Earth Watch Report – Tuesday August 14th, 2012

Earthquakes

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
14.08.2012 10:15:30	2.7	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik				EMSC
14.08.2012 09:25:34	3.1	North America	United States	Utah	Kanosh				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 09:20:36	2.1	Middle America	Mexico	Baja California	Progreso				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 10:15:52	4.6	Asia	Japan	Chiba	Katsuura				EMSC
14.08.2012 09:35:31	4.6	Asia	Japan	Chiba	Katsuura				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 10:16:16	3.6	South-America	Chile	Libertador General Bernardo O?Higgins	Santa Cruz				EMSC
14.08.2012 10:16:39	2.0	Europe	Italy	Calabria	Bovalino Superiore				EMSC
14.08.2012 09:15:22	2.5	Asia	Turkey	Kütahya	Pazarlar				EMSC
14.08.2012 09:15:45	4.3	Africa	Djibouti	Ali Sabieh	Holhol				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:10:31	3.7	Europe	Spain	Extremadura	Riolobos				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:10:51	2.2	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Panarea				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:11:11	3.5	Middle-East	Iran	East Azarbaijan	Ahar				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:11:28	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Yatagan				EMSC
14.08.2012 06:55:53	2.7	North America	United States	California	Ferndale				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 07:05:20	2.5	Europe	Greece	West Greece	Temeni				EMSC
14.08.2012 06:07:53	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 06:08:41	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Petersville				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 07:05:43	2.2	Asia	Turkey	Çanakkale	Behram				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:15:28	3.9	North America	United States	California	San Martin				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 05:15:51	3.9	North America	United States	California	Pacific Grove				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 05:16:15	4.3	North America	United States	California	Las Flores				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 06:21:04	7.7	Asia	Russia	Sakhalin	Poronaysk				EMSC
14.08.2012 06:05:45	2.2	Europe	Italy	Sicily	Saponara Villafranca				EMSC
14.08.2012 07:06:05	2.2	Asia	Turkey	Tokat	Yesilyurt				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:02:02	4.1	Asia	Afghanistan	Badakhshan	Ashkasham				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:17:19	4.5	Asia	Afghanistan	Badakhshan	Ashkasham				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 07:06:28	2.1	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Ula				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:02:46	5.2	Atlantic Ocean – North	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		Grytviken				EMSC
14.08.2012 04:35:28	5.2	Atlantic Ocean	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		Grytviken				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 04:25:29	4.8	Asia	Japan	Okinawa	Yonakuni				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 05:03:46	5.0	Asia	Japan	Okinawa	Yonakuni				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:06:07	2.0	Europe	Italy	Emilia-Romagna	San Prospero				EMSC
14.08.2012 05:07:13	2.8	South-America	Chile	Antofagasta	Tocopilla				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:11:47	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Mu?la	Kargi				EMSC
14.08.2012 03:25:22	2.2	North America	United States	Hawaii	Volcano				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 08:12:07	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Adana	Kadirli				EMSC
14.08.2012 08:12:28	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Antalya	Kalkan				EMSC
14.08.2012 03:05:30	2.2	North America	United States	California	Aguanga				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 03:30:26	4.1	Asia	Afghanistan	Takh?r	Art Khwajah				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 04:00:20	4.1	Asia	Afghanistan	Takh?r	Art Khwajah				EMSC
14.08.2012 02:55:20	2.5	Europe	Poland	Lower Silesian Voivodeship	Peclaw				EMSC
14.08.2012 07:07:11	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Diyarbak?r	Hazro				EMSC
14.08.2012 07:07:33	2.0	Asia	Turkey	Erzurum	Tortum				EMSC
14.08.2012 01:25:28	2.5	North America	United States	Alaska	Nanwalek				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 06:06:04	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga				EMSC
14.08.2012 00:55:19	3.0	Asia	Turkey	Van	Toyga				EMSC
14.08.2012 06:06:27	2.3	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik				EMSC
13.08.2012 23:40:38	2.2	North America	Canada	British Columbia	Princeton				USGS-RSOE
14.08.2012 05:07:57	2.4	Asia	Turkey	Van	Yuvacik				EMSC
13.08.2012 23:55:22	4.7	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia	Aceh	Meulaboh				EMSC

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7.7 Mwc – SEA OF OKHOTSK

Preliminary Earthquake Report

Magnitude	7.7 Mwc
Date-Time	14 Aug 2012 02:59:42 UTC 14 Aug 2012 12:59:42 near epicenter 13 Aug 2012 20:59:42 standard time in your timezone
Location	49.784N 145.126E
Depth	625 km
Distances	160 km (100 miles) ENE (66 degrees) of Poronaysk, Russia 361 km (224 miles) NNE (28 degrees) of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 447 km (278 miles) SSE (160 degrees) of Okha, Russia 1629 km (1012 miles) NNE (14 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 14.5 km; Vertical 6.9 km
Parameters	Nph = 1132; Dmin = 1734.0 km; Rmss = 0.68 seconds; Gp = 16° M-type = Mwc; Version = B
Event ID	us c000bz29 ***This event has been revised.

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7.3 Mwp – SEA OF OKHOTSK

Preliminary Earthquake Report

Magnitude	7.3 Mwp
Date-Time	14 Aug 2012 02:59:42 UTC 14 Aug 2012 12:59:42 near epicenter 13 Aug 2012 20:59:42 standard time in your timezone
Location	49.796N 145.113E
Depth	625 km
Distances	160 km (100 miles) ENE (66 degrees) of Poronaysk, Russia 361 km (225 miles) NNE (28 degrees) of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 445 km (277 miles) SSE (160 degrees) of Okha, Russia 1630 km (1013 miles) NNE (14 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 14.6 km; Vertical 7.1 km
Parameters	Nph = 1126; Dmin = 1735.1 km; Rmss = 0.68 seconds; Gp = 16° M-type = Mwp; Version = A
Event ID	us c000bz29

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 30+ moderate Earthquakes have Rattled Southern California since Tuesday (Aug 11, 2012)

Cluster of earthquakes rattles Southern California

More than 30 small to moderate earthquakes centered near Yorba Linda shake the region, with two 4.5 earthquakes bookending the sequence. No significant damage is reported.

 By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times

Some called it an “earthquake cluster,” others a “swarm.” Seismologists used the term “earthquake sequence.”

Whatever the name, a series of more than 30 small to moderate temblors jolted Southern California on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, rattling nerves but causing no significant damage.

The cluster of earthquakes that struck near Yorba Linda was centered near the Whittier fault, but preliminary data suggested that fault was not responsible for the temblor, said Doug Given, a geophysicist with theU.S. Geological Survey.

“There are lots and lots of little faults all over that area,” Given said of the northern Orange County region where the quakes were centered. “It’s a known active area.”

The shaking began with a magnitude 4.5 earthquake near Yorba Linda about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, bookended by another 4.5 quake about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, but with many smaller ones in between.

At a news conference Wednesday morning, Kate Hutton of theU.S. Geological Surveysaid that of all the quakes, only three were probably felt by residents. The two 4.5 temblors were felt across a wide swath of Southern California, with people reporting shaking as far away as Thousand Oaks, the Santa Clarita Valley, the Westside and northern San Diego County, according to the USGS’s “Did You Feel It?” website.

“This is all part of the same earthquake sequence; they’re all in the same area,” Hutton told reporters.

“It shook us pretty good. We’ve felt earthquakes before, so it came as no surprise,” said Chris Nordyke, director of marketing at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda. “It shook open the door, but nothing fell off the shelves.”

Given said the excitement offers a lesson for the region. “We live in earthquake country. Earthquakes are normal here, and people should be prepared,” he said.

 

 

California earthquakes 2012 rattle residents; With second quake Wednesday, should they worry?

YORBA LINDA, CALIF. — The earthquakes keep coming for Southern California was shaken Wednesday by the second moderate but widely felt earthquake in less than 11 hours, but no harm was reported. Officials said the recent outbreak of California earthquakes in 2012 is not out of the ordinary.

Or at least, the recent flurry of California earthquakes is nothing for residents to get unusually rattled about.

“There is nothing in this sequence, at this point, that tells us we need to be particularly worried,” said Elizabeth Cochran, a geophycist at the U.S. Geological Survey, according to the Lake Forest Patch in California.

Cochran said more aftershocks should be expected.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-4.5 quake occurred at 9:33 a.m. and was centered two miles northeast of the Orange County city of Yorba Linda, about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

A magnitude-4.5 quake centered in the same area struck late Tuesday night. Both temblors were followed by numerous aftershocks that were mostly too small to be felt.

Quakes of such magnitude are unlikely to cause damage in cities built to modern standards but can rattle nerves.

The Orange County Fire Authority did not receive any 911 calls about the latest quake, said Capt. Marc Stone.

“It was a decent sized shake and it’s a reminder for everyone to have a plan for the Big One,” said Stone. “How would you and your family survive for 72 hours with no water, no food and no amenities? Think about it. It’s a reminder to go home and say, ‘What if?’ and make that plan.”

Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology characterized the quakes as a swarm.

The location is near the Whittier Fault, but the quakes could be occurring on an unmapped fault, she said.

“This is likely normal California earthquake activity,” Hutton said.

The staff of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda was still talking about Tuesday night’s quake when Wednesday’s struck, said Jonathan Movroydis, director of communications.

“It did shake us pretty well,” Movroydis said, but the jolt was so short no one ducked under their desks.

Meanwhile, newly acquired Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Shane Victorino tweeted: “Why is the hotel shaking????? … Welcome to LA!”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

 

 

Two earthquakes in Iran kill 300 and injure 5,000

 

 

Treating the wounded in Iran

• Iran earthquake kills 153 people
• Aftermath of two quakes in Iran

By Yeganeh Torbati

DUBAI | Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:08am EDT

(Reuters) – Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people.

Thousands huddled in makeshift camps or slept in the street after Saturday’s quakes for fear of more aftershocks, 60 of which had already struck. A lack of tents and other supplies left them exposed to the night chill, one witness told Reuters.

“I saw some people whose entire home was destroyed, and all their livestock killed,” Tahir Sadati, a local photographer, said by telephone. “People need help, they need warm clothes, more tents, blankets and bread.”

The worst damage and most casualties appeared to have been in rural villages around the towns of Ahar, Varzaghan and Harees, near the major city of Tabriz, Iranian media reported.

Tabriz resident Ahmad, 41, told Reuters his cousin living in a village near Ahar was killed and his body found.

“Nobody knows what happened to his wife and two daughters,” aged 4 and 7, Ahmad said. “We fear that if rescuers don’t get to them soon, they will lose their lives too if they’re still alive.”

But Iranian officials said rescue operations had ended by Sunday afternoon and that all those trapped beneath the rubble had been freed, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported.

Many villages are hard to reach by road, hindering rescue efforts. Hospitals in Tabriz, Ardabil and other cities nearby took in many of the injured, residents and Iranian media said, and there were long queues of survivors waiting to be treated.

“I wanted to go there last night to help but heard there was bad traffic and that it wasn’t safe enough,” Ahmad said. “People in those villages need help.”

Abbas Falahi, member of parliament for Ahar and Harees, said people in some villages were still “in dire need of food and drinking water”, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

“Despite the promises of officials, little first aide has been distributed in the region and most people are left without tents. If the situation continues, the toll will rise,” he said.

Aidin, a Tabriz resident, said he went to give blood at a local hospital on Saturday and saw staff struggling to cope with the influx of patients. Most patients had been taken there by their families, he said, indicating a shortage of ambulances.

Ahar’s 120-bed hospital was full, said Arash, a college student in the town. There were traffic jams on the narrow road to Tabriz as victims tried to reach hospitals, he said by telephone.

VILLAGES DESTROYED

“People are scared and won’t go back into their houses because they fear the buildings aren’t safe.”

The U.S. Geological Survey measured Saturday’s first quake at 6.4 magnitude and said it struck 60 km (37 miles) northeast of the city of Tabriz, a trading hub far from Iran’s oil-producing areas and known nuclear facilities.

The second, measuring 6.3, struck 11 minutes later near Varzaghan, 49 km (30 miles) northeast of Tabriz.

More than 1,000 villages in the area were affected by the earthquakes, Ahmad Reza Shaji’i, a Red Crescent official, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). Some 130 villages suffered more than 70 percent damage, and 20 villages were completely destroyed, he said.

“We saw some villages that were truly destroyed,” said Sadati, the photographer who was documenting the quake aftermath. “One good thing was that the earthquake happened during the day, so many people were not in their homes. If it had happened at night the casualties would have been far worse.”

Close to 300 people were believed to be dead, said Reza Sadighi, Ahar’s local governor, Fars news agency said. National emergency head Gholam Reza Masoumi said 5,000 people are believed to be injured, according to ISNA.

Nearly 100 ambulances and 1,100 Red Crescent workers were deployed, Shaji’i said, along with 44,000 food packages and 5,600 tents for shelter. The relief agency had enough supplies and most residents in the area had access to clean water but Shaji’i asked residents to donate cash to the relief effort.

Tehran officials sent condolences to the victims and declared two days of mourning in the province, ISNA reported.

About 36,000 people in the quake-hit area have been given emergency shelter, Masoumi was quoted as saying by ISNA.

Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Hassan-Nejad warned that if relief efforts did not speed up, the death toll would swiftly rise.

“Relief groups have still not reached many villages, because in normal conditions some of these villages are several hours away,” he told ISNA. “Currently the roads are closed and the only way to reach these villages is by air.”

COLLAPSED BUILDINGS

Photographs posted on Iranian news websites showed numerous bodies, including children, lying on the floor of a white-tiled morgue in Ahar and medical staff treating the injured in the open air as dusk fell on Saturday. Other images showed rescue workers digging people out of rubble – some alive, many dead.

Twenty-eight year old Narges in Tehran said she saw dozens of people in a hospital waiting to donate blood for the victims.

Iran is crisscrossed by major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that reduced the historic southeastern city of Bam to dust and killed about 31,000 people.

Saturday’s quakes struck in East Azerbaijan province, a mountainous region that neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia to the north. Buildings in Tabriz, the provincial capital, are substantially built and ISNA reported nobody in the city had been killed or hurt.

Homes and business premises in Iranian villages, however, are often made of concrete blocks or mud brick that can crumble and collapse in a strong quake.

Water, electricity, and phone lines in the area of Varzaghan are all down, further hindering rescue efforts, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported.

Tabriz residents left their homes and crowded the streets following the two quakes, those in the city said. “Everyone was scared last night,” a resident said by telephone. “They set up tents and were sleeping in the streets and in parks.”

(Additional reporting by Marcus George and Zahra Hosseinian; Writing by Andrew Torchia and Marcus George; Editing by Jon Hemming)

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.08.2012

Earthquake

Iran

Province of East Azarbaijan, [About 21 miles west of Ahar]

Earthquake in Iran on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 at 15:59 (03:59 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 11:21 UTC
Description
With thousands injured as the death toll from Iran’s dual earthquakes nears 300, hospitals are reeling from the increased traffic. There are long lines outside as doctors work feverishly to cope with the injuries. “From last night until this afternoon when I left Shohada-ye Tabriz hospital, doctors were constantly performing operations,” said one physician. “Ordinary people were working alongside rescuers. They were bringing food and water to the hospital.” Meanwhile, thousands of refugees are staying in camps and parks as they weather the some 60 aftershocks that have hit thus far, Reuters reports. Some 20 villages were completely destroyed, and 130 saw more than 70% damage, according to the Red Crescent. Officials say search and rescue operations are over; now they’re “working to provide shelter and food to the survivors.” But stories conflict as to how effective efforts have been. The Red Crescent says it has enough supplies, and an emergency official says 36,000 people have received emergency shelter. But “despite the promises of officials, little first aid has been distributed in the region and most people are left without tents,” said an MP.

Earthquake in Iran on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 at 15:59 (03:59 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:08 UTC
Description
Overcrowded hospitals in northwestern Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday and rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people and injured 5,000. Thousands huddled in makeshift camps or slept in the street after Saturday’s quakes in fear of more aftershocks, 60 of which had already struck. A lack of tents and other supplies left them exposed to the night chill, one witness told Reuters. “I saw some people whose entire home was destroyed, and all their livestock killed,” Tahir Sadati, a local photographer, said by telephone. “People need help, they need warm clothes, more tents, blankets and bread.” The worst damage and most casualties appeared to have been in rural villages around the towns of Ahar, Varzaghan and Harees, near the major city of Tabriz, Iranian media reported. The U.S. Geological Survey measured Saturday’s first quake at 6.4 magnitude and said it struck 37 miles northeast of the city of Tabriz, a trading hub far from Iran’s oil-producing areas and known nuclear facilities.Tabriz resident Ahmad, 41, told Reuters his cousin living in a village near Ahar was killed and that his body had already been found. “Nobody knows what happened to his wife and two daughters,” aged 4 and 7, Ahmad said. “We fear that if rescuers don’t get to them soon, they will lose their lives too if they’re still alive.” Iranian officials said rescue operations had ended by Sunday afternoon and that all those trapped beneath the rubble had been freed, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported. But the head of Iran’s Relief and Emergency Organization said that rescue operations were continuing, according to the New York Times.Many villages are hard to reach by road, hindering rescue efforts. Hospitals in Tabriz, Ardabil and other cities nearby took in many of the injured, residents and Iranian media said, and there were long queues of survivors waiting to be treated. “I wanted to go there last night to help but heard there was bad traffic and that it wasn’t safe enough,” Ahmad said. “People in those villages need help.” Aidin, a Tabriz resident, said he went to give blood at a local hospital on Saturday and saw staff struggling to cope with the influx of patients. Most patients had been taken there by their families, he said, indicating a shortage of ambulances. Ahar’s 120-bed hospital was full, said Arash, a college student and resident of the town. There were traffic jams on the narrow road between Ahar and Tabriz as victims tried to reach hospitals, he said by telephone. “People are scared and won’t go back into their houses because they fear the buildings aren’t safe.” The second, measuring 6.3, struck 11 minutes later near Varzaghan, 30 miles northeast of Tabriz. More than 1,000 villages in the area were affected by the earthquakes, Ahmad Reza Shaji’i, a Red Crescent official, told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA). About 130 villages suffered more than 70 percent damage, and 20 villages were completely destroyed, he said. “We saw some villages that were truly destroyed,” said Sadati, the photographer who was documenting the quake aftermath. “One good thing was that the earthquake happened during the day, so many people were not in their homes. If it had happened at night the casualties would have been far worse.” Close to 300 people were believed to be dead, said Reza Sadighi, Ahar’s local governor, Fars news agency said. National emergency head Gholam Reza Masoumi said 5,000 people are believed to be injured, according to ISNA.“Most of the dead are women and children, as the earthquake happened during the day, when many men were out working,” said Marjan Lagaei, an Iranian reporter who traveled to the area, told the New York Times.Nearly 100 ambulances and 1,100 Red Crescent workers were deployed, Shaji’i said, along with 44,000 food packages and 5,600 tents for shelter. The relief agency had enough supplies and most residents in the area had access to clean water but Shaji’i asked residents to donate cash to the relief effort. Officials in Tehran extended condolences to the victims and declared two days of mourning to be held in the province, ISNA reported. About 16,000 people in the quake-hit area have been given emergency shelter, Red Crescent official Mahmoud Mozafar told Mehr news agency. Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Hassan-Nejad warned that if relief efforts did not speed up, the death toll would swiftly rise. “Relief groups have still not reached many villages, because in normal conditions some of these villages are several hours away,” he told ISNA. “Currently the roads are closed and the only way to reach these villages is by air.” Photographs posted on Iranian news websites showed numerous bodies, including children, lying on the floor of a white-tiled morgue in Ahar and medical staff treating the injured in the open air as dusk fell on Saturday. Other images showed rescue workers digging people out of rubble – some alive, many dead. Iran is crisscrossed by major fault lines and has suffered several devastating earthquakes in recent years, including a 6.6 magnitude quake in 2003 that reduced the historic southeastern city of Bam to dust and killed about 31,000 people. Saturday’s quakes struck in East Azerbaijan province, a mountainous region that neighbors Azerbaijan and Armenia to the north. Buildings in Tabriz, the provincial capital, are substantially built and ISNA reported nobody in the city had been killed or hurt. Homes and business premises in Iranian villages, however, are often made of concrete blocks or mud brick that can crumble and collapse in a strong quake. Water, electricity, and phone lines in the area of Varzaghan are all down, further hindering rescue efforts, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported. Tabriz residents left their homes and crowded the streets following the two quakes, those in the city said. “Everyone was scared last night,” a resident said by telephone. “They set up tents and were sleeping in the streets and in parks.” Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday expressing his sympathy and offering assistance, the Kremlin’s press service said. Pope Benedict XVI asked Christians to pray for the victims of the quakes.

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Volcanic Activity

13.08.2012

Volcano Activity

Iceland

Myrdalsjokull Icecap, [Katla Volcano]

Volcano Activity in Iceland on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 12:28 (12:28 PM) UTC.

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An earthquake of the magnitude 2.7 hit just north of Goðabunga in Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which covers the volcano Katla in South Iceland, around 8:30 am yesterday morning. It was part of a swarm of minor earthquakes. The second-largest had a magnitude of 1.8. The Katla area has been rather quiet in the past weeks. There was more activity in the area in the spring when two small glacier outbursts flooded the river Leirá in Kötlukriki and Emstrur, to the west of Mýrdalsjökull, ruv.is reports. The seismic activity then subsided and GPS monitors showed decreasing tension in the lithosphere. Yesterday’s quakes were not connected with any volcanic activity and there has not been any increased flow in glacial rivers originating in Mýrdalsjökull. However, glacial water in the vicinity has smelled of sulfur, according to geophysicist Benedikt Ófeigsson at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, such as in the river Jökulsá at Sólheimasandur and Leirá in Kötlukriki. Katla has been monitored closely by scientists since a major glacial outburst, possibly caused by a minor volcanic eruption underneath Mýrdalsjökull, tore a hole in the Ring Road in South Iceland in July 2011.

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Pacific quake swarm woke up underwater volcano

A screenshot of the Pumice island that the volcano is believed to have birthed.
Image by: RoyalW1979 / YouTube

A swarm of more than 150 earthquakes over two days last month caused a previously dormant volcano to erupt 1 100 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, a scientist says.

The eruption of the Havre Volcano, about halfway between New Zealand and Tonga, is believed to have caused a 7 500 square kilometre floating island of pumice that was encountered by a New Zealand navy ship last week.

Cornel de Ronde, principal scientist of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, told Radio New Zealand the source of the pumice had been identified in cooperation with French researchers in Tahiti who monitor earthquakes in the south-west Pacific.

“When they looked at their physical records they saw that on July 17th and 18th, there were some 157 earthquakes of magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.8,” he said.

De Ronde said they occurred near the time of the first sighting of the pumice “raft” and when the institute looked at its database it found the Havre volcano which it had previously surveyed.

It was a caldera volcano, like White Island, 50 kilometres off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island, which erupted last week, but the Havre was not thought to have erupted before, he said.

De Ronde said the pumice island was so light that it had floated several hundred kilometres from the volcano when it was encountered by the HMNZS Canterbury, which took samples last week.

Scientists were also analysing samples of rock ejected from Mount Tongariro, on New Zealand’s North Island, to try to find out why it erupted a week ago for the first time in 115 years.

Published on Aug 10, 2012 by RoyalW1979

A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast.
The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Auckland.
The rocks stretch for about 26,000 square kilometres.
A navy ship took scientists to the rocks Thursday night. Naval Lt. Tim Oscar says the rocks appeared a brilliant white under a spotlight, like a giant ice shelf.
He says it’s the “weirdest thing” he’s seen in 18 years at sea.
“The rock looked to be sitting two feet above the surface of the waves, and lit up a brilliant white colour in the spotlight. It looked exactly like the edge of an ice shelf,” he said.
Lt. Oscar said he had been briefed by GNS Volcanologist Helen Bostock the previous day when the ship first encountered an area of pumice from an undersea volcano.
“I knew the pumice was lightweight and posed no danger to the ship. None the less it was quite daunting to be moving toward it at 14 knots. It took about 3 – 4 minutes to travel through the raft of pumice and as predicted there was no damage. As we moved through the raft of pumice we used the spotlights to try and find the edge – but it extended as far as we could see.”
Scientists say the rocks likely spewed up in an eruption by an underwater volcano. They don’t believe the eruption is connected to the onshore ash eruption this week of another volcano, Mount Tongariro.
Officials say the small rocks pose no danger to shipping.
The Defence Force says the mass of rocks stretches 250 nautical miles by 30 nautical miles.
SOURCE: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10826068

No volcanic activity in Mt. Matutum: Phivolcs

TUPI, SOUTH COTABATO — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has allayed fears of volcanic activity in Mt. Matutum as claimed by residents.

Phivolcs chief Renato U. Solidum, Jr. said in a letter sent to Mayor Reynaldo S. Tamayo on Friday that the observations of smoke and fire coming out of the crater were non-volcanic in nature.

“Ocular inspections at the crater area and seismic records showed that there were no volcanic activities, specifically an imminent eruption, in Mt. Matutum,” Mr. Solidum said.

Rolly T. Visaya, Tupi information officer, told BusinessWorld that weeks prior to the Phivolcs letter, residents of Barangays Acmonan and Kablon in Tupi, and Maligo in Polomolok observed certain developments such as the descent of wild animals from the mountains as well as burnt vegetation.

The locals also claimed to have felt the ground shaking and heard unusual rumblings from the volcano, he added.

To confirm the observations, both Tupi and Polomolok towns sent their rescue teams to Mt. Matutum to get firsthand information through photographs and videos.

From the information acquired, Mr. Tamayo, who also chairs the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of Tupi, then requested for Phivolcs’s investigation.

The absence of micro-earthquake activity in the seismic record of the agency’s volcano-seismic observatory at Mindanao State University in General Santos City meant that the phenomenon is not volcanic in origin, Mr. Solidum said.

