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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-19/Guatemala-earthquake/50468302/1
Sorry if this is a duplicate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44555210/ns/technology_and_science-science/
My vote is for something big is about to happen. What do you think?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/laki-volcano-iceland-eruption-model/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44587764/ns/technology_and_science-science/
By OurAmazingPlanet Staff
India's earthquake Sept. 18 was likely the result of two seismic events striking at nearly the same time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The magnitude 6.9 quake killed at least 55 people in northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet, reported the Associated Press. The quake rumbled the mountainous region of the Indian town of Mangan, in the northeast Indian province of Sikkim, and near the Nepalese border.The epicenter was 42 miles northwest of Gangtok, India. Tremors from India's big earthquake were felt as far away as Bangladesh and New Delhi.
The quake came at the end of the monsoon season, and rain-soaked hills spawned landslides that caused much of the devastation, according to the American Geophysical Union's Landslide Blog. Heavy rainfall and more aftershocks in the coming days could complicate recovery efforts.
A flurry of big earthquakes have hit in recent weeks around the seismically and volcanically active Pacific Ring of Fire, but they were not triggered by each other.
The Sikkim earthquake, as it's called, was also unrelated to these other temblors, but was seismically complex in its own right. The quake was likely a result of two seismic events occurring close together in time at depths of approximately 12.4 miles beneath the Earth's surface, the USGS told OurAmazingPlanet.
The quake struck near the boundary between the India and Eurasia tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of the Earth's crust that mash and grind together and trigger earthquakes. Here, the India plate converges with Eurasia at a rate of approximately 46 millimeters per year toward the north-northeast. Over millions of years, this convergence created the uplift of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.
The initial analysis of the earthquake suggests the quake wasn't caused by one plate thrusting beneath another, but by so-called strike-slip faulting, a mechanism where fault systems slide side-to-side when two tectonic plates butt heads.Geologists suspect the fault is likely an intraplate fault within the upper Eurasian plate or the underlying India plate, rather than occurring at the interface between the two plates, according to the USGS.
This mountainous region has seen moderately sized quakes in the past, with 18 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater over the past 35 years within 61 miles of the epicenter of the Sept. 18 quake. The largest of these was a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in November 1980, 47 miles to the southeast of the epicenter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44590497/ns/world_news-europe/
ROME — Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009.
The case is being closely watched by seismologists around the world who insist it's impossible to predict earthquakes and that no major temblor has ever been foretold. Last year, about 5,200 international researchers signed a petition supporting their Italian colleagues and the Seismological Society of America wrote to Italy's president expressing concern about what it called an unprecedented legal attack on science.
Story: Seismologists tried for manslaughter over quake
The seven defendants are accused of giving "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" about whether smaller tremors felt by L'Aquila residents in the six months before the April 6, 2009 quake should have constituted grounds for a quake warning.
Specifically, prosecutors focused on a memo issued after a March 31, 2009 meeting of the Great Risks commission which was called because of mounting concerns about the months of seismic activity in the region.
Story: Complex geology behind the Italian earthquake
According to the commission's memo — issued one week before the big quake — the experts concluded that it was "improbable" that there would be a major quake though it added that one couldn't be excluded.
The 6.3-magnitude quake killed 308 people in and around the medieval town, which was largely reduced to rubble. Thousands of survivors lived in tent camps or temporary housing for months.
Hopefully, Japanese people do the same. Maybe we can force them to tell us the truth.
FOUR CME'S ARE HEADED OUR WAY. THERE WAS SIX TWO DIED ON THE WAY. THEY LEFT THE SUN ON THE 19TH SEPT, AND SHOULD HIT THE EARTH SEPT 22 AND 23.
They need our prayers, our support and our solidarity to accomplish what needs to be done for the sake of our country and the injustices being perpetrated in ours names throughout the World !!
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I will also be including videos and articles that embody the reasons that have inspired movements like the Occupy Movement. Events and legislation In our very recent history to inspire movements like the Occupy Movement. The evil and corruption that has lead to this moment in time in our history where we as the Common Man and Woman / "We The People" have said "Enough" and "Never Again In Our Name"!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/19/occupy-wall-street-financial-system
The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world
We need deeper changes to our financial system, or tent cities of people angry at corporate greed will keep appearing
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September 2011 07.36 EDT
- Article history
People protest during the 'Occupy Wall Street' rally at Bowling Green Plaza on 17 September. Photograph: Steven Greaves/Demotix/CorbisOn Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints.
Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this article, the encampment is rolling out sleeping bags once again. When they tweeted to the world that they were hungry, a nearby pizzeria received $2,800 in orders for delivery in a single hour. Emboldened by an outpouring of international solidarity, these American indignados said they'd be there to greet the bankers when the stock market opened on Monday. It looks like, for now, the police don't think they can stop them. ABC News reports that "even though the demonstrators don't have a permit for the protest, [the New York police department says that] they have no plans to remove those protesters who seem determined to stay on the streets." Organisers on the ground say, "we're digging in for a long-term occupation".
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET was inspired by the people's assemblies of Spain and floated as a concept by a double-page poster in the 97th issue of Adbusters magazine, but it was spearheaded, orchestrated and accomplished by independent activists. It all started when Adbusters asked its network of culture jammers to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens and peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. The idea caught on immediately on social networks and unaffiliated activists seized the meme and built an open-source organising site. A few days later, a general assembly was held in New York City and 150 people showed up. These activists became the core organisers of the occupation. The mystique of Anonymous pushed the meme into the mainstream media. Their video communique endorsing the action garnered 100,000 views and a warning from the Department of Homeland Security addressed to the nation's bankers. When, in August, the indignados of Spain sent word that they would be holding a solidarity event in Madrid's financial district, activists in Milan, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco, Madison, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Israel and beyond vowed to do the same.
There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. People everywhere are waking up to the realisation that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which speculative financial transactions add up, each day, to $1.3tn (50 times more than the sum of all the commercial transactions). Meanwhile, according to a United Nations report, "in the 35 countries for which data exist, nearly 40% of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year".
"CEOs, the biggest corporations, and the wealthy are taking too much from our country and I think it's time for us to take back," said one activist who joined the protests last Saturday. Jason Ahmadi, who travelled in from Oakland, California explained that "a lot of us feel there is a large crisis in our economy and a lot of it is caused by the folks who do business here". Bill Steyerd, a Vietnam veteran from Queens, said "it's a worthy cause because people on Wall Street are blood-sucking warmongers".
There is not just anger. There is also a sense that the standard solutions to the economic crisis proposed by our politicians and mainstream economists – stimulus, cuts, debt, low interest rates, encouraging consumption – are false options that will not work. Deeper changes are needed, such as a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions; reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act in the US; implementing a ban on high-frequency "flash" trading. The "too big to fail" banks must be broken up, downsized and made to serve the people, the economy and society again. The financial fraudsters responsible for the 2008 meltdown must be brought to justice. Then there is the long-term mother of all solutions: a total rethinking of western consumerism that throws into question how we measure progress.
If the current economic woes in Europe and the US spiral into a prolonged global recession, people's encampments will become a permanent fixtures at financial districts and outside stock markets around the world. Until our demands are met and the global economic regime is fundamentally reformed, our tent cities will keep popping up.
Bravo to those courageous souls in the encampment on New York's Liberty Street. Every night that #OCCUPYWALLSTREET continues will escalate the possibility of a full-fledged global uprising against business as usual.
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_secretumomega02.htm
Project Camelot Interviews
Luca Scantamburlo
Transcripts:
http://projectcamelot.org/lang/en/luca_scantamburlo_interview_transcript_1_en.html
http://projectcamelot.org/lang/en/luca_scantamburlo_interview_transcript_2_en.html
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHnZVzfchp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQD8YDWIEiY
About 2 and weeks ago I went out to Goggle Sky and searched for Mercury. I then zoomed in on the planet and then clicked on the infrared and I could see an object which I believe was a Brown Dwarf Star. I tried to search for that same object near Mercury this morning it was no where to .found. I then did a search for Venus and clicked on Infrared I did not see anything at first. So I went way pass Venus until I saw a distortion at coordinates 9h 55m 37.0s by 69 40 20.5. by 69 40 20.5 and this was a 11:16 CET 19 Sep 2011 and this object is still moving towards earth I believe it to be here by the beginning of next week. They did a very poor job of trying to distort this object like it was a rushed job. I believe it is the Brown Dwarf and it long pass Venus and will be here by next week, What is going on? Our governments are silent about this as well as the Media. They are not covering all the earthquakes and volcanoes that are happening all over the earth. The Pacific Rim and the west coast of the United States do not have a chance. If I was living in those regions i will be bugging out big time. All I can say now if you do not know the Lord Jesus as Your Personal Savior now is time to get to know him. First of all recognize that you are a lost sinner and that you a savior second recognize when the Lord visited this earth 2000 years his death burial and his resurrection satisfied his father's just payment for sin which death and his resurrection made possible that we will rise if we trust in Jesus that what he accomplished on that cross paid for everyone of your sins. And third right now where every you are call upon him now and let him know that you need him as your savior and that you believe what he did for you on that cross paid for all of your sins and invite him now to heart and will give you eternal life. You are saved through his grace through your faith. Believe him now he is the only way. Believe now that in spite of everything that is happening he loves you and will leave or forsake you.
