MooPig Not-so-Good News Department :: "Japan Hit By 7.3 Earthquake Off Fukushima"

Into the Spector, Again...!
Retrieved articles by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 25, 2013  |  Bryan TX

UPDATE ::
LONDON | Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:40pm EDT (Reuters) - A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 231 miles east of the Japanese island of Honshu on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A U.S. Pacific tsunami warning center said there was no destructive widespread tsunami threat following the quake. (Writing by Tom Pfeiffer)(LINK)

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Japan Hit By 7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Off Fukushima Prefecture Coast, Tsunami Advisory Issued: "TOKYO -- TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan's east coast, near the crippled Fukushima nuclear site, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan's emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the area.

The quake hit at 3:10 a.m. Saturday Tokyo time (1310 GMT), the USGS said. The tremor was felt in Tokyo, some 300 miles (480 kilometers) away. Japan's Meteorological Agency raised the tsunami warning for the area of Honshu. But the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not post warnings for the rest of the Pacific."

'via Blog this'

" ... The quake had a shallow depth of around 6 miles. A tsunami of one meter was expected around 20 to 30 minutes after the quake. On Twitter, a number of people said they felt the quake, which hit at around 2:11 a.m. local time. “Shaken awake by long earthquake, went for nearly a minute,” wrote Mark Willacy with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

" ...The quake was felt as far away as Tokyo, located some 300 miles away, The Associated Press reported. According to NHK, people near the coast of Fukushima are advised to move to higher ground as soon as possible.

" ... The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said that there was no damage done to the beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan after an earthquake struck off the coast on Saturday morning. (Jack Phillips, Epoch Times | October 25, 2013. LINK) ..."


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/japan-earthquake-fukushima-prefecture_n_4164181.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/magnitude-73-earthquake-strikes-off-fukushima-region-japan-20683834
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Update: Later this Week -- Leonid Promises Fireballs Tuesday Morning:: 3 AM CST ::

Heads Up
retrievals by Pat Darnell
11.25.2009


Leonid meteors shower 2009 from Think Pictures on Vimeo.
This years' Leonids came a couple days early, and not only did it put on an excellent show this year, I captured a couple of those really high altitude smoke trails left by the larger meteor streaks. I've only seen this one other time and that was by the naked eye during the Leonid meteor shower event in 2004. Seeing it timelapsed really offers a unique look at the dissipation of the smoke trail that follows the streak.

You may have to step through it to see during the main event, but I've showcased both of them at the end of the video.

Every 33 years the Tempel-Tuttle Comet visits the inner solar system filling Earth's skies with a shower of meteors. Debris from this particular comet are called Leonids because they appear to originate in the part of the sky where the Leo constellation is located. Though this year's Leonid Meteor Shower took place last week, the meteors that people observed were actually emitted by the comet in the years 1466 and 1533. Most of the meteoric activity was predicted to occur over Asia, but it seems that the most stunning amateur video came from other parts of the world, including the US. Some of it looks like it came straight out of a big budget sci-fi thriller. [SOURCE]

This [next]video was captured on November 21st by an office building's security camera in Midrand, South Africa. It takes a few seconds but boy is it worth it.

Footage from the security camera of the Mustek building in Midrand of the meteor shower that took place on 21 Nov 2009.



Footage from Leonid Meteor Shower November 17th, 2009

"When to watch:
Earth will pass through one of the denser debris streams at around 4 a.m. ET (1 a.m. PT) Tuesday. If you have only an hour or less to watch, center it around this time. Leo will be high in the sky for East Coast skywatchers, putting more meteors into view. In the West, Leo will be low in the eastern sky at this time, so fewer shooting stars will be above the horizon, and therefore Western skywatchers should also try to stick it out until daybreak."

[SOURCE]
It’s prime time for colorful meteor shower
Annual Leonid display should be good in North America, even better in Asia
[Excerpt]" ... This year the moon is near its new phase, and thus it won't be a factor that detracts from the show. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere with dark skies, away from urban and suburban lighting, the meteor shower should be worth getting up early to see ... "
By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial director

"We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Other astronomers who work in the nascent field of meteor shower prediction have put out similar forecasts.

"Urban dwellers and suburbanites will see far fewer, as the fainter meteors will be drowned out by local lights.

