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[Ed. Note: This report should be read from its website location at [link to www.whatdoesitmean.com] as this email copy does not contain the links embedded in the original report.]
July 10, 2006
Major Lunar Standstill On July 11th Has Russian Scientists Concerned Over Catastrophic US Northwest, New Madrid Fault Zone Earthquakes
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
Russian Astro-Geologists from Yakut State University are reporting today on an increased likelihood of a major catastrophic earthquake in the Canadian-United States Pacific Northwest Region extending into America’s much feared New Madrid Fault Zone region during this weeks Full Moon which is occurring during a rare Major Lunar Standstill event, and which only happens every 18.6 years.
Though Western Scientists have relegated these rare Major Lunar Standstill events to their esoteric science of Astrology, Russian Astro-Geologists are likewise firm in their belief that these types of Solar System events do indeed have effects upon our Earth, and to almost all extents are catastrophic in nature.
An ‘informal’ explanation of a Lunar Standstill event we can read from the Wikipedia archives, and which says:
"At the major lunar standstill, which takes place every 18.6 years, the range of the declination of the Moon reaches a maximum. As a result, at high latitudes, the Moon appears to move in just two weeks from high in the sky to low on the horizon. This time appears to have had special significance for the Bronze Age societies who built the megalithic monuments in Britain, and it also has significance for some neo-pagan religions. The next major lunar standstill occurs in 2006.
As the Earth spins on its axis, the stars above us appear to move in circles. It appears to us as if all the stars are fixed in a great sphere surrounding us. In the same way that we measure positions on the earth using latitude and longitude, we measure positions of stars on this sphere in Right Ascension (equivalent to longitude) and Declination (equivalent to latitude). If you stand at a place on the earth which has latitude 50°, then the stars directly above you have a declination of 50°.
Unlike the stars, the Sun and Moon do not have a fixed declination. As the Earth travels its annual orbit around the Sun, with its rotational axis tilted at about 23.5° from the axis of orbital motion (a straight line joining a point on the tropic of cancer the 'opposite' point on the tropic of capricorn), the Sun's declination changes from +23.5° in June to -23.5° in December. Thus, in the Northern hemisphere, the Sun is higher in the sky in June, causing summer, than it is in December, when the Sun is low in the sky and is only above the horizon for a short time, causing winter.
The Moon also changes in declination, but it does so in only a month, instead of a year for the Sun. So it might go from a declination of +25° to -25° in just two weeks, returning to +25° two weeks later. Thus, in just one month the moon can move from being high in the sky, to low on the horizon, and back again.
But, unlike the Sun, the maximum and minimum declination reached by the Moon also varies. This is because the orbit of the Moon's revolution about the Earth is inclined by about 5° to the orbit of the Earth's revolution around the Sun, and so the maximum declination of the Moon varies from (23.5°-5°)=18.5° to (23.5°+5°)=28.5°. The effect of this is that at one particular time (the minor lunar standstill), the Moon will change its declination during the month from +18.5° to -18.5°, which is a total movement of 37°. This is not a particularly big change, and may not be very noticeable in the sky. However, 9.3 years later, during the major lunar standstill, the Moon will change its declination during the month from +28.5° to -28.5°, which is a total movement of 57°, and which is enough to take it from high in the sky to low on the horizon in just two weeks."
Though the major concerns of these Scientists remain centered on the Canadian-United States Pacific Northwest and the United States New Madrid Fault Zone Regions an equal concern of imminent catastrophic earthquakes remains for America’s California Region, and which a major precursor to earthquake activity is now being reported, and as we can read as reported by the NBC 11 News Service in their article titled "Dead Fish Mystery Perplexes Bay Area Biologists", and which says:
"Thousands of fish in the Bay Area are turning up dead, and biologists still have no answers to this aquatic mystery. Over the last couple of months, an alarming number of dead fish and sharks have been washing up on Bay Area shores. In May, 40 sharks were found dead. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, 1,000 sturgeon and striped bass were found floating in the Bay and lying on shore, NBC11's Diane Dwyer reported.
Biologists said the phenomenon occurred between the San Mateo Bridge and the Dumbarton Bridge and between San Leandro and the Hayward shore on the East Bay. For fish and game biologist Becky Ota, the death of so many fish at one time is perplexing. "Well, we are concerned about it," Ota said. "The department's aware of it. We're trying to find out what the cause is, but it's been elusive. It's been a mystery so far. We haven't been able to pinpoint it yet."
