James Kaufman, World News Report today, March 30th, 2025.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we continue to see a seismic uptick,
most probably because of the plates being charged
by our sun for the last several days.
We've had a 7.0 earthquake,
and this is going to be just southeast of Tonga.
It's going to really be part of the Zealandia Rising,
which is the 8th continent rising out of the ocean.
We will briefly go over that in just one second.
There was an associated tsunami warning here.
They say it was at 29 kilometers of depth.
It could have been.
We have, again, an 8 on the DYFI, a 7 on the Shake Map,
and an associated tsunami warning.
Now, this is not the only quake we've had in this area.
Zooming into that plate tectonic boundary
that's still forming here in red,
we see that we've had nine quakes,
if we include this one here, the last 24 hours.
The 7-0 being the largest, followed by a 6-1,
which is right on top of it, as you can see.
Now, what else is happening around the globe?
Well, we've had three Cascadia subduction zone quakes.
Now, most of you know what the Cascadia subduction zone is.
So we have our Juan de Fuca plate here being pushed under
our North American plate here
by the big Pacific plate that's moving towards the east.
We've seen three smaller to medium quakes in this area.
A 2.7 default depth, a 2.7 default
depth, and a 3.4 default depth.
So they don't know exactly how deep these are.
They are reporting them.
Again, it's all part of the Cascadia subduction zone.
That's the Juan de Fuca Plate here being pushed under
or subsiding under the North American Plate,
which happens to push magma towards the top.
And these are volcanoes here where you see activity here.
No doubt, magma in the volcano is moving because of the movement
of the Juan de Fuca under the North American Plate,
again being pushed by the larger Pacific Plate here.
Now, first we'll go over Zealandia,
the eighth continent rising out of the ocean here.
Everyone's got their own opinions
as to exactly where the boundaries or edges will be,
but this is a pretty strong plate
boundary we're seeing our activity on,
and it's also filled with volcanoes, as we will soon see.
Again, Zealandia rising right here,
and we're seeing that quake swarm right here.
Now, this is the other area we talked about.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone, where we have our Juan de Fuco plate
being pushed under or subsiding under our North American plate here.
And the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains are mountain ranges,
but they're also volcanoes.
You can see the magma being pushed up into the Cascades,
which include mountains like Mount Rainier, Mount Adams,
Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, and many others.
very active volcanic region due to this mechanism here.
You can see the Pacific plate over here is
the one doing the pushing,
pushing that wonderful gold plate under the North American plate. Now
we're seeing a lot more quakes in this area here
and we're also seeing that of course
it's going to be a volcano right here.
We'll see if we can get them off for just a second.
You can see that right under these large quakes
here there is an active volcano right here.
Now I'll turn the quakes off so you can see the name of that.
That is Tonga itself. So we've dealt
with this volcano several times in the past.
We have a lot of volcanic activity in and around
Zealandia rising and this is a hard plate boundary here.
Now this is the 7.0. As you all saw that
There were a bunch more going all through New Zealand here and,
well, really all around
Zealandia, there's a lot of movement.
All around most of Indonesia and still in Thailand
and Burma, we had such large quakes
yesterday.
Look at that swarm that's ongoing up there.
Look at that.
That's all going to be smaller quakes.
But all four four somethings are smaller,
but there's quite a few of them. So back to the big boy of the day.
Get some additional information here. It says a 7.0.
USGS is the main source. Tonga Volcano.
Raspberry Shake came in at 6.6 and the Germans came in at 7.0.
Let's get some detailed information on that right now.
So we have a major 7.0 earthquake.
We're over at VolcanoDiscovery.com currently.
Looking at our earthquake details,
we have the USGS as our primary source,
a 7.0, a depth of 29 kilometers, which could be reasonable,
considering that's a plate that's rising,
And 29.8 atomic bombs worth of energy.
were released by that 7.0.
Most people don't realize the difference between a 7.0 and a 7.1.
The 7.1 is 10 times stronger than the 7.0.
Remember that. Comparing that 7.0 with all the
different reporting agencies, starting out with the USGS,
7.0, 29 kilometers, Raspberry Shake
Jake came in at 6.6.
They usually follow the USGS.
I don't know if the USGS didn't upgrade or what occurred here.
We have the Germans coming in at 7.03.
They've started using a second decimal.
We have the Incorporated Research Institution
for Seismology coming in at 7.0, 29 kilometers of depth.
We have Australia coming in at 7.02,
also going to a more advanced system using two decimal points.
And they have it at 43 kilometers in depth.
We have the French coming in at 6.69
and they have a default depth of 10 kilometers.
We have the Italians coming in at 6.9 at 15 kilometers.
And we're looking at a 7.1 from the Europeans.
I believe that's the highest one, default depth, 10 kilometers.
So we saw a 7.02, a bunch of 7s, a 7.03, a 7.1.
Fairly strong quake, ladies and gentlemen.
Since we did have a tsunami warning,
I did check all the buoys in the area here.
Quake swarm occurred right about here.
We're also having a quake swarm over in Burma here.
And I don't see any buoys in event mode in either place.
And I don't see any buoys in event mode from those,
well, not so strong earthquakes
associated with the Cascadia subduction zone that we discussed.
So what are the big takeaways from this?
Well, we're having a huge swarm right up here
under a volcano that's active.
Obviously magma is moving around as the land is awakening and
actually rising.
We also continue to see action over in Burma, a ton of 4.0s,
and we have three earthquakes over associated
with the Cascadia subduction zone.
None of them are huge, the largest being a 3.4 magnitude.
All right, folks, keep alert.
I expect more seismic activity throughout the day and into tomorrow.
We've had plenty, plenty of solar winds
and plasma hitting Earth for several days now,
and I believe that these plates are charged and ready to move.
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