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WHAT IS HAPPENING AT WHITE ISLAND VOLCANO??? New Zealand/Kermadec & South Pacific QUAKE/VOLCANO WATCH

 
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4.7 2012/11/04 17:07:06 -24.365 -179.098 353.6 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

5.1 2012/11/04 12:13:01 -22.278 171.432 94.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

4.7 2012/11/04 04:16:39 -29.942 -177.704 18.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

4.9 2012/11/04 00:16:33 -14.857 167.316 147.4 VANUATU

4.9 2012/11/03 20:49:11 -21.933 -176.317 105.5 FIJI REGION

5.0 2012/11/01 09:48:01 -20.238 -177.655 458.7 FIJI REGION

4.7 2012/10/31 16:26:38 -30.157 -177.791 61.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND

4.5 2012/10/31 12:35:13 -18.645 -177.530 315.9 FIJI REGION

4.6 2012/10/30 15:22:52 -17.979 -178.566 623.1 FIJI REGION

5.2 2012/10/30 13:12:29 -37.949 177.681 67.8 OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.

4.7 2012/10/30 12:53:05 -24.742 -179.616 541.2 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

5.1 2012/10/30 10:59:33 -18.219 -174.809 9.8 TONGA

4.9 2012/10/30 07:12:35 -17.917 -178.592 560.7 FIJI REGION

4.6 2012/10/30 00:41:33 -36.203 -100.250 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

4.7 2012/10/29 22:41:13 -15.263 -172.934 34.2 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION

4.8 2012/10/29 10:30:44 -24.600 179.264 526.6 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

4.7 2012/10/27 20:56:46 -16.255 -175.946 355.6 TONGA

4.8 2012/10/27 07:02:40 -22.284 179.922 554.8 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS

4.5 2012/10/26 04:24:30 -18.032 -178.574 608.0 FIJI REGION

5.3 2012/10/25 18:40:39 -19.830 -178.196 604.1 FIJI REGION

4.3 2012/10/25 09:25:59 -17.974 -178.448 599.5 FIJI REGION

4.5 2012/10/23 22:15:28 -18.423 -177.822 628.7 FIJI REGION

10 degree map of the south pacific
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list of quakes on this map
[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]
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wow!

check out our seismos!

rather a lot of them have had segments removed today!!!

and they looked messy before it happened!

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THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD
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Type: Earthquake
2 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.2
DateTime: Saturday May 5 2012, 23:33:13 UTC
Region: Cook Strait, New Zealand
Depth: 31 km
Source: CSEM-EMSC Feed


This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wellington's tsunami risk.


HANK SCHOUTEN Last updated 05:00 19/03/2011


Tsunami generated by an earthquake in Cook Strait could sweep kilometres inland within three or four minutes, putting the lives of up to 170,000 Wellington residents at risk.

There would be no time for any warnings and people need to think now about how they can get to higher ground immediately after a strong quake, says Wellington Region Emergency Management officer Rian van Schalkwyk.

"The magnitude of that quake and tsunami in Japan is the sort of thing we can expect here. The moment there is a big local quake that is so strong that you can't stand upright, you need to get to higher ground or up in a building as quickly as possible. There is no time to hop in a car to drive away – just go up as quickly as possible.

"In Japan the quake was 200 kilometres offshore, but for us it could be 15km to 20km ..."

A tsunami caused by a quake that close "could be 15 metres high and it will come into the harbour and destroy everything in its path", he said.

The biggest threats were faults through Cook Strait and the Wairarapa coast and the possibility of huge landslides in the Cook Strait trench.

Mr van Schalkwyk said the tsunami triggered by the 8.2 magnitude quake on the Wairarapa Fault in 1855 was up to five metres high when it swept over Lyall Bay and Kilbirnie into Evans Bay.

A 10-metre wave struck Palliser Bay on the south Wairarapa coast. The tsunami also flooded Porirua Harbour, and hit Titahi Bay and the Kapiti Coast.

