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It is very sovering Micjer to see all the data together, thanks...I guess stocking up if one can is a must

lindabaker wrote:When we depend on these huge agribusiness conglomerates, with their charts and their stock commodities, we will be subject to any crop failures, as a global group. Of course, the answer is to go back to local food growing, local cooperatives, and leave the agribusiness monsters to their withered stock reports. We can feed everybody if it's not a for-profit corporate megabusiness. The ownership of the farm land is the crux. Allowing these huge corporate farms to take the farm land was a mistake. It can be corrected, but how can this be done in a good, kind, and gentle way. Wheat grows in the sun. Doesn't matter who "owns" the dirt. What matters is if the weather is stabilized, and the rains beneficial and timely. Getting the earth back in balance is way more important than the "balance sheets." Getting control of the fields is the key and it will happen because the corporations don't have enough enforcers. If people go ahead plant seeds, the food will grow. It's time for that. The harvest is ours, not theirs.

You are right Linda. The large corporate agriculture firms are no different than Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Banks whatever, they are only concerned about their bottom line and will walk over whoever or whatever they can to achieve their goals.

It will be these large corps that are trying to ban organic gardening, home gardens, drinking unpasturized milk, having to buy genetically modified seed from the monsanto etc.

There are investors that are buying large tracks of farmland in the midwest and in South America simply on land speculation. The average farmer cannot justify these prices. Only large corporations.

The average farm size is going way up as the small mom and pop farmers are squeezed out of business. Many farms in southern ontario (Canada) are now in the 10000 acre range. These mega-farms are replacing 100 farmers at least.

Yes, exactly, Mj. Now, the focus must be on getting it back, bit by bit, inch by inch, if necessary. The sun will still be shining, and the dirt will still be there.

Meteor spotted over Serbia
12. November 2010.

The car is a brilliant meteor that is brighter than the planet Venus and is accompanied by sound effects that occur during its collapse, said Jelicic.

According to him, the observatory at Kalemegdan nothing out, but weather conditions were unfavorable, about an unusual phenomenon in the sky over southern Serbia have also expressed interest in the institution by many journalists.

Tanjug correspondent in Vranje reported that the light ball in the sky, tonight at 19.32 minutes was observed in several places in this part of the country.
http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2010&mm=11&dd=12&nav_cate

Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Netherlands

A fireball meteor zipped across the Netherlands sky Tuesday evening before exploding in to the North Sea, an expert says.

The Netherlands just escaped a natural disaster from a meteor. Many Dutch people in the Netherlands witnessed a large "fireball" meteor in the sky. In the north people heard a bang and saw flashes. Also on Twitter people reported on the phenomenon.

The Groningen astronomical Theo Jurriens confirmed that this was a very bright meteor and at one point burst into three pieces.

About one hundred reports have been received from people who have seen the fireball. From the north of the Netherlands there are reports of people who heard rumblings when the meteor passed by and buildings were shaking...(cont.)

http://www.dutchdailynews.com/meteor-fireball-explodes-over-netherlands/

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Update:
The meteor exploded over northern Netherlands and the North Sea and caused an explosion that made shock waves.

The blast may have been caused by the meteor or the explosion because it was faster than sound with a speed of over 1200 kilometer per hour. KNMI does not know which of the two is the cause, but measurements seem to indicate that it is an explosion, because signals are recorded earlier in northern than in De Bilt Netherlands.

Observations indicate that the orbit of the meteor came from south to north. Further research is being made about the precise path of the meteor.

The seismometers of the KNMI, recorded the shock waves around 19.00. The institute was mainly received reports from Rotterdam and Groningen. In Groningen, the shock wave generated vibrations on the ground.

Breaking News- Fireball in Baltimore MD & York PA - Nov 12, 2010 Meteor/Meteorite News 13NOV2010

Breaking News- Fireball in Baltimore MD & York PA - Nov 12, 2010 8:30 PM
posted by Mike Hankey See: Astro Mike for more.