On the reported sighting of wild animals descending to the lowlands, he said it could be due to scarcity of food or disturbances of their habitat, be it man-made, lighting and other phenomena.

Before Phivolcs’s response, there have been reports of several families from the adjoining town of Malungon in Sarangani province who have evacuated from their houses for safety, Mr. Visaya said.

Mt. Matutum stands 2,286 meters, the 14th highest peak in the Philippines, and has a base that covers the towns of Tupi and Polomolok in South Cotabato and Malungon in Sarangani. The popular trekking destination’s last recorded eruption was in 1911, Mr. Visaya said citing Phivolcs records.

Mr. Solidum explained that a new volcanic vent as dormant volcano reactivates will not dissipate overnight, but will become more vigorous over time.

He explained “that should the volcano end its dormancy and enter a period of magmatic activity, unmistakable signs of unrest will be manifested, such as small ash and gas explosions that can intensify through time, ground deformation, vegetation kill, unabated crater glow at the summit and increasingly perceptible earthquakes.”

Mr. Visaya said Phivolcs national office personnel are in town to further study the volcanic conditions. — Louie O. Pacardo

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Excessive Heat Warning

 

PHOENIX AZ
SAN DIEGO CA

 

 

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

 

RIVERTON WY
POCATELLO ID
BILLINGS MT
RAPID CITY SD
GREAT FALLS MT
MISSOULA MT

Fire Weather Watch

 

GLASGOW MT

 

 

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of California, [Near to Spring Valley]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 04:33 (04:33 AM) UTC.

Description

A fast-moving brush fire in Northern California is threatening 500 homes and has prompted officials to evacuate an entire town. Fueled by broiling, dry conditions, the Wye fire off Highway 20 has burned 3,000 acres near the Lake County town of Spring Valley, which was evacuated. “It is burning on both sides of Highway 20 and it’s burning in an easterly direction toward the community of Spring Valley,” Cal Fire Battalion Chief Julie Hutchinson told the Lake County News. According to Cal Fire, a second fire is also burning in Lake County. The Walker fire has burned 2,000 acres. Firefighters were traveling from across the state to help battle both fires.

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Washington, [East of Cle Elum]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 04:31 (04:31 AM) UTC.

Description

A new wildfire burning east of Cle Elum in central Washington is growing quickly and reportedly threatening some homes. A Washington Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman says the Taylor Bridge fire had burned across more than a square mile – or about 800 acres- by mid-afternoon Monday. Fire crews from nearby communities are being called to the scene. The Daily Record of Ellensburg reports that the state Transportation Department is closing a two-mile section of U.S. Highway 97 because of the fire. The newspaper says a stable has moved all of its horses.

Today

Forest / Wild Fire

USA

State of Oregon, [Warm Springs Reservation]

Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 04:30 (04:30 AM) UTC.

Description

Hot, dry winds Monday afternoon prompted major growth in a week-old lightning-sparked forest fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, estimated to have burned 70 to 100 acres of valuable timber. The newly named Waterfall fire, burning about three miles northeast of the Mt. Jefferson summit, is “one we’ve been watching” since a lightning strike from Aug. 5 thunderstorms ignited it, said fire spokesman Clay Penhollow. “We had a crew on, fighting the west side of it today, but it took off on the east” side as winds picked up, Penhollow said, adding that no structures or roads were threatened. Instead, he said, it was burning some “valuable timber,” putting up a plume visible for many miles. An air tanker dropped retardant on the fire Monday morning until it was diverted to another fire in Washington state, Penhollow said. There were two helicopters dropping water on the flames later in the day, with one 20-person firefighting crew on the lines, another on its way and three more ordered up, he added. The fire was moving east down the headwaters of Shitike Creek, but was still more than 20 miles west of Warm Springs, Penhollow.

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Forest / Wild Fire

Canary-Islands (Esp.)

Island of La Gomera, [Garajonay National Park]

Forest / Wild Fire in Canary-Islands (Esp.) on Sunday, 12 August, 2012 at 12:27 (12:27 PM) UTC.

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Updated:	Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:18 UTC
Description
More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from La Gomera, one of the smallest Canary Islands, as forest fires that began nine days ago continue to burn out of control. Nearly 2,000 acres of the Garajonay national park have been destroyed. The evacuees represent a quarter of the population and some 11% of the island’s landmass is in flames. A dry winter and high August temperatures have led to this being one of the worst in many years for forest fires in Spain. On the Spanish mainland, tens of thousands of acres of woodland have been lost in Valencia, Galicia and Catalunya. Two people died fighting fires in Alicante. Humberto Gutiérrez, head of emergency services in the Canaries, says there is no hope of dousing the flames in the short term. “Meteorological conditions are not on our side,” he said. Paulino Rivero, the Canary Islands’ president, said he hoped falling temperatures and rising humidity might slow the spread of the fires.

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Storms / Flooding / Landslides

Active tropical storm system(s)
Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Hector (EP08)	Pacific Ocean – East	11.08.2012	14.08.2012	Tropical Depression	270 °	74 km/h	93 km/h	3.05 m	NOAA NHC

 Tropical Storm data

Share: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 0 Storm name: Hector (EP08) Area: Pacific Ocean – East Start up location: N 17° 30.000, W 106° 0.000 Start up: 11th August 2012 Status: 12th August 2012 Track long: 474.95 km Top category.: Report by: NOAA NHC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source 12th Aug 2012 05:40:34 N 18° 30.000, W 108° 6.000 20 65 83 Tropical Storm 290 11 999 MB NOAA NHC 13th Aug 2012 04:46:16 N 18° 6.000, W 110° 42.000 9 74 93 Tropical Storm 270 10 993 MB NOAA NHC 13th Aug 2012 10:38:02 N 18° 6.000, W 111° 24.000 11 65 83 Tropical Storm 270 16 994 MB NOAA NHC Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 14th Aug 2012 10:50:22 N 17° 54.000, W 114° 0.000 9 74 93 Tropical Depression 265 ° 10 997 MB NOAA NHC Forecast track Date Time Position Category Wind km/h Gust km/h Source 15th Aug 2012 18:00:00 N 18° 48.000, W 116° 0.000 Tropical Depression 65 83 NOAA NHC 15th Aug 2012 06:00:00 N 18° 24.000, W 115° 18.000 Tropical Depression 65 83 NOAA NHC 16th Aug 2012 06:00:00 N 19° 6.000, W 116° 36.000 Tropical Depression 56 74 NOAA NHC 17th Aug 2012 06:00:00 N 20° 0.000, W 118° 0.000 Tropical Depression 46 65 NOAA NHC 18th Aug 2012 06:00:00 N 21° 0.000, W 119° 30.000 Tropical Depression 37 56 NOAA NHC 19th Aug 2012 06:00:00 N 21° 0.000, W 121° 30.000 Tropical Depression 28 37 NOAA NHC

Kai-tak (14W)

Pacific Ocean

12.08.2012

14.08.2012

Tropical Depression

275 °

83 km/h

102 km/h

3.35 m

JTWC

Tropical Storm data

Share: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 1 Storm name: Kai-tak (14W) Area: Pacific Ocean Start up location: N 16° 36.000, E 128° 30.000 Start up: 12th August 2012 Status: Active Track long: 201.36 km Top category.: Report by: JTWC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source 13th Aug 2012 04:30:32 N 16° 30.000, E 127° 48.000 19 56 74 Tropical Depression 265 15 JTWC 13th Aug 2012 10:04:19 N 16° 36.000, E 126° 36.000 24 65 83 Tropical Storm 275 17 JTWC Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 14th Aug 2012 10:49:50 N 18° 0.000, E 124° 18.000 22 83 102 Tropical Depression 265 ° 15 JTWC Forecast track Date Time Position Category Wind km/h Gust km/h Source 15th Aug 2012 12:00:00 N 20° 48.000, E 121° 0.000 Typhoon I 120 148 JTWC 15th Aug 2012 00:00:00 N 19° 30.000, E 122° 36.000 Typhoon I 102 130 JTWC 16th Aug 2012 00:00:00 N 22° 24.000, E 118° 36.000 Typhoon I 120 148 JTWC 17th Aug 2012 00:00:00 N 23° 42.000, E 115° 12.000 Typhoon I 93 120 JTWC 18th Aug 2012 00:00:00 N 24° 30.000, E 112° 6.000 Tropical Depression 56 74 JTWC 19th Aug 2012 00:00:00 N 24° 54.000, E 109° 6.000 Tropical Depression 37 56 JTWC

 

 

Flood Warning

 

TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
TALLAHASSEE FL
AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
TALLAHASSEE FL

 

 

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Today

Landslide

USA

State of Wyoming, Pahaska Tepee [Yellowstone National Park]

Landslide in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:22 (03:22 AM) UTC.

Description

A mudslide near Pahaska Tepee closed down the East Entrance to Yellowstone Park on Sunday morning. Early morning thunderstorms led to heavy rain and the slide covered both lanes of the North Fork Highway. Chris Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Riverton, said about a half inch of rain fell in under 30 minutes. The same amount of rain in an urban area would cause street flooding, where water would rise above the sidewalks, Jones said. “A half inch in an urban area can cause problems,” he said. The slide caused the east gate to close 6:30-10 a.m. Sunday, Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said. A truck ended up stuck in the slide. It was traveling in the rain and was on top of the slide, said Jim Berry, maintenance foreman for the Wyoming Department of Transportation in Cody. Berry said traffic began moving again at 9:30 a.m. and the two lanes were open by 12:30 p.m. Jones said the area around the east gate, which has steep sides and sometimes low vegetation, has been known to have slides in the past.

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Radiation / Nuclear

Today

Nuclear Event

USA

State of Connecticut, Waterford [Millstone Nuclear Power Station]

Nuclear Event in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:20 (03:20 AM) UTC.

Description

A reactor at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., has shut down because of something that its 1960s designers never anticipated: the water in Long Island Sound was too warm to cool it. Under the reactor’s safety rules, the cooling water can be no higher than 75 degrees. On Sunday afternoon, the water’s temperature soared to 76.7 degrees, prompting the operator, Dominion Power, to order the shutdown of the 880-megawatt reactor. “Temperatures this summer are the warmest we’ve had since operations began here at Millstone,’’ said a spokesman for Dominion, Ken Holt. The plant’s first reactor, now retired, began operation in 1970. The plant’s third reactor was still running on Monday, but engineers were watching temperature trends carefully out of concern that it, too, might have to shut down. A spokeswoman for the regional grid control center, ISO-New England, said the shutdown had not impaired the functioning of the grid because generation has been more than sufficient. But in periods when industrial demand for electricity has been stronger, a reactor shutdown has sometimes forced grid operators to scramble. The water from the sound is piped into the plant to absorb heat from pumps and other pieces of equipment. As the sound’s temperature inched upward this summer, Dominion Power received permission from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to measure it at three locations instead of one and to calculate the average in the hope that it would be lower. That did not help on Sunday. And higher water temperatures could lie ahead. The sound’s temperature usually does not peak until late August. Eventually, engineers could change the Millford reactor’s intake pipe so it draws water from further below the surface, where temperatures are lower, Mr. Holt said. They could also sharpen their pencils and try to determine whether the plant can operate safely with cooling water above 75 degrees, but neither is a short-term project. Cloud cover and the mixing of some cooler rainfall might also bring down temperatures, Mr. Holt suggested. While some reactors in inland locations have had to reduce their power output or shut down because of warm cooling water in the past, it is unusual for coastal plants, nuclear industry officials say. “We are evaluating our options for the future,’’ Mr. Holt said. “We don’t know, is this year an anomaly or is it the continuation of a longer trend?’ Power plants in the Midwest have also experienced problems as temperatures soared in recent weeks. In some cases, reactors shut down because the cooling water was too warm; in others, the ongoing drought had shrunken the body of water from which the cooling water is drawn, and the plant’s intake pipes were above the surface. Last month the twin-unit Braidwood nuclear plant in Illinois needed special permission to keep operating because its cooling water pond reached 102 degrees as a result of low rainfall and high air temperatures. When Braidwood opened 26 years ago, it was designed to run at temperatures up to 98 degrees.

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AP News

Potassium iodide tablets being distributed in Pa.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health is once again providing free potassium iodide tablets to help residents of the commonwealth prepare for public health emergencies involving nuclear facilities.

People who live, work or attend school within a 10-mile radius of the state’s five nuclear power plants can get the tablets, which can help protect the thyroid gland against harmful radioactive iodine.

The tablets will be distributed Aug. 9 at 14 locations statewide, or can be obtained at state, county or municipal health agencies

Four 65-milligram tablets will be provided to each adult. Smaller doses will be given to children based on their age.

The department says people should only take potassium iodide tablets when directed to do so by health officials or the governor.

 

 

‘Severe abnormalities’ found in Fukushima butterflies

By Nick Crumpton BBC News

The study found that mutation rates were much higher among butterfly collected near Fukushima

 

Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment has caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study suggests.

Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident.

The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report.

The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Two months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in March 2011, a team of Japanese researchers collected 144 adult pale grass blue (Zizeeria maha) butterflies from 10 locations in Japan, including the Fukushima area.

When the accident occurred, the adult butterflies would have been overwintering as larvae.

Unexpected results

By comparing mutations found on the butterflies collected from the different sites, the team found that areas with greater amounts of radiation in the environment were home to butterflies with much smaller wings and irregularly developed eyes.

“It has been believed that insects are very resistant to radiation,” said lead researcher Joji Otaki from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa.

“In that sense, our results were unexpected,” he told BBC News.

The Japanese researchers have been studying the species for more than a decade

Prof Otaki’s team then bred these butterflies within labs 1,750km (1,090 miles) away from the accident, where artificial radiation could hardly be detected.

It was by breeding these butterflies that they began noticing a suite of abnormalities that hadn’t been seen in the previous generation – that collected from Fukushima – such as malformed antennae, which the insects use to explore their environment and seek out mates.

Six months later, they again collected adults from the 10 sites and found that butterflies from the Fukushima area showed a mutation rate more than double that of those found sooner after the accident.

The team concluded that this higher rate of mutation came from eating contaminated food, but also from mutations of the parents’ genetic material that was passed on to the next generation, even though these mutations were not evident in the previous generations’ adult butterflies.

The team of researchers have been studying that particular species butterfly for more than 10 years.

They were considering using the species as an “environmental indicator” before the Fukushima accident, as previous work had shown it is very sensitive to environmental changes.

“We had reported the real-time field evolution of colour patterns of this butterfly in response to global warming before, and [because] this butterfly is found in artificial environments – such as gardens and public parks – this butterfly can monitor human environments,” Prof Otaki said.

But the findings from their new research show that the radionuclides released from the accident were still affecting the development of the animals, even after the residual radiation in the environment had decayed.

“This study is important and overwhelming in its implications for both the human and biological communities living in Fukushima,” explained University of South Carolina biologist Tim Mousseau, who studies the impacts of radiation on animals and plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima, but was not involved in this research.

“These observations of mutations and morphological abnormalities can only be explained as having resulted from exposure to radioactive contaminants,” Dr Mousseau told BBC News.

The findings from the Japanese team are consistent with previous studies that have indicated birds and butterflies are important tools to investigate the long-term impacts of radioactive contaminants in the environment.

 

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Solar Activity

2MIN News August 13, 2012

Published on Aug 13, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Earthquake/Solar Flare Watch: http://youtu.be/zd7Z6dmABf8 [August 12-18, 2012]
[EXPLANATION Video For Earthquake Watches] Last Quake Watch: http://youtu.be/SMiHsOYwdCs
[Alternative Explanation & Theory]*****Astrotometry™ Response Video: http://youtu.be/DlJAw6x1STc

TODAY’S LINKS
Iran Death Toll: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-iran-earthquake-idUSBRE87A08N201…

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

NOAA Bouys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…

PRESSURE MAP: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…

HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2012 HS15)	14th August 2012	0 day(s)	0.1804	70.2	200 m – 450 m	11.54 km/s	41544 km/h
4581 Asclepius	16th August 2012	2 day(s)	0.1079	42.0	220 m – 490 m	13.48 km/s	48528 km/h
(2008 TC4)	18th August 2012	4 day(s)	0.1937	75.4	140 m – 300 m	17.34 km/s	62424 km/h
(2012 OP4)	18th August 2012	4 day(s)	0.1039	40.4	300 m – 670 m	22.54 km/s	81144 km/h
(2012 EC)	20th August 2012	6 day(s)	0.0815	31.7	56 m – 130 m	5.57 km/s	20052 km/h
(2006 CV)	20th August 2012	6 day(s)	0.1744	67.9	290 m – 640 m	13.24 km/s	47664 km/h
162421 (2000 ET70)	21st August 2012	7 day(s)	0.1503	58.5	670 m – 1.5 km	12.92 km/s	46512 km/h
(2007 WU3)	21st August 2012	7 day(s)	0.1954	76.0	56 m – 120 m	5.25 km/s	18900 km/h
(2012 BB14)	24th August 2012	10 day(s)	0.1234	48.0	27 m – 60 m	2.58 km/s	9288 km/h
(2012 FM52)	25th August 2012	11 day(s)	0.0599	23.3	510 m – 1.1 km	17.17 km/s	61812 km/h
66146 (1998 TU3)	25th August 2012	11 day(s)	0.1265	49.2	3.0 km – 6.8 km	16.03 km/s	57708 km/h
(2009 AV)	26th August 2012	12 day(s)	0.1615	62.8	670 m – 1.5 km	22.51 km/s	81036 km/h
331769 (2003 BQ35)	28th August 2012	14 day(s)	0.1585	61.7	240 m – 530 m	4.64 km/s	16704 km/h
(2010 SC)	28th August 2012	14 day(s)	0.1679	65.3	16 m – 36 m	9.56 km/s	34416 km/h
4769 Castalia	28th August 2012	14 day(s)	0.1135	44.2	1.4 km	12.06 km/s	43416 km/h
(2012 LU7)	02nd September 2012	19 day(s)	0.1200	46.7	440 m – 990 m	8.16 km/s	29376 km/h
(2012 FS35)	02nd September 2012	19 day(s)	0.1545	60.1	2.3 m – 5.2 m	2.87 km/s	10332 km/h
(2012 HG31)	03rd September 2012	20 day(s)	0.0716	27.9	440 m – 990 m	10.33 km/s	37188 km/h
(2012 PX)	04th September 2012	21 day(s)	0.0452	17.6	61 m – 140 m	9.94 km/s	35784 km/h
(2012 EH5)	05th September 2012	22 day(s)	0.1613	62.8	38 m – 84 m	9.75 km/s	35100 km/h
(2011 EO11)	05th September 2012	22 day(s)	0.1034	40.2	9.0 m – 20 m	8.81 km/s	31716 km/h
(2007 PS25)	06th September 2012	23 day(s)	0.0497	19.3	23 m – 52 m	8.50 km/s	30600 km/h
329520 (2002 SV)	08th September 2012	25 day(s)	0.1076	41.9	300 m – 670 m	9.17 km/s	33012 km/h
(2011 ES4)	10th September 2012	27 day(s)	0.1792	69.8	20 m – 44 m	12.96 km/s	46656 km/h
(2008 CO)	11th September 2012	28 day(s)	0.1847	71.9	74 m – 160 m	4.10 km/s	14760 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

 

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife / Hazmat

Today

Biological Hazard

China

Province of Hainan, Sanya [Howard Johnson Hotel]

Biological Hazard in China on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 04:28 (04:28 AM) UTC.

Description
A suspected food poisoning case on a southern Chinese island led to the hospitalization of 120 tourists on Sunday, including six foreigners, local authorities reported on Monday. The vacationers were sent for medical treatment after their breakfast in the Howard Johnson Hotel in Sanya City in Hainan Province, said Zhou Baocang, deputy director of the Sanya Health Bureau. Twenty-eight people left hospital after treatment, while the other 92 remain in the People’s Hospital of Sanya and No.425 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army. “No deaths have been reported. The patients are recovering well,” said Chen Weijie, deputy director of the Sanya City Food and Drug Administration. Four of the six foreigners are from Russia and two from Japan, and all of them are in stable condition, Zhou said. Initial investigation showed that the illnesses were caused by food harboring bacteria, and more evidence needs to be collected, Zhou said. Service at the hotel’s restaurant has been suspended. “The fried rice at breakfast might be to blame. The biggest discomfort was suffered by my friend, who had stomach ache and wanted to vomit. Another friend has been suffering from fever,” said a tourist named Li Ximing from south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Hainan provincial government officials have urged local authorities to guarantee the safety of the tourists. Experts have been sent by the provincial government to the scene. An emergency response team has been set up by the hotel and 80 employees have been dispatched to hospital to help take care of the patients, said Wang Li, a spokeswoman for the hotel. The hotel will compensate the patients based on investigation, Wang added.
Biohazard name:	Mass. Food Poisoning
Biohazard level:	2/4 Medium
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. “Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures”, see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

Today

Biological Hazard

USA

State of New Jersey, [Barnegat Bay]

Biological Hazard in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC.

Description
NBC-10 reports, tens of millions of Jellyfish have invaded Barnegat Bay. The jellyfish have been spotted in Barnegat Bay, Manahawkin in Stafford, Waretown, and the bay side of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island. According to Professor Paul Bologna, Montclair State’s Director of Aquatic and Coastal Sciences, the reason for the proliferation of jellyfish could be the use of plastic on the surfaces of docks. He explains sea nettle larvae settle on those surfaces and change into polyps, which bud off to create more of themselves. Another theory from a Rutgers University report: the bay’s ecological decline has spread southward since the 1990s. The declining ecological conditions have become a perfect place for jellyfish to prosper. Whatever the reason, unless they’re looking for a shock to their system, swimmers and surfers should be on the lookout for the jellyfish.
Biohazard name:	Jellyfish invasion
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
Status:

Today

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Oregon, [Dexter Lake]

Biological Hazard in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 03:15 (03:15 AM) UTC.

Description
It’s hot and getting hotter, and one more Lane County lake has sprouted a toxic algae bloom. State officials today said that based on scum they have observed, Dexter Lake has toxic blue-green algae, and they issued an advisory that people stay out of the water and avoid touching it or inhaling water droplets. Testing is taking place to determine whether the blue-green algae is of the type that produces cyanotoxins harmful to people and animals, the state said. Dexter Lake, about 20 miles southeast of Eugene on Highway 58, is the third Lane County body of water to merit a blue-green algae alert this summer, and only the fourth in the state. State officials on July 27 issued an alert for Walterville Pond off Highway 126 east of Springfield that is still in effect, followed by a July 31 alert on Dorena Lake southeast of Cottage Grove that is still in effect. Earlier in the summer, the state also issued an alert for a lake in Jackson County that lasted only five days. By comparison, at this time last year, the state had issued algae alerts at seven lakes. Last summer, alerts were issued for Cougar, Dorena, Dexter and Fall Creek lakes in Lane County. Health officials say exposure to the toxins can produce numbness, dizziness and breathing or heart problems, plus skin irritation, nausea and cramps. Dexter Lake is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Oregon State Parks Department.
Biohazard name:	Blue-Green (cyanobacteria) Algae bloom
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
Status:

Today

Biological Hazard

USA

State of California, Long Beach

Biological Hazard in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 02:53 (02:53 AM) UTC.

Description
The city of Long Beach issued an alert to residents regarding an outbreak of flea-borne typhus, a disease transmitted to humans via fleas. Murine typhus, also known as flea-borne typhus, is spread from fleas living on rodents, possums, raccoons and cats. The disease is transmitted by bites from infected fleas. The disease is not spread from person to person. Symptoms include high fever, body aches, severe headaches and a rash. People may become sick enough to be hospitalized, but the disease is rarely fatal. Public health officials will continue to monitor and test for evidence of flea-borne typhus in areas throughout Long Beach. Area veterinarians will receive a letter requesting they educate pet owners on the importance of flea control in preventing flea-borne typhus. Long Beach has also issued letters to area health care providers providing guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
Biohazard name:	Typhus (flea-borne)
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

13.08.2012

Biological Hazard

Guam

[Pago Bay]

Biological Hazard in Guam on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 11:11 (11:11 AM) UTC.

