WILL THE SKY TURN GREEN ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY? A magnetic filament snaking around sunspot AR1692 erupted on March 15th at about 0600 UT. The slow explosion, which took hours to unfold, produced an M1-class solar flare and a bright CME. SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) photographed the expanding cloud, which is heading directly toward Earth:
The CME left the sun traveling some 900 km/s (2 million mph). Three-dimensional computer models based on observations from SOHO and NASA's twin STEREO probes predict the CME will cross the void between sun and Earth in two days or less. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the cloud arrives on March 17th. This means the sky could turn green on St. Patrick's Day! High latitude (and possibly even middle latitude) sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend.
Solar wind speed: 447.1 km/sec density: 1.6 protons/cm3explanation | more dataUpdated: Today at 0117 UT
EVIDENTLY THE SOLAR WIND IS AFFECTING US MUCH MORE THAN IS USUALLY PUBLICLY LET ON...
Meeting on Solar Wind Turbulence in Kennebunkport, Maine, USA
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Our goal is somewhat different from more familiar conferences and is designed with the SHINE model in mind. We are inviting very few speakers who we are asking to give review and introductory talks for each topic we hope to discuss. Those invited review talks will be largely non-controversial and focus upon agreed-upon results. They are also likely to contain challenges for the participants to explain. Then, the bulk of the time is left unscheduled and we ask the participants to give short, focused talks that lead to discussion and debate on the fundamental aspects of the subject at hand.
We expect that everyone who attends will have ample opportunity to enter into the debate and we hope to stimulate a lively discussion of fundamental physics.
We hope you will join us. Bring multiple 5-minute talks that attempt to make specific points so you can enter into the debate clearly and propel the discussion forward. No one is expected to be given a large block of time to speak. The goal is meaningful and focused debate. Remember, you may not convince everyone, but there will be many participants who want to understand your point of view. Our goal is to debate and illuminate, providing inspiration to all.
THE first Solar Probe Plus Workshop will take place at the Beckman Institute auditorium, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, from March 26th to 29th, 2013. SPP1 will introduce the Heliophysics community to the mission and prepare for the exciting discoveries that the Solar Probe Plus mission will make. The Workshop will explore the scientific objectives of the Solar Probe Mission and how the direct exploration of the corona and inner heliosphere will lead to advances in our understanding of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration, the magnetic and plasma structure of the heliosphere, and the acceleration of energetic particles at shocks and flares. The workshop will inspire research that will make use of the SPP observations within the context of the NASA Heliophysics Observatory System and identify key areas for preparatory research. Synergistic observations from other ground based and space based assets will also be addressed.
The meeting is composed of 4 sessions:
Heating and acceleration of the solar corona and solar wind.
Structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind.
Particle acceleration and transport from the corona into the inner heliosphere
Solar Probe Plus Synergies: maximizing scientific return in conjunction with the Heliophysics Observatory System and ground based assets.
SH11: Solar Wind Structure and Its Coronal Origins
The recent solar cycle 23-24 transition, together with the availability of multiperspective, multipoint in-situ observations and sophisticated 3D coronal and heliospheric models, has opened our eyes to the complex origins of the solar wind, even at solar minima. In particular we now see that a weak field solar cycle may in fact add complexity because of the existence of many low-to-mid latitude coronal holes and coronal pseudostreamers. Indeed the corona through most of the recent minimum had the appearance of a high solar activity phase even though sunspot number remained low. This session will focus on the many aspects of this condition, and consequences for past and future cycles during which the solar dynamo produces weak fields.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WARNING: NOAA forecasters estimate a 45% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on July 29-30 in response to a high-speed solar wind stream buffeting Earth's magnetic field. Even stronger storming could occur on July 31st when a CME associated with yesterday's M6-flare arrives. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras for the next three nights.
SOLAR ACTIVITY PICKS UP: Sunspot AR1532 is crackling with M-class solar flares. The latest, an M6-class eruption on July 28th (2056 UT), produced a bright flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation, shown here in a snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:
Update: Contrary to earlier reports, this explosion did produce a CME and the cloud is heading for Earth. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will reach our planet on July 31st at 1500 UT (+/- 7 hours). Weak to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives.
Magnetic active region 1520-1521 erupted again (July 19, 2012) at the edge of the Sun, this time producing an M7-class flare that almost crossed the threshold into X-territory (largest). Associated with the flare was a coronal mass ejection observed by SOHO's two coronagraphs. The small, white particles splattering the CCD for hours after the eruption are high-energy protons moving at half the speed of light. The front edge of the mass ejection was clocked at over 2 million miles an hour.
Magnetic field lines between two active regions extended across about one-third of the Sun to make their connections (July 23-24, 2012). The magnetically powerful active regions were just rotating into view, giving us a wonderful profile of their activity. The lower active region also spurts out several bursts of plasma as well. The looping arcs above each active region shows off the field lines nicely too. The video clip covers about 36 hours of activity in extreme ultraviolet light.
