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

 
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Thread: Summer Weather Projection for Australia and New Zealand based on AMSU Jet Stream on channel 8
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A radar watch A (Wanganui Region)

Published on Nov 14, 2012 by WEATHERORNUT
RADAR WATCH.. (Wanganui region and Indonesian region))



siren2siren2siren2siren2siren2siren2
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Thanks for this post, been watching the esclation of activity down your way , and here on the West coast of California. Worried now. Yikes!
PS Lady of Shallot is one of my fav. painting EVER!
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Thanks for this post, been watching the esclation of activity down your way , and here on the West coast of California. Worried now. Yikes!
PS Lady of Shallot is one of my fav. painting EVER!
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hiya mate

thank you for your support, i have seen you around glp

yeah things are really ramping up here, in nz, as they are globally..

do you follow El Q and gabes threads here?

lady of shallot has always been my fav painting ever too!

i am on to my second painting, my first one got old and faded lols
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Stranded pilot whales have died

[link to www.nzherald.co.nz]

8:33 PM Thursday Nov 15, 2012

All 28 pilot whales stranded in Golden Bay have died, after their pod became trapped at the high tide mark on Farewell Spit this morning.

Eleven died in the first hour and another a short time later.

The Department of Conservation (Doc) this afternoon confirmed a decision had been made to euthanise the remaining 16 whales, and programme manager Hans Stoffregen said Doc was disappointed at the outcome.

The whales were destroyed this afternoon.

Earlier today, Mr Stoffregen said something must be wrong with the whales, as pilot whales can usually survive for days in the same conditions.

"It's unusual that they would die so quickly.''


Mass whale strandings are not uncommon at Farewell Spit.

They swim into the relatively shallow water during high tide, but the tide recedes very quickly and they become stuck on the sand.

In January, more than 80 whales died after a mass standing of 99 pilot whales at Farewell Spit.
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Stranded whales euthanased by DOC

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Sixteen pilot whales have been euthanased after a pod of 28 whales stranded earlier today on Farewell Spit in Golden Bay.

Do you know anything more about the whale stranding? Email your newstips, photos and video to [email protected]

The whales stranded on Farewell Spit in Golden Bay about 10am.

Eleven died in the hour that followed, one a couple of hours later and the surviving whales were facing a dire two days ahead of them, DOC biodiversity manager Hans Stoffregen said.

DOC made the decision to euthanase the mammals following consultation with Project Jonah, a whale protection organisation.

They were euthanased this afternoon, Project Jonah chief executive Kimberly Muncaster confirmed.

It was likely that more whales would strand in the days to come and volunteers were on alert, Muncaster said.

The whales were brought ashore in an “unusually high” tide this morning and it was incredibly unlikely they would have been able to be refloated in the next two days, Stoffregen said.

“It’s really sad and not a situation we take lightly but anything else is inhumane and would prolong their suffering,” Stoffregen said.

“They don’t look that flash so putting them all through another two days of this is inhumane.”

The pod was lying almost amongst the driftwood and the next high tide at midnight probably would not reach them, he said.

They were shot with a high calibre rifle and were left on the beach to be savaged and rot.

DOC first got a call at 9am that a baby whale had stranded on its own and when staff went there they learnt of another 28 stranded about 2km east of the bottom of Farewell Spit.

It had called in Project Jonah volunteers who were with the whales.

Stoffregen said it would possible more whales might also come in, and he asked anyone seeing more whales out at sea or beached to contact DOC.

This stranding was earlier than usual, with the main season for whale strandings from around the end of the year through until March, he said.

Today it was becoming windy and bad weather was expected on Saturday, he said.

Whale strandings are not uncommon in Golden Bay, at the top of the South Island.

A pod of 99 pilot whales stranded at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay in January. Many died while more than 90 volunteers worked to refloat others.

