When Nature Speaks: Are We Listening?

The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast provides a lighthearted escape from negative news while tracking important environmental patterns through their earthquake and weather monitoring system.

• Bruce shares updates on new audio Monster cables and a Fethead mic preamp
• Discussion of severe weather patterns including floods in China, New York, Texas, and Mexico
• Space weather report highlighting solar flares and their potential impacts on Earth
• Detailed seven-day earthquake report comparing current data (2,442 quakes) with 2019 (11,724 quakes)
• Analysis of major earthquakes including a 7.3 in Alaska, 6.2 in Panama, and 6.7 in Indonesia
• Report on volcanic activity including a recent eruption in Iceland creating a mile-long lava flow
• Explanation of the podcast's value-for-value model and ways listeners can support the show

We invite you to download our earthquake tracking spreadsheet from theuglyquackingduck.com to follow along with future reports. May the Father's blessing go with you.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck
• 2:41 Dad Jokes and Laughter
• 5:48 Audio Equipment Updates
• 15:10 Weather Report and Updates
• 21:56 Space Weather and Solar Flares
• 33:46 Seven-Day Earthquake Report
• 53:39 Closing Thoughts and Shout-outs

Transcript

Bruce: 0:06

you have arrived in the ugly quacking duck podcast. Yes, sir, that's right. The worst podcast in the known universe could be the most worst podcast in the unknown universe. Yeah Well, welcome aboard. You have arrived at the 114th episode or edition, if you want to say that, I hope you stick around, hope you enjoy it and I hope you come back again.

Sonny: 0:48

Oh boy, Welcome everybody, I'm Sonny.

Bruce: 0:54

And I'm Bruce.

Sonny: 0:56

And we are glad you're here, especially me. I'm always glad.

Bruce: 1:03

Always glad. Well, that's an interesting statement, but, but, sonny, I'm glad to have you aboard again.

Sonny: 1:08

Well thank you, Bruce. It's good to be here. I really enjoy podcasting with you. It's fun.

Bruce: 1:15

Well, I'm glad you feel that way. I think some people would say we're boring.

Sonny: 1:20

They don't know what they're talking about.

Bruce: 1:22

Well, I'm glad you said that we're not boring. We're just what.

Sonny: 1:27

I don't know about you, but I'm fun.

Bruce: 1:31

All right. Well, we're fun, but again, everybody, welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. If this is your first time around, stick around and see what we have to offer. If you've been here before, don't run off.

Sonny: 1:48

Okay, I'm waiting for the rest of it.

Bruce: 1:51

Oh, that was it. I just said don't run off.

Sonny: 1:54

Oh, my mistake, I was waiting.

Bruce: 1:58

Well, that explains this dead silence.

Sonny: 2:01

Are you going to cut that out?

Bruce: 2:04

No, I'm going to leave it in. I don't want to edit anything if I don't have to. It takes too much time and plus it makes it look like we're you know professionals.

Sonny: 2:14

We're not professional.

Bruce: 2:16

Well, I don't know. I think professional is when you get paid to do it and we're doing it for the fun of it and the hobby, and every now and then somebody will you know support us.

Sonny: 2:28

All right then. So anyhow, hey, let me tell a joke before you start the serious stuff, okay?

Bruce: 2:40

A joke? Huh yeah, let's do that.

Sonny: 2:45

Wow, that was my intro.

Bruce: 2:48

Yep, I thought that would help you get right in there and tell a good joke. You got a good joke, right.

Sonny: 2:55

Well, actually I think I'll tell two.

Bruce: 2:59

Oh, you're pushing your luck now.

Sonny: 3:02

I know, all right, ready, sure, all right.

Bruce: 3:04

Ready, sure All right.

Sonny: 3:07

When does a joke that's a joke now become a dad joke?

Bruce: 3:15

Uh, when does a joke become a dad joke? Uh, when that dad tells it.

Sonny: 3:22

Oh, when their punchline becomes apparent.

Bruce: 3:31

Okay, when the punchline becomes apparent. That's what it sounds like when it goes over my head.

Sonny: 3:39

All right, how about this one Ready? I put my old car in reverse and I thought, wow this really takes me back.

Bruce: 3:59

It takes one to get you in the mood and two to really get you. You like. Oh my gosh, I can't believe that one's funny. It really wasn't. How about another one?

Sonny: 4:09

All right, one more. What do you call a cold puppy?

Bruce: 4:17

Uh, I don't know, a cold puppy.

Sonny: 4:20

No, silly it's a chilly dog.

Bruce: 4:24

No silly it's a chili dog man, a chili dog, a dad joke and wait, a reverse joke. Wow, have we stepped into a low, low moment.

Sonny: 4:43

No, we stepped back into a dad joke.

Bruce: 4:48

Yay, all right, I bet all of them was because I'm a dad, right.

Sonny: 4:56

No, it was because you might be boring if we don't do a dad joke.

