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Showing posts with label Weather 2025. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

TSUNAMI threat looms across the Pacific after powerful earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

 A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday, July 30, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders across the Pacific.

The quake, one of the strongest recorded this century, prompted action from Japan to Hawaii as authorities braced for potentially destructive waves. Initial assessments from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) placed the quake's epicenter about 85 miles off Kamchatka's east coast at a depth of nearly 12 miles.

Russian emergency services reported intense shaking that was initially recorded as a magnitude 7.5 tremor, with the USGS upping the measurement to 8.8. This quake rattled buildings, knocked furniture over and triggered car alarms in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

A kindergarten building suffered structural damage, though no injuries were reported. Authorities issued an "absolute tsunami alert" for Avacha Bay, urging residents to move inland immediately.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center swiftly expanded alerts, placing Hawaii under an "urgent action" warning and advising evacuations in low-lying areas. "It is not just a three-foot wave, it is a forceful wall of water," Hawaii Gov. Josh Green warned, referencing potential infrastructure damage...<<<Read More>>>...

Friday, 11 July 2025

Texas floods renew debate over cloud seeding as CEO admits operations preceded disastrous storms

 Deadly flash floods swept through Central Texas last week, killing over 100 and leaving devastation in areas like Kerrville, where the Guadalupe River surged 26 feet in less than an hour. While meteorologists and regulators attribute the disaster to a natural storm system, conspiracies about human intervention have resurfaced after Rainmaker Weather Technologies CEO Augustus Doricko acknowledged cloud-seeding missions took place just days before the disaster.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) confirmed Rainmaker conducted a 20-minute cloud-seeding flight in south-central Texas on June 2, 2024, targeting clouds to boost rainfall during a drought. However, Doricko stated the operation concluded days before National Weather Service flood warnings, emphasizing it was unrelated to the deluge. "Our missions enhanced clouds by only 10% at most," he told The War Room podcast. "The storm’s volume—4 trillion gallons—was far beyond what cloud seeding can even achieve."...<<<Read More>>>...