Monster Geomagnetic field reveals increasing danger of ‘DEVESTATOR’ quakes

This reminds me of some silly plot from a sci-fi B movie, something weird is happening deep underground where the constant spin of Earth’s liquid metallic core generates an invisible magnetic force field that shields our planet from harmful radiation in space. Gradually, the field is growing weaker and beneath the surface is changing Earth’s protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy radiation. Could we be heading for a demagnetized doomsday that will leave us defenseless against the lethal effects of solar wind and cosmic rays?

One thing is true. The geomagnetic anomalies has increased the last ten twenty years. Magnetic field associated with the Earth is essentially dipolar it has two poles, the northern and southern magnetic poles on the Earth’s surface. Away from the surface, the field becomes distorted. Most geomagnetist`s explain the field by means of dynamo theories, whereby a source of energy in the Earth’s core causes a self-sustaining magnetic field. In the dynamo theories, fluid motion in the Earth’s core involves the movement of conducting material within an existing magnetic field, thus creating a current and a self-enforcing field. Magnetism is a property of the atom itself. Ultimately, the magnetic properties of matter are determined by the collective behavior of the negatively charged electrons that orbit the nuclei of atoms. The magnetic dipole moment (or magnetic field) of an individual electron has two components, one resulting from the spin of the electron about its own axis, the other from its orbital motion about the nucleus. Both kinds of motion may be considered as tiny circular currents “moving charges”, who`s linking electricity and magnetism at an atomic level. Earth’s geomagnetic field makes the compass work and protects the biosphere from cosmic radiation. The field has existed at least three billion years, although it fluctuates in strength and at times reverses polarity. When the field strength drops too low, life on Earth is imperiled by radiation. Substantial changes in the field happen as quickly as within only a thousand years at times, although stable periods of hundreds of thousands of years also occur. Temperature patterns within the lower mantle influence both the stability and intensity of the field. Complete geomagnetic reversals on average occur every 200 thousand years– but the last one was 780,000 years ago. Massive changes in or on the Earth, including extinction events, follow a 26.6 million to 30 million year cycle over the last 250 million years. The solar system crosses the relatively dense galactic plane every 30 million years.

Earth’s Magnetosphere

If we listen to Russian geophysicist Pogrebnikov concurs with his colleagues at Harvard and Stanford: the earth may be in for a hell of a time. Imagine events just short of doomsday and you’ll have a small glimpse of the global catastrophes that may lie just ahead. Some scientists have seen this future and that future is damn scary. The former geologist Jim Berkland “whom i wrote about earlier this week”, also “sees the future” on a regular basis, at least as far as earthquakes are concerned. He watches the geomagnetic field by watching aberrations in animals: odd actions, bizarre events, eerie mass deaths. And the world’s animals are self-destructing in swarms, hordes, flocks. The magnetite embedded in many animal’s brains make them sensitive to changes in the magnetic field. When that field is disrupted, some animals go mad. They get lost. Whales beach themselves. Birds desperately soar in confused flight and crash into each other, the ground and buildings. Sometimes they just fall from the sky and die. Berkland, a former USGS scientist has an 80 percent success rate predicting significant earthquakes. That’s the best in the world and no one else comes close to that record. Geomagnetic field hints at what earth’s core is doing. The earth’s history is one of violence. The oceans, the mountains, the great plains and savannas were all created by titanic forces that make the March 2011 Japanese earthquake look like a gentle rumble by comparison. Awesome forces driven by a shifting core thrust up the mighty Andes from the bottom of the sea, changed the icecaps, formed coastlines and sunk whole island chains. As the core stresses, compresses, spins and writhes its internal tortures are evident in the changes of the warping magnetic field. That field is also stressed by interaction with the sun’s influence on the earth within the magnetosphere. A delicate tug-of-war over the eons creates a dance of life and death.

