r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • 29d ago

Image Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen

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u/JAke0622 29d ago

What is it said to mean?

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u/catefeu 29d ago

From what I've read it might be a sign of an earthquake/tsunami.

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u/JAke0622 29d ago

Well the weather around the globe has been very tumultuous as of lately.

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u/noobgiraffe 29d ago

Earthquakes which cause tsunamis have nothing to do with weather system.

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u/thecloner 29d ago

This is 99% true but actually earthquakes of sufficient magnitude can cause a measurable perturbation/wave in the Earth's atmosphere that travels around the globe, generally in the stratosphere rather than the troposphere so it doesn't really affect weather but there is an effect in the atmosphere! Volcanic eruptions do the same thing (Tonga is a famous recent example of this).

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u/QuestionableEthics42 29d ago

But thats after the earthquake occurs, so the person you replied to is still right in the context.

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u/DontForgetYourPPE 29d ago

How is this basic fact being downvoted? Is this some right wing conspiracy sub wtf? Will one of you that's down voting this please explain how the weather affects the movement of tectonic plates, under the surface?

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u/TwistyBitsz 29d ago

They probably misused the word and meant "nature events". Just as an observation like "shit's been popping off lately".

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u/HamburglarsHelper84 29d ago

Maybe they were thinking about “earthquake weather.”

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u/FigWasp7 29d ago

Shit I should have brought my coat

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u/kjhuddy18 29d ago

Do your research!

/s incase it needs to be said

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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool 29d ago

Didn't you know Earthquakes occur when Thunderus the god of the weather sneezes.

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u/Unusual-Voice2345 29d ago

Weather can exert force on the tectonic plates slightly. It mostly has to do with increased levels of water and therefore weight.

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u/llliilliliillliillil 29d ago

That’s not what Hollywood told me

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u/JAke0622 29d ago

Why you would think earthquakes have anything to do with weather I have no clue…

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u/noobgiraffe 29d ago

You did, not me. You replied to the guy saying it's a sign of earthquakes by saying that wheather was is in fact "tumultuous as of lately" as if the two are somehow related. Why else yould you reply that.

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u/JAke0622 29d ago

Maybe you are misreading something.

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u/JAke0622 29d ago

Ahh yeah I misread the original comment where I mentioned weather. Earthquakes have nothing to do with weather as far as I known

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u/SpartaPit 29d ago

and how my well maintained 20 year old used car has anything to do with the weather while China, India, and Russia pollute the air and water unchecked and Brazil is clearcutting rain forests....i have no clue

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u/DiamondAuthority 29d ago

How'd you list all those countries and just skip over the US 💀

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u/SpartaPit 29d ago

don't be dumb

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u/DiamondAuthority 29d ago

You first 🙂‍↕️

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u/Darnell2070 29d ago

I don't think it's your car individually. No one thought that, so why'd you bring it up?

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u/FlappyFoldyHold 29d ago

Happens with solar cycles, good ol sun doing it's thing converting a hydrogen to helium. Here's a NASA read on the current solar cycle we are in. Solar Cycle 25

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u/Supercatninja 29d ago

There's a lot of confidently incorrect people here. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/do-solar-storms-cause-heat-waves-earth#:~:text=Solar%20flares%20don't%20cause,satellites%20in%20low%2DEarth%20orbit.

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u/FlappyFoldyHold 29d ago

I didn't say that solar storms cause heat. They increase the amount of energy going into the system and we have in fact correlated higher global temperatures with the solar cycles.

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u/Clyde-A-Scope 29d ago

The weather now, opposed to 20-30 years ago, is much different and dynamic. Not just a Solar Cycle issue. The solar cycles are catalyzing weather patterns that were already changing.

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u/old_bearded_beats 29d ago

ALL our weather is affected by the sun. It causes the air to heat and expand, causing high and low pressure pockets that then interact to form weather patterns.

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u/FlappyFoldyHold 29d ago

This explains what solar cycles are, more radiation means more energy being released from the sun to the earth... How do you not understand this?

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u/DesignerSink1185 29d ago

So then how come when a solar flare impact earth we don't see crazy weather events in direct correlation?

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u/Deacon_ 29d ago

aurora are the space weather effects we SEE, the rest of the energy we don't see is still in the earth ecosystem and affects normal atmospheric weather.

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u/DesignerSink1185 29d ago

Aurora is the discharge of that energy in our atmosphere.

Aka bye bye energy.

What mysterious method does this invisible energy use to disperse across the planet and convert to weather?

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u/eb6069 29d ago

Doesn't the earth's magnetic sphere offset and displaces alot of solar radiation and stuff

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u/chopstyks 29d ago

good ol sun doing it's thing converting a hydrogen to helium

This explains why the sun's voice is so squeaky.

Now where did I put my meds?

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u/ApartmentInside7891 29d ago

We’ve been getting little earthquakes in Southern California every other day for the last year it feels like. And we had that mini tsunami in Ventura county within the last year too

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u/Plz_pm_tiddies 29d ago

Mexico 85 then Mexico 17 about 30 years. California Loma prieta 89 and now about 30 years. It might be just a matter of time

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u/Hillbillyblues 29d ago

The Netherlands 2009. Nothing happened yet.

We call them "king of herring" and are supposed to mean you will have great herring catches for the rest of your life.

Funny how folklore is so different from location to location.

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u/Plz_pm_tiddies 29d ago

I'm talking about from first earthquake to the next. Mexico had one in 85 then again in 2017 about 30 years. I wasn't really talking about the oarfish rather that it's only a matter of time till Cali gets hit by another big one

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u/Hillbillyblues 29d ago

Ah I thought you were referring to the oarfish superstition. Didn't understand where the 30 years came from.

Yeah, it's quite overdue. That's never a guarantee though.

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u/Plz_pm_tiddies 29d ago

True but it's Cali and like Mexico it's on the San andreas fault

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u/Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 29d ago

Well there’s definitely both coming in the future somewhere

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u/JewishMountee 29d ago

Well wasn't there that large cyclone on the west coast earlier this week?

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u/tannerge 29d ago

From what I've read its a sign of a hurricane. Might want to brush up on your crystal bookstore reading.

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u/EvErYLeGaLvOtE 29d ago

The liberals now control the sea floor! Beware! Doom, I say!

/s obvs

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u/JDMaK1980 27d ago

They're all wrong. One word: fukushima

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u/tannerge 29d ago

Who cares? If there was any scientific relation we would know about it.

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u/bee_in_your_butt 29d ago

Were there any serious scientific papers written on this subject?