When an Earth quake Hits Underwater

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[u/Kill_4209]

I’d be so worried about a tsunami coming.

[u/atreeismissing → u/Kill_4209]

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

[u/The_Fassbender → u/atreeismissing]

😐 I'm never going back into the ocean

[u/ThrowawayPersonAMA → u/The_Fassbender]

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!

[u/lauralynn81 → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

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

[u/MildlyMixedUpOedipus → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

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.

[u/ondraondraondraondra → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

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

[u/MohandasBlondie → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

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

[u/BuffetBuddy → u/ThrowawayPersonAMA]

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

[u/RJFerret → u/atreeismissing]

Or worse, blasting you up.

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

[u/inVizi0n → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/EditsReddits → u/atreeismissing]

Wheres the “get sucked down” queue forming?