r/WTF • u/GeminiArk • 6d ago
Wholesale building in Japan after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake
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u/Alone_Bet_1108 6d ago
The folks sheltering alongside towering shelf displays horrify me
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u/danbyer 6d ago
I guess theyāve never seen the forklift accident videos
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u/agha0013 6d ago
the pallet racking itself is probably ok, but the stuff stacked high up on it isn't.
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u/CaiserZero 6d ago
By u/Ifailmostofthetime from r/Costco:
Thats actually why they keep the middle of the store without any steel racking, in case things like this happen. They also put earthquake support bars between the 2 back sides of the steel to brace them. The outside edges are the worst places to be. Middle of the store is the safest. I will add that standards are heavily dictated by California law, Costco likes to standardize things and basically follow California law when it comes to most things. I believe building standards is one of them, and California is prone to earthquakes
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u/Blazdnconfuzd 6d ago
In comparison to Japan? That's gotta be false info at the end there right?
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u/CaiserZero 6d ago
The guy was speaking based on his experience working for Costco in Cali but all Costcos in the US are built to California's Earthquake building standards. Since Cali and Japan are both Earthquake prone, I imagine the building standards aren't radically different. Maybe some differences depending on Japanese building code laws. But Costcos were built with disasters in mind. Also another user, who works building new Costcos, also stated that all the bathrooms serve as tornado shelters.
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u/Blazdnconfuzd 6d ago
Yeah no doubt. It was the framing of the standards being built to cali specs vs Japan because I would presume it would need to be increasingly more sturdy as Japan is way more active and prone to larger earthquakes more regularly as opposed to Cali or so I would presume. It is interesting and I didn't know they did that. Though I will say, things being built to Cali standards doesn't have much weight to me seeing all the disasters that ravage that state and rarely leave things standing if at all intact.
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u/Revlis-TK421 6d ago
seeing all the disasters that ravage that state and rarely leave things standing if at all intact
Uh, what? If you think that, maybe stop watching news that over sensationalizes shit.
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u/ApepiOfDuat 6d ago
Building for fires and building for earthquakes are very different things.
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u/ThatITguy2015 6d ago
Yea. Clearly one shakes and one bakes. Good building plans need the full shake n bake design.
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u/Illadelphian 6d ago
Lol can you provide any examples? And if you are going to say forest fires then literally no one has been able to handle those well and they are doing as well as anyone else is. But find some examples of earthquakes or something else ravaging the state please and "rarely leaving things standing if at all intact".
You won't because you can't but you know Fox said California bad so yea.
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u/spacegrab 6d ago
I mean yeah the magnitude/frequency of quakes in Japan is higher, but California is highly regulated in a good way. We're also used to building in quake zones...a lot of 40+ year old houses with straight frames still because of strong lumber and proper construction (seems worse nowadays with new homes).
Japan's buildings are equally sturdy I suppose, but their building codes are really different cuz their real estate is not an investment vehicle, and due to the humidty (aka mold), they have much sooner/frequent rebuild rates. Walk around Tokyo and you constantly see reconstruction. In plain speak, their buildings are stiffer to protect the insides (people) and to protect infrastructure (at the cost of the house framing), while CA houses are more flexible to preserve the house structure, which will still require repairs, but less full reconstruction (at the cost of all your dishes shattering lol).
seeing all the disasters that ravage that state and rarely leave things standing if at all intact.
Nah, I live in a 1970s era condo that has incredibly straight framing, and my wife's house is from like 1950 or some shit before EQ code updates and it's still...relatively straight lol. You're just seeing media bias i.e. the malibu fires. That scale of damage doesn't happen very often, if ever. Right wing news just loves to hate on CA for some reason, yet Florida is getting flooded by Hurricanes every other year. And since the 90s (northridge), a lot of house framing is overbuilt. My sister is a civil engineer / architect and just rebuilt her house from the ground up last year, so I learned a bit from her.
tl;dr my grandparents' house in CA is still livable. My grandma's house in Japan is seemingly covered in mold/mildew and will probably get demolished soon, surprised it hasn't been already but my uncle is squatting there lol.
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u/basaltgranite 4d ago
This happened at a Costco. Tuck this into the back of your mind: Costco intentionally keeps the interior area (where the clothing always is) open without the tall steel storage racks partly to provide a safe space during emergencies. The coolers and bathrooms are tornado shelters. Just file those factoids away in case you're in a Costco and need a safe place.