I just got a report from a neighbor in Freeland, Maryland who witnessed what he called a massive fireball. It started in the south from his position, went over head and ended in the north. He said it left behind a brilliant white streak of light in the sky that remained for a few seconds after the fireball had past. See: Astro Mike for more. If you saw this event please fill out the AMS Meteor Sighting Report Form

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/11/netherlands-fireball-meteor-9nov2010.html

Fennville Michigan USA ~11:15 and 11:30. EST 12NOV2010
Dustin Rea writes:In Fennville Michigan USA Just saw orange/red fireball shooting southwest going down like it was setting. very cool... Looking Southwest ... So were in Fennville Michigan, my wife just went out for a smoke and she said "looking southwest She see's just above the horizon a bright pinkish/orange light with a reflection off the end of it that sat in space and fizzeled away from her sight like it was moving down. She asked me if the moon sets like the sun because thats what it look like. lol ...

Every year in late October and early November, Earth passes through a river of space dust associated with Comet Encke. Tiny grains hit our atmosphere at 65,000 mph. At that speed, even a tiny smidgen of dust makes a vivid streak of light--a meteor--when it disintegrates. Because these meteors shoot out of the constellation Taurus, they're called Taurids.

Earth is orbiting through a swarm of space debris that may be producing an unusual number of nighttime fireballs.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/03nov_taurids/

Recent Fireball Sightings

Fireball reports, especially those made from the British Isles and nearby areas, are always welcomed by the SPA Meteor Section.

Below is a list of some of the fireballs reported to the Section recently. This list is updated as fresh sightings arrive, and mainly consists of those events seen away from the major meteor shower maxima (when fireballs are more common), unless the objects were not part of the meteor shower in question, or were particularly impressive. A "*" in the 'Magnitude and Notes' column indicates further details are given below the table.

http://www.popastro.com/sections/meteor/fireball_sightings.htm

Volcano just erupted

Namaste'

You left this off instigator.

It's a week now we are having continuous rain here in belgium all day long.
In my entire life I was never witness of anything like that .

Love from me
mudra

the same was reported fro north-west Germany, tons of rain.

The last 2 weeks we had a lot of continuous rain in the North East of Italy . The Veneto and Friuli regions suffered a lot of flooding and thousand of families had their house and belonging ruined .

Grímsvötn volcano (Iceland), update: uncertain signals about a possible new eruption soon.

Signals of a possible impending eruption at Grimsvötn volcano under the icecap of Vatnajökullremain remain uncertain. Scientist measured an increase in seismic tremor at Grimsvötn, probably caused by the meltwater flow increase, but no volcanic tremor. The composition of the meltwater indicates that much of the water has been melted caused by increased geothermal heat flow. No other signs of an impending eruption are detectable (so far).
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http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/view_news/2031.html

Not a new article but interesting though.
It dates back to end of 2009


African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making

Geologists Show that Seafloor Dynamics Are at Work in Splitting African Continent.

In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial.

Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.

The new study, published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed. In addition, such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, says Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.

"This work is a breakthrough in our understanding of continental rifting leading to the creation of new ocean basins," says Ken Macdonald, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and who is not affiliated with the research. "For the first time they demonstrate that activity on one rift segment can trigger a major episode of magma injection and associated deformation on a neighboring segment. Careful study of the 2005 mega-dike intrusion and its aftermath will continue to provide extraordinary opportunities for learning about continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges."

"The whole point of this study is to learn whether what is happening in Ethiopia is like what is happening at the bottom of the ocean where it's almost impossible for us to go," says Ebinger. "We knew that if we could establish that, then Ethiopia would essentially be a unique and superb ocean-ridge laboratory for us. Because of the unprecedented cross-border collaboration behind this research, we now know that the answer is yes, it is analogous."

