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Question

Loud booms heard by residents in St. Louis, Missouri

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Loud booms around the St. Louis area have residents worried there's been an outbreak of earthquakes, but News 4's Russell Kinsaul talked to experts and found out the "booms" are called "Frost quakes."

Frost quakes occur when water soaks into the ground, freezes, and quickly expands. The quick expansion can suddenly move large amounts of soil and cause small earthquakes.

"I was sitting right here in this room and I heard and really loud boom," Fairview Heights resident Susan O'Mara said.

O'Mara said she heard the sound on Monday at her home. The noise was so loud, she said she looked out side because she thought a car ran into a neighbor's house but didn't see anything.

"I didn't know what it was. A little shake to the house. I thought it was an earthquake."

Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - 138km NNW of Amukta Island, Alaska

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Event Time
2014-02-26 21:13:40 UTC
2014-02-26 10:13:40 UTC-11:00 at epicenter

Location
53.679°N 171.837°W depth=264.7km (164.5mi)

Nearby Cities
138km (86mi) NNW of Amukta Island, Alaska
1371km (852mi) SSE of Anadyr', Russia
1550km (963mi) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
1578km (981mi) WSW of Knik-Fairview, Alaska
2321km (1442mi) W of Whitehorse, Canada

Technical Details

Attention

What's causing the huge spike in earthquakes in Oklahoma?

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© USGSn this map of earthquakes recorded by the US Geological Survey in the past thirty days (each quake is marked by a dot on the map), Oklahoma is a clear hot spot.
A dramatic uptick in earthquakes has been shaking central Oklahoma this year, continuing a recent trend of unusually high earthquake activity in the state and leading scientists to speculate about a possible link to oil and gas production there.

The US Geological Survey found that from 1975 to 2008, central Oklahoma experienced one to three 3.0-magnitude earthquakes a year, compared with an average of forty per year from 2009 to 2013. And it looks like that number is going to get bigger. It's only February, and the state has already logged more than twenty-five quakes of 3.0-magnitude or larger this year, and more than 150 total quakes in the past week alone.

Comment: Earthquakes are up the world over, so this probably goes beyond local fracking.


Radar

4.1 magnitude earthquake hits south Wales

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© Tim Ireland/PAThe beach at Woolacombe, north Devon. Where a 4.1 magnitude earthquake may have hit.
British Geological Survey investigates reports of 4.1 magnitude quake in Bristol channel with tremors in north Devon and south Wales

Experts are investigating reports of an earthquake in the south-west of Britain. The British Geological Survey (BGS) said there were reports of a quake centred on north Devon. A spokesman said: "It looks like there was an earthquake originating in north Devon at 13:21 so we are just analysing it." The size of the tremor is not yet known but reports on Twitter suggest that it was felt in north Devon and south Wales.

Twitter user Robin Beer said: "Anybody else feel the earth tremor just now?! #ndevon #barnstaple #earthquake." Ant Veal tweeted: "Noticeable earth tremor just now (13.22GMT) in Exeter. Lasted 3 seconds. #Devon #earthquake."

Alarm Clock

USGS: Magnitude 6.5 - 170km NNE of Bathsheba, Barbados

Barbados earthquake
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Event Time
2014-02-18 09:27:13 UTC
2014-02-18 05:27:13 UTC-04:00 at epicenter
2014-02-18 10:27:13 UTC+01:00 system time

Location

14.651°N 58.948°W depth=16.9km (10.5mi)

Nearby Cities
170km (106mi) NNE of Bathsheba, Barbados
186km (116mi) NNE of Bridgetown, Barbados
210km (130mi) E of Le Francois, Martinique
211km (131mi) E of Riviere-Pilote, Martinique
214km (133mi) E of Le Robert, Martinique

Scientific Data

Attention

Magmatic intrusion in Mammoth Mountain, Long Valley, California

A number of earthquakes shake the mountain.

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Mammoth Mountain, California
In California there has been a quake swarm at Mammoth mountain that has been going for more than a week. No Eruption yet, but plenty of quakes.

California's Long Valley caldera, near Mammoth Mountain, is the largest supervolcano on the planet, says Alessandro Decet. In the last week it has recorded a few earthquakes, with the most intense a magnitude 3.0. Since everything is still mild in intensity, no alarm or status change was issued. However, the earthquakes are increasingly shallow, signaling that magma may be about to get closer to the surface.

