As per Nancy and zetas, we are in progress of the sequence of 7 / 10.
The Zeta sequence for 7 / 10 is as follows:
(1) a tipping Indo-Australia Plate with (2) Indonesia sinking,
(3) a folding Pacific allowing (4) S America to roll,
(5) a tearing of the south Atlantic Rift allowing (6) Africa to roll and (7) the floor of the Mediterranean to drop,
(8) great quakes in Japan followed by (9) the New Madrid adjustment,
(10) which is followed almost instantly by the tearing of the north Atlantic Rift with consequent European tsunami.
However, none of the steps have been 100% completed.
The indo-australian plate has been rising and tilting indicated by for example, the brisbane flood in January 2011 and Earthquake of 7.1 in Christchurch on 4th of September 2010 plus another quake of 6.3 on 22nd of February 2011 .
Indonesia has been sinking with lots of earthquakes, sinkholes, earth cracking, volcano eruptions, landsliding and off course flooding all around the coast line of Indonesia.
A folding pacific has created a lot of pressure tectonically in the pacific ocean and consequently a big earthquake magnitude of 9.0 happened on March the 11th 2011 in the ocean near the northern Japan with a 10 meter Tsunami and finally nuclear disasters. Please note that this is not the great quakes mentioned in the 7 / 10 sequence. Not yet!
Severe earth wobble has caused wild weather around the world. Drought, rain, bush fires, hailstorms, sandstorms, thunderstorms, cyclones, tornadoes, etc, have hit various part of the world. In US alone, we have seen close to 300 tornadoes in April 2011 alone and around 400 died in total.
South America is now showing signs of rolling west as per Nancy's blog in "7 of 10 Status as of April 28, 2011".
These are all precursors for the bigger events such as new madrid adjustment and off course the european tsunami in the 7 / 10 sequence. It took almost four months to get to step 4. It is time to prepare and please take it seriously!
The intention of this blog is to take a closer look at the new madrid adjustment in details and see if we can connect all the dots together. I thought that this could be beneficial especially for all new members who have only joined this ning recently but also a good reminder to all existing members.
Information has been compiled from Zetatalk, blogs from various members plus all other new madrid related information and articles on the world wide web .
Written June 19, 2010
We have described the plate movements to be anticipated during the hour of the pole shift as a scripted drama, and stated that the plate movement ahead of the pole shift can be anticipated to fall along those lines. Thus, our statements that the New Madrid zone will adjust at the hour of the pole shift was well as before that hour are consistent. The Atlantic is tearing now, thus the Iceland volcanoes, and will tear further well before the pole shift to cause the European tsunami, as we have described. But this in no way compares to the major tearing of the Atlantic that occurs during the hour of the pole shift. The Seaway is pulling apart now, thus the humongous sinkhole just NE of Montreal, but this is no way compares to the pulling apart that will occur during the hour of the pole shift. When we speak of a New Madrid adjustment as potentially part of a 7 of 10 or an 8 of 10 stage, we are not speaking of the pole shift adjustments. Those are regularly referred to as the hour of the pole shift, to differentiate any Earth changes that come before. Prior to the pole shift, the New Madrid will adjust. Canada remains firmly attached at her border with the Eurasian Plate, and thus the Seaway will participate in this pre-shift New Madrid adjustment. But the primary reaction will be along the Mississippi, with bridges failing and land just to the west of the Mississippi dropping slightly. Certainly this adjustment, which may be a series of large quakes, will shatter cities throughout the region and affect cities all the way to the Great Lakes and down into Mexico.
The New Madrid adjustment
Where the N American continent is under great stress, it has not slipped because it is held in place on both sides. The Pacific side holds due to subduction friction along the San Andreas, and the Atlantic side holds due to the Atlantic Rift's reluctance to rip open. What changes this dynamic? When S America rolls, almost in step with the folding Pacific, it tears the Atlantic Rift on the southern side. This allows Africa freedom to move and it rolls too, dropping the Mediterranean floor above Algeria. What is holding the N American continent together has thus eased, so that when the Japan adjustments are made, there is less holding the N American continent in place than before, and the New Madrid gives way
The New Madrid adjustment will affect so much area, in a domino manner, that it will not be a single large quake, but a series, separated by weeks and months. The primary adjustment will be within days, after shocks for weeks, but months later still, adjustments. The New Madrid is associated with fault lines that run up toward the Great Lakes, Chicago will adjust and rupture, Ohio will be pulled in places, and as we have explained, the land to the West of the Mississippi will sink in places. There is a known fault line that runs from the center of the Gulf up along the East Coast, thus the effect in 1811-12 in the Carolinas and DC on up to Boston. Then, as we have explained, there will be a bow from San Diego out to Arizona, which will rupture the great dam on the Colorado. When this bow, which forces Mexico too far to the West for the comfort of the West Coast, adjustes, it will be a slip-slide adjustment of the San Andreas and related fault lines up the coast.
In September, FEMA's associate administrator for Response and Recovery, William Carwile, told a Senate panel that FEMA has five regional groups planning for possible earthquake responses, but a major quake along the New Madrid fault line could displace 7.2 million people and knock out 15 bridges. The response would require 42,000 first responders from local firefighters to the Pentagon."
"Although Memphis is likely to be the focus of major damage in the region, St. Louis, Mo., Little Rock, Ark., and many small and medium sized cities would also sustain damage, " the U.S.. Geological Survey found.
South Carolina is home to an active fault line, which could also produce a catastrophic earthquake.
A quake in Charleston in 1886 was a magnitude 7.6. That city in 2008 had a population in excess of 348,000. Much of that state's coastal area is at risk."
This year marks the bi-centennial of the New Madrid Quake. Mr. Nations is not the only one concerned many communities are making preparations and there aregeologists warning of the dangers. A new report out recently also stresses Americans are not prepared. FEMA is also asking that groups take part in the Great Earthquake ShakeOut Drill. A Map that shows the locations of the nuclear plants along the New Madrid Fault zone can be viewed here.
The Zeta mention that the Phoenix, AZ area will not be safe due in part to the breaching of dams along the Colorado River. I found 5 dams but there may be more.
The Zetas stressed in February that the Phoenix Lights redux UFOs were a warning about future changes in the southwest, a bowing in the
land from Mexico to northern California which would ultimately cause the Hoover Dam to break.
ZetaTalk Explanation 2/10/2007: And why the anniversary blitz of Phoenix lights? Is not the flat
dry desert of Arizona expected to remain relatively undisturbed, during the coming pole shift?
When the New Madrid Fault adjusts, Mexico will be too far to the West for the current comfort
of the West Coast, which will bow in the Southern California and Arizona region. The fault line
that runs along Mexico's west coast runs just under the Arizona border, then on up along the
west coast of California. Before the west coast of the US starts adjusting to the new position of
Mexico, with slip-slide adjustments, there will be a bending of the Arizona desert area that will
fracture the dry soil, create a breach in the great Colorado River dam, and allow magma to rise
in the calderas in the US - Mammoth Lake in California and Yellowstone. If the Hoover Dam
breaks, whither the city of Phoenix, which lies on flat land and near farm land irrigated by the
waters of the Colorado?
Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 45 miles (72 km)) downstream from Hoover Dam. It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada. Originally called Bullhead Dam, Davis dam was renamed after Arthur Powell Davis, who was the director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1914 to 1932. The United States Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam, which was completed in 1951.
The Flaming Gorge Dam is a concrete thin-arch dam in the Flaming Gorge of the Green River, a major tributary of theColorado River, in the U.S. state of Utah. One of the largest dams in the American West. Situated in Flaming Gorge, a canyon of the Green River named by John Wesley Powell, the dam was built and is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Groundbreaking for the structure began in 1958 and was completed in 1964.
The Glen Canyon Dam is the second largest dam on the Colorado River [1] at Page, Arizona, USA. Construction of the dam began in 1956 by the industrial conglomerate, Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Although the dam was not dedicated until 1966, it was able to begin blocking the flow of the river in 1963.
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over a hundred lives.
Parker Dam spans the Colorado River between Arizona and California, 155 miles downstream from HooverDam
. Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The Morelos Dam (the last dam on the Colorado River) will not be able to hold back the upcoming deluge of the Colorado River as the dams above breach.
The Morelos Diversion Dam, located on the Mexico–Arizona border, is the southernmost dam on the Colorado River. It sends nearly all of the remaining water to irrigation canals in the Mexicali Valley and to the Mexican towns of Mexicali and Tijuana. As a result, the river rarely reaches the Gulf of California, normally the river's mouth. Consequently, the vast wetlands at the mouth of the Colorado River have been reduced to just a fraction of their former size, affecting vegetation and wildlife. Before the construction of a number of dams along its reach, the Colorado flowed 129 kilometers (80 miles) through Mexico to the Gulf of California.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Colorado-River-Basin.html
The bowing stress on N. America is the result of the daily Torque Effect caused by Planet X gripping the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift. This causes the N American continent to be pulled into a bow, the Aleutian Islands pulled toward the tip of Mexico, with the center of the bow at San Diego.
ZetaTalk: N American Rip written Feb 10, 2006
We have discussed what we call the stretch zone, where a land mass is pulled apart so that the rock flakes pull across each other, silently, creating sinkholes and rifts and manifesting as broken gas and water mains and derailing trains. These stretch zones have dramatically expressed themselves in the African Rift area and in the SE United States and in the UK during the past couple years. When Planet X arrived in the inner solar system in 2003 and began seriously tugging at the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift, it accentuated this stretch on either side of the Atlantic. What went unstated during these discussions is why a stretch zone occurs. Look at S America, on the large S American plate. As the Atlantic is pulled apart, the Pacific compressed, it is required to have the upper part migrate to the West more than the tip, which is anchored at Antarctica. It moves as a whole, in the main, crunching the small plates in the Caribbean and Central America as it does so and popping the plate holding the Galapagos Islands which lies just to the west of S America. It can move, in short. But what of the African and N American plates?
The African Rift is caused because Africa is not free to move. It is bulbous at the north end, and comes to a tip at the south end. It is anchored at the south end, at South Africa, so when the Atlantic pulls apart, the bulbous northern part of the African plate moves directly eastward, yawing open the African Rift, along with the Red Sea, which is also widening. This inability of plates to move during the ripping apart of the Atlantic and compression of the Pacific is what will create a new rift up through Pakistan and above the Himalayas into Russia during the pole shift, equivalent to the St. Lawrence Seaway in N America. The Indio-Australia plate moves in the direction of the Himalayas, diving under them. Hawaii rises up during compression of the Pacific, so can move, if only up. Japan likewise is forced up, violently so, during Pacific compression. The Antarctica plate, as we have mentioned, is pressed down in the Pacific so will pop up on the Atlantic side, creating new land there ultimately during the pole shift.
The giant plates of N America and Eurasia are locked against each other, unable to rotate against each other due to their shape. Slip-slide along the West Coast, measured as a creep by geologists, is due only to slight adjustments along that edge of the plate, primarily due to adjustments within the small plates to the west of the N American plate, which move to accommodate pressure. The N American plate does not move, pre se, but other dramas occur. We explained, months before it expressed enough to show up on IRIS charts, the Earth torque caused as the N Pole continuing to rotate to the East while the S Pole was held back by Planet X, tending to open the globe like a jar of pickles. This creates a diagonal stress on the N American continent where New England is pulled to the east while Mexico is pulled to the West, so the New Madrid is put under slip-slide stress where one half, east of the Mississippi, will move toward the NE while the other, west of the Mississippi, moves toward the SW. The virtual hook of land in the N American continent near the Kamchatka peninsula is solid rock and will not snap off to become a separate land plate, nor would this ease the deadlock along the N American and Eurasian plates even it if did. These massive plates cannot move.
