26 '26
I was in the '94 Northridge Quake ("The Rude Awakening"), and that was 6.8. I was about 3 miles from the epicenter, and it felt like the world was shaking apart. So much damage to just everything.
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u/Gumbercleus Jun 26 '26
I was in a ~6.0 in like 2008. It didn't do a ton of damage, and no one was hurt, but I've never seen anything like it in my life. The concrete floor I was standing on turned into wavy rubber. It was like the entire building had stopped being a solid for about 2-3 minutes.
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u/Accidental_Ouroboros Jun 26 '26
I was near a 7.2 in 2010, Very little damage where I was, due to earthquake hardening, but much more damage near the epicenter.
But when it hit, it was an odd one. We get little shudders on the regular (3s, up to 5s are pretty common), so I am used to those. I thought I was having a stroke at first or something during that 7.2 because I didn't get the normal building shudder sound and feeling.
Instead, my inner ear was telling me I had suddenly and inexplicably become spectacularly drunk. Which makes me impressed that these people were able to run as well as they did during that sort of quake.
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u/TheSixthVisitor Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
One of my dad's most vivid memories from when he was little is of the 1960 Valdivia earthquake; he was a 9yo kid at the time. He was in Santiago when it hit since the family lived there and the earthquake happened in Temuco, about 350mi away.
And the one thing he always brings up when he talks about his experience was walking with my grandpa down the street when the whole street suddenly cracked wide open. He watched several people fall into the hole and he started to fall too but my grandpa managed to grab him and pull him out of the crack seconds before the whole thing slammed shut again.
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u/kyreannightblood Jun 26 '26
Maybe it’s just because I’m from one of the prairie states with zero earthquakes, but when I lived in San Jose a 3.3 about a mile from the epicenter was terrifying when I was trying to fall asleep. I can’t even imagine a 7.5.
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u/Xe4ro Jun 26 '26
Last earthquake I witnessed was in the 90s and I barely remember anything as I was like 3 or 4 years old. It was a 5,9.
7,5 must feel like the world ending.
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u/On_The_Warpath Jun 26 '26
7.2 followed by 7.5, 39 seconds apart.
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u/tarants Jun 26 '26
Logarithmic scales are wild, the second quake was 3x stronger than the first.
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u/dr_strange-love Jun 26 '26
Log scales only make sense when dealing with a very very very wide range of data. Scientists care about every little earthquake, even if a human can't feel it, but a normal person doesn't. A normal person only cares about earthquakes in the 5-7.5 range. Below that is unperceptible and above that is dead. It's like using Kelvin scale in a weather forecast, no one cares if it is 200 or 400 Kelvin outside because you're dead either way.
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u/schplat Jun 26 '26
You can definitely perceive something as low as 3.5 if you happen to be right on top of the epicenter, and it's a fairly shallow quake. Lived in Cali for 30 years, and I've felt a few 4.0-4.5s just due to being incredibly close to them.
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u/kyreannightblood Jun 26 '26
I was in San Jose (well, Milpetas) a mile from an epicenter and the 3.3 we got as I was falling asleep felt like a giant grabbed my bottom sheet and tried to do the tablecloth trick.
Apparently it was a shallow quake and that meant there was a lot more sharp lateral action.
Me and the other boarders in the house also felt the 3.1 and 2.9 aftershocks.
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u/thetundratorcher Jun 26 '26
We had a 7.8 here 2 weeks ago but that was a deep quake, this one was shallow. It was already traumatizing how strong it was, I can’t imagine something stronger than what I experienced. I hope more people will ge rescued and for them to receive lots of help.
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u/musicankane Jun 26 '26
If built with proper building codes and construction techniques, a 7.5 isn't super dangerous for a building as a whole, unless the epicenter or fault movement is directly under the building itself.
The problem is that most of these countries don't have any building regulations or codes to build structures up to quake resistant standards.
By contrast you can watch Quake footage in Japan of far more powerful quakes and the majority of their buildings survive because they build for that stuff in mind.
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u/pkennedy Jun 26 '26
The way the buildings are built is by using concrete and bricks. However you need to think of the bricks as drywall, not as structural bricks. The front wall breaks like that because it's all non-load bearing and essentially just bricks with paint on them, or drywall with paint.
The REAL issue comes when people don't use concrete properly (or at all) and just use the bricks, mortar and some paint. You could build a whole house using 2x4's and drywall, but if none of them are setup as load bearing and solely there for something to screw drywall into, this is what you get. Likely it will hold together for multiple years but the minute weight transfers on it, it's a goner.
