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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."
FATHER'S DAY BLAST: Consider it a Father's Day gift ... from the sun. This morning around 1 a.m. UT, magnetic fields on the sun's eastern limb became unstable and erupted, producing one of the most spectacular explosions of the year. The explosion did not cause a solar flare (a flash of electromagnetic radiation) but it did hurl a massive cloud of magnetized plasma into space. Because of the blast site's location on the eastern limb, the cloud will not hit Earth. There won't be any geomagnetic storms or auroras.
Comet McNaught 2009R1 is beautiful as it travels through our skies now. Click here for picture. Comet McNaught is approaching the sun, which makes the comet bright, but also difficult to see. The comet will continue to brighten as it swings by the sun. Unfortunately, though, after perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on July 2nd, the comet will not only recede from the sun but also from Earth. The final mornings of June could offer our last good look at this blue-green apparition from the outer solar system
Floods kill 25, wreck homes in French Riviera - June 17, 2010
Rescuers combed wrecked cars and homes for bodies on the French Riviera on Thursday after the worst floods in two centuries killed 25 people.
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
Europe, US to see snowy, cold winters: expert - Paris (AFP) June 11, 2010
Europe, North America and east Asia can expect more cold, moist and snowy winters such as the one just passed, a top scientist said Friday. While it may seem counter-intuitive, warmer Arctic climes caused by climate change influence air pressure at the North Pole, shifting wind patterns in such a way as to boost cooling over adjacent swathes of the planet.
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.
The active sunspot cycle continues with three areas showing huge ejection prominances. Sunspot 1081 is crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. An even stronger M2-class flare on June 12th (0055 UT) sparked a bright flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation, propelled a shock wave through the sun's atmosphere, and hurled a billion-ton coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The CME is expected to miss Earth. The M-flare also produced a Type II radio burst. To hear the burst, click here. Click here for picture
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.
AURORA WATCH: High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on May 20th. That's when a solar wind stream is due to hit Earth, possibly sparking geomagnetic storms.
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.
INCOMING CME: Decaying sunspot 1060 delivered a parting shot on April 8th. The active region's magnetic field erupted, sparking a B3-class solar flare and hurling a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. Geomagnetic disturbances are possible when the cloud arrives on April 11th or 12th.
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.
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.
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.
OH, SNAP! The 'Great Magnetic Filament' on the sun that we've been tracking for the past week finally erupted yesterday. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) images bracket the eruption between 0719 and 1919 UT on Feb. 24th. The event did not produce a bright solar flare, as sometimes happens when filaments erupt, but there was a coronal mass ejection (CME). SOHO coronagraphs observed at least one and possibly as many as three clouds billowing away from the sun: movie. If any of this material is heading for Earth--a big unknown!--it should arrive on Feb. 27th or 28th. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates. Pictures at SpaceWeather.com
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.
BIG SUNSPOT: Sunspot 1040 is busy growing again. In only 24 hours, it has expanded from a barely visible "sun-speck" to a planet-sized active region with 15 dark cores and a tangled magnetic field. Sunspot 1040 is still growing. During the past two days it has doubled in size--and then doubled again--to produce an active region with 25 dark cores and a tangled magnetic field. WIDE SUNSPOT: Jan. 13th: Sunspot 1040 has grown so large (ten times wider than Earth)
Asteroid 2010 AL30 will come within 0.3 LD on Jan. 13th. (LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.) It is 8 m in size.
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.
News as it Breaks
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
Jan 4, 2010 : The U.S. Geological Survey has reported some notable earthquake activity the past couple of days.
Baja California, Mexico was rattled with a magnitude three-point-eight quake early Sunday morning.The epicenter was 22 miles north of Ensenada.
Later in the day the earth quaked in the South Pacific, hitting the Solomon Islands with two shocks, a magnitude six-point-five followed by a large seven-point-two shaker.
Just before 6:30 a.m. Pacific time this morning, a magnitude four-point-one quake woke the residents of Redway, California just nine miles from the epicenter.
Utah was the next to shake at 9:24 a.m. local time. USGS says the magnitude four-point-one-quake was centered eight miles south of Cedar City, 154 miles north of Las Vegas.
No damage and no injuries have been reported from any of the activity.
Solomen Island Earthquakes: We are experiencing a series of Earthquakes in the Soloman Islands ranging from the original 6.6 on Jan. 3rd followed inan hour by a 7.2 magnitude quake. The swarm continued for 11 more quakes 4.7 and above, culminating in the Jan. 5th 6.8 mag. followed by three in the 5.3 and 5.4 range , then another 6.0 mag. event. They are still shaking the area with five more earthquakes as of Jan. 6th. To see the current Australia Region earthquake map, click here. The tremors were centered beneath the ocean floor near the town of Gizo, which was badly damaged in April 2007 when a 8.1-magnitude quake sent a tsunami crashing into the coast, killing more than 50 people. Monday's tsunami devastated a village on Rendova Island, some 188 miles (300 kilometers) from the capital Honiara Rendova is home to about 3,600 people. Initial reports said no one was seriously hurt.
Baja California is once again experiencing a swarm of over 120 earthquakes following the 5.8 mag earthquake on Dec. 30, 2009, 21 km ( 13 mi) NNW of Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico.
Tajikistan quake leaves 10,000 without shelter: - Jan 3, 2010 Source
An earthquake in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan has destroyed hundreds of homes, leaving some 10,000 people without shelter in the dead of winter, officials said Sunday. "According to preliminary information, 300 houses have been destroyed" in the 5.3-magnitude earthquake that struck 235 km (145 miles) east of the Tajik capital Dushanbe at 07:15 a.m. (0215 GMT) on Saturday. It had a depth of 44.5 km (27.7 miles)
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.
December 6th: Sonora, Mexico is the latest in a series of earthquake swarms coming in at a 3.7 magnitude at a depth of 32.6 km. The swarm of 26 earthquakes is centered around Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico.
Iceberg Armada Blown Away From Southern New Zealand
December 4, 2009 - One of the hundreds of icebergs advancing toward southern New Zealand in late November before the Antarctic debris was blown eastward and melted. Scientists in New Zealand say the armada of icebergs that was approaching the South Island during late November has been blown away from land by strong westerly winds.
Oceanographer Mike Williams of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said that melting and erosion by waves have probably made the hundreds of individual icebergs so small that they can no longer be seen on satellite images.
The icebergs were fractured parts of ice floes that split off from Antarctica between 2000 and 2002 when parts of two major ice shelves, the Ross Sea Ice Shelf and Ronne Ice Shelf, fractured. Before being blown away and melted, one of the largest icebergs had been 650 feet wide.
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.
Pair of earthquakes rattle US state of Oregon - (AFP) WASHINGTON - The western US state of Oregon was rattled early Wednesday by a pair of earthquakes, the US Geological Survey said. The first temblor off Oregon's coast struck at 1238 GMT and measured 5.0 on the moment magnitude scale, followed 30 seconds later by a quake measuring 5.3. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the quakes, which were centered about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west northwest of Port Orford, Oregon amd 400 kilometers (250 miles) from Portland and ten miles deep in the Juan de Fuca Plate.
What makes this earthquake particularly interesting is its proximity to hundreds of earthquakes recorded here in past years. At least eight swarms of earthquake groupings have occurred since the 1980's, likely indicating volcanic activity, not simply plate movement. Resources have been diverted to study these unusual events.
The Juan de Fuca plate slides beneath the North American plate in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Oregon coast. This is the source of the greatest known earthquake danger in the Pacific Northwest, and known to have produced a magnitude 9 earthquake in the year 1700. That earthquake triggered a tsunami which reached as far as Japan.
No tsunami or damage was reported with today's event.
Previously unknown fault caused earthquake swarm off Oregon's coast
And, across the Pacific: Moderate Quake Hits Southern Japan - 11/4/2009 12:22 AM ET - (RTTNews) - The U.S. Geological Survey says a moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit southern Japan Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property and no tsunami alert was issued. The offshore quake struck at 4:03 am local time (1703 GMT Tuesday) 88 miles (142 kms) southwest of the country's remote, Bonin Islands in the northwestern Pacific, some 620 miles (1,000 kms) south of the capital, Tokyo, at a depth of 53 miles (86 km), the U.S. agency said. Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries with around 20 per cent of the world's most powerful earthquakes striking Japan. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 persons.
