This genuine crop circle has been modified by the makers a day after it was first laid, for emphasis. This is a timeline image, as most linear images are. Clearly, in the center, something almost violent has occurred, a sense of a vertical flip. Starting from the left, the two circle-within-a-circle orbs show an attempt to escape, caught in the larger circle, pressed to the side. The progression shown by the addition to this design emphases that attempting to escape by changing position, the flip, will not work for long. This crop circle relates to the planets caught in the cup - Venus, Earth, and the Dark Twin. Venus will seem to be out of place and then loom close to the Earth. The Dark Twin, which normally follows the Earth in their shared orbit, is currently outside their shared orbit, further out in space. It may even move ahead of the Earth, temporarily, before being squeezed out of the cup to escape. Zeta Talk
PANSTARRS Is Here, Comet Is At Its Closest Distance To The Earth Today, Will Continue Brightening
Comet Pan-STARRS made its closest approach to the Earth today, coming as close as 100 million miles from us. Which is pretty close for an object which has spent the last 100,000 or so years way out towards the edges of the solar system, far past Pluto. Panstarrs will make its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on March 10th. It will continue brightening for the next week or so, peaking for those in the Northern Hemisphere around March 12th. Read more
SOLAR ACTIVITY INCREASES: March 5th - Both sides of the sun are active today. On the farside, an explosion commencing around 0400 UT hurled a massive CME into space. On the Earthside, sunspot AR1686 unleashed an M1-class solar flare at 0754 UT
NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover a Surprise Circling Earth
March 4, 2013 - Scientist asked that the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT) be turned on early - just three days after launch - in order that its observations would overlap with another mission called SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer), that was soon going to de-orbit and re-enter Earth's atmosphere.Shortly before REPT turned on, solar activity on the sun had sent energy toward Earth that caused the radiation belts to swell.
The REPT instrument worked well from the moment it was turned on Sep. 1. It made observations of these new particles trapped in the belts, recording their high energies, and the belts' increased size. Then something happened no one had ever seen before: the particles settled into a new configuration, showing an extra, third belt extending out into space. Within mere days of launch, the Van Allen Probes showed scientists something that would require rewriting textbooks. Read Article
On Feb. 13, 2013, a 5.1 mag. earthquake struck at the California-Nevada Border Region at a depth of 12.4 km. It has been followed by many, all shallow, earthquakes in the 2.5 - 4.0 mag. range. The epicenter area has NO volcanic past but influencing the seismic pattern of the nearby Mammoth Mountain volcanic field cannot be excluded.
M-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: New sunspot AR1675 has just unleashed the most intense flare of the year so far, an M1.9-class explosion at 1550 UT on Feb. 17th. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a double-flash of extreme UV radiation from the explosion: First-look coronagraph images from SOHO and the twin STEREO probes suggest that this explosion did not produce a coronal mass ejection (CME). Geomagnetic storms are therefore unlikely. Earth's upper atmosphere, however, probably did experience a minor wave of ionization caused by the UV flash shown above.
RUSSIAN METEOR STRIKE: On Friday, February 15th at 9:30 am local time in Russia, a small asteroid struck the atmosphere over the city of Chelyabinsk and exploded. According to reports from news organizations and Russian authorities, as many as 1000 people received minor injuries from the shock wave. This is the most energetic recorded meteor strike since the Tunguska impact of 1908.
Researchers have conducted a preliminary analysis of the event. "Here is what we know so far," says Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "The asteroid was about 15 meters in diameter and weighed approximately 7000 metric tons. It struck Earth's atmosphere at 40,000 mph (18 km/s) and broke apart about 12 to 15 miles (20 to 25 km) above Earth's surface. The energy of the resulting explosion was in the vicinity of 300 kilotons of TNT."
"A shock wave propagated down and struck the city below, causing large numbers of windows to break, some walls to collapse, and minor damage throughout the city," he continued. "When you hear about injuries, those are undoubtedly due to the effects of the shock wave, not due to fragments striking the ground. There are undoubtedly fragments on the ground, but as of this time we know of no recovered fragments that we can verify."
Massive earthquake and Tsunami Santa Cruz Islands (Solomon Islands) 13 people killed, many missing
Massive Earthquake on Feb. 6, 2013 at a magnitutde of 8.0 and a depth of 33 km. This event has been followed by a large amount of aftershocks.
Update February 10 00:00 UTC : A further 12 houses were destroyed in the M6.8 earthquake that was felt yesterday on Friday. The picture continues to become bleaker with most of the island of Nendo where Lata is situated being affected.
The death toll remains at 13, with over 5000 homeless. The picture will hopefully become clearer with the first rescue and relief ship information that should become available in the coming hours.
Update February 9 12:00 UTC : Amidst continuous, luckily somewhat weaker aftershocks, rescue workers arrived on Ndende island on Saturday. The Red Cross says that food, drinking water and tents are urgently needed to support the thousands of people who became homeless after the tsunami. The very strong aftershocks on Friday made even more damage and some houses who did withstand the M8.0 quake collapsed on Friday.
The Northeast (USA), Buried Under Snow, Tries to Dig Its Way Out Grabbing shovels large and small, residents and emergency workers across the Northeast struggled to dig out on Sunday after a gigantic midwinter storm left much of the region buried under drifting snow. City streets resembled ski slopes or mountain passes, with cars and even some houses obscured by a thick blanket of white. More than three feet of snow fell in parts of Connecticut, and more than two feet accumulated on Long Island and in Massachusetts, where the storm caused coastal flooding that forced evacuations. The Weather Service said it had reports out of New Haven County, Conn., of 36.2 inches of snow in Oxford and 38 inches in Milford. Commack, on Long Island, got 29.1 inches, and MacArthur Airport in Islip with 27.5 inches. In Boston, the official accumulation was 24.9 inches, the fifth highest in city history.
EARTH-DIRECTED ERUPTION: On Saturday, February 9th, around 0640 UT, a magnetic filament in the sun's northern hemisphere erupted, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the UV flash from the underlying C2-class solar flare: The CME, which was captured in flight by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, billowed away from the sun at 800 km/s. The bulk of the cloud looks like it will sail north of Earth. Nevertheless, a glancing blow is possible as shown in this 3D model of the CME prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Flight Center. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on Feb. 12th when the CME passes by.