Description
Last week dead fish were found mysteriously washing up along the shores of Pago bay. Today PNC went to Pago Bay to investigate the possible cause of this unusual phenomenon. On Thursday of last week a student at the University of Guam’s marine lab noticed a lot of dead fish along the short in Pago bay. He took pictures of the fish and forwarded them to UOG marine lab professor Dr. Jason Biggs. “Well one of the things that set up a red flag for me is that this is the first time that it’s ever been noticed for Pago bay to have a fish kill like this,” said Dr. Biggs. Department of agriculture fisheries biologist Brent Tibbats also examined the photos. He says they appear to be shallow water fish that live in the reef flats and sea grass. Based on the photos, which show that many of the fish died with open mouths, Tibbats believes that natural causes are the most likely culprit. “We do get reports of fish kills almost every year at around this time of year, July and August, when there are very low tides during the hottest part of the day during the middle of the day what happens is fish get trapped in shallow water pools and they overheat and with a lack of oxygen they suffocate actually in the water and then when the next high tide comes in the fish get deposited on shore and people see this,” explained Tibbats. However, as Dr. Biggs has pointed out this is the first time that they’ve seen this at Pago bay. “Over the past we’ve noticed areas where it happens commonly actually are Tumon bay is one and down along the southeast coast kind of from Ipan beach park down to first beach those areas something about them seems to be where fish kills repeatedly during these low tides during the middle of the day,” said Tibbats. Nevertheless Dr. Biggs is concerned that something else maybe the cause of this strange event. “Another thing that we’d like to point out is because it hasn’t happened at Pago bay before that maybe the sedimentation could have the same effect because if you have a big load of water bringing down a lot of dirt with it that dirt could mix with the salt water as well and particulate matter is known to clog the gills of the fish and make it so that water can’t pass and they can’t breathe,” explained Dr. Biggs. The marine lab professor says that choking from sedimentation would also result in dead fish with mouths open as seen in the photos. Pago bay has been known to have a lot of sedimentation after heavy rains. “You can see it every time it rains really hard there’s a plume that goes all the way out and then extends for miles out into the ocean,” said Dr. Biggs. Tibbats says there is no way to tell for sure what killed these fish because he received the email over the weekend and by then the fish were gone. Tibbats says there are other potential causes for example fresh water can flood the reef flats killing saltwater fish. There is also the possibility that toxins from the land are washed into the water. Tibbats says that if anyone notices dead fish washing up on the shores anywhere on guam to try and collect some of the fish and then contact the Department of Agriculture’s Division of Aquatics and Wildlife Resources so they can study the dead fish and get a better determination of their actual cause of death. Senator Sam Mabini is concerned with the dead fish found at Pago bay and she has sent a letter to the Guam Environmental Protection Agency requesting their immediate attention to Pago bay’s current condition.
Biohazard name:	Mass Die-off (Fishes)
Biohazard level:	1/4 Low
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses including Bacillus subtilis, canine hepatitis, Escherichia coli, varicella (chicken pox), as well as some cell cultures and non-infectious bacteria. At this level precautions against the biohazardous materials in question are minimal, most likely involving gloves and some sort of facial protection. Usually, contaminated materials are left in open (but separately indicated) waste receptacles. Decontamination procedures for this level are similar in most respects to modern precautions against everyday viruses (i.e.: washing one’s hands with anti-bacterial soap, washing all exposed surfaces of the lab with disinfectants, etc). In a lab environment, all materials used for cell and/or bacteria cultures are decontaminated via autoclave.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

13.08.2012

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Pennsylvania, [Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area]

Biological Hazard in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 09:55 (09:55 AM) UTC.

Description
A local Boy Scout leader is recovering this week after wrestling with a rabid beaver in the Delaware River. Health officials describe the attack as rare, but say human encounters with wild animals are more common in the summer months. On Aug. 2, Normand Brousseau, 51, of Pine Plains, an assistant scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 32 out of Elizaville, Columbia County, was swimming in the Delaware River. Brousseau, another leader and four Scouts were on a field trip at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania. Brousseau, who was in the water hanging onto a noodle float, noticed a dark shape nearby. “It came through my legs and attached itself to my chest,” he said. “I thought it was a giant carp fish.” It wasn’t. He was being attacked by a rabid beaver. Once he was bitten, he grabbed the animal and threw it away from his body. “Then it came at me again,” he said. The beaver bit him in the leg and then again in his buttocks, arm, hand and waist. At that point, Brousseau said, “the adrenaline kicked in.” “I grabbed it in its mouth,” he said. “I had it around its bottom jaw as tightly as I could because I knew it was going to either bite me or bite the boys. I called the Scouts to come give me a hand.” One of the Scouts was 16-year-old Nick Hedges of Elizaville. “I grabbed him by the arm and started pulling him to the shore,” Hedges said. The Scout was careful to keep an eye on the beaver, which, he said, was in Brousseau’s grasp about five feet away. Brousseau tossed the animal up onto the shore. The beaver was stunned for a second or two, Hedges said, but “then it started attacking the noodle.” With their counselor hurt and bleeding on shore, the teens took matters into their own hands. “We started throwing rocks at it,” he said. “We could see it was still dangerous.” The Scouts threw stones at the beaver until it was dead. A couple passing by in a canoe took Brousseau to the other side of the river and another passerby called 911. Dutchess County health officials said an attack from a rabid beaver is unusual, explaining that more often people in Dutchess report suspected cases of rabid cats, dogs and bats. “This is the time of year people will encounter more bats because they’re active now — they’re coming into contact with them more often,” said Stephen Capowski, director of environmental health services for the Dutchess County Health Department. Capowski cautioned people to steer clear of animals exhibiting unusual behavior: nocturnal animals such as bats, skunks and raccoons out during the daytime; dogs and cats indiscriminately attacking other dogs and cats, or people, and any animal behaving aggressively. Capowski said human cases of rabies are rare in Dutchess. Park rangers brought Brousseau to the Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pa., where he was treated for his injuries. He’s now on the mend and the parents of Scouts in his troop are feeling grateful. “It was very brave of him,” said Susan Treacy of Stanfordville, whose 15-year-old son, Zach Pruner, was also in the river during the attack. “Who’d be crazy enough to hang onto a rabid beaver?” The day after the attack, Brousseau received a call from a doctor confirming the beaver had been rabid. Since then, he’s received more than 20 rabies shots. “I’m pretty sore,” he said, still appearing bruised with small cuts along his hands and arms Friday. Brousseau brushed off the notion of acting heroically that day. “It’s my job to protect the boys,” he said. “Part of what I do is to make sure they’re always protected.” Brousseau said he has gained a new-found respect for nature. “When you go out into nature, you always need to veer on the side of caution,” he said. “Don’t assume a wild animal is not sick. You have to be on your toes at all times.”
Biohazard name:	Rabies (beaver)
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

14.08.2012

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Texas, Jamaica Beach

Biological Hazard in USA on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 02:50 (02:50 AM) UTC.

Description
Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore along the Texas coast from the Colorado River to Galveston Island and Parks and Wildlife biologists suspect low oxygen levels off shore may be to blame. What tides are bringing in on Jamaica Beach is making people pause. “I hope it’s nothing major,” said Mark Gannon, who took his family to the beach Sunday. “I hope the water is safe.” Thousands of dead shad litter the sand. “Any idea what it is?” asked Gannon’s wife Alexia. Her children tried to explain the problem. “At night time, the waves pull up really far so the fish can’t handle that, so they get up on the shore,” said Abby Gannon. Authorities said the answer is not so simple.　Biologists with the Parks and Wildlife Department began testing ph, saline and oxygen levels in water samples taken along the coast. “When something’s affecting one [fish] then usually a lot of them are being affected at the same time because it’s such a big group [swimming in schools] together,” said Steven Mitchell of Texas Parks and Wildlife. He suspects low oxygen in the water is a problem. However, he won’t know for sure until biologists are able to test water up to 10 miles off shore. That could take several days. Meanwhile, there is no threat to people on the beach, authorities said.　Still, people like the Gannons said their plan to spend the children’s final week of summer vacation on the beach could change a bit. “I imagine as it gets warmer the smell [of the dead shad] will get stronger and we will likely want to go home,” Alexia Gannon said.
Biohazard name:	Mass. Die-off (fishes)
Biohazard level:	0/4 —
Biohazard desc.:	This does not included biological hazard category.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Major Fish Kill Reported On Texas Coast

GALVESTON (August 13, 2012)–Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have washed up on the beach in Galveston, where crews went to work Monday to remove the dead fish.

Peter Davis of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol said Sunday the small shad fish likely were killed by low oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico.

Davis estimated hundreds of thousands of fish have died.

Galveston County health officials said the water is fine for beachgoers.

Biologist Steven Mitchell with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said calm conditions and summer heat may have contributed to the fish kill.

He said there’s a possibility of a dead zone in the water off Galveston.

Testing is expected this week.

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HAZMAT

USA

State of Colorado, Colorado Springs [Centennial Boulevard, Thin Metal Parts]

HAZMAT in USA on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012 at 04:34 (04:34 AM) UTC.

Description

Around 100 employees have been evacuated from a handful of businesses on Centennial Boulevard because of a reported chlorine gas leak. The Colorado Springs Fire Department reports the leak occurred inside the Thin Metal Parts building off of Centennial and List north of Garden of the Gods. One person was being evaluated by medical personnel at the scene. There are no other reports of injuries.

 

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Earth Watch Report – Friday June 22nd, 2012

Earthquakes

 

RSOE EDIS

 

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
22.06.2012 05:50:28	2.6	North America	United States	Hawaii	Volcano				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 05:07:14	2.2	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Ainapö				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 04:40:35	5.7	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Horoera				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 04:10:40	2.9	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Pikowai				GEONET
22.06.2012 02:26:12	4.8	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Hicks Bay				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 02:15:43	5.2	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Horoera				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 01:20:48	2.4	North America	Canada	British Columbia	Princeton				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 01:26:02	2.8	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Spanish Town				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 01:00:37	4.9	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Wainggori				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 00:50:58	4.6	South America	Peru	Departamento de Lima	Acuisho				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 00:06:01	2.0	North America	United States	California	Five Points				USGS-RSOE
22.06.2012 00:35:33	5.4	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 22:20:42	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Kantishna				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 22:40:35	2.7	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Sandin				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 20:21:15	2.8	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Bromley				GEONET
21.06.2012 18:50:45	4.6	South America	Chile	Region de Tarapaca	Tambillo				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 22:30:39	2.4	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Esperanza				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 17:00:43	2.0	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Esperanza				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 15:50:38	2.4	Asia	Turkey		Yukari Sogutlu				EMSC
21.06.2012 15:51:04	2.0	Europe	France		Sainte-Anne				EMSC
21.06.2012 16:25:28	2.6	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Sandin				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 15:51:24	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Gunduzu				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:55:43	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Port Graham				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 15:51:45	2.4	Europe	Greece		Mournia				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:45:29	4.9	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Loyo				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:40:37	4.8	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	North Sulawesi	Loyo				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 22:31:35	2.6	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	New Brighton				GEONET
21.06.2012 14:45:51	3.0	Asia	Turkey		Camlikoy				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:25:45	4.3	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Nusabotam				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 14:46:18	4.3	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Nusabotam				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:46:37	2.4	Europe	Italy		Galeazza Pepoli				EMSC
21.06.2012 14:00:30	5.1	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Libano				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 14:46:56	5.1	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Libano				EMSC
21.06.2012 16:15:45	3.4	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Spanish Town				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 13:40:31	3.9	Europe	Iceland		Midgardar				EMSC
21.06.2012 13:15:56	4.3	Middle America	Nicaragua	Departamento de Chinandega	Punta Nata				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 13:40:52	4.3	Middle-America	Nicaragua		Punta Nata				EMSC
21.06.2012 13:41:12	2.1	Asia	Turkey		Karacaviran				EMSC
21.06.2012 13:41:32	2.0	Europe	Germany		Gelobtland				EMSC
21.06.2012 13:41:52	2.0	Europe	Italy		La Fruttarola				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:35:22	2.1	Asia	Turkey		Kurtseyh				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:35:43	2.3	Asia	Turkey		Sihlar				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:20:37	4.3	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Tanahperiuk				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 12:36:09	4.3	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Tanahperiuk				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:00:44	2.6	North America	United States	California	Marble Place				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 12:36:31	2.2	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:01:05	4.6	South America	Chile	Region del Maule	Rinconada				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 12:36:52	4.6	South-America	Chile		Rinconada				EMSC
21.06.2012 12:37:14	3.6	Middle-East	Iran		Samak				EMSC
21.06.2012 21:05:46	2.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Amchitka				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 11:30:36	3.2	Asia	Turkey		Meydancik				EMSC
21.06.2012 11:15:42	3.7	North America	United States	Alaska	Talkeetna				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 11:30:55	2.9	Asia	Turkey		Kasak				EMSC
21.06.2012 13:42:14	4.5	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Karanganyar				EMSC
21.06.2012 11:31:15	2.6	Asia	Turkey		Catakdegirmen				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:41:01	2.3	North America	United States	California	Black Oaks				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 10:25:29	2.8	Asia	Turkey		Kahya				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:25:47	2.9	Europe	Greece		Kalianaiika				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:00:38	2.5	North America	United States	Hawaii	Volcano				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 10:26:06	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Genefik				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:26:28	2.1	Europe	Italy		Carpi				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:26:49	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Senek				EMSC
21.06.2012 09:10:39	2.0	North America	United States	California	West Compton				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 09:05:24	2.8	North America	United States	Alaska	Iniskin				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 09:21:14	2.5	North America	United States	Missouri	Indian Mound				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 08:15:26	2.4	Asia	Turkey		Camlikoy				EMSC
21.06.2012 07:50:33	4.7	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Matokana				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 08:15:47	4.8	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Matokana				EMSC
21.06.2012 07:55:34	4.2	South America	Chile	Region de Antofagasta	Sara				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 08:16:10	4.2	South-America	Chile		Sara				EMSC
21.06.2012 07:10:29	2.5	Europe	Portugal		Sagres				EMSC
21.06.2012 07:00:33	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Iniskin				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 09:20:30	2.8	Europe	Cyprus		Perivolia				EMSC
21.06.2012 10:27:09	3.1	Europe	Greece		Polion				EMSC
21.06.2012 07:10:50	2.6	Asia	Turkey		Doganbey				EMSC
21.06.2012 06:11:12	4.7	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Okere Falls				GEONET
21.06.2012 06:21:00	4.6	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Punaroma				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 07:11:09	4.6	Australia & New-Zealand	New Zealand		Punaroma				EMSC
21.06.2012 08:30:37	2.8	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		Belle Vue				USGS-RSOE
21.06.2012 08:16:30	3.7	Europe	Russia		Chashechka				EMSC

 

 

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Oman : Back-to-back earthquakes recorded’

Rahul Das June 21, 2012

Muscat: Two back-to-back earthquakes were recorded closer to Oman by the Earthquake Monitoring Centre at Sultan Qaboos University in the last 24 hours but there were no reports of damage to property or loss of life. While an earthquake measuring 4.8-magnitude was reported in the Arabian Gulf around midnight, the other was reported from southern Iran with 4.2-magnitude on Tuesday evening. Speaking to Times of Oman, Dr Issa Al Hussain, director, Earthquake Monitoring Centre, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), said that they record around 150 earthquakes from all over the globe every month. “Locally we record around four to five quakes every month but most of them are weak and its epicenter is far away from Oman,- he said. But given Oman’s close vicinity to where the Arabian plates meet the Eurasian plates, how much risk does it pose to the Sultanate? Earthquake potential Dr Hussain said places like Khasab and Musandam in northern Oman have earthquake potential as the Arabian plates meet the Eurasian plates. “But we have to remember that Oman lies in the low risk zone so there is little chance of earthquake,- he added. Though having a little chance, tsunami did hit the Sultanate on November 27, 1945, following an earthquake situated offshore Pakistan. “That time the epicentre of the earthquake was Makran region where we recorded 8.1-magnititude,- he said. Another expert said that the southern part of Oman is also at risk from tsunamis generated offshore in Indonesia. “However, the wave height there is not likely to be very high as demonstrated following the earthquake in 2004, when the tsunami reached only 3m in Oman,- another expert said. The social media has been abuzz since last night with many concerned residents taking to Twitter and Facebook to confirm if indeed there was an earthquake that had things rattling in their wake. However, Hussain denied reports about mild tremors that residents of Oman reportedly said they had felt. “While one of them was 542km away from Muscat, the other was 671km away from Muscat so it is not possible that it affected the Oman residents,- he added. Through a network of 21 seismic stations at various locations across the Sultanate, the Earthquake Monitoring Centre is capable of registering and measuring shock-waves of all sizes. (Follow timesofoman.com on Facebook and on Twitter for updates that you can share with your friends.)

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Volcanic Activity

Increased Seismic Activity in Iceland’s Katla Volcano

Increased seismic activity was detected in Mýrdalsjökull glacier in south Iceland, under which the volcano Katla lies, last night. Twenty-six minor earthquakes were picked up by sensors, all of which had their epicenter within the Katla crater.

Mýrdalsjökull. Photo: Páll Stefánsson.

A seismic activity expert on watch at the Icelandic Meteorological Office informed ruv.is that the earthquake swarm had started at 1 am and continued through 5 am.

However, there is no reason to be concerned about an imminent volcanic eruption or glacial outburst in Katla. The earthquakes were all shallow and originated in seismic activity in the geothermal system.

Click here to read about another recent earthquake swarm in Katla.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

 

 

Excessive Heat Warning

 

MOUNT HOLLY NJ

Gale Warning

 

LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
ANCHORAGE ALASKA

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

 

PUEBLO CO
LAS VEGAS NV
FLAGSTAFF AZ
ELKO NV
RIVERTON WY
DENVER CO
GRAND JUNCTION CO
CHEYENNE WY
SALT LAKE CITY UT

 

 

 

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Fires, Smoke in Central Russia

Russia has declared a state of emergency in several eastern regions due to hundreds of wildfires. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of fires and smoke in north central Russia on June 15, 2012, at 05:50 UTC (1:50 a.m. EDT) The red spots are where the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard the Terra satellite detected heat signatures. Dry conditions, agricultural burning, lightning and human involvement have contributed to many wildfires across Siberia over the last few weeks.

To learn about smoke from Siberian fires crossing the Pacific Ocean, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/siberia-smoke.html.

Images: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team
Text: Katrina Jackson, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Storms, Flooding

 

 

Active tropical storm system(s)
Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Chris (AL03)	Atlantic Ocean	20.06.2012	22.06.2012	Tropical Storm	0 °	102 km/h	120 km/h	3.66 m	NHC

 

 

Tropical Storm data

Share: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 1 Storm name: Chris (AL03) Area: Atlantic Ocean Start up location: N 38° 48.000, W 56° 0.000 Start up: 20th June 2012 Status: Active Track long: 756.40 km Top category.: Report by: NHC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source 20th Jun 2012 04:06:36 N 38° 48.000, W 56° 0.000 20 74 93 Tropical Storm 110 10 1005 MB NHC 21st Jun 2012 05:06:06 N 38° 54.000, W 46° 24.000 35 93 111 Tropical Storm 75 12 994 MB NHC Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 22nd Jun 2012 05:06:57 N 43° 36.000, W 42° 54.000 22 102 120 Tropical Storm 0 ° 12 987 MB NHC Forecast track Date Time Position Category Wind km/h Gust km/h Source 23rd Jun 2012 00:00:00 N 43° 48.000, W 45° 24.000 Tropical Storm 74 93 NHC

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Dayton declares Duluth flood state of emergency

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Gov. Mark Dayton has declared a state of emergency and authorized the National Guard to help Duluth cope with its flood damage.

The governor issued the executive order Wednesday afternoon, a few hours after promising Duluth Mayor Don Ness that the state would provide all possible assistance.

Dayton plans to travel to Duluth on Thursday morning to discuss further how the state can help.

Dayton also asks people who live in or were planning to travel in the Duluth area to follow the requests of local authorities to stay off of affected roads and highways so emergency crews can do their work.

In Carlton, several residents have been evacuated. Some residents in Thomson Township in Carlton County were urged to leave after the Thompson Reservoir overflowed. Residents of Duluth’s Fond du Lac neighborhood had also urged to evacuate.

Read Full Article Here
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1

 

 

 

Today

Flash Flood

Australia

State of Victoria, [Gippsland Region (Koo Wee Rup)]

 

 

Flash Flood in Australia on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 03:06 (03:06 AM) UTC.

Description

Emergency services volunteers were forced to abandon their vehicle this morning after it became trapped in a flooded ditch in Koo Wee Rup. The State Emergency Service utility was door-knocking residents in the inundated town southeast of Melbourne when it ran into the deep ditch, leaving the nose of the vehicle submerged. There are reports the deluge has risen to about half a metre along Boundary Drain Road, one of the worst hit streets in the flood-ravaged town. SES spokeswoman Dimity York said volunteers were specially trained and all vehicles were fitted with funnels, nevertheless it demonstrated the perils of driving through floodwaters. “It’s further reinforcement that if specially trained personnel can get into that situation then no one should ever drive through floodwater,” Ms York said. She said emergency services would have to wait until floodwaters receded until they could retrieve the stricken vehicle. Meanwhile, Melbourne Water engineers were struggling to fix a broken levee gate which allowed flooding to billow over the town’s boundary drain, intensifying flooding in the area. SES spokesman Toby Borella said a combination of high tides and floodwaters surged through the open gate, causing the channel to overflow and spill onto William Street. Mr Borella said the pressure floodwaters were putting on the gate meant engineers were finding it difficult to close. He said they didn’t know why the gate had failed. At comes as at least 30 homes have been evacuated in Koo Wee Rup as parts of Gippsland succumbed to flooding overnight. State Emergency Service spokesman Lachlan Quick said emergency services began door-knocking early this morning after torrential rain threatened properties. He said further evacuations could be expected throughout the day, with the downpour not expected to ease until later tonight. “With any luck we can see it (the water level) drop today, (but) we never expect it to ease that quickly. We have to be prepared for the worst,” Mr Quick said. Despite concerns, he said only a handful of properties had so far been inundated. Police warned a number of arterial roads in the area bounded by Longwarry Rd, Bridge Rd, the Westernport Highway, South Gippsland Highway and Koo Wee Rup Rd were affected by flooding. So far, the South Gippsland Highway north of Lang Lang, near the intersection of McDonalds Track has been closed. The Bass Highway at Wonthaggi is closed. Inverloch-Kongwak Road at Kongwak as well as Outtrim-Inverloch Rd at Outtrim are closed.

 

Flood Warning

 

DULUTH MN
PENDLETON OR
LAKE CHARLES LA
TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN

Coastal Flood Advisory

 

BROWNSVILLE TX
NEW ORLEANS LA

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Radiation/ Nuclear

 

 

 

Today

Fire

USA

State of New York, Oswego [Nine Mile Point Nuclear Power Plant]

 

Fire in USA on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 03:11 (03:11 AM) UTC.

Description

A small equipment fire that lasted for about 17 minutes today caused the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station to reduce its plant power to 62 percent and declare an “unusual event.” The fire was discovered at 2:51 p.m. on one of the plant’s three feedwater pumps, said Jill Lyon, speaking for Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. The plant’s onsite trained personnel extinguished the fire by 3:08 p.m., she said. The “unusual event” was declared at 3:05 p.m. when it was apparent the fire would last more than 15 minutes. The fire was extinguished at 3:08 p.m. and the “unusual event” was declared over at 4 p.m., Lyon said. No personnel were injured and no workers were evacuated, Lyon said. The plant will continue operating at 62 percent while inspectors investigate the cause of the fire, she said. At the lower power level, one pump can maintain reactor water level, she said. An “unusual event” is the lowest level of four emergency classification levels for a nuclear plant. Because of the federal regulations, any event out of the ordinary is reported to federal, state and local authorities. By definition, the event poses no risk to the public or to plant employees, she said. The top three classifications are: “general emergency,” “site area emergency” and “alert,” she said.

New circuits work in high radiation levels

by Staff Writers
Salt Lake City (UPI)

disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only

U.S. researchers say microscopic mechanical devices that withstand intense radiation and heat can be used in robots dealing with damaged nuclear power plants.

Such devices can withstand high amounts of radiation that can quickly fry silicon-based electronic circuits, University of Utah engineers reported Tuesday.

Such electronic circuits were in robots sent to help contain the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami, they said.

“Robots were sent to control the troubled reactors, and they ceased to operate after a few hours because their electronics failed,” Utah researcher Massood Tabib-Azar said.

Tabib-Azar and his colleagues have been working on mechanical substitutes for such electronics and showed their devices, known as micro-electro-mechanical systems, kept working despite intense ionizing radiation and heat by dipping them for two hours into the core of the University of Utah’s research reactor.

“We have developed a unique technology that keeps on working in the presence of ionizing radiation to provide computation power for critical defense infrastructures,” Tabib-Azar said. “Our devices also can be used in deep space applications in the presence of cosmic ionizing radiation, and can help robotics to control troubled nuclear reactors without degradation.”

Related Links
Space Technology News – Applications and Research

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Solar Activity

2MIN News June 21, 2012: MOON Ice, Weather Records, Solar Quiet

Published on Jun 21, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

TODAYS LINKS
Eric Holder: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-usa-mexico-guns-idUSBRE85J0UF201…
Fed Stimulus: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/us-usa-fed-idUSBRE85I1Q020120620
Shackelton Crater: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/20jun_shackleton/
Magnetic Phenomenon: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620113228.htm
Big Bang Elements: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620133318.htm

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

 

 

 

 

Solar Activity Causes Changes In Humans And Affects Our Health –
Scientists Say 

MessageToEagle.com – As our Sun goes through its 11-year cycle that is due to peak in 2013 or 2014, scientists worry about dangerous solar flares that could practically wipe out a lot of our electronic civilization.

There has also been concern in what way our Suns’ abnormal behavior can effect human health.

Some scientists say there is actually a correlation between the rise and fall of solar activity and the human consciousness

Professor Raymond Wheeler of the University of Kansas has come to the same conclusions that Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky discovered in 1915, namely that solar storms directly cause conflict, wars and even death among humans on Earth.

In the 1930’s Wheeler began a lifetime study that analyzed world climate and cultural activities back to the dawn of recorded civilization. He presented his research in his book, Climate: The Key To Understanding Business Cycles.

There is no doubt according to Wheeler that weather does affect us.

Wheeler’s studies show studies that there exists a most important 100-year-cycle of climatic changes that influences human affairs in a profound manner.

The cycle occurs in four distinct phases, which are descriptive of worldwide conditions rather than specific areas.

The four phases are disturbed by secondary leads and delays — as much as 10 years — in isolated and widely separated areas.Prof. Wheeler stated: “The climatic curve is intended to represent — as far as one curve can — the weather trend in the world as a whole at any one time.

The curve has no absolute significance. The meaning of the curve at any one time is relative to the pattern of the 100-year old cycle as a whole.”The 100-year weather cycle and its phases are not of precisely equal duration. The cycle can contract to 70 years or expand to 120. The cycle is divided into a warm and a cold phase, each of which has a wet and dry period. Because people are affected by weather, the cycles of weather produce similar patterns of behavior and events in history during the same phases of the century-long weather cycle. The phases are: (1) Cold-Dry, (2) Warm-Wet, (3) Warm-Dry, and (4) Cold-Wet. We are now in a cold-dry phase, which will prevail until about 2000 A.D.