The stress on the N American plate will resolve by ripping. Ripping the St. Lawrence Seaway open. Pulling the SE down into the crumbling Caribbean and into the widening Atlantic, as neither of these sinking fronts will be able to support the edge of the weighty N American plate. There is pressure along the West Coast, of course, and as the N American plate confronts the compressing Pacific, this will only result in the predictable volcanic increases and West Coast earthquakes. But the primary drama preceding the pole shift will be the ripping action that a plate unable to move must endure. The notable area of catastrophe during this is the eastern half of the continental US. From Houston to Chicago to New England, the diagonal pull will tear the underpinning of cities and create a catastrophe for the US that will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial. A widening Seaway also does not affect just those land masses bordering the Seaway, as buckling occurs inland and afar. What does man assume caused the Black Hills to be so rumpled, with the appearance of a recent bucking and heaving? This is the center of a land plate! The tearing of the Seaway does not end at Duluth, MN, it travels underground to S Dakota!
Indeed, tearing of the St. Lawrence Seaway will occur during the New Madrid adjustment. We have warned that quakes on the West Coast, or the Seaway, or in the New Madrid region will occur before the major quake in the New Madrid region we have referred to as the adjustment on a 7 of 10 level. There will be quakes in these areas, magnitude 4-7, which should not be considered the New Madrid adjustment of which we speak. Please do not ask, at every quake, what this "means". It means the New Madrid adjustment is still pending. When the tension in the N American continent starts to force major tearing of rock strata, so that the changes we have described can take place, this will not be all at once, simultaneously. We have described a series of large quakes, with one major one stemming from the New Madrid area that will be called a magnitude 9 but in truth will be larger. It is this quake that will set in motion adjustments elsewhere.
Mexico will lurch to the west as this major quake occurs, with a settling of land to the west of the Mississippi almost instantly afterwards. The Mississippi will seem to have widened, and those to the west will see a new view as they look east, as their land will have shifted to the southwest as well as dropped. Because the lurch of Mexico to the west actually intensifies the bowing of the N American continent, the Seaway tears open. This is actually various adjustments at weak points along the Seaway rather than the tearing apart into a larger inland bay that occurs during the pole shift itself. Niagara Falls will remain, but some of the inland locks will break. When the upper Mississippi region finds the land to its west slipping down and to the southwest, those parts north which were formerly firmly attached find they can spring northward, as the pressure from the bow had been inclining them to do. This allows the edge of the rip, at Duluth, MN, to tear further inland, with consequent rumpling in S Dakota and minor shifting of ground in all parts in between.
Due to the rise in sea level to 675 feet within two years after the pole shift, the N American continent will appear to be two separate land masses in the future. The 7 of 10 will not effect this change, but will tear most bridges on the Mississippi River when the New Madrid adjusts. This will of course affect travel and distribution of goods, but in that the Mississippi employs barges, a workaround will be arranged quickly enough. But after the pole shift the eastern half of the continent will certainly be more isolated. Travel across the widened seaway by boat, across the flooded Mississippi Valley by barge, and by foot through the swampy land of what is now northern Illinois will certainly be possible. After the New Madrid adjusts, those living in the US should be considering their proximity to loved ones, in this light, the travel restrictions being considered a wake-up call re what is coming if nothing else.
In describing the 7 of 10 scenarios, we do not detail every minor quake or every point where a minor tsunami might be generated. The 7 of 10 scenarios did not even include the major quakes in Japan, which are predicted to be in the range of magnitude 9's. Nor did they include the tsunami that large quakes in Japan always involve, which we have recently stated could be considered to be as high as 150 feet for the South Island quakes. After the New Madrid adjusts the West Coast adjusts, as we have stated. We have not detailed this, as compared to the New Madrid this is minor. All the fault lines closely watched on the West Coast will adjust, the volcanoes nervously watched will erupt, and certainly the waters off the coast will be choppy if not generating some minor tsunami during the plate adjustments. The West Coast of the US is alert and guarded in this regard, as is Japan. They anticipate this type of activity, and will be alert to signs that a quake or eruption or tsunami is pending. Thus, we focus on the larger changes, and in warning those areas that will not receive such services from their governments.
There is general confusion about our predicted Earth changes. This is most often envisioned as happening all at once, suddenly, without warning. Where earthquakes and stretch zone accidents do seem to happen almost without warning, their approach is never that silent. The N American continent has been getting these warnings for some time, with increasing intensity. Quake swams in the New Madrid region and west of this spot have been occurring, and are on the increase. Sinkholes and shifting roadways are occurring from Pennsylvania through Tennessee and elsewhere. The center of the bow being formed by the N American continent, the San Diego area, has an epidemic of water main breaks, and the snapping rock inland from this point has affected a mine in Utah. None of this is officially ascribed to the New Madrid adjustment that is pending, though FEMA gives evidence of their nervous preparations for the disaster they know is pending.
Will the New Madrid just suddenly rip with our predicted magnitude 9 quake? Hardly. There will be a progression of quakes in the magnitude 4-5 range all along the New Madrid fault line, which runs up to the Great Lakes and thence along the seaway. The bow will become more stressed, cracking rock inland from San Diego all the way to the Mississippi, and forcing adjustments north and south of this point too, from the Aleutian Islands to the tip of Mexico. Sinkholes and crevasses will proliferate throughout the US in her stretch zones, in a swath that ranges from the New England states south to the tip of Florida and all points west. This is a large bow. Then quakes will increase to the point of being considered magnitude 6-7 along the long New Madrid fault line and its attendant splinters. The New Madrid adjustment will thus NOT sneak up on you, but will be well announced.
Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for March 12, 2011
Potential Nuclear disaster risk in the new madrid zone
Bob Nations, Jr., the Director of Shelby County Office of Preparedness, says that since the lack of preparation exposed by Hurricane Katrina, he is "preparing for the catastrophic event" in his six-county jurisdiction.
Nations admitted that after a major quake, Tennessee's infrastructure and response capabilities "would get overwhelmed fairly quickly."
There are 15 nuclear power plants in the New Madrid fault zone -- three reactors in Alabama -- that are of the same or similar design as the site in Japan experiencing problems.
The USGS report predicts that a major quake would create horrific scenes like something out of a science fiction movie, potentially cutting the Eastern part of the country off from the West in terms of vehicular traffic and road commerce.
"The older highways and railroad bridges that cross the Mississippi River, as well as older overpasses, would likely be damaged or collapse in the event of a major New Madrid earthquake," according to USGS.
In September, FEMA's associate administrator for Response and Recovery, William Carwile, told a Senate panel that FEMA has five regional groups planning for possible earthquake responses, but a major quake along the New Madrid fault line could displace 7.2 million people and knock out 15 bridges. The response would require 42,000 first responders from local firefighters to the Pentagon.
Another study by the Mid-America Earthquake Center last year estimates that nearly 750,000 buildings would be damaged, 3,000 bridges would potentially collapse, 400,000 breaks and leaks to local pipelines and $300 billion in direct damage and $600 billion in indirect losses would occur. Source
Other potential nuclear risk: Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island accident was a core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg,United States in 1979.
Viewed from the west, Three Mile Island currently uses only one nuclear generating station, TMI-1, which is on the left. TMI-2, to the right, has not been used since the accident. Note that this is a pre-accident photo taken when TMI-2 was in operation.
Unit 1 had its license temporarily suspended following the incident at Unit 2. Although the citizens of the three counties surrounding the site voted by a margin of 3:1 to permanently retire Unit 1, it was permitted to resume operations in 1985. General Public Utilities Corporation, the plant's owner, formed General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation (GPUN) as a new subsidiary to own and operate the company's nuclear facilities, including Three Mile Island. The plant had previously been operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), one of GPU's regional utility operating companies. In 1996, General Public Utilities shortened its name to GPU Inc. Three Mile Island Unit 1 was sold to AmerGenEnergy Corporation, a joint venture between Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO), and British Energy, in 1998. In 2000, PECO merged with Unicom Corporation to form Exelon Corporation, which acquired British Energy's share of AmerGen in 2003. Today, AmerGen LLC is a fully owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation and owns TMI Unit 1, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, and Clinton Power Station. These three units, in addition to Exelon's other nuclear units, are operated by Exelon Nuclear Inc., an Exelon subsidiary.
General Public Utilities was legally obliged to continue to maintain and monitor the site, and therefore retained ownership of Unit 2 when Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen in 1998. GPU Inc. was acquired by FirstEnergy Corporation in 2001, and subsequently dissolved. FirstEnergy then contracted out the maintenance and administration of Unit 2 to AmerGen. Unit 2 has been administered by Exelon Nuclear since 2003, when Exelon Nuclear's parent company, Exelon, bought out the remaining shares of AmerGen, inheriting FirstEnergy's maintenance contract. Unit 2 continues to be licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS).[83]
Today, the TMI-2 reactor is permanently shut down with the reactor coolant system drained, the radioactive water decontaminated and evaporated, radioactive waste shipped off-site, reactor fuel and core debris shipped off-site to a Department of Energy facility, and the remainder of the site being monitored. The owner says it will keep the facility in long-term, monitored storage until the operating license for the TMI-1 plant expires at which time both plants will be decommissioned.[10] In 2009, the NRC granted a license extension which means the TMI-1 reactor may operate until April 19, 2034.[84][85]
NEW MADRID FAULT, WHEN WILL IT SNAP?
New Madrid Fault
What is the New Madrid fault line, and why is it so much on the tips of tongues these days?
The New Madrid fault line essentially follows the Mississippi River from Illinois to Arkansas.
Seems like a local affair, but this is deceptive.
Where quakes along the West Coast of the US cause a jolt in the underlying rock, the area surrounding the New Madrid is essentially mud, soil, wet from the mighty Mississippi and Missouri and Tennessee and Ohio rivers which join near the New Madrid fault line, and liquifaction thus affects a huge area.
The last great quakes on the New Madrid fault line occurred in the Winter of 1811-1812.
Just how far ranging was the effect, compared to a quake of similar Richter on the West Coast?
A map on the USGS website shows the relative extent of influence, which is far more dramatic than might be imagined.
In 1994 the 6.7 Richter Northridge quake was felt throughout southern California, barely reaching over the border into Nevada and Arizona and Mexico.
The comparable 1895 Charleston, MO quake covered the eastern half of the US, primarily affected, of course, were the states central to the New Madrid fault line - Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
But the effect covered at least half of the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa, and crossed the border into the states of New York and Florida.
But the seriousness of the situation is not described by the effects of quakes in 1811 and 1895, as going into the pole shift, during the quakes preceding the pole shift, there is another aspect to the fault line adjustments.
There is an Earth torque, cause by the twisting of the globe that Planet X causes when it tugs on the S Pole of Earth and the highly magnetized Atlantic Rift, daily.
Complicating the torque is the fact that the N American continent is held rigid at the top, where the plate boundary crosses through the Arctic from the Kamchaka Peninsula just above Japan in almost a straight line to Iceland in the Altantic, East of Greenland.
The N American plate, thus, CANNOT roll round to adjust to the stress of having the Atlantic widen and the Pacific shorten during the tugging Planet X does upon the Earth.