Atalay Ayele, professor at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, led the investigation, painstakingly gathering seismic data surrounding the 2005 event that led to the giant rift opening more than 20 feet in width in just days. Along with the seismic information from Ethiopia, Ayele combined data from neighboring Eritrea with the help of Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, professor at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, and from Yemen with the help of Jamal Sholan of the National Yemen Seismological Observatory Center. The map he drew of when and where earthquakes happened in the region fit tremendously well with the more detailed analyses Ebinger has conducted in more recent years.

Ayele's reconstruction of events showed that the rift did not open in a series of small earthquakes over an extended period of time, but tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. A volcano called Dabbahu at the northern end of the rift erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began "unzipping" the rift in both directions, says Ebinger.
Since the 2005 event, Ebinger and her colleagues have installed seismometers and measured 12 similar—though dramatically less intense—events.

"We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this," says Ebinger. She explains that since the areas where the seafloor is spreading are almost always situated under miles of ocean, it's nearly impossible to monitor more than a small section of the ridge at once so there's no way for geologists to know how much of the ridge may break open and spread at any one time. "Seafloor ridges are made up of sections, each of which can be hundreds of miles long. Because of this study, we now know that each one of those segments can tear open in a just a few days."

Ebinger and her colleagues are continuing to monitor the area in Ethiopia to learn more about how the magma system beneath the rift evolves as the rift continues to grow.

Additional authors of the study include Derek Keir, Tim Wright, and Graham Stuart, professors of earth and environment at the University of Leeds, U.K.; Roger Buck, professor at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, N.Y.; and Eric Jacques, professor at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France.

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3486

Love Always
mudra

mudra wrote:It's a week now we are having continuous rain here in belgium all day long.
In my entire life I was never witness of anything like that .

Love from me
mudra

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Par for the course here on the West Coast and especially on the mainland (closer to the Mountains)...its been raining all day every day for the last 5-7 days sometimes completely torrential in the last 2 weeks...maybe I need a boat instead of a new car. My other beef is that it is dark at 4:00 pm.
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Drinking

Mudra, I liked reading about the Ethiopian rift. The continent is splitting fast! Now, when they say that they think it will form a new sea, it makes me wonder. Will it be salt water and will it have to come up through the bottom (underneath)? Or will it pour in from the sides? I think I'd be hightailing it outa there!

That's amazing Brook. It's snowing and there are sparks on the ground and in the trees. Woah!

Carol wrote:Earthquake swarm off the coast of Yemen

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html



4.7 2010/11/14 12:17:17 11.950 43.756 9.9 NEAR THE COAST OF DJIBOUTI
MAP 4.6 2010/11/14 12:00:47 11.801 43.967 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF DJIBOUTI
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 11:30:19 12.175 43.891 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 5.1 2010/11/14 11:21:43 -0.155 -18.095 10.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP 4.8 2010/11/14 11:14:12 11.715 43.994 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF DJIBOUTI
MAP 2.5 2010/11/14 11:11:13 32.139 -115.309 24.7 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 10:37:47 11.874 44.023 10.0 GULF OF ADEN
MAP 4.5 2010/11/14 10:37:26 11.750 44.080 10.0 GULF OF ADEN
MAP 4.8 2010/11/14 10:34:29 12.137 44.014 10.1 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.6 2010/11/14 09:45:19 1.656 95.101 29.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
MAP 2.5 2010/11/14 09:28:35 59.807 -151.727 49.2 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.8 2010/11/14 09:23:28 12.132 44.086 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 09:17:52 12.064 43.936 10.1 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.5 2010/11/14 09:06:00 12.110 43.987 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.6 2010/11/14 08:30:22 11.959 43.998 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF DJIBOUTI
MAP 5.0 2010/11/14 08:21:22 12.152 43.967 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.5 2010/11/14 07:57:18 12.025 44.079 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 07:38:34 11.979 44.019 10.0 GULF OF ADEN
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 07:27:39 12.578 43.970 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.8 2010/11/14 07:08:31 11.571 44.007 10.0 GULF OF ADEN
MAP 4.7 2010/11/14 07:03:36 12.102 44.113 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 3.4 2010/11/14 06:52:35 19.468 -65.320 111.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.4 2010/11/14 06:32:28 12.025 43.957 9.9 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.6 2010/11/14 06:29:31 12.688 44.073 10.0 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN
MAP 4.9 2010/11/14 06:21:06 -43.589 172.387 5.3 SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
MAP 5.2 2010/11/14 06:10:31 34.026 141.357 39.5 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 2.7 2010/11/14 05:48:05 60.115 -153.446 151.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2010/11/14 05:45:47 19.314 -65.439 41.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.7 2010/11/14 04:59:49 63.199 -150.596 126.2 CENTRAL ALAS
2.8 2010/11/14 00:15:57 32.138 -115.290 19.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