Our Sun affects our mental and physical health. The Sun’s activity as it interacts with the Earths magnetic field, effects extensive changes in human beings perspectives, moods, emotions and behavioral patterns.

Solar flares affect human health, scientists say. Image credit: SDO

During solar minimums and maximums the geomagnetic fields begin to intensify. The magnetic fields interact with human electrochemically within the brain. It affects psychological mechanisms creating anomalous hormonal swings and significantly mutated brain-wave activity.

Wheeler expanded on Chishevsky’s work by studying violence during 1913; measuring the time between battles and severity. These findings were compared with the suns 11 year sunspot cycle.

The results showed that as the sun cycle peaked, there was a rise in human unrest, uprisings, rebellions, revolutions, and wars between nations. As the magnetic fields intensified, the reaction within the human brain was a mixture of deadly emotional tantrums and unadulterated killing sprees.

As Wheeler further compared his findings with human history, he found a startling pattern that could be traced back 2,500 years.

In solar cycle 22, at the sun’s maximum we experienced Iraq invading Kuwait and the US entering the first battle against Saddam Hussein.

Just eleven years later, as the sun became active again, 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ensued.

In the latter half of 2010, the sun reached another peak that affected the Earth’s magnetic field; we witnessed dissent in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.

Those global uprisings spread to Syria, Libya, Iran and China as riots continued across the European landscape.

This civil unrest has now reached its influence across the modernized world and even into Middle Eastern countries, Africa and Asia.

It is projected, based on Wheeler’s research, as the sun’s activity increases, so will the violence on Earth.

We are now entering the 24th solar cycle.

A surge in solar activity by 50 times more than previously recorded is anticipated. NASA and other space agencies have been warning of this fact.

Through 2011 and onto 2012, the X-flares are expected to endure toward their maximum. As this incredible activity is being witnessed, we are assured that more wars, toppling countries and populations will be displaced.

In 2012 we are seeing these events coming to pass; with only more intensification to come.

In what way will Earth be affected during this solar peak?

Wheeler’s predecessor was a man named Dr. Robert Becker. Becker was an author, expert in biological electricity and a Professor with State University.

In 1963, Becker, along with his colleague, Dr. Freedman, discovered that there was a marked correlation between solar activity and psychotic outbreaks of mass insanity on Earth.

Becker and Freedman made their most dire predictions of incredible violence to culminate in the years 2012 and 2013.

So far, history has proven them correct.

There obviously appears to be connection between solar activity and psychotic outbreaks of mass insanity on Earth. The world is not ending, but there might be some rough times ahead according to these scientists.

MessageToEagle.com

See also:
New Discovery Could Reveal The Secrets Of Solar Flares

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Space

 

 

 

Missing Dwarf Galaxies Puzzle Scientists 

MessageToEagle.com – The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like salt sprinkled on black velvet in the image.

The object is a compact blue dwarf galaxy that is infused with newly formed clusters of stars.

The bright, blue stars that arise in these clusters help to give the galaxy an overall bluish appearance that lasts for several million years until these fast-burning stars explode as supernovae.

UGC 5497 is considered part of the M 81 group of galaxies, which is located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (The Great Bear). UGC 5497 turned up in a ground-based telescope survey back in 2008 looking for new dwarf galaxy candidates associated with Messier 81. According to the leading cosmological theory of galaxy formation, called Lambda Cold Dark Matter, there should be far more satellite dwarf galaxies associated with big galaxies like the Milky Way and Messier 81 than are currently known.

Finding previously overlooked objects such as this one has helped cut into the expected tally — but only by a small amount.

Astrophysicists therefore remain puzzled over the so-called “missing satellite” problem.

Dwarf galaxy UGC 5497. Credit: ESA/NASA

The field of view in this image, which is a combination of visible and infrared exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, is approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes.

MessageToEagle.com via NASA

See also:
No Empty Space In The Universe – Dark Matter Fills The Intergalactic Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2011 AH5)	25th June 2012	3 day(s)	0.1670	65.0	17 m – 39 m	5.84 km/s	21024 km/h
(2012 FA14)	25th June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0322	12.5	75 m – 170 m	5.28 km/s	19008 km/h
(2004 YG1)	25th June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0890	34.7	140 m – 310 m	11.34 km/s	40824 km/h
(2010 AF3)	25th June 2012	3 day(s)	0.1190	46.3	16 m – 36 m	6.54 km/s	23544 km/h
(2008 YT30)	26th June 2012	4 day(s)	0.0715	27.8	370 m – 820 m	10.70 km/s	38520 km/h
(2010 NY65)	27th June 2012	5 day(s)	0.1023	39.8	120 m – 270 m	15.09 km/s	54324 km/h
(2008 WM64)	28th June 2012	6 day(s)	0.1449	56.4	200 m – 440 m	17.31 km/s	62316 km/h
(2010 CD55)	28th June 2012	6 day(s)	0.1975	76.8	64 m – 140 m	6.33 km/s	22788 km/h
(2004 CL)	30th June 2012	8 day(s)	0.1113	43.3	220 m – 480 m	20.75 km/s	74700 km/h
(2008 YQ2)	03rd July 2012	11 day(s)	0.1057	41.1	29 m – 65 m	15.60 km/s	56160 km/h
(2005 QQ30)	06th July 2012	14 day(s)	0.1765	68.7	280 m – 620 m	13.13 km/s	47268 km/h
(2011 YJ28)	06th July 2012	14 day(s)	0.1383	53.8	150 m – 330 m	14.19 km/s	51084 km/h
276392 (2002 XH4)	07th July 2012	15 day(s)	0.1851	72.0	370 m – 840 m	7.76 km/s	27936 km/h
(2003 MK4)	08th July 2012	16 day(s)	0.1673	65.1	180 m – 410 m	14.35 km/s	51660 km/h
(1999 NW2)	08th July 2012	16 day(s)	0.0853	33.2	62 m – 140 m	6.66 km/s	23976 km/h
189P/NEAT	09th July 2012	17 day(s)	0.1720	66.9	n/a	12.47 km/s	44892 km/h
(2000 JB6)	10th July 2012	18 day(s)	0.1780	69.3	490 m – 1.1 km	6.42 km/s	23112 km/h
(2010 MJ1)	10th July 2012	18 day(s)	0.1533	59.7	52 m – 120 m	10.35 km/s	37260 km/h
(2008 NP3)	12th July 2012	20 day(s)	0.1572	61.2	57 m – 130 m	6.08 km/s	21888 km/h
(2006 BV39)	12th July 2012	20 day(s)	0.1132	44.1	4.2 m – 9.5 m	11.11 km/s	39996 km/h
(2005 NE21)	15th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1555	60.5	140 m – 320 m	10.77 km/s	38772 km/h
(2003 KU2)	15th July 2012	23 day(s)	0.1034	40.2	770 m – 1.7 km	17.12 km/s	61632 km/h
(2007 TN74)	16th July 2012	24 day(s)	0.1718	66.9	20 m – 45 m	7.36 km/s	26496 km/h
(2007 DD)	16th July 2012	24 day(s)	0.1101	42.8	19 m – 42 m	6.47 km/s	23292 km/h
(2006 BC8)	16th July 2012	24 day(s)	0.1584	61.6	25 m – 56 m	17.71 km/s	63756 km/h
144411 (2004 EW9)	16th July 2012	24 day(s)	0.1202	46.8	1.3 km – 2.9 km	10.90 km/s	39240 km/h
(2012 BV26)	18th July 2012	26 day(s)	0.1759	68.4	94 m – 210 m	10.88 km/s	39168 km/h
(2010 OB101)	19th July 2012	27 day(s)	0.1196	46.6	200 m – 450 m	13.34 km/s	48024 km/h
(2008 OX1)	20th July 2012	28 day(s)	0.1873	72.9	130 m – 300 m	15.35 km/s	55260 km/h
(2010 GK65)	21st July 2012	29 day(s)	0.1696	66.0	34 m – 75 m	17.80 km/s	64080 km/h
(2011 OJ45)	21st July 2012	29 day(s)	0.1367	53.2	18 m – 39 m	3.79 km/s	13644 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

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Biological Hazards / Wildlife

 

 

 

Today

Biological Hazard

USA

State of Colorado, [Jefferson County]

 

Biological Hazard in USA on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 03:09 (03:09 AM) UTC.

Description
Jefferson County Public Health has confirmed that a squirrel from the Idledale area has tested positive for bubonic plague. Plague is a highly infectious bacterial disease carried by various types of wild rodents and is transmitted primarily by flea bites. Squirrels, rodents, prairie dogs and other mammals, such as rabbits and cats are susceptible to plague because they carry fleas. “The risk of residents contracting plague is extremely low,” said Jefferson County Public Health Director Dr. Mark Johnson. “We want people to be aware that summer marks the beginning of the plague season, and just a few simple precautions will further reduce that risk. The best way to prevent plague is to control the presence of rodents and fleas in and around the home. In addition, people should avoid contact with any species of wild rodents, especially sick or dead rodents. If a dead rodent is found, do not handle the animal directly, use gloves and place it in a plastic bag. Dogs and cats should be confined so they cannot prey on infected rodents and then bring the disease home with them. Pet owners who live close to rodent populations should use flea-control products recommended by their veterinarian. Controlling fleas on pets will prevent the transfer of fleas to humans. If these precautions are taken, the probability of contracting plague is extremely low. Anyone experiencing these symptoms should consult a physician immediately: sudden onset of high fever; muscle pain; malaise, or a general feeling of being ill; nausea; and vomiting. Jefferson County Public Health will continue its plague surveillance of rodent populations in the county.
Biohazard name:	Bubonic Plague
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

 

 

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Articles of Interest

UPDATE: Meteor Sightings Ground Flights, Reports From CO, NM, and KS… June 20, 2012

Published on Jun 21, 2012 by Sheilaalien

http://sheilaaliens.net/?p=869 // 2ND UPDATE – Meteor starts C.O. Wildfire?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPr7vKcaNM // “Wednesday the crews of two commercial aircraft flying over Liberal, Kan., reported what appeared to be a meteorite at 1:47 p.m. Central Daylight Time, or 12:47 p.m. Mountain time. He said the Colorado sighting occurred at about the same time.”

Video source: http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Possible_Meteor_Shower_Breifly_Grounds_Fir…

“One of the unconfirmed meteorite sightings came in from Salina around 6:31 PM, Wednesday.”

K.S.:http://www.hutchpost.com/2012/06/20/meteor-sighting-in-salina-sighting-in-c­olorado-grounds-firefighting-plane/

“The American Meteor Society has received 18 reports so far of a bright daylight fireball over Colorado & New Mexico. Eight of the eighteen reports are from Colorado Springs. This event occurred sometime from 12:35 to 12:40pm MDT Wednesday afternoon June 20th. Reports of many different colors have been received, with white and orange being most mentioned. The average brightness reported by witnesses varied quite a bit, ranging from brighter than the full moon to brighter than the sun.”

N.M.: http://www.amsmeteors.org/2012/06/daylight-fireball-over-colorado-new-mexico/

And this is just a personal report I received from a close friend, take it or leave it:
A friend of their’s was curious if a meteor shower was happening, because on the night of the 19th they saw three fireballs in a row.

Meteor showers and strange haze/dust? If I didn’t know any better, I’d be screaming about Nibiru/Wormwood 😉

 

 

 

Today

HAZMAT

USA

State of Indiana, Indianapolis [Garfield Park]

 

 

 

HAZMAT in USA on Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 02:59 (02:59 AM) UTC.

Description

It was a 90-degree afternoon, and the Garfield Park pool was packed. David Yates, 13, had just zipped down a slide and splashed into the water when he noticed a bad taste in his mouth – like bleach. At the same time – across a pool that features shallow wading areas, two large water slides and a children’s playhouse – others were making the same discovery. Mayhem ensued. Jamie Rahmany, in the baby pool with her son, noticed kids coughing around her. Patricia Tanner, a mother of three sitting just out of the pool, saw children vomiting. And Shari Patton, a mother with two children at the pool, smelled a sharp odor that was likened to ammonia, or chlorine. Patton yanked her kids out of the water and rushed them to a shower room for a rinse. Around her, swimmers were leaving the pool and grabbing shirts, towels, whatever they could to cover their faces and shield them from the smell. Pool staff quickly began giving the children water, with kids drinking from the same cups. The source of the chaos was what officials described as a toxically out-of-balance mixture of pool chemicals that were pumped into the water around 2 p.m. Thursday. The solution sickened scores and sent more than 80 people – most of them children – to four local hospitals. Most were treated and released within a couple of hours. Some were being kept Thursday evening for observation, but there was no indication that anyone had been seriously harmed. The emergency was serious enough that first responders initially referred to the scene as one of “mass casualties.” They set up a triage area. In addition to several ambulances, two IndyGo buses were brought in to take the victims to the hospitals. For a time, the city’s emergency room capacity was strained by the numbers. Mayor Greg Ballard stopped what he was doing to visit the scene on the city’s Southside. Exactly how the noxious mixture came about wasn’t clear, according to Lt. Derrick Sayles of the Indianapolis Fire Department, because the pool’s operator was among those being treated. Sayles said the source seemed to be the improper use of a pool cleaning chemical called ACID Magic. Sayles said the machine that pumps chemicals into the pool had been shut down and restarted. As it was restarted, the combination of ACID Magic, sodium and water flowing into the pool was wrong. Dr. James Mowry, director of the Indiana Poison Control Center at IU Health Methodist Hospital, which handled 45 of the Garfield pool patients, described the resulting mixture as a chlorine gas. In this case, the mixture was just strong enough to irritate eyes and lungs and induce vomiting. But in super-high concentrations — as with chemical weapons used during World War I — the gas can be lethal. How the misapplication of chemicals occurred will be investigated, Sayles said. The mayor said other city pools will be checked to ensure they aren’t susceptible to similar problems. The Indianapolis Star requested health inspection and maintenance reports on the Garfield Park pool from county and city officials Thursday but was told those records were not immediately unavailable. Garfield Park’s pool was closed for the rest of the day. It’s not known when it will reopen. Jen Pittman, the city’s marketing director, said the city will not provide refunds to pool visitors but will provide them with a complimentary pass for another day, once it does reopen. David Yates, the 13-year-old who tasted the chemical after surfacing from his splash off the water slide, turned down care from emergency officials, even at the urging of his baby sitter. He left the Garfield Park pool with a reddened face, puffy eyes and irritation in his chest. When his mother, Heather Lightle, arrived home a couple of hours later, she found David with his eyes matted shut and a green substance oozing from the corners. She took him to the emergency room immediately. He was treated and released a few hours later. Lightle was angry that emergency responders at the scene didn’t force him to go to the emergency room. And she was angered by what happened with the chemicals at the pool.

 

 

 

21.06.2012

HAZMAT

Israel

Haifa District, Haifa [Haifa Bay]

 

 

HAZMAT in Israel on Thursday, 21 June, 2012 at 10:01 (10:01 AM) UTC.

Description

A dozen fire fighting and hazardous materials teams were called to a Haifa plant Thursday morning to contain a chemical leak that could spill into the Haifa Bay. The leak was reported at the Carmel Olephin plant, which produces chemicals for use in plastic products, including polypropylene and polyethylene. According to Ynet, the chemicals in question were undergoing a reaction in their storage tank, which the teams were attempting to contain first by cooling and and then by diluting the material. Israel Radio reported that the leak started around 7 a.m. Haifa Bay is home to some of Israel’s largest chemical plants and is often cited as one of the country’s most polluted areas. Two weeks ago, a leak of acrylamide at Ben-Gurion International Airport, also used to make plastics, was discovered. One man was lightly injured in that incident.

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Earth Watch Report – Wednesday May 30th, 2012

Earthquakes

 

RSOE EDIS

 

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
30.05.2012 10:11:35	4.8	Europe	Russia		Sem’desyat Vtoroy Kilometr				EMSC
30.05.2012 10:11:56	3.0	Europe	France		Saint-Martin-aux-Buneaux				EMSC
30.05.2012 10:12:17	3.5	Asia	Taiwan		Hsiang-yang				EMSC
30.05.2012 10:12:39	3.6	Europe	Greece		Thesprotikon				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:25:59	2.9	North America	United States	Alaska	Iniskin				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 09:10:55	5.1	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Trana				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:16:41	5.1	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Trana				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 09:20:42	4.9	Middle East	Iran	Ostan-e Fars	Khurab				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 09:11:20	4.8	Middle-East	Iran		Khurab				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:11:43	2.5	Europe	Italy		Finale Emilia				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:31:08	3.3	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 09:12:15	2.9	Asia	Turkey		Nizin				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:12:38	3.8	Europe	Italy		Coazze				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:13:02	2.8	Europe	France		Sainte-Anne				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:13:27	2.7	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:13:52	2.0	Europe	Greece		Polilofon				EMSC
30.05.2012 09:14:17	2.9	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:03:56	3.5	Asia	Turkey		Karagunduz				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:04:23	3.3	Europe	Bulgaria		Slakovtsi				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:04:48	2.6	Europe	Italy		Case Oratorio				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:06:40	2.8	Europe	Greece		Tyrgia				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:07:02	2.1	Europe	Italy		Pioppa				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:21:38	4.0	North America	United States	California	Solromar				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 07:22:01	2.3	North America	United States	California	Solromar				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 08:07:27	2.6	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:07:56	3.1	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:01:45	2.7	Europe	Italy		Novi di Modena				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:02:07	2.8	Europe	Italy		Palata Pepoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:02:29	2.8	Europe	Italy		Ponte di San Pellegrino				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:02:49	2.3	Europe	Italy		La Massara				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:08:33	3.1	Europe	Greece		Sourides				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:03:08	2.8	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:03:28	2.0	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:03:49	3.3	Europe	Greece		Ydroussa				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:04:11	2.6	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:04:33	2.7	Europe	Croatia		Skrivena Luka				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:04:54	2.4	Europe	Italy		La Barchessa				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:05:51	2.4	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:55:30	2.9	Europe	Poland		Czeszkow				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:06:19	2.9	Europe	Greece		Kalopirgos				EMSC
30.05.2012 06:41:07	3.0	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Centro Puntas				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 07:06:20	2.5	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:55:49	2.6	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo delle Segnate				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:56:10	2.3	Asia	Turkey		Mezraasadan				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:56:31	2.8	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:08:58	2.6	Europe	Italy		Novi di Modena				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:56:51	2.5	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:57:13	3.3	Europe	Italy		Tramuschio				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:50:34	2.7	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:45:30	2.1	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 04:50:55	2.3	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:57:32	2.3	Asia	Turkey		Olucak				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:57:51	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Esencik				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:51:16	2.3	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:51:35	2.7	Europe	Italy		Quistello				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:51:53	2.6	Europe	Italy		San Felice sul Panaro				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:52:16	2.5	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:52:38	3.4	Europe	Italy		San Biagio				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:58:18	2.2	Asia	Turkey		Cukurgol Yaylasi				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:52:59	2.7	Europe	Italy		Mirandola				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:55:25	3.5	North America	United States	Alaska	Beluga				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 04:53:19	2.1	Europe	Italy		San Felice sul Panaro				EMSC
30.05.2012 08:09:23	2.4	Europe	Italy		La Massara				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:53:40	2.1	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:45:32	2.1	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:58:38	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Karahidirli				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:45:53	2.3	Europe	Albania		Greve				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:06:45	2.6	Europe	Italy		San Giovanni del Dosso				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:46:16	2.9	Europe	Italy		Coazze				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:46:36	2.1	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:46:56	2.1	Europe	Italy		Mirandola				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:47:17	2.2	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
30.05.2012 04:00:34	4.4	South America	Colombia	Departamento de Cundinamarca	Paicaguita				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 04:54:02	4.4	South-America	Colombia		Paicaguita				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:47:36	2.1	Europe	Italy		Palata Pepoli				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:58:59	2.1	Asia	Turkey		Yesilyayla				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:47:58	2.3	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:59:18	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Mollakasim				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:48:26	2.2	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo Roncole				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:45:24	3.2	Europe	Greece		Sigrion				EMSC
30.05.2012 07:07:11	2.7	Europe	Albania		Cerjan				EMSC
30.05.2012 05:59:58	2.7	Europe	Greece		Agios Dimitrios				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:25:28	2.5	North America	United States	California	Ukiah Rancheria				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 02:45:45	2.0	Europe	Italy		San Biagio				EMSC
30.05.2012 03:48:47	2.2	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:10:30	2.1	North America	United States	California	Solromar				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 06:00:39	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Gerenler				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:46:09	2.0	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
30.05.2012 06:00:59	2.1	Asia	Turkey		Esmepinar				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:46:30	2.4	Europe	Italy		San Felice sul Panaro				EMSC
30.05.2012 02:46:49	2.4	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:40:35	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Cetibelikoyu				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:40:55	2.5	Europe	Italy		Zocca				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:41:17	2.2	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:41:37	2.1	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:41:57	2.2	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:42:25	2.0	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:42:46	2.2	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:31:07	4.2	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Oaxaca	Santa Maria del Rincon				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 01:43:06	4.2	Middle-America	Mexico		Santa Maria del Rincon				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:43:27	2.7	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
30.05.2012 01:43:49	2.3	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:35:45	2.0	Europe	Italy		San Felice sul Panaro				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:25:52	2.2	North America	United States	California	Mesquite Oasis				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 00:21:35	2.0	North America	United States	California	San Benito				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 00:36:06	2.2	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:36:27	2.3	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:36:48	2.6	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:37:09	2.4	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:37:30	2.4	Europe	Italy		San Carlo				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:37:51	2.8	Europe	Italy		San Lorenzo				EMSC
30.05.2012 00:38:15	2.1	Europe	Italy		Mirandola				EMSC
29.05.2012 23:46:25	2.7	North America	United States	California	Toomey				USGS-RSOE
30.05.2012 03:30:44	3.2	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Soroco				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 23:31:47	2.0	North America	United States	Hawaii	Pähala				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 23:35:33	3.0	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
29.05.2012 23:35:53	2.6	Europe	Italy		La Pettenella				EMSC
29.05.2012 23:36:15	2.4	Europe	Italy		San Biagio				EMSC
29.05.2012 23:36:34	2.1	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:45:34	2.0	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 23:36:54	2.8	Europe	Italy		Cavezzo				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:31:42	2.4	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:32:08	2.1	Europe	Italy		San Biagio				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:32:30	2.5	Europe	Italy		Ponte di San Pellegrino				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:32:52	2.4	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:33:13	2.5	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:33:34	2.5	Europe	Greece		Frangoulaiika				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:33:53	2.6	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:34:20	2.2	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:34:41	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Alakilise				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:35:00	2.9	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:45:00	2.8	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:46:53	2.4	Europe	Italy		San Lorenzo				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:26:40	3.1	Europe	Italy		L’Orlanda				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:26:59	3.2	Europe	Italy		Piazzetta				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:27:19	2.3	Europe	Italy		Podere San Pancrazio				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:27:39	2.5	Europe	Italy		Melara				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:28:00	3.0	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:28:23	2.0	Asia	Turkey		Eksiler				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:22:49	4.4	Europe	Italy		Corte Romana				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 21:28:43	3.9	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:29:02	2.6	Europe	Albania		Panjet				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:29:13	2.0	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 21:29:21	2.4	Europe	Italy		L’Orlanda				EMSC
29.05.2012 21:29:40	2.8	Europe	Greece		Kattavia				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:20:55	2.6	North America	United States	California	Citrus View				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 20:21:22	2.3	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 20:25:50	2.7	Europe	Italy		La Pettenella				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:57:19	2.4	North America	United States	Alaska	Ninilchik				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 20:31:28	3.3	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	Provincia de La Altagracia	El Cabo				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 20:26:18	2.3	Europe	Italy		Tramuschio				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:26:38	2.4	Europe	Italy		San Lorenzo				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:26:57	2.3	Europe	Italy		Villa Magri				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:27:17	2.3	Europe	Italy		Melara				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:27:36	2.6	Europe	Italy		Ponte di San Pellegrino				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:27:57	2.5	Europe	Greece		Likotrafos				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:28:21	2.5	Europe	Bulgaria		Bogdanovdol				EMSC
29.05.2012 20:28:41	2.2	Europe	Italy		Palata Pepoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:16:05	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Drift River				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 19:21:26	2.7	Europe	Italy		Tramuschio				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:21:46	3.0	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:22:05	2.6	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:22:31	2.6	Europe	Italy		Ravarino				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:55:53	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Drift River				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 19:22:51	2.9	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:23:11	4.8	North-America	United States		Amchitka				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:16:27	4.9	North America	United States	Alaska	Amchitka				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 19:23:30	2.5	Europe	Italy		Casa Madonnina				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:23:50	2.4	Europe	Italy		Casa Calari				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:24:13	3.0	Europe	Italy		San Biagio				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:24:34	2.2	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:24:56	2.7	Europe	Italy		Budrione				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:12:28	2.0	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 18:18:31	2.8	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 19:25:49	4.6	Asia	Japan		Naka-toyoni				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:18:57	4.7	Europe	Italy		San Benedetto Po				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:19:19	2.8	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:19:38	4.9	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:19:57	3.1	Europe	Italy		Coazze				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:18:30	3.0	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:18:52	2.9	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:19:13	2.4	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:19:33	2.2	Europe	Italy		Mirandola				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:19:53	2.9	Europe	Italy		San Felice sul Panaro				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:23:48	4.0	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:24:23	2.7	Europe	Italy		Palidano				EMSC
29.05.2012 18:06:54	2.5	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Barrio Guaypao				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 17:24:53	3.1	Europe	Italy		Il Motto				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:25:36	2.5	Europe	Italy		Messerotti				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:25:36	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Tanana				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 17:25:57	2.7	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:26:19	3.1	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo Roncole				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:26:38	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Baklali				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:26:57	2.9	Europe	Italy		Zocca				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:14:02	3.1	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:14:24	2.6	Europe	Italy		Malcantone				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:14:45	3.2	Asia	Turkey		Kizilcagil				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:19:47	2.1	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo Roncole				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:21:16	2.2	Europe	Italy		L’Orlanda				EMSC
29.05.2012 17:27:19	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Amasya				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:21:35	2.4	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:35:37	2.0	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Cerro Prieto				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 16:21:54	2.2	Europe	Italy		Dogaro				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:22:16	2.6	Asia	Turkey		Demirtas				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:22:37	2.8	Europe	Italy		Casa Fallona				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:22:58	2.6	Europe	Italy		Castelnuovo				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:23:21	2.5	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:23:42	2.4	Europe	Italy		Novi di Modena				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:24:03	2.8	Europe	Italy		Borgo Nuovo				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:24:40	2.4	Asia	Turkey		Karakaya				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:25:01	3.2	Europe	Italy		Polesine				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:27:53	2.3	Europe	Italy		Resega				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:28:16	3.8	Middle-East	Iran		Kahriz-e Salah od Din				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:28:38	2.8	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:29:02	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Ozdemir				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:29:21	2.5	Europe	Italy		Scortichino				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:29:42	2.7	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 16:34:44	2.4	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:48:05	2.2	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:48:26	2.7	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:48:47	2.7	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:49:08	2.7	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:49:27	2.5	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:49:47	2.7	Europe	Greece		Ayios Ioannis				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:57:10	3.2	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:57:32	2.6	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:57:50	2.7	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:58:10	2.7	Europe	Italy		Dogaro				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:35:42	2.0	North America	United States	California	Ellis (historical)				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 14:58:32	2.9	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo Roncole				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:58:53	3.0	Europe	Italy		La Pettenella				EMSC
29.05.2012 22:36:09	3.3	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Eastbourne				GEONET
29.05.2012 14:59:13	3.8	Europe	Italy		Santa Maria di Venezzano				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:59:35	4.0	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:42:26	3.0	Europe	Greece		Theodhosia				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:50:35	5.1	Europe	Italy		Moglia				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 16:35:33	5.1	Europe	Italy		Moglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:15:30	5.6	Europe	Italy		Pioppa				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 13:42:50	5.5	Europe	Italy		La Balantina				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:59:56	2.4	Europe	Italy		Medolla				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:43:11	3.7	Europe	Italy		Bosellina				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:12:28	2.6	Europe	Italy		San Giacomo Roncole				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:43:32	3.4	Europe	Italy		Sustinente				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:12:49	2.5	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:13:08	2.8	Europe	Italy		La Pettenella				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:43:53	2.6	Europe	Italy		Sant’Agostino				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:13:30	3.1	Europe	Italy		Bosellina				EMSC
29.05.2012 11:51:05	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Yakutat				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 12:06:10	4.4	Europe	Italy		Casa Pezza				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:13:51	4.2	Europe	Italy		Bastiglia				EMSC
29.05.2012 12:06:32	3.0	Europe	Italy		Bozzolo				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:14:13	3.2	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:14:34	2.5	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
29.05.2012 15:14:55	2.8	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:00:30	2.4	North America	United States	Tennessee	Morgantown				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 12:06:53	2.9	Asia	Turkey		Gerenler				EMSC
29.05.2012 12:07:14	3.4	Europe	Italy		Rovereto				EMSC
29.05.2012 12:07:35	4.6	Europe	Italy		La Collevata				EMSC
29.05.2012 11:06:34	4.7	Europe	Italy		Pioppa				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 10:56:39	3.9	Europe	Italy		Tramuschio				EMSC
29.05.2012 14:55:50	2.3	North America	United States	Tennessee	Morgantown				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 10:57:00	4.7	Europe	Italy		Concordia sulla Secchia				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:54:11	4.7	Europe	Italy		Madonna dei Ponticelli				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 10:57:21	3.7	Europe	Greece		Kaloi Limenes				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:57:42	3.8	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:48:36	2.0	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Stella				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 13:44:14	3.2	Asia	Turkey		Guvent				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:58:03	3.7	Europe	Italy		Casino Barbieri				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:44:35	3.0	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:44:55	2.9	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:45:42	3.0	Europe	Italy		Corte Romana				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:58:40	3.2	Europe	Italy		Alberica				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:48:55	4.5	Europe	Bulgaria	Oblast Pernik	Divotino				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 13:46:02	3.6	Europe	Italy		Mirandola				EMSC
29.05.2012 13:46:25	3.6	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:59:01	3.2	Europe	Spain		el Port de la Selva				EMSC
29.05.2012 12:07:54	3.4	Asia	Turkey		Tepekoy				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:49:17	2.9	Caribbean	British Virgin Islands		The Settlement				USGS-RSOE
29.05.2012 13:46:45	2.4	Europe	Greece		Kalon Khorion				EMSC
29.05.2012 10:21:39	2.9	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand		Sumner				GEONET