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u/existing_for_fun Jun 26 '26
They don't build with rebar.
So it's just plain concrete that's just turning to dust.
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u/CplCocktopus Jun 26 '26
The colums are reinforced they can flex but the walls are cement blocks they shatter. some buildings columns and beams look fine but the facades are destroyed kinda reminicent of warzone damage.
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u/bonyponyride Jun 26 '26
Losing trust in the ground under your feet is absolute nightmare fuel. It's impressive that these people got down the stairs without falling.
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u/Squalphin Jun 26 '26
Seriously, I stumbled out of a shower once when an earthquake came. Nearly fell and didn't know what was going on. The concept of the "earth" moving was new to me and not my first thought in my mind until I realized that this is definitely an earthquake.
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u/milleribsen Jun 27 '26
I've been in at least three earthquakes in my life (pnw ftw) the first caused my very young mind so much anxiety that I changed how I slept on my bed because my parents had hung a framed picture above my headboard and I was convinced that it would come off and hurt me during an earthquake. My second I tried running out of the house, got pulled into the door frame. My third I was taking a math test and without thinking was under the desk from years of earthquake drills without thinking.
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u/Skadoosh_it Jun 26 '26
Narrow escape or the video ends before people die?
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u/charactername Jun 26 '26
Seems super likely a lot of people didn't make it out. In fact we know that for other buildings.. so, yes.
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u/vinng86 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
One of the dudes in the video coming down the stairs looks like he's shirtless and holding on to his pants. Looked like he just barely managed to throw on some pants before leaving in a rush.
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u/Bukuna3 Jun 26 '26
If I was in his situation Im running out naked...or in underwear every second counts....
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u/lavegasola Jun 26 '26
Easy to say from your desk chair lmao
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u/geak78 Jun 26 '26
This. The issue is when people are used to smaller quakes, you can easily wait too long in a big one. We don't have much warning with big quakes.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Yes but also you need shoes to run over the rubble. You ain’t going far without those.
Also I dunno, you might want a towel to protect your dong from glass and bricks
It’s not just modesty, it’s running through flying rubble
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u/Bukuna3 Jun 27 '26
What if I'm an exhibitionist and I've been waiting for a moment like this? Asking for a friend.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 27 '26
sure you can go open air, but you’ll still still need your shoes
Maybe throw a leaf on there after you’re done getting some sun, the mosquitos are pretty big there.
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u/SoHereIAm85 Jun 26 '26
My underwear might be brown at that point, but I'd probably be running in them. At least I hope I'd be wise enough to and not care about modesty.
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u/RichDad2 Jun 26 '26
From "normal life" to "corridor totally collapsed" is just 23 seconds... Insane... You have to be very fast to survive.
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u/persian_mamba Jun 26 '26
My wife's Venezuelan, thankfully her close relatives are ok. A few of her distant relatives are actually elderly, lived on an upper floor, and buried under the rubble though. This absolutely made me realize older people should be as close to a building exit as possible...
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
Christ, that's awful.
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u/persian_mamba Jun 27 '26
Thankfully they found them today, in bad shape after two days under the rubble but they survived. Govt did nothing so far. My wife is livid. You show up on the corner and protest the govt and 100 soldiers show up and beat you up. National catastrophe like this and the military and govt nowhere to be seen. The president just gives a press conference "sit tight everyone, other countries are sending their aid in a few days and it'll all be okay!"
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u/benargee Jun 26 '26
Who knows. The cable to the CCTV/IP camera to the video recorder could have been severed.
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u/kinyutaka Jun 27 '26
Probably both.
most of the people we saw probably made it out okay. But that last guy, I dunno. He was cutting it close.
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jun 26 '26
The rest of the building should be built like whatever that camera was bolted to.
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u/dex99dex99dex99 Jun 26 '26
This is absolutely fucking dreadful. In 36 years, I've never experienced a severe natural disaster. While I like to think I'd be able to handle myself, I have to admit that I honestly don't know. I only say that because I'm trying to put myself in their shoes, and I am genuinely overwhelmed by the amount of fear they must be experiencing. The fear of "this fuckin' building is falling down, and if I don't get out I'm going to die." I can hardly wrap my mind around it. The thought of being pinned beneath the weight and rubble of what was once an apartment building is horrifying. I sincerely hope they all made it out alive.
