February Changing Earth Update

[00:00:05] Welcome back to The Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson. Blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now, here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello and welcome back to The Changing Earth Podcast.

[00:00:32] This is episode number 478. And as far as season goes, we'll just call it like season 18, episode 1. This is the first one of our monthly updates. Hey Chen, what's up? Chen's up 18, huh? Party! Yeah, right? So many seasons. But I know we're on like 18. So I missed you guys so much.

[00:00:59] I had to get a podcast under my belt. I get a text this week. Hey, you want to do podcasts? Yeah. I was like, I'm jonesing. Sure. I got to find out what's going on on our planet. It's crazy. We'll get there. Sarah was jonesing for y'all. I was jonesing for y'all. So I've got some big news.

[00:01:25] So over on YouTube, my podcast, The Changing Earth Podcast, will go to my author, Sarah F. Hathaway channel. The channel that's been there forever. But we're now going to have The Changing Earth series channel over on YouTube. It'll be just the remastered audio drama. And then I'm doing a series of videos on like behind the scenes of Changing Earth.

[00:01:54] So like one of those is going to happen a month. My first one was on The World. So I just walked through like the world of my whole series of that. So cool. Right? So if you haven't read the whole thing, there's some spoilers, you know. But I try to give you the heads up. I don't know when that happens, like significant things. But yeah, so we've been putting a lot of that together. We're going to see how it goes. We're going to hit it up on YouTube and Rumble and just try and get some books sold.

[00:02:22] So we can do some impressing and, you know, have a guess I can leak a tiny bit. There might be an interested producer. So we just have to get sales numbers up and really make the series shine in the, as far as the monetary end of things go as well. So I still have some Changing Earth series. My old cover is still for sale.

[00:02:48] Guys, you can get those for like, I think I have like 60 bucks if you use the code HLEE. How many? For all 10. The set? Yeah. It's the cheapest ever. Like ever. I know. So I still have like four sets of those left. They're almost gone. But yeah. So if you're interested, get them while you can. Don't forget to use the coupon code. I mean, they're still pretty inexpensive over there.

[00:03:16] But the coupon code makes it stupid cheap. So that's the technical term too. Stupid cheap. Stupid cheap, yeah. Yep. You learn that when you're talking to the agents? Yep. Yep. Well, all of those were supposed to go at prepper camp, you know. So I'm ready to roll stock over and I've just got those few that are hanging out. So that's why you get a great deal on them.

[00:03:42] I got my prepper camp camping reservations all done for 2025. Guess where I was yesterday. You were at Orchard Lake. I was at the campground. The campground. They got so lucky. It's gorgeous. They're blessed. That's blessed. But two trees down there. Amber Poo had to go. She was all excited about running around the campground. Oh, Amber Poo. She's like, yeah.

[00:04:12] My second home. Orchard Lake, baby. Yeah. That's a good time. Yeah. I haven't found a spot to use her lines that you gave me for the audience. Oh, you know, in the end when I introduce Charlie and he's got the little dog. Yeah. There you go. Yep. I've got the lines. I'm sure I have a little dog now. She was bossing around some Irish setters or Golden Retreat. I don't know. One of those. A couple big dogs. You know the campground dogs? Yep. Yep. Yeah.

[00:04:41] So she was bossing them around. She thought she, I had to explain to her that they own the place. That is their property. Technically you are visiting today, Miss Amber Poo. What a princess. Love it. So prepper camp tickets are on sale. It'll be another great year. Every year is a great year, even when a hurricane hits. Right. Hopefully we won't have any hurricanes this year and we'll be able to just have some fun to teach them classes.

[00:05:11] That would be great. So speaking of North Carolina cleanup, looks like Trump might be making some actions over there as well. There's been some shakeups. What a relief for my part of the world to actually have the newly coming president. You know, he, what, less than a week. Yeah. He's been in office and he flies out to see us on his way to Los Angeles. Right.

[00:05:40] And he brought attention back to us because we're still, there's still communities in this part of the world that are, that are struggling. Big time. Heck, we had a forest fire. Yeah. Yeah. The, the old mill forest fire, 250 acres. And that's, that was like an hour away from. Right. Just what you need. Well, triangulating. Yeah. It was like an hour away. So we were worried. I was starting to unload the pickup truck and make sure I had room to throw stuff in there.

