A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand earlier today, killing at least 154 people as President Trump pledged U.S. assistance to the devastated region.
&#8220;The death toll and injuries are expected to increase,&#8221; stated Myanmar&#8217;s military ruler Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during a television broadcast, confirming 144 fatalities and 730 wounded in his nation.
According to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/thailand-earthquake-bangkok-4fce87aced74b1fc0cf260fb5454d353">report</a> by the Associated Press, Thai officials documented 10 deaths, 16 injuries, and 101 missing persons from three construction sites in Bangkok, including one collapsed high-rise.
The tremor hit at midday near Mandalay, Myanmar&#8217;s second-largest city, with multiple aftershocks following, including one measuring 6.4 magnitude.
United States Geological Survey experts estimated that casualties could ultimately exceed 1,000 throughout the region.
Myanmar&#8217;s military regime, which seized power in a 2021 coup, issued urgent calls for blood donations and expressed willingness to accept foreign assistance. The United Nations immediately allocated $5 million for initial relief efforts.
President Donald Trump pledged American aid to the earthquake-ravaged region on Friday, saying, “We’re going to be helping. We’ve already alerted the people. Yeah, it’s terrible what happened.”
Rescue operations face enormous obstacles in Myanmar, which is already suffering from devastating civil conflict, not to mention the now-collapsed bridges and cracked roads as a result of the earthquake.
&#8220;We fear it may be weeks before we understand the full extent of destruction,&#8221; warned Mohammed Riyas, International Rescue Committee&#8217;s Myanmar director.
State media reported building collapses across five urban areas and the destruction of two bridges, including one on a crucial highway connecting major cities. A dam failure in Mandalay has reportedly caused flooding in the surrounding lowlands.
In Bangkok, witnesses captured footage of a 33-story construction project crumbling near the city&#8217;s famous Chatuchak market.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a great tragedy,&#8221; remarked Thailand&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit after visiting the remains of the city.
&#8220;Even before this heartbreaking earthquake, conflict and displacement has left countless people in real need,&#8221; said Julie Mehigan, who oversees Christian Aid&#8217;s work in Asia.
According to United Nations data, nearly 20 million people in Myanmar were already in desperate need of humanitarian assistance prior to the earthquake.

