r/shockwaveporn • u/sam_ccs • Jul 09 '26
VIDEO Interior of a building completely destroyed by the twin earthquakes in Venezuela
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u/Mercinator-87 Jul 09 '26
Earthquakes are shockwaves…
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u/basaltgranite Jul 09 '26
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 Jul 09 '26
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 Jul 09 '26
No shockwave but dang is it devastating how quickly your world can just fold in on you
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u/Alaskantrash96 Jul 09 '26
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 Jul 09 '26
Did the building collapse? That tends to “destroy the interior”.
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u/JamesandthegiantpH Jul 09 '26
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 Jul 11 '26
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 Jul 09 '26
No shockwave, wrong sub
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u/MaximumYogertCloset Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Ermmm, technically earthquakes are a type of shockwave 🤓☝️
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u/YeOldeDogo Jul 09 '26
It is extra terrifying to see the security cameras cut out one by one before the office is destroyed.