Massive earthquake strikes Japan
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Their whole life, producer Hannah Chinn has known about the Big One: a massive earthquake forecasted to hit the West Coast. Scientists say it’ll destroy buildings, collapse bridges, flood coastal towns and permanently shift the landscape.
The quake came during a cluster that saw over a dozen other earthquakes reported over a 24-hour period, the USGS map shows.
Viral TikToks claim that recent geomagnetic storms caused Japan's earthquake oand might predict an imminent Cascadia quake.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 struck the southeastern portion of Hawaii's Big Island Wednesday night just before midnight local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 9 miles south-southeast of Fern Forest on the Island of Hawaiʻi on Tuesday at 11:49 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake, which occurred at a depth of 3 miles below sea level, had no apparent impact on either Mauna Loa or Kīlauea volcanoes.
The clusters of earthquakes have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault. There were at least 19 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater on Monday alone.
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