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.
BIG SUNSPOT: On its way over the sun's western limb on Oct. 31st, sunspot 1029 unleashed a C-class solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory photographed the billion-ton CME billowing past Mercury: The blast reinforces sunspot's 1029's position as the most active sunspot of 2009. Last week alone, the sunspot produced ten C-class solar flares, more than tripling the number of flares in the previous 10 months. Sunspot 1029 is a member of long-overdue Solar Cycle 24. Is it also a herald of more active times to come?
The sun is showing signs of life. Over the weekend, sunspot 1029 emerged and it is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares. The sunspot's magnetic polarity identifies it as a member of new Solar Cycle 24. If it continues to grow at this rate, sunspot 1029 could soon become the biggest sunspot of 2009.
6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia: Jakarta - Another strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck a remote eastern Indonesian island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara Sunday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury and damage, meteorologists said. The quake took place at a depth of 16 kilometres, located about 176 kilometres south-west of Waingapu on Sumba Island. It occurred at 3:54 am Jakarta time (2054 GMT Saturday), the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said. The BMG's statement say the quake, the latest jolt to hit Indonesia in more than six hours, did not trigger a tsunami, and there were no immediate reports of injury or structural damage.
Strong quake hits off Indonesia - Oct. 24, 2009 - A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit deep under the sea off Indonesia's coast. It struck at 2340 local time (1440 GMT) at a depth of 92 miles (148km). According the the USGS, Saturday's earthquake struck 138 miles (222km) from Saumlaki, in Indonesia's Tanimbar islands. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the world's most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes. It has recently been struck by string of deadly earthquakes. In September, dozens were killed by a tremor off Java, while a quake which hit Sumatra left more than 1,000 people dead.
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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.
Oct. 13, 2009: You are once again seeing earthquake activity in the Sea between Baja California and Mexico: 4.5 at 125 km ( 78 mi) SSE of San Felipe, Mexico on 2009/10/14; a 4.6 at 108 km ( 67 mi) SE of San Felipe, Mexico on 2009/10/08; a 4.0 at 124 km ( 77 mi) SSW of Puerto Peñasco, Mexico on 2009/10/08 ; and a 4.7 at 119 km ( 74 mi) SE of San Felipe, Mexico on 2009/10/08. Also, another swarm is occurring at SW of Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico and at WNW of Brawley, CA. The swarm in Central California, the largest to date is a 4.3 earthquake at S of Keeler, CA is still continuing with the count at 118 quakes in the last 7 days. Update on Alaska activity: we just experienced another 5.1 at 102 km ( 63 mi) S of Unalaska, AK. There have been many shakes with the largest being a 6.3 at ESE of Nikolski, AK. There have been 50 quakes in this area over the past 7 days. So far only Cleveland and Shishaldin volcanoes are active and on a Yellow alert. While we are on the listing of lots of earth movement, remember that the South Pacific area is very active in the Santa Cruz Islands, Vanuatu (also has lots of volcano activity), the Samoa Islands ( latest is a 6.0 magnitude) with most being at moderate depth. However, the Fiji area has registered a 4.6 magnitude quake at a depth of 406 km.
Reference Websites: Landscheidt Cycles Research - Landscheidt and others pioneered the Planetary Influence Theory suggesting our solar system planets control our Sun.
SOLAR ACTIVITY: There's more to the solar activity than sunspots. While sunspots have been absent 80% of the time so far in 2009, almost every day has brought a prominence or two. The prominence recorded by Helmut Goell of Germany, is five times taller than Earth itself, and the "plasma falls" are cascading some 64,000 km. Currently there are two new sunspots, 1026 & 1027 in this Sun Spot Cycle 24.
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.
Indonesia quake death toll 42, likely to rise The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Indonesia, which killed at least 42 people and forced thousands to flee buildings, is likely to rise, government agencies said early on Thursday morning. The 7.0 magnitude quake shook buildings in the capital Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon and flattened homes in villages closer to the epicenter in West Java. Seismologists recorded a slight rise in the sea level at Pelabuhan Ratu off the west of the island following the quake, indicating there had been a small tsunami. A local tsunami alert was issued but revoked shortly afterwards. The quake struck around 1500 (0800 GMT). Its epicentre was offshore, 115km (70 miles) south-west of Tasikmalaya. This has been followed by a magnitude 4.9 quake....more from BBC
The Indonesia quake was followed by a Magnitude 6.2 - KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND - 2009 September 02 18:00:10 UTC at a depth of 261.3 km (162.4 miles)
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.
Earthquake Hits East Tenn. Monday Morning -- When most people think of earthquakes, they think of California, not east Tennessee. But that's where one hit Monday morning. The earthquake, which happened just after 9 a.m., was centered two miles north of Friendsville in Blount County. The earthquake's magnitude was 3.3.
Small Earthquake Shakes Some In South Carolina - August 30, 2009 - A small earthquake rattled a few communities in South Carolina early morning Sunday. The quake measured 3.2 on the Richter scale, and was felt by people in about eight communities in the state. A local NBC News affiliate reported that tremors were felt by some for up to five seconds. There were no reports of any injuries or damages from the quake. It happened about 6:30 a.m. The affected areas of the earthquake are located above a fault line. Sunday's quake comes on the heels of up to nine minor earthquakes that shook parts on Oklahoma on Thursday and Friday. The strongest of those quakes measured magnitude 3.7.
At least 8 minor earthquakes shake parts of Oklahoma. - At least eight minor earthquakes have been recorded in central and southern Oklahoma in a single day. The latest was a 2.3 magnitude quake recorded at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, August 27th, about 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Before that, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 9:09 p.m. in the Oklahoma City suburb of Jones. The National Earthquake Information Center recorded all eight earthquakes. No damage or injuries have been reported. Also on Thursday there was a 3.4 magnitude earthquake recorded at 3:22 a.m. in southeast Oklahoma. Five other earthquakes that ranged from 2.5 to 2.7 were near suburban Jones.
BLANK SUN: The sun is entering its 41st consecutive day without sunspots. This remarkable string of blank suns shows that we are still in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in a century. If the streak continues for 11 more days, it will match the longest blank spell of the current cycle.
Another earthquake in a series of 28 qukes has struck the island area of KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA. This last quake was a magnitude of 5.5 and is the largest aftershock from the 6.6 which struck on August 16th.
'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.
Strong quakes hit off Japan, rattle Taiwan Tokyo - Aug 17, 2009 - Two strong earthquakes jolted the ocean floor off southern Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings for a cluster of sub-tropical islands and shaking buildings in nearby Taiwan. A 6.7-magnitude quake struck in the morning southwest of Ishigaki-jima island in Japan's far southern Ryukyu Islands, followed by a 6.4-strength tremor in the evening, the US Geological Survey reported. Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which is located at the intersection of several tectonic plates.
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.
Tokyo Quakes Raise Residents' Fears Over 'Big One: Three earthquakes rattled Tokyo this week. The city of Toyko of about 27 million sits adjacent to three major fault lines, situated on the boundary of two tectonic plates, the Philippine and the Eurasian. Japan experiences a fifth of the world's quakes annually. Of those fault lines, the Nankai Trough has been the source of most concern among seismologists since 1979 because they believe the area of the trough closest to Tokyo is most likely to generate a quake of magnitude-8 in the near future. That zone produces a major quake every 118.8 years on average and the last one, which was magnitude 8.4, was in 1854. A magnitude-8 earthquake would be 178 times more powerful than the 6.5 temblor three days ago. A magnitude-6.8 quake in July 2007 in Niigata north of Tokyo, which killed 15 people and caused a fire and radiation leaks at the world's biggest nuclear reactor, proved to have been generated by a fault line that was twice as long as seismologists reckoned. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido in July 1993 produced a tsunami with waves as high as 30 meters.
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
Magnitude 4.7 - PUERTO RICO REGION on 2009 August 12 & 14th. The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with a maximum depth of more than 8 km (5 miles), at Milwaukee Deep. The trench marks the location where the North American Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate. As of Tues., August 18th there have been 132 earthquakes in the Puerto Rico region. The largest were two 4.7 mag. centered N of Suárez, PR. and a 4.7 133 km ( 83 mi) NW of Settlement, British Virgin Islands on the 12th.