X-Class Solar Flare, Strongest Kind, Erupts From Giant Sunspot 'AR1520'
Posted: 07/13/2012 8:36 am Updated: 07/13/2012 2:24 pm
By: Tariq Malik Published: 07/12/2012 02:36 PM EDT on SPACE.com
This story was updated at 5 p.m. ET.
The sun unleashed a huge flare Thursday (July 12), the second major solar storm to erupt from our star in less than a week.
The solar flare peaked at 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT) as an X-class sun storm, the most powerful type of flare the suncan have.
"It erupted from Active Region 1520, which rotated into view on July 6," NASA officials said in an alert. Active Region 1520, or AR1520, is a giant sunspot currently facing Earth.
According to NASA and the Space Weather Prediction Center (SPWC), which is operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, today's sun storm registered as an X1.4-class solar flare. It is more powerful than the X1.1 flare that erupted on July 6 from another giant sunspot known as AR1515, making this latest tempest the strongest solar storm of the summer so far.
The sunspot region AR1520 could be up to 186,411 miles (300,000 kilometers) long at its peak, solar astrophysicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told SPACE.com. It is about 50 percent larger than last week's sunspot AR1515.
"It's quite extensive," Young said, adding that sunspots the size of AR1520 are normal as the sun nears its peak of its weather cycle in 2013.
But while sunspot AR1520 may sound like a solar behemoth, it is actually a relatively modest sunspot example, and promises more sun storms to come, Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, told SPACE.com.
"It's certainly not done. It's only halfway across the face of the sun right now," Pesnell said from the Goddard center in Greenbelt, Md., which oversees the sun-watching SDO mission. "We'll be able to watch it from the Earth for at least another week."
The SDO spacecraft captured a video of the huge X1.4 solar flare and is one of several spacecraft keeping a constant watch on the sun's weather cycle.
Because the solar flare erupted toward Earth, it sent a wave of charged particles toward our planet that could slightly amp up northern lights displays. It caused a strong radio blackout for some high-frequency communications systems, according to SWPC officials.
NASA and SWPC officials said the flare did trigger a huge eruption of solar plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, which is expected to reach Earth at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Saturday (July 14).Young said that an early analysis suggests the coronal mass ejection sent a wave of plasma toward Earth at a speed of 3.1 million mph (5 million kph or about 1,400 km per second). While it may spark a minor geomagnetic storm, power planets, satellites and astronauts need not worry, he added.
"At this point, I think the impact is going to be relatively minor," Young said.
X-class solar flares are the strongest type of storms that occur on the sun. When aimed at Earth, the most powerful X-class flares can endanger satellites and astronauts in space, interfere with navigation and communications signals, and damage power system infrastructure on our planet.
Today's solar flare marks the sixth X-class solar flare of the year. While it is the strongest yet of the summer season, which began in late June, it is not the most powerful sun storm of 2012. That title is currently held by a March event that unleashed an intense X5.4-class solar flare.
The sun is currently in the midst of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle. The current cycle is called Solar Cycle 24.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A solar storm is racing toward Earth this weekend, but scientists say not to worry.
The blast of charged solar particles was due to arrive Saturday morning and shake Earth's magnetic field. Space weather forecasters say it will be a minor event and they don't expect disruptions to power grids or communications systems.
The storm began Thursday when the sun unleashed a huge flare that sent a stream of particles speeding toward Earth at 3 million mph.
X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th at 1653 UT. Because this sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend.
The explosion also strobed Earth with a pulse of extreme UV radiation, shown here in an image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
The UV pulse partially ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, disturbing the normal propagation of radio signals around the planet. Monitoring stations in Norway and Ireland recorded the sudden ionospheric disturbance.
Finally, solar protons accelerated by the blast are swarming around Earth. The radiation storm, in progress, ranks "S1" on NOAA space weather scales, which means it poses no serious threat to satellites or astronauts. This could change if the storm continues to intensify.
The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares or "Solar Flare Alphabet Soup"
A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released. Flares produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays and gamma-rays. [more information]
Scientists classify solar flares according to their x-ray brightness in the wavelength range 1 to 8 Angstroms. There are 3 categories: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare. Compared to X- and M-class events, C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth.
This figure shows a series of solar flares detected by NOAA satellites in July 2000:
Each category for x-ray flares has nine subdivisions ranging from, e.g., C1 to C9, M1 to M9, and X1 to X9. In this figure, the three indicated flares registered (from left to right) X2, M5, and X6. The X6 flare triggered a radiation storm around Earth nicknamed the Bastille Day event.
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Another small town in Wisconsin is hearing booms but this time they’re being accompanied by lights. That’s odd because I thought the booms were coming from the ground. What do lights in the sky have to do with booms in the ground. There were no reports of thunderstorms and the National Weather Service can’t make any connection in terms of weather. The lights were observed BEFORE the booms.
“I observed a large flash of light followed by a ‘boom,’” the officer wrote in his report. “I advised dispatch of this information and my belief that it was possibly a transformer.”
