6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Japan March 27th 2026!

James Copeland will report today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had another very strong earthquake just off the coast of Japan, very close to where the Fukushima earthquake occurred, around that plate boundary that separates North America from the Pacific plate boundary. Obviously, we have a lot of volcanic ranges meeting this area, and there's a lot of pressure from all four or five major plates pushing into this area near Yokohama near or just south of Tokyo as well we'll zoom in it's the big boy of the day you can see it's all the plates nice imagery every dot you see here is a volcano these volcanic ranges they all run to one place right into Japan where they can't stop building nuclear reactors. Guys, they're not the sharpest tools in this shed than I thought they were. Came in at a 5 on the DYFI, a 4 on the ShakeMap. It was offshore significantly enough that no one felt it. They gave it a depth of 9.5 kilometers, which means it was on the continental shelf if that depth pulls up. Let's check it out. Head over to volcanoesandearthquakes.com. There she blows right there. This is the Pacific plate. This is the North American plate coming through here. This is the Euro-Asia plate and the Indonesia plate coming through here. They all form meet right there near Yokohama and, well, Tokyo, right south of Tokyo. And there's actually some areas where the plates are not significant enough to be considered plate boundaries. They're still forming, if you will. lots of pressure in this area. We have a volcano that's erupting, the Acon volcano, and we have a 6.5 here, USGS main source. We have this at 9.5 kilometers, 9.9 miles of depth. It's going to have to be on the continental shelf, very shallow. We have the USGS coming in at a 6.5 as we discussed National Research Institute on seismology coming in at 6.5 9.5 i think they're copycat the europeans coming in at 6.5 but at only 7.3 kilometers of depth let's get some detailed information on this quake and find out what we're dealing with all right we have a very strong 6.5 magnitude earthquake and that hit on the 27th that's today let's get some more information here all right what we have here a depth of 9.5 kilometers per the usgs only 11 reports of feeling it we have the closest volcano which is one much closer 129 miles away This came in at 5.3 atomic bombs worth of energy released. Nothing to screw around with. If y'all ever saw pictures from Hiroshima or any of the little boy, big boy bombs that we dropped over in Japan, this is many times the equivalent of those bombs. Deadly situation here. There was no tsunami warning or no tsunami created, which is unusual based on where this was. I would call it extremely unusual. Jumping over to our shake map, it looks like we have 11 still that reported it. Well, that's a done deal. We'll see where they ended up. Not very close to the center, and they are reporting about the same magnitude of quake. not intensive but they definitely felt it so you can see the reports in light blue here now we have had seven aftershocks including a 4.9 quake so this is an extremely active situation and ongoing we start out with the USGS of 6.5, 9.5 kilometers not a default plus or minus 4.2 kilometers. Very strange. The Germans coming in at 6.3, 22 kilometers. Again, very strange. The Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology coming in at 9.5 kilometers, a 6.5. The Europeans coming in at 6.5, 7.3 kilometers. The French coming in at 5.63, plus or minus 2.9. Default depth give them a break then we have the Australians coming in at 6.4 at 35 kilometers of depth a bit deeper than the rest of the folks we've got Indonesia coming in at a 6.4 45 kilometers of depth and then we have a 6.6 being called out by the Italians very very strange to see them call out something higher than anyone else at 18 kilometers worth of depth now the asterisk here uh depth it has 10 kilometers often means the depth of the quake cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy so just taking a look at the quakes this week didn't have that seven five everybody remembers this is one of the biggest ones the six five of the day with some six threes in there some six fours but that six five is well right on top of Fukushima, right where they need it, right? They actually had to put that plant back into operation, had to turn it back off. What a nightmare. We also had that mid-Atlantic situation at 6.6, as I recall. Tsunami warning, no tsunami created, and that pretty much covers everything you've seen this week. Everything else is, well, insignificant as far as we're concerned right now. Isn't it crazy? The west coast of the United States, even though it's part of the Ring of Fire, and even though Alaska always gets hit, and the Aleutian Islands always get hit, always are hit, and South America is always hit, and Central America is always hit, North America has never been hit. By hit, I mean a 6.5 or stronger. There will be a significant earthquake in North America that will cause significant problems. We've seen nothing since, well, decades. That said, God bless you guys. Please share and subscribe. Give us a thumbs up. Please don't forget to. It's very important. And always remember that anything is possible in Bizarro World. And do me a favor and share this on Facebook and give us a thumbs up on Facebook because I'm not suspended, but I bought a new phone, same phone number, and the authenticator wants 11 days to authenticate my new phone. I don't know if it's bullshit or not, but that's what it says. God bless. Share, subscribe, always remember, and when it's possible, it's all real.