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New Crop Circles are formed for 2011 - see here for The Sanctuary, Nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 28th May

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

Insights for our Planet in the upcoming year as brought to light by questions of the Masters - answers through Ruth Ryden. This is the Feb 2007 Sharing: planetary tectonic shifting, methane gas release, geopolitical insights, and more. click here for sharing.

Found this Earth Preparedness Site: http://www.nepanewsletter.com/polar Good information on root cellars, gardens, saving seeds, sheltering skills, and general good advice on self-sufficiency.

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SOLAR WIND: Feb. 8th - A medium-velocity (450-500 km/s) solar wind stream is blowing past Earth and sparking auroras around the Arctic Circle. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of polar geomagnetic storms during the next 24 hours.

A Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake - South Of The Fiji Islands - 2012 January 24 00:52:06 UT at a deph of 582.8 km (362.2 miles) 472 miles south of Fiji.

CME IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field at 0617 UT on Jan. 22nd. At first the impact did not appear to be a strong one: the solar wind speed barely lifted itself to ~400 km/s when the CME passed by. Now, however, in the wake of the CME, a dense and increasingly geoeffective solar wind stream is blowing around Earth, setting the stage for possible auroras on the night of Jan. 22nd INCOMING CME: Jan.21, 2012 - Active sunspot 1401 erupted on Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives this weekend. Their animated forecast track predicts an impact on Jan. 21st at 22:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs).

The cloud is also heading for Mars, due to hit the Red Planet on Jan. 24th. NASA's Curiosity rover, en route to Mars now, is equipped to study solar storms and might be able to detect a change in the energetic particle environment when the CME passes by. 6.2 quake hits off coast of southern Mexico

Earthquake aftershocks hit 50 in Louisa - November 26, 2011 - More than three months later, Louisa County continues to be rattled by aftershocks from the second-largest earthquake recorded in Virginia. An aftershock measuring magnitude 2.1 early Monday morning put the total number of temblors at 50 since the first one - a magnitude-5.8 quake on Aug. 23. The aftershock, recorded at 12:25 a.m. about 9 miles southwest of the town of Louisa, was the fifth in less than three days. The U.S. Geological Survey also measured temblors of magnitude 2.4 and 2.3 last Saturday, and magnitude 1.8 and 1.9 on Sunday. State officials say the aftershocks aren't strong enough to cause extensive damage on their own, but that doesn't mean they aren't having an effect. The aftershocks haven't affected the North Anna nuclear plant, which is about 11 miles from the epicenter of the first earthquake. The plant's two nuclear reactors just returned to service after shutting down from ground vibrations Aug. 23. Richmond Times-Dispatch

November 24, 2011 ­ TOKYO ­ A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan near Hokkaido. It is the second large quake to strike near the Japanese mainland in 24 hours. The depth of the earthquake was 42.3 km (26.3 miles). The epicenter of the stronger earthquake was 122 km (75 miles) SSW of Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan and 734 km (456 miles) NNE of Tokyo, Japan. Given the location and volcanic origins of the Japanese islands- it is highly improbable that the islands could survive the massive turbulence from sudden dramatic shifts in tectonic plates along these powerful subduction drains. The Japanese islands lie in one of many dangerous Benioff seismic zones in the Pacific Ring of Fire. A Wadati­Benioff zone (also Benioff­Wadati zone or Benioff zone or Benioff seismic zone) is a deep active seismic area in a subduction zone. These dangerous zones are often lined by deep volcanic trenches. Differential motion along these zones produces deep-seated earthquakes- the foci of which may be as deep as 700 kilometers (430 mi). They develop beneath volcanic island arcs and continental margins above active subduction zones. They can be produced by slip along the subduction thrust fault or slip on faults within the subducting plate, as a result of bending and extension as the plate is dragged into the Earth's mantle

November 24, 2011 ­ TOKYO ­ A 6.1 magnitude offshore earthquake struck the conjunctive tectonic plate boundary near Sendai, Japan. The 33 km deep earthquake is the latest in a series of strong tremors that continue to plague one of the most turbulence seismic regions on Earth since the March 11, 9.0 earthquake struck near Honshu Japan and killed more than 15,800 people. The epicenter of today's 6.1 earthquake was 101 km (62 miles) ESE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan and 244 km (151 miles) NE of Tokyo, Japan. Japan's mounting environmental and financial problems are being compounded by the erosion of geological stability in a region that will only grow more dangerous with time as Earth-changes intensify. No tsunami warnings were issued for today's earthquake

ERUPTION: On Nov. 23rd, a magnetic filament wrapping around the sun's NW limb rose up and erupted. The eruption hurled a cloud of plasma (a "CME") into space but not toward Earth. Because of the blast site's high-northern location on the sun, the cloud flew up and out of the plane of the solar system; no planets will be affected.

Rumblings underground: East India region hit by 23 minor tremors a day - November 23, 2011- INDIA ­ According to a reports of the Seismological Observatory, Manipur University, Manipur experiences at least 23 minor tremors in a day but these tremors could not be felt by the people, Director of College Development Council, Manipur University Dr. RK Ranjan has disclosed. He was speaking as Chief Guest of the inaugural function of a 5-day long NSS Mega Festival at Youth Hostel No.3, Khuman Lampak Sports Complex. The camp is being organized under the aegis of State National Service Scheme (NSS) Cell. Dr Ranjan informed that these minor tremors could be detected only by earthquake monitoring equipments. Some experts opined that such repetitive minor tremors is an indication that no major quake would occurred in Manipur while others maintained that these minor tremors are only regrouping of the elements that would ultimately erupt into a devastating quake sooner or later. In spite of contrasting views, one thing is certain that the land mass of Manipur has been formed along the fold lines that have no joining between one fold and another. There is one large fold line running from Mao to Churachandpur and this would pose greater risk in the event of a major earthquake and this could happen at any time. So, there is the need to step up the activities of Disaster Management in Manipur, Dr Ranjan said. It is also high time for the people to think over why there is acute shortage of the drinking water in Manipur despite receiving highest annual rainfall, he observed. ­E.pao

6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Beni region of Bolivia - November 22, 2011 ­ SANTA CRUZ - A deep 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck Beni, just north of the mountainous region of eastern Bolivia. The depth of the earthquake was more than 533 km (331 miles) below the surface. The earthquake was so deep in fact- that USGS initially recorded readings from seismometers showing the quake had a 6.9 magnitude intensity. The earthquake occurred deep in the planet's mantle and was about 500 km northeast of Uturuncu, the site of a mysterious super magmatic ground inflation. The earthquake's epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) SSW of Trinidad, Bolivia and 342 km (212 miles) NW of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. There were no reports of damages from today's earthquake.

Massive section of Los Angeles roadway falls into the ocean - November 22, 2011 - San Pedro, California ­ Roadway slides into the Pacific Ocean, after heavy rains soak southern California. Heavy rain Sunday (November 20) caused a large portion of a California road to collapse, leaving a gaping hole in a cliff-side. A 900 foot (274 meter) section of the road south of Los Angeles crumbled and fell into the Pacific Ocean. The road had already been closed to pedestrians and vehicle traffic after cracks continued to expand over the past few months at a rate of four inches a day. Officials are asking the residents to keep their distance because the road remains unstable. There were no reports of injuries or property damage in the immediate area.

Saturday 19th November 2011 - Hierro Volcano, Canary Islands Earthquake activity has increased at El Hierro volcano, Canary Islands. A magnitude 3.7 earthquake occurred at 15:32 hr (UT) on 18th November in the El Golfo region. The focus was at a depth of 23 km. Between midnight and 14:30 hr there were 32 earthquakes. Beaches between Puerto Naos and La Restinga have been closed due gas emissions. A 4 km radius around the eruption site is closed to navigation. Area of upwelling is over 200 m in diameter.

El Hierro Submarine Eruption Continues Off the coast of El Hierro, in the southwest reaches of the Canary Islands, Earth has been spewing gas and rock into the ocean. The island off the Atlantic coast of North Africa--built mostly from a shield volcano--has been rocked by thousands of tremors and earthquakes since July 2011, and an underwater volcanic eruption started in mid-October. The eruption is the first in the island chain in nearly 40 years. View Photo as seen from space

Turkey Earthquakes: Ercis Hardest Hit by Tremblor

Turkey earthquake does not surprise seismologists. Turkey is, in effect, caught in a geophysical vise between the Arabian plate, inching northward, and the Eurasian plate, the immovable object. The quake's epicenter was situated some 10 miles east of Lake Van, a salt lake that covers 1,450 square miles. Seismologists estimate that the crust ruptured some 12 miles below the surface. The quake's epicenter was in the village of Tabanli, near the city of Van close to the Iranian border. With a population of 75,000, Ercis was the hardest hit by the quake. About 55 miles south, Van also sustained major damage. Turkey is highly susceptible to earthquakes as it sits on major geological fault lines. The quake, which hit at 1:41 p.m. local time Sunday, was upgraded from a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 to 7.3 magnitude. The U.S. Geological Survey later revised the magnitude to 7.2. The depth of the epicenter was considered shallow -- 12.4 miles, shallower than the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010 -- and more potentially destructive, combined with the poor building codes in the region. According to the Hakki Erskoy with the Turkish Red Crescent, there were at least 120 aftershocks on Sunday. Erskoy said that the high number aftershocks isn't affecting the search and rescue efforts, as most of the families have moved from their homes and settled in tents. Residents spent the night outdoors and lit campfires, while others sought shelter with relatives in nearby villages.

The region is no stranger to strong earthquakes; it sits atop one of the most seismically active spots in the world, researchers say. In essence, Turkey is a block of crust caught in a geophysical vise between the Arabian plate, which is inching north at a rate of about one inch per year, and the Eurasian plate, which, relatively speaking, represents the immovable object. "Everything that is happening to Turkey is the result of the Arabian Peninsula smashing its way into Turkey, Iran, and Iraq," explains Russ Stein, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., who has worked in the region. The features driving this slow-motion crumpling sit beneath the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Both host mid-sea ridges that run along their lengths. Along the ridges, new crust is welling up and spreading to either side. This spreading gives the Arabian plate its northern push. The Arabian Peninsula has fellow travelers on either side: the African and Indian plates, which also are migrating north. The trio is responsible for building the arc of mountains that run from the Alps in Europe to the Himalayas. And like the Indian subcontinent, which is sliding under the Tibetan plateau, the Arabian plate is behaving in a similar manner. To plate-tectonics aficionados, this might sound like a subduction zone ­ plate boundaries where denser ocean crust is diving beneath more-buoyant continental crust. In this case, however, Turkey and the Arabian plate are both cut from the same geologic cloth: both consist of crustal rock. The process presents something of an additional puzzle, particularly in the eastern part of the country, Dr. Stein suggests: Turkey hosts a string of stratovolcanoes, similar to the soaring, snow-capped cones found along the Pacific's "rim of fire." They stretch from east to west along southern Turkey. One of the most storied is Mount Ararat, a dormant volcano on Turkey's eastern border, far from any subduction zone ­ atypical for this kind of volcano.

To complete the picture of a geophysically scrunched country, the Arabian plate's pressure on Turkey also has generated two San Andreas-like faults. Both start from a common point west of Lake Van, then part ways. The Northern Anatolia Fault runs west along the remaining length of northern Turkey and has been responsible for some of the country's most violent quakes. The other, the Eastern Anatolian Fault, heads southeast from the common starting point to terminate at the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Cyprus. The two faults form the boundaries of a sizable wedge of land that, as it is slowly squeezed, is in effect squirting west into the Aegean Sea toward Greece, Stein explains. He likens it to a wet watermelon seed spurting out from between fingertips ­ just add pressure. So far, the fault responsible for Sunday's quake appears to be a blind fault ­ one that leaves no evidence on the surface for geophysicists to spot. Stein, who specializes in studying how strain from one quake can trigger quakes on nearby faults, says he is keeping an eye on activity west of Sunday's epicenter. The biggest aftershocks so far have been centered under Lake Van, itself the byproduct of volcanic eruptions from Mount Nemrut, which sits along the lake's western shore. If Sunday's quake does serve as the trigger for another in the near future, it likely will be to the west

Second massive Kermadec Islands earthquake in 4 months time - October 21, 2011 At 05:57 October 22 2011 local time, a massive 7.4 earthquake struck the Kermadec trench area. This Kermadec Islands region earthquake occurred near the Kermadec Trench where the Pacific Plate begins its decent into the mantle beneath the eastern edge of the Australian Plate. At the latitude of this earthquake, the Pacific Plate is converging with Australia in a westward direction at a velocity of approximately 61 mm/yr. The preliminary mechanism and depth of the event suggest it ruptured a reverse fault within the oceanic lithosphere of the Pacific Plate; the initial location indicate a source slightly to the east of the trench, outboard (seaward) of the subduction zone itself, and thus not on the thrust interface between the Pacific and Australian plates. The October 21 earthquake struck in an oceanic region with few nearby populations, approximately 500 km south of Tonga and 700 km north of New Zealand. This region of the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone experiences reasonably high levels of seismic activity, with nearly 50 events of M 6.5 and above over the past 38 years, and 5 greater than M 7.5.

Mudslides, rain leave 70 dead in Central America - Oct 16, 2011

The death toll from rains and mudslides across Central America rose Sunday to more than 70, including at least nine people killed when the collapse of a hillside in El Salvador wiped out five dwellings, officials said. International highways have been washed out, villages isolated and thousands of families have lost homes and crops in a region that the United Nations has classified as one of the most affected by climate change.

Global Sea Temperatures are lower than usual. Will this mean a harsh winter? See chart here.

Early Snow in Ireland N. Ireland had a bout of very heavy rain and strong winds today. Early in the afternoon, as a cold front moved south-east, reports of sleet and snow started to come in to our local television station. Pictures of snow lying below the 1000 ft level were shown on the evening news. The last time we had snow this early was on today's date in 1964.

USGS Reports Record Number Of Strong Earthquakes In 2011 By analysing data from the US Geological Survey (USGS), IWO was able to determine that earthquake activity (6.0-9.9 magnitude) during the period 01 January to 12 October 2011 reached its highest level in 20 years. The 2011 data was compared with data for the corresponding period in each of the 19 previous years since 1992. A total of 177 earthquakes in the range 6.0 to 10 magnitude on the Richter Scale have been recorded so far in 2011, compared to 149 for the same period in 2010 and 119 in 2009. Recent earthquakes exceeding 6 magnitude on the Richter Scale have occurred in Tonga (08 Oct), northern Argentina (06 Oct), India/Nepal (18 Oct), Cuba (15 Sept), northern Sumatra (05 Sept), Vanuatu (03 Sept), Alaska (02 Sept), and East Timor (30 Aug). Full article

The area 2-4 miles WSW of Quitman, AR is experiencing a small swarm (14) of earthquakes in the range of the most recent (Oct. 17th) of 2.8 to the lowest of 1.8. These are all within the last 7 days.

A Magnitude 6.5 - Struck Eastern New Guinea Reg, Papua New Guinea on 2011 October at 14 03:35:15 UTC at a depth of 45.4 km (28.2 miles). This has been followed by the latest, a Magnitude 5.3 - New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea on 2011 October 17 19:51:55 UTC at a depth of 47.2 km (29.3 miles).

Magnitude 5.3 - Off The Coast Of Oregon on 2011 October 13 04:13:59 UTC at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles).

Oct. 6th New sunspot 1313 is crackling with C-class flares. It is just now coming around to the Earth-facing side of the Sun. DRACONID METEOR OUTBURST: Forecasters say Earth is heading for a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. A close encounter with the comet's fragile debris could spark a meteor outburst over parts of our planet on October 8th. The pressure on the Earth's magnetoshere is high but at least the poles are straightening out - we again have a South pole flow as of 18:11 UT. The North pole is tending South and the South pole is moving Northward...see current magnetosphere here.

Strong Earthquake hit Canada: M=5.4 - 130 km W of Wrigley, NT - Sunday, September 25, 2011 Local Time: 19:02:57 MDT Magnitude: 5.4 ML Latitude: 63.4 North Longitude: 126.2 West

A Magnitude 6.2 earthquake has registered in Tonga -2011 September 22nd at a depth of 8.6 km (5.3 miles)

A Magnitude 3.6 - Southeastern Missouri - 2011 September 22nd at a depth of 16.5 km (10.3 miles).

Another earthquake of 3.9 magnitude hits Sikkim

Solar Megastorm Could Cripple Satellites for a Decade - Satellites not strong enough to withstand sun's explosions, model shows. Earth-orbiting satellites are designed to withstand the sun's explosions-but they may not be strong enough to ride out a solar "megastorm," a new study says. If hit by a powerful onslaught of solar energy and particles, Earth's atmosphere would be flooded with high-energy electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light, according to a new computer model. This would hinder operations of low-Earth orbiting, or LEO, satellites. The satellites wouldn't immediately start falling out of the sky following a megastorm, but they would malfunction much faster than previous models suggested. Full story

5.1 magnitude earthquake strikes subduction zone south of Mount Tambora - September 21, 2011 ­ Sumbawa, INDONESIA ­ A 5.1 magnitude earthquake has struck the subduction plate of the ocean crust southwest of where the Mount Tambora volcano is located. According to the USGS, the earthquake had a depth of 44 km (27 miles) and the epicenter was 168 km (104 miles) SW of Bima, Sumbawa, Indonesia. Seismic tension and volcanic activity have escalated around Indonesia in the past month as volatility in the south Pacific Ring of Fire continues to build.

Guatemala ­ Six earthquakes in single day - Four of the temblors ­ one a magnitude 5.8 ­ struck in a 2-1/2 hour span. Sept. 20th ­ According to the US Geological Survey, the first earthquake, registered at a magnitude of 4.8, hit at 11:00 a.m. Within 33 minutes the largest tremor at a magnitude of 5.8 hit, followed by two more at magnitudes 4.8 and 4.5 in a 2-1/2 hour span. The quakes were centered along the southwestern coast of Guatemala, around Santa Rosa where a few people were reported dead after being buried in a landslide.The continuous quakes prompted a number of mudslides in the highlands where mountain slopes are saturated after weeks of rain from hurricane activity. Landslides also blocked the main Pan American highway that connects Guatemala with the rest of Central America.

Deadly mudslides hit Guatemala day after earthquakes - September 21, 2011 ­ SANTA ROSA ­ Mudslides in Guatemala killed one person and left 12 missing on Tuesday, a day after a series of earthquakes hit another region in the impoverished Central American nation, officials said. The mudslides occurred near the small community of Santa Cruz Barillas, at an altitude of 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) near the Mexican border, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital. David de Leon, an emergency official, said four homes were swept away by the mud, with one person confirmed dead and 12 missing, in the latest incident provoked by heavy rains in the region. Fire officials said they were awaiting delivery of heavy equipment to dig through the mud in the search for victims. In another part of the country, rescue operations were continuing after a 5.8 magnitude quake and two smaller temblors struck and area some 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of the capital, killing at least one person. Some 1,200 people were being housed in makeshift tents on a football field and a local military base after the quake damaged many structures in the area near Cuilapa. Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced the suspension of classes in schools for the department of Santa Rosa and emergency officials maintained an orange alert. Seismologists at the United States Geological Survey said the biggest of the three quakes hit Monday at around 12:34 pm local time (1834 GMT) with its epicenter 52 kilometers (32 miles) southeast of the capital. It was preceded and followed by smaller, but still sizable temblors. The quakes were felt as far away as neighboring El Salvador, but there were no reports there of injuries or damage.

Several dead after magnitude 6.9 quake in India - Sept. 18th - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote area in northeastern India on Sunday evening, killing at least two people and damaging buildings and blocking roads, as well as killing four in neighbouring Nepal. The U.S. Geological Survey said on its website the quake was centered 64 km (40 miles) north west of Gangtok, capital of Sikkim. It was 19.7 km (12.2 miles) deep. Sikkim is India's least populous state, located in the Himalayas between Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. The quake was felt all the way to Bangladesh, shaking buildings in the capital and neighbouring areas. At least 10 people were injured and some buildings suffered minor damages. Several earthquakes have hit north and east India this year, but none have caused major damage or injuries.

Update - Sept. 22nd: The death toll has reached 112 from the f6.9 earthquake.

