James Kaufman reports on a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The event triggered a tsunami warning, though no tsunami materialized. The region is experiencing high seismic activity, including nearly 50 aftershocks and volcanic unrest, driven by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North American Plate.
James Kaufman with his report today.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a 6.3 magnitude earthquake up
in the Alaskan Islands, the Aleutian Islands.
And, well, it has a tsunami warning associated with it.
Now, earlier today, we had a 6.2 down in the South Sandwich Islands.
And this one is, well, much further north.
and it's a 6.3 magnitude came in as a five
on the DYFI I mean there's not a lot of people that live
in that area before
on the shake map again associated tsunami there have been over 40
earthquakes in this exact area as you will see
in the last 24 hours that means we're dealing with
not only a plate tectonic boundary as you can see
but we have lots of magma movement in this area
and erupting and awakening volcanoes this is also
a subduction zone we have the pacific plate
pushing under the north american plate right here
so a lot of things in play right here
I'm going to zoom in and take a look at the area,
and you're going to be surprised.
All right, I wanted you all to see how big
of a swarm we're talking here.
We've got a lot of active volcanoes in the area.
The Aleutian Islands are here, all part of Alaska.
We actually have the Pacific Plate subsiding under
the North American Plate here.
And we have a major plate tectonic boundary here.
47 after 46 aftershocks after the main 6.3 came
through and that's so far we'll also take a look
at the national data buoy center
and see if we have any buoys in event mode but we really are
seeing an uptick these are just the 4.0s
and larger around the globe there's quite a few of
This is the 6.2 we went over earlier in the South
Sandwich Island region, right here, like a volcano there.
And, well, this is the 6.3, and it's going to be the Aleutian Islands.
And you can see we have a volcano right here awakening,
and there's magma movement right there,
so we might see some more awakening right there.
We have three in unrest right to the northeast,
and another one in minor eruption northeast of that.
So it's a busy area, a lot of movement and,
I guess, plate tectonic movement as well.
Let's see what they have as far as a swarm.
Oh, we're not going to be able to see as much as we'd like.
Look at the west coast of South America and Central America,
as opposed to Canada, who does not report to,
well, anybody but themselves,
And as opposed to the United States
Right
Well, we're not going to be able to tell
How many earthquakes are really going off here
This is going to do a lot better job of measuring them all
And see that you really can't make it out
So we'll get some additional information on the 6-3
Did you feel it?
The USGS did
And they're the main contributor here
They came in at a 6.3, 35 kilometers of depth.
The Europeans came in at a 6.3, 35 kilometers of depth.
And the Germans came in at a 6.3, 23 kilometers of depth.
Talk about consistency.
All right, let's get some detailed information about this quake
and these aftershocks.
A very strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
I did warn you all as we move into the quote-unquote busy side
of the solar system with all the
gas giants behind us that the earthquake
and volcanic activity will take an uptick, which
is exactly what we're seeing,
and that trend will continue while we're on the quote-unquote
busy side of our solar system
and all the gas giants are behind us and we're between
them and our sun.
This quake originally came in at a 6.2.
They've really upgraded the quake,
the USGS, to a 6.3, 35 kilometers of depth,
and it released 2.7 atomic bombs worth of energy.
So nothing to play with here.
Let's compare some earthquake data from different reporting agencies.
USGS came in at 6.3, 35 kilometers
of depth. European 6.3, 35 kilometers of depth. German
who call it a 6.3, 23 kilometers
of depth. The French, a 6.01 default depth
Russian Islands, Australia came
in at a 6.2, 37 kilometers of depth.
We have the Italians coming in at 6.3
from a very shallow depth of 8.6 kilometers.
And those are the only people reporting on this particular earthquake.
We'll have to go with 6.3 magnitude earthquake.
So this was much earlier.
There were seven aftershocks.
Now there's closer to 47, maybe 46 aftershocks.
We sure have had some big changes
on the globe in the last several years.
All of these hurricanes lined up here for all, well,
in the Pacific when they used to all be in the Atlantic.
We don't have any buoys in event mode,
so we can write off any chance of a tsunami.
So, in summary, we've had a magnitude 6.3 earthquake,
associated tsunami warning, no tsunami, materialized.
We've had 46 to 48 aftershocks,
depending on if you count the ones surrounding it.
And this has been a busy day.
We also had a 6.2 magnitude earthquake down here,
South Sandwich Islands.
this is on a plate tectonic boundary up here it's
also just in between awakening and active
volcanoes they probably have some magma movement
and this is also an area where the Pacific plate
subsides or pushes under the North American plate
so there is a lot going on in this area
and there were a lot of aftershocks
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