Magnitude 6.7 - IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION on 2009 August 12
Magnitude 4.6 ICELAND REGION Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Major earthquakes strike near Japan, Myanmar: Magnitude 6.4 - NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN on 2009 August 10. This comes after the 7.1 quake (see below). This quake struck just 12 minutes after a 7.6 tremor hit near India's Andaman Islands.
Indian island rocked by massive earthquake: Magnitude 7.6 - ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION on 2009 August 10. A tsunami watch is in place for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh.
'Hundreds dead' in Taiwan mudslide: Hundreds of people are feared to have been killed and a million have fled their homes after Typhoon Morakot hit the Asia-Pacific region. Up to 600 people may have been buried after a landslide triggered by heavy rains and high winds swept through a mountain village in southern Taiwan, Al Jazeera reporter Steve Chao said on Monday. The residents are feared to have been buried in their homes when rivers of mud driven by torrential rains swamped the village of Hsiao Lin.
Undersea quake hits Pacific region: August 10, 2009 - A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit near the Solomon Islands' remote Santa Cruz province on Monday, seismologists say, but there are no immediate reports of damage in the Pacific region. The epicentre of the undersea quake was located about 166km east of the Santa Cruz islands, at a depth of 42km, the US Geological Survey reported.
Offshore Earthquake Jolts Japan: The Japan Meteorological Agency says a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Tokyo and surrounding areas on Sunday. The epicenter of the quake was off the coast of Japan, near the volcanic Izu Islands, the Meteorological Agency said. The center was at a depth of 340 kilometers and there was no danger of a tsunami, the agency said
Typhoon Pummels China and Taiwan: Rain deluged China's east coast on Monday hours after Typhoon Morakot slammed into the region south of Shanghai, packing winds up to 111 miles an hour, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing one million people to flee. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said the downpours broke records across the island for the most rainfall in 24 hours. The flooding was said to be the worst in a half-century.
Earthquake hits Baja California: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Mexico near Santa Isabel in Baja California. on Monday, August 3rd and was centred about 120 kilometres north-northeast of Santa Isabel in Baja California and 530 kilometres southeast of the border city of Tijuana. There were several moderate temblors in the same part of the Gulf of California before the 6.9 earthquake struck, and officials said this might be a quake swarm. A 5.8 quake struck before the 6.9 temblor, and a 5.0 and 5.9 hit soon after. The quake was felt in San Diego and as far as Phoenix, AZ.
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.
Bold red lines are plate boundaries.
Moderate earthquake shakes southern Mexico August 14th - A moderate earthquake has struck in a mountainous region of southern Mexico between the capital and the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Saturday morning quake had a magnitude of 5.3 and was centered 5 miles (10 kilometers) from the city of Arcelia, in the coastal state of Guerrero.
Magnitude 5.6 145 km ( 90 mi) NNW of Santa Isabel, Mexico on 2009/08/05
Magnitude 6.9 - GULF OF CALIFORNIA on 2009 August 03
A regional tectonic earthquake occurred at 11:28 AKDT and was felt throughout South Central Alaska. This event is not related to Redoubt. The Alaska Earthquake Information Center and the U.S. Geological Survey report the magnitude at 5.7, centered 30 miles southwest of Talkeetna or 55 miles northwest of Anchorage. Aftershocks from this event continue to be recorded on seismic stations at Redoubt. Redoubt remains at Yellow Alert.
Alaska is experiencing a series of earthquakes in the 5.5 and lower range. As of August 10th there were 328 earthquakes within the last 7 days. The largest is the 4.6 on August 7th 241 km (149 mi) SW of Adak, AK.
The Virgin Islands are also having a series of earthquakes in the 4.0 magnitude range and below - all on June 22nd. This tectonic area is being crushed as the Atlantic Rift widens. As of July 8th, there are 43 quakes. The Ascension Islands also had a 5.2 and a 4.8 quake which is in the Atlantic spread area.
On the fault line at the base of Baja California, there have beem four earthquakes: 6.0, 5.4, 4.8, & a 4.3.
In the Southern California / Baja California area, there have been 159 earthquakes in the last 7 days.
As the stretching and bowing of the USA continues, you are seeing a picture that now closely mirrors the map of Gordon Michael Scallion which showed the upcoming Earth Changes. Note the line of quakes moving up through Utah.
The San Andreas fault is NOT a single, continuous fault, but is actually a fault zone made of many segments. Movement may occur along any of the fault segments along the zone at any time. The San Andreas fault system is more than 1300 km (800 miles) long, and in some spots, is as much as 16 km (10 miles) deep. This is the main fault structre that is being watched in California.
Map of the Worlds Tectonic Plates & Article from National Geographic News
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a submerged mountain range, which extends from the Arctic Ocean to beyond the southern tip of Africa, is a divergent tectonic plate boundary. It is just one segment of the global mid-ocean ridge system that encircles the Earth. The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters per year, or 25 km in a million years. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and separates the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge appears above sea-level at Iceland. This offers scientists a natural laboratory for studying on land the processes also occurring along the submerged parts of a spreading ridge. Iceland is splitting along the spreading center between the North American and Eurasian Plates, as North America moves westward relative to Eurasia.
For all the latest pictures and information on Crop Circles from around the world, click here.
This is the Morgan's Hill Square Crop Circle, August2, 2009 The Ever-Unfolding Saga of Earth: Next Chapter
In this beautifully squared formation, we are once again reminded to focus on Earth. Are the circle makers telling us that the focus during all this celestial activity is on the Earth? And that perhaps the celestial activity is actually initiating responses within the Earth's core that will result in a changed earthly situation? Are we about to witness the next chapter in the Great Story of Gaia? Will the vast unknown of the material world begin to reveal itself to our consciousness?
Solar eclipse- Of celestial mechanics and the Eye of God: Total solar eclipses have struck awe or fear into hearts for millennia
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, BLUE CANCER NEW MOON JULY 22ND - by Soluntra
On Aug. 21, 2017, there will be a total eclipse of the sun directly above the continental United States.
Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 July 22 - On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
Visit Barbara Hand Clow AstroFlashes for her chart of the Solar Eclipse and explanation.
The Sabian symbol for this week's Solar Eclipse is intriguing:
"A Daughter of the American Revolution: The prestige and conservatism of a long-maintained heritage."
If we look at this symbol with the idea that we are in completion mode, we can see that it corresponds well with the themes of the Saturn-Venus square, and what we know of the relationship patterns we are leaving behind. The old relationship traditions where one partner plays the parent role and the other plays the child are not likely to withstand the current waves of energy. Visit NorthPoint Astrology view for the week.
Jeshua explains the July 22nd Solar Eclipse
SOLAR ECLIPSE PICTURE: Moon's Shadow Seen From Space
SOLAR ECLIPSE PICTURE: Seen From Earth
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
As of June 1st, 2009 there have now been 757 earthquakes within the 7-day reporting period for the USA map with So. California from the top of Death Valley/Trona area down through the Baja showing much activity and earthquake swarms. Yellowstone is currently quiet. Note also the large number of quakes in the Puerto Rico region (35 in a 7-day period - the two largest at 4.6 mag. on June 1st at 143 km ( 89 mi) NE of Settlement, British Virgin Islands) and Alaska (over 2020 quakes in 7-days)
Baja California, 15 km (9 miles) WNW (290°) from Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico - a 4.2 mag Earthquake on April 12th. This is in a line down from the swarm at the Salton Sea. Look for more activity up along the San Andreas fault in the near future. As of June 1st, the area of Southern California / Baja California has experienced 209
Magnitude 7.3 - OFFSHORE HONDURAS on 2009 May 28th. At least 7 people killed, 40 injured and more than 130 buildings damaged or destroyed in northern Honduras. The central span of a major bridge at El Progreso was destroyed. At least 5 buildings destroyed and 25 damaged in Belize. Felt in much of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Also felt in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands and Virgin Islands and in parts of Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. Seiches were reported in swimming pools at La Ceiba and Roatan and ground cracks and possible liquefaction was observed at Monkey River, Belize.