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A tsunami warning went into effect for much of the Caribbean after a 7.6 magnitude <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/natural-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earthquake</a> struck in the middle of the Caribbean Sea on Saturday evening.
The earthquake struck midway between Georgetown in the Cayman Islands and Honduras, according to the <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pcdl/executive?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=realtime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Geological Survey</a>. The tremors hit at a depth of roughly six miles.
The quake caused a threat warning for potential tsunamis across a slate of countries in and around the Caribbean Sea. The warnings did not reach the U.S. mainland, though advisories were issued for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, according to <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cayman-islands-earthquake/1743000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AccuWeather</a>.
No damage was reported from the earthquake, the epicenter of which was about 100 miles southwest of George Town, according to <a href="https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/major-earthquake-shakes-caribbean-islands-watching-tsunami-potential" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Weather</a>. Light shaking may have been felt in areas across the region, however. Authorities warned that waves generated by the quake may pose a threat to boats and beachgoers.
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While earthquakes are common, tsunamis from earthquakes are rare in the Caribbean, with only ten having been recorded in the region during the past five centuries, according to the <a href="https://uwiseismic.com/tsunamis/caribbean-tsunamis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of the West Indies</a>.
Earthquakes have caused at times severe damage, such as the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti in 2021. In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti and <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1109632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> an estimated 220,000 people.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> fans attending her concerts in Edinburgh, Scotland, for her massively popular Eras Tour danced so hard that they registered as seismic activity during each of her three shows.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/earthquake">earthquake</a> readings could be detected up to 6 km (around 4 miles) away from Swift&#8217;s concerts last weekend at Murrayfield Stadium, per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-concerts-earthquake-edinburgh-scotland-seismic-activity-eras-tour-fans-dancing/">CBS News</a>. 
The outlet noted that BGS said the most seismic activity occurred during Swift&#8217;s performance of three songs:  &#8220;…Ready For It?&#8221; &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221; and &#8220;champagne problems.&#8221; 
“Dancing in time to the music and reached its peak at 160 beats per minute (bpm) during ‘…Ready For It?’, where the crowd was transmitting approximately 80 kW of power (equivalent to around 10 to16 car batteries),” the BGS noted. The loud bass in that song and the dancing generated the activity.
Scientists referred to the event as “ground shaking,” noting that Swift’s Friday night show caused the most seismic activity, delivering 23.4 nanometres (nm) of movement. The crowd and music on Saturday generated 22.8 nm, while it was 23.3 nm on Sunday.
The report noted that the fans attending the shows were likely the only ones to notice the shaking. 
This is not the first time seismic activity has been detected from a crowd. CBS noted that the same phenomenon happened at Swift’s stop in Seattle last summer. At the time, it was dubbed a “Swift Quake.”
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Seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/27/entertainment/taylor-swift-seismic-activity/index.html">CNN</a> at the time that the seismic activity was &#8220;equivalent [to] a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.”
&#8220;I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,&#8221; Caplan-Auerback told the outlet. &#8220;If I overlay them on top of each other, they&#8217;re nearly identical.&#8221;
Ground shaking from large crowds of fans expressing enthusiasm is not limited to concerts. According to CBS, seismic activity occurred during a 2011 NFL playoff game at Qwest Field when the Seattle Seahawks hosted the New Orleans Saints. This was spurred by a huge fan reaction to a play made by Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch. 
The resulting shaking earned Lynch the nickname “Beast Quake.”

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A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198">study</a> of the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a fault line that runs from southern Canada to northern California — suggests that the zone could trigger a horrific earthquake more severe than previously imagined.
The study released on Friday examined the 600-mile fault line in far more precise detail than had been done before, showing the fault, instead of being one continuous strip, actually separated into four distinct segments, thus permitting the tectonic plates to slide under each other potentially resulting in more devastating earthquakes, even one as massive as a 9.0 or greater earthquake, which could trigger a 100-foot-tall tsunami. The techniques used to map the subduction zone involved sending sound to the ocean floor from a boat equipped with 1,200 hydrophones to record the echoes.
“The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has hosted giant earthquakes of moment magnitude &gt;8.5 in the past and poses a major geohazard to populations of the Pacific Northwest,” the study notes.
“We have the potential for earthquakes and tsunamis as large as the biggest ones we’ve experienced on the planet,” Harold Tobin, a co-author of the paper, <a href="applewebdata://A74E8EDF-F8FF-4DA4-A59E-D80299356F73/v">stated</a>. “Cascadia seems capable of generating a magnitude 9 or a little smaller or a little bigger.”
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Research scientist Kelin Wang from the Geological Survey of Canada said his team is using data collected by the study, remarking, “The accuracy and this resolution is truly unprecedented. And it’s an amazing data set. It just allows us to do a better job to assess the risk and have information for the building codes and zoning.”
“If an earthquake of over 9 magnitude struck the West Coast US it could generate tsunamis reaching 100 feet high or more, kill more than 10,000 people and cause over $80 billion in damages in just Oregon and Washington alone,” The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13513943/underwater-fault-line-west-coast.html">reported, </a>adding that many long-term deaths could result from exposure to dead bodies and animals as well as contaminated water and Hazmat spills.