[00:06:10] Welcome to the wild world of wildfire evacuations. Like enough. So we had floods to deal with. And then that. Yeah. The people up there in that town had to deal with floods and fire. Cause that was a heavy hit region with the floods too. Yeah. Amazing. And now they have the fires come in right behind it. Yeah. Insanity. Yeah. Well, I was, cause I'm, you know, obviously I work insurance in the state of California

[00:06:38] and luckily none of the homes that I insure are down in the burn zone. I had some close, but not, we didn't lose any homes from our particular office. Right. But being on the kind of the more business side, well, I'm on both, right? Cause I represent the clients and I represent the business. I'm like the middle man. So, um, being able to see it though, from the business point of view, there we're talking

[00:07:06] about permits, just permits to be able to clear the pad taking like 18 months. Huh? What do you mean? Or just to be able to get permitted to begin the rebuild process, taking 18 months to get that done, which is actually pretty speedy for California government. Um, in reality. Yeah.

[00:07:32] Cause there's been like people waiting for two years for permits to build a fence, you know? And that's not, that's just the paperwork to say, okay, you could do it. Right. That's nothing to do with lining up the work and the materials. Exactly. Cause that's going to be the hard part. Next is getting contractors and the materials. One lady, um, that was down there. She was, um, in an interview. It was going to take her a year just to get, she got to see her house, which did not get burned down.

[00:08:01] But because they have the area shut down, it's going to, was going to take her a year, just be able to get back into her house. So in the meantime, like what that, the cost is to insurance companies to pay for the loss of use for all of those people. Oh yeah. Right. All the rent. Cause you got that. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you know, we pay loss of use, which provides money for you for while you can't live in your home.

[00:08:28] So you're looking at, you know, I mean, it does expand out into a 36 month, um, duration for being able to use that coverage when it's a catastrophic situation. Cause everything already takes longer. Everybody wants lumber. Everybody wants the builders. Everybody wants everything. Right. I mean, yeah, I ran into that. I might have, you know, coming out of COVID is when I started building this one and go

[00:08:53] into the local lumberyards, trying to buy doors by windows, excuse me, windows. Right. Windows were like eight to 12 months out. Yeah. I had to drive to Atlanta and order them. I bought them from a guy that custom orders them from Germany and I got them quicker coming from Germany overseas and I could get it from standard here in the States. Um, like one of the name brand window companies. Yeah.

[00:09:22] So this is the thing, you know, when you're in the catastrophic setting, everybody starts going for those supplies. Yep. And, uh, so that naturally pushes that timeframe out anyway. Now you put on top of like all the California, just bureaucracy on top of that. So it was really, really promising to see Trump go down there and be like, Hey, we've got all the federal stuff taken care of on our, so everybody knows if there's any delays, it's entirely on your shoulders. Yeah.

[00:09:49] We were talking the other day is, um, Trump's really in his element with this one, because as far as like dealing with issues to catastrophes, he was a builder, right? Right. But he, that's, that's how he came up with his dad was. And then he was, so he understands making stuff happen out on a construction site. Like this is basically just a big construction site. So he really gets it. Well, they have the second biggest reservoir in the state empty. Hmm.

[00:10:18] I mean, you get like, um, they have the California fair plan, which covers your wildfire risk for many of the homes and the foothills and whatnot. It maxes out at like $3 million, but you get this huge discount. Now, if you have a fire hydrant within a thousand feet, what good is it if there's no water? You know. Well, you still get the discount, right? Yeah, you do. It's there. I don't know if it's going to work, but yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:47] So that, that whole situation, you know, we could go into all kinds of cause and things that were magically lost because of those fires or building plans for afterwards. Um, did you know Bill Gates bought Three Mile Island? The nuclear power plant? Yeah. He's reopening Three Mile Island because they need the power for AI. They're using it for AI.

[00:11:17] Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, nuclear energy bad unless you're an elitist who can then open it back up for his company. And he's all got his fingers all in that, you know, 15 minute cities and that kind of thing. So hopefully they can just, uh, let it get rebuilt the way the property owners want that

[00:11:44] to happen rather than big business, you know? And it was encouraging to see Trump actually come in and make that stand. Yeah. It's pretty cool. And like, so I, I, there was such, I mean, I know like three people that actually went up there and got to meet him and talk with him. Uh-huh. And they're like, he is, he is so personal. Like just talking with him, like standing there, didn't know, you know, in the line. Right.

