No reports of damages, injuries
An undersea earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook northern Japan early Saturday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.
Sisters, Ore. -- The swelling bulge on the west flank of the South Sister volcano is slowing and geologists say there are no signs that the uplifted region will erupt in the near future.
Megan Baldino
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Anchorage, Alaska - There was another explosion today on Augustine Volcano. This time, scientists believe their own seismic station was damaged.
Anchorage, Alaska - A sulfurous steam plume, hundreds of miniature earthquakes and a new swath of ash on snowy Augustine Volcano have scientists looking for a possible eruption in the next few months.
Columbia, South Carolina - A jolt of freezing rain and ice across Georgia and the Carolinas early Thursday closed schools, snarled traffic and caused power outages to more than 350,000 customers.
Eastern Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will be next to feel the effects of a powerful winter storm Friday that roared across southern Ontario overnight.
One June 11, 2003 the first volcanism article, Volcanoes In California, Idaho, and Pacific Northwest Building Towards Catastrophic Eruptions, reveals a startling discovery to science the 'earthquake boom' (see list item 11 of History of 'Breakthrough' Technology).
Currently a mystery to seismologists, a powerful explosion sound which eludes detection by the best of seismographs, is a real earth event and should be correctly classified as an 'earthquake'. The rare earthquake boom is part of a 'family' of five types of events the earth can generate of which only two are known by science. It is important for residents near volcanoes to be aware of the 'earthquake boom', although an unnerving experience doesn't indicate an actual explosion occurred or that an eruption is imminent. This article gives insight into why these events occur and what they mean. Included are some hair raising stories from Mt. St. Helens climbers who experienced a fantastic 'boom'.
Comment: Signs of the Times is often entertained by the newsletters of "Shorcha Faal," which are prolific and well-put together. In fact, if a person wasn't careful to check the sources, they might be taken in by them.
And that's not to say that there aren't a lot of reliable stories included.
The problem is: they are generally "linked" together by a very shakey lynchpin which, when discovered, makes one very suspicious of everything else.
The above linked article is a case in point. It is the lynchpin for the recent SF newsletter about all the mysterious "booms" going on in the U.S. which are supposed to be indicators of the imminent fracturing of the North American Plate. And certainly, taken together with the dam that has just collapsed in Missouri, and the gas geysers in Oklahoma, things are looking a bit suspicious. (Not to mention the lack of activity on the Western Rim of the Ring of Fire vs. all the activity on the Western Rim.)
"Sorcha Faal" refers to the author of the above linked article as "the United States Terra Research Institute in their report titled Mystery of 'The Earthquake Boom'.
What's wrong with that? Sounds like a legitimate government agency with real science going on and the voice of a real expert, right?
Well, if you do a bit of a websearch, you will find this interesting tidbit:
Thousands Flee After India Passes Along Sham Warning
Misinformation and chaos filled disaster's breach last week as thousands fled coastal areas of India and Sri Lanka after the Indian government put out a public warning that another earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, was imminent. The basis for the alarm: Readings supposedly taken by a contraption housed in the back of a pickup truck in Oregon. The warning was originally posted to the Web site of Terra Research and Consulting Services. The business's owner, Larry Park, claims to be a computer expert and earthquake forecaster, based on a new type of electromagnetic radiation he's discovered. He has no formal training in geology, and his theories have not been peer-reviewed.
So why did the Indian government act? Indian Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal explained that the U.S. office of the Indian Space Research Organization saw the prediction posted on Park's Web site, contacted Park, and then passed along the dire warning to the government in New Dehli. In retrospect, Sibal called Park's conclusion "unscientific hogwash," but it was the S&T Ministry that passed the warning along to the Home Ministry, which issued the warning. Sibal said he wasn't consulted before that alarm was sounded.
Park has a different version of events. He says he alerted filmmaker Mike McNulty, who passed the warning along to the U.S. embassies of India, Indonesia and Australia. On Dec. 30, McNulty, nominated for an Oscar for his 1998 documentary film "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" about the FBI siege of the Branch Davidians compound, told the AP "the forecast is January 1- it isn't game over yet."
The deadline passed, of course - so "game over" for Park's prediction. "There are lots of these charlatans out there, and the more publicity they get the more money they make," Steve Malone of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "There is no way to predict earthquakes ahead of time yet that's proven."