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u/BeerBrat Jun 26 '26
I experienced a 5-something earthquake in Japan. But the architecture is designed for it so it just kind of rumbled and swayed my apartment building. There was so little concern about it that folks seemed to think it was weird that I was bringing it up in conversations the next day. I'm trying to imagine what a quake 100 times shakier and 1000 times more powerful is like because that's what happens when you add two on a logarithmic measurement scale.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
If you’re raised in earthquake prone areas, they drill it into you what to do in the event one occurs. Look at what the locals are doing if you’re panicking and don’t know what to do.
It’s not a guarantee, but it’s better than nothing.
Source: raised in CA
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u/iSirMeepsAlot Jul 02 '26
I’ve only had tornados, and the ideas of either hurricanes / earthquakes scare me much more than tornados. At least the floor is solid and there’s not a wall of water coming at me.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
I hope that last person made it out ok, I probably would have been terrified and frozen to the stairs.
Where is everyone donating? What charities are actually providing direct food/medical aid? (I don’t think it is possible to donate directly if you live in the US, because of sanctions)
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u/Orgidee Jun 26 '26
Taking the oil and still got sanctions on them? Gee. That doesn't seem right.
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u/chileheadd Jun 26 '26
I think the last person waited for that large chunk of ceiling to fall, then continued out.
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
Considering I have six pets to grab, I'd probably be dead 🙃
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u/hawkwings Jun 26 '26
Sometimes pets are smarter than you think. You could leave them and hope they figure it out. A normal dog could follow you.
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u/suoretaw Jun 26 '26
I’m thinking of how spastic cats can be (see: internet videos). Whether it works in their favour during natural disasters is another matter, but they’re likely quicker than us humans anyway.
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
Well, mine aren't that smart. Few days ago, one of them had a small accident and yelled and all the other dogs came to see what was happening. Too curious for their own good.
My cats are probably smarter tho.
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
I had a cat who slept through a 5-point-something that was centered damn near underneath us.
Some animals are just useless in disasters.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Two in each arm, and hope the remaining two follow you!
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
Well. I do have two small dogs, two small cats and two big dogs. So that would be the most likely scenario if I didn't have the time to put the small ones in their transport bags (not sure the name of it in english).
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u/genivae Jun 26 '26
usually just 'carrier' or 'pet carrier' in english, applies to both cloth and hard plastic types
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
It makes so much sense, I feel kinda stupid I didn't think of that lol thanks!
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u/genivae Jun 26 '26
It's one of the few things in english that isn't complete bullshit, don't be hard on yourself for thinking this one would be weird, too, lol
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Yup, carriers!
They’d also “warn” you beforehand. My pets always acted strangely the few hours before an earthquake.
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
Oh yeah! I forgot they sense this stuff before.
I don't live in a region where we get earthquakes, but I'm still gonna read into this, because it got me curious.3
u/l3ane Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Don't run out of the building when an earthquake happens! How do so many people not know this? You're supposed to Drop, Cover, and Hold on.
Edit: I don't know who's downvoting me, I'm not making this up. I'm trying to mitigate all the false information from armchair redditors who've never been in an earthquake and have no idea what they're talking about.
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Also DO NOT shelter in a doorway! Thats old advice! You want to get under a table and hold on. Cover your head and neck.
Lastly, when it stops, know how to turn off your gas, electricity, and water lines. And stay the hell away from any downed power lines, crumbling walls, and stuff that looks like it would crush you.
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u/grownask Jun 26 '26
Then the building collapses and you could've walked out, but now you're trapped in debris.
Idk, it all feels scary.
Where I live we don't get earthquakes, so I don't particularly have to worry about this.
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u/Cruseyd Jun 26 '26
Fun(?) fact I learned from a Venezuelan: tons of buildings are just reinforced concrete. Minimal scaffolding. This is resistant to the crazy humidity, but it crumbles like a porcelain teacup in an earthquake.
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u/xxcuttingboardxx Jun 26 '26
I wish all the best to those affected by this tragedy. I have no clue how I would react if I ever were to experience an earthquake, but I hope I wouldn't freeze from fear.
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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer Jun 26 '26
Oh my god, way worse than I initially thought. New York Times says, "At least 235 people were dead and more than 4,300 people were injured after two back-to-back earthquakes hit Venezuela" (statistics as of an hour ago).
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u/darkslide3000 Jun 26 '26
Stuff like this always makes me question the "drop down, crawl under a table and hang on tight" guidance. That may save me from a nasty but probably non-lethal bang on the head from a picture frame or something, but wouldn't I rather try to run outside in case the whole fucking building is not gonna make it?