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Co-hosts on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; were forced to correct leftist Sunny Hostin this week after she falsely claimed that climate change caused the solar eclipse on Monday and an earthquake on the East Coast last week.
Hostin made the remarks after co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin claimed that the epicenter for the earthquake was Bedminster, New Jersey, where former President Donald Trump has a golf club.
&#8220;I know, right? I have to say, one of our wonderful makeup artists…when the earthquake was happening, she put her coat on and she was, like, Jesus is coming. I’m out. I’m leaving. We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake. She ran down the hallway,&#8221; Hostin said in mocking Christians. &#8220;The Rapture is here.&#8221;
&#8220;Also, I learned that the cicadas are coming. For the first time in a hundred years,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is for the first time in many, many years.&#8221;
A few moments later, Hostin said: &#8220;All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.&#8221;
It was at that point that leftist co-host Joy Behar interjected: &#8220;Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change. It’s underground.&#8221;
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who is also a leftist, added: &#8220;The eclipse, and they’ve known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually can say when these things are going to happen.&#8221;
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&quot;That&#39;s not what I read.&quot; The View spreads end-of-the-world doomsday conspiracy theories about earthquakes, the solar eclipse, and the cicadas. Sunny Hostin suggests it&#39;s all due to &quot;climate change.&quot; This show is an ABC News product. <a href="https://t.co/OQan942v9M">pic.twitter.com/OQan942v9M</a>
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Hostin was widely mocked online for her remarks.
&#8220;Sunny Hostin is an incredibly stupid person,&#8221; said commentator Ian Miles Cheong.
Podcast host Tomi Lahren said, &#8220;Maybe the earth is signaling it’s time for Joe Biden to retire.&#8221;
&#8220;My rule never fails: The dumber a person is, the louder they scream about climate change,&#8221; said radio host Gerry Callahan.
&#8220;Sunny Hostin is legitimately insane,&#8221; added Red State writer Bonchie. &#8220;And she’s on national TV.&#8221;