So everything is NOT as Sorcha Faal presents it. And we have caught him/her at it dozens of times. Why, if a person is trying to propagate truth, do they have to fudge their sources? There's no reason to make Larry Park appear to be a gov. scientist. But apparently, Sorcha realizes that most people will NOT click the links, or if they do, they will not then try to verify who is who and what their agenda might be.
And we aren't even saying that there is any nefarious agenda to Mr. Park. But there sure does seem to be a nefarious agenda behind Sorcha Faal.
Nevertheless, we are still left with those interesting "mystery booms" and collapsing dams, gushing gas geysers, and a whole host of fun things going on here on the Big Blue Marble that Sorcha rightly points out as being significant. Click the expandy thinger to read some of them, and let's leave it open for now. For all we know, Larry Park is right. But we strongly urge caution when reading Sorcha Faal - he/she "prestidigitates" information rather often, and we wonder why?
Kingfisher, Oklahoma -- Mysterious unrefined natural gas leaks erupting in rural Kingfisher County in recent days continue to have officials puzzled as to their cause.
"We originally thought a pipeline had exploded," said Matt Skinner, Oklahoma Corporation Commission public information manager. "We had the pressure to zero pressure, and the leaks seemed to get bigger. So that's not it."
Skinner had said at a press conference Monday geologists and hydrologists are beginning to study underground maps of the area to find an explanation.
"We've ruled out the probables, and now we're into the unprobables," he said. "We've never seen one like this before, one that covers such a large area. It's another animal."
Skinner said the leak was unusual because of its size and that it was "moving with no explanation."
Comment: Now, isn't that interesting? It reminds us of the "Dante's Peak". In the flick, there were little clues here and there that something big was going on underground... areas of ground heating, hot water, a few slight, shakey little quakes that might do things such as cause a dam to collapse...
Are these "experts" forgetting about the
Ouachita Frontal Fault Zone?Nothing to worry about here, folks!
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale shook southeastern Romania yesterday afternoon, around 2:15 p.m. Yesterday's quake was centered in Vrancea, in the village of Nereju, 175 kilometers northeast of Bucharest on the eastern rim of the Carpathian Mountains.
New Delhi - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook northern India on Wednesday, a day after residents of New Delhi and other areas in the north were shaken by a 6.7 quake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan.
The Meteorological Department said the epicenter was in the Chamoli district of Uttaranchal. There were no initial reports of damage or casualties, an official said.
Scores of houses were damaged in Afghanistan by Tuesday's early morning earthquake, the biggest since the devastating Oct. 8 South Asia quake that killed almost 75,000 in the region.
Comment: Signs of the Times is often entertained by the newsletters of "Shorcha Faal," which are prolific and well-put together. In fact, if a person wasn't careful to check the sources, they might be taken in by them.
And that's not to say that there aren't a lot of reliable stories included.
The problem is: they are generally "linked" together by a very shakey lynchpin which, when discovered, makes one very suspicious of everything else.
The above linked article is a case in point. It is the lynchpin for the recent SF newsletter about all the mysterious "booms" going on in the U.S. which are supposed to be indicators of the imminent fracturing of the North American Plate. And certainly, taken together with the dam that has just collapsed in Missouri, and the gas geysers in Oklahoma, things are looking a bit suspicious. (Not to mention the lack of activity on the Western Rim of the Ring of Fire vs. all the activity on the Western Rim.)
"Sorcha Faal" refers to the author of the above linked article as "the United States Terra Research Institute in their report titled Mystery of 'The Earthquake Boom'.
What's wrong with that? Sounds like a legitimate government agency with real science going on and the voice of a real expert, right?
Well, if you do a bit of a websearch, you will find this interesting tidbit: So everything is NOT as Sorcha Faal presents it. And we have caught him/her at it dozens of times. Why, if a person is trying to propagate truth, do they have to fudge their sources? There's no reason to make Larry Park appear to be a gov. scientist. But apparently, Sorcha realizes that most people will NOT click the links, or if they do, they will not then try to verify who is who and what their agenda might be.
And we aren't even saying that there is any nefarious agenda to Mr. Park. But there sure does seem to be a nefarious agenda behind Sorcha Faal.
Nevertheless, we are still left with those interesting "mystery booms" and collapsing dams, gushing gas geysers, and a whole host of fun things going on here on the Big Blue Marble that Sorcha rightly points out as being significant. Click the expandy thinger to read some of them, and let's leave it open for now. For all we know, Larry Park is right. But we strongly urge caution when reading Sorcha Faal - he/she "prestidigitates" information rather often, and we wonder why?