Tectonic Summary: The September 18, 2011 Sikkim, India earthquake occurred near the boundary between the India and Eurasia plates, in the mountainous region of northeast India near the Nepalese boarder. Initial analyses suggest the earthquake was complex, likely a result of two events occurring close together in time at depths of approximately 20 km beneath the Earth's surface. At the latitude of the September 18 earthquake, the India plate converges with Eurasia at a rate of approximately 46 mm/yr towards the north-northeast. The broad convergence between these two plates has resulted in the uplift of the Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range. The preliminary focal mechanism of the earthquake suggests strike slip faulting, and thus an intraplate source within the upper Eurasian plate or the underlying India plate, rather than occurring on the thrust interface plate boundary between the two.

This region has experienced relatively moderate seismicity in the past, with 18 earthquakes of M 5 or greater over the past 35 years within 100 km of the epicenter of the September 18 event. The largest of these was a M 6.1 earthquake in November of 1980, 75 km to the southeast.

Sept. 18th - We currently have 6 sunspots visible. Sunspot 1295 poses a threat for Earth-directed C-flares. The current Boulder sunspot number is 138.

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.

REENTRY ALERT: NASA reports that UARS, an atmospheric research satllite the size of a small bus, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 23, plus or minus one day. Not all of the spectacularly-disintegrating spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere; debris could be scattered along a ground track some 500 miles long. Because of the rapid evolution of UARS's decaying orbit, the location of the debris zone is not yet known. A NASA risk assessment places the odds of a human casualty at 1:3200. For last-chance sightings of UARS, check the Simple Satellite Tracker or download the Satellite Flybys app for your smartphone.

Sept. 11 A new sunspot (AR1289) is growing rapidly in the sun's eastern hemisphere. GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY: High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras mixing with the light of tonight's Harvest Moon. A fast-blowing stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and causing geoagnetic activity around the poles.

September 11, 2011 ­ LUBBOCK, Tx. ­ A 4.4 M earthquake Sunday morning shook the ground across Scurry County and parts of West Texas. The USGS reports the quake was centered 11 miles northeast of Snyder and had a depth of 6.4 miles.

Very strong earthquake along the coast of Vancouver Island ­ depth 23 km Magnitude 6.4 - 09.09.2011 ­ At 12:41 PM a very strong earthquake struck not far from Vancouver Island. The focal depth of 80 km has been later revised by USGS to 23 km. The earthquake was well felt in Vancouver and beyond, several hundred km away from the epicenter. Even longtime coastal residents were surprised by the intensity of the shaking.

USGS confirmed a 5.0 earthquake between Martinique and Dominica, occuring at a depth of 150.6 km (93.6 miles).

La Niña is back - September 8, 2011 La Niña, which contributed to extreme weather around the globe during the first half of 2011, has re-emerged in the tropical Pacific Ocean and is forecast to gradually strengthen and continue into winter. Today, forecasters with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center upgraded last month's La Niña Watch to a La Niña Advisory.

NOAA will issue its official winter outlook in mid-October, but La Niña winters often see drier than normal conditions across the southern tier of the United States and wetter than normal conditions in the Pacific Northwest and Ohio Valley.

MERCURY-DIRECTED CME: On Sept 8th around 2300 UT, the SOHO and STEREO spacecraft detected a significant CME emerging from the farside of the sun. Earth is not in the line of fire, but the planet Mercury is. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab estimate that the cloud will reach the innermost planet on Sept. 9th at 12:00 UT (plus minus 7 hours). For Space Weather, click here.

Astronomers are losing sleep and amateur skywatchers are training their sights on an exploding star, or supernova, that is the closest of its kind to be seen in four decades. The Milky Way, pictured, stretches about one hundred thousand light years from one edge of its disk to the other. A supernova will take place in the "Pinwheel Galaxy," some 21 million light years away from Earth. Expected to peak in brightness Thursday and Friday, the exploding star is practically next door cosmically speaking, about 21 million light years away, or about 1,240 million-trillion miles. It was first spotted in telescopes Aug. 23. It is located in the "Pinwheel Galaxy," above the Big Dipper.

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake shakes Indian capital  - 09.07.11, 23:25 / Israel News An earthquake shook the Indian capital New Delhi and surrounding areas late on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries, local media reported. (USGS has this qukake at a 4.3) The epicenter of the earthquake was Sonipat at Delhi-Haryana border. The 11:30 p.m. quake followed a bomb blast earlier in the day that killed 11 and injured dozens more outside the Delhi High Court.

Increase In Seismic Activity At Iceland's Katla Volcano - Sept 6th. Yesterday there was a report of a harmonic tremor spike at Katla. Such activity is usually relates to hydrothermal activity under the Myrdalsjökull glacier or is a precursor to an earthquake swarm. The increase in seismic activity at the volcano follows a series of shallow, moderate subsea earthquakes which struck along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on Monday morning. The quakes, ranging between 4 and 5 magnitude, occurred on the Reykjanes Ridge, part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that rises up to the ocean surface to the southwest of Iceland. The strongest of the quakes, a magnitude 4.9, was located 727 km southwest of the Icelandic capital Reykjavík, 686 km SW of Grindavík and 720 km SW of Hafnarfjör?ur. It hit at 06:05:37 GMT on Monday. The quake was followed by three 4.6 magnitude tremors and one 4.8 tremor, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.

Magnitude 6.6 - Northern Sumatra, Indonesia - 2011 September 05 at a depth of 110.1 km (68.4 miles). It was located 100 km (62 miles) SW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia at 2.973°N, 97.997°E. *Of interest is the location of the supervolcano Toba at Latitude: 2.58°N Longitude: 98.83°E.

Magnitude 7 Earthquake Hits Near Vanuatu Islands - Sun Sep 04 - A powerful earthquake struck off the island nation of Vanuatu on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. No tsunami warnings were issued. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake at 9.55 a.m. local time (2255 GMT Saturday) was centered about 70 kilometres south-southeast of the southernmost Vanuatu island of Aneityum, 125 km (78 miles) SSE (159°) from Isangel, Vanuatu, and 215 km (134 miles) ENE (61°) from Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. It struck about 132.4 kilometers (82.3 miles) deep, making it an earthquake of intermediate depth. Two weeks ago, on August 21, two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.1 and 7.4 on the Richter scale also struck near Vanuatu, prompting a local tsunami warning and generating small tsunamis which hit the island of Efate.

7.1-Magnitude Quake Strikes Alaska's Aleutians: An earthquake measuring a preliminary 7.1 magnitude struck Alaska'sAleutian Island chain early Friday, some 125 miles from the nearest town, prompting a local tsunami warning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake, which struck at 1:55 a.m. local time, occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles and some 120 miles east-southeast of Atka and some 1,043 miles west- southwest of Anchorage near the Fox Islands. This quake has been followed by 5 aftershocks.

Friday 2nd September 2011 - Katla Volcano, Indonesia An earthquake swarm has occurred near Katla volcano in Iceland. The largest earthquake in the swarm measured magnitude 3.2 on the evening of 1st September. The seismic activity occurred under M?rdalsjökull glacier in southern Iceland which covers Katla volcano.

August 29th: Central Peru continues to shake after the 7.0 quake of the 24th. Today a 4.2 aftershock rattled Peru at a depth of 173 km.

Aug 29th­ Earthquake swarm at Katla volcano under Myrdalsjökull glacier - Quake activity really ramping up. Sixty two quakes, with two of them greater than 2.0.

August 29th: Earthquakes aftershocks continue to rattle 6 miles S of Louisa, VA with 3 small quakes 2.0, 2.7, and 2.2 at a shallow depth of 4.2 km.

Colorado Earthquake swarms & Virginia swarm: USGS scientist says research on fracking relationship to earthquakes is still preliminary - A U.S. Geological Survey scientist Friday said large earthquakes in unusual places like Virginia and southern Colorado earlier this week aren't typically associated with the controversial natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing. "That process can cause very small earthquakes, but the fracking process doesn't really, we think, induce large earthquakes," USGS scientist Mike Blanpied said on a video chat. "The thing that can induce larger earthquakes is the high-pressure waste fluid injection that's done in some places."

Last week, Colorado was rocked by a magnitude-5.3 earthquake that went largely unnoticed as it was a mere two hours before the now infamous Virginia earthquake. Both events triggered mild panic and dismay due to their rarity. While Virginia and its neighboring states have been rattled by a handful of weak aftershocks, Colorado has been shaken by a total of 13 so far. Colorado's quake was the largest the state has experienced in over 40 years.

August 28th: California ancient volcano site rattled by swarm of tremors - A cluster of mild earthquakes rumbled early on Saturday near Pinnacles National Monument, site of an ancient volcano in central California, and were widely felt in and around the Monterrey Bay area. The largest of the tremors, measured at a magnitude of 4.6, struck shortly after midnight Friday local time just northwest of Pinnacles, which lies in the San Andreas seismic fault zone about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Read more...

August 28th  SOLAR EXPLOSION: This morning at 0430 UT, the magnetic canopy of departing sunspot 1271 erupted, producing a B5-class solar flare and hurling a CME into space. The beautiful blast was not Earth-directed and will not affect our planet. Also a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole should reach Earth on Aug. 28-29. There is a 20 - 30% possibility of geomagnetic storms in the mid to high latitudes with probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth's magnetic field during the next 24 - 48 hours.

August 27th: 10,000 earthquakes in swarm reported on German-Czech border- magma on the move say geologists - The Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic says it has recorded almost 10,000 earthquakes during the last three days in West Bohemia, a region located close to the Czech Republic's western border with Germany. The earthquake swarm started late on Tuesday and continued through Friday. Commenting on the latest earthquake swarm, the Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic stated: "The activity started in the evening of 23 August and is almost continuous till now (26 August morning). Almost 10 000 events were recorded in total up to now. Already eight events M>3.0 and 200 M>2.0 occurred. The location of hypocenters directly below the NKC station, so it appears a new patch of the fault plane is being activated." In recent years, scientists have noted an increase in the movement of magma towards the earth's surface in the Cheb Basin, western Czech Republic. They say rising magma could be one of the causes of the earthquake swarms, which regularly occur in the Vogtland, North-West Bohemia, the Fichtelgebirge and the Upper Palatinate. The last earthquake swarm to occur before this week's activity was in 2008.

August 25th: San Andreas-like fault found in Northeastern U.S. - For 30 years geologists have been puzzled by a remarkably straight magnetic line that runs between New York and Alabama along the Appalachians. A more recent aerial magnetic survey of the Alabama end of the line suggests that it's probably a 500-million-year-old San Andreas-style fault that appears to have slipped 137 miles (220 kilometers) to the right in the distant past. If so, it's no surprise that the most dangerous part of the eastern Tennessee seismic zone is right next to part of this magnetic line and has the second-highest earthquake frequency in the eastern United States. Seismic surveys across the feature indicated it is very steep and runs very deep.

Earthquakes continue in Virginia - 8 km ( 5 mi) SSW of Mineral, VA - beginning with the 5.8 quake on Aug. 23rd and followed by a 2.8, 2.2, 4.2, and a 3.4 on the 24th. Dominion Resources workers were inspecting the North Anna nuclear power plant in Mineral, Virginia on Wednesday, a day after an earthquake centered near plant knocked both reactors offline. Tuesday's 5.8 magnitude earthquake, the largest to hit the U.S. East Coast in 67 years, knocked out power to the nuclear plant which triggered an automatic shutdown. Click here for more information on the faulting of this area.

Exelon Corp. (EXC) said Tuesday that four of its nuclear-power plants have declared "unusual events" following an earthquake in northern Virginia. Exelon'sLimerick plant near Philadelphia, Oyster Creek plant near Toms River, N.J., Peach Bottom plant near Lancaster, Pa., and Three Mile Island Unit 1 plant near Harrisburg, Pa., declared unusual events in the wake of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., the company said. The company did not report any damage or other effects at the plants. Plant operators are inspecting facilities and equipment to check for any damage or impacts, said Exelon spokeswoman April Schilpp. She added that power-plant crews will continue to watch power-plant equipment in the event of any additional earthquake activity. Schilpp noted that "unusual events" are the lowest of four emergency classifications used by nuclear-power-plant operators. Dominion Resources Inc.'s (D) North Anna nuclear-power plant in central Virginia lost offsite power following the earthquake, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. The North Anna plant automatically shut down and has been using four diesel generators to maintain cooling operations, the NRC said.

Colorado, the Cokedale area, continues to shake with a total of 17 quakes as of Aug. 24th all at a depth of 5.0 km (+ or - 2 km). Then you get to California: 14 KM ( 9 MI) SE OF MAMMOTH LAKES, CA began with a 4.2 earthquake on Aug. 24th and the shaking continues with 17 small aftershocks. Click here for the current California / Nevada earthuake map.

The South Pacific area continues shake after the 6.2 earthquake in the Fiji Region at a depth of 413.2 km on the 19th of August. The next big quake was the 7.1 and a 7.0 in Vanuatu on the 20th. Many aftershocks are occurring with the latest being a 5.1 in Tonga. Right across the Pacific we have a 7.0 earthquake in Northern Peru, followed by a 5.3 quake on Aug. 24th. There was a strong, but deep tremor that rumbled through a jungle region just after 12:40 p.m. in northern Peru near Brazil, said the USGS. There have been no immediate reports about serious damage or injuries in the region. The quake happened 150 kilometres underground. Peru's Buenaventura Mining Company says no effects from quake.

More Solar Winds to impact Earth on August 27-28th.

August 23rd Irene: Strongest Hurricane to Hit Carolinas Since 1996 - Irene is projected to become the strongest hurricane to hit the Carolinas since 1996 this weekend. Six years have passed since the entire United States endured a blow like Irene is forecast to unleash. The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center is expecting Irene to blast onto the Carolina coastline in between Myrtle Beach and Morehead City this weekend as a strong Category 3 hurricane. Irene even has a good chance of strengthen into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane by Thursday, and it is not out of the question that Irene maintains this powerful strength through its landfall in the Carolinas.

August 23rd Sunspot 1271 - Every time you look, sunspot 1271 has a new outline. For the past two days the active region has been in a constant state of change, altering its shape on an hourly basis. These rapid changes have caused the sunspot's magnetic field to criss-cross and tangle. The magnetic field now has a "beta-gamma" configuration that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Any such flares today would be approximately Earth-directed because the sunspot is not far from disk-center.

Earth is now entering a solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Also the Magnetosphere is showing large amounts of pressure.

August 23rd Oklahoma near Oklahoma City has also experienced 3 earthquakes: a 2.8 today, a 2.5 on the 22nd, and a 3.0 on the 18th.

August 23rd Also there is a swarm of 90 earthquakes that occurring in the Anderson Springs / The Geysers, CA area with the largest a 3.7 on August 17th. Most are approx. 35 km (22 miles) N (356°) from Santa Rosa, CA in Northern California.

August 23rd CO experiences largest quake in over 40 years - A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake that rattled southern Colorado early Tuesday morning was the largest to hit the state in more than 40 years. The quake's epicenter was seven miles southwest of Cokedale, and 180 miles south of Denver. It was the largest in a series of earthquakes that struck the area. As of 5 a.m. local time (7 a.m. ET), the USGS reported seven quakes centered just south of Cokedale since midnight. This area is not known for major quakes or active faults. This area of Colorado saw a similar swarm of earthquakes in August and September 2001. Another source

Seismicity activity in the Sangre de Cristos Mountains: The Sangre de Cristos are fault block mountains with major fault lines running along both the east and west sides of the mountains. In places, there are also fault lines cutting right through the mountain chain. The mountains were pushed up about 27 million years ago, pretty much as one big chunk of rock. On the west side is the San Luis Valley with the Rio Grande Rift Zone running down the middle. On the southeast side is the Raton Basin with a quiet but still active volcano field. On the northeast side are the Wet Mountains and the Front Range, areas of pre-Cambrian rock raised up during the Colorado Orogeny some 1.7 billion years ago. The Blanca Massif is also pre-Cambrian rock while the main body of the Sangres themselves is composed of Permian-Pennsylvanian rock and a mix of igneous intrusions, conglomerates and shale that is only about 250 million years old. See Sangres Activity along the many faults running in and through the Sangre de Cristos mountains could be one likely cause of the mysterious Taos Hum. This latest episode of quake activity near Trinidad may have been building for some time.

August 23rd Rare Earthquake Hits Virginia, Rattles U.S. East Coast - Tremors felt in Washington, D.C., New York City. The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck Virginia today was a rare but significant event for the region. The Virginia earthquake struck at about 1:51 p.m ET near Mineral, Virgina, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Richmond. This quake was located on the Spotsylvania Fault line. The tremors shook buildings and prompted evacuations as far away as Washington, D.C., and New York City. The quake was followed by a magnitude 2.8 aftershock 45 minutes later. Before this latest quake, for example, the largest earthquake on record in central Virginia was a magnitude 4.8 temblor that occurred in 1875, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Earthquake Shuts Down Virginia Nuclear Plant - The North Anna nuclear power plant, located 20 miles from the epicenter, is shut down and in a safe condition, a company official and the Louisa County public information office report. There has been no release of nuclear material, Louisa County spokeswoman Amanda Reidelbach said

August 22nd New Iceland Current Could Sway N. Atlantic Climate - A newly discovered deep, cold current flowing off Iceland's coast may reveal that the North Atlantic is less sensitive to climate change than previously thought, researchers reported Sunday. The new current, the North Icelandic Jet, feeds the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a giant pattern known as the "great ocean conveyor belt," or by the disconcerting acronym AMOC. Because this pattern is critically important for regulating Earth's climate, including European and North American climates, any strong influences on it, and their response to a warming Earth, are of keen scientific and practical interest.

August 22, 2011 ­ Indonesia ­ A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of SW Sumatra at a depth of 31.3 km. The earthquake's epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) SW of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, Indonesia and 315 km (195 miles) W of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. There has been a noticeable increase in both volcanic and earthquake activity in Indonesia over the last several weeks. Two weeks ago, the country's geologists put as many as 18 volcanoes in the archipelago on alert status because of increased activity. No tsunami warnings or damage have been reported with the latest offshore earthquake. This is the sixth 6.0+ magnitude earthquake to strike the world (Ring of Fire) in 5 days. ­The Extinction Protocol

August 19, 2011 5:13 AM EDT - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast Friday, triggering a 50 cm (20 inch) tsunami warning that was lifted about 35 minutes later. The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 2:36 pm, was off the coast of Fukushima, 20 km below Earth's surface, the same region where the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck on March 11, followed by the devastating 30-meter tsunami, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency said there was no damage from Fridays's quake and the tsunami advisory was lifted after no waves were sighted. Some highways were closed and high-speed bullet trains were halted after the quake, public broadcaster NHK said. Friday's tremor was felt in Tokyo where buildings swayed mildly, according to local reports.

August 5th - GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: A major geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a CME on August 5th around 1800 UT. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras after nightfall. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say that the CME impact may have strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma.

August 4th - ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO: As predicted by analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab, the first of three CMEs produced by the recent spate of flare activity reached Earth during the late hours of August 4th. The impact was weak and is not expected to produce strong geomagnetic storms. Two more CMEs are still on the way and, as described below, they may have merged into a single cloud that could produce significant storming when they reach Earth on August 5th around 10:00 UT.

STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: For the third day in a row, active sunspot 1261 has unleashed a significant M-class solar flare. The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind). The number of energetic protons around Earth has jumped nearly 100-fold as a result of this event. The eruption propelled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Moving at an estimated speed of 1950 km/s, this CME is expected to sweep up an earlier CME already en route. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab say the combined cloud should reach Earth on August 5th at 10:00 UT plus or minus 7 hours: "The impact on Earth is likely to be major. The estimated maximum geomagnetic activity index level Kp is 7 (Kp ranges from 0 - 9). The flanks of the CME may also impact STEREO A, Mars and Mercury/MESSENGER." High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Source

2 Aug 11 - Chile - Wettest winter in decades for arid northern desert  - Four years' worth of rain in one day - Three feet of snow -Major storms in July dumped more than five times the annual amount of rain and snow on parts of the world's driest desert, blocking highways, forcing cancellation of a top Chilean football match and damaging homes. A similar wet stretch in early July dumped four years' worth of rain in one day on coastal Antofogasta. "That was just a quarter of an inch," says this article by Eva Vergara, "but it was still enough to cause collapsed or leaking roofs in homes and businesses that usually have no reason to protect themselves against even minimal precipitation." The same storm also brought as much as three feet of snow to mountains that normally receive zero precipitation during the southern winter. See entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43982706/ns/weather/#.TjilKN3gJLQ

July 31st El Hierro earthquakes now exceed 1,050   - Unprecedented activity - "The total number of tremors recorded during the past two weeks has now exceeded 1,050," says this article by Mark Dunphy. "The vast majority of the tremors have been recorded in the northwest of the 278.5-square-kilometre island at El Golfo, the location of a massive landslide that created a 100-metre (330-ft) high tsunami almost 50,000 years ago. After meeting again on Friday, the Canary Islands Steering Committee and Volcanic Monitoring reported that it had stepped up its seismic monitoring operations to identify the source of the earthquakes. "It remains unclear, however, if the unprecedented seismic activity on El Hierro is a precursor to a possible future increase in earthquake or volcanic activity." http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/earthquakesvolcanos/el-hierro-earthquake-swarm-enters-third-week/29291.html

Magnitude 6.7 - South Of The Fiji Islands - 2011 July 29 07:42:23 UTC at a depth os 521.7 km (324.2 miles) was centered about 365 kilometers (226 miles) south-southwest of Ndoi Island, a small island which is part of Fiji.. It was followed at 8:09 p.m by a 5.1 magnitude aftershock. This had the worldwide shaking of all the seismic monitors.

July 25th - Earthquake Hits Papua New Guinean Province Of New Ireland - A strong earthquake struck an island of Papua New Guinea (P.N.G.) on late Monday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake at 10.50 a.m. local time (0050 GMT) was centered about 73 kilometres (46 miles) south of Kavieng, the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island with the same name. It struck about 34 kilometres (21 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
July 22nd: There is a high percentage for a geomagnetic storm to hit our atmosphere esp. in the mid to high latitudes.

July 10th - a magnitude 7.0 Earthquake OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN. View the map of Asia showing 65 earthquakes within the last 7-days.

The  KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION of the South Pacific Region is still doing its shake, rattle, and rolling after the 7.6 earthquake of July 6th, followed by aftershocks including the 6.0 again on July 6th. View list of earthquakes here.

The area of Mammoth Lakes, CA and HAWTHORNE, NV continues to experience earth movements with the largest being a 3.6 mag. SW OF HAWTHORNE, NV on July 4th. View a list of current earthquakes of this region here.

India: The water table rose in Olpad / Salt water replaced fresh!!!! - June 27th

Quake Tahoe? Researcher Studies Faults Under The Lake - When most people in northern California think of "the big one" they imagine a 1906 type earthquake rocking San Francisco. But it turns out that the Lake Tahoe region is also capable of having large earthquakes and even deadlier tsunami's. Graham Kent: "We're heading right for the largest fault in the basin, the west Tahoe fault ruptures about every four to five thousand years. It's last rupture was 4500 years ago. So obviously there's some concern because we're at the end of that earthquake cycle.  Doesn't mean it's gonna happen tomorrow.  But it wouldn't be a surprise if it did." At least three faults run underneath the lake: the Stateline, the Incline Village and the West Tahoe.  Now it looks like there is one more. 

Study links flooding of ancient Salton Sea to San Andreas earthquakes - Man's interference with Colorado River floods that used to regularly flow to the Salton Sea may have "stopped the clock" on a regular series of big earthquakes, setting the stage for a megaquake that could wreck Southern California, according to researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

June 27th - Six strong quakes strike at Ring of Fire in the past week

Indonesia Hit By Strong Earthquake, Latest On Ring Of Fire - June 26th: Indonesia was hit by a large earthquake and a series of strong tremors Sunday afternoon. A 6.5 magnitude quake, the latest in string of strong quakes to hit the Pacific Ring if Fire region during the last week, struck the country's easternmost Province of Papua 1.16 p.m. GMT. Sunday's quake follows a week of increased activity along the Pacfic Ring of Fire and comes less than 48 hours after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska, USA. Among the other nations to record moderate to strong earthquakes during the last seven days are Japan, Fiji, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Antarctica.

June 27th: Aftershocks are still occurring after the 7.2 earthquake East of Atka, Alaska - 29 so far with 4 in the mid 4 mag. range.

June 24th - Magnitude 7.2 - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Tectonic Summary

The June 24, 2011 Fox Islands (Aleutian Islands, Alaska) earthquake occurred as a result of faulting within the down-going Pacific slab as it thrusts beneath the North America plate at the Aleutian Trench, in the subduction zone extending to the southwest from Alaska. Though the June 24 earthquake is near the subduction thrust interface in the region, its depth (currently estimated as 63 km) and mechanism (either very shallow or steep normal faulting) both suggest that the earthquake occurred within the subducting plate, beyond the down-dip edge of the coupled zone between North America and the Pacific. At the location of this event, the Pacific plate converges with North America at a rate of approximately 71 mm/yr in a northwesterly direction.

Historically, the section of the Aleutians arc in the vicinity of the June 24 earthquake is less active than other parts of this subduction zone, though it has hosted 11 events of magnitude 6 or greater since the early 1970's, all shallower than the June 24 quake. Few instrumentally recorded earthquakes at the depth of the June 24 event have been as large as M6, though two nearby shocks of M > 7 near the beginning of the twentieth century were also thought to have occurred within the subducting Pacific slab. The shallow subduction zone up-dip of the June 24 earthquake ruptured in the M 8.6 Central Aleutians earthquake of 1957, which spawned a large and damaging tsunami locally, that also impacted the shores of Hawaii and California.

Increased attention is being paid to this event due to the fact that the recent M 9 Tohoku, Japan earthquake was preceded two days earlier by a nearby M 7.3 foreshock. We note that while both of those Japanese earthquakes occurred on the subduction thrust plate boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, the June 24 Fox Islands earthquake is likely to have occurred within the lithosphere of the down-going Pacific slab, and thus any link to future events on the plate boundary itself is less clear.

Statistically, any large earthquake raises the probability that other events may occur nearby (typically within two fault lengths, or approximately 100 km in this case). While we are unable to precisely evaluate the probability of a larger earthquake occurring in the near future close to the June 24 event, such probabilities are typically low. The USGS will continue to carefully monitor seismicity in the area, paying particular attention to the number and size of subsequent earthquakes that may increase our understanding of the earthquake sequence and of the likelihood that larger, more damaging events may follow.

June 20th - Earthquake of Magnitude 6.5 and a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles) strikes Antofagasta, Chile near the Bolivia boarder - 2011 June 20 16:35:59 UTC - 12:35 p.m. local time.

Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted - Jun 15, 2011 The Clash of Science is always always unsettled. Detailed images and captions are available here. Caption for this image. "Butterfly diagram" shows the position of sunspots over 12 solar cycles. Sunspots emerge over a range of latitudes centered on migratory jet streams that follow a clear pattern, trending from higher latitudes to lower latitudes on the Sun. The active latitudes are associated with mobile zonal flows or "jet streams" that vary through the cycle. Full size image available here. A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

Small Sun-watcher Proba-2 offers detailed view of massive solar eruption June 14th -After years of relative quietness, the Sun is waking up. Tuesday 7 June saw a medium-class M2.5 solar flare, associated with a proton storm, a coronal mass ejection that glanced past Earth on Thursday 9 June and an accompanying burst of radio energy. ESA's Proba-2 satellite was launched in November 2009, during the most inactive period of the solar cycle, but now the Sun is growing more active as it progresses towards 'solar max', expected in 2013.

Another Damaging Aftershock hits Christchurch, New Zealand - June 13 th - The first measured 5.5, which luckily allowed people to evacuate the red zone and many other locations before the magnitude 6 aftershock struck, minutes ago at a depth of 9km.

June 13th: Earthquake of Mag. 6.2  at a Depth 13.7 km struck at the MOLUCCA SEA, INDONESIA. click here for the current earthquakes of 2.5 mag. or larger.

Eritrea volcano eruption : NASA satellite image proves the eruption comes from historic Nabro volcano - June 13, 2011 at 2:15 pm : During the late afternoon and evening of June 12 2011, a series of moderate earthquakes struck the Afambo, Eritrea area. The moderate earthquakes were followed by 2 strong 5.7 earthquakes. Based on the earthquake pattern and the locations of the epicenter, volcano activity seemed imminent. This volcano (Nabro volcano ER) possibly has been dormant for hundreds to thousands of years. This eruption is a average - large eruption sending ash 13.5 km into the sky

June 12, 2011 ­ ETHIOPIA ­ A 5.7 magnitude earthquake in a swarm of twelve other quakes has struck the Eritrea region of Ethiopia along the Great Rift Valley at a depth of 10 km. The rift is tearing Africa apart. Eventually, as the rift deepens and widens, surrounding waters will rush in to create a new gulf, or sea, as Somalia will break away from Africa to form the new Somali Plate. Swarm in Ethiopia is ocurring, in the base of volcano Nabro. This unusual series of moderate earthquakes have also occurred a couple of months ago in the Gulf of Aden. The earthquakes are typical for separating irregular tectonic plates. The series in the Gulf of Aden had their epicenter in the immediate area of the ridge fault.

M 4.5      2011/06/12 21:37     Depth 15.0 km      ERITREA ­ ETHIOPIA REGION

M 5.7      2011/06/12 21:03     Depth 9.9 km      ERITREA ­ ETHIOPIA REGION

M 5.7      2011/06/12 20:32     Depth 10.1 km      ERITREA ­ ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.8      2011/06/12 19:44     Depth 9.9 km      ERITREA ­ ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.7      2011/06/12 19:37     Depth 10.1 km      ERITREA ­ ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.5      2011/06/12 18:01     Depth 10.1 km      ETHIOPIA

M 5.0      2011/06/12 19:21     Depth 10.0 km     ETHIOPIA

M 4.7      2011/06/12 17:47:21       13.538       41.588     Depth 10.0 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.8      2011/06/12 17:18:10       13.381       41.764     Depth 9.9 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.3      2011/06/12 16:33:12       13.507       41.722     Depth 10.0 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.8      2011/06/12 16:24:44       13.436       41.682     Depth 10.0 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.7      2011/06/12 16:12:03       13.397       41.734     Depth 10.0 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

M 4.5      2011/06/12 16:09:30       13.443       41.696     Depth 2.9 km ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION

Mayan Calendar - Third Day, Ninth Wave: Frank Zweers, who discovered the unusual seismic pattern on the first day of the first DAY (March 9) of the Ninth wave that preceded the big earthquake in Japan has now at the beginning of third DAY (May 20, 2011) discovered a similar pattern which he reports about on his blog: http://nunki.nl/post/5675486567/seismic. Does this mean that there is a new earthquake of large dimensions coming in the next few days (as incidentally a group of Christians have predicted)? Possibly, possibly not. On my own part I am not qualified to tell if the new seismic pattern that Frank has discovered is predictive of such or not. Yet, what seems clearly indicated by Frank's two observations is that something is going on in the core of the Earth as new DAYS begin in the 9th wave. Earthquakes are a we know the result of the continental drift and the continental drift has as we know been necessary to create the Earth as a global brain. As a shift is now taking place in the ninth wave on the level of the global brain to bring about our resonance to unity consciousness earthquakes may come to occur. Maybe the seismic pattern is indicative of such shifts towards unity consciousness on the level of the global brain as new DAYS begin. Regardless of possible earthquake that is an important finding.......Best, Carl Johan

Special: The Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, Japan

The 11 March 2011 magnitude-9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan was one of the largest recorded earthquakes in history. It triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people and an ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Three research papers published on 19 May 2011 in Science Express report on the mechanics of this megaquake and provide insights into the behavior of other very large, rare earthquakes. Science is making these papers, as well as the accompanying News Focus package, FREE for all site visitors.

May 24, 2011 - Japan's TEPCO admits further reactor meltdowns Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company said Tuesday it believed most of the fuel had melted at two more reactors at its tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant. Japan's March 11 disaster left nearly 25,000 people dead or missing. Cooling systems at the Fukushima plant were disabled, leading reactors to overheat, triggering the worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.

May 25th - A 5.0 magnitude earthquake has struck at Tistan da Cunha at a depth of 10 km. Tristan da Cunha is an active strato-volcano formed above a magma hot-spot some 400km east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Monitoring the world's hotspots, where magma is ejected from deep in the planet's mantle to the surface, is an important barometer in monitoring the pace of volcanism and seismicity across the planet

May 22, 2011 ­ PUERTO RICO ­ Caribbean watch: number of quakes in plate doubles in 48 hours - The amount of earthquakes now occurring on the Caribbean plate has doubled in the last 48 hours. We've seen some lateral stresses on the Cocos Plate too as a result with a 4.8 magnitude earthquake striking today just off the coast of Guatemala, as this region is a subduction zone relative to the less dense an overriding Caribbean Plate. On May 24th the area has registered 113 quakes in the last 7 days . The largest is a 4.6 mag. on May 21st located 95 km ( 59 mi) ENE of Higey, Dominican Republic at a depth of 25.5 km. Since that quake the largest is a 3.4 mag.

Near Earth Asteroids: On June 2nd astroid 2009 BD will come close to the Earth at 0.9 LD with a size of 10m. You can see the path of the event here. (LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU)

11 May 2011 - Spain: Earthquake rocks Lorca, Murcia, killing 10

At least 10 people were killed after a magnitude-5.2 earthquake toppled several buildings in southern Spain near the town of Lorca, officials say. The quake struck at a depth of just 1km (0.6 miles), some 120km south-west of Alicante, at 1847 (1647 GMT), the US Geological Survey reported. The quake followed a 4.4-magnitude tremor about two hours earlier. A number of aftershocks have been felt in the region after Wednesday's quake, and authorities fear the death toll could rise. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Madrid says the quake is the most serious to hit Spain in about 50 years. Murcia is close to the large faultline beneath the Mediterranean Sea where the European and African continents meet.

May 9th: Remember the bowing effect happening upon the United States from the St. Lawrence Seaway down through the SanDiego/Baja California/Texas area? We are seeing a small swarm of earthquakes, currently 10, in the area south of Fort Hancock, TX. They range from a 3.2 - 4.2 magnitude. Click here to view the current listing.

Also do not forget the crunching of the Puerto Rico/Caribbean plate area. Today there are 33 earthquakes listed within the last 7 days in this fragile area. The Southern California area has listed a whopping 194 earthquakes within the last 7 days!

6 May 11 - A new earthquake swarm has begun at Yellowstone.  26 quakes so far beginning on 4-30-11. Click here for map and listing.

Earthquake Magnitude 5.2 - Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge - 2011 May 06 16:20:39 UTC at a depth of 9.9km.

May 5, 2011 - Japan hit by powerful aftershock: USGS A powerful aftershock has rocked an area of Japan still reeling from the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, the US Geological Survey said on Friday. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck at 12:58 am (1458 GMT Thursday), 276 kilometres (171 miles) east of Sendai, Honshu Island, at a depth of 24 kilometres, the USGS said. There were no reports of any damage or casualties and no threat of a tsunami.

Mexico City rocked by 5.8 earthquake - Mexico City (AFP) May 5, 2011 - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook Mexico Thursday, causing buildings to sway in the capital some 300 kilometers (187 miles) away from the epicenter, an AFP correspondent and US seismologists said. The quake struck at 1324 GMT near the town of Ometepec in the state of Guerrero, at a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The tremor rattled Mexico City. Dozens of moderate to strong temblors are recorded each year in Mexico, where movement of the North American plate against the Pacific and other plates makes it one of the most active seismic regions in the world.

April 29th: More Than 400 Quakes Pound Hawthorne, NV - This swarm continues with the largest to date at 4.6 mag. In total, this sequence has thus far produced nine magnitude 4 or larger earthquakes near Hawthorne, and about 25 earthquakes larger than magnitude 3.0. They are occuring between Mono Lake, CA and Hawthorne, NV. For a current list, click here

Nevada: I know many of you have been watching the earthquake swarm near Hawthorne, Nevada with some interest. There have been over 400 earthquakes near the Nevada town over the last few weeks and no one is quite sure what the source of the seismicity might be. There is the interesting coincident that the focus of the swarm is near the Aurora Volcanic Field - however, Graham Kent from the director of the Nevada Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno, doesn't think a volcanic eruption is likely (note: the Nevada TV station for this link decided to post video from "Volcano" with the story...sigh.) Even if there was an eruption, it would likely be something small, such as a small cinder core or fissure lava flow based on the previous activity at the Aurora Field, which hasn't been active for 250,000 years. However, that being said, Nevada is still a volcanically-active state, with a number of locations that could see new volcanic activity. Also, Nevada has seen many earthquake swarms over the past few years, and none have lead to volcanic activity - that is like in the Basin and Range province.

April 24th: NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours. Sunspot 1195 is very active now.

Earthquake - Magnitude 6.6 - South Of The Kermadec Islands - 2011 April 18 13:03:03 UTC at a depth of 90.7 km (56.4 miles). It occured 552 km (342 miles) ENE of Auckland, New Zealand. The quake was strong but harmless.

12 Apr 11 - Earthquake off Oregon Coast - Almost exactly 3 years following earthquake swarm: A magnitude-4.3 earthquake struck off the Oregon coast this morning at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), almost exactly three years after an unusual swarm of 600 earthquakes struck near the same area. Three years ago, on April 14, 2008, scientists at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center announced that they had recorded more than 600 earthquakes off the central Oregon coast in just 10 days. This earthquake "swarm" was unique, said OSU marine geologist Robert Dziak, because it occurred in the middle of the Juan de Fuca plate ­ away from the major, regional tectonic boundaries and in an area not typically known for a high degree of seismic activity. At least three of the earthquakes were magnitude of 5.0 or higher, Dziak said, which was also unusual. The earthquakes were located about 150 nautical miles southwest of Newport, Oregon.

Earthquake of Magnitude 6.1 stikes Kyushu, Japan on 2011 April 09 12:57:49 UTC at a depth of 21.3 km (13.2 miles).

In Central America a Magnitude 6.5 - Veracruz, Mexico - 2011 April 07 13:11:24 UTC at a depth of 167.4 km (104.0 miles). This quake occurred just before the major aftershock of 7.1 hit Japan. No damage was reported at the nuclear plants in Veracruz.

Japan Earthquake of Magnitude 7.1 - Near The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan 2011 April 07 14:32:41 UTC at a depth of 49 km (30.4 miles) at a point roughly 66 kilometers east of the city of Sendai.. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter. This has been lifted after one hour. The warning was issued for a coastal area already ravaged by last month's tsunami. The aftershock was initially recorded at magnitude 7.4, but the U.S. Geological Survey later downgraded the jolt to magnitude 7.1 - still a powerful earthquake overall, but far less dangerous than the 9.0-magnitude shock on March 11. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) says that the quake hasn't caused any further damage to the Daiichi nuclear power plant and that all the workers have been temporarily evacuated from the facilities. There were no injuries reported.

The Oshika Peninsula, on which the Onagawa plant is located, was also the closest part of the main Honshu island of Japan to the March 11 earthquake, which shifted the whole peninsula 27 feet to the southeast and sunk it 7 feet. The March 11 tsunami reached heights of 42.5 feet, just below the base of the nuclear plant.

Earthquake of Magnitude 6.0 - strikes Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia on 2011 April 05 11:14:15 UTC.

Warm Water Causes Extra-Cold Winters In Northeastern North America And Northeastern Asia - Throughout northern Europe, average winter temperatures are at least 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than similar latitudes on the northeastern coast of the United States and the eastern coast of Canada. The same phenomenon happens over the Pacific, where winters on the northeastern coast of Asia are colder than in the Pacific Northwest.

