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00:00:55.380A doublet earthquake in Venezuela. I'm sure you saw the news.
00:01:00.740But did you know around the exact same time there was an earthquake in Japan and an earthquake in San Francisco or around San Francisco, Sacramento, California?
00:01:10.100Many people responded by saying, Tim, earthquakes happen all the time.
00:01:14.480You're just noticing these, particularly because Venezuela was so big.
00:01:19.300The doublet earthquake is a rare phenomenon.
00:01:21.400It happens. Well, it depends. But they say, in this instance, it's a once in a thousand year occurrence.
00:01:29.780And still, you might just say, these things happen.
00:01:33.640I know that the earthquake was devastating. The video footage we saw was terrifying.
00:01:38.220A doublet is when you get two earthquakes. So what happened is in Venezuela, there was a 7.2 and a 7.5 back to back.
00:01:44.820And this is devastating. Many people came out and said it's got to be some kind of weapon, right? Venezuela, seized by the U.S. not that long ago, earlier this year, largest oil producer in the world, rocked infrastructure economy damaged.
00:02:03.260And this is going to put oil production way down.
00:02:55.760Now, there have been theories about the weakening of the magnetosphere for some time.
00:02:59.840A conspiracy, a conspiracy theory called the Adam and Eve theory propagated, in fact, by the CIA going back to the 60s that argues every six thousand five hundred years, the Earth's poles will flip, which means we get about a two week period.
00:03:14.540I'm probably going to do this a little bit wrong. You get about a two week period where we have no protection from space particles, radiation, and that is going to, let's just say, destroy a lot of technology and kill a lot of people.
00:03:27.400Now, some say in this theory that the flip will actually cause the Earth to tilt, which
00:04:23.360I'm sure you can just say they ate the plant matter, which for some reason was growing in an area that's frozen and doesn't have plant matter.
00:04:29.340But others argue that the Earth shifts periodically.
00:04:33.940And that's why we see we see glaciers on the equator.
00:04:37.620Now, I don't know for sure, my friends, but let's jump in the news and talk about this theory, which is oh so fascinating.
00:04:44.020On an otherwise slow news day, with all due respect, I mean, the death toll in Venezuela is absolutely devastating.
00:04:49.880I don't want to just call that a slow news day, but to the interest of the American domestic
00:04:54.660population, we're not as concerned about foreign countries to this capacity, though it is big
00:04:59.900news. The average person's probably not paying attention on a Friday. So forgive me, I'm not
00:05:04.080trying to be overly disrespectful. There's a lot to talk about. Before we get started, my friends,
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00:06:41.460We have this from France 24. Why Venezuela's doublet earthquakes were so devastating.
00:06:47.500The tremors that hit Venezuela on Wednesday evening have killed nearly 600 people and
00:06:52.020injured thousands. The disaster consisted of a rare phenomenon called a doublet,
00:06:57.100meaning a quick succession of major twin earthquakes. It was a 7.2 and a 7.5.
00:07:03.740The estimated number of fatalities for this level of disaster is between 10,000 and 100,000 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
00:07:11.960The event was rare and devastating in more ways than one.
00:07:15.100The main earthquake, which hit at 6.04 p.m. local time, was the strongest in Venezuela since 1900.
00:07:20.840Yet the quake was not only striking because of its magnitude, the catastrophe seems to have consisted of a rapid succession of two earthquakes.
00:07:27.920It's also possible that it was just one complex event.
00:07:32.580Before we get into the apocalypse, solar activity, grand conspiracy, let's start with an earth-based
00:08:30.980Venezuela, of course, is the largest producer of oil in the world, beating out Saudi Arabia by some 20 or 30 percent.
00:08:37.480Trump is also negotiating with Greenland, with Denmark, over the Northwest Passage, once again, for U.S. trade, largely oil.
00:08:45.260When you look at what's going on with the war in Iran, Donald Trump, whether accidentally or otherwise, his actions, the U.S. government's actions, result in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is 20 percent of global oil.
00:08:56.220And it is the principal supplier of oil for the east, which includes China.
00:09:00.400China gets around half of its energy, its oil imports from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:09:05.200With the closure of the Strait for four months, the U.S. quickly dominated as the largest oil
00:09:10.760exporter took over. Now, there is a conspiracy theory that there are tectonic weapons. I don't
00:09:17.360know that it's true, but the theory, there's many different theories. And I don't know,
00:09:21.720take it all with a grain of salt. There are theories that using directed energy weapons
00:09:26.540from space. You can trigger seismic activity. That is to say, you can't make an earthquake,
00:09:31.300but you can trigger one that was ready to go. So if you're familiar with how tectonic events happen,
00:09:37.920you've got these two plates that are jammed together. And as they get pushed more and more
00:09:41.760together, at least this is one way, that energy is all built up. It's kind of like a spring being
00:09:47.120compressed, but it needs something to set it off. So imagine you have one way to describe the
00:09:53.640conspiracy theory around geological weapons would be that you have a spring, someone pushed it all
00:10:00.640the way down, and then they set a little, a clip, just like this on the end, right? It's holding it
00:10:07.900down, but if you just flick it off, right? No hooks, just flat holding the spring, right?
