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U.S. seismologist calls for national early warning system for earthquakes

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By: Theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com, 10/05/2013

October 5, 2013 – CALIFORNIA – An eminent U.S. seismologist is urging the installation of a national early warning system to alert people to an impending earthquake. Richard Allen, director of the University of California, Berkeley’s Seismology Laboratory and professor of Earth and planetary sciences, writing a Comment piece in the journal Nature, has taken politicians and public officials to task for not putting an early warning system in place before the next major quake occurs. Recent decades have seen dramatic improvement in the technology to detect quakes, he said, largely led by Japan, as proven by the advance warning people there received about the deadly earthquake that struck in 2011.

 

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Mysterious earthquake swarm damages many villages in Galati, Eastern Romania: strange sounds like ‘boiling water’

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By: Theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com, 10/05/2013

October 5, 2013 – ROMANIA — The Galati area experienced dozens of earthquakes up to a magnitude of 3.8 (last one just before writing this article). The quakes have an extremely shallow depth, have a relatively high shaking intensity and are causing a lot of damage in the villages near the epicenter areas (the epicenters have to be situated in an area of many kms and not in one location). Some people are not waiting for more earthquakes and left their houses due do the damage, fearing a collapse if further quakes would strike. Galati is a region with relatively low seismic activity and earthquake swarms like the current events are only known from the newspapers in other regions/countries (ER could trace some unconfirmed reports that a number of earthquakes occurred in March 1894). Residents and seismologists are very surprised and are trying to understand what is happening. Oil extraction and flooding where initially mentioned as  possible triggers but these reasons cannot explain why some other phenomenon like  a constant sound like “boiling water” (coming from the ground) and a strange water smell (like sulfur) is being noticed.

 

Northern Lights, Seen in US (Photos)

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Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, Seen in US (+Photos)

Epoch Times - Zachary Stieber, 10/04/13

 

 

Aurora Borealis, or northern lights, was seen from multiple states in the U.S. on Oct. 2, lighting up the sky in a magnificent show.

 

Vibrant shots of northern lights in Minnehaha County, S.D., on Tuesday. Photo by Christian Begeman.

 

The natural phenomenon was seen from Minnesota, Iowa, and Montana, among other states.

Earthquake Report for 10/04/2013

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By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

25 earthquakes

 

    3.0 75km W of Willow, Alaska 2013-10-04 15:05:16 UTC-04:00 97.8 km

    5.8 119km SE of Amsterdam Island, 2013-10-04 13:26:14 UTC-04:00 10.0 km

    4.0 79km ENE of Atka, Alaska 2013-10-04 12:50:19 UTC-04:00 102.9 km

    3.9 8km SSW of Rio Dell, California 2013-10-04 10:42:06 UTC-04:00 26.3 km

    4.5 102km SE of Atka, Alaska 2013-10-04 09:29:57 UTC-04:00 38.4 km

    5.1 46km E of Tobelo, Indonesia 2013-10-04 08:44:14 UTC-04:00 74.5 km

    4.8 245km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan 2013-10-04 08:30:47 UTC-04:00 461.8 km

    4.6 18km WSW of Naica, Mexico 2013-10-04 07:19:01 UTC-04:00 10.0 km

    5.2 188km SE of Mburukullu, Indonesia 2013-10-04 06:35:42 UTC-04:00 9.9 km

    4.4 35km ESE of Puente Alto, Chile 2013-10-04 05:47:14 UTC-04:00 105.1 km

    3.0 10km ENE of North Tustin, California 2013-10-04 04:55:23 UTC-04:00 6.7 km

    5.1 91km NE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand 2013-10-04 04:31:56 UTC-04:00 34.9 km

Earthquake Report for 10/03/2013

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By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

28 earthquakes

 

    5.5 75km E of Nikol'skoye, Russia 2013-10-03 13:46:52 UTC-04:00 9.8 km

    5.0 60km WSW of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2013-10-03 13:32:43 UTC-04:00 194.3 km

    3.4 63km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-03 11:40:17 UTC-04:00 100.0 km

    5.0 107km W of Sola, Vanuatu 2013-10-03 11:24:22 UTC-04:00 57.4 km

    4.4 39km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina 2013-10-03 09:25:12 UTC-04:00 200.1 km

    4.2 19km ENE of Ramshir, Iran 2013-10-03 08:12:29 UTC-04:00 36.1 km

    2.6 26km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-03 05:51:18 UTC-04:00 34.4 km

    4.6 2km NNW of Malabanan, Philippines 2013-10-03 04:52:52 UTC-04:00 173.6 km

    3.1 77km NE of Kodiak, Alaska 2013-10-03 03:55:10 UTC-04:00 1.0 km

~ Space Weather Update~ THE INSTIGATING CME

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IS COMET ISON POISED TO DISINTEGRATE? As Comet ISON passes Mars en route to the sun this week, the comet is still faint. Nevertheless, many experts believe the comet is on track to become a bright sungrazer in late November. Astronomer Ignacio Ferrin of the University of Antioquia Institute of Physics in Colombia disagrees. Ferrin believes Comet ISON is about to disintegrate. The light curve of ISON, he argues, resembles the light curves of other comets that have have fallen apart. If he's right, the "Comet of the Century" could turn into a century-class disappointment. Stay tuned to the Comet ISON Photo Gallery for updates.

RED AURORAS: On October 2nd, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers on both ends of the Earth saw auroras; many of the lights were rare shades of red. Minoru Yoneto photographed this example from Queenstown, New Zealand:

"This is how the sky looked 11 hours after the CME impact," says Yoneto, who used a Canon EOS 6D digital camera to record the reds.

Floods Worsen in Southeast Asia, Nearly 3 million Affected

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Irrawady.com -  by Thin Lei Win / Thomson Reuters Foundation - 3 October 2013

People make their way through a flooded area near the Mekong river in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. Floods have claimed at least 30 victims, since heavy rains spawned by tropical storms over the past two weeks caused the Mekong river to break its banks and inundate thousands of communities across 10 provinces in Cambodia, according to local media. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

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