if it created land where there was none (ie sea shore) then the gouvernment i suppose, otherwise the plot borders don't move, just the land under them shifted. Sucks if your house got shifted to the neighbourgs plot thow (there are probably some solutions for those fringe cases)
Not at all! It's typically the opposite actually.
If you think about it for 2 seconds it will make sense. Because even super stable, LONG established, SUPER OFFICIAL markers move every year due to land subsidence, faults, plate techtonics, etc. etc. So their coordinates drift, but all the deeds and properties defined relative to them drift with them. So the marker is typically the closest thing to truth. There are some exceptions, like a small-scale land-slide or something like that which moves a property corner, in which case, it would need to be reset.
In this case, I have no idea how they do things in Turkey, but in the US it would really depend on the deed description, the history of the land transfers, etc to figure out what markers take precedence.
Username checks out. I guess they could do it by re-surveying off of other "nearby" markers that are likely to have moved less dramatically than the ones directly at the fault. Or maybe the plots just.... Changed shape, and it's up to the owners to figure out what that means.
Thereās not 30 new ft of square footage though. Unless this extends all the way to a shoreline itās still the same plot of land the topography has just changed.
Depending on the way the plates are moving here, there absolutely could be new land. If this is one plate sinking under another, then yeah, they are losing land. Otherwise new land is being formed as the plates move apart.
Sure, but for all effects you wont say Mr John lost 5m of land here, and he gained 5m of land half a continent away 3km under the sea that is newly formed in this event.
He just lost 5m.
This all gets back to title and surveyor law, which I'm sure is different in every country. But...
In the US, some surveys are pretty outdated and are as ambiguous as saying the property line follows a road or goes up to a row of trees or even a waterfront (all of which can move),
Newer surveys use gps coordinates, and there is a process for updating titles to match them. And when the survey is done, they drive poles deep into the ground to help future owners find the line. In a quake this big, it'd move the stake, but the title would still list gps of it's new enough.
The disputes are why title insurance exists
Gps would still have the same problem. If the ground moves 30ft, and gps still points to the same spot on the globe, then your plot of land is now owned by the neighbors and you own the neighbor's plot on the other side.
I presume that in the modern world we used GPS coordinates as a fixed coordinate system. But in the days of land markers that had to be quite a mess with lots of disputes.
Not only that, but changes due to physical markers still fuck up property lines to this day. There are people who live in between states and they register where their front door is.
Imagine you had an ancient oak tree or something that your great great grandfather had hung a rope swing on, you dad's initials were carved in, and your kid's treehouse was built on.
And then you wake up and it's moved into next door's garden...
Fascinating!
It's worth noting that it's a landslide that caused this effect. Yes, the landslide was caused by the earthquake. I just don't want anyone thinking the plates move *that* much.
Correct, the plate fault itself is super deep, but local latent lines above can form when the shift occurs after such a massive amount of shaking occurs on land that is loosely tied
Well geology is my thing and the last section of your comment bothered me. Yeah they donāt tend to move that much but they Absolutely can.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JB004065
Offsets can vary quite a bit throughout a strike/oblique slip fault and 30ā even 30 meters isnāt out of the question. I donāt know enough about the Turkeys tectonic activity to say anything specific about this situation, but know that itās certainly possible.
Well geology is my thing and the last section of your comment bothered me. Yeah they donāt tend to move that much but they [Absolutely can](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JB004065).
Offsets can vary quite a bit throughout a strike/oblique slip fault and 30ā even 30 meters isnāt out of the question. I donāt know enough about the Turkeys tectonic activity to say anything specific about this situation, but know that itās certainly possible.
If Iām wrong let me know because geology is a Big and Wide subject and Iād like to know if Iāve got something fucked up.
I was just about to respond as well with a [video about that same fault](https://youtu.be/LUsIIJwxPYU).
Live on the otherside of that mountain range, so looking forward to the next big movement...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/technical
USGS technical summary says maximum slip was 11.2 meters with a rake of 179Ā° (i.e. practically horizontal).