However, Sauk County Sheriff’s Department dispatchers contacted Alliant Energy, and reported the company knew of no power outages in the Baraboo area.
Is this related to earthquakes as they say occurred in Clintonville. There is something called “earthquake lights”.
From wiki:
An earthquake light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions.
Clintonville, Montello and Baraboo
From what I read, it would occur during a real earthquake. The wiki definition says nothing about flashes of light followed by booms. Earthquake lights are not well understood but you can read more at the link here. The lights don’t make any sense because the booms are supposedly coming from the ground.
Now we have booms in Clintonville, Montello and Baraboo. The events seem to be on a path.
Why aren't scientists looking at the study that has been going on regarding the pole shift, the destabilization of the Earth's core and the skyquakes?
Here is the update that includes recorded audio of the booming events....
Second Wisconsin Town Reports Booming Sounds
BARABOO, Wis. -- A second Wisconsin town has reported hearing booming sounds.
Residents of Baraboo, located north of Madison, began calling 911 early Sunday morning after seeing two separate flashes of light followed by loud booms.
"I just heard an explosion go off somewhere," one caller said.
A police officer witnessed the first flash while parked along a street. He said he thought an electrical transformer had failed.
"When those things go off, they make a really loud pop," police chief Mark Schauf said. "Usually there's a flash of light as they're surging off the electricity."
The local utility said it had no outages or transformer failures on Sunday night.
Clintonville, Wisconsin Booms: City Hires Firm To Explore Mysterious Noises
First Posted: 03/22/2012 2:42 pmUpdated: 03/22/2012 5:43 pm
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An eastern Wisconsin town where unexplained booms have kept some residents up at night will hire an engineering firm to explore the cause of the racket, the city's administrator said Thursday.
The Waukesha engineering firm Ruekert & Mielke will install ground seismology monitors in four places around the town late Thursday or early Friday, Clintonville administrator Lisa Kuss said.
"The purpose is trying to determine some sort of epicenter to the event," Kuss said. "If you can do that, then you can focus on how deep it is."
The engineers will set three monitors up in a triangle, with the fourth in the middle, and they will stay in place until they produce a clear reading of seismological activity, Kuss said. She didn't know how long the tests would take.
The city has authorized $1,000 to rent the machines and up to $6,000 for analysis.
Dozens of residents began reporting the loud booms on Sunday night. Some said it sounded like an explosion, others that is was more like a door being slammed. Some cited fireworks, others wondered if they had experienced an earthquake.
The complaints continued on Monday night and more came just before dawn on Wednesday. Police received a handful of calls early Thursday reporting minor booms, but nothing on the scale of the
No injuries have been reported although some residents said they could feel the ground roll beneath their feet.
City officials say they have investigated every possible human cause. They checked water, sewer and gas lines, contacted the military about any exercises in the area, reviewed permits for mining explosives and inspected a dam next to City Hall. They even tested methane levels at the landfill in case the gas was spontaneously exploding.
Some folks said they were considering leaving town until investigators can determine the source.
"My husband thought it was cool, but I don't think so. This is not a joke," said Jolene Van Beek, who awoke early Sunday to a loud boom that shook her house. "I don't know what it is, but I just want it to stop."
Van Beek took her three sons to her father's home, 10 minutes away, so they could get some uninterrupted sleep.
About 300 people attended a public meeting Wednesday night in a local high school auditorium to get an update on the situation. Kuss assured residents that officials are doing everything they can to determine the source of the booming.
A Menlo Park seismologist has been called in to help solve an X-File in a Wisconsin town.
Residents of Clintonville, Wisconsin have been trying to get the bottom of some unexplainable noises in the night.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, residents have compared the noises to such things as "a 90-ton wrecking ball slamming into something," to "fireworks exploding underwater."
One resident thought someone drove a car into her home, while another thought there were "critters" in her basement.
The noises woke up residents on the northeast side of Clintonville around 2 a.m. Monday and continued on and off until at least 8 p.m. the paper reports.
Authorities say the sounds are not earthquakes, methane gas, wastewater or military missions.
David Hill, a seismologist and scientist emeritus for the U.S. Geological Survey in Melo Park was called for his opinion.
"In North Carolina there are sand dunes and there's such a thing as booming sands," Hill said, "Of course, booming sounds travel a long ways. Sometimes thunderstorms can be beyond the horizon, but it's not likely that's the source of the noises in Wisconsin at this time of year."
Wisconsin sonic booms: Is a 1.5-magnitude jiggle the whole story?
The US Geological Survey suggests a small quake under Clintonville, Wis., and associated micro-tremors, could be the source of the mysterious sonic booms. Not everyone buys that.
By Mark Guarino, Staff writer / March 23, 2012
A resident ask questions at a public meeting with city officials at Clintonville High School in Clintonville, Wis., Wednesday. Sleepless families in a small Wisconsin town longed for quiet Wednesday after mysterious booming noises over the past few nights roused them from bed and sent residents into the street — sometimes still in pajamas.
After more than a week of strange sounds and sensations – the residents of “normally quiet” Clintonville, Wisconsin hope to get more answers.
