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u/Pierlas 4d ago
That’s a nice-ass house in Panama. Or, was a nice-ass house.
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u/MAO_of_DC 4d ago
The fact that it was a nice house is probably why it was still standing. 7.7 is no joke.
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u/Merry_Dankmas 4d ago
Seriously, 7.7 is devastatingly bad. Whoever built that house did a really good job. My wife and her family are from Costa Rica and their house there has taken more damage than this video from something as small as a 4. Hats off to the builders.
Side note: My wifes brother felt the earthquake in Costa Rica. He was working on his car and was underneath it. He said he suddenly felt sick like he was moving for some reason. Got out from underneath the car and stood up then felt fine so he got back to work and didnt think much of it. Then the news broke about Panama.
Google tells me the Coclé province of Panama got hit the hardest. My BIL lives in Grecia, Costa Rica. Those two are 720 km or 447 miles apart. Crazy you can feel it from that distance (even if only slightly).
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u/turquoise_amethyst 4d ago
Even the little earthquakes are noticeable if you were flat on the ground (like a 2-3).
I could absolutely see him getting motion sickness from that. Especially if the ground shifts slowly rather than the fast, jarring ones!
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u/Spunky_Meatballs 4d ago
I saw light peeking through every window frame and it looked like the ceiling and walls completely decoupled. I guess that's better than failing all together, but this house is probably a knock down and build again situation
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u/_JP_63 3d ago
I can tell you for a fact that there were about 1200 buildings damaged across the entire country, but no deaths, only 26 injured. It was no joke but we lost no people to it.
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u/Chilly291 4d ago
Yeah my thought as well. Aside from the earthquake they have it pretty nice over there
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u/NickMode 4d ago
Why did he stay in the house?!
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u/dirywhiteboy 4d ago
Had to get the footage. That man did it for us
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u/NickMode 4d ago
What a legend
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u/satireplusplus 4d ago
MUST. KEEP. FILMING. "oh look going to this other room could be a cinematographic master piece and oh wow this look rad, now a little bit of filming outside, keep shaking..."
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u/nickability 4d ago
You’re supposed to stay indoors during a quake, they actually say going outside you’re more likely to die/have an accident? Someone correct me if I’m wrong!
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u/pandakatie 4d ago
I looked it up, the reason why people are encouraged not to go outside is because moving around during the quake is when most injuries happen (presumably due to falls). The safest thing to do is get underneath heavy furniture and hold on with one hand, or go against an interior wall. If you're already outside, it's recommended to stay outside
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u/nohandsfootball 4d ago
That's not entirely true, it depends. If your home/structure is not built to withstand an earthquake, you want to leave. The catch with that is that there's a risk of walls falling on you (or other things, like A/C units, gargoyles, etc.).
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u/Sensitive-Fishing-64 4d ago
as long as you're not standing near a building or power lines I don't see how that's true, I would take the middle of a field to inside a building any day
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u/PsychoMouse 4d ago
I’d also recommend, NOT GOING INTO A ROOM WHERE THE WALLS ARE GLASS, and then get right up beside the broken and breaking windows. lol
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u/TheBestBigAl 4d ago
Giant crack opens in the ground, you fall in, and then it closes up.
Source: I saw it in a cartoon once.
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u/babaroga73 4d ago
Legit. But you fall inside only after you look down and there's no ground beneath. So, don't look down.
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u/rx8saxman 4d ago
This is the advice for counties with modern seismic standards for their buildings, but I’m not sure it applies everywhere. The idea being that building collapses are pretty rare, but trying to move around while everything is shaking can cause injury or worse. But, if your building wasn’t designed for earthquakes you might be best to GTFO.
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u/Nagromonicon 4d ago
I was alive for 9/11. If I'm ever indoors during a disaster that can collapse a building my only impulse is going to be to get out of that building.
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u/GetOutOfTheWhey 4d ago
That only applies if you are like in the city or have tall buildings around.
This guy is in a bungalow kind of deal and right outside is a nice garden with no chance at falling debris.
His main risk is his roof falling on him.
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u/babaroga73 4d ago
That's a one storey building and you're outside in 2 seconds, and there's no tall buildings around it. Definitely the good thing to do there is the opposite of what you learned - for tall buildings.
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u/PsychoMouse 4d ago
Is this a white woman in a slasher horror movie? What the fuck? I don’t think I’ve seen someone with absolutely no sense of self preservation to such a degree.