EARTHQUAKE 6.4 FIJI REGION 2011-04-03 located approx. 30 km from Tuvuca. The hypocenter of this earthquake was in the hot mantle of the earth. Prior to this latest quake you had a 4.7 mag. on March 30th at a depth of 588.5 km (365.7 miles); a 6.4 on March 31 st at a depth of 23.7 km (14.7 miles); a 5.4 on March 31st at a depth of 4.9 km (3.0 miles) (poorly constrained); a 4.8 on March 31st at a depth of 35.6 km; a 4.5 on April 1st at a depth of 638.9 km (397.0 miles); and then the current quake of 6.4 at a depth of 555.5 km. Click here for Google satellite map of the quake area.

Indonesia: Floods in East Java is spreading. Heavy rains in the region upstream of the eastern district of Pasuruan, since Friday afternoon, also caused flooding in three districts namely Grati, Rejoso and Winongan. At least 4,000 residents and rice fields submerged in floodwaters. After the Gresik-Lamongan submerged, now turn lane segment-Probolinggo Surabaya coast, suffered a similar fate. Coast main line exactly on Highway Ngopak Grati Pasuruan District was flooded for over 12 hours.

1000 Hectares of Agricultural Areas in Tuban, East Java are Still Awash. Eight villages in the district Rengel, Tuban, East Java are still inundated with water levels up to 50 centimeters (cm). "The floods that hit the seven sub districts in Pandeglang, Banten, the higher. At least 7,000 houses submerged, Saturday (4/02). This area is 70 meters above sea level, per Google Earth! But the sub-districts are presumably closer to the coast. And this "In addition to the high intensity of rain triggered, flooding this time was also exacerbated by the tide."

Glaciers growing on Mt. Shasta - all seven glaciers on California's Mount Shasta are growing. Glaciers are also growing in Washington and Alaska. In Washington the Nisqually Glacier on Mt. Rainier is growing. Glaciers on Glacier Peak in northern Washington are growing. And Crater Glacier on Mt. Saint Helens is now larger than it was before the 1980 eruption. Or look at Alaska. Glaciers are growing in Alaska for the first time in 250 years. Two years ago in May, Alaska's Hubbard Glacier was advancing at the rate of seven feet (two meters) per day - more than half-a-mile per year. In Icy Bay, at least three glaciers advanced a third of a mile (? km) in one year.

Fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere also growing - And the Juneau Icefield, which covers 1,505 square miles (3,900 sq km) and is the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere, is also growing.

Currently, March30th, there are four sunspots active with Sunspot 1183 slowly growing and poseing a coontinued threat for M-class solar flares. The sun seems to be entering a new phase of dynamism with radio bursts which sound like ocean surf. Radio emissions like these are caused by plasma instabilities in the sun's atmosphere above sunspots. With the sun becoming 'radio-active,' it's no coincidence that sunspots are emerging in abundance. Leading the way is behemoth active region AR1176. In the mid and high-latitudes there is a 20 - 25% active level for geomagnetic storms during the next 48 hours.

The Magnetosphere today, March 30th @ 22:13 UTC, is not showing pressure but is demonstrating a swooping reversal of the flow of the North and South magnetics. Earlier at 10:49 UTC, the magnetosphere was twisted with the South pole wrapped around the center core with the North Pole flowing Southward.

Disaster in Thailand - 34 inches of rain in 4 days - 30 Mar 11 - Flash floods sweep through eight provinces in southern Thailand. The area typically gets 2 inches (51 mm) of rain during the entire month of March.

Extreme Super Moon To Cause Major Earthquakes? - Coming up later this month (March 19th to be exact) the moon will make its closest approach to Earth (called lunar perigee) in 18 years. A new or full moon at 90% or greater of its closest perigee to Earth has been named a "SuperMoon" by astrologer Richard Nolle. Can this Super Moon contribute to extreme weather? AccuWeather member Daniel Vogler says, "The last extreme super moon occurred was on January 10th, 2005, right around the time of the 9.0 Indonesia earthquake. "That extreme super moon was a new moon. So be forewarned. Something BIG could happen on or around this date. So what can we expect this time? Earthquakes? Volcanic eruptions? I guess we can only wait and see." From what I have read on various sites, with all the recent seismic tremors shaking the planet and new fissure eruptions (more on that in coming posts), I would say something major is about to happen.

Earthquake List for Map Centered at 27°N, 110°W - SW of Ahome, Mexico This is in the Gulf of Cortez at the base of Baja California where a small swarm of earthquakes is occurring. Could this lead up to a rupture into the Salton Sea area of California?...or help to set off the San Andreas Faulth system?

Japan earthquake factbox: Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

Japan crisis: third explosion raises spectre of nuclear nightmare - New explosion at Fukushima plant, as engineers fought to prevent a meltdown in the second worst nuclear accident in history.

Satellite Photos: Japan before & after the Earthquake, Tsunami

Earthquake List for Map of Asia Region - USGS

Follow the Japan earthquake series here

March 12, 2011 - An explosion shattered a building housing a nuclear reactor Saturday, amid fears of a meltdown, while across wide swaths of northeastern Japan. Saturdya's explosion was caused by vented hydrogen gas and destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor is, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor. Edano said the radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had not risen after the blast, but had in fact decreased. Authorities have also evacuated people from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius around the reactor. The explosion was caused by hydrogen interacting with oxygen outside the reactor. The hydrogen was formed when the superheated fuel rods came in contact with water being poured over it to prevent a meltdown. Officials have said that radiation levels were elevated before the blast: At one point, the plant was releasing each hour the amount of radiation a person normally absorbs from the environment each year. Read more...

Quake shifted island, sped up Earth's rotation - The 8.9-magnitude quake moved Japan's main island by 2.4 metres, in addition to shifting Earth on its axis and briefly speeding up its rotation. Late Friday, scientists at NASA revealed the quake shaved more than a microsecond from the day. The quake, which lasted about two minutes, sped up the earth's rotation by about 1.6 microseconds. While the speed change was only slightly more than what was caused by last year's earthquake in Chile, it was considerably less than the quake in Sumatra in 2004. That quake sped up the Earth's rotation by 6.8 microseconds. A report from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology suggested Friday's quake shifted the Earth on its axis by an estimated 10 centimetres.

The quake was the fifth-largest recorded in the world since 1900. The quake was an estimated 299 kilometres long and 150 kilometres wide, and occurred where the North American and Pacific tectonic plates intersect, in the northwest region of the "Ring of Fire."

March 12, 2011 - Japan pre-dawn quakes cause landslides in Niigata - A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's mountainous Niigata prefecture northwest of Tokyo before dawn Saturday, causing landslides and avalanches and destroying some wooden houses. The quakes struck in the west of the main Honshu island, on the Sea of Japan coast and far from the offshore Pacific Ocean tremor that triggered a mammoth tsunami Friday that is feared to have killed more than 1,000 people.

Indonesian Volcano Erupts, Sends Lava and Gas - One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, Mount Karangetang, erupted Friday, March 11th, sending lava and searing gas clouds down its slopes. The 1 784-meter mountain is located on Siau, part of the Sulawesi island chain. It last erupted in August, killing four people.The eruption occurred hours after a devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan and triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami.

Japan Earthquake Triggered Volcano Eruption In Russia? - In the Russian Far East, there has been a strong volcanic eruption. The air got a great cloud of volcanic dust, which can pose a threat to air traffic in the region.

March 12, 2011 - You are also having a small series of earthquakes on the fault SW of Ahome, Mexico at the base of Baja California - between Baja and Mexico. To date you have a 4.4, a 5.3, and a 4.7 magnitude quakes.

March 12, 2011 - Also, do not forget to watch the small series off the coast of Oregon, W of Yachats, OR, where 7 quakes have registered this week- the highest being a 5.0 mag. on the 8th. At the bottom of the same fault just W of Petrolia, CALIF. you have had three quakes, the largest being a 4.5 mag.

March 12, 2011 - Hawaii has registered a series of 81 earthquakes in the last 7 days - the largest being a 4.6 mag. on March 11th 17 km ( 10 mi) SSW of Leilani Estates, HI.

Now on March 11, 2011 we have an Magnitude 8.9 - Near The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan 2011 March 11 05:46:23 UTC. Numerous aftershocks in the 7.1 - high 5 magnitude range are still shaking the area. Tsunami alert sparks evacuations from Hawaii to Easter Island Japan warned there could be a small radiation leak from a nuclear reactor whose cooling system was knocked by Friday's massive earthquake.

March 11, 2011 -California - Crescent City, Santa Cruz hit hard by tsunami from Japan quake

Earthquake Magnitude 6.5 - South Sandwich Islands Region - 2011 March 06 14:32:35 UTC at a depth of 84.2 km (52.3 miles). Also the was followed by two more events: Magnitude 4.7 - Mid-Indian Ridge - 2011 March 10 15:22:51 UTC at a depth of 16.2 km (10.1 miles) and a Magnitude 5.0 - South Sandwich Islands Region - 2011 March 12 18:28:38 UTC at a depth of 235.8 km (146.5 miles).

7.2 quake off Japan triggers small tsunami - March 9, 2011 - The tremor struck about 10 kilometres below the Pacific sea floor, about 160 kilometres off Japan's main island of Honshu. The earthquake lasted for more than 30 seconds, swaying buildings in the capital, shutting down bullet train operations and triggering a tsunami warning. A 60-centimetre surge was later recorded along coastal areas. The worlds seimic monitors are showing Mother Earth is "ringing like a bell" on all the monitors.

New boiling hot springs near Christchurch - Sulphur emanating from harbour area - March 9, 2011: A visitor went canoeing in Lyttelton harbour recently with a companion who had lived in Lyttelton for years. he told me his companion took him to a new hot spring which had formed in the area of Cass Bay, after the Sept 2010 quake series began. It had not been there before. A recent report said that not only are there many hot springs that have "popped" up in the peninsula.. some of them are now boiling. In the Lyttelton area the stench of sulphur emanating from the harbour area is totally unbearable. Is the volcano Ruaumoko is coming to life? Geologists have been aware of and monitoring warm springs that have begun popping up in the Christchurch area for the past 25 years. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 1994, Vol. 37: 181-193

88 quakes in Christchurch during past 7 days - 6 Mar 11 - Many of the earthquakes were in the magnitude-3.0 range, but some registered as high as magnitude-4.3, 4.6, 4.8 and 4.9. See amazing animated map of Christchurch area showing every earthquake since Sept 4, one by one by one. (Wait a few seconds after it loads and you'll see what I mean.) http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

4.7 Earthquake Shakes Mid-South Feb. 28th - A 4.7 magnitude earthquake rocked the mid-south, shortly after 11 last night. The earthquake was recorded about 35 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas. This is a latest in a swarm of earthquakes felt throughout the Mid-South. In Memphis, the Center for Earthquake Research and Information says this wasn't the first. "In the Guy/Greenbrier area in Central Arkansas there have been 700 to 1000 earthquakes in the past six months," said Dr. Mitch Withers from CERI. Withers says of all those earthquakes, last night's was the largest. He also says the quakes don't appear to be slowing, "The sort of activity has been producing magnitude 4 earthquakes and this is an earthquake that is approaching a magnitude 5 earthquake. That is a magnitude where you can start to get some minor damage," added Withers. They don't believe this swarm of quakes will be stop anytime soon. Click on link at top of page for the list of recent earthquakes for the Central US.

6.0 Earthquake Shakes Chile on the Aniversary of Last Year's Earthquake - Feb. 28, 2011: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on late Sunday evening, 10.29 p.m. local time (0129 GMT Monday) seismologists and officials said, causing some power outages on the one year anniversary of the huge earthquake/tsunami that rocked the region on February 2010. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured the strength of a Chile earthquake at 6.0 on the Richter scale with a depth of 10 miles. The quake's epicenter happened about 17 miles north of Lebu, a port city in the Biobío region and about 19 miles deep, which is considered a shallow earthquake, according to the country's National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry (ONEMI).

Devastation in N.Z. quake on par with Haiti: Christchurch, New Zealand (AFP) Feb 28, 2011 - A 6.3 earthquake devastated New Zealand's second city and surrounding towns on February 22nd. The quake caused more damage than the 7.1 magnitude quake that hit the city on September 4, 2010 and has killed at least 146 people. Rescuers prepared for the final death toll to rise above 200.

Major Earthquake Hits New Zealand: They had an earthquake last September, and were thankful that damage was slight. But now, after the 6.5 quake that struck the South Island of New Zealand just before 1 pm local time on Tuesday, February 22, it's a different story. Prime Minister John Key says that the death toll now stands at 75, but that the figure is likely to rise. Officials are being quoted as saying that some 300 people remain missing. In Christchurch, rescue workers are sifting through rubble and buildings damaged in the earthquake that struck on Tuesday afternoon.To view a video of the New Zealand earthquake scene, click here - Here is a website set up to help coordinate offers of help: www.quakehelp.co.nz - View map of earthquakes since Sept. 2010 to the current quake plus article from NASA

Geologists find Christchurch torn by entirely new fault - GNS Science natural hazards platform manager Kelvin Barryman said tests indicated it occurred on a "blind" or unknown fault, which runs east to west 1km north of Lyttelton. This meant that ­ like the Darfield fault that had lain dormant for at least 16,000 years ­ the Lyttelton fault-line had been accumulating extreme pressure over centuries, before collapsing catastrophically. Experts said the enormous aftershock was statistically unusual. Generally aftershocks get smaller and less frequent as months go by. Professor Peter Malin, director of the University of Auckland's Institute of Earth Sciences and Engineering, said: "With the decay of the Darfield event, many of us would have breathed a sigh of relief ­ until Tuesday." The quake was a "strike-slip event with oblique motion", meaning the earth moved mostly side-to-side but occasionally up-and-down. Institute associate director Eylon Shalev said the vertical acceleration of the earth, at 1.9 times the acceleration of gravity, was far greater than the sideways movement.

The earth under Canterbury is still shaking out the stress of the fault, with more than 70 aftershocks measured since Tuesday, four of them magnitude 5 or greater. Seismologists said 4000 aftershocks had occurred since the September quake, but now the "clock had been reset" Cantabrians could expect months more of tremors. Geologists have reported that the liquefaction in the city was worse than during last year's tremor.­NZ Herald

Unusual seismic band of activity brewing under Kermandec volcanic arc - February 24, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol ­ New Zealand ­ Unusual seismcic band of activity going on under the volcanic arc of Kermedec/Tonga as seen in the telemetry data.

New Zealand quake fractures country's largest glacier - February 22, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol - CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) - The earthquake that struck Christchurch has caused some 30 million tons of ice to break off from New Zealand's biggest glacier. Tour guides at the Tasman Glacier in the Southern Alps say the quake caused the ice to "calve" from the glacier, forming icebergs in the terminal lake. Tourists of Glacier Explorer boats say the icefall caused waves of up to 3.5 meters in height which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes.The glacier is about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from Christchurch on the west

APPROACHING ACTIVE REGION: Feb. 23rd. A significant active region is about to emerge over the sun's northeastern limb. The underlying sunspots are not yet visible from Earth, but the region's towering magnetic canopy is already in view.

GREENBRIER, AR EARTHQUAKE SWARM

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurred near the town of Greenbrier in central Arkansas on Thursday morning February 17, 2011 at about 4:50 AM CST. This was the largest in a swarm of several dozen earthquakes that began on Tuesday February 15, 2011 and is continuing. This area is slightly south of and most likely related to similar activity (known as the Guy earthquake swarm) of hundreds of small earthquakes near Guy, Arkansas from August 2010 to present. Central Arkansas has a history of earthquake activity with a swarm of thousands of earthquakes smaller than magnitude 4.5 to 4.7 in the early 1980s and another swarm in 2001 (known as the Enola earthquake swarms).

List of Earthquakes

Arkansas - More than 30 earthquakes since Sunday - 700 in the past six month. 17 Feb 11 - Several small earthquakes ranging from magnitude-1.8 to 3.8 have rattled the north-central Arkansas cities of Greenbrier and Guy this week, and the cause is unknown. In fact, more than 700 unexplained temblors have struck the region over the past six months.
Map for earthquake swarm and list since Jan. 2nd. The Natural State has felt its fair share of earthquakes. In 1811-1812 a series of powerful earthquakes measuring over magnitude 7.5 rattled the residents of northeast Arkansas. Cabins collapsed, people were frightened, and the land surface was severely changed by liquefaction. These earthquakes happened in the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), an active fault system that extends from Cairo, Illinois to Marked Tree, Arkansas. The earthquake zone has been active for hundreds of years. What if another series of major earthquakes were to strike this region again? Would your business or family be prepared?

Map for the Central US Earthquakes

There are continuing earthquake swarms, 63 for the last 7 days, in the Guadalupe, Mexico and Baja California area with the largest at a 5.1 magnitude and a 4.5 magnitude on Feb. 18th. Look at the bowing effect as you compare the earthquake map above for Central US and the Baja, California map here. How much longer before the seam ruptures allowing the Gulf waters between Mexico and Baja to enter into the lower California desert area around the Salton sea?

Also, don't forget the earthquakes that have been occurring in Chile with the largest of 6.8 located OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE on Feb. 11th - 16 earthquakes all together up to the 14th with the largest a 6.6 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE. see map The Australia region across the way has experienced 23 earthquakes along with much moving and sinking into the ocean for many area of Indonesia.

Is Germany's West Eifel Supervolcanic field awakening? Swarm of earthquakes in the area. Today the region near Koblenz was shaken by a swarm of 7 earthquakes beginning with a 4.5 magnitude quake which erupted at a depth of 6 km. Across the planet, the giant dormant volcanoes, one by one, are being stirred from their long and ancient slumber. Earth is on the precipice of major geological change. On Feb. 15th the region near Koblenz was shaken by a swarm of 7 earthquakes beginning with a 4.5 magnitude quake which erupted at a depth of 6 km. Across the planet, the giant dormant volcanoes, one by one, are being stirred from their long and ancient slumber. Earth is on the precipice of major geological change. More Info

More Earthquakes at Mount St. Helens - Follows a swarm of quakes just three weeks ago 14 Feb 11 - Reports poured in this morning from southwest Washington and the Portland, Oregon area of an earthquake at Mount St. Helens. Actually, several earthquakes ­ one 4.3 magnitude ­ shook an area north of Mount St. Helens, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.  According to Bill Steele, Director of Information Services with the University of Washington seismology lab, there are no signs of volcanic activity, but the quakes could represent changes in the stress field at the volcano. See list of earthquakes here

If you haven't seen it, this is the story everyone is talking about: Feb-04-2011 Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms and on Feb. 8 Yellowstone supervolcano, new Ice Age could topple US government - Terrence Aym Salem-News.com

Arctic Waters Safe for Now! Shell ditches plans to drill this year - Feb. 4, 2011

Another victory in the Arctic!  The Arctic Ocean's pristine waters and abundant wildlife are safe from drilling for another year. Shell Oil announced Feb. 3 that it has abandoned its plans to drill an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea several miles off the coast of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2011. Shell's CEO announced the company would not proceed until 2012 at the earliest because of delays getting regulatory approvals.

Earthquake Magnitude 5.2 - Off The Coast Of Oregon, was centered in thePacific Ocean 235 km (145 miles) W of Coos Bay, Oregon - 2011 February 08 22:02:01 UTC at a deph of 10.1 km (6.3 miles). This was just after a Magnitude 4.7 - Off The Coast Of Oregon, 285 km (180 miles) W of Coos Bay, Oregon - 2011 February 08 07:44:36 UTC at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles). Coos Bay is about 177 miles north of Eureka, which has been the site of several major earthquakes in recent decades. Earlier on Tuesday, a 3.2 magnitude quake occurred near the San Juan Islands off the coast ofWashington.

8 Feb 11 - Seismic swarm in Naples Yesterday, Naples' leading newspaper IL Mattino, reported an earthquake swarm in the Campi Flegrei near Naples. The main event was a 4.8-magnitude with its epicenter in  Pozzuoli. The Campi Flegrei caldera is an active volcano. Not only is it active, it is a supervolcano, and its last major eruption took place about 12,000 years ago. That eruption was centered on the town of  Pozzuoli. "Although there's no picture-postcard volcanic cone, hidden beneath the seemingly placid landscape lies a volcano of immense power," says journalist Phil Robinson. "While a new eruption here would be more likely to result in the creation of another Vesuvius-like cone, the worst-case scenario could see it obliterating much of life in Europe." "Vesuvius, which destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii, incinerating and suffocating thousands, is nothing more than a pimple on the back of the sleeping dragon of Campi Flegrei, an active four-mile-wide sunken volcano."