This is happening in the Gulf of Aden. Remember the stargate that is supposedly in this area.

Is there a connection!

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Report Topics:
Is the stability of the Earth's axis threatened by new mega-quakes now taking place around the world?
Report Update—Major World Quakes and Volcanic Eruptions in 2010 So Far

Full Report:
On December 26, 2004, a 600-mile long section of the Indian Tectonic Plate, by sliding beneath the Eurasian/ Burmese Tectonic Plate Subduction Zone, shifted trillions of tons of rock resulting in a massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake which the U.S. Geological Survey estimated was equivalent to the energy release of 23,000 Hiroshima nuclear explosions.

This tremendous singular seismic event caused the entire planet to ring like a bell, as the shock wave moved through the Earth’s crust several times.

Within minutes, the mega-tremor—the epicenter of which was situated off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra—displaced several billions of tons of seawater, generating a series of major tsunami waves that raced across the Indian Ocean at nearly the speed of sound. They slammed into the coasts of 11 nations, in some cases up to 3,000 miles away, causing surges and swells nearest the epicenter between 50 and 80 feet high.

These resulted in the instant death of 150,000 people, as well as the permanent displacement of millions more amid the wide-spread unimaginable devastation. The eventual total, from both the immediate destruction and the after-effects of drowning, injury, disease, exposure and starvation, has been estimated as high has 300,000—making the Sumatra tragedy one of the deadliest quake-tsunami events in recorded history.

Just five years later, on January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude quake struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, with its epicenter only 10 miles southeast of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. This was the most powerful earth movement in this region for the past 200 years, killing outright an estimated 220,000 people and leaving well over a million more homeless.

The resulting aftershocks and continuing after-effects from injury, disease and starvation is still adding to the death toll two months later, despite the huge international rescue and relief efforts.

Just 46 days aterwards, on February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude quake hit 56 miles northeast of the nation of Chile’s second largest city, Concepcion, and also generated a destructive tsunami along its Pacific coast. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the Chilean event was 500 times stronger than what occurred in Haiti. This is considered to have been the most powerful tremor for South America in recorded history, and ranks among the Top Ten in the world over the past two millennia.

At this writing, the estimated official death count is at a thousand, but the rescue efforts are only now just beginning. The media images of large-scale devastation not only n Concepcion but also in the capital city of Santiago 200 miles away indicate that the toll is going to steadily climb far higher before a final assessment of this tragedy’s full extent can be made.

One preliminary survey puts the eventual total number of casualties between 100,000 and 500,000.

A very noteworthy discovery made by geophysicists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is that their computer models indicate the Chilean shock caused the Earth to be moved off its axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds or 2.1 inches, while the planet’s axis spin was shortened by 1.26 millionths of a second.

Because of the Chilean quake’s more concentrated energy output and its geographical position relative to the Equator, it had a greater effect on the planet than did the Sumatran 9.3 quake in 2004—that jolt shifted the axis by only 2.3 milliarcseconds, but did shorten the day by an increased 6.8 millionths of a second.