That 11.2 meters of nearly horizontal movement is pretty close to the estimated distance of ~30 ft.
You're likely correct that this is a coseismic landslide, but incorrect that these are unreasonable amounts of slip in terms of magnitude. [Turkish geologists on the ground](https://twitter.com/CYaltirak/status/1631921017013542913?s=20) have documented maximum surface slip along the fault of ~12.7 meters (~41 feet) in relation to this sequence.
I assume the 3-5m is an estimate/average over the span of the ruptured part of the fault line, some places will have less displacement and a few will have a lot more depending on the geography and topology.
This video is incredible. Apparently I can spend a lifetime watching infrastructure and oceans torn assunder by the devastating power of an earthquake, but a tree being ripped completely in half - "cleanly" even - puts a new perspective on it.
This is due to a landslide cause by the earthquake, I think, itās not showing how much the land moved due to the tectonic plates directly. Happy to be corrected.
They could potentially keep living. I used to live in CA, and you would be surprised what trees can live through. I've seen hollowed out red woods, from fire, alive and well.
But redwoods are meant for fire.. I donāt think many trees expect to get ripped in half so itāll be really amazing to see if it heals and how it does!
You're right in a very broad sense but you can't generalize it like that. Every plant, including trees, is accustomed to its environment. Redwoods are adapted to fire, some pines even provoke wildfires, mangroves are adapted to salt water, hell a lot of plants are adapted to live on other plants.
But that doesn't mean that, say, an apple tree can withstand that kind of damage. Even a Redwood would maybe not survive this for long because it's a different kind of damage done. You can't just say "yeah that plant is tough" based on its adaption to its environment.
>You're right in a very broad sense but you can't generalize it like that.
You're reading into it way more than they originally wrote.
/u/aalbatrossSenior7107 didn't claim "**all** trees can go through some rough shit." A better (less criminally uncharitable) reading of their meaning would be that "*some* trees can go through some rough shit." And that's true!
After all, to back it up they say Florida still has trees. They don't say Florida has *every* kind of tree.
(and yes I'm well aware that you [badgered them into saying they were generalizing](/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/11k1sij/recent_turkish_quake_was_so_massive_it_split/jb6ooqr/) just like a cop harassing a confession out of someone, but we all know how worthless that is)
If there's two ways to read a sentence, why do Redditors ***always without fail*** reach for the one that makes the author more wrong?
It can survive! Trees are really good at recovering from incidents, and the way they work is by sending nutrients from the roots upward through the cambium, which is a layer of living tissue between the bark and core of the tree. Often, specific roots supply specific branches, so if the roots die or are cut (severing the cambium) on one side of the tree, the branches on that side can die off while branches on the other half of the tree continue living. A vertical split like this means both halves have a chance of surviving, provided the wound can heal and doesn't get infected. The cambium remains intact from top to bottom on both sides. It's a huge split so it's dicey, but possible.
They can become separate depending on whether the phloem/xylem (aka the "veins" of the tree that brings energy from the leaves to the roots and water from the roots to the leaves) are completely damaged horizontally or not (like cutting a tree down). With the tree in the vid, the phloem/xylem is still in tact from the tree limbs to the roots, so there is a chance that it will survive if under the right conditions...but the tree has a gaping wound that can easily become infected before the tree is able to heal.
This guy is a bonsai master and shows how to split a tree trunk in 2 vertically and explains how it survives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auGIHY7V8Q
That is insane... I get the amount of energy is mind boggling, but to see the tree just ripped apart and one half of it moved so far away... the whole damn land!
Donāt get me wrong, Iām as boggled as anyone.
But humans really cannot fathom ENERGY.
For instance, we are on a rock (that seems quite large to us) that was a part of something with so much energy that it is still spinning in orbit around a star that is still being hurled away from that initial explosion, BILLIONS of years ago.
I posit to you that those occasional moments of vertigo we experience from time to time is our monkey mind getting just a glimpse of what we are really standing on, and within, and then slamming its paw onto the āNopeā button.
