Crazy Weather: Northwest Drought Tied to Southwest Floods
Starmail - 22. Mär, 22:35
Naturkatastrophen
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Australian Category 5 Cyclone
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Last Update: Tuesday, March 8, 2005. 8:34pm (AEDT)
Cyclone Ingrid, captured in this satellite image at 2:30pm AEST on March 8. (Bureau of Meteorology)
Emergency services prepare for Cyclone Ingrid
Counter-disaster planning is well under way in far north Queensland as Cyclone Ingrid continues to edge towards the coast.
The powerful category 5 system is about 240 kilometres north-east of Cooktown and is moving slowly west at 10 kilometres-per-hour.
The cyclone, with winds of up to 300 kph, is likely to make landfall late tomorrow.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a cyclone warning for coastal and island communities between Lockhart River and Port Douglas.
A cyclone watch extends from Cape York Peninsula to Kowanyama, however, a watch from Port Douglas to Innisfail has been cancelled.
The bureau says gales are expected to develop between Lockhart River and Port Douglas early tomorrow morning.
Between Cape Melville and Cape Tribulation there is likely to be destructive winds and significantly higher tides as the cyclone approaches.
The bureau also says heavy rain can be expected on the coast and ranges north of Port Douglas from tomorrow.
Cairns Acting Police Superintendent Michael Keating says emergency authorities are co-operating across the region.
"We've already established communications networks through to our local areas in the north of the state," he said.
"We'll be working with the state counter-disaster organisation in Brisbane so the whole mechanism of disaster management and disaster planning is under way."
Historic threat
If Cyclone Ingrid does cross the coast it will be the first category 5 cyclone to make landfall in Queensland in almost 90 years.
Manfred Greitschus, from the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, says there have been only three severe tropical cyclones approaching the intensity of Ingrid.
They include category 4 Althea, which devastated parts of Townsville in 1971, and Cyclone Aivu, which crossed the coast in the Burdekin.
"We get very few category 5 cyclones in the Coral Sea," Mr Greitschus said.
"In fact, the last category 5 cyclone was had was Aivu in 1989.
"It crossed the coast as a category 3 but it was a category 5 out in the Coral Sea.
"We have to go back to 1918 where we had a very significant category 5 crossing the coast at Mackay, which did a lot of damage."
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Last Update: Tuesday, March 8, 2005. 8:34pm (AEDT)
Cyclone Ingrid, captured in this satellite image at 2:30pm AEST on March 8. (Bureau of Meteorology)
Emergency services prepare for Cyclone Ingrid
Counter-disaster planning is well under way in far north Queensland as Cyclone Ingrid continues to edge towards the coast.
The powerful category 5 system is about 240 kilometres north-east of Cooktown and is moving slowly west at 10 kilometres-per-hour.
The cyclone, with winds of up to 300 kph, is likely to make landfall late tomorrow.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a cyclone warning for coastal and island communities between Lockhart River and Port Douglas.
A cyclone watch extends from Cape York Peninsula to Kowanyama, however, a watch from Port Douglas to Innisfail has been cancelled.
The bureau says gales are expected to develop between Lockhart River and Port Douglas early tomorrow morning.
Between Cape Melville and Cape Tribulation there is likely to be destructive winds and significantly higher tides as the cyclone approaches.
The bureau also says heavy rain can be expected on the coast and ranges north of Port Douglas from tomorrow.
Cairns Acting Police Superintendent Michael Keating says emergency authorities are co-operating across the region.
"We've already established communications networks through to our local areas in the north of the state," he said.
"We'll be working with the state counter-disaster organisation in Brisbane so the whole mechanism of disaster management and disaster planning is under way."
Historic threat
If Cyclone Ingrid does cross the coast it will be the first category 5 cyclone to make landfall in Queensland in almost 90 years.
Manfred Greitschus, from the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, says there have been only three severe tropical cyclones approaching the intensity of Ingrid.
They include category 4 Althea, which devastated parts of Townsville in 1971, and Cyclone Aivu, which crossed the coast in the Burdekin.
"We get very few category 5 cyclones in the Coral Sea," Mr Greitschus said.