Bruce: 4:59

Oh my gosh, Okay, wow, all right, folks forgive us for being dudley slow on the intake of jokes. We'll have to come up with some better ones next week, but that's a good start to get talking about jokes, because there's so much bad in the world anymore. It's not even funny how the world's got uh crazy, the weathers went crazy, and uh, if you don't know the father in person, you may go crazy too. So on with the show.

Sonny: 5:40

The show hey Bruce, I seen you online ordering some stuff. What did you get?

Bruce: 5:50

Well, actually I didn't get anything yet.

Sonny: 5:57

It hasn't come in, but you're being nosy again. You're looking over my shoulder. Yeah, you don't share anything, so I have to look.

Bruce: 6:05

Well, I ordered I got on our website sweet water um, they're the ones that I order electronics from and I ordered a couple more cables mic cables because they seem to be breaking on me here lately. I've lost what three now and I hardly ever move them. I mean, I move them a little bit. When I move the mic boom down, they just quit or they start shorting out. They do weird stuff.

Bruce: 6:38

I don't know, I really don't know, people take them on stage and they throw them around and they pull on them and they last for a long time. I get them, run them on my podcast and after a year some of them last me, uh, about three years, but there's a couple that didn't last over a year, they just quit. So I got and ordered some new Monster cables. I'll put them in service when I get them and you won't notice any difference, but it'll make me feel better because I got new cables on everything. And then I went ahead and ordered a new Fethead.

Bruce: 7:25

It's a little amplifier stick that you put in behind your mic and, uh, I, I've got one. I'm running on this microphone right here and the one that is being used by sunny. I just run the preamp up higher, um, which you know makes it sound good. It doesn't take much on that thing. I think I'm running at about 30 on that setting. But a lot of times if you run the little amplifier like the fathead, it goes right in behind the microphone and you just turn the phantom power on and it will increase your audio and you don't have to, you know, turn up your preamp high and higher, which sometimes will kill some of the extra static and noise which I'm not seeing, any of that on this setup, but I thought I'd go ahead and do that, you know, just a little bit of improvement. Like I said, you guys probably won't out there, see any or not see. Wait a minute. See, yeah, you probably won't hear any difference, but in my mind there'll be a huge difference in your mind there's a huge vacuum.

Bruce: 8:48

Everything will make a difference oh, I see how it's going to be today uh, same as every day well, that could be true.

Bruce: 9:03

Yeah, very well could be true. But anyway, I thought I'd go ahead and do that. I had a little extra money out of the bank and my check, so I thought, well, let's get some extra equipment, because the next time I lose a cord I'm not going to have enough to go around. I'm going to be short because I've used up all my excess. I had it set up where I could have, let's see, used up all my excess. I had it set up where I could have, let's see, about six or seven mics hooked up at once. Now I'm down to running three at once. So if I ever have to hook up that fourth one or hook up my mixing board so I can hook up four more, it's not going to be possible.

Sonny: 9:50

So that's the reason I went ahead and ordered those. All right, you're planning ahead?

Bruce: 9:55

Good boy, good boy, yeah, good boy.

Sonny: 10:03

Wow, I feel like a little puppy dog. Well, you're feeding me that kind of baloney all the time. Whatever I say doesn't mean what you think. It just means you're doing good.

Bruce: 10:17

All right, lecture given, lecture taken. Okay, now that we've bored everybody to death about the equipment I ordered, I hope everybody's having a good week. We wasn't in here last week. I actually had two days off last weekend and I did a lot of mowing and trying to get stuff cleaned up around here and I still didn't get anything done. Got my ditch mowed though Yay Got in.

Bruce: 10:44

After that day of being hot I'd go out, mow a little bit, come in and cool off, go back out and mow and I was wore out and I really didn't feel like sitting down and kind of putting all the podcast together. So I I just said we'll leave it off. I'm off on thursday. By way, this is the 17th of July, it is a Thursday.

Bruce: 11:08

I had a doctor's appointment, so I had the day off and I figured when I got back I would do a podcast, yeah, and we would try to make up for not being here last weekend and that would give us a little bit of a break this weekend to do more stuff if I get a day off. I don't think I get a day off this weekend, I don't know, I'll have to look at that, but anyhow we'll. We'll get back on schedule and get you a podcast, hopefully every tuesday, like we were doing um, but just want will go out today. I'm not going to hold it, I'm going to send it, post it as soon as I get it done, I'm going to upload it and we'll go from there. How's that?

Sonny: 11:57

I'm confused when you say you're not going to hold it.

Bruce: 12:03

Yeah, I usually post it on my hosting page and then I also put it on my or our web page and I send out to subscribers a notice that it's there so they can come and listen to it early, and then that's usually on a Friday or Saturday, and then it's usually Tuesday, sometimes Sunday, and then Tuesday I release it on my hosting page, so there's a little bit of a heads-up quicker if you're subscribed. But this one I'm not going to do that. I'm very limited on time off, so I'm just going to get it, edit it as much as I need to and then post it, get it uploaded for you guys. How's that sound now? Do you understand, sonny?

