Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 09 to 15 of Gregorian February 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  Muswellbrook quake?

Dozens of people report Port Stephens quake but scientists say it didn’t happen

4.3 quake off Pibara coast

CANADA: Frost Quakes making themselves heard

Insurance Brokers Association of Canada uses fun looking video game style gfxs to promote natural disaster insurance 

CHINA:  2 quakes over magnitude 5 hit eastern Taiwan

4.8 quake hits Taiwan

Taiwan’s Orchid Island being criticized for failing to clean-up 547-metric tons of trash 

INDONESIA:   Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted again

generates more than three-million-tons of trash a year, half of which ends up in the rivers and ocean.

JAPAN:  More than 11-million yen found thrown in trash

Plastic fashion mannequin maker admits that it throws away 2-thousand mannequins per year, many ending up in the ocean, but now promises to explore making mannequins out of paper

MEXICO: Again, Popocatépetl erupts, releasing lava and ash

Native ‘volcano’ rabbits now threatened by hoards of volcano tourists

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the East New Britain province

PERU:  5.0 quake south of Acari

Huaynaputina volcano pushes mud flow down local creek

moderate explosions from Sabancaya volcano

Ubinas volcano creates mud flows

PHILIPPINES:  More proof you can’t rely on the government; Taal volcano relief organization radically increases the amount of still needed donated supplies needed for survivors because the government of Philippines is overwhelmed with existing/ongoing public health emergencies such as measles, polio, Minidao earthquake, typhoon Kammuri recovery, typhoon Phanfone recovery, and now the new COVID-19 pandemic!

RUSSIA:  6.9 quake Kuril Islands

UNITED STATES:

California; Another proof of government failure, despite paying city trash collection fees, residents have now become unpaid volunteer ‘Street stewards’ in an effort to clean up San Diego 

Hawaii; Native plant can survive volcanoes but not invasive species

Oregon;  Volcanology at the University of Oregon

Washington;  once again, ‘experts’ warn Seattle of The Really Big One

The annual federal government budget does not fund a request to raise the height of a dam in Washington state to stop ongoing debris flow from the Mount Saint Helens eruption.

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Wyoming; Scientist Claims Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Erupt Next Week

 

Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-08 February 2020: “THERE IS NO OFF SEASON FOR US”

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