EERIE EARTHSONG: A NASA spacecraft has recorded eerie-sounding radio emissions coming from our own planet. These beautiful "songs of Earth" could, ironically, be responsible for the proliferation of deadly electrons in the Van Allen Belts EarthSongs audio
Big Quake Coming In Atlantic/Caribbean? 22 Pilot Whales Beached Themselves In South Florida on 9/1/12 When whales have beached themselves in the Pacific at various Islands, including New Zealand there will be a very large quake within a week afterwards somewhere around that area of the world. Will we see this pattern repeated? The USGS Map now shows 311 quakes on the map that are 2.5 mag and higher in the Islands. The recent ones, USGS has right under a 4 mag., they have them at 3.8, 3.9 etc. Recent update: Pilot Whales beached themselves in Scotland too and Great White is dead on a beach in Mass.
Quake Expert: Earth Is Cracking Up - April 15, 2012 - A leading geologist from Romania says something is seriously wrong. I can't disagree with the guy, have you seen the weather lately? By latey I mean the last year and a half. We live in interesting times, and thats not a good thing, its a chinese curse. -Mort
A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours. Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu - from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics - says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days. The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours. "There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes," said Marmureanu. He added: "The quakes are a surprise that cannot be easily explained by current scientific knowledge. With the Indonesian quake for example, statistically, there should be one big earthquake in this part of Asia every 500 years. However, since 2004, there were already three quakes with a magnitude of over 8, which is not normal.
Source: www.croatiantimes.com/news/Around_the_World/2012-04-15/26423/Quake_Expert:_Earth_Cracking_Up
New report claims Venice sinking five times faster than previously thought March 26, 2012 VENICE, IT So Venice is sinking. New research by U.S. scientists suggests it is sinking more than five times faster than experts in Venice believe. It's quite obvious to the naked eye (or rather, to the naked ankle when it floods) that parts of Venice are flooding more and more often. But the question remains - how long will it take before it turns from floating jewel to a playground for divers? The answer comes from a new research by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, expected to be published on Wednesday: Venice is still sinking, and sinking at a rate of up to two millimeters per year (0.08 inches). There's more. Not only is the city being reclaimed by the waters that made it famous, it now looks like it's actually heading out to sea, as if the glorious capital of the former Maritime Venetian Republic is tired of being a tourist attraction and wants to die in the Adriatic. According to measurements taken over 10 years, Venice is also tilting a bit, about a millimeter or two eastward per year. While this doesn't mean that you should buy a ticket right away in order to see Venice before it disappears, it raises concern that not enough is being done to save it. A complex system of moving dams around Venice that took decades and millions of dollars to build is nearing completion. The new research could well call into question whether these major works will actually be enough to save the "Floating City." One of the biggest experts on the state of Venice, Luigi Tosi, of Italy's National Research Center, pointed out that Venice's "sinking" was actually a combination of land subsidence and sea level rise. He said the Scripps researchers' results "tell us nothing new." "We have published a paper back in 1992 that arrived to the same conclusions," he said. -MSNBC
Yellowstone Supervolcano + Strange 'Rumbles' In Wisconsin Clintonville Wisconsin -- be sure to search the terms ... "marathon wisconsin volcano" ... "caldron reservoir" .. and "lake superior volcanic" . The nuclear power plant to the east is called the Kewaunee plant .. all these sites have ONE thing in common... deep earth shafts... pumped or filled full of water.... add in craton/plate pressure and a bit of deep earth magma surge underneath the plate as it gets pushed by the Pacific unrest... and you get underground explosions in Wisconsin near a dormant volcanic site. Watch the YouTube Report with links to other information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TdOnEsHZrDk Go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Clintonville%2C+Wisconsin+%22Booms%22&oq=Clintonville%2C+Wisconsin+%22Booms%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=youtube.12...256767l256767l0l258338l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0. to see listing of the YouTube vdeos related to the Clintonvill, Wisconsin "booming".
Frequently asked questions about recent findings at Yellowstone Lake
Tennessee Interstate-75 Sliding Down Embankment Southbound lanes of Interstate 75 are closed at the Jellico exit. The culprit: an earthslide near an embankment on mile-marker 143. A part of the interstate was sliding down the 50+ foot embankment, forcing that stretch of roadway to close. More than 15 miles to the south, a section of embankment next to I-75 collapsed just past the Stinking Creek exit Thursday.
Japan-One Year Later: Flooding Continues: The earthquake caused properties around the area to shift. "The land has actually sunk one and half meters. Whereas, once you were up on your garden, now you are standing knee-deep in water. It has just allowed the ocean to come in and cover everything," Mangold said.
Magnetic pole shift means new Hillsboro runway name - September 17, 2011 - The slowly drifting location of Earth's magnetic north pole means the Hillsboro Airport's main runway underwent a name change early this week - from 12/30 to 13/31. Runways are designated according to the points on a compass, and the changing location of true magnetic north meant the runway sometimes is renamed. Experts say magnetic north is slipping slowly from above the Arctic Ocean in a north-northwestern direction toward Siberia, at about 34.2 miles per year. When the magnetic points were recalibrated, Hillsboro, like some other airports, had to renumber its main runway. The adjustment is the result of a natural, ongoing process. The Earth has an iron core, and movement within its outer part is believed to be responsible for sustaining the magnetic field used to measure the Earth's surface. This makes the Earth like a giant magnet, but with the location of its north and south poles always shifting around. As a result, true magnetic north, on which the workings of a compass needle are focused, doesn't always match up with the permanently drawn lines on the map. Thus, the location of the airport in relation to true north has to be adjusted. Scientists believe the activity of the Earth's core could cause massive shifts in polarity, including the north and south poles reversing themselves. It's believed this last happened 780,000 years ago, and took about 10,000 years to happen.
Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth's Axis, NASA Scientist Says: March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
Magnitude 8.8 - Offshore Maule, Chile on 2010 February 27 06:34:14 UTC at a depth of Magnitude 8.8 - Offshore Maule, Chile 2010 February 27 06:34:14 UTC. The death toll jumped Sunday to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, nearly doubling as rescue crews reached remote and badly damaged towns. State television reported 350 people were killed in the coastal town of Constitución, near the epicenter. Nearly a quarter of the globe was put on tsunami alert after one of the most powerful earthquakes of modern times hit South America. Chile's Interior Ministry said tsunami surges reaching heights of 10 feet hit the nation's Juan Fernandez Islands, leaving three people dead and 13 missing. A tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 devastated large parts of southern Chile and sent huge waves racing at up to 400 miles an hour across the Pacific. Isolated ocean islands were reported to have suffered severe wave damage, and tsunami warnings were issued across a vast area stretching from Russia and Japan through to the Philippines and New Zealand. Its epicentre was a spot in the Pacific seabed around 75 miles from the Chilean coastal city of Concepcion.
The worlds seismic recording stations are all recording total black (shake lines mergining) as the whole of Earth rings like a large bell. Aftershocks number over 118 as of Sunday, Feb. 28th at 15:26 UTC with 8 registering over 6.0 magnitutde. The area continues to rumble with quakes of over 5 magnitude.
Tsunami warnings in the Pacific have been cancelled as of Sunday, Feb. 28th.
The sunspots are also continuing as the Earth is continuing to rumble. The very large magnetic filament was to arrive near Earth on Feb. 27th-28th. Also, there are 21 active volcanoes close to the earthquake epicentres. It is possible that volcanic activity may increase in the area as a result of the earthquakes. Watching Yellowstone - the earthquakes have returned to the usual background levels.
March 3rd: Another aftershock of 6.1 magnitude struck just off the coast of VALPARAISO, CHILE and a 6.0 mag. offshore of BIO-BIO, CHILE. The map for this area now registers 204 quakes. The death toll is now over 800 people.
Another earthquake of Magnitude 6.3 - Antofagasta, Chile 2010 March 04 22:39:25 UTC (3:40PM MST at a depth of 105.1 km. This is 1260 km (780 miles) N of SANTIAGO, Chile.
Thurs. March 4th: map shows 204 quakes.
The worlds seismic recording stations are all recording total black (shake lines mergining) as the whole of Earth rings like a large bell. Aftershocks number over 118 as of Sunday, Feb. 28th at 15:26 UTC with 8 registering over 6.0 magnitutde. The area continues to rumble with quakes of over 5 magnitude. The seismic stations around the world are continuing to vibrate with the harmmonics of this earthquake.
Astrologically - Saturn was almost exactly overhead and the fateful orbit of the Moon (North and South Nodes) exactly rising and setting.
This earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. The two plates are converging at a rate of 80 mm per year which is one of the fastest rates on Earth. The earthquake occurred as thrust-faulting on the interface between the two plates, with the Nazca plate moving down and landward below the South American plate. This latest earthquake off Chile occurred just north of the 9.5 mag,1960 rupture, which had caused a stress buildup along the fault line.
Tsunami waves in Hawaii smaller than expected: Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) -- A tsunami generated by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile struck Hawaii Saturday, but an official with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the island chain "dodged a bullet" after smaller-than-expected waves were reported. The first waves of the tsunami were recorded on The Big Island around noon (5 p.m. ET), 16 hours after the Chilean temblor. Gauges showed water levels rising 3 feet in Hilo, and remaining at that level.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning, the highest level of a tsunami alert, for the entire Pacific region, including countries as far away as Russia, Japan and Australia. California and Alaska are under a tsunami advisory. Tsunami waves came ashore along the Chilean coast shortly after the earthquake
Strong earthquake, tsunami warning in south Japan: TOKYO, AP News A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast early Saturday, shaking Okinawa and nearby islands, where a tsunami warning was issued, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The quake occurred off the coast of the island of Okinawa at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) at 5:31 a.m. Saturday (2031 GMT Friday), the agency said. It predicted a tsunami up to 6 feet (2 meters) near the Okinawan coast, warning nearby residents to stay away from the coastline. The agency later downgraded the warning to an advisory after observing only a small swelling of tide. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. The largest was 9 feet near the quake's epicenter. Another wave, 7.7 feet, hit the Chilean town of Talcahuano.
A MONTH OF SUNSPOTS: February 2010 is on the verge of a three-year "first." It's the first month since January 2007 with sunspots every single day. It's been a long solar minimum, but solar activity is on the rise again. Today, NASA's STEREO mission is tracking at least six active regions around the circumference of the sun.
North Magnetic Pole Moving Due to Core Flux: Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.
CROP CIRCLES IN THE SNOW: TWO LARGEST SNOW FORMATIONS YET REPORTED
Hoeven, Holland - December 2009 -- photos by Roy Boschman Source
The Hoven snow field viewed around 1:00 am, now Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, showed multiple rings scooped out of the snow-covered field. This is the largest such snow "circle" ever reported anywhere. There were no footprints at all out in the rest of the field (other than the dike area where the observations and photos were made) -- although clear tracks of hares were visible in a few places. And there were also no piles of the snow that had been removed from the rings anywhere. All of the rings were of the same width (approx. 11 inches wide), including the "spiraled" circle, and no ice along the edges or bottoms of any of the rings. There was an undulating characteristic and very faint "brush-stroke" type lines in the large rings, but these were not present in the smaller rings.
On the 22nd another, even larger (140m long, 35 rings) snow formation had appeared in the field next to Snow Formation #1.
By December 28th, 9 days after the first snow formation appeared, warmer temperatures had melted most of the snow on all of the fields. The photos taken on the 28th reveal that the rings were not present only in the snow, they are also swirled into the grass underneath.
Since the early photos show that the snow in the rings was not removed or compacted all the way to the ground the discovery that the rings are also clearly visible in the grass is remarkable. Whatever caused the snow rings also swirled the grass beneath the snow so that the formations now look very much like typical crop circles.
In these Dec. 28th close-up photos of the first formation it is clear that the width of the rings is much greater than that of a human foot. When you consider the very large overall size of this formation (60m x 52m), the fact that it occurred in -10 degrees C weather, and the number and varying diameters of the rings as well as their mostly circular nature -- in which we still see no flattened centers -- the "pranks with planks" theory seems an inadequate explanation.
The largest (60m x 52m overall dimensions) formation yet reported in snow, occurred near Hoeven: 21 simple rings, 1 tiny circle & 1 spiraled circle.
