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Friday, March 2, 2012

Earth Watch – Friday March 2nd ,2012


March 2, 2012 by desertrose  

Sun

Just Released Report Highlights Unusual Solar Cycle

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242285-Just-Released-Report-Highlights-Unusual-Solar-Cycle

Earthquakes

3.1 EASTERN TURKEY
5.2 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU
3.0 EASTERN TURKEY
4.7 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.
4.9 OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
4.5 CRETE, GREECE
4.1 FRANCE
5.4 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.
4.9 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.
4.9 SCOTIA SEA
4.3 SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
4.5 SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
4.6 SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
4.8 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
5.0 KURIL ISLANDS
4.9 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
4.8 SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
4.5 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
4.0 SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
4.8 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
3.4 ROMANIA
4.4 CHUKOTKA, RUSSIA
4.9 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
4.6 COLOMBIA
4.8 VANUATU
5.4 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

Oklahoma sees record year for number of earthquakes

http://www.kxii.com/news/headlines/Record_year_for_Oklahoma_earthquakes_140983543.html?ref=543

Island off west coast of Scotland shaken by five tremors

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17203613

Volcanoes

Mount Marapi in Indonesia’s West Sumatra briefly erupts

http://channel6newsonline.com/2012/02/mount-marapi-in-indonesias-west-sumatra-briefly-erupts/

Volcanic activity increasing at Indonesia’s Semeru volcano

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7745177.htm

Slight rise of magma at Boliva’s potential super-volcano, Uturuncu but no signs of an immediate eruption

March 2, 2012 – BOLIVIA – The San Calixto Observatory director of La Paz, Estela Minaya confirmed that there is a small rise of magma (molten rock in the form of lava and gases) from the volcano Uturuncu, however, but immediately rule out a possible eruption. Minaya told the Red Erbol said now one of the purposes of the Observatory is to trace the progression of the volcano and to determine how high and fast magma is rising inside the volcano. “Then, (known) that the molten material begins to rise and generates what is seen as a strain at the surface. Studying this method indicates what kind of deformation and “growth,” the volcano is experiencing. Right now, indication there is a slight rise but the magma is rising at a very low speed. Now that this ‘growth’ isn’t very large and can’t generate a volcanic eruption,” he said.  He noted that this work takes place two years ago with the interferometer system and the last eruption in Uturuncu would have registered more than 1.6 million years or so.  A week ago, was reported in boliviaprensa.com international scientists are studying the changes introduced Uturuncu volcano, since satellite measurements show that the mountain has been growing at a rate of 1.3 centimeters per year over the past two decades. -Erbol translated
http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia.php?identificador=2147483955962


Ice Age

Dying Seas

Mutations

 Epidemics

32 pet dogs euthanized in New Mexico rabies outbreak

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10543496-32-pet-dogs-euthanized-in-new-mexico-rabies-outbreak

Winter Twisters

Flooding

Record rains force evacuations in NSW, but Victorians are staying put

http://www.news.com.au/national/record-rains-force-evacuations-in-nsw/story-e6frfkvr-1226285665120?sv=e872c3a9278b2add90fa44f9a7a47fe5

Mysteries

Residents searching for answers to intensifying mystery force shaking North Carolina coast?

http://www.wwaytv3.com/2012/02/28/residents-booming-big-bang-theories

Mysterious submarine plume discharge cloudy waters at Hawaii harbor

http://www.khon2.com/content/news/editorschoice/story/Mysterious-plume-blankets-Kewalo-Basin/Mu64XdFs1UGEaHge54jAaw.cspx

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 case in Bangladesh, H5N1 outbreak in Bhutan, H1N1 hospitalization rate, H1N1 immune response in seniors, raw milk outbreak total

