Earth Changes 2010 to Date

[lindabaker]

Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org)


Today at 8:44am
My Relatives,

Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I
ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The
catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the
bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we
cannot afford to continue to make.

I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with
the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will
continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of
in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers
for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as
Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to
allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth.
As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to
assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc¹I Maka).

We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the
winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in
repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we
make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.

As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that
what we create can have lasting effects on all life.

So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along
with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World
Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural
site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us
make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our
children¹s future and well-being, and the generations to come.

Onipikte (that we shall live),

Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org)

[MargueriteBee]

Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org)


Today at 8:44am
My Relatives,

Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I
ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The
catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the
bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we
cannot afford to continue to make.

I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with
the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will
continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of
in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers
for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as
Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to
allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth.
As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to
assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc¹I Maka).

We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the
winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in
repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we
make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.

As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that
what we create can have lasting effects on all life.

So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along
with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World
Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural
site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us
make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our
children¹s future and well-being, and the generations to come.

Onipikte (that we shall live),

Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org)

Thank you for posting this Linda.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Floods kill 70 in southern China...

BEIJING — Torrential rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon have swept across parts of southern China, toppling homes, destroying crops and killing at least 70 people, state media reported Tuesday. More flooding was expected.

Flooding caused by the heavy rains — which started a month earlier than normal — damaged more than 80,000 homes and damaging large swaths of cropland, affecting more than 10 million people across 13 provinces and cities, the State Flood Control and Disaster Relief Headquarters said on its website.

"South China has already entered its flood season, one month earlier than in past years. The biggest floods have yet to come," Sun Jun of the National Meteorological Center was cited as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glsmFpe-zgAfgIX_u0DCJUluaqCwD9FKEFK80

*****

Iceland president tells Europe to get ready for Katla

Iceland president tells Europe to
get ready for Katla
Eyjafjallajoekull only a "small rehearsal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8631343.stm

(Short Video) - The eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, and the travel chaos it has caused, is only a "small rehearsal," according to Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson.

"The larger Katla volcano, right next to it, usually erupts every century, and the last eruption was in 1918. The time for Katla to erupt is coming close."

"I don't say if, but I say when Katla will erupt," Grimsson says. "We have been waiting for that eruption for several years."

"It can create, for a long period, extraordinary damage to modern advanced society."

*****

viking

[Gita]

EARTHQUAKE WARNING; 7.2 to 8.2 (7.7) earthquake is possible in Southern California May 13-16. More likely to hit May 14-16. Most likely to hit within 100 miles of San Bernardino, CA.
California Earthquake Prediction and Forecast May (9-15)

7Z8xAvg5JNQ

http://www.quakeprediction.com/

[stardustaquarion]

Viking it is not certain that the Katla will erupt just yet. It happens every 100 years and last time was 1918. With volcanos who knows

[Lucid Jia]

Reports of starnge rainbow clouds over L.A. today like the ones in china before the big E.Q. hit.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Reports of starnge rainbow clouds over L.A. today like the ones in china before the big E.Q. hit.

yes rather strange... I was wondering!!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/99896234.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1273839833&Signature=E4tXSf1LnxE0g7t%2Ffa7rXiJYCD8%3D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co8oADyt2dk&feature=player_embedded

viking

[Lucid Jia]

Calif today, is this normal??..
MAP 3.3 2010/05/14 12:29:02 32.575 -115.768 4.6 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.7 2010/05/14 11:59:48 41.140 -125.495 2.5 OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 2010/05/14 11:35:16 35.965 -117.332 2.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2010/05/14 10:40:16 32.768 -116.137 3.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2010/05/14 10:06:51 34.315 -116.922 8.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2010/05/14 10:05:10 32.622 -115.808 1.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.5 2010/05/14 08:04:37 34.216 -117.413 12.2 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 2010/05/14 07:53:22 32.774 -116.134 3.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.0 2010/05/14 05:11:07 32.675 -115.873 6.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 2010/05/14 04:55:34 32.669 -115.873 5.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 2010/05/14 04:13:16 32.699 -115.885 1.9 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 2010/05/14 01:42:09 32.181 -115.395 2.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.1 2010/05/14 01:01:20 42.339 -126.175 10.0 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON
MAP 3.2 2010/05/14 00:12:16 32.285 -115.372 0.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

[cosmiclightworker]

http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/images/51310f.jpg

San Diego residents are reporting shaking continuing in the area. The shaking, according to the USGS, is likely due to the Easter quake this year which rocked the region.

Twitter is rolling with reports of rainbow cloud over Los Angeles today. Reports are coming in that this looks similar to before both the China and Chile quakes where residents reported and took photos of such events in the sky.

While no one can be sure what it means, people should always be prepared for a major Earthquake in Southern California as it is seismically active.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Sky over chile prior to 8.8

http://api.ning.com/files/0sG8scsBmEM3ZNZuR6*LGWmSgnxtw7y5HUFVxOnfXQOV2rUxcFHkSGMB6jD6oSG9G4z9uIMwO5n2SiaqVx0-npf8gcjpBstl/pxpxx8833.jpg

viking

[yiolas]

In reference to the colors in the sky and clouds, I read someplace very recently how there is this researcher who has been studying the premise that prior to an earthquake the earth releases somekind of energetic plasma type of material. He has been able to predict a number of earthquakes based on this.
Has anyone else read this ?

[MorningSong]

Hi Yiolas!

If I remember the name correctly, a certain Giuliano in Italy was studying the release of radon gas and it's relation to EQs and had forewarned the authorities of the eminent EQ in L'Aquilla. His repeated warnings were ignored and passed off as ridiculous...until the EQ hit. He got a lot of attentione after the EQ, but has been distanced from any media. As I remember, the authorities charged him with causing mass histeria.

I am sure that he was truely on to something...

Don't know if this is what you had in mind or not...

[yiolas]

Thanks MorningSong,
You put me on the right track. I will come back with references, but it appears that the escape of radon gas from deep inside the earth prior to earthquakes as well as local electromagnatic pulses emanating from the earth above the soon to be earthquake zone are both precursers being researched at the moment.

Maybe the combination of radon gas and localized emp's cause these strangely colored clouds.

I hope Californians are taking their precautions.

[Rocky_Shorz]

The sun looks really quiet compared to what we have been seeing over the past few months...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/512/latest.jpg

[Eric J (Viking)]

6.0 Earthquake Puerto Rico,E of Hato Arriba,

Magnitude: 6.0
Mercalli scale: 6
Date-Time [UTC]: 16 May, 2010 at 05:16:09 UTC
Local Date/Time: Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 05:16 at night at epicenter
Location: 18° 23.400, 67° 2.400
Depth: 100 km (62.14 miles)
Region: Caribean
Country: Puerto Rico
Distances: 3.63 km (2.26 miles) E of Hato Arriba,
Source: RSOE-EMSC
Generated Tsunami: Not or no data!
Damage: Not or not data

*****

New ash cloud flight disruption to hit UK


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgxZye3kQg&feature=player_embedded

*****

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Four dead, many evacuated as floods sweep central Europe

(Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least four people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe and weather forecasts offered no hope of respite in coming days.

World

In southern Poland, one woman in her 60s and a 45-year-old man perished on Monday in separate incidents after being washed away by flood waters, officials and local media reported.

The Polish interior ministry said it expected to evacuate up to 2,000 people from their homes as floods submerged fields, roads and some railway lines.

A 69-year-old woman also died on Monday in the neighboring Czech Republic where hundreds had to be evacuated, including 90 from a hospital in the town of Bohumin, Czech media reported.

More than 10,000 customers of Czech CEZ were left without power after trees fell on power lines in strong winds, and five railway lines and about 50 roads were shut. Parts of southern Poland also suffered power cuts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64G3OY20100517

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Phew, look at the size of these...

A large supercell thunderstorm roared through parts of Oklahoma Sunday afternoon dropping huge hail. These iWitness reporters caught it all on camera.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/raw-insane-mid-may-hail-17320#17323

[Eric J (Viking)]

Congolese Volcanic Eruption, Avalanche, Kill Twelve, RNA Says



By Brian Latham

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- A volcanic eruption and subsequent avalanche killed at least a dozen people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Rwanda News Agency reported, citing Lutaichirwa Feller, vice governor of North Kivu Province.

At least 36 people are also missing, the Kigali-based news agency said. The avalanche followed the collapse of part of the icecap on the Mikeno volcano, on the border between Congo and Rwanda, RNA said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aScwgde6gA5U

*****

Mother nature....awesome video of nature getting angry...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRiCzQUHjo&feature=player_embedded

viking

[Gita]

Courtesy of Viking... Thanks hun. :wink:

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The aftermath left hailstorm in southern

The chicken coop was beneath the ice. The plastic chairs, tables, playground equipment, desks and carpet were covered by a layer of sleet and mud.

The building where pre-project works Seeds of Jesus was one of the hardest hit by the hailstorm the day before yesterday. Located in the San Carlos del Sur. Parents and students yesterday withdrew the blocks of ice that entered through the front door to two rooms.

Susana Guzman, director of the center, with a shovel hail evacuating the hall. "We had 15 chickens, one was not spared either. Nor were saved chickens and our dog. "

Ice blocks evicted in wheelbarrows. Juan Moposita helped in the task since 0600. Children also collaborated in carrying buckets to hail the passage communal, with dirt floors and grass.

Beside the house property is Rodrigo Trujillo. The mud and water entered the room and the dining room. Also affected the potato crop. The plants were on the floor.

All family members were to remove the weeds and put up a wall of 1 meter-high collapsed. "We called the fire department, but failed. Until today (yesterday) nobody helps. We are alone. "

Maria Luz Caiza also had to remove ice from your yard without help. 06:00 From yesterday took up the task of cleaning. The work began on the afternoon of Tuesday, after heavy hail, which lasted about an hour and covered the southeast of the city.

She lives in the cooperative Rancho Los Pinos, in front of San Carlos del Sur. Their yard was covered by a layer of mud.

The effort to clean the mud with a shovel made her sweat. At 10:00, and arranged the rooms, then went to their place of peas. "Everything was destroyed, no seedling survived."

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Continued here. (http://www.elcomercio.com/2010-05-20/Home/No-Deje-Pasar/EC100520P13GRANIZO.aspx)

[stardustaquarion]

Heavy rains with strong gales lashed coastal Andhra region as authorities began evacuation of people from low-lying areas with cyclonic storm Laila intensifying further and heading towards the sea shore. A high alert has been sounded in all nine coastal districts while rescue teams from National Disaster Response Force - have reached the areas likely to face the fury of the cyclonic storm. The storm christened Laila is likely to cross the Andhra coast Thursday morning between Visakhapatnam and Ongole, said Visakhapatnam Cyclone Warning Centre. Strong gales with speed of 65 to 70 km per hour have been lashing the region since Tuesday night, uprooting trees and damaging electricity and communication towers in some districts, officials said. Districts of Vijayanagaram, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna and Guntur are receiving heavy rains since Wednesday morning. Some places received five to 10 cm rainfall. Nellore, Prakasam, and some parts of Rayalaseema and Telangana regions are also experiencing rains in the build-up to the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal.

At least 10 people were killed in rain-related incidents like lightning strikes and wall collapses since Tuesday night. Four farmers were also reported missing. Authorities began evacuating people from low-lying areas in all nine districts as a precautionary measure as the weather office forecast heavy to very heavy rains during the next 48 hours. The rainfall is expected to be as much as 25 cm while the gale-speed is likely to be 115-125 kmph at the time of the landfall. 'Storm surge of 1.5 to 2 metres above the astronomical tide is likely to inundate the coastal areas of Guntur, Krishna and West and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh at the time of landfall,' warned the India Meteorological Department - in its bulletin. Over 10,000 people have already been evacuated in Visakhapatnam, West Godavari and Krishna districts. People living near the sea shore and the low-lying areas have been asked to move to safe places by Wednesday night. In Krishna district alone, authorities have opened 120 relief camps. In West Godavari district, 100 buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation have been kept ready for evacuation of people. After a review of the situation here, Chief Minister K. Rosaiah asked his cabinet colleagues to rush to the coastal districts to oversee relief and rehabilitation. 'The impact of the cyclone on coastal Andhra is likely to be severe and there is an urgent need for everybody to be on high alert,' said Marri Shashidhar Reddy, member, National Disaster Management Authority.

The chief minister has asked district collectors to use helicopters, if necessary, for rescue and relief operations. Seventh warning signal was hoisted at Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Bhimunipatnam, Kalingapatnam, Nizampatnam and Vodarevu ports while fifth signal was raised at Krishnapatnam port. Andhra Pradesh has about 1,000-km-long coast line, which is vulnerable to cyclones, storms and low pressure areas over the Bay of Bengal during September-October every year. Officials said this was the first time in 20 years that the coastal region is facing a cyclonic storm during May.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=TC-20100519-26175-IND

[Gita]

Thanks Viking.:thumb:

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[flash=408,356,http://www.vesti.ru/i/flvplayer.swf?vid=273661&autostart=false]

In the Atacama Desert fell no rain, but a real snow!

The invasion of cold air in the rear of the cyclone decreased the thermometer readings in the mountains to negative values.

Cooling was accompanied by precipitation: on the coast of rain had fallen in the mountains of snow fell, and formed a temporary snow cover. Situated in the north of Chile, the Atacama Desert is the most arid place on the planet.

For the year here falls below 50 mm of rain. In some places its rainfall every few decades. In the area Antafagasta average annual precipitation is only 1 mm.

Some weather stations have never recorded rain.

According to some sources in the period from 1950 to 1971 in the Atacama sediments virtually absent. Interestingly, the same place, in one area, was registered by the minimum relative humidity - 0%. But in the winter months in some areas of the desert fogs are frequent.

According to the research of scientists from the UK, there are river beds that are not aware of water in the past 120,000 years. And the mountains in the Atacama have no glaciers, but there is permafrost?

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[Etherios]

i hope mother earth shows pity on us...

[zelda]

Etherios, I defer.
Have we shown pity on mother Earth? We keep abusing her, destroying her. She's alive, just like us.
If she needs to re-adjust in order to get cleanse herself and get her balance, well so be it.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Etherios, I defer.
Have we shown pity on mother Earth? We keep abusing her, destroying her. She's alive, just like us.
If she needs to re-adjust in order to get cleanse herself and get her balance, well so be it.

[Gita]

I hear what you say Etherios but we never showed her any pity as a species. I hope she does what she needs to do. It's her time.

[Etherios]

/lower his head...

i totally agree with all of you but even so there are still proper "Humans" out there with love in their hearts. We are not all the same ... ofc i am not one of those, but they deserve to be spared and i hope they will.


Ill repeat my self as this is what i truly feel.

The human beings that are born from this earth cant be all rotten and bad. We are raised to be a cancer and a rotten part of a huge killing machine but we are not born like that. Also i feel that there are many that have not gotten rotten and are truly humans and deserve the best.

p.s. I am sure Gita, Earth will do what is needed in the end.

[Gita]

Thanks Viking.:thumb:

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OCEAN FLOOR RISING BY 13 FEET PER DAY IN AUSTRALIA


This is very disturbing. More and more things are happening that really shouldn’t. Is the 2012 events we are waiting for, starting already? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a Tsunami station in event mode activated for Station 55023 – STB Coral Sea located at 14.803 S 153.585 E (14°48’9″ S 153°35’6″ E). The tsunami station has been in event mode since the large quakes occurred in the area for several days now. This is triggered by the buoys’ anomalies of water column height above the sea floor. If you do a data search for 2010 March 20th to 2010 April 13th you get this- Over 100 meters or 328 feet less distance from buoy to sea floor in 24 days! That’s 13 feet per day since the quakes. As you will see from the waves on the line graph it matches the tide lines perfectly.

Coral Sea tide chart

http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue546.jpg

So Station buoy 55023 is still on the surface. Its not the lunar cycles, checked that as well. There also has been a very odd sea surface temperature in the same location See link CSIRO web page [link] Note the area in blue on the map on the left then see the unusually cold surface temperatures on the surface in the map on the right. Seismic activity has also offers a good insight as to what may be occurring.

http://reinep.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ring-of-fire.gif

Note the long time periods of S waves on this seismic station is the upward thrust of the ocean floor by 13 feet per day? Does anyone know what’s going on in this area? Is 2012 events already on it`s way?

It is also now speculated that the Indo Australian Plate is moving north-west, colliding with and subducting beneath the Eurasian Plate and this movement is allegedly causing the Indo Australian Plate to tip so that the western half of Australia will sink while the eastern seaboard will rise. However, the rate of movement of the Plate is so slow that it seems unlikely that that subduction is causing the rapid sea level rises recorded in the Coral Sea before the two NOAA buoys were taken off line, or at least their readings no longer made public.

What`s the conclusion?

http://reinep.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/map.jpg

In my view and many others one theory is, that it is more likely that at least parts of Lemuria are beginning to rise with totally uncertain consequences for Australia and especially the east coast. In any event the seismic activity around Vanuatu and along the western boundary of the Pacific Ring of Fire in the southern hemisphere indicates that the east coast of Australia and especially the Queenslanc coast needs to be on alert for possible tsunamis when generated there. Anyway big changes are going on here on earth, that`s for sure.

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http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ocean-floor-rising-by-13-feet-1

[Straydog]

Major earthquake in Brazil

The earthquake occurred Monday afternoon in the mountains near the border with Peru. It informs
experts from the U.S. Geographical Survey told AFP.

Epicenter is about 127 km southeast from Cruzeiro do Sul in Brazil, and 328 km east of Pucallpa
in Peru.

The earthquake occurred 580 km below Earth's surface.

An employee of the mayor of Cruzeiro do Sul said, according to the Washington Post that they felt
of the earthquake, and that there is no reported damage.

Yesterday Peru shaken by an earthquake, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

The earthquake was measured as 6.0 by Peru's Geophysical Institute, and it had its center 115
kilometers below ground, about 28 km southwest of Ayacucho region.

The earthquake occurred just before midnight Sunday night, and it could also be felt in the capital
Lima, where many residents fled out of their houses.

[Gita]

Thanks Viking. :thumb:

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Strong quake hits southern Japan

A strong earthquake has hit southern Japan, but there have been no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami was expected.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake Wednesday had a preliminary magnitude of 6.1. It occurred off the coast of the Minamidaito island, near Okinawa, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo. The quake's center was 6 miles (10 kilometers) below sea surface.

The agency did not issue a tsunami alert and said there was no danger of damage from waves.

Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.

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http://www.blackoutinformation.com/article/Strong%20quake%20hits%20southern%20Japan/?k=j83s12y12h94s27k02

[Gita]

Thanks Viking. :thumb:

Another volcano is stirring!!:eek:

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Volcano in Ecuador spews ash plume

A volcano spewed a 7-km-long ash plume, spreading the ash cloud in some towns near the volcano, the Ecuadorian Geophysics Institute (IG) said on Wednesday.

The eruption occurred at 6:12 a.m. local time (1112 GMT), and "the sound of the eruption was heard in the towns near the volcano, even in Banos and Guadalupe, 14 km from the volcano," the IG said.
The 5,016-meter-high Tungurahua Volcano is located 135 km south of the capital Quito. It began its eruption process in 1999.

The ash cloud travelled in south-west direction and thick ash fell at 06:31 a.m. local time (1131 GMT) in towns of Mapayacu and Manzano.
One and a half hours later the ash also fell over Guano and Riobamba.

The volcano also spewed small flows of lava at the north, northwest, west and southwest of its crater, which went down between 800 and 1,000 meters without affecting the inhabited areas, the IG said.

According to the IG, an increasing number of earthquakes were registered on May 17 in the "biggest" eruption in 2010.

"However, according to the historical behavior of the volcano, the current activity is considered low, but with increasing trend," the IG said.

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http://www.china.org.cn/world/2010-05/27/content_20127122.htm

[fifi]

"....On Wednesday, a horde of frogs caused a two-hour closure on one of Greece's major highways near the city of Thessaloniki. The city's traffic police chief, Giorgos Thanoglou, told the Associated Press that the "millions" of frogs were probably looking for food. Three accidents resulted, as drivers attempted to dodge the hungry hoppers. The AP writes that no human injuries were reported...."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_wl2271

This is known to happen before a major earthquake. Let’s see.

[Gita]

Thanks Viking:thumb:

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Volcano's big brother issues ominous warning
Scientists say a more powerful Icelandic volcano is 'close to failure'


msnbc.com
updated 6:15 a.m. ET May 27, 2010

LONDON - A second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt, scientists have warned.

Since the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which caused cancellations of thousands of flights in Europe because of a giant ash cloud, there has been much speculation about neighboring Katla.
An initial research paper by the University College of London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction said: "Analysis of the seismic energy released around Katla over the last decade or so is interpreted as providing evidence of a rising ... intrusive magma body on the western flank of the volcano."

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37371442/ns/world_news-europe

[Gita]

"....On Wednesday, a horde of frogs caused a two-hour closure on one of Greece's major highways near the city of Thessaloniki. The city's traffic police chief, Giorgos Thanoglou, told the Associated Press that the "millions" of frogs were probably looking for food. Three accidents resulted, as drivers attempted to dodge the hungry hoppers. The AP writes that no human injuries were reported...."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_wl2271

This is known to happen before a major earthquake. Let’s see.

Nice find fifi. :thumb:

Thanks Viking:thumb:

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Frogs Can Predict Earthquakes

http://www.sulekha.com/mstore/angellica/albums/default/frogs.jpg

Frogs can predict earthquakes up to 5 days days before they happen. They sense the release of radon gases and charged particles that are released from deep Earth movements before quakes strike. They use these as a form of earthquake early-warning-system and leave their colonies for higher ground to avoid falling rocks and landslides. Researchers studying frogs in Italy saw that 96% of the male frogs left their colonies 3-5 days before the 6.3 quake that hit L'Aquila in April 6, 2009.

In May 2008 a massive earthquake hit the Sichuan province of China killing over 40,000 people. Just 2 days before it hit a mass migration of an army of small brown frogs filled the streets of the village closest to the epicenter. They were all over the place - so many in the streets that even bicyclists had a hard time steering around them. Authorities told the people it was just a frog mating ritual, but after the quake it become clear that the frogs had a natural early warning system and were trying to run away from danger that they could feel in the earth.

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[Gita]

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Earthquake sparks South Pacific islands tsunami warning

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/47942000/gif/_47942237_vanuatu226x170.gif

A tsunami warning has been issued to islands in the South Pacific after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the area.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that the Solomon islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia had received warnings.

The earthquake hit 133 miles (244 km) northwest of Santo on the island of Vanuatu at 1714 GMT.

Vanuatu lies on the so-called Ring Of Fire, a series of volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches which encircle the Pacific basin.

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicenter within minutes to hours," the tsunami centre told Reuters.
It said it was not yet clear whether a tsunami had actually been generated.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10177721.stm

[MorningSong]

I just saw this...hmmmm

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20006171-501465.html


Authorities have canceled a tsunami warning following a a 7.2-magnitude earthquake near the coast of the South Pacific island republic of Vanuatu,. Earlier, the United States had issued a tsunami warning for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that sea level readings did not show any signs of an impending tsunami. "If a tsunami was generated, it does not pose a threat to any areas outside the epicentral region," it said in a bulletin sent out this afternoon.

The quake was centered about 300 miles northwest of Port Vila at a depth of 22 miles. It struck at 01:45:29 PM Eastern Time.

Vanuatu local authorities were checking for information on both the quake and the regional tsunami alert. So far, though, they had no further information, according to a police spokesman in Port Vila on the island of Efate.

According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, there is no immediate Tsunami risk to Hawaii.

In Japan, one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, police said there were no immediate reports of injury or damage from the quake.

"I would think any damage from a quake this size is unlikely,'' an official with the police, Shimpachi Higashizato, told the Associated Press.

I guess the rupturing of the solar filament and CME expected for today did this, huh?

[Gita]

Thanks MorningSong. It does seem to be cancelled which is good news.

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Tsunami warning cancelled for the Pacific
FRI, 28 MAY 2010 6:23A.M.

A tsunami warning has been cancelled for the Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia after a quake struck near Vanuatu shortly after 5am today.

The 7.2 scale earthquake was 20km deep but never considered a potential threat to New Zealand and an advisory notice issued by the New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence was cancelled shortly before 7am.

The Ministry said: "Scientific analysis suggests that there is no threat to New Zealand, based on the earthquake magnitude, location and orientation to New Zealand," a ministry spokesman said.
Earlier the ministry said it was issuing an advisory notice and not a warning although earthquakes of 7.2 had the potential to generate a tsunami.

It briefly advised people in coastal areas to stay off beaches, out of the water and not to go sightseeing.

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http://www.3news.co.nz/Tsunami-warning-cancelled-for-the-Pacific/tabid/417/articleID/157998/Default.aspx

[monique]

Hello Gita, you believe the explosion and spread of asches from the volcano in Iceland was man made ? I heard Rauni Kilde and find interesting. Thank you very much and sorry if this was on discussion here and i don`t read the debate.

Below the first minutes of the interview whit the corageous Rauni Kilde,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhImLmQFehU - Best regards, Monique.

[Gita]

Hello Gita, you believe the explosion and spread of asches from the volcano in Iceland was man made ? I heard Rauni Kilde and find interesting. Thank you very much and sorry if this was on discussion here and i don`t read the debate.

Below the first minutes of the interview whit the corageous Rauni Kilde,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhImLmQFehU - Best regards, Monique.

Hi Monique - Couldn’t really say if it was manmade but there sure is a possibility that they may have induced the eruption. IMO they have the technologies to be able to plan ahead (such as looking glass) and they also have HAARP to set things in motion. They also have the mindset to further their agenda no matter what it takes. I have not heard of Dr Rauni Kilde but thanks for the link – shall have a look at it later.

I do have a feeling they wanted to have the air space over Europe clear of all traffic. I have no clear idea why but at a guess I would assume that they wanted to carry out some kind of experiment which may have involved EMP – bearing that in mind, it would then be impossible to explain why thousands of planes have fallen out of the sky!

:wave:

[Eric J (Viking)]

This is an interesting article...I wonder if the Journalist 'Nirmal Ghosh' is in the know? :confused:

In India, weather-related natural disasters already cause annual chaos.

Two months ago, whole regions of West Bengal disappeared under water - rescue workers had to use boats to give emergency help to more than 16 million affected people.

These were the worst floods for more than 20 years.


One of the problems is that these models are sometimes converted into scary stories which is something we shouldn't fall for

Dr RR Kelkar
Several factors were blamed - from silted riverbeds to mismanagement of resources. But could global warming also have played a part?

Journalist Nirmal Ghosh firmly believes global warming is going to cause far more chaos across India in the future.

"Global warming is going to make other small local environmental issues... seem like peanuts, because it is the big one which is going to come and completely change the face of the Earth.

"We're talking about mass migrations because of changing weather. That will have implications on politics. There are states in India which are fighting court cases over water," Mr Ghosh says.

further reading here...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1037114.stm

viking

[stardustaquarion]

Pacaya volcano near Guatemala City (Capital) is erupting

(CNN) -- Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom called for calm as a volcanic eruption spread ash over the capital, prompting evacuations and shutting down the city's international airport.

At least least one person, a reporter for CNN affiliate Noti 7, has died as a result of the eruption. The TV station announced early Friday that reporter Anibal Archila was killed when he was hit by debris from the volcano.

Four people were missing as evacuations continued, the president said.

At least 1,800 people have been placed in shelters after four villages near the volcano were evacuated, said David de Leon, a spokesman for the national disaster commission.

Pacaya volcano, located about 15 miles (25 km) south of Guatemala City, began spewing ash and soot about 7 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) Thursday.

The runway at La Aurora International Airport -- the third busiest airport in Central America in terms of passenger traffic -- was covered with two inches of ash and will be closed Friday, Colom said.

About 25 percent of the airport's daily flights had to be diverted to alternative airports after La Aurora was closed around 7:30 p.m., said Monica Monje with Civil Aeronautics.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/28/guatemala.volcano/

[Eric J (Viking)]

2nd Iceland volcano issues warning
Scientists say powerful Katla is ‘close to failure’

msnbc.com
updated 11:16 a.m. ET May 27, 2010

LONDON - A second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt, scientists have warned.

Since the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which caused cancellations of thousands of flights in Europe because of a giant ash cloud, there has been much speculation about neighboring Katla.

An initial research paper by the University College of London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction said: "Analysis of the seismic energy released around Katla over the last decade or so is interpreted as providing evidence of a rising ... intrusive magma body on the western flank of the volcano."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37371442/ns/world_news-europe/

viking

[Gita]

More info on Pacaya volcano.

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Volcano Blast Sparks Guatemala Emergency

The last big eruption of the Pacaya volcano was in 1998
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/May/Week4/15639829.jpg

Anibal Archila's burnt body was found near the Pacaya volcano by a colleague, who said the reporter had been unable to escape a shower of boulders triggered by the eruption.

Some 1,600 people have been evacuated from the slopes of the volcano, which stands 2,552m (8,372ft) above sea level about 15 miles south of the capital, Guatemala City.

Three children aged seven, nine and 10 have been reported missing in the area.

Between two and three inches of ash have built up on streets in some southern parts of the capital city since the volcano started erupting on Wednesday.

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Continued here. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Guatemala-Erupting-Pacaya-Volcano-Kills-Journalist-And-Shuts-La-Aurora-International-Airport/Article/201005415639807?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_7&lid=ARTICLE_15639807_Guatemala%3A_Erupting_Pacaya_Volcano_Kills_Journalist_And_Shuts_La_Aurora_Inter national_Airport)

[Gita]

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Hurricane Warnings: 'Hell Of A Year' Ahead

The coming Atlantic storm season may bring the most destructive hurricanes in years, it is being warned.

