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EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale - 03 - 11 - 2011

EARTHQUAKE IN NEW ZEALAND measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale 08-16 - 2013

THIS IS THE NORMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF HEARTH

CAN YOU SEE ANY DIFERENCE?

Think about this!

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook New Zealand on Friday. At least six aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or stronger were also felt. Some homes and roads were damaged.

LATEST: A large quake, felt through Manawatu, cut power in Hunterville, saw people evacuated from buildings and briefly closed the Palmerston North District Court. The Capital Connection train service from Wellington to Palmerston North has been cancelled with no bus replacements. Passengers have been asked to make their own arrangements to get home. Lifts at Palmerston North's Library stopped as they are programmed to during the earthquake. Maintenance crews were working this afternoon to get them restarted. Following this afternoon's quakes, central-city workers in Palmerston North rushed to The Square with many requiring a stress-relieving cigarette break following the quake. It measured 6.6, located 10km south east of Seddon at a depth of 8km at 2.31pm and was then followed by a 5.7 rattler at 3.52pm. Initial reports said the earliest quake was magnitude 6.9 and then 6.2. POWER CUT TO HUNTERVILLE A series of quakes including some centred in the Rangitikei region has cut power to Hunterville. PowerCo reported the fault with an estimated fix time of 6pm tonight. Within half an hour of the major quake, a shallow 4.2 magnitude earthquake also shook Hunterville. The quake was centred 35km south of Turangi. It struck at 2.57pm at a depth of 6km. A 3.8 magnitude quake also struck at 3.06pm, at a depth of 11km, 10km south of Ohakune. Then at 3.09pm, a "severe" quake hit km north of Taihape. It was a 4.9 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 13km, Geonet says. A further aftershock was reported by Geonet near Levin at 3.27pm. The 4.5 magnitude shake was centered 10km north-east of the Horowhenua at a depth of 29km. READ MORE

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Sun’s Magnetic Field About to Flip

NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Lika Guhathakurta on why the sun’s magnetic field is about to flip and what it means for earth.

Nasa Breaking News:Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Scientists say U.S. observatories are providing evidence something big is about to happen on the sun -- a complete reversal of its magnetic field.
"It looks like we're no more than three to four months away from a complete field reversal," solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University said in a release from NASA. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system."
The sun's magnetic field changes its North-South polarity about every 11 years at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself, scientists said.
The imminent reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24, as half of the solar max" will be behind us with half yet to come, they said.
Stanford's Wilcox Solar Observatory, headed by Hoeksema, is one of the few observatories in the world that monitors the sun's polar magnetic fields.
Instruments at the observatory have been tracking the sun's polar magnetism since 1976, and have recorded three reversals in that time -- soon to be four.
"The sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, go to zero and then emerge again with the opposite polarity," Staford solar physicist Pill Scherrer explained. "This is a regular part of the solar cycle."
This time, however, the sun's two hemispheres are temporarily out of sync, he said.
"The sun's north pole has already changed sign, while the south pole is racing to catch up," Scherrer said. "Soon, however, both poles will be reversed, and the second half of solar max will be underway."