The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The overnight eruption of the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka, its first in 600 years, may be connected to the huge earthquake that rocked Russia's Far East last week. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/03/world/kamchatka-quake-causes-volcano/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #kamchatka #volcano #earthquake
kategenevieve
@kategenevieve@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp last month

AI-generated disinformation after the 8.8 #Kamchatka #earthquake is off the charts. Beyond the problem of Grok churning out false reports, #AIFakeAlerts & #AIDisasterFakes are flooding timelines.

Clearly, panic media is wholly destructive to public messaging. The one screenshotted shows an AI-gen girl abandoning her car in traffic. For a whole community who lived through the Maui fires, this touches real trauma.

⚠️ Please start tracking & taking screenshots of #DisasterDisinfo where you see it.

Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
kategenevieve
@kategenevieve@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp last month

AI-generated disinformation after the 8.8 #Kamchatka #earthquake is off the charts. Beyond the problem of Grok churning out false reports, #AIFakeAlerts & #AIDisasterFakes are flooding timelines.

Clearly, panic media is wholly destructive to public messaging. The one screenshotted shows an AI-gen girl abandoning her car in traffic. For a whole community who lived through the Maui fires, this touches real trauma.

⚠️ Please start tracking & taking screenshots of #DisasterDisinfo where you see it.

Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
Screenshot of a TikTok video. Labelled with words “AI FAKE” written over the image in yellow. The original image from a TikTok account called SnowBunnyMagic shows an AI-generated video of a young, blonde woman in a white hoodie, seems to be in a state of panic near a beach in Hawai’i. The text in the image reads: “Massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia set off the tsunamis in U.S. 10ft waves! 2nd Largest quake on the planet.” With a caption: “My Snow Bunny friend just sent my this from Hawaii.”
Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️
@alberniweather@socialbc.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Watching the currents in the Somass River at the head of the Alberni Inlet. I'm safely perched on a platform about 5 metres above the water.

The lights of the city and paper mill shining onto the water allow me to see how it is flowing. Have not noticed anything abnormal.

Also keeping an eye on data from tide gauges in Tofino, Bamfield (at the other end of the Inlet) and here. Nothing significant has registered.

#tsunami #tsunami #portalberni #tofino #bamfield #ucluelet #earthquake #russia
Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️
@alberniweather@socialbc.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Watching the currents in the Somass River at the head of the Alberni Inlet. I'm safely perched on a platform about 5 metres above the water.

The lights of the city and paper mill shining onto the water allow me to see how it is flowing. Have not noticed anything abnormal.

Also keeping an eye on data from tide gauges in Tofino, Bamfield (at the other end of the Inlet) and here. Nothing significant has registered.

#tsunami #tsunami #portalberni #tofino #bamfield #ucluelet #earthquake #russia
Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️
@alberniweather@socialbc.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Now there's a proper (small) tsunami wave signal!
From the Henslung Cove tide station on Langara Island, Haida Gwaii BC (NW tip of BC coast). In about 10 minutes the tide gauge rose to:
1737mm
and fell to
1569mm
then back up to 1669mm

That is a wave of 168mm or 16.8cm or 6.6 inches followed by a second of 10cm so far.

The period between the two peaks is 24 minutes.

As predicted, less than 1ft/30cm.
#tsunami #tsunami #portalberni #tofino #bamfield #ucluelet #earthquake #russia
Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️
@alberniweather@socialbc.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Port Alberni residents: You can safely see the data from the Port Alberni tide station here:

Mobile: https://tides.gc.ca/en/water-level-application-optimized-mobile-devices (click the blue bar and search for Port Alberni)

Or Web: https://tides.gc.ca/en/stations

The red line is the observed height, the black predicted. We are also at low tide.

#tsunami #tsunami #portalberni #tofino #bamfield #ucluelet #earthquake #russia
Alberniweather ☔️ ☀️ ❄️ 🌬️
@alberniweather@socialbc.ca  ·  activity timestamp last month

Hawaii information update: Largest wave measured so far in Hawaii: 1.2m (4f) at Haleiwa.

https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2025/07/29/25210002/7/WEHW40/WEHW40.txt

No official observations from BC yet but we should get one at the next update.

#tsunami #tsunami #portalberni #tofino #bamfield #ucluelet #earthquake #russia

Anke
Anke boosted
Jo-chin up, elbows up.
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

In case anyone was unaware, there is a tsunami warning for the entire west coast of North America, after an 8.8! Magnitude earthquake in Russia. I’ve never even heard of one that large in all my life.

It’s been downgraded to an advisory in Canada, but still asking people to stay away from coastlines.
It’s expected to hit Hawaii and Guam in about 2 hours.

More info here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tsunami-watch-july-29-1.7596997

#earthquake #tsunami#PNW#Canada #usa