Sonny: 12:57

Uh, I understand.

Bruce: 13:00

Oh, copycat.

Sonny: 13:02

I am not a cat, but I can do that. Next morph.

Bruce: 13:07

I'm still waiting on you to morph again. I kind of liked you being a duck, because that went along with the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast thing the theme you know and then you morphed into a frog. Why, why a frog?

Sonny: 13:27

It was raining.

Bruce: 13:28

Was it? Was it raining that day?

Sonny: 13:31

Yes, it was.

Bruce: 13:34

So you morphed into a frog because it was raining. Are you going to morph again?

Sonny: 13:43

I am Maybe Sometime, somehow.

Bruce: 13:50

Well, that wasn't a very good answer. Are you going to tell us what you're going to morph into, or do you have an idea?

Sonny: 13:59

Um, no, maybe, and who knows?

Bruce: 14:10

Okay, so no answers for us or the listeners.

Sonny: 14:13

Is that what you're telling us? Our friends have to wait. There you go. You have to wait.

Bruce: 14:16

Just wait and see you know I'd like to have a video of the last time, because that was a surprise. Who was it? Lily was here. She caught it with me and that was pretty cool, to be honest.

Sonny: 14:32

Well, if it had a video, I probably wouldn't have morphed, would I?

Bruce: 14:39

Oh, I see how it is. Okay. Well, there we go. We'll be waiting for the next time. Hopefully you'll be telling us what you're going to be instead of just shocking us.

Sonny: 14:54

Not really. Hey, what's going on with the weather? It's awful dark outside and it's only 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Bruce: 15:05

Yeah, there was a big, big dark black cloud that come rumbling over earlier. I was hurrying trying to beat it home from the doctor's appointment before it hit and it hit and it rained really hard, great big raindrops for about 15 minutes and then it quit. Uh, I don't think it's sprinkling or anything right now. I guess I go raise up my blind so I could see. Hang on, let me go do. Okay, it doesn't look like it's sprinkling or raining either one, but it sure is. Dark Cloud cover has blocked the sunlight. We are unable to see any UV because we can't see UV, but it looks like it's dusk. It looks like about 7.30 at night, maybe 8 o'clock at night, and it's only 3, well, it's 344. Right now, here in Southern Illinois we are transmitting, or actually recording our show in our Midwest studio.

Sonny: 16:23

Studio yes, sir, we are live, not really we're recorded.

Bruce: 16:31

Yep, we are recorded. If you're hearing this, we have been recorded. Yeah, it's a. What was that commercial? Oh, it was a recording for a or a commercial for recording tapes I think Maxell tapes, maybe Is it no Memorex. There it goes. Are you, is it live or is it Memorex? Yeah, that was a good commercial. Sure, it goes. Is it live or is it Memorex? Yeah, that was a good commercial.

Sonny: 17:06

Sure it was, I believe it. Ha not. So anyway, it's been storming. Is that what you're saying, Bruce?

Bruce: 17:16

Yep, it's been leaning that way according to the weather, off and on for the whole week, but been leaning that way according to the weather, off and on for the whole week. We've got very little moisture out of that storm, except for today. Today it actually come to a storm Now. I think was it last night or the night before it rained some. I don't think there was a big bad storm. I know my lawnmower cover blew off, so there must have been some wind sometime, but they're predicting it's supposed to continue this through the evening. So, yay, we're having some weather, not good weather.

Bruce: 18:00

Speaking of weather, it's been kind of crazy around the world. There's been flash flooding. I understand China got some floods, new York, new Jersey had some floods and everybody remember Texas. Last time I did an episode, they were having floods and we had to or we didn't have to, but we asked for a prayer for everybody and I still believe that's what we should be doing, because there's been quite a bit of earthquakes, storms across this country and across the rest of the world. We need to remember to pray for anybody that's affected. Pray for a little bit of a calming effect, believe positively and I think it will change things. They're trying to get everybody stirred up and worried and sick, and that will cause a lot of these catastrophes.

Bruce: 19:03

But yeah, there's been a lot of floods. Mexico had some, texas had some California if I'm forgetting anybody, any state, I'm sorry. There's been an earthquake in Alaska, 7.3. We'll get more into the earthquakes in a little while. Volcanic eruption I think it was Iceland. I'll have to look that up before I finish the podcast. The weather's been bad, though While we're talking about local weather, let's talk about our comparison here in southern Illinois to where Sonny Phoenix Arizona.

