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Shallow magnitude 5.2 earthquake felt across Pretoria, South Africa

Pretoria earthquake
© Earthquake Track.
The orange circle indicates where the earthquake was felt.
Social media reports indicated that the earthquake was felt in various parts of Pretoria.

Residents of Pretoria, Johannesburg, Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom were awaken by an earthquake that occurred 8km south of Stilfontein on Monday morning.

According to Earthquake Report, the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.2 and occurred at about 05:08.

Residents from Parys. Freestate reported on Earthquake Report that they have felt it as well and that it lasted for only a few seconds.

A resident from Klerksdorp said that the noise lasted for a long time. Residents from Sandton said that they had items falling off cupboards. A Pretoria resident also claimed to feel it, but that nothing was damaged.

Various residents on social media confirmed that they have felt the earthquake in various parts of Pretoria. A resident from Garsfontein said that it felt like two earthquakes.

Residents of Pretoria moot also claimed to have felt the earthquake. "We felt it very clearly in Wonderboom south."

Comment: The earthquake originated 5 km below the surface of the earth according to reports.


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Two volcanoes spew ash in Russia's Kamchatka rattled by quakes

Kamchatka's volcano
© Ruptly
Two of Kamchatka's volcanoes - Kambalny and Kluchevskoy - have spewed ash thousands of meters into the air, as eruptions and seismic activity intensified in Russia's far eastern region last week. The ash cloud spread some 100 km into the Pacific.

"According to the satellite data of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) on Monday morning, ash release was recorded on the Kambalny volcano. The height of the ash release was up to 7 thousand meters above sea level," the local Emergency Ministry branch said in a statement, adding that no civilians are at risk.


Bizarro Earth

Earthquakes shake Santa Cruz, California

CA map
© USGS
The United States Geological Survey reported a series of earthquakes southeast of Santa Cruz early Friday morning.

A magnitude 4.0 quake first hit at 3.55 a.m. It was followed by a magnitude 1.7 aftershock at 4:03 a.m. and a 1.4 tremor at 4:37 a.m.

USGS data

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Shallow 5.7M earthquake hits the Gulf of California

earthquake map
An earthquake with an initial magnitude of 5.7 struck in the Gulf of California Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. PT, the USGS reported.

The largest population center is approximately 65 miles east of the epicenter in Los Mochis, Mexico.

People as far away as Glendale, California reported feeling the effects of the quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's data.

No other information was available.

Comment: An additional datum from Earth Track states that it occurred a depth of only 10 kilometers.


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PC authoritarians strike again: University student lost credit on paper for using the word "mankind" instead of gender-neutral alternative

molding minds, pc thought
A Northern Arizona University student lost credit on an English paper for using the word "mankind" instead of a gender-neutral alternative.

Cailin Jeffers, an English major at NAU, told Campus Reform that she received an email from one of her professors, Dr. Anne Scott, informing her that she had been docked one point out of a possible 50 on a recent paper for "problems with diction (word choice)" related to her use of the word "mankind" as a synonym for "humanity."

Comment: The Truth Perspective: Radical political correctness, liberal ideologies and the decline of modern civilization


Bizarro Earth

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake recorded over Kamchatka region

Kamchatka Earthquake
© USGS
A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, some 80 kilometers north east of Ust-Kamchatsk. The Sakhalin tsunami monitoring center issued a warning of possible local waves of up to 1.5 meters.

The quake occurred in the Bering Sea, just off the eastern coast of Kamchatka on Wednesday afternoon (4:09am GMT), Kamchatka's branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Interfax.

"Residents of the Klyuchi and Kozyrevsk of the Ust-Kamatsky villages experienced this earthquake with a five points magnitude," the representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences said.

The Sakhalin Tsunami Center has warned the earthquake can possibly trigger local tsunami waves of up to 1.5 meters, TASS reports, adding that waves could reach North-Kurilsk island within two hours.

Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 5.0 - 28km E of Shimen, China

yunnan china
© USGS
Magnitude: 5.0 mb± 0.0

Location: 25.901°N 99.710°E± 7.7 km

Depth: 28.8 km± 4.6

Origin Time: 2017-03-26 23:55:06.860 UTC

USGS data

Comment: Almost 9,000 suffer from 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan, China


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Almost 9,000 suffer from 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan, China

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About 8,960 people suffered from an earthquake that shook the province of Yunnan in the southwest of China earlier in the day, local media reported on Monday.

According to the CCTV broadcaster, about 2,000 households suffered in the earthquake, with some of local residents wounded lightly, but the exact number of the injured was not reported.

Many buildings reportedly showed cracks after the earthquake and lessons were canceled in schools.

According to other media reports, the earthquake had impacted 15,800 people and the consequences are still being addressed.

The earthquake of a 5.1 magnitude was registered at 7.55 a.m. local time (23:55 GMT on Sunday), with several weaker shocks following shortly after.

Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 66km W of Attu Station, Alaska

attu island alaska
© USGS

Magnitude:
6.1

Location: 52.798°N 172.199°E± 6.7 km

Depth: 10.0 km± 1.8

Origin Time: 2017-03-27 10:50:19.270 UTC

USGS data

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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattles Darwin, Australia after striking 600 km away in Banda Sea

Banda Sea earthquake map
© Geoscience Australia
An earthquake that struck this morning in the Banda Sea has rattled parts of Darwin but is unlikely to have caused any damage.

The magnitude 5.3 quake hit in the Banda Sea at a depth of 96 kilometres, about 600 kilometres north of Darwin.

Many people were asleep when it rattled parts of the city at 4:44am (ACST), but several people contacted ABC Radio Darwin to say they felt it.

Australia was a long way from the zone where damage was expected from the quake, according to information from Geoscience Australia.

Geoscience Australia seismologist Eddie Leask said quakes in the Banda Sea were often felt in Darwin.

"We had about 50 in that area over the last year and about 15 of those were felt in Darwin," Mr Leask told ABC Radio Darwin.