Major Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake April 20th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a large 7.4 magnitude earthquake, and wouldn't you know it, right after two days of solar winds, and our plates being charged. We're expecting an uptick in earthquake activity. A 7.4 magnitude is a large quake. This happened right offshore, right near Fukushima, Japan, Right where it didn't need to occur, they put some of Fukushima back online last month or the month before, and they built seven new nuclear power plants in and around Japan. What a terrible place to put a nuclear power plant, where four plates meet and where four or five volcanic ranges or ridges meet. Now, the two days of geomagnetic storms around the globe caused an uptick in overall earthquake activity as well. We see we had a small quake here in New Madrid, and then we have two hazardous regions here. We've got some quakes there. You can see all the quakes we've had up in the Cascades and even in Yellowstone here. So, definitely an uptick. the 7.4 being a really big quake came in as a six on the deal but FYI a six on the shape map there was an associated tsunami not tsunami warning although it was very small they say the depth is 35 kilometers and i'm guessing the source here is the USGS we'll zoom in real quickly and take a look see if anything crazy happened up here and it doesn't look like anything crazy happened we have three of them flanking Mount Rainier here and one of them just north of Mount St. Helens this is Adams, this is Hood, so it's not as bad as it looks there for sure until you zoom in you don't know that 7.4 is the story of the day let's take a look at that all right over to volcanoes and earthquakes.com we see the main source usgs 7.4 35 kilometers the french came in at six nine National Research Institute for Seismology that's 7.4 35 kilometers they often just follow the usgs i really don't even know why they're in business or pretend to be look at all the aftershocks that happened in this exact area you can't even see the island of japan we're going get some detailed information here but i wanted to show you all those aftershocks again we have the north american plate pacific plate euro asia plate and the indonesian plate all meeting right there near tokyo yokohama and well we have four or five different volcanic ridges all run into that same exact area as well yet they keep building nuclear power plants in the area All right, a major magnitude 7.4 earthquake, as we know. Let's take a quick look at that map there. You can see it was about 100 miles offshore. Fukushima is really, as you can see, a little further south, but this was very sizable, and you can see it is where the plate tectonic boundaries are coming through right here. So, never a good spot to build a nuclear power plant. i've been telling them and telling them telling them this is from volcano discovery.com now this is the info i was waiting on for 7.4 35 kilometers but 118.7 atomic bombs were the energy released for this earthquake you would think it would cause a large tsunami although tsunami was between seven and eight centimeters as we'll take a look in just a moment now we only had 107 reports of feeling this earthquake which is amazing and most of them didn't say they felt that it was very large i don't see anything really in orange or red here it's amazing with such a big quake i guess it was far enough offshore very very strange you can see one report a white coming out of south korea over here all right we've had at least 30 aftershocks with this earthquake so it is continuing to rumble over that area take a look at some earthquake data reported by different agencies first the usgs 35 kilometers 7.4 Then we have the Australians coming in at 7.37. Can't get much closer than that. They have it very, very shallow here at 3.70 kilometers. And they have a plus or minus of 6.2 kilometers. So very strange. I've not seen it reported that way. Let's see. And those were the Australians. Then we have the French coming in at 6.89. always on the low end of things. Default depth, you can tell by the asterisk, of 10 kilometers. They couldn't determine how deep it was. Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology, a 7.4, 35 kilometers, following the USGS. Germany came in at 7.37, and, well, they've got it at about 29 kilometers, plus or minus 1.78 kilometers. so they're right on par next we have indonesia coming in at a 7.3 default depth 10 kilometers the italians coming in at 7.5 right it's the highest one yet also 29 kilometers they always do a real good job with their work and the europeans coming in at 7.4 10.9 kilometers what strange depth that is and then we have well the norwegian national seismic network coming in at 7.4 at 35 kilometers of depth all right over the national data buoy center we actually had three buoys going to event mode here we had 21 42 100 we had 21 413 and we had 21 419. now i'll pull all those buoys up individually since you're at water column height this is the event there in red all three of the buoys indicate that we did have a tsunami between seven and eight centimeters high watch out kendall in hawaii so they all said the same thing this is the largest one out of the three this is 21420 water column up here and here's our event in red and we also have about seven centimeters a huge tsunami right that's 21 413 and lastly we have well it looks about like seven centimeters maybe six centimeters uh a tsunami down here this is the event and here we see the event of the water column height uh so there you have it not much of a tsunami but I guess we could say that there was a tsunami created. So, definitely an earthquake uptick after our two-day geomagnetic storm. Story of the day, the 7.4 over off the coast of Japan. 118.7 atomic bombs worth of energy released. A 7 to 8 centimeter tsunami created. And it is a wrap. Please give us a thumbs up for covering it for you guys. and please share if you will and always remember that anything's possible Bizarro World