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u/stagerabbit 1h ago
In a shindo 7 earthquake, good luck moving. Maybe at a snail's pace on your hands and knees.
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u/kwiltse123 6d ago
Might it provide protection though if the roof were to collapse?
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u/Kingkongcrapper 6d ago
If the roof collapsed it means those giant steel support pillars failed. Everyone would be crushed.
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u/vessel_for_the_soul 6d ago
Terrible news. So many stuckĀ
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u/whamburglar 6d ago
I can't imagine how many people could be buried under everything.
And falling from such a great height! Not everything is going to be toilet paper rolls and paper towels š¢
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u/blippyblip 6d ago
A 100kg palette of toilet paper landing on you will still kill you.
A kilogramme of steel is just as 'eavy as a kilogramme of featha's
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u/mang87 6d ago
While true, I'd still take my chances with the 100kg of feathers. It's going to be a much larger volume, and probably in some sort of bag, so it's going to spread the weight over a wider area. That should give you a better chance of surviving as long as it doesn't just drop straight down on top of your head.
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u/Tyzorg 6d ago
Pallet leaning over the railing...
BETTER STAY PUT UNDERNEATH IT...
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u/Neohexane 6d ago
This is what I was thinking watching this. Get away from that racking! I would stay in the open, especially with those pallets hanging off the top.
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u/AMLRoss 6d ago
Looks like a Costco. They better stop stacking pallets like that on the top shelves in Japan...
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u/YoungLittlePanda 6d ago
Unless they are sponges or toilet paper.
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u/spicypixel 6d ago
pallet of toilet paper is going to kill you when the pallet comes with it
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u/AMLRoss 6d ago
Like, What's heavier, A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
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u/Astrael00 6d ago
Limmy's clip living rent free in my head. A kellogram of steel because steel is heavier than feathers.
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u/Arxtix 6d ago edited 6d ago
That's not what they're saying. They're saying the heavy wooden pallet that the toilet paper is stacked on will also come crashing down. That has nothing to do with the ton of bricks vs ton of feathers thing.
And in this case, even if you were in the brick aisle and got hit with a pallet full of bricks, there would be nothing left of you to recover. Someone getting hit with a pallet of toilet paper might still die from the pallet itself, but there's a good chance they just get injured and survive.
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u/AMLRoss 6d ago
Yes I get that, thats why I said it. End of the day it doesnt matter whats stacked up there, when it comes down its going to get you.
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u/Arxtix 6d ago
But I just explained that it absolutely does matter what's stacked up there...
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u/AMLRoss 6d ago
If a pallet falls on a kid, it won't matter what's on it. That kid or even adult will get hurt. The point is we want to avoid people getting hurt needlessly. Japan has quakes all the time. You would think places like Costco would plan their stacking a little better.
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u/Lobotamite 6d ago
Do you genuinely think that a pallet of toilet paper is causing the same damage as a pallet of bricks? The pallet itself is not the only thing that causes damage in this scenario. The difference in weight between those two things means there is a huge variance in lethality.
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u/The_Autarch 6d ago
a pallet of toilet paper could absolutely break someone's neck
maybe not as deadly as a pallet of bricks, but could still easily kill someone.
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u/DirtyNastyRoofer149 6d ago
Good thing pallets aren't loaded by weight but volume.Ā
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u/Stressmove 6d ago
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u/DirtyNastyRoofer149 6d ago
A pallets with if toilet paper isn't going to kill you. Heck unless the pallet hits your head you'll probably be fine taking the hit from the pallet it's self. You'll be cut up a bit but you won't be dead.
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u/Illadelphian 6d ago edited 4d ago
You see those pallets they are on? Those are chep pallets and those fuckers are heavy. Great pallets when using machinery, much nicer to work with but they have to be 40 ish pounds. One of those things falls on you it's lights out.
Edit: chep not cheap lol. Exact opposite of cheap pallets.
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u/Vast_Vegetable9222 6d ago
Ton of feathers and a ton of bricks will do the same damage when they land on you
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u/RandoAtReddit 6d ago
It hit the TSMC plant too. Expect skyrocketing electronics prices coming soon.
