Guest guest Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Or maybe three........... Baja quake First that was a 7.2 mag quake according to most seismic indicators....and there have been upwards of 200 aftershocks so far http://www.cisn.org/ ***************** then----the sun has been putting out a super high velocity solar wind for the past few hours the likes of which I have not seen for many years ---creating a geomagnetic storm of G3---and as we are coming up on a coronal hole also---while it is subsiding some, it will likely last at least a couple of days. Not sure if you recall my past correlations between quakes and solar storms....but these events are definitely food for thought.... http://swpc.noaa.gov http://www.spaceweather.com/ ********************* The rest I'll let Urbam Survival tell you.... http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm Home Scanners Last Week News Links Consulting Services Archives & Library Submit a News Tip Peoplenomics Independence Journal Site Disclaimer Elliott Wave View as Blog Published Monday - Friday about 8 AM Central Time ....some typos are fixed by 8:30 dailyMonday April 5, 2010 07:55 CST New? Visit our FAQ Subscribe in a reader This site is supported by subscriptions: For additional content, please to Peoplenomics. . Content mirrored at: www.independencejournal.com, Kindle (.MOBI) version here Quakes & Fed: Double Jitter Monday I don't know which one of two stories is more worrisome this morning: The massive swarming of earthquakes south of the Imperial Valley/Salton Sea area between Baja and mainland Mexico, or today's emergency meeting of the Federal Reserve. Both seem to be incredibly important, yet in some media, there's only passing concern about the quakes and some not even bothering to mention the Fed meeting. --- We can start with the earthquake story because it's not as complicated as the financial ramifications of the Fed meeting and peripheral impacts of a rate hike. You may recall that in last week's report, I mentioned a really strange dream that I had on Tuesday (the 30th of March) which mentioned "Wednesday - Los Angeles" in connection with a large quake - odd enough and vivid enough to mention in a column. Since we didn't get a quake in L.A. last week on Wednesday, I blew it off as 'dream noise'. today, I'm not so sure. The reason is the Sunday quake in Baja California (near Mexicali) which popped 7.2 on the Richter scale. What was even stranger was in last week's report I mentioned how I'd have the ham radio beam antenna pointed out west 'just in case' but I never got around to hooking up my phone patch (which connects a ham radio to local telephone lines, enabling people to make telephone calls via ham radio in emergency conditions). That's back at the top of my To-Do list today. --- Just to give you an idea of the significance of this event: the USGS website listed 211 earthquakes from the time of the 7.2 shaker near Mexicali Sunday until this morning about 5:30 AM Central when I got to looking at things. Of all these quakes, 114 were in Baja, California, a few were closer to Sonora Mexico, but a pretty good number (85) were in southern California. --- With the beam pointed out west last night, one fellow I talked to who was north of San Diego a bit said he was out on the golf course when the quake happened and didn't feel a thing, but his wife called him on the phone and informed him that the house was 'moving around a lot'. Another ham told me (also from the area just north and east of LA that he'd noticed the water in his Jacuzzi was sloshing over into the pool, but no damage to his home, except his swimming pool pump system got screwed up. Then came a couple of mobile stations in LA - all with good signals such that there ought to be good coms from the area...just in case. --- When Cliff & I were on CoastToCoast last week with George Noory, one of the items covered was the predictive linguistic expectation that we would have (probably) 6 more 'great quakes" this year. While the 7.2 and only two dead is not a 'great quake' the amount of aftershocks are a concern because there's always the possibility that movement along the eastern periphery of the Pacific Ring of Fire could be setting up tensions elsewhere. I mean, when you think about it, there's an interesting spacing of quakes shaping up here. The Haiti quake hit on January 12th, the Chile quake struck on February 27th, and now we have a 7.2 hitting in the upper Baja. So the predictive linguistics of 6-more 'great quakes' which I'm the first to admit sounded 'nutty' when we talked about them at the time of the Haiti quake seem to be supported by events drifting off in that direction. Does it mean there will necessarily be six more? No, but the odds seem better than zero that we will have multiple flurries of