They have already been stunned to learn that a 1.5 magnitude earthquake caused at least some of the vibrations, but they continue.
A team of scientists is preparing to install seismometers in the community 40 miles west of Green Bay.
The delicate devices register “shifts” in the earth.
WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence spoke with a few of the experts hoping to narrow down the location and source of the continuing seismic activity.
Greg Waite is on the road when I reach him.
He figures the trip from his lab in Michigan to Clintonville will take about four hours.
He is less sure what is causing the seismic activity in the small Wisconsin town.
It’s not that Waite doesn’t know his earthquakes.
The Michigan Tech assistant professor of geophysics spends most of his time studying them.
“Well actually most of my work is in other countries, in Central America and South America, I study volcanic seismicity mostly,” Waite says.
Something as small as Clintonville’s 1.5 “rumbling” would normally be a blip on a monitor, but Waite’s interest was piqued by the continuing “swarm” of seismic activity.
“It’s so rare to have earthquakes in the upper Midwest,” Waite says.
Waite will not only monitor ground vibration, he’s hoping special microphones will pick up the low frequency sounds residents are reporting – the creaks, cracks and rumbles.
“It’s rare that there are good recordings of those sounds, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try to collect good data to get a better of that phenomenon,” Waite says.
Everything Waite’s equipment detects will be funneled to U.S. Geological Survey scientists in Golden, Colorado. Dr. Harley Benz is shipping is “cell modums” to Clintonville, to link Waite’s system with the Colorado facility.
“It’s kind of a fancy cell phone in that it’s always on and it’s always transmitting data. So it connects to cell towers and so we can take data straight out of these seismograph stations. And if people feel something or hear something, we can look at the data immediately and figure out what it might have been,” Benz says.
Benz echoes Greg Waite’s words - that a quake as small as Clintonville’s would normally go unnoticed, but the mystery of what is happening there, is worth investigating.
“We can learning something from this exercise; to understand how the earth works. In places where earthquakes are rare; you know, the central and eastern U.S. have earthquakes but they’re more infrequent than, say in the western U.S. So we can learn something scientifically from this about the earthquake process. The other thing is people are concerned and rattled, and no pun intended. These things are waking them up; we don’t know what they are and we have technologies that might help to address this and so the state is asking for help and we have an obligation to help,” Benz says.
Another scientist – much closer to Clintonville – is also tuned into the case.
Steve Dutch teaches geoscience at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay.
“We could conceivably have an unmapped fault below Clintonville. We have no information really about what’s under the surface there and stresses in the crust could be causing it to slip,” Dutch says.
Dutch plans to test his own theories. He suspects the quakes and strange noises might be related to the town’s groundwater levels.
“Apparently the ground water table is very low there right now and if you remove water from underground it removes some of the support for the rocks; and if the rocks settle they could creek and slip a little bit,” Dutch says.
As scientists ruminate and set up equipment, Lisa Kuss looks forward to easing residents’ anxiety.
She’s Clintonville’s city administrator.
“Night after night after night you’re being woken up with your house sounding like something’s exploding, that something hit your house, that you can’t sleep because it jars your whole house. That phenomenon, no matter what it’s being caused from, is disruptive to people’s lives,” Kuss says.
Kuss says it’s HER job to assure 4600 residents that Clintonville is a safe place to call home.
READ THE FOLLOWING POSTS AND YOU MAY FIND YOUR ANSWER...
....................end update...................................... UPDATE: 3-23-2012 As you have probably heard by now, authorities have tamed the masses in Wisconsin with an explanation that defies science for the area. They say that there has been a swarm of shallow and small earthquakes that have rattled the area and that is where the phenomenon is coming from.
Hmmm...something is not quite right about that area.
First, it is on a bed of granite and is not proned to any earthquake of any kind.
THERE IS ONLY ONE EARTHQUAKE THAT SHOWS UP ON THE USGS SITE...
49 km (30 miles) NW of Appleton, Wisconsin
60 km (37 miles) WNW of Green Bay, Wisconsin
65 km (40 miles) E of Stevens Point, Wisconsin
181 km (112 miles) NNE of MADISON, Wisconsin
Secondly, these noises and the rattling is only happening at night. Their explanation? Things aren't as loud at night and people are more relaxed and therefore they would notice these things more.
Thirdly, skyquakes would make the noise and would cause the rattling without showing up on a seismograph in most cases. We have just had a large amount of solar activity that has really pressured our magnetosphere and the underlying ionosphere. Perhaps these noises are the magnetism pulling on the core, or from the magnetosphere and ionosphere attempting to pull back into place.
As scientists have announced (subtly) the Earth's core is destabilizing and most of the skyquakes are being created by this process. Perhaps the authorities in Wisconsin should use scientists in these other fields to come to a more likely conclusion than the one they used to tame the panic so that they would actually know what is happening there.
Here is an article with what they claim is happening in Wisconsin. What do you think?