In the overall movements that daily take place throughout the globe due to the constant shifting of oceanic and atmospheric masses as the planet turns, such miniscule seismic effects are almost negligible. But they are potentially important nonetheless. Over time and persistent repetitions as is beginning to happen in larger and more frequent numbers, these could eventually set up a series of expanding ripple phenomena—like throwng stones into a pond and watching the various wave formations build upon each other.

Once an initial pattern is established, then even relatively smaller tremors can act as reinforcements. In between the Sumatran, Haitian and Chilean shocks were three major quakes in China in 2008, and a large one in Italy in 2009. Were there prolonged consequences from all these seismic events combined we as yet know nothing about?

And just what kind of subtle impacts do such almost invisible self-generating wave-shifts have on the subterranean redistribution of magma both within the crust and in the semi-liquid mantle below it? We have no way to anticipate these, let alone try to calculate their physical manifestations in advance.

What all this implies is that we have now entered a new era of Earth changes, one in which what was before considered mega-quakes of 7 to 9 magnitude that occurred only rarely, will now become the norm and begin to tale place more often. Expect to bear witness to the planet starting to shudder on its axis even more than it has already.

Judging on what has happened so far, we can expect future shocks to have significantly increasingly energy releases plus be focused into smaller areas—delivering a concentrated punch that will prove to be particularly deadly for heavily populated areas. All of the quakes of this type were triggered in regions already known to be prone to such occurrences, but never before subjected to such powerful outbursts.

This means that the next coming super-seismic events will be in similar paces of recognized past activities—in North America alone that cover the Pacific Northwest, California, the Midwest New Madrid Fault Zones, the St. Lawrence Seaway, New England and the Carolinas—which unfortunately is also inclusive of most major urban centers of the United States.Likewise, in Europe and Asia practically every population center either straddles an earthquake zone or is in close proximity to a seacoast or river estuary up which a potential tsunami could rush inland with devastating results.

Just as the twentieth century became known as the Age of World Wars, the succeeding century—the one we now live in—may be remembered as the Age of Global-Shaking Earthquakes.

Report Update—Major World Quakes and Volcanic Eruptions in 2010 So Far

1-3-10 — Solomon Islands: 7.2

1-10-10 — Offshore Northern California: 6.5

1-12-10 — Haiti: 7.0

2-27-10 — Chile: 8.8

3-5-10 — Southwest Sumatra: 6.5

3-5-10 — Chile: 6.8

3-5-10 — So. Sumatra: 6.8

3-8-10 — Eastern Turkey: 6.1

3-14-10 — East of Honshu, Japan: 6.5

3-16-10 — Chile: 6.7

4-4-10 — Baja, California: 7.2

4-6-10 — Northern Sumatra: 7.7

4-11-10 — Solomon Islands: 6.8

4-11-10 — Spain: 6.3

4-14-10 — Western China, Tibet: 7.1

Mid-April — Iceland: Continuous major volcano eruption with ash cloud disrupting jet travel and air quality throughout northern Europe