Bruce: 19:48

That's right, that's a good one. We like to compare our local weather with Phoenix Arizona because there's a slight difference. And so we're at 90% humidity today, and that's because it's been raining and our wind is six miles an hour and our air quality is 55, which is kind of moderate, and phoenix arizona right now, oh, by the way, it's 77 degrees. Phoenix arizona right now is 100 degrees and fair. That means they probably have a few clouds 27% humidity, 8 mile an hour winds. Air quality is 35. That's it. They're having some weather.

Bruce: 20:39

Don't know if you like that kind of weather or not. The radar here shows a lot of more clouds coming through that looks like they're going to dissipate this evening and, uh, most of the storms are going to go south of our location, which is, uh, outside of mount vernon, illinois, and they're going to go southeast, south of Evansville, into Kentucky. So, if that holds true, we may not have much rain this afternoon and this evening. Don't know, we'll just have to wait and see, right? Yeah, and this is really weird, but I always look up the moon rise and the moon set on this weather app that I use and it does not have a moon rise listed. It's got two dots. The moon set is at 103 pm, so I think we just already had that cloudy, but we can't tell. So I think we just already had that Cloudy, but we can't tell. Kind of weird, but we're in the last quarter of the moon, if anybody cares.

Sonny: 21:49

Weird. That's kind of weird, Bruce. Why don't they?

Bruce: 21:55

have the moonrise. I'm not sure. I've not seen that before, even if the moonrise is past, they always have it, and I looked on my phone and it's the same way. So I'm not sure. I don't know if it's a glitch in the matrix or something I'm overlooking, but anyhow, while we're talking about the weather, let's go to space weather and check out the solar flares, for today Looks like we've had a C2 and a C5, is not very bad. Could be a whole lot worse. Uh, so so far we've got a sunspot number of 182, which was updated today, and we have zero days of spotless sunspotless days. In other words, each day that we've had so far has had some kind of sunspot.

Sonny: 22:52

And tell us why that's important, Bruce, because you haven't in a long time.

Bruce: 22:59

Well, I think you're right there, sonny, I probably should a long time. Well, I think you're right there, sonny, I probably should. Sunspot activity is kind of important because the more there is and the larger there is the plasma and the electronic not electronic, but the magnetic waves hit the Earth, especially if they're heading this way. If they shear off and go somewhere else, it's not that big a deal. But if they're headed this way and they react with our atmosphere, especially our magnetic field, it will cause a lot of aurora borealis. It will cause our magnetic waves to change Sorry about that, excuse me, had to burp it will charge up the shielding and it will cause radials not to work properly and all kinds of weird things.

Bruce: 23:55

And a lot of the radio operators like to watch that solar flux and it will kind of anticipate what the radio waves are going to be doing in the next few days. But anyhow, if we get large ones we'll have a lot of effects from that. If there are smaller ones, probably not so much. But it's neat to keep an eye on and I try to do that. I haven't reported on it as much as I should and I apologize for that. But again, c5 is not too bad, not too great, but it's all right. If they get up into the Xs, then we need to worry.

Sonny: 24:40

Hey Bruce, you mentioned a volcano erupting. Tell me more.

Bruce: 24:47

All right. Yeah, the volcano over there in Iceland actually erupted and sent a long line of lava out. They actually showed a picture on it if you go look up Google, but it was actually kind of pretty in a destructive way. But Iceland had a volcanic eruption that spewed wall of lava. I think it was mile long or something to that effect pretty awesome effect. But that happened July 17th, which is today.

Sonny: 25:27

Do that again.

Bruce: 25:30

Today.

Sonny: 25:33

Well, you got that mic set pretty good, that sounded good.

Bruce: 25:38

Well, I'm glad I can impress you. You're not easily impressed.

Sonny: 25:43

Oh don't I know it. Oh don't I know it.

Bruce: 25:46

Oh, don't, I know it. Yeah, anyhow, there's been a lot of volcanic activity. They're talking about some earthquakes happening to the volcano out there in the ocean by california. There are minor earthquakes and they're kind of concerned that that may cause that one to erupt. And then the one uh, mount rainer I think's what it is actually had several earthquakes around it. Now these are small ones, like 2.0s and stuff, but there's some speculation that that may, if that continues, that may cause an eruption. Everybody's speculating. Nobody knows. That's not in our hands, or maybe it is. Maybe there's people that have the power to do stuff like that and they're just not telling us. But anyhow, that's what's going on around the world. Are you going to tell?

Sonny: 26:43

us about the earthquakes and they're just not telling us. But anyhow, that's what's going on around the world.

Bruce: 26:50

Are you going to tell us about the earthquakes? I figured I would, but I'm going to try to shorten it down so it's not as long If you've not been here. For our other reports we do a seven-day earthquake report where we take the earthquakes and back it up seven days. Wow, I don't know if anybody heard that, but there was a lightning strike and that is thunder and it just continues rumbling. Pretty cool when it storms like that. I've always wanted to get my condenser microphone out and it picks up really well 90 degrees on one side, 90 on on the other, and it's great for recording outside stuff or no noises like that, and I've always wanted to get that thing out and record. But you know, time I did that, the the thunderstorm would probably pass, wouldn't catch any of it Anyhow. Where was I, sonny? Uh, you was in the studio sitting in your chair talking on your mic.

