Friday, March 19, 2010

Cave Editor's Friday Evening Update - March 19, 2010


Friday Evening - March 19, 2010

Saturday marks vernal equinox

Saturday is the vernal equinox, the day on which the north and south poles of the earth are equal distances from the sun (92.6 million miles).

At 10:34 a.m. PT Saturday, the sun will stand directly over the Earth's equator. The first day of spring is called the "vernal equinox," vernal meaning green and equinox meaning equal night — on the equinox the hours of daylight are nearly equal to the hours of night.

The 12 hours of both day and night actually occurs a few days before the vernal equinox, because the earth's atmosphere causes the light from the sun to be refracted when the sun is near the horizon....





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Population of migrating monarch butterflies is lowest ever

Monarch butterflies, hit hard by strong storms at their winter home in Mexico, have dwindled to their lowest population levels in decades as they begin to return to Texas on their springtime flight back to the United States and Canada. The monarch loss is estimated at 50 to 60 percent and means that the breeding population flying northward is expected to be the smallest since the Mexican overwintering colonies were discovered in 1975.



OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE
About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html

March 19, 2010 at 5:41 PM Central Daylight Savings Time





Because of Daylight Savings Time - Animated Magnetosphere movies will now be an hour later - for the current day's movie visit my Cave Blog after 7:30pm.




MOON UPDATE
Current Moon Phase
http://www.die.net/moon/

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SUN UPDATE
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
http://solarcycle24.com/

http://spaceweather.com/
Classification of Solar Flares

Magnetic fields trigger solar wind




NASA Images Earth-Sized Objects Inside Corona Of SUN



NASA Images Earth Sized Spherical Objects Inside Corona of SUN


EARTHQUAKE UPDATES



http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html


MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km

map 2.0 2010/03/19 05:30:22 36.553N 89.782W 12.1 7 km ( 5 mi) SSE of Parma, MO


Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World


Update time = Fri Mar 19 22:29:36 UTC 2010


MAGUTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 4.9 2010/03/19 22:04:09 -38.462 -73.582 35.0 OFFSHORE ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP 2.5 2010/03/19 22:04:07 62.937 -148.066 57.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2010/03/19 21:46:24 31.368 142.245 31.5 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 20:48:48 17.621 -100.934 17.7 GUERRERO, MEXICO
MAP 4.7 2010/03/19 19:53:39 21.360 100.108 31.7 MYANMAR-CHINA BORDER REGION
MAP 4.6 2010/03/19 19:42:32 15.600 145.933 138.1 SAIPAN REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 17:57:13 -34.440 -71.655 21.2 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.7 2010/03/19 17:16:40 35.502 -118.254 3.4 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.2 2010/03/19 17:10:49 -34.395 -71.733 46.2 LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 2.5 2010/03/19 16:06:00 62.089 -147.473 18.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.0 2010/03/19 14:20:48 -33.148 -72.003 35.0 OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 4.6 2010/03/19 12:36:08 -37.211 -74.025 35.0 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 2.6 2010/03/19 12:33:49 47.099 -112.152 21.7 WESTERN MONTANA
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 11:38:39 4.042 127.071 76.5 KEPULAUAN TALAUD, INDONESIA
MAP 5.3 2010/03/19 10:50:06 -5.264 147.709 171.8 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 10:36:02 -35.464 -72.365 35.5 MAULE, CHILE
MAP 5.3 2010/03/19 09:30:40 54.483 110.236 10.0 LAKE BAYKAL REGION, RUSSIA
MAP 5.4 2010/03/19 08:54:49 -35.456 -72.846 20.5 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP 2.8 2010/03/19 07:52:24 56.741 -154.199 42.5 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.3 2010/03/19 06:54:08 50.198 151.659 332.7 NORTHWEST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.1 2010/03/19 06:25:02 18.800 -64.182 34.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.1 2010/03/19 05:09:59 64.043 -146.603 19.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2010/03/19 04:52:40 61.430 160.563 109.6 MAGADANSKAYA OBLAST', RUSSIA
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 04:07:46 52.133 142.225 35.0 SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
MAP 5.0 2010/03/19 02:55:55 -33.494 -72.123 35.0 OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 4.8 2010/03/19 00:18:31 -14.166 -74.387 101.6 CENTRAL PERU


VOLCANISM NEWS


Seventeen Indonesia volcanoes on alert

BANDUNG, Indonesia, March 19 (UPI) -- Seventeen of 18 volcanoes in Indonesia are on alert status and emitting toxic gas, a federal monitoring agency said.

The mountains are safe to visit as long as tourists stay at least a half-mile away from the gas-producing craters, Indonesia's Volcanology and Geology Hazard Mitigation Center said.

The alert status is the second level of a three-level system of warning. The Ibu volcano in West Halmahera is the only one of the 18 volcanoes at the lower No. 3 standby level, Antara news reported.

Mount Talang in Sumatra and Mount Karangetang in Sulawesi are the most recent volcanos to have their status raised to alert.

Other Indonesian volcanoes on alert include Krakatoa, Bromo, Kaba, Anak, Slamet and Lokon.

In 1883, Krakatoa erupted in an explosion equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT -- about 13,000 times the force of the U.S. bomb that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.


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IN THE NEWS:

Friday, March 19, 2010

Couple Believes They Have Underwater Photo of Natalee Holloway's Remains
The photo taken by John and Patti Muldowney of Manheim last fall was turned over to the FBI.
— FOX News

Huge V-Shaped UFO Emitted Beam At Vandenberg AFB
Retired USAF Security officer describes 1969 incident.
— Earthfiles

The predictioneer: Using games to see the future
Over the past 30 years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has made thousands of predictions about hundreds of issues.
— New Scientist

Florida Vampire to Run For President
Man claiming to be descendant of Vlad the Impaler says he's running on the GOP ticket in 2012.
— CBS News

Scientists supersize quantum mechanics
Largest ever object put into quantum state.
— Nature




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