Alaska had a 7.5 magnitude quake and a Tsunami warning was triggered
An initial earthquake with a 7.5 magnitude occurred around Sand Point, Alaska, a city on one of the Shumagin Islands, at about 5:14 p.m. E.T., according to the Official U.S. Geological Survey. An aftershock hit the area about 20 minutes later at a magnitude of 5.8, the USGS said.
The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska to Unimak Pass, Alaska. Police in Homer, Alaska, asked anyone in the potential flooding zone to move to higher ground immediately in fear of a potential tsunami.
@lovendures Thank you for letting us know. I hope people are okay. We had some predictions about quakes and tsunami in the NorthWest.
Earthquake in Turkey and subsequent Tsunami in Greece I think today or yesterday.
Well, I didn’t feel it in Eastham but others did, in addition to people all over the Cape and other parts of Mass and Ct and RI—a 4.2 earthquake this morning in Buzzards Bay. Oscar, our cat, was acting strange and this explains why.
3 large earthquakes, the latest an 8.1, have struck off New Zealand triggering a tsunami warning telling people living along the coat to flee to higher ground. A tsunami watch has been issued for Hawaii.
Lots of reports on twitter that water is moving out in the Northern section of N.Z. ( As of 10 minutes ago). Their tsunami siren is intense.
Prayers for the people of New Zealand.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/04/world/new-zealand-quake-tsunami-warning-intl/index.html
Ok, friends -- it took me forever to find this thread because I KNEW we had one on earthquakes and tsunamis, and, after some searching and scouring, here we are!
I am posting because I came across this fellow on Twitter. Feel free to scroll through his posts (he has pinned some helpful posts at the top of his feed), but the long and the short of it is that he has been studying the earth's tectonic plates for some time now and he feels a massive earthquake (what he terms a 'megaquake') and resultant tsunami are imminent.
It's all very science-y and much is beyond my ability to understand but what I do understand is making me feel a bit icky. (It seems two large plates in Asia have become jammed, and [insert Elaine Benes voice] yadda yadda yadda ... megaquake.)
So, I post here for two reasons: one, for those who want to have a look for themselves and offer their thoughts and opinions; and two, for those who might have an intuitive sense on whether such a thing might happen this year (he currently anticipates around September, but is not definitive on that timing -- he says 2023 at the latest).
(I am editing to add there are others who have predicted similar things, so it's not just this one person saying it. Many of his feed replies are people sharing the articles and videos of those making similar claims.)
Thoughts?
Someone tell me he's a quack 🤣
@sistermoon I'm certainly not an expert in this area (or much of any area, to be honest! 🤣), but while it's possible he's correct about the "jam-up", several of his and others' comments on his posts have an almost Q-anon vibe to them, talking about gov't and military conspiracies to keep this information quiet, etc. Again, I'm in no position to say if he's right or wrong, but honestly, it just sounds a lot like fear mongering to me.
@sistermoon I'm certainly not an expert in this area (or much of any area, to be honest! 🤣), but while it's possible he's correct about the "jam-up", several of his and others' comments on his posts have an almost Q-anon vibe to them, talking about gov't and military conspiracies to keep this information quiet, etc. Again, I'm in no position to say if he's right or wrong, but honestly, it just sounds a lot like fear mongering to me.
yeah, I thought the same -- as long as no one here has visions of earthquakes or tsunamis, I'll be happy! 😆
This made me think of a 2015 piece in the New Yorker on the work of seismologists re: Cascadian subduction (one sliding beneath another I think) tectonic plates in the Pacific Northwest. They give odds of 1 in 3 for a big earthquake there in the next 50 years, 1 in 10 chances of a very big one (cataclysmic) in the next 50 years. Not imminent apparently. The article is detailed and interesting.
Someone tell me he's a quack 🤣
I looked at the Twitter feed. Heard a lot of ducks...