Earth Changes

After Fukushima, Fish Tales

Alex Roslin
The Montreal Gazette
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:36 UTC

After the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.

They said most of the radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant would fall into the ocean, where it would be diluted and not pose any danger.

Dr. Dale Dewar wasn't convinced. Dewar, a family physician in Wynyard, Sask., doesn't eat a lot of seafood herself, but when her grandchildren come to visit, she carefully checks seafood labels.

She wants to make sure she isn't serving them anything that might come from the western Pacific Ocean.

Dewar, the executive director of Physicians for Global Survival, a Canadian anti-nuclear group, says the Canadian government has downplayed the radiation risks from Fukushima and is doing little to monitor them.

Mt. Etna Erupts

MSNBC Video
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00 UTC

You're looking at the first eruption of the New Year for Europe's biggest and most active Volcano Mt. Aetna in Sicily. Today there was an impressive-looking ash plume in the sky.

Australia: 53 dead fur seals found on the beach

Australian Associated Press
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:27 UTC

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New Zealand fur seals are found all along Australia's south coast as well as along the coast of New Zealand's South Island

More than 50 New Zealand fur seals have washed up dead on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula and will be examined at Adelaide University to determine how they died.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said the bodies of 51 juveniles and two young adults were found near Port Lincoln and at Wanna Beach in the Lincoln National Park.

Dr Lucy Woolford from Adelaide University says three seals have been collected for post-mortem examinations, which will be conducted on Tuesday morning.

Rare Caterpillar-like Horizontal Earthquake Discovered

Crystal Gammon
OurAmazingPlanet
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00 UTC

Imagine that, as you sit at your desk or in your living room reading this story, your entire city suddenly snaps a foot to the south.

That's what happened to the city of Kohat, Pakistan, in 1992. A magnitude-6.0 earthquake moved a 30-square-mile (80-square-kilometer) swath of land one foot (30 centimeters) horizontally in a split second, leveling buildings and killing more than 200 people.

The area hadn't experienced many temblors before, making the earthquake an unusual occurrence. Now, 20 years later, geologists have used satellite and seismic data to track down the cause of that rare quake - an equally rare type of fault.

"The pattern we saw was absolutely a dead ringer for a horizontal fault," said Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "But here's the problem: How do you get a horizontal earthquake?"

Canada: Radioactive Iodine in Rainwater: Public Was in the Dark

Alex Roslin
Montreal Gazette
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:17 UTC

After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada.

But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine (an isotope released by the nuclear accident) in rainwater, the data shows.

The level easily exceeded the Canadian guideline of six becquerels of iodine per litre for drinking water, acknowledged Eric Pellerin, chief of Health Canada's radiation-surveillance division.

"It's above the recommended level (for drinking water)," he said in an interview. "At any time you sample it, it should not exceed the guideline."

Canadian authorities didn't disclose the high radiation reading at the time.

25 volcanoes in Indonesia now showing signs of abnormal activity

The Extinction Protocol
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:26 UTC

Twenty-five volcanoes in Indonesia are now showing abnormal activity or have been put on alert or watch status, presidential special aide Andi Arief said here on Saturday. "According to official data, 25 volcanoes are now under alert or watch status and they must be given priority with regard to disaster mitigation planning at district or city levels," he said at a workshop on journalists' role in disaster management. He said in West Sumatra there were two volcanoes that need to be closely watched, namely Mount Marapi and Mount Talang, as they are still under alert status.

Mount Marapi is located in Agam and Tanahdatar districts and rises 2891 meters above sea level, and Mount Talang (2597 meters above sea level) in Solok district was located around 40 kilometers from the provincial capital Padang. Apart from the two volcanoes, the government and regional disaster management agencies were also giving priority attention to Mount Papandayan in West Java, Mount Karangetan and Lokon in North Sulawesi, Mount Ijen in East Java, Mount Gamalama in North Maluku, Mount Krakatau in Banten and Lampung and Mount Lewoloto in East Nusa Tenggara.