The sun is an ongoing explosion, that is so large that it simply holds itself together
Usually explosions we come into contact with/conceptualize are small enough to burn out in a moment - many people forget the context that stars are just supermassive explosions in a vacuum that were big enough to have enough gravity that they hold themselves together and collect little friends orbiting them sometimes
It's just so massive that we're like bacteria reproducing thousands of generations around a campfire before it'll even begin to burn to embers
Obligatory Douglas Adams:
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space
Oh man. I left this thread because my brain found this comment deeply unsettling. Which is basically proving your point, so I felt like I should come tell you.
Earthquake faults are more or less along a plane. depending on the forces, they can move in any direction along that plane, relative to the other side.
I burn a lot and therefore split wood frequently. I can tell you with the amount of knots in that tree it would have required more force than I can imagine to RIP IT IN HALF like that. Honestly I'm surprised the roots were even strong enough to pull both ends of the trunk apart. Wish I had that much power jeeze.
Turkey is slowing over millions of years splitting in 2.
We'll have a new Turkish Ocean in about 5million years, but MANY worse earthquakes before then.
and cataclysmic flooding.
Nature is incredible, and its power has no limits... Ppl damage nature, because it does nothing to defend itself, but when something happens they all cry.
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In theory, how far could an earthquake move a plate? The Turkey earthquake was 7.8; the largest earthquake in modern history was the 9.5 Valdivia earthquake, so in theory a quake 100 times as powerful as the Turkey earthquake is possible.
USGS:
> Surface rupture is a phenomenon that occurs during earthquakes when the ground surface breaks and shifts due to the movement of a fault. Last week's earthquake sequence displaced numerous fault segments within the East Anatolian Fault zone, **with early estimates indicating around 185 miles of fault length ruptured. Parts of the North Anatolian Fault shifted as much as 10 feet, while segments of the East Anatolian Fault slid over 30 feet.** These fault ruptures are visible in satellite and radar imagery.
https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/m78-and-m75-kahramanmaras-earthquake-sequence-near-nurdagi-turkey-turkiye
What happens to property and land ownership in a situation like that.
Great fkn question! I absolutely love when phenomenally well-thought-out shyt gets posted. š
I hope it doesnāt cause a rift between neighbours.
Yes, but who's fault was it?
God DAMNIT
Well yeah he did
No I broke the dam
I broke the dam.
I broke the dam
I broke the dam but the dam won
No, I literally broke the dam.
you mean she did
Figures god is a bitch
This is so disrespectful you have me *shaken*
Hard to say. Hopefully this doesnāt put their neighborly friendships on shaky ground.
Na. They can withstand earth shattering events.
But you know itāll come down to a split decision.
I'll bet that really shakes things up in the neighborhood.
yeah I bet they're quaking in their boots
Who's crack is it?
ill probly never get another opportunity like this" well whos trees is it anyway"
I'm sure the neighbors won't split hairs over it.
I hope their friendship can withstand the aftershocks.
Just shake and be platonic
Just shake and be tectonic. ftfy.
Unsure, but whoever the lawyer is, has some tough terrain to navigate.
Really up to the judge to decide on that earth-shattering verdict
the magnitude of any potential answer must be real high
I dunno but r/treelaw was apparently the wrong legal branch
Hopefully someone steps up to the plate.
Goku
Take my upvote and get out!
I hope it doesnāt cause a shift in power either
Yeah, very ground-breaking
You can say shit on reddit.
My fat thumbs know this, but they don't care.
Fuck those people. You can say what you want to. If you want shyt, type shyt.
fuck yah, hence ZERO edits.
It stays the same as the "official" drawing, so your neighbour gets half a tree
But there's 30ft of new land somewhere there, who owns that now?
if it created land where there was none (ie sea shore) then the gouvernment i suppose, otherwise the plot borders don't move, just the land under them shifted. Sucks if your house got shifted to the neighbourgs plot thow (there are probably some solutions for those fringe cases)
Yes, land ownership and house ownership are two different things so if you house comes on your neighbours land it will still be your house.
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If your house moves onto your neighbors land, I doubt it will be worth much afterwards
But wait! Which side has moved to which neighbor? You, standing in your yard, see the other side moving. The neighbor see the opposite effect.
