Strongest Solar Storm Since 2005 Hitting Earth

WASHINGTON - Associated Press

This January 19, 2012 image provided by NASA shows an M3.2 solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An earth-directed coronal mass ejection was associated with the solar flare. AFP photo

The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.

The solar flare occurred at about 0400 GMT Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.

The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.

Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale "severe and extreme" Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.

The radiation, in the form of protons, came flying out of the sun at 150 million kilometers per hour. "The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that," Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.

NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expected effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.

AP photo

A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.

First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.

Then, finally the coronal mass ejection - that's the plasma from the sun itself - hits. Usually that travels at about 1,6 or 3.2 million kilometers per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 6 million kilometers per hour, Biesecker said.

It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights farther south.

But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.

And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.

For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.

Now that super-quiet cycle does not seem as likely, Biesecker said.

Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 - during the sun's quiet period - are excited.

"We haven't had anything like this for a number of years," Pulkkinen said. "It's kind of special."

January/24/2012

Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth

(AFP) – 5 hours ago  

WASHINGTON — Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays.

US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted flight routes for transpolar journeys between Asia and the United States to avoid problems caused by the radiation storm, a spokesman said.

NASA confirmed the coronal mass ejection (CME) began colliding with Earth's magnetic field around 10:00 AM (1500 GMT) Tuesday, adding that the storm was now being considered the largest since October 2003.

Radiation storms are not harmful to humans, on Earth at least, according to the US space agency. They can, however, affect satellite operations and short wave radio.

The storm's radiation, likely to continue bombarding Earth's atmosphere through Wednesday, and its possible disruption to satellite communications in the polar regions prompted the flight rerouting, airline officials said.

Atlanta-based Delta, the world's second largest airline, said "a handful" of routes had their journey adjusted "based on potential impact" of the solar storm on communications equipment, spokesman Anthony Black told AFP.

Routes from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul took a more southerly route after the solar flare erupted on Sunday.

The airline said it would continue to monitor solar activity before return flights to their normal routes.

Due to the unusual intensity of the photons raining on Earth, the spectacular aurora borealis -- the stunning "Northern Lights" display -- which is often seen closer to the Arctic pole at this time of year, has been seen as far south as Scotland and northern England, and at lower latitudes in the United States.

The event started late Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the center of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, a physicist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center.

"The flare itself was nothing spectacular, but it sent off a very fast coronal mass ejection traveling four million miles per hour (6.4 million kilometers per hour)," he told AFP.

Space weather watchers said the best aurora sightings are normally around midnight local time.

Rob Stammes, who runs the Lofoten Polar Light Centre in Lofoten, Norway said the CME's arrival Tuesday had produced a surge in ground currents outside his laboratory.

"This could be a happy day for many aurora watchers," he told aurora tracker websitespaceweather.com

Megaquake Warning Issued For US-Mexican Pacific Coast

Megaquake Warning Issued For US-Mexican Pacific Coast

A disturbing report prepared by the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) in Moscow that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Chiapas region of Mexico yesterday is a ‘potential precursor’ to a ‘megaquake’ of at least 7.5-8.3 expected to hit the US-Mexican Pacific coastline within the next fortnight (+/- 7 days).

According to this IPE report, concerns were raised about this region after a 4.1 magnitude earthquakehit the Mexican Baja California peninsula on 18 January and emitted in the “4.433–4.498 micrometre range” “extreme” atmospheric temperature variations normally not associated with such a quake and that was verified yesterday as occurring again in Chiapas.

Important to note about this region, this IPE report says, fears were heightened after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit on 4 April 2010 and was the first big earthquake to occur on this particular fault system since 1892, links Mexico’s seismic zone to California’s massive fault system, and points to a“reawakening” of this areas potential for catastrophic seismic/volcanic occurrences.

Equally important to note are that extreme and/or rapid heating of the atmosphere above earthquake zones is now believed to be an accurate predictor of major earthquake activity as was documented prior the Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 when before the 11 March quake struck the total electron content in a part of the upper atmosphere, called the ionosphere, increased dramatically over the earthquake's epicentre, reaching a maximum three days before the quake struck.

