A report on a significant earthquake in the Caribbean/Central America region, occurring on February 8, 2025. The event was initially reported by the USGS as a magnitude 8.0, though later data suggests a magnitude 7.6. Despite the massive energy release, the resulting tsunami was minimal, and the quake occurred primarily away from densely populated areas.
James Kaufman, World News Report, today, February 8th, 2025.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
we've had a very large earthquake in the Caribbean,
something between a 7.6 and 8.0.
I'll show you why I say that.
It's right on a plate tectonic.
Boundary, we have volcanoes surrounding it
from the south all around it, folks.
Active volcanoes all through this part of Central America, as you know.
They have this at the default depth of 10 kilometers.
It came in with a tsunami warning.
It did create a small tsunami.
It looks like it's about 10 centimeters.
I will show you that as well.
The TYF, did you feel it, came in at a 4.
No one is anywhere near this area.
I guess Jamaica would be probably, or the Cayman Islands,
the closest island to this exact area here.
Let's get some additional information and see why.
It could have been an 8-0 or it could have been a 7-6.
They're both being called out by the USGS.
It perhaps was downgraded from an 8-0 to a 7-6.
Let's look. And by the way,
there have been several smaller aftershocks.
Jumping to volcanoesandearthquakes.com,
you can see that when we look in that area,
yes, we're on a plate tectonic boundary.
Yes, there's volcanoes everywhere.
They're showing two separate earthquakes here.
We're going to take a look.
They're showing a 7.6 here to the south.
The USGS is the main reporting source.
And then right above that.
We're showing an 8.0. The USGS
is the main reporting source there as well.
They both came
in at 23.23 GMT time.
That's the 7.6 and here is the 8.0.
see the 23 23 gmt time about an hour
and 20 minutes ago which tells me it's one earthquake
been reported twice by the usgs
and yes there is a buoy in event mode a very small tsunami
was created about 10 centimeters
so the first one we have here was 2 hours and 11 minutes ago a 7-6
As you can see here, and they're saying a major magnitude 7.6
earthquake is in Honduras, Central America is the closest point.
Here we're seeing a 7.6.
We're seeing that the main reporting service is the USGS right here.
Nobody felt it.
It was basically not near any populated areas.
But it released 236.7 atomic bombs worth of energy.
Wow! Unbelievable! And if I didn't know any better,
this almost has the shape of an atomic bomb.
For the primary wave or first wave,
it's always going to be your largest wave. If not for this
one spike here, it would have the exact makeup
of an atomic bomb being set off in that area.
When you're looking at an atomic bomb, your primary waves,
the very first ones, are going to be the
Very strongest since we have this here.
Well, that makes us believe instead maybe it's going
to be a real earthquake, i.e. not man-made.
And taking a look here at Volcano Discovery,
they have it twice as well. The 8.0 and the 7.6. Very, very strange.
This is the 7.6. We're about to look at the 8.0.
So both volcanoes and earthquakes.com.
And Volcano Discovery both have two quakes there.
The USGS definitely reported two quakes.
However, they only show one quake on their map currently.
Now, the timestamps say the 7.6 occurred about a minute beforehand,
or at least a few seconds beforehand, both at 23:23 GMT time.
But no one else is reporting this one.
They're just reporting the 8.0 that I'm about to show y'all.
Just the USGS came in with two quakes,
although I think they've backed that up and made it one
quake. Here's our major magnitude 8.0 earthquake,
probably the biggest quake I remember covering
two hours and 10 minutes ago.
You can see this is going to happen afterwards. It's going to be a
major quake here. All right, taking a look at earthquake details here.
Again, about the biggest quake I remember covering.
This says 942.5 atomic bombs were released,
at least worth of energy were released.
Nine hundred and...
942 atomic bombs worth of energy.
Never seen anything like it.
Now, for every .1, the thing is 10 times stronger.
That's how we've jumped up so quickly here.
between a 7.6 and an 8.0 now this is the quake
that everyone covered the USGS calling it an 8.0
currently being called a 7.6 at the USGS home page
the main source here is the USGS but of course
here they do have a depth 33 kilometers of depth
they have a default depth on the 7.6 of 10 kilometers very strange
Now, here we have a lot of folks feeling this quake all the way
from Jamaica and the Cayman Islands into Central America.
Looks like a lot of people felt this quake,
even up into Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps.
Wow, 942 atomic bombs worth of energy.
All right, let's compare information
from all the different reporting agencies.
First off, we have the USGS.
An 8-0 at 33 kilometers of depth.
I believe that that's a sign that this was fake.
The 33 kilometers or a sign that this was man-made.
A 7.6 being reported by Australia.
A 6-8, the Germans.
We have the Incorporated Research Institute
for Seismology coming in at 7-6.
Matching what we see at the USGS homepage,
we have the Italians coming in at 7-4, we
have the French coming in at 6-9,
while we have Colombia coming in at 7-6, we have the
European Union coming in at 7-6, and we have,
I believe this is going to be Honduras coming
in at a 7-4.
And this is actually Nicaragua, by the way, at a 7-4.
So the only one that reports an 8-0 is the USGS,
but they don't show it at their homepage map.
They sure don't show this depth here either.
Hmm, very strange.
Again, remember, this big earthquake is being reported
on both Volcano Discovery here,
volcanoesandearthquakes.com as well.
Let's go over and see what we have as far as a tsunami,
if in fact we do have a tsunami.
Over to the National Data Buoy Center, I put on only our tsunami buoys.
This is how few we have and how few we have that are operational.
All the ones in red are turned off.
How convenient.
So, Central Gulf of Mexico has caught a small situation,
very small indeed.
And you can see it there at the top of one of the swells.
I do have some detailed information.
It's only about 10 centimeters,
and that's quite a bit north of where the quake occurred.
So I think this is definitely a no big deal.
There might be a couple of good waves to catch in the Galveston area
or maybe off the Florida coast.
And here we are at the Hogue.
Column height. This is the swell here.
This is the event here in red. We can see it goes from
8.2 to 9.2. 10 centimeters is all.
942.5 atomic bombs worth of energy only moved
the water 10 centimeters.
Here is this red event. Right here is this.
So you can see exactly what it did second by second.
So again, this is just detailed of the event here
in the water column being in green.
So there you have it,
somewhere between a 7.6 and an 8.0 earthquake, again being reported
as a 7.6 on the USGS currently,
although it came in at an 8.0 it looks like.
We did have a tsunami warning,
didn't really end up as being too significant, and we've
had several aftershocks in the area.
It does look like it was a natural, a natural event.
With that said, folks, stay safe out there.
This was a really big one.
God bless.
All that energy is going to work its way
to the North American Pacific Plate Boundary.
You might know it as the San Andreas Fault or Plate.
And it's going to work its way north into California,
and perhaps into Oregon, and
perhaps get involved with the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
You said it, I didn't.
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