Mr van Schalkwyk said Greater Wellington regional council had drawn up maps showing evacuation zones for the most vulnerable areas. In the red, orange and yellow zones people need to be prepared to evacuate if there is a tsunami. The red zone is mainly for beach areas that could be hit by a one-metre tsunami generated thousands of kilometres away and during which people are advised to stay off the beaches.

The orange zone is based on a tsunami similar to that which happened in 1855, and the yellow zone is based on how far the devastation might extend if a 10-metre wave struck.

A tsunami of that size would threaten Wellington's commercial heart – the waterfront, the central business district and all the flat land as far south as the Basin Reserve, the suburbs of Island Bay, Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Seatoun, Eastbourne, much of Lower Hutt, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Plimmerton, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu, Waikanae and Otaki.

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Very interesting artical.
hf
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wow!

check out our seismos!

rather a lot of them have had segments removed today!!!

and they looked messy before it happened!

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD

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you can see them better here, all on one page

wtf

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wow!

check out our seismos!

rather a lot of them have had segments removed today!!!

and they looked messy before it happened!

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD

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you can see them better here, all on one page

wtf

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now a lot of them have been reinstated, lol
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Retreat of Crane Glacier on Antarctic’s Larsen-B ice shelf
BY CHILLYMANJARO – NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Hektoria and Crane glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have continued thinning since the Larsen-B ice shelf’s collapse in 2002. They are considered to be among some of the fastest changing in recent years. Almost the entire Larsen B Ice Shelf splintered and collapsed in just over one month period. Researchers had never witnessed such a large area—3,250 square kilometers (1,250 square miles) disintegrate so rapidly.

The collapse of the Larsen appears to have been due to a series of warm summers on the Antarctic Peninsula, which culminated with an exceptionally warm summer in 2002. Significant surface melting due to warm air temperatures created melt ponds that acted like wedges; they deepened the crevasses and eventually caused the shelf to splinter.

An ice shelf is a thick floating tongue of ice, fed by a tributary glacier, extending into the sea off a land mass. Previous research showed that the recent collapse of several ice shelves in Antarctica led to acceleration of the glaciers that feed into them.

According to recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology, the 15 glaciers that flow into the Larsen-B ice shelf have lost more than 10 million tons of mass per year. The longest tributary glacier is Crane Glacier on the northern edge of Larsen B drainage basin, which has retreated by more than 12 km (7 miles) since the collapse of ice shelf. The Crane Glacier underwent 90 meters of thinning in 2004-2005, and its total elevation change – 180 meters – rivals that which has occurred at Hektoria and Green in recent years.

Between 2002 and 2006, Hektoria and Green glaciers lost an average of 4.2 gigatons of ice per year; between 2006 and 2011, they lost 5.6 gigatons per year. In their lower reaches, the two glaciers have lost about 220 meters (720 feet) of vertical thickness since 2002. The Evans, Punchbowl, and Jorum glaciers have also thinned over the years, though not as much dramatic.

While the collapse of the Larsen B was unprecedented in terms of scale, it was not the first ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to experience an abrupt break up. The northernmost section of the Larsen Ice Shelf Complex, called Larsen A, lost about 1,500 square kilometers of ice in an abrupt event in January 1995. Following the even more spectacular collapse in 2002, the Larsen A and B glaciers experienced an abrupt acceleration, about 300% on average, and their mass loss went from 2–4 gigatons per year in 1996 and 2000 (a gigaton is one billion metric tonnes), to between 22 and 40 gigatonnes per year in 2006

[link to thewatchers.adorraeli.com]
amazing images
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2MIN News November 4, 2012

Queensland Heat: [link to www.weatherzone.com.au]
Western Australia Hail: [link to www.weatherzone.com.au]

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hf Hi my friend congratulations on the new Avatar and this threat...
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LOL. You probably meant thread.

:my2:
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thats a devil dog if anything.
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Southeastern Australia earthquake swarms 2009/2012
BY THE WATCHER – OCTOBER 29, 2012

Significant Earthquake swarms in Victoria Australia in 2009 and 2012, research and analysis video covering a possible mechanism and cause of both events which seem to propagate through the flinders ranges in South Australia migrating east into the Strzelecki Ranges in victoria.