headlines about quakes as the year progresses. --- Given free reign, monkey-mind can start asking some pretty interesting questions here. Like (for example) is there any link to the latest NASA Shuttle launch up to the space station? And, what is president Obama going to say about the future of the US Space Program? Sometimes I wonder if the international space station (ISS) is kind of 'human insurance policy to reseed the earth should something really BIG happen down here on the ground...a worthy ponder, I think. At least till the quake picture settles down. I'll grant you that these concerns could be overblown a bit, but it's Monday, the coffee is going to work and the numbers...I keep coming back to these are: 211 quakes worldwide on the USGS site since the Sunday 7.2 Baja event and 202 aftershocks. You work the percentages and tell me if Tums or Tagamet is in order? Headlines are happily reporting that the quakes so far have not moved over to the San Andreas. I'd still urge anyone in SoCal to double-check plans and beef up food & water supplies, just in case. The Emergency Fed Meeting The MainStreamMedia is showing its complete lack of comprehension when it comes to financial reporting -- once again -- as the number of stories out this morning about the 'emergency Fed rate meeting' are near-zero. Oh, sure, you can find a few sites that are on top of things (like this one) but when the Fed holds an unscheduled meeting on Discount Rate Policy, oh gee, don'tcha think this is a big deal? Here's the announcement which is not exactly front-page on the Fed site today: ========= Advance Notice of a Meetingunder Expedited Procedures It is anticipated that a closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, April 5, 2010, will be held under expedited procedures, as set forth in section 26lb.7 of the Board's Rules Regarding Public Observation of Meetings, at the Board's offices at 20th Street and C Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. The following items of official Board business are tentatively scheduled to be considered at that meeting. Meeting date: April 5, 2010 Matters to be Considered: 1. Review and determination by the Board of Governors of the advance and discount rates to be charged by Federal Reserve Banks. A final announcement of matters considered under expedited procedures will be available in the Board's Freedom of Information and Public Affairs Offices and on the Board's Web site following the closed meeting. ========= There used to be a saying among reporters covering State Legislature politics that "No man or his property are safe when the Legislature is in session." My update on that kind of thinking is that "No investor, nor their money is safe when the Fed is holding emergency meetings on anything." Best I can figure, even a small increase in the discount rate will drive a stake through the heart of the fledgling recovery, but of course, it's not really fledgling if you listened to those BLS jobs figures out on Friday. (I figure most hiring was Census, but who seems to care but us?) I just hope someone on the Fed Board will also look at the ADP figures which showed a net loss and not the politically contrived BLS numbers which may overstate the rate of recovery; perhaps dangerously so. I'll try to remember and post the update when the rate decision is released, perhaps around 2:15-2:30 PM (EDT) this afternoon. Like I said, in case you weren't completely away: The Fed doesn't meet without an action item likely to be approved. The $X-billion question: Who's in trouble now? Stock futures are higher: Am I the lone worrywart on this stuff? Or, are most other investors under some MSM-imposed rock? Adventures of Gordo the Gold-Seller Meantime, curious to note that British Pee 'Em Gordo the Gold-seller is hailing a move toward a global banking tax. --- What's really going on here is the March to Global Government - not a bad thing per se, as long as you don't mind a Mark of the Beast RFID'ing scheme for any government services, and giving up ever-increasing portions of your daily wages to a whole new layer of super-government which will not be directly responsible to humans; only to the elected layer which will usurp all powers over time anyways. Think of it as the old kids taunt: "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine." As they say on the marl road in de Caribbean, mon, "Soon come..." Rolling Impacts The rest of the day's headlines are along the ho-hum variety, except those which might move with a Fed decision on the discount rate today. Oil, for example is up around $85...worrisome only if you drive or use electricity, or eat. Naw, no worries there. Well, except that predictive linguistic call for inflation roaring later in the year does come into somewhat clearer focus. You still have time to plant a