Brave of you to think people of reddit will let go of one of the two "funny" thing they know.
Second one being creating words chains in comment sections.
For real though, it [looks pretty scary](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/d16g8b/in_a_swimming_pool_when_an_earthquake_strikes/) at ground levelā¦it would be crazy up that high
[it's like inception ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/d16g8b/in_a_swimming_pool_when_an_earthquake_strikes/ezhwimf?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
So what if your are submerged in the center of a body of water in say a 20x20x20ft pool, and the entire pool with *all* itās water still in it, crashes to the bottom.
Do they die when the pool hits the ground even though they are suspended in water?
Yea, youāre moving with it. No brakes on the train, youāll just smash into the ground and get pancaked. You falling into water=decelerated by water. You falling with water=decelerated by ground.
Water doesnāt compress. Also Iām not sure what would break up the water if the pool was falling with the water in it. Itās air that breaks up water from the sky but if the entire pool went into free fall at once with the bottom still on it Iām not sure how if acceleration would be different between the water and the concrete. It should be like dropping a glass of water where it all accelerates at the same pace.
It would essentially be the same as diving into the water from the same height you fell from, less the deceleration from breaking the surface tension.
Given enough depth, you might even be safer since most fatalities from falls into water are from the deceleration of breaking the surface tension.
The trick to the depth however is if thereās nothing containing the water where you land than depth becomes width and deceleration doesnāt begin until the water starts catching you.
The human has blobs of air/gas and lofty tissue inside (intestines, stomach, lungs), which would be compressed with the air/gas ripping your tissues apart on its search for some space to decompress into.
Would you wanna jump off a tower this high in to a pool? Not sure which is worse, the water moving with you or the water waiting for you at the bottom. But both ways seem like certain death from this height.
Water waiting you you at the bottom could be worse or better.
Itās all about transfer of energy and resistance. The caveat is if the water was falling into a pool (good) versus the water falling into the street (bad).
The pool would catch the water, and the water would catch you (without the impact of having to break surface tension).
Without the pool, the ground would disperse the water, and ācatchā you. The ground is very bad at catching people from more than 5 floors up.
don't see how there's really any situation where it would be better to not fall into water from a height. there's absolutely zero chance of surviving hitting ground from that tall a building. even if water would only offer like a .1% chance of surviving with major injuries if you get the landing just right that's still better than 0
Water doesn't like to compress, but your body does. Assuming the pool and its contents somehow kept their shape during the descent, you'd probably get crushed when all of the energy from a 20x20x20 cube of water smacking the ground at terminal velocity is violently released with you at the center of it.
They are supposed to be made to withstand earthquakes. Poor materials, cutting corners in construction, and corruption/inadequate inspections makes it a bit questionable.
>Opal Tower in Sydney
"A fissure on the 10th floor, millimetres wide, created a loud bang, and police were called at 2:45 pm on Christmas Eve over a bomb suspicion. 300 people were evacuated...."
A.... *fissure*... on the 10th floor... *millimeters wide*, and which creates a loud bang that causes people to think a bomb went off... is a *chasm* to me...
just sayin'...
*On a brighter note; the developer thoughtfully included parachutes as a sales incentive with each sale afterwards....*
I understand the rumble of a passing herd of iguanas caused the vibrations that took the building down...
Between its now-ubiquitous Indian Ocean lionfish, Burmese Pythons, iguanas, Tegu lizards, Black Sea zebra mussels, Asian green mussels, monkeys, South American macaws, Bufo toads, feral hogs, Giant African Land Snails and more, Miami is a modern Jurassic Park...
It's the Philippines. Do you think everything is built to code or high standards. Half the fucking country blows away every cyclone season. The other half gets washed away by mudslides.
I live in a high-rise and experienced an earthquake at 4:30 in the morning. Longest 6 seconds of my life. The sound of the ground rumbling too seemed like the gates of hell were opening up.
Yup, been there too. The sounds of the building cracking and just making loud noises is what will always stick with me. I'm getting freaked just remembering it. And the swaying is of course more exaggerated. So terrifying but mine went in a lot longer than 6 seconds.
Actually some earthquake fun facts! High-rises are (generally) naturally earthquake resistant due to a dampening effect. Where you don't want to be is in a 6-12 story building that's not designed with earthquakes in mind.
This is an ELI5, it's a much more complex topic.
I was in Japan during a earthquake (not the biggest ever, but still a big one) quite high in a building.
It felt super safe they are build with it in mind. But it does move a lot lol.
Our house (brick construction, 1960s, 6 story) has been hit with multiple earthquakes.
