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Best of the Web: 3 shallow earthquakes of magnitudes 6.2, 6.3 and 6.2 in 24 hours - South Pacific Ocean off Samoa on March 22


Volcano Discovery
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:13 UTC
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A very strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean 184 km (114 mi) from Samoa in the late afternoon of Sunday, Mar 22, 2026 at 7.15 pm local time (GMT +13). The depth of the quake could not be determined, but is assumed to be shallow. The quake was reported felt by some people near the epicenter.

Earthquake details

Date & time Mar 22, 2026 06:15:36 UTC
Local time at epicenter Sunday, Mar 22, 2026, at 07:15 pm (GMT +13)
Status confirmed (manually revised)
Magnitude 6.2
Depth 10 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude 15.3824°S / 173.0468°W Samoa
Seismic antipode 15.3824°N / 6.9532°E Niger
Quality 42 seismic stations
Shaking intensity VII Very strong shaking near epicenter
Felt 2 reports
Primary data source USGS (United States Geological Survey)

Comment: Details of the other 2 from Earthquake Track:
6.3 Magnitude Earthquake 0.0 km from Si'umu, Tuamasaga, Samoa

UTC time: Sunday, March 22, 2026 15:30 PM
Your time: Sunday, 22 March 2026 at 15:30 GMT
Depth: 10.0 km
No tsunami statement issued
Magnitude Type: mww
USGS page: M 6.3 - 144 km NE of Hihifo, Tongae
6.2 Magnitude Earthquake 0.0 km from Hihifo, Niuas, Tonga

UTC time: Sunday, March 22, 2026 15:27 PM
Your time: Sunday, 22 March 2026 at 15:27 GMT
Depth: 10.0 km
No tsunami statement issued
Magnitude Type: mww
USGS page: M 6.2 - 149 km SSW of Lotofagā, Samoa
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 persons


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Best of the Web: Trump's last gleaming: The twilight of the decomposition of reality

Phil Butler
ZeroHedge
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:55 UTC
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© Phil Butler/GeminiThe twilight's last gleaming . . . .
I've written through enough upheaval to know when the ground has actually shifted beneath us. Today's chaos isn't the usual turbulence we've learned to absorb — the predictable cycles of crisis and recovery, or the familiar rhythms of things getting worse before they get better. Something structural has given way. We all feel it, even if we can't quite name it, even if we're still performing the motions of normalcy while the framework quietly collapses around us. I didn't think I'd be writing this kind of story either. But here we are, staring at presidents and prime ministers who have created a gap that wasn't supposed to open.

So let's dispense with the throat-clearing and the false reassurances. What follows isn't speculation about whether things might get strange; they already are. The question now is what has actually happened and what it means that we're all standing here watching the most incorrect leadership ever force an unimaginable reality into being, unfolding in real time. And with everyone in the world unable to look away, unable to pretend we don't see it.
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Best of the Web: Beware the weapons of mass distraction

Josh Walkos
Josh Walkos/X
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:38 UTC
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How cognitive and influence warfare is being waged against you

We have all experienced it, you're scrolling through social media and a post catches your eye, it makes a claim or shows you something that makes you say to yourself, "there is no way that's true," or it invokes an immediate emotional response and before you know it, you have begun typing a comment laced with vitriolic outrage.

But pause there for a moment. Before your fingers hit the keys, before you share it, before you screenshot it and send it to three friends who you know will be just as furious as you are.

Ask yourself: Why that post? Why right now? Why you?

Here is what most people don't realize in that moment, that reaction you just had? That flash of anger, that spike of fear, the intoxicating certainty that you have just witnessed something outrageous and undeniable? That may not have happened to you by accident, it may have been engineered.
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Best of the Web: Hawaii Storm: 100,000 without power amid flash floods - 15 inches of rain in 24 hours, 46 inches in 5 days - heavy snow on summits (UPDATED)

Marni Rose McFall
Newsweek
Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:22 UTC
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Forced evacuations as water rises at Otake camp
Over 100,000 people are without power in Hawaii as a rare storm pummels the entire state with dangerous thunderstorms, high elevation snow, and several inches of rain.

