X-marks the Spot?

X-marks the Spot?

Victoria’s south-west rattled by 5.0 magnitude earthquake | 9 News Australia (1 min)

 

 

Solar Flare Records, Hurricanes Impact, New Book | S0 News Oct.21.2023 (3 min)

 

Orionids Peak Tonight! – Major Winter Storm Developing – Death Valley Gleams With Water

Undeniable Evidence For Electric Comets – Minoan Eruption: Largest Of Our Time, Ends The Empire

Quakes,flares and freezes

Quakes,flares and freezes

Over 21,000 Dead From Quake In Turkey – Six M-Flares Last 24 Hours – Deadly European Freeze (15 min)

 

Sun & Earth | Feb.9.2023

From: https://spaceweather.com/

INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES: The odds of a strong solar flare today have more than doubled in response to a sudden profusion of large sunspots. NOAA forecasters say there is a 55% chance of M-class flares and a 15% of X-flares. The most likely source is Earth-facing sunspot AR3213, which has an unstable ‘delta-class’ magnetic field.

Above: The sun is crackling with M-class solar flares.

STRANGE TIDES IN THE PLASMASPHERE: Tides are one of the oldest phenomena known to physics. Ocean waters rise and fall like clockwork in response to the gravitational pull of the sun and Moon. There’s nothing surprising about tides.

Yet, researchers studying tides have just found a big surprise. There are tides in Earth’s plasmasphere, and they are very strange. The discovery was published in the Jan 26th edition of Nature Physics.

 

The plasmasphere is a lopsided donut of cold plasma inside Earth’s magnetic field. It is created by leakage from the top of Earth’s atmosphere (the ionosphere). The outer surface of the plasmasphere is called “the plasmapause”–and that is where the tides have been found.

“We can think of the plasmapause as the surface of a ‘plasma ocean’ surrounding Earth,” says one of the lead authors Quanqi Shi of Shandong University. “Using a 40-year database of satellite observations, we report the first identification of lunar tides on the surface of this plasma ocean.”

It is not surprising that Moon’s gravity would stretch and modulate the shape of the plasmasphere. After all, the plasmasphere is made of matter, and matter responds to gravity. But the response is not what the researchers expected.

Shi explains: “Interestingly, the lunar plasmaspheric tide forms a few percent bulge that is offset 90 degrees ahead of the Earth-Moon axis, which is significantly different from the high tide in Earth’s liquid oceans.” This inexplicable offset was verified by nearly 36,000 plasmapause crossings by various spacecraft over almost four solar cycles from 1977 to 2015.

What’s going on?  The researchers aren’t certain, but they believe gravity and electromagnetism may have joined forces to produce a new kind of tidal effect.

Space physicists have long known that the Moon’s gravity affects winds in Earth’s ionized upper atmosphere. This means the Moon can actually modify electrical currents in the ionosphere, altering electromagnetic fields. The research team looked at data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes and found that, indeed, electric fields reaching up into the plasmasphere appear to be modulated by lunar tides. Computer models suggest that these fields can shift the  bulge to a 90 degree offset position and explain its daily and monthly variations.

“Our discovery of this plasma tidal effect may indicate a fundamental interaction mechanism in the Earth-Moon system that has not been previously considered,” says Shi. “Understanding this phenomenon could lead to better forecasts of space weather and improved safety for spacecraft and satellites.”

For more information about these strange tides, please read the team’s original research.

 

Solar Polar Reversal

Solar Polar Reversal

The next 3-5 months will see increasing seismic and volcanic activity and it will get much cooler.

The next big step-up in solar activity is just weeks away:

 