Yeah, get near the windows. THATS SAFE.
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u/Tinysaur 4d ago
2 ft from the exit into open land or my glass shard gymnasium hmmmm
cya on the next respawn fellas
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u/Simoxs7 4d ago
as someone who lives in a Geologically stable region earthquakes just seem crazy to me, I just can’t imagine how it’d feel
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u/mstraveller 4d ago
I'm from Panama and I can tell you we're used to nothing ever happening. We even have a local saying that pretty much goes like: "god is Panamanian" because when it comes to mother nature, Panama is super super safe. This is my first time ever going through something like this.
Couldn't sleep much if at all last night. Turns out that after an earthquake like that, you really do feel the aftershocks. The earthquake happened around 1:40pm Friday and there's been 150+ aftershocks. Last one being 4 minutes ago but thankfully you don't feel every single one. Some were strong and scary but it's going down. I'm just super grateful my country has managed to go through this with no casualties, all the skyscrapers being intact in the city. We're not used to stuff like this happening but at least the engineering has been top notch. I'm so grateful.
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u/DashofCitrus 4d ago
From Colombia here and I know exactly what you mean from ours two months ago. I've been through plenty of 6s where I didn't even bother to get out of bed, I'm so used to earthquakes.
There is something viscerally terrifying about a 7 and above. It is legitimately traumatizing. Comparing a 7+ to anything below is like thinking that because you've felt a gust of wind, you now know what a hurricane feels like.
I couldn't sleep well for days and kept a powerbank fully charged next to my bed in case an aftershock made my building collapse.
Take care of yourself in the coming weeks.
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u/Peter3571 4d ago
If you're interested, here's a website that plots the depth of each recent earthquake on a globe. You can see the main quake and all the aftershocks. (probably doesn't work too well on phones however)
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u/UndestroyableMousse 3d ago
Whoever made that website and decided to make the globe see through, should be court martialed.
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u/guice666 4d ago
Look at all those earthquakes not along fault lines within the US. It would be interesting to put a map of oil / fracking fields over a US tremor map.
Hawai'i has a number of them, too, but no doubt they're volcanic quakes.
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u/deltarho 4d ago
I’ve lived in CA my whole life. 99.9% of the time it’s nothing. It can be fun to be honest. You either get one big kind of bang and shunt that feels like a car hit your house, or, if you’re lucky, it’s like 3.5 and rolling. Feels like you’re on a boat for 4 or 5 seconds. Very weird to be on land and feel the earth turn to liquid underneath you. It’s usually over before you have time to mentally process it and then you get a little adrenaline high for a few minutes. Then everyone starts texting each other going “hey you feel that?”
Also super interesting to see my cats alert a few seconds before it happens. They always have a little bit of warning.
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u/dphoenix1 4d ago
It’s interesting how much the local bedrock impacts the intensity and range. Where the bedrock is “younger,” less dense and more fractured like on the west coast, earthquakes dissipate much more quickly and tend to feel less intense, getting absorbed faster as you move away from the epicenter. We have far fewer quakes on the east coast, but the old, dense bedrock means when we do get one, it’s quite intense and is felt far away. For instance, the minor 5.8 we had in 2011 was felt 600 miles away, whereas the 6.0 in Napa valley in 2014 was felt only 250 miles away.
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u/spibop 4d ago
Or you have the Christchurch earthquake, where the city was built on a sedimentary plain with the fault buried far beneath. The sediment liquified during the quake, causing way worse damage. They originally thought it had struck Wellington to the north, which is on a known fault (which is also crazy; building your capitol on a bunch of hillsides above a fault line).
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u/gneiss_kitty 2d ago
The Christchurch (and Kaikoura) earthquake also had "seismic lensing," where the seismic waves traveled through the soft sediment of the valley, hit the hard bedrock on the valley edge (the volcanic rock of the Port Hills, in Christchurch's case) and bounce back into the valley sediment--sometimes, you get constructive interference, where the troughs and peaks of the waves line up, which amplifies the shaking on the surface. This is why a relatively moderate earthquake in Christchurch caused so much damage.
Fun fact, the 1855 Wairarapa (Wellington) earthquake had the largest known continental fault offset of 18.7 meters (~61 feet).
In fairness, settlers didn't realize they built on a giant fault. They just wanted the harbor and the mountains to shelter there from storms, without realizing how those were formed.