The 2008 storm season saw Gustav, Hanna, Ike and Josephine in quick succession
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Sep/Week1/15093016.jpg

Up to 14 hurricanes are being predicted for the Western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - and up to seven of these could be major storms.
"The numbers are going to go up quite high," said hurricane forecaster William Gray.

This year's season, which runs from next week to the end of November, "looks like a hell of a year," he added.

The current hurricane record was set in 2005, which saw 15 of them, including Hurricane Katrina that killed around 1,500 and caused $80bn (£55bn) in damage.

Up to seven hurricanes are predicted to be Category Three or above - meaning they have wind speeds over 110mph.

"If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record," said Jane Lubchenco, NOAA's administrator.

Hurricanes of this strength can heavily damage buildings and disrupt oil and gas production, experts say.

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Continued here. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/US-Hurricanes-Could-Be-The-Worst-For-Years---NOAA-Says-Seven-Could-Be-Major-Storms/Article/201005415639847?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15639847_US_Hurricanes_Could_Be_The_Worst_For_Years_-_NOAA_Says_Seven_Could_Be_Major_Storms)

[DoctorWho]

This falls in line with what Cliff High has been saying. And with the massive oil spill, the hurricanes could throw all that oil inland, and could probably cause massive evacuations from the coastal states.
Bill "the Doctor"

[stardustaquarion]

This falls in line with what Cliff High has been saying. And with the massive oil spill, the hurricanes could throw all that oil inland, and could probably cause massive evacuations from the coastal states.
Bill "the Doctor"

Yes it is really harrowing, a diaspora originated by the combination of the oil volcano and hurricanes that can potentially kill more than 1.2 billion people by 2012, and that is the begining!

[SpoonMan]

More info on Pacaya volcano.

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Volcano Blast Sparks Guatemala Emergency

The last big eruption of the Pacaya volcano was in 1998
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/May/Week4/15639829.jpg

Anibal Archila's burnt body was found near the Pacaya volcano by a colleague, who said the reporter had been unable to escape a shower of boulders triggered by the eruption.


Some 1,600 people have been evacuated from the slopes of the volcano, which stands 2,552m (8,372ft) above sea level about 15 miles south of the capital, Guatemala City.

Three children aged seven, nine and 10 have been reported missing in the area.

Between two and three inches of ash have built up on streets in some southern parts of the capital city since the volcano started erupting on Wednesday.

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Continued here. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Guatemala-Erupting-Pacaya-Volcano-Kills-Journalist-And-Shuts-La-Aurora-International-Airport/Article/201005415639807?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_7&lid=ARTICLE_15639807_Guatemala%3A_Erupting_Pacaya_Volcano_Kills_Journalist_And_Shuts_La_Aurora_Inter national_Airport)

It seems there was a large eruption in Ecuador as well. Two large eruptions in the same day, one south america and one central america.
Edit: forgot the link http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/28/ecuador.volcano.evacuations/

[Gita]

Thanks SpoonMan. I wonder if these eruptions can be correlated with the CME that was heading our way on the 27th?

[SpoonMan]

To post something positive
"Thursday 27th May 2010
Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland
No activity has occurred at Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland for 5 days. It is looking increaslingly likely that the volcano eruption has ended. Currenly there is only steam coming from the crater."

That is from http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html

[Etherios]

To post something positive
"Thursday 27th May 2010
Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Iceland
No activity has occurred at Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland for 5 days. It is looking increaslingly likely that the volcano eruption has ended. Currenly there is only steam coming from the crater."

That is from http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html

Erm this is bad tho... it means Katla is almost rdy to blow ... they have officially warned EU that Katla will blow up soon... which means we will have a blast/ash cloud MUCH bigger that the last one... :(

[bluestflame]

anything to do with the loss of pressure holding the land up in the gulf of mexico?

[Gita]

This is pretty alarming. A 200 percent increase in the activity of the Katla volcano in Iceland.:eek:

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Another, larger Icelandic volcano may erupt

Another eruption is possible from a larger volcano form Iceland’s glacier, said scientists in Europe, as there has been a 200 percent increase in the activity of the Katla volcano in Iceland. The government has assured that it is ready to face the situation, if and when it arises.

MSNBC has reported that the volcanic activity of the Katla volcano has almost tripled of late and it might erupt in the near future. The report also says that there has been a substantial rise in shocks and tremors being felt in areas around the volcano.

The Katla volcano lies under the Myrdalsjokull icecap, which is just 12 miles away from Eyjafjallajokull, which erupted earlier this year and was responsible for air traffic to be stalled and innumerable flights to be halted in Europe. The Katla is known to erupt twice in 100 years and it last erupted in 1918. Its recent activity began on March 21 and its eruption is considered due as it is known to erupt in tandem with Eyjafjallajokull.

Four earthquakes were felt near Katla in a span of 12 hours on May21. Iceland’s President Olafur Grimsson has warned the European governments and airline authorities to be prepared against the actions of Mother Nature, as the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull had caught their aviation systems unaware and the response to the ash cloud was only a reactive one which had an impact on its effectiveness.

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http://www.globalcrisisnews.com/environment/another-larger-icelandic-volcano-may-erupt/id=1636/

[stardustaquarion]

There are two other volcanos that started erupting last week on the 25ft: Puyehue in Chile and Arenal in Costa Rica. Guatemala also got hit by the storm Agatha

A powerful tropical storm has struck Guatemala, bringing torrential rains that have added to the disruption caused by an erupting volcano.

At least 12 people have died in mudslides and floods caused by tropical storm Agatha, which is moving in from the Pacific Ocean.

The rains are complicating efforts to clear up ash from the Pacaya Volcano, which began erupting on Thursday.

Guatemala's main airport will remain close for at least five days.

Tropical storm Agatha - the first named storm of the Pacific Hurricane season - is expected to dump at least 50cm (20in) of rain on Guatemala, as well as El Salvador and southeastern Mexico.
Buried alive

Some rivers have already burst their banks, destroying bridges and forcing more than a-thousand people to flee their homes.
Plane covered in volcanic ash Guatemala City airport remains closed

Four children died when a mudslide buried their home in Santa Catarina Pinula, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, officials said.

Elsewhere in the capital, four people died and 11 are missing after floods swept through their homes.

A state of emergency declared because of the volcanic eruption has been extended across Guatemala.

Hundreds of people are in shelters after the Pacaya volcano erupted on Thursday.

Officials are warning that flooding could be worse than usual because ash from the volcano has blocked drainage systems.

They fear the rains will turn the black volcanic ash into cement-like mud
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10191957.stm

There are a number of ongoing volcanos around the world. It is very active in this moment

[Gita]

I can't help but correlate all this with the sun's magnetic storms and CME! Any thoughts on this?

[stardustaquarion]

I can't help but correlate all this with the sun's magnetic storms and CME! Any thoughts on this?

There are three main factors to my understanding
1) CMEs and other cosmic pulses
2) Heating of the core of the planet (which is happening in all the solar sys it may well be a galactic thing)
3) Human intervention by way of scalar tech, i.e. HAARP we could do without this one but, they ain't listening :shout:

I think the volcaninc activity makes sense, it relieves pressure and cools the atmosphere with the ash

Lets sack those politicians:lever::heh:

[Gita]

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Tropical Storm Agatha Lashes Central America

The first tropical storm of the Pacific hurricane season has left at least 99 people dead as heavy rains triggered flash floods and mudslides across Central America.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Guatemala have been forced from their homes
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/May/Week4/15640884.jpg

Tropical Storm Agatha slammed into Guatemala on Sunday where it has had the most devastating effect, leaving 82 dead according to officials.

El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico have also been affected by floods and landslides and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes.

"We have suffered many personal misfortunes," Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom told reporters.

"But from now we enter a transition stage where we attend to the people in the shelters."

Authorities in El Salvador have accounted for nine deaths so far with Honduras reporting eight people dead.

All three have declared a nationwide state of emergency and Colombia and the US have offered to send aircraft to transport aid supplies or help with evacuations.

The 40mph winds have dissipated since they first hit Guatemala and the storm has now been downgraded to a tropical depression.

But authorities in the region are still trying to reach cut-off communities and the death toll is expected to rise.

In Guatemala, 112,000 people have fled their homes and a local mayor said a landslide in the Solola district swept away 25 homes in one village, killing 15 people with another 10 missing.

The president has stated that bodies will be buried quickly to prevent the outbreak of disease and schools will remain closed this week.

The storm is a double disaster for Guatemala after its Pacaya volcano erupted on Wednesday showering the capital in ash and killing two people. Three others are still missing.

The ash has closed La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, so President Colom has requested the use of an airport in Mexico's border city of Tapachula for emergency flights.
Freddy Sanchez from Guatemala's national seismological institute warned it was highly likely that there could be more "violent explosions" in the coming days.

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Source (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Tropical-Storm-Agatha-At-Least-99-People-Dead-In-Central-America-With-Guatemala-The-Hardest-Hit/Article/201005415640870?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15640870_Tropical_Storm_Agatha%3A_At_Least_99_People_Dead_In_Central_America_With_Guatem ala_The_Hardest_Hit_)

[HORIZONS]

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Tropical Storm Agatha Lashes Central America

The first tropical storm of the Pacific hurricane season has left at least 99 people dead as heavy rains triggered flash floods and mudslides across Central America.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Guatemala have been forced from their homes
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/May/Week4/15640884.jpg

Tropical Storm Agatha slammed into Guatemala on Sunday where it has had the most devastating effect, leaving 82 dead according to officials.

El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico have also been affected by floods and landslides and hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes.

"We have suffered many personal misfortunes," Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom told reporters.

"But from now we enter a transition stage where we attend to the people in the shelters."

Authorities in El Salvador have accounted for nine deaths so far with Honduras reporting eight people dead.

All three have declared a nationwide state of emergency and Colombia and the US have offered to send aircraft to transport aid supplies or help with evacuations.

The 40mph winds have dissipated since they first hit Guatemala and the storm has now been downgraded to a tropical depression.

But authorities in the region are still trying to reach cut-off communities and the death toll is expected to rise.

In Guatemala, 112,000 people have fled their homes and a local mayor said a landslide in the Solola district swept away 25 homes in one village, killing 15 people with another 10 missing.

The president has stated that bodies will be buried quickly to prevent the outbreak of disease and schools will remain closed this week.

The storm is a double disaster for Guatemala after its Pacaya volcano erupted on Wednesday showering the capital in ash and killing two people. Three others are still missing.

The ash has closed La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, so President Colom has requested the use of an airport in Mexico's border city of Tapachula for emergency flights.
Freddy Sanchez from Guatemala's national seismological institute warned it was highly likely that there could be more "violent explosions" in the coming days.

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Source (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Tropical-Storm-Agatha-At-Least-99-People-Dead-In-Central-America-With-Guatemala-The-Hardest-Hit/Article/201005415640870?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15640870_Tropical_Storm_Agatha%3A_At_Least_99_People_Dead_In_Central_America_With_Guatem ala_The_Hardest_Hit_)

Check out this hole in the ground. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/31/honduras.storm.emergency/index.html?hpt=T1 Sinkholes are showing up more and more.

[Etherios]

Anyone know what these sink holes are? Is it a natural reaction or some kind of underground drilling/opening space operations that collapse?

[_Infinity_original]

OMG!!! I've never seen one of them before. Bloody hell!! :eek:

[onawah]

It certainly doesn't look like it was caused by a landslide as the news story is reporting. That story must be some kind of coverup.

[bluestflame]

bottom of the hole looks pretty even , would have expected to see some form of uneven erosion at the bottom

[Etherios]

After a small search here... http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-report-january-2010-sinkholes/

[Eric J (Viking)]

122F !!! I can't imagine what that would be like!!

Hundreds die in Indian heatwave

Death toll expected to rise as India faces record temperatures of up to 122F in hottest summer on record

Record temperatures in northern India have claimed hundreds of lives in what is believed to be the hottest summer in the country since records began in the late 1800s.

The death toll is expected to rise with experts forecasting temperatures approaching 50C (122F) in coming weeks. More than 100 people are reported to have died in the state of Gujarat where the mercury topped at 48.5C last week. At least 90 died in Maharashtra, 35 in Rajasthan and 34 in Bihar.

Hospitals in Gujarat have been receiving around 300 people a day suffering from food poisoning and heat stroke, ministers said. Officials admit the figures are only a fraction of the total as most of the casualties are found in remote rural villages.

further reading...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/india-heatwave-deaths

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

EDIT>>>>>>>>>>> ooops this sink hole goes back a few years!...... SORRY!! STILL BLOODY BIG THOUGH!!!

Jeeeeze these holes are getting bigger and bigger...seen this?

http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/bayou/files/2010/05/SinkholeGuat.jpg

Photoshopped our arse! This is real (according to the people that run Guatemala), and we are SO very screwed. Does that thing after the jump look familiar? This is where all the bad girls and boys go to spend their eternity. Bingo, it’s the security line at O’Hare Airport.

Hoped you enjoyed that 3-day weekend, ’cause the grind begins NOW!

Today is the day: hurricane season is off and running, yet nature decided to get a jump on the festivities. A storm has already clobbered Central America. Rain from Tropical Storm Agatha has generated flooding and landslides, killing more than 140 people.

But THIS! Have you seen THIS! Folks, THIS is a sign from the almighty. BP, and their gargling oil fountain, have angered the storm gods. Just look what they’ve wrought on poor, defenseless Guatemala. This sinkhole is like an expressway to Hades. HELLLO down there!!?!? Either this is the Hatch from LOST or we can visit Shanghai through this here hole.

http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/bayou/2010/06/01/tropical-storm-agatha-opens-up-a-doorway-to-hell/

viking

[Lucid Jia]

EDIT>>>>>>>>>>> ooops this sink hole goes back a few years!...... SORRY!! STILL BLOODY BIG THOUGH!!!

Jeeeeze these holes are getting bigger and bigger...seen this?

http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/bayou/files/2010/05/SinkholeGuat.jpg

viking

WOW! That is insane! Where does that go?

[Eric J (Viking)]

Well actually I found the story on another site...after a little research I thought the picture was photo shopped...LOL

After a bit more research I found that the picture in question is noit exactly the same...is the article true?? I'm geeting giddy!!!! lol

Another article here on the story
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/31/tropical-storm-agatha-kills-central-american-countries-dozens-missing/?test=latestnews

This was the one I thought was the same!!! note the date...!!
http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/09/the-sinkhole-truth.html

But pictures are different...

viking

[Micjer]

Oh I am sure it is real. But where does it go?

[Lucid Jia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sUZzC0ghO0&feature=player_embedded

[Eric J (Viking)]

That is one huge sinkhole Lucid .... scarey...

anyway...
First Tropical Storm of the Season Kills Scores

More than 110,000 in Guatemala flee as first storm of season lashes region

May 31, 2010
AP

GUATEMALA CITY - Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said Monday.

Dozens are still missing, thousands have lost homes and emergency crews are struggling to reach isolated communities cut off by washed-out roads and collapsed bridges caused by Tropical Storm Agatha.

Photo: The overflowing Choluteca River knocked out the Bailey bridge in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Orlando Sierra / AFP - Getty)

The sun emerged Monday in hardest-hit Guatemala, where officials reported 123 dead and at least 90 missing. In the department of Chimaltenango — a province west of Guatemala City — landslides buried dozens of rural Indian communities and killed at least 60 people, Gov. Erick de Leon said.

further reading
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/10_Earth_Changes/100601.TS.Agatha.html

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Just found this interesting article...let pray nowt happens...

Turks fear Greek toads of doom

They may just be looking for food and greener pastures. But in Turkey, the sudden movement of hundreds of thousands of frogs that forced authorities in neighbouring Greece to close down a major highway is seen as a sign that a devastating earthquake may be nigh.

full read here...
http://newstilt.com/istanbulcorrespondent/news/turks-fear-greek-toads-of-doom

viking

[Lucid Jia]

Just found this interesting article...let pray nowt happens...

Turks fear Greek toads of doom

They may just be looking for food and greener pastures. But in Turkey, the sudden movement of hundreds of thousands of frogs that forced authorities in neighbouring Greece to close down a major highway is seen as a sign that a devastating earthquake may be nigh.

full read here...
http://newstilt.com/istanbulcorrespondent/news/turks-fear-greek-toads-of-doom

viking

Hmmmm.. psychic toads? Lets hope their intuition fails them this time.

[stardustaquarion]

At least 25 members of Bakkarwal tribe, including women and children, were feared killed along with their livestock while several others are reportedly missing after unprecedented snowstorm in Kishtwar district, official sources today said. Several nomad families at various migration routes in upper reaches of Kishtwar were reportedly missing since untimely heavy snowfall and rain struck the Pir Panjal mountain ranges last week, UNI said quoting a senior police officer who requesting anonymity. As per official assessment, over 4,000 cattle, including goats, sheep, horses, cows and buffaloes, have been killed due to a turbulent weather on May 27, 28 last month in inaccessible high reaches of Warwan, the officer said. "Exact number of people killed in this natural disaster in Warwan area, which connects Kishtwar to Kargil (Ladakh area), could be known only after the administration teams reach the places,'' the officer said, asserting that it takes three days to reach the locations where the deaths of nomadic Bakkarwals have been reported and there is no telecommunication facility in the area. "So far we can just say several nomadic families are missing as we have not been able to establish contact with them,'' the officer said.

According to reports, an entire dera (nomadic group) of at least 25 Bakkarwals, including women and children, which was halting at Jabba Nullah in Warwan area, has perished in snowstorm along with their livestock. As the reports were yet to be verified officially, the state administration was observing silence over the loss of human life and livestock due to turbulent weather in upper reaches in Jammu and Kashmir. On receiving information, the district administration dispatched two teams of 15 members each to the affected area under the leadership of Dy SP (Operations) Kishtwar and Assistant Commissioner (Revenue), the officer disclosed. The teams would launch rescue operation and assess the losses due to natural disaster, the officer said, asserting that exact situation will also be clear after the officials reach the affected locations in Warwan. Officer, however, said locating bodies of deceased wont be possible due to 3 to 5 feet snow in the area. NGO, Tribal Research and Cultural Foundations secretary Dr Javid Rahi said several families of nomadic Bakkarwals and Gujjars were reportedly trapped in inaccessible upper reaches of Pir Panjal. We request government to immediately conduct aerial survey of affected areas and help save lives of trapped nomads in Kishtwar, Dr Rahi said, estimating loss of livestock over 10,000. Not only Kishtwar, but the higher reaches in other districts of the state also witnessed heavy snowfall and rains, and there could be more casualties, an official said. Army has also launched rescue and relief operations for the affected people in remote areas of Kishtwar, Yesterday, a joint relief column comprising Army doctors, civilian veterinary doctors, police personnel and officials from the District Headquarters were airlifted from Kishtwar to Warwan. The team carried along with them sufficient quantities of medicines both for the deras as well as their livestock, Defence spokesman Lt Col Biplab Nath said, adding the army team will undertake simultaneous relief work in Warwan and Navapachchi areas for the next four to five days.

[SpoonMan]

It seems this year there has had a record number of record breaking weather events all over the world. I wonder if it is natural, or part of this 'Weather Wars' we are seemingly taking part in. Perhaps a bit of both...

[bluestflame]

maybe the thermal properties of the oil in the gulf has already started affecting the natural heating cooling of the oceans (aside from other more obvious effects) and has assisted increased temperatures further afield ...only a theory (the day after tomorrow)

[stardustaquarion]

It seems this year there has had a record number of record breaking weather events all over the world. I wonder if it is natural, or part of this 'Weather Wars' we are seemingly taking part in. Perhaps a bit of both...

I think it is part of the weather wars, tptb seems to be creating torsion fields that are unnatural with their scalar technology

[Eric J (Viking)]

Grim search resumes after Ark. floods
Campground death toll at 17; two dozen unaccounted for

CADDO GAP, Ark. - Rescue crews on foot and in kayaks, horseback and ATVs resumed searching Saturday for campers still missing after flash floods swept through a popular campground, killing at least 17 people. About two dozen people were unaccounted for, authorities said.

"There's about 20 miles of river to cover," Capt. Mike Fletcher of the Arkansas State Police told reporters. "It’s a very rugged terrain. It's just going to be very time-consuming."

The pre-dawn Friday surge along the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers caught sleeping campers in and around the Albert Pike Recreation Area by surprise, leaving them little time to try to scramble in the darkness to higher ground and safety.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37637416/ns/us_news-life

viking

[MorningSong]

I just ran across this and thought it was interesting. What would cause water to flow between a glacier and the volcano on which it sits? Maybe heat? duh....


Thousands of 'ice quakes' detected on Mount Rainier
by GLENN FARLEY / KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on June 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Updated Wednesday, Jun 9 at 9:43 PM

SEATTLE - You can see them on the seismometers at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington. There are thousands of them - little squiggles that come every few minutes. Scientists call them "ice quakes" along with a few other names.

"We think it's glacial noise coming from the bottom of a glacier." said Dr. Steve Malone, a UW professor emeritus and expert on the seismicity of volcanoes. Among other things, he tracked the buildup to the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

But Malone does not think Mount Rainier is coming back to life because of where the quakes are, high on the mountain and on the surface of the rock, not deep down inside where signs of moving magma would be detected.

The signature on the seismometer is also different. Where volcanic earthquakes start with a sudden bang and then peter out, these start with a whimper, get bigger and then trail off.

There's another one every few minutes, but they are small, less than a magnitude 1. In other words, they can't be felt.

They are also showing up on just three seismometers higher up on the mountain, one of them located near a popular stopping point for climbers known as Camp Muir.

They have been seen before. There were similar swarms in 1990 and 1998, but not this long. This latest wave began on May 21, faded away as June began and has picked up to a steady clip ever since.

"It's interesting. It's one of these scientific curiosities," said Malone.

Wes Thelen with the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash. says there's been nothing unusual noted at the surface by park rangers. But the exact nature of what's going on between the mountain and its glaciers is still a mystery.

Glaciers move, but the last swarm of "ice quakes" like this occurred in 1998, 12 years ago. Thelen says the working theory is that water is moving between the glacier and the rock.

Scientists also don't believe the quakes had anything to do with a fatal avalanche last Saturday. They say these quakes are between the glacier and the rocks. The avalanche was at the surface during avalanche-prone conditions.

http://www.king5.com/news/Thousands-of-Ice-quakes-detected-on-Mt-Rainier--95996979.html

[Eric J (Viking)]

1.3 million flee as China flooding kills 155
The Associated Press

BEIJING Unusually heavy seasonal flooding in China has killed at least 155 people and forced more than 1 million to flee as water levels in some areas reached at their highest in more than a decade, the government reported Saturda

Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/06/12/1051378/13-million-flee-as-china-flooding.html#ixzz0qrAPuiDv

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/06/12/1051378/13-million-flee-as-china-flooding.html#ixzz0qmWeJs3j

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viking

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Season’s first tropical depression may soon arrive

by Kate Spinner

There’s a 60 percent chance that the Atlantic will see its first tropical depression of the year within two days, according to the latest Tropical Weather Outlook from the National Hurricane season.

The large area of clouds and thunderstorms is located about 10 degrees north of the equator, about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles. Atmospheric moisture and instability surrounding the storm system give it a high chance of becoming stronger, according to the hurricane center discussion.

http://hurricanereport.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10269/seasons-first-tropical-depression-may-soon-arrive/

viking

[ZAINA]

This just came in on u tube , i too have had these dreams ,so i feel i need to post this ,,,just in case ,,sorry if it turns out to be nothing ,,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMOJR_a_Nc&NR=1

[Gita]

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Earthquakes shake California-Mexico border

A moderate earthquake rattled Southern California Monday evening, just north of the Mexican border, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The magnitude 5.7 quake stuck at 9:26 p.m. PT and was centered 70 miles east of San Diego, California. At least 20 other quakes shook the border region in an hour's time, measuring between magnitude 2.6 and 3.9.

Authorities throughout Southern California reported no damage in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake

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Source (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/earthquakes-shake-california-mexico-border/?hpt=T2)

[Gita]

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Powerful earthquakes shake Indonesian coast, kill 2 people


CNN) -- At least two people were killed after four earthquakes struck within an hour's time near the northern coast of Papua, Indonesia, midday Wednesday, authorities said. A fifth and sixth quake hit the region a few hours later.

"Two people dead, 20 houses collapsed" on the island of Yapen, according to Papua police spokesman Wachyono, who goes by a single name. There were also reports of fires burning, he added.

A 6.4 magnitude quake quake struck at 12:06 p.m. local time, followed by a more powerful 7.0 magnitude quake 10 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Within the next 42 minutes, a 5.1 magnitude quake also rattled the region, along with a magnitude 6.2 quake. Weaker quakes of magnitude 4.9 and 4.8 hit the area after 3 p.m.

The epicenters of the earthquakes were clustered within 90 kilometers (56 miles) of each other and some 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Enarotali, Indonesia.

"People ran out of their houses and headed for higher ground in fear of a tsunami," said Denni Siregar, the police chief of Yapen Island sector, which lies near the epicenters. "There's no injuries reported yet but at least one house is damaged."

A tsunami watch that was issued by the Indonesian Meteorological Agency was later lifted.
Indonesia is on the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude underwater earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in 14 countries.

The tsunami, which washed away entire communities, caused nearly $10 billion in damage and more casualties than any other tsunami in history, according to the United Nations. Indonesia was among the hardest hit nations.


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Source (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/15/indonesia.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T2)

[MorningSong]

Heavy flooding in France: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/11-killed-in-flash-floods-in-france-2001954.html


11 killed in flash floods in France

AP

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

At least 11 people have been killed and two are missing after flash floods caused by powerful rainstorms in south-east France, regional officials said today.

Unusually heavy rain in the Var region has transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. Floodwaters in the city of Draguignan were about 6.5 feet high.

A regional official told France-Info radio that 1,200 people had spent the night in shelters.

Tens of thousands of people are without electricity, and some schools in the region are closed.

President Nicolas Sarkozy sent condolences to the region's residents and thanked the emergency response personne

Also: http://www.euronews.net/2010/06/16/deadly-floods-hit-southern-france/

[Micjer]

Heavy rain forecast to last until Friday is bad news for Saskatchewan farmers






There are 10 million unseeded acres in the province, says agriculture analyst Larry Weber.

"This is the most unplanted acres we've had in the history of our province," said Weber.

Only 70 per cent of the 2010 crop has been seeded, notes Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud. If the latest weather forecast holds, farmers won't get much more than that in the field. "I'll have to commend farmers' efforts if we manage to get 75-per-cent seeded," he said



Read more: http://www.leaderpost.com/Gloomy+forecast+farmers/3159843/story.html#ixzz0r2l3Y8SF

[Eric J (Viking)]

European flooding
June 16, 2010
Over the past month, heavy rainfall from different storms across parts of Europe has caused massive amounts of flooding - some water moving slowly across river plains and farmland, some moving swiftly through cities and villages. Dozens have lost their lives, many thousands evacuated their homes, some repeatedly - Poland in particular is suffering its worst flooding in decades. More recently, parts of Spain and France have experienced flash floods that have carried away people and vehicles. Collected here are some images of the flooding in Europe from the past several weeks. (42 photos total)

click for photos...
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/european-flooding

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Erupting Volcanoes...

http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/find_eruptions.cfm

Year
2010---14 And we still have 6 months to go!!!
2009----6
2008----9
2007----2
2006----1
2005----2
2004----2
2003----0
2002----2
2001----1
2000----1

viking

[Gita]

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Flash Floods Kill Dozens In Southern China

Floods have killed at least 88 people and left 48 missing amid torrential downpours that have forced around three-quarters of a million people in China to flee their homes.

The rain has been virtually unrelenting since Sunday and with further rain forecast the disaster is set to worsen.

China's second-largest waterway, the Pearl River, which crosses the south, could burst its banks at any time after the water level passed warning markers on Thursday.

In the southeastern province of Fujian alone, 25 people were reported to have died in landslides caused by the rains and 15 more were said to be missing.

State television broadcast images of a bridge in a Fujian town collapsing as water battered its foundations.

In neighbouring Guangdong province houses were shown almost entirely submerged.

Meanwhile, diggers in nearby Jiangxi were seen clearing roads of huge rocks caused by landslides and workers hung off poles as they tried to restore the electricity.

The National Meteorological Centre has issued an orange storm alert - just one level lower than a red alert.

It said: "There will be heavy rain over the next three days, and flood-control work will face enormous challenges."

Some of the rainfall in the south was up to three times greater than normal years, the meteorological centre said.

The latest statement from the nation's civil affairs ministry said the cost of the floods had now reached £1.1bn.

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Source (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/China-Floods-Leave-At-Least-136-Dead-Or-Missing-After-Torrential-Rain-Batters-The-South/Article/201006315651947?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15651947_China_Floods_Leave_At_Least_136_Dead_Or_Missing_After_Torrential_Rain_Batters_T he_South)

[Gita]

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China flood death toll rises to 132

http://www.presstv.ir/photo/20100620/Mirvarzandeh20100620064310200.jpg

The death toll from torrential downpours across large swaths of southern China has reached 132 and more storms are forecast in the coming days, authorities say.

The Chinese ministry of water resources said on Sunday that 86 other people were missing and more than 10 million have been affected by the flooding in nine southern provinces.

The country's National Meteorological Centre has issued its highest alert, saying that flood-control work will face enormous challenges.