Mar 1, 2012
Bangladesh reports its fourth human H5N1 case
Bangladesh has reported its fourth human case of H5N1 avian flu infection, involving a 40-year-old man who works in a live bird market in Dhaka, the capital. After the man sought medical care for a cough, polymerase chain reaction testing of respiratory samples identified the infection, according to a Feb 27 statement from the Bangladesh Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research (IEDCR). The patient is now symptom-free, the statement said. Bangladesh’s first human H5N1 case was reported in 2008, and two more cases were identified last year. None of the cases have been fatal. The World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet recognized the case. The WHO’s current global H5N1 count stands at 589 cases with 348 deaths.
Feb 27 IEDCR statement
Feb 28 WHO cumulative H5N1 case count
H5N1 hits backyard poultry in Bhutan
Bhutan has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu affecting backyard poultry, according to a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) today. The outbreak, in Chakha district, killed 35 birds in January, and 86 additional poultry were culled to prevent disease spread. A national laboratory confirmed the disease via real-time polymerase chain reaction on Jan 10. The report did not specify why officials delayed reporting the outbreak to the OIE. Chakha is in southwestern Bhutan and borders the West Bengal district of India. Bhutan last experienced an H5N1 outbreak in December, according to the OIE.
Mar 1 OIE report
Report: H1N1 hitting harder than H3N2 in 4 European countries
Although pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) has made up only 1% of flu viruses circulating in France, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom this flu season, it has accounted for 10% of hospital cases and a high percentage of severe cases, according to a report today in Eurosurveillance. Of 1,432 sentinel specimens analyzed from the four countries, 14 (1%) were pH1N1 and 1,219 (85%) were H3N2. But of 199 lab-confirmed hospitalized cases, 20 (10%) were caused by pH1N1, compared with 108 (54%) caused by H3N2. And of the hospitalized pH1N1 patients, 19 (95%) were admitted to intensive care, compared with 33 (30%) for H3N2. In the previous flu season (2010-11), the share of hospitalized pH1N1 cases was only 1.5-fold higher than the share of cases in the community, according to the report.
Mar 1 Eurosurveillance report
Study details better 2009 H1N1 immune response in seniors
An in-depth study in the Journal of Virology on antibody response shed more light on why fewer older people got sick during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Researchers with the US Food and Drug Administration and the University of Pittsburgh used a host of advanced antibody testing methods to analyze extra serum samples from a wide age range of patients that were collected at two Pittsburgh hospitals and pediatric outpatient clinics during the second wave of the pandemic before vaccination began. They also conducted similar tests on ferrets that were infected with the virus to gauge the development of antibodies. Infection with pH1N1 in adults older than 70 induced antibodies with broader epitope recognition in internal genes and hemagglutinin 1 (HA1) receptor binding domain  compared with younger age-groups. The findings support the hypothesis that older people have long-term memory B cells and possibly long-lived plasma cells that cross-reacted with the novel virus and were rapidly recruited and activated following infection. They wrote that the cells could have undergone somatic hypermutation during earlier exposure to H1N1 viruses that circulated until the 1957-58 flu season or that exposure to or vaccination against 1976 swine flu could have generated long-term memory B cells that cross-reacted with the pH1N1 virus.
Feb 29 J Virol abstract
Raw milk Campylobacter outbreak total reaches 80 cases
An outbreak of Cambylobacter illness associated with raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has grown to 80 cases, according to Food Safety News (FSN) today. The total represents an increase of 3 cases since CIDRAP News last reported on the outbreak Feb 16. Case totals by state are now: Pennsylvania, 70; Maryland, 5; West Virginia, 3; and New Jersey, 2. At least nine patients have been hospitalized, and the last known illness onset date is Feb 1. The outbreak has been traced to Your Family Cow dairy in Chambersburg, which halted sales of raw milk products Jan 27 but was allowed to resume production Feb 6 after passing inspections.
Mar 1 FSN story
Feb 16 CIDRAP News Scan on outbreak
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Armageddon 2040: Nasa identifies new asteroid threat which ‘could hit Earth’ in 30 years’ time – and UN teams are working out how to divert it: Fact or Fiction?


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UN: Killer Asteroid On Course To Strike Earth
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:07
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1827/687/NL/UN:_Killer_Asteroid_On_Course_To_Strike_Earth.html
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They checked the calculations and re-checked them again. Yet the terrible truth refused to go away. The cold, deadly numbers stared back at them from their computer printouts. So little doubt remained the United Nations Action Team of concerned scientists scrambled to issue an emergency warning that asteroid 2011 AG5 is going to impact Earth and could cause the explosive death of millions…


Death ‘star’ approaches
The 28-year countdown clock has started and it may be ticking away the seconds of life remaining to unsuspecting millions.
That’s the worry some anguished scientists have as recent study of near-Earth objects has confirmed that asteroid 011 AG5 has a high possibility of striking Earth a deadly blow in 2040.
Calles for a “Situational Awareness system” have become more strident to the point where some Russian scientists have gone on record demanding an Earth defense network be established among space-capable nations immediately.

