Huge 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Tonga March 24th 2026!

James Kaufman will report today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a 7.5 magnitude earthquake near Tonga associated with Zealandia, the continent rising, our eighth continent rising out of the ocean, and this is where all of our plate boundaries are going haywire. We do have a lot of active volcanoes in the area. It did come in only as a 5 on the DYFI, a 5 on the ShakeMap. map no people in the immediate area look at the depth of that 229.5 kilometers when do y'all see how many atomic bombs worth of energy it released unbelievable this was a strong earthquake over to volcanoesandearthquakes.com first off we can see that we have three volcanoes right on this area so magma is definitely moving it's a subduction zone here and these are all plate tectonic boundaries this is also plate tectonic boundary I don't know why they don't have it marked get some additional information on this bad boy usgs is the main source of data here at 7.5 when do y'all see how strong this thing was uh we also have Raspberry Shake coming at 7.1 and Germany coming in at 7.5. Let's go get some additional details so you can see what we're talking about here. This is something to remember. We've had a major 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Not very strong, but major. It's going to be near Tofu Island. It's going to be near Tonga as well. It's going to be part of Zealandia, the continent rising out of the ground. I've been over that quite a few times, if you're new to the channel, stick around, we'll teach you as we go. This was about two hours ago, while this first came in as a 7.6, even stronger than I thought. What do you see, how many atomic bombs worth of energy was associated with this blast? Now, the USGS is back to reporting as a 7.5, not 7.6, and it looks like only seven reports have come in from people that felt it in the middle of nowhere near this volcano home reef. look at this unbelievable 167.6 atomic bombs for the energy released for this quake 167.6 atomic bombs for the energy released for this quake this is a major earthquake and it was very very deep as well they have it at 229 kilometers of depth uh this area has been very very active over the last couple of days as you all see now they're claiming no aftershocks but there's been several thus far and we'll jump up here to the top usgs coming in at 7.5 229 kilometers of depth there we have raspberry shake coming at 7.1 234 kilometers of depth we have germany coming in at 7.5 235 kilometers of depth but the french coming at 7.01 plus or minus 0.15 so the 7.2 bunch of guys coming in at 189 kilometers we have the incorporated research Institute for Seismology coming in at 7.5 229 kilometers seems to be the consensus Australia coming in at 7.51 we did notice coming in at 7.6 to start with that's the story it's been downgraded thus far 7.3 according to the Italians here and that's at 215 kilometers of depth and the europeans say a seven six europeans want it to be big i guess it was much bigger than you let us know again that's your europeans we'll do a quick summary on this now here we are we'll take a look at Zealandia rising bigger than that this is continent you can see rising here with new zealand and new caledonia here and get the peaks and they're both fighting for all of this land coming up from the sea which would be our eighth continent or when it comes up it'll be our eighth continent we've had a bunch of aftershocks here to kind of give you all an idea it looks like we've had seven total earthquakes in this area here so that's seven five and if we go to the largest first the second largest is just that five two right there So you'll get an idea of what we're talking about. I want to show you all this Zealandia Rising, for those of y'all that are new to my channel. Actually, New Zealand has an argument with the United Nations to try to claim as much as this area as their continental shelf, although they're not a continent as possible. We'll see how that goes, but hopefully not well. Real quickly for the new folks that might have joined us, we have Zealandia here, which is the eighth continent rising up out of the ocean, and they're trying to claim the purple marking as their continental shelf here in the UN statement, but obviously New Caledonia doesn't want that to happen. other country right here Tonga, Fiji, etc this continent looks like it goes clear over here this is gonna be Australia this is gonna be a very small Strait that would be very shallow might have to be dredged and that goes right into Papua New Guinea which I believe might be outside of this boundary it's all gonna depending on where these plate boundaries fall. Again, New Zealand's trying to make a quick move on this continental shelf area here. Shallows point. The problem is it takes up New Caledonia. So I don't think that's going to work out. Again, this is Australia right here. And this is really, really the reason why you have such great surf on the east coast of Australia. Because there is something under there making that surface rise. I know y'all get it. I want to make sure everyone knew what Zealandia is. It goes up to Tonga over here, New Caledonia over here, New Caledonia over here, Zealandia over here, and Papua New Guinea on the top, northern, northern, western corner. That said, God bless, share, subscribe, always remember, and in the impossible, bizarro world.