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A powerful earthquake hit off the coast of eastern Taiwan on Wednesday morning, leading officials to say at least <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/03/taiwan-japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning-74/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least nine</a> people were killed and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/world/asia/taiwan-earthquake.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds</a> of others were injured due to the natural disaster.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4/executive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measured</a> the earthquake at 7.4 magnitude, while Taiwan&#8217;s monitoring agency pegged it at 7.2, which would make it the strongest tremor to rock the island in 25 years, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-earthquake-tsunami-f086aac0c3082036d1ca77c01828fb28" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
News reports said buildings suffered damage, and dozens of people became stuck or lost in places such as <a href="https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-earthquake-tsunami-f086aac0c3082036d1ca77c01828fb28" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quarries</a> and national parks. Search-and-rescue teams have been deployed to reach people who are trapped or stranded.
Multiple aftershocks followed the original quake, which led to tsunami warnings in places such as Japan and the Philippines. As reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/03/taiwan-japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning-74/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, Shanghai and China&#8217;s southeastern provinces even felt the earthquake.
&#8220;Disaster response is underway following this morning’s 7.2 earthquake and aftershocks,&#8221; Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen <a href="https://twitter.com/iingwen/status/1775424526404538734" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;I’m deeply grateful for the messages of support we have received from around the world, and to our first responders for their life-saving work.&#8221;
Tsai added, &#8220;My heart is with everyone affected. Please keep in touch with loved ones, and stay safe.&#8221;
Images and videos posted to social media showed bridges shaking, debris falling, and even water from swimming pools raining down from towers.
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National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/03/statement-from-national-security-council-spokesperson-adrienne-watson-on-the-earthquake-impacting-taiwan/">statement</a> that said officials at the White House are &#8220;monitoring reports of the earthquake impacting Taiwan and continue to monitor its potential impact on Japan.&#8221;
She went on, &#8220;The United States stands ready to provide any necessary assistance. All those affected are in our prayers.&#8221;
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/world/asia/taiwan-earthquake.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> Taiwan has been working to improve its early warning system and roll out new building codes to reinforce buildings over the years.
The island is regularly shaken by tremors given that it is situated in the <a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ring-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pacific &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221;</a> known for active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
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CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/asia/taiwan-earthquake-tsunami-warning-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that hit in 2018 near the same area where the tremor happened on Wednesday, Hualien County, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than 300 others.
In September of 1999, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan that killed more than 2,400 people, injured 100,000 more, and caused <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-kills-thousands-in-taiwan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions of dollars</a> in damage.
USGS <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/today/index.php?month=4&amp;day=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> one of the world&#8217;s deadliest earthquakes shook Taiwan in April of 1935, leading to 3,270 deaths, 12,000 injuries, and 39,000 rooms destroyed or severely damaged.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> fans got the ground to shake literally during one of the concerts in Los Angeles last year causing a small earthquake, seismologists have recently concluded.
A study conducted by UCLA and Caltech looked at the shaking of the ground caused by the jumping and dancing of the 34-year-old singer’s fans at SoFi Stadium in August and found that one night of “The Eras Tour” created a magnitude 2 earthquake on the Richter scale, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/21/taylor-swift-fans-caused-earthquake-los-angeles-eras-tour/?adid=social-tmzlikeshop-ig">TMZ</a> reported.
The data showed that on August 5, Swift’s concert &#8211; with some 70,000 fans in attendance &#8211; made the needle move and showed notable seismic activity, Seismologist Gabrielle Tepp noted.
The group’s monitoring stations, which were within 5.6 miles of the stadium, watched to see how much the ground shook during each song played during the “Blank Space” hitmaker’s 3 ½ hour-long music set.
Tepp and her group found that the highest the needle moved was when Swift sang &#8220;Shake It Off,” which reached a peak magnitude of 0.851.
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Quake it off! Taylor Swift fans caused an EARTHQUAKE by dancing so hard in Los Angeles during star&#8217;s Eras Tour <a href="https://t.co/wcafydyJq3">https://t.co/wcafydyJq3</a> <a href="https://t.co/r8AyeGx2Ng">pic.twitter.com/r8AyeGx2Ng</a>
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The next highest point the group noted happened when the music superstar sang “Love Story,” which they said made another notable movement on the meter.
It wasn’t the first time the “August” hitmaker and fans have caused the ground to shake. During Swift’s stop in Washington last year at “The Eras Tour” in Seattle, the fans moved the needle and caused seismic activity of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/entertainment/taylor-swift-seismic-activity/index.html">CNN</a> noted.
“I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,” Seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told the outlet. “If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical.”
“For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior,” she added. “The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.”
“What I love is to be able to share that this is science,” she added. “It doesn’t have to happen in a lab with a white coat. Everyday observations and experiences are science.”
Swift herself called her tour nights in Seattle “genuinely one of my favorite weekends ever,” in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CvGRdQZumMJ/?img_index=1">Instagram</a> post later.
“Thank you for everything. All the cheering, screaming, jumping, dancing, singing at the top of your lungs,” she added.

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Dozens of people have been confirmed dead in Japan as rescuers continue to search for survivors after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/japan-hit-by-7-6-magnitude-earthquake-sparking-tsunami-warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rocked Japan</a> on New Year’s Day. 
Authorities in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture, the nearest region to the quake’s epicenter, confirmed that at least 48 people had died in the disaster, Tokyo-based news outlet NHK <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2938/">reported</a>. Fire department officials in Wajima City said that at least 25 buildings had collapsed, and firefighters were attempting to rescue people still trapped inside 14 of the buildings. Additionally, officials believe around 200 buildings burned down on a popular tourist street in Wajima City after fires broke out as a result of the earthquake.  
Footage <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2938/">captured</a> by a helicopter flying over the devastation showed numerous buildings leveled and some on fire. Many of the roads leading into the city were reportedly left impassable after the quake, making it difficult for officials and relief workers to get to the affected areas. 
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More than a dozen earthquakes were reported in the Sea of Japan late Monday night local time, the largest of which collapsed buildings and started a fire in Wajima, the city closest to the earthquake’s epicenter. Following the earthquakes, Japanese authorities issued a “major tsunami warning” — the highest-level warning before downgrading the alert to a “tsunami warning” and later a “tsunami advisory.” Japanese authorities have now lifted all tsunami advisories. 
Rescuers are now rushing to save any survivors as the Japan Meteorological Agency warned that more earthquakes — potentially reaching around magnitude 7 — could hit the Japanese coast in the coming days. 
Nearly 60,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/01/01/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warnings-updates">according</a> to Japanese government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi. Around 30,000 households lost power following the earthquake and 20,000 homes don’t have running water, Hayashi added, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/world/asia/japan-earthquake.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. 
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After the earthquakes, a fire reportedly broke out at a nuclear power plant in Ishikawa, but plant operators quickly extinguished it and said there was no impact on the plant, according to Hayashi. No nuclear facilities have reported any increases in radiation levels since the quake.