What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Deep-Drilling a Supervolcano - Sure, it could work, or it could also cause an earthquake or eruption. When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the people around it had little warning, and more than 10,000 of them died as a result. Bad as that was, an eruption of neighboring Campi Flegrei could be worse. As a supervolcano, it's in the same category as Indonesia's Mt. Tambora, whose eruption in 1815 killed 92,000 people and caused the "year without a summer." Campi Flegrei's eight-mile-wide caldera is so low and unassuming that much of metro Naples was built on top, and yet a full eruption would be one of the largest in human history, the kind of geological event capable of plunging the world into a minor ice age.

31 Jan 11 - Earthquake Swarm at Mount St. Helens - Lately, the area just north of the Mount St. Helens crater has been shaking again.  The current swarm - about two miles deep - now totals between 30 and 35 over the last few days. The biggest quake, a magnitude 2.6, came on Sunday the 30th. Scientists don't seem too concerned.  "In September 2004, quakes under the mountain grew from a few to thousands in a matter of days as magma made its way up to the surface," says Glenn Farley of King 5 news. "Scientists both at the Cascades Volcano Observatory  and at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at UW don't think that is what's happening now.   "These quakes are "tectonic," says Farley, "meaning they show signs of being typical of earthquakes involving shifting fault lines, not a sign of the ground being distorted by the underground forces of volcanoes." 

CLOSE-APPROACHING ASTEROID: A small (4-5 meter) asteroid discovered earlier today by R. A. Kowalski of the Catalina Sky Survey will pass by Earth on Feb. 4th around 19:40UT at a distance of 11855 km. 2011 CQ1 will not hit Earth, but it will pass well inside the Clarke Belt of geosynchronous satellites.

Bastardi: Three of Next Five Winters Could Be as Cold or Colder

Feb. 4th - This winter is on track to become the coldest for the nation as a whole since the 1980s or possibly even the late 1970s. According to AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi, three or four out of the next five winters could be just as cold, if not colder. He is worried that next winter, for example, will be colder than this one. Bastardi thinks that not only will the next few winters be colder than normal for much of the U.S., but that the long-term climate will turn colder over the next 20 to 30 years.

Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells -Some places saw the ground rise by ten inches, experts report.

Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Article Source - Published January 19, 2011

Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano just took a deep "breath," causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report.

The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions-each a thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens's 1980 eruption-three times in the past 2.1 million years. Yellowstone's caldera, which covers a 25- by 37-mile (40- by 60-kilometer) swath of Wyoming, is an ancient crater formed after the last big blast, some 640,000 years ago.

Rock Mass Emerges Off Arakan Coast - 1/12/2011 Sittwe: An amazing rock mass has emerged from the seawater near the offshore islands of Pharonga, located 20 miles south of Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, report numerous witnesses. A fishing boat owner said, "We have never seen a rock mass before in the area near Pharonga Island. Now there is a rock mass appearing from the sea and it is very strange and wonderful for all." The location of the rock mass is seven miles south of Pharonga Island, 20 miles southeast of Sittwe. The rock mass is 10 feet high when the tide is low, and remains five feet above the sea when the tide is high.

Magnitude 7.2 Earthquake - Southwestern Pakistan - 2011 January 18 20:23:23 UTC. There are no reports of direct casualties from the earthquake, 200 mud houses near Dalbandin, a town 34 miles west of the epicenter, have been damaged. The earthquake reportedly was felt as far away as 1,000 miles, in Delhi, India

The Autralian-Indonesia area continues to be shaken by earthquakes after the Jan. 13th 7.0 magnitude quake at the Loyalty Islands.

14 January, 2011 UTC - A powerful 7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands early this morning, but there are no immediate reports of damage. The earthquake struck at 3.15 this morning local time as a shallow depth of 4.6 kilometres, 125 kilometers northeast of Tadine in the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, and 135 kilometres southwest of Vanuatu. A series of aftershocks, the most powerful measuring 5.9 magnitude, rumbled through the area after the quake.

Spectacular eruptions from Mt Etna are spewing massive quantities of lava, smoke and ash many hundreds of meters high into the skies above the island of Sicily. Mt Etna is the most active volcano in Europe and one of the most active on all of Earth. The volcano rumbled to life again this week on the evening of January 12, 2011 and lit up the night sky. Mt Etna is 3350 meters high and located on the northeast coast of Sicily near the boot of Italy

Brazil rains kill more than 600, epidemic feared- Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:26pm EST

NOVA FRIBURGO, Brazil, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Rains that devastated a mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro have killed at least 626 people, Brazil's Civil Defense agency said on Sunday, as fears of more storms and disease outbreaks overshadowed rescue operations. Nearly five days after rains sparked floods and massive landslides in one of Brazil's worst natural disasters, the death toll continues to rise steadily as rescuers dig up corpses buried by rivers of mud and reach more remote areas.

7 cities destroyed: no phone lines, no water, no electricity, no basic services, more than 5000 homeless, thousands disappeared, people are without food and drink water. Cities isolated. Worst Rainstorm destroyed these cities. Mudslides 4, 5 meters high (16 feet)! Buildings and people vanished many places! Many cities like Teresopolis, Petropolis, Nova Friburgo in state of Rio de Janeiro are DESTROYED. Atibaia in state of São Paulo are 1 week under water. Teresopolis and region are touristic city, were vanished in many and many places with 4 meters of monster mudslides.

Brazil floods: More than 500 dead Thousands trapped - 14 Jan 11 - More than 500 people have died in floods in south-eastern Brazil after heavy rain led to massive mudslides that hit several towns. The death toll, which is expected to rise, has now surpassed the devastating 1967 mudslides in Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo state, in which up to 430 people perished.

Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Sweden, Millions Of Dead Fish Found In Maryland, Brazil, New Zealand

Up to 5,000 birds fell from Ark. sky - The number of birds that fell on this Arkansas town on New Year's Eve night is now estimated at 4,000 to 5,000, a wildlife official told msnbc.com, up sharply from the initial estimate of 1,000.

Up to 100,000 fish found dead along Arkansas River - Jan. 3, 2011 - Officials suspect disease, not pollutants, as cause of death - State officials on Monday were investigating why 80,000 to 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last week.

Solar Eclipse and Meteor Shower to Launch 2011 Skywatching Season

31 December 2010 - The year 2011 promises to be a dazzling one for skywatchers, and it hits the ground running with a partial solar eclipse and meteor shower. But those two sky spectacles are just the beginning for 2011. Here are some of the more noteworthy sky events that will take place over the next year. SPACE.com's Night Sky column will provide more extensive coverage of most of these events as they draw closer.  Click here for complete list and article.

And So It Continues - A Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake has occurred at Araucania, Chile on 2011 January 02, 2011 at a depth of 25.1 km (15.6 miles). Chile is still recovering and rebuilding cities brought down by the earthquake last February 2010. There was no immediate reports of deaths as people flee for higher ground in fear of tsunami similar to one that ravaged coastline last year. Some mobile phone aerials and electrical power were knocked out in the Araucania region where the quake was centred, 370 miles (595km) south-southwest of the capital, Santiago.

Sunday, Jan. 1st: All the seismic station worldwide are ringing like a bell this evening. Mother's tectonic plates are now loosened are beginning to adjust. As South America begins her roll, look for adjustments and 'crunching' in the Carribian Island area. The Atlantic Rift will also be opening in the near future putting more pressure around the Pacific Ring of Fire. Also a solar wind stream flowing from the coronal hole should reach Earth around Jan. 4th or 5th--the first solar wind stream of the New Year. The sunspots, 1140-1141-1142, are producing a series of low-level B-class flares.

Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake hits near Santiago Del Estero, Argentina - 2011 January 01 at a depth of 583.6 km (362.6 miles). A strong earthquake measuring 7.0-magnitude hit a sparsely populated region of northern Argentina early on Saturday (local time), officials said. The epicentre of the tremor, which occurred at 6:56am, was located 160 kilometres north-east of the city of Santiago del Estero, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage after the quakeThe same quake jolted parts of the north of neighbouring Chile, particularly the town of Socaire, near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile's National Emergency Office reported. There were no immediate reports of damage, infrastructure problems or injuries in Chile.

Southern California quake swarm increasing - December 27th, 2010 . Earthquakes are increasing again near the Salton Sea.  The area has had a lull in quakes for quite a while, however it is becoming active again. The USGS states that two near magnitude four quake struck the area on Monday.  These quakes were in a known seismic zone, near the San Andreas Fault.

The swarm continues with two earthquakes at 3.2 and 3.5 magnitude on Dec. 31st at Obsidian Butte, California. There have been many in the lower ranges plus earthquakes again at Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, along the fault line that runs through the Gulf up through Mexicali and into Southern California. Julian had a 3.8 mag. on 12-30-10.

Earthquake hits Chinese region of Xinjiang: seismologist - Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2011: A moderate quake with a magnitude of 5.2 hit the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Saturday, seismologists said. The quake struck just before 10:00 am (0200 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) with its epicentre 68 kilometres west of Kashi, the US Geological Survey said. China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, said there were no early reports of casualties. Xinjiang is a vast mountainous region in the north-west of China, covering around a sixth of the country. Around 20 million people live there, eight million of them Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim grouping.

Floods Hit Six Villages in Indonesia - December 29, 2010

Floods inundated at least six villages in Cilacap District, Central Java Province, the Indonesian news agency reported Wednesday. "Incessant heavy rains triggered the floods at several villages. A Cikawung river's dam also got burst," Among the affected villages were Mekarsari and Sidasari in Cipari sub district, Mulyadadi and Pahonjean in Majenang sub district, and Cimanggu and Cilempuyang in Cimanggu sub district.

Plates Tilting - The eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is rising. One can see by the IRIS chart that the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate is outlined in quakes, at and just east of Vanuatu where a magnitude 7.6 quake occurred on December 25, 2010. Vanuatu had 23 quakes over magnitude 5 within a 24 hour period after that, and continues to be hammered. In the days following, it was clear from the buoy alerts in the area that this eastern edge of the plate had risen! Per the Zetas, the Coral Sea bed was a weak point in the plate, and was bending under the weight of the eastern edge of the plate as this side of the plate tilted up. The Indo-Australian Plate is being tilted and driven under the Himalayas, thus eventually giving New Zealand and the eastern edge of Australia an increase in elevation. Buoys in the Coral Sea are again showing a rising sea bed, by both buoy 55012 and 55023. By December 28, 2010 this was rapidly changing! On December 25, 2010, in step with the Vanuatu hammering, the plate edge itself rose! Buoys 51425 and 51426 east of Vanuatu, in the South Sea island regions of Fiji and Tonga which ride on the eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, are showing a sea floor rise, and by December 28, 2010 this rise was obvious. Is the entire eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate rising? Yes!

By December 28, 2010 yet more signs of plates rising in this region occurred. Just north of New Guinea, on the little Caroline Plate sandwiched beneath the Philippine Plate and above the northern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate, buoy 52403 showed the sea floor rapidly rising.

If a plate tilts, will water drain down toward the low end of the plate? Yes! And this in fact happened along the Queensland coastline, quite evident by December 29, 2010. Note that the excessive flooding is all along rivers draining into the seas to the east along the Queensland coastline. Just where the draining water from a tilted plate would be trapped and backwash up the rivers!

Issue 218 of this newsletter (Zeta Talk) was compiled with data from December 28-29, but this is a rapidly changing situation. In just a day, the plates in Asia have moved, again, and there has been more evidence of sinking on the plate tongue holding Indonesia. Thus, this addendum which reflects the known situation early in the day on December 31, 2010. The eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate holding New Zealand and Queensland appears to be almost undulating as it tilts up. The Coral Sea, which has bulged up for many months, a bending point relieving the weight of the eastern part of the plate which is rising, has suddenly flatted out! Water is rapidly deepening there, as though the sea floor has fallen. Per the Zetas the Coral Sea bulge has now relaxed, as magma flow under the lifting eastern edge of the Indo-Australian Plate has increased.

Malaysia Sinking - The plate tongue holding Indonesia continues to sink. A coastal city along the Malay Peninsula experience a sudden flooding on December 31, 2010.

MANILA, Philippines - Continuous rains cause landslide, flood in parts of Albay - 12/30/2010 4:10 PM ­ A heavy downpour in Bicol since Tuesday has triggered landslides and flashfloods in several parts of the province on Wednesday. Residents in the village of Malobago in Manito town have already fled to safer areas when mud-like waters started flowing from the mountains. The ABS-CBN crew also witnessed the water-logged soil collapsing near the road sides of Manito. Several villages in Legazpi City were already submerged in flood waters. In Sitio Capantaran, Imalnod, the river has overflowed. It flooded rice fields with neck high waters.

Queensland flooding 'could last weeks' - see video of the flooding: An estimated 1000 Queenslanders have been forced from their homes in a state awash with its worst floods in 50 years. And it's not over yet, as forecasters warn that swollen rivers could flood other towns and coastal cities in coming days. The flood crisis has sparked mass evacuations and disaster declarations in parts of central and southern Queensland, including the communities of Theodore, Chinchilla and Dalby. full story here

Magnitude 7.3 - Vanuatu Region - 2010 December 25 - A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, triggering a small tsunami exactly six years after giant waves killed 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean. The US Geological Survey said the quake was just 12.3 kilometres (7.6 miles) deep, and its epicentre was 145 kilometres (90 miles) west of Isangel, on the island of Tanna - home to an active volcano - in the Vanuatu archipelago. At least a dozen aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater hit the area after the main tremor, according to USGS, including a powerful 6.2-magnitude shock some 12 hours after the initial quake. Vanuatu, which lies between Fiji and Australia and north of New Zealand, is part of the "Pacific Ring of Fire" - an ocean-wide area alive with seismic and volcanic activity caused by the grinding of enormous tectonic plates. Sunday's quake came on the sixth anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters of modern times, when a huge tsunami triggered by an undersea quake off Indonesia killed more than 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean.

Mammoth Mt in Southern California - 15 feet of snow in 4 days - More on the way

21 Dec 10 - More than 12 inches of rain have fallen in parts of the Santa Monica Mountains in southern California and a record 15.5 feet of snow has accumulated at Mammoth Mountain ski resort over the last four days - the most  since records began in 1969. And more is on the way, warns the National Weather Service, with the possibility of thunderstorms, hail, flash floods and even tornadoes. Researchers have coined the ongoing influx of tropical moisture into the state as an 'atmospheric river'. Downtown Los Angeles has already received around six inches of rain since last Thursday, around 40 per cent of the city's average annual precipitation. And the conditions are expected to worsen in the next few days, the National Weather Service has warned, with the possibility of thunderstorms, hail and even tornadoes and flash floods.

7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Felt in Tokyo Following Total Lunar Eclipse - On Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 (at the epicenter), a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Bonin Islands, sending shock waves as far as Tokyo and beyond. The timing was striking--within 24 hours of a rare total lunar eclipse. The earthquake struck the Bonin Islands, which are 650 miles SSE of Tokyo, Japan, at a depth of about 9.4 miles. The initial quakes is being followed by a series of aftershocks, already numbering over 60. There were no initial reports of damage or injury from the quake.

Mini ice age coming, says man who beats weather experts "A genuine ice age might then settle in"

21 Dec 10 - "Piers Corbyn not only predicted the current weather, but he believes things are going to get much worse, says Boris Johnson, London's mayor." his is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming?

Actually, they did. Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again. Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its "mild winter" schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years.

Southeastern Iran was hit with a Magnitude 6.3 earthquake - 2010 December 20 18:41:59 UTC at a depth of 12.4 km. The nearest city is 213 km (133 miles) SW (236°) Zahedan, Iran

More Record-Shattering Rain in Store for California. - 20 Dec 10. - This weekend's rainfall will go down in the record books for several locations in the Golden State. Flood waters and debris swept over numerous roads in California on Sunday. With copious amounts of rain expected again today, the threat of flash flooding will persist.

Nine feet of snow and climbing - Crushing snowfall in California mountains

19 Dec 10 - Officials may be forced to close the mountain passes, including I-80's Donner Pass as the snow continues to pile up.

2010: A deadly year of natural disasters - Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010

This was the year the Earth struck back. Quakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter-million people in 2010 -- the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed by natural disasters this year than by terrorist attacks in the past 40 years combined.

Hutchison-Lazaryan frequency generator clears polluted Gulf waters

Famous anti-gravity researcher, John Hutchison, and his associate, Nancy Lazaryan, have come up with a device that emits a combination of audio and radio frequencies that have the effect of clearing waters polluted by oil and dispersant in less than 24 hours, bringing the native life back.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a list of quake preparations. To learn what to do before, during and after an earthquake, visit www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake

Vatnajökull - 60 volcanic quakes in two days  3 Dec 10 - 60 plus quakes including a magnitude 3+ during the last 48 hours.

The Fiji Region experieced two deep earthquakes on Nov. 22nd - one at 583 km, mag=4.7 & the other at 615 km, mag=4.9. Also Vanuatu had a deep quake during this same time period of 269km in depth and 5.1 mag. The day before on Nov. 21st Fiji had a 4.6 mag. earthquake at 578.km.

What's Going On in The Gulf of Aden? USGS is reporting a very unusual swarm of significant earthquakes starting early this morning in the sea between Africa and the Arabian peninusla, right off the coast of Yemen, and in one of the world's most important and busiest shipping lanes. The swarm began on Nov. 14th at a magnitude of 4.6 at a depth of 10 km. To date (Nov 15th) there have been 43 quakes with the highest magnitude being 5.3.

OUTBREAK ON JUPITER: The return of Jupiter's lost stripe (the South Equatorial Belt) is proceeding apace. At least three energetic plumes are breaking through the cloudtops of Jupiter's south equatorial zone. Researchers believe these plumes herald the emergence of the globe-straddling belt, mysteriously absent for nearly a year.

STRESS RELIEF: The tension was just too great. On Nov. 21st around 1600 UT, a twisted filament of solar magnetism suddenly untwisted, producing a towering eruption off the sun's northwestern limb. Earth was not in the line of fire. No geomagnetic storms or auroras are expected as a result of the blast. Moreover, now that the filament has relaxed, it poses little threat for future eruptions. There is, however, another filament that bears watching.Earth was not in the line of fire. No geomagnetic storms or auroras are expected as a result of the blast. Moreover, now that the filament has relaxed, it poses little threat for future eruptions. There is, however, another filament that bears watching.

REVIVAL ON JUPITER: Think of the turmoil at the sea surface just before a massive submarine emerges from depth. Something like that is happening on Jupiter. A turbulent plume is breaking through the giant planet's cloudtops in the south equatorial zone, heralding the emergence of ... what?

Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia - Historical ecology of the Andes indicates desert-like setting on the horizon for the region surrounding Lake Titicaca.

M5 SOLAR FLARE: Active sunspot 1121 has just unleashed one of the brightest x-ray solar flares in years, an M5.4-class eruption at 15:36 UT on Nov. 6th. Click on the image to view a movie of the blast from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

Radiation from the flare created a wave of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere that altered the propagation of low-frequency radio waves. There was, however, no bright CME (plasma cloud) hurled in our direction, so the event is unlikely to produce auroras in the nights ahead. This is the third M-flare in as many days, and the strongest, from this increasingly active sunspot. So far none of the eruptions has been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns the active region toward our planet.

Haiti Quake Risk May Still be High - Released: 10/29/2010The fault initially thought to have triggered January's devastating earthquake in Haiti is likely still under considerable strain and continues to pose a significant seismic hazard, according to a study published online in Nature Geoscience Sunday.

7.5 Magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia amidst volcano evacuations - Monday, October 25, 2010 - 17:45

The government of Indonesia has their hands full today with the second big earthquake hitting near land and the volcano about to erupt.

Gulf of California gets stronger earthquakes - Monday, October 25, 2010 - 13:47

Either tension is being released by the tectonic plates in the Gulf of California or a bigger earthquake is headed that way because for the past few days and now going on more than a week there has been a earthquake swarm with earthquakes reaching almost 5 magnitude frequently. However today a 5 magnitude earthquake hit the gulf of California. This time the earthquake hit at 120km from La Paz and 139km from Guasave and was about 10km deep. Obviously it was not strong enough to cause tsunami warnings. Scientists believe that California is in for a big earthquake soon.