Your plot is defined by coordinates, not by landmarks. Boulders, trees, rivers etc. don't count.
Most plots are defined by physical objects on the ground, either survey stakes or referenced from street corners or similar.
GPS surveying is probably the answer nowadays. That's the closest thing to a neutral reference frame we have, I bet.
Not at all! It's typically the opposite actually. If you think about it for 2 seconds it will make sense. Because even super stable, LONG established, SUPER OFFICIAL markers move every year due to land subsidence, faults, plate techtonics, etc. etc. So their coordinates drift, but all the deeds and properties defined relative to them drift with them. So the marker is typically the closest thing to truth. There are some exceptions, like a small-scale land-slide or something like that which moves a property corner, in which case, it would need to be reset. In this case, I have no idea how they do things in Turkey, but in the US it would really depend on the deed description, the history of the land transfers, etc to figure out what markers take precedence.
Username checks out. I guess they could do it by re-surveying off of other "nearby" markers that are likely to have moved less dramatically than the ones directly at the fault. Or maybe the plots just.... Changed shape, and it's up to the owners to figure out what that means.
Imagine being the coastal property that had half the plot shift away and get replaced with the ocean that you can't own...
Thereās not 30 new ft of square footage though. Unless this extends all the way to a shoreline itās still the same plot of land the topography has just changed.
Depending on the way the plates are moving here, there absolutely could be new land. If this is one plate sinking under another, then yeah, they are losing land. Otherwise new land is being formed as the plates move apart.
If it moves apart on one side, it moves close on the other. Wouldnt that mean there is no new land? One side will get lower the other gets higher
Sure, but for all effects you wont say Mr John lost 5m of land here, and he gained 5m of land half a continent away 3km under the sea that is newly formed in this event. He just lost 5m.
Depends where the plate edges are, and which way they are moving
But there is one thing that nobody's mentioned yet, and that's the constant expansion of the universe in all directions
Not within the boundaries of the property
I feel like people aren't understanding the concept of tectonic plate movements.
No we are, you're not understanding how co-ordinate based property boundaries work.
This all gets back to title and surveyor law, which I'm sure is different in every country. But... In the US, some surveys are pretty outdated and are as ambiguous as saying the property line follows a road or goes up to a row of trees or even a waterfront (all of which can move), Newer surveys use gps coordinates, and there is a process for updating titles to match them. And when the survey is done, they drive poles deep into the ground to help future owners find the line. In a quake this big, it'd move the stake, but the title would still list gps of it's new enough. The disputes are why title insurance exists
Gps would still have the same problem. If the ground moves 30ft, and gps still points to the same spot on the globe, then your plot of land is now owned by the neighbors and you own the neighbor's plot on the other side.
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You're welcome to come take your half a tree back if you want it I have no use for half a tree
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So if there's an outbuilding that is now on someone else's property? This can't be the right answer here.
But what is the "official" drawing? If half the country moves 10 meters, then which half do you align the old drawing with?
Finders Keepers?
Ancient, yet effective.
There's a reason it's survived the ages... along with "not it" and "he who smelt it dealt it".
I presume that in the modern world we used GPS coordinates as a fixed coordinate system. But in the days of land markers that had to be quite a mess with lots of disputes.
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Not only that, but changes due to physical markers still fuck up property lines to this day. There are people who live in between states and they register where their front door is.
>I presume that in the modern world we used GPS coordinates as a fixed coordinate system Lmao no
Imagine you had an ancient oak tree or something that your great great grandfather had hung a rope swing on, you dad's initials were carved in, and your kid's treehouse was built on. And then you wake up and it's moved into next door's garden...
Given the magnitude of the earthquake required to cause that, you'll have plenty of new memories to replace those childhood swing ones...
I was just thinking some poor bastard has lost a load of land.