The storm stretch comes as the Kona low weather system drags tropical moisture over the islands, raising the threat for at least a foot of rainfall in the hardest‑hit areas.

Governor Josh Green issued an emergency proclamation on Monday. "A Kona low weather system is expected to produce prolonged heavy rainfall that could lead to flash flooding statewide, with the highest likelihood of flooding impacts across the smaller islands and urban areas," a news release from Green's office said.

Now, the website Power Outages is reporting on the failures impacting customers across the state. As of reporting on Saturday morning, there were more than 120,000 customers without power in Honolulu.

Honolulu was the hardest hit area. The East of Honolulu is reliant on power lines bringing electricity to the area from Windward Oahu. According to a report from Hawaii New Now, these transmission lines have been damaged, impacting service in the area.


Comment: Update March 15

BigIslandNow.com reports:
A powerful Kona low continues sweeping through the Hawaiian Islands, bringing strong winds and heavy flooding rainfall. The entire Big Island was put under a flash flood warning shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14, as heavy rains continued to fall.

Hawaiʻi County officials say residents should continue to avoid all unnecessary travel because of significant risks of flash flooding and strong, locally damaging winds.

The storm produced heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts Saturday throughout large areas of Hawaiʻi Island, as well as flash floods that closed multiple sections of Highway 11 in Kaʻū. causing the county to urge residents in those areas to shelter in place.

Some areas in Kaʻū received 10 to 15 inches of rain in 24 hours. Moderate to heavy rainfall was expected to remain in place over Kaʻū through Saturday evening, leading to significant flash flooding.
Update March 16

SFGATE.com reports:
Hawaii saw multiple rain records fall after a slow-moving kona storm dropped major precipitation across the different islands.

The island of Maui saw the heaviest rainfall, with multiple areas reporting over 20 inches of rain and one location logging as much as 46 inches of precipitation March 10-15, according to the National Weather Service.


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Best of the Web: Northeast Ohio's frightening meteor fireball boom felt across 3 states on March 17

David Kesiena
RollingOut.com
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:54 UTC
WKYC Channel 3 YOUTUBE/NWS Pittsburgh captures video of meteor shooting across the sky
WKYC Channel 3 YOUTUBE/NWS Pittsburgh captures video of meteor shooting across the sky
Residents across Northeast Ohio woke up to something far louder than a St. Patrick's Day celebration this morning. Just before 9 a.m., tens of thousands of people across Northeast Ohio, as well as parts of Pennsylvania and New York, heard and felt what many described as a massive explosion.

No one knew immediately what had caused it. Within hours, the National Weather Service office in Cleveland provided an answer.

What the National Weather Service confirmed

The NWS Cleveland posted on social media that the latest Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery pointed to a meteor as the source of the boom. The agency shared the imagery alongside its assessment, making clear that the event was natural in origin rather than the result of any industrial or structural incident.


Comment: [Update: Calculated total impact energy 1.5 kt TNT]
The Center for Near Earth Object Studies

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Best of the Web: Long-duration fireball streaks across western Turkey skies, possibly an Earth-grazing meteor on March 15


Space Weekly
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00 UTC
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A bright fireball was observed over western Turkey on the evening of March 15, with residents across Uşak Province reporting a slow-moving luminous object crossing the night sky for more than 20 seconds.

Videos recorded by witnesses show a bright white to bluish-green object with a compact head and a narrow glowing tail moving across the sky at a shallow angle before fading from view. The long visible duration and smooth motion distinguish the event from typical meteors, which usually last only a few seconds.

Preliminary analysis suggests the object may have been an Earth-grazing meteor, a rare type of fireball that skims the upper atmosphere at very shallow angles.