These reports further state that the July 6th mass solar ejection from Sun Spot 898 was another likely indicator of an impending catastrophic event due to the electromagnetic instability currently existing between these Regions, our Moon and the Sun.
More ominously, however, from these reports was the July 4th ‘Banging Earthquake’ reported in the United States Pacific Northwest Region, and as we can read as reported by the Peninsula Daily News Service in their article titled "Fourth of July earthquake rattles region", and which says:
"Residents from Port Townsend to Port Angeles felt a small earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale Tuesday afternoon, They reported dishes rattling, furniture moving and lamps swinging. The quake was centered under the Strait of Juan de Fuca almost halfway between Sequim and Victoria. The quake, centered 27 miles below the Strait's seabed, occurred at 1:37 p.m., the University of Washington's Department of Earth and Space Sciences reported.
There were no reports of damage or injury, but authorities said 10 persons in Port Townsend, 22 in Sequim and two in Port Angeles reported feeling the shaker. ``My windows rattled, and my roof started creaking,'' said Gus McDonald of Port Townsend in a telephone call to the Peninsula Daily News. Said Lois Cahill of Sequim: ``No one really knew what was happening, it just shook the dishes in kitchen.'' Peninsula Daily News photographer Keith Thorpe said the quake jiggled his computer monitor at his Port Angeles home. Some people in the greater Victoria area told CBC Radio they felt two tremors that happened about five seconds apart, accompanied by a loud bang."
This ‘Banging Earthquake’ was also felt in Canada’s Pacific Northwest Region, and as we can read as reported by the Vancouver Sun News Service in their article titled "Minor earthquake rattles southern Vancouver Island", and which says, "A minor earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale rumbled through southern Vancouver Island Tuesday afternoon, bringing the usual flurry of calls to the Pacific Geoscience Centre and a glut of hits to its website."
These reports further state that Western Scientists are now acknowledging their Russian Scientific counterparts in warning of the likely increase of catastrophic earthquake and volcanic events due to Global Warming, and as we can see evidenced by the Canadian Press News Service in their article titled "Climate change could cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, scientists say", and which says:
"So the warnings of harsher heat waves, stronger hurricanes and rising seas fail to impress. How about volcanic eruptions in the Arctic, or a tsunami off the coast of Newfoundland? The latest scientific discipline to enter the fray over global warming is geology. And the forecasts from some quarters are dramatic - not only will the earth shake, it will spit fire. A number of geologists say glacial melting due to climate change will unleash pent-up pressures in the Earth's crust, causing extreme geological events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. A cubic metre of ice weighs nearly a tonne and some glaciers are more than a kilometre thick. When the weight is removed through melting, the suppressed strains and stresses of the underlying rock come to life."
Pressures upon the North American have likewise been increased due to the rapid melting of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet, and as we can read as reported by the Los Angeles Times News Service in their article titled "Glaciers' melt rate surprises scientists", and which says:
"The Greenland ice sheet -- two miles thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico -- shapes the world's weather, matched in influence only by Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere. In its heart, snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved. Should all of the ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world's coastal cities, home to a billion people. It would cause higher tides, generate more powerful storm surges and, by altering ocean currents, drastically disrupt the global climate.
Climate experts have started to worry that the icecap is disappearing in ways that computer models had not predicted. By all accounts, the glaciers of Greenland are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago, even as the ice sheets of Antarctica also are shrinking, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Kansas reported in February.
Researchers have focused on a delicate ribbon -- the equilibrium line, which marks the fulcrum of frost and thaw in Greenland's seasonal balance. The zone rims the icecap like a drawstring. Summer melting, on average, offsets the annual accumulation of snow. But across the icecap, the area of seasonal melting was broader last year than in 27 years of record-keeping, University of Colorado climate scientists reported. In early May, temperatures on the icecap some days were almost 20 degrees above normal, hovering just below freezing.
By 2005, Greenland was beginning to lose more ice volume than anyone had anticipated -- an annual loss of up to 52 cubic miles a year -- according to more recent satellite gravity measurements released by JPL. The volume of freshwater ice dumped into the Atlantic Ocean has almost tripled in a decade. There was even a period of melting in December. "We have never seen that," Steffen said.
[link to www.whatdoesitmean.com]
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