Muncaster says the geography of Golden Bay was incredibly confusing for whales and they often ended up stranded again after being refloated.
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Shellfish warning issued

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Fri, 16 Nov 2012
News: National
Shellfish along much of the North Island's west coast could cause numbness, dizziness or respiratory failure if eaten, health officials warn.

Shellfish from Mohakatino in Taranaki north to Kaipara Heads have returned high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning during routine shellfish toxin testing.

It has prompted the Auckland Regional Public Health Service to today issue a public health warning against eating any shellfish in the area.

The shellfish affected are kina, mussels, toheoa, pipis, tuatua, oysters, cockles and scallops.

Cooking shellfish does not remove the toxin.

Symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning usually occurred within 12 hours after eating shellfish containing the toxins.

Symptoms include:

* Numbness and tingling around the mouth, face or extremities

* Difficulties in swallowing or breathing

* Dizziness, double vision

* In severe cases, paralysis and respiratory failure.
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Whales stranded on Farewell Spit

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Whales stranded on Farewell Spit

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 Quoting: Tauranga


verysad
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 Quoting: Tauranga


verysad
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heya tarn

it is so heartbreaking when this happens isnt it

but, also it is often an indication of big quakes coming

then again perhaps it could be related to the radar anomaly..
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here are the nz seismo drums

lots of messy signals almost everywhere, but especially in the south island, where they look very volcanic in nature..

[link to zl2tod.net]
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these are some cool photos a friend of mine took of the eclipse the other day

sorry they came out sideways, i dont know how to put them up the right way

i will try to figure out how to get them up the right way, and larger
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Hey Tauranga, what do you reckon about the Nibiru sighting during the eclipse?
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I ran across some interesting volcano activity. Most interesting is the Newberry Volcano. It is the largest volcano in the Cascades, covering an area the size of Rhode Island. Its last eruption was 1300 years ago and the last major eruption 75,000 years ago. Now fast forward to today; over the last 40 years Newberry volcano has averaged 0 earthquakes. In the last month there have been 24 earthquakes! Mount Hood and Rainer have both show increased activity in the same mountain chain. Iceland, Alaska and Russia all show increased activity as well. Most recent change further north was the Cleveland Volcano. On November 10, 2012 there was an ash cloud and they changed the alert level from ADVISORY to WATCH with the following warning, “Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning. The previous confirmed explosion occurred on November 10. Ash clouds, if produced, could exceed 20,000 feet above sea level.”

NEWBERRY VOLCANO USGS INFO:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

RECENT EARTHQUAKES NEAR VOLCANOES:
[link to www.pnsn.org]

ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATES:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

USGS ELEVATED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION RELEASE:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

KAMCHATKA VOLCANIC ACTIVITY:
[link to www.kscnet.ru]

EDIT: fixed links

Last Edited by Sol Neman on 11/16/2012 05:59 AM
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Hey Tauranga, what do you reckon about the Nibiru sighting during the eclipse?
 Quoting: Whakatane


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"The Earthquake Commission has substantially increased its reinsurance cover for the 2012-13 year, trebling the amount it paid before the Canterbury earthquakes so it has potential cover for a "$7 billion" Wellington quake. "


[link to www.stuff.co.nz]




"Seismic research off the coast of New Zealand has identified another 200 fault lines that could cause catastrophic tsunamis if a significant earthquake struck.

A number of newly identified faults have now been added to the model, raising the total number of known fault lines by about 200 - to nearly 530.

Niwa said a particularly large fault found offshore near Canterbury had the potential to cause a significant tsunami.

The large fault was found in the bedrock under Pegasus Bay shortly after the February Christchurch quake when GNS Science and Niwa conducted a survey of 800 square kilometres."


[link to www.stuff.co.nz]
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Some activity seems to have started on Ruapehu, nguaruhoe and Tongariro cams today....interesting to keep an eye on...

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

Its not showing on some of the drums though so may be something noisy in the area but not often activity shows on all three at same time...
Interested observer of all things interesting!