This IPE report further states that their conclusions have been confirmed by their using the latest information obtained from the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satelliteoperated by NASA and available for viewing [Note: this is a high-level US government site that utilizes keystroke monitoring] by the international scientific community.

IPE scientists and their British counterparts are among the world’s top earthquake experts utilizing this type of date and are currently working on the TwinSat Project that will put one micro-sized and one nano-sized satellite into low earth orbit some 400 kilometers apart, which will work in unison to collect and interpret electromagnetic signatures from the ground to predict earthquakes.

In our analyzing news coming from this region that could further substantiate this IPE report we came upon a 4 January report ascribed to Mexican communication giant Conciencia Radio® that, in part, says:

“Conciencia Radio is currently conducting an investigation on something massive that occurred in the port town of Ensenada, Baja California Mexico. In or around August 2011, a very big secret meeting took place among the scientific elite at the number one scientific research center in Mexico known as the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE).

 This preliminary report, not be published as of yet, is being developed to ascertain why prominent scientists from different parts of the world that work at CICESE have decided to suddenly relocate or flee from the Baja California peninsula due to an impending geophysical event of great magnitude.

We spoke a series of anonymous sources. Among them a woman who yesterday revealed to us what transpired at the CICESE. She and a professor of hers arrived to the CICESE to attend an astronomy workshop. When they arrived to the center, the saw that the Mexican Military had closed all vehicle access to the center. 

They thought they were removing radioactive substances that are used in the labs, which is not uncommon to see because the removal of hazardous substances such as chemicals and radioactive compounds are ascribed to the Military. Later they realized why the Military was there and it was not for this purpose but to protect important visitors that were present at the CICESE at that same moment.

The two women, who wish to remain anonymous, decided to park behind the center and ingress from the back of the facility. They parked their car on one of the hills and managed to get inside the complex. Once in, they went to the auditorium were the workshop was supposed to be held. To their surprise, the main access to the auditorium had been sealed off.

 They decided to go around the building and found an access door that led them inside. They expected very few people attending the event in question. To their surprise, the auditorium was full of people and it was not in any way related the astronomy workshop/conference that they planned to attend.

To their amazement, they saw scientists from different parts of the world having a very heated discussion over a definite problem of enormous proportions. They saw Japanese, Russian and other European nationals present at the event. They were all discussing in a very high tone of voice. They even saw things being thrown and tables being banged.

 Another source whom which we spoke to informed us that at least a top-level Cabinet member from the Calderon government attended the event as well as possibly the Governor of Baja California (the latter has not been confirmed) who was in Ensenada on that day.

The topic being discussed by the scientific elite is the fact that they now have confirmation that a huge cataclysmic geological or geophysical event is about to occur any moment now that would at least destroy the port city of Ensenada Mexico. Ensenada is located at just 68 miles south of the Tijuana/San Diego border. 

At least 300,000 people reside in Ensenada. Among other things discussed was that they leave the city as soon as possible. It has been revealed to us that in fact many of the foreign scientists working at the CICESE and other well-connected individuals in the Baja California elite have left Ensenada. Our direct source mentioned in the interview we conducted with her on January 3rd, 2012 that the antendees mentioned that they were expecting the event to occur any moment now and that they referred to it as a "geophysical event".

To if the final outcome of this report will be as the IPE scientists predict it is now in our knowing, other than to mention that as global natural disasters cost our world $109 billion in 2010, and rose to$366 billion in 2011, the trending line of catastrophes hitting our world is, most assuredly, not going in the direction anyone would choose.


Tags : Megaquake,2012,IPE Report,

Bunyi Misteri Dari Langit... Petanda Apa ?

Oleh : Mohd Ezli Mashut

Masyarakat di beberapa buah negara dunia gempar dengan berita mendengar bunyi yang dianggap 'misteri' dan tidak diketahui puncanya sehingga mendapat liputan antarabangsa.

Kejadian yang dianggap aneh itu turut berlaku di Kota Samarahan Sarawak pada antara tarikh 11 Januari dan 12 Januari lepas dan turut dirakamkan penduduk serta dimuat naik ke laman youtube dan blog.