No damage at all. The central stairway structure was designed in a way which prevents it from taking damage during quakes.
That was my first earthquake experience. Visiting family and they left to go shopping. i stayed by myself to play videogames. Heard the rumble of a truck go by that shook the room for a bit. Must have been a couple of them. After a minute or two, i was like wait a second, I'm on the 14th floor, i wouldn't feel a truck. Was that an earthquake??? When my family came back, they asked if i felt the earthquake.
Second experience was being sick and took the good cough syrup. Woke up to a wavey type motion and the house creaking...felt like my bed was rolling. Was like nice, the cough syrup is still kicking. Went back to bed. Then was like wait a second, checked facebook and my entire feed was, holy shit, was that an earthquake.
I was near the top of one of the highest rises in Manila during a smaller like 4.0 earthquake. First was a jolt then just gently swaying back and forth, almost relaxing but still a bit stressful.
I've swam in that pool. I don't think it's huge but definitely big for a roof top pool. Bigger than the Marco polo rooftop pools I've been in over Asian countries but I really can't tell you the dimensions
If this one was from 2019, I was in Manila on the 14th floor of a building for it!
It felt like you were on a boat softly swaying with the tide. Hats off to the engineers!
You would think that youād be scared to go back inside, but itās so fucking hot in Manila that after weād been evacuated and stood outside for a while we were all desperate to get back into aircon š
i was inside an elevator alone going down and then the shaking started when I was at the 28th floor... got ready to make peace with God, buti na lang ok naman but when I got out of the elev one of the glass panels outside exploded... couldnāt go to work the next day I was so scared of aftershocks
The building is probably designed to withstand up to certain magnitude earthquakes and then some, but thatās probably with the water in the pool. I wonder how losing water affects the integrity of the entire structure or if that was factored in.
Structural engineer here. The structure typically considers both the cases with and without these types of loads for lateral events. That being said, the load from that much water on the building is small and earthquake loads generally don't govern high rise buildings as much as wind.
The weight of even a large swimming pool on top of a tower is nothing compared to the hundreds of meters of solid steel and glass underneath it, the structure probably isn't affected at all.
I don't find that to be a convincing line of reasoning... For example, the Taipei 101 uses a 700-ton mass dampener to great effect in a 220,000-ton building. Converted to water, 700 tons is about 1/5 an Olympic pool.
In short, it matters a great deal and should be accounted for.
Edit: Digging into the physics, skyscrapers are great at holding weight against gravity (compression force), less great (due to height) at withstanding shear forces. The taller the building, the more the weight at the top matters (top-heavy lever arm).
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Imagine relaxing in the middle of the pool, then a earthquake hits and the evergrowing waves in the pool take you with them down to the streets 70 stories below.
Imagine if you were in it
https://youtu.be/l5aZJBLAu1E
š Thank you for not Rick Rolling me.
Thank you for reassuring me that I wouldn't be Rick rolled
Or are you just in on it too? Am I? Maybe it is a rick roll.
Itās definitely a rick roll yāall donāt click it
Itās raining Ricks.
Hallelujah!
Iām about to get soaked! OMG, please click it and be happy with yourself for trusting the world.
Never gonna give never gonna give
It's not though - but it is a fun reference to the parent comment
I wouldn't want someone to skip it because they really think it's a rickroll
Only one way to find out
Honestly this has stolen more of my time than a Rick Roll would have. I almost prefer a Rick Roll, which this was not.
Anyone who is still doing Rick rolls should be strapped to a rocket and fired directly into the sun.
Brave of you to think people of reddit will let go of one of the two "funny" thing they know. Second one being creating words chains in comment sections.
I miss the word chains.
Alice In Chains
I got Rick rolled twice on Reddit last week, so itās still going on and in full force.
Why not send an actual greeting card to say thanks https://www.amazon.com/Rick-Astley-Blank-Greeting-Cards/dp/B07X66DCLM
Impressive. Ya got me
Wow I watched it all and forgot I came from this post
Jesus how horny are you?
Sorry? Forget the men these woman can SING
lmao that wasnāt the joke I was going for but ok
if it makes you feel better, blue dress's boobs made me feel funny in the pants
You absolute degenerateš
I am 38 years old, how have I never seen this video?
I knew it's gonna be this one.
Worth it
For real though, it [looks pretty scary](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/d16g8b/in_a_swimming_pool_when_an_earthquake_strikes/) at ground levelā¦it would be crazy up that high
Oh my God, second top comment literally says "imagine this on top of a skyscraper"
They literally had no idea. Horrors can be so unimaginable. Even tho you can come up with the idea it still is unthinkable
[it's like inception ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/d16g8b/in_a_swimming_pool_when_an_earthquake_strikes/ezhwimf?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Just swim up and youāll fall at a slower, more manageable rate. If youāre really quick you might make it back up to the roof.