Please note : Where appropriate for posted images/ graphs I acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, for providing data/images used in my study and analyses of Volcanic and Earthquake information in New Zealand.
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I ran across some interesting volcano activity. Most interesting is the Newberry Volcano. It is the largest volcano in the Cascades, covering an area the size of Rhode Island. Its last eruption was 1300 years ago and the last major eruption 75,000 years ago. Now fast forward to today; over the last 40 years Newberry volcano has averaged 0 earthquakes. In the last month there have been 24 earthquakes! Mount Hood and Rainer have both show increased activity in the same mountain chain. Iceland, Alaska and Russia all show increased activity as well. Most recent change further north was the Cleveland Volcano. On November 10, 2012 there was an ash cloud and they changed the alert level from ADVISORY to WATCH with the following warning, “Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning. The previous confirmed explosion occurred on November 10. Ash clouds, if produced, could exceed 20,000 feet above sea level.”

NEWBERRY VOLCANO USGS INFO:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

RECENT EARTHQUAKES NEAR VOLCANOES:
[link to www.pnsn.org]

ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATES:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

USGS ELEVATED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION RELEASE:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

KAMCHATKA VOLCANIC ACTIVITY:
[link to www.kscnet.ru]

EDIT: fixed links
 Quoting: Sol Neman


hiya Sol

that is some interesting information, thank you

if you dont mind i will re-post this over on El Q's thread, they will appreciate this info
Thread: LIVE "ELF/ULF" MONITORING OF EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR SIGNALS ON GLP. QUAKE FORECAST UP TO 6HRS IN ADVANCE...(((Updated Daily))) By ELQ. (Page 890)
if you dont already follow that thread, i think you will be interested in the info that is shared over there, lots of great ongoing quake and volcano research by a group of awesome people



they will find this interesting over there
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I ran across some interesting volcano activity. Most interesting is the Newberry Volcano. It is the largest volcano in the Cascades, covering an area the size of Rhode Island. Its last eruption was 1300 years ago and the last major eruption 75,000 years ago. Now fast forward to today; over the last 40 years Newberry volcano has averaged 0 earthquakes. In the last month there have been 24 earthquakes! Mount Hood and Rainer have both show increased activity in the same mountain chain. Iceland, Alaska and Russia all show increased activity as well. Most recent change further north was the Cleveland Volcano. On November 10, 2012 there was an ash cloud and they changed the alert level from ADVISORY to WATCH with the following warning, “Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning. The previous confirmed explosion occurred on November 10. Ash clouds, if produced, could exceed 20,000 feet above sea level.”

NEWBERRY VOLCANO USGS INFO:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

RECENT EARTHQUAKES NEAR VOLCANOES:
[link to www.pnsn.org]

ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATES:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

USGS ELEVATED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION RELEASE:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

KAMCHATKA VOLCANIC ACTIVITY:
[link to www.kscnet.ru]

EDIT: fixed links
 Quoting: Sol Neman


good info!
Peace
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Some activity seems to have started on Ruapehu, nguaruhoe and Tongariro cams today....interesting to keep an eye on...

[link to www.geonet.org.nz]

Its not showing on some of the drums though so may be something noisy in the area but not often activity shows on all three at same time...
 Quoting: taniatarn


on all the cams???

i have been out all day so just got to glp for the first time today

too busy to look at cams and drums but i will in an hour or so

thanks for this info sis
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"The Earthquake Commission has substantially increased its reinsurance cover for the 2012-13 year, trebling the amount it paid before the Canterbury earthquakes so it has potential cover for a "$7 billion" Wellington quake. "


[link to www.stuff.co.nz]




"Seismic research off the coast of New Zealand has identified another 200 fault lines that could cause catastrophic tsunamis if a significant earthquake struck.

A number of newly identified faults have now been added to the model, raising the total number of known fault lines by about 200 - to nearly 530.

Niwa said a particularly large fault found offshore near Canterbury had the potential to cause a significant tsunami.

The large fault was found in the bedrock under Pegasus Bay shortly after the February Christchurch quake when GNS Science and Niwa conducted a survey of 800 square kilometres."