The thunderstorms have collapsed reservoirs, caused landslides and damaged highways in the country. Economic losses so far are estimated to be around $1.5 billion.

China witnesses major floods annually along the Yangtze and other major rivers, but this year's flooding has been especially heavy, spreading in the south of the country and along the eastern coast.

The flooding follows on the heels of the worst drought in a century for the Chinese southern provinces and regions of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

The drought has left millions without drinking water and destroyed more than 5 million hectares of crops.

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[Gita]

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Celia becomes season's first hurricane

MIAMI (AP) - Celia was upgraded to hurricane status Sunday as it howled toward open seas, away from Mexico's Pacific coast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm was expected to gradually strengthen and it already had maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph (120 kph) with higher gusts. The storm is listed as a Category 1 hurricane

Celia was centered about 365 miles (590 kilometers) south of Acapulco Sunday afternoon, the hurricane center said, and it was moving westward at about 7 mph (11 kph).

That course would take toward the open Pacific and forecasters said it posed no immediate threat to land.

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Source (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GF7ST02&show_article=1)

[Gita]

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NASA: Solar storm to hit earth in 2013

NASA scientists predict a solar storm will hit the earth in 2013 mostly affecting electronic devices leading to a major catastrophe.

The once-in-a-generation storm, caused by extremely high levels magnetic energy released by solar flares, "will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic," says Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, quoted in a June 14 Daily Telegraph article.

"Large areas will be without electricity power," says Fisher who emphasizes that the emergence of the storm is certain, though its degree of severity cannot be accurately foretold.

The National Academy of Sciences warned two years ago that a strong solar storm could cause "twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina," which devastated US Gulf of Mexico coastal city of New Orleans in 2005, killing thousands and living an estimated damage of over $125 billion.

According to Fisher, the storm, which will cause the sun to reach temperatures of more than 10,000 F (5,500 C), occurs "only a few times over a person's life."

Every 22 years, according to the report, the Sun's magnetic energy cycle reaches its highest level as the number sun spots - or flares - peaks every 11 years. These two events, says Fisher, "would combine in 2013 to produce huge levels of radiation."

In recent months, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has offered unique photos of sun spots, which release a vast amount of energy as they light up.

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Source (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=131308&sectionid=3510208)

[Eric J (Viking)]

Landslide occurred in Gedabey region.

Official website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports, that the landslide areas in Ayrivang and Shahdag villages of Gadabay region became more active after the heavy rains on June 17-18.

http://www.news.az/articles/17769

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The Trans-Canada Highway at the boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan remained closed Saturday morning because of flooding, authorities said.

About five kilometres of the highway were flooded because of heavy rain earlier in the week. Detours were set up Friday and remain in place.

Drivers making their way west to Alberta are being redirected to Highway 7.

Other roads in the area were also affected by flooding, including Highway 271 between Maple Creek and Fort Walsh, Sask.

further reading...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/06/19/sk-highway-closed-flooding-tch-10619.html#ixzz0rSzyhAuH

*****

viking

[Gita]

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Growing concern in Brazil as number of flood victims increase

CNN) -- Officials in Brazil fear the death toll may rise as four days of flooding has punished the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, killing 33 people and leaving thousands homeless, officials said.

More than 1,000 people are missing in the state of Alagoas. Some 500 people are unaccounted for in the town of Uniao dos Palmares alone, a state spokesman said.

According to Brazil's civil defense agency, more than 40,000 are homeless.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is meeting in Brasilia with governors of both states and has promised to facilitate emergency funds to help flood victims.

Pernambuco Governor Eduardo Campos -- who flew over the affected areas -- described the situation as "heart-breaking."

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/WORLD/americas/06/21/brazil.floods/story.brazil.flooding.gi.jpg

"What we have seen since Friday is more than a horror-film," Campos said in an official statement.

Alagoas Governor Teotonio Vilela Filho traveled through several affected areas an attempted to reassure public.

"I ask you all to remain calm because we are all invested in helping you," he said.

Alagoas state weather officials are forecasting more rain on Tuesday.

Brazil's Center for Climatic Studies (CPTEC) predicted rain above average in the Northeast for the Autum season, which is now coming to an end. Brazil's winter season officially began on June 21.

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Source (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/21/brazil.floods/index.html?hpt=T1)

[Gita]

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Tornado, storms hit Wisconsin, leaving thousands without power

(CNN) -- At least one tornado touched down in the area of Eagle, Wisconsin, a local sheriff's department said Monday night.

The twister leveled at least five homes and knocked out the power for most of Eagle, a village of about 1,700 people in southern Wisconsin, authorities told CNN-affiliate WTMJ.

The tornado hit at 9:16 p.m. (10:16 p.m. ET), said Daniel Trawicki, sheriff of Waukesha County.

Richard Spurrell, president of the village, said it may take until daylight before authorities will be able to determine the full extent of the damage.

"This is the worst one I've seen in a long, long time," Spurrell said. "Stay inside and safe. We will get to your house as soon as we can."

Spurrell said initial reports indicated there were several minor injuries, but no fatalities.

WE Energies said the Monday night storms knocked out power to 46,000 of its customers in Waukesha and surrounding counties. Spokesman Brian McNulty called the outage "pretty significant."

Weekend storms left 27,000 in the dark.

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Source (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/21/wisconsin.tornado/index.html?iref=allsearch)

[Gita]

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Tornado rips roof off entertainment complex in Montana

(CNN) -- A fast-developing storm spawned at least one tornado Sunday in Billings, Montana, ripping the roof off a massive entertainment complex and causing extensive damage in the region.

No injuries were reported.

Amateur video shows the funnel cloud hovering over the MetraPark venue -- home to a sports arena, expo center and other facilities -- kicking up debris and peeling away the roof of one of the complex's buildings.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer estimated that the roof damage could cost between $8 million and $15 million, but noted it was fortunate the arena was not hosting an event when the twister struck around 4:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET).

The damaged building held a football game at the same time just a night earlier, he said.

Meteorologist Keith Meier of the National Weather Service in Billings estimated the tornado to be as strong as an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds estimated at more than 100 mph.

Meier said the storm also produced quarter- to half-dollar-sized hail.

Schweitzer plans to travel to the region Monday to survey the damage; he said the National Guard is ready to assist in cleanup efforts if needed.

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Watch Vid here (Source) (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/20/montana.tornado/index.html?iref=allsearch)

[Eric J (Viking)]

(CNN) -- Officials in Brazil say they fear the death toll may rise after four days of flooding left 33 people dead and thousands homeless.

The flooding has mainly affected the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Alagoas.

More than 1,000 people are missing in Alagoas with about 500 people unaccounted for in the town of Uniao dos Palmares alone, a state spokesman said.

According to Brazil's civil defense agency, more than 40,000 are homeless.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is meeting in Brasilia with governors of both states and has promised to facilitate emergency funds to help flood victims.

Pernambuco Governor Eduardo Campos -- who flew over the affected areas -- described the situation as "heart-breaking."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/21/brazil.floods/index.html?hpt=T2

viking

¤=[Post Update]=¤

World's glaciers melting at accelerated pace, leading scientists say



* Environment
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From the Alps to the Andes, the world's glaciers are retreating at an accelerated pace - despite the recent controversy over claims by the United Nations' body of experts, leading climate scientists said today.

Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, said there is strong evidence from a variety of sources of significant melting of glaciers - from the area around Kilimanjaro in Africa to the Alps, the Andes, and the icefields of Antarctica because of a warming climate. Ice is also disappearing at a faster rate in recent decades, he said.

"It is not any single glacier," he said. "It is very clear that these glaciers are behaving in a similar fashion."

The United Nations' climate science experts admitted today that it did not have the evidence to support the claim in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/climate-change-glaciers-melting

viking

[Gita]

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Quake shakes southern Canada

CNN) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck Wednesday in southern Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake struck at 1:41 p.m. ET near the borders of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, about 38 miles north of the city of Ottawa, the USGS said. It was centered about 12 miles deep. The USGS initially assigned it a preliminary magnitude of 5.5.

Ottawa police told CNN that several buildings in the city were evacuated. An operator at the Ottawa Hospital said the quake was felt for about 30 seconds.

Sgt. Marc LaPorte, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told CNN that it was a "slight tremor" and there "doesn't appear to be any damage reported to date yet."

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Continued here and watch vid here. (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/23/canada.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T2&fbid=m8jvqQEBegy)

[Gita]

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China flood death toll rises to 211

Beijing, China (CNN) -- The death toll has risen to 211 as a result of flooding in China, state-run news outlets reported Wednesday.

A fresh breach of a beleaguered dike on a river in eastern China caused fresh flooding in an area already battered by floods, state-media reported.

About 100,000 people had already fled earlier flooding from the Fu River in Jiangxi province this week, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported

A new breach on the river intensified the flooding, state news reports said.

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Continued here and watch vid here. (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/china.flood.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2&fbid=m8jvqQEBegy)

[Gita]

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More than 600 still missing in Brazilian floods

(CNN) -- More than 600 people remained missing Wednesday in one of two Brazilian states where heavy rain has led to 45 deaths and left thousands of residents homeless, officials said.
Flooding from heavy rain that started late last week has damaged large segments of Alagoas and Pernambuco states in coastal northeastern Brazil.

The death toll had not increased Wednesday from the previous day's tally -- 29 in Alagoas and 16 in Pernambuco, civil defense officials said.

The worst damage has occurred in Alagoas, where nearly 20,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, the state civil defense office said.

Video from CNN affiliate Record TV shows rivers of water rushing through city streets that have turned into roiling canals. Some people clamber on rooftops while others watch helplessly from second-floor windows. One scene shows a woman trying to cross a street by holding onto a rope suspended about a foot above the water, the strong current pushing her head underneath at one point before she emerges again and reaches helping hands on the other side.

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Continued here and watch vid here. (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/23/brazil.floods/index.html?hpt=T2&fbid=m8jvqQEBegy)

[MorningSong]

First the rare EQ, now this:

[QUOTE]Thousands without power after Ontario tornado

MIDLAND, Ont. — Roughly 8,200 homes in the Midland region were without power Thursday morning, after a tornado ripped through the central Ontario community the night before, injuring residents and damaging homes.

Although initial reports were uncertain about the nature of the wind storm, Environment Canada confirmed Thursday that it was a tornado that touched down.

“Based on the eyewitness accounts ... and the pictures we’ve seen, we are confirming it was tornado in Midland,” said meteorologist Geoff Coulson. “At this point we don’t know the details about ... intensity.”

Two damage survey teams are on their way to Midland and the surrounding to assess the impact of the storm, he said.

The extent of the damage, and its impact on cars, homes and trees, will help them determine the size and strength of the tornado, he said.

Hydro One crews are in Midland trying to restore power to thousands of customers, said spokeswoman Daniele Gauvin.

Such an extensive outage requires the work of ground and helicopter crews, she said, who hope to have the power back on by the late afternoon.

About a dozen people were injured after the tornado hit.

Most of the injuries were reported at a local trailer park, but residents reported the huge funnel cloud, as much as 80 metres wide, also snapped a transformer and tore the roof off a factory.

Alisdair MacLean, the business manager of Midland Toyota on the town’s main thoroughfare, King Street, witnessed the storm.

“If you saw the movie Twister, that’s pretty much what happened,” he said.[QUOTE]

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Thousands+without+power+after+Ontario+tornado/3195007/story.html#ixzz0s67I5LaP

[Gita]

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Landslide Buries 107 People in SW China

China Facing Unending Mega-Disasters

At least 107 people were buried by a landslide in southwest China’s Guizhou Province on Monday, Chinese officials said, Xinhua reported.

The landslide which was triggered by torrential rain and flooding “occurred at 2:30 p.m. in Dazhai Village, Gangwu Township of Guanling County, said a spokesman for the government of Anshun City, which administers Guanling.”

Rescue work was suspended because relentless rain which has been pummeling the area since late Sunday, officials were reported as saying.

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Source (http://feww.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/landslide-buries-107-people-in-sw-china/)

[Gita]

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6.5-magnitude quake rocks Mexico

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale has struck southern Mexico, raising public panic in the area, the US earthquake monitoring service says.

The United States Geological Survey said the tremor hit eight miles (14 km) east of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, at 0722 GMT on Wednesday.

There have been no immediate reports on the injuries or major damages caused by the seismic activity.

The quake was relatively shallow at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km) below the sea.

The tremors were also felt in the country's capital, Mexico City, causing buildings to sway and raising fear among many residents who rushed for open ground.

According to Reuters, rescue helicopters whirred over the capital and police sirens were heard, but power and phone connections were working in the city center.

The earthquake is the largest to hit the Mexican peninsula since a powerful 7.2 magnitude quake on April 5, which left two people dead and caused tremors as far away as Nevada.

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Source (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=132762&sectionid=351020705)

[MorningSong]

April 4th Earthquake Moved California City 31 Inches: Calexico, Calif

http://military.rightpundits.com/2010/06/28/earthquake-moved-california-city-31-inches-calexico-calif/


It seems that California’s borders have changed. A powerful earthquake moved a California city 31 inches! Calexico, Calif, right on the U.S.-Mexico border was moved by an earthquake that struck Baja California on April 4, 2010. Read about it below and see a location map of Calexico, Calif.

Calexico California

NASA radar images show that Calexico, California was moved as much as 2 1/2 feet (80 cm) south as well as pushed down into the Earth by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit Baja California on April 4, 2010. Does that mean that Calexico is now part of Mexico or has the United States just claimed a couple of feet of Mexican land? I’ll leave that to the politicos to decide.

The April 4th Baja California quake is called the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake. It was the strongest earthquake to strike that region in almost 120 years. It was centered 32 miles south-southeast of Calexico. Two people were killed and hundreds were injured. Apparently, it also moved the borders of Mexico and the U.S. as well.

Apparently, cities being moved along the San Andreas fault are not unheard of. Earlier this year the Chilean city of Concepcion moved about 10 feet to the west when the fifth most powerful temblor in recorded history struck Chile. In addition, the Chile quake shifted the Earth’s axis shortening the length of days by 1.26 microsecond. Scientists say that’s not unusual either. In 1989, a 6.9 magnitude quake hit Loma Prieta in southern California and moved the Pacific plate 6.2 feet to the northwest and 4.3 feet upward out of the Earth.

According to scientist, these quakes and shifting eventually reshape the Earth. San Francisco is moving towards Los Angeles at a rate of about 2 inches a year. They say it’ll take a few million years for the two cities to be neighbors.

The movement of Calexico was discovered by NASA making radar sweeps over the quake-affected region in a Gulfstream-III jet specially outfitted for scientific flights. The aircraft flew at 41,000 feet above the fault system and recorded how the quake changed the Earth’s surface. The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA has been mapping the Earth’s shifts on the San Andreas fault from San Francisco to the Mexican border since the Spring of 2009.

You can see the NASA radar images here. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/UAVSARimage20100623.html

This study by NASA helps explain how an earthquake moved a California City 31 inches.

You can see some footage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Calexico, Calif. in the video below.

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[Eric J (Viking)]

quote....just found this thought it was interesting!!

Re: Is anyone following the tectonic pressure ....

Hello Raye;

I live on the new madrid fault. And I can tell you this.

The surface rupture of the roads and highways is out of control.

Also, everyday of the week the structure of my moms home is "cracking" and shifting. You can hear the walls and the surface crack.

Nearby is a dollar general store. In that parking lot there are 3 flagpoles that "vibrate" violently. (not shaking from wind) Each and everyday, the roads "blow" up potholes. U.S. 41 is ruptured severely.

Interstate 65 is also badly damaged. They keep trying to repave them but it doesn't work.

The cline ave bridge at points is closing.

This bridge and off ramps leads right into Inland steel and LTV steel and BP amoco.

So far, I believe 5-7 bridges have been shut down or are scheduled for closing because they are unsafe.

I monitor the earthquakes daily. And as you know there are far too many happening too quickly.

I believe the general public has been misled. In my opinion, the 2012 shift is happening now, but everyone has been conditioned to believe that they still have time to prepare for the main event.

Thats b.s. It doesn't happen all at once.

In Momence Illinois, some of the buildings are beginning to "sink".

In cedar lake Indiana, the same is happening.

The bottom line is this; Buildings are cracking, parking lots can't be fixed, roads and bridges are closing every week, sidewalks are sinking and sinkholes are opening everywhere. At time day or night, you can literally feel the earth "vibrate" below your feet.

I'm in Northwest Indiana, and I believe we are about to get hit with a earthquake of biblical proportions. We are surrounded by propane, natural gas and bp amoco refineries.

And, Im more than concerned what will happen when the new madrid erupts.

http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/earth_changes/news....

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Hurricane Alex Churns Toward Texas, Mexico; Gulf Beaches Hit With Oil; TX Declares State of Emergency

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_on_re_us/us_tropical_weather

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37992214/ns/weather/

Here is a personal message from someone who lives in that area:

..."Forecast to landfall in Port OConnor Texas..makes for bad weather and high water in Louisiana/Mississippi.

"They are sandbagging and all of the oil ships are coming into port...what a disaster!!!! God help us all. That rig will be emptied of all personnel and all support will have to leave the gulf including the helicopters.. talked to Katie...they will make up their minds...Evacuation of far southern regions are now occurring. Pray that this storm doesn't drift NEward. It could upgrade to Cat1 or Cat2. Enough now to cause oil to come in. That is why they are sandbagging. Have friend that has helicopters working day and night. They will work until they HAVE to come in.
http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=LAZ062&warnc...

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[Eric J (Viking)]

http://photos.upi.com/story/t/7067543e02c462e9f956f792fbdbd3a2/2-Kamchatka-volcanoes-stirring.jpg

MOSCOW, July 3 (UPI) -- Two of the active volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula have been sending plumes of ash as much as 5 miles into the air, scientists said Saturday.

No warnings had yet been issued about air traffic in the area, RIA Novosti reported. Volcanic ash can damage aircraft engines, and an eruption in Iceland earlier this year caused chaos for air traffic in Europe and on trans-Atlantic routes.

Kamchatka, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, has 29 active volcanoes.

Karymsky, the most active volcano in the eastern zone of the peninsula, has been spurting ash up to 3.7 miles into the atmosphere. The 4,875-foot volcano showed a new burst of activity in 1996, with periodic eruptions ever since.

Shiveluch, 10,771 feet high, has been sending ash up to 5 miles high and has also showed signs of lava flows, scientists said. The volcano became much more active in May 2009.

Seismographs have recorded numerous small earthquakes around both volcanoes, with 180 recorded at Karymsky in 24 hours.

Source: UPI

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Driest start for more than 80 years

30 June 2010
ReservoirThirlmere reservoir

The UK has had the driest first six months of any year since 1929

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100630.html

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[Eric J (Viking)]

New York (CNN) -- A heat wave of historic proportions could strike some Northeastern states as forecasters warn of prolonged triple-digit temperatures that could trigger "a dangerous situation," the National Weather Service advised Monday.

The Weather Service has issued an excessive heat advisory for several Northeastern cities to take effect Monday afternoon as humidity levels gradually increase, producing heat index values to persist and surpass 100 degrees.

Excessive heat advisories have been issued for the Philadelphia metropolitan area until Wednesday evening, and in New York City, a heat advisory is in effect from to 2 p.m. Monday until 6 p.m. Tuesday as high humidity levels and high temperatures linger for two consecutive days, the Weather Service reported.

The increase in humidity, matched by weather patterns, may force the Weather Service to issue additional heat advisories for central New Jersey, northeastern Maryland and central and southern Delaware.

The Weather Service advised people affected by the heat to "drink plenty of fluids," stay out of the sun and in air-conditioned rooms, and to check up on relatives and neighbors.

iReport: Share your favorite hot weather activities and cool-down tricks

New York City residents are advised to call 3-11 to find cooling centers and obtain "beat the heat" safety instructions, the Weather Service reported.

A heat wave is considered to be a stretch of more than 90-degree temperatures.
Blistering heat of historic proportions expected in the Northeast US

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Tuesday is expected to be the hottest day of the stretch, with highs ranging from 100 to 102 degrees and heat index values up to 106, the Weather Service warned.

According to the Weather Service, in the 40-year period from 1936 through 1975, nearly 20,000 people were killed in the United States by the effects of heat and solar radiation. And in the heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died, the Weather Service said.

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[Beth]

It's certainly a hot one here today and it's going to be even hotter tomorrow. I'm keeping the chicks inside until later when it cools off a bit. I keep telling them to take a nap but they won't listen ;)

[Eric J (Viking)]

Hundreds Drown During Russian Heatwave

As temperatures soared to record-breaking highs, hitting 37C in central regions, sweltering Russians have been throwing themselves into rivers and lakes to cope with the heat.

But many have ignored warning signs about hidden dangers at certain spots or drank alcohol before swimming, putting themselves in danger.

Russia's emergency ministry confirmed that almost 300 people have drowned during the heatwave, with at least 63 people dying in one day alone.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Russian-Heatwave-Hundreds-Drown-While-Trying-To-Cool-Off-In-Rivers-And-Lakes/Article/201007115659798?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15659798_Russian_Heatwave%3A_Hundreds_Drown_While_Trying_To_Cool_Off_In_Rivers_And_Lakes

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Another one of those!!
Sinkhole appears in North Vancouver road

A broken water main in a residential area of North Vancouver has created a sinkhole at an intersection, flooding some local basements and disrupting vehicle traffic.

The sinkhole occurred near Lynn Valley Road and Hoskins Road.

The hole — partly filled with water — is about three metres in diameter and more than two metres deep.

It has also caused a long crack to form on the road.

Traffic has been halted in both directions near the site.

A number of homes near the break have had water backing up into basements and crawl-spaces.

North Vancouver District work crews were reported to be on the scene.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/05/bc-north-vancouver-sinkhole.html#ixzz0suXbdyIH

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[fifi]

Mexico, Texas evacuate homes as Rio Grande floods

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"NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Reservoirs along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to their highest levels in decades after days of drenching rain, forcing officials to close two border bridges Wednesday, dump water into flooded rivers and evacuate tens of thousands from homes, with yet another storm on the way.
.....
It was an unusual state of affairs in a semiarid region where Mexican and U.S. officials often squabble over rights to scarce water.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_tropical_weather_mexico

[Eric J (Viking)]

Worldwide, the first five months of 2010 were the warmest on record. With the US now getting its share of a heat wave, how will it affect the public perception of climate change?

By Stephen Kurczy, Staff writer / July 7, 2010

Boston

Beijing hits a near-record 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia break 100 degrees and set new daily highs. Meanwhile, in Baghdad and Riyadh, on July 6 it was 113 and 111 degrees, warmer than average but still cooler than in Kuwait, which set the day’s world temperature high at 122 degrees.

The heat has been so intense in China that a plague of locusts is ravaging grasslands and farmlands from Inner Mongolia, and security officials are warning of outbreaks of violence.

Yes, we’re suffering a global heat wave. No, it’s not the apocalypse. But it may be a further sign of climate change.

IN PICTURES: Beating the summer heat

“You can’t say any one heat wave is caused by global warming. But you can say that what global warming does is it makes events just like this more likely,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change.

Indeed, 2010 is set to be one of the world’s hottest years on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the first five months of the year was the warmest on record, and 1.22 degrees F warmer than the 20th century average, the NOAA states in its May 2010 State of the Climate Global Analysis.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Arctic sea ice extent retreated at a rapid pace in May – 50 percent faster than the average May melting rate. Africa's Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest freshwater lake in the world, is now at its warmest in 1,500 years, according to the journal Nature Geoscience.
Will dog days spur crime?

Crime is known to increase during heat waves, when increased demands on electricity often cause power outages. The New York Times reports that the city police department was prepared to send extra officers to places that had lost power. The Pentagon recently warned of the security ramifications of a warming globe.

“While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world,” the Pentagon says in its Quadrennial Defense Review.

A heat wave across Pakistan and India in early June killed more than 1,000 people and pushed the Pakistani city of Mohenjo-daro to 129 degrees F and into the category of hottest places on earth. According to The Guardian, only Al 'Aziziyah, in Libya (136 degrees in 1922), Death valley in California (134 degrees in 1913) and Tirat Zvi in Israel (129 degrees in 1942) are thought to have been hotter.
Changing public attitudes

But if these are all signs of global warming, then why did America’s East Coast get slammed with so much snow this past winter?

Climatologists are careful to highlight that no one weather event is a sign of global warming. Just as the blizzards of this past January and February did not debunk climate change, the current heat wave does not prove climate change.

“What climate change does do is make these kinds of events ever more frequent. It increases the frequency of record-highs,” says Dr. Leiserowitz of Yale University.

At the Yale Project on Climate Change, Leiserowitz measures public attitudes. He says that firm believers won’t have their minds changed on global warming because of a blizzard, just as firm doubters won’t have their minds changed because of a heat wave.

From 2008 to 2009, the Yale Project found that the percentage of doubters had doubled in size to 16 percent of the American public, while the percentage of believers had dropped to 10 percent, from 18 percent in 2008. The current heat wave might reverse that trend, says Leiserowitz.

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Another weird weather anomolie!!!

Hot in Europe and cold in S America!!

http://api.ning.com/files/R18274ktz-Qx53tQolIO*WfXLlaWO4UjLjAcvAtoh3qnOhaf6dbp9IXw9-BIQK-04sofqj9NGHC9vtgOB6S*PgtyaEIYZI2L/ncepeupropejuly122010.jpg?width=721

http://api.ning.com/files/WNAsRbvxkg2e2f6DvKH9OpjUP0sZb8x81qrgmtIWpArvFk24ol9LQdINYc8haiTH1rHCgbQtwEObHwVdmcBUTSxihVHXBWdC/ncepsajuly122010.jpg?width=721

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hot-in-europe-cold-in-south

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[Eric J (Viking)]

China's been taking a bit of a battering lately...

Floods, swollen reservoirs force evacuation of 10,000 in east China

NANCHANG, July 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in east China's Jiangxi Province Wednesday morning after heavy rainfalls triggered flash floods and overtopping of three reservoirs, flood control authorities said.

The intense rainfall hit the province's northern areas early Wednesday, triggering flash floods and swollen reservoirs.

Water has spilled over dikes at three reservoirs in Poyang County, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said.

Workers are rushing to dig and widen emergency waterways to lower the water levels in the swollen reservoirs.

No casualties have been reported so far, according to the headquarters.

Jiangxi's meteorological department Wednesday morning issued a red alert -- the highest level -- warning of the torrential rains.

Heavy downpours in parts of central and eastern China have caused waterlines in major lakes and tributaries of the Yangtze River to rise to alarming levels.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-07/14/c_13399423.htm

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Record cold temperatures south of the border in Argentina ...

http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/Mendoza-Mar-Plata-sierras-bonaerenses_0_298770306.html

http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/PRIMERA-NEVADA-Mendoza-Delfo-Rodriguez_CLAIMA20100715_0125_4.jpg

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La Grulla declares 'state of disaster' due to flooding

La Grulla officials have declared a state of disaster following days of flooding from the Rio Grande.

Mayor Brenda Villarreal issued the proclamation Thursday morning.

Villarreal said in the proclamation that low-lying areas within the city have been flooded.

With the proclamation now in effect, non-emergency personnel are not allowed inside the city.

The Starr County community is located located off FM 2360 just north of the Rio Grande.

Hurricane Alex and Tropical Depression Two hit the Rio Grande Valley and northern Mexico earlier this month.

Heavy rains from the two tropical weather events have filled rivers and caused rivers on both sides of the border to jump their banks.

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=483078

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Flooding causes chaos in Japan July 15, 2010

http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=22767

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Wheat Prices Soar Amid Questions About Global Crop

Wheat prices soared Thursday as traders questioned how much of the global crop has been damaged by poor weather.

Wheat rose 6.7 percent, its fifth consecutive day of gains. Corn and soybeans prices also rose.

Two of the world's top wheat-exporting countries are coping with weather problems. Rains hampered the Canadian planting season, while a drought is expected to cut wheat production in Russia and Kazakhstan by 14 percent.

Dry weather is now spreading into Germany, which has left traders with questions about this year's global production, Northstar Commodity analyst Jason Ward said. Also, traders who earlier bet wheat prices would fall are buying contracts to try to limit potential losses, he said.

Meanwhile the U.S., the world's biggest wheat exporter, is wrapping up a robust winter wheat harvest while spring wheat appears to be in "phenomenal" shape, Ward said.

U.S. wheat export sales rose for three out of the past four weeks but were sluggish for the most recent week ending July 9. Ward believes that was caused by the price rally, which may have kept some buyers out of the market.

further reading
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11173352

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Very strange!!! weirder by the day...

"Millions of Seashells appearing every day on Clifton beach, Karachi, Pakistan. Just Last year in March 2009 " Dolphins Beaching " happened here on Pakistani Beaches.
What is surprising is that not a single private TV channel has covered this huge Event, No discussion forums on this Topic. Not to mention there are large numbers of Earthquakes happening all around the world in the year 2010.
My thought is that all these Events are Signs of Great fluctuations in Earth's Magnetic Field...
This magnetic field fluctuation is happening due to the loss of Lubricant of Oil and Gas inside Earth's Crust.
Oil and Gas acts as Lubricant for Earth's Crust Movement. Now that we have taken out so much Oil and Gas. Earth's Layers have lost this lubricant and as a result we will observe much bigger more devastating Mega Earthquakes... just like Grand Canyon(Mega Earthquakes created Grand Canyons)
Electric Cars and Maglev Electric Turbines and Maglev Train, are the way of the future... if we want to save ourselves and humanity and future generations"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLMdnWQsWA&feature=player_embedded#!