Mexico wants to move westward faster than Alaska, but cannot without pulling the N American continent in a diagonal, a stress the Zetas call the N American Rip.
This ZetaTalk was written during a time when S Dakota, at the Black Hills, was showing an odd stress wobble once daily, a clear sign this was a wobble induced by the tugging of Planet X.
2003-2004
The first evidence of this torque on the N American continent occurred in August of 2003, when a massive power outage struck New York City, causing a complete blackout with a million commuters walking home to suburbia silently across the bridges.
The cause? A substation at Niagara, on the stretching seaway.
This was followed by trail derailments and bursting gas and water mains and sinkholes and yawing crevasses that were suddenly and dramatically in the news.
Sinking, or lack of support in stretch zone, results in sinkholes.
The incidence of sinkholes, in the US alone, during the 6 months period from April to October 2004, was certainly astonishing.
These hit Florida hard, not surprising as it is at a point, literally, where the pull down is the most extreme.
Detroit and Milwaukee, at the end of the St. Lawrence Seaway yawing.
up the East Cost through Virginia and into Pennsylvania, a point where sinking and rising land create a break, a snapping of the Earth, as land south of Pennsylvania is pulled down while land North tends to bounce up as the Seaway yaws.
And into land at the edge of the stretch zone, such as Missouri and central Canada.
If trains were derailing due to twisting track, and sinkholes appearing suddenly under highways, this was not the only horror aflicting transportation.
Road heaved, bridges dropped, and land slid on top of traffic.
Particularly in July, 2004, oddly, in 3 different US states.
This shows a relationship to a diagonal pull across the US, happening at that time.
This twisting of the North American continent involves New England pulled to the East along with the rotation of the Earth, Mexico and the southwest pulled to the West, as the South Pole was being tugged in that direction.
This opened crevasses in the southwest.
This was not due to compression, subduction of plates, but due to the stretch, the land in these areas being pulled apart.
These sudden crevasses were not associated with any particular earthquake, but they WERE associated with road pops from Kansas to Illinois to Pennsyvania!
Again, in July 2004.
Sinking land in the stretch zone very much affects gas and water mains running under streets, and a rash of reports emerged as Planet X tightened its grip on the Earth.
During the 6 months reporting period from April to October 2004, pipes were snapping all across the stretch zone like never before.
2005
By June, 2005 scientists were openly admitting they were concerned about the New Madrid fault.
A few months later, in September of 2005, a mysterious smell like rotting cabbage or the cat's litter box wafted across the US.
Central Texas: Strange Odor Prompts School Evacuation
Sep 22, 2005
Washington Post: Mysterious Stench Nauseates Northeast
Sep 30, 2005
The cause, per the Zetas, was methane gas released when rock fingers were pulled apart, releasing gasses from rotting material trapped between rock layers.
In early 2006 there was additional evidence that the N American continent was being put under stress, pulled in a diagonal.
Within a 4 week period, mining accidents from Canada to Mexico occurred, in a line parallel to one that could be drawn from Maine to Mexico, the stress line that the Zetas have described.
The first was in the Sago mines in West Virginia, then another in Ontario, Canada, followed by a rare disaster in Mexico.
Methane gas was suspected.
Although a constant source of worry, why the sudden rash of explosions across the continent, and along a diagonal line parallel to what the Zetas have described?
Coincidence?
If so, coincidentally, Maine was reporting odd methane bubbles off their coast.
University of Maine geologists reported in December, in the Portland Press Herald, 12-26-05, that dozens of methane fields off the coast of Maine were releasing large amounts of gas, disrupting the ocean floor and creating massive bubbles.
2006
By July, 2006, Cleveland, Ohio was reports quake swarms.
Accompanying this was another blackout caused by problems in what is called the Lake Erie Loop.
The stretching Seaway, at it again!
Then on Sep 10, 2006, a rare quake in the Gulf of Mexico, on a fault line the USGS was unaware existed.
The Zetas related this to the stress on the N American continent, and the pending New Madrid diagonal rip.
This was followed by more adjustments in New England, which is scheduled to rise some 450 feet above sea level during the coming pole shift.
The tiny New England states are grouped at the end of what will become increasingly a peninsula of land, due to the widening of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the melting poles. The land is rocky, and will rise some 450 feet by our estimate above the current level due to the land being freed from its current connections during this continental rip.
Quake swarms continued in Maine, and a dramatic drop in the water level in wells at the USGS site.
Per the Zetas, all these are clues that the New Madrid does not have long to go before it gives way, allowing the diagonal slip along the Mississippi that the Zetas have predicted.
The Zetas have stated the devastation will make the New Orleans disaster appear trivial.
New Orleans, after all, was another disaster waiting to happen, not a surprise.
It was only a matter of time.
For the New Madrid disaster, affecting cities from Houston to St. Louis to Kansas City to Memphis to Cincinnati to Chicago and parts in between, the number of people left suddenly homeless will be immense, compared to New Orleans.
These cities are not quake proofed, as is the norm on the West Coast.
Lets look at the New Orleans disaster for a preview of what to expect, insofar as rescue attempts.
So if the slipping of the New Madrid will be WORSE than the disaster of New Orleans, affecting more cities and a wider area, and dropping land West of the Mississippi so flooding occurs, are these cities more prepared?
Those in the wake of the pending New Madrid quake, beware, and get prepared!
bill
3.1-magnitude earthquake rattles Mineral, parts of northern Virginia
Seven months after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Mineral, Va. and rattled much of the East Coast, a smaller quake shook the same area late Sunday night.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 3.1-magnitude quake hit just outside of Mineral, a town of fewer than 500 people about 80 miles southwest of Washington, at 11:21 p.m.
There were no reports of injury or damage, but people as far north asFairfax and Loudoun counties reported feeling weak levels of shaking.
The strength of Sunday’s earthquake was comparable to several of thedozens of aftershocks that followed last August’s rare earthquake.
Mar 27, 2012
bill
Closed bridge big issue for boaters
ITAWAMBA COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) -- Warm and sunny weather like we've been experiencing is what people who go boating and fishing want to see on a daily basis, but this weather doesn't mean a thing to some Itawamba County residents who have an obstacle in their way to reach the ramp.
Driving down a rural, remote road in Itawamba County may not seem too interesting, but that's until you reach Walker Bridge.
"The bridge is what the engineers are telling me and the (Mississippi) State Aid (Road Construction) that it could collapse," said Itawamba County District 2 Supervisor Ike Johnson.
"We have to go in and re-fix all that, and we're going to take the decking off and re-fix the bottom of it because the bridge has shifted a little bit."
It's been closed for about a month, and while you may think no one probably even noticed, you're wrong because at the end of this road lies an entrance to the Tenn-Tom Waterway.
"Yea, they are. When a fellow doesn't get to go fishing, he's upset," laughed Itawamba County resident Mack Guin.
Guin has lived down Walker's Bridge Road his entire life and uses this water as a route to some of his property.
"We use this very often. We have a cabin in the bottom, and this is the way we get to it. I bought me a pontoon and can't go to the waterway now," he added.
To give you an idea of just how many people use this area, supervisors had to put a dirt pile up just to keep people from crossing the bridge.
"The weekend before we closed it, there was 40 vehicles out here using the waterway," Johnson said.
"Traffic all day long up until late in the evening. You know, there's a lot of traffic out of town comes in here fishing and everything," Guin said.
"Since the bridge has been closed, we don't have any of that."
The county still isn't sure how long the bridge will be closed--or the bigger issue--where they'll come up with the money to fix and re-open the structure.
"We're seeing all different areas. We've seen the Corps (of Engineers), and they said they didn't have the money," Johnson added about one of the several agencies they've contacted so far.
Meanwhile, Guin said this bridge hasn't changed in 50 years.
"They've went and redone it and welded it and fixed it back, so I don't see no reason for closing it. I believe the bridge is safe to use. I'm not scared of it."
Walker Bridge was constructed in 1923 and is often subject to flooding during heavy rains
Mar 28, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Pinnacles
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon two miles from Pinnacles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.9 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Soledad, 16 miles from Gonzales, 24 miles from Hollister and 67 miles from San Jose City Hall.
In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Mar 28, 2012
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CSX train partially derails in Hoover after striking landslide that...
HOOVER, Alabama -- CSX Transportation is working to clear a train that derailed early this morning in Hoover after it struck a landslide.
The derailment occurred about 3:30 a.m. and involved a locomotive and one of the 64 railcars attached to it, said Carla Groleau, a spokeswoman for Jacksonville-based CSX.
Groleau said the derailed train car was empty and there were no injuries at the derailment, which authorities said occurred near South Shades Crest Road, the Shades Run subdivision and the Brock's Gap Training Center where police conduct firearms training.
"It blocked our main line," Groleau said. "We have crews out there clearing the area. They have to move out some of the rock and mud and dirt."
At 4:30 p.m., the locomotive was back on the track, but the train car that derailed appeared to still be stuck in the mud and rock. Groleau said the company expects some delays for other freight trains on the train line. "We are working as safely and as quickly as we can," she said.
The train that derailed was headed from Illinois to Florida, Groleau said.
Rusty Lowe, a Hoover Fire Department spokesman, said firefighters that responded found no one injured and confirmed the train car was empty.
Mar 28, 2012
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One lane of Hwy 101 open through landslide
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PORT ORFORD, Ore. - One lane of Highway 101 is open again after crews removed an estimated 400 yards of rocky debris from a landslide that blocked the roadway Thursday night
Until the rain stops in the area, the Oregon Department of Transportation will be on scene to flag traffic through the area.
Earlier
PORT ORFORD, Ore. -- A landslide blocked U.S. 101 11 miles south of Port Orford at mile point 310 Thursday night, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
ODOT said southbound traffic is stopped at Port Orford and northbound traffic is stopped at mile point 316.
The highway was expected to be closed overnight and the active landslide area was expected to be
Mar 31, 2012
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Landslide has closed Yaquina Bay Road just west of Toledo – Closed ...
Large landslide has severed the Bay Road between Toledo and Newport, just outside Toledo
3pm Update – Major slide blocking Highway 34 10.5 miles east of Waldport. Crews not yet on scene.
Landslide has closed Yaquina Bay Road just west of Toledo at milepost 12. Use Highway 20 as an alternate.
Lincoln County Public Works crews had just earlier cleared a smaller slide at the same location when a much larger slide came down the hillside, completely covering the pavement, and continuing to fall further down, below the road. Public Works crews are analyzing the situation to gauge the safety of those who would be clearing the slide and whether there might be more material about to break loose.
Newport Police and Fire services are now designated law enforcement, fire first responders west of the slide. No word on exactly when the slide might be cleared but they’re saying it may take a couple of days.
Lincoln County Public Information Officer Casey Miller reports that those who live or work in the Hidden Vally/Criteser Loop area must access the area from the Newport side of the slide
Mar 31, 2012
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Mudslides take out Snohomish County homes
EVERETT, Wash. —
Several homes in Snohomish County have been moving because of mudslides and the Snohomish County Office of Emergency Management is warning residents.
A KIRO 7 photographer shot footage of a mudslide on Norma Beach Road in Edmonds when a huge chunk of a hillside gave way.
Half of the road was blocked off because of the debris.
KIRO 7’s Lee Stoll spoke with Rich Lord, a homeowner, and he said the bottom of his home was full of mud. He went back to the area to see the damage.
“There is pain there, when you walk away from your house and it was the house, you just have to move on,” Lord said.
