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Magnitude M 3.5
Region LEYTE, PHILIPPINES
Date time 2020-06-03 11:45:15.0 UTC
Location 10.15 N ; 125.14 E
Depth 1 km
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Magnitude M 4.0
Region NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Date time 2020-06-03 12:20:30.0 UTC
Location 39.10 N ; 142.40 E
Depth 30 km
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Magnitude M 4.1
Region NORTH OF NEW ZEALAND
Date time 2020-06-03 12:54:28.6 UTC
Location 33.80 S ; 176.97 E
Depth 543 km
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Magnitude M 4.1
Region CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
Date time 2020-06-03 12:57:56.0 UTC
Location 29.24 N ; 105.10 W
Depth 15 km
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Magnitude ML 3.9
Region CENTRAL TURKEY
Date time 2020-06-03 13:11:11.0 UTC
Location 40.54 N ; 34.90 E
Depth 7 km
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SEL2

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 242
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1005 AM EDT Wed Jun 3 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northern Delaware
Northeast Maryland
New Jersey
Central and eastern Pennsylvania
Coastal Waters

* Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 1005 AM
until 300 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY...Fast-moving cluster in central Pennsylvania should
intensify as it progresses east-southeast across the Delaware Valley
towards the New Jersey coast. Environment is favorable for strong to
isolated severe wind gusts producing scattered damaging winds.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles west northwest
of State College PA to 30 miles southeast of Lakehurst NJ. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.

&&

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
29050.

...Grams

Oh wow.

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Magnitude 3.4
Region OFF COAST OF COSTA RICA
Date time 2020-06-03 13:16:30.0 UTC
Location 8.98 N ; 84.11 W
Depth 25 km
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Magnitude 4.4
Region OFFSHORE OAXACA, MEXICO
Date time 2020-06-03 14:32:25.0 UTC
Location 15.83 N ; 98.18 W
Depth 16 km
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Magnitude 3.0
Region FRANCE
Date time 2020-06-03 14:44:37.1 UTC
Location 49.66 N ; 0.38 E
Depth 2 km
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Magnitude 3.2
Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Date time 2020-06-03 15:33:36.8 UTC
Location 36.14 N ; 117.98 W
Depth 2 km
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Magnitude 3.5
Region HUNGARY
Date time 2020-06-03 15:51:00.0 UTC
Location 46.31 N ; 17.30 E
Depth 9 km
Macroseismic
Intensity II Effects: Scarcely Felt
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Magnitude 5.7
Region BALI SEA
Date time 2020-06-03 15:54:04.6 UTC
Location 7.01 S ; 116.88 E
Depth 650 km
Macroseismic
Intensity IV Effects: Largely Observed
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Magnitude 4.0
Region ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
Date time 2020-06-03 16:09:17.0 UTC
Location 23.07 S ; 70.52 W
Depth 36 km
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Edit: Upgraded to 4.1

Last Edited by Simple27 on 06/03/2020 01:52 PM

ANOTHER SOLAR CYCLE 25 SUNSPOT: A new sunspot is emerging over the sun's southeastern limb. Provisionally numbered AR2765, it is inset in this magnetic map of the sun’s surface from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory: [link to spaceweather.com (secure)]

AR2765 is a member of new Solar Cycle 25. We know this because of its magnetic polarity. According to Hale's Law, sunspots switch polarities from one solar cycle to the next. Southern sunspots from old Solar Cycle 24 have a -/+ polarity. This sunspot is the opposite: +/-, marking it as a member of Solar Cycle 25.

On June 1st, before this sunspot rotated into view, it produced a long-duration B-class solar flare. This suggests AR2765 is capable of explosive activity. Geoeffective flares could occur as the sunspot turns toward Earth this week.

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NASA'S STEREO Shows Comet ATLAS Approaching the Sun

NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, is monitoring Comet ATLAS as it approaches the Sun. The latest movie from the STEREO-A spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows the comet moving in from the top side over a six-day period from May 25 to May. 31, 2020.

The Sun sits outside the field of view of this camera, located to the left, off-screen, hinted at by the steady stream of particles, called the solar wind, moving in from the left.


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Magnitude 4.6
Region RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
Date time 2020-06-03 16:31:30.0 UTC
Location 26.90 N ; 126.20 E
Depth 20 km
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