The New Region: "Baghdad’s Green Zone (in Iraq) has been locked down as military has been deployed with reports of raids on the residences of officials".
"Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two senior U.S. officials...The attack, which inflicted damage on the ship’s bridge but left no casualties...took place near the coast of Oman hours after the Iranian paramilitary’s navy warned ships not to use routes through the waterway that the regime hadn’t sanctioned."
BREAKING: USGS says "high casualties and extensive damage" likely after 2 earthquakes hit Venezuela.
8 million people felt "strong" to "violent" shaking and thousands may have been killed, according to the agency.
BREAKING: USGS says the Venezuela earthquake was a “doublet event," with a "magnitude 7.1 foreshock that was followed just 45 seconds later by a larger 7.5 mainshock."
From the National Tsunami Warning Center:
✅ NO tsunami, NO danger from a recent earthquake.
Duty Scientists analyzed the event
at 1816 AST / EST Jun 24:
M7.1 near the coast of Venezuela.
A Tsunami Information Statement for this event is posted at https://t.co/npoUHxWBas