00:00Good evening and welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening.
00:04Today is Saturday, the 22nd, 82, 20, 26, 22, 24, and 9, Rabi Al-Awa.
00:12Honestly, a strong earthquake, again, a very strong earthquake strikes once more.
00:19This time, the earthquake hit Japan, specifically near Onshu and close to the Japanese capital.
00:28Tokyo was affected significantly, that's why the number of people who felt the earthquake in Tokyo is very high.
00:35Usually, very strong earthquakes hit the coasts of Japan, but this time, the earthquake targeted the mainland very close,
00:42and the epicenter was very close to Onshu and the Japanese capital of Tokyo.
00:48This earthquake stuck with a magnitude of 5, reaching 5.8 on the Richter scale at a depth of 61
00:55kilometers below the surface of the Earth.
00:58And Japan is ahead of us by about 5 or 6 hours.
01:03The time when the earthquake struck in Japan was 2 in the morning, 2 after dawn, or 2 in the
01:09morning after midnight.
01:10That means 2 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, August 23rd, for them, or practically the 3rd, August 23rd.
01:20Now, in Japan, of course, the earthquake is very strong.
01:25It struck just a short while ago.
01:27And soon, the agencies that monitor such strong earthquakes will start reporting on what happened in Japan.
01:36And the Philippines is one of the countries that has also experienced moderate earthquakes in the past few hours.
01:44And it is expected that in the coming hours or the next few days, a devastating earthquake may strike either
01:52Japan again or its neighbor, the Philippines.
01:57That's why the coming hours are also important.
01:59The thing I want to talk about honestly is that I have noticed in the past few hours a very
02:06large number of earthquakes hitting the United States of America, specifically.
02:11I remember, I'll show you a picture from the monitoring centers.
02:15This is a picture.
02:16I'll show you a picture that tracks and proves a very huge number of earthquakes.
02:20Does that mean it hit here?
02:21Between 40 and 50 earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 2 to 3 on the Richter scale.
02:29And among them, there were light earthquakes.
02:33It hit several areas across California.
02:36What does that mean?
02:44What is very dangerous in the state of California and with these earthquakes is that they are very close to
02:51the massive and very dangerous fault line on the western coast of the United States of America.
02:58And here we are specifically talking about the San Andreas fault.
03:02It is possible now, with this storm of earthquakes hitting the United States and California at this time, it is
03:10possible.
03:12And very likely, we might be facing a strong earthquake hitting the American coasts in the coming hours or days,
03:19especially since we are talking about the coasts of the state of California.
03:22Or should we keep following up with you step by step like this?
03:25Am I with you?
03:26I'm Adal Dira Eldaram.
03:27That's all for the program, Masair Block.
03:29That's all for the program, Masair Block.