Malahan kejadian di Samarahan  itu juga turut dilaporkan oleh Borneo Post pada 15 Januari yang terus mendapat perhatian blog-blog antarabangsa yang dianggap kejadian unik dan menimbulkan pelbagai persoalan.

Untuk rekod kejadian bunyi misteri itu juga turut dilaporkan berlaku di beberapa buah dunia seperti :

Budapest Hungary January 11,2012

Conklin, Alberta January 12, 2012

Czech Republic January 12, 2012

Southern Sweden January 12, 2012

January 17, 2012, ‘Strange’ Noise Videos

Nottingham England 2012

Boulder,Colorado 01/17/2012

Nîmes – FRANCE (17/01/2012)

London UK - 17/01/12



Kawasan yang mendakwa mendengar bunyi misteri di seluruh dunia

The Borneo Post sebelum ini melaporkan satu bunyi aneh telah kedengaran di Kampung Meranek, Kota Samarahan yang menimbulkan suasana ketakutan dan kegelisahan penduduk berhubung kejadian tersebut.

Tidak lama selepas bunyi itu kedengaran, satu kejadian gempa bumi kuat (7.3 skala Richter) berlaku di Sumatera, Indonesia.

Namun kaitan hubungan antara bunyi misteri dan gempa bumi di Sumatera itu tidak dapat disahkan.

Justeru beberapa teori dikemukan bagi menjelaskan kejadian itu.

Sejak kemunculan kejadian misteri itu,di alam siber turut mencuri perhatian dengan laporan dan ulasan berkenaan kejadian itu.

Ada yang berpendapat ia juga disebabkan oleh Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) dan juga kejadian sedemikian sengaja dicetuskan untuk sebagai 'hoax' atau gurauan.

Beberapa pihak yang mendakwa berjaya merakamkan kejadian tersebut juga mengambil peluang memuat naik video tersebut sehingga berjaya menarik minat masyarakat dunia.

Malahan trending bagi kejadian itu turut naik mendadak sejak kejadian itu dilaporkan di laman sesawang.

Sehingga kini masih belum ada penjelasan saintifik dan kukuh dikemukan bagi penjelasan fenomena kejadian tersebut.

Projek Senjata Perubahan Cuaca HAARP ?

Antaranya, ia didakwa projek rahsia kerajaan Amerika Syarikat dalam memanipulasi sistem cuaca melalui projek HAARP atau singkatan kepada High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme.

Projek HAARP didakwa berselindung aktiviti saintifik namun ia merupakan senjata baharu yang direka mampu mencetuskan gempa bumi,ribut taufan dan juga perubahan iklim mendadak yang boleh mencetuskan bencana dan kemusnahan kepada sesebuah negara.

Tapak projek ini berada di koordinat (62 ° 23'30 "N 145 ° 09'03" W) Utara Gakona, Alaska di barat Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park.

Malahan semasa gempa bumi dan tsunami yang melanda Jepun pada 11 Mac 2011 lepas, ada beberapa laman portal mendakwa HAARP adalah pencetus kepada kejadian bencana ini yang menyebabkan gempa 9.0 skala richter dan menyebabkan berlakunya tsunami sehingga mengorbankan lebih 20,000 nyawa.

HAARP juga didakwa mencetuskan kejadian perubahan iklim drastik seperti kejadian banjir dahsyat yang melanda negara-negara pengeluar makanan dunia dan juga mencetuskan taufan yang membadai beberapa negara pesisir pantai.

Kejadian di Sarawak

Kejadian bunyi dengkuran kuat diselang-seli bunyi nyaring frekuensi radio yang berlaku di Kota Samarahan, Sarawak pada malam 11 dan 12 Januari lalu menggegarkan banyak kampung sekitar dan terus menjadi misteri hingga kini.

Salah seorang saksi, guru, Mohammad Ferdauz Jumain, 28, berasal dari Kampung Meranek menceritakan semula detik tersebut berkata, dia terjaga pada jam tiga pagi kerana gangguan bunyi misteri tersebut yang terlalu kuat.

Dia berkata, bunyi itu seolah-olah bunyi dengkuran dari kaki langit namun tidak mengetahui dari mana puncanya.

