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officials are preparing for the possibility of similar seismic activity in the Atlantic basin that could threaten the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean by launching two separate drills over the next 2 weeks. On March 11, through the CaribeWave ’21 Tsunami Warning System Exercise, officials will drill for two hypothetical earthquakes.  At 9am ET, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center will act as if a 8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes at 18.2 North 75.3 West near Jamaica. At the time time, an even more powerful 8.5 earthquake will strike near the Northern Lesser Antilles at 18.9 North 62.4 West.  In the drill exercise, a simulated tsunami striking portions of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and portions of Central and South America will be practiced with the first quake, while a broader, more impactful  tsunami will be simulated with the second. Days later a March 17 LANTEX21 drill will simulate an even more powerful 8.8 earthquake in the North Atlantic at 8am ET. The quake, centered at ...

 It has been ten years since the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami .. the aftermath is now known. Years of biological damage from Fukushima, mental anguish from a moment that literally rocked the world and tore apart a coastline of the nation.. There are estimates on how many died, but with so many rural areas being swept out to sea, it will never be known the true final tally on how much suffering occurred within an instant that fateful March 11.. The tenth anniversary of this moment has conjured up old sadness within Japan, and as the world shakes again with dramatic large earthquakes around the plant, and uneasy feeling that one day soon we may see a similar disaster. The scale of the impact on the people of Japan is unmeasurable. So much changed in a literal instant. One example of the sadness and grief still being grappled with comes to us from an unconnected phone line in the town of Otsuchi. This story of this location has put the harrowing loss of life into perspect...

The earth was shaking.. the quakes are quaking.. DATELINE NEW ZEALAND: A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand today, triggering an early-morning tsunami threat on the shores of the Pacific nation. New Zealand authorities have urged an evacuation in a 100-mile stretch of coast on the North Island, telling people to flee to high ground or 'as far inland as possible'. High waters were expected to lash the coast shortly after 3am local time with a US monitoring service predicting 3ft waves and local disaster officials warning of an hours-long threat of 'unpredictable surges'. Witnesses on the North Island described a 'very long, swaying shake' and houses making 'cracking sounds' in a tremor which some thought had lasted for as long as a minute, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. 'Hope everyone is ok out there - especially on the east coast who would have felt the full force of that earthquake,' pr...