[00:12:14] But just talking to, they talked with these people. Like they were just normal people. They're people. Like the president, he didn't, it wasn't airs about him or anything. He, he wanted to hear what was going on. He, he asked them specifically, like, how was FEMA treating you? That kind of stuff. Yeah. And, um. Well, that was one of the biggest things that I heard of that he was doing is like, let's get FEMA out of here and give the money to, you know, Samaritan's person. People who are actually making the difference.

[00:12:44] It wasn't one of those like shake hands and, you know, hug babies kind of tours. Right. It was, it was out talking to people and seeing what was. Get info so we can get things done for our people. Did you see his wife? Oh, and her outfit? Yeah. She had the jet. She looked like she was ready to go out hiking and grab an ax and start cleaning up. Right? Yeah. She was awesome. Very classy. She's a classy. Yeah. She is a class act. Especially. Yeah. She doesn't walk around.

[00:13:13] A lot of, you know, heels like didn't fit in the scene. Right? Yeah, that's true. She kind of like come down the stilettos. That's like my, uh, we're going to roast a pig story in the country. And I told all the city girls not to wear them heels, man. And here they come. I'm like, well, you're going to have to sit inside all day now. I don't have enough boots for everybody. I told you not to wear them.

[00:13:40] So I had an interesting question because I gave the, um, prepper broadcasting community the heads up that we were going to do. Yeah. On Element. You gotta be on Element. Gotta, yep. Gotta still be on Element. I know lots going on. Rumble, Twitter, all this stuff. All this fancies we got these days, but I'm still, uh, most loyal to everybody over on Element because, um, they've been here with the long haul. So. TBN has an active group over there on Element. So it's good to watch.

[00:14:10] Yep. I like to peruse through there. Um, I don't comment up very much, but I do like to peruse through. So anyhow, um, KC brought up this really cool article about predicting earthquakes in advance by radio digital short waves, uh, stations, which kind of right up your alley there, buddy. Yeah, I had some thoughts about it.

[00:14:34] Um, yeah, so the biggest relevance that, um, I have to it is it's a hundred percent right on, um, Ben Davison. It's not suspicious observers anymore. It's now space weather news. He changed the name of the channel, but, um, he's got his earthquake playlist and he was researching this kind of thing like seven years ago. And it's a hundred percent true.

[00:15:01] They're able to see because of these changes in the ionosphere when major earthquakes are about to go. Um, they have, they picked up the signs before the one in Turkey. That was the big one. And, uh, pretty much any of the major ones, they are picking up these, um, changes within, within the ionosphere, which can be measured through radio frequencies. So I think it's a great idea, especially with what I'm going to bring to you.

[00:15:31] Um, so if you're interested for more information on that process and kind of like the roots of where it began, um, Ben's what he's not so much into it now, basically because he's like, yeah, we figured it out. We know how to depict or predict earthquakes, but, um, his work is really fascinating on it.

[00:15:52] So Casey, I would recommend you go over there and check that out because they are actually getting to a point where we can pretty accurately depict or predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as well. So that's a pretty cool day for planet Earth and, uh, the human species on top of it when we can do that. Um, the other guy that I really watched for earthquake, um, forecasting and whatnot is Dutch sense.

[00:16:20] And he's just not as active as he used to be because, um, he's had a lot of negative attention from our government. Hmm. Interesting. Right. So, um, but he has, um, theories about when the deep earthquakes hit and then the seismic waves that travel off of those. And he's pretty darn right on with his predictions for where earthquakes will travel to.

[00:16:50] So it would be kind of cool to hook up like the two fields of knowledge where he could say, you know, where you think one's coming here and then we can monitor it with the radio frequencies and see if we couldn't pick it up. So they're doing a lot of really, really fascinating stuff in that field right now, uh, which is cool because earthquakes, uh, earthquakes are pretty devastational and can just come out of the blue, you know? So I thought that was a great question. Thank you so much for asking it.

[00:17:19] I'm going to have to get chin, uh, measuring out. You're in the wrong space kind of for earthquakes. So that's, that's fine with me. What's the fires is more than enough. All right. Um, South Carolina gets quite a few though. Yeah. And, um, there has been some activity up North, which is kind of alarming, but you are in a pretty good space when it comes to it. Even if the Madrid, New Madrid went.