“Pada mulanya, saya tidak mengesyaki apa-apa pun, tetapi semakin lama bunyi tersebut semakin kuat. Saya mengejutkan ibu dan ayah, kami terus tertanya-tanya bunyi apa itu. Saya juga sempat menghubungi dan menghantar SMS kepada beberapa kawan terdekat, mereka juga terdengar bunyi yang sama.

“Semakin pelik dengan bunyi itu, saya dan ayah mengambil keputusan memeriksa di luar rumah tetapi kami terkejut kerana bunyi itu dari tempat yang jauh, jiran-jiran saya yang lain pun terjaga,” katanya kepada Sinar Harian semalam.

Ayahnya, Jumain Abang, 69, penduduk asal Kota Samarahan menjelaskan, sepanjang hayat itulah kali pertama dia terdengar bunyi dengkuran yang amat kuat dari langit.

“Kita hanya boleh berdoa kepada ALLAH semoga segalanya selamat dan tidak berlaku apa-apa, mungkin bunyi itu boleh dijelaskan oleh mereka yang pakar,” katanya.

Ditanya mengenai dakwaan beberapa pihak yang mengatakan bunyi tersebut berpunca dari kilang kelapa sawit berdekatan, Ferdauz menafikan dakwaan itu kerana bunyi enjin memproses kelapa sawit tidak mungkin didengari sehingga ke Kampung Muara Tuang yang sejauh 10 kilometer.

Katanya lagi, pada malam pertama kejadian, jiran sekeliling keluar beramai-ramai dari rumah kerana berasa amat pelik di samping perasaan yang takut dan panik.

“Pada malam kedua (12 Januari) saya dan penduduk sekitar Samarahan sudah bersedia untuk merakamkan kejadian tersebut dan Alhamdulillah kami berjaya merakamnya,” katanya.

Jurutera komputer, Mohd Adzil Yusuf, 28, yang tinggal di Desa Ilmu, kira-kira tiga kilometer dari Kampung Meranek turut mendengar bunyi tersebut namun tidak mengesyaki apa-apa pada mulanya.

“Selepas kejadian malam pertama kecoh, saya mengambil keputusan untuk memeriksa sendiri kilang kelapa sawit yang dikatakan punca bunyi itu, namun saya dapati kilang itu tidak mengeluarkan bunyi apa pun,” katanya.

Petanda Akan Berlaku Sesuatu ?

Masyarakat tidak perlu panik dengan kejadian misteri tersebut namun perlu menjadikan kejadian tersebut sebagai iktibar dan berfikiran positif bahawa Allah berkuasa menjadikan sesuatu perkara.

Kita sewajarnya muhasabah diri dan memperbaiki serta meningkatkan iman dan taqwa kerana itu yang sepatutnya dilakukan bukan sekadar kagum dengan sesuatu kejadian tetapi tidak mengambil pengajaran dan refleksi diri sendiri.

Pada Jam 8.30 pagi Jumaat pada 20 Januari 2012 di langit sekitar Sekinchan dan Tanjong Karang, saya merakamkan imej biasan cahaya matahari yang membentuk biasan seperti pelangi.

Apakah ini petanda dalam masa beberapa hari akan berlaku perubahan iklim seperti hujan dan lebat.

Sehingga berita ini ditulis pada 22 Januari 2012, memang berlaku hujan lebat yang luar biasa berlaku di sekitar Selangor.

Saya merujuk kepada beberapa laman web antarabangsa yang ada cuba mengaitkan fenomena itu disebabkan oleh HAARP. Namun saya membuka persoalan ini kepada umum apakah ia mempunyai kaitan dengan perubahan iklim yang dialami di Malaysia pada mutakhir ini.

Apakah memang benar kini senjata HAARP dihalakan ke arah Malaysia untuk mencetuskan perubahan iklim seperti hujan lebat luar biasa dan lain-lain ?

Allah Maha Mengetahui dan Maha Berkuasa.

Saya hanya membuat andaian berdasarkan kepada kajian yang saya perolehi setakat ini. Jika ada maklumat baharu,saya akan kemaskini dari masa ke semasa.

