EARTHQUAKES AND GEOMAGNETIC STORMS

Departing sunspot AR1384, currently located just behind the sun's western limb, erupted today around 14:45 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the debris flying over the edge of the solar disk:The eruption appears to be connected to magnetic filaments snaking over the horizon to the Earthside of the sun. Will this event affect our planet? Probably not. It is located too far from disk center. Stay tuned, however, to see what kind of CME the blast produced. 2 January 2012

MAG 7.3 EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY

Magnitude	mb 7.3
Region	EASTERN TURKEY
Date time	2011-10-23 10:41:28.0 UTC
Location	38.67 N ; 43.61 E
Depth	80 km
Distances	27 km NE Van (pop 371,713 ; local time 13:41:28.0 2011-10-23) 45 km SE Ercis (pop 91,915 ; local time 13:41:28.0 2011-10-23)

The United States has three ionospheric heating facilities: the HAARP, the HIPAS, near Fairbanks, Alaska, and (currently offline for modifications) one at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates an ionospheric heating facility, capable of transmitting over 1 GW (1,000,000,000 watts) effective radiated power (ERP), near Tromsø in Norway. Russia has the Sura ionospheric heating facility, in Vasilsursk near Nizhniy Novgorod, capable of transmitting 190 MW ERP.

Another site, operated by military sub-contractor under unknown arrangement between the US and Canadian government, is located near Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada, at N46° 38.649' W53° 9.010' There is minimal or no grid power available at this site, so this may be a passive listening post for the transmissions emitted by other HAARP sites.

In August 2002, further support for those critical of HAARP technology came from the State Duma (parliament) of Russia. The Duma published a critical report on the HAARP written by the international affairs and defense committees, signed by 90 deputies and presented to then President Vladimir Putin. The report claimed that "the U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves ... The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component." However, given the timing of the Russian intervention, it is possible that it was related to a controversy at the time concerning the US withdrawal in June 2002 from the Russian-American Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This high level concern is paralleled in the April 1997 statement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense over the power of such electromagnetic weaponry. Russia owns and operates an ionospheric heater system as powerful as the HAARP, called 'Sura,' which is located roughly 150 km from the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-1990s, following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. A small group of American physicists aired complaints in scientific journals such as Physics and Society, charging that the HAARP could be seeking ways to destroy or disable enemy spacecraft or disrupt communications over large portions of the planet. The physicist critics of the HAARP have had little complaint about the project's current stage, but have expressed fears that it could in the future be expanded into an experimental weapon, especially given that its funding comes from the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

These concerns were amplified by Bernard Eastlund, a physicist who developed some of the concepts behind the HAARP in the 1980s and proposed using high-frequency radio waves to beam large amounts of power into the ionosphere, energizing its electrons and ions in order to disable incoming missiles and knock out enemy satellite communications. The US military became interested in the idea as an alternative to the laser-based Strategic Defense Initiative. However, Eastlund's ideas were eventually dropped as SDI itself mutated into the more limited National Missile Defense of today. The contractors selected to build HAARP have denied that any of Eastlund's patents were used in the development of the project.

After the physicists raised early concerns, the controversy was stoked by local activism. In September 1995, a book entitled Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology by the former teacher Nick Begich, Jr., son of the late Congressman Nick Begich (D-AK) and brother of U.S. Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), claimed that the project in its present stage could be used for "geophysical warfare

A Multi-Parameter Approach to Earthquake Forecasting

MAG 7.6 EARTHQUAKE IN KERMADEC ISLANDS !

Magnitude	Mw 7.5
Region	KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
Date time	2011-10-21 17:57:17.0 UTC
Location	29.15 S ; 176.07 W
Depth	40 km
Distances	1193 km NE Tauranga (pop 110,338 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22) 895 km S Nuku'alofa (pop 23,611 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22) 876 km S Ohonua (pop 1,241 ; local time 06:57:17.5 2011-10-22)

HERE THE TEC MAP

SOUTH EAST ASIA AGAIN IN DANGER

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EARTHQUAKE IN RUSSIA !

not South East of Asıa or Chına.. But close !

14 October 20.15

Magnitude	Mw 6.0
Region	AMURSKAYA OBLAST', RUSSIA
Date time	2011-10-14 06:10:14.0 UTC
Location	54.10 N ; 123.77 E
Depth	10 km
Distances	409 km NW Jiagedagi (pop 135,760 ; local time 14:10:14.1 2011-10-14) 17 km NW Skovorodino (pop 10,007 ; local time 16:10:14.1 2011-10-14) 12 km E Takhtamygda (pop 1,125 ; local time 16:10:14.1 2011-10-14)

11 October 17.40 London time

CHİNA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA IN DANGER !

see the map

8 October 14.25 London time

MAG 6.0 in TONGA !