"In fact, the last category 5 cyclone was had was Aivu in 1989.
"It crossed the coast as a category 3 but it was a category 5 out in the Coral Sea.
"We have to go back to 1918 where we had a very significant category 5 crossing the coast at Mackay, which did a lot of damage."
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Starmail - 8. Mär, 11:44
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2005
Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret
March 7, 2005
"Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal." So begins the article below from the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand's largest circulation newspaper. Declassified government documents show that this tsunami bomb was developed during WWII. Though I imagine all documents related to current developments of the project are highly classified, I have little doubt that the weapon has been further developed and refined over the last 60 years. This news raises questions about the recent tsunami in Indonesia.
The many layers of intense secrecy both in the government and military result in very few people being aware of the gruesome capabilities for death and destruction that have been developed over the years. In order to avoid further wars and destruction, let us all work towards greater transparency and cooperation between all good people who share our world. You take care and have a good day and week ahead.
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info team
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=14727
Tsunami bomb - NZ's devastating war secret
by Eugene Bingham
30.06.2000
Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal.
An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at Whangaparaoa in 1944 and 1945.
Professor Thomas Leech's work was considered so significant that United States defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed before the end of the war it could have played a role as effective as that of the atom bomb.
Details of the tsunami bomb, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53-year-old documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Papers stamped "top secret" show the US and British military were eager for Seal to be developed in the post-war years too. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to view the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work.
He did not make the visit, although a member of the US board of assessors of atomic tests, Dr Karl Compton, was sent to New Zealand.
"Dr Compton is impressed with Professor Leech's deductions on the Seal project and is prepared to recommend to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that all technical data from the test relevant to the Seal project should be made available to the New Zealand Government for further study by Professor Leech," said a July 1946 letter from Washington to Wellington.
Professor Leech, who died in his native Australia in 1973, was the university's dean of engineering from 1940 to 1950.
News of his being awarded a CBE in 1947 for research on a weapon led to speculation in newspapers around the world about what was being developed.
Though high-ranking New Zealand and US officers spoke out in support of the research, no details of it were released because the work was on-going.
A former colleague of Professor Leech, Neil Kirton, told the Weekend Herald that the experiments involved laying a pattern of explosives underwater to create a tsunami.
Small-scale explosions were carried out in the Pacific and off Whangaparaoa, which at the time was controlled by the Army.
It is unclear what happened to Project Seal once the final report was forwarded to Wellington Defence Headquarters late in the 1940s.
The bomb was never tested on a full scale, and Mr Kirton doubts that Aucklanders would have noticed the trials.
"Whether it could ever be resurrected ... Under some circumstances I think it could be devastating."
See our archive of deep insider emails at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/coveruparchive
From ECOTERRA Intl.
"Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal." So begins the article below from the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand's largest circulation newspaper. Declassified government documents show that this tsunami bomb was developed during WWII. Though I imagine all documents related to current developments of the project are highly classified, I have little doubt that the weapon has been further developed and refined over the last 60 years. This news raises questions about the recent tsunami in Indonesia.
The many layers of intense secrecy both in the government and military result in very few people being aware of the gruesome capabilities for death and destruction that have been developed over the years. In order to avoid further wars and destruction, let us all work towards greater transparency and cooperation between all good people who share our world. You take care and have a good day and week ahead.
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info team
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=14727
Tsunami bomb - NZ's devastating war secret
by Eugene Bingham
30.06.2000
Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal.
An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at Whangaparaoa in 1944 and 1945.
Professor Thomas Leech's work was considered so significant that United States defence chiefs said that if the project had been completed before the end of the war it could have played a role as effective as that of the atom bomb.
Details of the tsunami bomb, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53-year-old documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Papers stamped "top secret" show the US and British military were eager for Seal to be developed in the post-war years too. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to view the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work.
He did not make the visit, although a member of the US board of assessors of atomic tests, Dr Karl Compton, was sent to New Zealand.
"Dr Compton is impressed with Professor Leech's deductions on the Seal project and is prepared to recommend to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that all technical data from the test relevant to the Seal project should be made available to the New Zealand Government for further study by Professor Leech," said a July 1946 letter from Washington to Wellington.