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u/AskMrScience 4d ago
This is it exactly.
The thing I didn't realize before moving to California is that earthquakes make noise, and they are LOUD. After a bang paired with a jolt, my first thought is always that somebody drove a trunk into the building. Then my brain kicks in.
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u/Sanchastayswoke 4d ago
Clearly you never lived thru a major earthquake or you’d also be describing that other 1%, which generally traumatizes you for life in one way or another.
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u/deltarho 4d ago
Northridge. 1994. Thankfully I wasn’t in the valley, but I was here. Certainly was not so fun. We were legitimately scared parts of our house would collapse and spent about 7 hours outside til we determined there wouldn’t be anymore big aftershocks.
After that earthquake, I do have a lot of faith in our city’s infrastructure. I work in real estate and have some experience with all of the retrofitting and quake-proofing buildings have these days. I hope to never experience a big one again, but hopefully the fallout won’t be nearly as bad when it does happen. I feel for anyone who’s been touched by a serious earthquake. I’m also aware that many countries can’t afford to properly protect people from them which is a real shame.
My intention with the comment was simply to illustrate what it’s really like to live day-to-day in an earthquake-prone area. You never see videos online of a 3-4.5 earthquake. It’s only ever these crazy ones which are very rare in the grand scheme of things.
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u/mistageko 4d ago
Tbf, at 37 and living in LA most of my life, they're describing all of my earthquakes. I only remember Northridge from the news. Honestly, the fires had been more concerning.
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u/NetworkSingularity 4d ago
Honestly my favorite magnitude is about a 4 to 4.5. It’s just shakey enough to be a little exciting, but then everything is fine afterward. I don’t think I even really feel or notice 3.5s.
What you said about not processing it is real though. I think my clearest memory of an earthquake is from high school. I was sitting in a recliner that could rock around watching the Daily Show. I remember thinking Jon Stewart was moving around a lot, so maybe I should stop rocking in my chair. Then I realized I wasn’t actually rocking around on purpose. Then I realized it was an earthquake, but by that point it was already pretty much done. Didn’t even have a chance to get out of the chair by the time the earthquake was over
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u/goodguyatheist 4d ago
I feel like im broken ive lived in california for my whole life too all 30 years of it and never felt anything
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u/Hoboforeternity 4d ago
I have experience 6,5 magnitude of something. It definitely feel weird. First everything just kinda move, you just feel like "umm maybe my head isnt right " but i slowly realized it isnt my head or vision, everything just shake and you feel like you're on a boat.
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u/twobit042 4d ago
Yeah the first earthquake I was in I definitely thought it was vertigo or something until I realized what was happening
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u/Cum_on_doorknob 4d ago
The feeling depends on the structure you’re in when it happens. Sometimes it feels like being on a boat.
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u/scorpyo72 4d ago
I'm from a boring seismic zone and moved to the PNW. My first earthquake experience was the Nisqually 6.0 back in 2001.
With no experience, it was a completely unexpected. I was in the middle of a job interview. It felt like someone solid was jumping up and down in the building. Then I saw the vertical blinds swaying. I realized it was an earthquake, and then the anxiety about "the big one" kicked in and I realized I was on the 8th floor of a dozen floor building. Apparently, all the color drained from my face because the interviewer recommended we stop and walk out.
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u/wanabejedi 4d ago
Well better start preparing for one cause Panama is also known as a geographical stable location. So much so that there is a famous story about Fernando de Lesseps convincing the American government to build the Canal in Panama because of just that very reason. At the time USA was deciding between Nicaragua and Panama, so he meet with the USA government and took with him a postage stamp from Nicaragua and a picture of a famous arch in Panama called el Arco Chato (the straight arch) which was built in 1670. The postage stamp from Nicaragua was of a volcano erupting and he told them that Nicaragua is so famous for their seismic activity that they put it on their stamps. On the other hand that the flat arch which had stood for around 230 years at that point would have toppled over long ago if Panama was not a geographical stable location. And he was right cause the flat arch still stands to this day. Though haven't checked after yesterday's earthquake.
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u/digitalbooty 4d ago
You might be being a little dramatic, no? Panama has around 150 4.0+ strength earthquakes a year. You're right that stronger earthquakes that cause significant damage are relatively rare, but they're not unheard of.