Southeastern Australia Earthquake Swarms 2009/2012

Published on Oct 29, 2012 by SolarWatcher
Significant Earthquake swarms in Victoria Australia in 2009 and 2012, research and analysis video covering a possible mechanism and cause of both events which seem to propagate through the flinders ranges in South Australia migrating east into the Strzelecki Ranges in victoria.
More of these videos for specific locations around the globe will be uploaded to document these earthquake swarms. (Next video will cover the Gulf Of California)

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Moe 27 Oct 2012 Earthquake

Published on Oct 29, 2012 by spaceweavel
Short film about the latest in a series of earthquakes to strike near Moe, Victoria, Australia on the 27th October 2012 at 3:43pm local time. It is mapped in relation to the other quakes that have occured since October 2011.
This quake had a magnitude of 3.0 & an epi-focus 12km deep.




The Moe Earthquakes 9 Oct 2011 to 25 July 2012

Published on Jul 26, 2012 by spaceweavel
The earthquakes that have occured near Moe, Victoria, Australia between 2011 and present are mapped onto Google earth with annotations of magnitude, depth, time & dates.




Moe 20 july 2012 4.5 M Earthquake

Published on Jul 20, 2012 by spaceweavel
Early reports from the USGS are used to plot the 20th July 4.5 M quake onto Google Earth. Data may be refined at a later stage.
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Moe Earthquake Cluster 19 June to 17 July 2012

Published on Jul 17, 2012 by spaceweavel
On July 17th 2012 two more earthquakes struck near Moe, Victoria, Australia. I have plotted these two quakes along with the others that have occured in the region since 19 June 2012 with annotations of depth and strength.




Moe Aftershock of 18 July 2012

Published on Jul 19, 2012 by spaceweavel
The latest of tremors to strike near Moe on the 18th July 2012 is mapped with the other quakes since the 19th June.

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Drouin Earthquake 31 OCT 2012

Published on Nov 1, 2012 by spaceweavel
Earthquake occuring near Drouin, Victoria, Australia mapped to Google Earth with local faultlines, seismograph & relationship to a previous quake illustrated.




Korumburra 29 oct 2012

Published on Nov 1, 2012 by spaceweavel
The aftershocks rumbling near Korumburra, Victoria, Australia continue with the latest occuring on the 29 Oct 2012. This quake is mapped onto Google Earth, with its relationship with faultlines & seismic events from 2009 onward included.

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Korumburra earthquake cluster 2009-2012

Published on Jun 20, 2012 by spaceweavel
44 of the largest tremors to occur near Korumburra are mapped to Google Earth with annotations of magnitude & depth. Some description of the geology of the area.




Korumburra earthquakes.wmv

Uploaded by spaceweavel on Dec 24, 2011
Using Google Earth, 3 years of earthquakes near Korumburra, Victoria, Australia are mapped, with annotations of depth and magnitude.

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Here we go again, just felt another Quake.

Public ID 2012p836220
Universal Time November 5 2012 at 9:38:04
NZ Daylight Time Monday, November 5 2012 at 10:38:04 pm
Latitude, Longitude -37.83, 177.56
Intensity ? light
Focal Depth 49 km
Magnitude 4.2
Location 15 km south-west of Te Kaha

Wasnt as big as the last one though, This was a quick short jolt.
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RAREST WHALE SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME
The world's rarest whale, previously only known from a few bones, was seen for the first time on a New Zealand beach, according to a new Current Biology paper.

The elusive marine mammal is the spade-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii). The good news is that it was seen at all, revealing that it still exists. The bad news is that the sighting was of a mother and her male calf, both of which became stranded and died on the beach.
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WTH? read further-The discovery actually happened two years ago, when the whales live-stranded and died on Opape Beach, New Zealand. It's only after DNA analysis that the identification of the rare species was made. At first, they were incorrectly identified as being the much more common Gray's beaked whales.

