How to Prepare for an Earthquake

are you prepared for the big one Link's. not I'm Nick from British Columbia. Canada let's talk about. [Music]. [Applause]. that good mythical morning today's. episode is brought to you by Blue. microphones maker of this wonderful mic. that we have been using for a long time. the mouse creator of the sound that is. GM go to Blu mik.com to check out their. amazing products just listen just listen.

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okay we moved to California recently. we've established that for those of you. who watch Good Mythical Morning on a. regular basis almost a year now that if. you can use recently Loosely yes and um. we moved from North Carolina MH and. there are certain things that you worry. about when you live in North Carolina. like tornadoes hurricanes and there are. certain things that you worry about when. you live in California mudslides uh. fires wildfires coyotes.

coyotes people who can't drive there's a. lot of those and. earthquakes and there has been a lot of. talk about the big one if you watch any. kind of television at all especially if. you watch Discovery Channel or National. Geographic there every couple of days. there's a special on the big one or the. probability of the next big earthquake. and what's going to happen and how. devastating it's going to be and there's. all kinds of Talk Amongst the people out. here in the Los Angeles area angelinos. we have established that's what they.

call those people not Angela sites as. link tried to call them which sounds. like a parasite you could do that you. could call them that um that earthquakes. are a big deal because it talk you need. to be prepared people are like do you do. you have an earthquake kit have you got. your earthquake kit and you know. ironically since we've been out here we. have not experienced any earthquakes. that I know of no no but back home in. North Carolina they had one when we were. here maybe it's us maybe Us coming out. here redirected the epicenter of of us.

earthquakes to where we were from that's. called egocentric thinking link that. that you think that we had something to. do with the earthquakes world I would. call it ego seismic thinking oh that's. good there's a new word put that in the. Urban Dictionary go I will I will gladly. accept being an EG seismic Wherever I Go. earthquakes flee you know I should be. getting paid for that I think that would. actually be anti- egoo seismic put that. in the Urban Dictionary oh my goodness. California has a. 99.7% % chance of having a 6.7 magnitude.

earthquake or larger in the next 30. Years this is like a study that was done. in 2008 and these things are difficult. to predict but it's based on the. activity of the fault the San Andreas. fault and some other fault 6.7 out of a. scale of what 10 or 100 I think it's 10. is the RoR scale uh but I think every. time you go up a point the intensity. goes up by 10 it isn't a GE it is a. geometric scale it's not a linear. scale so GEOS seismic so basically this.

means that it's very likely that if we. stay out here for a long time we will. experience an earthquake and the big one. the the quote unquote big one which is. the theoretical 7.8 magnitude or greater. oh uh that could happen there is a 46%. chance that that will happen in the next. 30 Years so you know half and half again. this is all it could happen right now so. we're going to it could happen right now. or it could happen 30 years from now it. could happen or right now but it's not.

happening right now oh right now and the. question is what if it happened right. now that would be that at least we'd be. C catching it on tape but this would. definitely go viral this video would go. viral because as it stands this video is. not going to go viral but it but it's. going to be helpful to some people it's. funny when I think of an earthquake. hitting like if it happened right now I. picture there being a crack that would. form in between my legs I always been. watching lots of cartoons and movies I. always picture the crack between my feet. don't that's careful I thought you about.

to say crack between your. legs if you're if you're picturing that. on a regular basis you are definitely I. always picture the crack between my some. kind of ego crack entric crack. egocentric I no I always picture the. crack between my feet and so immediately. I have to make a choice which side left. or right and you know what if what if I. have family members on one side and I. have other family members on the other. side you form a link bridge and tell the. family to cross over to one side that's.

what you do cross over use me as a. bridge I you probably won't have time to. make those kind of plans uh but you do. you can make some plans and in all. seriousness we're making plans right now. in all seriousness there is there are. some things you could do and this is I. mean this show is sort of semi. educational take it what you will but we. know semi pathetic there there's some of. you there's some of you out there who. are not in danger of an earthquake uh so. this is purely for entertainment. purposes or if you ever visit an area. that is earthquake prone because there. is something that you should do now all.

the reading that I've been doing about. this because I've sort of been the. research person for this particular. thing last week you researched by narl. beats you did a great job on that by the. way and yeah I'm you know I'm I'm I'm. sleeping like a baby but I can't say. that I'm listening to the uh the Wasing. and I have been coming with all kinds of. creative ideas but I'm keeping them to. myself because you don't don't. appreciate the. process well okay then I'm not going to. share with you the keys to earthquake. preparedness cuz I'm the one who did the. research on this yeah they say the thing.