Sonny: 28:14

Uh boy, I'm sure you took that literally, didn't you?

Bruce: 28:20

Well, yeah, okay.

Sonny: 28:25

I was just wondering where I was in the conversation.

Bruce: 28:33

Oh Well, that would mean I would have had to pay attention, and I don't.

Sonny: 28:38

Wow, that was a slam. You don't. No, why should I?

Bruce: 28:42

You did all the talking. Oh wow, I'm hurt.

Sonny: 28:47

No, you're not. Quit lying to people.

Bruce: 28:51

All right. No, I'm not Sorry folks, but it sounded good.

Sonny: 28:56

Yeah, you're trying to get me in trouble, get everybody to hate me.

Bruce: 29:01

Well, hate's a strong word. I was just wanting you to get in trouble. Trouble get everybody to hate me. Well, hate's a strong word. I was just wanting you to get in trouble a little bit and who's gonna get me in trouble?

Bruce: 29:09

come on, bruce, wake up all, right now that we've spent the next, there's the last five minutes talking about where I was in the conversation. I definitely don't remember now and I know you don't remember, so, uh, let's just go back to the earthquake report. Anyhow, if you've not been with us before, that's what we do we go back seven days, give the numbers and I actually have put together a little reporting sheet where you can write all that down and, uh, you can do that. You can go to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. No, forgive me, theuglyquackingduckcom.

Bruce: 29:50

Go to that webpage, go to the support page, which you can find, the menu on the left side or up the top of the homepage. Where you're on the homepage, go down, scroll down to the bottom of it, type in your email, hit subscribe and follow along when you get emails, which we don't do it a whole lot right now because we're working a lot, but anyway, that's what that's for and you'll get updates to our podcast when it comes out. But if you've got a podcast 2.0 player, hey, it will alert you, you'll be able to play it, you'll be able to follow along with chapters. You can text us on that 2.0 player. You can also boost us and support us. But anyhow, if you go up there to the top, click on Support our podcast page, click on it, go down towards the bottom that you can print out that spreadsheet. Uh, you can download it and print it out again later, however you want to do it, but that's where we're at. That's what that is talking about. There.

Bruce: 31:03

On other podcasts or the other episodes, I should say it looks like there's some more storms coming through. Right now I'm hearing more thunder as we speak. I'm not sure the mic's picking it up, because I've got a pretty good shielding around it. We do pick up cars going by and close booms, but I don't think you'll hear a lot of it because a lot of it's farther away. I want to pause for a minute. You won't notice the break. I'm gonna run get me some tea to sip on while I continue talking.

Sonny: 31:40

So what kind of tea are you cooking there, Bruce?

Bruce: 31:49

Well, I am cooking as you say it. I'm actually listening for the water tea kettle to start whistling. I still like warming up my water that way on the stove, pouring it over my tea bags. But to answer your question, I mix two different tea bags. I have a ginger and turmeric tea bag and then a dandelion root tea bag. I put them both in the tea cup and pour hot water boiling hot water over them and let them simmer there for a few minutes and then I pick them up and squeeze them and add a little bit of honey and it's a really good drink. It really is.

Sonny: 32:33

Okay, I'll take your word for it. I'm not sure that would be the tea I would drink.

Bruce: 32:40

I can see that Probably wouldn't be. You hear that thunder?

Sonny: 32:44

Yeah, I would drink. I can see that Probably wouldn't be. You hear that, thunder? Yeah, I heard that it sounds like it's coming down.

Bruce: 32:51

Yep, we got another hard rain hitting right now. Sounds like we're going to have some rain this afternoon. This is probably the last of that cloud front I've seen on the radar.

Sonny: 33:06

Could be, or the radar could be wrong.

Bruce: 33:11

Could be. I have now got my tea and I'm trying to sip on it. It's pretty hot, but we're here.

Sonny: 33:22

I think it's about time I was starting to snore.

Bruce: 33:27

Well, it's a good thing I paused the recording, or our listeners would have heard you snoring.

Sonny: 33:34

Yeah, probably would have.

Bruce: 33:37

Well, they, they didn't, and I'm glad.

Sonny: 33:41

All right, let's have the report.

Bruce: 33:46

All right, here we go. If you don't have the paper printed out, you can always pause it, go back and print it and then come back. That's the nice thing about having a recording. You can do all that kind of stuff. Let me hit the air conditioner button. I forgot to turn it off and it was making quite a bit of static.

