Multiple people injured in shooting at Virginia State University
School said shooting involved ‘multiple suspects’ as campus was locked down and police responded to scene
Multiple people were injured in a shooting at Virginia State University, police said on Saturday morning, with several suspects still at large.
The campus, about 20 miles (32km) south of Richmond, was on lockdown when police released initial details about the shooting.
“A shooting occurred in the area of the Quad Annexes involving multiple victims, who were transported to area hospitals. Police are on scene and request that you avoid the area,” the VSU police department said in a statement.
VSU said the shooting involved “multiple suspects”. The university said none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening.
Local news outlet WTVR reported that five people were injured, citing local authorities. Chesterfield police told WTVR that police were called to university dormitories at 1.30am.
As of Saturday morning, there had been nearly 300 mass shootings reported across the US so far for the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
The nonpartisan resources defines mass shootings as cases in which at least four victims are wounded or killed.
The US has perennially registered high numbers of mass shootings, with a considerable portion of those occurring at school and university campuses or activities. Those numbers have prompted calls for more substantial federal gun control, though Congress over the years has not implemented such restrictions.
Hmmm...2 in the same day. Just after the major celestial events of 12 August, 6 planets alignment, solar eclipse, perseid shower, new moon and solar cme direct hit on earth...
ReplyDeleteDid not felt anything while on terra firma in Puchong.
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WOW! 😳⚠️
About 10 hours after Indonesia’s Mw 7.7 earthquake, another major earthquake struck approximately 2,800 km away!
📍 Near Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra
💥 Mw 6.9
↕️ 183 km deep
The time difference is striking:
Mw 7.7 → 9 hours 57 minutes → Mw 6.9
And the fact that the Mw 6.9 earthquake occurred at a depth of 183 km makes this event even more interesting and complex.
Here is the important part:
USGS research on dynamic triggering shows that seismic waves generated by large earthquakes can influence fault systems thousands of kilometers away, and some distant earthquakes can occur hours after the triggering event.
So a delay of around 10 hours is not physically impossible in the context of delayed dynamic triggering.
And 2,800 km is not necessarily too far for dynamic interactions involving seismic waves and transient stress changes. (USGS)
A possible mechanism could look like this:
Mw 7.7 → seismic waves → deep slab/fault system beneath Sumatra → transient stress changes → rupture in a fault already close to failure
⚠️ This does NOT mean that the Mw 7.7 definitely triggered the Mw 6.9.
To establish a connection, we need to examine the focal mechanisms, wave arrival directions, timing, and seismicity around both events.
But at this point, simply calling this “a coincidence” would be difficult to dismiss without further investigation.
And now another questions emerges:
🤔Significant seismic activity is occurring worldwide: Is this a seismic anomaly?
🌎 Could this unusual clustering be followed by an increase in M5–M6+ earthquakes globally over the coming days?
We don’t know yet.
The next few days will be very interesting to watch.
#deprem #earthquake #Gempa #IndonesiaEarthquake #GempaBumi #Endonezya #RingOfFire #GempaTerkini #sismo #Indonesia
Earth is definitely buzzing loud.
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Notable quake, preliminary info: M 5.2 - 1 km SW of Otura, Spain ow.ly/7o7F106CeC8