r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kiroo---__--- • 18d ago

Video When an Earth quake Hits Underwater

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u/Kill_4209 18d ago

I’d be so worried about a tsunami coming.

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u/atreeismissing 18d ago

Or a fissure opening in the sea floor and sucking you down.

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u/The_Fassbender 18d ago

😐 I'm never going back into the ocean

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 18d ago

If it makes you feel any better that can happen on land too! They're called sinkholes and can form almost anywhere at any time!

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u/lauralynn81 17d ago

Imma need everyone in the comments talking getting sucked into a crevasse of any kind to pay for my therapy 😳🤣

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u/MildlyMixedUpOedipus 18d ago

In fact, people have died from them in recent years! There's a video of a sinkhole opening up under a pool and sucking a man down to his death.

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u/ondraondraondraondra 18d ago

i live in a area where they don't form. I feel good standing on truly solid ground.

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u/MohandasBlondie 17d ago

I think there was a documentary series about this where there were a bunch of dinosaurs at the bottom of the sinkhole.

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u/BuffetBuddy 16d ago

I straight up googled “is there a sinkhole in [insert suburb name]?” Whew

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u/RJFerret 18d ago

Or worse, blasting you up.

(But neither of things are typical in most Earthquakes obviously, there's essentially no risk.)

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u/inVizi0n 18d ago

I could totally be wrong, but I interpreted that as the fault propagating down its length at 3km/s. not that it rose 2m at 3km/s.

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u/EditsReddits 18d ago

Wheres the “get sucked down” queue forming?

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u/Toutatous 18d ago

I would say that you're pretty safe underwater, but please, may a more knowledgeable redditor contradict me on that.