Tectonic Summary - The location and focal mechanism of the Honduras earthquake of May 28, 2009, imply that the shock occurred as the result of left-lateral strike-slip faulting on the Swan Islands Transform Fault, a segment of the boundary between the North America and Caribbean plates. In this region the plate boundary accommodates about 20 mm/y slip. Previous strong earthquakes along the North America/Caribbean plate boundary include the destructive Guatemala earthquake of February 4, 1976, M 7.5, which produced more than 23,000 fatalities. The 1976 earthquake occurred on the Motagua fault, a segment of the plate boundary that lies in southern Guatemala, several hundred kilometers southwest of the plate boundary that ruptured in the May 28, 2009 shock.
SOLAR CYCLE PREDICTION: An international panel of experts says Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. Get the full story from Science@NASA. SUNSPOT 1019: New-cycle sunspot 1019 burst through the surface of the sun on May 31st and it has been growing rapidly ever since. SpaceWeather.com
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
Little Green Comet Nears Earth - Yi-SWAN is traveling in a tilted elliptical orbit and is currently about 164 million miles (264 million kilometers) from Earth.
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.
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 32°N, 115°W - Southern California & Baja California
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 37°N, 120°W - California, Northern & Central
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 42°N, 125°W - Northern California & Oregon
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 18°N, 66°W - Puerto Rico region
Earthquake List for Alaska
Interactive Map for Alaska Earthquakes - check the box for recent earthquakes
Earthquake List for Map of Australia Region
Australia Fires - Comprehensive Coverage from BBC
Cascadia Faulth Area of the West Coast of the USA and Canada - information
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.
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.jpg
In Southern California, scientists have their eye on a swarm of quakes in the desert. More than 450 quakes have hit near the Salton Sea since March 21.
The southern end of the San Andreas Fault hasn't snapped in more than 300 years. But scientists worry small quakes could act as a trigger for the big one.
The Southern California area around the Salton Sea is once again experiencing a series of quakes with the largest being a 4.8 mag. on March 24th. For Southern California, the concern doesn't end with the activity happening along the Salton Sea. Chino Hills has recently had major activity in what has been described as a swarm of micro-quakes.
Trona in the lower mid-section is still in motion. Off the coast of Oregon is moving again and Puerto Rico is being ground into the trenches with the motion of the N. American and S. American plates pushing against it as the Mid-Atlantic Rift continues to expand.
Do you remember the map of the future USA that Gordon Michael Scallion produced in the early 1990's? Now look at the earthquake dots of the western USA. Do you see a pattern that looks similar to his map of the USA?
Swarm of earthquakes dies down but concern lingers
Satellites 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.
Magnitude 6.7 - SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION on 2009 April 16
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit the south flank of Kilauea volcano on 14th April
Magnitude 6.9 - KURIL ISLANDS on 2009 April 07
Magnitude 4.6 - CENTRAL ITALY on 2009 April 07 & Magnitude 5.6 - CENTRAL ITALY on 2009 April 07
Magnitude 6.3 - CENTRAL ITALY on 2009 April 06. At least 150 people killed, 1500 injured and 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed in the L' Aquila area. The government has estimated that up to 70,000 people have been left homeless by the quake. "For the past three months there have been regular tremors, and they've been getting stronger and stronger!" The earthquake was the result of faulting that runs northwest-southeast through the central Apennines, a mountain belt that extends from the Gulf of Taranto in the south to the southern edge of the Po basin in northern Italy.
Several tectonic processes are active in the region: The Adria micro-plate is being subducted under the Apennines from east to west, while at the same time continental collision is occurring between the Eurasia and Africa plates (responsible for the building of the Alps).
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).
Solar activity lowest in nearly 100 years - April 1, 2009 : U.S. solar physicists say the sun is experiencing the least sunspot activity since 1913 and activity is becoming less frequent.
Flooding on the Red River: The threat of major flooding along the North Dakota-Minnesota border is rising as the Red River continues to swell foot by foot. The waters are expected to crest to a record-breaking height of 41 feet by mid-day Saturday, according to the National Weather Service, exceeding the levels reached in the worst flood more than a century ago.
Earthquake swarm within 3-miles of San Andreas Fault: The swarm has generated hundreds of quakes, the largest M4.8 - Earthquake of Magnitude 4.8 - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA at 2 miles south of Bombay Beach on the Salton Sea. occurring after the 4.8 mag. quake of March 24th which came after the swarm began on the 20th. There have been 8 in the magnitude 3.0+ range with many in the 2.0 and 1.5+ range. Seismologist Dr. Morgan Page says a cross-fault near Bombay Beach has probably transferred static energy to the nearby San Andreas, "which is about 3-miles away. There's some concern the swarm could trigger a larger event. It's not very probable, but it is possible." The quakes continue into 3-26-09.
Strong earthquake hits Papua New Guinea: USGS A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Wednesday morning, the US Geological Survey said. Sydney, March 25, 2009: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Wednesday morning, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties on the ground. The epicentre was 117 kilometres (73 miles) south-southwest of Rabaul, which sits at the northern tip of the island of New Britain, at a depth of 47 kilometres.
Alaska Volcano - Redoubt Erupts!
Major Pacific earthquake prompts tsunami warning
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AFP) - A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook the South Pacific nation of Tonga Friday and prompted a tsunami warning in the region, officials said.A number of earthquakes have been felt in Tonga recently and an undersea volcano has been erupting off the coast of the main island Tongatapu, although it was not considered to be a threat to people in the area. Nearly two hours after the quake, the tsunami warning was lifted. An aftershock of 5.3 magnitude was also registered on the 19th.
The California area is bouncing around today (March 19th) showing 425 earthquakes in the last 7 days.
Magnitude 6.3 - KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA on March 16. NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA has been quaking since then in the 4-5+ magnitude range.
Second quake in 11 days hits Australia: March 18 (UPI) -- The Australian state of Victoria was rocked by its second earthquake in 11 days Wednesday, seismologists said. Officials said a 4.6-magnitude temblor struck near Korumburra, 60 miles east of Melbourne.
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....
Magnitude 5.0 - PUERTO RICO REGION on Thurs., March 12th located 80 km (50 miles) NNW (336°) from San Juan, PR. This quake has been followed by a large number of aftershocks in the mid 2.0+ to 3.4 magnitude range. There were no reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued. As of Friday, the 13th, there have been 83 quakes in this region within the last 7 days. (to see the map, click on the link above for Puerto Rico)
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.
Winds knock out power to thousands in Great Lakes Feb 12th: Wild winds with gusts topping 60 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting travel and killing at least two people. The high winds, attributed to a strong low pressure system, started Wednesday night and moved east overnight.
COLLIDING SATELLITES: Experts are calling it an "unprecedented event." Two satellites have collided in Earth orbit. Iridium 33 crashed into Kosmos 2251 on Tuesday, Feb. 10th, approximately 800 km over northern Siberia. Both satellites were completely destroyed. The expanding cloud of debris contains more than 500 fragments and, dispite rumors, the debris is not radioactive.
Magnitude 6.1 NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN PERU on 2009/02/09 14:09:07 at a depth of 35.0 km.
Redoubt volcano in Alaska is still on Yellow Alert but has not erupted. The earthquakes in the Alaskas continue mainly in the Aleutian Islands.
The Alaskan earthquakes continue with this latest earthquake of mag.5.7 - 51 km ( 32 mi) W of Nanwalek, AK on 2009/01/24 18:09:50 UTC at100.0 km in depth. Southern California - Baja California are also continuing to move about.
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.
Magnitude 5.1 - OFF THE COAST OF BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR on January 19th 122 km (76 miles) W (261°) from Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This is further west than previous earthquakes, historically. There is no known fault line here.
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.
A moderate earthquake hit San Bernardino in Southern California. It was felt as far as Las Vegas, Nevada, in some reports. The USGS reports a 4.5 magnitude quake struck, but reports to the Southern California Weather Authority say the preliminary 5.0 magnitude felt about right. This quake was predicted.