[link to www.stuff.co.nz]
 Quoting: seth 3767410


hiya seth

wow!

i will read these articles shortly, thanks for posting them
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Hey Tauranga, what do you reckon about the Nibiru sighting during the eclipse?
 Quoting: Whakatane


hiya neighbour!

i have seen this one


is this the same vid you saw?

or are there others?


did you feel that latest quake near you a couple of days back?
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Hey Tauranga, what do you reckon about the Nibiru sighting during the eclipse?
 Quoting: Whakatane


[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]
[link to spaceweather.com]
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hello K!!!

it is really neat to see you, we really miss your regular input, brother xxx
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I ran across some interesting volcano activity. Most interesting is the Newberry Volcano. It is the largest volcano in the Cascades, covering an area the size of Rhode Island. Its last eruption was 1300 years ago and the last major eruption 75,000 years ago. Now fast forward to today; over the last 40 years Newberry volcano has averaged 0 earthquakes. In the last month there have been 24 earthquakes! Mount Hood and Rainer have both show increased activity in the same mountain chain. Iceland, Alaska and Russia all show increased activity as well. Most recent change further north was the Cleveland Volcano. On November 10, 2012 there was an ash cloud and they changed the alert level from ADVISORY to WATCH with the following warning, “Sudden explosions of blocks and ash remain possible with little or no warning. The previous confirmed explosion occurred on November 10. Ash clouds, if produced, could exceed 20,000 feet above sea level.”

NEWBERRY VOLCANO USGS INFO:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

RECENT EARTHQUAKES NEAR VOLCANOES:
[link to www.pnsn.org]

ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATES:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

USGS ELEVATED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION RELEASE:
[link to volcanoes.usgs.gov]

KAMCHATKA VOLCANIC ACTIVITY:
[link to www.kscnet.ru]

EDIT: fixed links
 Quoting: Sol Neman


good info!
Peace
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heyo bro

its all happening, isnt it...
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New Zealand volcano on verge of eruption: volcanologists

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November 16, 2012 – NEW ZELAND - New Zealand volcanologists warned Friday that the central North Island mountain of Ruapehu was showing signs of an imminent eruption. The government’s Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS Science) said the temperature beneath Ruapehu’s Crater Lake was about 800 degrees centigrade, but the lake itself was only 20 degrees centigrade, which suggested a vent was partly blocked. That could lead to a pressure build-up beneath the Crater Lake, indicating a heightened likelihood of eruptions over the coming weeks to months. “We think the pressure beneath Ruapehu Crater Lake has increased and this makes an eruption more likely over the next weeks to months,” GNS Science duty volcanologist Steve Sherburn said in a statement. A build-up of pressure beneath the Crater Lake was thought to have caused the last eruption in 2007 and a smaller eruption in 2006. Since late October, small earthquakes had been occurring about 5 km beneath the summit area of Ruapehu, a popular winter skiing ground, but these might not be directly related to the high temperatures beneath the Crater lake as they were much deeper. As a result, GNS Science had increased the aviation color code warning for aircraft from green to yellow, which reflected a change from a normal non-eruptive state to showing elevated signs of unrest. However, the volcanic alert level remained at 1 on the scale of 0 to 5, indicating initial signs of possible volcano unrest. In August, two other New Zealand volcanoes erupted, but no damage or casualties were reported. Mount Tongariro, also in the central North Island, erupted on Aug. 6, throwing out small amounts of ash in its first eruption since 1897. Two days later, White Island, a marine volcano about 50 km off the east of the North Island, erupted, sending up an ash plume 200 to 300 meters in the air, in its first eruption since 2001. –Xinhuanet
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i think its really fucking weird that when you do a glp search of ruapehu, this thread doesnt come up in the search!!!!!

WHY?????


Idol1

we have a major volcanic event about to go down, FFS

the exact same thing happened when tongariro erupted

siren2siren2siren2siren2





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