Oppenheimer Ranch Project You Tube Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:18 UTC
Solar wind is calming and solar flaring remains low. The next coronal hole stream is not due until the weekend but a small, weak CME may impact earth today from the filament eruption center-disk 3 days ago. On top of this, the third plasma filament in less than tree weeks just ripped off the top side of the sun. What the heck is happening on our sun?
It is becoming very clear that CME via, plasma filament destabilization may be one of our most pressing issues moving forward. Certainly, these filaments will add to the mix as we document the descent into this historic Earth changing time. Heads up.
At least one person has died during heavy rainfall that flooded many parts of Albania, paralyzing its ports and causing flights from its only international airport to be suspended, authorities said Friday.
Three other people were injured and 18 houses were destroyed in weather-related incidents over the past 24 hours, the government said in a statement.
Many roads remained blocked across the Balkan country, while some 71,000 residents were affected by power cuts.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the northeast coast of the Pacific Ocean nation of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) said.
The quake hit at 0250 GMT at a depth of around 53 km (37 miles), according to USGS. No tsunami warning was immediately issued.
Quakes are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits on the Pacific's "Ring of Fire", a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the tremor.
Friday's quake was downgraded from an initial measurement of 6.3 magnitude by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
The remains of a North Atlantic right whale found this week on Nantucket, Mass.
Scientists say they cannot determine what may have killed the right whale that washed up on Nantucket over the weekend.
A whale carcass was discovered on a Medaket beach on Sunday. Research teams from the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution arrived on Monday but were unable to gather much information.
The animal had decomposed to the point where scientists could not determine its gender or what may have led to its death. The length of the whale was somewhere between 13 and 14 meters.
An earthquake with a magnitude of up to 6.3 has hit eastern Iran near the city of Kerman, seismological centers report.
The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10km (6.2 miles), some 60km (37 miles) from the city of Kerman, which has a population of over 800,000, including suburbs.
The quake's magnitude was initially reported at 6.3 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), cited by Reuters, and at 5.9 by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). Both later revised it to 6.0.
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake has rumbled the Philadelphia region Thursday afternoon.
The United States Geological Survey says the tremor struck along the Delaware Bay near Dover, Delaware. It's a short distance north of the Dover Air Force Base.
The quake was shallow with a depth of 5 miles. It was first recorded with a magnitude of 5.1, but was revised to 4.1 around 5:10 p.m.
Comment: The USGS said it received more than 6,500 responses within an hour of the quake from people who felt the temblor throughout the Mid-Atlantic - as far south as suburban Washington, D.C., and as far north as the Poughkeepsie, New York, area.
USGS geophysicist, Cheng Shengzao, said the East Coast quake was surprising, "This is wild. It's not often that this happens."
Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the USGS's earthquake information center in Colorado, said he didn't expect any significant damage from the small quake, which he described as unusual.
"I was talking with the other seismologists and we said, 'Wow, we don't ever remember a quake in Delaware," he said.
A short period of heavy rain in Andalusia, southern Spain, caused flash flooding in the provinces of Malaga, Granada, Seville and Cadiz on Wednesday, 29 November 2017.
A train was derailed near Seville with at least 21 people injured, 2 of them seriously. Local media said the derailment was caused by the heavy rain.
Houses were damaged in several areas, including Jerez in Cadiz, Badolatosa in Seville, and the town of Campillos in Malaga.
For the last several years, and some say longer, the Magic Valley has been under some sort of siege.
"I would describe it as something similar to a sonic boom," said one resident.
"There's an audible boom and then it shakes," said another.
"It's like this weird errrrrrrr," described yet another.
From Buhl to Burley these "booms" have been best described as a bunch of audible and feel-able, sensations.
"It just sounds like boooosh and then like mooooossh," said Chelsie Skroback, waving her arms back and forth in short motions. "It's more like this is the best sound I can give you which is my hands moving. That's kind of what it seems like."
Flooding has affected parts of southern Thailand since 25 November. Heavy rain has triggered rivers to overflow and flash flooding.
According to Thailand's The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), the floods have affected the provinces of Phatthalung, Trang, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Pattani, Songkhla, Narathiwat, Yala, Satun and Surat Thani.
Flooding has affected a total of 74 districts, 113,900 households, and 385,498 people. DDPM said that at least 5 people have lost their lives in the flooding. The deaths occurred in Songkhla (2), Pattani (2) and Yala.
A number of provinces have declared disaster zones in various districts. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation is working with the Royal Irrigation Department to synchronize the water discharges in order to minimize damage.
Comment: See also: North Atlantic right whales close to extinction again