[00:17:47] So, um, yeah, good pick. Good pick. We had some in Texas. We're doing all that fracking, you know, so that, that doesn't help. Well, on the home front, it's all about my chicken coop. I'm going big. I'm expanding more. I'm, uh, I'm, I'm all in on my chickens. I've always raised chickens. I do it.

[00:18:15] Well, I can't, I'm trying to figure out a self sustainable process with between the chicken and the greenhouse. I really love Rick's concepts from his, uh, livestock books and, you know, being able to grow sprouts and whatnot. And then do the mealworms and see if I couldn't produce their feed, uh, and like have the chickens, you know, so that I never have to buy food out, which would be a perfect little sustainable food supply in a disaster scenario.

[00:18:46] Except chickens are allowed. You know, people are going to come for chickens. Yeah. But if you could do it with ducks, maybe, but ducks just don't lay as reliably as chickens. Yeah. So good. Yeah. They don't, they take like a few months off. Well, my chickens have been too lazy little birds. So, I mean, it's been too cold or something, but, uh, no, we're expanding that whole process

[00:19:15] and I'm not going with any of the fancy, like, you know, move it around type things, but I will have like multiple outdoor tractors. Yeah. The chicken tractors. We're just too urban for it. So. Not enough space. Yeah. And if I did, it would be like out in her front yard, you know, like, so, but, uh, I have some around here driving around.

[00:19:41] Like, I don't, you know, not, it's a major road, the road into town and you look off to the side, there's chicken tractor. Nice. Somebody's front yard. Right. Right. I've seen the whole warehouses. This is the whole warehouse moves now. Like big hoop house. And the whole thing moves like a little bit every day. Wow. Yeah. That was pretty cool. It's good to be the lead chicken. Yeah. Don't get it back.

[00:20:07] He never gets any fresh grass or roads. Fair. Yeah. They're all lined up. Come on, let me up front. Here we go. So, yeah, that's been the big, uh, homestead push. Cause you know, spring's around the corner, especially here in Texas. We got to get like things, um, all our seeds and stuff started now in February cause it comes so early and then gets too hot. And then we have season number two.

[00:20:36] This is really weird down here. So probably everybody in the Midwest is like, what are you talking about? Spring for already. It's so cold up here. They're still looking at their seed catalogs. I know. So I'm sorry. I used to live up there too. I know how it is, but, um, yeah. But yeah, that's kind of my thought process. So, um, it's about, about springtime. Got to get plants in.

[00:21:03] Got to make sure we're ready for chicks. That kind of thing. So what are you up to? Working on the house still. I don't think I'll ever stop working on that freaking house. No, you won't. That's when you sell still. Splitting firewood. What else? Did well, I was at Orchard Lake cause I was teaching a class on, radios and Mesh-tastic. Yes. Doing all kinds of stuff.

[00:21:33] Yeah, I've been bad. You're just going to have to smack me around again next time you see me. I have no time for it. I thought I retired, but, you know, get a text. Can you do one? I figured a monthly update would be nice. You know, there's just so much that's happening on our planet. I was like, of course. I take a hiatus. And this hundred year storm rolls in.

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[00:22:59] This is changing earth news. So last we were on, we actually did earthquake numbers for the beginning of January. And, um, so I'm going back like four weeks now. We had a 6.1 earthquake in the South Atlantic, South Atlantic Ocean by the South Sandwich Island. Last podcast we did, right?

[00:23:27] Um, 456 earthquakes. And remember, it's, I know it's been a month, but 456 is a pretty serious number for one day. So we had thousands being evacuated in Ethiopia as a dormant volcano woke up. We had the East African rift just going off in that area.

[00:23:52] Um, it has quieted down now, but they are, you know, scientists are predicting that in a million years, it will be its own island because they're so convinced that everything takes a million years. So, um, it's eyes on that area is all I'm saying. Um, that is going to be something really, really interesting. Uh, that'll probably go a long way in our lifetime, I'm thinking.

[00:24:20] Um, big story is Australia this last month. I got to get on the horn with, um, Ellen and be like, what the heck are you doing over there? Because, um, during that, four weeks ago, during that week, there was three earthquakes in New South Wales within 30 hours. 2.6 being the largest of them. So they're starting to rock and roll a little bit.

[00:24:48] And then we had this mega storm go and hit the UK. Manchester got absolutely just flooding nightmare winds were like crazy. And that's, that's just one of the many that rolled in this past month. So then we're jumping to like the ninth. I'm not going to do every day because that would just be way too tedious.