None of the rings contain footprints or any marks in their centers, and yet most are very circular.
Close-up shows no piled-up snow around edges of ring & no footprints.
Roy Boschman's 12/19/09 diagram of Hoeven Snow Formation #1
Snow is almost entirely melted by Dec. 28th (9 days after formation occurred). No flattened centers were visible in any of the rings.
Roy's diagram of Snow Formation #2 in "special" field adjacent to location of earlier Snow Formation #1.
Salazar Releases Long-Term Report Detailing Glaciers Shrinking in Alaska and Washington - Released: 8/10/2009 8:53:28 AM - USGS
Today's Earthquake Fact: The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The NMSZ is located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Southwestern Indiana and northwestern Mississippi are also close enough to receive significant shaking from large earthquakes occurring in the NMSZ.
The San Andreas fault, California, is NOT a single, continuous fault, but is actually a fault zone made of many segments. Movement may occur along any of the fault segments along the zone at any time. The San Andreas fault system is more than 1300 km (800 miles) long, and in some spots, is as much as 16 km (10 miles) deep. This is the main fault structre that is being watched in California.
Map of the Worlds Tectonic Plates & Article from National Geographic News
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a submerged mountain range, which extends from the Arctic Ocean to beyond the southern tip of Africa, is a divergent tectonic plate boundary. It is just one segment of the global mid-ocean ridge system that encircles the Earth. The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters per year, or 25 km in a million years. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and separates the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge appears above sea-level at Iceland. This offers scientists a natural laboratory for studying on land the processes also occurring along the submerged parts of a spreading ridge. Iceland is splitting along the spreading center between the North American and Eurasian Plates, as North America moves westward relative to Eurasia.
For all the latest pictures and information on Crop Circles from around the world, click here.
This is the Morgan's Hill Square Crop Circle, August2, 2009 The Ever-Unfolding Saga of Earth: Next Chapter
In this beautifully squared formation, we are once again reminded to focus on Earth. Are the circle makers telling us that the focus during all this celestial activity is on the Earth? And that perhaps the celestial activity is actually initiating responses within the Earth's core that will result in a changed earthly situation? Are we about to witness the next chapter in the Great Story of Gaia? Will the vast unknown of the material world begin to reveal itself to our consciousness?
Solar eclipse- Of celestial mechanics and the Eye of God: Total solar eclipses have struck awe or fear into hearts for millennia
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, BLUE CANCER NEW MOON JULY 22ND - by Soluntra
On Aug. 21, 2017, there will be a total eclipse of the sun directly above the continental United States.
Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 - On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
Visit Barbara Hand Clow AstroFlashes for her chart of the Solar Eclipse and explanation.
The Sabian symbol for this week's Solar Eclipse is intriguing:
"A Daughter of the American Revolution: The prestige and conservatism of a long-maintained heritage."
If we look at this symbol with the idea that we are in completion mode, we can see that it corresponds well with the themes of the Saturn-Venus square, and what we know of the relationship patterns we are leaving behind. The old relationship traditions where one partner plays the parent role and the other plays the child are not likely to withstand the current waves of energy. Visit NorthPoint Astrology view for the week.
Jeshua explains the July 22nd Solar Eclipse
SOLAR ECLIPSE PICTURE: Moon's Shadow Seen From Space
SOLAR ECLIPSE PICTURE: Seen From Earth
Scientists find link between solar cycle and global climate similar to El Nino/La Nina.
Also, see the comments on the "sunspot" Crop Circle: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/wadenhill2/comments.html
The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world
Whipped into fantastical shapes, these clouds hang over the darkening landscape like the harbingers of a mighty storm. But despite their stunning and frequent appearances, the formations have yet to be officially recognised with a name.
They have been seen all over Britain in different forms - from Snowdonia to the Scottish Highlands - and in other parts of the world such as New Zealand, but usually break up without producing a storm. 'It is a bit like looking at the surface of a choppy sea from below,' said Gavin Pretor-Pinney
US to Boost Quake Detection, Under Stimulus Plan
Ice Cover on Great Lakes Declining - Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels
EXPLORE THE SUNSPOT CYCLE: Were you born under an active sun or a quiet sun? To find out, enter your birth date in the sunspot plotter:
Again - per Nancy on ZetaTalk: "The concept of "stretch zones", also a Zeta term, had already been introduced. Stretch zones are rock strata that are being pulled apart during plate movement, such as the African Rift zone. Stretching causes the area to drop, and when this occurs under cities or buildings, causes structural havoc." As an example: March 3, 2009- COLOGNE, Germany - Cologne's six-story city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday.
CERI's Tips for Surviving an Earthquake Be Prepared for an Earthquake: Look for items in your home that could become a hazard in an earthquake. Place large or heavy objects on lower shelves. Fasten shelves to walls. Brace high and top-heavy objects. Anchor overhead lighting fixtures. Bolt down water heaters and gas appliances.
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Earthquake Facts:
The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean just east of the Mariana Islands, is the deepest part of the Earth's oceans, with a maximum depth of about 11 km (6.8 miles). This is the deepest location on the surface of the Earth. The bottom of the trench is farther below sea level than Mount Everest is above it.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a submerged mountain range, which extends from the Arctic Ocean to beyond the southern tip of Africa, is a divergent tectonic plate boundary. It is just one segment of the global mid-ocean ridge system that encircles the Earth. The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters per year, or 25 km in a million years. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and separates the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic.
Earthquake Fact: At spreading zones, molten rock rises, pushing two plates apart and adding new material at their edges. Most spreading centers are found in oceans. The North American and Eurasian plates are spreading apart along the mid-Atlantic ridge. Spreading zones usually have earthquakes at shallow depths (within 30 kilometers of the surface). The most recent earthquake: Magnitude 4.9 - NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN on 2009 April 19; Magnitude 4.6 - CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE on 2009 April 14. Preceeding this was a magnitude 5.1 - on the REYKJANES RIDGE on 2009 February 21 16:53:54 UTC at a depth of 10 km. This was preceeded by a magnitude 5.0 - NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN earthquake on 2009 February 21 15:40:36 UTC at a depth of 10 km. This is almost the same long - latitude as the Reykjanes Ridge event.
