Earthquakes on March 8-9 near Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands have “insignificant” energy and occur regularly. This view was expressed by Aleksey Lyubushin, Principal Investigator of the Physics Laboratory for the Study of Mass Emissions of IPE RAS, in a conversation with socialbites.ca.
According to the Ministry of Emergencies, at 09:03 Moscow time on March 8, a 5.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Pacific Ocean, 136 kilometers east of the city of Severo-Kurilsk. The next day, at 05:06 Moscow time, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the east coast of Kamchatka.
“This is the normal daily life of planet Earth. If you don’t get some quiet areas like Moscow it’s shaking all the time. Small earthquakes are constantly occurring in seismically active areas where tectonic plates collide, especially in the Pacific belt, there is nothing extraordinary about it, ”the physicist says.
According to the expert, the increased media attention to this issue stems from the recent devastating earthquake in Turkey that made people “want to learn about it”. Earthquakes with a magnitude of 4 or 5 have “negligible energy”. When they are directly at the epicenter, they can only be felt by a person at a distance where they can be fixed with devices.
“Around the world, earthquakes of magnitude 4 or 5 happen about once a day, and sometimes more, and do not play a role in the lives of ordinary people,” concludes the scientist.
Formerly Alexey Lyubushin estimated A powerful earthquake that could cause a tsunami that threatened Tokyo in March-May 2023. But while his prediction only speaks of a “mega” earthquake of magnitude 8 and greater, the current fluctuations in the earth’s surface have nothing to do with his prediction.