Professor Leech, who died in his native Australia in 1973, was the university's dean of engineering from 1940 to 1950.
News of his being awarded a CBE in 1947 for research on a weapon led to speculation in newspapers around the world about what was being developed.
Though high-ranking New Zealand and US officers spoke out in support of the research, no details of it were released because the work was on-going.
A former colleague of Professor Leech, Neil Kirton, told the Weekend Herald that the experiments involved laying a pattern of explosives underwater to create a tsunami.
Small-scale explosions were carried out in the Pacific and off Whangaparaoa, which at the time was controlled by the Army.
It is unclear what happened to Project Seal once the final report was forwarded to Wellington Defence Headquarters late in the 1940s.
The bomb was never tested on a full scale, and Mr Kirton doubts that Aucklanders would have noticed the trials.
"Whether it could ever be resurrected ... Under some circumstances I think it could be devastating."
See our archive of deep insider emails at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/coveruparchive
From ECOTERRA Intl.
Starmail - 7. Mär, 22:17
Now 3,800 Quakes and Counting; Largest Quake of Swarm Just Hit
March 6th 2005
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Now 3,800 Quakes and Counting; Largest Quake of Swarm Just Hit
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
Just minutes ago, I received a USGS report of a 5.2 quake off the coast of Oregon. This is the area where the now over 3,800 quakes have occurred.
Following are two of the latest news report now that the mainstream media has caught hold.
Brunswick News - Tiffany Crawford: “Intense earthquake activity on the ocean floor off the coast of southern Vancouver Island has scientists scrambling to be the first to catch a glimpse of two tectonic plates pulling apart.
U.S. scientists from the University of Washington sent a research vessel over the weekend after seismic equipment detected nearly 3,800 small quakes in an area known as the Endeavour Hot Vents. "The speculation is it might be a volcanic eruption or a magma event on the ridge," said Garry Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. "Thousands of earthquakes occurring over a few days, it's a tremendous amount of energy but it's way offshore," he said on Sunday. "They are too far to be felt so as far as we know there is no threat."
Victoria (BC) Times - Thousands of earthquakes have rattled the ocean floor off southern Vancouver Island last week, and a team of U.S. scientists is racing to the area to see if an underwater volcano is spewing fresh lava.
U.S. hydrophones detected 3,742 earthquakes over five days in an area about 270 kilometers west of Vancouver Island , but on Thursday, the intense activity calmed to just a few earthquakes an hour. Scientists from all over the U.S. have scrambled to join the University of Washington research vessel Thompson, which is scheduled to arrive in the Endeavour Hot Vents area this morning.
The shaking is also being monitored by the Geological Survey of Canada through seismographs at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich. About three km below the ocean surface -- in the Juan de Fuca Ridge undersea mountain chain -- two tectonic plates, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate, are pulling apart, said Geological Survey of Canada seismologist Garry Rogers.
Is There a Connection Between the Sun, Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Field and Earth Quakes?
A sudden and freakish geomagnetic storm is underway, and appears to have come out of nowhere.
Kp Index (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_kp_3d.gif?
Magnetic Flux (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_elec_3d.gif?
In my opinion, I find the Magnetic Flux variable even more concerning. I could easily see how one could make the connection to such rapid magnetic flux, with rapid shifting seismographs.
If you were to ask me “is there a connection between the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field shift and earthquakes; I would have to say…yes. Easy to say, but you can imagine the challenge to sustain the slings and arrows of a “peer review” and rightfully so I might add. As distasteful as this method of filtering and at times just out right chastisement is, the process of a peer review does indeed help weed out the fakes, frauds, charlatans, and just stupid ideas. So let me just say that my research related to the Sun-Earth connection does not focus on solar events and earthquakes specifically. I know there are some in the field of geology and seismology who might make this leap showing some kind of causal effect on tectonic plates, and they maybe correct. I simply cannot, at least at this time affirm such a connection.