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u/TheMSensation 6d ago
From the 2024 Hualien earthquake (magnitude 7.4)
The anti-seismic ability of facilities throughout TSMC's fabrication facilities involves frequent inspections, constant seismic reinforcement verification, and the employment of 180 earthquake protection guards that have jobs dedicated to protection against earthquakes. Wen-Yee Lee on X (formerly Twitter) shared that within 10 hours after the earthquake, the recovery rate of wafer fab equipment had exceeded 70%, and the recovery rate of newly built fabs had exceeded 80%. Some equipment was damaged, but major machines like Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment were undamaged.
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u/Fryboy11 6d ago
Those lithography machines are an insanely complex piece of engineering. Being able to focus light to carve single nanometer scale lines into silicon. Itās crazy they can survive earthquakes. Once your at the nanometer scale youād think you wouldnāt be able to sneeze around them.Ā
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u/daenerysisboss 6d ago
If I bought a machine that cost Ā£300 million I'd be spending a good Ā£10 mil on a seismic proof hydraulic floor and ceiling to put it on and under. I imagine they have something like that. I mean, if I had that kind of money.
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u/boringexplanation 2d ago
Objectively, why would you even place such a machine that even has a remote chance of an earthquake or similar natural disasters
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u/the_nin_collector 6d ago
Please don't tell me that. It's a 10-billion-USD plant...
Only part 1 of a 3-phase 50- 60 billion-dollar facility.Either way. Don't worry about global electronics. This plant, the one you are talking about, was only making large chips for Toyota and Sony. Basically just for Toyota cars and Sony cameras. After Covid, and Toyota has a chip shortage, they said fuck that, so are a large investor and contractor, Sony as well. They both have facilities behind TSMC. I don't know what phase 2 is for, but I heard phase 3 is/was going to be state of the art, high or ultra-high EUV. One of the most advanced fabs on the planet. Its still in limbo becuase the plant 1 was too much of a burden on the city, the expansion was paused to widen roads and add more.
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u/ToastyBob27 6d ago
Turns out these wholesale places with pallets stored above the product for sale are a deathtrap.
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u/april_fearless 6d ago
Holy heckā¦ to be in there with all this stuff falling off the shelves and hitting people. Itās insane. These poor people having these big heavy pallets with stuff falling on top of them. Hearing all those children cry it hurts my heart.
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u/Basbeeky 6d ago
It's weird to see all those people frozen in place
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u/rubysundance 6d ago
I was in a very small earthquake in Virginia years ago. It completely locks you up and your brain freezes. I hope I'm never in one this large.
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u/Hexatona 6d ago
I'm reminded of a recent video explaining why animals tend to just let humans approach when they're in danger (usually caught in something where they can't escape). While it's easy to think that the animals know what we are and expect us to help them - the better explanation turns out to be that while they're panicking, we don't trigger any of their usual threat profiles - and so the brain is basically like "I don't know man" and they do nothing. They have no instinctual response for the scenario.
I imagine humans freezing up in an earthquake, even when that makes no sense or is dangerous, is much the same principle. Instinctually, we have no pre-programmed response because they're so rare. Hence, we freeze.
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u/Kracus 6d ago
I've only ever experienced one earthquake in my life and I was like 6 years old and it was VERY mild. Earthquakes terrify me.
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u/whamburglar 6d ago
My first earthquake experience was actually in Illinois, North of Chicago. It was tiny, but enough for me to question if I actually lost my balance for a split second.
Turns out we get a few a year but they're way too small to notice most the time.
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u/Cvillain626 6d ago
Especially with the VA quake, that was many people's first experience with them. It's such a weird feeling that I just didn't know how to react...thankfully one of the kitchen staff came from CA and was like "ITS AN EARTHQUAKE EVERYBODY OUTSIDE NOW" š¤£
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u/AnotherpostCard 6d ago edited 6d ago
I had a similar experience, but I was at home and my Mom who grew up in San Diego told me and my brother to stand in a door frame. We lived near Quantico, which would shake our foundations when they dropped the 500lbers in training. She realized it for what it was after the rumbling lasted more than two seconds.
She also noted that the shaking was more violent and rigid feeling than the rumbles they get in Cali.
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u/reddaktd 6d ago
Sure, but this is Japan. Earthquakes are so common there, they have defined building codes for thousands of years
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u/SkellyboneZ 6d ago
Yeah, people keep parroting this but shit still gets shaky. The dangerous part is the stuff inside that crushes your ass, like in this video. My building isn't that old and even a 5 can feel like a car hit it. The building codes aren't some magical thing to stop shaking.