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[yiolas]

Hi Viking, I really don't want to spread fear, but sometimes when you are connecting the dots, things just pop up at you.
Your video above brought to mind a Zeta report I read a few days ago (see below). Perhaps the sea shells are a harbinger or precursor of India's and Pakistan's ultimate fate, as per the Zetas, during the purported 'pole shift'.
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/03jy2010.htm



Question: Regarding India: there are mountain ranges on western India that average 400 meters to 1000 meters high. Even Bangalore is at an altitude of over 500 meters. Is all of India going to be under water due to the plate movement or a combination of the plate movement (subduction) and the overall rise in the water level? I'm very concerned about many people in India and if they can get closer to the foothills of Tibet/Nepal but even in that scenario, that is going to be the new pole so will be an arctic circle. What is the best to do for those there?
ZetaTalk Advice 7/3/2010: More than the country of India and Bangladesh and Bhutan will be pushed under the Himalayas. Check the topographic map and see where the wrinkles are. This is where land has been rumpled as something was pushed under it. Note that along the border with Burma and Tibet and Nepal, that the lands of India are lowlands, where the land has been pushed down in the recent past. Why would the highlands of India be just in the center of the country, and not border the high Himalayas? This is what will become of India and all on that plate that is being pushed down and under. Those in India are advised not to seek high ground within Indian's interior, but to head to the Himalayas, to Tibet and Nepal and China or the high mountains that are officially Indian territory - Srinagar. Pakistan will also be high ground but the area will rupture to become a new seaway, so this is unstable territory and the lowlands will be flooded during the hour of the shift.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Hi Yiola ... yes I was aware of that article...as you know I visit that that site regularly...and am aware of plate adjustments..ect etc ... but yes you are right...the brave ones get slaughtered for fear mongering!!! Thanks for being honest and having the balls to post!!

Excellent observation Yiola...

Blessings to you ...

viking

[Beth]

I love that we get all those Earthquake updates on here from the USGS. It looks to me that the Ring of Fire has been very active lately. Anyone else notice that?

[Eric J (Viking)]

Yep 'The ring of fire' has been simmering for quite a while now!!

Hey Yaya your comment reminded me of this!! ha ha ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY&feature=fvst

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[Beth]

Johnny Cash, very nice!

[SpoonMan]

www.volcanolive.com is reporting quite a bit of volcano activity in the past few days:

Sunday 18th July 2010
Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
Eruptions continue at the summit and east rift zone at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. A lava pond is active in Halamaumau crater at the summit. Lava continues to erupt from the east rift zone and flow through tubes towards the coast. The lava flow has advanced to the intersection of Highways 130 and 137 at Kaimu. On 16th July the sulphur dioxide emission rate from the summit remained elevated at 700 tonnes/day.

Sunday 18th July 2010
Yasur volcano, Vanuatu
Activity remains high at Yasur volcano, Vanuatu. Since the beginning of 2010 there have been high levels of activity with lava bombs being ejected around the crater rim. The western side of Tanna Island has received ashfall.

Saturday 17th July 2010
Pacaya volcano, Guatemala
Activity at the summit of Pacaya volcano has been increasing, after a month of quiet. Seismometers recorded 97 explosions in the 24 hours to 16th July. Most ejected material is falling inside the crater. There are some pyroclastic flows down the south flank of the volcano. There is a small amount of ash emission from the crater. Pacaya volcano had a large summit eruption, and flank lava flow in May and June 2010.

Saturday 17th July 2010
Klyuchevskoy volcano, Russia
Explosive and effusive eruptions continue at Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia. On July 9, 12, 14-15 strombolian eruptions occurred, and a plume reached an altitude of 22,000 ft. On 14th July an eruption plume extended 45 km NW of the volcano. Seismicity remained high during the past week.

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That is a lot of volcano activity all around the world(very spread out) in a short amount of time.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Seashells!! Now penguins!!

The Gulf stream all cockeyed...perhaps the ocean currents and temperatures are cockeyed as well... *shrugs*

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Hundreds of dead penguins and other sea animals have washed up on Sao Paulo state's shores and scientists are investigating the causes, environment officials told Folha Online news agency.

The Institute of Environment and Natural Resources said 530 penguins, numerous other sea birds, five dolphins and three giant sea turtles have been found in the coastal towns of Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem, with more likely on other nearby beaches.

Sao Paulo University biologists and a wildlife research center are looking into the possible reasons for the animal deaths, the institute said.

Praia Grande authorities have ruled out pollution, saying preliminary investigations point to starvation as the cause.

The most likely scenario for the penguin deaths is exhaustion and hunger during their long migration from the waters off Argentina's southern Patagonia region, said Andrea Maranho, a veterinarian for the Sea Animal Rehabilitation Center in Praia Grande.

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[Caren]

Hello Viking,
Thank you for this wonderful thread. Lots of interesting and useful information here. Sad to hear of the
dead animals washing up on shore. Especially the giant sea turtles, they live for many, many years. This
is unsettling.
caren

[Eric J (Viking)]

The Three Gorges looks threatening at the moment!!

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Three Gorges dam faces major flood test

China's massive Three Gorges dam faces the biggest test so far of its flood control as torrential rains swell the rivers that feed it

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Severe flooding and rising levels to China's largest river, the Yangtze, is causing hundreds of residents in Hubei province to be evacuated Link to this video

China's Three Gorges dam faces its biggest test this week as rain storms threaten to swell upstream water levels beyond those that preceded the Yangtze's last devastating flood in 1998.

Flood control is one of the major objectives of the 16m tonne concrete barrier, which was pushed through by the government despite concerns about the environmental and social impact.

Torrential downpours, which have claimed at least 146 lives since the start of the month, have created the most serious challenge since the world's biggest hydropower plant was completed two years ago.

"The levels of this flooding will be higher than the historic floods of 1954 and 1998," Wei Shanzhong, the head of the flood control and drought administration office for the Yangtze river, told China Central TV.

According to the state media, the rain this week will increase the peak flow in the reservoir to around 70,000 cubic metres per second, considerably higher than the 50,000 figure recorded in 1998, when floods killed more than 4,000 people while the dam was still under construction.

To ease the strain downstream, the dam will close its navigation locks during the peak flow period, diverting the pressure to the giant upstream reservoir.

In preparation for the deluge this week, hydroengineers have been sluicing water out of the reservoir at an accelerated rate to make space for the expected downpour.

They believe there is little risk that this reservoir will be stretched beyond its capacity because the peak flow is expected to taper off more rapidly than in 1998.

But if the rains exceed forecasts, the dam – and its supporters – will come under unprecedented pressure.

Earlier this year, site engineers acknowledged that landslides and water pollution in the reservoir were more severe than anticipated, prompting calls for drastic remedial efforts.

They recommended the relocation of a further 300,000 people - in addition to the 1.2 million who have already been forced to leave their homes - to create an "eco-buffer" belt in the worst affected areas.

China is buffeted by rainstorms and typhoons every summer. Last month, southern provinces were lashed by unusually fierce floods that killed more than 200 people and forced the relocation of 2.4 million others, causing economic losses estimated at 29.6bn yuan (£2.9bn).

Earlier this week, a mudslide in the mountainous northern province of Shaanxi swallowed a village, leaving 20 missing and feared dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/19/three-gorges-dam-flood-test

viking

[Moemers]

Oil Spill in China - Country's worst ever

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/21/china-oil-spill-disaster-wildlife

Chinese officials have warned of a severe threat to wildlife from one of the country's worst reported oil spills as an army of volunteers was dispatched to beaches to try to head off the black tides.

At least one man has drowned in crude during the clean-up operation, which has expanded as the area of the slick has doubled in size despite earlier government assurances that it was being contained and posed no risk to ecologically sensitive areas.

Five days after a pipeline explosion at the north-east port of Dalian, oil had reportedly spread over an area of 430 square kilometres, prompting a dispersal mission along the coast.

Hundreds of local volunteers are spreading absorbent matting along the Yellow Sea shoreline in an attempt to stop the slick from damaging beaches.

Out at sea, authorities have started to use oil-consuming bacteria to try to disperse the slick, along with chemical agents and lengthy floating barrages.

Even though maritime officials have mobilised 800 fishing boats to assist the 40 specialist vessels in the operation, the winds and tides are spreading the slick wider and thinner.

The difficult conditions have proved fatal for at least one man. A 25-year-old firefighter, Zhang Liang, drowned on Tuesday when a wave threw him from a vessel, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

In some areas, volunteers equipped only with rubber gloves, rubber boots and rudimentary tools have struggled to cope with the waves washing up on the beaches.

"I've been to a few bays today and discovered they were almost entirely covered with dark oil," Zhong Yu of the environmental group Greenpeace China, told the Associated Press. "The oil is half-solid and half-liquid and is as sticky as asphalt."

Fishing in the waters around Dalian has been banned until the end of August.

"The oil spill will pose a severe threat to marine animals and water quality, and sea birds," Huang Yong, deputy bureau chief for the city's Maritime Safety Administration, told a regional TV station.

The authorities say the leak was staunched within 24 hours of last Friday's accident, but they have yet to reveal how much oil was discharged before then. The state-run China Central television channel estimates the spill at 1,500 tons, less than 0.5% of the amount released into the ocean by the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Local officials have been upbeat about the prospects of a quick clean-up and a resumption of normal services at the port, which has had to redirect 420 vessels from the area of the slick.

"Our priority is to collect the spilled oil within five days to reduce the possibility of contaminating international waters," Dalian's vice mayor, Dai Yulin, told reporters earlier this week. Other officials expect the operation to last twice as long and even then it is far from clear that the ecological damage will end.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Hey thanks Moemers ...Bill is right this is happening in more countries than we realize!!

*****

In Bolivia there were freezing temperatures. EFE


July 21, 2010.

The cold wave that extends through the Southern Cone and the tropical wave that
spans several countries in Central America, the Caribbean and northern South
America, has left at least 225 people dead and thousands of people affected in
Latin America.

Bogotá. EFE .- The bad weather on the continent have forced many governments to declare emergency alerts
and to take measures such as suspension of classes in Bolivia, Paraguay and
Argentina as well as evacuation of the victims to shelters or temporary
shelters.

The highest number of fatalities by the cold wave in the Southern Cone occurred in Bolivia, where 25
people died, mostly homeless who died of hypothermia in recent weeks in four of
the nine regions and two victims poisoned by inhaling carbon monoxide in the
region of Tarija (south).

The government of Evo Morales has warned that low temperatures will also dwindle agricultural
production.

In Paraguay its has been reported in the last week, because of the cold, a total of twelve people killed
and more than a hundred victims in shelters, mostly homeless, in addition to
the deaths of two thousand head of cattle.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, this Wednesday, the cold front will be maintained, with
temperatures below zero in some regions of the country and showers. No
temperatures above 17 degrees will be recorded during this week.

In Argentina, the number of deaths from hypothermia reached eleven, after registering last Sunday the
death of a baby and an old man in the city of La Rioja (northwest).

Since the beginning of winter, there were other 33 deaths by carbon monoxide poisoning, by use of improper
heating devices.

In Brazil, in the last week nine died as a result of the low temperatures nine people, mostly beggars
sleeping on the street, and at least 2900 head of cattle died from hypothermia,
according to reports from regional governments.

However, the temperatures rose again in the last two days, so that the National Institute of Meteorology
warnings eliminated cool temperature alerts for the southern states of Parana,
Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul

The lowest temperature in the country was 7.8 degrees below zero, recorded last Wednesday in the town of
Urupema (state of Santa Catarina, on the border with Argentina).

In Uruguay, with the death of a homeless person as a result of hypothermia in the department of Salto
(north), there are three people dead since the onset of the cold spell early
last week.

Although temperatures went down in recent days, low temperatures continue to affect the country, where the
National Weather Bureau forecasted minimum temperatures between -1 and 2
degrees and maximum between 12 and 15.

In Chile, the cold spell has caused two deaths in Santiago, where below zero temperatures have been
recorded in seven days of the month of July, something that had not happened
since 1993.

Temperatures in the Chilean capital dropped to minus 2 degrees centigrades in the last week, while
the south of the country suffers a critical situation, with hundreds of
villagers cut off by snow and thousands of cattle in danger.

According to the Meteorological Office of Chile, low temperatures may last until August.

Also in recent weeks in Peru, 104 people died of pneumonia and respiratory ailments caused by cold and
poor medical care.

In Peru, the cold has affected mainly Amazonian departments of Loreto, San Martin and Ucayali, and
the Andean regions such as Arequipa, Huancavelica and Cuzco.

In Colombia, at least 59 people have died and 270,000 have been affected by the season of heavy rains
that began last March and has affected more than 260 municipalities in 27 of
the 32 departments, according to information from the Colombian Red Cross .

In Costa Rica, the rains recorded in the last few hours left 170 affected were evacuated to safe areas
and shelters by the Costa Rican Red Cross, as well as major damage to homes and
two major highways, according to the Ministry of Transport.

In Honduras, the Permanent Contingency Commission (COPECO) declared the preventive green alert for the
next two days, due to the rains that hit the east, south and center of the country
and left one person injured, and damage to homes.

In the Dominican Republic, 460 people were forced to evacuate their houses, which were affected by a storm
sweeping the country for several days and kept on alert 20 of the 32 provinces.

In Haiti, authorities raised the alert from yellow to orange caused by the risk of heavy rains due to
tropical wave passing through the Caribbean.

While in Puerto Rico, the heavy rains that fall since the last weekend have left homes damaged, land
slides across dozens of roads.

http://www.paraguay.com/internacionales/ola-invernal-en-latinoamerica-deja-mas-de-220-muertos-y-miles-de-damnificados-37403

*****

Thursday July 22, 2010

AP-AFP | LIMA, SANTIAGO

Lima endured 8.8 degrees Celsius yesterday in several districts of the east of the
city, the lowest temperature of the last 46 years, reported the National
Meteorology and Hydrology (NMHSs).

In 1964 there was a similar decline that reached 10.2 degrees but in El Callao.
According to meteorologist Raquel Loayza, the unusual temperature was
influenced by the presence of the weather phenomenon La Nina, an oscillation of
the streams of the Pacific Ocean that is characterized by a drop of several
degrees in sea temperature.

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/peru-lima-88-centigrade-lowest

*****

6.+ Earthquakes in the last 30-some days:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_al...

6.1 ~ 2010/07/21 3.037 128.214 103.0 NORTH OF HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
6.3 ~ 2010/07/20 -5.912 150.665 54.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
6.0 ~ 2010/07/18 52.858 -169.631 47.7 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
7.3 ~ 2010/07/18 -5.939 150.572 35.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
6.9 ~ 2010/07/18 -6.000 150.436 42.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
6.6 ~ 2010/07/18 52.867 -169.840 10.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

6.5 ~ 2010/07/14 38.01S 76.31W 33 BIO-BIO, CHILE
6.3 ~ 2010/07/12 22.07S 68.18W 120 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
6.3 ~ 2010/07/10 44.47N 145.98E 13 SOUTH OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS
~[5.9 2010/07/07 6.22S 154.39E 54 BOUGAINVILLE REGION PAPUA NEW GUINEA]
6.3 ~ 2010/07/02 13.64S 166.48 29 VANUATU
6.3 ~ 2010/06/30 16.52N 97.76W 20 OAXACA, MEXICO
6.4 ~ 2010/06/30 23.30S 179.11E 581 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
~[5.9 2010/06/26 8.05S 108.07E 75 JAVA, INDONESIA]
6.7 ~ 2010/06/26 10.62S 161.44E 35 SOLOMAN ISLANDS
6.1 ~ 2010/06/24 5.51S 151.16 40 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

*****

viking

[Etherios]

I found this ... weird situation... if anyone know how north this is ... i really hope gulf spill isnt effecting these...

Pravda ... Pinguin problems.. (http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/pinguins-5650)

[MorningSong]

Poor little pinguins... I wonder if they are fleeing from the more southernly active EQ area as well..... hmmmm.

Heads up, people! I found this, while on the Pravda site: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/14-07-2010/114223-heat-0


Anomalous Heat Promises Year of Hunger to Russia

Russia has been suffering from anomalous heat for three weeks already. Unbearable hot weather undermines people's health and causes considerable economic damage. First and foremost, the heat affects the agricultural industry. The growth of prices on crops leads to higher prices on animal fodder and lower profitability in the cattle breeding industry. As a result, consumers will have to compensate all the losses, which the heat has caused so far. Prices on food and dairy products in Russia are expected to grow.

Daytime temperatures in Central Russia currently hit 33-35 degrees above zero. They are expected to climb even higher - to 36-38 degrees by the end of this week. Many regions of the country have already introduced state of emergency.

However, as it usually happens, some grieve while others celebrate. The income of the companies producing water, soft drinks and beer have been growing steadily. The makers of air conditioners, fans and ice cream are very happy about the hot weather too.

Such a weather phenomenon brings more bad than good, though. The consumption of electric power grows under such conditions. Restaurants suffer losses too, because people eat less meat and other heavy dishes in hot weather.

The lack of water is also a serious problem. The Akhtuba River, the major source of drinking water in the Astrakhan region of Russia, is running dry. In Austria, for example, the lack of water has led to ridiculous situations. Administrations of swimming pools asked visitors not to swallow water during swimming. People were also asked not to wear nylon swimwear because nylon shorts absorb a lot of water.

The heatwave brings peat and forest fires. Thirteen hectares of forest burnt in Russia's Nizhni Novgorod region. Fires caused the damage of over 36 million rubles, and the regional authorities were forced to ban the visiting of forests.

Hot sun kills crops in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Western Europe. Agricultural ministries of these countries had to revise their forecasts for harvests in 2010. Official spokespeople for the Russian Ministry for Agriculture forecast the gathering of 55 million tons of wheat, which is 2 million tons less than was previously expected. The heat has already destroyed over 5 million hectares of farm crops in the Russian Federation.

Ukraine expects the losses of three million tons of crops. In Western Europe, France is expected to suffer the biggest losses because of hot summer.

It is worthy of note that agricultural producers all over the world suffer tens of billions of dollars of losses every year because of droughts. The summer of 2010 will obviously be more painful. Consumers will have to face another price growth on most popular products such as bread, sugar, butter and meat. The heat may also trigger the growth of the inflation rate.

US farmers suffer too, albeit from a different disaster. The farmers across the Atlantic Ocean suffer from too much rain. The rains complicate the gathering of winter wheat and corn.

The prices on agricultural groups have grown considerably on world exchanges during the recent two weeks. Futures quotations on wheat and corn have gained 18 and 15 percent respectively at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during the last 8 trade sessions

Yekaterina Yevstigneyeva
Bigness

[Eric J (Viking)]

More here on the Russian heat wave ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fNsv-f1eU&videos=DA7amHVeShQ

viking

[5thElement]

Just wanted to give a quick update from my neck of the woods...
And the bad news is the woods seem to by suffering what is called a "die back". I recently returned from a trip across Washington state and into North/Central Idaho. We drove across the northern route to get there (up by the BC Canadian border) and took the southern route home.

It has been 4 years since I have driven along this route and the amount of dead or dying trees was astonishing. There were entire hillsides dead. This was not from forest fires, logging, construction or any other obvious cause. Many species were affected. It was someone patchy but obvious once I started looking.

When we returned home, I was amazed to see that many trees here are also sick, dying or dead. I am sure this didn't happen during my short vacation but with my newly opened eyes I am now seeing them. Not sure what is happening or why. From my back yard I can see eleven trees that are dying/dead. I have seen dozens on my twelve mile drive to work. We are not experiencing a drought or heat wave. There is a mix of old growth, second growth and younger trees that are dying.

The types of trees afffected, that I can identify so far are:
Western Hemlock (native)
Western Red Cedar (native)
Douglas Fir (native)
Garry Oak (native)
Madronne/Madronna (native)
Blue Spruce (non-native)
Maple (both)
Hawthorn (non-native)
Birch (non-native)
Holly (non-native)
Dogwood (both)
Apple, Cherry & Plum (both fruit & ornamental)

I was able to find one article (posted below) from 2009 that addressed the "die-back". Has anyone else - anywhere - noticed a tree "die-back"? I do not want to give the impression that all the trees are dying - there are plenty left. However, something seems to be upsetting the natural balance.

http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46597

5th

[ascendingstarseed]

Sinkhole Summer!!

Most of these sinkholes happened this month, and there were more...is this normal?

New Jersey July 18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DenIzq2jCfI&feature=related

Tennessee, July

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvVQg3W0r4&NR=1

Tampa July 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-KkQnHShPs&feature=related

Kansas City, July 13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAsMEGxEcz8&feature=fvsr

Pittsburg, June 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6N3ZJHrqo&feature=channel

Massive sinkhole, China in June

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTD0EknPv8&feature=related

Massive sinkhole, Africa? July

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4dOsfjM34&feature=related

Then there's the massive hole in Guatemala too...

fyi...this all got started from your Nibiru thread Viking, noticed some people on YouTube were linking the sinkholes to Nibiru ;)

[Eric J (Viking)]

Seems that recently yes they are the norm!!!

But what has recently made these anomolies occur??...they seem to be on the increase...why??


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Intense Snow Storm - RSOE Snow Storm SS-20100728-27174-ARG Argentina Province of Chubut Chubut-wide

Some 600 residents of the southern Argentine province of Chubut have been cut off from the outside world due to a snowstorm, local media reported Tuesday. Several pieces of road-clearing equipment are being used to try and open the ranch roads in the area, where sheep and cattle have also been isolated and there are substantial difficulties in getting them fed due to the storm, which left up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of snow on the ground completely burying the available grass. “The intense winds after the snowstorm complicated the situation because they covered the roads again that had already been cleared with the machines,” highways chief Patricio Musande told Argentine television when asked about the situation in Chubut, which is some 1,800 kilometers (about 1,120 miles) from Buenos Aires. Pedro Miguel Schmalz, manager of the Valle Huemules ranch in Lago Blanco, told capital daily La Nacion that he has lived there for 38 years and has never seen “such an intense storm, despite the fact that the winters are very hard.” “There was a combination of factors: the heavy snows, freezes and winds that created very high walls of snow. People are isolated,” said Digna Hernando de Blanco, the head of the Rural Society in the coastal city of Comodoro Rivadavia. She calculated that about 600 local residents had been isolated in towns in the area, most of whom are involved in the production of wool. “We still cannot quantify the (economic) losses, but they will be significant. We’re talking about the most productive province in the country in terms of wool,” said Hernando de Blanco. Meanwhile, personnel from the highway department and emergency services continued their work with a helicopter and road-clearing machinery to attempt to establish a land link with the isolated communities.

*****

viking



viking

[Etherios]

Tons of Toxic Chemicals Flow from China to Russia (http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/30-07-2010/114436-toxic_chemicals-0)

OMG its like there is a toxic attack on the planet everywhere we look there is some kind of disaster happening...

[greybeard]

Relax
These events were happening long before there were humans on the planet and the toxic happenings have been going on since we discovered chemicals and began mining and drilling for oil.
Because there is now the Internet we are instantly aware of these throughout the world and thats good.
The media also tends to look for similar events so if you get one then they look for similar.
For example there was a cluster of young men committing suicide in UK recently, it actually fell within the normal monthly average of suicides just it all happened in one place so it stood out.
Having said that there are peaks in all statistics and we seem to be hitting one at the moment with recent reported events.
Why worry it is a waste of time. If something can be done the thats different, do what you can do.
By the way 5th element is one of my favorite films.
The 5th element being love and that saved the world in the film.
Chris

[5thElement]

Relax
These events were happening long before there were humans on the planet and the toxic happenings have been going on since we discovered chemicals and began mining and drilling for oil.
Because there is now the Internet we are instantly aware of these throughout the world and thats good.
The media also tends to look for similar events so if you get one then they look for similar.
For example there was a cluster of young men committing suicide in UK recently, it actually fell within the normal monthly average of suicides just it all happened in one place so it stood out.
Having said that there are peaks in all statistics and we seem to be hitting one at the moment with recent reported events.
Why worry it is a waste of time. If something can be done the thats different, do what you can do.
By the way 5th element is one of my favorite films.
The 5th element being love and that saved the world in the film.
Chris

Hello Chris - one of my favorite movies too (if you didn't already guess) ;)

I actually took a hiatus from this and all other forums for awhile to preserve my sanity and I agree that instant access to information can make it seem that sky IS falling. That being said, I am convinced that the climate is changing. It happens, it has happened before and it will continue to happen. It's just that this time, we are in the "front row" so to speak. My post on the trees in first person PoV and something that I can literally see. I'm not sure if I was encouraged or disappointed to find an article supporting what I was seeing. And I am curious to know if anyone else, anywhere, has noticed more trees dying. I am verrrrry carefully watching the 30-40ft firs and maple in my neighbors yards :eek:

5th

[Mandala]

5th Element,
I'm from Florida and years ago we had a problem with "lethal yellowing" which affected our palm trees. It is devastating to watch while this happens. A couple years back we all lost our citrus trees to citrus canker.

[ascendingstarseed]

Opened up my IGoogle page and the USGS Earthquake Satellite gadget looked like a party around the Pacific Ring of Fire with all the different color balloons lit up! Has to be one of busiest days around the Ring of Fire I've seen yet...

6 magnitude 2.0
8 magnitude 3.0
10 magnitude 4.0
10 magnitude 5.0
6 magnitude 6.0
1 magnitude 7.1

That's 41 quakes in one day, just around the ring of fire!

Most of the smaller ones were largely clustered along the West coast of N. America and three 6.0 right on top of each other in between Alaska and Russia, most of the larger ones we're in the South Pacific, with three 4.0 and three 5.0 quakes appearing in S America.

One thing I've noticed lately are very few quakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East...that was a very busy region up until recently. :confused:

[Swami]

Opened up my IGoogle page and the USGS Earthquake Satellite gadget looked like a party around the Pacific Ring of Fire with all the different color balloons lit up! Has to be one of busiest days around the Ring of Fire I've seen yet...

6 magnitude 2.0
8 magnitude 3.0
10 magnitude 4.0
10 magnitude 5.0
6 magnitude 6.0
1 magnitude 7.1

That's 41 quakes in one day, just around the ring of fire!

Most of the smaller ones were largely clustered along the West coast of N. America and three 6.0 right on top of each other in between Alaska and Russia, most of the larger ones we're in the South Pacific, with three 4.0 and three 5.0 quakes appearing in S America.

One thing I've noticed lately are very few quakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East...that was a very busy region up until recently. :confused:

Maybe there is a connection to the sunspots and the Earthly directed CME.....??

[rosie]

This is the storm that dropped the biggest hailstone recorded at 8'' (similar size to a bowling ball!)
(Ran into this amazing picture while checking out Flicker)

http://i35.tinypic.com/ehgl5i.jpg

[sygh]

I don't know if this has been posted but Russia is experiencing record high temperatures along with 100's of wild fires. Moscow is inundated with smoke.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/aug/06/russia-wildfires-gallery#/?picture=365509585&index=3

[TOTHE]

Sygh; Russia is burning. I suspect the Iceland volcano caused a dry Spring so now the peat bogs are fire traps.
http://jotman.blogspot.com/2010/08/map-of-fire-situation-in-russia.html
http://i-cherski.livejournal.com/1153156.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wTsmGZbligE/TFoQ2awBBOI/AAAAAAAAG2s/UgrMyahEfyE/s640/russian+fires.jpg

[HORIZONS]

DR Bill's earth updates show, hour 3: http://podcast.gcnlive.com/podcast/nutri_med/0806103.mp3

The updates begin in hour 2, towards the end, and covers the Gulf Stream Loop - if interested.
http://podcast.gcnlive.com/podcast/nutri_med/0806102.mp3

[HORIZONS]

Here are a few of the top stories on CNN:

Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/07/greenland.ice.island/index.html?hpt=C1

Hundreds more wildfires burn in Russia
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/08/russia.wildfires/index.html?hpt=T2

Landslides kill at least 127 in China
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/china.landslides/index.html?hpt=T2

More rains hit Pakistan as aid agencies boost relief efforts
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/pakistan.floods/index.html?hpt=T2

[sygh]

Very strange!!! weirder by the day...

My thought is that all these Events are Signs of Great fluctuations in Earth's Magnetic Field...
This magnetic field fluctuation is happening due to the loss of Lubricant of Oil and Gas inside Earth's Crust. Oil and Gas acts as Lubricant for Earth's Crust Movement.
viking

Viking, I believe oil and gas serve as a lubracant for the earth as well.

As to the dying off off penguins and bi-valves, starfish, etc... scientists believe it's due to the extended summer. Global warming or the precursor to global cooling, whatever one wants to call it, it's definately here.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891653,00.html

Are we over-populated as a species? I would say so. Forget the Illuminati, Mother Earth has he own set of plans.

[sygh]

TOTHE,

Thank you for your post; the information you gave and the link provided is most enlightening. They say a picture is worth a thousand words? I can only think of one... Unbelieveable! This is probably why we are having such a hot summer across the US as well. This map makes Russia look like it's in total flames. After following the link and reading the comments, even the smallest of fires is marked with the same size and color flame so, it's a little misleading. Regardless, it's not plesant.

[TOTHE]

sygh; pyrocumulus cloud here in NASA image of the day. I still like the grabbing dramatics of Google Maps over NASA.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45046
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/45000/45046/Moscow_TMO_2010216.jpg
From Modis Web, there is FSI Interactive Viewer tab here.
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2010-08-08
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image08082010_md.jpg

[lindabaker]

Guys, we're in the thick of it now! TOTHE and Rosie, thanks for the map and the photo of the storm front. Regarding the USGS quake map: I look at the map for the US, I see a pattern. I see a circle of quakes in the west. They are not large, but I'm thinking the continental divide is stressing. I don't know my western geography as well as eastern US, someone help me out here. Is there a section that's being outlined?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/

¤=[Post Update]=¤

There was a quake in Georgia, south of the Guidestones. Maybe they will fall over, hah!