There have been to-date (Monday, Oct. 25th) 46 earthquakes centered close to Guy, AR beginning Oct. 19th. These have happened after the energetic, crystalline activation in AR on 10-10-10. Seismologists are watching to see if this activity will be a precursor to movement on the New Madrid Fault system.

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters

Texas - The Balcones Fault The Balcones fault zone is an extensive group of faults that transects Texas on a generally southwest to northeast line, and extends into Louisiana and Arkansas. The Balcones fault is marked by the Balcones Escarpment, an abrupt change of elevation in the terrain that extends from Del Rio, through Brackettville, Uvalde, the northern parts of San Antonio, and then northeastward through New Braunfels, San Marcos, Austin, Georgetown, Salado, and Temple. The change in elevation of the terrain is quite abrupt, with the terrain north of the fault ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above sea level. South of the Balcones Escarpment, the terrain is generally 600 feet above sea level or lower, declining gently for about 150 miles to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Baja California and Southern California are once again active with 206 earthquakes within this 7-day period (Oct 4th). The area near Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico has experienced a 3.8 mag. on 9-12-10, a 5.0 mag. and a 3.0 mag on 9-14, a 4.8 on 9-15, a 5.1 mag. in the Gulf of California SSE of San Felipe, Mexico, and many in the 3.0 mag. range as well as others in the 1.7-2.9 mag. range.

Speaking of earthquake faults, we just (9-9-10) had a massive gas explosion in San Bruno (No. California near San Francisco) caused by the movement of the San Andreas fault - it does not require a major earthquake to break a gas line that is installed near the fault. Man continues to live on the San Andreas, even as it awakens, and this will produce events similar to this one.

"The Big One" could be just around the corner, according to California seismologists. Experts said the last major earthquake to hit the Coachella Valley was in 1690. Mark Benthien, with the Southern California Earthquake center said that science shows "the big one" is long overdue. Power lines and an aqueduct lined up along the fault were spotted for miles -- a potential hazard if a major quake strikes. Scientists said the San Andreas Fault is capable of producing a magnitude 8.0 earthquake or higher. From the destructive quakes in Haiti and Chile to the Baja California shaker this year, experts said a monster earthquake hitting the desert is highly possible.

Wilmington NC - 20" of rain in 4 days - 30 Sep 10 - Just imagine if that rain had fallen as snow! 200 inches! Almost 17 feet of snow in 4 days!

Jacksonville, NC - 12 inches of rain in 6 hours - 30 Sep 10

Coldest summer in decades in Southern California - 21 Sep 10

September snow surprise in Montana - 17 Sep 10

Colombia: 'Giant fireball' was a meteorite - MONDAY, 06 SEPTEMBER 2010

Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fireball" that fell from the sky in the Santander department, central Colombia, was a meteorite. The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday. Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed that the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter when it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander. In rural areas of Santander, police received reports that the explosion had shattered windows in the area.

Earthquake magnitude 7.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA on 2010/09/29 17:11:24  at12.3 km in depth. A severe earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale struck the south coast of Papua in Indonesia at 02:11:24 AM Thursday local time, within a minute of another 6.6 tremor at the same site. The epicenter was located 105 km (65 miles) northwest of Dobo, Kepulauan Aru, Indonesia or some 310 km (195 miles) southwest of Enarotali, Papua, Indonesia and 885 km (550 miles) northeast of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. A tsunami alert had been issued immediately after the quake, but was withdrawn 90 minutes later.

The small town of Tual on nearby Maluku island was the worst hit by the quake. However, no casualties have been reported yet, may be due to the sparse population of the location.

Earthquake magnitude 6.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA on 2010/09/29 17:10:51 at 10.0 km in depth.

Canterbury quake may have been on 'new' fault line - Sept. 4, 2010 - Rubble lies in the street after this morning's 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Geologists say today's 7.1 magnitude quake 40km west of Christchurch city had an epicentre 10 km south-east of Darfield, but so far they have not been able to link it to a known fault line.

Magnitude 7.1 - South Island Of New Zealand on 2010 September 03 16:35:46 UTC - depth of 5km. The September 3, 2010 South Island, New Zealand earthquake occurred as a result of strike-slip faulting within the crust of the Pacific plate, near the eastern foothills of the Southern Alps at the western edge of the Canterbury Plains. The earthquake struck approximately 50 km to the west-northwest of Christchurch, the largest population center in the region, and about 80-90 km to the south and east of the current expression of the Australia:Pacific plate boundary through the island (the Alpine and Hope Faults).

The small, picturesque rural town of Darfield, set among mountains and rivers where Mr McMullen runs the school, was the epicentre of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck the South Island. This is the most significant earthquake in 80 years which hit in 1931, magnitude 7.8, the Hawke's Bay earthquake Although the country lies on a highly-charged seismic fault and experiences over 14,000 earthquakes a year, only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0. Gas mains were severed, power lines brought down, roads ripped up, bridges destroyed or made unsafe, and many vehicles damaged in Christchurch and across the wider Canterbury region. Witnesses said the Avon River in Avonside overflowed its banks. Even some roads that remained undamaged were impassable because they were littered with debris from stricken buildings.

Magnitude 6.3 - Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Is., Alaska on 2010 September 03 11:16:08 UTC at a dept of 50.8 km.

Amazon at lowest level in over 40 years in Peru: - Lima (AFP) Sept 1, 2010

The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said. Low levels have brought economic havoc in areas of Peru that depend on the Amazon for shipping, by denying boats a navigable river as well as usable ports and harbors The Amazon is the second-longest river in the world, after the Nile, but discharges far more water at its mouth than any other. It also drains more territory than any other, from Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Venezuela before running across Brazil and into the Atlantic.

An oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in U.S. Coast Guard helicopters rescuing 13 people from the water. The oil platform owner, Mariner Energy of Houston, reported an oil sheen on the surface covering an area of about a mile by 100 feet. The incident occurred about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Vermillion Bay, La., west of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which exploded and sank in April. The oil platform owned by Mariner sat in waters about 2,500 feet (762 m) deep, compared with the mobile Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that operated in waters about 5,000 feet (1,600 m) deep.The oil platform owned by Mariner sat in waters about 2,500 feet (762 m) deep, compared with the mobile Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that operated in waters about 5,000 feet (1,600 m) deep.

From ZetaTalk Q & A: No doubt you have heard of the recent Mariner Energy oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. It is West of the BP rig that blew it's well-head 4 months ago. Would the Zetas be interested in commenting on the cause of the explosion, and the state of the well head, etc.? [and from another] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11014645 - Explosion on Mariner Energy oil rig in Gulf of Mexico [Sep 3] An explosion has torn through an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of a blast in April which caused a huge oil spill. The explosion was first reported at 0930 local time (1330 GMT). It had started on an upper deck of the platform where living quarters were, a company official said, but the cause is not yet known. Mariner Energy said the rig was undergoing maintenance and not producing any oil or gas at the time of the explosion.

What is true of both the BP oil rig explosion and the Mariner is that they are both crowded around the mouth of the Mississippi. We have described the pending New Madrid adjustment as one that runs along the weak point in the N American continent, which happens to be the bed of the Mississippi River. Rivers run along low points, which have dropped in relation to the surrounding rock because of being thin, layers pulled apart during a stretch and thus thin. The bed of the Mississippi River does not end at the delta, as this weak point runs out under the Gulf. Stretch zone adjustments are silent, not accompanied by jolts and seismic activity, and thus there was no earthquake associated with the Mariner rig explosion. But regardless of the official explanation, this is the cause!

FARSIDE FLARE: The sun is not so quiet after all. On Aug. 31 at 2055 UT, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft observed a strong solar flare on the far side of the sun. The flash of electromagnetic radiation briefly saturated several pixels in the spacecraft's extreme UV camera: Earth-orbiting satellites did not detect this flare at all. The entire body of the sun shielded us from the radiation. Only STEREO-A, hovering over the farside of the sun, was able to observe the event.The source of the blast appears to be old sunspot 1100. Solar rotation will turn this active region back toward Earth for possible geoeffective action in about 8 days.

Series of strong quakes hit Philippines Four powerful earthquakes struck the Philippines' Moro Gulf early on Saturday just over an hour, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Three of the earthquakes measured between 7.3 and 7.6 points on the Richter scale, and the other one registered 5.4 points. There have been no reports on damage of victims. No tsunami warning was immediately issued following the tremor. The Philippines is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a region where 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur.

Magnitude 6.5 - Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines on 2010 July 24 05:35:01 UTC at a depth of 555.3 km (345.1 miles). Also a 5.3, 4.9, 5.3, 4.7, 4.7, and a 5.1.

Iowa Dam Fails Causing 'Catastrophic' Release of Water - July 24, 2010 Maquoketa River water surges over the bridge of the Delhi Dam as areas surrounding the Maquoketa River continue to flood. A 300-foot-long breach in Lake Delhi Dam Saturday sent water spilling downstream and hundreds of people fleeing for safety in eastern Iowa. David Fink, Lake Delhi dam operation manager, called the breach "a catastrophic release of water." "It's going to have a hell of a lot of velocity," he told The Des Moines Register. The dam, which sits on the Maquoketa River about 45 miles north of Cedar Rapids, failed following massive amounts of rain.

African lake warmest in 1,500 years - Jul 21, 2010 : Africa's Lake Tanganyika, the second-oldest and second-deepest lake on Earth, is warmer now than it has been in 1,500 years, scientists say.

Typhoon Chanthu lashes flood-hit China - Chongqing, China (AFP) July 22, 2010: Typhoon Chanthu lashed southern China with punishing winds and heavy rain on Thursday in the latest weather challenge for a country where flooding has killed 700 people this year.

Expedition To Mid-Cayman Rise Identifies Unusual Variety Of Deep Sea Vents- Jul 22, 2010: The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting "We know hydrothermal vents appear along ridges approximately every 100 km. But this ridge crest is only 100 km long, so we should only have expected to find evidence for one site at most. So finding evidence for three sites was quite unexpected - but then finding out that our data indicated that each site represents a different style of venting - one of every kind known, all in pretty much the same place - was extraordinarily cool."

Increase In Greenhouse Gases Linked To Changes In Ocean Currents

Knoxville TN (SPX) Jun 18, 2010 - By examining 800,000-year-old polar ice, scientists increasingly are learning how the climate has changed since the last ice melt and that carbon dioxide has become more abundant in the Earth's atmosphere. French scientist Jerôme Chappellaz studies on the interconnecting air spaces of old snow - or firn air - in the ice cores show that the roughly 40 percent increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the Earth's last deglaciation can be attributed in large part to changes in the circulation and biological activity of the oceanic

The 6.4 degree earthquake that struck Jakarta Indonesia, which was followed by six powerful earthquakes near Papua, Indonesia on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, was predicted, among many other earthquakes that will happen in the future, by the Psychic Twins.  They emailed us the predictions on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, right before the earthquake started.

Among their other predictions include:

Mid-Western China, between August and October 2010 - 6 to 7.5 magnitude (more rural area)

Eastern China - Beijing area April/May of 2011 ­ large one with many casualties

Western China in 2011 January to March - 6 to 7.0 magnitude .

Los Angeles area/ Southern California spring and August or Sept 2011, as high as 6.0-7.2

Magnitude 7.0 - Near The North Coast Of Papua, Indonesia on 2010 June 16. Depth was set at 18 km (11.2 miles). Two people were killed, two injured and at least 500 buildings damaged or destroyed on Yapen. Several buildings damaged or destroyed (VI) on Biak Preceeding this quake was a 6.2 earthquake just 10 minutes before. These quakes have been followed by 7 aftershockes with the largest being a 6.6 magnitude quake.

"We don't know how bad it is yet, but we have received reports that 200 houses on the coast line were damaged and 227 others were in town," according to Papua police spokesman Wachyono

Eastern Indonesia is characterized by complex tectonics in which motions of numerous small plates are accommodating large-scale convergence between the Australia, Pacific, and Eurasia plates. The earthquake lies near the boundary between what some workers term the Birds Head microplate and the Maoke microplate. Eastern Indonesia experiences many strong earthquakes. Since 1979, the region within 300 km of the main-shock of June 16, 2010, has experienced eight other earthquakes with magnitude larger than 7, the largest of which had magnitude 8.2.

Magnitude 7.5 - Nicobar Islands, India Region on 2010 June 12th at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles). The Andaman Sea area witnesses frequent earthquakes caused by the meeting of the Indian tectonic plate with the Burmese microplate along an area known as the Andaman trench. The tremors were felt more than 1,000 kilometres from the epicentre on mainland India, where many were shaken awake in the dead of night, causing some to flee their homes in panic. India's meteorological office has reported a second 5.1-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean west of the Nicobar Islands, just hours after a 7.5-magnitude temblor. This has been followed by 6 further aftershocks. No reports of damage.

Kongpop U-yen, a Thai engineer who works at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in the US, said the alignment of the planets on Saturday could cause natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The theory was backed by former NDWC chief Smith Dharmasarojana, who said it was backed by scientific data. Mr Kongpop said a solar eclipse was due to occur on Saturday night as a result of the alignment of the earth, the moon and the sun. The alignment would release considerable cumulative energy, which could affect the earth. He said the phenomenon would have a direct impact on the earth in terms of climate disruption, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Magnitude 7.2 - Vanuatu on 2010 May 27th. The Vanuatu earthquake of May 27, 2010 occurred on or near the plate boundary between the Australia and Pacific plates in the Coral Sea region of the southwest Pacific. The Vanuatu region experiences a very high level of earthquake activity, with almost 50 events of magnitude 7 and larger having been recorded since 1973. The subducting Australia plate is seismically active to depths of about 350 km beneath the islands.

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattles Puerto Rico on 2010 May 16. No injuries or deaths have been reported so far. The moderate quake came in at a 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, striking about 63 miles from the capital of San Juan, and property damage reported in towns to the north and west.

Sunday 16th May 2010 - Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland

Ash emissions from Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland reached a maximum height of 27,000 ft on 15th May. An earthquake swarm was recorded beneath the volcano between 23:54 hr (14th May) and 02:45 (15th May). Over 30 earthquakes less than magnitude 2 were recorded at a depth of 30 km. Lightning continues to be recorded in the eruption plume with a rate of about 30 strikes per day. Ash emissions from Eyjafjallajokull volcano are expected to drift over parts of Scotland on Sunday and the rest of UK on Monday, causing flight disruptions.

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake rattles Indonesia - May 9, 2010: The calm of Sunday afternoon was shattered in Indonesia's North Sumatra province when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast. The temblor prompted a brief local tsunami warning, damaged some homes and knocked out power. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck at 12:59 pm local time (05:59 UTC) and was centered approximately 130 miles (195 km) south-southeast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra. The quake occurred at a relatively deep 28 miles below the surface. The new temblor occurred in a region that has seen a number of quakes in recent months. Most notably, the same region was where the 2004 magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck that generated a tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people.

AMAZING ERUPTIONS: This weekend, magnetic fields around sunspot 1069 became unstable and erupted--over and over again. On May 8th alone, the active region produced more than half a dozen flares. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) video-recorded each of the explosions with a clarity ten times better than HDTV.

VOLCANIC SUNSETS: Clouds of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano are blowing across Europe again, closing airports and causing fantastic sunsets. To view the NASA charts for the ash, click here.

Sunday 9th May 2010 - Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland

Ash emission from Eyjafjallajokull volcano has forced the temporary closure of schools in southern Iceland. The eruption is still in the explosive phase. Ashfall was reported in Vik, southern Iceland on 8th May. Very little steam was observed at Gígjökull glacier on the northern side of the volcano. About 5000 flights were disrupted on Friday as ash drifted towards Europe.

Saturday 8th May 2010 - Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland

Ash emission from Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland has closed 15 airports in Spain and forced the cancellation of 104 flights in Portugal.

Earthquake - Magnitude 6.1 - Sumbawa Region, Indonesia on 2010 May 08, 2010 followed by two earthquakes of 5.0 and 4.5 magnitude.

The USGS Map for the USA for Sunday, April 11th records the highest number of earthquakes seen to-date: 3590! The Map for Southern California / Baja California accounts for 2906 of those quakes.

West Yellowstone is seeing a small swarm of 32 earthquakes SE of West Yellowstone, MT

Moderate quake strikes south San Diego County - SANTA ANA, April 10th - A moderate earthquake near the U.S. border rattled parts of Orange and San Diego counties and the Coachella Valley. The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.5 magnitude quake hit at 2:12 a.m. Saturday, about 16 miles west southwest of Calexico. The USGS reports that residents in nearly every San Diego County zip code reported feeling it. No damage or injuries have been reported. Several quakes above 3.0 hit later in the day, including a 3.7 magnitude shock at 11:47 a.m.

Magnitude 7.7 - Northern Sumatra, Indonesia on 2010 April 06 22:15:02 UTC. The quake hit at a depth of 19.3 miles at 5:15 a.m. (6:15 p.m. ET, Tuesday) USGS said. A destructive, widespread tsunami is not expected, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, but a local tsunami could affect coastal areas within 62 miles (100 kilometers) of the quake's epicenter.

Tectonic Summary: The Banyak Islands, Sumatra earthquake of April 6, 2010 occurred as a result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction interface plate boundary between the Australia-India and Sunda plates. At the location of this earthquake, the Australia and India Plates move north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at a velocity of approximately 60-65 mm/yr. On the basis of the currently available fault mechanism information and earthquake depth, it is likely that this earthquake occurred along the plate interface.

The subduction zone surrounding the immediate region of this event last slipped during the Mw 8.7 earthquake of March 2005, and today's event appears to have occurred within the rupture zone of that earthquake. Today's earthquake is the latest in a sequence of large ruptures along the Sunda megathrust, including two M 7.3 earthquakes beneath Simeulue 125 km to the north in 2002 and 2008; a M 9.2 earthquake that ruptured to within 125 km north of this earthquake in 2004; a M 7.9 250 km to the south in 2007; a M 8.4 375 km to the south in 2007; and a M 7.5 260 km to the south near Padang in 2009.

Magnitude 6.2 - Molucca Sea on 2010 April 05 10:05:42 UTC

Magnitude 4.7 - Mexicali,Baja California, Mexico on 2010 April 04 23:37:32 UTC

Magnitude 5.1 - Imperial in Southern California on 2010 April 04 23:15:20 UTC

Magnitude 7.2 - Baja California, Mexico on 2010 April 04 22:40:39 UTC. The earthquake was centered about 16 miles south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria, the United States Geological Service said. High-rise buildings in Los Angeles and San Diego rocked back and forth as the quake hit. The earthquake shook houses in Los Angeles for roughly a minute, and aftershocks then followed. Strong shaking was reportedly felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada and Yuma, Arizona.According to the USGS, the same area where Sunday's quake struck has been experiencing quakes around magnitude-3.0 sporadically throughout the week. April 6th- many aftershocks continue.

Magnitude 5.3 - Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska on 2010 March 23 15:23:38 UTC - 80 km (50 miles) W of Attu, Alaska.

Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake Shakes Cuba

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook the island of Cuba on Saturday afternoon.  There are no reports of major damage, but residents of Santiago de Cuba, about 37 miles from the earthquake's epicenter, reported the shaking to have been very strong.  The quake, which occurred out at sea, was also felt in Baracoa, Cuba, and Abricots, Haiti. The epicenter was about 22 miles south of the U.S Guantánamo Bay compound.

People ran screaming into the streets in light of recent earthquakes in Haiti and, most recently, Chile.  The Cuba earthquake, yet another in the chain of numerous - and often devastating - earthquakes in the region appears to have produced only minor damaged, such as cracked walls, but no lives lost.  Aftershocks were reported throughout the day yesterday, but they were of lower magnitude.

Within the first three months of 2010, major earthquakes have struck Haiti (over 200,000 lives lost) and Chile (close to 1,000 lives lost) with major damage to both countries (Chile is now estimated at $30 billion.)  Cuba is still recovering from the $10 billion economic loss created by the devastating hurricanes of 2008.