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u/pichael289 4d ago
Ohio has had one earthquake in my 37 years. It woke me up but I fell back asleep, not the first time Ive woken up with my whole body vibrating.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 4d ago
This is a great example of what NOT to do! He’s running around towards windows trying to film stuff?? Dude… NO
You want to: Get away from windows, don’t stand under power lines, and find some cover.
WTF does this guy have a death wish? Stop filming! Get under the biggest, sturdiest table you can find, clutch it for dear life, protect your head/neck!!
The collective groan you hear is from all the Ring of Fire countries watching this, aaaagggh
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u/mrASSMAN 4d ago
And then he heads outside and I’m like finally making the right move! But then he goes under that awning which could collapse at any moment lol
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u/Karma_Doesnt_Matter 4d ago
This generation is so cooked, dude literally risking his life during an earthquake to record content for internet points.
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u/lolwatokay 4d ago
I know nothing about homes in Panama but this one seems pretty damn nice. Surely only a millennial or older would be able to own it. Unless “this generation” did not imply anyone in particular.
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u/gunnervi 4d ago
sometimes young people live with older relatives
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u/lolwatokay 4d ago
And we’re to assume these younger people are the ones recording? Nobody here has Gen X parents that are constantly locked on their phones?
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u/Smackdaddy955 4d ago
People have risked their lives to document history since the camera was invented, wtf are you talking about?
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u/cybersaurus 4d ago
Pretty sure you could find a video just like this posted every few months for the past 2 decades, but go off I guess.
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u/Natman_9999 4d ago
Watching all the damage from this earthquake makes me wonder, how does the insurance work for a disaster like this?
Can the insurance companies cover everyone?
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u/2eanimation 4d ago
As long as it’s covered in the policy, usually yes. If shit really hits the fan(like, MASSIVE disaster) and the company is unable to pay, reinsurers kick in(insurances for insurance companies).
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u/SenorNZ 4d ago
I'm in New Zealand, and here house insurance covers earthquakes. They take years to pay out, but you should eventually get payed.
Earthquakes are not uniform in damage, some areas experience more damage than others, some are even spared damage completely, and there's even some areas that turn to liquid, called liquefaction, where solid ground becomes liquid and things sink into it.
In Christchurch there was some red areas with houses that were destroyed, yellow areas where houses were damaged so much they are unsafe to live in, and areas that were pretty much untouched. So insurance can be from broken windows to a full loss and is covered.
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u/Sensitive-Fishing-64 4d ago
they don't usually cover "Acts of God" ie any major natural disaster
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u/Springstof 4d ago
Not in standard policies indeed. Separate coverages for natural disasters often exist, but obviously cost a lot of money. Considering this person seems to live in quite a nice house, they might have such coverage, but the poorer people in countries tend not to have this coverage.
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u/kyjoely 4d ago
They have bigger things to worry about but I would be remiss if I didn’t point out r/tvtoohigh
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u/Gelroose 4d ago
The safest place to go during an earthquake is behind filming equipment.
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u/gamechanger22 4d ago
Oooo yeah and run right into the room made almost entirely of glass windows lol
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u/u2020bullet 4d ago
This is the dumbest person I've seen in quite a while. Instead of running out the door that's right next to them, they first go into a room that's a about 50% windows, some of which are even already broken.
Then even after leaving the house, stays around it to test their fate in case there are any aftershocks instead of moving as far away from any structures as possible.
Absolutely no survival instincts to be seen anywhere in this video.
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u/lordredsnake 3d ago
Everyone's first instinct is to get content now. People try to get closer to mass shooters to get better footage. They run towards fires, floods, building collapses, and other disasters.
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u/Hyjynx75 3d ago
I'm obviously not everyone as I would run the fuck away from danger unless a loved one needed help. The fact that humans have had their brains rewired by social media from fight or flight to stop and record is disturbing.
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u/MiklasK 4d ago
Holy shit. 7.7 is crazy!
But also, dude, I know the cameraman never dies, but this one is showing survival instincts or an especially suicidal lemming.
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u/gypsykush 4d ago
My house is shaking violently and the windows are shattering. Let me walk right up to them and try to get cut in half by one.
