Earth Changes
Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 02:10:41 UTC
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 09:10:41 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location:
27.762°N, 97.891°W
Depth:
5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region:
SOUTHERN TEXAS
Distances:
8 km (5 miles) SW (226°) from Rancho Banquete, TX
15 km (10 miles) WNW (288°) from La Paloma-Lost Creek, TX
16 km (10 miles) W (270°) from Spring Garden-Terra Verde, TX
48 km (30 miles) W (273°) from Corpus Christi, TX
570 km (354 miles) S (191°) from Dallas, TX

A tornado ripped through the Meehan area in Lauderdale County, Miss., Saturday, April 24, 2010, leaving damage to the The walls of the Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church were blown out as a ripped through the Meehan area in Lauderdale County, Miss. on Saturday, April 24, 2010, leaving damage to the Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church.
Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press there was "utter obliteration" in parts of Yazoo County, an area known for cotton, catfish, blues music and picturesque hills rising abruptly from the flat Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said five people were killed in Choctaw County, including two children. Four victims were in Yazoo County and one was in Holmes County.
More than 15 other counties were also damaged. The swath of debris forced rescuers to pick up some of the injured on all-terrain vehicles the west-central part of the state.
Tornadoes were also reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, and the severe weather continued to track eastward.
In Yazoo City about 40 miles north of Jackson, Malcolm Gordon, 63, stood with members of his family peering through a broken window. Above them, the roof was gone, a tree lay across part of the house and power lines stretched across the yard in a neighborhood made up of modest houses and mobile homes on a street that winds around hills and ravines. The smell of shredded pine trees hung the warm breeze.

Amazing footage of a rarely seen giant deep sea jellyfish has been recorded by scientists in Gulf of Mexico.
Using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), they captured a video of the huge Stygiomedusa gigantea.
The jellyfish has a disc-shaped bell than can be a metre wide, and has four arms that extend up to six metres in length.
The jellyfish has only been seen 114 times in the 110 years it has been known to science, say researchers.
Professor Mark Benfield from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, US, came across the creature as part of the Serpent project, a collaboration between marine scientists and energy companies, including BP, Shell, Chevron and Petrobras, working in the Gulf of Mexico.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 07:41:02 UTC
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 04:41:02 PM at epicenter
Location:
1.842°S, 128.188°E
Depth:
35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Distances:
205 km (125 miles) N of Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia
305 km (190 miles) SSE of Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia
1215 km (750 miles) NNW of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia
2415 km (1500 miles) E of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
A French historian says it has happened before.
Emmanuel Garnier argues that a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783 brought freak weather conditions in Europe that indirectly led to the French Revolution.

The high iron content of whale faeces feeds Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean and elsewhere
So says Stephen Nicol of the Australian Antarctic Division, based in Kingston, Tasmania, who has found "huge amounts of iron in whale poo". He believes that before commercial whaling, baleen whale faeces may have accounted for some 12 per cent of the iron on the surface of the Southern Ocean.
Previous studies have shown that iron is crucial to ocean health because plankton need it to grow. "If you add soluble iron to the ocean, you get instant phytoplankton growth," says Nicol. The amount of iron in whale faeces means that protecting Antarctic whales could swell populations of phytoplankton, which absorb carbon dioxide.
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) feed on the phytoplankton, concentrating the iron in their tissue. And in turn, baleen whales eat the krill.

Smoke is shown rising from Detroit's Zug Island industrial complex in this 2008 photo. Heavy industry in the Great Lakes region dumped four million kilograms of deadly chemicals into the air in 2007, according to a report by a Canada-U.S. coalition of environmental groups.
Four million kilograms of deadly chemicals -- including mercury, lead, formaldehyde and benzene -- were released by large industries into the air in 2007 from both sides of the border, according to the coalition's report Partners in Pollution 2.
The greatest level of toxins within the Great Lakes basin was found in the stretch between Sarnia and Windsor that included the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River areas, the report said.
"The potential to be in contact with toxic substances are higher there than elsewhere," said John Jackson, program director for Great Lakes United, a coalition of citizens groups that monitors toxic substances and participated in the study. "Of course, health is at risk with that."
But determining exact health risks is difficult because of a lack of studies and funding to support that work, he said.
"Cancer is a horrible thing, but it's only one of the impacts," Jackson said. "You have higher numbers of birth deformities, disruption of development of the brain and the ability to reproduce because these substances give a wide range of negative impacts."
Huge ash clouds caused by the volcanic eruption under the southwestern Eyjafjallajokull glacier disrupted flights and paralyzed airports across northern Europe.
Scientists, however, announced strong tremors and lower plume on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
"Only the northernmost fissure is erupting now and the plume is occasionally reaching a height of 3 km (1.9 miles), but it is mostly below that," meteorological office geophysicist Steinunn Jakobsdottir told a news conference. "
"It (the plume) is kind of stable at a height of 2 to 3 km," she added.
Seismologist Bryndis Brandsdottir believes the tremors could be a sign for a lava build up or molten rock within the crater.
Altered weather patterns worsened the effects of the eruption by causing ash clouds to stay over Europe for a longer period, according to Christophe Cassou and Eric Guilyardi of the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation in Toulouse, France.
The scientists have developed a climate model which shows that western winds common in the area are currently being blocked by a high-pressure weather system. Because of this, more and more ash-laden air is being blown over Europe.
Comment: The wonder of computer models is that you can make them predict whatever you want to believe! It's interesting that the "ash cloud" that was shown to have spread over the northern hemisphere was not an actual observation but a prediction based on what their computer models were showing them! That's science in the 21st century for you folks - create your own reality, then measure it and you can "prove" that it's real!
The man behind the documentary An Inconvenient Truth will participate Thursday in an international conference organized during the 2010 Millennium Summit. The event will also include Sarah Ferguson, duchess of York, and actress Kristin Davis of Sex and the City fame.
The event's main sponsor is Investors Group, a Power Corp. company owned by the Desmarais family. The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion barrels of oil from the Alberta tar sands over the next 30 years.
During a trip to Toronto at the end of November, Gore said the exploitation of the tar sands is the "largest source of polluting energy on earth" and represents "one of the most serious threats to the human race."
"The oil pulled from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the carbon footprint of a Hummer," Gore said at the time, after blasting the Canadian government for its soft position on the exploitation of the tar sands.









Comment: It is hard to be 100% sure about the direct casual effect between the vulcano eruption and the French Revolution, but such a link is surely interesting to consider in the light of current events.
Are we to expect local climate disruption followed by crop failure and food riots and finally some sort of revolution? If so, this time it is likely to be lead by the psychopaths in power, not the common people.