Video: Moment of deadly Italy earthquake caught on camera

Published on May 29, 2012 by RussiaToday

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Italy with authorities reporting 15 dead. It comes a week after a 6.0-magnitude tremor hit the same region, killing seven and destroying hundreds of buildings. The video shows evacuees from the previous quake peering out of tents in disbelief as second quake strikes.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/uy986n

Building collapsing during Italy earthquake caught on camera

Published on May 29, 2012 by itnnews

The moment tremors from an earthquake in northern Italy bring down a building has been caught on camera. . Report by Sophie Foster.

Italy earthquake: Video of house collapsing after killer quake shakes Modena

Published on May 29, 2012 by RussiaToday

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Italy on Tuesday, May 29 with authorities reporting 15 dead. It comes a week after a 6.0-magnitude tremor hit the same region, killing seven and destroying hundreds of buildings.

Second deadly quake in Italy

Stephen Jewkes, Reuters

 

Italy quake

 

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A car is destroyed after an earthquake on May 29, 2012 in Cavezzo. As many as 10 people were reported killed when a strong earthquake rocked northeastern Italy on Tuesday, just days after another quake in the same region wrought death and destruction. AFP PHOTO / Pierre Teyssot

 

CAVEZZO, Italy – An earthquake killed 16 people and injured about 350 in northern Italy on Tuesday, spreading fear among thousands of residents living in tents after a similarly strong tremor in the same region flattened their homes nine days ago.

Rescuers were searching through the rubble of houses and warehouses in the Emilia-Romagna region, where several building sites had just reopened after the previous quake on May 20.

Officials said 16 people were confirmed dead, more than twice the number killed in the May 20 quake that, like Tuesday’s, had its epicentre near the city of Modena. The number of those forced to leave their homes doubled to 14,000.

Many residents ran out of buildings when they felt the 5.8-magnitude tremor, which hit shortly after 0700 GMT just as operations to rebuild the quake-struck region were under way.

“As we were coming down the stairs, we heard the sound of crumbling houses around us. There was a big cloud of dust,” said 72-year-old Giulio in Cavezzo, a badly damaged village about 30 km (20 miles) from Modena where three died.

Rescuers searched tirelessly for survivors despite initial operations being hampered by disruption to the mobile phone network and to the railway network around Bologna.

A woman was pulled alive from the debris of her house in Cavezzo after 12 hours searching, according to Sky Italia.

The quake was the most deadly to strike Italy since 2009 when a tremor partially destroyed the central city of L’Aquila, killing about 300 people and leaving thousands homeless.

With its streets deserted, Cavezzo looked like a ghost town. A shop in the centre still had fruit displayed on stalls outside in the street.

In a nearby empty coffee shop a half-eaten croissant was left on a plate on the bar and an apron lay on the floor.

“It’s a disaster, I’ve never seen anything like it. An endless series of very strong tremors after those of May 20, which had already pulled everything to its knees,” said a very shaken Stefano Draghetti, mayor of Cavezzo.

“We need a lot of help to restart, from those who can – the state, the European community.”

Italian media showed buildings and shopping malls shaking and collapsing under the force of the quake and ambulances racing across towns. Churches and factories were badly damaged.

In Medolla, also near the epicentre, an electromedical equipment plant collapsed, killing a worker. Rescuers were frantically searching for three other workers still believed to be under the rubble, a Reuters witness said.

“The situation is one of great fear and uncertainty,” said Salvatore Iannizzotto, provincial head for the Modena police.

“The population was becoming more relaxed and slowly moving back into their homes. They have now left their homes again.”

The civil protection service was setting up new emergency campsites to provide residents with shelter for the night.

QUAKE WOUNDS ITALY

The quake hit one of the most productive regions in a country struggling with a deep economic recession.

Farmers estimated the damage of the previous quake to agriculture in one of Italy’s most fertile areas at more than 200 million euros ($250 million).

Sports car maker Ferrari and motorcycle firm Ducati closed their plants in the region for safety reasons. The world’s top pasta-maker Barilla, based in Parma, evacuated a plant for 15 minutes but said production had not stopped. Italian bank BPER closed around 20 branches for safety reasons while medical products company Sorin said its plant in Mirabella had been damaged.

The quake was felt across northern and central Italy, including in the most populous northern city Milan. The area was hit by several large aftershocks, one of 5.6 magnitude

Schools and buildings were evacuated as far south as Florence. A soccer match between Italy and Luxembourg in Parma scheduled later on Tuesday was called off.

Emilia-Romagna, famed for its cured ham and mature Parmesan cheese, is in the middle of the Po plain, traditionally considered safer than other areas of seismic Italy.

Several historic buildings, some hit by the previous quake, suffered further damage.

In the town of San Felice sul Panaro whose imposing 14th-century Estense Castle was badly damaged in the quake just over a week ago, three workers were killed by a crumbling warehouse.

“The situation is very serious, some people are stuck under the rubble,” Alberto Silvestri, the town’s mayor, told Italian television.

Italian media also reported serious damage to the Baroque cathedral of Carpi and the Te Palace in Mantua, an architectural masterpiece from the Renaissance.

Prime Minister Mario Monti, whose cabinet is due to approve fresh emergency measures on Wednesday, tried to reassure the population in an impromptu news conference.

“I want to assure everyone that the state will do all that it must do, all that is possible to do, as fast as it can to guarantee the return to normality in a region so special, so important, so productive for Italy,” he said.

French President Francois Hollande’s office said France stood ready to provide Italy with any experts or logistical aid it might need. Greece was among the first nations to offer help.

A 3.8 magnitude quake was also felt in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, causing no casualties or serious damage, the National Geophysical Institute said. It had its epicentre near Pernik.

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Volcanic Activity

Mount Baker Volcano Washington USA – Active Volcano Warning

Published on May 29, 2012 by ChristiannaGarrett1

Mount Baker Volcano Washington USA – Active Volcano Warning

Rsoe EDIS Code: VA-20120529-35248-USA

May is volcano awareness month and as the summer months approach, officials want to remind those who go out to Mt. Baker that they are skiing and snowboarding and camping on an active volcano.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_baker_washington.jpg
Public Domain

 

29.05.2012

Volcano Activity

USA

State of Washington, [Mt. Baker Volcano]

 

Volcano Activity in USA on Tuesday, 29 May, 2012 at 16:14 (04:14 PM) UTC.

Description

As the summer months approach, officials want to remind those who go out to Mt. Baker that they are skiing and snowboarding and camping on an active volcano. May is volcano awareness month, and Carolyn Driedger with the U.S. Geological Survey says the biggest threat from a Baker eruption would be volcanic mud flows. She says those who live in volcano hazard zones around Mt. Baker need to have a plan to get to higher ground. Driedger says officials are confident they will see some warning signs before an eruption on Mt. Baker. West of Baker, the towns of Glacier, Maple Falls, Deming, Everson and Sumas all lie in the pathway for eruption-related mud flows.

Alert level raised on Colombia’s most dangerous volcano as ash rains down on nearby villages

by The Extinction Protocol

May 29. 2012 – COLOMBIA – Colombia warned Tuesday of a possible eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano after it began rumbling and spewing gas, sending ashes onto cities and towns in the nearby coffee-growing region. The government’s geology and mining oversight institute Ingeominas said in a statement it raised the warning level to orange from yellow, which means an eruption is possible in days or weeks. The increased seismic activity began at around 3 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT).  Civil aviation authority Aerocivil said operations have been suspended at the Manizales, Armenia, Cartago and Pereira airports, all in Colombia’s central-western coffee-growing region, due to visibility problems and concerns over aircraft engines getting clogged. This is the second time this year the warning level has been set at orange. It was raised to orange March 31, but brought back to yellow several days later as seismic activity declined. The 17,800-foot volcano, located west of Bogota, hasn’t erupted since the 1980s. An official at the Volcanology Observatory in Manizales, 16 miles northwest of the crater, said the city’s 360,000 residents have been able to see ash falling on the city since before dawn. In 1985, an eruption caused hot volcanic flows to melt the ice- and snow-covered summit area. This unleashed a cascade of debris down the volcano’s eastern slope, which wiped the town of Armero off the map, killing 25,000 people. Another 2,000 people were killed in nearby areas. –WSJ

29.05.2012 02:20 PM

Cordillera Central, Andes, Colombia

Nevado del Ruiz Volcano

Volcano Activity

1501-02=

Stratovolcano

No. 1

 

Volcano Activity in Colombia on Tuesday, 29 May, 2012 at 14:20 (02:20 PM) UTC.

Description

Colombian volcanologists indicated that the likelihood of an eruption at the Nevado del Ruiz volcano has increased, after an earthquake Tuesday morning in cental Colombia. Local authorities have raised the alert level from yellow to orange following a report issued by the Manizales Volcanological and Seismological Observatory. An orange alert does not mean an eruption is imminent. Web cameras in the area “show the emission of ash,” which “has been felt in the area surrounding the volcano,” according to Seismologic and Volcanic Observation director Gloria Patricia Cortes, who also noted the impact on city of Manizales and municipality of Villamaria. Cortes said that relief agencies in the area are prepped for immediate action, in case of emergency. “The recommendation now is to use masks in the city of Manizales because of the persistent rain of ashes,” said Cortes, who also said that she did not expect a lava flow but did not rule out that the emission of ash could continue for some time. According to officials, small amounts of ash could be dispersed from the volcano to remote areas depending on wind direction and strength. The volcano has been fluctuating at high activity levels for the past several months and was lowered to alert level yellow earlier this month. The last eruption of the volcano in 1985 killed an estimated 25,000 people and destroyed the town of Armero.

Katla volcano (Iceland): small earthquake swarm, but not likely indicator of activity in the near future

BY: T

 

Small earthquake swarm at Katla volcano during 28-29 May 2012 (Icelandic Met Office)

A swarm of 14 small to very small mostly very shallow quakes occurred at Katla volcano yesterday and today. Epicenter depths were reported between 0.1 and 12.2 km. Judging from the depth and magnitude of the quakes, the most likely cause for the seismic swarm are adjustments of the hydrothermal system under the icecap, and probably not magmatic intrusions (which would be possible indicators of a future new eruption).

 

 

 

Volcano belches ash in Russia’s Far East

( Xinhua)

VLADIVOSTOK – A volcano in Russia’s Far East spewed ash high into the sky on Tuesday following a series of tremors, local media reported.

The column of ash from the 3.3-km-high Shiveluch volcano reached up to 7.3 km above sea level, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.

No impact or damage has been reported vis-a-vis the powerful outburst, which came in the wake of a chain of seismic events around the region.

Located on the Kamchatka peninsula, Shiveluch has been active since September 1980.

 

 

 

Indonesia’s Mt. Soputan status raised to standby

The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network

The Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) has raised the alert status of Mt. Soputan in Minahasa and Southeast Minahasa regencies in North Sulawesi to level 3 — meaning “standby” — from the previous level 2 (alert), following increasing levels of volcanic activity.

“Based on our observations, as of 3 p.m. on Monday, Mt. Soputan’s alert status was raised to level 3,” center head Surono said on Monday evening.

According to Surono, increasing activity had been detected since May 25, when the volcano spew out white smoke to heights of between 50 meters and 75 meters above the mountain’s peak.

The center has recorded dozens of different types of activity since then. The center’s highest alert status for volcanoes is level 4 (on guard).

Surono has called on local residents to stay beyond a radius of six kilometers from the volcano’s summit.

The center has also warned residents of the threat of a cold lava flood, urging people living near Ranowangko, Pentu, Lawian and Popang rivers to remain alert and aware.

The volcano’s last eruption occurred on July 3, 2011. It erupted 10 hours after its status was raised to alert, forcing local officials to close Sam Ratulangi Airport for a day.
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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

 

 

 

Gale Warning

 

JUNEAU AK
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
KODIAK AK

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

 

MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
GRAND JUNCTION CO
TALLAHASSEE FL
SALT LAKE CITY UT
EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM

 

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Storms, Flooding

 

 

Tropical Storm Warning

 

CAPE FEAR TO 31N OUT TO 32N 73W TO 31N 74W
HATTERAS CANYON TO CAPE FEAR OUT TO 34N 71W TO 32N 73W
BALTIMORE CANYON TO HATTERAS CANYON OUT TO 36N 70W TO 34N 71W

 

Active tropical storm system(s)
Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Beryl	Atlantic Ocean	26.05.2012	30.05.2012	Tropical Depression	65 °	46 km/h	65 km/h	0.00 m	NHC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Tropical Storm data

Storm name: Beryl Area: Atlantic Ocean Start up location: N 32° 30.000, W 74° 48.000 Start up: 26th May 2012 Status: 01st January 1970 Track long: 333.08 km Top category.: Report by: NHC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source 27th May 2012 05:05:24 N 30° 48.000, W 77° 12.000 11 83 102 Tropical Storm 230 12 998 MB NHC 28th May 2012 07:05:36 N 30° 12.000, W 81° 6.000 11 111 139 Tropical Storm 270 12 993 MB NHC 29th May 2012 05:05:23 N 30° 48.000, W 83° 24.000 7 46 65 Tropical Depression 320 0 1005 MB NHC 29th May 2012 10:05:55 N 30° 54.000, W 83° 24.000 4 46 65 Tropical Depression 360 0 1005 MB NHC Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 30th May 2012 04:05:08 N 32° 12.000, W 81° 18.000 17 46 65 Tropical Depression 65 ° 0 1004 MB NHC Forecast track Date Time Position Category Wind km/h Gust km/h Source 31st May 2012 18:00:00 N 37° 0.000, W 70° 0.000 Tropical Storm 65 83 NHC 01st Jun 2012 18:00:00 N 38° 30.000, W 58° 0.000 Tropical Storm 74 93 NHC

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

 

SPRINGFIELD MO
FORT WORTH TX
SHREVEPORT LA

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

 

NORMAN OK
RALEIGH NC

 

 

Flood Warning

 

DES MOINES IA
SIOUX FALLS SD
TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
LA CROSSE WI
GREAT FALLS MT
DULUTH MN

 

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Epidemic Hazard/ Diseases

 

 

 

29.05.2012

Epidemic Hazard

Cambodia

Province of Kampong Speu, [The area was not defined.]

 

 

 

Epidemic Hazard in Cambodia on Tuesday, 29 May, 2012 at 16:13 (04:13 PM) UTC.

Description
A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country’s third fatality from the virulent disease this year. The child developed a fever and shortness of breath on May 20 and died on Sunday, the WHO said in a joint statement with the Cambodian health ministry. Hospital tests confirmed she had contracted the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. “There is evidence of recent deaths among poultry in the village and the patient prepared sick chicken for food prior to becoming sick,” the statement said. The girl, from southwestern Kampong Speu province, is the 21st person in Cambodia to become infected with the H5N1 virus since 2003. Nineteen of those cases have been fatal. The H5N1 strain has killed 357 people worldwide since 2003, according to WHO statistics.
Biohazard name:	A/H5N2
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

 

 

 

 

29.05.2012

Epidemic

Uganda

Northern Region, [Nebbi District]

 

 

Epidemic in Uganda on Tuesday, 29 May, 2012 at 10:21 (10:21 AM) UTC.

Description
Two people have been confirmed dead and 56 others admitted atNebbi hospital following the fresh outbreak of cholera disease in Nebbi district. The death of the two unidentfied victims and 56 patients who are admitted at Nebbi hospital brings to 17 the number of victims killed and more than 1,150 infected with cholera after the first case was reported in the district in March this year according to health official in the district. Kitts Obima, the Nebbi district health Educator said that the district is alarmed by the persistance outbreak of the disease arguing that cholera is persisting due to relaxity on the side of the community to have sanitary facilites at home and thier poor habits to responds on the cholera symptoms. When New Vision visited Nebbi hospital to ascertain the number of people infetced in the lastest outbreak in Nebbi Town concil on Monday (May, 28,2012) many of the victims mostly youths and children were seen lying with drip on thier connected to thier body at Nebbi hospital isolation ward. Obima called on leaders in the district to enforce the use of sanitary facilities and educate the communities to avoid eating cold food , “According to public food act, food is purpose to be eaten indoor place but people still eat food in open places which exposes them at high risks of contracting cholera” he said. Cholera is an infection in the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse, watery diarrhea and vomiting. Its transmission occurs primarily by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated by the feces of an infected person. Obima said that the first case of cholera was reported in Akworo sub-county the district on March 2012. He explained that the worst hit sub-county has been Akworo, Panyimur, Parombo Pakwach sub-county which recorded a total of 15 death and the latest being Nebbi Town Council with over 56 cases reportedly admitted at Nebbi hospital Obima, however,said that drugs that district is still using the previous stocks which were delivered by the ministry and other humantarian organisation in the first outbreak. He added that, the cholera sample have been taken to central public health’s laboratory for test for rapid responds. Mean while to avoid the further spread of the disease, local council leaders have banned the selling of food itmes at the road sides. In Nebbi Town council James Chombe Mucek , the Nebbi town council LC.3 chaiperson said that the council have temporaly suspended selling of food items in the street and open restaurant. He said the move was aimed to control the disease from futher spread by eating cold food. He also said that the council have formed cholera task force who would move door to door to check sanitary facilities like toilets, washing facilities in order to to combat the cholera the disease.
Biohazard name:	Cholerae Outbreak
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

 

 

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Solar Activity

3MIN News May29: Quakes, Weather, Middle East, Solar/Planetary Update

Published on May 29, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

Groundwater: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120528154857.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812143938.htm
Euro Heat: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120527153720.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110606113405.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091141.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070803110815.htm
Egypt Protests: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-egypt-election-idUSBRE84M0A92012…
Dewey: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-deweyandlebouef-bankruptcy-idUSB…
Israel Gas: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-israel-security-gas-idUSBRE84S07…
Ireland: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/us-ireland-contagion-idUSBRE84S0452…
Iran Sat: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-iran-satellite.html
ChinaBlog: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-china-main-microblog-restricts-user.html
Cyber: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-global-flame-cyber-staggering.html
Blackberry: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-rim-senior.html
Climate: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climate-collapse-ancient-indus-civilization.html

Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos – as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT – as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI – as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it… trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

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Mysterious Booms / Rumblings

Authorities puzzled by Mysterious Boom like Explosions sounds; last night in Michigan (May 29, 2012)

Published on May 29, 2012 by adrinilinjunky

http://www.wwmt.com/shared/newsroom/top-stories/stories/wwmt_vid_1905.shtml

“WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – People are buzzing over what could have possibly caused a loud boom and violent shaking last night and this morning throughout West Michigan.The reports came in from people in Calhoun, Branch and Kalamazoo Counties.People from all over say they felt and heard it, but Newschannel Three has only heard of one case of actual damage happening during the same time.John Nieuwenhuis, who lives in Oshtemo, says that he felt and heard the explosion, which shook his entire house.”Where the two trees are parallel and something completely scrapped both trees off at the same height and laid them to the west,” said Nieuwenhuis.Nieuwenhuis called the fire department but after extensively searching, they couldn’t find the source of an explosion. “I’ve never seen anything like this, we cut down trees, we log trees and what could have taken this down I have no idea,” said Nieuwenhuis.Newschannel Three tried to search into what might have caused the explosions but, it was a clear night and there was no earthquake activity reported anywhere in the Midwest.Air Traffic Control in Kalamazoo says no planes were in the area that might have broken the sound barrier.”