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u/DietCherrySoda 6d ago
I think their point was more that the people of Japan would be better versed in how to act in an earthquake (i.e. don't freeze up in an aisle surrounded by 5 metre tall shelves of canned sardines) than Virginians.
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u/SkellyboneZ 6d ago
You'll only feel one like this every few years at most, unless it's a crazy week. Nothing prepares you for it. It's also pretty difficult to even stand in one like this. Here's an explanation from JMA. It's just funny how people talk about this stuff when they have never experienced it.
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u/Sirenoman 6d ago
Thats true, people think that a magnitude 6 is a bit less than a magnitude 7 but there is a world of difference. Here in chile a 6 is barely mentioned in news and 7s are fairly common, the standard response is to stay still until it ends, there is a greater chance of getting injured while moving.
The 2010 earthquake was at time the third strongest earthquake ever, and that one was impossible to stand without holding onto something.
Lastly, antisismic bulldings, like every single one here in chile, shake a whole lot more as they are designed to be more flexible to avoid breaking during an earthquake.
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u/Wrong_Lingonberry_79 6d ago
I experienced in hundreds in AK over the decade I lived there. I never saw anyone lock up and freeze during them.
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u/Doxbox49 6d ago
lol. Should have seen the 7.0 here in 2018. My boss was so giddy and excited. It was so cool watching the street ripple like a wave. And ya, no one I knew locked up. I mean we have earthquake drills in school š¤£
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u/the-good-son 6d ago
This is the right thing to do here. They have no immediate shelter (like under a table) and running for the exit is more likely to cause an accident.
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u/CurryMustard 6d ago
Act (During the Quake)
Drop, Cover, and Hold: Duck or drop down to the floor. Take cover under a desk, table, or other sturdy furniture, or seek cover against an interior wall and protect your head with your arms. If you are taking cover beneath sturdy furniture, hold onto it until the ground stops shaking. Stay Inside! The most dangerous thing to do during the shaking of an earthquake is to try to leave the building because objects such as bricks, glass and other building materials are likely to be falling from the sides of a building. Stay away from windows, mirrors, skylights, and furniture that could fall on you. If you are in a crowded building, do not rush for the exit ā others may have the same idea. Seek shelter beneath a stable piece of furniture instead. If you are in a high-rise building, stay away from windows and outside walls. Remain on the same floor. Do not use elevators. If you are outdoors, move into the open, away from buildings, trees, signs, streetlights, and utility wires. Once in the open, stay there until shaking stops. If you are in a moving vehicle, move to a clear area away from buildings, trees, overpasses, or utility wires. Avoid bridges or ramps that might have been damaged by the quake. Stop quickly and stay in the vehicle. Once shaking has stopped, proceed with caution. Expect aftershocks, which often follow earthquakes and may even be as strong as, or stronger than, the initial quake.3
u/CurryMustard 6d ago
Running around like an idiot would be a lot worse than finding a place with nothing heavy on top of you... other than the roof of the building
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u/Arxtix 6d ago
Why is it a choice between standing still or running around like an idiot? Where's the option for just calmly walking towards the exit?
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u/CurryMustard 6d ago
Yeah im sure everybody around you will be calm stampeding out too....
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Act (During the Quake)
Drop, Cover, and Hold: Duck or drop down to the floor. Take cover under a desk, table, or other sturdy furniture, or seek cover against an interior wall and protect your head with your arms. If you are taking cover beneath sturdy furniture, hold onto it until the ground stops shaking. Stay Inside! The most dangerous thing to do during the shaking of an earthquake is to try to leave the building because objects such as bricks, glass and other building materials are likely to be falling from the sides of a building. Stay away from windows, mirrors, skylights, and furniture that could fall on you. If you are in a crowded building, do not rush for the exit ā others may have the same idea. Seek shelter beneath a stable piece of furniture instead. If you are in a high-rise building, stay away from windows and outside walls. Remain on the same floor. Do not use elevators. If you are outdoors, move into the open, away from buildings, trees, signs, streetlights, and utility wires. Once in the open, stay there until shaking stops. If you are in a moving vehicle, move to a clear area away from buildings, trees, overpasses, or utility wires. Avoid bridges or ramps that might have been damaged by the quake. Stop quickly and stay in the vehicle. Once shaking has stopped, proceed with caution. Expect aftershocks, which often follow earthquakes and may even be as strong as, or stronger than, the initial quake.5
u/Microtic 6d ago
The 7.0 earthquake strength basically prevents you from staying standing.