KIRO 7 spoke with the Snohomish County Office of Emergency Management and they said a new region of slide areas has developed over the last five years.
The office is asking residents to be aware of the changing landscape, and to give them a call so they can track new slides and keep people safe
Mar 31, 2012
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Alert level for Cleveland Volcano goes up
The alert level for Cleveland Volcano has been raised again after scientists found another lava dome has formed in the crater in the last week.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday increased the level for the volcano, a 5,675-foot peak on uninhabited Chuginadak Island about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage in the Aleutians.
The status was raised earlier this year when the center detected two small, likely ash-poor eruptions through March 13, but lowered the alert level last week after 10 days of inactivity.
Scientists can't actively monitor the volcano because there is no real-time seismic monitoring network on the volcano in the Aleutian Islands.
Authorities say sudden eruptions could occur at any time, and ash clouds 20,000 feet above sea level are possible
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/03/28/2086703/alert-level-for-cl...
Mar 31, 2012
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Cause of landslide at Bella Vista Heights undetermined
Mar 31, 2012
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Landslide closes Highway 1 south of Lucia
LUCIA, Calif. -
A landslide on Highway 1 near the Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County line has Highway 1 closed in both directions.
A large boulder is blocking the highway at Pitkins/Rain Rocks south of Lucia, 25 miles south of Big Sur. CalTrans describes the boulder as the size of a pickup truck.
There is no estimated time when the road will re-open
Mar 31, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Malibu
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Friday evening three miles from Malibu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:15 p.m.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Westlake Village, 10 miles from Agoura Hills, 12 miles from Thousand Oaks and 34 miles from the Los Angeles Civic Center.
In the last 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby
Mar 31, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.5 quake strikes near The Geysers
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Saturday evening one mile from The Geysers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:28 p.m. at a depth of 0.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Cobb, six miles from Anderson Springs, 25 miles from Santa Rosa and 74 miles from Sacramento.
In the last 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Apr 2, 2012
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Strong quake hits Mexico, no casualties reported
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Mexico Monday, sending thousands of people into the streets of the capital in fear. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The quake struck at 1736 GMT with its epicenter located 158 kilometers (about 100 miles) from Huajuapan de Leon, in the state of Oaxaca, at a depth of 12.3 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said.
Residents said the quake rocked Mexico City, causing panicked people to flee houses and buildings in many areas of the capital. Thousands of people poured into the city's main downtown boulevard, Paseo de La Reforma.
The Seismological Institute of Mexico reported the earthquake was centered in the city of Pinotepa Nacional in Oaxaca and followed by at least seven aftershocks in the next two hours.
Mexico's interior secretary Alejandro Poire said on Twitter after contacting state authorities that there were "no reports of damage from the quake, but the assessments continue."
He was traveling with President Felipe Calderon during an official visit to Washington for a North American summit.
Mexico City's police chief, Manuel Mondragon, said an initial survey of the city from air and land had been completed "with no catastrophic situation to report."
Officials in Guerrero and Oaxaca states dispatched patrols to assess damage in rural areas near the epicenter, which already had been hit by a 7.4-magnitude quake on March 20, which killed two people and injured 13 others.
That earthquake -- with its epicenter south of the Pacific resort of Acapulco -- was the most powerful to hit the country since a deadly tremor in 1985, which destroyed entire neighborhoods of Mexico City and killed thousands.
More than 40 aftershocks, some measuring up to a magnitude of 5.0, shook the Mexican capital and southern areas in the aftermath of the March earthquake, according to Mexican seismologists.
People in Mexico's crowded capital -- with more than 20 million in the metro area -- are more than familiar with seismic activity and used to evacuation drills
Apr 3, 2012
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3.1 earthquake strikes near San Simeon
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Sunday afternoon 4 miles from San Simeon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:03 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.1 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles from Cambria, 15 miles from Lake Nacimiento, 27 miles from Paso Robles and 121 miles from San Jose City Hall.
In the last 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearb
Apr 3, 2012
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U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn tours landslide area
http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_20311544/u-s-rep-janice-hahn-tours-...
Laying the groundwork for federal assistance as part of the eventual fix for San Pedro's coastal landslide, U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn took the Los Angeles district commander for the Army Corps of Engineers on a personal tour of the site Monday.
"It's all going to be about resources in the end," Hahn said as she began the tour with Col. R. Mark Toy. They were joined by city District Engineer Lawrence Cuaresma, Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, and several members of the community.
"I have a feeling this is going to have a price tag on it whether we rebuild, reroute or close the road," Hahn said.
A survey commissioned by the city is scheduled to be finished and ready in draft form sometime this month, with a public presentation of the findings anticipated around mid- May. That report will have to be analyzed before any plans can be made to shore up the collapsed bluff or rebuild the road. Community sentiment also is expected to play a central role in the decision of whether to rebuild a road.
Toy said that if wave action is found to be partly responsible for the Nov. 20 road collapse, it could qualify for Army Corps assistance under the agency's civil works umbrella that addresses flood management and environmental restoration.
If waves are deemed to have "caused damage to the bluff, it would allow us to consider options such as a sea wall to avoid further erosion," Toy said. It would be up to Congress to authorize and appropriate funding and other assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers.
Engineers continue to closely watch the slide area, with long-term projections for stability very much an unknown. But so far, Cuaresma said no new, significant movement has been detected at the site by surveyors who have 26 monitoring sites set up to measure ground shifts.
This was the second time Toy has visited the landslide site, which remains closed and fenced off to the public. Community opinion appears to be divided on whether the road should be rebuilt, with some local residents in the immediate area saying they'd prefer that the road not reopen. There also is concern that rebuilding the road would likely impact the 102-acre White Point Nature Preserve across the street from the landslide.
Others, however, say the road is a key connector on the south side of town and an important link for residents as well as emergency vehicles as they try to reach the various neighborhoods along San Pedro's south-facing ocean cliffs.
The city report is expected to address possible road options for the site. A decision on whether to reroute and rebuild the road probably won't be made for some time.
"Our No. 1 concern is the stabilization of the bluff, then we will talk about the road," said June Burlingame Smith, president of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council.
Buscaino said the safety of the residential neighborhoods adjacent to the area remains his main priority. Authorities say no homes are threatened, but one homeowner said he had noticed new, small cracks appearing in the street near his home in recent weeks.
Although Hahn represents most of San Pedro, the landslide area falls within the jurisdiction of U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, an Orange County Republican who had an aide attend the tour and pledge support for repairs that will be needed.
"We're doing all the things we can right now to lay the groundwork," Hahn said, adding that no
A sinkhole appeared to be forming last summer along the stretch of Paso del Mar between Weymouth and Western avenues, prompting city and county engineers to begin monitoring the area. They closed the road in October when cracks and underground movement appeared to be accelerating at a rapid pace.
The road finally gave way on a rainy Sunday afternoon a month later.
The 45-minute walking tour behind the security fences on Monday provided officials and residents alike with a closer view of the extensive damage, which remains stunning to onlookers. One resident called the scene of sheared-off cliffs, along with broken and suspended chunks of roadway and underground pipes, still "surreal."
"If the study comes out saying we can engage the (help of the) Corps, I wanted Col. Toy to be ready," Hahn said of her decision to tour the site. "I want to make sure we have the best possible endgame."
Once the city's report is finalized, Hahn said, "we'll just have to work through" the process.
"This is so important to this whole region," Hahn said. "This really was a disaster on so many levels
Apr 3, 2012
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No injuries, damage reported after moderate 5.2-magnitude earthquak...
SANTIAGO, Chile — The U.S. Geological Service says a 5.2-magnitude earthquake has rocked northern Chile.
Chilean officials say there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage in the quake that registered Tuesday at 4:33 a.m. local time (0733 GMT). It was centered near the community of Mamina, in Tarapaca region, about 1,050 miles (1,700 kilometers) north of the capital of Santiago.
A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile on March 25, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated that region two years ago.
Some people were injured by falling ceiling material in last month’s temblor, but there were no reports of major damage or deaths due to quake-related accidents.
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Apr 4, 2012
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Earthquake rattles southeast Oklahoma
PITTSBURG, Okla. - A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook southeastern Oklahoma at 2:33 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered near the town of Pittsburg, about 16 miles south-southwest of McAlester and 109 miles east-southeast of Oklahoma City.
McAlester police say no damage or injuries have been reported.
2NEWS viewers in Tulsa reported feeling the temblor.
The USGS says residents in Muskogee, Norman, Broken Arrow, Atoka and Shawnee also reported feeling tremors.
On Nov. 5, 2011, a record 5.6 magnitude tremor shook the Sooner state, the strongest quake on record in Oklahoma.
The USGS reported that tremors from the quake, centered in Lincoln County, were felt in most of Oklahoma as well as eastern and central Kansas, most of Missouri and Arkansas, north Texas and southeast Nebraska
Apr 4, 2012
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Stretch of sand/beach disappears at Los Frailes, Baja California Su...
http://www.bajafisherman.com/forum/showthread.php?972-There-Saturday-gone-Sunday-Los-Frailes-facelift
Posted: 03-28-2012 01:38 PM
by Robin Wade, WON Baja Editor
"Sunday morning (March 26) the beach in Los Frailes disappeared --- lost forever were 200 meters of beachfront by 100 meters deep. The red line is where the beach was the day before. The angler that emailed the photo in said the beach disappeared very quickly and is now a steep bank that appears to still be slowly eroding."
http://www.aztecanoticias.com.mx/notas/estados-y-df/104751/desaparece-tramo-de-la-playa-los-frailes-en-bcs
April 1, 2012
Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. - Today at 5:00 am some kind of explosion occurred and was gone a stretch of beach in Cabo Pulmo Los Frailes, Baja California Sur.
The municipal delegate of La Ribera (municipal seat of the area), William Sández Puppo said that such a phenomenon had never happened in the area. Reports that 20 years agosomething similar happened, but never of the magnitude as that seen now.
With the arrival of the Easter holidays, and under many families, often camping on the beachin Cabo Pulmo Los Frailes for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Days, the delegate warnsvacationers prepare to arrive at the area, if they do not camp out near the beach area, thendisappeared millions of tons of sand and it is unknown what had happened.
The inhabitants of the region are atonic, although it is believed that the phenomenon was caused by a fault.
Traduced by google
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=59239
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/desaparece-tramo-de-playa-en-bcs/
abril 1, 2012
Right now (10:30 PM) authorities of the place led by the municipal delegate, William SándezPuppo, they head to the area to personally aware of this phenomenon is not known if it is associated with seismic activity reported yesterday that there the prestigious newspaperTribuna de los Cabos.
the municipal delegate, William Sández Puppo say is that it seems that this is a natural, "
He mentioned that since the beginning of the week there were indications that the sea was moving substantially in place, but what happened last night is unprecedented, as reported to have disappeared a large stretch of beach. And they are not artificially reclaimed land
Apr 4, 2012
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http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wisconsin-mystery-booms
In the line with the southern terminus of Green Bay, further indications of tearing at Watertown, Wisconsin -
School Building Closed Due to Compromised Structural Integrity (March 27)
Students at St. Henry Catholic School, 300 E. Cady St., were evacuated from the building Monday afternoon because of concerns the building’s structural integrity was compromised.
Principal Francine Butzine said the ladies serving lunch discovered the problem.
“The ladies who were serving heard a crackling sound, looked around and realized the tiles on the floor were breaking up,” Butzine said.
The school was immediately evacuated and the fire department dispatched. The city building inspector was also called, Butzine said.