[00:25:10] But, uh, third, three weeks ago from today, um, January 9th, 513 earthquakes. In one day. I mean, 400's a lot. So we're up to five. Um, we did have a big coronal hole on the sun. That's something I didn't talk about. Um, so during January, we had a big coronal hole. When the coronal holes come, they line up with the earth.

[00:25:38] They cause earthquake activity, but we didn't have a lot of sunspots. They are starting to wake up now. Uh, we had like an N class this morning. That was a pretty good one. That's not directed at us. But as far as like solar activity goes, it was all about the coronal holes. So it does kind of make sense that we see this really big uptick in earthquake activity. But I always have my eyes on it because, you know, what's my story about?

[00:26:07] What does God tell us is coming? A great quake. So 513 earthquakes, biggest 5.8 in El Salvador. Um, there was a, during that week, there was a 7.1 in Tibet on the Tibetan Nepal border. Over 100 people killed with the earthquake activity and the landslides that happened. So that was right on the China-India border there.

[00:26:36] So you can tinfoil hat that one up, but it is right on a fault line, you know? So, uh, there was a 3.7 off the California coast by San Francisco. So we've seen that activities because, like I was saying, even before we took the break, uh, the ring of fire just going crazy. And none of the volcanoes on the west coast of the United States doing anything but the ring of fire going insane.

[00:27:05] So when would it come around and actually affect us, right? So we're starting to see some of that. UK had more massive flooding. They have just been having these giant storms come through. And Mecca in Saudi Arabia got just pummeled with flooding. The roads looked like they were, like, a river. Like, why would you park your car in that river, right?

[00:27:31] Um, so just a lot of abnormal rain for the desert. Um, Melbourne, Australia, a half a month of rain in a half hour. They called it the summer soaking. I was like, oh, that's an understatement. Um, and that's the week that the massive winter storm impacted the United States.

[00:28:01] So if you're, well, it was even cold in Texas. So pretty much wherever you were, except for the west coast, was just frigidly cold. Um, Kansas. Massive traffic issues, accidents. There was just hundreds of accidents all across the United States. Several people killed from the, um, just the traffic incidences.

[00:28:26] However, they were predicting, you know, like the huge draw on the grid was going to cause massive power outages across the United States. And I'm sure that some areas did lose power momentarily, maybe for a couple days. But I didn't hear the news about, you know, widespread outages. Like when we had the Texas snow to get in, um, four years ago. So all in all, I think we did pretty good through it.

[00:28:56] Did you ever get snow over there? Yeah, we got two, maybe three inches. Okay. Because I know, uh, Garden Girl is, uh, west of me and she got snow at her place. We never got any snow this year. It was just skipped right over. I mean, they were saying, you know, 10 inches or all this stuff, but, um, yeah. Right? I think they over-predicted it a little bit. Hmm.

[00:29:23] However, was it two weeks ago? I'm looking through it out. Um, yeah. Two weeks ago, Southern United States got absolutely destroyed. Oh, yeah. Phil. Yeah. Phil got it. Yeah. Yeah. It was snowing on the Gulf of America. Do you like that? It was snowing in the Gulf of America.

[00:29:49] And Florida got like seven inches in Florida. This is just crazy time. Um, so. I can't explain it. But I guess it happened, um, like a hundred years ago. So we're having, again, all of these things that are like, oh, the hundred year event, the thousand year event, you know, every other week. That's why I had to come back on and do the show.

[00:30:14] I was like, I gotta tell everybody what's going on here. So I picked the 16th to check earthquake numbers. Still at 491. Uh, 5.1 and Venatu was the biggest hit. And Venatu usually takes deep impact. So. Central Virginia. Three small earthquakes. Biggest was a 2.8.

[00:30:42] Uh, 5.8 hit the Philippines. So we have that earthquake that was off coast of California in week three. Week two, we have 166 aftershocks in San Francisco. I'm just hoping that it's releasing enough pressure to keep this, uh, status quo.

[00:31:04] But I'm very, um, well, I found an article talking about the Long Valley Caldera again, right below Mammoth, the super volcano that like nobody knows about. We keep trying to tell people about is there. And we just magically get those wildfires in that area. We just get a ton of earthquakes. 2,000 earthquakes in the last three years have happened around and they're increasing at the Long Valley Caldera.