[Eric J (Viking)]

Hey thanks for keeping this up to date guys ... drastic changes are here for all to see ...

It amazing how quickly we become accustomed to whats happening around the world with all these weather patterns!! Is it normal??


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozvk_kaXJqQ&feature=player_embedded

viking

[ascendingstarseed]

[/COLOR]There was a quake in Georgia, south of the Guidestones. Maybe they will fall over, hah!

Lets hope so! lol!

Here's a cool earthquake link, you can get the gadget application by setting up an igoogle.com page. Then you can log-on to get daily snapshot of quakes around the world in the last 24hrs, one day last week there were 40 little balloons circling the ring of fire...looked like a party!

With this gadget I've been watching the quakes intensify in magnitude and frequency for a couple of years now...
http://apps.facebook.com/earthquakewatch/?fb_sig_in_iframe=1&fb_sig_iframe_key=0a8005f5594bd67041f88c6196192646&fb_sig_locale=en_US&fb_sig_in_new_facebook=1&fb_sig_time=1281344513.1653&fb_sig_logged_out_facebook=1&fb_sig_added=0&fb_sig_country=us&fb_sig_api_key=232a1851169f5f5fa1e5a8b3c17da37c&fb_sig_app_id=39339475123&fb_sig=b4186f93429f09acdf02fa13613fe926&installed=1&session={%22session_key%22%3A%222.MCCKTuo_mLkXrftzN6y1yQ__.3600.1281351600-713190415%22%2C%22uid%22%3A713190415%2C%22expires%22%3A1281351600%2C%22secret%22%3A%22joVFpCD3gHaB46 4Z5mPETQ__%22%2C%22sig%22%3A%22d4360a217d8434d04297c21a6bc2ddd3%22}

[Fredkc]

An interesting "toy" for your WinDoze machine is a free critter called "Earthquake 3D"
(http://www.wolton.net/quake.html)

From the page...
WATCH EARTHQUAKES IN 3D... Zoom and spin your way around the globe while viewing earthquakes in three dimensions! Control how the Earthquakes and Earth are shown. See at a glance up to seven days of global earthquake activity

Adjust and customize the display to see earthquakes in a variety of different ways. Filter earthquakes by size and time – then select from many display options that include quake indicators and map references. Earthquakes are shown in near real-time using the latest data from the USGS via the internet.

http://www.wolton.net/images/quake11.gif

Fred

[Eric J (Viking)]

This doesen't look too good!!! The fires in Russia really are a disaster zone!!!

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press Writer

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MOSCOW – Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat wave and poisonous smog from wildfires, a top
Russian health official said Monday.

Moscow health chief Andrei Seltsovky blamed weeks of unprecedented heat and suffocating smog for the rise in mortality compared to the same time
last year, Russian news agencies reported. He said city morgues are
nearly overflowing, with 1,300 bodies, close to their capacity.

Acrid smog blanketed Moscow for a six straight day Monday, with concentrations of carbon monoxide and other poisonous substances two or
three times higher than what is considered safe. Those airborne
pollutants reached a record over the weekend — exceeding the safe limit
by nearly seven times.

About 550 separate blazes were burning nationwide Monday, mainly across western Russia, including about 40 around Moscow, according to the Emergencies
Ministry. Forest and peat bog fires have been triggered by the most
intense heat wave in 130 years.

Alexander Frolov, head of the Russian weather service, said judging by historic documents, this heat wave could be unprecedented over a much long
period — up to 1,000 years.

"Our ancestors haven't observed or registered a heat like that within 1,000 years," Frolov said at a news conference. "This phenomenon is absolutely
unique."

He said the Moscow heat wave reflected the global climate's increased volatility.

Daily highs have reached up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), compared to the summer average of 75 (24 C), and according to the forecast,
there will be no respite this week.

At least 52 people have died directly in the wildfires and over 2,000 homes have been destroyed. Flights to Moscow have been delayed and diverted.

Russian authorities have acknowledged that the 10,000 firefighters battling the blazes aren't enough, and sent thousands of army soldiers to help fight
the fires.

On the Russian blogosphere, one of the country's last outposts of unfettered expression, the mood was bleak and angry that the situation had become so serious. One blogger
on the popular LiveJournal site suggested that Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, Moscow's mayor and other top officials be fired.

Others focused on immediate issues — like getting a good night's sleep.

"Every night it's like we prepare for war," blogger Tsirtsis wrote on the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta's site. "With open windows, it's
impossible to breathe because of the burning, and with closed windows
we choke in the stifling heat."

LiveJournal blogger Jokaloka said the polluting haze had prompted her to quit smoking.

Wednesday's international soccer match between Russia and Bulgaria has been moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg due to the smog.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_fires

viking

[TOTHE]

Carbon monoxide tonnage from Russian peat fires..NASA & JPL are tracking this. Part of the text & maps from link below.

"......On August 1, 2010, the excess carbon monoxide content almost reached the maximum values seen in 2002. The rate of growth (approximately 0.7 megatons, or 700,000 metric tons, per day) characterizes the rate of emission; the current rate is approximately three times higher than in 2002"

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA13317_modest.jpg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13317

[Eric J (Viking)]

I really don't know where to start with all these weird weather patterns...what with the China rain/floodings/massive mud slides...the raging fires in Russia...the floods in Pakistan...and still we have huge floods in Europe!! Whatever next???

*****

Russian authorities declared a state of emergency in Ozersk, home to major nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak Photo: GETTY

"A state of emergency has been introduced in forests and parks on the territory of the Ozersk city district due to a complicated fire hazard situation," said a statement posted on the district's website.

Ozersk, in the Urals region of Russia, is the latest strategic site to be threatened by wildfires which have already badly damaged military depots and threatened other atomic facilities.
Ozersk's Mayak plant can process 400 tonnes of waste a year. It was the scene of one of the former Soviet Union's major nuclear disasters in 1957 when a liquid waste accident affected some 260,000 people and forced the evacuation of several towns.

The Snezhinsk centre, which makes nuclear weapons, is located in another town in the Urals some 925 miles east of Moscow.

On Sunday the Russian emergencies ministry called on its services to work round the clock to put out a fire threatening the centre.

Russia's other major nuclear centre – at Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region 310 miles to the east of Moscow – has also been threatened by blazes.

After stating several times that the wildfires posed no threat to the nuclear facilities, Russian authorities announced they had removed all radioactive and explosive materials from the site.

Radioactive materials were back at the plant by Monday, authorities said.

Sarov city, closed to foreigners, has hosted since Soviet times an important nuclear research centre that makes nuclear arms.

The defence ministry has in addition ordered that weapons, artillery and missiles at a munitions depot at Alabinsk, 40 miles southwest of Moscow, be transferred to a secure site.

The authorities have said that two Russian army bases had burned in late July in the Moscow region, ravaged by the flames.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev cut short his traditional summer break in the southern resort of Sochi and returned to Moscow to chair an emergency meeting of the national security council on the fire disaster.

Mr Medvedev sacked a string of officers over their failures to control the fires.

He formally warned the head of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky and his deputy Alexander Tatarinov over "incomplete professional responsibility" in tackling a fire last week.

"I order the ministry of defence to fire a whole number of officers for the disciplinary infringements that were allowed to take place," the president added in televised comments.

Those sacked included the head of the Russian Navy's logistics division Sergei Sergeyev and the head of the Navy's aviation Nikolai Kuklev, Medvedev said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7935828/Russia-declares-state-of-emergency-in-nuclear-town-as-wildfires-blaze.html

viking

[Etherios]

is this all caused by the planet or is this a mass attack on all the humans in the planet? its so weird the planet weather we have atm.

In russia heat wave ... in europe huge amounts of rain ... even tho its at the same distance from the N.pole. The global weather is changing tho i dont think its global warming that is doing this. i mean the rain that have been droping all over is amazing. I would love for a news update from anyone that follows the weather (like/knows about them).


p.s. anyone else things that the cme might have something to do with the weird weather?

[ascendingstarseed]

Even tho some of the weather extremes could be part of the "weather wars" going on between nations, the solar system is entering a very energetic part of the galaxy that's affecting everything on Earth from the weather patterns to our behavior. Here's an enlightening interview with a brilliant lady named Susan Rennison who's a physicist, on how space weather is affecting the planet...and much more.


http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2010/07jul/RIR-100725.php


ps..this link was posted on another thread by another member, but it seems to be linked to what's happening with all this crazy weather.

[lindabaker]

Viking, at the very end of the video you posted above, post #394 there is a shot of the magnetosphere. There was a crop circle in the last year or so that looked exactly like it. Does anyone else remember? It's uncanny.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Yes Lynda ...your spot on!!

A few others made that connection to the magnestosphere on other forums...they called it the 'Jellyfish cropcircle'

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01414/jellyfish-crop-cir_1414935i.jpg

Very uncanny!! Weird times!!

viking

[TOTHE]

Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet Text & link below. It is my opinion that this is the message from the crop circle: Warning, you are destroying your oceans, you are poor stewards of the planet, if you continue to screw up...we will intervene and you may not like the consequences. This is not your planet.

By Harry Fuller | December 14, 2008, 5:58pm PST
"If global warming increases the surface area covered by ocean as predicted, jellyfish may ride the waves of the future. Not those landlubber cockroaches. There’s a new summary put together by the National Science Foundation. It summarizes the recent increase in jellyfish invasions across the globe.

The increasing number of jellyfish swarms are being encouraged by a variety of man-made environmental changes. They’re are definitely linked to ocean pollution. there are now oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans so polluted that jellyfish are the only creatures able to survive. Also, their major natural enemy are sea turtles but all seven sea-turtle species are now indecline and threatened. And warming seas make it easier for the various soft-bodied critters to spread and thrive. They don’t do well on ice.

Gelatinous swimmer swarms can be so great they destroy all the other fauna, they’ve even caused nuclear power plants to shut down by clogging pipes. This would make jellyfish natural terrorists and threats to homeland security wherever they invade. No continent is immune.

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/seanettle.jpg
Sea nettle, an abundant Arctic jellyfish with 20′ tentacles. Photo courtesy NSF and Kevin Raskoff.

Since the 1980s this potent stinger has increased in number in the Bering Sea, and expanded its range. Apparently they are not unstoppable, even jellyfish have to eat. And limited food supplies have capped the number of jellyfish that can crowd into the valuable fishing grounds of the Bering Sea.

Here’s some of what the NSF report has to say about the jellyfish swarms. “Jellyfish swarms have also damaged fisheries, fish farms, seabed mining operations, desalination plants and large ships. And proving that jellyfish can be political animals, knots of jellyfish have done the work of anti-nuclear activists: they have disabled nuclear power plants by clogging intake pipes. In short, since the 1980s, worldwide jellyfish blooms have caused hundreds of millions–or perhaps even billions–of dollars in losses.”

Much of the recent research into these jellyfish swarms is heavily dependent on high tech submersibles, and computer modelling that can quantify the complex factors affecting jellyfish blooms and busts."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/forget-the-cockroach-jellyfish-shall-inherit-the-planet/1562

For thse who want to debate the issue, here is a real 2.5 foot long sea roach. Text & link below.
"First exploding on the social bookmarking site Reddit, a deep-sea technician posted a story about being surprised after returning from a mission and finding that a strange creature latched itself onto the submarine’s hull.

The creature, after some investigation, was found to be Bathynomus gigantus, a rather large isopod known to inhabit Atlantic and Pacific deep waters. The creature that was involuntarily ‘recovered’ measured to be around 2.5 feet long.

Considering that the creature resembled a cockroach or louse, that might seem scary to think of: a 2.5-foot pinkish-white roach.

Scientists have long known about the creature – it’s just that since the creature lives so deep in the ocean, it’s pretty rare that one of them can actually be examined from dry ground. (The submarine crew estimates that this particular one attached itself to the submarine at around 8,500 feet depth)"

http://thenewschronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/001.jpg

Read more: http://thenewschronicle.com/giant-isopod-pictures/040104115/#ixzz0wEByS9yw
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

[Eric J (Viking)]

Radiation, plague, and fires: foreign embassies urgently evacuate staff
from Russia
Publication time: 7 August 2010, 13:52

A hasty evacuation of diplomatic staff from foreign embassies, like a
stampede, began in Moscow. Many embassies are trying to hide the evacuation
for political reasons. Mass evacuation of the embassies of Canada and Poland
was officially reported at night on August 7.

High level of air pollution (see
photo<http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01174/a_BM_Bayern_Moskau_1174082p.jpg>),
as one of the consequences of forest fires, has become an official ground
for evacuating embassy staff and their family members.

Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about
sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction
of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow.
According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and
bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.

The final decision on immediate evacuation of foreign diplomats from Russia
was made after the ringleader of the Russian terrorist gang Disaster
Ministry, Shoigu, said that "the level of radiation may increase in Bryansk
region because of fires" (the soil there is still very strongly contaminated
by Chernobyl).

Sophisticated diplomats immediately understood the diplomatic slang,
familiar to them, and rushed to pack baggage, Russian media reported.

Early in the morning of 7 August, the escape of foreign diplomats from
Russia took epidemic proportions. It is possible that the diplomats, through
the intelligence services of their countries, know something that is not yet
known to the general public.

Germany officially closed its embassy and evacuated the entire staff from
the doomed Russian Empire, media outlets reported. Austria, along with
Poland and Canada, is evacuating almost all its staff from Russia. Foreign
embassies addressed to their citizens got stuck in the country to leave
Russia as soon as possible.

The radiation, according to the newspaper, comes from facilities for the
production of atomic bombs (400 km east of Moscow) burning in Sarov.
Emission of radiation in the environment continues.

On the territory "of the atomic research center," as this plant is
officially called, two fires are still raging, the newspaper writes.
Russians cannot conceal facts, since fires are perfectly visible from
satellites.

Naturally, the evacuation affected all, without exception, embassies in
Moscow, but most of them reported nothing for political reasons. The case is
very serious, and certainly it is not related to the smog and fumes.

Meanwhile, governments of civilized countries warned their citizens not to
go in any case to Russia gripped by a full set of traditional natural and
unnatural calamities.

Only minor staff without diplomatic status will remain at the
embassy. Naturally, there will be no one issuing visas to Russians.

The US State Department warned Americans that a trip and staying in Russia
is a mortal threat to their life. The corresponding notification was
circulated on Friday by the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US State
Department. The statement reads:

"The US State Department warns American citizens about the risks involved in
traveling to Russia due to wildfires there and their impact on safety, air
quality, and transportation".

The statement noted that fires and "high temperatures" in the central part
of Russia produced "hazardous levels of air pollution and numerous flight
delays and cancellations in Moscow".

Americans traveling to these areas of Russia are advised to cancel the trip.
US citizens with heart or lung disease who are already inside the giant area
of natural disasters, which now represents the whole Russia, are advised
to avoid unnecessary outdoor staying and strenuous physical loads.

The current alert warning will remain in force until September 5, when the
situation in Russia, as the US stipulates, relaxes as far as fires are
concerned, because there'll be left nothing to burn. The situation would
remain unpredictable regarding plague and radiation.

Foreign Ministries of Germany, Bulgaria: France, Italy and other countries
also appealed to their citizens not to travel to Russia.

viking

[giovonni]

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100808/capt.5ae41dae6ca64b5c9b6daf4bd1026b48-5ae41dae6ca64b5c9b6daf4bd1026b48-0.jpg?x=400&y=271&q=85&sig=BWYqEEXCaYCdyxPYKDH.hA--

Russia Heat Wave May Kill 15,000, Shave $15 Billion of GDP
By Lucian Kim and Maria Levitov - Aug 10, 2010


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAd2sA6rZfs&feature=related

Russia’s record heat wave may already have taken 15,000 lives and cost the economy $15 billion as fires and drought ravage the country.

At least 7,000 people have probably died in Moscow as a result of the heat, and the nationwide death toll is likely to be at least twice that figure, according to Jeff Masters, co- founder of Weather Underground, a 15-year-old Internet weather service that gathers information from around the world.

“The Russian population affected by extreme heat is at least double the population of Moscow, and the death toll in Russia from the 2010 heat wave is probably at least 15,000, and may be much higher,” Masters said late yesterday on his blog.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took to the air today to douse a forest fire south of Moscow. The heat wave may slice 1 percent off of Russia’s $1.5 trillion economy this year because of lower agricultural output and reduced activity in other areas such as industry, Alexander Morozov, chief economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Moscow, said in an e-mail today.

Russia may harvest a third less grain than last year because of drought, Putin said yesterday. Companies such as automaker OAO AvtoVAZ have curbed production, and restaurants in Moscow are seeing a decline in customers as residents avoid smoke from wildfires that is blanketing the city.

Putin, 57, is leading government relief efforts, banning grain exports until the end of the year and traveling to the worst affected areas. State television showed him in the cockpit of a Be-200 firefighting plane today as it scooped up water from a river to extinguish two fires in the Ryazan region.

Moscow Smoke

In the Moscow region, planes are unable to fight fires because of thick smoke. Aircraft are on stand-by for when the air clears, Rossiya-24 television reported. The capital broke another record today when the temperature reached 32.8 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit).

While the official death toll from fires in central Russia is 52, the heat and smoke in Moscow have almost doubled the city’s normal death rate to about 700 a day, Andrei Seltsovsky, head of the city’s public health department, said yesterday in a televised news conference.

Masters, who has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology, used those numbers to calculate a nationwide death toll. As many as 50,000 people died during a European heat wave seven years ago, he said.

“I expect that by the time the Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 is over, it may rival the 2003 European heat wave as the deadliest heat wave in world history,” Masters wrote on his Ann Arbor, Michigan-based website.

‘Overall Slowdown’

Russia’s 2010 economic growth may slow to 7 percent from 7.5 percent because of a smaller grain harvest, reduced exports and lower consumer demand as inflation accelerates, Zurich-based UBS AG said yesterday.

“Current weather conditions are likely to adversely affect the services sector, and we may see an overall slowdown in economic activity in August,” Anton Nikitin, an analyst at Renaissance Capital in Moscow, said in an e-mailed note.

No rain is expected for at least the next week, Rossiya-24 reported. Those conditions may lead to new fires in the Moscow region, one of the worst affected areas, the broadcaster said.

Fires across central Russia have destroyed at least 2,000 homes and scorched almost 750,000 hectares (2,900 square miles), according to the government.

Reconstruction Begins

Construction of houses for people who lost their homes in the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions has begun, according to Rossiya-24. The station showed video cameras being set up at construction sites after Putin said last week that webcams should be installed so he and the public could monitor the work.

Putin met today with Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, according to the government website. The prime minister suggested the city help rebuild housing in badly affected regions.

Luzhkov, who broke off his vacation Aug. 8, should have returned to the city earlier to take charge of the situation, an unidentified official in President Dmitry Medvedev’s administration told Interfax. The mayor, one of Russia’s longest serving politicians, is often at loggerheads with the federal government.

To contact the reporters on this story: Lucian Kim in Moscow at lkim3@bloomberg.net; Maria Levitov in London at mlevitov@bloomberg.net
®2010 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
original report here;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/russia-may-lose-15-000-lives-15-billion-of-economic-output-in-heat-wave.html

what do you think?:confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmUS7PAWFw

[JoeNashville]

Guys, we're in the thick of it now! TOTHE and Rosie, thanks for the map and the photo of the storm front. Regarding the USGS quake map: I look at the map for the US, I see a pattern. I see a circle of quakes in the west. They are not large, but I'm thinking the continental divide is stressing. I don't know my western geography as well as eastern US, someone help me out here. Is there a section that's being outlined?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/[COLOR="red"]

Good catch linda! Could that be the result of building pressure of the maga volcano near Yellowstone? The general location is close enough. When Yellowstone last blew it blasted all the surface material including the mountains. It could be that large buildup of pressure as the plates move in that area? The Yellowstone mega is due for another blast time wise...

To me the most interesting are the series of very small quakes just east of Oklahoma City. About two a month, though small but always is exact same place. I wonder what is up with that??

[ascendingstarseed]

Good catch linda! Could that be the result of building pressure of the maga volcano near Yellowstone? The general location is close enough. When Yellowstone last blew it blasted all the surface material including the mountains. It could be that large buildup of pressure as the plates move in that area? The Yellowstone mega is due for another blast time wise...

To me the most interesting are the series of very small quakes just east of Oklahoma City. About two a month, though small but always is exact same place. I wonder what is up with that??

They say the New Madrid fault line is due to go off. There have been over 35 small quakes in Oklahoma since the first of the year, which is a lot and has geologists trying to figure out what's going on.

My thoughts are there used to be huge oil reserves in Oklahoma and oil rigs all over the state pumping black gold, so who knows what's happening under the surface. In Kingfisher in 2002 huge sulphur geysers blew up from the ground. The New Madrid runs north of Okla. from Memphis to St Louis, or something close to that, so maybe it's having an effect too.

[MorningSong]

Has anyone noticed the number of EQs in Europe today???

http://www.emsc-csem.org/#2

[lindabaker]

[QUOTE=Fredkc;42569]An interesting "toy" for your WinDoze machine is a free critter called "Earthquake 3D"
(http://www.wolton.net/quake.html)

From the page...
WATCH EARTHQUAKES IN 3D... Zoom and spin your way around the globe while viewing earthquakes in three dimensions! Control how the Earthquakes and Earth are shown. See at a glance up to seven days of global earthquake activity

That is a great little gizmo! It give us quite a different perspective. Notice all the small quakes in Europe today?

Adjust and customize the display to see earthquakes in a variety of different ways. Filter earthquakes by size and time – then select from many display options that include quake indicators and map references. Earthquakes are shown in near real-time using the latest data from the USGS via the internet.

http://www.wolton.net/images/quake11.gif

Fred[/QUOTE

Thank you Fredkc, I like it very much. Notice all of the quakes in Europe today?

[Eric J (Viking)]

Recieved this from a freind ... very interesting article...please read...

By The Earl of Stirling


Our planet is experiencing a real life version of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" right now. Record breaking heat (up to 39-40C or 100-104F in Moscow) and drought in Russia, heat and flooding in large parts of Asia (China, Pakistan, etc.), and killing cold temperatures in South America are all reflective of a rapidly changing global weather pattern that is caused by dramatic changes in the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) and the Norway Current/etc. brought on by the large amounts of oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP Oil Disaster.

An Italian theoretical physicist, Dr. Gianluigi ZangariDr. Gianluigi Zangari, of the prestigious Research Division of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Italy, has come up with some startling scientific findings. Dr. Zangari has specialized in global climate research and analysis. He has found that the massive amount of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, from the BP Oil Disaster, has caused a disruption of the Loop Current in the Gulf. And further, that this has resulted in a dramatic weakening in the vorticity of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, and a reduction in North Atlantic water temperatures of 10C.

It is a university level physics experiment to use a tub of cool water and inject a colored stream of warm water into it. You can see the boundary layers of the warm water stream. If you add oil to the tub it breaks down the boundary layers of the warm water stream and effectively destroys the current vorticity . This is what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean.

The entire 'river of warm water' that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe is dying due to the Corexit that the Obama Administration allowed BP to use to hide the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster. The approximately two million gallons of Corexit, plus several million gallons of other dispersants, have caused the over two hundred million gallons of crude oil, that has gushed for months from the BP wellhead and nearby sites, to mostly sink to the bottom of the ocean. This has helped to effectively hide much of the oil, with the hopes that BP can seriously reduce the mandated federal fines from the oil disaster. However, there is no current way to effectively 'clean up' the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, which is about half covered in crude oil. Additionally, the oil has flowed up the East Coast of America and into the North Atlantic Ocean, and there is no way to effectively clean up this 'sea bottom oil'.

This massive amount of crude oil, covering such an enormous area, has seriously affected the Loop Current, the Gulf Stream, and the North Atlantic Current system, by breaking up the boundary layers of the warm water flow.

There are several names to the themoregulation 'river of warm water' that keeps the Northern Hemisphere from going into a new Ice Age. The first section is named the "Loop Current" and it begins in the Caribbean, flows around the Yucatan Peninsula and goes into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops around the Gulf and exits on the east side and runs between Cuba and Florida. At this point the current is called the "Florida Current" and it flows from the Keys up the East Coast of America (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and part of North Carolina) to the Outer Banks. At the Outer Banks the current heads east into the North Atlantic where it is known as the "Gulf Stream". Eventually the Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Current, which itself eventually becomes the Norway Current and the Canary Current. The reason that this system has several names, and not one, is historical. It was not all discovered at the same time and the flow was not fully known or understood for years. Ben Franklin, one of my favorite American 'founding fathers' is the person that named one section of this system the "Gulf Stream" in the 1760s. It should be noted that this 'river of warm water' does not begin with the Loop Current, it is part of a much larger system that includes the Atlantic South Equatorial Current which flows north along the coast of Brazil (the North Brazil Current), and becomes the Caribbean Current, and is renamed the Yucatan Current as it flows north into the Yucatan Channel. This entire system is one of the main global themoregulation processes that regulates the planet's temperatures.

Based on what has already happened (to the Loop Current and the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Current/etc. and global weather patterns), and what is continuing to happen, we can project increased global climate changes that are both serious and near in terms of time. We may be entering a full new Ice Age.

There is no known way to clean up the massive amount of free crude oil, stripped of its lighter elements by dispersants, now on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and in significant parts of the Atlantic Ocean (where the Gulf Stream flows). The use of Corexit and other dispersants by BP, with the full cooperation of the Obama Administration has created the most significant danger to the entire planet in recorded history. This is what happens when a great nation slips into being a Third World type of nation, where money alone is the key driving force in government actions.

As full knowledge of the scope of the oncoming mega-disaster to the planet becomes known, the Obama Administration will find itself in a political crisis way beyond Watergate (that cost Nixon his presidency) or the sex affair that almost cost Clinton his presidency. The effect on this years mid-term Congressional elections are apt to be dramatic.

further reading here...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/128/672/Special_Post.html

viking

[Tuza]

I would say BP and Obama will go down in history as being the corporation and president that destroyed Gaia, but with the way everything is going and what they have done there will be no history books to write and if there was they couldn't afford to write them because the economy is nada.

[fifi]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/12/100000-dc-area-without-power-after-rain-storm/?page=1

100,000 in D.C. area without power after storm

"GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Storms swept through the Washington region early Friday and quickly dumped large amounts of rain, downing trees, closing streets and knocking out power to thousands of customers.

Fire officials said 10 people suffered minor injuries when a tree fell onto an apartment building in Gaithersburg, crushing its second and third floors. Four people were taken to a hospital, and six were treated at the scene.

The storm also knocked out power to more than 100,000 Pepco customers in the Washington area, including about 72,000 in Montgomery County. About 19,000 BGE customers in the Baltimore area had lost power since the beginning of the storm, but the utility reported about 7,000 had the lights back on by midmorning....."

[Eric J (Viking)]

What's behind the weather chaos?

(CNN) -- Is the record-shattering heatwave that has been blamed for the death of thousands in Russia somehow related to the devastating flooding in Pakistan?

Are these disasters happening more frequently -- and are they a result of global warming?

Sometimes these connections can clearly be observed and understood. At other times they are more complex, taking place across time scales much longer than we are able to observe.

Muscovites will long remember the summer of 2010 as the hottest and most extreme weather summer in the city's long history. The all-time temperature record was set, and re-set, five different times during a two-week span from late July to early August. In that period the temperature climbed above 30 degrees Celsius (87 degrees Fahrenheit) for 29 consecutive days (and still counting).

In addition to the extreme heat, which reached up to 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on multiple days in a city that averages an August high of 22 degrees Celsius (72 degrees Fahrenheit), the capital was shrouded in a thick layer of smoke from area wildfires.

The combination of extreme heat and lack of rainfall left western Russia vulnerable to wildfires, which burned out of control southeast of Moscow.

Nearly 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) away in Pakistan, monsoon rains fell with an intensity that had never before been observed.

Peshawar, a city in northern Pakistan 140 km (87 miles) west of the capital Islamabad, received six times the monthly average rainfall in only 24 hours.

Heavy rain has continued to occur throughout Pakistan since the initial heavy downpour on July 29, and the flooding has impacted an estimated 14 million people, killing over 1,300 at time of writing.

Though these disasters are different and vary by great distances, they could have both been the result of a large area of high pressure centered over western Russia.

The high pressure, also known as a "blocking high," can influence weather patterns over great distances by altering the jet stream.

The jet stream is an area of fast-moving air that occurs high in the atmosphere, at an altitude roughly where commercial airliners cruise, and it acts like a highway for storms.

As the name suggests, a "blocking high" is exceptionally strong and blocks the jet stream, which forces the jet stream to move around it. These scenarios normally last for a couple of days, but can last for weeks, as we have seen in Russia.

Areas under the high pressure will see drought and heat, as seemingly endless days of sun bake the earth. As the jet stream is continually forced around the high pressure zone, flooding can result from areas that see storms continually move over the same areas.

We saw this in Central Europe last week, as storm systems that could not advance into Eastern Europe and Russia continued to rain over parts of Germany and Poland, causing flooding.

The area of high pressure that has been parked over western Russia for the last several weeks also forced part of the jet stream south to Pakistan, an area where it normally would not be found during mid-summer.

An interaction between the jet stream and the seasonal southwest monsoon currents over southeast Asia could have led to the intense bursts of rainfall experienced there.

