Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, July 2019. Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.
A new business report says seismic surveys “can grow into the most important market in the world that has played an important role in making progressive impacts on the global economy.”
Predicting earthquake hazards from wastewater injection (fracking)
Mystery of Sea of Galilee quakes solved; caused by Israel pumping out excessive amounts of water
Mars-quakes suggest Mars is less Earth-like than we thought
More proof it’s not humans causing ice melt as Lake of Bubbling Lava Discovered on Remote Antarctic Island
AUSTRALIA: Seismic air guns used by oil industry are literally knocking sealife off balance
Earthquake near Broome may have released ‘100 times more energy’ than Newcastle tremor
Experts ‘Can’t Explain’ Cluster Of Earthquakes
CANADA: British Columbia’s largest underwater volcano reveals lifeforms “lost in time”
6.3 quake hits offshore BC, 13 hours before twin big quakes hit California
Nevados de Chillán eruption spews incandescent material
CHINA: More proof you can’t blame humans for climate change; Study suggests volcanoes do more damage to the ozone layer than anything humans have done.
Wandan mud volcano erupted again
Man arrested, because only in China is it a crime to make fun of deadly earthquakes
COLOMBIA: And for more proof you can’t blame humans for climate change, anybody remember the TV show Space 1999? Turns out the Moon is being pushed from the Earth right, although slowly and not by nuclear waste explosion, but the catastrophic climate change results are the same as in Space 1999: “Earth’s tidal strength is gradually pushing the moon away from us at a rate of about 3 centimeters a year. Therefore, the moon is indeed a potential ploonet once it reaches an unstable orbit.”-Mario Sucerquia, University of Antioquia
The U.S. Navy conducted ‘subject matter expert exchanges’ with Colombian counterparts, including a FEMA Disaster Training course. The object is to unify disaster response techniques: “It’s cool to see the differences in how we perform similar treatments. We are picking up different ideas from each other, which will improve our abilities, and this training will allow us to integrate easily when we operate jointly.”-Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Dennis Hueston
COSTA RICA: averages 350 earthquakes each month, or about 12 each day
For some reason a first ever National Earthquake Simulation will be conducted.
EL SALVADOR: 5.7 quake, 31JUL2019
FIJI: 5.0 quake, 30JUL2019
5.7 earthquake day before big quakes in California
GUATEMALA: Santiaguito volcano has been fairly calm for the last couple of years, with 10-15 daily explosions. At the beginning of the month a new episode of higher activity began with stronger and more frequent (35-40 daily) explosions and more lava extrusion- blocks have been seen rolling off the Caliente dome.
HONDURAS: 
U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel are on standby in Honduras, at Soto Cano Air Base, to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the event of emergencies in the region.
INDONESIA: Teenagers steal earthquake detector, sell it on Facebook
villagers near active volcano refuse to relocate
Tsunami warning issued after 7.1 magnitude earthquake
JAPAN: Earthquake of 6.0 magnitude rocks Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo
volcanic eruption observed on Aso-san
Fukushima fishing port hit by 2011 tsunami reopens 8 years later
Study says rare oarfish sightings do not mean an earthquake is about to happen
U.S. Army Garrison Japan (Camp Zama) announced preparations for an ‘all hands’ Emergency Evacuation Program for military personnel and their families, to be held in May: “Everyone who would potentially be an evacuee has to process through. Either their sponsor has to go through or one member of the family has to go through.”-Will Luna, garrison emergency manager
KOREA: 2.1 quake near Goseong
MEXICO: 4.0 offshore Oaxaca, 31JUL2019
4.0 offshore Oaxaca, 30JUL2019
Mount Popo erupts, yet again, watch ash cloud rise towards the satellite
Series of small quakes hit Mexico City
NEW CALEDONIA: 4.9 southeast of Loyalty Islands
NEW ZEALAND: Two 5.0 quakes, 30JUL2019
Shallow earthquake felt widely in Christchurch
PANAMA: 5.0 quake, 29JUL2019
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 6.2 quake
Volcano – Emergency Plan of Action
6.4 hits north of Kandrian, New Britain
PERU: 5.1 quake, 23JUL2019
Volcano Erupts in Stunning Images Captured by Russian Satellite
State of emergency declared in 12 districts due to volcanic activity
West Virginia National Guard instructed Peruvian military on medevac (medical evacuation) ops: “The training they received will help them be better prepared to provide advanced emergency medical treatment to their countrymen and women during times of disaster….”-Master Sergeant Evan McDonough
PHILIPPINES: 2-hundred aftershocks in Batanes province, after at least eight people were killed
Hawaii National Guard met with their Filipino counter parts to conduct an Incident Awareness and Assessment (IAA) Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) conference “… to develop standard operating procedures to use during Humanitarian and Disaster Response (HADR) operations”, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Captain Rene Datugan.