Photograph of region where asteroid 2011 AG5 was discovered
Ferevent discussions about the latest asteroid threat to Earth dominated the Vienna conference of the 49th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Target: Earth
A window that an asteroid must pass through in orbits previous to an impact event is called a “keyhole.” Several keyholes exist for three other asteroids besides 2011 AG5. One of those asteroids is a continent killer, the other two—like 2011 AG5—are city killers.
Despite Russian scientist’s mounting concern, NASA’s JPL Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program chief, Donald Yeomans of NASA’s, played down the probability of an impact. Yeomans told Leonard David of SPACE.com that “Although this keyhole is considerably larger than the Apophis keyhole in 2029, it would still be a straightforward task to alter the asteroid’s trajectory enough to miss the keyhole—and hence the impact in 2040.”
The scientist’s reference to to the extremely dangerous asteroid, Apophis, is one that Russian astrophysicists believe will impact Earth in either 2029 or 2036. NASA dismisses their concern.
Apophis is the Greek name for the ancient Egyptian demongod Apep, also called the Uncreator.
“The prudent course of action,” Yeomans added, “is then to wait at least until the 2013 observations are processed before making any preliminary plans for a potential deflection mission.”

Ocean strike could be devastating
If 2011 AG5 hits the ocean, an incredible tsunami as big as 1,000 feet high traveling at near supersonic speeds would devastate coastlines of continents. Within hours, millions could die.
The economy of the entire world would suffer. Most nations would be plunges into deep recessions within weeks.

Coastal regions would be inundated
Global commerce would slow to a snail’s pace and violent storms could whip the planet for months.
A land impact would not have such widespread devastation, but depending on the region hit the destruction could be horrific.

City annihilated ‘like nuclear blast’
A major city hit by 2011 AG5 would be annihilated. Most buildings and people would be instantly vaporized. The kinetic force of the strike would convert to pure energy within milliseconds and detonate with a force as great as a multi-megaton nuclear bomb—much worse than the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs dropped in Japan.

People running for their lives as asteroid approaches
Evacuation of a city would be nearly impossible as the impact could not be calculated with accuracy until mere hours before the event. When the impact occurred it would be one of the greatest human calamaties in history.

Evacuating a major city would be nearly impossible
Shock waves radiating from the epicenter would race through the atmosphere and the ground.

Asteroid impact would set off raging ‘fire hurricanes’
Massive firestorms, earthquakes, catastrophic environmental destruction as far as one hundred miles away with fierce fire hurricanes approaching speeds of hundreds of miles per hour.

Other asteroid threats now converging
Three other huge asteroids are barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth. Because of their speed and mass a few could release the energy of 100s of thermonuclear bombs.
Asteroid tracking programs of NEOs are still an inexact science. Some astronomers admit if one of the really big NEOs blindsides us and approaches from behind the sun, on a collision trajectory with Earth, by the time the thing’s discovered only weeks will remain to stop it.
Of course, with so little time remaining nothing could be done except to make final arrangements for the end of the world and the abrupt passing of the human race.
Tens of thousands of asteroids and comets haunt the space ways, some changing their orbits every time they pass near a large gravitational field like one of the outer gas giants or swing close by the sun. Their orbits are often changeable and unpredictable.
Those marked as hazardous to the health of the human race are tagged as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA).
Many PHAs exist—completely unknown and invisible. Some of those could be larger than Pluto.
What’s really frightening is no one knows where they are, how many exist or when they might show up unannounced.
What is known? Other than 2011 AG5, three other PHAs are heading towards Earth. At this moment we have no technology to stop them.

Threat number one
Asteroid 2002 NT7 arrives February 1, 2019: This continent killer is 1.5 miles long. It’s been called by some observers the most threatening asteroid ever detected.
Initial calculations of its preliminary orbit reveals it’s on a collision course with Earth. Although the permutations of its orbit could change, nothing is certain in this game of cosmic billiards.
When it was discovered, astronomers assigned the killer a threat rating of +0.06. That rating on the Palermo technical scale—a risk assessment of asteroid and comet impact with Earth—awards NT7 the dubious distinction of being the first asteroid ever to be given a positive value.
Positive for the asteroid, a big, big negative for Earth. It’s size and speed are calculated as meeting the threshold needed to vaporize an entire continent.
The asteroid’s orbit takes 837 days traveling from the distance of the Martian orbit to just within the Earth’s orbit.
As of this writing, it’s due to meet up with Earth in less than 8 short years.
Will it hit? Although the likelihood’s shrinking, it’s still possible.