So what caused this area of high pressure in western Russia to be so strong and last for so long?

As we continually stress, one extreme weather event, or even a series of weather events, is not caused by global warming or climate change. Weather extremes such as floods or heat waves happen every year, all over the globe.

Many climate scientists believe, however, that these events will become more common, as the Earth warms because of global warming. Others will point to more distinct and shorter-scale cycles such as El Nino and La Nina, which commonly lead to extremes in weather around the globe.

So, while we can tie many of these global weather disasters together around a common meteorological trigger, we cannot say for certain if climate change is helping to pull that trigger, or perhaps loading the gun more frequently.

One thing is for sure: as global weather disasters will continue to happen, and our knowledge and coverage of them continues to improve, we will continue to question if they are related, and what is really causing them.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/weather/08/12/heat.floods.extremes/index.html#fbid=SPCq8rs_-D4&wom=false

viking

[TOTHE]

NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires: Text & links below.
August 11, 2010

A series of large wildfires burning across western and central Russia, eastern Siberia and western Canada has created a noxious soup of air pollution that is affecting life far beyond national borders. Among the pollutants created by wildfires is carbon monoxide, a gas that can pose a variety of health risks at ground level. Carbon monoxide is also an ingredient in the production of ground-level ozone, which causes numerous respiratory problems. As the carbon monoxide from these wildfires is lofted into the atmosphere, it becomes caught in the lower bounds of the mid-latitude jet stream, which swiftly transports it around the globe.

Two movies were created using continuously updated data from the "Eyes on the Earth 3-D" feature on NASA's global climate change website http://climate.nasa.gov/ . They show three-day running averages of daily measurements of carbon monoxide present at an altitude of 5.5 kilometers (18,000) feet, along with its global transport. The data are from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. AIRS is most sensitive to carbon monoxide at this altitude, which is a region conducive to long-range transport of the smoke. The abundance of carbon monoxide is shown in parts per billion, with the highest concentrations shown in yellows and reds.

The first movie, centered over Moscow, highlights the series of wildfires that continue to burn across Russia. It covers the period between July 18 and Aug. 10, 2010.

The second movie is centered over the North Pole and covers the period from July 16 to Aug. 10, 2010. From this vantage point, the long-range transport of pollutants is more easily visible.

AIRS is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., under contract to NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

More information about AIRS can be found at http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/fire/fire20100811/fire20100819-640.jpg

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-265

From JPL: Carbon monoxide spread (video)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=924

[Eric J (Viking)]

Well Russia really is taking a battering lately!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp-6zNXKnFE&feature=player_embedded

*****

Enormous hail stones littered the streets of Prague on Sunday night brought by a violent storm that lasted only 30 minutes.

Six people were injured, as property and hundreds of cars were damaged in the hailstorm.

Water had to be drained from basements and garages, and fallen trees and branches were cleared from the city streets.

This restaurant owner tallied up the damages to his property.

view video here...
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_europe/2010-08-17/214349771012.html

*****

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Whats going on guys???????


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXKbJ5gGRY&feature=player_embedded

viking

[Beth]

I have to say, and this could be due to complete ignorance, but I haven't ever heard of hurricanes in Russia. Is this normal?

[TOTHE]

I have to say, and this could be due to complete ignorance, but I haven't ever heard of hurricanes in Russia. Is this normal?

yaya551, not a hurricane but a supercell thunder storm (mesocyclone), whoever titled the youtube is trying to frighten you. There was one that ripped through a dozen years ago in the Adirondacks of New York. I still see the results of it when I drive up the Northway...flattened trees for a mile with an West to East path as far as the eye can see.

Supercell thunderstorms
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/type/spr/home.rxml
Mesocyclone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocyclone
More from The Weather Freaks
http://weatherfreaks.net/mesocyclone

[bennycog]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7952697/indonesia-on-red-alert-as-volcano-erupts

Volcano erupts in Indonesia20:03 AEST Sun Aug 29 20102 hours 11 minutes agoArlina ArshadVIEWS: 0| FLOCKS: 0| 0 comments so far
Indonesia's Sinabung volcano has erupted, spewing smoke and ash 1.5 kilometres into the air.
A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years on Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes.

Indonesia issued a red alert after the Sinabung volcano erupted, blanketing the area in thick and acrid black smoke, disaster officials said, although no casualties have yet been reported.

"It's clearly dangerous so we've raised the warning to the highest level, or red level," said Surono, head of the nation's volcano disaster alert centre.

"From the crater, it shot smoke and volcanic ash 1500m into the sky," he told AFP. "Initially we thought the ash and smoke were triggered by rain but now we know the driving pressure was from magma."

The 2460-metre Sinabung in northern Sumatra has not erupted for more than 400 years but had shown "some volcanic activity" since Friday, Surono said.

"Our team is co-ordinating with district and provincial officials to monitor the situation," he said.

About 9300 people have been evacuated from several affected villages to towns - including Berastagi and Kabanjahe - outside a six-kilometre "danger zone", search and rescue team official Mohammad Agus Wibisono told AFP.

"The ash has spread to a distance of 30 kilometres from the volcano. Many of the villagers evacuated were farmers and they said the ash had settled on their vegetable farms," he said.

There were, however, no flight disruptions, Wibisono said.

Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono told AFP many residents in four affected villages at the foot of the volcano had fled their homes immediately after the eruption.

"Many had left their homes even before they were evacuated. They said the volcano was spewing thick black smoke, small stones and sulphur. They were so scared they decided to leave their homes and go to the city," Kardono said, adding that a rescue team has been sent to survey the area.

"The area is blanketed with thick smoke and there's a strong smell of sulphur."

He said while there were no reports yet of any deaths or injuries, many people had reported breathing difficulties.

"We have anticipated that people may have respiratory problems from inhaling dust. So we've given them face masks and are preparing to send in medicines for respiratory infections."

Tents and food are also being arranged for the evacuees and "the situation is under control," Kardono said.

Local media reported a man had died after having difficulty breathing while fleeing from his village, but Karo district official Andes Mbaga told AFP he had died from heart failure.

Evacuees from 18 affected villages are "all doing well" and those with breathing problems are receiving medical help, he added.

"Many of them have removed their face masks. The volcanic activity has also reduced significantly. Lava was emitted during the eruption but it didn't flow out.


bennycog

[fifi]

Just got this from Michael Knight's newsletter.

Italy Mud slide
http://sorisomail.com/email/42722/ja-viram-desmoronar-uma-montanha.html

[MorningSong]

Yes, fifi, that event was back in February this year.... very frightening to see the live coverage of the slide. Luckily, noone was injured thanks to early discovery of the situation and evacuation.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Italy-Mudslide-Landslide-Hits-Maierato-In-Calabria-Forcing-200-People-To-Be-Evacuated/Article/201002315550010

[fifi]

Thanks, MorningSong. After I posted the news, a friend asked me when it happened, and I found out that it was a while ago, in Feb 2010 like you said.

7.1 Earthquake in New Zealand

"Shaken residents of Christchurch fear the damage from today's devastating earthquake today may have a far bigger impact than most realise.

As aftershocks from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake continued to rock the city, people checked their friends, relatives and neighbours and made sure their homes were safe to stay in.

However, many residents also believed what appeared to be relatively minor damage to their homes, may only be the beginning. They say many buildings may have damage which cannot be seen......"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671071

[Swami]

Whats going on guys???????


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXKbJ5gGRY&feature=player_embedded

viking

Its happening all around the globe Viking....
More here... (http://gazbom.blogspot.com/2010/08/major-update-on-dead-sea-creatures.html)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Corrientes-oceanicas.gif

More here... (http://www.rense.com/MexicoAlreadyDead.html)

[lindabaker]

Thank you, Viking for all of the info. I know that Carmen lives in New Zealand. Has anyone heard from her? Thanks, Linda and other interested parties!

[Eric J (Viking)]

Has anyone got any further info regarding the closing down of 'The Gulf stream'??

The more I read about this, the more I am beggining to wonder if there is any truth with this story!!!! If it is true UK is gonna have a very cold winter!!

http://www.activistpost.com/2010/09/is-day-after-tomorrow-happening-today.html

viking

[Swami]

Has anyone got any further info regarding the closing down of 'The Gulf stream'??

The more I read about this, the more I am beggining to wonder if there is any truth with this story!!!! If it is true UK is gonna have a very cold winter!!

viking


Edgar Cayce, Clairvoyant (1877-1945)

Edgar Cayce made his name in the first half of this century in America as a psychic healer; perhaps the greatest that the United States ever produced. During his lifetime he was credited with assisting thousands of people suffering from all manner of ailments. But there was also a lesser known aspect to Cayce's psychic revelations. Occasionally while in a self-induced trance, Cayce would speak of events to come. He predicted the First and Second World War, the independence of India and the 1929 stockmarket crash. He also predicted, fifteen years before the event, the creation of the State of Israel. His most disturbing predictions, however, concern vast geographical upheavals which by the year 1998 will result in the destruction of New York, the disappearance of most of Japan, and a cataclysmic change in Northern Europe.

The first sign of this change in the Earth's core would be the "breaking up of some conditions" in the South Pacific and "sinking or rising" in the Mediterranean or Etna area. Cayce forecast that, by the end of the century, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco would be destroyed. He said that "the greater portion of Japan must go into the sea" at this time, and that northern Europe would be "changed as in the twinkling of an eye." In 1941, Cayce predicted that lands would appear in the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming years, and that "the coastline now of many a land will be the bed of the ocean. Even many of the battlefields of (1941) will be ocean, will be the sea, the bays, the lands over which the new order will carry on their trade as with one another."

"The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. When there is the first breaking up of some conditions in the South Sea and those as apparent in the sinking or rising of that that's almost opposite same, or in the Mediterranean, and the Etna area, then we many know it has begun."


http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/phoebe.htm

I know, I know, these preditions are overdue. But what is time exactly.....?

[ascendingstarseed]

Media blackout on an asteroid impact in Columbia that left a crater 30 meters in diameter on Sunday...

http://rabbithole2.com/news/top_news/asteroid_hits_columbia_american_media_buries_it.php#c5t_form

[Swami]

Amazon's river levels lowest on record




The Peruvian government is considering whether to declare parts of the Amazon an emergency zone after water levels dropped to their lowest in 40 years.

Towns and villages in the north of the country are already running low on food and supplies after boats became stranded in shallow waters.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11190730

Amazon river level in Peru at 40-year low


The Amazon river has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, causing severe economic disruption in a region where it is the main transport route.

At least six large boats have been stranded near the port city of Iquitos.

The low water level is the result of a prolonged spell of dry weather, Peru's national meteorological office said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11172581

[Eric J (Viking)]

Snow in Colombia!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yyVtHBK_Zc

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100908/capt.0c8f02d9c8904f98aa839729faafd65e-0c8f02d9c8904f98aa839729faafd65e-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=gHs2VfZP5ry5P9.FG9zuJg--

ARLINGTON, Texas – Authorities say flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine has killed a second person who was swept away from his pickup truck.

Johnson County Sheriff's Department Capt. Mike Gilbert says a 49-year-old man drowned Wednesday afternoon after being swept away from his truck on a road near a flooded creek in an area between Alvarado and Lillian.

He says the man's body was found about 200 yards from his truck.

The National Weather Service says at least one person died in a vehicle submerged by water from a swollen creek in Killeen, north of Austin. And authorities in Austin say they're searching for a woman whose black Lexus SUV was swept off a road by a swollen creek.

Flooding has also swamped parts of northern Texas, including Arlington, west of Dallas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_us/us_tropical_weather#

viking

[Swami]

Mudslide in Italian village caught on camera

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11258737

[Eric J (Viking)]

Meteorites, Gas Line Explosion, Planet X, Sinkholes, Lucas on Planet changes ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTQiaRgwyes

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Part 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjDr1rdzZDU

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vd8Of-BHrc

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qj-9vEDe4&feature=sub

viking

[ascendingstarseed]

New York City was struck with tornado's and high winds in a serious storm this week, interestingly enough so was Hong Kong...

Hong Kong Hit By Record 13,000 Lightning Strikes in One Hour

The Hong Kong Observatory reported 13,102 bolts of lightning struck ground across the city in the hour after midnight. Photographer: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images







Record lightning strikes pounded Hong Kong today in its most violent electrical storm, which caused flooding and left people trapped in elevators.

The Hong Kong Observatory reported 13,102 bolts of lightning struck ground across the city in the hour after midnight. That’s the most since such data was first collected in
2005, said David Hui, a scientific officer at the observatory.
The storm raged from 9 p.m. yesterday to 4 a.m. today.

Wind gusts of more than 100 kilometers an hour were recorded in Tai O district at 12:40 a.m., according to an observatory weather bulletin. More than 40 millimeters of rain
an hour was recorded across the territory during the storm,
according to the observatory website.

Police and firefighters responded to flooding in a village in the northern New Territories shortly before midnight, said a police spokesman who declined to be named citing government
policy.

Five reports of people being trapped in lifts were received, according to a spokeswoman for the government’s Information Services Department.

The weather was linked to Tropical Storm Meranti, which is moving north through the South China Sea, according Chan Sai- tick, acting senior scientific officer at the observatory. The
weather pattern ahead of Meranti caused high temperatures across
Hong Kong and southern China yesterday.

“That led to a large accumulation of energy and very unstable conditions during the afternoon,” Chan said in a phone interview. “That energy was subsequently released last night.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Nick Gentle in Hong Kong ngentle2@bloomberg.net.

http://survivingearthchanges.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=3778936:Topic:27517&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

[Eric J (Viking)]

UPDATE 2September2010: Europe is going into an early winter ~ link ~ with snowfall in the Alps coming a month early ~ link ~ half a meter of snow in late August in Norway ~ link ~ early snow in Russia ~ link ~ Additionally, sea ice in the Antarctic is at near record levels ~ link ~ and coldest August in South Australia in 35 years ~ link ~ This is indicative of a major climatic change to the entire planet and is to be expected from the dying Thermohaline Circulation System in the Atlantic Ocean.

http://www.iceagenow.com/August_turns_to_November_in_Germany.htm

http://www.iceagenow.com/Snow_in_the_Alps_a_month_earlier_than_normal.htm

http://www.iceagenow.com/Half_a_meter_of_snow_in_Norway.htm

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/24/snow-in-russia-in-august/

http://www.iceagenow.com/Meteorologist_expects_monster_La_Nina-drastic_cooling.htm

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/coldest-sa-august-in-35-years/story-e6frea83-1111117355318

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Northern Nigeria flooding 'displaces two million'

About two million people in northern Nigeria have been displaced after authorities opened the floodgates on two dams, an official says.

The flooding began suddenly when the gates on the Challawa and Tiga dams were opened, a spokesman for the Jigawa governor said.

The dams are in Kano state, but about 5,000 villages in neighbouring Jigawa state have been affected, he added.

Several states in northern Nigeria have been hit by floods this year.

It is not yet clear whether residents received a warning or if anyone was injured or went missing in the flooding, reported the Associated Press news agency.

The floodgates are normally opened every year during the rainy season.

Nigeria's meteorological agency had previously forecast low rainfall in the north, warning that more than 12 million people could face food shortages as a result, according to the AFP news agency.

In a normal year, the water released from the dams flows into fields, irrigating crops of corn, rice and vegetables during the brief growing season.

Jigawa and Kano are part of the Sahel region, a belt of semi-arid land south of the Sahara desert.

In neighbouring Niger, millions are facing food shortages after a prolonged drought caused crops to fail. That was followed by severe flooding last month. Millions are now facing food shortages.

viking

[Swami]

River disappears overnight after loud detonation noise is heard

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?5890-River-disappears-overnight-after-loud-detonation-noise-is-heard&p=54069&viewfull=1#post54069

[jack]

The weather is definitly getting cold quickly here in Ireland. Wearing winter clothes already! Down to 5 degrees celsius tonight, and overall temperatures have dropped much more dramatic and much earlier then what would be considered the norm.

Viking, Have you any more information on the gulf stream shutting down? I'm pretty sure that official satelite images would be tampered with in order to keep this under wraps. The earl of stirling isnt the first to have commented on this, Matt Simmons had a convenient "heart attack" after going public about the gulf stream being damaged. I'm also aware of pictures circulating that i have good reason to believe are authentic, of a laser beam coming down on the deepwater horizon moments before the initial explosion that was said to be the cause of the disaster. A fabricated event in that part of the world in that specific area on that specific rig indicates a well calculated plan to shut down the gulf stream.

http://thejohnchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/miracl-new.jpg?w=497&h=504


http://loadsofredpills.com/2010/08/30/gulf-oil-rig-was-shot-by-miracl-laser-from-satellite-pictures/


http://loadsofredpills.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/miracl-laser-zoom.jpeg?w=143&h=150 http://loadsofredpills.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/miracl-laser-deck-new-enlarged.jpeg?w=200&h=119 http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=loadsofredpills.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Floadsofredpills.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fmiracl-laser-deepwaterhorizon-new-tjc.jpeg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Floadsofredpills.com%2F2010%2F08%2F30%2Fgulf-oil-rig-was-shot-by-miracl-laser-from-satellite-pictures%2F

“Experts declared the hole could only be created by a space-based laser weapon called MIRACL, or Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser – the only known successful direct energy weapon developed by the U.S. Navy.”


This could be much more serious then the spillage of a few hundred thousand gallons of oil. Even with the well capped, is that really the end of our problems, or is it just the begining?

This post for the record, is not an attempt to instill fear or panic on anyone. It is important information regarding what could potentially be an extreme climate shift in our very near future and is intended to prepare not scare.

[fifi]

Thank you for your post, Jack. This reminds me of some info I have read before that if the gulf stream is stopped, it can start a mini ice-age and starvation. At that time I thought it may be caused by the ice meltdown from the Artic. Propbably the PTB wants to speed up this event with the oil spill. Time will tell if this "speculation" is true.

[Snowy Owl]

I understand that for US citizens the impacts of the BP off shore exploitation and tragedy concern them most. But Europe is indeed concern too. I am sorry but I do not have the time right now to read everything you have written on the subject, please be indulgent.

RISK OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BY BP OIL SPILL


Gianluigi Zangari

Frascati National Laboratories (LNF)
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Frascati 00044, Via E. Fermi, 40, ITALY

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Abstract: BP Oil Spill may cause an irreparable damage to the Gulf Stream global climate thermoregulation activity.

The Gulf Stream importance in the global climate thermoregulation processes
is well assessed. The latest real time satellite (Jason, Topex/Poseidon, GeosatFollow-On, ERS-2, Envisat) data maps of May-June 2010 processed by CCAR1,2

(Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research), checked at Frascati

Laboratories by the means of the SHT congruent calculus3 and compared with past years data, show for the first time a direct evidence of the rapid breaking of the Loop Current, a warm ocean current, crucial part of the Gulf Stream.
As displayed both by the sea surface velocity maps and the sea surface height maps, the Loop Current broke down for the first time around May 18th and generated a clock wise eddy, which is still active (see Fig. 1).

Figure 1| Real time satellites data maps. Real time sea surface height maps (above) and as of today the situation has deteriorated up to the point in which the eddy has detached itself completely from the main stream therefore destroying completely the Loop Current, as in figure 2 below, dated June 12th 2010.

Figure 2| Real time satellites data maps updated. Real time sea surface height map (left) and sea surface velocity maps (right) updated on June 12th processed by CCAR1,2 and checked at LNF (Frascati) by SHT calculus3.

The star indicates the site of BP platform “Deepwater Horizon”. The yellow arrow indicates the breaking of the Loop Stream.

Since comparative analysis with past satellite data until may 2010 didn’t show
relevant anomalies, it might be therefore plausible to correlate the breaking of
the Loop Current with the biochemical and physical action of the BP Oil Spill on the Gulf Stream.

It is reasonable to foresee the threat that the breaking of a crucial warm
stream as the Loop Current may generate a chain reaction of unpredictable
critical phenomena and instabilities due to strong non linearities which may
have serious consequences on the dynamics of the Gulf Stream thermoregulation activity of the Global Climate.

PDF with images at http://www.associazionegeofisica.it/OilSpill.pdf

References:

1. CCAR web page: http://argo.colorado.edu/~realtime/welcome/;
2. Leben, R. R., G. H. Born, B. R. Engebreth, 2002, Operational altimeter
data processing for mesoscale monitoring. Marine Geodesy, 25, 3-18;
3. G. Zangari patent SIAE-OLAF n. 9903198/1999

Acknowledgements: we acknowledge Frascati National Laboratories
(www.lnf.infn.it) and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (www.infn.it).

We also aknowledge the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA: the maps
displayed in Fig. 1 and 2 were produced by the Colorado Center for
Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

More information on these data products is available at
http://argo.colorado.edu/~realtime/welcome/.

I suggest you to reread

From Project Avalon
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...he-Gulf-Stream

he Jet Stream
Climate

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstrea...al/climate.htm

The earth's tilt, rotation and land/sea distribution affect the global weather patterns we observe.

While the weather varies from day-to-day at any particular location, over the years, the same type of weather will reoccur. The reoccurring "average weather" found in any particular place is called climate.

German climatologist and amateur botanist Wladimir Köppen (1846-1940) divided the world's climates into several major categories based upon general temperature profile related to latitude. These categories are as follows:
A - Tropical Climates
Tropical moist climates extend north and south from the equator to about 15° to 25° latitude. In these climates all months have average temperatures greater than 64°F (18°C) and annual precipitation greater than 59".
B - Dry Climates
The most obvious climatic feature of this climate is that potential evaporation and transpiration exceed precipitation. These climates extend from 20°-35° North and South of the equator and in large continental regions of the mid-latitudes often surrounded by mountains.
C - Moist Subtropical Mid-Latitude Climates
This climate generally has warm and humid summers with mild winters. Its extent is from 30°50° of latitude mainly on the eastern and western borders of most continents. During the winter, the main weather feature is the mid-latitude cyclone. Convective thunderstorms dominate summer months.
D - Moist Continental Mid-latitude Climates
Moist continental mid-latitude climates have warm to cool summers and cold winters. The location of these climates is poleward of the C climates. The average temperature of the warmest month is greater than 50°F (10°C), while the coldest month is less than -22°F (-30°C). Winters are severe with snowstorms, strong winds, and bitter cold from Continental Polar or Arctic air masses.
E - Polar Climates
Polar climates have year-round cold temperatures with the warmest month less than 50°F (10°C). Polar climates are found on the northern coastal areas of North America, Europe, Asia, and on the land masses of Greenland and Antarctica.
H - Highlands
Unique climates based on their elevation. Highland climates occur in mountainous terrain where rapid elevation changes cause rapid climatic changes over short distances.


The map (below) shows where these major categories occur in the mainland United States.

Take it to the MAX! Learn about further sub-divisions of these climate zones.


The classical length of record to determine the climate for any particular place is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The quantities most often observed are temperature, precipitation, and wind.


The "normals" are computed once every 10 years which helps to smooth out year-to-year variations. For example, the current 30-year normals were calculated from the actual weather data that occurred during the 30 years of 1971-2000. In 2011, a new set of 30-year normals will be calculated using the data from the period of 1981-2010. So, when you hear what the normal high and low temperature for your location, for example, they come from these 30-year averages.
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LIN YUTANG:
Hope is like a road in the country;
there was never a road,
but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence.

"Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Unknown

The Jet Stream

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/global/jet.htm


The Jet Stream

Jet streams are relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere.



The winds blows from west to east in jet streams but the flow often shifts to the north and south.



Jet streams follow the boundaries between hot and cold air. Since these hot and cold air boundaries are most pronounced in winter, jet streams are the strongest for both the northern and southern hemisphere winters.

Why does the jet stream winds blow from west to east? Recall from the previous section what the global wind patterns would be like if the earth was not rotating. (The warm air rising at the equator will move toward both poles.) We saw that the earth's rotation divided this circulation into three cells. The earth's rotation is responsible for the jet stream as well.

The motion of the air is not directly north and south but is affected by the momentum the air has as it moves away from the equator. The reason has to do with momentum and how fast a location on or above the Earth moves relative to the Earth's axis.



Your speed relative to the Earth's axis depends on your location. Someone standing on the equator is moving much faster than someone standing on a 45° latitude line. In the graphic (above right) the person at the position on the equator arrives at the yellow line sooner than the other two. Someone standing on a pole is not moving at all (except that he or she would be slowly spinning). The speed of the rotation is great enough to cause you to weigh one pound less at the equator than you would at the north or south pole.


The momentum the air has as it travels around the earth is conserved, which means as the air that's over the equator starts moving toward one of the poles, it keeps its eastward motion constant. The Earth below the air, however, moves slower as that air travels toward the poles. The result is that the air moves faster and faster in an easterly direction (relative to the Earth's surface below) the farther it moves from the equator.





In addition, with the three-cell circulations mentioned previously, the regions around 30° N/S and 50°-60° N/S are areas where temperature changes are the greatest. As the difference in temperature between the two locations increase, the strength of the wind increases. Therefore, the regions around 30° N/S and 50°-60° N/S are also regions where the wind, in the upper atmosphere, is the strongest.



The 50°-60° N/S region is where the polar jet located with the subtropical jet located around 30°N. Jet streams vary in height of four to eight miles and can reach speeds of more than 275 mph (239 kts / 442 kp/h).


The actual appearance of jet streams result from the complex interaction between many variables - such as the location of high and low pressure systems, warm and cold air, and seasonal changes. They meander around the globe, dipping and rising in altitude/latitude, splitting at times and forming eddies, and even disappearing altogether to appear somewhere else.






Jet streams also "follow the sun" in that as the sun's elevation increases each day in the spring, the jet streams shifts north moving into Canada by Summer.



As Autumn approaches and the sun's elevation decreases, the jet stream moves south into the United States helping to bring cooler air to the country.


Also, the jet stream is often indicated by a line on maps and by television meteorologist. The line generally points to the location of the strongest wind. Jet streams are typically wider and not as distinct but a region where the wind increase toward a core of strongest wind.


One way of visualizing this is consider a river. The river's current is generally the strongest in the center with decreasing strength as one approaches the river's bank. It can be said that jet streams are "rivers of air".

So with all these informations in english and of course most of the same informations in other language the preventive step in order to reduce morbidity and mortality for me was to write the following;

The importance of planning ahead for cold weather
Salutations to all,

I would like to share with you what I have learned from my family, from First Nations and from Technology on how to insulated yourself in winter.

I will talk about Boreal Hemisphere People but I presume a lot of the means can be apply to the Xouthern Hemisphere coutries.

We must first look at the NorthWind, this wind is the coldest one and the most sustained one in the winter.

As you know most of the house windows are directed towards the south because our ancesters where aware of this nasty North Wind.

The second coldest wind is the West Wind it often brings cold from the northwest.

So I will concentrated on this post to two walls of your house or appartment the North Wall and the West wall.

Usually our great grand parents used to grow trees about 25 feet from the house on the north side and the west side to sort of stop or deviate those Winds. Leave them there.

If you do not have trees don't worry there are many solutions as you will see.

WHen it Snow, do not fight Nature. Built snow banks about 10 feets from the two walls, you will notice that snow tends to accumulate there so follow the wind and bring this snow from the peripphery of your land of you two walls and bring it at about 10 feet from your house. Do that at the beginning, the Winds do not argue and will pilled up its Wind Snow on the lay out you will have done.

The fondation is important for those two walls put few bags of soil about 4 inches high along the the walls fondation, it will avoid more water to melt at the base of the fondation.

The Doors needs a strip of isolator, it is not expensive and stop the cold from getting in.

The windows,
You must first close your window tighly and start putting gell insulator but from the outside FIRST, then put some around each window inside.

Check for yourself with an incences stick if there is still wind coming trough.

Do not forget electrical plugs and interruptors with you incence stick should dhow you how much breeze comes from those.

Insulate them, depending of you country go to the hardware store and they will tell you ehat to use, never use piece of clothe or any flammable things, in a winter time it would start a house fire.

ALways make sure that your dryer is tightly fix (the hose that brings hot air outside) and always keep the door of the fryer and the door of that room close.

If you run on 110 volts by small heating fan of 600 watts and put them on the floor at the corner of your northern and western walls on the floor about 5 feets from the corner and avoid putting anything in front of it. NEVER LEAVE THIS WITHOUT ANY PRESENCE IN THE HOUSE, check once in the while if the fan wire is hot if so get it away, at 600 watts it is NOT supposed to heat therefore get it away.

I hope this will help, I will post more thing as time allows.

SNowy Owl from the 48th Parralel

Hat tip to Morning son of Project Avalon
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...he-Gulf-Stream

Hat Tip to Tothe of the Project Avalon
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...-Stream/page2&

The Breaking of the Loop Current in the Gulf Stream

Now we have 3 sources for GOM plug in maps for speed/currents, SSH & SST.
Lets see who is the most un-biased re. latest Marshall Masters update!

Update# 1 http://yowusa.com/earth/2010/earth-0810-05a/1.shtml

From the US Naval Research Laboratory
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_nlom32/skill.html
Snapshot & movies of GOM note: get a load of the July 13 loop current stall.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_nlom32/gom.html

From The Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
http://argo.colorado.edu/~realtime/g...l-time_velmag/

From NOAA/AOML and NOAA/SEFSC
Index.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dhos/index.php
"plug-in" map
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dhos/geos.php

Index of all Ocean Conveyer articles of research from the Hole
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455

Hat Tip to Tothe of Avalon Project
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...f-Stream/page3

The Breaking of the Loop Current in the Gulf Stream

We could use this as a possible 4th. source for GOM & Gulf Stream data..