Earth-grazing meteors enter the atmosphere at a shallow trajectory and travel hundreds of kilometers through the upper atmosphere before exiting again into space or continuing along a long atmospheric path. Because they remain at high altitude, they can remain visible for 10 to 40 seconds, significantly longer than most meteors.

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Best of the Web: Thinking About the Unthinkable

Michael Hudson
Unz Review
Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:35 UTC
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© Nathaniel St. Clair
Iran's grand plan to end U.S. presence in the Middle East

Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that "There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender," and announced that he must have a voice in naming or at least approving Iran's new leader, as he has just done in Venezuela. "If the U.S. military must utterly defeat it and bring about a regime change, or else "you go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who's no better.'"1 It will take at least that long for America to replace the weaponry that has been depleted, rebuild its radar and related installations and mount a new war.

Iranian officials likewise recognize that U.S. attacks will keep being repeated until the United States is driven out of the Middle East. Having agreed to a ceasefire last June instead of pressing its advantage when Israeli and regional U.S. anti-missile defenses were depleted, Iran realized that war will be resumed as soon as the United States is able to re-arm its allies and military bases to renew what both sides recognize is to be a fight to some kind of final solution.
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Fireball 3

Best of the Web: Meteor fireball over northwest Europe on March 8 - meteorite fragments found


American Meteor Society
Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:18 UTC
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© Patrick H.
We received 2806 reports about a fireball seen over Aargau, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Baden-Württemberg, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bavaria, Bayern, Bern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brussel, Brussels, Bruxelles, Centre-Val de Loire, Clervaux, Diekirch, Drenthe, Esch-sur-Alzette, Flanders, Flevoland and Fribourg on Sunday, March 8th 2026 around 17:55 UT.

For this event, we received 20 videos and 109
photos.


Comment: Meteorite fragments have been found in Germany:



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Star of David

Best of the Web: How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:41 UTC
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© Fox News
The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president's deepest fears to keep him on the war path.

"I got him before he got me," an ebullient President Donald Trump remarked to a reporter when asked about his motives for authorizing the killing of Iran's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 28, 2026.

With his off-the-cuff remark, Trump revealed that anxiety about his own assassination at the hands of Iranian agents influenced his decision to initiate a US-Israeli regime change war that has already resulted in American casualties, the bombings of schools and hospitals inside Iran, devastating Iranian retaliatory strikes on US military bases and embassies, and a spiraling global economic crisis.

Trump's generalized fears of assassination were well-founded. He was nearly killed in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 by a 20-year-old engineering student named Thomas Crooks who managed to fire eight rounds at the former president from a rooftop, slicing his ear and missing his head by a hair's breadth. Two months later, a drifter named Ryan Routh was arrested after hiding for hours in the shrubbery outside the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh had been spotted after pointing an assault rifle toward a Secret Service agent as Trump played golf 400 yards away.
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Best of the Web: US-Israeli massacre of schoolgirls a human sacrifice to 'Epstein cult' - Iranian envoy


RT
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:46 UTC
funeral of children killed in an airstrike on a school in Minab, Iran
© Stringer / Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe funeral of children killed in an airstrike on a school in Minab, Iran
The strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 160 pre-teen students and teachers on the first day of the US-Israeli regime-change operation resembles satanic rituals allegedly enabled by pedophile American financier Jeffrey Epstein, an Iranian diplomat has claimed.

The attack in Minab, for which US and Israeli forces have not yet acknowledged responsibility, occurred last Saturday as the Pentagon and IDF struck targets across Iran in an attempt to decapitate and paralyze its government.

Alireza Sanei, Iranian ambassador to Belarus, alleged on Wednesday that Epstein was part of a mystical cult and that the same forces targeted the Minab school in "some ritual of child sacrifice" meant to bring success to the US-Israeli military operation.

"Children from different countries were trafficked to Epstein Island," the diplomat said, referring to the financier's notorious islet in the US Virgin Islands. "There were abuses, rapes, then sacrifices. They sacrificed kids to the devil spirit."
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