Ides of March: Pacific Ring of Fire, March 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, March 2019.  Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.  Does it have anything to do with the Earth moving away from the Sun?

Taking pics of the stars reveals earthquakes under your feet

Massive 66 million-year-old tsunami caused by dinosaur-killing meteor

Volcanoes! Lightning! And Radioactive Gas, Too

Volcano cliffs can affect monitoring data

Volcanic threats to global society

Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe’

The Underappreciated Threat of Volcanic Tsunamis

BOLIVIA: Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake

CANADA: Rare 4.5-magnitude earthquake shakes Fort Good Hope (not on the Pacific Ring of Fire, but significant)

‘Raw beauty’ on display at site of Canada’s last volcano eruption

researchers studying effects of U.S. Mount Saint Helens eruption on Canadian province of Alberta

Real-life tsunami threat in Port Alberni forces evacuation updates

CHILE: 5.5 earthquake – Near Coast of Northern Chile

Light mag. 4.6 earthquake

Minor mag. 3.6 earthquake

3.5 earthquake – 33 km al O de Mina Collahuasi 

4.0 earthquake – 28 km al O de La Higuera

Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake 

CHINA: 4.7 earthquake jolts Northeastern Taiwan

Explosion at chemical factory causes 2.2 quake

COLUMBIA: Did the Moon trigger Saturday’s M=6.1 earthquake? 

6.1 Magnitude Earthquake 

ECUADOR: El Reventador Volcano Continually Remakes Itself

7.5 Earthquake near Palora

EL SALVADOR: $6-million USD earthquake proof data center to be built

FIJI: 6.2 quake

4.9 quake

GUATEMALA: Some remains of volcano victims not identified

INDONESIA: At first sign of trouble, don’t wait on tsunami warning. Just run

4.9 earthquake – Flores Region

 5.8 magnitude strikes Sulawesi

3.5 earthquake – Bali Region

3.8 earthquake – Northern Molucca Sea

5.5 earthquake – Sumbawa Region

Flooding, strong earthquake claim more than 80 lives

JAPAN: A government panel says a massive eruption of Fujiyama could send volcanic ash all the way to the wider Tokyo metropolitan area, the eruption would last 15 days.  The last time Fujiyama erupted was from December 1707 to January 1708 (Gregorian calendar).  Interesting that Fujiyama erupted seven years after the last Cascadia Event hit the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Tsunami-hit railway in Iwate resumes full operation

Mega-quake would likely flood more of Fukushima than 2011 tsunami

Tohoku residents still haunted by memories of devastating 3/11 triple disaster

U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.

Official video report, U.S. military personnel recall Operation Tomodachi, 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake:

KOREA: One of the Worst Earthquakes in Korea’s recent History (just two years ago) Was Caused by Humans

MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Jalisco

New Dramatic video as volcano erupts again

Watch video as Popocatépetl volcano sends plumes of ash in the air in powerful explosion

 4.4 earthquake – Offshore Oaxaca

The riddle of the 19 September 2017 earthquake

NEW ZEALAND: A surprising, cascading earthquake

Civil Defence retracts tsunami warning issued by mistake 

The U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division (based in Hawaii) deployed its Tropic Lighting Division to New Zealand, to receive training on New Zealand’s National Disaster Response Framework and prep for future disaster deployments: “While the Indo-Asia Pacific presents unique challenges in disaster relief emergencies, it all comes down to people and relationships that make the absolute difference. Building partnerships and alliances ahead of those disasters are a critical component to mission success.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jason Hetzel, U.S. Army

PANAMA: 4.3 quake

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: One year later Survivors still contend with the fallout of Papua New Guinea’s earthquake

PERU: 5.0 earthquake – Peru-Ecuador Border 

7.1-magnitude earthquake

PHILIPPINES: Taal volcano (Philippines): volcano is warming up, alert level raised

U.S. Navy Seebees work to complete the Santa Elena Evacuation Site in Tacloban City, as a part of Pacific Partnership-19.

Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.

RUSSIA:  6.1 quake strikes near Ozernovskiy

4.5 earthquake – Southwestern Siberia

Shiveluch volcano continuing activity, frequent small glowing avalanches

Kamchatka volcano eruptions captured by satellites

Significant increase in Bezymianny volcano activity

Aleutian Flights Affected By Erupting Volcanoes in Russia

THAILAND: Tsunami warning issued for 6 provinces 

TONGA:Tonga earthquake poses no threat to Fiji

UNITED STATES: Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes

Ignorant Louisiana gov’na criticizes new federal volcano monitoring bill

Are you an ‘Earthquake Detective’?

Alaska; Tsunami Preparedness Week: Where to Evacuate

 FEMA looks to hire Alaskans to help with earthquake recovery

Engineering reports reveal extent of earthquake damage

snow and ice melt revealing earthquake damage

rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake 

Applicants for state earthquake damage assistance must re-apply 

New tsunami evidence along one of Earth’s largest faults, the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust

Arizona; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.

California; Magnitude 2.9 earthquake shakes East Bay

3.2 quake strikes near Mercuryville

4.2 earthquake – Offshore Northern California

‘Thanks for the heart attack’

3.0 quake strikes near Gilman Hot Springs

Magnitude 3.5 earthquake strikes near Petrolia

3.3 quake strikes near Ribbonwood

ShakeAlertLA users are concerned about earthquake app’s security 

earthquake early-warning system will mean false alarms

200-thousand People Go Into California’s Volcanic Hazard Zones Every Day

Californians Now Need to Prepare for Erupting Volcanoes

Humboldt State gears up for Tsunami

Colorado; Earthquake likely human-triggered, seismologists say

Guam; 04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Hawaii;  3.5 Earthquake Felt In North Kohala

lawmakers approve Kilauea volcano disaster relief

Did groundwater trigger explosive eruptions? 

How fluid viscosity affects earthquake intensity

Kilauea’s Lava Fields Become Home to an Unlikely Species

5.5-magnitude earthquake strikes near Kilauea

Piles of Lava Nearly as Tall as Eiffel Tower

U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1

Idaho:

Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.

Federal, state, and local agencies train in earthquake emergency

From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area).  More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part.  Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.

Montana: Seismic activity in Montana means potential for large earthquake

Oregon; Portland’s new Earthquake building code Backlash

Video report of Oregon National Guard personnel taking part in disaster response training (called Patriot South) in the Southeastern state of Georgia, 07MAR2019 (when you watch the video note that what they are really prepping for is a catastrophic disaster in which all law & order goes out the window, aka ‘Zombie Land’):

Utah; 2.32 earthquake strikes near Bluffdale

2.7-magnitude earthquake

Washington; Coast Guard to partake in tsunami drill at Port Angeles base

New earthquake map shows Washington’s at-risk buildings

Scientists getting new tools to monitor volcanoes

2.9-magnitude earthquake hits Snohomish County

Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee

Wyoming; Mild earthquake recorded near Green River

Student Treks to Yellowstone and Finds Bacteria That Eats Pollution

Caldera Chronicles: Yellowstone staff works to move boardwalks, latrines away from hotspots

Happy Birthday, Yellowstone National Park!

VANUATU: Strong mag. 6.0 earthquake 

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, February 2019: OMINOUS QUIET