Very Strong 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake April 4th 2025!

James Kaufman, World News Report today, April 4th, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake pop off over near Papua New Guinea, coming in as a 5 on the DYFI, a 6 on the ShakeMap, an associated tsunami. At the default depth of 10 kilometers. Now there's been some activity in that area. There was just an aftershock of 5.3. But that 6.9 is going to be the story of the day. Now we do have some honorable mentions. We have a New Madrid quake that popped off today. A smaller quake at 2.7 magnitude. 7.9 kilometers right on the New Madrid. We also have a Cascadia subduction zone or a quake pop off right on the Juan de Fuca plate over off the Oregon coast at 3.6 also at a default depth of 10 kilometers. Again, the story of the day thus far. This is magnitude 6.9, an associated tsunami warning. Now this is all going to be associated with Zealandia, the eighth continent, rising here. You can see the outline. I'm about to show you all the outline, the official outline. All these large quakes that you see over here have to do with these plate boundaries forming as this continent rises out of the ocean over to the 6.9, which I believe is on the point right there, Papua New Guinea being on the point. We see that our main source is the USGS, a 6.9 default depth of 10 kilometers. Germans came in at a 7, and the French came in at a 6.5. It's the strongest I've ever seen the French come in. We're going to get some detailed information on this right now. So this just occurred less than an hour ago, a very strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake. Near Papua New Guinea. Again, I'm going to say that that's associated with all the plate boundaries and all of all kink activity in that area and the continent, Zealandia, that's rising in the area as well. I will show you all that in just one moment. Take a look at some earthquake details. Yes, it was a 6.9. We get the, well, I believe the USGS, no, the Europeans are the primary data source. We see that it released 21.1 atomic bombs worth of energy. Imagine, you would think a tsunami would have been created, and we will check. Wow, we have almost nobody to compare quake data with. We don't even see the USGS on here. Europeans came in at 6.9, and the Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology came in at 6.9. Both the default depth, notice the asterisk that goes down here, a depth given as 10 kilometers often means that the depth of the quake cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy. Now, this is Zealandia here, and everyone's got their own opinion as to exactly, well, where the continent's boundaries will be but I believe it to definitely go over to this area where we just saw that large quake and aftershock. This is New Zealand and this is Papua New Guinea up here. This looks like to be the outline of Zealandia here and it's very hard to figure out how it's going to pop up here. It will probably be after we're all long gone. Headed over to the National Data Buoy Center. We do have a buoy right in that area in event mode as you can see. Buoy 55023 and that little red mark there is going to be the event. So it's going to be a very minor event. These are just the swells that you see in the area. Let's get some detailed information about that tsunami event. All right, here's the water column in green. We were headed down on a swell, and this is the entire event right here. Didn't last very long at all, and this is a blow-up of the event, and we can see that it was only about four to five centimeters, the entire height of the event. So I don't know if I would go as far as to call this a tsunami. Four or five centimeters, well, It's just that, four or five centimeters, so a buoy is in event mode, but there was not a huge tsunami created, or really any tsunami created whatsoever. In summary, a magnitude 6.9 very strong earthquake popped off near Papua New Guinea right here. Zealandia rising here. There were several earthquakes in the area. We have several volcanoes in the area. There's an aftershock of 5.3. We do have a new Madrid quake here, a small 2.7. And we have a 3.6 over in the Cascadia subduction zone, really on the Juan de Fuca plate. With that said, God bless you and yours, folks. Please share. Please subscribe. Always remember, anything's possible. Bizarro world.