Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019.
Scientist say it snows in the center of the Earth; snow made out of Iron!
AUSTRALIA: The perfect (fire) storm
Small earthquake at South West Rocks on (western christian) Christmas day
Residents rocked by earthquakes at Muswellbrook and Denman
CANADA: Forget a bus shutdown — here’s what getting around could be like after a major earthquake
320 years since the last Cascadia Megathrust doesn’t mean it’s overdue
CHILE: Explosive activity of Nicanor Crater continues
CHINA: 4.9 quake, Hubei Province
Over 2,000 earthquake monitor stations to be built
COLOMBIA: The Christmas Eve (western christian Gregorian calendar) gift from the Earth to the people of Colombia was a reminder of Earth’s immense power and destructive potential. A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck near the town of Mesetas.
COSTA RICA: northwest shakes with magnitude 5.5 quake
ECUADOR: 4.23 quake
EL SALVADOR: Quake reported in San Salvador
FIJI: 5.2 quake near Lambasa, 27DEC2019
5.1-magnitude quake hits 116km W of Ceva-i-Ra, on the western christian day of Christmas
INDONESIA: Anak Krakatau erupts, spewing out 200-meter-high column of ash
Since just before the western christian day of
Christmas (eastern christian Christmas is in January) the area around Indonesia has been hit by swarms of quakes. Check website Volcano Discovery, at least 140 quakes greater than 2.6.
JAPAN: 5.2 quake, 30DEC2019
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Aomori Prefecture
Cost of the never ending recovery from the 2011 quake/tsunami to hit U.S.$14-billion by 2025!
KOREA: 
U.S. personnel at Osan Air Base practiced emergency responder training, 19DEC2019.
MEXICO: Popocatepetl volcano spews smoke and ‘incandescent material’ on western christian Christmas Day
NEW ZEALAND: 5.2 quake, 29DEC2019
American woman dies from burns suffered in volcano eruption
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NICARAGUA: 4.2 quake, 08DEC2019
PANAMA: 4.0 quake, 20DEC2019
U.S. Joint Task Force-Bravo personnel and Panamanian forces joined for an emergency response and humanitarian assistance exercise in the Darien Province, called Exercise Mercury. Panama is a highly valued regional security partner to the U.S. and the only country in Central America with a humanitarian assistance hub.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 4.8 quake, 30DEC2019
PERU: 4.6 quake, 30DEC2019
PHILIPPINES: 5.2-magnitude quake hits 85km south of Sarangani
35 dead after typhoon hit on (western christian) Christmas day
RUSSIA: 4.4 quake, 29DEC2019
Activity with Bezymianny’s lava dome, inside its summit caldera, has increased.
SINGAPORE: 
U.S. taxes spent on a Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) Course at the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. Also in attendance were the Canadians and Singaporeans.
TONGA: 4.8 quake, 24DEC2019
UNITED STATES:
Alaska; Low-Level Eruption At Shishaldin Volcano Continues
More taxpayer Funding Needed to Maintain Earthquake Sensors
Magnitude 5.2 quake hits Southeast Alaska
Aleutian volcano erupts sending ash 25,000 feet
California; 9 earthquakes shake residents on (western christian) Christmas Eve and Christmas
New USGS Seismic Hazard Map Shows Increased Risks in East Bay, San Jose
Californians living with ‘backyard volcanoes’?
Colorado; Earthquakes trigger new plans for salt water injection well
Hawaii; Geothermal company almost done with volcano repairs
A Tiny Leak Led to a Massive, Unexpected Collapse at Kilauea
Idaho; East Idaho quake connected to Yellowstone
Nevada; 2.7 quake, 26DEC2019
Oregon; Undersea volcano, off Oregon’s coast, has a giant magma chamber!
City of Portland issues teenagers Earthquake Kits
Washington; Whatcom Sheriff’s Office monitoring earthquake cluster activity
Satellites can sense when the ground shifts
Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019: POLITICIANS SPEND TAX MONEY ON BAKA HELMETS, FOR THEMSELVES!
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) orders Hawaii National Guard to conduct Vigilant Guard disaster training with the Guam National Guard. 
On 18-19 November, the People’s Liberation Army of China traveled to Hawaii to take part in disaster response training with the U.S. Army. 
01NOV2019, United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Course training for Asia and the Pacific was conducted at the Navy Lodge, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
In a possible round-a-bout way of training for the Cascadia Event, personnel with the state Army National Guard were deployed to Bangladesh to take part in a five days Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE). The international training for a catastrophic earthquake is considered to be the biggest yet: “There are 20 different countries at this DREE which is great and that means just over 100 individual actual foreign participants which makes up more than 650 participants on opening day. It’s a long way from where we started and you can see the direct impact the DREE program has had over the years.”-Master Sergeant Robert Bentcliff, U.S. Army Pacific Command (USARPAC)
On 06NOV2019, U.S. Army and local EMTs conducted training in preparation for the catastrophic Cascadia Event. The Puget Sound Federal Coordinating Center National Disaster Medical System exercise was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The training included loading mass-casualties onboard a USAF C-17 of the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (shows you how bad the military thinks it’ll be).
The two years long NASA-California methane mission resulted in the AVIRIS-NG ( Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation) system, onboard the ER-2, discovering dozens of what 
Somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 11OCT2019, U.S. Coast Guard personnel pose on top of the drug smuggling submarine they captured. During an eight week period the Coast Guard captured 11 smugglers and an estimated U.S.$216-million worth of illegal drugs.
U.S. Coast Guard captured 95 illegals being trafficked aboard a ship from Dominican Republic, 06OCT2019.
Typhoon Hagibis: 
The first wall panel goes up at the Yuma 5 Mile Project, 05SEP2019.
CBP personnel ‘process’ survivors of Hurricane Dorian, evacuating from Bahamas, 07SEP2019.
The state militia publicly remembered the 103rd anniversary of its deployment to the Mexican border in September 1916, in response to Mexican rebel raids into the U.S.
In Northern Territory, the Australian military, along with U.S. Marines, trained for operation Crocodile Response, a bilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in order to more rapidly respond to natural disasters and crises throughout the region.
The Japanese military held Remote Island Disaster Exercise training at Yaeyama Islands, 01SEP2019.
South Korea Ministry of Environment’ K-water operations, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work with NASA to develop satellite technology in the hopes of preventing future water disasters.
U.S. personnel from Osan Air Base respond to the aftermath of Typhoon Lingling, 07SEP2019.
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) hints that its running out of money by telling people to save money to help pay for disaster expenses!
Health professionals representing 20 countries gathered for the 22nd annual Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course in Honolulu, from September 9th-20th. It was hosted by Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the University of Hawai’i Office of Public Health Studies. The main goal is to create a common language, and procedures, between civilian and military emergency responders around the world.
Even though Mongolia is not a Pacific Rim country, the U.S. decided to conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief ‘Pacific Resilience’ training in the Central Asian country, and ordered Oregon’s Army National Guard to participate.