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Space

 

 

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2001 CQ36)	30th May 2012	0 day(s)	0.0258	10.0	77 m – 170 m	5.62 km/s	20232 km/h
(2002 OA22)	31st May 2012	1 day(s)	0.1197	46.6	370 m – 820 m	7.01 km/s	25236 km/h
(2012 KZ41)	31st May 2012	1 day(s)	0.0209	8.1	26 m – 57 m	12.42 km/s	44712 km/h
(2007 LE)	02nd June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0478	18.6	390 m – 870 m	19.77 km/s	71172 km/h
(2012 KX41)	02nd June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0371	14.4	27 m – 61 m	13.40 km/s	48240 km/h
(2012 KO18)	02nd June 2012	3 day(s)	0.0825	32.1	100 m – 230 m	15.27 km/s	54972 km/h
(2012 JW11)	02nd June 2012	3 day(s)	0.1310	51.0	110 m – 250 m	5.15 km/s	18540 km/h
(2012 HK31)	04th June 2012	5 day(s)	0.0336	13.1	22 m – 50 m	3.03 km/s	10908 km/h
(2012 KN18)	05th June 2012	6 day(s)	0.0425	16.6	31 m – 70 m	10.17 km/s	36612 km/h
(2008 MG1)	05th June 2012	6 day(s)	0.1268	49.3	290 m – 640 m	22.32 km/s	80352 km/h
(2009 LE)	06th June 2012	7 day(s)	0.1150	44.8	50 m – 110 m	13.61 km/s	48996 km/h
(2006 SG7)	06th June 2012	7 day(s)	0.0857	33.4	71 m – 160 m	16.47 km/s	59292 km/h
(2001 LB)	07th June 2012	8 day(s)	0.0729	28.4	200 m – 450 m	11.56 km/s	41616 km/h
(2012 JU11)	09th June 2012	10 day(s)	0.0736	28.6	27 m – 60 m	3.80 km/s	13680 km/h
(2012 GX11)	10th June 2012	11 day(s)	0.1556	60.5	170 m – 380 m	6.38 km/s	22968 km/h
(2012 KM11)	14th June 2012	15 day(s)	0.0942	36.7	30 m – 67 m	5.92 km/s	21312 km/h
(2012 HN40)	15th June 2012	16 day(s)	0.1182	46.0	230 m – 510 m	13.79 km/s	49644 km/h
(2002 AC)	16th June 2012	17 day(s)	0.1598	62.2	740 m – 1.7 km	26.71 km/s	96156 km/h
137120 (1999 BJ8)	16th June 2012	17 day(s)	0.1769	68.8	670 m – 1.5 km	14.88 km/s	53568 km/h
(2011 KR12)	19th June 2012	20 day(s)	0.1318	51.3	140 m – 310 m	10.10 km/s	36360 km/h
(2004 HB39)	20th June 2012	21 day(s)	0.1605	62.5	77 m – 170 m	8.88 km/s	31968 km/h
(2008 CE119)	21st June 2012	22 day(s)	0.1811	70.5	21 m – 46 m	3.22 km/s	11592 km/h
308242 (2005 GO21)	21st June 2012	22 day(s)	0.0440	17.1	1.4 km – 3.1 km	13.27 km/s	47772 km/h
(2011 AH5)	25th June 2012	26 day(s)	0.1670	65.0	17 m – 39 m	5.84 km/s	21024 km/h
(2012 FA14)	25th June 2012	26 day(s)	0.0322	12.5	75 m – 170 m	5.28 km/s	19008 km/h
(2004 YG1)	25th June 2012	26 day(s)	0.0890	34.7	140 m – 310 m	11.34 km/s	40824 km/h
(2010 AF3)	25th June 2012	26 day(s)	0.1190	46.3	16 m – 36 m	6.54 km/s	23544 km/h
(2008 YT30)	26th June 2012	27 day(s)	0.0715	27.8	370 m – 820 m	10.70 km/s	38520 km/h
(2010 NY65)	27th June 2012	28 day(s)	0.1023	39.8	120 m – 270 m	15.09 km/s	54324 km/h
(2008 WM64)	28th June 2012	29 day(s)	0.1449	56.4	200 m – 440 m	17.31 km/s	62316 km/h
(2010 CD55)	28th June 2012	29 day(s)	0.1975	76.8	64 m – 140 m	6.33 km/s	22788 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

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Earth Watch Report – Monday May 21st, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
21.05.2012 09:30:26	2.9	Europe	Greece		Tyrgia				EMSC
21.05.2012 09:25:45	4.5	Asia	Japan	Miyagi-ken	Futawatashihama				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 09:30:52	4.6	Asia	Japan		Futawatashihama				EMSC
21.05.2012 08:31:33	3.4	North America	United States	California	Ribbonwood				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 08:25:44	3.5	North America	United States	California	Ribbonwood				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 09:31:13	2.3	Europe	Greece		Tyrgia				EMSC
21.05.2012 09:31:35	4.4	South-America	Argentina		La Laja				EMSC
21.05.2012 08:36:00	4.4	Atlantic Ocean	Argentina	Provincia de San Juan	La Laja				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 07:10:37	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Chelatna Lodge				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 07:25:29	3.0	Asia	Armenia		Saragyugh				EMSC
21.05.2012 07:25:47	3.1	Asia	Armenia		Saragyugh				EMSC
21.05.2012 06:05:31	2.8	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	San Salvador				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 07:26:09	4.7	Indian Ocean	Maldives		Thinadhoo				EMSC
21.05.2012 06:30:43	4.9	Indian Ocean	Maldives	Maale	Thinadhoo				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 07:00:50	4.7	Pacific Ocean	Samoa		Aganoa				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 07:26:35	4.8	Pacific Ocean – West	Samoa		Aganoa				EMSC
21.05.2012 05:41:05	5.3	Asia	Japan	Okinawa-ken	Nishibaru				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 06:20:25	5.3	Asia	Japan		Nishibaru				EMSC
21.05.2012 04:57:16	2.4	North America	United States	California	Valle Vista				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 05:20:26	3.0	Europe	Italy		Gavello				EMSC
21.05.2012 05:20:48	2.9	Asia	Turkey		Suzbeyli				EMSC
21.05.2012 03:30:29	2.3	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Canon de Guadalupe				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 03:30:50	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Ninilchik				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 04:40:28	4.5	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 05:23:09	4.5	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
21.05.2012 04:50:30	4.5	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 05:23:30	4.5	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
21.05.2012 03:15:57	3.4	Europe	Italy		Gavello				EMSC
21.05.2012 03:00:37	2.4	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Canon de Guadalupe				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 03:16:18	2.7	Europe	Italy		Ravalle				EMSC
21.05.2012 03:10:26	4.8	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 03:16:40	4.9	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
21.05.2012 06:20:44	3.0	Asia	Turkey		Kepir				EMSC
21.05.2012 02:15:35	2.7	Europe	Italy		San Martino in Spino				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:20:55	2.2	North America	United States	California	Solyo				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 01:20:57	2.2	North America	United States	California	Solyo				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 02:15:57	3.2	Asia	Armenia		Musayelyan				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:16:13	3.8	Europe	Italy		Cantaboa				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:00:36	2.5	North America	United States	California	Shamrock (historical)				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 01:16:41	2.8	Europe	Italy		Lillianes				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:06:21	4.4	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Matokana				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 01:17:51	4.4	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Matokana				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:18:14	3.6	Europe	Italy		Sant’Agostino				EMSC
21.05.2012 00:40:35	5.2	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 01:18:35	5.2	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
21.05.2012 01:20:13	5.1	Indonesian Archipelago	Papua New Guinea		Yavik				EMSC
21.05.2012 00:35:35	5.1	Indonesian archipelago	Papua New Guinea		Yavik				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 00:41:00	4.6	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 01:20:34	4.6	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
21.05.2012 00:15:23	2.8	Europe	Italy		Ghisellina				EMSC
21.05.2012 00:00:34	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Port Wakefield				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 23:35:32	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Port Graham				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 02:10:36	2.1	North America	Canada	British Columbia	Princeton				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 23:45:33	5.0	Pacific Ocean – West	Vanuatu	Tafea Province	Ifo				USGS-RSOE
21.05.2012 00:15:44	5.0	Pacific Ocean – West	Vanuatu		Ifo				EMSC
21.05.2012 04:15:29	3.0	Asia	Turkey		Cukurgol Yaylasi				EMSC
20.05.2012 23:00:35	4.3	South America	Chile	Region de Antofagasta	Topain				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 23:10:34	4.3	South-America	Chile		Topain				EMSC
20.05.2012 22:30:42	2.8	North America	United States	California	Centerville (historical)				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 22:10:44	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Anderson				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 22:05:37	3.0	Europe	Italy		Gavello				EMSC
20.05.2012 21:01:45	2.7	North America	United States	Texas	Timpson				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 21:00:47	3.5	Europe	Italy		Dosso				EMSC
20.05.2012 21:01:08	3.0	Europe	Italy		Vallacquosa				EMSC
20.05.2012 21:10:32	4.7	Europe	Italy		La Fruttarola				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 20:00:44	4.4	Europe	Italy		Villa Magri				EMSC
20.05.2012 20:01:02	3.2	Europe	Italy		Vigarano Mainarda				EMSC
20.05.2012 19:10:37	2.8	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Canon de Guadalupe				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 20:01:24	2.9	Europe	Italy		Ponte di San Pellegrino				EMSC
20.05.2012 18:35:39	2.0	North America	United States	California	Dunmovin				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 19:15:44	4.8	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Ujungbungo				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 20:01:43	4.8	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Padangunoih				EMSC
20.05.2012 22:11:06	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Ferry				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 22:11:49	2.9	North America	United States	Alaska	Golden				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 17:55:30	3.0	Europe	Greece		Anthousa				EMSC
20.05.2012 22:12:10	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 17:55:56	3.4	Europe	Italy		La Fruttarola				EMSC
20.05.2012 17:41:04	4.1	Pacific Ocean – West	Wallis and Futuna	Wallis and Futuna	Mua				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 17:56:19	4.1	Pacific Ocean – West	Wallis and Futuna		Mua				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:36:34	2.1	North America	United States	California	Piru				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:26:40	2.1	North America	United States	Nevada	Argo				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:45:34	5.1	Europe	Italy		San Prospero				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:45:35	5.1	Europe	Italy		San Prospero				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:51:04	5.1	Europe	Italy		Possessionazza				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:51:23	3.4	Europe	Italy		Villa Magri				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:10:46	2.6	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	San Salvador				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:20:33	4.6	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:51:48	4.6	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:52:11	3.8	Europe	Italy		Scortichino				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:52:30	2.6	Europe	Albania		Kosovec				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:54:51	4.8	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Cipatujah				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:11:07	4.8	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Karanganyar				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:55:53	4.6	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines		Camote				EMSC
20.05.2012 15:05:50	4.7	Pacific Ocean – West	Philippines	Province of Samar	Legaspi				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:06:12	2.9	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	Provincia de La Altagracia	Cabeza de Toro				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 14:21:27	3.2	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand		Sumner				GEONET
20.05.2012 13:51:59	2.0	North America	United States	Hawaii	‘Äpua (historical)				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 14:15:40	4.5	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Nukunuku				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 14:50:37	4.5	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Nukunuku				EMSC
20.05.2012 13:40:31	2.8	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Munoz				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 23:36:00	2.5	North America	United States	Alaska	Happy Valley				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 14:21:47	3.4	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand		Sumner				GEONET
20.05.2012 13:50:29	3.0	Europe	Italy		La Terzana				EMSC
20.05.2012 13:20:47	2.9	North America	United States	California	Honeydew				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 13:05:44	2.7	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Campo Buenos Tiempos				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 13:50:53	3.6	Europe	Italy		Le Cremosine				EMSC
20.05.2012 13:51:14	3.3	Europe	Italy		L’Orlanda				EMSC
20.05.2012 13:51:33	2.5	Europe	Romania		Poiana Trestiei				EMSC
20.05.2012 12:25:48	3.5	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	El Misterioso				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 12:50:30	3.9	Europe	Italy		Quarantoli				EMSC
20.05.2012 13:06:04	4.5	Europe	Italy		Ponte di San Pellegrino				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 15:57:38	3.8	Europe	Italy		Stiatico				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:45:37	3.7	Europe	Greece		Polion				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:46:01	3.6	Europe	Greece		Agioi Apostoloi				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:40:28	4.7	Europe	Italy		Dogaro				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 11:46:31	4.5	Europe	Italy		San Carlo				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:05:38	2.1	North America	United States	Alaska	Valdez				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 11:00:43	3.7	North America	United States	Alaska	Akhiok				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 11:46:52	3.7	Europe	Italy		Scortichino				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:01:58	3.3	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand		Kuratau				GEONET
20.05.2012 11:20:41	5.0	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 11:47:14	5.1	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:06:04	5.1	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 10:40:33	5.5	Asia	Japan		Aneyoshi				EMSC
20.05.2012 10:45:28	5.3	Asia	Japan	Iwate-ken	Aneyoshi				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 10:40:55	3.7	Europe	Italy		Poggio Rusco				EMSC
20.05.2012 10:41:17	2.9	Europe	Italy		Casa Pezza				EMSC
20.05.2012 10:41:38	3.6	Europe	Italy		Monta				EMSC
20.05.2012 10:30:53	3.0	Caribbean	Dominican Republic	Provincia de La Altagracia	Cabo Engano				USGS-RSOE
20.05.2012 10:41:57	3.2	Europe	Italy		Portiolo				EMSC
20.05.2012 12:50:50	3.2	Europe	Italy		Redena				EMSC
20.05.2012 12:51:11	3.2	Europe	Italy		Possessionazza				EMSC
20.05.2012 11:47:34	2.7	Europe	Albania		Koxheraj				EMSC
20.05.2012 17:41:28	2.0	North America	United States	Missouri	Acorn Corner				USGS-RSOE

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Strong Italy quake kills at least six

by Staff Writers
Ferrara, Italy (AFP)

Strong Italy quake kills at least six
by Staff Writers
Ferrara, Italy (AFP) May 20, 2012

Dazed and angry residents count losses of Italy quake San Carlo, Italy (AFP) May 20, 2012 – Thousands of residents in towns around the northeast Italian city of Ferrara wandered in a daze Sunday amid the stench of gas leaks as aftershocks hit the region after a deadly quake.”I felt the house dancing around. It was chaos. We ran in all directions,” said Claudio Bignami, 68, a retired electrician in the town of San Carlo.”The furniture all fell over. There was broken glass everywhere,” said Bignami, as he stared out of his store at a collapsing restaurant in front.”We’re all trying to help each other out now,” he said.Small aftershocks continued to sow panic in the sparsely populated farmlands, industrial parks and small towns around the historic city of Ferrara even after the main 6.0-magnitude shock in the early hours of the morning that left at least six dead. Cracks were visible in the roads and chimneys and roof tiles littered the streets. At a nearby ceramic factory where two employees died, the crashing sounds of falling crates of tiles could still be heard long after the quake. Alda Bregoli, 73, was still in her nightshirt with a woollen jumper thrown on top standing under an umbrella in the rain. “I had to run out as quickly as possible. I didn’t have time to put anything on. The firemen told me I can’t go back in. I’m scared,” she said. Out of habit, many residents crowded around shuttered bars where they would usually go on a Sunday and looked for emergency workers, asking them to inspect the damage in their homes and worried about where they could stay the night. Local business owners began calculating the extent of the damage. One angry man in a baseball cap living in an isolated home in the countryside, still under shock, shouted: “Why are there no emergency workers here helping me? The roof of my house has fallen in! Why are they ignoring me?” The earthquake left many of the region’s modern two-storey homes intact but older buildings, ancient churches and belltowers which dot the flatlands were badly hit — some collapsed, others had gaping cracks. The centre of Ferrara is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site. A local chapel in San Carlo, the 16th-century Ghisilieri Oratorium, which had just been re-opened after an eight-year restoration, lay in ruins. “We’ll never be able to rebuild it,” sighed Claudio Fabbri, 37, an architect from Modena who has been working on the project and who rushed to the scene in the early hours after a local resident told him what had happened. Statues of angels in the chapel’s apse stared into the open sky after the roof and most of the walls caved in. Fabbri said his only hope was to save a precious painting above the altar now exposed to the elements. “We even had an Internet campaign to raise funds to restore the terracotta flooring. A lot of local residents contributed,” said Fabbri, shaking his head. “It was a very rich church. During the restoration we uncovered a 16th-century fresco in the ceiling. It even has the relics of a pope.”

A powerful earthquake shook Italy’s densely populated industrial northeast early Sunday, killing at least six people and reducing homes, factories and historic buildings to rubble.

Emergency services said dozens had been injured in the magnitude 6.0 quake, which struck in the middle of the night, sending thousands of people running into the streets in towns and cities across the Emilia Romagna region.

Prime Minister Mario Monti was to return early from the United States, where he was attending a NATO summit, as Italy reeled from the double shock of the quake and a deadly school attack that took place on Saturday.

Emergency workers were sifting through the rubble of collapsed buildings for victims hours after the quake and several aftershocks struck at 0200 GMT.

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso expressed his “profound sadness” and said Brussels was “ready to provide swiftly any assistance that may be requested.”

Four of the dead were night-shift workers in factories which collapsed, including two who were crushed when the roof of a ceramics factory caved in in the town of Sant’Agostino.

A 37-year-old German woman and another woman aged over 100 reportedly died from shock.

The quake caused “significant” damage to historic buildings as it rattled the cities of Bologna, Ferrara, Verona and Mantua, Italy’s culture ministry said.

“According to first reports, damage to the cultural heritage is significant,” the ministry said, adding that it was carrying out “more detailed verifications with firemen and the civil defence service.”

Italian television showed many historic buildings, including churches, reduced to rubble. Cars were crushed under falling masonry, and the Civil Protection Agency evacuated hundreds of elderly and vulnerable people to makeshift communal shelters in Finale Emilia and towns near the epicentre.

Hospitals were evacuated as a precautionary measure and about 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.

Warehouses storing more than 300,000 wheels of Parmesan and Grana Padano, a similar cheese, with an estimated value of more than 250 million euros ($320 million), also collapsed, an industry official said.

The roof of a recently renovated sixth-century chapel in San Carlo, near Ferrara, caved in, exposing statues of angels to the elements.

Claudio Fabbri, a 37-year-old architect, told AFP the restoration had taken eight years. “Now there’s nothing left to do,” he said despondently.

People were out in the street, fearful of going indoors, as the odour of gas hung in the air.

Retired electrician Claudio Bignami, 68, said: “I went out because I felt the house moving. Furniture was falling over. It was chaos. Everyone was running in every direction.”

Aldra Bregoli, 73, who had pulled on a sweater over her nightgown, said: “I had to get out quickly. I can’t go back home. I’m afraid.”

Authorities said the quake’s epicentre was the commune of Finale Emilia, 36 kilometres (22 miles) north of Bologna, at a depth of only 5.1 kilometres.

One of the men killed in the ceramics factory collapse, Nicola Cavicchi, 35, “wanted to go to the seaside but because of the bad weather forecast he decided to go to work to replace a colleague who was sick,” a family member told local media.

A 29-year-old Moroccan man was killed by a falling girder when a factory building collapsed in the small town of Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno.

The body of a fourth night-shift worker was found in the early afternoon under fallen masonry at a factory in a nearby village.

In Finale Emilia, firefighters rescued a five-year-old girl who was trapped in the rubble of her house after a rapid series of phone calls between a local woman, a family friend who was in New York and emergency services.

The region shaken by the quake is Italy’s industrial heartland but also home to priceless architectural and art treasures. The historic centre of Ferrara is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A 5.1 magnitude aftershock struck Sunday afternoon, forcing the collapse of several structures already weakened, with a firefighter left seriously injured after falling from a wall.

Yet in a show of calm nerves, officials opened polls as planned for the second round of local elections in the cities of Piacenza, Parma, Budrio and Comacchio.

“Italy is a very quake-prone country,” said seismologist Enzo Boschi.

In March 2009, a 6.3 magnitude quake devastated the central city of l’Aquila, killing some 300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

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Deadly & Destructive: More video of quake-hit Italy

Published on May 20, 2012 by RussiaToday

A strong earthquake shook northern Italy early on Sunday, killing at least four people, toppling buildings and sending residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said. The magnitude-6.0 temblor struck at 4:04 a.m. (2:04 GMT) on Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 5 kilometers (3.2 miles), the US Geological Survey said. It was one of the strongest quakes to shake the region.

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21.05.2012

Earthquake

Italy

[Modena and Mantova]

Earthquake in Italy on Sunday, 20 May, 2012 at 08:13 (08:13 AM) UTC.

Description

A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least three people and toppling some buildings, emergency services and news reports said.The quake struck at 4:04 a.m. Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 22 miles north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.It was one of the strongest quakes to shake the region, seismologists said, and initial television footage indicated that older buildings had suffered damage: roofs collapsed, church towers showed cracks and the bricks of some stone walls tumbled into the street. As dawn broke over the region, residents milled about the streets inspecting the damage.Italian news agency ANSA, citing emergency services, said two people were killed in Sant’Agostino di Ferrara when a ceramics factory collapsed. Another person was killed in Ponte Rodoni do Bondeno, ANSA said.The epicenter was between the towns of Finale Emilia, San Felice sul Panaro and Sermide but was felt as far away as Tuscany and northern Alto Adige.The initial quake was followed about an hour later by a 5.1-magnitude temblor, USGS said.IItaly’s Sky TG24 showed images of the collapsed ceramics factory where the two workers were reportedly killed; the structure, which appeared to be a hangar of sorts, had twisted metal supports jutting out at odd angles amid the mangled collapsed roof.In late January, a 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings.In 2009, a devastating temblor killed more than 300 people in the central city of L’Aquila.

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Twin quakes rock Japan

• AFP
• Tokyo

Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert.

The 6.2-magnitude quake struck at 4:20pm (0720 GMT) off Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, the national meteorological agency said, followed by a tremor with a reading of 5.7 at 4:28pm.

The US Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of the first quake at 6.0.

The depth of both quakes was about 10 kilometres, the agency said.

“Sea levels may change slightly due to the (first) earthquake but there is no fear of damage resulting from it,” the agency said in a statement.

A 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake off the same coast triggered a monster tsunami on March 11 last year, leaving about 19,000 people dead or missing and crippling the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Magnitude 4.8 quake hits Christchurch

Christchurch has been rocked by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Sunday evening.

It follows a 4.1 magnitude quake four point one quake at 9.35am on Sunday.

The 4.8 quake was centred 20 kilometres east of Christchurch at a depth of eight kilometres and struck at 5.06pm.

The shaking lasted several seconds but so far there have been no reports of damage or injuries.

The chief executive of the electricity lines company, Orion, says there have been no reports of power outages.

Sunday morning’s quake measured 4.1 and was centred 20 kilometres west of Christchurch at a depth of 10km.

The regularity and strength of earthquakes has continued to subside since the quakes felt just before Christmas which produced power outages and fresh liquefaction.

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Volcanic Activity

Minor Glacial Burst in South Iceland Volcano Katla

A small glacial burst occurred in the volcano Katla, which lies underneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap in south Iceland, on April 28 and lasted a few days. The activity was registered by seismic monitors and increased conduction was measured in the river Múlakvísl until May 7.

Mýrdalsjökull. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.

Last summer a large glacial burst, probably caused by a minor eruption in Katla, caused the river to swell and tear a hole in the Ring Road, right at the height of the tourism season in early July.

Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told visir.is that the glacial burst in late April was so insignificant that it couldn’t be detected by the naked eye.

Oddur explained that it was caused by geothermal activity in one of Katla’s craters.

Volcano enthusiast and blogger Jón Frímann Jónsson reported on two events in Katla, on April 28 and May 6 or 7, and considers them to be warning signals: something is happening in the volcano, he predicts.

He also commented on the recent series of earthquakes which hit Herðubreið in the northeastern highlands early this week.

Is an eruption at Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano imminent?

   By Clayton R. Norman

Significant activity at the volcano east of San José has caught the attention of local volcanologists.

National Seismological Network volcanologists are keeping an eye on Turruialba Volcano, which they say could erupt soon. Courtesy of RSN

Costa Rica’s National Seismological Network has upgraded the color threat level to yellow of Turrialba Volcano, in the province of Cartago east of the capital.

A statement issued by Raúl Mora-Amador, coordinator of Seismology, Volcanology and Geophysical Exploration at the University of Costa Rica, indicates a threat level of yellow means that the National Seismological Network believes an eruption is “probable” in a matter of days, weeks or a few months.

The upgrade in the threat level is due to “important changes in seismic activity of Volcano Turrialba associated with the movement of fluids, gas and magma beneath the surface, different from that observed in past years,” Mora-Amador’s statement says.

Temperatures around some fumaroles on the volcano have risen to as much as 800° Celsius, accompanied by eruptions of ash. High-temperature emissions of volcanic gases including sulfur dioxide have increased, causing incandescence in some of the fumaroles, Mora-Amador said, adding that the internal wall of the active crater is very weak due to hydrothermal changes in the volcano. Mora-Amador indicated this could mean a major eruption could jettison material into the atmosphere.

Turrialba is the only volcano in the country currently with a yellow threat-level indicator. An upgrade to red would mean an eruptions is imminent.

Spectacular eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano

Published on May 20, 2012 by itnnews

Guatemala’s Fuego volcano has begun belching lava and ash into the sky in a spectacular eruption. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Excessive Heat Warning

PHOENIX AZ

Heat Advisory

TUCSON AZ

Red Flag Warning

FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

ELKO NV
TALLAHASSEE FL
FAIRBANKS AK
SALT LAKE CITY UT
RENO NV

Fire Weather Watch

CHEYENNE WY
GRAND JUNCTION CO
FLAGSTAFF AZ
EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM
RENO NV

Extreme Fire Danger

RAPID CITY SD

Gale Warning

MEDFORD, OR
LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
PORTLAND OR

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Storms, Flooding

Name of storm system	Location	Formed	Last update	Last category	Course	Wind Speed	Gust	Wave	Source	Details
Alberto	Atlantic Ocean	20.05.2012	21.05.2012	Tropical Storm	180 °	65 km/h	78 km/h	3.66 m	NHC

 Tropical Storm data

Storm name: Alberto Area: Atlantic Ocean Start up location: N 32° 10.537, W 79° 11.367 Start up: 20th May 2012 Status: Active Track long: 374.77 km Top category.: Report by: NHC Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center
Past track Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave Pressure Source Current position Date Time Position Speed km/h Wind km/h Gust km/h Category Course Wave feet Pressure Source 21st May 2012 08:05:05 N 30° 30.000, W 80° 6.000 7 65 78 Tropical Storm 180 ° 12 1007 MB NHC

Name of storm system

Location

Formed

Last update

Last category

Course

Wind Speed

Gust

Wave

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Details

TWO-E

Pacific Ocean – East

21.05.2012

01.01.1970

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0 km/h

0 km/h

0.00 m

Tropical Storm data

Storm name: TWO-E Area: Pacific Ocean – East Start up location: N 9° 18.000, W 99° 36.000 Start up: 21st May 2012 Status: Active Track long: 0.00 km Top category.: Report by: NHC

Useful links: Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale FEMA – How To Prepare for a Hurricane Effects of a Hurricane USA – National Hurricane Center

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Severe Thunderstorm Warning

ALBUQUERQUE NM

Tropical Storm Warning

CAPE FEAR TO 31N OUT TO 32N 73W TO 31N 74W
CHARLESTON SC
ATLANTIC FROM 27N TO 31N W OF 77W-

20.05.2012

Flood

Afghanistan

[Sar-e-Pul]

Flood in Afghanistan on Sunday, 20 May, 2012 at 11:20 (11:20 AM) UTC.