00:10:13.460You could, with very little energy, the spring will bang. So the conspiracy theory states that
00:10:19.800It's the United States, China and other countries have weapons well beyond the capabilities of nuclear weapons.
00:10:25.340They have weather and tectonic weapons.
00:10:30.040In this capacity, there are people who believe that it may be China or they're the principal antagonist in this regard because we cut off half of their energy for four months.
00:10:40.660The theory states that China utilized some kind of directed energy weapon, perhaps from space, to trigger a tectonic release in Venezuela twice, causing a doublet.
00:13:54.600San Francisco, Willits, CA, I'm sorry, it's north of both, I got that one wrong, saw 5.6,
00:14:01.760and I believe they saw a different one.
00:14:03.720Now, the important thing to understand is I'm showing you these earthquakes.
00:14:05.780Guys, earthquakes happen all the time.
00:14:08.7405.5 Richter scale, not at all anything we care about, seriously.
00:14:15.000Now, when you're getting into the sixes, it gets interesting.
00:14:17.900A 6.9 in Japan, that's getting pretty serious.
00:14:23.200I'm not sure which kind of scale Richter uses, but I know that it's, let's see, what scale is, I'm not a geologist, it's, the Richter scale is, it's logarithmic, that's what I thought.
00:14:40.420Okay, I just didn't want to say it because I didn't know for sure.
00:14:42.860So basically this means that, I'll just read what it says.
00:14:46.840with each increase in the magnitude of earthquake, the amount of ground shaking increases by 10
00:14:51.700times. And the amount of energy released is 32 fold, meaning a 9.9 is insanely bigger
00:14:59.180than a 9.8. But a 1.1 to a 1.2, it's not that big. It's logarithmic. So the higher up you go,
00:15:08.800the bigger the gap becomes. It becomes absolutely insane to the point at which I think if you ever
00:15:14.240actually hit a 10, the Earth explodes or something insane. I'm kidding, by the way. But take a look
00:15:18.720at this from Science Daily, Kyoto University, February of this year. Can solar storms trigger
00:15:24.920earthquakes? Scientists propose surprising link. Really? Solar storms might not just dazzle the
00:15:33.160skies. They could help nudge vulnerable faults toward earthquakes. Summary. Scientists have
00:15:38.240proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity
00:15:42.140disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture zones in
00:15:47.080Earth's crust. If a fault is already critically stressed, this extra electrostatic pressure
00:15:52.540could help trigger a quake. The idea doesn't claim direct causation, but it offers a fresh
00:15:58.560way to think about how space weather and seismic events might interact. I also wonder if, you know,
00:16:04.540again, I'm sure many people know more about this, but tidal effects, I'd imagine the moon plays a
00:16:10.360roll. Let me just look it up. Moon roll in earthquakes. I mean, if it's going to move
00:16:15.520water around, what is this? Does the moon's phase cause earthquakes? Really? I actually
00:16:22.380have an article for this. One researcher, let's pull this in, because I've got some
00:16:28.440data on solar storms. Like I already mentioned, a solar storm did hit the earth one hour before
00:16:33.240these earthquakes. Smithsonian says, there's a popular belief that earthquakes are more
00:16:38.760frequent when the moon is close to full. The explanation is that a full moon has the strongest
00:16:42.860tidal pull, which supposedly places more stress on the Earth's crust and increases the chance of
00:16:48.560that a fault may slip. But the two related, as Nicole Mortillaro of CBC says, it's no, just not
00:17:00.740true. Kind of hard to believe, though, right? We also have this from USGS. Several recent studies
00:17:08.360have found a correlation between the Earth's tides and some types of earthquakes. Now,
00:17:14.020ain't that just funny? One study, for example, concludes that during times of higher Earth and
00:17:19.480ocean tides, such as during times of a full or new moon, earthquakes are more likely on shallow
00:17:25.420thrust faults near the edges of continents and in underwater subduction zones. Lunar or solar
00:17:30.140eclipses represent, of course, special cases of full and new moon, but do not cause any special
00:17:35.420or different tidal effects from full and new moon. Earth's tide, etc., etc. You know, when I see
00:17:41.420someone saying, no, the moon has no effect, I immediately just think that's silly. Now, I'm not
00:17:45.540going to suggest that the moon makes earthquakes happen, but it certainly is impacting the earth.
00:17:52.440And I saw this post online and they said somebody was talking about why doesn't the sun cause a
00:17:59.240massive tidal phenomenon, but the moon does when the sun has substantially more gravity effect.
00:18:04.340Well, the issue is the rate at which gravitational forces disperse over large spaces.
00:18:11.620The moon being substantially closer to the Earth has a much more noticeable effect, whereas
00:18:16.420the sun certainly can hold the Earth in place and all the other planets.
00:24:26.840The technology level of the last city is comparable, slightly above where we are today.
00:24:31.120The year is something like 2134. Nobody in the last city, in government or otherwise, knows what happened and why civilization collapsed and how it came to be.
00:24:42.980They just have a bit of histories on their computers and their networks and their newspapers and magazines about how a long, long time ago, around 2070, records seem to have stopped.
00:24:57.080News seem to have evaporated, and only information they have comes from the last city.