Jim Berkland has released his January earthquake window. "The first seismic window of the year is only a little less potent than last month's, which had the strongest tidal forces since 1993, "said Berkland. "Jan. 08-15, 2009 is marked by Golden Gate tides of 8.9 ft. only a little below the max. possible range of 9.2 ft. The full Moon of Jan 10 is only 16 hours away from the 2nd closest perigee of the year and 6 days after the Earth/Sun perihelion of Jan 4."
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.
BIGGEST FULL MOON OF THE YEAR: The biggest full Moon of the year is coming this weekend. It's a "perigee Moon" as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser Moons we'll see later in 2009.
Over 88,000 die in earthquakes in 2008 - January 07, 2009
Earthquakes caused 88,070 fatalities in 2008, the highest number since 2004, the US Geological Survey reports. The year's strongest and most destructive earthquake - which had a magnitude of 7.9 and struck Eastern Sichuan, China - claimed at least 69,185 lives, injured 374,171 people and left 18,467 victims missing and are presumed dead. Killer earthquakes also struck in 13 other countries - Algeria, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda - across 4 continents. Although 2008 saw only 12 earthquakes above a magnitude of 7 during 2008, compared with an annual average of 18, these resulted in high levels of fatalities because of where they struck. 2004, the worst year for earthquakes since the 1970s, killed 228,802 people - 227,898 of whom died in the resulting tsunami waves in Asia.
Earthquake Information for 2008
Series of powerful quakes kills 4 in Indonesia: A series of powerful earthquakes shook remote eastern Indonesia on Sunday, toppling or badly damaging more than 100 buildings and leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured. One of the quakes - a 7.3-magnitude tremor - was felt as far away as Australia and sent small tsunamis into Japan's southeastern coast.
NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA: This area is being shook with a series of major eartquakes beginning with a 7.6 magnitude on Jan. 3, 2009 followed by a number of quakes in the 5+ range, a 7.3, and a 6.0 on Jan. 4, 2009. The location of today's earthquake would be on the boundary of the Pacific and Australia plates. The earthquake of January 3, 2008, 22:33 UTC, occurred about 400 km west of the magnitude 8.2 earthquake of February 17, 1996. The magnitude 7.3 earthquake of January 3, 2008, had the same focal-mechanism as the magnitude 7.6 shock of the same date, and was located about 70 km east of the earlier shock. It was almost certainly triggered by the earlier earthquake. Seismologists sometimes refer to a pair of similarly sized shocks that occur at nearly the same time and location as an earthquake "doublet." Sea level reading indicate that a tsunami was generated and will be watched for two hours to see if coastal damage occurs. Seismic graphs all over the world are ringing with these earthquakes. Quakes continue with the current 4.9 magnitude event Jan. 4th.
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?
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
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You may wish to review a message from 2006 discussing Yellowstone and Volcano_Yellowstone Grows
SOLAR CYCLE UPDATE: Final sunspot counts for the year 2008 are now available and the numbers are very low. The sun was utterly blank--that is, it had no sunspots whatsoever--on 266 days last year. That makes 2008 a century-class year in terms of low sunspot numbers. To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. Now for the good news: Evidence is mounting that the deep solar minimum of 2008 is coming to an end; we can expect a livelier sun in 2009.
Global Warming Explained through the Eloheim: What's causing global warming? What's causing it and how is it going to impact us? Global warming is a direct result of the increased energy flowing into earth as the solar system moves into the higher energy belt....
Earthquake List for Map Centered at 18°N, 66°W - Puerto Rico area
Mag.3.6, 11 km ( 7 mi) ESE of Maupin, OR on 2008/12/27 23:32:35
South of False Pass, AK is also, and not unusual, showing increased activity with a 4.6 & 5.0 magnitude.followed by a 3.3, 3.7, & 3.8 magnitude quakes. Two volcanoes are again on Alert: Cleveland and Redoubt. The Puerto Rico area continues shaking. The unusual quake occurred in Pennsylvania with a 3.4 magnitude at 2 km ( 1 mi) NNE of Salunga-Landisville, PA. California continues its movement and another at 3.0 magnitude occurring at 42 km ( 26 mi) ENE of Ensenada, Mexico. The Northern California, East Quincy area saw a 4.5 mag. quake 34 miles SSW (201°) from Susanville, CA. Let us not ignore the 5.9 mag. quake 256 km (159 mi) WSW of Campbell River, Canada. This is a historically active area off the coast. Way back on the 24th another moderale quake occurred west of Coos Bay at 213 km (132 mi) WNW of Bandon, OR at a magnitude of 4.0. Think Cascadia Fault area radiating down into the San Andreas Fault of California into the Baja, Mexico area. The point to remember of all this data is that the activity and the level of magnitude is on the increase. As the Mid-Atlantic fault expands the activity increases in the Puerto Rico area, the fresh water enters the Atlantic ocean from the melting of the ice, introducing fresh water into the Gulf Stream conveyor belt system that warms the Eastern USA and England area. When the Belt stops diving in the Artic area and stops, you will see freezing quickly occurring in the Northern Atlantic sea-board areas, both sides. Maximum time line is 3.8 years away!
Several Injured In China Earthquake, Thousands Evacuated 10:36 AM Dec 27, 2008: The two earthquakes measured 4.3 and 4.9 on the Richter scale. Three people in Shunha Village, were severely injured and another 16 people suffered slight injuries. Also,50-thousand people in the city were affected and about one fifth of them were evacuated to safer places. The quake destroyed the city government's old office building and damaged 32 schools. Ninety-nine houses collapsed and another 35-thousand were damaged. Local officials had allocated 300-thousand yuan (44-thousand US dollars) of quake-relief funds and were distributing supplies to the residents.
Coronal holes are places in the sun's atmosphere where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this current coronal hole should reach Earth on Dec. 30th or 31st. The impact could light up the Arctic Circle, punctuating the year with aurora borealis. There are no sunspots on Sat., December 27, 2008.
Chile contines with a 5.2 quake on December 19, 2008 followed by a 5.7, a 5.1 quake, a 5.0 and a 4.9 quake. Then we find another Magnitude 5.9 - NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE earthquake off the coast of Portugal. The Puerto Rico area has had over 20 small quakes on the 19th also - 12 of these after the Mid-Atlantic Ridge movement which places pressure on this area of Mother's plates.
Magnitude 5.2 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC on 2008 December 18 17:13:48 UTC ata depth of 106.3 km - 350 km (217 miles) W (274°) from San Juan, PR. No tsunami warning was issued. No damage is reported. There have been 59 earthquakes in the San Juan, PR area during the past 7 days with 30 of the quakes in the 3.0+ magnitude range. The last reported swarm of earthquakes in this area was in 2003 and in 2001.
Two moderate earthquakes rocked the small township of Hanmer in New Zealand's central South Island Thursday, shaking goods from store shelves but causing no major damage or injuries. The first tremblor, at 8:55 a.m. NZT (2055 GMT) was centered 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the township and was measured at magnitude 4.9. A second 17 minutes later had an epicenter 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of Hanmer and was magnitude 4.1, seismologists said. Both quakes were relatively shallow at 7 miles (12 kilometers) and 6 miles (10 kilometers) deep.New Zealand sits above an area of the earth's crust where the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates are colliding and records more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, though only about 150 are felt by residents. Fewer than 10 a year do any damage. Another quakes rattles New Zealand 5.2 on 2008/12/19 00:20:59 at a depth of 35 km NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
This quake came immediately after two earthquakes in Chile: 6.0 OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE on 2008/12/18 21:50:29 at 10.6 km in depth. preceeded by a 6.3 magnitude quake OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE on 2008/12/18 21:19:29 at 19 km in depth. This was preceeded by a deep earthquake once again in Fiji region: Mag. 5.6 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS on 2008/12/18 20:57:39 at a depth of 540.8 km. Also, a 5.3 VANUATU quake at 258.5 km on2008/12/18 03:20:05 as well as across the Pacific with a quake in Mexico: 4.2 OAXACA, MEXICO on 2008/12/18 02:04:44 at a depth of 68.5 km. Mother Earth is very active now with continued activity in the Puerto Rico area, Japan, off the coast of New Zealand, Italy, and of course, Alaska. Baja California and Central California continue in motion. Also, new motion 5.0 magnitude quake at the MID-INDIAN RIDGE on 2008/12/16 10:19:40 . Even Sweden kicked in with a 4.3 magnitude quake on the 16th.