Authorities solve the mystery of town's odd noises, shaking
From Jim Spellman, CNN
updated 12:22 PM EDT, Fri March 23, 2012
The locations of the reported "booms" in Clintonville, Wisconsin.
Clintonville, Wisconsin (CNN) -- The mystery behind four days of unexplained shaking and odd sounds rattling Clintonville, Wisconsin, has been solved.
The cause? A "swarm" of minor earthquakes amplified by the unique bedrock beneath the state of Wisconsin.
The strange sounds -- variously described as rattling pipes, clanging metal, thunder or firecrackers -- have continued on and off since early Sunday night in just one part of the small town of 4,600, located about 180 miles northeast of Madison. They were loud enough Monday morning that a CNN journalist could hear them during a cell phone conversation with city administrator Lisa Kuss.
Speaking to Clintonville residents Thursday night, Kuss said the U.S. Geological Survey has determined that "our community did in fact experience an earthquake that registered 1.5 on the earthquake magnitude scale." That minor quake was measured on Tuesday night by several mobile earthquake monitoring stations that were dispatched to the region, she said..
Based on all the data, the USGS believes the shaking and strange sounds are the result of "a swarm of several small earthquakes in a very short amount of time," Kuss said.
While these small earthquakes normally don't cause such commotion, Kuss said the location of the shallow temblors helped amplify the shaking.
"In other places in the United States, a 1.5 earthquake would not be felt," she said. "But the type of rock that Wisconsin has transmits seismic energy very well."
When the shaking began last Sunday, hundreds of residents began calling 911. Kerry Danley said she hear noises around midnight that sounded like a paintball gun.
"It was just pop-pop-pop," she said. "So I woke up -- just jumped out of bed actually -- ran downstairs, looked outside, nothing.
Since Sunday, the shaking has happened nearly every night, quieting down during the day. Absent of any explanations, residents were left to their own devices to come up with explanations.
"My bet is on gremlins," one Facebook user jokingly posted to WLUK's Facebook page. Alien machinery buried for millennia, countered another.
No, said one one tongue-in-cheek Twitter user. It's clearly mole men launching their attack on the surface dwellers.
Others suggested huge earthworms or sewer cats. Some Clintonville residents were even holding "shake" parties at night, waiting for the rumbling.
As city officials ruled out electrical explosions, gas leaks and sewer collapses, they started consulting geological experts around the country. Based on the data from eight seismic monitoring stations, Kuss said the USGS finally determined on Thursday that earthquakes were to blame.
While the cause of the shaking has been solved, it's still not clear if the rattling in Clintonville is over, Kuss said.
"There is no way to say for certain whether our area will ever again experience an earthquake," she said. "But it still very likely, although not guaranteed, that any future earthquakes that we experience would again be on the low end of the earthquake magnitude scale."
---------------------END UPDATE------------------------- As we have all heard by now, Wisconsin residents are experiencing some strange noise phenomenon. One explanation for this may be the destabilization of the Earth's core, which is causing a phenomenon called "skyquakes".
The following is information regarding the Wisconsin phenomenon and correlating explanation. Please remember that I am posting information found on the Internet. I cannot vouch or verify all of the information is accurate because it is from the Internet. However, from the research I have been doing, the "skyquake" phenomenon is definitely a plausible scenario in this particular case.
Here you go...
SKYQUAKE
Vibration, Booming Sounds Reported In Clintonville
City Officials: Residents Started Reporting Sounds Early Monday MorningUpdated: 6:38 pm CDT March 19, 2012
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. -- The mysterious booming noises heard in Clintonville apparently have stopped -- for now.
Officials in that the city 40 miles west of Green Bay said there have been no additional reports of unusual activity since about 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Shortly before 2 a.m., residents flooded the Clintonville Police Dispatch with calls reporting explosions, rattling, vibrations and homes shaking. About 150 calls were received between 1:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.
The city contacted geologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but says the noises and vibrations felt in Clintonville were not typical of earthquake activity.
Sounds Reported In Clintonville UPDATED Wednesday, March 21, 2012 --- 11:55 a.m.
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Officials in an eastern Wisconsin city are trying to record a series of mysterious booming sounds that have roused residents from bed in the past few days, but their attempts have so far come up empty.
The city of Clintonville set up audio and video recorders overnight Wednesday but didn't capture anything. There was at least one loud boom at 5 a.m.
City administrator Lisa Kuss says most theories involving manmade causes have been ruled out. She says the city is planning to bring in some sort of vibration-detection devices to try to determine where the epicenter is.
The booms started Sunday. Residents describe them as sounding like thunder, fireworks or someone slamming a heavy door.
The city will hold a meeting Wednesday evening to update residents on the investigation.
Copyright 2012. The Associated Press. __________________________________________________ UPDATED Wednesday, March 21, 2012 --- 9:05 a.m. CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Mysterious underground booms have resonated again in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville.
Police dispatcher Tabitha Schoen says it was a quiet night in Clintonville until shortly after 5 a.m. when about 20 calls came in from residents who felt and heard the booms.