"When these specimens came to our lab, we extracted the DNA as we usually do for samples like these, and we were very surprised to find that they were spade-toothed beaked whales," Constantine said. "We ran the samples a few times to make sure before we told everyone."-
2 years to run DNA? I want this job!!!.lol.
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wow, AK

this is sad and amazing all at the same time
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from tassies thread:
Thread: WHALE AND DOLPHIN Stranding Tasmania>>>>>> (Page 2)
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Thread: COREXIT IN NEW ZEALAND!! Oil Spill Updates..RENA CAPTAIN and NAVIGATION OFFICER'S COVER-UP, 7 MONTHS JAIL

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UH OH. Not a good sign.

The above thread is no longer in the database.
I found a better source for the information.

Dated today, too.

[link to enenews.com]

Blowout in Gulf of Mexico: Wellhead releasing ‘unknown product’ into water off Louisiana coast (MAP)
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Betcha this is what it is as the key word was 'unlikely' fueled by the current ocean weather events and water temps rising it's a toxic death bloom that wasn't supposed to ever surface.
ELE? of the day-Why did the EPA allow BP to disperse Corexit in such vast amounts without ever examining it's effects on marine life?
The containment and absorbent boom that BP is deploying around beaches and marshes—largely ineffectively—is designed to do just that: contain and absorb oil. But the Corexit dispersant BP has flooded onto the leaking wellhead 5,000 feet down, and sprayed from the air onto the surface—some 2 million gallons in total—is designed to break up the oil. "Which one is it?" asks Safina. "Do you want to contain it or disperse it? It makes absolutely no sense to be doing both. Let's face it, with pollution, you count your lucky stars if you have what's called point-source pollution, that is, a single identifiable localized source of pollution, like the Deepwater Horizon. So what's BP doing with that? They're turning it into the worst pollution nightmare of them all: non-point-source pollution."

That's because untreated oil quickly rises to the surface, where it can be skimmed with relative ease. But it becomes a submerged plume, unlikely to ever float to the surface, and destined to migrate through underwater currents to the entire Gulf basin and eventually the North Atlantic. "Oil is toxic to most life," says Steiner. "And Corexit is toxic to most life. But the most toxic of all is oil that's been treated with Corexit. Plus, dispersants may well kill the ocean's first line of defense against oil: the natural microbes that break oil down for other microbes to eat." The EPA has never seriously examined Corexit's effects on marine life (see "Bad Breakup"). Now it'll get the biggest and baddest field experiment of all time, as the flora and fauna of the shallows and the deep scattering layer collide with the dispersed plumes. [link to www.motherjones.com]
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3+ mag quakes..

3.2 12:04:02 Tue 06 Nov 2012 Depth: 138.0 km

3.2 11:22:41 Tue 06 Nov 2012 Depth: 207.0 km

3.1 07:06:54 Tue 06 Nov 2012 Depth: 27.5 km

3.9 01:13:45 Tue 06 Nov 2012 Depth: 2.6 km

4.1 22:38:04 Mon 05 Nov 2012 Depth: 41.7 km

4.2 08:59:32 Mon 05 Nov 2012 Depth: 4.5 km

4.6 06:07:12 Mon 05 Nov 2012 Depth: 565.5 km

map to view locations of quakes
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with the many,many small quakes on the west coast, i gave the energy flow a manual boost from that direction and i have the flow approaching Fiji/Vanuatu/.. possibly New Zealand
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Chemtrail Soup Over Kaikoura, New Zealand – November 1, 2012

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Chemtrails Criss-Crossing Over the Golden Bay Sky On October 31, 2012

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Large volcanic eruptions would have devastating impact on planet