that you should do first of all is you. should get to an interior wall if if. you're near an exterior wall get away. from Big windows and this is in. preparation for an earthquake like at. any time leading up to work you should. always walk along the interior walls of. your house just no this is when an. earthquake happens okay uh but if there. is a large desk or table in the area you. should get underneath it and you should. hold on to it for dear life I'm looking. around the only table we have is this. flimsy card table with a hole in it so. the Blue mic can come off through right.

this will not work this is not adequate. I don't know if we have anything that's. in here that's adequate I would think. that we would just go out this door. right here and get out because we're so. close to the door unless the door like. jammed or something then we would just. sort of just huddle we would just kind. of hold each other and huddle we bare. hug each other outside just yeah no. inside oh okay what if you formed a. table and I got underneath you I might. do that for you you're a good friend I'm. bigger than you agreed it is an. agreement I'm heavier uh so finding a. big object not that one that can fall on.

you but one that you can kind of get. under and hold on to that's the way to. kind of get through the earthquake but. more so what they talk about out here is. what you should have on hand now first. of all if there's a big earthquake the. main thing that's going to happen it. isn't like you know some people will die. you know there will be some things that. will collapse and that kind of thing but. that's not really the problem if the. cracks between your feet you're going to. die probably that could if that happens. you you might die if they're shaking but. you don't see crack then you you've got.

a chance but the real problem is the. aftermath what happens in an area this. populated this densely populated with. water that's being pumped in from out of. state all of a sudden there's going to. be a water shortage there's going to be. uh fires around there's going to be. electricity is going to be out which the. main thing that I'm worried about is the. water because you know the weather's so. mild it's not like we're going to freeze. or we're going to burn up or anything. like that but you got to drink water you. got to have water to survive until there. people can kind of come in and that kind. of thing so the main thing to have is is.

water I think they say like five gallons. no a gallon a day per person or. something like that we'll put the actual. suggested fact at the bottom of the. screen just in case I'm wrong but th. this brings me to a greater point which. is I've been thinking about this. actually I already got my water I've got. adequate water supply already clean. water how much water do you have well I. don't know how many gallons it is but I. probably need to to up it a little bit. because in the same way that every time. we go somewhere and we have to pay cash. for something you're like hey man you.

got any cash and then I end up paying. and you so here's what's going to happen. Okay so this is okay this is about me. now when the big one comes my theory is. I'm going to have all my listen people. the people who have prepared the people. with the resources they become targets I. mean I'm going to be fending people off. they're trying to climb into my backyard. over my fence I'm going to have to arm. my my children to keep them out are we. talking about earthquakes so the zombie. apocalypse if it's a big enough. earthquake we can have serious problems. and I'm going to have these resources. and I know what's going to happen. there's there going to be all these. people trying to get into my house and.

take my resources and then I'm going to. look out there and you and your family. are going to be amongst them because. you're not going to be prepared and you. know what I'm going to treat you like an. outsider because if I let you and your. family in then I can't to let somebody. else's family in so so let me get this. St during an earthquake you'll gladly. become the table with which I huddle. underneath and save my life is saved but. then in the in the long run I'm on my. own teach a man to fish will you once. the earthquake stops you're on your own. I will protect you during the shaking. but once the earthquake is is over you. got to go take care of your family you.

got to be prepared you got to have the. water purification tablets and you got. to have the canned goods and the. freeze-dried food and the flash lights. and the battery powered radios but. you're going to want. company if you just get a little bit. more I mean if if you bring stuff with. you I'd be glad to let your famili live. out here in the backyard but from from. you know this the the Four mile hike. from my house to your house you might. you probably won't survive that I. wouldn't make it if I was carrying you.

know food stuffs with me they're light. you have a. backpack I would be attacked by a by a. zombie there's no zombies that's that's. not the zombie part is not that's not. true well by the time I get here I'll be. like listen I had water and I had food. stuffs but then you know it was it was. lifted from me and all I've got is all. I've got is myself I can offer my. company I can offer conversation if you. want to pay me sometime today I will. store your earthquake kit at my house. so if your family makes it to my house.

well why don't I store why don't you buy. it buy both of them but since I have a. garage and you just have this as your. garage I'll store both of our stuff at. at my house well because then I have to. make it to your house but I have the. storage but I have a bigger backyard we. can't go inside the house it could fall. at any moment we have to stay out here. in the. backyard huh got to be prepared is's the. bottom line and if you have a friend. like link who's a moocher who doesn't do.

his own. preparing you got. to how much how much how much food do. you have right now well I haven't put G. in the food part you don't even have. food and you don't even have that much. water no I have a good amount of water I. have enough water to make it a few days. spin the wheel spin the wheel where it. lands it lands it will it'll tell us how. to end this episode of Good Mythical. Morning still smells fresh it's so. pleasing teacher and student this is.

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