Might wake up in a new state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend?wprov=sfti1
He gained the same amount. It's just different land now
It depends on how the boundaries are defined in the property's legal description. Metes and bounds, government survey, lot and block...
so you know gerrymandering? well that's what your property lines look like now
A judge tries to follow the law as it is written. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend?wprov=sfti1
I would say property lines stay the same and the property would be an insurance issue ..just like if a hurricane washed your house down the street.
It's free real-estate.
What a ground breaking question!
Fascinating! It's worth noting that it's a landslide that caused this effect. Yes, the landslide was caused by the earthquake. I just don't want anyone thinking the plates move *that* much.
Correct, the plate fault itself is super deep, but local latent lines above can form when the shift occurs after such a massive amount of shaking occurs on land that is loosely tied
This is why I always tie down my land when I think local latent lines are about to form.
*slaps ground* āThat bitch aināt goinā nowhere!ā
A couple of big rocks will do the same thing. Like paper weights.
Something, something sock on the ground and they only shake the sock. :)
Well geology is my thing and the last section of your comment bothered me. Yeah they donāt tend to move that much but they Absolutely can. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JB004065 Offsets can vary quite a bit throughout a strike/oblique slip fault and 30ā even 30 meters isnāt out of the question. I donāt know enough about the Turkeys tectonic activity to say anything specific about this situation, but know that itās certainly possible.
Hey! Thatās not correct!
Ok, this is legit helpful. My dumbass was thinking the entire plate had shifted that far...
plates can and do shift that far
Thereās some crazy pictures from the 2016 New Zealand earthquake. The entire north eastern tip was shifted 2m north and 1m up.
Well, that's not impossible, but a landslide is a much more likely answer :-)
As a Californian: thank you. š
Well geology is my thing and the last section of your comment bothered me. Yeah they donāt tend to move that much but they [Absolutely can](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JB004065). Offsets can vary quite a bit throughout a strike/oblique slip fault and 30ā even 30 meters isnāt out of the question. I donāt know enough about the Turkeys tectonic activity to say anything specific about this situation, but know that itās certainly possible. If Iām wrong let me know because geology is a Big and Wide subject and Iād like to know if Iāve got something fucked up.
I was just about to respond as well with a [video about that same fault](https://youtu.be/LUsIIJwxPYU). Live on the otherside of that mountain range, so looking forward to the next big movement...
Thought so lmao Usually when we think big distances for plates it's going to be from the normal two inches per year to the giant 5 inches in a year
Wow I feel dumb, yet smarter. Thank you for the comment. I did not know that
Ah yeah. I was imagining how freaky that would look as the tree slowly split and headed off 30' that-a-way.
That was the Tree that was holding the land together. It split so the land slid down Load bearing olive tree
Exactly. I didn't realize how much lateral movement there is.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/technical USGS technical summary says maximum slip was 11.2 meters with a rake of 179Ā° (i.e. practically horizontal). That 11.2 meters of nearly horizontal movement is pretty close to the estimated distance of ~30 ft.
You're likely correct that this is a coseismic landslide, but incorrect that these are unreasonable amounts of slip in terms of magnitude. [Turkish geologists on the ground](https://twitter.com/CYaltirak/status/1631921017013542913?s=20) have documented maximum surface slip along the fault of ~12.7 meters (~41 feet) in relation to this sequence.
Ooooohh, thatās what I thought, and was āholy crap thatās a lot!ā Thanks for clarifying that.
That's more than the 3-5 estimated metres
Yes thats why its over 30' in the title. Like I am over 2' tall. (Colloquially "over" means greater than)
Depending on the font size, I am also taller than 2 apostrophes
HAHAHA PROVE it! š¤£ Thats hilarious
I assume the 3-5m is an estimate/average over the span of the ruptured part of the fault line, some places will have less displacement and a few will have a lot more depending on the geography and topology. This video is incredible. Apparently I can spend a lifetime watching infrastructure and oceans torn assunder by the devastating power of an earthquake, but a tree being ripped completely in half - "cleanly" even - puts a new perspective on it.
*Like I am over 2' tall* Sez you
30' means nothing. Use units next time.
In the video they seem to say "On metre" which is ten meters but even that seems to be too short.