My studies have been targeted towards solar activity and its direct connection to “weather”. Notice I say “weather” and not “climate”. This is a significant distinction. There are a hand full of scientists who have released some excellent studies showing strong evidence between solar cycles and climate cycles. What makes my research outcome unique, is my suggesting a more immediate causal effect. So immediate, I am suggesting a 48 to 72 hour time-linked-means. Most of you are already aware of the Equation I published in 1997.
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Now 3,800 Quakes and Counting; Largest Quake of Swarm Just Hit
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
Just minutes ago, I received a USGS report of a 5.2 quake off the coast of Oregon. This is the area where the now over 3,800 quakes have occurred.
Following are two of the latest news report now that the mainstream media has caught hold.
Brunswick News - Tiffany Crawford: “Intense earthquake activity on the ocean floor off the coast of southern Vancouver Island has scientists scrambling to be the first to catch a glimpse of two tectonic plates pulling apart.
U.S. scientists from the University of Washington sent a research vessel over the weekend after seismic equipment detected nearly 3,800 small quakes in an area known as the Endeavour Hot Vents. "The speculation is it might be a volcanic eruption or a magma event on the ridge," said Garry Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. "Thousands of earthquakes occurring over a few days, it's a tremendous amount of energy but it's way offshore," he said on Sunday. "They are too far to be felt so as far as we know there is no threat."
Victoria (BC) Times - Thousands of earthquakes have rattled the ocean floor off southern Vancouver Island last week, and a team of U.S. scientists is racing to the area to see if an underwater volcano is spewing fresh lava.
U.S. hydrophones detected 3,742 earthquakes over five days in an area about 270 kilometers west of Vancouver Island , but on Thursday, the intense activity calmed to just a few earthquakes an hour. Scientists from all over the U.S. have scrambled to join the University of Washington research vessel Thompson, which is scheduled to arrive in the Endeavour Hot Vents area this morning.
The shaking is also being monitored by the Geological Survey of Canada through seismographs at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich. About three km below the ocean surface -- in the Juan de Fuca Ridge undersea mountain chain -- two tectonic plates, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate, are pulling apart, said Geological Survey of Canada seismologist Garry Rogers.
Is There a Connection Between the Sun, Earth’s Shifting Magnetic Field and Earth Quakes?
A sudden and freakish geomagnetic storm is underway, and appears to have come out of nowhere.
Kp Index (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_kp_3d.gif?
Magnetic Flux (March 6-7th): http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_elec_3d.gif?
In my opinion, I find the Magnetic Flux variable even more concerning. I could easily see how one could make the connection to such rapid magnetic flux, with rapid shifting seismographs.
If you were to ask me “is there a connection between the Sun, Earth’s magnetic field shift and earthquakes; I would have to say…yes. Easy to say, but you can imagine the challenge to sustain the slings and arrows of a “peer review” and rightfully so I might add. As distasteful as this method of filtering and at times just out right chastisement is, the process of a peer review does indeed help weed out the fakes, frauds, charlatans, and just stupid ideas. So let me just say that my research related to the Sun-Earth connection does not focus on solar events and earthquakes specifically. I know there are some in the field of geology and seismology who might make this leap showing some kind of causal effect on tectonic plates, and they maybe correct. I simply cannot, at least at this time affirm such a connection.
My studies have been targeted towards solar activity and its direct connection to “weather”. Notice I say “weather” and not “climate”. This is a significant distinction. There are a hand full of scientists who have released some excellent studies showing strong evidence between solar cycles and climate cycles. What makes my research outcome unique, is my suggesting a more immediate causal effect. So immediate, I am suggesting a 48 to 72 hour time-linked-means. Most of you are already aware of the Equation I published in 1997.
Starmail - 7. Mär, 14:41
Scientist foresaw Sumatran quake
Starmail - 7. Mär, 13:55
Radiation threat follows tsunami
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/printerfriendly.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2762455
Informant: JHW369
Informant: JHW369
Starmail - 7. Mär, 10:50
21
Feb
2005
Global Disaster Watch : CURRENT WORLDWIDE NATURAL DISASTERS
Starmail - 21. Feb, 11:39
17
Feb
2005
Tsunami villagers give thanks to trees
Starmail - 17. Feb, 10:40