Bruce: 34:06

But we're going to start off with the first year, which is 7-17-25. Today, this year, we're going back seven days to get the full report. So the first thing we will record is is the date. So put that up there. Move over to the right column. It says all magnitudes. Today, going back seven days, there was 2,442, 2, 4, 4, 2. And what I do to get the percentage is I created a 100% mark, which is 10,000 earthquakes, which, um, so most of the earthquakes don't reach that number, weekly I mean, but there has been a few times it reached it and went over. So we're going to get an over 100% sometimes, which this happened this week. What 7-19,? Yeah, 2019. So that's how we come up with that number. I just created a 100% mark to call it that, so we'd know, because I don't know what other thing to use. But anyway, so we figure 2,442 into 10,000, that's our mark to get a percentage and it comes out to 24.4%, of course, and then the rest of the percentages we take into that all number, because each one of those numbers I'm going to give you come out of that all number.

Bruce: 35:52

So right now there's 242 all magnitudes. That means it encapsulates the 4.5, the 2.5s and over is a number of 310. So write that down for the 2.5, 310. And that percentage of the 2442 is 12.7. Now I'm not sure these percentages are going to show us anything. 24.42 is 12.7. Now, I'm not sure these percentages are going to show us anything. It's just going to give us more numbers to track.

Bruce: 36:45

But what I have seen in the past is many times one week will have lower amount of all magnitudes but the higher amount of 4.5 and above magnitudes. So if we're having a lot of smaller earthquakes which shows up in the all magnitude, then the 4.5 number is lower. Usually it don't always add up that way. But if there's less all magnitudes, which means 2.5 and smaller, and smaller than 4.5, is less than the higher magnitude magnitude earthquakes, 4.5 and above or more and vice versa. And that's what I've seen so far, not every week, but very many weeks are that way, which is kind of a weird pattern. Let me write this down 24, 42 for all magnitudes, 310 for 25, and then the 4.5 magnitude comes up to 119. And did I give you the percentage for the 310? That would be 12.7. 12.7 is what the 310 count is of the 2442, 12.7 percent, and then the one 4.5 percent or 4.5 and over magnitudes come up to 119, which gives us a 4.9 percent of that number. So what I'm hoping is our percentages eventually will show that pattern better.

Bruce: 38:41

All right, then the 6.0, I break them out into where they're at. We only had three, but we like to write down where they're at, just kind of to show you guys the main areas that's getting hit, because it's almost the same every year, every week, because there's just certain fault lines that get hit all the time. Now there's some that hasn't been hit majorly in quite a long time, majorly in quite a long time. So we go to the 6.0s. The first one everybody knows because I've already told everybody about it, but there's a 7.3 in Alaska. It was actually south or south-southwest, something like that uh, about 58 miles of sandpoint alaska, so that that was pretty close and they was given tsunami warnings. I think it um eventually rolled out. We didn't get a someone, so not tsunami. Forgive me for not being able to talk Wow.

Sonny: 40:01

You're scary, get a drink of tea.

Bruce: 40:05

I don't know what that has to do with me being scary, but I will do that. I'll get a drink of tea. Hang on just one minute. Ow, that's hot. I guess that's what happens when you use boiling water to make your tea. All right, back to the story, and we're sticking to it.

Bruce: 40:29

7.3 location was Alaska, and then the next one was a 6.2, and it was in Panama. And then the next one was a 6.7, and it was in Indonesia, which all these are on fault lines and you see them quite often. Panama has not been a really active one that we have seen. There's a lot of smaller ones, but not a 6.2. That's kind of very active. Anyway, then the percentage. We figure that percentage of the 6.0 and over earthquakes from the 4.5 total, because that's where them numbers come from. So the 4.5 was 119. So we had three 6.0 earthquakes, so that percentage turned out to be a 2.5. 2.5%. There we go. So write that down next to the percent sign on that column and then go down to the next one.

Bruce: 41:43

We're looking at the year 2019. I backed up to that which, if I remember correct, that's six years now. I picked 2019 just out of the blue, Not sure why I picked that year and I started going through it and I realized that numbers on that all magnitude was sky high and I seen that there was a lot of sixes and seven earthquakes, which really blew me away because originally I would think that there was lesser amount of earthquakes in the past. Now we know there's been major earthquakes in the past. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying the total numbers. But lo and behold, 2019 seems to be a bigger amount. Then I went back a few more years 10, I think 15 years and they didn't really add up to anything. There's more like what we're having now, with less six and over earthquakes. So then I looked at 2018, and that number is a little bit high too, especially the overall earthquakes. So I got to thinking maybe the just like when we figure a seven week and then the next or I mean the seven days, then the next week the seven day numbers are a little bit lower or higher. Maybe that's going on on that year too. Maybe 2018 was kind of high, but 2019, the total six and old numbers was higher and as I give these reports out over the year, we'll see if that comes up. That's another reason I'm using or figuring the percentages, see if that would show it. And I'm keeping track on another table that I've created and if it works out, I'll be able to put that on the webpage too, so you can see that.