More Earthquakes are expected in S.America and around Fiji.. Here the map 1 and map 2

8 October London time 09.40

EXPECTİNG MAG 6.0 + AGAIN

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7 October London tıme 11.40

Mw 6.5
Region	SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS
Date time	2011-10-07 08:58:25.0 UTC
Location	32.39 S ; 178.84 W
Depth	10 km
Distances	746 km NE Tauranga (pop 110,338 ; local time 21:58:25.8 2011-10-07) 727 km NE Whakatane (pop 18,602 ; local time 21:58:25.8 2011-10-07) 702 km NE Whitianga (pop 3,367 ; local time 20:58:25.8 2011-10-07)

HERE THE LINK

6 October 2011

Magnitude	mb 6.2
Region	JUJUY, ARGENTINA
Date time	2011-10-06 11:12:29.0 UTC
Location	24.15 S ; 64.24 W
Depth	10 km
Distances	108 km E Jujuy (pop 305,891 ; local time 08:12:29.5 2011-10-06) 64 km E San pedro (pop 58,430 ; local time 08:12:29.5 2011-10-06)

MAG 6.2 SOUTH AMERICA EARTHQUAKE AND TEC !

(Total Electron Content) perturbation in ionosphere !

The TEC still is showing an active spot over South America latest TEC is @ 0005UT (0805wst) 5th October, 2011

So far we have had several M4.7 to M5 events there. This could be interesting.

More EQ coming there.

Phil

EARTHQUAKES WILL CONTINU !

FULL REPORT PLEASE CLICK BELOW

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29 September 17.53 British time

A CME hit Earth's magnetic field on Sept. 26th, sparking one of the strongest magnetic storms in years. At the peak of the Kp=8 disturbance, auroras were sighted around both poles and more than half a dozen US states. Magnetic reverberations continued for more than 48 hours. Here is the view from forests of Skibotn, Norway, two days after the CME impact

EARTHQUAKE STORM IN CRETE !

27 September 15.12 British tıme

Magnitude	mb 4.5
Region	CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Date time	2011-09-27 13:06:34.0 UTC
Location	33.98 N ; 23.79 E
Depth	30 km
Distances	194 km SW Iráklion (pop 137,154 ; local time 16:06:34.1 2011-09-27) 166 km S Réthimnon (pop 29,907 ; local time 16:06:34.1 2011-09-27) 139 km S Palaiokhóra (pop 2,372 ; local time 16:06:34.1 2011-09-27)

Magnitude	mb 4.5
Region	CRETE, GREECE
Date time	2011-09-27 12:25:15.0 UTC
Location	34.27 N ; 23.78 E
Depth	40 km
Distances	171 km SW Iráklion (pop 137,154 ; local time 15:25:15.7 2011-09-27) 137 km SW Réthimnon (pop 29,907 ; local time 15:25:15.7 2011-09-27) 107 km S Palaiokhóra (pop 2,372 ; local time 15:25:15.7 2011-09-27)

GFZ Potsdam - Earthquake Bulletin

F-E Region:	Crete, Greece
Time:	2011-09-27 12:08:20.2 UTC
Magnitude:	5.2 (mb)
Epicenter:	23.63°E 34.29°N
Depth:	10 km
Status:	M - manually revised

AURORA IN NEW ZEALAND click here and here

27 September

A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th. The Goddard Space Weather Lab reports a "strong compression of Earth's magnetosphere. Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma [has penetrated] close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 13:00UT." Geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic fields. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for Northern and Southern Lights after nightfall.

11 September 2011

GEOMAGNETIC STORMS IN PROGRESS AROUND BOTH POLES !

This is an ongoing 'live' project (started on 02/03/2011, prompted by the N. Zealand eartquake) to establish if there is a link between the geomagnetic activity (magnetic storms) and acceleration of the earthquake's occurrence. It is not claimed that geomagnetic storm is a primary cause of any earthquake. However if conditions for an earthquake are 'ripe' i.e. tectonic fault 'gone critical', then solar storm could be a trigger (not the cause) for it, and bring it forward for few hours or days.

The Earth's lithosphere and mantle respond to Space Weather through time-varying, depth-dependent induced magnetic and electric fields. A time-varying magnetic field of a geomagnetic storm induces electric currents in the conducting ground. These currents create a secondary (internal) magnetic field. As a consequence of Faraday's law of induction, an electric field is induced in the Earth's lithosphere associated with time variations of the magnetic field. The induced electric field causes geomagnetically induced electric currents.

There is strong evidence of electromagnetic processes responsible for earthquake triggering, that we study extensively. We will focus here on one correlation between power in solar wind compressional fluctuations and power in magnetospheric pulsations and ground H component fluctuations. The variation of the horizontal component H of the geomagnetic field is the crucial parameter in the Magneto-Seismic Effect MSE to be discussed in a companion paper. The connection of earthquake activity to possible solar or solar wind drivers is not well understood; many authors have attempted correlations in the past with mixed results.

Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol.8,01705, 2006;Lab for Solar and Space Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,Greenbelt,MD

http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU06/01705/EGU06-J-01705.pdf

Scientists have been tracking and studying substorms for more than a century, yet these phenomena remained mostly unknown until THEMIS went into action. Even more impressive was the substorm's power. Angelopoulos estimates the total energy of the two-hour event at five hundred thousand billion ( 5 x 10^14 ) Joules. That's approximately equivalent to the energy of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/11dec_themis/

Geomagnetic storm of 10-11 March coinciding with the Japan's mega-quake lasted nearly 24 hours.

Earthquake in Japan caused by magnetic storm

RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: Increasing Solar activity will continue to INCREASE Earthly disasters clıck here

For years scientists have been studying the impact of different geophysical fields on the earthquakes occurrence. It has been assumed that the fields, generated due to the solar activity, earth flows fluctuations, the Earth`s speed of rotation and even the launch of magnetohydrodynamic generators affect the strained state of the earth`s crust, these fields `pumping` additional energy into the crust. Normally the aroused earthquakes are recorded several days after the provoking key event.

Specialists from the Shmidt United Institute for Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, assume that magnetic storms are also powerful enough to quake the earth`s crust. To verify the hypothesis, the researchers compared more than 14,000 earth`s crust vibrations of sufficient power recorded since 1975 in Kazakhstan and Kirgizia, and approximately 350 sudden magnetic storms recorded within the same period by the world geomagnetic observations network.

Geomagnetic storms usually arise due to the high-speed plasma streams ejection on the Sun which accompany the solar flares activity. The air-blast produced by the high-speed plasma streams ejection hits the Earth magnetosphere causing the vibrations. The beginning of the storm which lasts from several hours to several days can be sensed almost simultaneously all over the Earth. Then the storm is replaced by a longer recovery stage, when the Earth magnetic field is gradually restored. At this stage the magnetic field characteristics vary considerably in different latitudes.

The calculations have proved that the greatest number of earthquakes in Kazakhstan and Kirghizia occurs within a several-day period after the beginning of the magnetic storm. Normally the number of earthquakes increases noticeably after a magnetic storm takes place. Nevertheless, in some areas the opposite regularity has been observed. In order to account for other factors (possibly of no less importance), the scientists have tried to trace a connection between the above earthquakes and the tidal fluctuations. However, according to the statistical analysis the tidal fluctuations, unlike geomagnetic storms, have no impact on the earthquakes.

The scientists have also tried to estimate whether the magnetic storm energy is sufficient to provoke an earthquake. In general, the seismic activity releases the energy amount comparable with that carried over by the magnetic storm. However, an earth shock consumes only the hundredth part of the involved resilient energy which triggers the process. Besides, the electromagnetic energy of the storm is being converted into mechanical one through complicated effects in the rocks, for instance piezoelectric effect. The efficiency factor of this conversion makes as little as the hundredth parts of a percent. Therefore, the scientists tend to believe that the magnetic storm acts as the earthquake trigger. The geophysics hope to understand better the physical nature of the trigger effect in the course of the future fieldwork and laboratory experiments.

Informnauka (Informscience) Agency

Universality in solar flares, magnetic storms, earthquakes and pre-seismic electromagnetic emissions by means of nonextensivity

No-one can tell with any great accuracy exactly when and where the next earthquake will strike this planet, but Russian scientists believe magnetic storms are a good place to start looking.

The earth's surface seems rock solid, but it is in fact a dynamic grid of slowly shifting 'tectonic' plates. Although incredibly slow, this motion causes stress to build up in the crust which, beyond a critical threshold, causes a portion of the crust to give way, shifting suddenly and violently - what we feel as earthquakes. Research into this potentially devastating natural phenomenon has focused on a number of geophysical areas such as the earth's rotation, solar activity and now magnetic hydrodynamic causes.

Scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences have investigated the connection between magnetic storms and earthquakes in the seismically active Central Asian region, which also takes in northern Afghanistan - the site of recent quakes measuring over 6 on the Richter scale, causing untold damage and thousands of deaths.

Since 1975, researchers have compared some 14 000 earth tremors in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan with around 350 sudden magnetic storms occurring over the same period in the region - concluding with some confidence the propensity for earthquakes increases after a magnetic storm takes place. The relationship is complicated but it is centred on the way magnetic storms, interacting with high-speed plasma streams, cause noticeable vibrations as they hit the earth's magnetosphere. The electromagnetic energy in the storm is converted into mechanical energy through a series of conversions in the rocks, such as the 'piezoelectric effect', which are believed to trigger earthquakes. The researchers hope to better understand the physical nature of this 'trigger effect' in the course of future fieldwork and laboratory experiments.