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November 5, 2012 – EARTH – A drop in crop yields in the UK and many other grain producing countries, as a result of extreme weather, has increased prices worldwide, and may cause serious hardship. But these consequences would be dwarfed by the catastrophe that a volcano could unleash on a heavily populated planet. Evidence unearthed in London’s Spitalfields of mass graves, dated to 1258, shows that between 20 and 40 bodies were buried at once in a series of pits in the cemetery. There were both sexes, with adults and children together. They are believed to be famine victims because they had no battle injuries and it was a century before the Black Death. The same year the monk Matthew Paris of St Albans recorded “unendurable cold” in the winter that suspended all cultivation and killed calves. In June spring had still not arrived and wheat was so scarce that “a very large number of poor people died.” Contemporary chroniclers in other continents also record appalling weather and mass starvation. Geologists have found that over both hemispheres, as far south as Antarctica, there is a thick layer of volcanic ash from the same period. The sheer quantity of aerosols projected into the atmosphere would have blotted out the sun and wiped out crops. The volcano responsible for this devastation and mass starvation is not known, but 850 years is a short gap in geological time. Somewhere this monster is dormant and could erupt again. –The Guardian
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Ancient supervolcano affected the ends of the Earth

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November 5, 2012 – INDONESIA - About 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted with catastrophic force. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, it is believed to be the largest volcanic event on Earth in the last 2 million years. Toba spewed enough lava to build two Mount Everests, it produced huge clouds of ash that blocked sunlight for years, and it the left behind a crater 31 miles (50 kilometers) across. The volcano even sent enough sulphuric acid into the atmosphere to create acid rain downpours in the Earth’s polar regions, which researchers have found evidence of in deep ice cores. “We have now traced this acid rain in the ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica,” glaciologist Anders Svensson, of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, said in a statement. “We have long had an idea of at what depth the Toba eruption could be found in the Greenland ice cap, but we found no ash, so we could not be sure,” Svensson added. “But now we have found the same series of acid layers from Toba in the Greenland ice sheet and in the ice cap in Antarctica. We have counted the annual layers between acid peaks in ice cores from the two ice caps and it fits together.” The ice cores could offer more evidence about how the changed Earth’s climate was drastically changed in the years after the colossal eruption. Researchers had previously estimated that such an event would have prompted a cooling of up to 10 degrees C (18 degrees F) in the global temperature for decades, but the ice cores show the cooling was probably short and not consistent across the globe. “In the temperature curves from the ice cores we can see that there is no general global cooling as a result of the eruption,” Svensson said. “There is certainly a cooling and large fluctuations in temperature in the Northern Hemisphere, but it becomes warmer in the Southern Hemisphere, so the global cooling has been short.” The new evidence also promises to settle some archaeological debates. The Toba eruption occurred at a critical point in early human history when Homo sapiens were first venturing out of Africa into Asia. However, there is wide disagreement about how early human were affected and whether large parts of the population were wiped out by the blast. Layers of ash from the Toba eruption have been found in Asia and serve as a very important reference horizon for ancient archaeological clues from this period that are too old to be carbon dated. The ice cores now provide another backdrop against which to place ancient finds. “The new precise location of the Toba eruption in the ice cores will place the archaeological finds in a climatic context, which will help to shed light on this critical period of human history,” Svensson said. –Live Science
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Here we go again, just felt another Quake.

Public ID 2012p836220
Universal Time November 5 2012 at 9:38:04
NZ Daylight Time Monday, November 5 2012 at 10:38:04 pm
Latitude, Longitude -37.83, 177.56
Intensity ? light
Focal Depth 49 km
Magnitude 4.2
Location 15 km south-west of Te Kaha

Wasnt as big as the last one though, This was a quick short jolt.
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hiya whakatane

after a few quiet days things seem to be picking up again..
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Scientists see world's rarest whale

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Auckland scientists have made a world-first discovery, sighting complete specimens of the world's rarest whale for the first time.

And they didn't find just one spade-toothed beaked whale, but two, confirming the species still exists.

The pair, a mother and her calf, were seen by scientists when they stranded on Opape Beach in the Bay of Plenty in December 2010. The whales later died.

See a diagram of the whale and where it was sighted here

Lead scientist at Auckland University Rochelle Constantine said they were initially mis-identified as Gray's beaked whales - a more common whale to wash up on New Zealand shores.

The Department of Conservation measured the 5.3m female and her 3.5m male calf and took tissue samples, but genetic analysis at Auckland University revealed they were actually spade-toothed beaked whales.

Auckland University researchers confirmed the species after studying three skull fragments found around New Zealand and Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile.