Bruce: 43:50

Anyhow, 2019, the total all-magnitude earthquakes. Let's write that down. 7-17-2019, all-magnitude earthquakes. Was you ready for this? 11,724. That's right. 11,724 all-magnitudes that's a big amount. 724, all magnitudes that's a big amount. And then that percentage. If you figure it at 10,000, that percentage is going to be over 100%. So let's figure that. So it goes at 117.2%. And then 2.5 and above earthquakes was 861, and that figures into 11,000, so you come up to a 7.3%. And then the 4.5 number was 208, and it was a 1.8 percent. So I'm not sure this percentage is going to work out for us as far as what we're seeing. But, um, if the percentage of um all magnitudes was lower than we're seeing, a higher, 2.5 and a 4.5 maybe, and then we'll just have to see if that works out, because that seems to be the way it's going so far.

Bruce: 45:28

And then the 6.0 and above earthquakes there was five of them, and the first one was a 6.3, and it was in Papua New Guinea. I'm writing this down as I'm saying it, so pardon me pausing for a minute. The next one was a 7.2. Now I just go down the list. Sometimes if I catch them, I'll write them in power order. So the sixes, sevens. But if I'm unable to do that, I just write them down as they appear on the list, and they usually appear by date, not by size. The next one was a 7.2 and it was in Indonesia. And the next one was a 7.2 and it was in indonesia. And the next one was a 6.6 and it was in australia, which's a very common one to see. And then we had another one in Papua New Guinea. It was a 6.0. That was probably an aftershock in Papua New Guinea. Aftershock in Papua New Guinea. Alright, we're going to take that 5 into the 208, 4.5 magnitude total and we're going to come up with a 2.4 percentage, 2.4.

Bruce: 47:13

And I'm not sure how this is going to work out in the long run. I just start doing this. I've been doing my seven day report for the like the last three years, on and off, but I just started doing the backward account and the percentages the last couple reports, so we'll see how that turns out. All right, we've got one more year to go back and look at, and that's 2018. So write it down 7-17-2018. And we're going back seven days from that date.

Bruce: 47:50

All magnitudes, are you ready for it? 7,756. All magnitudes, are you ready for it? 7,756. 7,756, which gives a percentage of 77.6. Now you see why I chose the 10,000 earthquake total to start from, because it made it easier to figure that percentage. And then the 2.5 count is ready for it? 1,908. 1908, which gave us a percentage of 24.6. Which gave us a percentage of 24.6. And then the 4.5 and over was 204. So it was very close to the 2019 count, which was 208. But the oil magnitude went down. So you know what that means. That percentage will be higher. It's a 2.6 instead of a 1.8.

Bruce: 49:01

Now we had four, four 6.0s and above.

Bruce: 49:06

So the first one was a 6.0. And it was in the Solomon Islands. I hope I'm coming across the mic all right, because I've got my head turned sideways, because I'm reading this paperwork and writing on the report at the same time and it's kind of hard to get it all situated. Let me see if I can move that keyboard. That would help, probably. Okay, maybe I can get it situated.

Bruce: 49:40

So's mike's on the side of my mouth, which might help a little bit, I can keep it the same tone. And then the next one is a 6.0 and it was in yam yamen yamen, yamen y e-n, and I was able to pronounce that until just now. Yeh-men, there we go. The next one was a 6.0, again in Yeh-men, and that's not a mistake. They had two earthquakes, one after the other, both of them being a 6.0. And then the next one was a 6.4. And I'm not sure if it's Vanuata is the right pronunciation, but it's V-A-N-U-A-T-A and it was a 6.4.

Bruce: 50:35

Let me write that down. So taking this report and writing it down will give you an idea of what I'm talking about. Otherwise it's just a bunch of numbers, but if you can see it for yourself it may start looking like a pattern. But we had four major earthquakes, which I call anything over six major because they could be very catastrophic life and physical damage to property. They all could be bad. But the sixes and over is really bad. But anyway, that percentage comes to 2.0. So we gota 2.0 percentage.

Bruce: 51:21

Now the 30 day column once again. I only do that once a month, so at the end of this month we will do it again. We'll just give the total of all magnitudes, just to give us a look at what the month entailed for the last three years, this year and the years prior to that. So there you go. There's a seven-day report.

Bruce: 51:47

If you've been with me before, you've kind of been familiar with that. It's a lot of numbers, a lot of percentages, kind of boring. If you're not into it, and I apologize if you're with that. It's a lot of numbers, a lot of percentages, kind of boring. If you're not into it, and I apologize if you're not, we have chapter markers. If you're listening to it on a podcast player 2.0, you can just hit the chapters and go on through all this stuff. If you don't have one, then you're just going to have to fast forward till you get to the goodbye scene. But that's it. As you noticed, um, we did have a higher amount of all magnitudes in 2018 19 and we did have a really high um 861 at 2.5, which is a lot of 2.5 and below earthquakes, then at 4.5 level, they wouldn't know.