While writing this another quake occured off the Japanese coastline magnitude 5.0 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION on 2008/12/19 00:35:02 at a depth of 62.5 km.
This level of earth movement raises the very real question of "what next?'. Look for a major movement before the end of 2008 in the area of New Zealand. Also, the United States is priming for major movement in California - Central down through Baja, CA - as well as in the Puerto Rico area. Combining major earth movements with the cold weather patterns in the continental USA can point to major upheaval in peoples lives during this Holiday season. The Sun is again quiet in this Cycle 24. We will see a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole should reach Earth on Dec. 21st or 22nd.
Astrologically, because Pluto went into Capricorn a few hours before the Sagittarius New Moon, the whole period during early December has been soaked with great structural changes. The chart for the Winter Solisce on Dec. 21st is "most interesting'...view chart
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.
Corals Indicate Another Sumatra Quake Is Likely The magnitude-8.4 and -7.9 quakes that slammed the Mentawai Islands southwest of Sumatra in September 2007 are likely just the first in a series of major temblors that will strike that region in the coming decades, new analyses of the archipelago's coral reefs suggest.
New Solar Cycle 24: According to one leading solar physicist, the sun is turning blue. David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is using red and blue to tag sunspots of the old and new solar cycles. When he plots the color-coded sunspot numbers, it's clear a change is taking place: see chart at www.spaceweather.com "New Solar Cycle 24 is on the upswing while old Solar Cycle 23 is decaying," he says. The sun is still in the pits of a deep solar minimum, he points out, but the little blue bars in Hathaway's plot show that it won't last forever. An increasing number of new-cycle sunspots in the months ahead should propel the sun out of the doldrums, eventually leading to a full-fledged Solar Max around 2012 (This is the end year of the Mayan Calendar also).
Planets, Crescent Moon to "Frown" on Skywatchers Dec. 1 - Skywatchers across the world are in for a celestial treat as two of the brightest naked-eye planets, Venus and Jupiter, slowly converge in the evening skies for a celestial summit on November 30. The real showpiece, however, will be on the following night, when a thin crescent moon joins the planetary pair-creating a brief "unhappy face" in the sky
Expert: Small Ark. earthquakes could be warning - A series of small earthquakes that rattled central Arkansas in recent weeks could be a sign of something much bigger to come. Five earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 2.2 to 2.7 have hit central Arkansas this month. Arkansas quakes generally occur in the state's northeast corner, part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where three temblors with magnitudes of around 8 struck during the winter of 1812 and smaller ones continue today. But central Arkansas does not have any seismic history, Al-Shukri said.
Magnitude 1.7 - SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI on 2008 December 09 10:21:34 UTC. While this is a small quake, this in the New Madrid Fault Zone that we are watching for activity in the near future as the USA is stretched and twisted from the St. Lawrence Seaway down through the Baja.
Also a loud boom was heard in Ft. Smith, Arkansas on Nov. 10th. http://www.kfsm.com/global/story.asp?s=9326061 that can't be traced to a supposed meteor.
2.7 quake hits Magnet Cove, Arkansas. Basil Miller, associate professor of physics, heard a loud boom that came from nowhere. Usually with a 2.7, there is no noise." The fact that such a small earthquake made a loud boom and shook the earth made it unusual, but another reason why this earthquake was so unusual is because where it occurred is not near a fault. Earthquakes usually occur near fault lines. The closest fault line is the New Madrid fault line that runs through northeast Arkansas. In that region, there are earthquakes every week.
Watch the west coast of the United States. The area around Trona in Central California is also showing a swarm of earthquakes. This area in Central California is traditionally volitle. Watch all of the west coast of the United States from British Columbia through to Baja California. A major movement in either the Cascadia Fault area or the Baja California area would have a ripple affect moving the whole west coast area.
Mother Earth continues to readjust 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
Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:42pm EST: KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - People in a vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States." FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee -- home to some 44 million people. Tennessee is likely to be hardest hit, according to the study that sought to gauge the impact of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in order to guide the government's response.
EXPLOSION IN PROGRESS: An explosion is underway on the sun. The source of the blast lies out of sight somewhere over the sun's western limb, but the ejecta is visible as it billows into space: (click link to view photo & movie) A coronagraph onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is monitoring the progress of the expanding CME. The cloud is not directed at Earth and should cause no geomagnetic activity on our planet. It is, however, a promising "sign of life" on the sun. Slowly but surely, solar minimum is coming to an end.
SOUTHERN PERU just kicked in with a magnitude5.0 earthquake on 2008/11/27 03:04:58 at a depth of 77.0 km. The 'Ring of Fire' is active and bouncing from one side of Mother Earth to the other. For the current map, click on the link above.
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
ASTEROID UPDATE: Last week when asteroid 2008 TC3 entered Earth's atmosphere over Sudan, "classified assets" were watching. Without naming names, the US government has released a summary of what they saw: "Sensors aboard US satellites detected the impact of a bolide over Africa on 7 October 2008 at 02:45:40 UT. Initial observations put the object at 65.4 km altitude at 20.9o N, 31.4o E. The object detonated at an altitude of approximately 37 km at 20.8o N, 32.2o E. The total radiated energy was approximately 4.0X1011 joules, equivalent to ~0.1 kilotons of TNT." Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/
Comet P/2008 T3 (Boattini) This comet is coming in on Oct. 22, 2008 at 75 LD. To view this comets orbit, click on the following JPL link http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008%20T3;orb=1
NEW-CYCLE SUNSPOT: A "new-cycle" sunspot belonging to Solar Cycle 24 has emerged near the sun's northeastern limb. Sunspot 1005 has a two dark cores (one of them busily fragmenting) and a simple bipolar magnetic field that poses no threat for solar flares. NASA's Stereo-B spacecraft is monitoring a string of hot spots where magnetic fields are poking through the solar surface. All four are located at high latitude, a sign that they belong to new Solar Cycle 24: see visual at http://www.spaceweather.com/
A tiny asteroid discovered earlier Monday by an Arizona observatory will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers said. The asteroid will create a large fireball at about 10:46 p.m. EDT (0246 GMT on Tuesday) as it burns up. The asteroid, known as a meteoroid, is between 3 and 15 feet in diameter. The asteroid, known as a meteoroid, is between 3 and 15 feet in diameter. The space rock poses no threat to people or structures on the ground, but it should create a spectacular fireball, releasing about a kiloton of TNT in energy as it disintegrates and explodes in the atmosphere. Asteroids of this size hit Earth every few months, but this is the first time one has been discovered before it hit.
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.
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....
Wildfire Forces Evacuation near Lake Tahoe: MARKLEEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Fire crews are battling a fast-moving wildfire that broke out Sunday afternoon south of Lake Tahoe and that has forced the evacuation of campgrounds, resorts and homes in the area.
India Struggles to Cope with Flood Catastrophe: MADHEPURA, India (AFP) - India battled Monday to reach at least half a million people stranded by floods without food or drinking water, as the military poured fresh troops into the country's devastated north.
China quake kills 32, destroys 258,000 homes: Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed Sunday to reach quake survivors.
Earthquake kills at least five in China's Sichuan province - At least five people died and 11 were seriously injured after an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit part of south-western China's Sichuan province on Saturday, August 30, 2008. The epicentre of the quake was about 50 kilometres south-east of Sichuan's Panzhihua city at a depth of about 10 kilometres. The area affected by the quake, which struck at 4:30 pm Saturday (1030 GMT), had a population density of about 118 people per square kilometre and was on Sichuan's border with Yunnan province. Sichuan was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 70,000 people on May 12 and thousands of aftershocks have shaken parts of the province since then.
The ALEUTIAN ISANDS, off Alaska continue to shake, rattle, and roll as does the area off the coast of Japan. Puerto Rico area in also in the mix for recent activity. We are within the New Moon period for increased activity until Sept. 3rd.
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 ...
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.
Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:56pm EDT: CARACAS (Reuters) - A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook east Venezuela on Monday morning, damaging dozens of buildings and forcing patients to evacuate a hospital in the oil producing region. The epicenter of the quake was on the coast of the state of Sucre at a depth of 18.6 miles, about 190 miles (305 km) east of Caracas, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Venezuela's seismic authority said the quake had a magnitude of 5.2. Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez said around 50 buildings suffered slight damage, and a hospital was evacuated after tiles fell from the walls. No injuries were reported.
