What’s It Like To Survive An Earthquake? with Professor Ashly Cabas

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Even the best earthquake early warning systems will give you only five to eight seconds of notice before you experience ground shaking. This week, Jonathan and geotechnical engineer Ashly Cabas take more than an hour exploring seismic waves, soils, risk assessment, and other earthquake fundamentals so that you can be prepared in the event of a natural hazard. Ashly Cabas, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where she investigates seismic hazards and earthquake effects on civil infrastructure. Her team at NCSU collaborates with seismologists, geologists, and structural engineers to understand how the response of soils and rocks to earthquake loading can influence the damaging potential of earthquakes. Her research group’s work has also been recognized with EERI best paper awards in 2014 and 2018, and she has served in reconnaissance missions after the 2018 M7.1 Anchorage, Alaska earthquake, and more recently the 2021 M7.2 Nippes, Haiti earthquake. You can follow Professor Cabas on Twitter @amcabas, and keep up with her work at NCSU on Twitter @NCStateCCEE and on the Cabas Research Group site. Want to learn more about earthquakes? Here are some recommended resources: Seismological Society of America (SSA) Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) American Society of Civil Engineers - GeoInstitute US Geological Survey (USGS), Earthquake Hazards Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Cyberinfrastructure component, DesignSafe-CI Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Natural Hazards Reconnaissance component, RAPID Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) GeoHazards International (GHI) ShakeAlert, Early Warning System RaspberryShake Personal seismograph NCSU Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation
0:05.7	With a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious on today's episode
0:11.0	I'm joined by Ashley Cobbass where I ask her what's it like to survive an earthquake
0:18.2	Welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I am so excited for this episode
0:21.9	I have been wanting to do this for such a long time. We have the most amazing guests
0:25.0	We are going to learn today about how to survive an earthquake and who better to be here than Ashley Cobbass
0:31.9	Who is a professor in the Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University
0:38.4	And she specializes in seismic hazards. Ashley, welcome to the show. I
0:44.2	did a thumb. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited
0:47.4	So I'm going to tell you like where all of this came from in this once alone where I was an assistant
0:52.5	It wasn't my first, but this this man was a professor of like civil engineering and like he researched like
1:00.0	impacts of earthquakes like specifically in Southern California and he was telling me that you had never let his daughter
1:06.0	by a house in downtown LA because if there was ever an earthquake of like over 8.0
1:11.4	It's going to be totally like isolated and totally fucked and he would never let her go there and then I was like
1:17.2	Oh my god like what happens after earthquakes?
1:20.0	So then my boss at that conversation said that like they wrote up this thing in Japan about like how they survived earthquakes
1:26.1	And the whole like you shouldn't really get under the desk and like really you're supposed to get on the side of the desk
1:30.0	We're like the little like trying or whatever and so then that then I was actually in an earthquake and it went for like
1:37.0	45 seconds and I didn't know what the fuck to do. I was running all around the house
1:41.5	I'm not even just taking a glass bowl and shattered it over my own head because I was running around
1:45.9	Didn't know what to do and so and then we found you and I was like actually can tell us what to do. So thank you
1:53.6	Yeah, yeah, what you've described is very I think
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