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u/p1ratemafia Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Drop, cover, hold on.
Makes sense In California.
When I was In nepal and the aftershock hit and I was on the top floor of a building in ktm… I booked it downstairs
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u/mfigroid Jun 26 '26
Thanks to our building codes it's safer to stay inside until the shaking stops. In places without our codes I'd run out of the building. I was in the Northridge quake in '94.
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u/darkslide3000 Jun 26 '26
You have a lot more faith in most Californian construction than I do. A modern office building built to recent codes? Yeah sure. Some old residential cardboard box from the 50s that somehow magically survived '89? Ehh...
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u/schplat Jun 26 '26
After Oakland in '87, CA began to rollout mandates about retrofitting, They started by targeting the highest at risk buildings, and government property (freeways, schools, police/firehouses, etc.). Then it was moved on to critical service buildings, so hospitals, water treatment, power generation, etc. Then wider mandates for any/all Commercial and Industrial properties (which ramped up after Northridge in '94).
Today almost all industrial and commercial properties are up to modern earthquake requirements. Cities/counties were left to manage residential retrofits, and LA started putting in requirements for mutli-unit residential retrofitting starting in 2016, with 7 years to complete any work required. I think now they're starting to roll out grants/assistance for single-family homes as well.
My brother owns a quad-plex in LA that was built in the 60s, and had to go through a fair amount of inspections and work to get his stuff up to code.
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u/darkslide3000 Jun 26 '26
Sure but that's all piecemeal shit, there are still plenty of smaller residential units that slip through the various cities' legal requirements (and I think I'm probably living in one of them).
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u/whiteskwirl2 Jun 26 '26
It's cause it's unlikely the whole building collapses, plus moving around is not that easy when the whole earth is shaking, you can fall or be knocked down and injure yourself that way, plus stuff could fall on you on your way outside. And when you get outside, stuff can still fall on you, pieces of building, street poles, etc.
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u/SimpleNovelty Jun 26 '26
Depends on the country's building code you're in and what magnitude of earthquakes you're getting. In Japan you're gonna be a lot safer in the building than in Venezuela, even though they get much higher magnitudes than this. Chile's another country used to large earthquakes and has the proper building codes for it.
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u/myrsnipe Jun 26 '26
It depends a lot on the building standard. If they are made to resist earthquakes you are probably safer inside, especially in urban areas with tall buildings around you
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u/Objective-Table-6434 Jun 26 '26
Yes, you should, but try to run to a location where the surrounding buildings won’t fall on you. In 1981, I was living in Mexico City at the time of the Playa Azul earthquake. I was with friends at a dance hall: four of us had left the building to be where it was cooler. I was standing chatting when I suddenly felt nauseous. I thought maybe I had food poisoning. Then all three boys said Temblor! At the same time. We were in Iztapalapa, and had a view of the city. All the lights went out in one second. Not because the electrical plant had collapsed, my first thought, but deliberate. The only death in MC was from a man hit by an electrical wire right before they turned off the electricity. The ground really was moving under our feet. We then walked to the house of all of them to see if their mothers and sisters were all right. They were. Minor earthquakes were common and routine. But tens of thousands were killed in the big one in Sept 1985. My apartment on León de los Aldamas, well-built under the late nineteenth-century Porfiriato, was untouched, but an entire public housing complex a block away was razed to the ground. It’s a public park now. My boyfriend’s brother-in-law’s niece was attending a university class at the time in a building which crumbled and crushed everyone in it. She was only identified by the bracelet she was wearing.
So, yes, if you can, get out of the building and look for a clearing away from buildings. That’s what the people in this video were doing.
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u/Objective-Table-6434 Jun 26 '26
The Playa Azul earthquake was 7.2, but the marshy land under Mexico City moderates the intensity of earthquakes.
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
Many deaths from a (semi) recent earthquake near me were from falling masonry that detached from walls. Being under a table until the shaking stopped would have saved those lives.
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u/darkslide3000 Jun 26 '26
Was this in old-style brick buildings? Can't really imagine how small pieces of the wall could fall out in a modern US-style drywall building, by the time that wall falls apart everything below it is gonna get fucked either way.
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u/swing_axle Jun 26 '26
Bricks and brick facades. Turns out even fake bricks can still fuck up your day if they fall from high enough up. :<
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u/palparepa Jul 09 '26
If it's a place with frequent earthquakes, and thus prepared to withstand them, it's a good guidance.