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.
Wild weather pummels Southland in California -Day brings rain, tornado, snow and hail - May 23, 2008: SANTA ANA - A wild weather system lashed Southern California on Thursday with fierce thunderstorms that unleashed mudslides in wildfire-scarred canyons, spawned a tornado and dusted mountains and even low-lying communities with snow and hail. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for parts of Riverside County about 55 miles east of Los Angeles, and area residents flooded TV stations with pictures and video of funnel clouds and at least one tornado on the ground.
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The magnetic field of earth is involved in a perturbation or morphing. This is taking place interdimensionally, and the net effect is incremental surges in amplitude or strength of the magnetic field. This morphing of earth's magnetic field is like a wave that rises and falls very quickly, and the oscillations are minute, but distinct. This is having a very strange effect upon human consciousness, specifically your biological experience. Many people are experiencing an increase of exhaustion and weariness.
Giant Undersea Volcano Found Off Iceland
National Geographic News - April 22, 2008: A giant and unusual underwater volcano lies just offshore of Iceland on the Reykjanes Ridge, volcanologists have announced. The Reykjanes formation is a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which bisects the Atlantic Ocean where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are pulling apart.
Quakes Keep Shaking Reno; Scientists Stumped
More than 500 seismic events have rocked Reno, Nevada, in the past week alone, sending scientists scrambling to understand whether the quakes portend a Big One
Cooler Climate May Hit N. America, Europe Next Decade
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News - April 30, 2008: Shifting ocean currents could throw some cold water on global warming over the next decade, a new study suggests.
Europe and North America may soon experience chillier temperatures, thanks to natural North Atlantic variations that could temporarily mask the effects of human-driven, or anthropogenic, climate change. "We believe that ocean currents and systems could, in the short term, change global warming patterns and even mean temperatures," said Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany. Quakes Keep Shaking Reno; Scientists Stumped
April 30, 2008: Today, NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet.
Illinois, April 18, 2008: The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rocked the Midwest on Friday was felt from Kansas to Georgia.
WEST SALEM, Ill. (AP) - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered six miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. Aftershocks could continue for months at this strange seismic zone at the nation's center and even trigger another big quake, a geophysicist said. The quake occurred on a northern extension of the New Madrid fault, about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill. Full Story
Earthquake History on Illinois Area
Earth Gives Off Mysterious Low Hum
Friday , April 18, 2008, Fox News, By Charles Q. Choi: Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery.
Swarm of Earthquakes Detected Off Central Oregon
Monday, April 14, 2008: GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don't know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
More Information of the Oregon "Swarms" from the USGS.
An earthquake "swarm" is an episode with many earthquakes in which the largest earthquake does not occur at the beginning of the episode and in which the largest earthquake is not substantially larger than other earthquakes of the episode. Earthquake swarms generally continue for weeks, months, or even longer, without the occurrence of a substantially larger event. Earthquake swarms sometimes (but not always) indicate volcanic activity. Oregon Swarm with map
Crashing waves in the deep ocean can generate enough energy to create a seismic "hum." Image courtesy: Bruce Molnia/U.S. Geological Survey
3/7/08
The latest buzz in Earth science literally comes from out of the blue-the deep blue seas. For the first time, scientists have pinpointed a specific area in the North Atlantic where microseisms, small Earth tremors created when ocean waves traveling in opposite directions merge together, are emitted from the depths of the ocean.
March 26 - In late February 2008, the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated, an indication of warming temperatures in the region.
Nevada 6.0 Earthquake on the Independance Fault system 15 km (10 miles) ESE of Wells, Nevada at 7:16 AM MST, Feb 21, 2008. This event has been followed by 20 aftershock to date (4:21 PM MST). Many were in the 3-4 range with 2 in the above 4 mag range. Feb. 21, 2008: The magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck northeastern Nevada early today, collapsing some buildings and causing gas and water leaks. No injuries were reported. The temblor was felt as far north as Boise, Idaho, and as far east as Salt Lake City
THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA experienced another earthquake of magnitude 4.3 2008/02/21 at 7 AM MST 24.299 -109.058 10.0 km deep. This occurred on the fault line at the tip of Baja California.
Check Out the Wonderful Lunar Eclipse Photo Gallery from the Feb. 20-21, 2008 event.
The Lunar Eclipse February 20, 2008
By Akria Uriel Melchizedek
What Is this About?
Incoming Christ-Inspired Energies are going straight for the heart. This is a light code activation of the Fifth Dimensional Heart, and the Sacred Feminine and Masculine of your Beloved Spirit making its way into physical embodiment.
Qualities being initiated by this transmission:
Greater Self-love, Acceptance, Honoring and Allowing. Emphasis on the Acceptance of who you are as a Divine Identity....read the complete transmission by clicking the link above.
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
Thu 02/14/08 16:09 MST (Thu 02/14/08 23:09 GMT): All the seismic stations around the Earth were ringing - a bell had gone off. This is what it looked like at the station SDCO (Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Two strong earthquakes hit southern Greece on Thursday - one of them felt as far away as Italy and Egypt. No injuries were reported.
Magnitude 6.7 2008/02/14 10:09:24 36.626 21.792 30.0 SOUTHERN GREECE
Magnitude 6.0 2008/02/14 12:08:57 36.436 21.903 30.0 SOUTHERN GREECE
Magnitude 4.6 2008/02/14 17:26:46 36.556 21.725 52.8
This is a seismically active area as shown by the map on the right. Earthquakes are common in Greece, which is riddled with fault lines.
In January, a 6.5 quake struck another part of southern Greece. Its epicenter was located deep underground and while it was felt across much of the country, it did not cause any injuries or serious damage.
January 31, 2008
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FLAG Telecoms operate the 17,400 mile long submarine communications cable. SEA-ME-WE 4 is a submarine cable system linking South East Asia to Europe via the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Neither of the cable operators have confirmed the cause or location of the outage but some reports suggest it was caused by a ship's anchor near the port of Alexandria in Egypt.
The news media has attempted to find a 3-D reason for this break. However, it is due to the stretchng of the Arabian plate. For a detailed explaination from the Zeta's, go to Nancy's newletter at http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue062.htm
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.
Bursts of Gas Make Earthquakes Fizz: November 17 - Unexplained carbon dioxide observed after earthquakes may come from frictional melting along faults and could increase a tremor's severity. (New Scientist)
NEW DELHI, Nov. 18 - Gusting winds of over 100 miles an hour Cyclone Sidr, the furious cyclone that swept across Bangladesh late Thursday, has caused property damage, major outages of electrical and telephone services, sent some 650,000 people fleeing the low-laying areas, and has already sent the reported death toll to 3,113 people. Major damage to crops and growing ability will be felt for a long time. This is the worst storm to hit this area in over a decade.
NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low in 2007: October 1 - A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters, which is the primary cause of this summer's fastest-ever sea ice retreat on record and subsequent smallest-ever extent of total Arctic coverage. More
Ancient Cataclysm Rearranged Pacific Map: October 24 - The collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean 50 million years ago changed the face of the planet, turning Australia into a warm and sunny continent instead of a snowbound wasteland and creating some of the islands that dot the South Pacific today. (National Geographic News)
U.S., Canadian team seeks reasons for water loss in Lakes Huron and Michigan: The federal governments of Canada and the United States promised Thursday to work faster to get the bottom of the spooky loss of water from Lakes Michigan and Huron. The lakes are losing about 2.5 billion gallons per day because of an ever-eroding river bottom.
Volcanic eruption may be linked to quakes - October 17, 2007:Scientists are setting up seismographs in a wilderness region of the British Columbian Interior today to determine if a pending volcanic eruption is the cause of hundreds of small earthquakes the area has been experiencing non-stop since last week. Volcano Information
The 1868 Hayward Earthquake: 139 years and counting...the 1868 Hayward earthquake, the 12th most deadly earthquake in U.S. history. The average interval between the past five large earthquakes on the Hayward fault has been 140 years. It would not be surprising if another large Hayward Fault earthquake happened tomorrow. "The Hayward fault is the single most dangerous fault in the entire Bay Area," said Tom Brocher, a USGS seismologist and member of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance, "because it is ready to pop and because nearly 2 million people live directly on top of it." USGS Bulletin & Map.