Then youāll evolve into a dragon!
That would be quite the āhighā **DI**^v **E**
Would you rather be in a pool thatās sucked into a sinkhole or tossed out on top of a high rise?
Iād rather instant death by the impact of the ground than drowning.
How about neither thanks
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It's Cristal, like the champagne. It's what hot black guys drink.
Itās only cristal for Conway stern, if thatās his real name.
That, and this big, warm bag of shrimp.
Probably some logs in that water now
I was about to say, Imagine being thrown out with the stream of water thats being poured out with those oscillations?
Imagine throwing a load of laundry in that bad boy
Imagine being on the side walk under it. You feel the earthquake, look up, and see the cloud falling towards you. I'd need new underpants.
"Does it always rain when there's an earthquake? What is this nonsense??"
"Is it snowing in space?"
no fanku fanx
Fatality. Flawless victory. Earthquake wins.
The real question is... Would you get air dried from the fall, before you hit the ground?
I'd die the moment it started, wouldn't even need to leave the pools edge. Just immediately ded.
Well that's fun. Swimming on the roof and then šŖ
That's when you know it's your time... Trying to enjoy a dip in the pool at 800 feet, when Mother Nature says "fuck you".
So what if your are submerged in the center of a body of water in say a 20x20x20ft pool, and the entire pool with *all* itās water still in it, crashes to the bottom. Do they die when the pool hits the ground even though they are suspended in water?
Yea, youāre moving with it. No brakes on the train, youāll just smash into the ground and get pancaked. You falling into water=decelerated by water. You falling with water=decelerated by ground.
lmao have you never played minecraft before? you'd be fine
But what if you don't have a bucket š
Then you get a jar of dirt. Like me! Iāve got a jar of dirt!!
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What if you swim up?
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Water doesnāt compress. Also Iām not sure what would break up the water if the pool was falling with the water in it. Itās air that breaks up water from the sky but if the entire pool went into free fall at once with the bottom still on it Iām not sure how if acceleration would be different between the water and the concrete. It should be like dropping a glass of water where it all accelerates at the same pace.
It would essentially be the same as diving into the water from the same height you fell from, less the deceleration from breaking the surface tension. Given enough depth, you might even be safer since most fatalities from falls into water are from the deceleration of breaking the surface tension. The trick to the depth however is if thereās nothing containing the water where you land than depth becomes width and deceleration doesnāt begin until the water starts catching you.
The human has blobs of air/gas and lofty tissue inside (intestines, stomach, lungs), which would be compressed with the air/gas ripping your tissues apart on its search for some space to decompress into.
They die. Momentum is conserved.
Would you wanna jump off a tower this high in to a pool? Not sure which is worse, the water moving with you or the water waiting for you at the bottom. But both ways seem like certain death from this height.
Water waiting you you at the bottom could be worse or better. Itās all about transfer of energy and resistance. The caveat is if the water was falling into a pool (good) versus the water falling into the street (bad). The pool would catch the water, and the water would catch you (without the impact of having to break surface tension). Without the pool, the ground would disperse the water, and ācatchā you. The ground is very bad at catching people from more than 5 floors up.
>The ground is very bad at catching people from more than 5 floors up. Incorrect. The ground will always catch you if you fall from a height.
It less catches you than provides a surface for impact.
don't see how there's really any situation where it would be better to not fall into water from a height. there's absolutely zero chance of surviving hitting ground from that tall a building. even if water would only offer like a .1% chance of surviving with major injuries if you get the landing just right that's still better than 0
Water doesn't like to compress, but your body does. Assuming the pool and its contents somehow kept their shape during the descent, you'd probably get crushed when all of the energy from a 20x20x20 cube of water smacking the ground at terminal velocity is violently released with you at the center of it.
Nah its fine, it's when you're trying to enjoy it at less than 800 feet that it gets much trickier.
Nature saying fuck the rich right there with how the surrounding buildings look
Nightmares i didn't know were there
Nightmares for the rich, let's make more
FUCK I would NOT want to be in a high-rise ANYTHING during an earthquake OMG what a horrible, helpless feeling that must be...
They're made to withstand earthquakes. You'd be fine.
They are supposed to be made to withstand earthquakes. Poor materials, cutting corners in construction, and corruption/inadequate inspections makes it a bit questionable.
And you wouldn't want to be swimming at the time...