"Behind the Leonids
"The Leonids are created by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which passes through the inner solar system every 33 years on its orbit around the sun. Each time by, it leaves a new river of debris, consisting mostly of bits of ice and rock no bigger than a sand grain, but including a few the size of a pea or marble." (Cooke, Bill; NASA, excerpts retrieved today by PDarnell, SOURCE)"
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[See: also --]
On This Date in History - November 16
From Nick Greene, About.com Guide
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[HERE] November Highlight - A Lion Roars
Mike Koop (California Meteor Society), Peter Jenniskens (NASA Ames Research Center)November brings the usual suspects [ ... ], but more on that in a moment. November also brings the Leonids Meteor Shower. [ ... ]

The Leonids are expected to peak on the 17th.

Jupiter is still well placed for viewing with your telescope. Mars is now rising before midnight and visible through most of the night. Saturn climbs higher in the morning sky while Venus sinks lower. Another treat this month could be the asteroid Vesta in the early morning hours of the 24th.

Did you catch that Nat Geo program about Yellowstone and its Surface Manifestations?

Retrieved and Commented by Pat Darnell [SOURCE PHOTO]

Smith directs the Yellowstone Seismic Network, which operates seismic stations around the park. He said the quakes have ranged in strength from barely detectable to one of magnitude 3.8 that happened Saturday. A magnitude 4 quake is capable of producing moderate damage.

Earthquakes Rattle Yellowstone Park
By MEAD GRUVER, AP | posted: 34 MINUTES AGO | [SOURCE]

"There doesn't seem to be anything to be alarmed about," Vallie said.

Smith said it's difficult to say what might be causing the tremors. He pointed out that Yellowstone is the caldera of a volcano that last erupted 70,000 years ago.

He said Yellowstone remains very geologically active — and its famous geysers and hot springs are a reminder that a pool of magma still exists five to 10 miles underground.

"That's just the surface manifestation of the enormous amount of heat that's being released through the system," he said.

Yellowstone has had significant earthquakes as well as minor ones in recent decades. In 1959, a magnitude 7.5 quake near Hebgen Lake just west of the park triggered a landslide that killed 28 people.

Commentary and background:
I had a Geology Professor at Trinity in 1974 named Dr McGannon. He had a General George Patton attitude in his lecture delivery to us tenderfoots gathered in the geology auditorium. He closed and locked the door at the precise hour class started. He brought in the world outside with stories of "cataclysmic volcano activity." Shoot, he even made sedimentary rock formations exciting.

It is like this, Prof McGannon said in his rather loquacious fashion that the USA will suffer a large "mantle" shift toward the end of forty-five years from now... or then, and that is now within the next fifteen years. He said the only unusual thing about it will be that so many people will experience the "cataclysmic event."

God rest his soul, Dr McGannon has passed away due to a heart condition that we all knew about, as we were always careful not to startle him on field trips. However, his words echo on in my head, regardless. He touted that the degree of damages will be for the first time measured in property and casualty losses by humans. The event he says "has happened before" in earth history; evidence in the geologic formations tell the whole story of large transitions in earth's crust.

The professor certainly proved it to me over the next three semesters. I just want to point out that in this time 1974-6 Tectonics was only a theory. There was no proof of the hundreds of theories explaining global tectonics in Prof McGannon's time.

Today tectonics is taught in elementary school like Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 14-hundred and ninety-two... and landed on the Caribbean Plate thinking he had landed on the Indian Plate... badda bing; badda boom.

Therefore, I have avoided settling in seismic areas all of my years following Trinity U. Apparently Yellowstone is one area of enormous potential for large thermoplastic ash flow, similar to a caldera that formed it over 500 million years ago. National Geographic has been showing a bit of the potential in its TV series. From this story in 2007 activity is on the rise at our national park, and surface manifestations are brilliant.

Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen "Supervolcano"
Richard A. Lovett | for National Geographic News | November 8, 2007

Yellowstone National Park is rising. Its central region, called the Yellowstone caldera, has been moving upward since mid-2004 at a rate of up to three inches (seven centimeters) a year—more than three times faster than has ever been measured.

Grand Prismatic Spring is one of Yellowstone National Park's many hot springs and geysers fueled by underground thermal energy. A new study has found that Yellowstone is rising faster than has ever been measured before, due to an influx of magma several miles beneath the surface. [PHOTO Photograph courtesy Robert B. Smith/Science]