The booms, which have been compared to rumbles of thunder, sonic booms or fireworks, rattled homes and awakened some residents Sunday and Monday nights.
Authorities are at a loss to explain.
Seismologists have recorded unusual ground shaking in the area, similar to that caused by quarrying, mining and heavy truck traffic. But the city has ruled out such activities as possible sources of the disturbance.
A meeting about the mysterious noise is scheduled Wednesday night at the high school in Clintonville.
Copyright 2012. The Associated Press. __________________________________________________ UPDATED Wednesday, March 21, 2012 --- 6:00 a.m.CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Mysterious underground booms resumed early Wednesday in the eastern Wisconsin community of Clintonville after a quiet night.
The noise awakened some residents Sunday and Monday night. After checking numerous theories about what may have caused the noise, authorities are still at a loss to explain the origin.
Police dispatcher Tabitha Schoen says it was a quiet night in Clintonville until shortly after 5 a.m. when about 20 calls came in from residents who experienced the booms. They've been described as rumbles of thunder, sonic booms or fireworks and have rattled houses.
A meeting about the mysterious noise is scheduled Wednesday night at the high school in Clintonville.
Mysterious Booms Wake Wisconsin Residents Up For Third Straight Day
Forget worrying about the wake up call of a rooster, residents in the Wisconsin city of Clintonville were woken up for the second time this week by the sound of a mysterious “boom.” The third time that such a noise has been heard in as many days.
The loud yet to be discovered noise was first heard in the early morning hours of Sunday and then again on Monday night.At this time authorities are not quite sure what has caused the “boom” noise. According to one city administrator:
“It startled everyone. They thought something had hit their house or a tree fell on their roof.” City officials tried to pool together their collective brainpower to come up with an explanation but so far they’ve been unable to pinpoint the location of the noise.
Clintonville residents in the meantime believe that the sounds are coming from underground which has led city workers to check and then recheck methane levels at local landfills, water pipes, sewer pipes and gas lines.
Officials even went so far as to contact the military to make sure they were not performing any type of military exercise in the area.
After all of those attempts turned up nothing they reviewed mining explosive permits and even checked the Pigeon River damn which is located next to city hall.
A local seismic station near the city has reported unusual seismic activity which is usually due to quarrying, mining or heavy truck traffic however the city ruled out those sources as the cause of the loud boom.
A public meeting for the citizens of Clintonville will be held on Wednesday night to discuss the unexplained activity. Read more at inquisitr.com
Duration: -10 seconds 1st one. Shorter on the Second quake. Location: -Township of Leon, Wisconsin USA Event: -Reported on TV channel2 WBAY Green Bay under headline Mysterous Rumble Shakes Washara County.
www.wbay.com-The following are two article that appeared on TV channel2 WBAY that back up the report sent in to Shadow Research, Inc. Thank you.Mysterious Rumble Shakes Waushara County Dec 11, 2008
SKYQUAKE
Mysterious Rumble Shakes Waushara County
by Marcie Kobriger What was it that shook residents in rural Waushara County out of their sleep Wednesday morning?
"I've never experienced anything like that in my life. It was strange, scary," Kevin White said. Residents near the Town of Leon say they felt the ground shake and heard a strange noise. Even the town chairman.
"We were doing chores this morning in the barn about 4:30, and all of a sudden everything shook, rumbled, and the cows jumped a little bit and kind of looked around, and then my brother and I both heard a noise," Chris Sorenson said.
Anna Syke was in the middle of a good night's sleep when something woke her. "I was sound asleep, 4:20 in the morning, and suddenly I wake up and the house is shaking. The best you can describe it as you would experience in an earthquake."
She was expecting the worst while fearing it was all in her head.
"Nothing came on the news. I called a sheriff's department employee that I'm friends with and he had no information, and then a neighbor called me at 5:30 and confirmed exactly what I felt."
The call was from White, who felt and heard the same thing about a mile away. He woke up because his cabin was shaking like a freight train.
"First I thought, 'Am I having a dream?' but I can't be having a dream. I thought it was an earthquake. I never experienced an earthquake, but that's what I thought an earthquake would be like," White said.
He said it sounded like thunder but was a constant rumble moving from south to north, and he could feel it through the cement slab. A minute-and-a-half later, it happened again.
White called the sheriff's department, which told him it received similar calls from other people and that it was investigating.
Given no explanation, White decided to take a look for himself.
"What it got light at 7 o'clock, I went and hopped on the snowmobie to see if I could find anything out in the woods, and I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary."
"There's a big block of 300 acres to the east of me that something could have crashed in there and you may not find it for quite a while," White offered.
"Did something crash? Did something explode? We have a lot of cabins out by us that are unoccupied, so that was going through our mind," said Syke.
The sheriff's department tells Action 2 News its deputies searched the area for a cause, like a plane crash, but came up with nothing.
The National Geological Survey and utility providers had nothing to report, either.
Which leaves those who felt and heard the rumblings to wonder what woke them.