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Residents of Japanese coastal areas were told to evacuate their homes Monday as the country braces for a tsunami after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook the country&#8217;s western coast. Authorities later downgraded the tsunami warnings to advisories while still urging residents to take caution.
More than a dozen earthquakes were reported in the Sea of Japan late Monday night local time, the largest of which <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/01/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapsed buildings</a> and started a fire in Wajima, the city closest to the earthquake’s epicenter, Japanese news outlet NHK reported. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/01/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to The Washington Post, at least six people were &#8220;buried alive&#8221; under rubble when buildings collapsed, citing Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. 
Immediately following the earthquakes, Japan issued a “major tsunami warning” — the highest-level warning. The Japan Meteorological Agency has now <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240101_151/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downgraded</a> that alert to a “tsunami warning” as people in the affected areas are still being told to evacuate and seek higher ground. The warning was then downgraded to a &#8220;tsunami advisory&#8221; for &#8220;all prefectures along the Sea of Japan,&#8221; NHK <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240102_08/#:~:text=Japan's%20Meteorological%20Agency%20has%20downgraded,Ishikawa%20Prefecture%20on%20Monday%20afternoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Residents in affected areas are still urged to evacuate &#8220;until all advisories are lifted.&#8221;
NHK warned that Japanese residents could see rising water levels of up to 16.5 feet, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-issues-tsunami-warnings-orders-evacuations-earthquakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Japan Meteorological Agency also warned that more earthquakes — potentially reaching around magnitude 7 — could hit the Japanese coast in the coming days. 
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More than 30,000 households have lost power, and mobile phone communications are also down for many people, Hayashi said. The chief cabinet secretary stressed the urgency of Japanese residents in affected areas to get to higher ground. 
“Every minute counts. Please evacuate to a safe area immediately,” he said.
At least one person has been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/japan/magnitude-74-earthquake-strikes-japan-tsunami-warning-issued-2024-01-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> dead from the earthquakes, and multiple others sustained injuries from objects falling on them. After the earthquakes, a fire reportedly broke out at a nuclear power plant in Ishikawa, but plant operators quickly extinguished it and said there was no impact on the plant, according to Hayashi. No nuclear facilities have reported any increases in radiation levels since the quake.
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The last major earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 killed around 20,000 people and resulted in a major nuclear disaster that caused explosions and released radioactive material.

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Japan Hit By 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake, Sparking Tsunami Warnings

