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Klyuchevskoy volcano (Kamchatka): eruption video

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Volcano Discovery Friday Oct 11, 2013 20:06 PM | BY: T

Lightning inside the eruption cloud above Klyuchevskoy volcano (KVERT webcam)

Lightning inside the eruption cloud above Klyuchevskoy volcano (KVERT webcam)

We posted the following time-lapse video of the eruption this morning (or evening, in Kamchatka time). At 08:30 UTC (17:30 local time), a new vent opened in the saddle between Klyuchevskoy and neighboring Kamen volcano, producing a fountain of lava and ash rising to about 7 km altitude. The KVERT webcam even captured lightning during this eruption:

Cyclone Phailin is set to become the strongest India has ever seen

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Qz.com - by Eric Holthaus - 11 October, 2013

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This is the view from India’s Kalpana weather satellite

With landfall in less than 24 hours (Saturday Oct. 12 in the afternoon, India time), final preparations are underway in India for Cyclone Phailin—now officially the strongest storm ever measured in the Indian Ocean. The image above shows the storm’s core as it approaches the coastline. (See our earlier coverage on why Phailin’s landfall in this particularly volatile part of India is especially unwelcome.)

Earthquake Report for 10/11/2013

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By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

36 earthquakes

 

    2.7 10km NW of Greenville, California 2013-10-11 17:00:13 UTC-04:00 0.0 km

    4.3 67km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2013-10-11 16:24:27 UTC-04:00 64.4 km

    4.9 113km SW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2013-10-11 16:02:36 UTC-04:00 19.0 km

    4.9 134km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-11 15:34:35 UTC-04:00 39.2 km

    2.9 71km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada 2013-10-11 14:29:39 UTC-04:00 6.4 km

    4.0 24km SSW of Naica, Mexico 2013-10-11 14:04:32 UTC-04:00 12.2 km

    5.0 14km E of Funaishikawa, Japan 2013-10-11 13:43:11 UTC-04:00 48.5 km

    4.2 21km WSW of Naica, Mexico 2013-10-11 13:29:54 UTC-04:00 15.1 km

~ Space Weather Update~ Farside Eruption M1 Class Solar Flare

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JUNO SPACECRAFT PHOTOGRAPHED: On Oct. 9th, NASA's Juno spacecraft buzzed Earth only 347 miles above our planet's surface. It was a slingshot maneuver designed to gain velocity for Juno's long trip to Jupiter (ETA: 2016). Although the spacecraft was very faint, several amateur astronomers managed to photograph it: image gallery. The spacecraft is now hurtling away from Earth at 23,500 mph. Bon voyage, Juno!

FARSIDE ERUPTION: An active region located just behind the sun's northeastern limb erupted this morning, producing an X-ray flash that registered M1.5 on the Richter Scale of Solar Flares -- despite the fact that it was partially eclipsed by the edge of the sun. The true intensity of the flare was much greater, possibly X-class. The explosion also hurled a spectacular CME into space:

Type II radio emissions from the expanding cloud suggest an expansion velocity of at least 510 km/s (1.1 million mph). That's a typical speed for CMEs.

Tungurahua volcano (Ecuador): increasing strombolian activity

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Volcano Discovery Thursday Oct 10, 2013 20:29 PM | BY: T

Strombolian activity of Tungurahua today (OVT/IGEPN)

Strombolian activity of Tungurahua today (OVT/IGEPN)

The increase of activity continues. The Ecuadorian Instituto Geofísico (IGPEN) reported that seismic and visual activity increased since Sunday. The volcano currently produces mild to moderate strombolian activity, ejecting fresh lava bombs onto the upper slopes of the summit cone.
The seismic recordings show in increase in the number of events associated with internal fluid (magma) movements as well as emission/explosion signals.
Ash fall has been reported in localities to the west and south, namely in El Manzano, Bilbao, Chacauco, Choglontus, and Mocha.
Also the measured SO2 flux values ​​changed from a minimum of 87 tons per day on October 3 to over 1000 tonnes per day on 7 and 8 October.

A Record-Setting Blizzard Killed 75,000 Cows and You Might Not Have Even Heard About It

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The Blaze - 10/10/13, Liz Klimas

 

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Homes outside of Ellsworth Air Force Base.
(Image source: iWitness Rob Griffith/The Weather Channel)

 

Ranchers are still digging out thousands of their cattle that became buried in a record-setting snowstorm in South Dakota late last week and over the weekend.

One would think the death of 75,000 cows by upwards of five feet of snow might get some national attention, but as one blogger observed, it has taken some time for the news of the precipitation massacre to reach outside of local media.

Earthquake Report for 10/10/2013

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By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

22 earthquakes

 

    2.7 6km WNW of The Geysers, California 2013-10-10 15:28:02 UTC-04:00 2.3 km

    3.0 5km SE of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-10 15:02:02 UTC-04:00 125.0 km

    3.3 30km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-10 12:49:08 UTC-04:00 91.0 km

    3.1 155km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada 2013-10-10 12:21:18 UTC-04:00 0.1 km

    4.9 114km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2013-10-10 11:07:32 UTC-04:00 41.6 km

    2.5 68km S of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2013-10-10 10:09:03 UTC-04:00 51.0 km

    3.7 114km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska 2013-10-10 08:16:03 UTC-04:00 19.0 km

    5.0 South of the Fiji Islands 2013-10-10 06:43:51 UTC-04:00 510.9 km

What would a solar magnetic flip do to the climate?

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The Daily Caller - 10/10/13, Michael Bastasch

bout every 11 years, the two magnetic poles of the sun reverse as the the star’s inner magnetic dynamo adjusts itself. The flipping of the sun’s magnetic poles is a big event for our solar system as the sun’s heliosphere — the extent of the sun’s magnetic influence — reaches beyond even Pluto.

Comet ISON is doing just fine!

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Isoncampaign.org- 10/9/13, Karl

Comet ISON is doing just fine! It continues to behave like a fairly typical, if somewhat smaller-than-average, Oort Cloud comet. It has given no indication that it has fragmented and while such an event can never be ruled out, we see no evidence or hint that the comet is in any imminent danger of doing so. Any reports to the contrary are just speculation.

How can we be so sure? Because we can see the comet! Opposite is just one more recent example of an extremely high-quality image of ISON taken by Nick Howes, Ernesto Guido and Martino Nicolini as part of a series of daily imaging sequences they have been recording to help study the morphology (shape, size, etc) of comet ISON.

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An Exotic Young Planet Found without a Star

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Institute For Astronomy, 10/10/13

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An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes.

It was identified from its faint and unique heat signature by the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) wide-field survey telescope on Haleakala, Maui. Follow-up observations using other telescopes in Hawaii show that it has properties similar to those of gas-giant planets found orbiting around young stars. And yet PSO J318.5-22 is all by itself, without a host star.

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