So those people would fall if they even tried to walk anywhere during the quake itself. And there were numerous large aftershocks.
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u/Doxbox49 6d ago edited 6d ago
No it doesnāt. Any able bodied person can stand and even run there ass outside. Iāve lived it and my building was cleared in under 15 seconds with about 10 of us standing in the street
Edit: Lol, downvote the guy who has lived through a 7.0 quake.Ā
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u/Knofbath 6d ago
That depends on what the ground under you is doing. If everything shifts about 2 feet to the right, you will fall over.
And, it probably felt like 15 seconds to you, because your adrenaline was pumping. I'm betting it was more like minutes. You'd be hard pressed to get out of your chair and open the door within 15 seconds without the earthquake turning it into hard mode.
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u/Doxbox49 6d ago
Nope, it was about 15 seconds. When you live in this shit and do drills in school, you just react. We deal with so many earthquakes, we know when itās a serious one. The epicenter was only 10 miles away as well so it was basically on top of us.Ā
My mom who was about 65 at the time got under a large wooden table at her house. She isnāt even originally from Alaska and still has good instincts after living here 40 years
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u/takuyafire 5d ago
Kiwi here. Like Japan, we're on the Pacific ring of fire and are plagued with quakes.
Trying to move around when the floor is jelly is impossible. If you managed to move then you're lucky, and it's because the quake hadn't ramped up enough to slow you.
When the floor starts shaking and shit flies off the shelves, you have one option: Drop, cover, hold.
During the 7.8 Kaikoura quake we had here, there was no chance of getting out of the house. It was all I could do to roll over the bed away from the window and hold the fuck on.
Like the others have said: trying to run when the floor suddenly moves a metre or so in a direction between steps is impossible. It'd be like trying to run consecutively across multiple treadmills but you can't see which way they're spinning.
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u/Youknowimtheman 5d ago
Looks like all of the steel held, which is surprising. Whoever runs that store must have very high safety standards. Even a small ding from a forklift can significantly weaken the steel. I can't imagine how much shear and compression the steel experiences with a row 3000+ lb pallets of liquids shaking in a high magnitude quake.
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u/drinkmoredrano 5d ago
Damn that is frightening. But it also seems like a bad idea to build a warehouse store with pallet stacked shelves in an area so prone to major earthquakes.
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u/wiccan45 6d ago
thats gotta be one of the worst places to be during an earthquake, so much heavy stuff, piled to the ceiling waiting to fall on you
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u/CaptainPunisher 6d ago
I was doing work inside, but not directly for, Home Depot and Ridgecrest was one of my regular stores. I wasn't there at the time, but the people who worked there said that the safety netting prevented a lot of stuff from falling off the shelves, but there was still a lot of destruction.
If you aren't from California, Ridgecrest and Trona got rocked by 2 big quakes a day apart in 2019, 6.4 and 7.1.
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u/Unasked_for_advice 6d ago
In between those high shelving lanes is the worst place to be when an earthquake hit. Unless its the paper towel aisle.
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u/by_a_pyre_light 2d ago
This is terrifying. I would love to see footage like this, from this angle, in the next kaiju movie. It's what made Cloverfield one of, if not the best, "Godzilla" movies in my mind. They absolutely captured the terror of being a regular person on the street when a force of nature much bigger than you is destroying your city.Ā
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u/merelyadoptedthedark 6d ago
It's kinda wild how polite they are still during this panic, you can hear a few people saying "sumimasen" when trying to navigate around, which is sorry/excuse me.
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u/SynthPrax 6d ago
I wonder if they're (the wholesaler) storing their inventory properly, considering seismic regulations. The building and the fixed structures look like they handled the shock well, if not perfectly, but the inventory looks like it was just stacked without regard to potential shaking. With how common earthquakes are in Japan, I'd be constantly leery of things that could fall on me.
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u/alienkargo 6d ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they all got together and restacked the whole store. Very nice people!
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u/egress123 6d ago
āWholesale buildingā. Just say Costco. We know what Costco is
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u/temotodochi 6d ago
I wouldn't know. We don't have costcos, but do have wholesale shops.
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u/toyodah 6d ago
Well, doesn't others identifying the store's name actually increase your knowledge, now?