Large-scale seismic activity rising along planet's southern pole

The Extinction Protocol
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:04 UTC

A strong and shallow series of earthquakes have erupted near the remote South Shetland Islands region of Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquakes in the intense tectonically-activated series measured a 6.6 magnitude, followed by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake and a 5.1 aftershock. The epicenter of the earthquakes was at various depths of from one kilometer (0.62 miles) to 14 km (9.2 miles) below the earth's surface and some 464 kilometers west of Coronation Island in distance. No destructive tsunami was created, according to the U.S. NOAA warning center.

The earthquake series is worrisome because it's further evidence of what I have been warning about for over the past 6 months, that the Southern hemisphere, particularly around the periphery of Antarctic, is shows increasing signs of seismic destabilization. On January 12, there was a swarm of five moderate earthquakes which erupted south of Africa- the strongest of which was a 5.3 and a 5.5. On January 13, the South Sandwich Islands, north of Antarctica, was hit with a 5.1, and 5.2. On January 14 the region was struck again with a 5.0 earthquake and another 4.9 on January 15th. Not only are earthquakes increasing along the southern polar region but in November of 2011, the Tasmania's Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem centre found that the South Ocean was storing more heat than any other ocean on the planet.

Antarctica - South Shetland Islands: Earthquake Magnitude 6.6 and 6.2 aftershock

US Geological Survey
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:47 UTC

Date-Time:
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 13:40:18 UTC

Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 09:40:18 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
60.765°S, 55.858°W

Depth:
10 km (6.2 miles)

Region:
SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS

Distances:
539 km (334 miles) W of Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands

625 km (388 miles) NE of Palmer Station, Antarctica

1019 km (633 miles) S of STANLEY, Falkland Islands

2919 km (1813 miles) S of BUENOS AIRES, D.F., Argentina

What's Causing all the Record Dry Weather and Mild Winter Temperatures in America?

The Daily Mail
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:52 UTC

The first week in January was the driest in U.S. history with more than 95 per cent of the U.S. reporting below-average snow.

About half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average during December.

Now meteorologists believe the atmospheric pressure pattern called the Arctic Oscillation is controlling the jet stream and causing records to be broken on a near daily basis.

The jet stream flows from west to east across the northern latitudes of America and Europe, changing temperatures and precipitation as it meanders north and south, digg.com reports.

This season we've been experiencing a strong straight jet stream which has been preventing the cold arctic air from drifting south.

Meteorologist Jeffrey Masters said: 'The cause of this warm first half of winter is the most extreme configuration of the jet stream ever recorded.'

5.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits New Zealand's Christchurch

CRI
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00 UTC

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake ratted New Zealand's South Island city of Christchurch on Sunday, followed by more aftershocks.

The quake occurred at 2.47 a.m. Sunday (13:47 GMT Saturday). It was centered 10 km east of Christchurch and 10 km north-east of Lyttelton, at a depth of 9 km, New Zealand government geological agency GNS Sciences reported.

The quake was followed by magnitude 3.0 and 3.7 aftershocks at 4.11 a.m. and 5.10 a.m. and magnitude 3.3 and 3.5 at 7.05 a.m. and 7.48 a.m.

The ambulance service says there are no reports of damage or injury.

GNS Sciences said early this month that aftershocks might continue in Canterbury for the next 30 years.

Source: Xinhua

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Earth Changes

After Fukushima, Fish Tales

Mt. Etna Erupts

Australia: 53 dead fur seals found on the beach

Rare Caterpillar-like Horizontal Earthquake Discovered

Canada: Radioactive Iodine in Rainwater: Public Was in the Dark

25 volcanoes in Indonesia now showing signs of abnormal activity

Large-scale seismic activity rising along planet's southern pole

Antarctica - South Shetland Islands: Earthquake Magnitude 6.6 and 6.2 aftershock

What's Causing all the Record Dry Weather and Mild Winter Temperatures in America?

5.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits New Zealand's Christchurch

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