As the core shifts and the erratic geomagnetic field moves towards reversal, evidence mounts that studies such as “Ultralow-Frequency Magnetic Fields Preceding Large Earthquakes” by Antony C. Fraser-Smith of Stanford University and Harvard’s “Statistical relationship of strong earthquakes with planetary geomagnetic field activity” reveal the increasing possibility that massive, ‘continent killing’ super-quakes will reshape the current maps of the world. Geodynamo creates earth’s magnetic field The mighty currents of molten rock, under intense pressure, boil beneath the crust creating earthquakes, volcanoes and continental drift. It is also the geodynamo that creates the earth’s magnetic field and the interaction with the solar magnetosphere can initiate plate drift, tensions and the massive buckling and shearing between the plates called faults. The movement along the fault lines is called an earthquake. Geomagnetic flux, often a precursor to mighty quakes, is sometimes accompanied by strange harmonics: people see colors dancing in the sky or hear what sounds like discordant music. Then the earth moves and like a giant, invisible hand changes the lands and seas. The growing aberrations of the magnetic field and the increasing level activity of the sun is symptomatic of the change in the earth’s core. A dangerous change. An uncontrollable change. A change that is leading to the possibility of greater and greater disasters.

The core is restless now so be prepared…

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Breaking News: British Geological Survey – Pole Shift Forthcoming

It seems now like it is going to happen. Yes! a pole shift. The Earth’s geomagnetic field is well known to anyone who’s ever used a compass. Such usage is typically on the surface of the earth, but it must be noted that the geomagnetic field permeates the planet itself and extends outward into space. At the surface of the Earth the field is proven by the behavior of the magnetite material, such as bar magnets, which when suspended and free to rotate, align themselves with the geomagnetic field. By theory and observation the magnetic field is believed to extend deep into the Earth, through the Earth’s mantle and into its outer core of what is believed to be molten iron.

The field also extends into space where it surrounds the Earth in what is termed a magnetosphere of which the Van Allen Belts are a part of. The first of these beliefs is that the Earth will actually tilt on its axis, as stated in the readings of Edgar Cayce and numerous other psychics. Look at it and compare it like the skin of an orange that is sliding round the fruit inside, and the crust of the Earth is predicted to move accordingly. And there is some evidence to support this: For example, the poles, over time, can make the planet “top heavy” with the accumulation of ice and thus, in conjunction with the natural wobble in the rotation of the Earth, combine with this to tip the axis over. Perhaps this would explain the Mammoths found in Siberia with frozen daisies in their mouths, and dead in their step. This could be an essential part of the ongoing Earth Changes that are preparing us for our great change. And now a British geological survey suggest just this.

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is known to be growing in extent and spreading westwards from South Africa, as the Earth’s internal magnetic field rapidly weakens in this region. This may be early evidence of a forthcoming reversal in the direction of the Earth’s internal magnetic field. We do not know in detail precisely what occurs during such reversals, including the changes observed in the magnetic field and the time a reversal takes to complete. However these factors are important in knowing where the radiation risk may be increased and how the atmosphere might respond.

Earth’s magnetic field has had many highs, lows and reversals in its past. The last reversal was around 800,000 years ago. So the Earth is known to be able to re-generate its field and has done so during human prehistory. Understanding the development of the SAA may therefore be significant in understanding the reversal process and its impact on life and the natural environment.

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2012 Solar Peak Will Be Severe – NASA Scientists Explains

Yet another report that points to very serious happenings to come around 2012. At a recent press conference, NASA scientists explained that while they previously thought that more solar particles (radiation) entered Earth’s magnetosphere when the sun’s field was oriented southward, in turns out the exact opposite is true. Essentially our planet’s magnetic shield is at its strongest when scientists had thought it would be at its weakest. And vice-versa. Our shields will be down in 2012 – the next solar maximum – when NASA scientists figured they would be up. While this will alter calculations regarding the consequences of the next peak, all that has changed is our understanding. The Sun will keep peaking every 11 years, as it appears to have done historically.

Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms. The leaks are defying many of scientists’ previous ideas on how the interaction between Earth’s magnetosphere and solar wind occurs: The leaks are in an unexpected location, let in solar particles in faster than expected and the whole interaction works in a manner that is completely the opposite of what scientists had thought. The findings have implications for how solar storms affect the our planet. Serious storms, which involved charged particles spewing from the sun, can disable satellites and even disrupt power grids on Earth.

The new observations “overturn the way that we understand how the sun’s magnetic field interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field,” said David Sibeck of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., during a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The bottom line: When the next peak of solar activity comes, in about 1.5 years, electrical systems on Earth and satellites in space will be very vulnerable.

How it works

Earth’s magnetic field carves out a cavity in the sun’s onrushing field. The Earth’s magnetosphere is thus “buffeted like a wind sock in gale force winds, fluttering back and forth in the” solar wind, Sibeck explained. Both the sun’s magnetic field and the Earth’s magnetic field can be oriented northward or southward (Earth’s magnetic field is often described as a giant bar magnet in space). The sun’s magnetic field shifts its orientation frequently, sometimes becoming aligned with the Earth, sometime becoming anti-aligned. Scientists had thought that more solar particles entered Earth’s magnetosphere when the sun’s field was oriented southward (anti-aligned to the Earth’s), but the opposite turned out to be the case, the new research shows. The work was sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation and based on observations by NASA’s THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) satellite.

How many and where

Essentially, the Earth’s magnetic shield is at its strongest when scientists had thought it would be at its weakest. When the fields aren’t aligned, “the shield is up and very few particles come in,” said physicist Jimmy Raeder of the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Conversely, when the fields are aligned, it creates “a huge breach, and there’s lots and lots of particles coming in,” Raeder added, at the news conference. As it orbited Earth, THEMIS’s five spacecraft were able to estimate the thickness of the band of solar particles coming when the fields were aligned — it turned out to be about 20 times the number that got in when the fields were anti-aligned.

THEMIS was able to make these measurements as it moved through the band, with two spacecraft on different borders of the band; the band turned out to be one Earth radius thick, or about 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers). Measurements of the thickness taken later showed that the band was also rapidly growing. “So this really changes our understanding of solar wind-magnetosphere coupling,” said physicist Marit Oieroset of the University of California, Berkeley, also at the press conference. And while the interaction of anti-aligned particles occurs at Earth’s equator, those of aligned particles occur at higher latitudes both north and south of the equator. The interaction is “appending blobs of plasma onto the Earth’s magnetic field,” which is an easy way to get the solar particles in, said Sibeck, a THEMIS project scientist.

Next solar cycle

This finding not only has implications for scientists’ understanding of the interaction between the sun and Earth’s magnetosphere, but for predicting the effects to Earth during the next peak in the solar cycle. The Sun operates on an 11-year cycle, alternating between active and quiet periods. We are currently in a quiet period, with few sunspots on the sun’s surface and fewer solar flares, though the next cycle of activity has begun. It is expected to peak around Dec 2012, bringing lots of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs can interact with the Earth’s magnetosphere, causing problems for satellites, communications, and power grids and may effect earths magnetic shield.

This upcoming active period now looks like it will be more intense than the previous one, which peaked around 2006, some scientists think.
The reason is the changes in the sun’s alignment in the center of the galaxy. During the last peak, solar fields hitting the Earth were first anti-aligned then aligned. Anti-aligned fields can energize particles, but in this case, the energy came before the particles themselves, which doesn’t create much of a fuss in terms of geomagnetic storms and disruptions. But the next cycle will see aligned, then anti-aligned fields, in theory amplifying the effects of the storms as they hit. Raeder likens the difference to igniting a gas stove one of two ways: In the first way, the gas is turned on and the stove is lit and you get a flame. In the other way, you let the gas run for awhile, so that when you add the gas you get a much bigger boom.

“It should be that we’re in for a very tough time in Dec 2012 and the next 11 years to come after that,” Sibeck said.

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