This image, caught recently by the SOHO, the famous winged planet, Nibiru. http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2667/200903270318c3512.jp
Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Over For Now: The notable swarm of earthquakes that started December 26, 2008, beneath Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park has stopped for now and may have ceased entirely. This sequence of more than 500 seismic events was most intense on December 27, 2008. The sequence included sixteen events of magnitude 3 to 3.9 and approximately 70 of magnitude 2 to 3 (as of Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, 2009)
Antarctica is warming, not cooling: Antarctica is getting warmer rather than cooling as widely believed, according to a study published in Nature that fits the icy continent into a trend of global warming. In western Antarctica at the British Rothera research station, temperatures on Wednesday were 2.6 C (36.68F). Rising temperatures in the west were partly offset by an autumn cooling in East Antarctica. "The continent-wide near surface average is positive," the study said. Antarctica's ice contains enough frozen water to raise world sea levels by 57 meters (187 ft), so even a tiny amount of melting could threaten Pacific island states or coastal cities from Beijing to London. Greenland is also vulnerable. Together, Greenland and West Antarctica hold enough ice to raise sea levels by 14 meters. Ten ice sheets on the Antarctic Peninsula have receded or collapsed since the 1990s. The Wilkins sheet is poised to break up, held in place by a sliver of ice 500 meters (1,640 ft) wide compared to 100 km in the 1950s.
New Cracks in the Wilkins Ice Sheet
Arctic Sea Ice Decline Shakes Up Ocean Ecosystems
It's Official! - Cows can't detect earthquakes: Swedish bovine earth-moving experiment ends in disappointment. Swedish scientists have disappointingly discovered that cows do not have "an innate ability to detect natural disasters", thereby thwarting any possibility of deploying bovine imminent earthquake detectors in seismic hotspots.
Map Centered at 44°N, 110°W - Yellowstone
As of Monday, January 12th this map shows 163 earthquakes for a 7-day period. You have the full moon at perigee, the closest to Earth and a Saturn-Uranus opposition on Sunday. This large number centered in Southern California/Baja California suggest that major adjustment on these faults is occurring. We may look towards Feburary for another major adjustment in the Western states.
Earthquake Information for 2008
Yellowstone Park Sees Incredible Earthquake Swarm
Jan 7, 2009 11:48 AM By Megan Boatwright, Local News 8 Reporter Also watch Video at this link.
Some pretty interesting things have been happening at Yellowstone National Park since December 26th. Over the last week geologists have recorded more than 400 small earthquakes. Quakes in that number are called an earthquake swarm. The incredibly long list represents 400 or more earthquakes that have happened under the lake. "We think it's where more magma heat and steam escaped through cracks in the crust," said Clayton. "That's probably what's causing the earthquakes." He said the last time Yellowstone saw this kind of activity was close to twenty years ago, "What's interesting about this earthquake swarm is that it's in a very large and active volcano." "It's probably a little bit of magma moving through fractures. There's also a lot of ground water under Yellowstone and some of the shallower earthquakes may be steam explosions and fractures underground,' said Clayton. "Those can have quite a force, and send out shock waves that we record as earthquakes."
Quake Swarm Hits Yellowstone; Something Bigger to Come?
Small Earthquake Swarm on 9 January 2009 near northeast corner of Yellowstone Caldera: A currently modest swarm of earthquakes began in the northeast corner of the Yellowstone Caldera, about 10 miles (16 km) NNE of the north end of the Yellowstone Lake swarm that was active in late December and early January. As of 1930 MST, 10 earthquakes had been located by the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the largest with M= 3.3 and two other events with M >2.0. Located depths are between 2 and 4 km.
December 30, 2008: Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come. Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, located in Wyoming in the western U.S., but it's very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah. "They're certainly not normal," Smith said. "We haven't had earthquakes in this energy or extent in many years." Smith directs the Yellowstone Seismic Network, which operates seismic stations around the park. He said the quakes have ranged in strength from barely detectable to one of magnitude 3.8 that happened Saturday. A magnitude 4 quake is capable of producing moderate damage.
Scientists observe unusual flurry of Yellowstone earthquakes over several days.
Small Earthquake Swarm on 9 January 2009 near northeast corner of Yellowstone Caldera
A currently modest swarm of earthquakes began in the northeast corner of the Yellowstone Caldera, about 10 miles (16 km) NNE of the north end of the Yellowstone Lake swarm that was active in late December and early January. As of 1930 MST, 10 earthquakes had been located by the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the largest with M= 3.3 and two other events with M >2.0. Located depths are between 2 and 4 km.
Yellowstone is once again showing a swarm of small earthquakes at this New Moon forward. As of Jan. 1, 2009 you are seeing a swarm of 241 earthquakes...this is cause for concern. For a listing of all the swarm occurring to-date, click here.
The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports that a notable swarm of earthquakes has been underway since December 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, three to six miles south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, Wyoming. This energetic sequence of events was most intense on December 27, when the largest number of events of magnitude 3 and larger occurred. This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years and is centered on the east side of the Yellowstone caldera. For the Full Press Release Update on Dec. 29th
For more information and web links, check with our Volcano page here in this magazine.
You may wish to review a message from 2006 discussing Yellowstone and Volcano_Yellowstone Grows
In a scientific first, engineers drill into a subterranean pocket of molten rock December 17th, 2008 - Engineers drilling a new well at a geothermal site in Hawaii recently struck liquid gold - a mass of molten rock that is giving geologists an unprecedented peek at how magma cools today and insights into how continents might have formed billions of years ago.
New analyses of satellite data show that cycles of expansion and contraction are tied to changes in the solar wind December 16th, 2008 - Analyses of satellite data reveal that Earth's atmosphere expands and contracts in response to short-term variations in the solar wind.
Mother Earth continues to adjust her tectonic plates: The USA map for the last 7 days is showing 1002 earthquakes as of Dec. 11, 2008. To see the current maps for the World and the USA, click on the above images at top of page. Of note is that magma sloshing has been occurring. A major quake on November 24, 2008 in Kamchatka produced a false reading in Idaho. Not only are all Earth plates participating in an adjustment, but the magma underneath is also participating. (see Zeta Talk Slosh Patterns) The Earth is composed of land masses called plates. The 14 plates of the world are as follows: The S American Plate, the Scotia Plate to the south, the Nazca Plate just to the west of Ecuador, the N American Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate just to the west off the coast of Oregon, the Cocos Plate to the west of Mexico, the Caribbean Plate, the great Pacific Plate, the great Eurasian Plate, the Philippine Plate, the Indo-Australia Plate pushing under the Himalayas, the Arabian Plate, the African Plate, and the Antarctica Plate. The movement of one is now being felt by adjustments within a day or so on the others.
