Event Time
2013-11-25 06:27:33 UTC
2013-11-25 02:27:33 UTC-04:00 at epicenter

Location
53.881°S 54.882°W depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
314km (195mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands
877km (545mi) E of Ushuaia, Argentina
998km (620mi) ESE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1031km (641mi) SE of Puerto Deseado, Argentina
314km (195mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

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Additional commentary

The November 25, 2013 M7.0 earthquake (06:27:33 UTC) southwest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean occurred as the result of strike slip faulting, on either a left-lateral fault striking ENE-WSW, or a right-lateral structure striking NNW-SSE. The location of the earthquake, near the ENE-WSW trending plate boundary between the South America and Scotia tectonic plates, suggests it is likely associated with left-lateral faulting along this margin. At the location of this earthquake, the Scotia plate moves ENE with respect to South America at a rate of approximately 9.5 mm/yr.

The November 25, 06:27:33 earthquake was the largest of 5 M5+ events that occurred in a similar area over an approximate 2-hour period, including a M5.6 earthquake 24 seconds prior to the M7.0 mainshock. Though this region experiences moderate-sized earthquakes relatively frequently - 15 M5+ events have occurred within 250 km of the November 25 earthquake over the past 40 years - large events are fairly uncommon. The largest nearby earthquake over the same time period was a M6.6 event in September 1993, 210 km to the east of the November 25 earthquake.

Event Time
2013-11-25 06:27:09 UTC
2013-11-25 02:27:09 UTC-04:00 at epicenter

Location
53.987°S 54.923°W depth=15.1km (9.4mi)

Nearby Cities
321km (199mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands
872km (542mi) E of Ushuaia, Argentina
997km (620mi) ESE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1036km (644mi) SE of Puerto Deseado, Argentina
321km (199mi) SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

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Event Time
2013-11-23 07:48:32 UTC
2013-11-22 19:48:32 UTC-12:00 at epicenter
2013-11-23 08:48:32 UTC+01:00 system time

Location
17.097°S 176.562°W depth=377.1km (234.3mi)

Nearby Cities
322km (200mi) WNW of Neiafu, Tonga
438km (272mi) E of Lambasa, Fiji
469km (291mi) NNW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
542km (337mi) ENE of Suva, Fiji
628km (390mi) SW of Apia, Samoa

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Athens County shook Wednesday afternoon in a way it hasn't since the 19th century. A 3.5 magnitude earthquake, strong enough to be felt, with an epicenter slightly east of Nelsonville, was recorded at 1:01 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The earthquake was the strongest to hit Athens since a quake of similar magnitude rocked the county in 1886, scientists said.

There were no reports of damage, though both ODNR and the Athens County Emergency Management Agency received dozens of calls about the quake. "(Southeast Ohio) is not really a seismically active area," said Tim Leftwich, a seismologist at ODNR. "It's not noted to be an earthquake prone area of the state."

Calls from as far as Charleston, W.Va. were reporting shaking, Leftwich said. Though the county is hundreds of miles from the nearest tectonic plate boundary - in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - a small fault line runs through the northern part of Athens County, said Doug Green, a geophysicist at Ohio University who studies earthquakes.

"It's consistent, the location of the earthquake (and) the approximate depth are consistent with a structural weak point in the Earth's crust," Green said. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the quake's depth at 7.9 km - too deep to be triggered by a fracking injection well, said Green, who is currently studying drilling's effects on seismic activity.

Event Time
2013-11-19 13:32:54 UTC
2013-11-19 22:32:54 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
2.647°N 128.402°E depth=63.6km (39.5mi)

Nearby Cities
110km (68mi) NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia
232km (144mi) NNE of Ternate, Indonesia
236km (147mi) NNE of Kota Ternate, Indonesia
382km (237mi) ENE of Bitung, Indonesia
850km (528mi) SW of Koror Town, Palau

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A strong earthquake has struck Japan's coast south of the Fukushima nuclear plant currently undergoing a dangerous removal of highly radioactive Unit 4 fuel rods, according to online reports.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 5.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Japan 25 kilometers southeast of Toba, releasing the following tweet:

Strong earthquake, NEAR S. COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN, Nov-18 19:10 UTC, 0 #quake tweets/min, http://t.co/jAAXkTfU5k

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan on Saturday. Tremors were felt from inside Tokyo skyscrapers, and the city's high-speed train service was halted as a precaution. The earthquake struck at 8:44 p.m. local time (11:44 a.m. GMT) at a depth of 63 kilometers (39 miles) in the Chiba prefecture which neighbors Tokyo, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake shook skyscrapers in the Japanese capital and temporarily halted the city's high-speed train service, according to AFP. The trains soon resumed after a track inspection. Local broadcaster NHK assured that neither Tokyo's Narita International Airport nor regional nuclear installations were affected by the earthquake. There were no reports of damage or casualties. It comes just one week after another 5.5 earthquake struck close to the capital, and three weeks after a major 7.3 magnitude quake sent small tsunamis to Japan's northeast coast and prompted an evacuation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
While earthquakes of different magnitudes are not uncommon in Japan, the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered the core meltdowns of three reactors at the Fukushima plant has made every quake report in the region particularly alarming. As the world watches with apprehension at how Fukushima's decommissioning work unfolds, prominent Japanese-Canadian scientist David Suzuki warned last week that another nearby earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher could trigger a serious nuclear catastrophe, decimating Japan and reaching the U.S. west coast. "If the fourth [reactor] goes under an earthquake and those rods are exposed, then it's bye, bye, Japan and everybody on the west coast of North America should be evacuated. And if that isn't terrifying, I don't know what is," Suzuki said.

Event Time
2013-11-16 03:34:34 UTC
2013-11-16 00:34:34 UTC-03:00 at epicenter

Location
60.400°S 46.900°W depth=32.0km (19.9mi)

Nearby Cities
923km (574mi) SW of Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
1414km (879mi) SE of Ushuaia, Argentina
1662km (1033mi) SE of Punta Arenas, Chile
1687km (1048mi) SE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1181km (734mi) SSE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

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Event Time
2013-11-13 23:45:48 UTC
2013-11-13 20:45:48 UTC-03:00 at epicenter

Location
60.261°S 47.196°W depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
924km (574mi) SW of Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
1394km (866mi) SE of Ushuaia, Argentina
1641km (1020mi) SE of Punta Arenas, Chile
1666km (1035mi) SE of Rio Gallegos, Argentina
1159km (720mi) SSE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

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To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

~Andrew Harvey~

As I write these words in early November, 2013, humanity is confronting an unprecedented and horrific challenge which it may or may not survive. I'm referring to two uncanny realities about which we are not being told the unmitigated truth.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which suffered a catastrophic meltdown on March 11, 2011 is poised to inflict death and disastrous illness on millions, if not billions of people, as a result of ghastly amounts of contaminated water that is gushing daily into the Pacific Ocean and has already been detected on the West coasts of Canada and the United States. (28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Fried By Fukushima Radiation)