Have a safe Memorial Day weekend! Please be careful if your going to the beach tomorrow on the east coast, the rip tides are dangerous from tropical storm Beryl.
Much love…Annette
Published on May 27, 2012 by MrCometwatch
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Seems like everyone has been talking about the possibility of a landslide that would create a massive tsunami, what happens if there’s a massive eruption with the volcano on the ocean floor? Wouldn’t that send water going in every direction, not just west bound? Appears to be a very volatile situation and one can’t help but wonder if 40,000 troops coming home isn’t part of a highly coordinated effort towards a false flag disaster event. One that might even postpone the presidential election or guarantee Obama’s re-election next year? Do they know something we don’t?
That’s a stupid question.
In the second video Mary put together a little chart showing the movement of the earthquakes from one side to the other.
Uploaded by MaryGreeley on Oct 21, 2011
(Canary Islands) Alert : El Hierro Magma Rising to Top/Center of Island : Four 2.+ Quakes 10/21/2011
http://www.01.ign.es/ign/resources/volcanologia/txt/boletin_HIERRO.txt
(Canary Islands) Alert : El Hierro Volcano Magma May Be Moving, Rising! October 21, 2011
http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcan…
http://www.01.ign.es/ign/resources/volcanologia/txt/boletin_HIERRO.txt
http://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?id=234512
The Sacramento Bee
Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:51 CDT
Madrid — Spanish authorities say activity by an underwater volcano has led them to close access to a port on El Hierro island.
Ships have been ordered away from waters around La Restinga and aircraft have been banned from flying over the island’s southern tip.
The port’s 600 residents were evacuated Tuesday after volcanic activity began.
The regional government of the Canary Islands says scientists have detected airborne volcanic fragments called pyroclasts rising from the sea off La Restinga.
The government said it awaited scientific reports on the danger posed by pyroclasts, but a research vessel that was collecting samples there has been ordered to desist.
TV channel La Sexta reported Saturday that journalists also have been told to clear the area.
On Friday, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Government Security Canary convened the first ever meeting of the Steering Committee and Volcanic Monitoring, reflected in the Specific Plan Protection Civil and Emergency for Volcanic Risk, given what it described “the significant increase in seismic activity”.
A statement (translated from Spanish) issued following the meeting outlined: “This committee met this morning (Friday) at the headquarters of the Directorate General Security and Emergency Tenerife, established after the assessment of information gathered from seismic and volcanological last July 17 by the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands, the situation is total normal for the green light for the information population, activating mechanisms for monitoring and oversight needed to coordinate the actions of self civil population and information contained in the Plan.”
“According to data provided by the seismic monitoring station IGN’s located in Valverde, one can conclude that from the noon on July 17 there has been a significant increase of low magnitude seismic activity in the municipality of Border of the island of El Hierro. To improve the location of this activity, has deployed a seismic network densification operational since July 21 has helped increase the number of earthquakes located, and can be viewed here“, the statement added.
El Hierro, a 278.5 km2 island, is situated in the most southwestern extreme of the Canaries. The origins of the island date back some 100 million years. After three successive eruptions, and consequent accumulations, the island emerged from the ocean as an imposing triangular pyramid crowned by a volcano more than 2,000 metres high.
The volcanic activity, principally at the convergence of the three ridges, resulted in the continual expansion of the island. A mere 50,000 years ago, as a result of seismic tremors which produced massive landslides, a giant piece of the island cracked off, crashed down into the ocean and scattered along the seabed.
This landslide of more than 300km3 gave rise to the impressive amphitheatre of the El Golfo valley and at the same time caused a tsunami that most likely rose over 100 metres high and probably reached as far as the American coast.
According to ElHierro.com: “Although over 200 years have elapsed since the last eruption, El Hierro has the largest number of volcanoes in the Canaries with over 500 open sky cones, another 300 covered by the most recent outflows, and some 70 caves and volcanic galleries, notably the Don Justo cave whose collection of channels surpasses 6km in length.”