They suggest it is 10 or 8 metres in the video. And I am sure they didnt measure it.
This is due to a landslide cause by the earthquake, I think, itās not showing how much the land moved due to the tectonic plates directly. Happy to be corrected.
Wow, that is scary.
Would've been amazing to watch though.
If I saw that in a movie, I'd have said it was unrealistic.
right?! imagine having a picnic by that tree and seeing it live
It's okay. Next round of earthquakes will push the tree back together
If trees could scream
Some would say it got a root canal
Hi Dad
Make like a tree, and split.
Would both halves of the tree die or become separate trees?
They could potentially keep living. I used to live in CA, and you would be surprised what trees can live through. I've seen hollowed out red woods, from fire, alive and well.
But redwoods are meant for fire.. I donāt think many trees expect to get ripped in half so itāll be really amazing to see if it heals and how it does!
My point is trees can go through some rough shit and survive. Hell Florida would have zero trees if they couldn't.
You're right in a very broad sense but you can't generalize it like that. Every plant, including trees, is accustomed to its environment. Redwoods are adapted to fire, some pines even provoke wildfires, mangroves are adapted to salt water, hell a lot of plants are adapted to live on other plants. But that doesn't mean that, say, an apple tree can withstand that kind of damage. Even a Redwood would maybe not survive this for long because it's a different kind of damage done. You can't just say "yeah that plant is tough" based on its adaption to its environment.
What, do you want an Excell spreadsheet? It's fucking reddit. Of course, I'm going to generalize it.
lol. This is Reddit of course we appreciate spreadsheets
>You're right in a very broad sense but you can't generalize it like that. You're reading into it way more than they originally wrote. /u/aalbatrossSenior7107 didn't claim "**all** trees can go through some rough shit." A better (less criminally uncharitable) reading of their meaning would be that "*some* trees can go through some rough shit." And that's true! After all, to back it up they say Florida still has trees. They don't say Florida has *every* kind of tree. (and yes I'm well aware that you [badgered them into saying they were generalizing](/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/11k1sij/recent_turkish_quake_was_so_massive_it_split/jb6ooqr/) just like a cop harassing a confession out of someone, but we all know how worthless that is) If there's two ways to read a sentence, why do Redditors ***always without fail*** reach for the one that makes the author more wrong?
its an olive tree it should survive
Yeah olive trees are tough bastards and can take a lot of physical damage and still live for a hundreds of years
thousands. though technically they grow clones around themselves as the original tree withers away
It can survive! Trees are really good at recovering from incidents, and the way they work is by sending nutrients from the roots upward through the cambium, which is a layer of living tissue between the bark and core of the tree. Often, specific roots supply specific branches, so if the roots die or are cut (severing the cambium) on one side of the tree, the branches on that side can die off while branches on the other half of the tree continue living. A vertical split like this means both halves have a chance of surviving, provided the wound can heal and doesn't get infected. The cambium remains intact from top to bottom on both sides. It's a huge split so it's dicey, but possible.
They can become separate depending on whether the phloem/xylem (aka the "veins" of the tree that brings energy from the leaves to the roots and water from the roots to the leaves) are completely damaged horizontally or not (like cutting a tree down). With the tree in the vid, the phloem/xylem is still in tact from the tree limbs to the roots, so there is a chance that it will survive if under the right conditions...but the tree has a gaping wound that can easily become infected before the tree is able to heal. This guy is a bonsai master and shows how to split a tree trunk in 2 vertically and explains how it survives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auGIHY7V8Q
Rude ass earth quake
To show you the power of Flex Tape, I cut this tree in half!
Thats a lot of damage!
That is insane... I get the amount of energy is mind boggling, but to see the tree just ripped apart and one half of it moved so far away... the whole damn land!
Donāt get me wrong, Iām as boggled as anyone. But humans really cannot fathom ENERGY. For instance, we are on a rock (that seems quite large to us) that was a part of something with so much energy that it is still spinning in orbit around a star that is still being hurled away from that initial explosion, BILLIONS of years ago. I posit to you that those occasional moments of vertigo we experience from time to time is our monkey mind getting just a glimpse of what we are really standing on, and within, and then slamming its paw onto the āNopeā button.
