Earth & Space Weather

Earthquake Report for 12/22/2013

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By: USGS

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37 earthquakes

 

    3.3 15km W of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2013-12-22 14:57:29 UTC-05:00 8.0 km

    4.7 185km E of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-12-22 14:39:39 UTC-05:00 4.0 km

    2.5 85km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-12-22 13:38:36 UTC-05:00 100.0 km

    2.6 62km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-22 13:16:29 UTC-05:00 35.0 km

    2.6 39km E of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-12-22 12:40:45 UTC-05:00 28.9 km

    3.3 2km S of Reno, Texas 2013-12-22 12:31:55 UTC-05:00 5.0 km

    3.3 25km S of McCord, Oklahoma 2013-12-22 11:28:29 UTC-05:00 4.7 km

    2.9 1km W of Concord, California 2013-12-22 09:51:01 UTC-05:00 15.2 km

~ Space Weather Update~ M3 Class Solar Flare~ Christmas Conjunction

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URSID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Comet 8P/Tuttle, source of the annual Ursid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Dec. 22nd with as many as 10 meteors per hour streaming from a radiant near Polaris, the North Star. Occasionally, Earth hits a denser-than-usual patch of debris and rates increase 5- to 10-fold. However, no one can predict when these outbursts occur. Listen for Ursid echoes on Space Weather Radio. Meteor alerts: text, voice

CHRISTMAS CONJUNCTION: According to some scholars, the Star of Bethlehem might have been a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter. The two brightest planets in the night sky, merged, would have made a spectacle of Biblical proportions. This Christmas, NASA's STEREO-B probe is observing a conjunction of three planets--Venus, Earth and Jupiter:

Unlike conjunctions of the distant past, this one includes our home planet. STEREO-B is located on the far side of the sun where it can look back and see Earth along with other worlds in the Solar System. Only NASA's twin STEREO probes, equipped with their high dynamic-range Heliospheric Imagers, can witness this kind of conjunction.

Earthquake Report for 12/21/2013

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30 earthquakes

 

    2.5 17km SE of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-12-21 16:53:50 UTC-05:00 6.3 km

    2.7 2km SSE of Salinas, Puerto Rico 2013-12-21 15:59:03 UTC-05:00 59.0 km

    4.9 31km SW of Arauco, Argentina 2013-12-21 14:42:16 UTC-05:00 172.6 km

    3.0 66km SSE of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2013-12-21 14:41:07 UTC-05:00 100.0 km

    4.5 9km SSW of Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaragua 2013-12-21 13:19:47 UTC-05:00 88.8 km

    4.3 89km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua 2013-12-21 13:12:37 UTC-05:00 62.7 km

    5.2 126km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-12-21 12:56:32 UTC-05:00 15.5 km

    2.9 86km E of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2013-12-21 12:53:37 UTC-05:00 0.0 km

Earthquake Report for 12/20/2013

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21 earthquakes

 

    5.3 9km NNE of Meulaboh, Indonesia 2013-12-20 16:10:46 UTC-05:00 88.3 km

    2.6 22km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2013-12-20 15:04:57 UTC-05:00 13.2 km

    2.9 74km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-12-20 13:53:17 UTC-05:00 19.0 km

    5.2 111km SSE of Tondano, Indonesia 2013-12-20 13:46:38 UTC-05:00 50.8 km

    5.0 169km ENE of Fais, Micronesia 2013-12-20 12:51:31 UTC-05:00 37.6 km

    2.6 24km NE of Greenfield, California 2013-12-20 12:39:13 UTC-05:00 3.2 km

    4.5 10km SE of Salina Cruz, Mexico 2013-12-20 11:29:36 UTC-05:00 53.0 km

    5.3 4km SE of Abiko, Japan 2013-12-20 11:10:46 UTC-05:00 67.7 km

~ Space Weather Update~ 2 M Class Solar Flares in 24 Hours

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ELECTRIC-BLUE CLOUDS OVER ANTARCTICA: A vast bank of electric-blue clouds has appeared over the south pole, signaling the start of the season for southern noctilucent clouds. According to data from NASA's AIM spacecraft, the clouds appeared earlier than usual this year. Researchers say this could be a sign of climate change: full story.

M-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: For more than two weeks, solar activity has been low. Hours ago, a new sunspot broke the quiet with an M3.5-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash at 23:16 UT on Dec. 19th:

Radiation from the flare produced a brief wave of ionization in the upper atmosphere over the Pacific side of Earth. Otherwise, the blast was not particularly geoeffective. It did not produce an Earth-directed CME.

Earthquake Report for 12/19/2013

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By: USGS

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24 earthquakes

 

    5.6 32km W of Warah, Pakistan 2013-12-19 14:28:40 UTC-05:00 5.9 km

    2.7 91km S of Tok, Alaska 2013-12-19 13:30:29 UTC-05:00 6.8 km

    2.8 69km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 2013-12-19 11:39:06 UTC-05:00 4.0 km

    2.8 1km NW of Marina del Rey, California 2013-12-19 10:53:39 UTC-05:00 9.4 km

    4.6 219km NW of Visokoi Island, 2013-12-19 10:24:03 UTC-05:00 2.2 km

    3.2 101km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-12-19 09:54:13 UTC-05:00 5.0 km

    2.9 79km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-19 09:00:57 UTC-05:00 74.0 km

    4.7 19km W of Nago, Japan 2013-12-19 08:55:55 UTC-05:00 36.5 km

Earthquake Report for 12/18/2013

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25 earthquakes

 

    2.7 17km NNW of Polson, Montana 2013-12-18 14:57:14 UTC-05:00 11.5 km

    4.5 115km SSE of Tanggulashan, China 2013-12-18 10:30:15 UTC-05:00 43.2 km

    5.0 Banda Sea 2013-12-18 10:18:29 UTC-05:00 45.1 km

    2.6 87km S of Tok, Alaska 2013-12-18 10:17:27 UTC-05:00 16.6 km

    4.9 7km NE of San Quintin, Philippines 2013-12-18 09:46:11 UTC-05:00 61.3 km

    2.7 85km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2013-12-18 09:40:20 UTC-05:00 24.0 km

    5.2 Izu Islands, Japan region 2013-12-18 07:54:38 UTC-05:00 425.8 km

    4.6 88km SE of Ofunato, Japan 2013-12-18 05:14:10 UTC-05:00 42.9 km

Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka: continuing lava dome growth, ash plumes to 27,000 ft

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By: Volcanodiscovery.com, 12/18/2013

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Several ash plumes up to altitudes of 27,000 ft (8 km) altitude were spotted by VAAC Tokyo during the past 24 hours, indicating that activity at the growing lava dome in form of explosions and/or avalanches/pyroclastic flows remains elevated.

 

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