Threat number two
Asteroid Apophis arrives 2036: It’s a potential city killer like 2011 AG5. Apophis is 1,000 feet across.
Approximately the size of the asteroid that exploded in the sky above the Siberian Tunguska forest during 1908, Apophis exceddingly dangerous. London, Moscow or New York could be vaporized by it.
Russian scientists are convinced that Apophis is going to hit Earth in 2036. NASA says no.
But the Russians think NASA’s wrong and called major conferences to address the problem of Apophis and other PHAs like NT7. The Russians are hoping that the European Space Agency will work with them to develop a program to intercept PHAs and steer them away from Earth while there’s still time.
The alternative, they argue, is almost too frightening to contemplate: millions dead, the Earth’s climate destroyed, or the planet itself wiped out with mass extinction.
Although Apophis cannot cause the end of life on Earth it can cause the biggest disaster in history. Impact on land would be bad enough. If it hits a body of water—the Atlantic Ocean for example—the titanic energy released will generate a supersonic tsunami a thousand feet high.
If it impacted the north Atlantic much of the East Coast of the U.S. could be destroyed. To the east, the UK and coastline of Northern Europe would be swept away.
Will it hit? Although NASA says it’s unlikely, the Russians insist it probably will impact.

Threat number three
Asteroid 1999 RQ36 arrives 2082. It’s another big city killer being 1,837 feet across.
According to Maria Eugenia Sansaturio and astronomers from the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain, asteroid 1999 RQ36 has two very good chances to hit Earth during the year 2082.
Sansaturio and her colleagues are shocked. Until recently they thought the asteroid would miss Earth by a wide margin on both of the approaches during 2082.
Will it hit? The latest calculations increase the odds it will.

The world killers
Nothing yet has been tracked in the solar system that’s the size of the deadly asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and wiped out the dinosaurs.
Yet that doesn’t mean that someone, somewhere might not spot a giant PHA tomorrow—or the day after that—a leviathan tumbling through space that has the name “Earth” written across it like a gigantic tombstone.

Russians demand Earth asteroid deflection program now
Ever since the the Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, reported that Russian space scientists are very concerned over the prospects of asteroid Apophis striking Earth, much talk has erupted in some European scientific circles over the likelihood of such a disaster happening any time in the foreseeable future.
While the Russians insist the odds are high that the 1,000-foot rock will slam into the Earth—perhaps taking out a whole city of millions when it hits—the U.S. space agency NASA argues their figures show only a one in 250,000 chance of such a calamity occurring.

Yet the lead astronomer in the Russian group that met in a July 2011 conference concerning the asteroid threat to Earth, Professor Leonid Sokolov of the St. Petersburg State University, stated what NASA already knows: sooner or later one of those tumbling space rocks will hit Earth. When it does only its mass and speed will determine how much damage it will cause.
The Russians want a unified asteroid deflection program that’s well funded and equipped. They believe that someday it may mean the difference between the survival of the human race or its extinction.
The dinosaurs—the most successful species ever to walk the Earth—had 200 million years to build an asteroid deflection program. They failed to evolve quickly enough and the universe wiped them out.
The human race has only been around about one percent of the time the dinosaurs had, but humans have evolved much faster. Hopefully, that evolution includes enough intelligence to accomplish what the dinosaurs were unable to do: protect the species from the dangers that roam Earth’s backyard.

Time growing short
As the months progressed towards the asteroid summit chaired by the Russians, other astrophysicists and astronomers are added their thoughts.
Daniele Farigon a physicist at the Farigon of the University of Rome, proposes using nuclear powered mass-driver rockets to steer the space rock anywhere desperate Earth folk wanted it to go. She doesn’t say exactly where the asteroid or comet should be ferried to…perhaps into the sun? It couldn’t do any harm there.
Other visionaries have other visions. Some want to attach giant solar sails or change asteroid and comet orbits using gentle nudges. Everyone agrees that trying to blow it up with an atom bomb would be a very bad idea, Bruce Willis and Armageddon notwithstanding.


Russians meeting on asteroid dangers
At the conference, the European Commission considered Roscosmos’s proposal to create a joint agency specifically tasked to establish a workable asteroid deflection program.
When asked if the idea really smacked of science fiction, Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosm, responded, “People’s lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people.”
In the meantime, four clocks are now counting down towards the keyholes of four asteroids. Time grows shorter.
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