RUSSIA: 4.8 quake eastern Siberia, 31JUL2019
5.0 quake Kuril Islands, 18JUL2019
4.7 quake Kamchatka, 18JUL2019
5.0 quake Kuril Islands, 10JUL2019
TONGA: 4.8 quake, 31JUL2019
UNITED STATES:
Alaska; Earthquake Repairs at Anchorage Schools Could Top $150M
California; Everything you thought you knew about earthquake insurance is wrong
Watch 30 Years Of Earthquakes Rock California In This Remarkable Animation
Earthquake Hit Exceedingly Rare 1-inch Pupfish With 10-Foot Waves
Upcoming Latino online news format mitú admitted that many Californians don’t speak English and that disaster response announcements failed to consider that, they also made fun of the stupid ‘white’ people’s reaction to the big quakes: “Some Latinos questioned the dramatic reactions of others, since Latin America knows earthquakes all too well.” (I’m not Latino, but having lived through many big quakes in Iran in the early 1970s and in California in the early 1990s, I agree with mitú’s assessment)
How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More
DID U.S. Air Force KNOW CALIFORNIA WAS ABOUT TO BE HIT? Conducts base quake drill one month prior.
U.S. NAVY & AIR FORCE BASES HIT BY CALIFORNIA QUAKES!
25JUL2019, 4.7 quake epicenter directly under China Lake NAS
Colorado; Super-volcano near the town of Creede
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Hawaii; Now home to the world’s largest volcano
protesters fighting new telescope on sacred volcano
On Oahu, military personnel from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, as well as Hawaii and Oregon National Guard units, converged for CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive) training, focusing on rescuing civilians from their homes, or places of employment.
Georgia National Guard serve meals from a Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer during Innovative Readiness Training at Camp Paumalu Girl Scout Camp, 15JUL2019. Pennsylvania Guard units, as well as Air Force Reserve unites from California, also took part in the ‘real-world construction mission’.
Idaho; Super-volcano near Island Park, known as Huckleberry Ridge or First Phase Yellowstone.
At the end of July, California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Squadron conducted training at Idaho’s Gowen Field.
Montana; Check out Earthquake Lake
Nevada; California quakes kill man in Nevada?
Oregon; Crater Lake first volcano measured by NASA’s Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System
A tectonic plate is dying under Oregon. Here’s why that matters
Politicians renege on funding for quake warning system
new tsunami zone building law puts Oregonians in danger
Oregon coast will be ‘toast’ when Big One hits; politicians will make devastation even worse
Washington; Quake pushes Seattle closer to Canada
More tsunami evacuation towers planned
how a 9.0 earthquake would affect Washington
U.S. Coast Guard conducted rescue training with dogs, in Warrenton, 17JUL2019.
Wyoming; Earthquakes, not Yellowstone volcano, biggest threat
Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser approaching record number of eruptions
VANUATU: 5.0 quake, 31JUL2019
Staring into the evil eye of Mount Yasur
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, June 2019: “UN DESPICHE TOTAL”
National Guard deployed, 7.7 New Madrid quake!
Military housing personnel making hasty repairs, 07JUL2019.
Repairing base water lines damaged by the quakes, 06JUL2019.
Checking the wires over the Huey and Cobra helicopter ‘gate guards’, 07JUL2019.
James Cook University (JCU) held a Health and Humanitarian Action in Emergencies (HHAE) course as part of a global disaster coordination plan, during the first week of June 2019. The concept for HHAE was originally developed by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, United States, and JCU’s College of Health of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences.
U.S. Marines arrive at Soto Cano Air Base, 05JUN2019, officially for ‘security’ ops (Honduras is one of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegals), but their secondary mission is to be on ‘standby’ for natural disaster response.
U.S. Marine wearing gas mask during humanitarian assistance training at Marine Corps (pronounced -core-) Air Station Iwakuni, 10JUN2019.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief was the main topic at the Pacific Amphibious Leaders Symposium (PALS) on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 06JUN2019.
03JUN2019, USAF Personnel from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, and Yokota, Japan, traveled all the way to Oregon to take part in the now yearly Cascadia Airlift exercise, as part of Oregon National Guard’s preps for the coming Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
12MAY2019, U.S. Army personnel help conduct a survey of locals during operation Beyond the Horizon, a yearly exercise ostensibly to build capacity for response to major disasters.
Apparently taxpayer funded live music is part of preparing for natural disasters, as demonstrated by this multi-national military band taking part in this year’s Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation.
U.S. and British empire Australian navy officers inspect a taxpayer funded construction site in Tuy Hoa, 06MAY2019, as part of the expensive Pacific Partnership multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness operation conducted in the Indo-Pacific every year.
Whatcha gonna eat after the disaster? U.S. Army and Navy personnel inspect a poultry operation in Vietnam, 09MAY2019.
U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.
Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.
04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1
Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.
From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area). More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part. Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.
Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee
Somewhere in the East China Sea, U.S. Navy and Marines personnel conducted Nightingale, a mass casualty exercise aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1), 04FEB2019.
U.S. Marines and Sailors trained with Japanese forces on Okinawa, for Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief, 01FEB2019.
At ‘Sector San Diego’ U.S. Coast Guard cutter Haddock conducted mass casualty training, 06FEB2019.
U.S. personnel board a Japanese Air Force C-130H at Andersen Air Force Base, in preparation to resume the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief portion of COPE North, 25FEB2019.
U.S. Army personnel tested water purification systems, and electrical power generators, at Soto Cano Air Base, 17JAN2019, in preparation for a natural disaster.
National Guard units from four states took part in disaster response training in San Francisco, during the last week of January, which included responding to ‘chemical incidents’.