“I look out the window, and it’s like our houses are in the middle of the ocean,” says Takahashi, who moved in three years ago.
The March 11 earthquake that hit eastern Japan was so powerful it pulled the entire country out and down into the sea. The mostly devastated coastal communities now face regular flooding, because of their lower elevation and damage to sea walls from the massive tsunamis triggered by the quake.
In port cities such as Onagawa and Kesennuma, the tide flows in and out among crumpled homes and warehouses along now uninhabited streets.
A cluster of neighborhoods in Ishinomaki city is rare in that it escaped tsunami damage through fortuitous geography. So, many residents still live in their homes, and they now face a daily trial: The area floods at high tide, and the normally sleepy streets turn frantic as residents rush home before the water rises too high.
“I just try to get all my shopping and chores done by 3 p.m.,” says Takuya Kondo, 32, who lives with his family in his childhood home.
Most houses sit above the water’s reach, but travel by car becomes impossible and the sewage system swamps, rendering toilets unusable.
Scientists say the new conditions are permanent.
Japan’s northern half sits on the North American tectonic plate. The Pacific plate, which is mostly undersea, normally slides under this plate, slowly nudging the country west. But in the earthquake, the fault line between the two plates ruptured, and the North American plate slid up and out along the Pacific.
It doesn’t take much to get the Internet’s lunar-tics out in force. The web was awash with apocalyptic warnings that the movement of the moon will trigger tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and even earthquakes next week. The conspiracy theorists claim that on March 19, the moon will be closer to Earth than at any time since 1992 – just 221,567 miles away – and that its gravitational pull will bring chaos to Earth.
Previous supermoons took place in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005 – all years that had extreme weather events
However, astronomers have dismissed the claims as pure nonsense. The bizarre rumours centre on a phenomenon called the ‘lunar perigee’. The moon’s orbit around Earth is not a circle, but an eclipse. At its closest approach – the perigee – the moon appears brighter and larger in the sky. When it is furthest away – the apogee – it is smaller and dimmer. A lunar perigee occurs once a month. However, next week’s perigee coincides with a full moon – a combination of events that happen just once every two or three years. Although it makes a good photo opportunity for astronomers, scientists say it has no impact on Earth.
Dr David Harland, space historian and author, said: ‘It’s possible that the moon may be a kilometre or two closer to Earth than normal at a perigee, but it’s an utterly insignificant event. ‘But the Internet is awash with conspiracy-minded amateur scientists warning that such a ‘supermoon’ could disrupt Earth’s climate patterns and may even cause earthquakes and volcanic activity. Previous supermoons took place in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005 – all years that had extreme weather events, the conspiracy theorists say. The tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Indonesia happened two weeks before the January 2005 supermoon. And on Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy laid waste to Darwin, Australia.
But Pete Wheeler of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy greeted warnings of an impending apocalypse with scepticism. ‘There will be no earthquakes or volcanoes erupting, unless they are to happen anyway,’ he told. ‘Earth will experience just a lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide around the time of the event, but nothing to get excited about.’ Australian astronomer David Reneke agreed, pointing out that conspiracy theorists will always be able to find a natural disaster to link to a certain time and blame it on a supermoon. ‘If you try hard enough you can chronologically associate almost any natural disaster or event to anything in the night sky – comet, planet, sun,’ he said. ‘Remember in the past, planetary alignments were going to pull the sun apart. It didn’t happen. Astrologers draw a very long bow most times. ‘Normal king tides are about all I would expect out of this supermoon prediction.’
Earth will be at its closest point – some 221,567 miles away – to the moon in 19 years on March 19. Some fear the ‘lunar perigee’ will affect our climate pattern
During a full moon, the sun and the moon are pulling on Earth from opposite sides – making the chances of any dramatic tidal events unlikely. On average the moon is 235,000 miles away. At its furthest it is 248,000 miles away. During a lunar perigee and full moon, the lunar surface can appear up to 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons. (DailyMail)
More on Moon tides: How The Moon Affects Ocean Tides…
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/09/supermoon-moons-closest-approach-for-19-years/
