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hello hello everybody it's 10 38 p.m Central Time on the 18th of May 2023 it's Thursday
here in the United States have some breaking news for you first of all I'm back online
I was off all day long but we're not here to complain about that an extremely large
earthquake has struck over here in the West Pacific on the plate boundary in our warned
area 7.7 to 8.0 and it's a huge earthquake guys it's one of the biggest in months for
the whole planet and let me get the stats from the USGS show them to you on the screen
here now so we're looking at the USGS plate boundary map the thick red lines between the
plates the areas the we watch and issue warnings for and we had issued a warning for something
like an 8.0 earthquake or greater up to 8.6 is one what we were looking for and here it
is upper 7 to low eight striking on the plate boundary next to New Caledonia and if you
go listen to my update from yesterday which I think is still on my YouTube channel let
me take you over there and show you 17 hours ago talked about New Caledonia in particular
I mentioned as the spot to watch to the west of the deep earthquake so now here we are
we have an extremely large earthquake striking along the plate boundary and this of course
can lead to other activity around the earthquake epicenter now we're gonna go check the tsunami.gov
page and right now they actually have a tsunami threat issued one to three meters that's up
to nine feet guys up to nine feet at Vanuatu let's go ahead and click on that see what
it says
let's see okay well it doesn't have much info on that let's go down here to the threat number
two statement information only they have it at 7.8 again upper seven low eight an earthquake
with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 occurred southeast of the Loyalty Islands hazardous
tsunami waves are forecast for some coasts that's the current threat watch that's going
to be around the earthquake epicenter let's go back over and take a look at the USGS stance
on this and just click on their map and kind of show us the area around where we would
expect some significant wave activity again about 150 200 miles I would think around the
epicenter itself with a earthquake this size if it was a magnitude larger like an upper
eight we would be looking for a Pacific wide tsunami so that just lets you know the size
difference it's still a big earthquake of course and this is in the spot where we issued
the warning so it's the biggest earthquake on the planet months and it's in the area
where we issued the warning in the time where we were looking for it to hit the reason we
were looking for this upper seven to low eight to hit was because of deep earthquake activity
right where our letter D is and I'll take you back throughout the week and we should
be able to see several earthquakes raised high off the planet those earthquakes are
the deep earthquakes and you can see we have a big cluster of them next to where our shallower
larger earthquake is so check it off the list if you were keeping track of areas that we
issued warnings in again it's a huge earthquake to strike up to 10 foot high tsunami forecast
that could change but there is a tsunami threat issued with this right now and again they
could lift that at a moment's notice I will save this as a video and get it out now over
on YouTube so people can see back that a large earthquake that we issued a warning for has
struck in the warrant time in the warned area tsunami threat on that and we talked about
the threat of a tsunami with this earthquake as well in the forecast this week so I don't
normally issue tsunami forecasts well that's maybe the second time ever in my life and
so here we are now we have a deep earthquake below Central America that struck yesterday
and I issued a separate warning for South Mexico going down all the way south to Panama
here at Central Mexico with the Guatemala being right in the middle where the Deep earthquake
is we have a warning going there for up to 7.4 we have a warning going in Japan from
Tokyo North for a seven as well and then we have a warning going for an upper six to strike
here that's Sumatra Indonesia and we also have a warning for an upper six to low seven
to strike down here on the coast of Chile that's all to strike this week in the next
seven to ten days so it's going to be a busy busy busy time we are now in it with a 7.78.0
range quake and I think this is worthy enough to save on its own right and put out over
on YouTube Just with a confirmation on an earthquake this size confirmation of the forecast
that we issued the warning for this in the time frame big earthquake hits there it is
so what caused it the Deep activity down below we had a bunch of deep earthquake activity
Down Below on the plate boundary which let me take you back over to the USGS plate boundary
map well I don't even know if I have it open let's get the USGS plate boundary map open
and just show you what moved down below the indo-australian plate down below the thick
red lines here at Indonesia and here at Fiji a series of deep earthquakes took place putting
leverage on the underside of the plate as these waves are traveling up through the plate
and then following out and Away following out the plate boundaries down to the south
over to the West up to the north and so forth so this is a big deal it's a big earthquake
there is a tsunami threat at this point we should before we sign off maybe go check the
national data buoy Center the ndbc buoys and see if there are any buoys in event mode so
what we'll see if there are any waves detected we'll see buoys that well okay well look around
it we have actual buoys in event mode and the red little line here is the event that's
been recorded I'll click on it should blow it up into a bigger view here 's our meters
and it looks like maybe a tenth of a meter wave disturbance actually picked up out there
it's not that much of a wave that's picked up on the buoy that far away that's roughly
800 miles away from the earthquake epicenter but that's the station the station is picking
that up the next nearest station that's picking anything up has even a smaller event mode
recorded it looks like about the same about a tenth of a meter or three inches or something
so not that much of a disturbance out in the water but when it comes in to land that's
why they have the tsunami threat issued because of the potential of localized waves around
the area itself that we don't have to worry about this going to Australia or going down
to New Zealand or going to the United States we don't have to worry about a wave going
to Hawaii or anything like that this is not like the Japan earthquake in 2011.
in 2011 the Pacific wide earthquake sent a tsunami all the way to the west coast of the
United States in this case it's just going to be around New Caledonia going as far east
as Fiji and as far west as the entrance to the Solomon Islands one more time this fulfills
the forecast if you want to hear the forecast it's over on my YouTube channel from yesterday
all right so go check it out if you want to hear earthquake forecasting there's some other
activity that struck but I think this video on its own right should be isolated a large
earthquake on its own people need to know they need to know there's a tsunami warning
that's been issued over in the West Pacific if you know anybody that lives over here around
the area in New Caledonia of course they already know an earthquake struck they probably felt
it but you may want to check in on them in the next day or two see what how they fared
out on that and we'll keep up to date on the tsunami watch or the actual threat I'll put
a link down below to tsunami.gov and you can just check it on yourself to see when it's
lifted it's only going to matter for the people who are over around the island itself because
the tsunami threat is localized around the island so all right guys earthquake forecasting
fulfilled 100 there right before your eyes as I was shut off all day the irony of it
does not Escape me you guys be safe will you please develop an emergency kit an earthquake
plan will you do that it's pretty basic you just need to develop a spot to go when the
earthquake hits and the emergency kit comes in handy after the earthquake of course you're
not going to be using the emergency kit during the earthquake but the emergency kit will
have a change of clothes set of shoes flashlight and batteries first aid kit Sanitation any
medicine you need just make sure to take care of all that and have it into a bag and have
it ready to go in case you need it you'll be way better off than all the other people
around you who refuse to prepare and at this point it is refusal because people have been
told over and over and over again they need to be prepared be prepared for what for natural
disasters and emergencies with the items that I just told you oh food and water is also
something you're going to need but that's going to be separate I mean you can have some
in your bag that are lightweight have you know high energy high protein but you need
to have long-term food and water also taken care of do not rely on the government or anybody
else to take care of you you need to take care of yourself as best you can self-sufficiency
time now 10 49 PM the biggest earthquake on the planet in at least a few months has hit
an upper 708 in the warned area in the West Pacific don't be scared guys like I said multiple
times now I've said don't be scared be prepared