Gambar : Imej yang diperolehi dari google...yang berlaku di luar negara.


Anda boleh buat kajian lanjut.

Tingkat 29 Bangunan Dalam Pembinaan di KL Sentral Terbakar

KUALA LUMPUR: Sebuah bangunan yang masih dalam pembinaan di KL Sentral, di sini terbakar dalam kejadian awal pagi.

Kejadian dipercayai berlaku di Tingkat 29 bangunan blok komersial dan pejabat berkenaan kira kira jam 3 pagi tadi.

Kerja-kerja memadamkan kebakaran sedang giat dijalankan, selain mengenal pasti punca sebenar kejadian. 

Belum dapat dipastikan ada kecederan atau kemalangan jiwa dalam kejadian itu.

Sementara itu, Timbalan Pengarah Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Kuala Lumpur, Azizan Ismail, berkata pihaknya menerima panggilan kecemasan jam 3.53 pagi mengenai kebakaran bangunan di alamat 348 Sentral berhampiran Little India, Brickfields.

"Kebakaran bermula di tingkat 30 di bangunan 33 tingkat itu yang pembinaannya dijadual siap penghujung tahun ini," katanya. 
Katanya, sebanyak 10 jentera pemadan dengan 72 anggota bomba dikejarkan ke tempat kejadian.

Polis turut berada di tempat kejadian bagi mengawal lalu lintas bagi memastikan tiada kesesakan berikutan penutupan beberapa jalan menuju ke KL Sentral dan Brickfields.

KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Jan — Sebuah bangunan yang masih dalam pembinaan berhampiran KL Sentral terbakar kira-kira pukul 4 pagi tadi, mengakibatkan jalan masuk ke KL Sentral dan Jalan Brickfield ditutup kepada lalu lintas.

Kebakaran bermula di tingkat atas bangunan berkenaan dan asap kebakaran boleh dilihat dalam jarak beberapa kilometer.

“Bangunan dekat KL Sentral terbakar menyebabkan kesesakan lalu lintas teruk di semua arah. Kebakaran tidak dapat dikawal kerana terlalu tinggi. Lebih baik duduk di rumah,” tweet Aimi Abdullah Aimi Abdullah @dorkscotch

“Jalan masuk ke KL Sentral ditutup kerana sebuah tapak pembinaan terbakar,” tweet Jonathan Mah @jonmah.

“Saya boleh nampak sebuah bangunan terbakar di KL Sentral dari rumah saya,” kata satu lagi tweet daripada @angelinebabyy.

“Mengambil teman lelaki untuk ke KL Sentral, kami terperangkap dalam satu kebakaran di sebuah bangunan berdekatan KL Sentral,” kata @ATM2U.

“348 Sentral, bangunan dalam pembinaan di sebelah KL Sentral terbakar. Jalan Brickfield ditutup,” kata tweet KL Traffic Update @kltrafficupdate.

Menurut jurucakap Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat, kebakaran bermula di tingkat 29 bangunan berkenaan.

“Sepuluh kereta bomba dan 72 anggota dikejarkan ke tempat kejadian selepas menerima satu panggilan kecemasan pada pukul 3.55 pagi,” katanya.

Sehingga pukul 7.30 pagi tadi, anggota bomba masih berusaha memadamkan kebakaran.

Jalan Tun Sambanthan ditutup sehingga jam 12 tengah hari 


2012/01/18

KUALA LUMPUR: Jalan Tun Sambanthan akan ditutup sehingga jam 12 tengah hari ini bagi memudahkan anggota bomba melakukan aktiviti pemadaman secara menyeluruh selepas sebuah bangunan yang masih dalam pembinaan di KL Sentral, di sini terbakar dalam kejadian awal pagi. 

Timbalan Pengarah Bomba Kuala Lumpur, Azizan Ismail berkata demikian ketika mengulas mengenai kejadian berkenaan.

Dalam kejadian berkenaan, struktur asas binaan daripada kayu mengakibatkan kebakaran sukar dikawal.

Azizan berkata, kebakaran dapat dikawal sepenuhnya kira-kira jam 8 pagi tadi.