The earthquakes appear to be extending their reach.  On Sunday night, a magnitude 3.8 quake hit Oklahoma state, causing minor damage.

Southern California Overdue For Large Magnitude Earthquake - March 22, 2010

Recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and smaller quakes in Southern California have some people wondering when the big one will hit here. Scientists say we are due, but when is anyone's guess. Dozens of magnitude 3.0 or larger earthquakes have struck California and Mexico since January. Does it mean a big one is coming?

The San Andreas Fault runs north to south in California and through Baja, Mexico. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

Experts: L.A. Quake Fault "Capable of Massive Temblor"

LOS ANGELES -- The moderate earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area Tuesday likely occurred a long a fault that could generate a much stronger, major quake in the future, according to scientists. Seismologists say the Puente Hills thrust system could touch off earthquakes up to magnitude 7.5 directly underneath downtown Los Angeles. Such temblors would prove larger than any in the modern history of the Los Angeles Basin.

In a 2003 Los Angeles Times report, Sue Hough, a seismologist in the Pasadena office of the U.S. Geological Survey said, "This is the fault that could eat L.A." The Puente Hills fault, which winds through the area's fractured underbelly for about 25 miles -- from northern Orange County to Beverly Hills -- has generated at least four earthquakes ranging from magnitude 7.2 to 7.5 in the last 11,000 years, according to a study published in the journal Science. "The bad news," the report said, "is that when the Puente Hills thrust fault ruptures in an earthquake, it tends to do so in a very big way."

Tuesday's magnitude-4.4 quake struck at 4:04 a.m. and was centered 1 mile east-northeast of Pico Rivera, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no reports of serious damage or injuries. Residents as far away as San Diego and Santa Clarita reported feeling the quake, which consisted of some rumbling and a quick jolt.

Seismologists have not determined which fault was responsible for Tuesday's shaker, however, Daniel Ponti of the U.S. Geological Survey told the Whittier Daily News that it was likely on the Puente Hills thrust system. It's the same fault that generated the 1987 5.9-magnitude Whittier Narrows Earthquake. Eight deaths were blamed on the quake, which caused more than $350 million in damage.

Small Fluctuations In Solar Activity, Large Influence On Climate

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2009) - Subtle connections between the 11-year solar cycle, the stratosphere, and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe

Magnitude-5.6 quake strikes near Guantanamo, Cuba

010/03/20 at 5:51 pm EDT: HAVANA, Mar. 20, 2010 (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Guantanamo city in eastern Cuba on Saturday, sending residents fleeing into the streets but a local government official said there were no casualties. The quake, which also was felt strongly in Cuba's second city of Santiago de Cuba, was centered 27 miles southwest of Guantanamo at a depth of 14 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Magnitude 4.4 quake rattles Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 16, 2010 (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck near Los Angeles on Tuesday, awakening residents but causing no apparent damage in the second largest U.S. city, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses said.

Rapid Response Oceanographic Expedition Dispatched to Chile Earthquake Site

ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2010) - Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California at San Diego are undertaking an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake. The quake is one of the largest in recorded history.

Earthquake in Chile: A Complicated Fracture

ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) - The extremely strong earthquake that struck Chile Feb. 27 was a complicated rupture process, as scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found out. Quakes with such magnitude virtually penetrate the entire Earth's crust.

Volcanic Unrest Beneath Iceland Glacier: March 12, 2010 - Thousands of minor tremors in less than a week rumbled beneath an Icelandic volcano covered by a picturesque glacier.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said that the shaking felt in communities near Eyjafjallajökull glacier was due to magma flowing "at full speed" into the volcano. Eyjafjallajökull last erupted in 1821-1823, and previously in 1612. In 1994 and 1999 a series of tremors was detected in the area - believed to have been caused by magma intrusion deep inside the volcano. The Civil Protection Department was maintaining an alert for the mountain due to the unrest...read more.

Did the Chilean Quake Shift Earth's Axis? - 03.11.2010

World's Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea: An explosion of microscopic algae called phytoplankton has inundated the Baltic's sensitive waters, sucking up oxygen and choking aquatic life.

Tides, Earth's Rotation Among Sources of Giant Underwater Waves: ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2010) - Scientists at the University of Rhode Island are gaining new insight into the mechanisms that generate huge, steep underwater waves that occur between layers of warm and cold water in coastal regions of the world's oceans.

Earth Changes Bulletin Weekly Update As Of March 8 2010

Mother Earth is on a tear. She has been rung like a bell - and we are now seeing an increasing series of earthquakes, all within the Ring of Fire- the world's most active fault line. It circles the entire Pacific Ocean, from the tip of South America, up the west coast of the Americas to Alaska, west to the eastern coast of Asia and down to New Zealand. More than 75% of the world's volcanoes are part of the Ring of Fire and about 90% of the world's earthquakes occur on it. Most of history's deadliest geological disasters took place along the ring, including the massive 1883 explosion of Krakatoa, which darkened the skies for years, and the 9.5 earthquake that hit Chile in 1960, the biggest quake ever recorded.

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.

Is There a Link Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes? Mar 4th, 2010 -At a time of such destructive tectonic activity in Chile it is only natural to consider what effect this might all have on the Chile's numerous volcanoes.  Several of Chile's volcanoes are active and some, such as Chaitén and Llaima have erupted within the last two years.  Fears were raised over Volcán Villarrica recently with residents reporting unusual activity and the Municipality reportedly raising the traffic light warning system to amber.

Magnitude 5.8 - Off The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 2010 March 12 17:32:09 UTC

Magnitude 5.6 - South Sandwich Islands Region on 2010 March 11 06:22:19 UTC

Magnitude 5.2 - Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 2010 March 10 08:07:24 UTC

Magnitude 6.0 - Eastern Turkey on 2010 March 08 02:32:35 UTC: The Turkey earthquake of magnitude-6.0 killed 51 people Monday, on the heels of deadly quakes in Taiwan, Chile, and Haiti. It knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, according to reports. More than 50 aftershocks measuring up to 5.5 vibrated the region and slowed efforts to treat dozens of injured people. The Turkish quake comes on the heels of quakes measuring 6.4 in Taiwan, 8.8 in Chile, and 7.0 in Haiti, raising speculation of a link. According to the US Geological Survey, the earth usually has one magnitude-8 or higher earthquake per year, some 17 quakes between 7 and 7.9, and roughly 132 earthquakes a year with a magnitude of between 6 and 6.9. Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which sits atop two major fault lines.

Magnitude 6.3 - Southern East Pacific Rise on 2010 March 07 07:05:24 UTC

Magnitude 6.5 - Southwest Of Sumatra, Indonesia on 2010 March 05 16:06:57 UTC (11:06:57 PM at epicenter) Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency official Gian Ginanjar says there are no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the undersea quake that struck late Friday 74 miles (119 kilometers) southeast of Pagai Selatan, an island off the western coast of Sumatra. He says the quake has no potential to create a tsunami. It occurred 6 miles (10 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.

Magnitude 6.6 - Offshore Bio-Bio, Chile on 2010 March 05 11:47:10 UTC (08:47:10 AM at epicenter)

Magnitude 6.2 - Taiwan on 2010 March 04 00:18:51 UTC. A large earthquake hit Taiwan Thursday morning, registering 6.4 on the Richter scale. There were no immediate reports of deaths, but the quake injured at least 64 people, spawned blackouts, disrupted rail service and caused widespread panic. he huge dragon-like fish, believed to be the genesis of sea monster legends, are a traditional earthquake omen. They normally remain in the dark depths below 600 feet where they can grow to be 50 feet long. Japanese folklore has long held that whenever a giant oarfish shows up in a fishing net, a major tremor is nigh. In recent weeks, more than two dozen of the mysterious giant oarfish have washed ashore or been found dead in fishing nets off Japan's northern coast.

Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company said the initial 6.4-magnitude earthquake, which struck near the southern Taiwan city of Pingtung, damaged four undersea cables in six different places, knocking out service for parts of the day Thursday and early Friday. Global communications and Internet service on all networks has already been restored, mainly by rerouting service on undamaged cables. Undersea fiber-optic cables carry the bulk of the world's Internet and communications traffic.

Magnitude 6.5 - Vanuatu on 2010 March 04 14:02:27 UTC. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale hit Vanuatu Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean at 10.02pm (1402 UTC) Thursday after another temblor of similar strength had hit Taiwan earlier in the day. The Malaysian Meteorological Department said in a statement heer Thursday night that the epicentre of the Vanuatu quake was located 937km southeast of Honiara, Solomon Islands, and 5,801 km southeast of Kunak in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. The department said there was no tsunami threat.

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. Tsunami warnings in the Pacific have been cancelled as of Sunday, Feb. 28th. 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.

Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord

Recent changes in ocean circulation in the North Atlantic are delivering larger amounts of subtropical waters to the high latitudes. A research team led by Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, found that subtropical waters are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss. Melting ice also means more fresh water in the ocean, which could flood into the North Atlantic and disrupt a global system of currents, known as the Ocean Conveyor.

Feb 26, 2010: 2 huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica's coast SYDNEY (AP) -- A massive iceberg struck Antarctica, dislodging another giant block of ice from a glacier, Australian and French scientists said Friday. The two icebergs are drifting together about 62 to 93 miles (100 to 150 kilometers) off eastern Antarctica following the collision on Feb. 12 or 13, said Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young. Some experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents. This area of water had been kept clear because of the glacier, said Steve Rintoul, a leading climate expert. With part of the glacier gone, the area could fill with sea ice, which would disrupt the sinking ability of the dense and cold water. This sinking water is what spills into ocean basins and feeds the global ocean currents with oxygen, Rintoul explained.

The Earthquake Map for the USA for the past 7 Days records 1061 earthquakes...add to this the very active Sunspot Cycle and the large number of Volcanoes that are active and you are seeing an elevated Earth Change activity cycle. Combine this with the current El Niño which is the strongest since the winter of 1997-98.

El Nino is a periodic, significant warming of the Pacific Ocean. Here's how El Niño works: Though the Pacific Ocean appears flat, it is actually higher at its western end because the water there is warmer and thus less dense, so it piles up higher. The Pacific Ocean usually looks like a ramp slanted downward toward the Americas. Every three to seven years some of that warm water from the west comes barreling down the ramp toward the West Coast of the North America in a phenomenon called a "Kelvin wave." The warm water infuses the air off the West Coast with warm moisture and raises the air temperature, pushing the freezing point higher in the atmosphere.

El Nino continues to rule the weather. Unusually warm water in the central Pacific Ocean have spurred record rainfall and dangerous mudslides on the West Coast and left much of the northern half of the United States in drought. The D.C. area has never experienced a winter like this one, at least since records were first kept in 1872. The mid-Atlantic, from D.C. to Philadelphia, has had snowfalls totals this winter typical of Alaska and Maine. And there is more to come. The warm water of the Pacific affected the atmosphere, setting up storms in the eastern United States that have repeatedly collided with unusual air currents draining cold air south from the Arctic.

Baja Earthquake Rattles San Diego - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was felt over the most populated areas of San Diego County Sunday afternoon. The quake struck at 1:36 p.m. and was located about 21 miles south of Tecate, Baja California, Mexico.   That's about 31 miles southeast of Tijuana. A 3.0 aftershock was measured at 1:40 p.m., followed by a 2.1 shock at 1:51. The epicenter for the quakes was estimated to be in the Santo Tomas Valley, a vineyard area along Federal Highway 3 between Tecate and Ensenada. Today's quakes were centered about 45 miles southwest from Saturday's 3.4 earthquake, on the San Diego-Imperial County line near Ocotillo.

Earthquake Hits Redlands Area - Feb 14, 2010 -- A 4.1-magnitude earthquake hit in the Redlands, California area at 1:39 Saturday afternoon. The U.S. Geological Service reports its epicenter was about three miles south of the city of Redlands in San Bernardino County and was felt as far south as Temecula in Riverside County. Two aftershocks eight minutes later were measured at about 1.5-magnitudes. There have been no reports of damage or injury. The shaker follows one that hit the San Diego area at 8:34 a.m. It measured a 3.4-magnitude with its epicenter at the junction of Interstate 8 and Route 98 in Ocotillo.

Chicago Earthquake: The latest U.S. Geological Survey analysis places Wednesday, Feb 10th, morning's 3.8-magnitude earthquake at a depth of 7 miles, which would be down in the volcanic layers of granite below Chicago, according to the Illinois State Geological Survey. The latest epicenter estimate from the USGS is 1 mile south-southeast of Pingree Grove in northern Kane County. This is not the first earthquake in this area see listing here

3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana's Bakken Formation-25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate-

Wednesday, January 20 2010:: New earthquake rattles Haiti -- many quakes have hit in recent days. Eight days after a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, setting in motion a human tragedy that has left tens of thousands of people dead, another quake rattled Haiti this morning. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 6.1 quake hit the country roughly 35 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince. For a report on the faults of this area, click here.

Meanwhile, researchers in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming are tracking a swarm of small quakes. The quakes not unusual to the area, which was created by an enormous volcano eruption some 640,000 years ago. However, as of Monday, hundreds of tiny earthquakes have been tracked on the western side of Yellowstone and bordering states Idaho and Montana. See map for 62 earthquakes as of Jan. 20th. The swarm began January 17, 2010 (1:00 PM MST).  The swarm is located about 10 miles northwest of Old Faithful, WY and 9 miles southeast of West Yellowstone, MT. The largest earthquake in the swarm as of 3 PM, January 19, 2010, was a magnitude 3.7 event that occurred at 2:31 PM, MST, January 19, 2010. and there have been 469 located earthquakes in the swarm of magnitudes 0.5 to 3.7.  This includes 5 events of magnitude larger than 3, with 34 events of magnitude 2 to 3, and 430 events of magnitude less than 2.

One week after the Haiti Earthquake and the World has seen earthquakes in Argentina, Venezuela and most recently Guatemala.

The Cayman Islands were jostled with an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale yesterday, with the epicenter located about 32 miles west of Bodden Town, Grand Cayman.

Haiti Earthquake: Fault Visible from Space: Stress had Built Underground for Decades. The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, as it is known to geologists, appears as an almost straight cut in the earth in radar images from the space shuttle Endeavour, recorded 10 years ago on the STS-99 mission in February 2000.

A brief note on Haiti:  The massive earthquake that occurred in Haiti this week created a monumental heart opening for the planet. The pain, suffering, and tragic loss it created opened our hearts and shifted the planet, pushing it into the heart space that it will be now operating from. These beautiful and giving souls who agreed at their soul levels to be a part of this experience, have served this planet in ways unseen for a very long time. As it was time at many of their soul levels to depart, they agreed to depart in a way that would serve the planet and take it to its new and higher level. Haiti will become a very sacred space, as it already has, and this event will be remembered for a very long time. It was a part of our very new beginning, and a part that will change the vibration and direction of our new world as well. These brave, unbelievably loving and precious souls, have given to this planet more than we could ever know. They have assisted in shifting the planet into its very new way of being that involves coming from the heart, and the honor and reverence I feel for them and the many other souls involved, goes beyond words.

With much love and gratitude, Karen Bishop Wings

Annular Solar Eclipse of 2010 Jan. 15 View Map of Pathway ... On Friday, 2010 January 15, an annular eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a 300-km-wide track that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's antumbral shadow begins in Africa and passes through Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia. After leaving Africa, the path crosses the Indian Ocean where the maximum duration of annularity reaches 11 min 08 s. The central path then continues into Asia through Bangladesh, India, Burma (Myanmar), and China. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes eastern Europe, most of Africa, Asia, and Indonesia.

In traditional eclipse lore, where the Eclipse is visible will be where the greatest effects can be expected, lasting the number of years that the eclipse is long in hours. This one is 3 hours 45 minutes, thus making it active for the next 3 years and 9 months, making it a major player in the spectacular events coming through 2013. Read more here ... And also here

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.

Magnitude 4.6 - Offshore Chiapas, Mexico - 2010 January 13 22:30:44 UTC

A catastrophe: Eartquake Magnitude 7.0 - Haiti Region - 2010 January 12 21:53:09 UTC: The largest earthquake to ever strike this area. YouTube Report.The quake was centered about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS. A magnitude 5.9 aftershock followed soon afterward, about 30 miles further west, followed by a 5.5 aftershock closer to the location of the first quake. See Map. A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Witnesses reported heavy damage throughout the capital, Port-au-Prince, including to the president's residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed.

Jan. 13th: Officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. The capital, Port-au-Prince, "is flattened," said Haiti's consul general to the U.N., Felix Augustin, who said he believed more than 100,000 people were dead. Hospitals are gone, and medical supplies and heavy equipment are desperately needed, he said. The earthquake's power matched that of several nuclear bombs, said Roger Searle, a professor of geophysics in the Earth Sciences Department at Durham University in England. He said the combination of its magnitude and geographical shallowness made it particularly dangerous. About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated. None of the three aid centers run by Doctors Without Borders is operable.

Another earthquake of Magnitude 5.0 - Haiti Region has just rattled the area again on 2010 January 13 07:23:04 UTC.

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Tectonic Summary: The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip motion and compression, and accommodates about 20 mm/y slip, with the Caribbean plate moving eastward with respect to the North America plate.

Haiti occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola, one of the Greater Antilles islands, situated between Puerto Rico and Cuba. At the longitude of the January 12 earthquake, motion between the Caribbean and North American plates is partitioned between two major east-west trending, strike-slip fault systems -- the Septentrional fault system in northern Haiti and the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system in southern Haiti.

The location and focal mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with the event having occurred as left-lateral strike slip faulting on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system. This fault system accommodates about 7 mm/y, nearly half the overall motion between the Caribbean plate and North America plate.

The Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system has not produced a major earthquake in recent decades. The EPGFZ is the likely source of historical large earthquakes in 1860, 1770, 1761, 1751, 1684, 1673, and 1618, though none of these has been confirmed in the field as associated with this fault.

Powerful quake strikes Solomon Islands - Jan 9, 201 - A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific on Saturday, seismologists said, but there was no immediate tsunami warning or reports of damage. The US Geological Survey said the quake was measured at a depth of about 35 kilometres (22 miles) and struck 146 kilometres southeast of the town of Gizo at 4.51 pm (0551 GMT). Two aftershocks, one of 5.0 magnitude, the other 5.4, followed about two hours later.

Northern California Hit by Earthquake: Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake struck - Offshore Northern California - 15 miles/24 Km southwest of Eureka, California. on 2010 January 10 00: at 27:39 UTC (Saturday, January 09, 2010 at 04:27:39 PM at epicenter). Damage from Saturday's offshore 6.5 magnitude quake was widespread in Humboldt County, but not major - cracks in walls and floors, temporary power outages, shattered windows, toppled store shelves, broken dishes and appliances, and some bent railings on bridges. A magnitude-4.2 aftershock struck the region late Sunday night, the latest of many to hit the area since the quake.

Map - List of Eartquakes on Map - Tectonic Summary: This earthquake occurred approximately 35 km WNW of Ferndale, CA in a deformation zone of the southernmost Juan de Fuca plate that is commonly referred to as the Gorda plate. The earthquake's epicenter is northwest of the Mendocino Triple Junction, which is formed by the intersection of the Mendocino fracture zone, the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone. The Gorda plate is subducting beneath the North America plate at about 2.5-3 cm/year in the direction N50E. The Gorda plate is also subjected to intense compressive stresses by oblique-convergence of the northwestward migrating Pacific Plate as well as localized eastward spreading at the Gorda Ridge. The resulting internal deformation of the Gorda plate is manifested primarily by intraplate strike-slip events on vertical NE-oriented faults.

Preliminary analysis of the earthquake indicates that it results from slip on a near vertical, left-lateral fault oriented about N47E. Large strike-slip earthquakes like this one are common in the interior of the Gorda plate. There are no reports of this earthquake causing a tsunami. Strike-slip earthquakes are less likely to produce large tsunamis because they cause relatively little vertical ground displacement. Shaking was strongest near the coast line between Petrolia and Eureka, CA, although felt reports for this event extend from as far south and north as Capitola, CA and Eugene, OR, respectively, and as far east as Reno, NV. The maximum recorded shaking was observed in Eureka (33%g), which is sufficient to cause moderate damage.