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u/twobit042 4d ago
I am in Panama City now, this wasn't the experience here since we just had movement, luckily they design for seismic forces here or it could have been worse
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u/Illustrious_Choice58 3d ago
this person is doing everything you’re not supposed to do during an earthquake 😭
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u/NigraOvis 3d ago
What's insane is this person just casually walking around the house and recording all the random stuff. You're supposed to stand outside or under a door frame. Not roam in a house that is actively collapsing. Wtf.
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u/valdelaseras 2d ago
Not under doorframes for any modern buildings! Drop, cover & hold, preferably under a table
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u/fogoticus 4d ago
Why the fuck was the guy just roaming the house? He was awfully close to walking inside his own coffin.
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u/What_A_Flame 4d ago
Horrifying! But what's even more horrifying is watching the cameraperson STAY IN THE DAMN HOUSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE DO THAT IN AN EARTHQUAKE???
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u/tearisha 4d ago
When I was in the big march 11th earthquake in Japan It felt like I was on a boat instead of land.
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u/skippy99 4d ago
Running to the edge of a building that is cantilevered over a hill during an earthquake is perhaps not the best idea in the world…
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 4d ago
Massive earthquake, better start recording. Better go stand by some large, already damaged glass windows too.
We, as a species, should not have lasted this long.
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u/faylinameir 4d ago
Ma'am get the hell out of the house that's covered in glass. Earth quake safety 101. Get out of the dwelling or stand in a sturdy doorway.
I grew up in the midwest where we don't get earthquakes and we all were taught this.
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u/saradahokage1212 4d ago
Finally I can record something that will give me upvotes. It might kill me, it might not. We will see
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u/Nathund 4d ago
Wow. It's almost impressive how stupid this cameraman is.
Literally did everything wrong. We need an r/idiotsinnaturaldisasters
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u/LocalNHBoy 4d ago
Humans are so screwed. When your thirst for shooting videos for social media override your survival instincts to GET OUT you've failed as a human being. Snap out of it for Christs sake!!
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u/spottydodgy 4d ago
Did this just happen?
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u/mangonada123 4d ago
This video was filmed yesterday. The epicenter was in the Azuero peninsula. Since then there have been more than 100 aftershocks, some of them magnitude 6 or higher. It's not over yet.
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u/Whooptidooh 4d ago
Sure; there’s already a massive broken window and the house you’re in is still actively shaking vigorously; why not stand even closer to all of that glass?/s
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u/QueenCobra91 4d ago
i wanna punch this person. yeah sure, filming your house breaking on all corners is more important than to fucking go outside and save yourself.
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u/beastlol 4d ago
Stand next to fridge, run into room with all glass windows, now run under the awning…..
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u/GetOutOfTheWhey 4d ago
While we appreciate the footage.
Unless you have kids or loved ones in the house. Dont go back into the house and get out asap.
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u/Funmanhahaha 4d ago
There's a reason people say go under a table or something covered during an earthquake.
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u/Starrwulfe 4d ago
Lived in Japan for a long time— including March 11, 2011.
We get 7 pointers all the time, but our buildings are built to take it. Foundations that have flex shock damper and “hinge” bolts instead of nails. Light concrete made with polycarbonate filaments that bend instead of breaking. Safety glass everywhere.
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u/crawfish2000 4d ago
Does this country not have earthquake education? The worst thing to do is to run around like a headless chicken.
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u/MrBiggz01 4d ago
All these houses in Panama look like shit boxes from the outside, but inside they put my house to shame. Who builds these things?
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u/ouvremontrou 4d ago
Rule number 1 (apparently): "Film everything that's happening. It protects me from anything bad, and it gets me views"
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u/GravyNeck 4d ago
Yeah don't worry about safety, let's walk closer to the broken glass and under breakable objects so you can film. What a dumbass
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u/Taftimus 4d ago
This is exactly what not to do in an earthquake. Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings in earthquakes do.
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u/SackFace 4d ago
“My wife is screaming in fear. The only sensible thing to do is to ignore her and go near as much glass as possible.”
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u/temporalwanderer 4d ago
Shitty part is a lot of Panamanians are not insured, so much of the repair cost will be out of pocket- if they can even afford the repairs.
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u/TwinseyLohan 4d ago
At 38, I am proud to consider myself fairly well trained at making sure to know when articles are fake or propaganda. I can know when comments I'm reading are from bots, and can always spot AI videos.
With that, I thought I was watching really compelling poltergeist activity until I finally decided to read to post title during the glass room part.
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u/xortingen 4d ago
“Lemme record this before I die”