garden, you know. But, if you want to be a victim of government control on all fronts, just ignore that gardening suggestion. I'm sure there's northing to worry about - all will be well - and government has everything perfectly considered in our best interests. Even those quakes.... Measured Responses The headline "Office vacancy rate hits 16-year high" is a precursor of what? I figure the pending meltdown of commercial real estate. Unmeasured Response So, reports the WaPo today: A woman tells the Great O we're over-taxed. She gets a whopping 17-minute, 2,500 word reply that has Washington buzzing. Whatzzup about? --- snip and save section --- Coping: Flux Rope. Satellite Outages & Birkeland Currents Not often that things work out well, while working out badly, but for some reason that's how things seem to be going around here. My long-time friend who is visiting does a lot of work with something called "subtle energies" and is off to meetings in Florida later this week; he's pretty well-known in the world of subtle energy work, but has held back on writing a book or raising his profile too far; now's not the time to be doing such things. Curiously, around here there's a kind of sense that this is not the time to be throwing in 110% on this issue, or that; more like it's a time to sit back and watch events unfold while being careful not to be taken in by the 'shock & awe" of affairs, although an emergency Fed meeting and all the shaking in the area south of the Salton Sea in SoCal is certainly reason to be a tad jittery. But with not too much speculation, we could be witnessing the evolution of something which has been in Cliff's predictive linguistics modeling for at least 10-years. "sun disease". Let me back up: Our Canadian Prairies correspondent reported in an overnight note that the Northern Lights were going nuts last night: "Wow, 5:00 am your time, up to use the washroom, and noticed streaks and flashes through the west horizon like lightening in the distance through the window. Went outside, and the whole sky is flashing here and there like a strobe with the aurora. Never seen anything like it. from directly above, spreading out in all directions, but to faint and flashing way to fast to photograph. Big dipper is almost directly above at the moment and its all arcing from around that point. Never seen anything like this. Normally they light up and shimmer across the sky in the northern region and slowly spread south. this has huge flashes covering half the sky and lasting maybe one quarter of a second. The things I get to see. All of which points out that the Sun, which has been in quite a period of lull, seems to have come back quite energetically -- indeed so much so that there was a solar "PRESTO" alert issued on Saturday which pushes up the blood pressure a bit...pay particular attention to the highlight: "A B7.4 flare peaking at 09:54 UT was detected today in the Catania sunspot group 56 (NOAA AR 1059) located around S25W05. It was accompanied by a post-eruption arcade, coronal dimmings, possibly an EIT wave and a partial halo CME (angular width around 210 degrees). The CME was first detected at 10:33 UT (by LASCO) and at 09:54 UT (by SECCHI/COR2 on STEREO A). The CME was moving at a projected plane-of-the-sky speed of around 250 km/s (according to the LASCO data). Using some reasonable assumptions on the CME geometry, the true radial CME speed can be estimated to be around 600 km/s. The arrival of the corresponding ICME (possibly an interplanetary flux rope) at the Earth is thus expected in the morning of April 6. When the Earth's magnetosphere starts being slapped by this, or that, I get concerned about 'as above, so below" kinds of effects - and whether there is a relationship between gamma ray bursts (GRB's) and earthquakes or the arrival of what's called an "interplanetary flux rope" in this PRESTO alert. The "flux rope" sure sounds like the "h-field" part of Jim McCanney's 'electric solar system model', where he postulates actual 'arcing' from the Sun to the planets (or does it go the other way...don't recall at this hour). But regardless, when CME energy shows up, really BIG effects start to happen on Earth. Don't know how aware you are of the THEMIS project at NASA (not to be confused with the European NGO of the same name), but NASA has been looking at this stuff, too, and discoveries and predictions made by Norwegian explorer Kristian Birkeland may need to be reconsidered. From Wikipedia come this interesting sidebar to the concept of 'flux ropes": "Auroral Birkeland currents can carry about 1 million amperes.