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Dozens Of Large Earthquakes Strike As Speculation Mounts That Japan\u2019s Southern Island May Split<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Kyushu<\/a>Over the past 48 hours, our planet has been hit\u00a0by literally dozens of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater<\/a>, and scientists are acknowledging that what is taking place is highly unusual.\u00a0 This strange shaking began toward the end of last week when the globe was struck by\u00a0five major earthquakes<\/a>\u00a0over the space of just two days, and over the weekend the seismic activity just continued to escalate.\u00a0 Very early on Saturday, Japan\u2019s southern island of Kyushu was hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, and on Saturday night a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off Ecuador\u2019s Pacific coast.\u00a0 It was the worst earthquake that Ecuador had experienced since 1979, and it was followed by at least 163 aftershocks.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there are indications that what we have seen so far may be just the beginning.<\/p>\n

Because the Ecuador earthquake was bigger, it is getting most of the headlines at the moment, but the truth is that what is going on in Japan is potentially far more dangerous.<\/p>\n

Over the past week, Japan\u2019s southern Island of Kyushu has been rocked by a series of devastating quakes, including two major ones in less than 48 hours.\u00a0 The following comes from\u00a0the Guardian<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

A second major earthquake in less than two days has shaken Japan\u2019s southern island of Kyushu, with at least 34 people thought to have been killed, about 1,500 injured and more feared buried after building collapses and landslides.<\/p>\n

The 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck at about 1.30am on Saturday, waking people across the island \u2013 including the thousands already in crisis centres. It caused widespread damage, with several landslides and a village evacuated over fears a dam might burst.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dozens Of Large Earthquakes Strike As Speculation Mounts That Japan\u2019s Southern Island May Split Over the past 48 hours, our planet has been hit\u00a0by literally dozens of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater, and scientists are acknowledging that what is taking place is highly unusual.\u00a0 This strange shaking began toward the end of last week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[222,13505,5983,8739,13506,452,13507,13308,13508,13509,13510,13511,13512,4901,13513,11432,11433],"class_list":["post-19998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-earthquakes","tag-earthquakes-2016","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-ecuador","tag-ecuador-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-japan-earthquakes","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-earthquakes","tag-kyushu","tag-kyushu-dividing-in-half","tag-kyushu-earthquakes","tag-large-earthquakes-2016","tag-michael-snyder","tag-natural-disasters","tag-what-is-coming-in-2016","tag-what-is-going-to-happen-in-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19998\/revisions\/20000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}