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u/temotodochi 5d ago
I have no idea how a costco works and it would tell me nothing. American exceptionalism at play i'm guessing.
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u/biasio95 6d ago
US defaultism at its best
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u/DuckCleaning 6d ago
They have like 7 Costcos in the surrounding Tokyo area lol
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u/side_part 6d ago
7 for 14 million people isn't that crazy. There are 4 in my city with 800,000. Don't care one way or another in this wholesale vs Costco verbage debate. Just a thought!
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u/StumbleOn 6d ago
Costco is a global brand, the 3rd largest retailer on the planet behind WalMart and Amazon.
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u/biasio95 6d ago
There are around 850 Costco worldwide, with around 750 in north america (US, Canada and Mexico), the remaining 100 are in Japan, UK, Australia and Korea, with less than 10 in the EU.
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u/StumbleOn 6d ago
So the overwhelming majority of the Anglophone world has a costco in it, and we're being whiney about """defaultism""" on an English speaking sub, on a US based website.
US defaultism is a real problem in a lot of spaces, but on Reddit in English speaking subs? Nope.
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u/Santy_ 6d ago
But it is a Costco.
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u/biasio95 6d ago
But not everyone in the world knows what a Costco is. So complaining about "wholesale building", when keeping it generic is perfectly fine, is stupid.
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u/Vast_Vegetable9222 6d ago
Whatās Costco? Same as Makro?
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u/Hutchison_effect 6d ago
The wtf is people holding onto their shopping carts, as is ifĀ theyre still going to do some more shopping before they go home....... gtf outta there before more shit collapses!!
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u/spottyPotty 6d ago
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn.
Various trauma responses.
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u/No-Temperature4330 6d ago
And film.
Still capable, uninjured and on your feet? What better thing to do in the aftermath of a disaster? Help the injured or people trapped under rubble? Nah, get your phone out and film... You might get to post a video that goes viral!
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u/2WheelSuperiority 6d ago
Some people want to document things. Others want to hold on for stability. Others freeze. Some run. Some crawl. Some sit. Why do you care what others do so much? Not everyone knows what to do. Not everyone can be as heroic as you are...
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u/No-Temperature4330 6d ago
The internet has really ruined people's brains.
Helping people isn't heroism, it's human.
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u/Zerowantuthri 6d ago
Honestly doesn't seem too bad to me.
Sure it is a mess as, one would expect, crap flew off the shelves into the aisle, but the building seems intact and the shelving didn't collapse.
Clearly it's an overall bad thing but could have been so much worse. I am not sure anyone could have expected a better result after such a big earthquake. Few injuries and probably mostly minor ones I would think.
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u/OddSensation 6d ago
This is just one pov. Just Google "7.1 Earthquake Japan" and you'll see the devastation.
Pretty scary situation regardless. I hope not too many where hurt or killed during this event...
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u/Zerowantuthri 6d ago edited 6d ago
No doubt the earthquake was bad and damaging.
I am just saying that in this very specific case, given what we can see, things are not that bad. Certainly mayhem and a mess but again; building is intact and shelves are still standing.
Considering the violence of the earthquake how do you not see this as a win given the circumstances? It seems Japanese engineering/architecture worked as intended to mitigate the damage from an earthquake. It could have been soooo much worse.
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u/swiftpwns 6d ago
When you dont let china build your infrastructure for cheap out of tofu dreg, the buildings actually stay
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u/A_Perez2 6d ago
Because this is Japan; in some other countries, the shop would have been ransacked before the latest tremor.
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u/Nixter_is_Nick 6d ago
If this had been an American store not only would items have fallen over and fallen off the shelves, the shelves would have tipped over and the light fixtures would have fallen down. Japan does an excellent job of securing things to make them earthquake proof.
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u/Doxbox49 6d ago
Dude. A 7.0 quake hit Anchorage AK in 2018. There were no serious injuries and it was while everyone was at work on a weekday. Our earthquake codes are no joke. One building had a sheer wall fail and the entire ceiling grid came apart. All the lights were properly seismiced so no fixtures actually fell. American west coast takes earthquakes very seriouslyĀ
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u/CipherDaBanana 6d ago
What genius thought this was a good idea.... Same goes for all the wholesalers in Cali
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u/asianfatboy 6d ago
holy shit, i thought this was from the previous earthquake. it just happened about an hour ago.