Bruce: 52:58

It was just a little bit over our normal, which for this year's around 100, 200, mainly 150, stuff like that. But the percentage stayed lower because our all magnitude number was higher. So I'm not sure how to rate this, to figure it, but five 6.0 earthquakes and above, and once again we had a seven, really makes it look different. But there you go. Thank you for tuning in. Really makes it look different, but there you go.

Sonny: 53:39

Thank you for tuning in. I know what that means. You're shifting gears.

Bruce: 53:43

Yep, we want to shift gears. We want to give a shout-out to a couple of people that come down to the store when was that? Yesterday I believe, and they were from Corporate two young ladies and I gave them my sticker for the podcast and they probably won't listen to it, but if you do and you pick this one, I'm giving you a shout-out. It was a joy to be able to meet you and see one of them again. It had been a while. I'm not going to mention names because I didn't get their permission to do so, but hello, you know who I'm talking about. Uh, thanks for coming into the store and saying hi to me and being friendly. I enjoyed it and thanks for letting me give you a sticker and a little bit more of a shout-out there for a minute before we say goodbye.

Bruce: 54:43

Our downloads not a big amount of downloads. In the past, I mean, we went an average, I think, 10 or 12 a week, which is not a real big number, but here lately we've been averaging between 60 and 80 downloads a week. So I want to do a shout out to all those people that have come aboard. That's downloading and reviewing our podcast. I thank you, family, friends and listeners. I really appreciate it. It's nice to know there's people out there. Again, we do value for value, which means most pretty well, all the time I'm hoping forever our stuff is going to be on the free part and the way we're going to get support is, first of all, for listeners to come back. That's the main thing. Come back. We appreciate that, and if you tell one person about one of our podcasts and maybe they'll listen to it, then we're going to gain. Tell five and we may gain quite a bit, but the idea is to share us with your loved ones, your friends. But come back. That's the main thing. That's how you show support. If you want to text us, if you got a five point or a 2.0 podcast player, you can uh click on the where it gives the details about us. There's a place where it says text us and we'll give you a shout-out. That's exactly what it means. You click on that link and it'll pull up a page where you can text us and we will read it on the next episode. That's what that's for guys. Show us your support. Tell us you're there. Ask us your support. Tell us you're there. Ask us a question.

Bruce: 56:38

You can also go to the uglyquackingduckcom webpage. Look us up, look at some of the posts we've done. We don't do a lot. We do an early episode post every time we do an episode and then we have a little bit about that episode, but it updates every time we do a new one, so you won't get to see the old ones after the next one comes out. But we have a support page. You can go there.

Bruce: 57:10

If you feel like supporting us financially, click on one of the links. There's different ways you can support us. Paypal we have a couple links for different, like the Cash app Buy Me a Coffee or you can do kind of like a boost. We have a Bitcoin link there where you can pay in Sochi Sassi I forgot the word now, but it's set at 222, the ugly quacking duck Row of ducks is what that is. I just thought it was fitting to set it at that so you could pay us in a row of ducks. But any of that is very nice. But the main thing again we want you to do is come back, tell us if you enjoyed the show, if you'd like to have more of something or less of something. Did you hear that? Sunny, less of sunny?

Sonny: 58:12

hey, now I want to be here too. You know that.

Bruce: 58:16

I do, I do and I like you being here. We'll have to get Lily back too. She's going to spend her whole summer vacation and we're only going to get her on here a couple times.

Sonny: 58:28

Yep, well, she is growing up.

Bruce: 58:32

Yeah, that's what happens. They get older and they have different things that get their attention, and there's nothing wrong with that. I enjoy it, I'm glad for her and I'm glad we had her when she was younger.

Sonny: 58:49

Yeah, she did a good job, man. You showed her the ropes and she took off. She was a natural.

Bruce: 58:58

Yes, I think she was With. That, though, we're going to bid you guys a farewell. It's been great. I've enjoyed the day. I always enjoy doing the podcast, and if I don't enjoy it, I just stop and save it for next week, because I don't want to give negative vibes. I mean, we're here for the fun of it, for the hobby of it. We're also here, hopefully, to give our listeners something other than the the bad news and the wartime news and the political news to listen to, because I could spend many, many, many, many hours talking about all that stuff, just like everybody else does. That's not what we want to do. We want to give you something else to think about, listen to, maybe even laugh, if you like, our dumb jokes. Anyhow, we want to wish everybody a good day. The rest of the week. I hope you have a good weekend and next week I hope it's a blessing for you. Stay tuned for the next episode when it comes rolling around. Thanks for being with us on the podcast. This is bruce.

Bruce: 1:00:07

This is sunny and we want to say may the Father's blessing go with you, and we're going to bid you farewell. Are you ready, sonny?

Sonny: 1:00:18

I am ready, we're going to do it together.

Bruce: 1:00:22

Well, of course, let's go Bye.