Butzine said she was told the building is safe and students are expected to return Wednesday.
Because the problem lies in the ground underneath the kitchen, crews will have to dig below the tiles, putting the kitchen out of commission for the remainder of the school year, Butzine said. As a result, there will be no hot lunch for the rest of the year.
The cause of the “crackling” and breaking tiles remains unknown. City Building Inspector Joe Heimsch said it could either be a problem with the building’s foundation or with pipes running under the floor.
“There’s half-inch ceramic tile throughout the kitchen floor. The ceramic tile lifted up in many areas about 2 inches, so it’s some sort of building movement,” Heimsch said. “I’m hoping that it was some kind of floor reaction.”
At this point, the tile lifting is isolated to the kitchen area and has not spread to the cafeteria.
Sanitary, storm and gas pipes shifting in the ground could have caused the tile lifting, and workers from Maas Brothers Construction are “coring holes to try to find out what went wrong,” Heimsch said. Heimsch will also put a camera through the pipework to see if any collapsed.
“I’m concerned the gas lines have been compromised and I want to visually see and put pressure tests on those gas lines to make sure they’re all intact,” Heimsch said.
Apr 4, 2012
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http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wisconsin-mystery-booms
Map of recent events that depict the tearing stress on the St. Lawrence Seaway -
B. Montello, Wisconsin - Mystery Boom, March 20
C. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin - Unexplained Chemical Leak, March 21
D. Watertown, Wisconsin - School Closed (Structural Instability), March 27
E. Ligonier, Indiana - Train Derailment, March 24
F. Barrie, Ontario - Mystery Boom, March 24
G. Poconos, Pennsylvania - Mystery Boom, March 30 (hyperlink disabled)
H. Bathurst, New Brunswick - Earthquake (magnitude 3.4), March 30
Apr 4, 2012
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http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wisconsin-mystery-booms
Mystery Booms & Lights in Baraboo, Wisconsin (Southwest of Clintonville) -
“We don’t know if we have Clintonville going on here or what,” said Baraboo Police Chief Mark Schauf, referring to the city west of Green Bay where residents have heard multiple booms in recent weeks.
Baraboo city officials may now have their own booms to investigate.
A resident on Sauk Avenue called 911 to report a loud boom Sunday around 1 a.m. That prompted more than 30 comments on the Baraboo Scanner page on Facebook — which posts information about calls to public service agencies — from other residents who heard the same thing. Some reported they saw a flash before the boom.
About 45 minutes later, residents throughout the city called authorities to report a second flash and boom.
A Baraboo police officer witnessed the first incident while parked on the 800 block of Eighth Street.
“I observed a large flash of light followed by a ‘boom,’” the officer wrote in his report. “I advised dispatch of this information and my belief that it was possibly a transformer.”
However, Sauk County Sheriff’s Department dispatchers contacted Alliant Energy, and reported the company knew of no power outages in the Baraboo area.
Alliant spokesman Steve Schultz confirmed Monday there were no outages in Baraboo around that time.
Some Facebook users initially speculated thunder and lightning were the culprits. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
“There doesn’t appear to have been any t-storms in that area Sunday morning,” said Ed Townsend, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Sullivan office. “I can’t think of anything else (weather-related) that would lead to a flash.”
Townsend said the Baraboo booms seem different from those reported in Clintonville because they were preceded by flashes of light.
Clintonville officials asked the U.S. Geological Survey for help to determine the cause of their booms. Scientists with USGS and Michigan Technological University responded and recently traveled to Clintonville to bury four seismic sensors and audio equipment in and around the city.
An assistant professor from Michigan Tech reviewed the city’s data and confirmed one of the booms resulted from a small earthquake, according to the Appleton Post-Crescent."
Apr 4, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Indio
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening 10 miles from Indio, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:12 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Coachella, 13 miles from Thousand Palms, 20 miles from Twentynine Palms and 94 miles from San Diego.
In the last 10 days, there have been seven earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Apr 5, 2012
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‘That noise was not thunder,’ Poconos residents say: Boom violently...
Strong thunderstorms hit the Poconos Friday night, moving through shortly after 10 p.m. and continuing for at least a half hour, but the weather event that had folks talking was a loud sonic-like boom that shook houses at about 10:15 p.m.
Gilda Spiotta of Long Pond said, “The shaking last night lasted unusually long. Didn't sound like thunder, didn't feel like thunder, was wondering if something happened on 380/80; tanker accident.”
Another Long Pond resident, Lorene R. Allman-Mars: "My son was at the back door letting the dogs out and he reported that he saw a large flash of light fill the sky toward/above the FedEx distribution site on 940, then he heard a loud boom. It didn't look like lightning, it looked like a bomb blew up in the air. I was on the second floor of the house; I didn't see anything but I heard the boom and felt it shake the house. I actually felt it under my feet. The floors shook; I have never felt lightning shake the house like that before and we've been up here 20 years!"
Some readers suggested an earthquake or an explosion, but said that definitely was no routine thunder.
Meteorologist and Pocono weather expert Ben Gelber offered this explanation: “One possibility is that thunderstorms in our chilly environment near the surface tonight, associated with an inversion of warm air aloft, sound much louder.”
He added, “The sound waves are refracted back to the surface and reverberate in ways that we normally do not experience as they bounce between the surface and the inversion near the base of the clouds.”
Other residents commented from across the Poconos:
“My kids and I heard the sound in Saw Creek,” said Winnie Michaluk. "Our windows rattled and our dogs were barking like crazy."
Russo Albuja of Tobyhanna said, “I was driving along 196 on my way home from work when I felt the BOOM. It was so extreme, my car shook and on my left hand side on an empty field - all I saw was this HUGE flash of light coming from where the airport location would be at. Afterwards, I heard nothing. Kinda scared me that I rushed home and locked my doors.”
Katee McCarthy said, “Felt it here in the Tannersville area. Quite scary." As of 11 p.m., she reported lightning and sleet in the area.
Tim Aziz said, “Just heard something at 10:35 in East Stroudsburg, the whole house vibrated!”
“ Yes I heard the boom, but thought it was just thunder!” said Pete Howey of Snydersville. That was the same reaction of Rosalie Ems, who said, "We heard it; just thought it was thunder rolling in with cold air against the warm air?"
Some more comments from our readers:
Elisabeth Foster Marshall: “Yes we did, here in Snydersville. My husband said right after "what the hell was that?!" he thought it was the furnace exploding....”
Jessica Gomez of Albrightsville: "We definitely heard it and felt it! It shook the whole house. What was it?”
Samantha Chevalier of Effort: "I definitely heard a loud noise and then my whole house shook, my dogs went crazy, and I smiled. I love thunder and lightning!"
Pamela Dunbar: "We live in Bushkill by Timothy Lake Resort, and we heard the boom. My granddaughter came out of her room and said, 'Was that thunder?' It sounded like a bunch of huge trucks barreling down the road."
James Arnold: "We live in Tobyhanna and we felt it, too. We thought it was a storm starting and shut down all our electronics. Our whole house vibrated."
Jennifer Knarr of Milford chimed in: “My husband and I were in bed watching tv when we heard this rumbling noise we thought it was thunder but it lasted a while he even got up to look outside no storms at that time here. We live in Milford on top of a mountain, sounded like a bunch of semi trucks going down our quiet street!”
Laura Bush: "Yes, I felt it here in Sciota. I immediately texted my kids in their rooms, 'What the heck was that.' One said, 'I don't know, earthquake?'"
JudyAnn Porter: “ I live in Pocono Farms Country Club and my family and I were sitting watching TV and felt a loud bang and the house shook. We thought it was a earthquake. We got our supplies together but heard nothing else after that. Someone mentioned thunder, but thunder doesn't shake houses. Scary.”
Phillip Mangat: “Yeah around 10:35 I thought another meth lab went boom!!!”
Jill Nobles: “It sure felt like an explosion or an earthquake to me. I am up near Wooddale, by Analomink on the top of the mountain. At 10:12-ish, my whole house shook. It knocked things off of the counters, rattled things hanging on my walls, and shook my whole house violently. We didn't sustain any damage, but the noise and the shaking were crazy. The sound was like an explosion, or a freight train in my bedroom. Not thunder.”
And another from Long Pond “I live in Emerald Lakes and at about 10:15p.m. I heard a loud noise and the house shook for about 5 seconds and my lights dimmed a little bit
Apr 5, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.0 temblor strikes near Indio
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon 10 miles from Indio, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:01 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 2.5 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Coachella, 13 miles from Thousand Palms, 20 miles from Twentynine Palms and 94 miles from San Diego.
In the last 10 days, there have been nine earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Apr 6, 2012
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Magnitude 3.3 - OKLAHOMA
2012 April 06 16:20:28 UTC
Earthquake Details
37 km (22 miles) NE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma
42 km (26 miles) NNW of Shawnee, Oklahoma
52 km (32 miles) SSW of Stillwater, Oklahoma
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=9
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Apr 7, 2012
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Earthquake: 3.9 quake strikes 15 miles from Soledad, Calif.
A shallow magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported Thursday evening 15 miles from Soledad, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:16 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.1 miles.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 24 miles from King City and 69 miles from San Jose City Hall.
In the past ten days, there have been two earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby
Apr 7, 2012
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Las Vegas soon to be ghost town? (New ZetaTalk 4/7/2012)
The Zetas discussed an impressive UFO display from late March on the Strip:
Los Vegas is the glitter capitol of the US, where gambling and live entertainment make this a favorite tourist destination. Even if one loses the funds they came with, they can leave with a smile as they have been entertained, or so the management hopes. Certainly, even during this the second Great Depression, they have not been at a loss for traffic, and the boom times continue at Los Vegas. We have stated that due to the hard rock from prior salt lakes in much of Nevada that the Pole Shift is not expected to change the geography of the area. So what would put Los Vegas at risk that a UFO display that could be seen from the brightly lit streets of Los Vegas recently occurred?
The great Hoover Dam is nearby, but when this breaks after the New Madrid adjustment it is assumed that it will be land down river that will be in danger. Dams do not always break by shattering such that the waters they hold back pour around the shattered dam. The Hoover Dam in particular was built so sturdily that it is unlikely to shatter. This was because it was intended to hold back an immense amount of water, and the site chosen because the rock on either side of the dam was considered impervious to erosion or crumbling. What then is likely to happen to the Hoover Dam as the pressure of the N American bow increases, as it surely will prior to the New Madrid adjustment?
Spillways are openings in the dams, tubes that run through the dams ending in gates, all of which are vulnerable to being crunched and broken. A jammed gateway will hardly beunjammed easily, as that would entail dismantling the dam or some such maneuver. Jammed shut, what would the water flowing into the lake above the Hoover Dam do? It would rise, and flow into Los Vegas along the ravines that connect the two. Flood may be the last thing that residents of Los Vegas worry about, but flood may be something that may arrive suddenly, and fail to drain.
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/07ap2012.htm
UFO video link:
http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/d8VQOCIyJqI
I lived in Las Vegas from 2007-2010, and have followed ZT since around 2004-5. So of course, I've read the "Safe Locs" for the region. There is no mention of Las Vegas itself. I thought it was a little odd at first, since Las Vegas has a population around 2 million, and they did mentionReno, which is considerably smaller. Here is the link to the comments for Nevada .