"I've never had this happen to me in my life, and it's kind of scary when your whole foundation is shaking. You kind of want to know what's, what's going on, you know? It's unexplained," said White.
"Any answers we can get, because we're all just completely baffled, everyone who lives out here, and I think a little bit shook up -- literally, figuratively!" Syke said.
WISCONSIN - JULY 24, 2008 - A couple claims a mysterious noise plagues their house in Green Bay. The noise has been plaguing them for two years and sounds something like a rumbling motor, with a subtle vibration that won't quit. Then it stops - especially when they try to show city officials or acoustic experts what they're hearing. "It's like there's a semi parked right outside with the engine running, but when you look out, there isn't one." The couple have lived in the same house for 42 years. The problem only developed over the last two years.When they leave, the don't hear the noise, so they know it's not some health problem the two share. City officials hired a company for $1,000 worth of testing in the house this spring, but the tester came up with no noise and no significant vibration. The local alderman has heard the sound. "It's like an engine thing, a low-frequency vibration. I think it would be an annoyance." The immediate neighbors haven't complained, although some people have said they heard the sound. SOURCE: MYSTERY BOOMS
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Uploaded by ST3PRODUCTIONS on Jan 21, 20122012 Strange sounds heard worldwide explained Earth Hum -Strange Moaning Sounds Around The World are Skyquakes: Warnings From Earth's Destabilizing Core
Harmonics may signal massive Earth core slippage -- every 13000 years (when we cross the galactic equator?) the earth recieves a galactic wave that distrupts it's balance.
For those that think it is a HOAX or need a formal news report , here it is -- search on YT - "Mainstream Reporting Strange Noises Heard Around The World - Jan 26, 2012" - then come back and watch this video so it can all sink in again.
What is happening is the liquid iron core of the Earth is spinning at a different rate than the planet's rotation and the slippage is causing a measurable migration of the Earth's magnetic field. http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Her-Love-Diary-ebook/dp/B00381ALMK/ref=cm_cr_pr_p...
Earth's magnetic field in state of uncontrollable flux The skyquakes are caused by harmonics deep inside the Earth traveling from a mutating core through the layers of the planet to the surface. The sky acts as a sounding board capturing and magnifying the sonic and electrical frequencies shot from the center of the world.
Life depends on Earth's core. Something's happening to it.
Death and destruction on an Apocalyptic scale
The stresses building up in the core deep in the heart of the world also migrate outwards to the mantel and eventually the crust. Slipping strata within the bowels of the planet create incredible pressures...pressures so great that temperatures soar and dense metals flow like liquids. [See Doomsday: Earth's core spinning out of control]
Water becomes a superheated plasma and interacts with layers of quartz crystals emitting harmonics audible as a hum and also generating earth lights and skyquakes echoing across the sky . [See: Underground lightning may cause earthquake and volcanic events]
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"Spacequakes" Discovered in Earth's Upper Atmosphere
Ker Thanfor National Geographic News Published July 30, 2010
The sun can dump enough energy into Earth's magnetic field to trigger "spacequakes" in our planet's upper atmosphere, a new study has found.
The space weather phenomenon—technically a strong vibration in the planet's magnetic field—can affect auroras and can spawn "space twisters" capable of bringing down power lines. (Related: "Aurora 'Power Surges' Triggered by Magnetic Explosions.")
In general, Earth's magnetic field lines can be thought of as rubber bands stretched taut by the solar wind, which is actually charged particles flowing in all directions from the sun, said study co-author Vassilis Angelopoulos, a space physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Earth's magnetic tail is the part of the field that's stretched out like a windsock by the sun's steady bombardment.
New data from a suite of NASA satellites called THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) show that, when a magnetic field line in the tail builds up too much energy, it snaps, and part of the line is sent hurtling back toward Earth. In the process, the broken line can attract high-energy particles in Earth's atmosphere to create a whip-like "plasma jet."
These jets crash into other parts of Earth's magnetic field at about 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) above the planet's surface, where they bounce like tennis balls hitting a carpet. "We have learned that the plasma jets from the magnetic tail bounce and then bounce again, and so on, till they eventually lose all their energy," said Angelopoulos, also the principal investigator for THEMIS.
Each set of plasma jet impacts can release as much energy in total as a magnitude 5 to 6 earthquake, THEMIS revealed.
Spacequakes Spawn Magnetic Twisters
In addition, the impacts set Earth's entire magnetic field vibrating, and they create highly magnetic vortices, or space twisters, that penetrate down into the planet's atmosphere. (Related: "Earth's Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant 'Chorus'")
These vortices twirl Earth's magnetic field lines in the North and South Poles, where they can create bright ripples and whirls in auroras.
The effects of the vortices can even be felt on the ground, as they can induce current spikes in electrical lines that can bring down power grids over large areas.
(Related: "Magnetic Twisters 'Dance' Across Mercury, Study Says.")
By watching for spacequakes at polar monitoring stations—or even by looking at the visible effects in auroras—scientists can tell that major spacequakes happen about once a year, Angelopoulos said.