4-18-10 — Papua, New Guinea: 6.2

4-26-10 — Southeast of Taiwan: 6.5

4-30-10 — Bering Sea: 6.4

5-3-10 — Izu Is., Japan: 6.1

5-3-10 — Offshore Bio-Bio, Chile: 6.3

5-5-10 — So. Sumatra: 6.5

5-6-10 — Tarapaca, Chile: 6.2

5-9-10 — No. Sumatra — 7.2

5-11-10 — Icelandic volcano ash still distrupting European air travel

5-27-10 —Vanuatu: 7.1

6-12-10 — Nicobar Is., India: 7.5

6-16-10 — North coast of Papua: 7.0

6-26-10 — Solomon Is.: 6.7

6-30-10 —Oaxaca, Mexico: 6.2

7-2-10 — Stromboli eruption, Italy, 127 days

7-4-10 — Chile: 6.5

7-8-10 —Fox Is., Aleutians, Alaska: 6.6

7-18-10 — New Britain, Papua, New Guinea: 6.9

7-18-10 — New Britain, Papua, New Guinea: 6.9

7-18-10 — New Britain, Papua, New Guinea: 7.3

7-23-10 — Mindanao, Philippines: 7.3

7-23-10 — Mindanao, Philippines: 7.6

7-23-10 — Mindanao, Philippines: 7.4

7-24-10 — Mindanao, Philippines: 6.5

8-4-10 — New Britain, Papua, New Guinea: 7.0

8-10-10 — Vanuatu: 7.3

8-12-10 — Ecuador: 7.1

8-13-10 — Mariana Is.: 6.9

8-14-10 — Mariana Is.: 6.6

9-3-10 — South Is., New Zealand: 7.0

9-29-10 — South coast of Papua: 7.2

10-8-10 — Halmahesa, Indonesia: 6.2

10-8-10 — Andreanof Is., Aleutians, Alaska: 6.0

10-21-10 —Gulf of California: 6.7

10-25-10 — Kepulau, Indonesia: 6.5

10-26-10 — Sumatra, Indonesia (eruption of Mt. Merapi, 12 days): 7.7

10-28-10 —Kliuchevskoi eruption, Kamchatka (9 days)

10-28-10 —Fuego eruption, Guatemala (9 days)

10-29-10 — Shiveluch eruption, Kamchatka (8 days)

10-29-10 — Anak Krakatau eruption, Indonesia (8 days)

11-2-10 — Talong eruption, Sumatra, Indonesia

11-3-10 — South coast of Papua: 6.5

11-3-10 — Tonga: 6.0

11-3-10 — Grimsveten, Iceland (new eruption imminent)

11-3-10 — Merapi, 3 days eruption, ongoing

11-6-10 — Tantuban Parahu eruption warning, West Java, Indonesia

Ongoing Eruptians during 2010 — Etna, Italy - Nyamuragira, Dem. Republic of Congo - Manam, Papua, New Guinea - Ulanan, Papua, New Guinea - Sinabung, Indonesia - Rinjani, Indonesia - Kirishima, Japan - Ioto, Japan - Fukutoku, Japan - Pagan, Mariana Is. - Sarigan, Mariana Is. - Ekarma, Kuril Is, Russia - Ekoto, Kuril Is., Russia - Gorely, Kamchatka - Cleveland, Aleutian Is., Alaska - San Cristobal, Nicaragua - Concepcion, Nicaragua - Poas, Costa Rica - Turialba, Costa Rica - Tungorahua, Ecuador - Ubinas, Peru - Planchon-Peterua, Chile

Earthquakes of magnitude 5 – 5.9 have increased by 39 percent compared with same range of earthquakes over the last 10 years.

Earthquakes of magnitude 5 – 5.9 have increased by 63 percent compared with same range of earthquakes since the year 1900.

Earthquakes of magnitude 6 – 6.9 have increased by 30 percent compared with same range of earthquakes over the last 10 years.

Earthquakes of magnitude 6 – 6.9 have increased by 40 percent compared with same range of earthquakes since the year 1900.

The number of magnitude 5.0 to 6.9 worldwide earthquakes are showing a significant increase so far this year during 2010, and are up 51 percent compared with the same range and time span of earthquakes since the year 1900.

The number of magnitude 7.0 to 8.9 worldwide earthquakes appear to be slightly increased from historical averages.

In addition, there are now 400 volcanoes world-wide under close geological scrutiny to see what they are going to do next.

The number of eruptions in general are only slightly above average, but in certain troubled areas the numbers have increased dramatically, such as what is now happening in Indonesia and the western Pacific Ring of Fire.

Scientists are concerned that a near-future Krakatoa-like super-explosion (and subsequent mega-tsunami) could not only kill millions of potential victims outright, but could also catapult huge amounts of ash into the upper atmosphere and disrupt global temperatures and food production for decades to come.