3 - The Big One

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Your chances of dying in "the big one" Southern California earthquake are roughly the same as of being shot and killed by a toddler according to a study cited by the LA Times. Is it even scientifically possible for a giant earthquake to cause LA to fall into the sea? Are there a lot of trigger happy babies out there? Find out all this and more as the show's first guest, Jacob Kubon, and Dan break down the origins and possibility of the giant earthquake legend.

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0:00.0	There's a 75% chance that before 2020, the largest earthquake North America is ever known
0:05.7	with the San Andreas fault causing Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego.
0:11.0	Part of San Francisco to slip in the Pacific Ocean, killing over 60 million people and reducing
0:16.3	the size of the U.S. by over 10% said no legitimate scientist ever.
0:22.7	Why is America fascinating with the big one?
0:24.9	And is a catastrophic wake in Southern California actually scientifically possible?
0:30.5	Special guest Jacob Kuban joins me on this ground rumbling earth moving edition of TimeSuck.
0:35.6	All right, so I'm going to start off Jacob.
0:49.1	This is thanks for being here by the way.
0:51.0	Oh yes, thanks for having me.
0:52.2	I'm Jacob Kuban very funny comic and very talented graphic illustrator as well graphic artist.
0:59.0	Actually the guy who did the design the logo with the help of Brian Smith for the time suck
1:05.7	and doing the website much better illustrator than I am, but you get the graphic skills.
1:10.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11.2	And this is this topic popped up for me a couple days ago.
1:14.3	I was actually talking to my wife Lindsay about having you on and just things we were talking
1:18.9	about and somehow like the big one came up.
1:21.5	She'd heard some article about it and this is something I heard about from my mom when
1:25.5	I first moved out to California like she was legitimately concerned that living in Southern
1:29.6	California, I would be swept out to see.
1:32.3	Right?
1:33.3	Like there would be have you heard people talk about the big one?
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