Smaller ones happen about once every four hours, he added, so "we have plenty of opportunities to study them."
The spacequakes study appears in the April issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. SOURCE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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SCIENTIST: “SOUNDS OF THE APOCALYPSE” ARE REAL PHENOMENA!
Posted by D.E. Paine on Thursday, February 9, 2012
RENOWNED GEOPHYSICIST SAYS STRANGE SKY SOUNDS ARE REAL Dr. Elchin Khalilov, a geophysicist and a professor in Azerbaijan [map], has been conducting research into the recent wave of strange sky sounds.
Dr. Khalilov refers to the phenomena as “sky hum.” As a geophysicist, he has become intrigued by the numerous reports and recording of the sky sounds. While others in the research community might be inclined to dismiss the whole thing as nonsense, Dr. Khalilov has been working with other researchers to explain what might be causing it.
In a recent article at GeoChange Journal (geochangemag.org), Dr. Khalilov responded to some questions about the sky hum phenomena.
MR. KHALILOV, WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE UNUSUAL VERY LOW-PITCHED SOUNDS REPORTED BY A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PLANET SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2011? MANY CALL THEM “THE SOUND OF THE APOCALYPSE”. INFORMATION ABOUT THAT COMES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD: US, UK, COSTA RICA, RUSSIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRALIA, ETC.
Dr. Elchin Khalilo “We have analyzed records of these sounds and found that most of their spectrum lies within the infrasound range, i.e. is not audible to humans. What people hear is only a small fraction of the actual power of these sounds. They are low-frequency acoustic emissions in the range between 20 and 100 Hz modulated by ultra-low infrasonic waves from 0.1 to 15 Hz. In geophysics, they are called acoustic-gravity waves; they are formed in the upper atmosphere, at the atmosphere-ionosphere boundary in particular. There can be quite a lot of causes why those waves are generated: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, etc. However, the scale of the observed humming sound in terms of both the area covered and its power far exceeds those that can be generated by the above-mentioned phenomena.”
IN THAT CASE, WHAT COULD BE CAUSING THIS HUMMING IN THE SKY? “In our opinion, the source of such powerful and immense manifestation of acoustic-gravity waves must be very large-scale energy processes. These processes include powerful solar flares and huge energy flows generated by them, rushing towards Earth’s surface and destabilizing the magnetosphere, ionosphere and upper atmosphere. Thus, the effects of powerful solar flares: the impact of shock waves in the solar wind, streams of corpuscles and bursts of electromagnetic radiation are the main causes of generation of acoustic-gravitation waves following increased solar activity.
“Given the surge in solar activity as manifested itself in the higher number and energy of solar flares since mid-2011, we can assume that there is a high probability of impact of the substantial increase in solar activity on the generation of the unusual humming coming from the sky. It should be pointed out that solar activity began to rise sharply since early 2011, with its amplitude significantly higher than all forecasts given by a number of influential scientific institutions in 2010 and 2011. Meanwhile, the observed increase in solar activity is fully consistent with the forecast of the International Committee GEOCHANGE published in the Committee’s Report in June 2010. If this growth rate of solar activity continues, its amplitude by the end of 2012 will be higher than the amplitude of 23rd solar cycle, and in 2013-2014 the solar activity will reach its peak the amplitude of which was predicted by us to be 1.5 – 1.7 times higher than the amplitude of the 23rd cycle.”
BUT YOU SAID THAT THE CAUSE OF THE “SKY HUM” CAN LIE WITHIN EARTH’S CORE AS WELL, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
“There is one more possible cause of these sounds and it may lie at the Earth’s core. The fact is that the acceleration of the drift of the Earth’s north magnetic pole which increased more than fivefold between 1998 and 2003 and is at the same level today points to intensification of energy processes in the Earth’s core, since it is processes in the inner and outer core that form the Earth’s geomagnetic field. Meanwhile, as we have already reported, on November 15, 2011 all ATROPATENA geophysical stations which record three-dimensional variations of the Earth’s gravitational field almost simultaneously registered a powerful gravitational impulse. The stations are deployed in Istanbul, Kiev, Baku, Islamabad and Yogyakarta, with the first and last one being separated by a distance of about 10,000 km. Such a phenomenon is only possible if the source of this emanation is at the Earth’s core level. That huge energy release from the Earth’s core at the end of the last year was some kind of a start signal indicating the transition of the Earth’s internal energy into a new active phase.
“Intensification of the energy processes in the Earth’s core can modulate the geomagnetic field which, through a chain of physical processes at the ionosphere – atmosphere boundary level, generates acoustic-gravity waves the audible range of which has been heard by people in the form of a frightening low-frequency sound in different parts of our planet.
“In both cases, even though the causes of acoustic-gravity waves are of a quite understandable geophysical nature, they are indicative of the expected significant increase in solar activity and the geodynamic activity of our planet. There is no doubt that processes in the core rule the internal energy of our planet, therefore, we should expect by the end of 2012 a sharp rise in strong earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and extreme weather events with peak levels in 2013 – 2014.”