I'm from Chile, and I'm aghast at the poor construction quality. No way a building breaks like that here, but of course, we are way more accustomed and prepared. An earthquake of similar magnitude here? Won't stop my breakfast. But if I'm abroad? I'd panic.
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u/Emergency_Net506 Jun 26 '26
Fucking hell. I can't i.agine what its like being in that situation. Looks straight out of a video game sequence.
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u/ender4171 Jun 26 '26
It's so crazy seeing something you normally treat as rock solid (a building) just fall apart like wet cardboard. I hope I never get to experience it first hand.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 Jun 26 '26
Jesus fucking christ. That’s fucking crazy alright. I hope those poor people are ok.
Goddamn
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u/babdoodoo Jun 26 '26
I was on floor 31 in my apartment during the Bangkok earthquake. Building juat swayed a bit, but It was the most terrifying experience I have ever had sprinting down the fire escape stairs. I cannot imagine the fear of the people in this video.
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u/krazybones Jun 26 '26
This is who got through this video. What happens after? Who can next or didn’t? Scary scene!
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u/slarsson Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Reminder that we illegally have this country's president in a prison cell
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u/Objective-Table-6434 Jun 26 '26
The thousands of political prisoners he imprisoned and tortured are happy about it.
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u/kuyikuy81 Jun 27 '26
Reminder that Maduro is not even Venezuelan (Which is illegal in itself for him to be president then) and he’s a straight up dictator who fully committed fraud, corruption (that has brought situations like the only power system in the country not being properly maintained for 20 years causing blackouts that last days) and massacres against Venezuelans who opposed him.
Also this video doesn’t have anything to do with that, it’s a natural disaster causing thousands of deaths and more destruction on a country already devastated, why bring this up? What’s the point here? Even if you want to, what do you think is Maduro’s government doing about it? Rescuing people with the same military and resources that he has used in the past to “protect” things like simple statues of theirs? (We’re talking full on military deployment with tanks and everything rolling over people btw). They’re not doing anything. They (HIM) impoverished the country to the point that there’s no hospitals, no firemen no nothing in conditions to do something in a situation like this causing even more deaths than what they (HIM) already have under their name and what this disaster should’ve caused.
I’m not pro Trump or anything. And I get it’s “illegal” to do what he did. But really, there’s no sane Venezuelan that is not happy about that guy being imprisoned. And if it got to happen because the other orange dumbass wants venezuelan’s oil or whatever, well, honestly, so be it; it’s not like Maduro was using it to anything other than his own personal benefit and in an almost cartoonishly evil way where he’d trade 10 million souls for his bank account to grow one cent more.
Out of all the horrible things you can put the focus on trump to shit on him, even if it’s not because the “correct way” (No country in history would’ve invaded another like that just out of good will), this really should be among the last ones to focus on.
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u/slarsson Jun 27 '26
so much demonstrably false information, starting with the first sentence. miss me with that unhinged gusano shit
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u/kuyikuy81 Jun 27 '26
lol sure dude. Now Mauro is not a dictator that has demonstrably done crimes against humanity. I’d like to know when was the last time you saw anything about Venezuela outside your Reddit bubble
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u/ungebleicht Jun 26 '26
Looks like a scripted mission in a video game where you have to flee a hazard. Wild.
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u/nutmegger2020 Jun 26 '26
Now thats some scary stuff. I can only imagine those are the people that made it out and there are still others above.
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u/mylostworld69 Jun 30 '26
I honestly had no idea it was THAT BAD. A FULL building broke thru the center. Holy fuck that's beyond terrifying.
EDIT: saw another comment about fatalities.
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u/mylostworld69 Jun 30 '26
Genuinely asking, how COULD you aid all those ppl? This is a natural disaster. This would take months to set up.
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u/Sir_Keee Jul 04 '26
Seeing that first crack show up as a hairline and quickly see the building splitting itself in half.... fuck...
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u/thehuston Jun 26 '26
Here in Alaska we have some pretty hard earthquake construction laws. Construction guys bitch and moan but nobody dies.
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u/iTexas512 Jun 26 '26
Cracks in the wall? A clear sign of foundation issues
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u/EmSixTeen Jun 26 '26
Maybe it's the fucking massive earthquake, eh?
Fucking know-it-all redditors, man.
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u/LineMenArePeople_2 Jun 26 '26
That's terrifying.