Check out this crop circle pattern that was laid down on July 22, 2008 at Avebury Manor in England. It is said to be referring to the Ascension and our solar system near Earth in December 2012. Those who have analysed this pattern have realised it is telling us something about December 2012, the time of the ending of the Mayan Calendar, including the arrival of a comet that, according to the crop circle site, our astronomers are as yet unaware of. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/aveburymanor2/aveburymanor2008b.html
Ever since the Earth had Her bells rung by the 7.5 Indonesia earthquake, you have been seeing increased earth movement at the Northern edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Aluetian chain has been shaking steadily for a while, however, now you have a series beginning on Nov. 17th (7 quakes ranging from 2.6 - 3.4) followed by another group on the 18th in the 3.1 magnitude range rocking the Unimark Island Region of Alaska. Of more interest is the new series that is going in the Artic Ocean- a series of 7 quakes ranging from 4.7 - 5.6 as of the morning of the 18th.
Also, south of Indonesia you are seeing a series of earthquakes in Vanuatu beginning with a 5.3 on the 17th and followed up by 4 earthquakes ranging from 5.1 - 5.7 in magnitude by the morning of the 18th. The Banda Sea area tossed in a 5.3 quake on the 17th - not to be left out. Puerto Rico on the opposite side where all the plates converge continues with a series ranging from 2.7 into the 3.0+ magnitude range. This is ongoing as of Monday, Nov. 24th. The last 7 days have seen 77 earthquakes clustered around the Santiago-San Juan area.
Coastal Maine tide change a mystery: Oct. 30th - BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine-Meteorologists are baffled by rapid tidal changes along the Maine coast, which damaged some boats and piers. Witnesses say low tide turned and became high within a matter of minutes on Tuesday afternoon. The changes occurred six or seven times. The National Weather Service says reports from several locations indicated that water levels fell and rose from 4 feet to as much as 12 feet during the event. In a public information statement, the weather service says the cause "remains a mystery and may never be known." It said significant rapid rises and falls in tide levels were observed around 3 p.m. in Boothbay Harbor, Southport and Bristol. The statement said rapid surges can be caused by the underwater movement of land, most often due to an earthquake, or due to slumping of sediments along a steep canyon or shelf, but no earthquakes were reported in the area Tuesday. A similar event occurred on Jan. 9, 1926, in Bass Harbor, the statement said. (As Mother Earth's poles wobble about, this is going to happen.) Related Article
Earthquakes West of Vancouver Island, B.C.: Since 25 August 22:24 UT there has been a series of earthquakes occurring about 150km west of Vancouver Island. The largest so far has been magnitude 5.8 on 28 August at 12:37 UT (5:37am PDT). These have generally been at a shallow depth of 10 km.
2008-09-11: M=4.7 - southwest of Vancouver Island, BC
2008-09-06: M=4.3 - West of Vancouver Island, BC
2008-08-29 M=4.0-·west of Vancouver Island, BC
2008-08-28: M=5.8 - west of Vancouver Island, BC
2008-08-27: M=5.0 - west of Vancouver Island, BC
2008-08-25: M=4.2 - west of Vancouver Island
2008-07-30: M=3.4 - 54 km ESE of Victoria, BC
2008-06-01: M=3.6 - northwest of Vancouver Island, BC
Magnitude 4.4 293 km (182 mi) W of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/16 at 09:42:01 UTC
Magnitude 4.4 292 km (182 mi) W of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/14 at 06:33:49
Magnitude 3.9 254 km (158 mi) WSW of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/12 at 13:17:28
Magnitude 4.8 287 km (178 mi) W of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/11 at 23:26:29
Magnitude 4.6 285 km (177 mi) W of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/11 ay 23:13:36
Magnitude 4.5 290 km (180 mi) W of Neah Bay, WA on 2008/09/11 at 21:17:32
As you can see, the activity around the Cascadia Fault area is again in motion. There is also increased earthquake motion in the lower So. California area, Ocotillo and Idyllwild areas in particular.
Earth is entering a solar wind stream coming from a coronal hole and this is causing geomagnetic activity around the Arctic Circle. The sunspot activity is still zero after a bit over a month into the new solar cycle. This cycle is predicted to be 50% more active than the last one - which saw the highest activity recorded in recent history.
Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say: September 6 - Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. (The New York Times)
EARTHQUAKES MAY ENDANGER NEW YORK MORE THAN THOUGHT
A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among other things, they say that the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones....The researchers found concrete evidence for one significant previously unknown structure: an active seismic zone running at least 25 miles from Stamford, Conn., to the Hudson Valley town of Peekskill, N.Y., where it passes less than a mile north of the Indian Point nuclear power plant....
Remember, we had this similar pattern in 2007: Series of Earthquakes off the coast of Oregon: Located 282 miles west of Yachats, Oregon at a depth of 6.2 miles these quakes for July 28th are 4.9, 4.7, and 4.6 mag.; the quakes on July 27th were 5.1, 4.7, and 4.7 mag. This is on the volatile Cascadia Fault zone - is it a beginning of serious earthquake movement in this area? A recent TV movie showed a cascading earthquake scenerio that began in this area that ended up with a 10 mag. earthquake in Southern California - fantasy or a futurists view of events? Again, a lot of earthquake activity in Alaska to also watch. July 20th saw a 4.2 mag earthquake in the San Francisco, California area.
Correlation to Planet X and the Wobble - is true? Discussion from the Earth Changes Bulletin by MW Mandeville
Arctic Tundra Holds Global Warming Time Bomb
August 25 - Researchers sampled tundra soils across North America and estimate there may be almost 100 billion tons of carbon in the first meter of soil alone equivalent to about a quarter of the amount currently in Earth's atmosphere, or 10 years' worth of global emissions from human activity. (Discovery News)
Ocean Dead Zones Going Global
August 14 - Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans. (Discovery News)
Sloshing Inside Earth Changes Protective Magnetic Field
Something beneath the surface is changing Earth's protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy radiation. The last major change in the field took place some 780,000 years ago during a magnetic reversal, although such reversals seem to occur more often on average. A flip in the north and south poles typically involves a weakening in the magnetic field, followed by a period of rapid recovery and reorganization of opposite polarity. Some studies in recent years have suggested the next reversal might be imminent, but the jury is out on that question....