[00:31:33] So, you know, I'm still got my eyes on that West Coast. It's just really, really confusing to me why we're not seeing the activity there. So either it's being released beforehand or it's building. Which I hope it's being released beforehand. I've got too many friends over there. Yeah. Right? Too many go-key. A little venting now and again instead of a big. Right. Kaboom is money. Okay.

[00:32:01] So, um, Indonesia, deadly flooding landslides occurring down there. I don't think that the people in Indonesia ever get a break from the change in earth news for me mentioned. So prayers go down to everybody who live on that island. Storm Eowyn rips off a roof in Scotland and Eowyn did some damage across Europe.

[00:32:29] Um, that was just the beginning of it. We'll get into that in our current week. I'm going to try and say this word. Cyclone. Dickel D. That's what they called it. D-I-K-E-L-E-D-I. Dickel lady. Impacts Mozambique.

[00:32:53] Um, they, the, the coast of Africa, the west coast of Africa has just been getting hit after hit after hit after hit with cyclones. And Madagascar is just always in the way. So, Madagascar has been getting really, really messed up with the cyclones. It's, um, it's kind of like the Caribbean islands take, you know, the hurricanes that are coming in at the United States.

[00:33:19] Except sometimes these cyclones, like, get stuck in between Madagascar and Africa and just bounce back and forth as they go south. So, it's been really, really bad over there. They could definitely use some prayers. Cyclone Sean was, I believe, their first cyclone to come through this year. And it impacted Australia. Two people, unfortunately, passed away in that event.

[00:33:47] Southern U.S. was impacted by the snowstorm. Western Australia. So, you get the cyclone hitting. And you have a huge dust storm also in the Polbaro region. So, they've, like I say, Australia's just been in the news a ton, too. Pecos, Texas, there was a massive dust storm there. They had a big pile-up accident because of the dust storm that rolled through. And then we're into the 23rd and the 31st. This is just last week.

[00:34:17] 532 earthquakes on the 23rd. 5.6 in the South Pacific Ocean. And the not-to was the biggest. So, it's just been rocking and rolling. I mean, when I started looking at numbers, I was like, I gotta get a show up. You know, you just don't find the stuff. And with the amount of, like, downloading that Trump's been doing, just the whirlwind that he's brought in.

[00:34:45] I mean, the media's just not talking about any of this stuff. Like, there was a big earthquake over in Nepal. Did you hear about that at all? Yeah. Right? Yeah. But, you know, way back when, we heard about the one in Turkey because there wasn't as much, like, up in the media deck. Right? So, when there's just too much going on, they just backburner all of this information that's going on. You just don't know, like, how crazy it's getting on our planet.

[00:35:11] So, there was a 3.8 earthquake off the coast of New England. The tremors were felt all the way from Boston to Maine. That's all the North American Craton moving, which is problematic because we know about the New Madrid quake and what that would mean, kind of the heartland there. And if you don't, you should look it up. There was a 5.7 earthquake that hit Taiwan.

[00:35:40] And earthquakes were just, the aftershocks were just continuous after that. Like, they didn't stop. And so, believe they have it this time, but it was really, really scary few days for them. 4.5 earthquake hit Fall City, Texas. That's West Texas. Sao Paulo, Brazil, they had two months worth of rainfall in two hours. Extreme flooding going on there.

[00:36:09] Last year in their weather cycle, they had a bunch of rain come in. Massive amounts of flooding day after day after day. They were always on the Change of Earth news. So, now they're back into it. And it's a big growing area. Big problems. Flooding in Hawaii due to a winter storm that came there. Flash flooding in Malibu, California.

[00:36:35] California, California, yes, needs the rain, but they don't need mudslides in those burn areas. That'll just delay things even worse. Western France was hit by Storm Hermonia. And Western France got just completely flooded. I mean, just rain events on a scale. We haven't, I don't know. We haven't seen, like I say, everybody's like, oh, it's 100 years, 1,000 years.

[00:37:01] Well, we are definitely in whatever that time period is. We're setting some records. In Malaysia, like I was telling you about with the cyclones. So, people's like cars, their homes are destroyed. The crocodiles came in in floodwaters. It's like floodwaters aren't bad enough. Now you got crocodiles. Yeah. That happens here in Texas.

[00:37:31] The alligators end up in weird places when it floods. So, Western Victoria in Australia, they're having some fast-moving wildfires. And Kilauea is going off. 120-foot lava in this ongoing eruption. So, really spectacular pictures coming out of Kilauea. You know, that one erupts a lot, but it's definitely doing it again.