Description

Flood waters ravaged a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 19 people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials said Sunday.About 60 other people were missing and rescuers were looking for them across Sar-e-Pul, the capital of a province with the same name, said Sayed Faizullah Sadat, the national disaster director in the area.Northern Afghanistan gets hit nearly every spring by flash flooding from heavy rains and snow melting off the mountains. Sadat said 1,000 houses were destroyed and 10,000 people were forced to find shelter in mosques, schools and a teacher-training center.”Most of these families have lost their houses — all their property, their livelihoods,” he said. According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, the water rose to 1.5 meters on Saturday during the peak of the flooding.The office said four humanitarian assessment teams tried to get to the city on Saturday, but could not access the area.”Most of the roads are blocked by the flooding,” said Sayed Jahangir, deputy provincial police chief. “Hundreds of houses have been destroyed. We were able to move people to different places that we think will be safe.”The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority reported that several hundred people were rescued from rooftops.Flash flooding also has been reported in northern Takhar province.Mustafa Rasouli, a spokesman for the province, said heavy rains continued Sunday in the area where flash flooding killed two people. He said 3,000 animals, including sheep and cows also were killed, and about 1,000 hectares of farm land had been destroyed in the provincial capital of Taloqan and six other districts.”Two thousand houses have been partially or completely destroyed,” he said.

Flood Warning

AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
WILMINGTON NC

Flood Advisory/Flood Watch

FAIRBANKS AK

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Radiation

Extreme Radioactive Black Substance Discovered 5 Kilometers From Tokyo

By LBG1

Black substance five times more radioactive than Chernobyl-Belarus mandatory exculsion zone

[Photo-Image: Radioactive mystery black substance discovered in different locations in Tokyo, photo source, Fukushima Diary]

A mysterious black substance five times more radioactive than the Chernobyl-Belarus mandatory evacuation zone was discovered 4 kilometers from the center of Tokyo, the Hirai Station. The mystery radioactive black substance discovered close to Tokyo on the heels of the discovery of Cesium in Fukushima Prefecture 122 times higher than in Belarus evacuation zone.
[Image: Google Earth map location of Japan’s Hirai Station]

The Belarus exclusion zone, a 30-mile now wilderness area around the Chernobyl plant. Tokyo is located more than 241 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with four nuclear reactors in “dire” condition according to physicist Dr. Michio Kaku.

Flashpoint interview with Dr. Kaku:

………“People don’t realize that the Fukushima reactor is on a knife’s edge; it’s near the tipping point. A small earthquake, another pipe break, another explosion could tip it over and we could have a disaster much worse, many times worse than Chernobyl. It’s like a sleeping dragon………

Read Full Article  And Listen to Interview  Here

Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Will Spread to Kamchatka, Hawaii, U.S. Soon

By LBG1

[Photo-Image: Kid’s radiation protective suits ad in Fukushima newspaper, Photo source, Fukushima-Diary.com]

Now that we know plutonium has been detected in the mysterious black dust discovered in different locations in Japan and the mists seen swirling around the damaged nuclear reactors is radioactive water vapor, the news TEPCO may be covering up the true amount of highly radioactive contamination leaking into the sea.

According to a new article posted by the Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus, After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11, there has been a continuous leakage of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean, radioactive waste water that includes strontium-90, and, the dire claim Fukushima’s radioactive waste water “contamination will spread all over the world, reaching to Kamchatka, Hawaii and the U.S. soon”.

Possibly angry at this situation, on April 21st a 62-year-old nuclear worker broke the silence on the continued leakage of contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi. Speaking to me, he requested anonymity for fear of losing his job. He supervises a construction site aimed at building a new facility to extract radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium from the contaminated water used to cool the plant’s crippled reactors. He revealed that the current facility removes only cesium and that other radioactive materials such as strontium cannot be cleaned up.

He expressed astonishment at the scale of the cleanup operation. “You know how much contaminated water is stored at the Fukushima Daiichi site? It is 200,000 tons. It is an enormous amount!” “In reality,” he said, raising his voice, “it is impossible to store that much water on site. So, it is obvious that some of the contaminated water has been leaked into the ocean.”

TEPCO announced on March 26th, 2012 that approximately 120 tons of water had leaked from a treatment pipe, forcing them to halt operating the treatment facility. Thi was the second time in two weeks that contaminated water leaked from the nuclear power plant.3

Read Full Article Here

Radioactive Water Vapor at Fukushima Nuke Plant Video, Mysterious Black Dust Contains Plutonium

By LBG1

Concern mounts over Fukushima nuclear reactor number four

[Photo-Image: Water vapor containing radiation swirls around damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, May 2, 2012. Photo image source: Fukushima live stream web cam video]

“Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima Daiichi plant sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl.”
-April 30, 2012, Urgent letter to UN General Secretary

In post-March 11, 2011 (311) Japan a small, makeshift wall constructed of ‘bags of rock’ is the sole protection from a future tsunami at the Fuksuhima Nuclear Power Plant Number One; bags of rock to protect four severely damaged nuclear reactors including reactor number four still in disrepair after the 311 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and devastating tsunami. Located in nuclear reactor number four, spent nuclear fuel–Cesium-137 (Cs-137)–equivalent to 10 times the amount that was released at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Post 311, a surreal world of mysterious black ‘dust’ discovered in different locations in Japan and fog-like clouds swirling around the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One. Detected in the mysterious black dust, plutonium. The fog-like clouds, radioactive water vapor. Hidden from eyesight in the radioactive water vapor fog, mixed Plutonium Uranium fuel scattered around Fukushima nuclear reactor number three.

The report on the radioactive water vapor from the Japan website Fukushima Diary:

Oshidori Mako talked at Osaka Bar Association when she asked Tepco , “We see gas coming out from Fukushima plants at night. It looks like smoke. What is that ? ” Tepco replied it’s water vapor. She asked them again, if it’s radioactive. They answered it is radioactive, and it comes out in day time and night time.

2012.05.02 01:00-02:00 (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam) Video

Read Full Article Here

The Pacific Ocean Is Dying

  by cosmicconvergence2012

A Special Report On the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

Radioactive Seawater Impact Map (March 2012), US Dept of State Geographer Image

The upshot of each of the preceding articles is that the Pacific Ocean is extremely vulnerable to the radioactive waste being dumped into her waters at Fukushima. Should another catastrophic earthquake occur, it could create a new and more complicated nuclear disaster scenario that is truly irreparable. Even without any seismic activity affecting the nuclear sites, the current state of affairs has taken for granted that the Pacific Ocean will become a nuclear dumping ground for decades to come. It has not been lost on us that such an inevitability appears to be the only practical expedient available.

We are truly saddened by the great loss of marine life and harm to myriad aquatic and shoreline ecosystems. As the nuclear radiation is exported around the Asian Ring of Fire, genetic mutation will begin to affect every form of life — from phytoplankton to whales, from seabirds to mangroves, from dolphins to krill. Everything that lives near the Pacific will be at risk to some degree. Anyone who lives, works or plays in or around the Pacific will be compelled to evaluate their relationship to this great ocean.

What have we done to Mother Earth by siting nuclear power plants in the most seismically active region of the world?!

What in God’s Creation can possibly be done to fix it?

Never in the history of humankind has the planet been confronted with such a grave set of circumstances. Fukushima represents all that can go wrong when scientific applications and technological advancement within a crude industrial context have gone awry. Unfortunately, given the many trajectories that numerous fields of technological innovation are currently on, Fukushima and the BP Gulf oil spill of 2012 may only be the beginning of a period of  accelerating technospheric breakdown which will sweep across the planet.
  Read Full Article Here

Related Article Here

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Solar Activity

2MIN News May20: ECLIPSE, NASA Spaceweather, Planetary Positions & News

Published on May 20, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

http://www.rt.com/news/big-brother-street-lamps-286/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-g8-summit-obama-iran-idUSBRE84I0…
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120519-42629.html
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4767/jpl-wants-to-finesse-info-from-exop…
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4766/how-life-recovers-from-devastation
http://www.space.com/15614-sun-observing-safety-tips-infographic.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/20/us-quake-italy-idUSBRE84J01K20120520

Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun ]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

NOAA: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [For more advanced solar watchers]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can’t figure out what this one is for?]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

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Space

New Planet Found in Our Solar System?

Odd orbits of remote objects hint at unseen world, new calculations suggest.

Artist’s conception of a small icy object beyond Pluto (file picture).

Illustration courtesy G. Bacon, STScI/NASA

Richard A. Lovett in Timberline Lodge, Oregon

for National Geographic News

Published May 11, 2012

An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.

Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Once considered the ninth planet in our system, the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) wide. Dozens of the other objects are hundreds of miles across, and more are being discovered every year.

(See “Three New ‘Plutos’? Possible Dwarf Planets Found.”)

What’s intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models. (Related: “Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized.”)

The objects’ unexpected orbits have a few possible explanations, said Gomes, who presented his findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

“But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass solar companion”—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that’s massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects.

Read Full Article Here

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2006 KY67)	23rd May 2012	2 day(s)	0.1499	58.3	68 m – 150 m	13.88 km/s	49968 km/h
(2011 KG4)	24th May 2012	3 day(s)	0.1216	47.3	67 m – 150 m	11.50 km/s	41400 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

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Earth Watch Report – Monday May 14th, 2012

Earthquakes

RSOE EDIS

Date/Time (UTC)	Magnitude	Area	Country	State/Prov./Gov.	Location	Risk			Source	Details
14.05.2012 08:55:40	4.4	Pacific Ocean	Northern Mariana Islands		Marasu				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 07:20:28	5.0	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Thikombia				EMSC
14.05.2012 07:10:31	4.8	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Thikombia				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 07:20:50	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Cihatli				EMSC
14.05.2012 06:55:35	3.1	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Islote				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 06:30:35	2.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Chickaloon				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 06:21:29	2.1	North America	United States	California	Sans (historical)				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 05:55:27	5.0	Asia	Japan	Miyazaki-ken	Oryuzako				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 06:20:33	5.0	Asia	Japan		Hasugaike				EMSC
14.05.2012 05:30:31	2.2	North America	United States	Hawaii	Waiki‘i				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 06:20:55	2.9	Europe	Albania		Arapaj i Eperm				EMSC
14.05.2012 05:15:28	2.6	Europe	Greece		Metokhion Zografou				EMSC
14.05.2012 07:55:53	2.5	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Campamento Susua				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 05:15:56	4.9	North-America	United States	Alaska	Atka				EMSC
14.05.2012 04:56:23	5.2	North America	United States	Alaska	Atka				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 05:10:49	5.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Atka				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 04:10:27	3.1	Asia	Turkey		Camlikoy				EMSC
14.05.2012 08:25:23	2.2	Europe	Greece		Koundandlaiika				EMSC
14.05.2012 04:20:25	4.2	Middle America	El Salvador	Departamento de Ahuachapan	El Botoncillo				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 05:16:21	4.2	Middle-America	Guatemala		Barra del Limon				EMSC
14.05.2012 03:10:44	2.6	Caribbean	Puerto Rico		Corcega				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 03:26:07	4.2	Middle America	Panama	Provincia de Veraguas	El Suay				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 04:10:49	4.2	Middle-America	Panama		El Suay				EMSC
14.05.2012 02:40:26	4.3	Asia	Afghanistan	Velayat-e Badakhshan	Larki				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 03:05:30	4.3	Asia	Afghanistan		Larki				EMSC
14.05.2012 07:21:16	2.5	Europe	Greece		Skala Eresou				EMSC
14.05.2012 03:05:51	2.8	Asia	Turkey		Alakilise				EMSC
14.05.2012 02:05:28	2.6	Asia	Turkey		Bekdemir				EMSC
14.05.2012 01:30:40	4.8	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Propinsi Maluku	Yafila				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 02:05:50	4.8	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Yafila				EMSC
14.05.2012 01:22:03	4.9	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Vunikondi				USGS-RSOE
14.05.2012 02:06:18	4.9	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Yasawa				EMSC
14.05.2012 01:00:46	2.3	Asia	Turkey		Bespinar				EMSC
14.05.2012 01:01:11	2.9	Europe	Macedonia		Brodec				EMSC
13.05.2012 22:55:28	3.3	Asia	Turkey		Degirmitas				EMSC
13.05.2012 21:55:33	3.0	Europe	Austria		Kosslbach				EMSC
13.05.2012 22:55:55	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Yavaslar				EMSC
14.05.2012 07:30:37	2.4	North America	United States	Oklahoma	Spencer				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 21:55:54	2.7	Europe	Austria		Wildpfad				EMSC
13.05.2012 21:00:59	2.3	North America	United States	California	Mercuryville				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 21:56:15	4.8	North-America	United States		Amchitka				EMSC
13.05.2012 21:06:07	4.7	North America	United States	Alaska	Amchitka				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 20:55:32	5.0	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Abubu				EMSC
13.05.2012 20:45:39	5.0	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia	Propinsi Maluku	Abubu				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 20:55:53	5.0	Middle-East	Iran		Qal`eh-e Gareh Kuh				EMSC
13.05.2012 20:40:35	5.1	Middle East	Iran	Hormozgan Province	Kuhvar				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 20:25:37	2.1	North America	United States	Washington	Saint Helens				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 20:56:15	3.4	Europe	Greece		Menetai				EMSC
13.05.2012 21:56:35	2.5	Europe	Portugal		Sagres				EMSC
13.05.2012 20:56:34	3.3	Asia	Azerbaijan		Qimir				EMSC
13.05.2012 18:45:30	3.7	Asia	Turkey		Asit				EMSC
13.05.2012 18:05:40	2.6	North America	United States	Alaska	Yakutat				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 17:30:39	2.8	North America	United States	California	Caldwell Pines				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 17:40:34	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Rahimler				EMSC
13.05.2012 16:45:34	2.7	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Canon de Guadalupe				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 16:55:41	4.3	Middle East	Iran	Ostan-e Ilam	Murmuri				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 17:40:53	4.3	Middle-East	Iran		Shahrak-e Jadid-e Dehloran				EMSC
13.05.2012 15:10:35	4.8	South America	Chile	Region de Valparaiso	Quintero				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 15:35:33	4.8	South-America	Chile		Quintero				EMSC
13.05.2012 14:45:40	3.6	North America	United States	California	Mercuryville				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 15:35:54	4.7	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Simatorkis				EMSC
13.05.2012 15:00:46	4.6	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Simatorkis				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 14:25:45	4.5	Pacific Ocean	Fiji		Ono Levu				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 18:45:49	4.5	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Ono Levu				EMSC
13.05.2012 15:36:17	4.5	Pacific Ocean – East	Fiji		Ono Levu				EMSC
13.05.2012 13:55:40	4.8	Atlantic Ocean	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		Grytviken				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 15:36:39	4.8	Atlantic Ocean – North	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		Grytviken				EMSC
13.05.2012 13:30:41	2.2	North America	United States	California	Madrone Soda Springs (historical)				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 12:20:35	2.7	Europe	Greece		Ano Kotsanopoulon				EMSC
13.05.2012 11:35:41	2.1	North America	United States	California	San Pedro				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 12:20:59	2.7	Asia	Turkey		Ismetpasa				EMSC
13.05.2012 11:25:45	3.1	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Campo Mosqueda				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 11:45:42	4.7	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Keudesuie				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 12:21:18	4.7	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Keudesuie				EMSC
13.05.2012 11:26:06	2.6	North America	United States	Hawaii	Volcano				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 11:40:49	4.6	Indonesian archipelago	Indonesia		Pasarsungai-pinang				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 12:21:37	4.8	Indonesian Archipelago	Indonesia		Pasarsungai-pinang				EMSC
13.05.2012 10:35:34	2.3	North America	United States	Alaska	Mentasta Lake				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 10:15:23	2.6	Asia	Turkey		Yagmurlar				EMSC
13.05.2012 09:30:41	4.4	Pacific Ocean	New Zealand	Woodville County	Horoera				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 10:15:54	4.4	Australia & New-Zealand	New Zealand		Horoera				EMSC
13.05.2012 09:05:28	2.4	Middle America	Mexico	Estado de Baja California	Canon de Guadalupe				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 09:05:49	2.0	North America	United States	Alaska	Point MacKenzie				USGS-RSOE
13.05.2012 13:25:30	2.4	Europe	Portugal		Remedios				EMSC
13.05.2012 09:10:34	2.9	Asia	Turkey		Karabogurtlen				EMSC
13.05.2012 09:10:55	2.5	Asia	Turkey		Gureci				EMSC
13.05.2012 11:15:33	2.2	Asia	Turkey		Marmara				EMSC
13.05.2012 12:21:59	2.2	Europe	Greece		Kalochorion				EMSC

Moderate earthquake kills one in Tajikistan

By AFP

One man was killed when a moderate, 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck in central Tajikistan early Sunday, damaging several buildings.

The most damage occurred in the country’s Garm district, where one man was killed by a collapsing wall, Nargis Nurova of Tajikistan’s emergency situations committee told AFP.

Two buildings were completely destroyed, and several more were damaged, she said. The quake also caused a mudslide, burying alive herds of cows and sheep, she added.

The US Geological Survey located the epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 4:28 am (2328 GMT Saturday), at around 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the city of Kulob at a depth of 10 kilometres.

Residents in the capital Dushanbe some 140 kilometres (90 miles) away felt tremors of about magnitude 4.0, a representative of the geophysics department in Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences told AFP.

The reading was based on the open-ended Moment Magnitude scale, now used by US seismologists, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and the total energy released.

Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, is mostly covered by mountains, with earthquakes occurring on a nearly monthly basis.

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Volcanic Activity

Mexico volcano spews huge ash cloud, frightens villagers

By Noe Torres

SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico

(Reuters) – Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewed out huge clouds of ash and fiery rock overnight, closing a local airport on Saturday and frightening nearby villagers, already on edge after weeks of increased activity.

Popocatepetl, 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Mexico City, shook with tremors that belched out four large plumes of ash on Friday night and Saturday morning, the National Center for Disaster Prevention said in a statement on Saturday.

The biggest expulsion shot an ash cloud 2.5 miles (4 km) into the air and launched glowing rocks more than half a mile (1 km) from the crater, the statement said.

Raul Arambula, a scientist collaborating with the government’s disaster center, said the volcano threw out the most ash and fragments of red-hot rock since authorities raised the alert level last month.

“It was spectacular,” Arambula said. “Of course, it makes you worry about everyone living nearby.”

In Santiago Xalitzintla, a village about 6 miles (10 km) from the volcano, the loud rumblings sent residents running to the town square during the night.

“The volcano is looking serious. It was really roaring strongly last night,” said Juan Castro, 83, who said he was half-deaf but had no trouble hearing the tremors.

The ash clouds forced the airport in the central state of Puebla to suspend operations on Saturday. Billowing ash earlier in the week closed the airport on Tuesday and Thursday.

Civil protection officials in Mexico City said a change in wind patterns could send ash over the capital next week.

Mexico’s disaster center raised the volcano’s alert level to yellow phase three from yellow phase two in mid-April, the third-highest warning on the center’s seven-step scale. There are no plans yet to evacuate nearby residents.

“They told us that we need to be ready because if we have to evacuate, they are going to warn us with the church bells,” said Lizbeth Agustin, a 22-year-old candy vendor who had collected half a pail of ash in the town center of Santiago Xalitzintla.

Popocatepetl has spewed smoke and ash sporadically over the past few years. A major eruption in 2000 forced the evacuation of nearly 50,000 residents in three states surrounding the peak.

(Additional reporting and Writing By Michael O’Boyle; Editing by Peter Cooney)

Icelandic volcano warming up for eruption: Small glacier flood continues at Katla

Jón Frímann
jonfr.com

This is going to be a short blog post. As I am going to be short of table and a cheer for few more days.

It seems that Katla volcano is warming up for a eruption. As I did mention in last blog post. But there is more to this. As the glacier flood that started on the 28. April 2012 continues according to a email that I got from an geologist working at Iceland Meteorological Office. But that suggests two things. That there is currently an ongoing melting of glacier taking place in Katla volcano, or there is a slow drainage taking place from some area in Mýrdalsjökull glacier. But given increased conductivity following this it is clear that this water has been in contact with magma. But that can be seen with the increased conductivity in the water.

There have not been many earthquakes following this events. But from the earthquakes that have happened. It seems that most likely source for current events is close to or the same area that erupted in July 2011. But at the moment this is just speculation based on limited data. It has not been confirmed so far.

The harmonic tremor that started on 28. April 2012. This is Lágu Hvolar SIL station. Copyright of this picture belongs to Iceland Meteorological Office. Used with written permission.This plot shows clearly how the harmonic tremor starts and continues at same level for several days. I do not know if the harmonic tremor is ongoing. But I find it likely, if the small glacier flood is currently going on (that was my last information, but things might have changed during the day). But it is hard for me to know that for sure. But based on latest data from the water monitoring system around Katla volcano, the spike in this glacier flood is most likely over for now. But it impossible to know what happens next in Katla volcano. All that can be done is to wait and see what happens next.

VIDEO: Kilauea volcano’s spattering lava lake continues

  Lava, Volcano

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii: The active lava lake in the Halemaumau crater vent at the summit of Hawaii Island’s Kilauea volcano continues to spatter and spew sulfur dioxide, as a recent video by USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists shows.

From the HVO website:

This Quicktime movie shows spattering that is typical at the margins of the lava lake in Halemaʻumaʻu crater. The slow migration of the lava lake surface is normally towards the area of spattering, where the lava sinks back into the magmatic system. Spatter in this clip is being thrown about 5-10 meters (yards) in height. Views like this are fleeting, however, with the thick gas plume shifting with the winds.

The lava lake has been putting on a show since late 2008, when it was first seen from above by an overflight. Since that time, the crater vent has enlarged, as rockfalls and rim collapses have steadily grown the fiery puka.

Scientists say the lava lake has been generally low at the summit, coinciding with a weak contraction at the summit that started on April 27th. “The summit lava lake levels also peaked on April 27, 2012,” wrote HVO in a recent Kilauea activity update, “and are now generally lower while fluctuating during DI and rise/fall events. Seismic tremor levels have been higher and the increase seems correlated with appearance of a new spattering sink along the southwest edge of the lava lake.”

However, Thursday night into Friday morning, another change. HVO says the summit contraction has slowed; back-to-back, days-long DI tilt events continued during which lava lake levels rose and fell with tilt.

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Rise and fall of underwater volcano revealed

By David Shukman Science editor, BBC News

The researchers capture images of the underwater volcano using sonar

 

The violent rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean is captured in startling clarity for the first time.

Researchers studying the Monowai volcano, near Tonga, recorded huge changes in height in just two weeks.

The images, gathered by sonar from a research ship, shed new light on the turbulent fate of submarine mountains.

Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the findings were made during a seabed survey last year.

Underwater wonder

Lead author Tony Watts of Oxford University told the BBC that the revelation was “a wake-up call that the sea-floor may be more dynamic than we previously thought.”

“I’ve spent my career studying the seabed and have generally thought it pretty stable so it’s stunning to see so much change in such a short space of time.”

As many as 32,000 underwater mountains have been identified around the world and the majority are believed to be volcanic in origin. Several thousand of these may be active but a combination of ocean depth and remoteness means that very few have been studied.

This research into the Monowai volcano provides a fascinating insight into the little-known world of submarine geology.

Monowai was first spotted from an aircraft in 1944. Surveys over following years found evidence of significant change – with the sea discoloured and seismic activity detected. Studies between 1978 and 2007 showed the summit repeatedly rising and falling

But this latest analysis compared images gathered on May 14 and then June 1-2 last year and even in that short period the volcano had undergone a transformation.

Travelling on the research ship the R/V Sonne, the scientists first spotted that the sea above the volcano had turned a yellowy-green and gas bubbles were rising to the surface.

According to Professor Watts, “”I had butterflies. The gas was smelling awful – like rotten eggs. We saw a slick ahead of us and with something venting, there could have been a sudden shallowing of the water.”

The team then left the area to carry on with planned research elsewhere but three days later were warned that seismic detectors on the Cook Islands had detected violent activity around the volcano over a five-day period.

“If we had been over the volcano during the eruption, rocks could have hit the hull of the ship – that could have been potentially dangerous.”

Later the ship returned to the scene and the scientists were surprised to see how much the volcano had changed. In the space of a fortnight, one part of the volcano’s summit had collapsed by as much as 18.8m while new lava flows had raised another area by 79.1m. Most striking was the creation of an entirely new volcanic cone.

The researchers believe the changes are larger than at most other volcanoes. Only Vesuvius and Mount St Helens have recorded larger growth rates.

The paper says the speed of growth and change is “a reminder of how rapidly geological processes such as submarine landsliding and volcanism can occur.”

Professor Watts said: “Any movement on the seabed has the potential to create a tsunami. An earthquake suddenly dislocates the seabed. Here a violent disturbance lasted five days with magma oozing out which might be too slow to trigger a tsunami – but it’s unknown.

“This is a violent exchange of rock into the water – it could destabilise the cone and cause a landslide which in principle could cause a tsunami.

The same expedition’s survey produced stunning images last year of a line of underwater volcanoes being carried inexorably to the chasm of a subduction zone, the Tonga Trench.

That research was investigating whether the volcanoes exacerbated or dampened the pressures on the fault line.

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Extreme Temperatures/ Weather

Northeast Ohio wine grapes destroyed by hard freeze

Mark Johnson
newsnet5.com

It was what grape growers in Northern Ohio feared the most. Early Sunday morning, temperatures in the Grand River Valley vineyards of Lake and Ashtabula Counties dropped into the lower and middle 20s. That’s not just a quick frost. That’s a hard freeze. By 9 that morning, most of the primary buds, the growth that gives you the best fruit, were black and shriveled, killed by freezing temperatures.”It was devastating.” said Mary Jo Ferrante-Leaman, of Ferrante Winery in Geneva. “There was just nothing we could do.”

