2/16/2015 -- TWO large earthquakes -- 6.9 Magnitude strikes Japan -- 6.7M in South Atlantic
Published on Feb 16, 2015
Two more large earthquakes have struck, making this past 7 days the most active week we've seen in many months.

This week started out with a 6.8 magnitude in Chile, followed by a 6.8 magnitude along the mid-atlantic, a 6.8 magnitude at the border of Ukraine and Russia, a 6.2 magnitude in Taiwan, and now a 6.8 magnitude in Japan with the 6.7 magnitude in the South Sandwich islands (south Atlantic).

See the whole post on the North Atlantic / Ukraine earthquakes here:

http://dutchsinse.com/2132015-two-6-8...


6.8M (6.9M revised down) in Japan Feb 16 2015: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake...

6.7M (6.8M revised down) in South Atlantic Feb 16 2015: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/e...

6.8M (hidden / removed from feeds) at the Russia / Ukraine border: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QyUd...

6.8M (7.1M revised up) at the north mid-atlantic ridge: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake...

6.2M in Taiwan: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpag­e/usb000tp6y

6.8M (6.7M revised down) at the border of Chile/Argentina South America: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake...
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Science & Technology

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 10:17pm:

many blessings

it is said there will be a 10 + mag quake very soon

upon this land and so beloved beings

....prepare



namaste

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Feb 18^th, 2015 at 7:35am:


many blessings unto my beloved and divine master pansi

yo rock , one such as you are would do well

to take advice from divine beings in whom we are

for we are in love and sacred light

namaste

- : ) =

2/17/2015 -- Eruption of LAVA at Colima Volcano in Mexico -- pressure building in region

Published on Feb 17, 2015
A sign of building pressure?

After several years silence, about a month ago Colima Volcano in Mexico started showing major activity.

Multiple main stream media reports have now been done on this particular volcano, talking about its ash laden explosive eruptions.

Now (as of February 17, 2015) we are beginning to see actual LAVA reach the top of the cone during these eruptions.

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Recorded via the streaming webcam located near the base of Colima Volcano in Mexico -- this video shows a fairly impressive blast from this active ongoing eruptive event.

Previous eruptions making international headlines over the past few weeks.

This area in Mexico is under extreme stress, and areas due South (in guatemala, and costa rica) have shown fresh eruptions as well. The area North (california, nevada, arizona, new mexico, utah) showing dormant volcano movement as well.

Watch the ongoing Colima Mexico eruption (and download timelapses of the events) here: http://webcams.volcanosp@m/
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Science & Technology

TITAN: Amazing New Images of Saturn's Mysterious Moon

Published on Feb 17, 2015
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com

Nasa has cleaned up some amazing images and slipped them out there for those that seek to find! Amazing Details on this Moon!

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/a-new...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Titan?src...

http://www.popsugar.com/tech/NASA-Cas...
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News & Politics

UNSC unanimously adopts Russian draft resolution on Ukraine

Don't we have a seat on that, the one that Labor bought? Maybe it's expired.

Great news, the world isn't as dysfunctional as I thought. Hey! maybe they want to promote peace, at last.

Fuel Leak As 420ft Container Ship Hits Rocks Off Scotland

Published on Feb 18, 2015
http://www.undergroundworldnews.com

A container ship on its way to Norway has run aground off the Scottish coast and is leaking fuel.

An operation is under way to contain any risk of pollution and free Lysblink Seaways, which has nine people on board.

The alarm was raised at around 1.50am on Wednesday when the vessel became stuck off Kilchoan, north of the Isle of Mull, in the West Highlands.

The ship, thought to be carrying paper, did not refloat at high tide at 4.35am.

Tugs are expected to try to free the vessel and the Tobermory lifeboat is at the scene. So far, no-one has been reported injured.

http://news.sky.com/story/1429760/fuel-leak-as-ship-hits-the-rocks-off-scotland

Fuel Leak As Ship Hits The Rocks Off Scotland
Work is under way to contain any pollution and refloat a 420ft container vessel off the coast of the West Highlands.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31519875

18 February 2015 Last updated at 13:06

Alien star system buzzed the Sun

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website




Scholz's star - shown in this artist's impression - is currently 20 light-years away. But it once came much closer

An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have discovered.

No other star is known to have approached this close to us.

An international team of researchers says it came five times closer than our current nearest neighbour - Proxima Centauri.

The object, a red dwarf known as Scholz's star, cruised through the outer reaches of the Solar System - a region known as the Oort Cloud.

Scholz's star was not alone; it was accompanied on its travels by an object known as a brown dwarf. These are essentially failed stars that lacked the necessary mass to get fusion going in their cores.

The findings are published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Observations of the dim star's trajectory suggest that 70,000 years ago this cosmic infiltrator passed within 0.8 light years of the Sun. By comparison, Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away.

Close encounter
In the paper, astronomers led by Eric Mamajek at the University of Rochester, New York, say they are 98% certain that Scholz's star travelled through what is known as the "outer Oort Cloud" - a region at the edge of the Solar System filled with trillions of comets a mile or more across.

This region is like a spherical shell around the Solar System and may extend out to as much as 100,000 Astronomical Units, or AU (one AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun).

The Oort Cloud is thought to give rise to long-period comets that can swing past the Sun when their orbits are disturbed.


The Oort Cloud in perspective: 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) represents the distance from the Earth to the Sun
To determine the trajectory of the star, the researchers needed two pieces of information: the change in distance from the Sun to the star (its radial velocity) and the star's motion across the sky (its tangential velocity).

Scholz's star currently lies 20 light years away - making it a fairly nearby system. But it showed very slow tangential motion for a star this close. This indicated that it was either moving away from us or towards a future close encounter with the Solar System.

The radial velocity measurements confirmed that the binary star system was actually speeding away from us. By tracing its movements back in time, they found its close shave with the Sun occurred some 70,000 years ago.

Grand theft Oort-o?
A star passing through the Oort Cloud could potentially play gravitational havoc with the orbits of comets there, sending them on trajectories into the inner Solar System. But Dr Mamajek believes the effects of Scholz's star on our cosmic neighbourhood were "negligible".

"There are trillions of comets in the Oort cloud and likely some of them were perturbed by this object," he told BBC News.

"But so far it seems unlikely that this star actually triggered a significant 'comet shower'."

The effect of a passing star on the Oort Cloud is a function of the star's mass, speed and proximity. The worst case scenario for stirring up comets would be a slow-moving, massive star that came close to the Sun.

Scholz's star came relatively close, but the binary system (the red dwarf and its brown dwarf companion) has a low mass and it was speeding by. These factors conspired to make its effect on the Oort Cloud very small.

While this is the closest flyby detected so far, Dr Mamajek thinks it's not uncommon for alien stars to buzz the Sun. He says a star probably passes through the Oort Cloud every 100,000 years, or so.

But he suggests an approach as close - or closer - than that made by Scholz's star is somewhat rarer. Dr Mamajek said mathematical simulations show such an event occurs on average about once every nine million years.

"So it is a bit of a strange coincidence that we happen to have caught one that passed so close within the past 100,000 years or so," he said.