Naval Research Laboratory real-time experiment with the 1/25° Gulf of Mexico HYCOM The archives do go back to June.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycom...ll_public.html

Information about the consorium.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomGOM2/prologue.html

HYCOM website..called experiment here too. Archives go back to 2003.
http://www.hycom.org/

Found more papers on the loop current.
Mega-flood triggered European ice age: At the end of this article I find JPL is going political trying to downplay the significance of a Gulf Stream slow down...in other words they don't know or are total jerks.
Part or text from link below.

"Scientists say they have found the trigger of a sharp cooling 13,000 years ago that plunged Europe into a mini ice age......
The finding has confirmed past theories about the likely cause of a sudden cooling period called the Younger Dryas when temperatures in Europe plunged into ice age conditions that lasted for about 1400 years."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articl...1/2862429.htm?
Index
http://search.abc.net.au/search/sear...meta_v=science

Staying Warm
http://66.236.6.194:8888/html/Staying_Warm.html a must read

Last edited by Snowy Owl; Yesterday at 22:07.

Hope this help

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?4149-Gulf-Oil-Aftermath.-What-now/page5

Snowy

[Eric J (Viking)]

Viking, Have you any more information on the gulf stream shutting down?

Hi Jack ... No I haven't although I have been keeping a close watch on this ... I'll post if i get any further info...I have been keeping an eye on temperatures in UK compared to Western Europe and far back as Moscow...And UK seems to be at the moment warmer than countries far east...it does seem colder though doesn't it!!! We'll see... early days yet...

Hey Snowy great info in your post...thanks

viking

[ascendingstarseed]

I'm also aware of pictures circulating that i have good reason to believe are authentic, of a laser beam coming down on the deepwater horizon moments before the initial explosion that was said to be the cause of the disaster. A fabricated event in that part of the world in that specific area on that specific rig indicates a well calculated plan to shut down the gulf stream.

http://thejohnchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/miracl-new.jpg?w=497&h=504



I saw this photo for the first time last week on AstralWalkers post, unless this a fake, this takes the whole disaster to a new level, meaning if it came from a satellite it was a military, black ops or possibly even extraterrestrial hit. It would go a lot further than a just handful of rogue members in the Illuminati connected to BP. Similar to 9/11, it would take high level security clearance to pull it off...not a bunch of guys planning the event in caves 5000 miles away.

[Snowy Owl]

Mexico, sliding land cause by Mattews, at least 500 to 1000 deaths.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Mexico, sliding land cause by Mattews, at least 500 to 1000 deaths.

link to the story
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/landslide-buries-hundreds-of-homes-in-mexico/article1729796/?cmpid=rss1

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Mmmmm I was hoping we wouldn't find anything abnormal here in UK!! sign of things to come??...Think I need to invest in a log Burner!!!

Britain has received its first autumn snowfalls for the year as a surprise cold snap sent millions reaching for the central heating controls this weekend.

Summer made a particularly swift exit from the Highlands as the first sprinklings of snow paid an early visit to the north of Scotland.

The last time Britain saw a September cold snap as severe as this current one was in 2003, when much of northern England was below freezing.

Two Scottish weather stations recorded record lows: Tulloch Bridge recorded a temperature of -4.2°C, and Tyndrum -4.4°C – the coldest temperatures recorded since the two stations opened in 1982 and 1990 respectively.

For the people of the Cairngorms particularly, it was a wintry end to September.

Snow fell on the Scottish mountain range overnight, and hill-walkers had to wear their winter woolies and specialist equipment as they enjoyed blue, sun-filled skies with slippery conditions underfoot

As usual it was the children who took best advantage with some of the earliest snowmen ever built on the Cairngorms.

However, there was insufficient snow for skiers to make an appearance, but staff at the resort were hoping for another bumper year on the slopes with advance winter sports bookings booming.

But there was a warning for hill-users, not against frostbite, but that there was a high risk of sunburn due to the cloudless atmosphere.

Although the nights are getting colder, Britain still has a long way to go to beat the record low September temperature of minus 6.7c (20f) in Dalwhinnie in the Highlands in September 1942.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315636/First-snowmen-2010-spotted-shivering-

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

The latest Mud slide in Mexico ... poor people up 1000 people buried...

must say this is becommomg very common of late!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBM5yU0LsIo

viking

[Snowy Owl]

Please allow me to Land Here,

That is a semantical example of transcendence, as you probably know apokalyps means Revelation, for few milliniums many Wise Leaders import and convey the finality of a perceived scenario trough nebulous clouds and then conveying the Anticipation or the Prescience depenging on their range of Perceptions of Universal Ubiquitous Consciousness.

Many Awakennerss and Awakes work to make the lay out for the incoming probabilities. Gilgamesh History of the Floods, later recover by Judaist as the Noah Phases, are what has to be done once one's is convinced and discretly choose is 7 generation land where to built its Nest,

There is no use to fear or act as a offended Virgin when crisis is incoming,turn aroud do't look cause you'll necome immobilised by the Past. Keep the pace.

As Lao Tseu (Main Founder of Taoism about 2 700 years ago) transmit this Wise Saying;

This long voyages of thousands of miles has start by one step.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Heavy snow across the world!!

CANADA: Marmot Basin above Jasper and Banff - Lake Louise, all in the Canadian province of Alberta, have reported big snow falls in the past week.

Over 20cm of snow blanketed Banff-Lake Louise in one fall alone.

Jasper's Marmot Basin also received over 10 cm of snow on 20th September with considerably more accumulation at higher elevations.

Last winter Marmot opened on November 11, its earliest opening date ever, with ideal snow conditions.

Another record year for Marmot?

So far this fall is shaping up to deliver a repeat performance of last year's early season snowfalls which helped contribute to Marmot's record setting year for attendance.

In Whistler the mountains have already received a dusting of snow and the resort is currently scheduled to open on November 25


FRANCE: In the Alps Tignes opened for business less than a month since it ended its summer snow season.


AUSTRIA: Six glacier ski areas are now open in Austria: the Stubai and Kaunertal glaciers along with Hintertux, Solden, Molltal and Pitztal glaciers.

The Kitzsteinhorn glacier, closed for a while, opened again last Wednesday with a 42cm base


SWITZERLAND: In Switzerland it's either Saas Fee or Zermatt with a 1m to 1.5m lying and terrain parks open.

"OK, we didn't need to dig out the cars and wear down jackets, but it's been snowing in resort this morning and settling just a tad above Verbier," says one of our readers/reporters, Guy Ordway. He works for the ski school


ITALY: In Italy Val Senales still has 1m base. It received a dusting of 5cm of new snow last weekend to freshen up its slopes.


FINLAND: In Finland, Ruka, has announced it plans to open next week on October 1st. It has Europe's longest ski season for a resort without a glacier, maintaining a snow slope for nearly nine months a year.


NEW ZEALAND: It's getting towards the end of the season in the southern hemisphere but New Zealand is seeing the biggest snowfalls of the winter to date at present.

"We have received heavy snow mainly from the west and north west since late last week. Whakapapa has gone from a depth of 1.3m's a week ago to over 2m,' said a statement from Mt Ruapehu.

"Turoa has received just as much snow but it has come with higher winds meaning the snow stake measurement hasn't changed as much. Don't be fooled though, conditions will be way better when the storm passes."

The extreme weather means most have had to close their slopes until the storm passes over.

"The spring storm of 2010 is frankly the worst in a generation. The last big dump of snow we had was 14 years ago in the winter of 1996, while the last time we had anything this severe was 38 years ago," said one farmer in New Zealand.


AUSTRALIA: There's been no fresh snow in Australia but conditions are still good at most ski areas thanks to the huge falls in August and subsequent top ups.

Thredbo for example still have 1.7m of snow lying at mid mountain.

At Falls Creek snow depths are a little lower, just above 1m, although deeper in the snow making areas.

It's a similar story at Mt Hotham that says it has finished snow making for the season.


CHILE: In Chile, Valle Nevado is in to the last few weeks of the season, but temperatures are still below freezing and the snow tally for the season has just passed the four metre mark.


At Portillo snow depths are 25-50cm with no new snow in the past week and Spring-like conditions.

ARGENTINA: Cerro Catedral is still open with a diminishing snow pack on upper slopes - now down to 1.7m.

http://www.planetski.eu/news/2089

viking

[Harley]

Heavy snow across the world!!

Wow Viking! Not looking forward to that!
Forget Global WARMING!
At least at the 58th Bilderberg Meeting Global Cooling was all the rage.
And yes - the Bilderberg have a website now :-)
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting_2010.html


Global Cooling and the New World Order

By James Delingpole September 26th, 2010


Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing that can’t be denied: it knows which way the wind is blowing. (Hat tips: Will/NoIdea/Ozboy)

At its June meeting in Sitges, Spain (unreported and held in camera, as is Bilderberg’s way), some of the world’s most powerful CEOs rubbed shoulders with notable academics and leading politicians. They included: the chairman of Fiat, the Irish Attorney General Paul Gallagher, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Dick Perle, the Queen of the Netherlands, the editor of the Economist…. Definitely not Z-list, in other words.

Which is what makes one particular item on the group’s discussion agenda so tremendously significant. See if you can spot the one I mean:

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.

Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling.

Which means one of two things.

Either it was a printing error.

Or the global elite is perfectly well aware that global cooling represents a far more serious and imminent threat to the world than global warming, but is so far unwilling to admit it except behind closed doors.
Cont: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100055500/global-cooling-and-the-new-world-order/

[JoshERTW]

Snow in Canada, especially those parts of Canada, at this time of year, is not particularly abnormal. A blast of snow in early October / Late Sept. is not uncommon even in my area, and I'm pretty south by comparison. Now, if it were to start snowing tomorrow, and not melt until spring, then I would be a bit intrigued (and kind of mad). Apparently, the "older generation" remembers snow at this time of year as being much more common, global warming seemed to have pushed the average start of 'permanent' winter snow back to late Nov./Dec. Maybe the earth is just attempting to return itself to a balanced state?

[ascendingstarseed]

On Coast-to-Coast this evening George Noory had a guy named Mitch talking about Earth changes comment that 21 volcano's in the Indonesia area are expected to go off at any time! It was in the first 15 minutes of the program, it was a short update and I caught the end of the interview so I didn't catch the intro.

He was also talking about how scientists are quite worried about the changes taking place with the helioshpere and that they really don't understand what's going on.

[Swami]

Oz Locust Plague 'Of Biblical Proportions'


[In the past few days, aircraft have begun spraying farmland with insecticides to try to slow the march of billions of the insects before they mature and begin to fly.

Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia are all affected, with hundreds of farmers reporting that locust eggs have begun hatching on their land.

A record number were laid in autumn, and the conditions have been perfect for them to thrive, with the country enduring its wettest September on record after years of drought.

The weather is also helping the farmers but their hopes of a best-in-a-decade harvest are now threatened by the locust invasion.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101002/twl-oz-locust-plague-of-biblical-proport-3fd0ae9.html

[Swami]

21 Volcanoes Across Country Ready to Erupt


Bandung. Twenty-one volcanoes across Indonesia could erupt at any time, leading to natural disasters, officials have warned.

An official from the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG) told the Jakarta Globe on Friday that the alert for 18 volcanoes had been raised from Level 1, or “normal,” to Level 2, or “beware.”

Hendrasto, the head of the PVMBG’s Volcano Observation Unit, said that three other volcanoes were on Level 3, or “standby,” just one step below full alert, or Level 4.

One of those three is Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra, which began erupting on Aug. 29 after lying dormant for 400 years. Its last major eruption, on Sept. 7, spewed volcanic ash more than 5,000 meters into the atmosphere.

“We downgraded Sinabung from Level 4 to Level 3 on September 23,” Hendrasto said. “However, we still urge the public to remain alert for any danger.”


http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/indonesia/21-volcanoes-across-country-ready-to-erupt/399206

[Swami]

Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'


About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.
Researchers compiled a composite index of "water threats" that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution.
The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people.

Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature.

They urge developing countries not to follow the same path.
Instead, they say governments should invest in water management strategies that combine infrastructure with "natural" options such as safeguarding watersheds, wetlands and flood plains.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/world/10/water_maps/img/water_natural_624.jpg


"Some analysis was then done that showed the economic benefits of the irrigation scheme would have been less than the benefits currently delivered by the wetland in terms of fisheries, agriculture around the flood plain, water supply, water quality and so on.

"So it's not a question of saying 'No we don't need any concrete infrastructure' - what we need are portfolios of built infrastructure and natural environment that can address the needs of development, and the ecosystem needs of people and biodiversity."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11435522

[Swami]

Hungary declares emergency after red sludge spill


http://uk.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20101005&t=2&i=218954387&w=300&fh=300&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2010-10-05T123920Z_01_BTRE6940NQB00_RTROPTP_0_HUNGARY-FLOOD


(Reuters) - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties on Tuesday, a day after a torrent of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant tore through nearby villages, killing four people and injuring 120.

The waste, produced during bauxite refining, poured through Kolontar and two other villages on Monday after bursting out of a containment reservoir at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt plant, owned by MAL Zrt.

On Tuesday, the Natural Disaster Unit (NDU) said four more villages were affected and the death toll had risen to four. Six people were missing.


http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE69413720101005

Hungary denies report of second sludge dam break


BUDAPEST, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Hungary's National Disaster Unit (NDU) denied a report on Tuesday that an alumina sludge reservoir's dam had broken at a second point in western Hungary.

"We have just received the report from our units on the scene; there was no second dam break," NDU spokeswoman Gyorgyi Tottos said.

Earlier on Tuesday the government declared a state of emergency due to the spill which has killed at least three people.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6940O1.htm

[bashi]

Snowy, it seems that you have not read the linked articles that you posted by yourself.
I want to thank you for posting this link:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/04/01/2862429.htm?
about the breaking of the Gulf Stream around 13000 years ago.
It is stated there:

"But a recent study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has found no significant change in the Gulf Stream.

Dr Josh Willis of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California analysed data collected by satellites and robotic ocean floats known as Argo.

He found no change in the strength of the Gulf Stream between 2002 and 2009, while satellite data indicated an increase of 20% between 1993 and 2009. "

So, thank you for having this issue cleared.
If you now argue that it is manipulated science data, then why do you post it as evidence for the breaking of the Gulf Stream ?

.

[bashi]

This looks like a pic from a movie, but it`s reality:


http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6610/russiantornado.jpg (http://img838.imageshack.us/i/russiantornado.jpg/)


link: http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-08-20/five-tornadoes-south-russia.html

[Beth]

Interesting pic, bashi. Reminds me of many dreams I've had, but the twisters were on land, not over the water.

[ascendingstarseed]

Tornado in Flagstaff leave thousands in devastation

Tuesday was a devastating day for the Flagstaff residents, for as many as four Tornados pass through Flagstaff, leaving behind a trail of torn roof tops, destroyed homes, wrecked cars and uprooted trees, making the damages in the area extensive.

Tornados in Flagstaff not only derailed several train cars, but destroyed a number of homes, leaving hundreds homeless; however there are no reports of any injuries in the area.

An eyewitness Tina Williams of Bellemont said, it was unreal, as she saw two of her neighbors’ homes being destroyed by the tornado. She said she actual felt her home being shifted by the twister.

Cont'd with photos...
http://www.buzztab.com/latest-news/tornado-in-flagstaff-leave-thousands-in-devastation/

[Eric J (Viking)]

Found this... not sure how it compares to previous years, but seems an awful lot!

Historic Floods This Year:

Tennessee Floods USA

New England Floods USA
Poland Floods
Madeira Island Floods
Portugal Floods
Brazil Flood
South East France
Romania and Ukraine
Canada Maple Creek, Saskatchewan Floods
Canada Yorkton, Saskatchewan Floods
Canada Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Flood
China Floods
Hungary Floods
Peru Floods
Mexico Floods
Spain Floods
Colombia Floods
Australia Floods
Indonesia Floods
Serbia Floods
Argentina Floods
Kenya Floods
Nigeria Floods
Guatemala Floods
Ohio Floods USA
Singapore Floods

Victoria Australia

Vietnam Floods

Indonesia Floods

China Southern Island Province Floods

Reuters "Pakistan is the worst flooding in recorded history"

http://www.alertnet.org/db/crisisprofiles/PK_FLO.htm


BBC: Worst flooding in France in 200 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10327034


USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-07-21-china-flooding_N.htm

Wiki Quotes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods#2000s


"In 2010, from Mid-July till Mid-August - Pakistan's four provinces (Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Southern Punjab and Sindh) were badly affected during the monsoon rains when dams, rivers and lakes overflowed killing atleast 1,750-2,000 people,injuring 2,500 and affecting 23 million people. The flood is considered as worst in Pakistan's history affecting people of all four provinces and Azad Jamu and Kashmir Region of Pakistan.[6]"


"In May 2010, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk informs the Sejm that ongoing flooding is "the worst natural disaster in the nation's history".


"The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1000-year[3] floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, South Central and Western Kentucky and northern Mississippi as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. The Cumberland River crested at 51.86 feet in Nashville, a level not seen since 1937[4]."

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Flood hits Central Vietnam, leaving 85 dead, missing

According to the National Committee for Floods Prevention and Control, Quang Binh province recorded 36 fatalities and 44 injured victims, with 17 people still missing. The 16 other deaths came in Ha Tinh, Nghe An and Quang Tri provinces.

Flood inundated innumerable houses in Ha Tinh while 34,650 houses in Quang Binh, over 10,000 in Quang Tri and more than 7,200 accommodations in Thua Thien-Hue were submerged in floodwater.

More than 3,149 people in Quang Binh’s Tan Hoa commune have left their homes as flood waters submerged the roofs, and moved to a limestone cave in a mountain for shelter.

The army has been using boats and helicopters to move people to safety and deliver food to the affected area.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/201010/Flood-hits-Central-Vietnam-leaving-85-dead-missing-940062/

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Hungarian Sludge May Become Toxic Cancer Cloud

"Thousands of Hungarian residents battling to contain the flood of poisonous red sludge have been warned to wear face masks because as the slurry dries it will turn into a toxic dust cloud.

"The damage so far has come from the mud but with dry, hot weather and strong winds forecast over the next few days, the environmental disaster is expected to spread.

"Environmentalists said high levels of arsenic and mercury, which can cause cancer, had been found in water polluted by the ooze and that, if airborne, this could enter the human respiratory system."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTAdo_11x4U&feature=youtube_gdata

viking

[ascendingstarseed]

“So far in 2010 there have been over 80 natural disasters, including the Haiti earthquake that killed 230,000 people and the recent floods in Pakistan that have affected 21 million people.”

That's the 10-month record for 2010. But how about this for the past week alone:-

• Three days of incessant rains in Bangladesh have left at least 17 people dead and
41 fishermen missing. Tens of thousands of people are stranded as waters triggered by
a tidal surge have inundated thousands of homes in the low-lying coastal zone
• More than 1,000 villages flooded on China's Hainan island following the heaviest
rain for decades. More than 210,000 people had been evacuated by late Thursday,
with more downpours forecast for Friday. The torrential rains have been falling for more
than a week and are the worst on the island off China's southeastern coast since 1961.
• Hope faded Thursday for people listed as missing after floods killed at least 49 in
central Vietnam. In Quang Tri, roads and agricultural land remained inundated. "This
will certainly affect rice production for the winter-spring season."
• More than two dozen earthquakes have shaken north central Arkansas in the first
eight days of October. All were minor but it begs the questions what's causing the
tremors and could the next one be stronger?
• AUSTRALIA - Roads are cut and thousands lack power after up to 250mm of rain was
dumped on southeast Queensland over the weekend.

Didn't a near Earth object whizz by us in the last few days? And we still have almost three months to go before we hit 2011....

[Swami]

Super Typhoon Megi (Juan) Threatens The Philippines



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLby0g9N8FU

First Video: Super typhoon Megi (Juan)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0kIacikSM

[Eric J (Viking)]

Button up folks...

First big freeze is on the way: Polar winds are blowing south with heavy SNOW forecast by Friday

By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 3:38 PM on 18th October 2010

* Comments (316)
* Add to My Stories


Crank up your central heating and get out your thermals... because winter is about to bite.

Icy polar winds are to sweep across the country from tomorrow, with temperatures plummeting to below freezing and up to 2ins of snow forecast for parts of the north by the end of the week.

Millions will wake up to frost this week, but the worst of the weather will hit Scotland and North-east England.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321288/Arctic-blast-set-hit-Britain-Polar-winds-blowing-south.html#ixzz12jEu2K6k

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[Eric J (Viking)]

43 landslides hit Azerbaijan in nine months this year

128 areas suffered from landslide in the past 30 years in the republic. Heavy rainfall last spring caused intensive landslides in the country’s territory. 43 disaster areas were registered in the past nine months, including right bank of Aghsu River, 1, 6-8, 9-11 and 27 km of Mughanli-Ismayilli highway, road between Duryan village of Lankaran region and other residential areas, 32 km of Lankaran-Baliton road, as well as road between the Havzava and Istisu settlements of Girdani village of Lankaran, 45 and 48 km of Guba-Khinalig road, 147-151 km of Baku-Shamakhi-Aghsu highway, 16 and 25 km of Yardimli-Masalli highway and other territories.

Taking possible heavy rainfall this autumn into account, the Ministry of Emergency Situations warns the drivers and citizens living roadside areas to avoid the sites with different splits, leakages in the water and sewage systems, deformations in the electric and telephone pillars, to move to the secure areas and to inform the relevant organizations about the incidents immediately.

http://www.news.az/articles/society/24905

viking

[Snowy Owl]

Salutations to all,

Sorry to be against the main stream again

Russia has declare a month ago the they expect the Coldest weather in 1 thousand years.

2 Weeks ago, Ireland, UK and Scotland warned their citizens that this winter will be one of the coldest since a very long time.

Remember the gulf stream broke for awhile after the BP negligence and the underwater oil is slowing down the gulf stream from 8 km an hour on average to about 5km average, therefore, theheat coming out of it will Hurt, Iceland and west europe.

Last datas showns that there is already a layer of ice near gröenland, earlier than usual.

As for North America, expect the same kind of cold and snoe as last year.

Remember there there where cold records in Peru and many south america countries this summer.

You should isolated your windowws, it cost about 20 dollars and tae about 2 to 3 hours of work.

First with the tranparent stuff, isolate some windowws from the outside, then with an incense stick pass it in front of the woindow and Isolate from the interior, not all of them you need fresh air.

Then with the incense stick put it in front of electrical plugging socket on the walls, a lot of cold air goes trough there. Turn off electricity and ask at your home depot the stuff to isolate this that DO NOT BURN.

Then take a look at you dryer. Outside make sure that it does closed the plastic thing, then tight up you pipe of the dryer that sends hot air outside.

ALways leave a good eblanket in the dryer it will reduce the outgoing air.

Finally the kitchen fan, again go outside and make sure that the plastic close properly when the fan is not working and put a plastic over the fan and remove it WHEN you COOk.

Remeber to make sure that your outside doors are well seeled, you can buy for about 10$ an isolator for the bottom of the door.

Hoping this will help

Oh BTW, snow is a good isolator, push the snow to your outside wall but remember to remove it in spring because the water can hurt the foundation

SNowy

[bashi]

Second strong earthquake shakes Christchurch:



http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9519/nzquake1712591c.jpg (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/nzquake1712591c.jpg/)





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8072291/Second-strong-earthquake-shakes-Christchurch.html

[Rocky_Shorz]

Storms are going nuts...

2 earthquakes 6+ in the Bay of Baja Mexico the last one that hit had a small Tsunami warning...

6 Cyclones - 6 Countries Flooding... in the Pacific
1 Hurricane about to hit Mexico and 2 tropical storms rolling in right behind it...

45 inches of Rain in Thailand over 2 days...
200,000 people stranded and billions in crop damages - Philippines
Megi has affected 65 Million people and is now moving into China...

The clouds are stretching all the way across to North America, huge storms expected across the country...

[yiolas]

Hi SnowyOwl,
Thanks for those Great home insulation tips !

[Eric J (Viking)]

Yes Great tips Snowy...perhaps Norway could use them...

Snow chaos - Worst ever road situation in Norway

http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bilderigg/2010/10/21/1287682971185_24.jpg

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10025579

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[Eric J (Viking)]

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101025/capt.1e87d4bdc96949e0a65518ed4e696f24-1e87d4bdc96949e0a65518ed4e696f24-0.jpg?x=400&y=286&q=85&sig=62wRpQ6PDBI6XyafdEa0jw--

BANGKOK, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Areas of Bangkok went under water Sunday as flood water pouring from the north and northeast reached the capital with higher levels of water expected later this week, Thai officials said.

"Flood water has already arrived in Bangkok," Chalit Damrongsak, director general of Irrigation Department, which operates dams across the country, said in a national televised program.

Chalit said flood water in Bangkok is expected to rise further on Oct. 27-28 as sea level will reach its height.

However, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra told reporters on Sunday he believed his officials would be able to prevent flood water from reaching key commercial areas in the inner city.

Death toll has now jumped to 28 as almost half of the country's provinces have now been affected by current flood, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on Sunday.

The department said 2.48 million people in 31 provinces out of 76 provinces in the country have now suffered damages from the flood with 4,058 square kilometers of farm land ravaged.

Residents in affected provinces, many of whom have to live on rooftop or shelters as water reaches as high as 1.5 meters, have said they have never seen such severe inundation in decades.

Because of heavy monsoon rains in recent weeks, reservoirs of many dams in higher grounds in the north and northeast have reached their full capacity of holding water. Officials, therefore, have to release water from the reservoirs to protect the dams. The water then flows downstream to flood provinces in lower areas.

Large volume of water is still being let out of these reservoirs as of Sunday as rains are still pouring in some areas of the north, said Chalit of Irrigation Department.

Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand said the city has shored up existing embankments around the inner city, built after the last major flood in the capital in 1995, to protect key commercial areas from flood.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-10/24/c_13573044.htm

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Volcano puts Indonesian officials on high alert

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian officials have gone on high alert and have started evacuations as they warily monitor Mount Merapi, a volatile volcano in central Java that might erupt at any time.

"The local government is coordinating to evacuate around 40,000 villagers to the pre-assigned shelters," Neulis Auliasari of the national disaster coordination board said Monday.

Seismic activity has intensified, signaling that an eruption is imminent, according to Indonesian volcanologists.

The 3,000-meter Merapi is famously unpredictable, though. A pyroclastic flow -- a fast-moving burst of blistering gases and rock fragments -- is a key concern.

One killed two people in 2006 and another killed more than 60 villagers in 1994. About 1,300 people died when Merapi erupted in 1930.


Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/25/indonesia.volcano.e...

viking

[Rocky_Shorz]

I was searching for information about the 6 Million fish that just died in Bolivia back in August,from Cold Temperatures...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPOtZgMyw8I

and ran across an event map...

Global Event Map (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php)

Last August hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed up from New Jersey to Boston, OIL on Long Beach...

They say the east coast fish all died from lack of oxygen...

this page has links (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w12FhccGFWA&feature=related) to tons of Utube videos, I'm trying to figure out the spread of the Corexit throughout the ocean...

if it hit our east coast in the beginning of August, there should already be reports coming out of Europe...

I was reading where it already hit the conveyor and traces are being found around the antarctic the only confirmed spread in the Pacific came through the canal on a ship... It has spread faster than originally predicted...

Everyone keep your eyes open for additional info...


73 DYING WHALES WASH ASHORE NEW ZEALAND

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Shocking WORLDWIDE Dead Fish
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[Swami]

Hurricane Richard batters Belize but then weakens


Hurricane Richard has hit the Central American nation of Belize, knocking out electricity and blowing off roofs, but no deaths or injuries were reported.

Some 10,000 people took shelter in schools and churches.

Richard was downgraded to a tropical depression as it headed west-north-west with its winds decreasing to 55km/h (35 mph).

It is moving at 13km/h (8 mph), and is forecast to reach the Gulf of Mexico by Tuesday morning.

Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex said it did not expect Richard to affect offshore oil production.

Earlier on Monday, Patrick Jones of the Belize radio station Love News FM told the BBC that there was "massive flooding" in Belize City, after the hurricane blew in just to its south.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11615973

[Eric J (Viking)]

There she goes....Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupts

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/26/indonesias-mount-merapi-volcano-erupts/

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-10/26/c_13576561.htm

viking

[Rocky_Shorz]

Indonesia tsunami: Death toll soars to 282

Full Story with Video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11632982)


Rescue teams on the Mentawai islands say hundreds are still missing, two days after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami in western Sumatra.

Officials say there were faults with an early warning system designed to alert locals to the 3m-high (10ft) wave.

Indonesia's president has cut short a trip to Vietnam to visit the islands and oversee the relief operation.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono flew back from a meeting with regional leaders to help deal with the tsunami aftermath.

On Thursday he is expected to tour the region to monitor relief efforts. He will also be briefed on the rescue effort on Java, where an erupting volcano has caused chaos.
Warning doubts

At least 10 villages on a series of islands known as the Pagai islands are thought to have been flattened by the tsunami, caused by the earthquake late on Monday.

Waves reached 3m high and the water swept as far as 600m inland on South Pagai.

The devastation is only now beginning to emerge, says BBC Indonesia correspondent Karishma Vaswani.

The first aerial images emerging from the Mentawai Islands showed bodies being collected from empty clearings where homes and buildings once stood before they were levelled by the power of the wave.

Corpses were strewn along beaches and roads, said district chief Edison Salelo Baja...


"Pagai Islands is very close to the epicentre, so the waves reached Pagai Island in just five or 10 minutes. Even if the buoy is on, it is still too late to warn people," said Ridwan Jamaluddin, of the Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology...


