A very strong, shallow, magnitude 7.0 has struck east of Caledonia causing three tsunami warnings, incredibly it was the 21st quake to strike the area in the last 24 hours recording a mag 6.6, a 6.4 with 13 of them being mag 5 or higher and this could be the precursor to something much bigger as the pattern resembles the mag 9. quake which struck Tōhoku in Japan in 2011 which was battered by 62 magnitude 6 quakes or higher including the mag 9. which caused a
devastating tsunami killing 15,894 deaths, see USGS map below.
Space weather is delivering a stream of solar wind which is approaching Earth from a coronal hole on our Sun and is expected to arrive later today according to Spaceweather.com, which means we could be in for more major quakes today.
This afternoons quake is the 13th of November which could well be the busiest month for major quakes this year and is the 99th major quake of a very quiet 2017 as this year promises to be the lowest total of major quakes this century.
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