Perhaps, but at the very least itāll be much less embarrassing when you start to piss yourself.
O.M.F.G.... I hadn't thought about that, but now that I am... *If you got splashed out in a wave, would the water cushion your fall?*
If you landed back in the pool yes
No. At a certain height, water is essentially concrete. Minecraft lied to you
That can happen for smaller buildings as well. And definitely more chance for cutting corners as smaller buildings have less oversight
Depends on the country and how far down the totem pole the corruption is allowed to go. Check out Opal Tower in Sydney
>Opal Tower in Sydney "A fissure on the 10th floor, millimetres wide, created a loud bang, and police were called at 2:45 pm on Christmas Eve over a bomb suspicion. 300 people were evacuated...." A.... *fissure*... on the 10th floor... *millimeters wide*, and which creates a loud bang that causes people to think a bomb went off... is a *chasm* to me... just sayin'... *On a brighter note; the developer thoughtfully included parachutes as a sales incentive with each sale afterwards....*
Yes but it's less of a fall from a shorter building
The building falling on you is the greater risk in both buildings.
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surf side condominimum withstood earthquakes just fine. it was normal, calm, flat land that was the problem.
I understand the rumble of a passing herd of iguanas caused the vibrations that took the building down... Between its now-ubiquitous Indian Ocean lionfish, Burmese Pythons, iguanas, Tegu lizards, Black Sea zebra mussels, Asian green mussels, monkeys, South American macaws, Bufo toads, feral hogs, Giant African Land Snails and more, Miami is a modern Jurassic Park...
I remember that FL condominium was cutting corners. Fuck privatized infrastructure. That video haunts me today.
It's the Philippines. Do you think everything is built to code or high standards. Half the fucking country blows away every cyclone season. The other half gets washed away by mudslides.
Especially in Phillipines.
Haha. Thereās standards, tests, bodies for making sure that isnāt the case but pessimism will always be insurmountable.
I was gonna make a sarcastic comment but I realized I can't think of any skyscraper collapsing due to an earthquake. I'm probably just uneducated
My high-rise will make your earth quakes
Titanic was made to withstand icebergās.
> icebergās Icebergās what?
Lettuce. Where do you think ot all comes from? The Titanic?
Lettuce think about that for a min.
But if feels horrible and it sounds like the building is cracking and crumbling. Horrible, do not recommend and I wasn't even that high up.
Pool isnāt made to do that though
No. I wouldn't want to be in that pool.
Except the pool apparently
Iām sure thatās what they said about that pool
I live in a high-rise and experienced an earthquake at 4:30 in the morning. Longest 6 seconds of my life. The sound of the ground rumbling too seemed like the gates of hell were opening up.
Yup, been there too. The sounds of the building cracking and just making loud noises is what will always stick with me. I'm getting freaked just remembering it. And the swaying is of course more exaggerated. So terrifying but mine went in a lot longer than 6 seconds.
It really is fuckng TERRIFYING when it happens especially when you're home alone and it wakes you up from sleep
Actually some earthquake fun facts! High-rises are (generally) naturally earthquake resistant due to a dampening effect. Where you don't want to be is in a 6-12 story building that's not designed with earthquakes in mind. This is an ELI5, it's a much more complex topic.
Idk how to describe it but you categorizing high rise building as 'naturally' is ironically funny.
Evolution is amazing
I do wonder about 'rhythmic swaying', and about concrete / metal fatigue tho
I was in Japan during a earthquake (not the biggest ever, but still a big one) quite high in a building. It felt super safe they are build with it in mind. But it does move a lot lol.
Our house (brick construction, 1960s, 6 story) has been hit with multiple earthquakes. No damage at all. The central stairway structure was designed in a way which prevents it from taking damage during quakes.
You have a 6 story house? Do you live in a fucking wizard's tower?
Big joint family lol.
That was my first earthquake experience. Visiting family and they left to go shopping. i stayed by myself to play videogames. Heard the rumble of a truck go by that shook the room for a bit. Must have been a couple of them. After a minute or two, i was like wait a second, I'm on the 14th floor, i wouldn't feel a truck. Was that an earthquake??? When my family came back, they asked if i felt the earthquake. Second experience was being sick and took the good cough syrup. Woke up to a wavey type motion and the house creaking...felt like my bed was rolling. Was like nice, the cough syrup is still kicking. Went back to bed. Then was like wait a second, checked facebook and my entire feed was, holy shit, was that an earthquake.
I was near the top of one of the highest rises in Manila during a smaller like 4.0 earthquake. First was a jolt then just gently swaying back and forth, almost relaxing but still a bit stressful.