Huge Comet Discovered
A huge comet-like object has been spotted inside the orbit of Neptune. The object, at least 30 miles wide, is on the return leg of a 22,500-year journey around the sun. Catalogued as 2006 SQ372, the interloper is just over two billion miles (3.2 billion km) from Earth, though its elongated trek takes it to a distance of 150 billion miles (241 billion km), or nearly 1,600 times the distance from the Earth to the sun. The object is not a threat to Earth, which is good. A comet that size would cause global devastation ...
Mystery deepens surrounding Kincardine area explosions
August 7, 2008 : The mystery has deepened surrounding explosions that shook the Kincardine area last Thursday with University of Western Ontario scientists ruling out a meteor shower. "Something pretty significant exploded south and west of Goderich and Kincardine. It could have exploded out in Lake Huron," said Dr. Peter Brown, associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Western and the Canada Research Chair of meteor science. Highly sensitive devices installed near Lucan by Western to monitor low frequency sound waves detected a series of four impulses that lasted about a minute, starting at 11:12 p.m. on July 31. Five minutes later a low frequency rumbling was detected coming from the Kincardine area.
This incident follows the humming reported at Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Earth is being stretched from the St. Lawrence Seaway through the Black Hills and bowed down through the Gulf of California. Rocks make loud noises as they readjust their positions. Under high stress, rocks "hum" like a motor running. This humming noise has been heard from Ontario, Canada to New York and New Mexico. The west coast of the USA bowing pressure is seem in the large number of earthquakes from Alaska down through Baja California. The bowing of Earth will reorient the underlaying rock stratas so they will move in uneven patterns. Could this have caused the Wall Arch collapse?
Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses: Wall Arch, one of the most accessible major arches in the Devils Garden area of Arches National Park in Utah, collapsed sometime Monday night. The middle of the arch just collapsed under its own weight. Geologists could not recall the last time a major arch at the park collapsed.
Deadly San Andreas Fault Longer Than Thought
July 31 - A new study looked at the size, activity, and gas chemistry of the mud pots, which are sometimes associated with fault lines, to find that the San Andreas Fault extends 18 miles further south than previously believed. (National Geographic news).
Arctic Ice Continues to Thin
July 31 - In 2007 the sea ice at the North Pole was at its thinnest since records began, according to helicopter-borne instruments used to determine the thickness of large swathes of ice by measuring its conductivity. (New Scientist)
Also there are Earth Hums occurring at Green Bay, Wisconsin similar to humming that was active in Taos, New Mexico. No known origin has been discovered. Mother is stretching and adjusting through this area from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Black Hill, South Dakota.
Chungnam Boryoung City Crop Circle
Our report is that we had a news today for discover a very exciting crop circles in near Chungnam Boryoung City, South Korea. This mark -§ - is very commonly used by the legal profession in legal texts and legal codes to set out a section of the law, or a legal regulation. This is self-evidently very, very similar to what we see in the Korean crop glyph. It may be a way of saying that this formation, or maybe others too, have to do with laying down the law - whether natural law, cosmic law, galactic federation law, spiritual law, who knows?
ZetaTalk Analysis 6/14/2008: This stunning crop circle is speaking to mankind about the current Earth wobble, which will soon develop beyond the simple Figure 8 pattern it has been adhering to since early 2004. The two Figure 8s are seen overlapping, assuming first one posture and then another in an almost smooth line. This movement is a predecessor to the severe wobble which the Earth will at some point assume going into the 3 days of darkness. The Earth wobble, the Figure 8, will have another wobble superimposed upon it, a back and forth motion of the globe. It has been noted that the overlapping Figure 8 is also a symbol meaning that associated text quoted is legalese, quoting law. In that man cannot escape the pole shift, the behavior of your home planet Earth is only adhering to laws governing your portion of the Universe, so to speak.
'Non-planet' Pluto gets new class - Pluto was stripped of its planet status two years ago. "Plutoid" is the word of the moment for astronomers. It is the new classification that has been sanctioned by th IAU for the object that was formerly known as the "ninth planet". The IAU members took the historic decision to redefine the Solar System to have just eight major worlds - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They relegated Pluto to a grouping that includes Ceres (the largest asteroid), and Eris, an object slightly larger than Pluto that orbits even further out from the Sun in an icy region known as the Kuiper Belt. The IAU's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature has now decided that dwarf planets that move beyond Neptune should be placed in a new sub-category, the plutoid.
Trio of 'super-Earths' discovered - Astronomers have identified a trio of so-called "super-Earths" - rocky planets between two and 10 times the mass of Earth. The discovery suggests that at least one third of stars similar to our oun Sun host these difficult-to-detect celestial bodies, multiplying previous estimates by five.These 'super-Earths' orbit a star known as HD 40307 some 42 light years away near the southern Doradus and Pictor constellations. One light-year is roughly equivalent to 9.5 trillion kilometres (6 trillion miles). Using Harps data, the astronomers also counted a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses. This implies that one solar-like star out of three harbours such planets.
Earth's Magnetic Field - the Hathors through Tom Kenyon
The magnetic field of earth is involved in a perturbation or morphing. This is taking place interdimensionally, and the net effect is incremental surges in amplitude or strength of the magnetic field. This morphing of earth's magnetic field is like a wave that rises and falls very quickly, and the oscillations are minute, but distinct. This is having a very strange effect upon human consciousness, specifically your biological experience. Many people are experiencing an increase of exhaustion and weariness.
Giant Undersea Volcano Found Off Iceland
National Geographic News - April 22, 2008: A giant and unusual underwater volcano lies just offshore of Iceland on the Reykjanes Ridge, volcanologists have announced. The Reykjanes formation is a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which bisects the Atlantic Ocean where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are pulling apart.