A massive earthquake hit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> last week leaving 149 people dead and thousands displaced amid frigid temperatures. 
The 6.2 magnitude earthquake, which hit on December 18, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-china-earthquake-rises-149-2-missing-105905297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> nearly 1,000 people injured and forced 87,000 out of their homes due to extensive damage. The earthquake primarily impacted people living in a mountainous region between Gansu and Qinghai provinces. At least two people are still missing as first responders continue to search the rural area. 
Officials said that the main concern was to keep people who had lost their homes during the earthquake and following mudslides out of the cold <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/americas/5-9-magnitude-earthquake-northwest-china/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as parts</a> of China have seen record lows in recent weeks. So far, this December has been the coldest ever <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67818872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> in China&#8217;s capital, Beijing, and other regions of the country have also been hit by cold weather. Over 500 temporary housing units have already been constructed in Gansu as over 14,000 homes have been destroyed.
The earthquake was the biggest to hit China in 9 years, according to the Associated Press. The United States Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 5.9 magnitude, a little lower than the China Earthquake Networks Center’s 6.2 magnitude measurement. 
Many lost access to water, electricity, and cell phone coverage in the aftermath of the earthquake, which hit around midnight, giving people little time to react or prepare for the cold conditions outside. 
“There was a loud ‘boom’ and the wall on the second floor collapsed. [I was] nearly hit and trapped inside,” a resident of a  village hit by the earthquake <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/americas/5-9-magnitude-earthquake-northwest-china/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Chinese news outlet Jiupai News.
Around $28 million have reportedly been appropriated for the provinces impacted  by the disaster by China’s Finance Ministry and Emergency Management Ministry. 
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Previous earthquakes in China have also proved to be deadly, with 600 people dying during one that hit in 2014 and roughly 90,000 dying in 2008 during a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. 
Earlier this year, tens of thousands of people in Syria and Turkey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/earthquake-death-toll-in-turkey-and-syria-surpasses-33000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were killed</a> after a pair of 7.8-magnitude and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes in February. The disaster led to the deaths of over 50,000 people and impacted nearly 16 million people. 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been shaken by its <a href="https://www.thestatesman.com/world/turkey-declares-seven-days-of-national-mourning-after-earthquakes-jolt-southern-provinces-1503152858.html">“biggest disaster”</a> since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, which killed more than 30,000 people. Facing criticism over the nation’s early response to the disaster, Erdogan also conceded <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/middleeast/turkey-earthquake-public-anger-intl/index.html">“shortcomings&#8221;</a> during the country&#8217;s response to the calamity.

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Massive Earthquake Leaves Thousands Without Homes In China Amid Record Cold

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Volcanic activity marks a &#8220;new eruptive phase&#8221; scientists have warned as an area in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iceland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iceland</a> gets rocked by more than a thousand earthquakes in recent days, which has resulted in homes being torn apart and more.
The small fishing town of Grindavik looks more like a &#8220;ghost town&#8221; following activity from the Fagradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12751583/Iceland-volcano-quakes-region-eruption-devastated-Grindavik-residents-houses-split.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> reported.
Iceland&#8217;s Met Office told the outlet that the &#8220;likelihood of a volcanic eruption is high&#8221; in the coming days following a 2021 eruption after 800 years of inactivity.
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Houses in Grindavík, Iceland, are starting to show the damage caused by the hundreds of earthquakes rocking the nation.
The likelihood of volcanic eruption remains high.
Stay tuned.<a href="https://t.co/SzfDIZBKxn">pic.twitter.com/SzfDIZBKxn</a>
— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) <a href="https://twitter.com/steve_hanke/status/1724860688496226752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer said that the blast two years earlier kicked off &#8220;a new eruptive phase,&#8221; which he said could &#8220;mark the start of centuries of eruptions.&#8221;
&#8220;Time&#8217;s finally up,&#8221; Edward W. Marshall, a researcher at the University of Iceland&#8217;s Nordic Volcanological Center, told <a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/times-finally-up-impending-iceland-eruption-is-part-of-centuries-long-volcanic-pulse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Science</a>. &#8220;We can get ready for another few hundred years of eruptions on the Reykjanes.&#8221;
The coastal town in recent days has been the center of 1,100 quakes as magma continues to rise closer to the earth&#8217;s surface, with homes ripped from their foundation and giant cracks leaving gaping holes in main roads in the community.
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This is Grindavík today. 
It remains evacuated. Roads are damaged. Residents have been allowed quickly to collect possessions in a controlled police operation. We were able to access briefly escorted by police. Steam is rising from damaged water pipes. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iceland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iceland</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/grindav%C3%ADk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#grindavík</a> <a href="https://t.co/AGM8Tgj0lm">pic.twitter.com/AGM8Tgj0lm</a>
— Laura Goehler (@LauraGoehler) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraGoehler/status/1724882981775429678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
Some 4,000 residents were forced to evacuate the area with some allowed back to collect personal belongings before officials ordered that they leave again due to increased levels of sulphur dioxide (a possible indicator of an eruption) that had been detected, the outlet noted.
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&#8220;At this stage, it is not possible to determine exactly whether and where magma might reach the surface,&#8221; the Meteorological Office said.
One resident told MailOnline, &#8220;Friday was terrible, the earthquakes did not stop for many hours, but we left our house Friday night at 9 p.m. with clothes for two days and two boxes of photo albums, then just planned to come the next day to pick up more.&#8221;
&#8220;I feel ok, but get scared and jump at the slightest sound, and then we are homeless in one minute &#8211; I&#8217;ve got all kinds of emotions going on,&#8221; the person added.
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&#8216;It is like the ground has been unzipped&#8217;
A report from Grindavik, Iceland as the country is placed on high alert for a volcanic eruption, with a state of emergency declared and almost 4,000 residents evacuated. <a href="https://t.co/cxGwe9tG5X">pic.twitter.com/cxGwe9tG5X</a>
— Ajeet De Soyza (@ajeetsrilanka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajeetsrilanka/status/1724893261733761360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
&#8220;We got to go inside the house on Monday,&#8221; the resident added. &#8220;We had seven minutes to pick up what we wanted to save, but the emphasis was on personal things from my family &#8212; my mother, grandmother and grandfather &#8212; and clothes.&#8221;
The area was hit with a three-week eruption in August 2022, which was followed by another earlier this summer.