"About 10 minutes after the quake we heard a loud, thunderous sound. We went outside and saw the wave coming. We tried to run away to higher ground but the wave was much quicker than us," Borinte said...



http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49661000/gif/_49661010_indonesia_padang_464map.gif

[Eric J (Viking)]

Yowza! – Here’s a satellite image of a storm of record-breaking proportions. On October 26, 2010, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest spawned 24 tornadoes, 282 reports of damaging winds, violent thunderstorms, and torrential rains. The mega-storm reached peak intensity late yesterday afternoon over Minnesota, resulting in the lowest barometric pressure readings ever recorded in the continental United States (except for from hurricanes and nor’easters affecting the Atlantic seaboard.) The storm continues today (Oct. 27) with more tornado watches posted for Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a blizzard warning for North Dakota, high wind warnings for most of the upper Midwest, and near-hurricane force winds on Lake Superior.

http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oct26_superstorm.jpg

Read more about this super-storm on Weather Underground, but see below for what extremely low air pressure means.

http://www.universetoday.com/76724/most-intense-storm-in-history-cuts-across-the-us-as-seen-from-space/

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

'Suddenly trees, houses and all things in the village were sucked into the sea'
Death toll from tsunami, eruption surpasses 400; hundreds more missing

MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia — The fisherman was jolted awake by the powerful earthquake and ran with his screaming neighbors to high ground. He said they watched as the sea first receded and then came roaring back "like a big wall" that swept away their entire village.

"Suddenly trees, houses and all things in the village were sucked into the sea and nothing was left," Joni Sageru recalled Thursday in one of the first survivor accounts of this week's tsunami that slammed into islands off western Indonesia.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39886510/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Images reveal Indonesian tsunami destruction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11640961

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On October 28, 2010 Shiveluch Volcano erupted, sending an ash plume 25,000 feet (7,600) meters high. Despite moderate cloud cover, the ash was visible from space. This natural-color satellite image shows the light brown plume rising from Shiveluch and out over the Kamchatkan coast and Kamchatskiy Zaliv (Gulf of Kamchatka). Beneath the ash and clouds snow covers most of the land. To the south of Shiveluch a smaller, darker plume is visible over Klyuchevskaya, another of the currently active Kamchatkan volcanoes.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46660&src=nha

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Update on Earthquakes 2010...!

Does this look normal to you all????? Sometimes, seeing is believing!!!

Magnitude 7.7 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA October 25, 2010

* Magnitude 6.7 GULF OF CALIFORNIA October 21, 2010
* Magnitude 4.3 OKLAHOMA October 13, 2010
* Magnitude 7.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA September 29...
* Magnitude 6.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA September 29...
* Magnitude 7.0 SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND September 03, 2010
* Magnitude 6.6 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION August 14, 2010
* Magnitude 6.9 MARIANA ISLANDS REGION August 13, 2010
* Magnitude 7.1 ECUADOR August 12, 2010
* Magnitude 7.3 VANUATU August 10, 2010
* Magnitude 4.8 WYOMING August 05, 2010
* Magnitude 7.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA August 04, 2010
* Magnitude 6.5 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 24, 2010
* Magnitude 7.4 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
* Magnitude 7.6 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
* Magnitude 7.3 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES July 23, 2010
* Magnitude 7.3 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA July 18, 2010
* Magnitude 6.9 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA July 18, 2010
* Magnitude 6.6 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA July 18, 2010
* Magnitude 3.4 POTOMAC-SHENANDOAH REGION July 16, 2010
* Magnitude 6.5 BIO-BIO, CHILE July 14, 2010
* Magnitude 5.4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA July 07, 2010
* Magnitude 6.2 OAXACA, MEXICO June 30, 2010
* Magnitude 6.7 SOLOMON ISLANDS June 26, 2010
* Magnitude 5.0 ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA June 23, 2010
* Magnitude 7.0 NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA June 16, 2010
* Magnitude 5.7 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA June 15, 2010
* Magnitude 7.5 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION June 12, 2010
* Magnitude 7.1 VANUATU May 27, 2010
* Magnitude 5.8 PUERTO RICO May 16, 2010
* Magnitude 7.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA May 09, 2010
* Magnitude 6.5 SOUTHEAST OF TAIWAN April 26, 2010
* Magnitude 4.9 UTAH April 15, 2010
* Magnitude 6.9 SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA April 13, 2010
* Magnitude 6.3 SPAIN April 11, 2010
* Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS April 11, 2010
* Magnitude 7.8 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA April 06, 2010
* Magnitude 7.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO April 04, 2010
* Magnitude 4.4 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA March 16, 2010
* Magnitude 6.7 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 16, 2010
* Magnitude 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN March 14, 2010
* HIGGINS, CHILE March 11, 2010
* Magnitude 6.1 EASTERN TURKEY March 08, 2010
* Magnitude 6.8 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA March 05, 2010
* Magnitude 6.6 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 05, 2010
* Magnitude 8.8 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE February 27, 2010
* Magnitude 7.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN February 26, 2010
* Magnitude 6.9 CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION February 18,
* Magnitude 3.8 ILLINOIS February 10, 2010
* Magnitude 5.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA February 04, 2010
* Magnitude 6.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA February 01, 2010
* Magnitude 5.9 HAITI REGION January 20, 2010
* Magnitude 4.0 OKLAHOMA January 15, 2010
* Magnitude 7.0 HAITI REGION January 12, 2010
* Magnitude 6.5 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA January 10, 2010
* Magnitude 4.1 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA January 07, 2010
* Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 05, 2010
* Magnitude 7.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010
* Magnitude 6.6 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010

*****

viking

[Rocky_Shorz]

Update on Earthquakes 2010...!

Does this look normal to you all?????


*****

viking

can you define normal?

from what we are seeing in Solar activities, I think we should consider ourselves lucky the list is as short as it is... ;)

on the bright side, there are 165 Million Nigeria SCAMS... I think they are slowing down...

World Clock countdown/up (http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf)

I do like this event map... just can't figure out how to post the image so here's the link...

Event Aelrt (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php)

[Eric J (Viking)]

Check this out ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NGvbs2SvE&feature=player_embedded

viking

[Eric J (Viking)]

Here we go again, another one!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcJVxxAFvY&feature=player_embedded#!

viking

[fifi]

Great find, Viking. When & where does this happen?

[Eric J (Viking)]

17th October at Port Chibatao, in Manaus in Brazil

viking

[Rocky_Shorz]

that isn't the ocean...

a sinkhole under the river...


Looks like Hurricane Tomas is going to slam Jamaica as a CAT3 heading straight at Mexico...

[Eric J (Viking)]

Iceland's Grímsvötnum to erupt any moment! Keep your eye on this!!!

Glacier flood has started from Gímsvötnum
October 31, 2010

by Jón Frímann
Few hours ago a glacier flood started from Grímsvötnum. But it was only confirmed few moments ago. The flood noise can be seen on following SIL stations around Vatnajökull.

Grímsfjall (increased noise)
Kalafell (increased noise)

This glacier flood is expected to reach it’s peak in about 4 to 5 days. If this is a repeat of the year 2004 events a eruption should start in Grímsfjalli in about 1 to 4 days from now. But if that plays out exacly like the year 2004 eruption remains to be seen.

http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/

all that pushing and blasting about - its gonna "erupt" someday!

Mount Merapi eruptions: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1325338/Images-fleeing-vill...

viking

[truthseekerdan]

Second Indonesian volcano erupts

Read more: http://itn.co.uk/47c392486925e4ad29fe887f37b997fd.html

[Martin]

Giant crater of Thuringia had a natural cause 1. November 2010, 16:25 clock In the middle between houses Schmalkalden is broken open and swallowed a car in Thuringia the earth. A cause is clarified. Schmalkalden. Now it is certain: The crater of Schmalkalden has a natural cause. Bergmänni activities would be applicable not, said the director/conductor of the Thüringer of local mining authority, Hartmut Kießling, on Monday with a press conference in Schmalkalden. At present different technical possibilities were examined, in order to fill the meter-deep hole as fast as possible. According to January Katzschmann from the geological national service broke down obviously a large cavity in itself. Whether rock salts, calcium sulfates or limestone were rinsed out there, could not be said at present yet. In the coming days further aborts at the edge of crater are possible. The hole had torn a large piece of road, a car and parts of garages at the Monday morning against 3.00 o'clock into the depth. According to current data nine houses were empty-vacated. 25 inhabitants had to leave their home. When and whether they can return again, is for the time being unclear. Of Thuringia secretary of the environment Jürgen pure wood (CDU) said, now has the stabilization of the hole highest priority. However the employment of heavy technology is problematic, since still earth masses could after-fall. Pure wood wants to report to the cabinet on Tuesday. With the filling of the hole at the earliest it can be begun on Tuesday morning, meant.

http://www.abendblatt.de/multimedia/archive/00592/Krater_Luftbild_HA__592623c.jpg

For now it was said that the hole was caused by groundwater which undermined the salt-containing earth. The "sinkhole" is around 30x30 metres wide and 20 metres in depth.

It is probably a normal phenomenon for the region in central Germany, but I wanted to share it anyway.



Source
(http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article1682013/Riesen-Krater-von-Thueringen-hatte-natuerliche-Ursache.html)


MfG

Martin

[Swami]

Italy: Mudslide death toll rises and train derails


http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/Assets/Imgs/Geografia/Italia/maltempo_franna_auto_web--200x150.jpg


Rome, 1 Nov. (AKI) - The number of people killed in mudslides in Italy following days of heavy rains rose to three on Monday. Firemen recovered the body of a missing man buried beneath silt and debris in the central Tuscany region. Several people were injured when a passenger train jumped mud-flooded tracks in the northwest.

Forty-five-year-old truck driver Aldo Manfredi died when he was engulfed by a wall of mud and debris that hit his home in Mirteto in the northern Tuscan province of Massa Carrara.

Earlier on Monday, rescuers pulled the corpses of Nera Ricci and her two-year-old son from the rubble of their home, which was crushed in a landslide in the nearby town of Lavacchio.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.1190292368

[Swami]

Floods kill 49 people in Vietnam


http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45166000/jpg/_45166656_hanoifloodap466.jpg


Floods in northern and central Vietnam have killed at least 49 people in the past week, including 18 in the capital, Hanoi, state media have said.

Much of the city - hit by the worst flooding in two decades - is submerged under 1m (3ft) of water, and more rain is expected in the next few days.

Crops have been destroyed in affected areas and the price of food has soared.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7703672.stm

[Ethereal Blue Being]

I'ts almost as if the entire panet is "quivering and vibrating" at a different or unusual pattern and its going out of resonance or perhaps the planet is trying to bring itself back into balance. Im not sure which I just know that rain cleanses and even the ash that falls from fires and volcanoes has a positive effect on the environment even if it takes a couple of years to show. Maybe in the forseeable it will be determined if it is solar caused or if there is a connection with Dr Paul LaViolettes work, Bill and Kerrys interview with him was incredible. I can't get the expressions on his face and the look in his eyes throughout the interview out of my mind . I believe with all of my heart and soul that his research is the missing link that ties everything together and I mean everything TOGETHER.

[Eric J (Viking)]

MOUNT MERAPI (AP) – Indonesia's most dangerous volcano showed no sign of tiring Tuesday, belching clouds of black smoke as fiery lava lit up its cauldron. Scientists warned that the slow but deadly eruption could continue for weeks, like a "marathon, not a sprint."

The activity was accompanied by rumbling at 21 other active volcanoes in Indonesia, twice the number usually on the government's "watch" list,
which raised questions about what's causing the uptick along some of
the world's most volatile fault lines.

No casualties were reported in Mount Merapi's latest blast, which came as Indonesia struggled to respond to an earthquake-generated tsunami that devastated a remote chain of islands.

The two disasters unfolding in separate parts of the country have killed nearly 470 people and strained the government's emergency response network.

In both events, the military has been called in to help.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 235 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the western and eastern Pacific.

Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has killed 38 people since springing back to life just over a week ago.

There have since been more than 10 large eruptions, including a violent burst Monday that appears to have eased pressure building up inside the crater by creating a vent for magma to escape.


"There's no way of knowing for sure, of course," said Safari Dwiyono, who has observed the mountain for more
than 15 years. "But based on what we've seen in the last few days, we're hoping there won't be a massive explosion. It's looking like we're in for a marathon, not a sprint."

The nearly 70,000 villagers evacuated from the area around Merapi's once-fertile slopes — now blanketed by gray ash — have been told they could be expected to stay in crowded government camps for at least three more weeks.

More than 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to the west, meanwhile, a C-130 transport plane, six helicopters and four boats were ferrying aid to the most distant corners of the Mentawai islands, where last week's tsunami destroyed hundreds of homes, schools, churches and mosques. The tsunami death toll stood Monday at 431, the National Disaster Management Agency said on its website.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said relief efforts must be sped up, expressing dismay that it took days for aid to reach the isolated islands, though he acknowledged that violent storms were largely to blame.

Last week's killer wave was triggered a 7.7-magnitude earthquake along the same fault that caused the 2004 temblor and tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. The fault line, along the west coast of Sumatra island, is the meeting point of the two of the Earth's dozen major plates, which have been pushing against and under each other for millions of years, causing huge stresses to build up.

Both earthquakes and volcanoes can result from the release of these stresses. As plates slide against or under each other, molten rock can break the surface via a volcano or the energy can be released in an earthquake.

The government has raised alert levels of 21 other volcanoes to the second- and third- highest levels in the last two months because they have shown an increase in activity, state volcanologists Syamsul Rizal said Monday.

That's twice the number usually on the government "watch" list.

Geophysicist Pall Einarsson of the University of Iceland said the activity increasingly seems to indicate that the volcanoes could be affecting neighboring ones, and that this was a new idea for volcanologists.

Scientists: Indonesia eruption could last weeks

"If it's true that there are over 20 volcanoes demonstrating increased levels of seismic activity, then that is something we should pay attention to," agreed Brent McInnes, a professor at Australia's Curtin University, adding however that he has not yet seen the raw data.

He said such an increase could indicate "a major plate restructuring" — a shift in the plates' position, rather than simply the usual jostling.

Others were quick to point out, however, this could just be a normal, random fluctuation of volcanic activity.

viking

[avid]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=VE-20101101-28363-ISL
Icelandic Volcano
from RSOE EDIS updates:
Situation Update No. 7
On 04.11.2010 at 03:52 GMT+2

Scientists are closely monitoring an Icelandic volcano as melted glacial ice pouring from its crater may trigger an eruption. Icelandic Meteorological Office geophysicist Steinunn Jakobsdottir says ice water from the crater of the subglacial Grimsvotn volcano has caused the river Gigja to reach its maximum level. That activity, coupled with about three small earthquakes a week at the site, could lead to an eruption. Grimsvotn last erupted in 2004, when flood waters were at similar levels to those observed Wednesday. It lies under the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland. Scientists say Grimsvotn only erupted for several days in 2004 and is unlikely to lead to the air travel chaos caused by ash spewing from the Eyjafjallajokul volcano in April.

Situation Update No. 6
On 03.11.2010 at 18:19 GMT+2

Melt water continue to flow from Grimsvotn volcano, Iceland. The rate has slowed compared to previous days. An increased in electrical conductivity in the Súla river indicates that geothermal water is draining from the western side of the Skeiðarárjökull glacier. Earthquakes continue to occur under Grimsvötn volcano indicating that floodwaters flow under the glacier. There is no indication the volcano is currently erupting.

Situation Update No. 5
On 03.11.2010 at 13:12 GMT+2

Usually in Iceland when the rivers start rising along with tremors that are unusual and a bit of flooding soon after a volcano erupts. This time it is Iceland's Grímsvötn, the volcano has not erupted but the other signs that something is happening shows. A few days ago the rivers started to flood, raising river levels in the area by around 30cm. Specifically one river in Gigja. In 2004 similar events lasted 5 days and then Grímsvötn erupted causing some airline disruptions in European traffic. Iceland also got a lot of attention earlier this year, in April Eyjafjallajokul caused havoc in most European airlines and air traffic, causing most of Europe to shut down their airlines for days, this cost travelers and the operators millions. The biggest known volcano in Iceland is Katla that we know of.

Situation Update No. 4
On 02.11.2010 at 04:02 GMT+2

In April, clouds of ash from an eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier grounded flights across Europe for a week, causing billions of dollars in losses for airlines and other industries. Water now pouring from Iceland's biggest glacier, Vatnajokull, which sits on top of a number of volcanic hot spots, could be a sign of fresh geological activity, said Gudrun Johannesdottir. Eyjafjallajokull is about 60 miles southeast of Vatnajokull. "We have to check if there will be an eruption," Ms Johannesdottir said. "Sometimes it initiates an eruption when a glacial outburst flood starts, but not every the time. So we are monitoring the situation closely." The latest eruption at Grimsvotn, in 2004, caused short-term disruptions to airline traffic into Iceland.

[Photo is upload.]

Situation Update No. 3
On 01.11.2010 at 18:55 GMT+2

An Icelandic volcano has shown signs it could be about to burst into life, just months after an eruption from another volcano caused Europe's biggest air shutdown since World War II. "The water levels have tripled in (the river) Gigja since last night," water measurement specialist Gunnar Sigurdsson of the Icelandic Meteorological Institute said. The water flooding into the Gigja, on the Vatnajoekull glacier in eastern Iceland, comes from an icy lake in the crater of the Grimsvoetn volcano. Due to increased thermal temperatures, the lake and surrounding glacier area has melted, filling the crater to a point where it has spilled over and caused a so-called river-run, which in turn could easily set off an eruption. In 2004, a similar flood from the Grimsvoetn lake was closely followed by an eruption from what is considered Iceland's most active volcano. Mr Sigurdsson said an eruption was unlikely to occur "until the water levels in Gigja have reached a maximum. "I don't know when we can expect the levels to reach their highest point, but I suspect it will be in a few days," he said. Over the past 48 hours, the Meteorological Institute has also registered strong seismic activity in the area, and three moderate earthquakes ranging from 2.7 to 4.0 on the Richter scale.

However, Icelandic authorities were unable to say whether an eruption at Grimsvotn would hit air traffic as hard as in April when the Eyjafjoell volcano erupted, dispersing a massive cloud of ash that affected more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers. "It is near impossible to say if Grimsvotn erupts, whether it will have an effect on air traffic at all," said Keflavik Airport spokeswoman Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, pointing out it would depend if the volcano spewed lava or ash. "If it is an ash eruption, then it would affect air traffic, but only if it is a strong eruption with ash clouds reaching significant heights," she said, adding "it will also depend on wind, so at this point it is hard to guess." Thorunn Skaftadottir, a geophysicist also with the Icelandic Meteorological Institute, said that any eruption from Grimsvotn would be an ash eruption. "However, the scale of the eruption will be much smaller than the Eyjafjoell eruption and I do not think it would have the same effect on air travel as Eyjafjoell did," she said.

Situation Update No. 2
On 01.11.2010 at 15:51 GMT+2

Meltwater flooding is from the Grimsvotn glacial lake in Iceland and could signal the volcano underneath is about to erupt, a spokeswoman at the Icelandic Civil Protection Department reported on Monday. In April, clouds of ash from an eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier grounded flights across Europe for a week, causing billions of dollars in losses for airlines and other industries. Water now pouring from Iceland's biggest glacier, Vatnajokull, which sits on top of a number of volcanic hotspots, could be a sign of fresh geological activity, Civil Protection Department spokeswoman Gudrun Johannesdottir said. Eyjafjallajokull is about 100 km southeast of Vatnajokull. "We have to check if there will be an eruption," Johannesdottir said. "Sometimes it initiates an eruption when a glacial outburst flood starts, but not every the time. So we are monitoring the situation closely." The latest eruption at Grimsvotn, in 2004, caused short-term disruptions to airline traffic into Iceland.

Situation Update No. 1
On 01.11.2010 at 12:39 GMT+2

Torrents of water are pouring from a glacier that sits atop Iceland's most active volcano, an indication that the mountain is growing hotter and may be about to erupt, scientists said Monday. The flood that began Thursday at the Grimsvotn volcano is similar to one in 2004 that lasted five days and ended with an eruption that disrupted European air traffic, University of Iceland geophysicist Pall Einarsson said. In April, millions of air travelers around the world were grounded when ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano led most northern European countries to close airspace for five days. There are no signs yet of the underground tremors that would signal an eruption at Grimsvotn, Icelandic Meteorological Office geophysicist Gunnar Gudmundsson said. Grimsvotn lies under 650 feet (200 meters) of ice on the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland. In addition to 2004, it erupted in 1998 and 1996, causing flooding to a largely uninhabited plain around it. The flooding triggered by hot molten rock, or magma, from the volcano has been expanding a lake underneath the glacier, building pressure strong enough to send water pouring from under the ice cap. A rugged island in the north Atlantic, Iceland is one of the world's most volcanically active countries.

[avid]

'Baby' Krakatoa, and 'Mother' Krakatoa very busy at the moment. Unsurprisingly it's quite volatile there at the moment - there was a coincidental burst of activity from the sun just prior to the earthquakes/tsunami and heightened volcanic activity in the last few days.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=VA-20101030-28353-IDN

Situation Update No. 4
On 04.11.2010 at 19:42 GMT+2

Volcanic activity has been increasing at Krakatau volcano, Indonesia. The volcano is producing 100 explosions per day. Sailors crossing the Sunda Strait are being cautioned about the activity of Krakatau, which has been increasing for more than a week. Tourists have been advised to stay at least 2km away from the volcano.

Situation Update No. 3
On 04.11.2010 at 04:00 GMT+2

Indonesian officials on Wednesday warned residents of lethal gases following Mount Anak Krakatau’s increased volcanic activity. Monitoring chief of Mount Anak Krakatau in Cinangka, Anton Tripambundi, warned that if the gas is inhaled, it could lead to fatal consecuences. For those who inhale, a shortness of breath will be experienced, fainting, and even death. Hot ash was spewed out of the volcano, reaching up to 1.7 kilometers (1 mile) into the sky and releasing toxic gases. Mount Anak Krakatau is located on the Sunda Strait off the west coast of Java, near Krakatau Island and to the southeast of Sumatra. “The poisonous gas of Anak Krakatau is not tasteless, odorless, and does not have form. So the existence of a toxic gas might not be noticed if you are in the area,” Tripambundi said, explaining that there are 10 different types of toxic gas contents released during the eruption. One of the toxic gases is carbon dioxide. Tripambundi warned people to maintain a distance of at least 2 kilometers from the volcano as wind direction could shift the gases at any given moment. The Geological Disaster Management and Volcanology Center (PVMBG) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has issued a ban on everyone, especially fishermen and tourists, from being in the vicinity of at least two kilometers off the volcano. Even though its normal that the volcano spews gas, Agus Budianto, PVMBG Monitoring Center chief, explained that frequent fows of toxic gas indicate a possible eruption at any time.

On Tuesday, Andi Suhardi, who heads the Anak Krakatau observation, explained that the volcano usually has 90 to 100 small scale eruptions on a daily basis, but currently up to 700 minor eruptions are recorded every day. The PVMBG has put Anak Krakatau’s status at a yellow alert. Indonesia currently has 19 volcanoes on yellow alert. The last time Mount Anak Krakatau exploded was in 2001, then on October 23, 2007. In August 1883, Krakatau erupted and killed at least 40,000 people, creating what is considered to have been the loudest sound in world history as it was heard up to 4,828 kilometers (3,000 miles) away. The eruption discharged the energy of 13,000 nuclear bombs similar to the size and strength of Little Boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. The eruption destroyed over 70 percent of the island and began the formation of Anak Krakatau, which translates to Krakatau’s Child and grows an estimated 5 meters (16.4 feet) each year.

Situation Update No. 2
On 03.11.2010 at 13:12 GMT+2

Mount Anak Krakatau in Sunda Strait of Indonesia has erupted with over 200 explosions a day, unleashing hot ash by up to 1,700 meters high and poisonous gas, officials said on Wednesday. At night time, a gigantic flaring magma exited from the crater and came down to the slope, said Anton Tripambudi, observer at the Anak Krakatau monitoring post in Banten province said. Head of Observation of Volcanology at Volcanology Agency Muhammad Hendratno said that the frequency of the explosion had risen since two days ago by up to 200 times a day from the range of 80 to 100 times a day to since two days ago. "As the explosions have exited rocks, hot ash and other compact materials, we forbid those to close the mount at the radius of 2 kilometers," he said. The seismic activity of the mount has increased since Oct. 10, said Hendratno. Mount Anak Krakatau last exploded in 2001, then on Oct. 23, 2007 the volcano's seismic activity rose again, spewing lava and ash, he said. The volcano located in the middle of Sunda Straits is far from the densely populated Java island and Sumatra island, however, it is near with the busy shipping lane connecting the islands. "But, should the wind continuously blow to one direction, the it may bring the ash to one of the islands. Ships have been asked to stay away from the waters near the mountain," the observer said. Mount Krakatau erupted in 1883, the strongest eruption in the world, killing over 40,000 people, then the mount disappeared from the sea surface. In 1930, Mount Anak Krakatau or the Krakatau child appeared to the surface.

[RedorBluepill]

Amazing hailstorm in Georgia on 10/25.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daRMLyi8oO8&feature=player_embedded

[yiolas]

New Volcanic Island East of Java - Wasn't there a few days ago

7 Nov 10 - "East of the Indonesian island Java ... a new island has risen from nothing within a few days. It is probably of volcanic origin. The location is not so very far from Tambora."
West of Java the Anak Krakatoa is active, in the middle of Java the Merapi is very active and east of Java a new island has appeared in the sea, which wasn't there a few days ago. The fear of a coming mega-eruption is real.
Mounds that resembles a pile of rocks called the children of the mountain, is reported to arise in marine waters in the district of Jembrana, Bali.

Some fisherman from the village of Pengambengan, Jembrana, Wednesday (11/03/2010) mentions, it appears the mysterious coral mound in the middle of the sea that separates the island of Java and Bali.

Local citizens worry that the mysterious mound is the peak of the volcano, because the mound - which covers about one hectare - was conical shape like the top of the mountain.

sourse (http://www.iceagenow.com/New_Volcanic_Island_East_of_Java.htm)

[MorningSong]

The sky is falling! Meteor Fireballs reported seen and heard over the Netherlands and Serbia!

http://www.dutchdailynews.com/meteor-fireball-explodes-over-netherlands/


Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Netherlands

A fireball meteor zipped across the Netherlands sky Tuesday evening before exploding in to the North Sea, an expert says.

The Netherlands just escaped a natural disaster from a meteor. Many Dutch people in the Netherlands witnessed a large "fireball" meteor in the sky. In the north people heard a bang and saw flashes. Also on Twitter people reported on the phenomenon.

The Groningen astronomical Theo Jurriens confirmed that this was a very bright meteor and at one point burst into three pieces.

About one hundred reports have been received from people who have seen the fireball. From the north of the Netherlands there are reports of people who heard rumblings when the meteor passed by and buildings were shaking.

Several pictures of the fireball meteor have been posted on the internet.

Update:
The meteor exploded over northern Netherlands and the North Sea and caused an explosion that made shock waves.

The blast may have been caused by the meteor or the explosion because it was faster than sound with a speed of over 1200 kilometer per hour. KNMI does not know which of the two is the cause, but measurements seem to indicate that it is an explosion, because signals are recorded earlier in northern than in De Bilt Netherlands.

Observations indicate that the orbit of the meteor came from south to north. Further research is being made about the precise path of the meteor.

The seismometers of the KNMI, recorded the shock waves around 19.00. The institute was mainly received reports from Rotterdam and Groningen. In Groningen, the shock wave generated vibrations on the ground.

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/16833/2/


Meteor Shower registered on the junction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo
Saturday, 13 November 2010

The people of southern Serbia were disturbed by a flash of light and clamor, which were reportedly caused by a falling meteor. Blinding lightning was also seen by residents of northern Macedonia and southeastern Kosovo.

Part of the meteor fell in the region of Grdelica Gorge in southern Serbia. Witnesses claim that they've seen a lighting object falling over the Sarajevo bridge at the entrance of Grdelica Gorge. The light was blinding accompanied by a deafening noise, Radio-Television Serbia reports.

Regional information centers in Nis and Vranje say the meteor ripped through the sound barrier over Surdulica village towards Bujanovac, near the junction of the Serbian, Macedonian and Kosovo border. It cannot be confirmed whether it landed on earth or whther it disintegrated in the air.

Milan Jelic of the "Rudjer Boskovic" Astronomical Society told the media in Serbia that a bolide (an exceptionally bright fireball, particularly one that explodes) might have been seen over southern Serbia.

[Rocky_Shorz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5bzaQNfi1g


'I was outside when the meteor broke the sound barrier in Vladicin Han, in the village who Zitoradja jetrajao 2 seconds and it was the whole end obasjann reddish yellow light, he continued to move towards the American base in Kosovo Bonstil

[Rocky_Shorz]

San Francisco: : Thousands of dead jellyfish on Ocean Beach

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2010/11/14/ba-jellyfish_0502562668_part6.jpg


Ocean Beach shimmered more than usual this weekend.

Not from the natural beauty of sand, surf and sea, but from a great slick of dead jellyfish that mysteriously washed ashore near Pacheco Street.

More than 10,000 of the gooey invertebrates, each about the size of a dinner plate, drifted onto the beach Friday evening. By Sunday, they had attracted hordes of the curious, the repulsed and the fascinated.


full story (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/15/BAS11GC2I0.DTL)