Oct. 3rd saw a sink hole open up in the LaJolla area of California. The sinkhole in the La Jolla neighborhood of million-dollar homes cut in a cone shape and was about 50 yards long. The collapse shortly before 9 a.m. left a ravine of crumpled pavement.
Check the Oct. 6th Zeta Talk for a insight on the US earth movements: http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta405.htm
The Big Thaw: A thick chunk of Arctic sea ice the size of two states has disappeared. Is it global warming or normal causes? Video: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/earth/earth20071001/
Magnitude 8.4 - SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA:
2007 September 12 11:10:26 UTC An earthquake occurred 130 km (80 miles) SW of Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia and 625 km (390 miles) WNW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia at 5:10 AM MDT, Sep 12, 2007 (6:10 PM local time in Indonesia). At least 9 people killed, hundreds injured and many buildings damaged or destroyed in the Bengkulu and Padang areas. A tsunami with a wave height of 90 cm was measured at Padang. Power and telephone outages occurred The earthquake of September 12, 2007 is the fourth earthquake of magnitude greater than 7.8 to have occurred in the past decade on or near the plate boundaries offshore of western Sumatra. Many strong aftershock continue to shake Indonesia.
Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!
This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!
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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.
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts: August 30th - Science Daily - NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms.
Los Angeles in an earthquake lull - LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2007 A California researcher says Los Angeles is in the midst of a 1,000-year seismic lull characterized by relatively small and infrequent earthquakes. The report, published in the September issue of Geology, suggests seismic activity alternates between the Los Angeles basin and the Mojave Desert, which is in a seismically active period. James Dolan, associate professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California, said the Northridge earthquake of 1994 was "a drop in the bucket" compared to the massive jolts that would strike the basin during a period of high seismic activity. "The past 1,000 years has been relatively quiet," Dolan said Friday in a release.
Magnitude 8.0 - NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU: 2007 August 15 23:40:58 UTCThe following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: An earthquake occurred NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU, about 45 km (25 miles) west-northwest of Chincha Alta or about 145 km (90 miles) south-southeast of Lima at 5:40 PM MDT, Aug 15, 2007 (6:40 PM local time in Peru). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. There have been reports of damage in the Lima area. Two other quakes have shook the area (5.8 & 5.9). A tsunami warning and watch has been issued for the Pacific coast of South and Central America. For information about tsunamis, contact the NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers at http://tsunami.gov
Peru continues to be rocked with earthquakes - immediately aftershocks ranged from 5.0-5.6 mag. and then on Aug. 16th she had another quake of 6.3 mag at a depth of 35 km. This episode was followed by 5 aftershocks ranging from 4.5-5.3 mag then anther 6.0 at the same depth. To date there have since been 13 more quakes ranging from 4.5-5.9 mag.
Across the Pacific you are seeing follow-up quakes in the Solomon Islands of 6.7 mag on 8/16/07, the Banda Sea at 6.2 on 8/17/07, Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at 6.0 with a 35 km depth on 8/18/07, Vanuatu at 5.7 and a depth of 91 km, the Bonin Island area near Japan of 4.5 and a very deep 512 km
Minneapolis bridge collapses: Aug 2 08:47 PM US/Eastern. During peak rush hour traffic with traffic bumper-to-bumper, the Minneapolis bridge rumbled and collapsed. A couple that had lived through a California earthquakes described the feeling as similar. This bridge was only 40 years old. Consider that the Earth is being stretched and torqued from the St. Lawrence Seaway through to So. Dakota and expect to see more of this type of Earth action. Watch video camera of the bridge collapsing here. Also read Nancy's comments in ZetaTalk.
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.
Floods And Fires Across Europe Captured From Space: Science Daily, July 27th - Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESA's Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe.
Major Quake, Tsunami Likely in Middle East, Study Finds: National Geographic News, July 26, 2007 - In A.D. 551, a massive earthquake spawned huge tsunamis that devastated the coast of Phoenicia, now Lebanon. Now a new underwater survey has finally uncovered the fault likely responsible for the catastrophe and shown that it rumbles approximately every 1,500 years-which means a disaster is due any day now.
Historical information on this area: Catastrophic Flooding Changed The Course Of British History: Science Daily, July 19th - A catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history, according to research recently published in the journal Nature.
Massive sinkhole opens in Mexico city: July 9, 2007: One feared dead, 30 families evacuated; hole 45-feet deep, 15-yards wide
Shaopeng Huang, geophysicist with the University or Michigan is calling for an international effort to develop and deploy monitoring stations on the moon for the study of terrestrial climate change. (Credit: NASA)
Science Daily - Poets may see "a face of plaintive sweetness" or "a cheek like beryl stone" when they look at the moon, but Shaopeng Huang sees something else altogether: the ideal location for a network of observatories dedicated to studying climate change on Earth.
Using data from an Apollo 15 experiment whose original intent was thwarted by unanticipated lunar surface conditions, the University of Michigan geophysicist recently showed that surface temperatures on the near side of the moon accurately record important information about Earth's climate system.
Based on his analysis, recently published online in Advances in Space Research, Huang is calling for an international effort to develop and deploy monitoring stations on the moon for the study of terrestrial climate change.
Belgium crop circles for 2007 are showing an interesting combination of clockwise and counterclockwise rotational patterns. One theory is that we are being alerted to the upcoming upheavel of our North Pole as it rotates to balance away from the approaching N. Pole of Planet X.
German crop circles for 2007 continue this theme. The circle seen in Switzerland suggest a nautilus type wave overwhelming the Earth. Ref. Zeta Talk for analysis. Also for a more detailed view of the current crop circles and their relationship with the upcoming Pole Shift - which should occur during one of the major Trimesters - visit Nancy's site here.
Tracking A Volcanic Hot Spot: Satellite Imagery Detects Location Of Seismic Unrest At Mauna Loa: Science Daily - Using a state-of-the-art satellite imagery technique, researchers are able to more precisely predict volcanic activity, bringing them steps closer to understanding where an eruption may occur.
Fragmented Structure Of Seafloor Faults May Dampen Effects Of Earthquakes: Science Daily - Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected. Geophysicists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found new evidence that the fragmented structure of seafloor faults, along with previously unrecognized volcanic activity, may be dampening the effects of these quakes.
2006 tectonic plate motion reversal near Acapulco puzzles earthquake scientists: Siesmic strain, earthquake specter in region likely not eased, says CU-Boulder-led study A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor. Instead of creeping toward Mexico City at about one inch per year - the expected speed from plate tectonic theory - the region near Acapulco moved in the opposite direction for six months and sped up by four times
Alaskan earthquake in 2002 set off tremors on Vancouver Island: Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake. Geoscientists at the University of Washington have found clear evidence that the two events were related. Now researchers studying seismograph records have pinpointed five tremor bursts on Vancouver Island on Nov. 3, 2002, the result of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the Denali fault in the heart of Alaska.
By Christopher D. Farrar, William C. Evans, Dina Y. Venezky, Shaul Hurwitz, and Lynn K. Oliver - 2007
This a picture of Hot Creek.
Hot Creek flows through the Long Valley Caldera in a volcanically active region of east-central California. This stretch of the creek, looking upstream to the southwest, has long been a popular recreation area because of the warm waters from its thermal springs. These springs, however, are unpredictable and can suddenly erupt with violence and at boiling temperature. Because of this danger, the U.S. Forest Service has had to close parts of the Hot Creek Geologic Site to visitors. (USGS photo by Chris Farrar.)
The beautiful blue pools and impressive boiling fountains along Hot Creek in east-central California have provided enjoyment to generations of visitors, but they have also been the cause of injury or death to some who disregarded warnings and fences. The springs and geysers in the stream bed and along its banks change location, temperature, and flow rates frequently and unpredictably. The hot springs and geysers of Hot Creek are visible signs of dynamic geologic processes in this volcanic region, where underground heat drives thermal spring activity.
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