So what is the fate of Las Vegas? It seems as though it may become virtually unihabitable, even before the Pole Shift. Consider that Las Vegas gets 90% of its water from Lake Mead, which is of course the Lake formed from the Hoover Dam blocking off the Colorado River. There is already alarm at how quickly the Lake is draining, as the Las Vegas valley suffers through drought. So what happens when "7 of 10" adjustments occur along the New Madrid fault line?
ZT: "When the New Madrid adjusts, Mexico will be too far to the West for the current comfort of the West Coast, which will bow in the Southern California and Arizona region. The fault line that runs along Mexico's West coast runs just under the Arizona border, then on up along the West Coast of California. Before the West Coast of the US starts adjusting to the new position of Mexico, with slip-slide adjustments, there will be a bending of the Arizona desert area that will fracture the dry soil, create a breach in the great Colorado River dam, and allow magma to rise in the calderas in the US - Mammoth Lake in California and Yellowstone. If the Hoover dam breaks, whither the city of Phoenix, which lies on flat land and near farm land irrigated by the waters of the Colorado?"
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta355.htm
In addition to the prospect of no water, what else might Las Vegas experience? Keep in mind the fault line running North from San Diego to the Mammoth Lake caldera region:
From ZT Newsletter:
ZetaTalk Comment 9/9/2006: We have chimed in with Scallion on suspecting that a rip will occur from San Diego up toward Yellowstone, as there is a fault line there. Why would this rip, in a manner that would disrupt Mammoth? As we have stated in detailing the Earth Torque, wherein New England is pulled toward the East and Mexico toward the West, pulling the N American continent in a diagonal, fault lines will not be stressed in their traditional ways, but in new ways, during the coming months. New Madrid is an example. East of the Mississippi, going up, West of the Mississippi, going down. In a similar manner, the fault line from San Diego to Mammoth, and on up toward Yellowstone, will find the land South going West, with Mexido, and North staying with the land above this fault. Thus, should such rupture take place, in stages, evacuate Mammoth Lake!
The original ZetaTalk prediction on this rupture places it in the timeline "some months" before the pole shift, a clue of sorts to a timeline when this rupture occurs.
ZetaTalk Prediction 2/15/2000: Of course all volcanoes will explode, as this is going to be a very severe pole shift. What about the months and years preceding the pole shift? It is no secret that Mammoth Lake and the caldera of Yellowstone are warming up, and the populace has been prepared for these occurrences by the movie Volcano where there, in the middle of LA, lava is bubbling up. In fact, there is a fault line running from the approximate San Diego/LA area, up into the Sierras, and this is liable to rupture rather violently during one of the quakes that precedes the pole shift by some months. Volcanic eruptions from that area in the Sierras can be expected.
Looking closely at a map of the area, it can be seen that there is a rift running from San Diego directly north to the Mammoth Lake area. This confirms what the Zetas have said about a hidden fault line.
ZetaTalk Explanation 10/6/2007: We have repeatedly warned that the US southwest was going to undergo a bowing stress, a situation that would last until the N American continent adjusted by a diagonal rip along the extended New Madrid Fault line, which includes fracturing from New England through the Midwest and down into Mexico. Until that adjustment occurs, Mexico is tugged to the west, causing a bow to form along the West Coast. The bow causes compression at its center, at the San Andreas Fault line near San Diego, and expansion inland. This bow is what caused the Utah mine collapse, as we explained at the time. Indirectly, this bow is what caused the Minneapolis bridge collapse, as it forces the St. Lawrence Seaway to open, causing adjustments all the way to the Black Hills of S. Dakota.
San Diego is lowlands, as the nearby presence of the Salton Sea shows. This area will compress more than land to the north, as the rock is now less thick as it has proved to be pliable in the past, and distended. San Diego is thus due for a grinding action, a tumbling action, as the bow comes under increasing stress. When the New Madrid Fault line adjusts, the stress on this bow will relax but another nightmare will emerge - new adjustments along the San Andreas Fault line. Now the western half of the N American continent is free to jut to the west, at a diagonal, so slip-slide all along the San Andreas Fault line will occur for some time. We have mentioned that a rip will occur from San Diego up through Mammoth Lake of California and on up toward Yellowstone at some point. As one can see from a topographical map, there is a rift along this path, where ripping has occurred before. This too is awaiting the San Diego area, which will by that time be an almost unlivable area.
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue167.htm
As you can see on the map, that fault line is directly West of Las Vegas (a bit north of where CA, AZ, and NV meet). What happens when those volcanoes erupt? The ash and smoke will blow into the Las Vegas valley, where they have issues with dissipating smog, due to being stuck between two mountain ranges. So add toxic air to a lack of water.
Secondary to these things, is the weakened economy there. They have been hit hard by the recent economic downturn, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the US (13.7% ), and led the nation in foreclosure rates as well in_2010. The city runs on the success of the tourism industry, which has been slumping, and is still sluggish.
I also imagine the quake(s) that will be strong enough to break the land to one side of the Hoover Dam will also take some toll on the city structures.
I see all these things pointing to a mass exodus from the Las Vegas valley in the near future. People will simply leave it behind. Empty.
Apr 7, 2012
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Springfield Township bridge abruptly closed
Span on Township Road was shuttered after it was found in danger of collapsing
Bucks County abruptly closed a bridge in Springfield Township after officials found the two-lane span on Township Road was in danger of collapsing.
The bridge, which crosses a tributary of Cooks Creek, underwent an inspection in late 2011. At that time, it was found to have some structural flaws and was pegged for reinspection in six months.
Bucks County Director of Special Projects Joe Bush said the follow-up inspection was done in March
"The concrete beams were found to be critically deficient so rather than take chances it was closed immediately,'' Bush said.
Apr 7, 2012
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Middle America Is Experiencing a Massive Increase in 3.0+ Earthquakes
Earthquakes are striking the heartland from Alabama to Montana at an unprecedented rate -- and human activity is probably to blame.
Area over which increased seismic activity has been observed.
A new United States Geological Survey study has found that middle America between Alabama and Montana is experiencing an "unprecedented" and "almost certainly manmade" increase in earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater. In 2011, there were 134 events of that size. That's six times more than were normally seen during the 20th century.
While the changes in the area's seismicity began in 2001, the trend has really accelerated since 2009, the geologists note. That happens to coincide with increased oil and gas production using new extraction techniques in some parts of the area.
The new work is being presented at the Seismology Society of America's conference later this month. An abstract for the presentation is available online.
In some regions, the increase in earthquakes is even greater than six fold. For example, in Oklahoma over the past half-century, there were an average of 1.2 quakes of greater than 3.0 magnitude per year. Since 2009, there have been more than 25 per year.
"A naturally-occurring rate change of this magnitude is unprecedented outside of volcanic settings or in the absence of a main shock, of which there were neither in this region," the scientists write.
The conclusion that at least one environmental group has drawn from this data is that fracking, in one way or another, has caused these earthquakes. The Environmental Working Group notes that more than 400,000 wells were drilled between 2001 and 2010, a 65% increase over the previous ten-year period. They also note that the new extraction techniques require vast amounts of water to be injected into the ground: major producer Chesapeake estimates that it uses about 5 million gallons of water per well. Lots of wells plus lots of water injected underground could change the subterranean conditions and lead to more earthquakes.
That, at least, was the United States' Army's experience in doing deep well injection during the 1960s. "If you are doing deep well injection, you are altering the stress on the underlying rocks and at some point, the stress will be relieved by generating an earthquake," seismologist Dave Wolnyexplained back in 2007. "The events are generally small, but there is no way to predict how the injection process has altered stresses on the fault system in the area, and thus, no way to predict how large the events may get."
The USGS scientists aren't willing to draw the causal connection between fracking and earthquakes. "While the seismicity rate changes described here are almost certainly manmade, it remains to be determined how they are related to either changes in extraction methodologies or the rate of oil and gas production," they conclude.
But if it is not fracking, then ... What is it? At the moment, we don't have a whole lot of other hypotheses, just a lot of unexplained earthquakes in places where they don't normally strike
Apr 7, 2012
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Cleveland Volcano continues to erupt
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska's Cleveland volcano in the Aleutian Islands is continuing to erupt.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Friday that low-level eruptions continue to occur inside the volcano located on a remote, uninhabited island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The volcano's lava dome in the summit crater was destroyed during a short explosive eruption on Wednesday. The resulting ash cloud reached about 15,000 feet above sea level.
It was the third lava dome that has been destroyed by explosive events since the eruptions began in July 2011
Apr 7, 2012
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Reply by Nancy Lieder 4 minutes ago
San Diego Gas & Electric unveiled recently new mobile emergency command centers and new satellite communication systems in San Diego. Are city officials aware of the pending San Diego earthquake and preparing the region?
[and from another]
http://sdge.com/newsroom/press-releases/2012-04-02/sdge-unveils-new...
These new additions will provide SDG&E and San Diego County with the newest technology in field command communication, situational awareness, and crisis management, especially when traditional and cellular connections may not work. These state-of-the-art systems provide Wi-Fi connectivity and satellite communications so they can function during the most difficult conditions. SDG&E is partnering with local officials to help bring new tools to San Diego to improve overall emergency preparedness. These new facilities will not only be a new emergency resource for SDG&E, but will also be made available to the City, County, and other agencies, like the American Red Cross, should they be needed in the community.
SOZT
What this article presents is that San Diego is concerned about a time when “traditional and cellular connections may not work”. In other words, when land lines are down and cell phone towers are either down or without power, with generators to provide power ineffective due to the scope of the disaster. This would be an EXTENSIVE earthquake, over a broad area. As with recent procedures put into place by FEMA and recent Executive Orders by Obama, such maneuvers give a glimpse into the minds of those concerned about what may be pending for the US.
EOZT
Apr 7, 2012
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Reply by Nancy Lieder 2 minutes ago
I just realized that the Michigan Crack Out Back in Menominee, MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow6W0es4a14
lines up with the sites of the Wisconsin Booms. http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wisconsin-mystery-booms
In addition to that, the story about the missing beach in Los Frailes, Baja, CA sur Mexico has also been bothering me all day so I decided to look at the location on a map as well. At first I saw that the beach was actually an inland beach which made no sense with regard to the possibility of something like a rogue wave being the cause of the sudden loss of beachfront. I then zoomed out and saw that it looked like Los Frailes also lines up with the Wisconsin Boom / Michigan crack line! So, it seems to me that not only are we seeing the crack in Michigan opening up on a deeper level in Wisconsin, thus showing even clearer evidence of the splitting of the St. Lawrence Seaway, but we also may be seeing in Los Frailes an effect of the bowing of the North American continent on the western side. Could it be that this missing beach is actually due to the bowing of the continental plate and is actually land subsidence?
[and from another]
There Saturday-gone Sunday-Los Frailes facelift
March 28, 2012
http://www.bajafisherman.com/forum/showthread.php?972-There-Saturda...
Sunday morning the beach in Los Frailes disappeared - lost forever were 200 meters of beachfront by 100 meters deep. The red line is where the beach was the day before. The angler that emailed the photo in said the beach disappeared very quickly and is now a steep bank that appears to still be slowly eroding.
SOZT
We have described the N American bow as one where the tip of Mexico moves west while the top of the continent at Alaska and Canada remains in place. This pulls the entire continent into a bow shape which can only be relieved by the New Madrid adjustment, tearing the continent at a diagonal so that that the southwest of the US and Mexico move west and down while lands east of the Mississippi are torn away. In the meantime, the stress of the bow is pulling the St. Lawrence Seaway apart where resistance is slight. As we have mentioned, Wisconsin is pulling apart, and the rock strata there allows separation readily.