Seismic Unrest brewing

Seismic Unrest brewing

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans2/view...08:00
THREE SISTERS VOLCANO (VNUM 322070) 44°6'11" N 121°46'5" W, Summit Elevation 10358 ft (3157 m) Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL Current Aviation Color Code: GREEN USGS scientists have detected an increase in the rate of uplift of the ground surface in the Three Sisters volcanic region of the central Oregon Cascade Range. The volcanoes’ status remains normal/green, and there is no sign of an imminent eruption. Episodes of increased uplift have been observed in this area before and are attributed to small pulses of magma moving deep into the volcanic region. Satellite radar images detected an increased rate of uplift of a 12-mile (20-km) diameter area centered about 3 miles (5 km) west of South Sister volcano. The data indicate uplift of up to 0.9 inches (2.2 cm) between June 2020 and August 2021. GPS data from a nearby continuously recording station show that the deformation has continued to the present. Additionally, seismologists observed brief bursts of small earthquakes in October 2021, December 2021, and January 2022. Most of these shallow earthquakes are too small to locate; those located are inside the uplifted area. The present uplift area is in the same general location where uplift was first seen in the mid-1990s and has continued at a generally slowing rate through 2020. This increased inflation appears to be a continuation of an extended period of uplift that is attributed to small pulses of magma accumulating at roughly 4 miles (7 kilometers) below the ground surface. From 1995 to 2020, the area rose approximately 12 inches (30 centimeters) at its center. Although the current uplift rate is slower than the maximum rate of about 2 inches per year (5 cm per year) measured in 1999-2000, it is distinctly faster than the rate observed for several years before 2020. The specific cause of the uplift is uncertain. Because the Three Sisters region is a volcanic area (the most recent eruption was about 2,000 years ago near South Sister), the uplift may reflect a small amount of magma emplaced at around 4 miles (7 km) deep. The idea of repeated intrusions at Three Sisters is supported by a USGS study in 1990 that found evidence that heat and gases from magma had influenced water temperature and chemistry of springs located in the uplifted area. This research was published before satellite volcano monitoring began and well before the current uplift episode. In that context, we view periods of increased uplift like the current one as a continuation of episodic, deep magmatic intrusions that have likely been occurring for centuries or millennia in the Three Sisters area. While any magmatic intrusion could eventually lead to a volcanic eruption, an eruption would likely be preceded by detectable and more vigorous earthquakes, ground movement (deformation), and geochemical changes. In general, as magma moves upward during an intrusion, it causes continued or accelerated uplift, fractures rock to generate swarms of earthquakes, and releases significant amounts of volcanic gases, such as carbon dioxide. We do not detect any of these signs currently. Scientists at Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) will closely monitor data in the coming months and issue further updates as warranted. GEOLOGIC CONTEXT: The Three Sisters volcanic cluster contains three stratovolcanoes constructed between 120,000 and 50,000 years ago (North Sister) and 50,000 and 15,000 years ago (Middle and South Sister). The only eruptions younger than 15,000 years occurred at/near South Sister - the Rock Mesa rhyolite (about 2,200 years ago) southwest of the summit and the Devils Chain rhyolites (about 2,000 years ago) on the volcano’s eastern flank. Both episodes included lava flows and dome-building eruptions accompanied by minor to moderate explosions. These explosions created short-traveled pyroclastic flows, pumice, and ashfall up to 18.6 miles (30 km) away to the east and south. For more information: Hildreth, W., Fierstein, J. & Calvert, A. T. (2012). Geologic Map of Three Sisters Volcanic Cluster, Cascade Range, Oregon. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map, 3186, pamphlet 107 p., 2 sheets. https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3186/ Lisowski, M., McCaffrey, R., Wicks, C.W., and Dzurisin, D., 2021, Geodetic constraints on a 25-year magmatic inflation episode near Three Sisters, Central Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research—Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022360. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022360

1/31/2022 — New Seismic Unrest brewing — 3 Sisters volcano in Oregon is inflating (1:15)

More Disaster Confirmations, Sun Nearing Peak Conditions | S0 News Feb.1.2022 (4 min)

TODAY’S LINKS:

Chameleon Cloud A: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/go… SHARKS Infrared Survey: https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/s… DOs and Heinrichs The Last 45K Years: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Sinkholes and Forcing

Sinkholes and Forcing

Sinkholes across the coast of the Dead Sea with record rains and snows through N. Africa and the former Fertile Crescent back up claims that 2024 the planetary orbits not seen since 79AD will have effects on our planets crust breaking infrastructure. You need to think of remoteness and community moving forward.

Sinkholes are Beginning to Show the Next Phase of Earth Changes (9 min)

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Thousands of sinkholes emerge as the Dead Sea continues to recede https://www.scmp.com/video/environmen… Congress Backs Lock and Dam Upgrades https://agfax.com/2021/12/10/congress… Winter storm “Carmel” hits Israel with strong winds, heavy rain and snow https://watchers.news/2021/12/20/wint… https://watchers.news/search/?q=Israel

Good luck building your trillion dollar SMART cities on that peninsula when the Rift Valley is about to split. Everything in the Jordan valley all the way up through Lebanon and into Turkey is going to move.

 

Stronger Reactions, Solar Wind Shift, Solar Forcing of Mortality | S0 News Dec.28.2021 (4 min)

Today’s Featured Links:

Pre-Electroquake Signals: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1/20 Solar Forcing Biology: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/1/13 GPS Errors: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1/38 Solar Wind Electric Field: https://academicjournals.org/journal/…

Boom and Plume

Boom and Plume

If you like your climate change you can keep your climate change. It is only a matter of time….weakening magnetism ….. increasing solar activity…..and…and BOOM.

Grímsvötn Volcano Uptick + Iceland History With Eyjafjallajökull May Tell A Tale Of Things To Come! (13 min)

Glacier flood starting from Grímsfjall volcano https://icelandgeology.net/ The ice cave in Grímsvötn began to descend https://bit.ly/3p2cRDt Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland https://go.nasa.gov/3r3ZgOB Eruption of Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland https://go.nasa.gov/3l3A8DB Vatnajökull – earthquakes during the last 48 hours https://bit.ly/3CfmEdQ Iceland Volcano Map https://s.si.edu/3p1ghpU Grímsvötn Fact Sheet https://s.si.edu/3h5Rf6I