Leaman said the freeze killed 80 percent of this year’s wine grape crop. Ferrante Winery farms 45 acres of vinifera grapes in the prestigious Grand River Valley appellation east of Cleveland. The grape vines began growth early this year due to an extremely warm March. Growers at several area wineries have battled eleven different frost or freeze events from late March through the month of April. All had managed to save the majority of their crops. That is, until Sunday morning.

“We have 6 large wind machines to mix the air and keep the grapes warm,” Leaman said, “but once the temperature drops below 28 degrees for more than a couple of hours, freeze damage begins.”

Temperatures early Sunday were well below freezing for more than 6 hours. “We haven’t seen a freeze like this in at least 12 years,” said Leaman.

Similar reports are coming in from nearby Vineyards as well. Growers at St. Joseph’s Winery & Chalet Debonne report similar devastating losses.

Gene Sigel farms 170 acres of wine grapes in Lake and Ashtabula Counties. He said Monday’s cold “pretty much destroyed the whole 2012 vintage for our wine farmers.” Sigel supplies grapes to several wineries in the area.

“Vines that were brilliant green on Saturday afternoon,” lamented Sigel, “were turned to dry lifeless shoots by the frost on Sunday morning. Fields that stretch as far as the eye can see are simply all dead.”

Vines will grow new buds in a few weeks, Sigel said. The fruit on these buds will be smaller and of lesser quality.

“Fields that froze this week have not frozen in 50-60 years in our area.” he added, “In my case I just bought 54 acres of a neighboring farm last year that has never really frozen like this. The previous owner is 93 years old and has owned the farm I bought since 1956 and never experienced this complete a frost.”

Mary Jo Ferrante is hoping for the best. “With the secondary fruit set, we might be able to produce about a third of what we normally do.”

Ferrante Winery averages about 110-thousand gallons of wine per year. “We won’t have any signature or reserve wines this year.” she said.

On top of that, the cost of saving the grapes keeps mounting. Ferrante just spent $5,000 on propane for the wind machines. “More frosts are still possible.” said Ferrante, “We’ve got to save the grapes we have left.”

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Extreme Weather

China

Nanning

Extreme Weather in China on Monday, 14 May, 2012 at 06:10 (06:10 AM) UTC.

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Heavy rainstorms have battered several areas in Southern China, destroying houses and cropland. The rain comes after China’s national observatory upgraded the warning level from blue to yellow for a new round of rainstorms over the next few days.Torrential rains have affected South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Several cities, including the capital city Nanning, have issued their first red alert for torrential rain this year. The rain inundated roads and damaged old buildings in several cities.In Hunan province, local authorities say torrential rains have affected the lives of more than 1.9 million people and forced the relocation of almost 80,000 people.Elsewhere, Jiangxi Province was also hit by heavy rains, as the water in some rivers rose above warning levels. In Shicheng city, 84 houses were destroyed and over 1,500 hectares of crop land were inundated. Local authorities have evacuated more than 3,000 people, and continued to monitor the possible geological disasters.Finally, the continued rain raised the water level of a hydro power station in Nanping city, in Fujian Province. It forced the station to empty some of the water, in order to guard against possible heavy rain in the coming days.

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Extreme Weather

Nigeria

Cross River State ,

Extreme Weather in Nigeria on Sunday, 13 May, 2012 at 09:45 (09:45 AM) UTC.

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Four persons were reported dead while over 20 others sustained various degrees of injuries in recent windstorm that ravaged 13 out of the 18 local government areas of Cross River state. Of the four, three of them died as the result of tree trunks and walls of residential buildings that felt on them and one died of lightening strike.The injured are being treated in both orthodox and traditional hospitals while one with the fractured skull was referred to a specialist hospital in Enugu for surgery. Samuel Edom, a brother to one of the deceased, Mr. Ekam Ekpishoko (60) in Egoja – Ndim in Ogoja Local Government Area narrated that when the ominous cloud of rain enveloped the community at about 5:00pm on the fateful day everybody hurried to their homes for safety.The rain came down few minutes later in an unprecedented manner amidst windstorm that seemed determined to bringing down the entire community. Edom narrated further; “my brother was in his room with his family while I was in mine in the same building engaging in discussion in loud voices against the sound of the storm and suddenly I heard a loud sound of a tree falling and our home came crumbling down”.A 22 feet tall historic tree which stood about 20 metres from the house was uprooted by the storm and in the process of its falling crushed other nearby smaller trees including palm, mangoes, and oranges bringing down alongside surrounding houses.He said that after the crash, he called out to his brother but only heard wailing from the family members and that when he managed to limp due to injuries he sustained to his brother’s apartment, he found him lying dead, having been crushed by a tree branch. Over 15,000 residential homes, churches, recreational centres, schools, hospitals and market were affected by the storms that swept across the state.Many of the houses were completely uncapped while some were reduced to rumbles. About 20,000 persons were displaced majority of whom were women and children. While some of the victims were accommodated by neighbours, majority were sheltering helplessly in makeshift huts and in very miserable conditions.In his remark, the Yala Local Government Council chairman, Hon. Gabe Ugor said the Council was overwhelmed by the destruction caused by the storm. He appealed for urgent attention from the State and Federal Governments to provide succour to the affected persons.

13.05.2012

Extreme Weather

China

Hunan,

Extreme Weather in China on Sunday, 13 May, 2012 at 09:39 (09:39 AM) UTC.

Description

A bridge in China’s Hunan province has collapsed after days of torrential rain across the country.It is not known how many people were on the bridge when it buckled and fell into the river at around 8:30am (local time).Fire department official Su Tao told Xinhua that witnesses say they saw people falling into the water when the bridge collapsed.He says firefighters have not rescued anyone yet but some people have managed to climb ashore.It is estimated that up to 40 people have been killed in heavy rain and hailstorms in north-west China in the past few days.Nearly 3,500 homes have been destroyed, and about 29,000 people are sheltering in evacuation centres.

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Storms, Flooding

More rain on the way after China hit by deadly storms

Zhou Ke / Xinhua via Zuma Press

A car is stranded in a flooded tunnel after a heavy rainstorm hit China’s Jiangxi Province on May 12, flooding roads in several cities.

China’s national observatory yesterday upgraded the warning level from blue to yellow for a new round of rainstorms expected to hit the country’s southern regions over next three days.

The National Meteorological Center urged local authorities in south China to strengthen monitoring and guard against possible geological disasters such as landslides.

The national observatory uses a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red being the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

— Reported by eastday.com

Read the full story.

AFP – Getty Images

A young girl makes her way along a mud-covered street after a storm hit the village of Minxian, China. Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China.

40 Die in Chinese Hailstorm

Agence France-Presse

© Signs of the Times

Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China, according to the local government.

Eighteen others remained missing in Min county, a disaster-prone area of Gansu province, while 87 had been sent to hospital, the county government said in a statement on its website.

Officials said 29,300 people had been evacuated after rain and hail battered the county for just 60 minutes late Thursday afternoon.

© Nie Jianjiang/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this May 11, 2012 photo released by China’ Xinhua News Agency, villager Jia Xinping, left, stands next to the remains of his house destroyed by hail and torrential rains in Minxian County in northwest China’s Gansu Province.

It had “wreaked havoc” on all of the county’s 18 townships and had affected more than two-thirds of its 450,000 residents, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.

“Roads were blocked, houses collapsed, farmland was destroyed, and the power supply and telecommunications services were disrupted by the extreme weather,” the agency said, quoting Xu Guangyao, a senior county official.

Min county is 150 kilometres (94 miles) from Zhouqu county, where a rain-triggered mudslide killed about 1,500 people in August 2010.
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Widespread floods in Kenya kill 15 as 50,000 left homeless

The Citizen

Nairobi – Seven school children are among 15 people who have drowned in the last two days as heavy rains continue to wreak havoc across the country. They were swept away by floods on their way to school, many of which have been ordered closed.

This came as more than 50,000 people in three villages in Elgeyo-Marakwet County were asked to leave their homes for fear of landslides.A team of geologists from the Ministry of Lands toured Kittony, Embobut and Kakisoo villages and directed residents to leave as the heavy rains had eroded the grounds, raising the chances of a landslide.

Two years ago, 15 people were killed in Kittony village and many other injured in a landslide.

Relief agencies warned on Thursday the heavy rains had displaced more than 50,000 people, and destroyed property worth millions of shillings.

In Malindi, about 90 families that had been marooned by floods in Madunguni since Tuesday were rescued on Thursday by the provincial administration and the Red Cross.An 11-year-old class four pupil drowned after a motorcycle taxi he was riding on was swept away by a swollen river in Hamisi district.

Five people, among them three children, died in separate incidents in Central Kenya.In Meru, a nursery school pupil drowned in Mutonga River Gikui location.

The girl was crossing a makeshift bridge that links Keeria and Mutonga villages in Igoji when she slipped.”The young girl slipped and fell off the bridge on Wednesday at around 6.30 pm. The elder sister tried to rescue her but the raging waters overpowered her and a search party recovered the body two kilometres away from the scene of the accident,” said Igoji ward councillor John Kireria.

13.05.2012

Flash Flood

Georgia

Tbilisi [Kura River]

Flash Flood in Georgia on Sunday, 13 May, 2012 at 13:20 (01:20 PM) UTC.

Description

A flood killed five people in Georgia’s capital overnight after torrential rain caused the local river to burst its banks, officials said Sunday.The Agency for Emergency Situations said that a mother with her two children, an elderly woman and an elderly man died in Tbilisi’s Ortachala neighborhood after the Kura River flooded Saturday night. All five were trapped in their homes and crushed when the buildings collapsed. One of the children was six months old; the other was five. At least 30 people sought medical help.According to eyewitnesses, the water in some areas rose to 3 meters (10 feet) and lifted parked cars. Electricity was cut off in a number of neighborhoods.Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava pledged to provide financial assistance to all flood victims. He was unable to estimate the damage caused by the flood but said it was “quite substantial.”Georgia’s military was assisting the rescue effort by helping to clear debris and evacuate people from flooded areas.Rainy weather in Georgia is forecast for the next three days.

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Solar Activity

2MIN News May13: NICT Freakout, Spaceweather, Quake Watch

Published on May 13, 2012 by Suspicious0bservers

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Space

Earth approaching objects (objects that are known in the next 30 days)
Object Name	Apporach Date	Left	AU Distance	LD Distance	Estimated Diameter*	Relative Velocity
(2011 KY15)	15th May 2012	1 day(s)	0.1586	61.7	41 m – 93 m	17.61 km/s	63396 km/h
(2001 BA16)	18th May 2012	4 day(s)	0.1157	45.0	18 m – 41 m	6.66 km/s	23976 km/h
(2010 KK37)	19th May 2012	5 day(s)	0.0058	2.3	19 m – 43 m	10.94 km/s	39384 km/h
4183 Cuno	20th May 2012	6 day(s)	0.1218	47.4	3.5 km – 7.8 km	14.40 km/s	51840 km/h
(2006 KY67)	23rd May 2012	9 day(s)	0.1499	58.3	68 m – 150 m	13.88 km/s	49968 km/h
(2011 KG4)	24th May 2012	10 day(s)	0.1216	47.3	67 m – 150 m	11.50 km/s	41400 km/h
1 AU = ~150 million kilometers,1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Source: NASA-NEO

Powerful Cosmic Force Almost Destroyed Earth  

MessageToEagle.com – In our article Powerful Jet Pointing Directly At Earth we discussed one of the most fascinating cosmic phenomena, known to astronomers as blazars.

A very interesting, but also frightening event took place back some years ago when satellites and observatories suddenly registered an extremely powerful cosmic force that almost destroyed Earth. The explosion, coming from the Bootes constellation was firing material directly toward Earth traveling at almost the speed of light.

The explosion formally named GRB 080319B was detected at 2:13 a.m. EDT on March 19, 2008. It came from the constellation of Bootes.

The event, called a gamma-ray burst, became bright enough for human eyes to see.

In a scientific report, Judith Racusin of Penn State University and a team of 92 coauthors state that observations across the spectrum began 30 minutes before the explosion and followed its afterglow for months.

The team concludes the burst’s extraordinary brightness arose from a jet that shot material directly toward Earth at 99.99995 percent the speed of light.

At the same moment Swift saw the burst, the Russian KONUS instrument on NASA’s Wind satellite also sensed the gamma rays and provided a wide view of their spectral structure.A robotic wide-field optical camera called “Pi of the Sky” in Chile simultaneously captured the burst’s first visible light.The system is operated by institutions from Poland. Within the next 15 seconds, the burst brightened enough to be visible in a dark sky to human eyes. It briefly crested at a magnitude of 5.3 on the astronomical brightness scale. Incredibly, the dying star was 7.5 billion light-years away.

Telescopes around the world already were studying the afterglow of another burst when GRB 080319B exploded just 10 degrees away.

TORTORA, a robotic wide-field optical camera operated in Chile with Russian-Italian collaboration, also caught the early light. TORTORA’s rapid imaging provided the most detailed look yet at visible light associated with a burst’s initial gamma-ray blast.

A powerful jet from the Bootes constellation was directed at Earth. Image credit: NASA

Immediately after the blast, Swift’s UltraViolet and Optical Telescope and X-Ray Telescope indicated they were effectively blinded. Racusin initially thought something was wrong. Within minutes, however, as reports from other observers arrived, it was clear this was a special event.

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most luminous explosions. Most occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. As a star’s core collapses, it creates a black hole or neutron star that, through processes not fully understood, drive powerful gas jets outward. These jets punch through the collapsing star. As the jets shoot into space, they strike gas previously shed by the star and heat it. That generates bright afterglows.

The team believes the jet directed toward Earth contained an ultra-fast component just 0.4 of a degree across. This core resided within a slightly less energetic jet about 20 times wider.

Gamma-ray bursts are the Universe’s most luminous explosions. Image credit: NASA

“It’s this wide jet that Swift usually sees from other bursts,” Racusin explained.“Maybe every gamma-ray burst contains a narrow jet, too, but astronomers miss them because we don’t see them head-on.”Such an alignment occurs by chance only about once a decade, so a GRB 080319B is a rare catch. Could then such a gamma-ray destroy life on Earth? That depends on the nature of the burst and its location. There are two type of gamma-ray bursts. There is a longer, brighter burst and a “short-hard” burst, which lasts less than a second but seems to give off more radiation than a longer burst. If a gamma-ray happened inside the Milky Way, its effects on Earth would be much longer lasting. These bursts of radiation reach the Earth’s atmosphere and cause free oxygen and nitrogen atoms to bang together, and some recombine into ozone-destroying compounds called nitrous oxides.

Short gamma-rays could be caused by dense neutron stars or colliding black holes.

According to researchers, such stellar collisions might occur once every 100 million years in any given galaxy. At this rate, Earth would have been hit by several of these short-hard events over the course of its 4.5-billion-year history.

It is possible that a short gamma-ray was responsible for at least one planet-wide extinction event in the past.

We do not know with certainty what would have happened if the powerful jet from the Bootes constellation would have hit our planet, but we can be thankful it missed our planet.

MessageToEagle.com

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Sturm und Drang

 by Stephen Smith

The planet Uranus with a few of its moons. Credit: NASA/ESA and H. B. Hammel

 

Uranus recently erupted with a new bright region in its lower latitudes. Could electrical effects be responsible?

The planet Uranus revolves around the Sun at a mean orbital radius of 2,870,990,000 kilometers, 19 times as far as the Earth. Of course, its most exotic attribute is its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic: 98 degrees past vertical. Astrophysicists have always found the configuration difficult to explain, since their models of Solar System formation demand a distribution of angular momentum from the “primordial nebular cloud” that precludes a planet lying on its side. Their only recourse is to suggest that something hit the giant planet with enough energy to tip it over.

The average temperature on Uranus is -224 Celsius, giving it the distinction of being the coldest planet in the Solar System—colder than Neptune, although Neptune is half again the distance from the Sun. Why Uranus is so cold remains a mystery to planetary scientists.

Uranus possesses a magnetic field, but unlike its two large siblings, Jupiter and Saturn, whose magnetic poles are mostly aligned with their rotational axes, the field is slanted from Uranus’s rotational axis by 60 degrees. This fact also presents something of a conundrum for conventional cosmogony.

Why Uranus (and Neptune) have relatively weak magnetic fields is not easily explained. Standard theory expects a conducting core, probably composed of metallic hydrogen, to act as a dynamo to generate the field. An off-center core would be difficult to explain. However, in an Electric Universe model, an internal dynamo is not necessary. A probable scenario is that rotation of charged particles in the giant planet’s plasma gives rise to the field: a spinning, electrically charged body will induce a magnetic field.

Uranus is 51120 kilometers in diameter, rotating in approximately 18 hours, so the rotational dynamics of its electrically charged atmosphere produces a current sheet between it and Miranda, one of its small moons. The Uranian magnetosphere encompasses its entire family of moons and its ring system, as well.

According to a recent press release, a large bright region has appeared near the lower latitudes. Images taken in near infrared wavelengths by the Gemini North Telescope reveal what scientists are calling an “anvil cloud of methane” rising up from the depths into the sunshine. Reflections from methane ice crystals are supposed to be causing the bright patch.

Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has observed many bright spots on Uranus. They appear similar to the bright spots seen in Jupiter’s southern latitudes, as well as in its polar aurorae. The four Galilean moons all leave their marks in Jupiter’s aurora, so the same thing could be happening on Uranus.

On Saturn, a “great white spot” periodically appears in its southern latitudes. As Electric Universe advocate Wal Thornhill wrote: “Saturn occasionally ‘burps’, creating a great white spot 3 times the size of the Earth. It is inexplicable on standard models. However, it is the kind of thing to be expected following an exceptionally powerful lightning discharge deep into Saturn’s atmosphere. The discharge forms a vertical jet of matter from the depths that spouts into the upper atmosphere.”

Perhaps this explanation suits the observations on Uranus. Instead of convection-powered thunderheads of cold methane ice, the spots are jets from intense plasma discharges.

Stephen Smith

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Biological Hazard/Wildlife

More fish deaths in Periyar, India

For the second time in a week, massive fish deaths were reported from Pathalam belt in river Periyar, triggering alarm and protests.

Dead fish were found in bunches on the banks of river on Saturday morning. The local residents and councillors of Kadungalloor panchayat alerted the district Pollution Control Board officials who came and collected the samples of water and fish.

Local residents, fishermen, panchayat members and green activists of Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi (PMVS) blocked the PCB officials when they came to collect the samples, in protest against the negligent attitude of the authorities in checking continuing fish deaths.

Later, police arrested the group of protesters led by panchayat members Joshy, Shiney Sajan, Geetha Sunil, Kabeer, Sudha Devi and activists of PMVS, Anwar C.I., Sainudeen Edayar and Mahesh.
According to environmental experts, low level or absence of oxygen is the major reason for the recurring fish deaths in Periyar.

A similar incident was reported on last Monday on the banks of river Periyar. Earlier, on May 3, fish deaths were reported on the banks of river Muttar, a tributary of Periyar. As per the report of the Pollution Control Board, the fish deaths were caused by lack of dissolved oxygen in river water and by entry of polluted water containing decayed waste into the river.

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Articles of Interest

Biology Stranger Than Fiction
Mind-Controlled Ants Turning Into Zombies12 May, 2012 MessageToEagle.com – Strange things happen in the world of biology. Have you ever heard of ants that can turn into zombies?

These amazing super-organisms that, as we have previosly seen created a huge secret underground megapolis can unfortunately also become deadly victims of mind-control.

For the first time ever, researchers can reveal how an entire ant colony is able to survive infestations by the zombie-ant fungus.

When brain-manipulating parasites invades an ant’s brain and causes it to march to its death at a mass grave near the ant colony, where the fungus spores erupt out of the ant’s head.

The parasite of the zombie-ant fungus is itself a fungus, a hyperparasitic fungus that specializes in attacking the parasite that turns the ants into zombies.

“The hyperparasitic fungus effectively castrates the zombie-ant fungus so it cannot spread its spores,” said Hughes, who is an assistant professor of entomology and biology, and a member of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State.

“Because the hyperparasitic fungi prevents the infected zombie-ant fungus from spreading spores, fewer of the ants will become zombies.”

As part of their research, the scientists created a detailed model that revealed previously unknown details of the interactions between the fungus-infected ants and the parasite-infected zombie-ant fungus.Scientists previously had known that ants defend their colonies against microscopic enemies such as fungal spores by efficiently grooming each other.In this study, the researchers also modeled the effect of ant behavior on limiting infection. “Interestingly, beyond the well known effect of defensive ant behavior, our new research reveals the added effect of the castrating actions of the hyperparasite fungi, which may result in significantly limiting the spread of the zombie-ant fungus” Hughes said.

Ants can become victims of mind-control and commit suicide.The scientists report that only about 6.5 percent of the spore-producing organs of the zombie-ant fungus were viable.

“Even though there are a lot of dead and infected zombie ants in the neighborhood, only a few of the spores of the zombie-ant fungus will become mature and able to infect healthy ants,” Hughes said.

“Our research indicates that the danger to the ant colony is much smaller than the high density of zombie-ant cadavers in the graveyard might suggest.

This complex interaction between ant colonies, their brain-manipulating parasites, and other fungi capable of lending assistance to the colony underscores the need to study social insects under natural conditions.”

Hughes said his team is expanding its efforts and “remains focused on following the exciting theatre played out on the rainforest floor.”

Nature never ceases to amaze!

MessageToEagle.com via Penn State

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Unknown Energy Source Created The Image On The Shroud Of Turin
Scientists Suggest12 May, 2012 MessageToEagle.com – Few ancient relics have caused so much heated debated and controversy as the Shroud of Turin.

Is it a forgery or the shroud authentic?

This subject has been discussed for years among various experts.

Adding more fuel to the debate, a recent study indicates that the image on the Shroud was formed by a sort of electromagnetic source of energy. But how people living in medieval times have access to such advanced technology?

The study was conducted by a team of researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy.

The researchers, including Paolo Di Lazzaro, Daniele Murra, Enrico Nichelatti, Antonino Santoni and Giuseppe Baldacchini, successfully created similar effects to the Shroud’s markings using ultraviolet light.

What kind of technology was used to create the image?

In an interview with The Telegraph, Dr Paolo Di Lazzaro was asked whether if this was the most plausible way the image on the Shroud of Turin could have been created?

“We obtained a coloration “similar” to that of the body image on the Shroud.

“Similar” means that it replicates several peculiar characteristics of the Shroud image, including the shallow penetration depth and the hue of color, the lack of fluorescence, and the absence of heating effects on the image formation.

However, our coloration still does not match 100 per cent of the physical and chemical characteristics of the Shroud image.

Till now, nobody was able to replicate all the body image characteristics.

This inability to repeat (and therefore falsify) the image on the Shroud makes it impossible to formulate a reliable hypothesis on how the body image was made.As a consequence, we cannot state ultraviolet light is the most plausible way the original marking was made.Certainly, the radiation-based attempts (ultraviolet light, corona discharge, protons) gave coloration results which are much closer to the Turin Shroud image than the contact paint or chemical attempts are. In particular, the recent results obtained by Prof Garlaschelli using acid, powders and paints show the incapacity of chemistry-based attempts to match the original characteristics at the microscopic level, “Dr. Di Lazzaro explained.

Shroud of TurinDoes Dr. Di Lazzaro’s studies suggest that the Shroud of Turin is not a medieval fake?

“All the attempts to replicate the body image on the Shroud were partially (often totally) unsuccessful.

We must admit it is not easy creating an image that is negative, has 3D encoded information, is extremely shallow, with the color intensity is determined by the surface density of fibrils all having the same RGB value, and which does not fluoresce under UV illumination.

Modern technologies seem unable to produce an image with the characteristics of the Shroud image, even using the most advanced tools like those used in our experiments.

As a consequence, it is unlikely that a forger could have created this image using technologies available in the Middle Ages.

In addition, we must consider the body image is not the only difficult-to-replicate marking.

On the Shroud there are also stains of blood with high levels of bilirubin which would be consistent with a haemolytic process caused by torture, eg whipping (the bilirubin content being only visible by UV lamps, such as those used by policemen to detect organic traces), there is the absence of image under the blood stains, and many other forensic details unknown in the Middle Ages.

How could the image have been produced 800 years ago without any access to modern advanced technology?

According to Prof Christopher Ramsey of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, the radiocarbon dating results put the relic at 1260 – 1390AD. This means the Shroud of Turin is about 800 years old. This raises the question how our medieval ancestors could posses technology sophisticated enough to create an image that even our modern technology has difficulties to produce.

“I have no experience of radiocarbon dating. As a consequence, I have to accept the opinion of Prof Ramsey.

However, I note we have a problem: there is an object dated 1260AD that has a microscopic complexity such that it cannot be made by a forger in 1260AD.

Does Prof Ramsey have any idea how to solve this contradiction? Can we collaborate to find a solution? Is it possible to organise a team of experts that reconsider both dating and microscopic characteristics of this extraordinary image?” Dr. Di Lazzaro said.

When Dr. Di Lazzaro was asked if he believes the controversial Shroud of Turin could really be the burial clothes of Jesus, he replied: “As a scientist, I think we will never demonstrate the Shroud is the burial cloth of Christ.

Even if it will be shown this cloth is of the first century, we will have a probability, never a certainty. However, I have studied more than 60 peer-reviewed papers on this topic, analysed a lot of microphotographs and microscope images, read sophisticated spectral information, and considered many other scientific data available.

The more one studies the Shroud from a scientific perspective, the clearer it becomes that this image could not have been made by a forger, either medieval or modern. This allows to come back to the “question of questions”: how was the body image on the Shroud made? ”

It would seem that the controversy concerning the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin continues…

@ MessageToEagle.com

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