It is no surprise that a crevasse on the Michigan peninsula has been joined by booming in towns to the south as rock snaps in a diagonal line toward Mexico. Mexico very recently had an adjustment at its tip, driving the tip over the Cocos Plate. The land having moved westward, adjustments moved up along the coast. The Baja coastline affected literally touches the San Andreas fault line. It is no surprise likewise for these bow adjustments to occur almost simultaneously. On March 18 Clintonville began booming. On March 20 Chiapas at the tip of Mexico adjusted. On March 20 the Clintonville booms moved down diagonally to Montello. On March 28 the Baja beach disappeared. And on April 1 the Clintonville booms moved along diagonally to Baraboo. Most definitely related!
EOZT
Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/24mr2012.htm
Wisconsin is in the stretch zone due to the spreading St. Lawrence Seaway. Its landscape gives evidence of this stretch in the past, with numerous lakes along the route from Green Bay to Madison. Clintonville is pulling apart!
Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta464.htm
Looking at a map of Wisconsin, one sees that Green Bay is at the point where the peninsula is pulling away from the mainland of Wisconsin. In other words, at the rip point. Looking further inland along the line of rip, we see Lake Winnebago, a large body of water which formed over an area that had sunk in the past. When we described the St. Lawrence Seaway ripping open during the pole shift, and the ripping process which has already begun since the wobble and tugging at the surface of the Earth occur daily, we described not just the seaway but a Mississippi River bridge failing at Minneapolis and the much earlier rumpling of the Black Hills in S Dakota. Of course the ripping open of the seaway is going to affect Wisconsin as it is in the heavy traffic lane!
Apr 7, 2012
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Bara-booms' origin still unknown
The Bara-booms that shook residents awake early Sunday morning remain a mystery, but there is no shortage of theories as to their origin.
“Somebody’s blasting dynamite or something, and it’s the third time,” a caller to the Sauk County 911 center said. “It’s a big boom. It shakes the whole house... It sounded like a meteorite blowing up over us or something.”
Another caller said she swore she heard a gunshot. Police suspected an electrical transformer had blown. None of those explanations checked out.
Several people who called 911 to report the two bangs — which occurred sometime around 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. — lived near an industrial area on the city’s southwest side.
“I live right over by Flambeau and that’s where it sounds like it’s coming from,” one caller said.
But a Flambeau, Inc. representative said Friday there were no reported incidents at either of the company’s two Baraboo facilities.
“We didn’t have anybody report anything or any noise here,” said Jeff Stout, Flambeau’s vice president of North American operations. “We don’t have anything — even equipment — that makes noises like that.”
Multiple witnesses said they saw flashes of light that preceded the booms. But a spokesman for the National Weather Service said earlier this week there were no thunderstorm systems in the Baraboo area that morning.
However, Fritz Kruse, a lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Dodge City, Kan., said there is another possible explanation: a bolt from the blue.
That’s where activity from one thunderstorm produces a lightning strike in an area up to 40 miles away. During the Bara-booms, there was a thunderstorm system to the city’s southwest headed toward Dodgeville.
Kruse said even though the skies were clear over Baraboo, strikes from the Dodgeville storm could have hit here. He also has a possible explanation for the unusual loudness of the bangs.
“There was a temperature inversion at the time and this makes any sounds from a distance much louder and closer than normal,” Kruse said.
A Baraboo police officer who was parked on the 800 block of Eighth Street saw the first flash and boom, and said the flash appeared to his southwest.
Baraboo Police Chief Mark Schauf said more people have come forward since Sunday to report hearing the booms.
“The challenge we have is the associated light,” Schauf said. “That leads me to believe it was an explosion from fireworks, possibly home-made.”
Schauf said it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact area from which the booms originated. “Due to the range from which people heard the sounds, they must have been significant,” Schauf said
Apr 8, 2012
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Nevado del Ruiz volcano increasingly active
Central Colombian volcanologists warned Saturday that seismic activity inside the Nevado del Ruiz volcano has increased.
According to the Manizales Volcanological and Seismological Observatory, the volcanoshowed an increase in activity between 4:00AM and 5:30AM that caused minor trembles.
Local authorities maintain the alert level at orange as the volcano continues to remain unstable and spew gases.
The alert level was raised to orange on March 31 after an increase in seismic activity increased chances of a possible eruption.
The most tragic eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz took place in 1985 when 25,000 were killed
Apr 8, 2012
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Wakefield shaken by earthquake
Jodi Dooling was taking a nap with her three-year-old son in their home east of Wakefield when a “violent shake” woke them up just before 6 p.m. on Saturday.
“It was loud like a freight train,” Dooling said.
Earthquakes Canada recorded a 3.1 magnitude quake at 5:47 p.m. The epicentre was 15 kilometres east of Wakefield — just a few kilometres away from Dooling’s home in Edelweiss.
Many quakes with a magnitude less than 3.5 are too mild to notice, but Dooling said she felt the ground move for about two seconds.
“It was quite a violent shake,” Dooling said.
Dozens of quakes are recorded in the National Capital Region each year, but most are not felt by residents.
Ottawa-Gatineau ranks third among Canadian urban centres for earthquake risk, behind Vancouver and Montreal, according to the Geological Survey of Canada.
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake rumbled through the capital region in 2010
Apr 8, 2012
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Series Of 3.2 Earthquakes Rattle East County
11 Minor Or Moderate Earthquakes Reported Near SD-Imperial County Line
SAN DIEGO -- A series of earthquakes Saturday night and early Sunday morning rattled parts of the East County
Eleven minor or moderate quakes have rattled Ocotillo, a small scattering of homes just east of the San Diego-Imperial county line, in the overnight hours.
A pair of magnitude-3.2 earthquakes was recorded six seconds apart at about 11 p.m. Saturday. A 3.2 magnitude quake was also recorded at 1:15 a.m. by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The epicenters were on the U.S.-Mexico border in the Jacumba Wilderness, a jumble of rocks southeast of Ocotillo.
There were no reports of damage or injury.
Coincidentally, the quakes are rattling the same area that was rocked by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, centered just to the south in Mexico, on Easter Sunday in 2010.
Apr 9, 2012
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Baja earthquake shook up view of Southern California faults
Study of Easter 2010 temblor revealed previously unknown faults
Apr 9, 2012
Recall 15
Part of Los Frailes Beach just dissapear in Baja California South, Mexico:
Comment #4 on:
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/prelude-to-adjustments-of-...
Apr 9, 2012
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Small earthquakes rattle Palm Springs area
INDIO — As a native of California, or earthquake country as some call it, Carolyn Reeves was not fazed when she felt a small temblor last week.
But then another one occurred, followed by another and another.
“Now, I'll admit I'm a little worried,” the Indio woman said Saturday as she stocked up on emergency supplies.
A series of small earthquakes last week were all centered in the same spot: Roughly 10 miles northeast of Indio. The largest ones — each registering at magnitude 3.5 — occurred at 8:15 a.m. and 6:12 p.m. April 3, according to the United States Geological Survey.
But at 7:29 a.m. Saturday, a magnitude-2.9 earthquake struck with an epicenter in the area of Fargo Canyon and Dillon roads, which is less than 10 miles from Indio.
The quakes happened two years after the 2010 Easter Day quake, a magnitude-7.2 temblor centered in Baja California and felt in Los Angeles, which killed four and injured more than 100 in Mexico.
None of last week's earthquakes injured anyone, and the majority of them were too small for people to even notice. But whether these small quakes are a sign of things to come or just a few passing rumbles is on some minds.
“It does seem kind of unusual,” said Indio resident Marc DeCosta, 25, who felt the April 3 earthquakes.
According to experts, the Coachella Valley is about 150 years overdue for a large earthquake.
The recent quakes may not have caused any damage, but Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron encourages residents to be mindful of their occurrences.
“It's a constant reminder to yourself it can happen any time,” he said.
The fact that so many occurred within a small timeframe is what has Reeves a little concerned.
She was at WinCo Foods in Indio Saturday, where she bought water, batteries and the basics just to play it safe.
DeCosta wasn't in any rush to stock up on supplies Saturday.
He has a stash of water and batteries at home, but gets them just in case whenever it comes to mind.
“I don't think we need mass hysteria,” DeCosta said. “People should be preparing even when there aren't any (earthquakes). If they do, they won't freak out later.”
Apr 9, 2012
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Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill in October
Camp Murray, WA - Washington will join its Western neighbors in Oregon, Idaho, California and British Columbia in the Great Shakeout earthquake drill on Oct. 18 at 10:18 a.m.
Millions on the West Coast are expected to participate in a simultaneous “Drop, Cover, Hold” Drill which will emphasize the importance of emergency preparedness at home, school and the workplace. As part of the Washington ShakeOut in October, participants are encouraged not only to “Drop, Cover, and Hold On,” but take at least one additional step to ready themselves and their families for earthquakes.
Apr 9, 2012
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Explosions in the sky (Mexico city)5 april 2012
Apr 10, 2012
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Magnitude 4.6 - ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
2012 April 09 06:54:39 UTC
Earthquake Details
80 km (49 miles) SE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska
2121 km (1317 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
2905 km (1805 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Apr 10, 2012
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Utah leaders warn of possible earthquake
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Some of Utah's most prominent politicians are urging people along the Wasatch Front to get ready for a major earthquake. Seismic experts have been warning people for years that Utah is overdue. Monday they’re trying to warn those who need to know it most.
"It's about the only issue that I worry about when I wake up in the middle of the night," said
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Utah State Representative Greg Hughes said people in the Wasatch Front can't ignore the threat of earthquakes in Utah.
"Let's start the education process. Let's begin smart ways to address these issues," said Rep. Greg Hughes, (R) Draper.
What's the problem? Earthquake experts said over the next 50 years there's 25% chance the Wasatch Front could suffer a 7.0 quake, up to 2,300 people would die, and in Salt Lake alone, 30,000 old brick homes and masonry buildings would likely crumble and fall.
"Those buildings have a history in the United States and throughout the world of being absolutely the worst performers in earthquakes," said Structural Engineer Barry Welliver.
A predictive map of Salt Lake City shows the areas of town most vulnerable to destruction during an earthquake, including homes around the Utah State Capitol, the lower Avenues, and everything east of Highland Drive.
Experts said during a major quake the walls would be too heavy, and the mortar wouldn't hold the bricks together. So how do you fix the bricks? Experts said each of those homes needs to be reinforced with steel.
"We take steel elements like bolts or straps and we bolt them into the wood framing of the floor," said Welliver.
Leaders reinforced the Salt Lake City & County Building back in 1989. And now they're pleading for homeowners across the Wasatch Front to do the same thing.
If you live in a brick home built before 1970, and would like to learn how to reinforce your house with steel, just on the link embedded in this story labeled Utah Seismic Safety Commission.
Apr 10, 2012
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Ecuador: Increase in Seismic Activity of Tungurahua Volcano
According to the report of the Geophysics Institute of the National Polytechnic School, the increase of the seismic activity in this crater started with a column of smoke that reached 3 kilometers high along with low intensity roaring and sounds.
The first explosions caused minor thunders or crashes due to the rolling of blocks through the side walls of the volcano.
Shortly after, the falling of black and fine ashes on populations in the south-southwest regions, such as Palitahua, Capil, and Toctes, was reported.
According to the last report, the area surrounding the volcano remains highly cloudy, and with seismic activity.