This is the largest quake to occur in this region since the April 04, 1992 M7.2 Petrolia and the June 15, 2005 M7.2 Gorda plate earthquakes.

The probability of a strong and possibly damaging aftershock (M>5) in the 7 days following the earthquake is approximately 78%. Most likely, the mainshock will be the largest in the sequence. However, there is a small chance (~5-10%) of an earthquake equal to or larger than this mainshock in the next 7 days. In addition, numerous M3-5 aftershocks are expected to occur in the same 7-day period, but most are unlikely to be felt due to the distance from land.

The San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing a series of earthquakes - the latest being a 3.8 magnitude, 10 km ( 6 mi) ENE of Milpitas, CA on Jan. 8th.On Jan. 7th the same area had a 4.1 mag. quake. Could this be the events causing the sea lions to leave the Bay area? The famous sea lions of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf have disappeared after 20 years. Last month, Pier 39 groaned under the weight of some 1,500 of the animals. But now all but a few have swum off bringing to an end a two-decade long sojourn. Is their departure is the sign of an imminent earthquake - or just a lack of their favorite food supplies.The animals arrived soon after the Loma Prieta quake of October 1989.

Pier 39 Sea Lions May Be In Oregon: Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction - 500 miles north on the Oregon coast. Thousands of California sea lions started showing up in December at Sea Lion Caves, a popular tourist draw because of the Stellar sea lions living in the caves. The California sea lions appear to have made the trip because of an abundance of anchovies at the Oregon site, 11 miles north of the town of Florence. Kim Raum-Suryan, a biologist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, noticed the number of California sea lions at Heceta Head had doubled to some 5,000 in December. "My gut feeling is it has something to do with the (ocean warming) El Nino conditions off California, which is driving prey and sea lions up north," she said. There are fewer herrings in San Francisco Bay, and a general decline in sea lion food off California last summer triggered a die-off of young sea lions making the transition from mother's milk to fish. Meanwhile, anchovies have been plentiful in Oregon waters

TIDES IN EARTH'S CRUST TRIGGER SMALL, DEEP QUAKES: Study of one portion of the San Andreas fault finds that just a little added stress makes a quake more likely

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.

Tremors Between Slip Events: More Evidence of Great Quake Danger to Seattle - ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2009) - For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate dips beneath the North American plate, runs just off the Pacific coast from northern California to the northern edge of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It can be the source of massive megathrust earthquakes on the order of magnitude 9 about every 500 years. The last one occurred in 1700.

Sun and Moon Trigger Deep Tremors on San Andreas Fault - ScienceDaily (Dec. 25, 2009) - The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little effort, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, seismologists.

Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery - December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University.

A MYSTERIOUS giant Spiral of Light that dominated the sky over Norway on Dec. 9th has stunned experts - who believe the space spectacle is an entirely new astral phenomenon.

Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute to ask what the incredible light - that could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles - could possibly be. The phenomenon has been dubbed 'Star-Gate' - as the world's top scientists and the military lined up to admit they were baffled. Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning 'Catherine wheel-style' spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star. A blue "streaming tail" appeared to anchor the spiral to earth, before the light "exploded" into a rotating ring of white fire. See pictures here.

A "Nobel Torsion Message" Over Norway?

More information from AA Metatron

12:12 & The Return to Love- Arcturus

"December Energies And Their Impulses"

Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America's Night Skies Mysterious, glowing clouds (Noctilucent clouds) previously seen almost exclusively in Earth's polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the past several days (July 16, 2009). Photographers and other sky watchers in Omaha, Paris, Seattle, and other locations have run outside to capture images of what scientists call noctilucent ("night shining") clouds. Formed by ice literally at the boundary where the earth's atmosphere meets space 50 miles up, they shine because they are so high that they remain lit by the sun even after our star is below the horizon.

The clouds might be beautiful, but they could portend global changes caused by global warming. Noctilucent clouds are a fundamentally new phenomenon in the temperate mid-latitude sky, and it's not clear why they've migrated down from the poles. Or why, over the last 25 years, more of them are appearing in the polar regions, too, and shining more brightly.

African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making - ScienceDaily - In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.

Previously unknown fault caused earthquake swarm off Oregon's coast

On 8th October, the rock crashed into the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The blast was heard by monitoring stations 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario. Scientists are concerned that it was not spotted by any telescopes, and that had it been larger it could have caused a disaster.

Mexicans told to cherish water as family

Olancha Earthquake Sequence Continues - 435 Events Through October 7th, Activity Beginning Oct. 3rd

This earthquake pattern in Central California area is in an area of complex geology where the Sierra Nevada range front bends. Northwestward motion of the Pacific Plate, relative to a fixed North American Plate, takes place mainly on the San Andreas fault system and other faults to the west of the Sierra Nevada. A portion of the deformation, however, passes inboard of the Sierra Nevada block and goes up the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. The Sierra Nevada have been moving slowly northwestward as a result, pulling away from the Colorado Plateau. This Sierra Nevada range bend, combined with the right-lateral shear along the range front, has produced an extensional step in the fault system and the hole created has been filled with a sedimentary basin that is now filled by Owens Lake, which is now, for the most part, a playa or dry lake bed. Interestingly, this bend in the mountain range front also coincides with the highest peak, Mount Whitney, and the recent Olancha activity is near the southern end of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake, which ruptured a system of faults that run through Lone Pine.

The sequence continues - see Earthquake List for Map Centered at 36°N, 118°W. The events are listed as Keeler begining the closest point.

Reference Websites: Landscheidt Cycles Research - Landscheidt and others pioneered the Planetary Influence Theory suggesting our solar system planets control our Sun.

Earth Approaching Sunspot Records: The sun is at a low point of a deep solar minimum in which there are little to no sunspots on its surface. In July through August, 51 consecutive days passed without a spot, one day short of tying the record of 52 days from the early 1900s. As of Sept. 15, the current solar minimum ranks third all-time in the amount of spotless days with 717 since 2004. Sunspots are related to magnetism, as they are caused by magnetism, and are in fact a mini magnetic field on the surface of the Sun.

NOAA Report Explains Sea Level Anomaly This Summer Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast - September 2, 2009 - Persistent winds and a weakened current in the Mid-Atlantic contributed to higher than normal sea levels along the Eastern Seaboard in June and July...a weakening of the Florida Current Transport-an oceanic current that feeds into the Gulf Stream-in addition to steady and persistent Northeast winds, contributed to this anomaly.

New Arkansas Fault to Cause "Major Disaster"?: A previously unknown fault in eastern Arkansas could trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake with an epicenter near a major natural gas pipeline, a scientist said Wednesday. The fault is separate from the New Madrid fault responsible for a series of quakes in 1811 to 12 that caused the Mississippi River to flow backward, said Haydar Al-Shukri, the director of the Arkansas Earthquake Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Acres of cotton fields cover the newfound fault west of Marianna, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of Arkansas's capital, Little Rock. But stretches of fine sand mixed with fertile soil gave away the fault's location, Al-Shukri said. Liquefied sand bubbled up through cracks in the earth, while ground radar and digs showed vents that let the sand reach the surface, he said.

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.

'Big one' may hit close to Seattle   -- Using sophisticated seismometers and global positioning systems, scientists have been able to track minute movements along two massive tectonic plates colliding 25 miles or so underneath the Puget Sound basin. Their early findings suggest a mega-earthquake could strike closer to Tacoma and Seattle than earlier thought. The instruments are detecting an inch or two of movement -- known as "episodic tremor and slip" -- as the Juan de Fuca plate grinds and sinks beneath the North American Plate.

Increased Ocean Acidification In Alaska Waters - Fairbanks AL - Aug 17, 2009: The same things that make Alaska's marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification. According to new findings by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, Alaska's oceans are becoming increasingly acidic, which could damage Alaska's king crab and salmon fisheries. The ocean contains minerals that organisms like oysters and crabs use to build their shells. Ocean acidification makes it more difficult to build shells, and in some cases the water can become acidic enough to break down existing shells. Mathis' recent research in the Gulf of Alaska uncovered multiple sites where the concentrations of shell-building minerals were so low that shellfish and other organisms in the region would be unable to build strong shells.

Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water - Irvine CA - Aug 17, 2009: Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade - and they believe human consumption is almost entirely to blame.

Colorado even gets in on the current action with Magnitude 4.4 - COLORADO - 18 km (12 miles) N (353°) from Craig on 2009 August 18th. This followed a Magnitude 3.9 - COLORADO - 9 km (6 miles) ESE (107°) from Eads on 2009 August 17th. Eastern Colorado rarely sees seismic activity from a handful of epicenters in the Arkansas and Platte river valleys.

Swarms of small earthquakes are also occurring in Southern California: A swarm of 11 small earthquakes hit near the east valley early Friday morning. The tremors, ranged in magnitude from 1.3 to 2.6. The location of the quakes was about 9 miles northeast of Coachella or 5 to 10 miles northeast of Indio. An early-morning 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the Salton Sea on March 24, prompting hundreds of smaller temblors. The quake, centered near Bombay Beach, about 13 miles east of Salton City, where the San Andreas fault runs under the sea, was the largest to strike the area since 1932. At least five magnitude-3.0 or above earthquakes rattled the valley floor from the night of Oct. 29 to the morning of Oct. 30. The cluster of quakes hit Ocotillo Wells, a sparsely populated desert area about 65 miles northeast of San Diego near the Salton Sea. The U.S. Geological Survey measured five quakes of magnitude-3.0 or greater, including a 3.6-magnitude temblor, a 3.5 and a 3.4. They all occurred within three hours. Later, a 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook an area near Anza, 20 miles from Palm Springs, at 10:09 a.m., the USGS reported.The Big One is the 8.2-magnitude or greater quake experts say is about 150 years overdue for this area.

Since 1970, Peru has been hit by five powerful and deadly earthquakes. The latest struck Peru's coast exactly two years ago with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale.

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.

CropCircle Connector 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?

The Longest Eclipse of the 21st Century! 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

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Massive Quake Shifts New Zealand Closer to Australia: Thursday, July 23, 2009 - WELLINGTON, New Zealand -  Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country's South Island, a scientist said Wednesday.

Mysterious Tremors Detected Along San Andreas Fault

Giant Blob Found Deep Beneath Nevada

Alaska Quake Tsunami Could Devastate West Coast: The threat of a devastating tsunami hitting the U.S. West Coast might be higher than previously thought, scientists say, based on a new study of earthquake faults off the coast of Alaska.

NYC, Boston May See Even Higher Sea Level Rise: New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada could come under greater threat from sea level rise due to melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century

'Invisibility cloak' could protect buildings against earthquakes

'Invisibility cloak' could protect coastlines from large waves

POSSIBLE IMPACT EVENT ON JUPITER: Did something just hit Jupiter? On July 19th, a black "scar" appeared in Jupiter's clouds similar to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts of 1994. "The jet-black mark is near Jupiter's south pole (south is up in the image)," says Wesley. "I have imagery of that same location from two nights earlier without the impact mark, so this is a very recent event."

Energy For A Cool Planet - In this web focus, Nature has collected a suite of feature articles and associated material focused on new 'clean energy' technologies that seek to address this challenge.

Tremor patterns under San Andreas fault offer insights into earthquakes - The seismic activity has increased in the years since the San Simeon and Parkfield quakes, and even seems to have predicted the latter one, study finds. Under the central part of the San Andreas fault, the deep seismic whisperings known as tremors have increased after two recent large earthquakes, and a surge in tremors appears to have foreshadowed one of them, according to a study to be published in the journal Science.

Monsoon rain kills 26 in southern Pakistan - July 19, 2009: At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed and hundreds injured after the first torrential rains of the monsoon lashed Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.

Forest fires force thousands to evacuate in Canada -July 19, 2009: Around 17,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in the Kelowna region of Canada's British Columbia province, where forest fires have already devastated 300 hectares (741 acres) of land.

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.

SUDDEN SUPER SUNSPOT: Sunspot 1024 is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares. The activity is so intense, astronomers can't seem to take a picture of the sunspot without catching a flare in action. Solar observers haven't seen an active region like this one in more than two years. It is big, complex, and rapidly growing: movie. The magnetic polarity of the sunspot, revealed by SOHO magnetograms, show that it is a member of new Solar Cycle 24.

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 List for Map Centered at 32°N, 115°W - Southern California & Baja California

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Australia Fires - Comprehensive Coverage from BBC

Cascadia Faulth Area of the West Coast of the USA and Canada - information

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

aSatellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice - The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well. Arctic sea ice works like an air conditioner for the global climate system. Ice naturally cools air and water masses, plays a key role in ocean circulation, and reflects solar radiation back into space. In recent years, Arctic sea ice has been declining at a surprising rate.

Artic ice thinner than ever: scientists - April 6, 2009: The Arctic ice cap is thinner than ever, satellite observations revealed Monday, while also indicating that the sea ice cover continues to shrink due to global warming. This winter saw the fifth lowest maximum ice extent on record since monitoring by satellite began in 1979, said the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Despair as California's Central Valley Dries Up

Hubble Provides New Evidence For Dark Matter Around Small Galaxies

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the Universe's mass...

Pluto is a planet again - for the day of Friday the 13th - in Illinois.

Mega-earthquake Risk For West Coast, US And Canada? Seismic Slip Linked To Tremor, With Implications For Subduction Zone

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2009) - In the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of two weeks or more, releasing as much energy as a magnitude 6 earthquake. The slip events coincide with regular occurrences of what scientists call nonvolcanic tremor, which showed up clearly on seismometers but for which the origins were uncertain....

Tiny Western Australian Wheatbelt town of Beacon has been hit by about 100 earthquakes over the past month.: Seismologists are at a loss to explain the flurry of earthquakes that have hit a small Wheatbelt town. Geoscience Australia says the biggest measured almost five on the richer scale, while others were too small to record. The small town of Beacon is about 300 kilometres north-east of Perth. Seismologists say the phenomenon, known as an earthquake swarm, is highly unusual, but has been moving through the wheatbelt for the past decade. Phil Cummins from Geoscience Australia says he's not aware of it happening like that anywhere else in the world. "We don't know why they started up a month ago and we expect that you know sooner or later they will die out and that whole process isn't that well understood," he said. Mr Cummins says he and other seismologists do not know if the earthquake swarm is likely to lead to a more disastrous event.

Scientists dig for the Guts of Earthquakes

Magnitude 7.2 - KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA on 2009 February 11 17:34:50 UTC. The earthquake occurred approximately 30 km off the western coast of the Pulau Salebabu (Indonesia) in an area that has seen large earthquakes in the past. Since 1986, there have been two earthquakes with magnitude greater than 7 in this region. This was a shallow quake at a depth of 20 km. The earthquakes continue to rattle the area with more than 30 to-date ranging up to 6.4 magnitude.

Much is made of the shrinking sea-ice as compared with prior years. Check out this chart which graphs the sea-ise from 2002 to 2009. This comes from the Japanese AMSR-E research site. We are right where we should be according to their data.

In August of 2007 the agency submitted the following report on the change in the sea-ice: The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC, led by President Yasuhiro Kato) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, led by President Keiji Tachikawa) cooperatively analyzed oceanic and atmospheric observation data and sea ice data acquired by satellites, and found that the sea ice area in the Arctic Ocean has been decreasing at a much faster pace than expected compared to the previous worst record in the summer of 2005. After satellite observations started in 1978, the observed area shrunk to its lowest level on August 15, 2007. Ice melting normally continues until mid September, thus further shrinkage of the sea ice area is expected. The observed phenomenon significantly exceeded the forecasted model submitted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth Assessment Report, and the big difference tells us that the model may not precisely reflect the actual situation in the Arctic Ocean....The ocean surface temperature is increasing, and this year the temperature is the highest since 2000. Accordingly, sea ice melting is worsening and significant reduction of salt content in the ocean surface has been observed*. *Sea ice contains little salt, thus, when it is melted, the salt content in the ocean is decreased.

Read the Kyokko December 2008 Newsletter report for current understandings.

MULTIPLE FIREBALLS: On Friday, Feb. 13th, around 10:00 pm EST, people in central Kentucky heard loud booms, felt their houses shake, and some saw a fireball streaking through the sky: eye-witness reports. On Sunday, Feb. 15th, around 11 am CST, an even brighter fireball appeared over central Texas in broad daylight. News outlets and even the National Weather Service are attributing these events to re-entering debris from the recent satellite collision between Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251. Skepticism is warranted. Evidence reported so far does not rule out a meteoritic origin; these fireballs could be a result of garden-variety space rocks hitting Earth, as they do almost every day. Until, e.g., US Strategic Command issues a statement linking the fireballs to radar-tracked satellite debris, it's best to keep an open mind.

Dillsburg's Still Shaking - February 10, 2009 http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11672181

About 325 tremors have been reported in the Dillsburg area since October 3. Three earthquakes have measured a magnitude of 2 or greater on the Richter Scale since October 5. Scientists with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University placed portable seismographs in the area and recorded hundreds of micro-earthquakes between October 24 and December 11. Preliminary results show a roughly northwest to southeast lineation. Jones visited with residents in the Dillsburg area Friday, checking to see what they've been feeling in recent weeks. Some people have gotten used to the tremors and haven't been reporting them. Residents have reported smelling sulphur at times with the earthquakes.

Bizarre Rumbling Sound Unnerves Oklahoma Residents - January 24, 2009 http://ghostradio.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/

Residents in Crawford and Sebastian counties in Arkansas and Adair and LeFlore counties in Oklahoma reported feeling and hearing rumbles. The Sequoyah County sheriff, said the department has checked with every mining company in the county but none have reported any blasting. The Oklahoma Geological Survey which has seismographs stationed across the state, including Arkansas, detected no ground tremors on the days and times residents reported feeling and hearing rumbles. Sequoyah County officials hope to find closure because they've been getting more than 50 calls a day to their 911 dispatch center.

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)

Earthquake Fatalities High in 2008: The number of earthquake-related fatalities across the world was much higher in 2008 than in recent years. About 88,070 deaths resulted from earthquake activity worldwide during 2008, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and confirmed by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). This is the largest number of deaths from earthquakes in a year since 2004.

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.

Earthquakes in the California-Nevada region click here for the current map are increasing in frequency. To see an up-dated list of earthquakes in this map area, click Earthquake List for Map California Nevada for the current events 1+ magnitude and above.

Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Summary as of January 8, 2009

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.

Click Here for a list of recent significant earthquakes worldwide.

Check Out The Indian Face in Canada as Seen From Space

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

Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?

Source- National Geographic News - Sept. 24, 2008: Even the sun appears headed for a recession. The Ulysses space probe has detected fewer sunspots, decreased solar winds, and a weakening magnetic field-the lowest solar activity observed in 50 years, NASA scientists said yesterday. That translates into a shrinking of the heliosphere, the invisible "bubble" of solar wind that extends beyond Pluto and guards the planets-ours included-from bombardment by cosmic rays. Speaking yesterday at a NASA teleconference, scientists refused to draw conclusions from their observations, especially with respect to whether the changes are influencing Earth's climate.

Before-and-after Hurricane Ike photographs showing the near total destruction of a coastal neighborhood in Texas are now accessible online.

On Monday, Sept. 15, a team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists flew the coast impacted by Hurricane Ike and acquired photographs and video. Images of Crystal Beach, Texas, on the Bolivar Peninsula are compared to aerial photographs of the same area taken Sept. 9, several days before Ike's landfall, and are now available from the USGS at http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/bolivar.html.

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

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

4D Ionosphere

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

Map of the Worlds Tectonic Plates & Article from National Geographic News

Crashing waves in the deep ocean can generate enough energy to create a seismic "hum." Image courtesy: Bruce Molnia/U.S. Geological Survey

Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Mystery of Oceans' Seismic 'Buzz' 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.

Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here!

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! read article here: Viewzone

Earth's Axis Tilt   Has recently increased by an additional 26 degrees To a 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.

Boiling Water at Hot Creek-The Dangerous and Dynamic Thermal Springs in California's Long Valley Caldera

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. Download this report as a four-page PDF document (fs2007-3045.pdf; 5 MB)

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