An ambitious Japanese-led project to dig deeper into the Earth's surface than ever before will be a breakthrough in detecting earthquakes including Tokyo's dreaded "Big One," officials said Thursday.
The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu made a port call Thursday in Yokohama after ending its first training mission at sea since being built in July at a cost of 500 million dollars.
The 57,500-ton Chikyu, which means the Earth in Japanese, is scheduled to embark in September 2007 on a voyage to collect the first samples of the Earth's mantle in human history.
The project, led by Japan and the United States with the participation of China and the European Union, seeks clues on primitive organisms that were the forerunners of life and on the tectonic plates that shake the planet's foundations.
Earth Changes
A mysterious force shook buildings from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Chumuckla, Florida Friday morning, but no one News 5 talked to knows exactly what caused it. Sometime between 9:00 and 9:30 am, a thunderous sound rumbled through the Gulf Coast. Not everyone felt it, but those who did all described it in much the same way. Ruthstein Woods in Eight Mile said, "I was laying in the bed watching TV and all of a sudden, it was like big boom, like the ceiling or something was like falling. I jumped up and ran and looked, and I looked outside, but I didn't see anything. It was like real, real shaking and stuff."
Scientists fear that the Gulf Stream - the immense, enigmatic force behind ferocious weather and mild climate - is being remade. The effects could be profound.
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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.
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.
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'.
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 WarningSo 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.
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."
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?
Comment: Comment: Hmmm... we were talking about big booms just the other day and how they can be a type of earthquake... just what IS going on inside our planet?