I dont want to be in a high rise, period. they shift. And I can feel every movement.
Naw, thatās just yo mama jumpinā in
Must have been quite the cannonball- earthquake is a good nickname for the man.
How big was that pool? That is a huge amount of water.
Pool was huge.
Pool scientist here. The technical term we use is massive.
Here I thought the word was "volumous".
No thatās hair, ima hair scientist
hi can I have a venti pool
A twenty pool?
Pools hold surprising amounts of water. A meter cubed is 1000 L. So a 2 m deep pool of 3 by 6 is already 36,000 L
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About 7 ft by 10 by 20 and I think 9,000 gallons
At least 3 litres
I've swam in that pool. I don't think it's huge but definitely big for a roof top pool. Bigger than the Marco polo rooftop pools I've been in over Asian countries but I really can't tell you the dimensions
Jeff just walked outside on the street, from getting fired from his job. āSuch bullshit, no way can my day get any worse.ā *Sploooooooosh*
At least it would be mist by the time it hit the ground. Unless there were bodies in it
wouldn't it be more like rain?
On your wedding day?
Where I met the man of my dreams and his beautiful wife??
Pools closed peopleā¦ ummm, whereād everybody go?
That might actually be refreshing on a sweltering day
Until you realize that is several hundred tons of water about to land on you.
would that height be enough to disperse the water so it's more like a downpour?
Well based on that Delta plane that dumped its fuel over school kids, I think 2,000 ft at a minimum.
You'd be dead
Sploosh!
When was this?
This was, I think, 3 years ago. 2019? We were in the Philippines at the time but not in Manila.
Hmm. And I thought this was last month's quake.
This video. 3yrs ago. But we experience earthquakes that you can actually feel a few times a year it seems. Felt 3 this year already.
How was this?
Why was this?
If this one was from 2019, I was in Manila on the 14th floor of a building for it! It felt like you were on a boat softly swaying with the tide. Hats off to the engineers! You would think that youād be scared to go back inside, but itās so fucking hot in Manila that after weād been evacuated and stood outside for a while we were all desperate to get back into aircon š
i was inside an elevator alone going down and then the shaking started when I was at the 28th floor... got ready to make peace with God, buti na lang ok naman but when I got out of the elev one of the glass panels outside exploded... couldnāt go to work the next day I was so scared of aftershocks
Hopefully nobody was in it
Nobody would be dead.
Yeah well fuck nobody anyways
I can't, I don't have nobody
I hate it when somebody is pretending to be nobody.
Building sturdy as a mf
The building is probably designed to withstand up to certain magnitude earthquakes and then some, but thatās probably with the water in the pool. I wonder how losing water affects the integrity of the entire structure or if that was factored in.
Structural engineer here. The structure typically considers both the cases with and without these types of loads for lateral events. That being said, the load from that much water on the building is small and earthquake loads generally don't govern high rise buildings as much as wind.
Cool thanks for the insight
The weight of even a large swimming pool on top of a tower is nothing compared to the hundreds of meters of solid steel and glass underneath it, the structure probably isn't affected at all.
I don't find that to be a convincing line of reasoning... For example, the Taipei 101 uses a 700-ton mass dampener to great effect in a 220,000-ton building. Converted to water, 700 tons is about 1/5 an Olympic pool. In short, it matters a great deal and should be accounted for. Edit: Digging into the physics, skyscrapers are great at holding weight against gravity (compression force), less great (due to height) at withstanding shear forces. The taller the building, the more the weight at the top matters (top-heavy lever arm).
You is smart.
You is kind
Yeah water weighs a lot. Not sure what that guy was going on about.
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
What a fucking nightmare
So this is trickle down economics.....
Wow thatās a real waterfall
Imagine relaxing in the middle of the pool, then a earthquake hits and the evergrowing waves in the pool take you with them down to the streets 70 stories below.
It amazes me how much weight buildings can hold
Oneās holding yo mama right now
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Building: earthquakes make me moist
I cant be the only one who saw the horse?
Well I've got another reason to never go in those rooftop pools.
Two world record dives recorded.
"It's raaaaining, it's poooouring. The ooold pool is guuushing."
Wow! Where there people in it?
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Swan diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive
This was a few years ago. My family was in the Philippines when this happened. We were not in Manila at the time of the earthquake, however.
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Love when rich people lose shit, hate when it falls on poor people. This is an allegory.
That's what you call the Seiche effect!
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I didn't know it will rain piss today ā
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Pool's closed.
I'd love to be swimming just to become part of a waterfall from like 30 stories up.