Quakes Keep Shaking Reno; Scientists Stumped
More than 500 seismic events have rocked Reno, Nevada, in the past week alone, sending scientists scrambling to understand whether the quakes portend a Big One
Cooler Climate May Hit N. America, Europe Next Decade
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News - April 30, 2008: Shifting ocean currents could throw some cold water on global warming over the next decade, a new study suggests.
Europe and North America may soon experience chillier temperatures, thanks to natural North Atlantic variations that could temporarily mask the effects of human-driven, or anthropogenic, climate change. "We believe that ocean currents and systems could, in the short term, change global warming patterns and even mean temperatures," said Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany. Quakes Keep Shaking Reno; Scientists Stumped
April 30, 2008: Today, NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet.
Illinois, April 18, 2008: The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rocked the Midwest on Friday was felt from Kansas to Georgia.
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. Aftershocks could continue for months at this strange seismic zone at the nation's center and even trigger another big quake, a geophysicist said. The quake occurred on a northern extension of the New Madrid fault, about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill. Full Story
Earthquake History on Illinois Area
Earth Gives Off Mysterious Low Hum
Friday , April 18, 2008, Fox News, By Charles Q. Choi: Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery.
Swarm of Earthquakes Detected Off Central Oregon
Monday, April 14, 2008: GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don't know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
More Information of the Oregon "Swarms" from the USGS.
An earthquake "swarm" is an episode with many earthquakes in which the largest earthquake does not occur at the beginning of the episode and in which the largest earthquake is not substantially larger than other earthquakes of the episode. Earthquake swarms generally continue for weeks, months, or even longer, without the occurrence of a substantially larger event. Earthquake swarms sometimes (but not always) indicate volcanic activity. Oregon Swarm with map
Crashing waves in the deep ocean can generate enough energy to create a seismic "hum." Image courtesy: Bruce Molnia/U.S. Geological Survey
3/7/08
The latest buzz in Earth science literally comes from out of the blue-the deep blue seas. For the first time, scientists have pinpointed a specific area in the North Atlantic where microseisms, small Earth tremors created when ocean waves traveling in opposite directions merge together, are emitted from the depths of the ocean.
The Masters through Ruth Ryden discuss the Earth Changes for Feburary, 2008. "There has been a slight change in the position of the Earth in relation to the Sun, which has upset the normal range of climates, and taken it a few degrees further from the Sun..."
Human Activities Triggering "Global Soil Change": Changes to Earth's soils and surface geology brought about by people are creating a new geologic era, the Anthropocene, some experts believe.
Earthquake activity in the Baja California - California area is accelerating at a frightening rate. The US Earthquake map for Feb. 14th had 1,142 quakes in a weeks period of time! The geology of the Salton Trough and the Cerro Prieto volcano and geothermal field shows a dynamic earth system. Approximately five million years ago the East Pacific Rise split the Baja Peninsula from the mainland of Mexico. This created the Gulf of California. The plate tectonic activity along the East Pacific Rise, like a giant door swinging open, has moved the Baja Peninsula 162 miles westward from the mainland at the southern end of the gulf. The northern "hinge" point of this tectonic system is in the Salton Trough. To explore the Geology of the Salton Trough Area, click here
How One Big Earthquake Triggers Another: Jan. 30, 2008 - Every so often, one large earthquake can trigger another. These "earthquake doublets" might happen because the first quake shifts stresses around in the Earth's crust, triggering the second temblor
El Niño at Play as Source of More Intense Regional U.S. Wintertime Storms: January 28 - Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may have origins in far-flung parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink by 50 Percent Since 1950s: January 28 - A new study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century. (University of Colorado at Boulder press release)
Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss: January 23 - Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists.
2007 Tied as Earth's Second Warmest Year: January 16 - NASA climatologists have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth's second warmest year in a century.
Mother Earth Speaks: I come forward at this auspicious time to speak of energies that are permeating my being. There has been much confusion and much chaos in the lives of so many. It has appeared most unsettling, yet in fact from where I see you I see only peace and joy....
Earth Changes - Open Forum: Today we see that Mother Earth is acting up. She is tired of all of the negative energy that is manifesting itself with the confines of the outer level of this land and wishes to bring into your presence all that you came to see during this incarnation....
Tectonic Pressure Along The Ring of Fire: A Hathor Planetary Message Received 05/26/06 by Tom Kenyon: As we indicated in a previous communication, there has been a likelihood of increased geological tectonic activity. It is now upon you.
There is a marked increase in the tension along what you call the Ring of Fire (which extends from New Zealand to Australia, up through Indonesia, into Japan and Northern Russia and across and down the west coast of both North and South America). Due to Earth's internal resonance, the area you call Yellowstone National Park as well as the fault lines running on the East Coast of the United States, as well as Greece and Turkey, are also potentially involved.
Some of you may feel an increase in irritability, sleep disturbances, strange unaccountable exhaustion, headaches and nausea. Those of you who are more sensitive may actually feel a quaking or shaking feeling at the cellular level of the body.
Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!
This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!
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Current 49.5 degree tilt
Reference the Magnitude 5+ Earthquakes for the months of August & Sept. 2007 above
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Where will you be ten years from now? Hopefully in the path of totality. On Aug. 21, 2017, there will be a total eclipse of the sun directly above the continental United States.
By Christopher D. Farrar, William C. Evans, Dina Y. Venezky, Shaul Hurwitz, and Lynn K. Oliver - 2007
This a picture of Hot Creek.
Hot Creek flows through the Long Valley Caldera in a volcanically active region of east-central California. This stretch of the creek, looking upstream to the southwest, has long been a popular recreation area because of the warm waters from its thermal springs. These springs, however, are unpredictable and can suddenly erupt with violence and at boiling temperature. Because of this danger, the U.S. Forest Service has had to close parts of the Hot Creek Geologic Site to visitors. (USGS photo by Chris Farrar.)
The beautiful blue pools and impressive boiling fountains along Hot Creek in east-central California have provided enjoyment to generations of visitors, but they have also been the cause of injury or death to some who disregarded warnings and fences. The springs and geysers in the stream bed and along its banks change location, temperature, and flow rates frequently and unpredictably. The hot springs and geysers of Hot Creek are visible signs of dynamic geologic processes in this volcanic region, where underground heat drives thermal spring activity.
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