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UN: NIGER FLOODING DISPLACES NEARLY 200,000

HEAVY RAINS IN NIGER HAVE DISPLACED NEARLY 200,000 IN RECENT WEEKS THE UNITED NATIONS SAYSCALLING ON DONORS AND AID AGENCIES TO SEND SHELTER MATERIAL, BLANKETS AND OTHER SUPPLIES

THE FLOODING HAS DISPLACED AT LEAST 198,740 PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA).

(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/08/29/niger.floods/index.html#fbid=6B7h8TbS-Aj&wom=true)

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EARTHQUAKE SUMMARY

NEAR COAST OF P.N.G. 5.0

BIO-BIO CHILE 4.6

SOUTHEAST PACIFIC OCEAN 5.3

SOUTH SANDWHICH ISLANDS REGION 5.3

BAJA CA 4.1

ANZA CA SWAM 1.2, 1.0,1.3,1.2, 1.3, 1.0

TOMS PLACE CA SWAM 1.2, 1.2, 2.1, 1.2, 2.7

WEST NEW BRITIAN REGION P.N.G. 5.1

SAMOA ISLAND REGION 5.1

SOUTHEAST OF SHIKOKU, JAPAN 4.8

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MAGNETOSPHERE DISCREPIANCY

i read almost the whole zeta news letter on this subject. prior to the freeze, we were hit by a solar storm. i get my weather from weather bug, who got knocked out. it came back for one day and is now knocked out again. she talks about the coronal holes. well they are posted everyday in the left hand column on space weather. and they do turn. part of the reason that they were down was they were probably trying to load the new program. and there could have been a clich in that program
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A New Look At The Magnetosphere

Since we all see the magnetosphere chart every day, I am posting this here, as well as in the Science group.

IBEX - Looks Back at Earth and Catches a Head-On Crash Between Solar Wind and Earth's Magnetic Field
By SPACE.com Staff posted: 17 August 2010

A spacecraft designed to scan the edge of the solar system has turned its gaze back toward Earth, taking an unprecedented look at the solar wind's head-on collision with the planet's magnetic field. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, known as IBEX, has recorded the first-ever look of the solar wind - the million-miles-per-hour stream of charged particles from the sun - crashing headlong into Earth's magnetosphere, space agency officials said in a statement. The solar wind could strip away the planet's atmosphere if the magnetosphere, a magnetic bubble surrounding the planet, didn't help deflect it. The spacecraft's observations show the solar wind piling up in front of the magnetopause - the boundary between Earth's magnetosphere and space, about 35,000 miles (56,327 km) toward the sun. The interaction is invisible to the human eye, but not to IBEX's sensors.

The observations are expected to yield new insights into how the magnetosphere "force field" works, as well as how thin the uppermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, called the exosphere, actually is, researchers said.

"Where the interaction is strongest, there are only about eight hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter," study leader Stephen A. Fuselier of Lockheed Martin Space Systems said in a statement. The research is detailed in the July 8 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Such observations are a departure for IBEX, which is typically used to look outward. The spacecraft launched in October 2008 to map out the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. It does so from an orbit that takes eight days to circle the Earth.

Last year, researchers announced that the probe had detected a mysterious ribbon on the edge of the solar system that scientists now think is a reflection of the solar wind.

IBEX also has been responsible for other firsts.

For example, it has directly collected hydrogen and oxygen from the interstellar medium.. And IBEX made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation about their existence. Many hydrogen atoms become embedded in the moon's surface, so such measurements shed light on the "recycling processes" undergone by particles throughout the solar system.

IBEX uses the most sensitive neutral atom detectors ever flown in space and is building upon measurements made by the two Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, have reached the interstellar boundary region, but their view is much narrower and more constrained.

"It will take a while before the community comes to a consensus about what the IBEX data really mean," said IBEX principal investigator David McComas, assistant vice president at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "Yet we've already learned much, much more about our place in the solar system."

Posted at 9:08 a.m. on 17 Aug 2010 @ http://sickscent.blogspot.com/
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE

SOUTHERN ALASKA 3.7

NORTHERN CA 3.6

HINDU KUSH REGION AFGHANISTAN 4.9

KEPULAUAN TALAUD INDONESIA 4.8

NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN 4.8

ALASKA PENINSULA 4.6

OFF THE COAST OF JALISCO MEXICO 5.1 (AFTERSHOCK)

BOMBAY BEACH CA SWAM OF QUAKES 1.6 TO 2.5 (12 MINIQUAKES)

SICHUAN-YUNNAN-GUIZHOU REGION CHINA 5.1

MOLUCCA SEA 4.6

GUATEMALA 4.6

NEAR COAST OF HONSHU JAPAN 4.3

WEEKLY SUMMARY

ASIA

AUSTRALIA

EUROPE

NORTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH PACIFIC

JUST A GUT FEELING WATCH FOR JAPAN AND GUATEMALA TO HAVE VALCANO'S ERUPT. PLUS CA WILL HAVE A BIGGY.

ALWAYS ON GUARD, SMALL BUT MIGHTY.

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ALERT! ALERT!

BOMBAY BEACH CA WHICH IS INLAND IS HAVING A SWAM. SO FAR 12 MINIQUAKES RANGING FROM 1.6 TO 2.5, I WILL BE KEEPING MY EYE ON CALIFORNIA. WATCH FOR POSSIBLY SOMETHING BIGGER.

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