Important Takeaways:
- Daylight reveals full destruction of Japan’s deadly 7.6 magnitude earthquake with homes toppled, temples destroyed and white smoke rising from charred remains of buildings as country reels from 150 quakes in the last 24 hours: Death toll ‘rises to 13’
- As daylight broke across Japan this morning the full destruction of the deadly 7.6 magnitude earthquake was laid bare showing collapsed homes, toppled temples and huge cracks in the middle of roads.
- White smoke continued to rise from the charred remains of buildings, as the country woke to the horrific aftermath after being hit with 150 quakes in less than 24 hours.
- The New Year’s Day disaster left at least 13 people dead in the Ishikawa Prefecture according to the Japan Times, with dozens more injured and unaccounted for as emergency workers plough through rubble to try and find survivors.
- One building, believed to be a seven-story block, was seen lying on its side while a temple in Suzu City is said to have been completely destroyed. In popular tourist site Wajima City, in the Ishikawa Prefecture at least 100 buildings have been destroyed.
- Shocking images emerging from the country show houses flattened to the ground, with abandoned cars being engulfed into huge crevices in the road.
- A major search and rescue operation continued into the early hours of Tuesday, with Japan’s Prime Minister saying that rescue efforts had been made ‘extremely difficult due to damage to roads’ in the Ishikawa prefecture, near the epicenter of the quake.
- As Japan was on high alert on Monday, waves of at least 1.2 meters (four feet) high hit the port of Wajima, and a series of smaller tsunamis were reported elsewhere, including as far away as the northern island of Hokkaido.
- Dozens of aftershocks registering between 3.1 and 6 on the Richter scale rang out after the largest quake hit around 4pm local time (7am UK time), with Wajima City’s Fire Department in Ishikawa reporting it had received more than 30 reports of collapsed buildings, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.
- Elements of Japan’s military have been called up to aid in the rescue and evacuation efforts, Hayashi added, with a total of 51,000 told to abandon their homes.
- Japan’s meteorological agency said that the earthquake’s magnitude of 7.6 is the largest ever recorded in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture.
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- At least 131 killed, 700 injured in China’s deadliest earthquake in 9 years
- A devastating earthquake, measuring 6.2 in magnitude, rocked northwestern China shortly before midnight on Monday. The seismic event, impacting Gansu and Qinghai provinces, stands as the most lethal earthquake in China in the past nine years, claiming the lives of at least 131 individuals and injuring over 700.
- The disaster left residents in dire conditions, with many spending the night in tents in freezing temperatures, the newswire noted.
- The quake also caused landslides, complicating rescue efforts. Emergency workers are searching for missing persons, with Qinghai officials reporting 16 missing in a landslide.
- According to Reuters, 78 people were found alive in Gansu, where rescue operations concluded Tuesday afternoon. Attention is now turning to treating the injured and resettling residents as they brace for the challenges of the approaching months-long winter.
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Important Takeaways:
- Another Tsunami Prophecy – When Will The American People Start Listening To The Warnings?
- We have been warned for decades that someday gigantic tsunamis will hit the United States. Unfortunately, most of the population is not interested in such warnings at all.
- Perry Stone has had a number of “tsunami dreams” over the years, and on November 9th he had another one which greatly startled him.
- …he reveals that he was shown that the tsunami threat is caused by a large earthquake…
- Stone then transitioned into a series of dreams he has had over the years, specifically focusing on tsunami scenarios affecting various coastal areas of the United States. While clarifying that he does not actively seek such visions, Stone shared a recent dream from Nov. 9, in which he witnessed an earthquake and the subsequent threat of a tsunami.
- “I do not go to bed thinking about tsunamis. I do not ask God to show me events concerning tsunamis. As a matter of fact, these dreams often come at a time when I least expect it,” Stone reveals.
- According to Oregon State University paleoseismologist Chris Goldfinger, the Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential to cause an earthquake that is “almost 30 times more energetic” than anything that the San Andreas Fault is capable of producing…
- Such a quake would have the ability to create a giant tsunami that could potentially destroy everything west of Interstate 5 in the Pacific Northwest.
- Needless to say, we have never seen a disaster of that magnitude in the entire history of our country, and we are completely and utterly unprepared for it.
- Goldfinger claims…The tsunami would bring water 20 to 80 – maybe even 100 – feet higher than today’s high tides. Most of the structures that have survived the killer quake but built too low will be smashed into by a devastating wall of water. And the next surge could be even higher, and the one after that higher still.
- It won’t just be the water causing destruction, but everything it picks up.