Fragments were first discovered in the Chatham Islands in 1872, but scientists didn't begin studying them until 2002.

Analysing the fragments, they realised the genetic profiles from each fragment were the same, but did not correspond to any other known species.

Constantine said there was sufficient DNA evidence to confirm they were the bones of the spade-toothed beaked whale, but up until the pair washed onto the beach it was unknown whether they still existed.

The discovery was published today in international journal Current Biology.

Because the pair which stranded in 2010 were the only two whales of the species to ever be seen, they are considered to be the rarest in the world.

"It's incredible to think that, until recently, such a large animal was concealed in the South Pacific Ocean and shows how little we know about ocean biodiversity," Constantine said.

Following the genetic identification of the whales their skeletal remains were exhumed, with the permission of Whakatohea Iwi Maori Trust and the Ngai Tama Haua hapu, and taken to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

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this link shows a diagram of this type of whale

[link to www.cell.com]

it seems to show that some remains were also found at white island in the 1950's...
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unusual signals on the inchbonnie (christchurch area) seismo drum

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Hi Sis, I have some interesting read for you. I haven't gone over it all, but have booked marked it to read later.. Has some interesting stuff in it that I know you would enjoy..

LiDAR-based quantification of lava flow susceptibility in the City of Auckland (New Zealand)


[link to www.sciencedirect.com]
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Total Solar Eclipse - Australia 14 November 2012
by Dave Reneke
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 05, 2012

"Australia will play host to such an event next week and all eyes will be on the horizon overlooking the Coral Sea in Tropical North Queensland as the total solar eclipse casts an incredible shadow across the region on November 14.

Port Douglas and Cairns will be the best places in the world to witness this natural phenomenon.."

full article--
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Hi Sis, I have some interesting read for you. I haven't gone over it all, but have booked marked it to read later.. Has some interesting stuff in it that I know you would enjoy..

LiDAR-based quantification of lava flow susceptibility in the City of Auckland (New Zealand)


[link to www.sciencedirect.com]
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hiya mahala

thank you, yes, this does look very interesting..

but when i go to the link, i get this:
[link to linkinghub.elsevier.com]
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Hi Sis, I have some interesting read for you. I haven't gone over it all, but have booked marked it to read later.. Has some interesting stuff in it that I know you would enjoy..

LiDAR-based quantification of lava flow susceptibility in the City of Auckland (New Zealand)


[link to www.sciencedirect.com]
 Quoting: Mahala


hiya mahala

thank you, yes, this does look very interesting..

but when i go to the link, i get this:
[link to linkinghub.elsevier.com]
 Quoting: Tauranga


looks to be a server error I think. I'll try to find another one...
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Hi Sis, I have some interesting read for you. I haven't gone over it all, but have booked marked it to read later.. Has some interesting stuff in it that I know you would enjoy..

LiDAR-based quantification of lava flow susceptibility in the City of Auckland (New Zealand)


[link to www.sciencedirect.com]
 Quoting: Mahala


hiya mahala

thank you, yes, this does look very interesting..

but when i go to the link, i get this:
[link to linkinghub.elsevier.com]
 Quoting: Tauranga


looks to be a server error I think. I'll try to find another one...
 Quoting: Mahala


found the pdf file of it... [link to zen.nzherald.co.nz (secure)]
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Australian volcano about to erupt?

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A volcano on the Australian sub-Antarctic territory of Heard Island is showing signs of eruption.

ONE OF ONLY TWO active volcanoes in Australian territory is showing possible signs of eruption.

Satellite thermal imagery collected by NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) during the past month indicates volcanic activity is occurring at Big Ben, a volcano located on remote Heard Island, about 4100km southwest of Perth, in the sub-Antarctic.

Thermal anomalies at Mawson's Peak, the 2745m summit of Big Ben, were documented this year on 21 and 24 September, and 10 and 19 October using infrared data provided by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), a key instrument aboard each of the two EOS satellites.

An image taken by one of the satellite's Advanced Land Imagers (ALI) on October 13 also shows a snow- and ice-free area at Mawson's Peak, indicating a possible hotspot in the volcano's crater
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