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Earthquakes, that is..
Unofficial Notice courtesy of Godlike Productions..
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Now, Japan has lots of seismic activity, and a lot of earthquakes. Earlier this week, though, this forecast was released: 'Major quake could hit Tokyo within 4 years' Excerpt:
A new study is warning that the Tokyo region has a 70-per-cent chance of being hit directly by a powerful magnitude-7 earthquake within four years.
Couple that with yesterday's king-hell X solar flare, Japan might see some big shaking, real soon..
So, head's up.
Leftist parties win control of French Senate From Raw Story. Excerpts:
France's left-wing opposition struck a blow against embattled centre-right leader President Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes for re-election Sunday, winning a historic victory in a senatorial vote.
The Socialist Party and its Communist and Green allies won enough seats to give the left control of the upper house for the first time in French history, a stepping stone towards a presidential win in seven months' time.
Flammable gas detected in Fukushima pipe: TEPCO Mysinchew. Excerpts:
Flammable gas has been detected inside a pipe linked to a nuclear reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, its operator said Saturday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was unable to identify the gas but nonetheless said it was unlikely there would be an explosion in the reactor.
The company has been injecting nitrogen into the reactor so that the level of oxygen inside becomes low enough to prevent blasts.
But a TEPCO spokesman said workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant measured a 100-percent flammable gas in a pipe connected to the power station's reactor number one.
"It is not clear exactly where and how this gas was created," the spokesman told AFP. "We are considering ways to deal with it.
"It is likely that we will continue the survey the gas to identify it and use nitrogen to bring its level low enough" to avoid explosions, he said.
It's a gas, gas, gas, gas, gas: Scientists think solar system may have had a FIFTH gas planet The Daily Mail Online. Excerpts:
Scientists believe our solar system may have once had a fifth gas planet that was ejected from the solar system and 'orphaned'.
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A new study by David Nesvorny, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, U.S., used different computer simulations to explore what the solar system looked like four billion years ago.
He discovered that back then planets had not yet settled into their existing orbits as they migrated and moved around.
However, after a series of tests he worked out that the solar system we recognise today could never have emerged without the existence of a fifth planet.
He came to this conclusion by using several different starting positions and ran computer simulations using the four gas planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - but discovered they were to large and one would destroy another eventually.
Even using configurations where the gas planets survived, the solar system's rocky planets like Mars and Venus did not.
However, once Mr Nesvorny had introduced a fifth planet into the equation he found the odds of the current solar system emerging increased dramatically.
This theory is backed up by the recent discovery of many rogue planets.
This is exciting.. Japan: piles of tsunami debris turning into giant bonfires The Telegraph. Excerpts:
Piles of decomposing organic waste, metals and rubble from the devastated towns of north-east Japan have been bursting into fire, posing a new hazard to emergency teams tasked with clearing away the debris and people who are still picking through the remains of their homes.
Geomagnetic storm warning issued for September 26th The Extinction Protocol. Excerpts:
.. “Sunspot 1302 poses a continued threat for X-class solar flares.” We’re also seeing some coronal hole perforation of the Sun, so ionized particles will now also have a more efficient medium of propagation should a large solar flare erupt from the sunspot. The next few days could get interesting. According to NOAA, the chances of another X-Class flare erupting over the next 48 hours are 40%.
Simmering Sun: Summer Solstice Starts with Solar Storm Space via Etemenanki. Excerpts:
The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare and eruption Tuesday (June 21) just in time for the summer solstice: the first day of the summer in Earth's Northern Hemisphere.
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Spaceweather.com officials said a moderate C7-class solar flare kicked off the solar storm and triggered a massive eruption of plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection. [Amazing Sun Photos From Space]
"Magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1236 erupted during the early hours of June 21st, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth," Spaceweather.com stated in an alert. "The incoming CME does not appear to be particularly potent; nevertheless, the cloud could trigger polar geomagnetic storms when it reaches Earth on or about June 23rd."
Also from Space.. Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.
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"The solar cycle may be going into a hiatus," Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory's Solar Synoptic Network, said in a news briefing today (June 14).
The studies looked at a missing jet stream in the solar interior, fading sunspots on the sun's visible surface, and changes in the corona and near the poles. [Photos: Sunspots on Earth's Star]
"This is highly unusual and unexpected," Hill said. "But the fact that three completely different views of the sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."
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