PREDICTED BY TBW!—SIGNS AND WONDERS—EQUAL 6TH BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE IN MODERN HISTORY ROCKS THE EASTCOAST OF RUSSIA CAUSING A TSUNAMI IN JAPAN, EQUADOR, HAWAII AND THE US WESTCOAST: MASSIVE AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE!

Above is a map showing all quakes in the last 30 days along the North American and Pacific Plate boundaries. I have also added the great quakes of 2011 (Honshu) and 1957 (Alaska). Credit USGS.

Last night, a multitude of large aftershocks were recorded rattling the Kamchatka region of Russia after the country recorded two massive earthquakes—One Magnitude 8.8, the biggest earthquake anywhere in the last 14 years and another massive magnitude 8.0 earthquake. Not surprisingly, a tsunami warning was issued. Japan ordered the evacuation of nearly 2 million people to leave coastal areas. Parts of China, the US, Canada, the Philippines, Indonesia, Guam, Peru and the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador have also issued tsunami warnings. 

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On . . . 

They were predicted—Ten days ago, I wrote here that we could well be witnessing a new Honshu-type (Fukushima) earthquake cluster, North of Japan, off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. That morning, 5 major quakes (mag 6 or higher) were recorded with a large number of ongoing heavy aftershocks. That prediction came true. Last night, 5 more massive quakes struck the same area with a plethora of aftershocks.

As if to confirm the madness, yesterday, the USGS recorded the 18th and 19th  major quakes (magnitude 6 or higher) in just the last nine days. However, one of them just happened to equal the 6th biggest major quake in modern human history—The magnitude 8.8 off the Eastern coast of Kamchatka, Russia, which was followed by another 4 massive aftershocks rocking the area, including a massive Magnitude 8. All the recorded quakes were extremely shallow, the most dangerous type.

The whole day was busy with seismic energy. Earlier, another shallow magnitude 6.2 quake rocked Indonesia, and a powerful, shallow, magnitude 6.6 struck the Macquarie Islands, South of Australia. Add to that a very deep magnitude 6.6 rocked the Fiji Islands.

What makes this July surge interesting is that so far, the total number of major quakes in 2025 has been considerably lower than the average number this century; however, with the recent burst, parity with other years has now been reached. The total so far this year is now 79 major quakes (mag 6 or higher). Last year at this time, the count was just 60, but in 2023, 83, and in 2022, 77. There is, of course, another five months to go before the end of this year arrives; if this surge continues, who knows, as the world enters a period of increasing uncertainty, we could yet see a record-breaking seismic year? Hopefully not.

It is worth keeping an eye on the volatile Pacific and North American Plate, engulfing Russia's Kamchatka region and the Aleutian Islands, West of Alaska. No less than 13 major quakes (mag 6 or higher) have been recorded along this fault line in the last 9 days, 21 for the whole year. There are some incredible volcanic ballistics going on in this area too, with no less than 7 volcanoes erupting or showing activity right now, and remember, this is the same fault line which caused the deadly mag 9.1 Honshu quake (Fukushima) in March 2011 and a mag 8.6 off the coast of Alaska in 1957, see USGS images below.

The incredible record-breaking year of 1957 saw the USGS record a new record total for major quakes (mag 6 or higher) in one year, with an incredible total of 205. Unfortunately, for reasons unclear, they decided to devalue the number to 175. Incidentally, 1957 had the record-breaking number of sunspot activity too, coincidence?

The Kuril-Kamchatka Arc is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Deformation of the overriding North America plate and associated microplates generates shallow crustal earthquakes, while slip at the subduction zone interface between the Pacific and North America plates generates interplate earthquakes that extend from near the base of the trench to depths of 40 to 60 km.

Left, credit USGS

The aftershock zones of great historic earthquakes abut one another along the strike of the arc but generally do not overlap; sections of the subduction zone have typically experienced earthquakes of a consistent size at fairly regular recurrence intervals, though the length of seismicity catalogs is typically shorter than the expected repeat times of the largest earthquakes known to have occurred in the region.

Spaceweather  

A rise in seismic and volcanic activity often coincides with solar activity on our Sun; however, spaceweather has been relatively calm during this particular earthquake spike. According to Spaceweather.com, there's a sunspot on the farside of the sun so large, it is affecting the way the whole sun vibrates. It's the big black blob in this helioseismic image of the whole sun, see below. The sunspot will turn to face Earth about 10 days from now. We wait with bated breath!

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