[2] They can heat up the upper atmosphere which results in increased drag on low-altitude satellites. Birkeland currents can also be created in the laboratory with multi-terawatt pulsed power generators. The resulting cross-section pattern indicates a hollow beam of electron in the form of a circle of vortices, a formation called the diocotron instability[3] (similar, but different from the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability), that subsequently leads to filamentation. Such vortices can be seen in aurora as "auroral curls".[4] Birkeland currents are also one of a class of plasma phenomena called a z-pinch, so named because the azimuthal magnetic fields produced by the current pinches the current into a filamentary cable. This can also twist, producing a helical pinch that spirals like a twisted or braided rope, and this most closely corresponds to a Birkeland current. Pairs of parallel Birkeland currents can also interact; parallel Birkeland currents moving in the same direction will attract with an electromagnetic force inversely proportional to their distance apart (Note that the electromagnetic force between the individual particles is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, just like the gravitational force); parallel Birkeland currents moving in opposite directions will repel with an electromagnetic force inversely proportional to their distance apart. There is also a short-range circular component to the force between two Birkeland currents that is opposite to the longer-range parallel forces.[5] Electrons moving along a Birkeland current may be accelerated by a plasma double layer. If the resulting electrons approach relativistic velocities (ie. the speed of light) they may subsequently produce a Bennett pinch, which in a magnetic field will spiral and emit synchrotron radiation that includes radio, optical (ie. light), x-rays, and gamma rays. What's pretty cool about all this is that gobs and oodles of energy show up at the polar regions. Back to the NASA THEMIS Project Wiki entry: "In 2007, THEMIS "found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," reconfirming the theory of solar-terrestrial electrical interaction (via "Birkeland currents" or "field-aligned currents") proposed by Kristian Birkeland circa 1908.[5][6] NASA also likened the interaction to a "30 kiloVolt battery in space," noting the "flux rope pumps 650,000 Amp current into the Arctic!"[7] So, if anything, Jim McCanney's claims about 'electric solar system' seems quite demonstrably true, but I'd add a small footnote that the E-field (electric field) might be better framed as an H-field (magnetic) effect. Don't know how much welding you've done lately with a stick or wire welder, but what does arc welding create? Low voltage but incredibly high currents: Heat - all kinds of heat and enough to melt pretty much any metal in the way. What this does is something that doesn't get distilled down to plain, ordinary, everyday (comprehensible over Cheerios) language. But the "flux ropes" and the H-field (magnetics) seem able to provide sufficient current that they provide a dandy power source which could - in turn - power plasma/matter creation (or more correctly matter condensates) at toward the center of the planet. This is totally cool stuff, except for one small got'cha: As the Sun's flux-levels get turned up, and more ropes arrive, what does that do to the temperature of the earth's core and possibly (under the plasma expansion model) what does this do to the little things floating on the surface of the planet like, oh, I dunno, Haiti, Chile, and now Mexicali? --- All of which might sound really wonky except for two things. Just in the last few minutes, this showed up: Space Weather Bulletin: A geomagnetic storm began at 05:55 AM EST Monday, April 5, 2010. Space weather storm levels reached Strong (G3) levels on the Geomagnetic Storms Space Weather Scale. The source of the storming is an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection associated with a weak solar flare that occurred in Active Region 1059 on April 3 at 05:54 AM EST. This is expected to be an isolated storm that should subside quickly. Other than the flare and CME erupting on April 3, this active region has not produced any significant activity. Systems that can be affected include electric power systems, spacecraft operations, high-frequency communications, GPS, and other navigation systems. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov And two: I can't seem to get rid of that image of "Wednesday - Los Angeles" out of my head. While UrbanSurvival is all about long wave economics, there are some issues that (poor pun here) eclipse the importance of money. Fundamental core changes of the Third Rock is at the top of that list. If you get the odd power blip or data loss over the next day or so, that's probably got something to do with it. Send your comments to george Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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