- A number of years ago, the former head of FEMA’s Region X was quoted by the New Yorker as saying that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”…
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Important Takeaways:
- 7.6 magnitude earthquake off Philippines prompts evacuations more than 1,000 miles away
- The earthquake near the southern Philippines island of Mindanao was strong enough and close to land to shake nearby communities, the U.S. Geologic Survey said in a post on X, formally known as Twitter. It occurred just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday local time
- The Tsunami Warning Center initially said that based on the magnitude and location, it expected tsunami waves to hit the southern Philippines and parts of Indonesia, Palau and Malaysia. But the center later dropped its tsunami warning.
- In Japan, authorities issued evacuation orders in various parts of Okinawa Prefecture affecting thousands of people. Okinawa is more than 1,200 miles from Mindanao.
- More than three hours after the quake hit, there was no report of a tsunami hitting the coast, Teresito Bacolcol, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, told The Associated Press. Based on the quake’s magnitude, Bacolcol said a 3.2-foot tsunami could hit, but the wave could be higher in enclosed coves, bays and straits.
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Important Takeaways:
- A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck near the eastern Caribbean Island of Barbados on Tuesday. No immediate damage was reported.
- The quake occurred some 30 miles south-southwest of the capital of Bridgetown at a depth of 24 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- There was no risk of a tsunami, according to Barbados Meteorological Services.
- Earthquakes are relatively infrequent in Barbados, with only an average annual of 13 tremors greater than magnitude 2.5, according to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center.
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Important Takeaways:
- An earthquake measuring a 5.6 magnitude rocked several islands near Alaska on Monday night.
- The tremors were felt across the Fox Islands in the volcanic Aleutian Islands chain at 9:13 p.m. local time. The United States Geological Survey (USGS), a government agency, shared the details on its website giving the time of the earthquake in Coordinated Universal Time as 6:13 a.m. UTC.
- In terms of landslide estimates, the agency said “little or no area [is] affected” and “little or no population exposed.” The agency stated that it had issued a “green alert for shaking-relating fatalities and economic losses,” adding: “There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage.”
- Some of the cities exposed to the quake were Akutan, Dutch Harbor, and Unalaska, the USGG said on its website
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Important Takeaways:
- Powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake tears through Philippines with residents told to be prepared for aftershocks
- A huge magnitude 7.2 earthquake has rattled the southern Mindanao region of the Philippines today, sparking fears of devastation in the region.
- The quake struck off the shore of the Mindanao region, at a depth of 6.2 miles, German Research Center for Geosciences said. Shallow earthquakes are more likely to cause damage on the Earth’s surface.
- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami was expected.
- There were no immediate reports of casualties but the quake was felt across a wide area of the mountainous island. Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippines and is home to around 26 million people.
- Philippines’ seismology agency said the quake lasted several seconds and advised residents to be on alert for aftershocks and damage.
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Important Takeaways:
- A 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit western Texas on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- The quake struck about 23 miles west-southwest from Mentone, Texas, around 4:27 a.m. local time.
- “You probably were just rudely awakened by an earthquake. USGS is reporting a M5.2 south of Carlsbad, NM, which occurred at 3:27am. We felt it here in Santa Teresa,” the National Weather Service for El Paso, Texas, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
- Santa Teresa, New Mexico, is more than 200 miles west of where the quake was detected.
- As of Wednesday morning, there have been no reports of damage or injuries.
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Important Takeaways:
- Nepal hit by new earthquakes days after temblor kills more than 150
- Two significant earthquakes jolted Nepal on Monday, just three days after a powerful temblor killed more than 150 people in the Himalayan nation. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Nepal on Monday, centered in the Jajarkot district about 250 miles northeast of the capital, Kathmandu, which was hit hard by the magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Friday
- At least 153 people were killed by that first quake, according to the latest official figures from Nepalese authorities on Monday, which was a slightly lower toll than provided over the weekend. More than 339 people were also injured.
- A 4.5-magnitude aftershock hit the western part of the country just nine minutes after the earthquake on Monday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. At least three people sustained minor injuries but there were no reports of any deaths from the Monday temblors, according to Jajarkot police official Satosh Rokka.
- Earthquakes are common in mountainous Nepal, but Friday’s quake was the deadliest since a 7.8 magnitude temblor struck in 2015, killing about 9,000 people and damaging about a million buildings.
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Important Takeaways:
- Magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes Washington: Residents feel shake around Puget Sound near Seattle
- 3 magnitude earthquake hit western Washington State on Sunday evening.
- The quake, recorded by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, was felt by some in the Puget Sound Region, northwest of Seattle, and just south of Port Townsend.
- The US National Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami is not expected in the aftermath of the quake.
- The seismic network (PNSN) determined that the epicenter of the earthquake was just under Marrowstone Island, a small island to the southeast of Port Townsend and northwest of Seattle.
- There have been no reports of structural damage caused by the earthquake.
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