OT: Is this video fake?

[temery]

My class is working on a natural disaster power point, and we are trying to find a video of an earthquake to include.

I love the fact they are suspicious ... but I don't know. Has anyone seen this video? Fake? Any idea where it was taken, if it is real?

http://www.disastervideo.net/earthquake-car.php

 

[61cygni]

Dunno about that video, but here's a legit site, though the videos might not be quite what you're looking for.

http://gallery.usgs.gov/video_sets/Earthquakes

 

[tykurez]

1,000% fake ... just by the looks of it.

 

[superjohn]

You seriously can't tell if that's fake?

 

[Fishy]

It looks perfectly legitimate to me.

I found some footage of an earthquake that devastated the west coast in the late 70's, although no one seems to remember it for some reason. I think your class will find it useful.

 

[cohenzone]

"I found some footage of an earthquake that devastated the west coast in the late 70's, although no one seems to remember it for some reason. I think your class will find it useful."
Seems Fishy to me.

 

[Palatine]

It is as real as Pamela Anderson's bobs.

 

[Dove]

It is as real as Pamela Anderson's bobs.

Now wait a minute. You're about to tell me...

 

[tykurez]

It is as real as Pamela Anderson's bobs.

Are 'bobs' a combination of one real boob and one fake?

 

[temery]

You seriously can't tell if that's fake?

I am not convinced either way. I have seen legit video that is equally as unbelievable.

 

[Fishy]

It is absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, fake. It's not even particularly well done - it takes about one second for it to become readily apparent the car that will ultimately fall into the hole was imaged in. I won't even go into the cracks that 'appear'.

But say the rouse holds until the earth opens, doesn't it seem odd to you that a car with forward momentum drops straight down and that the road collapses so cleanly, without rocks and dirt and asphalt continuing to fall into the gaping hole?

 

[temery]

Not after watching it for 15 seconds, while trying to keep 27 kids from downloading .

It is absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, fake. It's not even particularly well done - it takes about one second for it to become readily apparent the car that will ultimately fall into the hole was imaged in. I won't even go into the cracks that 'appear'.

But say the rouse holds until the earth opens, doesn't it seem odd to you that a car with forward momentum drops straight down and that the road collapses so cleanly, without rocks and dirt and asphalt continuing to fall into the gaping hole?

 

[Fishy]

Happily, the is probably real, although the class should know that pizza delivery guys hardly ever get laid in real life and women never beg the plumber to nail them on the kitchen table.

 

[uconnbill]

100% fake, though fairly nicely done

 

[temery]

Perhaps. But the babysitter is always looking for a little action.

Happily, the is probably real, although the class should know that pizza delivery guys hardly ever get laid in real life and women never beg the plumber to nail them on the kitchen table.

 

[nomar]

-Oh, that's my friend Shari. She just came over to use the shower.
-The story is ludicrous.
-Meine nommen is Karl. Ich bin expert.
-You must be here to fix the cable.
-Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here.
-He fixes the cable?
-Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

 

[pepband99]

To be fair, I was 100% sure that this was fake:

It's not. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100601-sinkhole-in-guatemala-2010-world-science/

 

[CL82]

http://video.nationalgeographic.com...disasters/earthquakes/earthquake-montage.html

Nat Geo is always a good source.

By the way this thread is freaking hysterical.

 

[CAHUSKY]

My class is working on a natural disaster power point, and we are trying to find a video of an earthquake to include.

I love the fact they are suspicious ... but I don't know. Has anyone seen this video? Fake? Any idea where it was taken, if it is real?

http://www.disastervideo.net/earthquake-car.php

Use this one. I was about 400 yards from here when this earthquake hit the SF bay area in 1989

 

[RichZ]

So did the quake coveniently happen right in front of a traffic cam?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Happily, the is probably real, although the class should know that pizza delivery guys hardly ever get laid in real life and women never beg the plumber to nail them on the kitchen table.

Well, if the pizza delivery guy is packing an extra stick of pepperoni, his chance of getting a non-cash tip increases exponentially.

 

[Johnny Mac]

Here's a simulation of seattle that's fun to watch

 

[ZenConn]

It looks perfectly legitimate to me.

I found some footage of an earthquake that devastated the west coast in the late 70's, although no one seems to remember it for some reason. I think your class will find it useful.

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lol. I was thinkin the same thing ...

 

[temery]

Here's a simulation of seattle that's fun to watch

That's perfect. Thanks.

 

[temery]

Thanks. That was my point. I've seen pictures before that seemingly could not be real, but were.

To be fair, I was 100% sure that this was fake:

It's not. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100601-sinkhole-in-guatemala-2010-world-science/

 

[Palatine]

Tom, some things about video fakes. They are well framed. The camera is frozen or moves very smoothly. The camera is already pointing at the spot that will become the center of the action.

One other thing. Who would stop shooting at that point? The car is still falling the ground is still crumbling, who turns the camera off? Nothing to see here. It doesn't make sense.

 

[B1GEast]

it's totally fake, the camera appears to be in a fixed position that lies in the direct path of the earthquake, no posssible way that's real.

 

[temery]

That was one the observations my students had. Also, ""why isn't the camera shaking?"

it's totally fake, the camera appears to be in a fixed position that lies in the direct path of the earthquake, no posssible way that's real.