Bizarro Earth

Widespread polar vortex freezing, erupting volcanoes, strange loud booms, big waves, earthquakes and lots of meteors - Something in space lurks close to earth

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© China DailyMount Sinabung, Indonesia
Current worldwide weather anomalies and drastic changes with the earth and sun give indication that some type of massive celestial object may be moving in to range, possibly even threatening the inhabitants of earth as emergency preparations by various nations have been taken

It's no big secret that weather patterns are drastically changing worldwide. In Indonesia alone 19 volcanoes were raised to alert status Tuesday, after the Mount Sinabung eruption in North Sumatra killed 16 people last week. Three volcanoes in the region still remain on "high alert". This doevtails with seismic activity in the U.S. Yellowstone region which was also reported to have picked up recently, showing a clear trend of noticeable earth changes worldwide.

And what about the recent cold spell which broke cold weather records in over 50 cities across the U.S.? Shockingly, the temperatures even ran into the frigid negatives throughout pockets of the U.S. that typically never fall that low in temperature.

Influential weathermen, like NBC's Today's Al Roker, are now claiming that the "polar vortex" is to blame, a term listed in some 1959 weather publication entitled the "Glossary of Meteorology" and almost unheard of by modern society. Some weathermen say that the dense cold air has migrated down from the poles causing unusually abnormal weather patterns further south into the United States, making for the coldest spell in decades.

Strangely on Jan. 8, the Today show made mention of a "left winged global conspiracy" regarding the polar vortex, giving a force-fed tidbit to the masses. Take note that the seeding has already begun and corporate propaganda is already in full swing.

Comment: There is evidence that these environmental events may be caused by a companion star to the Sun:

"Check out the Wikipedia page on the so-called 'Nemesis' hypothesis. (And see here for additional resources.) It was introduced in 1984 by two teams of astronomers (Whitmire & Jackson, and Davis, Hut & Muller) to explain the periodically spaced extinction events observed in the earth's fossil record. The idea was that a companion sun passing through or close to the spherical Oort cloud would send a death-dealing swarm of comets in earth's direction every 26 million years or so. Its presence may also help explain the non-random trajectories of certain long-period comets, as well as the strange and unexpected elliptical orbit of the recently discovered transneptunian object Sedna."

You can read more here: The Cs Hit List 07: Sun Star Companion, Singing Stones and Smoking Visions




Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 3.0 - 12km N of West Yellowstone, Montana



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Event Time:

2014-02-15 10:23:53 UTC
2014-02-15 03:23:53 UTC-07:00 at epicenter

Location:
44.776°N 111.085°W depth=7.7km (4.8mi)

Nearby Cities:
12km (7mi) N of West Yellowstone, Montana
100km (62mi) S of Bozeman, Montana
119km (74mi) NNE of Rexburg, Idaho
161km (100mi) NNE of Ammon, Idaho
215km (134mi) SSE of Helena, Montana

Technical data

Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 4.1 - 12km WNW of Edgefield, South Carolina

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Event Time:
2014-02-15 03:23:38 UTC
2014-02-14 22:23:38 UTC-05:00 at epicenter

Location:
33.812°N 82.063°W depth=4.8km (3.0mi)

Nearby Cities:
12km (7mi) WNW of Edgefield, South Carolina
31km (19mi) NNE of Evans, Georgia
32km (20mi) N of Martinez, Georgia
35km (22mi) NNW of North Augusta, South Carolina
97km (60mi) WSW of Columbia, South Carolina

Technical data

Cow Skull

Pod of nine Orca whales die on New Zealand beach after being stranded overnight

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© SouthlandScientists examine orcas who stranded on New Zealand beach
Marine biologists are baffled by the mysterious deaths of nine orca whales stranded on New Zealand's Southland beach on Feb 12. New Zealand experts continue to investigate and conduct scientific testing to determine the cause.

Nine orca whales, including a calf, had died while beached on Te WaeWae Bay overnight. The deaths of the orca whales were described as a tragedy for the entire species in New Zealand. According to reports, the population of orca whales in New Zealand waters is estimated to be less than 200. The stranded pod of whales accounted for five per cent of the total population in the country, but New Zealand scientists have been unable to identify the dead whales.

Did earthquakes cause the stranding?

Orca Research Trust founder and whale expert Dr Ingrid Visser said it was possible the whales came from southern waters and became stranded on the bay. Dr Visser has been working with orca whales in the country for about 20 years. She said scientists still have no explanation why the whales became stranded.

Ms Visser declared the recent deaths of the orca whales is the "third largest stranding" of the species in New Zealand. When seen from an international perspective, it could be included in the world's top 10.