Apr 10, 2012
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Dangerous Colombia Volcano May Erupt Soon
Colombia’s snowcapped Nevado del Ruiz volcano has lately shown signs pointing towards an immanent eruption.
An “Orange” alert has been posted, meaning that the volcano could erupt within days to weeks, the Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report web page said on Thursday.
The Andean volcano’s last important eruptions happened in 1985 and 1989, the 1985 eruption having led to Colombia’s worst natural disaster.
During the last week of March, tremors shook the volcano with increasing, according to the Colombian government agency, INGEOMINAS. Volcanologists interpreted the quakes as telltales for “rock fracturing” and “fluid movement” within the volcano.
Seismicity remained “elevated” during the first days of April, the report said.
Apr 10, 2012
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Plank Road Closed Due to Private Drive Bridge Collapse
The Charlottesville Newsplex
A crane had to be used to pull a truck from a creek after a small bridge collapsed Wednesday afternoon in Albemarle County. It happened around 4 pm near the 3600 block of Plank Road in the North Garden area of the county. The bridge is located on a ...
Apr 12, 2012
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Mercier Bridge ‘worse than we imagined’
May be closed more than once a month for repair – next shutdown this weekend
The South Shore-bound side of the Mercier Bridge will closed from Friday, April 13 at 10 p.m. to Monday, April 16 at 5 a.m.
MONTREAL - Damage to the Mercier Bridge is worse than originally thought, and the span may be partially closed more than once per month this year for repairs.
“There’s new damage, new gusset plates that need work,” Claudia Goulet, a spokesperson for Transport Quebec, told The Gazette Wednesday.
“The damage is worse than we imagined.”
In February, the department said it expected the bridge to be closed about once a month in 2012.
“Unfortunately, now there may be more than one closure per month,” Goulet said.
She said there is no danger to the public. “The work is preventive,” she said.
The next bridge closure is this weekend.
The part that normally carries traffic toward the South Shore will close Friday at
10 p.m. and reopen Monday at 5 a.m. During that period, the part of the bridge that normally carries traffic toward Montreal will have one lane open in each direction.
News that the bridge has sustained further deterioration raises new questions about a two-month-old report that led Transport Quebec to cancel a $45-million Mercier reconstruction contract.
Despite a pledge to be more transparent, Quebec has not made that document public.
On March 22, Transport Minister Pierre Moreau said the decision to cancel the contract, with the Pomerleau/Demathieu & Bard S.E.N.C. consortium, was taken after the Dessau engineering firm reviewed the consortium’s plans and found them to be deficient and too expensive.
He denied a Journal de Montréal report suggesting the cancellation was due to new degradation on the bridge, which was partially closed last year over safety concerns.
At the time, Moreau said he would like to publicly disclose the Dessau report to clear up new concerns about the safety of the Mercier.
But he hinted he might keep it secret because of the possibility the consortium might launch a lawsuit over the cancelled contract.
“In principle, I don’t see a problem with” making it public, he said last month. “But I don’t know what Pomerleau will do in the coming days.”
Three weeks later, the report has not been released.
“We are not ready to make the report public yet since we don’t know ... if there will be actions from Pomerleau’s side,” said Andrée-Lyne Hallé, Moreau’s spokesperson, said Wednesday.
“As soon as we can make it public, we will, like we did for a lot of other reports.”
The decision to keep the report under wraps is in contrast to Quebec’s recent stance on transparency, even in cases where the courts are involved.
In February, Moreau disclosed a report that cleared Transport Quebec of blame in last year’s partial roof collapse in a Ville Marie Expressway tunnel.
That disclosure came even as the department was preparing to launch a lawsuit against the engineering consortium that was blamed in the Ville Marie report.
Moreau also has made public long-secret inspection reports for the Mercier, the Turcot Interchange and other structures.
The Pomerleau-led consortium was hired by Quebec – a contract worth $45 million – to develop plans for a new deck for the Mercier Bridge and then to carry out the replacement work. It submitted its plans last summer.
In December, Quebec hired Dessau to review those plans.
Dessau’s report, submitted to Quebec in February, found the plans “were not optimal for the bridge” and would have required extra work that would add as much as $24 million to the price tag, Moreau said last month.
The deck proposed was too heavy and “could not be supported by the bridge as it is now,” he said.
“It would add a load that normally the bridge cannot or should not” handle.
The deck-replacement work was scheduled to start in the summer of 2013. Transport Quebec has said it will be delayed for a few months because the contract will be put out to tender again
Apr 12, 2012
bill
A massive 8.9 earthquake hit Aceh Indonesia and it has triggered an indian coean wide tsunami alert, two large earthquakes in Mexico, a 5.9 near Oregon, USA, plus lots of aftershocks in both Indonesia & Mexico.
5 die after earthquake near Indonesia
Earthquake terror: Mexico hit by second quake in 24 hours, 7.0 magnitude
Apr 12, 2012
bill
Experts urge Vashon to get ready for earthquake, tsunami
A tsunami with waves up to 8 feet high could inundate Quartermaster Harbor just 18 minutes after an earthquake on the Seattle Fault, potentially immersing homes, beaches, people and animals at 15 feet of elevation and below.
This message — that Vashon is vulnerable to a fast-moving tsunami following an earthquake — is one of the disaster-related issues two state experts will discuss at the annual meeting of VashonBePrepared next week. In recent years, scientists have learned a great deal more about the risk to the Puget Sound region from both earthquakes and tsunamis. At the presentation, John Schelling, the earthquake program manager for the Washington State Emergency Management Division, and Tim Walsh, the chief hazard geologist at the Washington Geological Survey, will discuss the latest findings and provide information to Islanders about how they can best be prepared.
“One of the things we want people to take away … is the fact that we want them to be the survivor story,” Schelling said recently.
Earthquakes are a fact of life in the Puget Sound region, and preparedness is important, he stressed.
“What you do today will determine how fast you and your family recover afterward,” he said.
Earthquakes and the resulting tsunamis in Samoa in 2009, Chile in 2010 and Japan in 2011 have contributed to new understandings about both events, Schelling said. In his presentation, he will focus on how people can best be prepared while Walsh will discuss the latest research and what the most recent findings might mean for Vashon. Walsh also plans to share animation that illustrates just how quickly a tsunami could inundate the low-lying areas of the Port of Tacoma and Fife. Six to 15 feet of water would be expected there within minutes of a quake; the scientific modeling for that project included parts of Vashon, he said, and will help residents understand potential tsunami scenarios for Vashon more clearly.
If one occurs here, residents need to be prepared not just for water, he said, but for the debris that comes with it, including — potentially — the contents of log yards near low-lying ports and houses that have been knocked off their foundations and carried away.
Such debris could present considerable difficulty, including creating an additional impediment to ferry travel to and from the mainland. If a whole house floated on to a ferry dock, he noted, it would need to be removed before travel could resume.
To best withstand such a disaster, Schelling said that understanding potential scenarios and knowing the right action to take is vital.
Standard earthquake advice used to be “drop, cover and hold,” he said, but now, for people living near a shore, the directive is to “drop, cover, hold and then go to higher ground as quickly as possible.”
“The response by citizens has to be automatic,” Walsh said.
Schelling stressed the importance of practice for such an event. When the people of Crescent City, Calif., had to evacuate following last year’s earthquake in Japan, many said it felt just like a drill, he noted. Drills had been helpful in Japan as well, where, despite widespread tragedy, having practiced for a tsunami saved many people’s lives.
On Vashon, as in many other communities in Washington, Schelling encourages organizations, neighbors and communities to take action, train themselves about tsunamis and take ownership of how they will respond if necessary.
“It offers peace of mind,” he said.
He also noted that Washington has three coasts: the outer coast, the coasts of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the coasts of Puget Sound.
“Each has unique hazards,” he said.
Such an event is entirely possible, he noted: For this region, there is a 5 percent chance in a 50-year period that a tsunami will strike.
In addition to discussing the more recent understandings of tsunamis, Schelling will discuss how to best be prepared to withstand the effects of a major earthquake, including low or no-cost steps people can take to secure their home and work spaces: anchoring bookshelves, strapping a hot water heater water to the wall and securing a flat screen TV, for example.
“It’s an hour project,” Schelling said about securing the TV. “It might seem trivializing. But if somebody is in that room, it’s going to save their lives.”
Both men note they are aware that earthquake fatigue sometimes sets in and people can grow tired of hearing about the possibilities that might befall this area.
Walsh countered by pointing to recent history: The last earthquakes in this region higher than a 6.5 were in 1949, 1965 and 2001.
“Eye rolling is not a good idea,” he said. “If you grow up here, you can expect two to three large, damaging earthquakes in your lifetime.”
Apr 12, 2012
bill
Reply by Nancy Lieder on Saturday
On March 21, shortly after Clintonville started experiencing loud booms, a mysterious white substance

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/fox_cities/fond-du-lac-of...
was discovered just to the east in the Fond du Lac River, Wisconsin. On March 31, a similar substance
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/696070--mysterious-substa...
was discovered in Sheldon Creek in Burlington, Vermont. Then today on April 7, a mysterious "white, milky" fluid
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/04/07/bc-...
was spotted bubbling up in Coal Harbour in Vancouver BC.
The Fond du Lac substance was thought to be some form of "cutting oil" that somehow entered
http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20120321/FON0101/120321046/Unkno...|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
the storm sewer. The spill in Sheldon Creek was reported
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/699133--moe-identifies-ch...
to be the result of leak from a company that produces water treatment chemicals. The Coal Harbour substance is thought to be effluent emanating from an underwater storm water outflow pipe.
Will the Zetas confirm if these incidences are related to Earth Changes, (e.g., ruptured storm water lines from shifting Earth) and elaborate why all these substances appear to be similar?
SOZT
Two of these incidents occurred in a river or creek bed, and as we have explained these spots represent a thin place in the crust, so the crust sags and thus water pools there. In Vancouver, the milky substance bubbling up was in an inlet bay, in an area just east of the San Andreas fault line. Note also that all 3 incidents are in a line from the West Coast to the East Coast, and thus the emergence of this milky substance could be related to the bowing of the N American continent. Despite the assurances of those assigned to investigate and explain, no identification of the substance was done! So what is this substance?
Just as the air itself can become solidified into Angel Hair on occasion,
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/15oc2011.htm
due to electrical changes in the particles holding the atoms together, this type of phenomena can occur in water too. The bowing can drop sinkholes, shift bridges, and rip open crevasses, but this is all surface activity. When movement in the deeper rock occurs, then the electromagnetic screech we have referred to as a frequent warning of a pending earthquake increases. Rock pressed close together allows electricity to flow via water trapped in the rock layers, and this MOVES electricity. Thus, temporarily, the water composition changed, making it appear milky and causing bubbles to emerge. Simple as that.
EOZT
Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/15oc2011.htm
Associated with meteor showers and UFOs, Angel Hair or Star Jelly is a temporary substance formulated from air particles. There is indeed a relationship to the electromagnetic fields generated by both meteors and UFOs. Lightning is generated during thunderstorms by the friction of air masses, super heated so that a void is created, then clashing together creating lightning and thunder. In like manner, meteors super heat the air along their trajectory, and UFOs not only create their own gravity centers, they also create their own magnetic fields. Many substances man is familiar with have different forms, such as water which can be steam, water, or ice. The jell of Angel Hair or Star Jelly is such a temporary structure of air, created when the various molecules have their external electron structure temporarily altered.
Apr 17, 2012