[00:38:00] So, right now, today is February 2nd. Shit. Shit. Six hundred and fifty-five earthquakes, 2.0 today. Wait. You told me 400. Yeah. That's a big number. Yeah. 400 was a big number. Right. When I looked at it, I was just like, what? What? 655. Biggest 5.1 in Chile.

[00:38:29] And Dutch Sense was like, yeah, we're definitely expecting earthquake activity to uptick. There was like a big, deep earthquake over in Syria where they don't usually get deep quakes. So, the activity that can come off of that one is just going to be well worth watching and preparing for and being careful, especially if you're over in that area. Um, evacuations in northern Queensland as flooding conditions intensify.

[00:38:57] It's really getting very serious over there. So, um, they've already had one confirmed dead in that flooding event. So, prayers go out to everybody being impacted there in northern Queensland. I know that's not where Ellen is. So, she'll be like, oh, it's up there where all the rivers are or whatever, you know. So, um, prayers for everybody there. Okay. Our volcano numbers. You know, here we go. Drum roll, right? Volcano numbers.

[00:39:26] So, last time we did a show. Sorry, I've been really, really sick. Um, last time we did a show, 99 volcanoes erupting on planet Earth. Okay? 38 were erupting actively. That is the same today. 38 erupting actively. There was 37 showing minor activity. Today, there are 38 showing minor activity.

[00:39:52] And there's 24 showing unrest, which is the same as two weeks ago. So, you can do the math. Yeah, that is 100 volcanoes on our planet. In some kind of active state right now. Cappy Flagray is still up there. Pele is still up there. Vesuvius is not up there. But, um, just insane. I, I'm still mind blown. Because, like, mid-20s used to be like, whoa.

[00:40:22] Um, so yeah, that, that number is still pushing right now. That's why I say we gotta watch the, um, the West Coast. Earthquake overall. Because this will be fun, since we're doing, like, a monthly update. Um, earthquake in January. 17,538 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. We're gonna have to watch that number, because I just, I've never really looked at it before, because we always did the weekly show.

[00:40:52] And so, there was one seven-pointer, six six-points, 147 that were 5.0 or bigger. Um, but I was looking at February, and just for the two days, it was already at, like, 1,000. So, if you did 1,000 every day, you know, that'd be 28,000. Or if you did, like, 600 every day. Oh, now I'm getting into harder math. That's why I use a calculator. Ha ha.

[00:41:23] But I would still, we would still be on track to be a much bigger number than that January total. So, gonna be interesting, interesting little February here. Um, as far as wildfires, preparedness level one, we have four new large fires. 68,558 acres on fire. Three contained. The Palisades fire is officially contained. Um, number one state reporting is California still.

[00:41:50] They have one fire, 23,448 acres burning. And they have two fires that are contained. The, um, the what's on fire now is this hill where not a lot of people live and stuff. So, that's, that's better, better news than a whole neighborhood. Um, number two state is Virginia reporting. So, interesting that we had earthquakes and stuff there. Now we have wildfire there. Just, you know, kind of interesting.

[00:42:18] Um, one fire, 555 acres. Three is Oklahoma. Oklahoma, one fire, two, 523 acres. And then your North Carolina fire, you guys are at 120 acres. That was up on the report for today. So, um, they're probably rounding up on your news channel. 150 acres. But, yeah, when I saw the area that it was in, I was like, really? Come on.

[00:42:48] Yeah. That's like, that's like poor JB at the Washington. She never gets a break. Well, that's it. That's changing earth news. We got to stay vigilant. Like I say, there, there's so much going on right now that all of this information just kind of gets swept under the rug.

[00:43:09] If you guys have, um, topics, anything you'd like me to look into, talk about for the next show, feel free to shoot me a message on, uh, even on element. I'll go on and kind of peruse. Um, but if you want to be sure to get a hold of me, jump over to changing earth series.com. All my contact stuff. Chin's contact stuff is there. So if you want to ask him about his mess-tastic stuff or his radios, any, any of that kind of stuff, his information is also over there.

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[00:44:05] If you want them, like that price will never happen again. Pretty much. You know, 1,000 year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the 1,000 year storm. Exactly. Exactly. Uh, so, um, yeah, cause it's basically, I cost, I was like, you know, I'm good to go. Oh, they were supposed to be gone last year. That's just how my brain thinks.

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