And may God help us for what is about to come on this earth ... In just a few days.. . .. .
http://www.truthistreason.net/near-earth-threats-nasa-and-elenin-a-civilized-analysis
Excellent summary of the situation. I find the actions of NASA over the past year or so especially convincing.
"...throwing a plate of spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks..."
Listen until the end to see why Richard Hoagland thinks BO is going underground.
You might enjoy this interview of Francis with Richard (pre-"Coast to Coast,") Kerry and others...
video from news on above link
On 9/18/2011 12:40:47 PM UTC (about 18:33h local time) an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred in the moderately populated region of Sikkim in India. The earthquake happened 151km from Thimbu. The nearest populated places are: Lhonak (15km), Dzanak (17km). The closest civilian airport is Taplejung (70km).
Potentially affected critical infrastructure:
- Nuclear plants: [None]
- Hydrodams: [None]
- Airports: Thakurgaon (196km), Jogbani (185km), Biratnagar (169km), Chandragadhi (133km), Baghdogra (121km), Hasimara (166km), Bhojpur (130km), Lamidanda (150km), Tumlingtar (110km), Taplejung (70km), Rumjartar (168km), Ramechap (125km), Paro (129km), Phaplu (158km), Jiri (192km), Lukla (143km)
- Ports: [None]
Based on an automated impact model, this earthquake, which occurred in a region with medium vulnerability to natural disasters, has potentially a high humanitarian impact.
Whether international humanitarian aid is needed must be decided by an expert.
| Event Date Univ. Time: | Sun, 9/18/2011 12:40 UTC |
| European Time of the event: | Sun, 9/18/2011 14:40 CEST (Brussels, Paris, Rome) |
| East America Time of the event: | Sun, 9/18/2011 07:40 EST (New York, Washington) |
| West America Time of the event: | Sun, 9/18/2011 04:40 PST (San Francisco, Los Angeles) |
| East Asia Time of the event: | Sun, 9/18/2011 21:40 JTI (Tokyo) |
| This email report was automatically created by a computer at: 9/18/2011 12:56:15 PM UTC (15 minutes after the event) | |
See the GDACS website for live news coverage (including OCHA Situation Reports), the full earthquake report .
For information on emergency response, please consult the GDACS Virtual OSOCC.
Earthquake Event
Characteristics
- Source: World Data Centre for Seismology, Denver (NEIC) M
- Magnitude: 6.8 M
- Depth: 10 km
- Location (Lat/Long): 27.764 | 88.181
- Country: India
- Province: Sikkim
- Region: Sikkim
- UTC/GMT (Greenwich time): 9/18/2011 12:40:47 PM
- Estimated local solar time: 9/18/2011 6:33:30 PM
Population Density near epicenter (people/km2). Image area: 6x4 decimal degrees (approx. 650x450km2).
Earthquake Impact Details
Potentially affected People
Population Data | ||
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| Radius (km) | Population | Density (people/km?) |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | 106 | 0 |
| 20 | 2039 | 1 |
| 50 | 81383 | 10 |
| 100 | 1626829 | 51 |
| 200 | 21982110 | 174 |
The population in the area of this earthquake is 10 people/km?.
The earthquake occurred at 18h local time. At this time a day, more people are at work and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing office buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.
Resilience and Vulnerability
Resilience is the capacity of the population to cope with a hazard. Since much of investments in earthquake preparedness and available funds for quick response is related to household income, the GDP per capita can be used as a rough indicator of resilience.
India has a GDP per capita of 450 PPP$ (Parity Purchasing Power Dollar, about 1 Euro) and is therefore part of the low level income countries. Therefore, the earthquake happened in an area of low resilience.
Based on the combination of 9 indicators, ECHO attributes India a medium vulnerability.
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| Human Development | |
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| Exposure to Major Disasters | |
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| Health of children under five | |
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| Prevalence of HIV, TBC and malaria | |
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| Gini Index | |
| Source ECHO Key: Bad - Medium - Good -  No data | |
Secondary effects
Probability of secondary effects:
- Landslides: The maximum slope in the area of the earthquake is 103.987% and the maximum altitude is 8280 m. Since this is a unknown slope, the risk of earthquake induced landslides is unknown. Note, however, that the slope data is not reliable on a local scale, while landslides depend very much on local topography, soil and meteorological conditions.
- Nuclear power plants: There are no nuclear facilities nearby the epicenter.
- Hydrodams: There are no hydrodam facilities nearby the epicenter.
Disclaimer
While we try everything to ensure accuracy, this information is purely indicative and should not be used for any decision making without alternate sources of information. The JRC is not responsible for any damage or loss resulting from the use of the information presented on this website.
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