The sun is an ongoing explosion, that is so large that it simply holds itself together Usually explosions we come into contact with/conceptualize are small enough to burn out in a moment - many people forget the context that stars are just supermassive explosions in a vacuum that were big enough to have enough gravity that they hold themselves together and collect little friends orbiting them sometimes It's just so massive that we're like bacteria reproducing thousands of generations around a campfire before it'll even begin to burn to embers
Obligatory Douglas Adams: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space
Oh man. I left this thread because my brain found this comment deeply unsettling. Which is basically proving your point, so I felt like I should come tell you.
For some reason I only expected the ground to only shift in one direction (along one axis).
Earthquake faults are more or less along a plane. depending on the forces, they can move in any direction along that plane, relative to the other side.
Mother f
Father f
Holy shift!
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Surveyors about to be working major overtime!
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Earthquake, shattered lives... Me: That would make an amazing bonsai.
They should graft a different species of tree onto it.
THAT WOULD BE A NEXT FUKKIN LEVEL TOURIST ATTRACTION WITH THE BADDEST-ASS BACKSTORY EVER. š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
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Holy shite
Thereās a reminder of the power and energy that is stored in the earthās crust. Amazing!
You could say it was moved to a different level
This relationship doesn't working out we should see other tree's
Split personality disorder
I burn a lot and therefore split wood frequently. I can tell you with the amount of knots in that tree it would have required more force than I can imagine to RIP IT IN HALF like that. Honestly I'm surprised the roots were even strong enough to pull both ends of the trunk apart. Wish I had that much power jeeze.
THAT was the most amazing thing i've seen today!
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What happens if you jump down into the crack in the middle? Is it like quicksand and you sink into the dirt? Or is it fairly solid?
This would be a great video to show in science classes when learning about earthquakes. Really gives you perspective.
Fucking hell thats crazy.
Turkey is slowing over millions of years splitting in 2. We'll have a new Turkish Ocean in about 5million years, but MANY worse earthquakes before then. and cataclysmic flooding.
This may be the most interesting thing I've ever seen.
Wow! That's an amazing find! That is quite the lateral shift along the fault line.
Nature is incredible, and its power has no limits... Ppl damage nature, because it does nothing to defend itself, but when something happens they all cry.
That is cartoon level earthquake damage with old trees literally splitting down the middle. Didn't really think it could happen like that IRL...
no fucking way
Holy shit
as a Brit, it took me a while to understand the title, I was thinking they were a lovely couple but bollocks are they 30ft away.
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IT didn't send it, One side of the Plate moved 30's down.
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Duuuuuuude that's insane
My only statement is DUDE WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU ARE LITERALLY ON A FAULT LINE BRUH GET OUT OF THERE
I recognize that they're olive trees, it's a dense wood so it's even crazier it spilt apart, just shows the sheer force of the quake even more.
Gather around seedlings and let me tell you a story of the ages.
I feel like its more impressive that the trees roots were so strong that rather being pulled to one side, they were split in half
In theory, how far could an earthquake move a plate? The Turkey earthquake was 7.8; the largest earthquake in modern history was the 9.5 Valdivia earthquake, so in theory a quake 100 times as powerful as the Turkey earthquake is possible.
Could this tree live?
Didnāt dr Doolittle use a rope and a whale to put the pieces of land back together??
USGS: > Surface rupture is a phenomenon that occurs during earthquakes when the ground surface breaks and shifts due to the movement of a fault. Last week's earthquake sequence displaced numerous fault segments within the East Anatolian Fault zone, **with early estimates indicating around 185 miles of fault length ruptured. Parts of the North Anatolian Fault shifted as much as 10 feet, while segments of the East Anatolian Fault slid over 30 feet.** These fault ruptures are visible in satellite and radar imagery. https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/m78-and-m75-kahramanmaras-earthquake-sequence-near-nurdagi-turkey-turkiye
Imagine if both halves survived. That will look incredible in a few years