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Volcanic Activity Marks ‘New Eruptive Phase’ As Iceland Rocked By More Than A Thousand Quakes

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Iceland declared a state of emergency, and officials are evacuating thousands of residents over concerns of volcanic activity.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office has <a href="https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night">recorded</a> thousands of earthquakes in the country&#8217;s southwest region over the past several days. Police began warning residents of the coastal town of Grindavík to evacuate Friday, fearing a magma tunnel forming underneath the ground, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/11/europe/iceland-emergency-evacuates-threat-volcanic-eruption-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN</a>.
“Seismicity along the magma intrusion continues, although the size and intensity of the activity is decreasing. Since midnight today, 13 November, around 900 earthquakes have been detected. The seismic activity is concentrated on the region of the intrusion, between Sundhnúkur and Grindavík at a depth of about 2–5 km,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office posted in an update Monday morning.
On Saturday, Icelandic officials determined that “the likelihood of a volcanic eruption is high, and that an eruption could be possible on a timescale of just days.”
On Monday morning, video surfaced online showing a large crack running through Grindavík emanating smoke.
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1724076210311791005
Bjarni Benediktsson, the minister of foreign affairs, announced on Saturday that Grindavik’s 3,700 residents were successfully evacuated.
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“Icelandic Civil Protection authorities have declared a state of emergency following increased seismic activity in Reykjanes Peninsula. As a precautionary measure the town of Grindavík (population 3669) was successfully evacuated last night and thankfully everyone is safe,” Benediktsson <a href="https://twitter.com/Bjarni_Ben/status/1723332947934072980">posted</a> on social media.
“The likelihood of a volcanic eruption is deemed considerable. Seismic activity is part of Icelandic life and this is in a contained, localised area of the country. There are no disruptions to flights to and from Iceland and international flight corridors remain open,” he added.
Evacuations began on Friday when the Civil Protection Agency warned Icelanders that “we are dealing with events that we Icelanders have not experienced before, at least not since the eruption in Vestmannaeyjar.”
“We faced that together, we will face this together and we will not lose heart,” the agency said, according to CNN.

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Iceland Evacuates Thousands Over ‘Likelihood Of Volcanic Eruption’

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