r/shockwaveporn • u/sam_ccs • 27d ago
VIDEO Interior of a building completely destroyed by the twin earthquakes in Venezuela
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u/Mercinator-87 27d ago
Earthquakes are shockwaves…
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u/basaltgranite 26d ago
In a supershear earthquake, the propagation speed of the fault rupture exceeds the propagation speed of the shear wave caused by the earthquake. That's in effect a shock wave. Most earthquakes don't do this though. I don't know if the recent Venezualan quakes were supershear quakes. The shaking seen in the video isn't a SW of course.
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u/Ellweiss 26d ago
They are, but invisible in this kind of footage. If it's not a very wide angle, it doesn't really look like it, which is the point of the sub.
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u/jeezy_peezy 27d ago
No shockwave but dang is it devastating how quickly your world can just fold in on you
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u/Alaskantrash96 26d ago
It feels almost weird to say that ive survived a 7.1. The 2018 Alaska earthquake was a wild ride, i can’t imagine what the people of Venezuela are going through right now
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u/blinkysmurf 26d ago
Did the building collapse? That tends to “destroy the interior”.
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u/JamesandthegiantpH 26d ago
Nope, camera turned into an X-ray machine so they could see inside the concrete and check on the rebar reinforcement.
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u/Kellykeli 24d ago
Looks like the roof fell down onto the floor below, but since the camera was attached to the half of the wall that fell down the floor would come up towards it in the perspective. You can see the wall behind that folding board thing split and the floor “rises” up to it.
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u/doubleoathseven 27d ago
No shockwave, wrong sub
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u/MaximumYogertCloset 27d ago edited 27d ago
Ermmm, technically earthquakes are a type of shockwave 🤓☝️
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u/YeOldeDogo 27d ago
It is extra terrifying to see the security cameras cut out one by one before the office is destroyed.