Several months ago I presented the first of the Melchizedek Prophecies in the Coltons Point Times and the articles continue to gain interest and support. An earlier article titled Earth's Weather Anomalies - Are there Dark Clouds on the Horizon?
Here are links to all previous Melchizedek articles.
The Melchizedek Teachings
and Prophecy
Conversations with Melchizedek – Where is the Truth in Weather
reporting?
Conversations with Melchizedek – Natural Disasters Reclaim the
World for Mother Earth
Conversations with Melchizedek – Suppose Divine Intervention
wiped out the Internet – could you survive?
Conversations with Melchizedek - Who is the mysterious Biblical
person?
Conversations with Melchizedek - Earth's Weather Anomalies - Are
there Dark Clouds on the Horizon?
Conversations with Melchizedek - Knowledge and Wisdom, what is
the difference?
Conversations with Melchizedek - Time to Listen to Mother Earth
- We are Running Out of Time
Conversations with Melchizedek - The Ascension of Jesus of
Nazareth
Conversations with Melchizedek - The Meaning of Lent and Holy
Week
Massive
earthquake rocks Mexico
Yahoo
News Photo Staff
Massive earthquake rocks
Mexico
People react on a street
in downtown Mexico City during an earthquake, on September 7, 2017.
An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 struck southern Mexico late Thursday and was felt as far away as Mexico City, the US Geological Survey said, issuing a tsunami warning. It hit offshore 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of the town of Tres Picos in the state of Chiapas.
(Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)
Mexico’s
president says that the magnitude of the earthquake that hit the country is
8.2, the biggest the country has seen in a century.
Enrique
Pena Nieto confirmed that at least five people have died in the temblor. He
also said that major damage has been caused and that 1 million initially had
been without power following the quake, but that electricity had been restored
to 800,000 of them.
He
said that there have been 62 aftershocks and it’s possible one as strong as 7.2
could hit.
The
U.S. Geological Survey has reported that the quake had a magnitude of 8.1. It
hit off the coast of southern Mexico, toppling houses in Chiapas state, causing
buildings to sway violently as far away as the country’s distant capital and
setting off a tsunami warning. (AP)
Here are photos of the worst earthquake to ever hit Mexico in 1985.
Science
Massive
Sunspots and Solar Flares: The Sun Has Gone Wrong and Scientists Don't Know Why
If
you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time
to slap them on and look up at the sun. You’ll see two big dark areas visible
on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated
magnetic fields that can produce solar flares—bursts of high-energy radiation.
You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they’re better
viewed through a solar telescope.
These
two huge sunspots are currently causing quite a bit of consternation and
interest. The solar storms they’ve sent toward Earth may affect communications
and other technologies like GPS and radio signals. They’re causing
amazing displays of the Northern and Southern Lights. And space weather
scientists like us are excited because we wouldn’t normally expect this much
activity from the sun at the moment.
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The
sun goes through 11-year cycles of solar activity. What scientists call a solar
maximum is the time in the cycle when the sun is putting out the most energy.
That’s when we tend to see the most sunspots, solar flares and associated solar
storms. Some solar maxima are larger or more active than others—such as the
1990-1991 solar max. But this last cycle, which peaked in 2014, was quite
small,
and there were few large geomagnetic storms.
We’re
heading into the bottom of solar minimum, when the sun tends to have fewer
sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections—large expulsions of plasma, electrons and ions, and magnetic
fields.
But despite where we are in the sun’s cycle, activity on the sun has
dramatically picked up over the past few days. On and off, these two sunspots
have been flaring and shooting out coronal mass ejections, directed toward
Earth.
So
what’s going on with the sun? And should we be concerned about this somewhat
out-of-character solar behavior?
Here’s
what’s happened so far
Huge solar flare recorded by NASA on
September 6. NASA/GSFC/SDO
On
September 4, the sun started sputtering. A moderately large flare (classified as an M5.5) erupted at approximately 18:30 UTC. It
produced a coronal mass ejection aimed at Earth.
The
sun continued to flare on September 5. A solar
energetic particle event
from the previous day’s activity arrived at the Earth, where it likely affected
radio communications as well as the health of satellite systems.
On
September 6, the sun produced two massive X-Class flares. This is the category for the strongest of
all solar flares. NASA announced one was the most powerful since at least 2008. It produced another coronal mass ejection.
The second and
strongest of the two X-class flares on September 6 produced a coronal mass
ejection directed at Earth.NOAA
Over the next day, the same sunspots continued to spit out more solar flares. It took about an hour for the solar energetic particles they emitted to arrive at Earth. These protons are incredibly fast-moving. They can affect communication systems, typically in the polar regions where they are more likely to enter into the Earth’s atmosphere. As with all increases of radiation in space, they can also affect satellite systems and the health of astronauts.
Early
in the morning hours of September 7 in the U.S., that first coronal mass
ejection that erupted from the sun three days earlier arrived at Earth. Because
of the way its magnetic field aligned with Earth’s, it generated only a small geomagnetic storm.
After
being detected by spacecraft upstream from Earth in the solar wind, the massive
coronal mass ejection from September 6 also hit Earth on the evening of
September 7 EDT. Its arrival was a few hours earlier than space weather forecasting agencies around the world
predicted.
What
other effects will Earth see?
Both sunspots
are visible on the sun’s surface, as well as the flare in the solar
atmosphere. NASA/GSFC/SDO
All this solar activity has
already caused a couple of radiation storms in Earth’s high latitude regions
that blacked out radio communication at certain
frequencies. The impacts extended toward the equator and have affected
high-frequency communications, including ham radios, which are used in
emergency and disaster relief management. Radio fade-out maps from the Australian
Bureau of Meteorology show
that high-frequency radio communication disruptions have likely occurred
in the same areas being pummeled by Hurricane Irma.
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There
has likely been a loss of global navigation system satellite communications in those same areas,
but it will take time for the data to be analyzed and for us to gain a full
understanding of how this space weather activity has affected those on the
ground. The radiation storms may also force flights over the polar
regions to reroute to avoid increased radiation exposures for people on board
and potential loss of communication and navigation systems for aircraft on
these paths.
Northern Lights
in the Arctic Circle, on September 5. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
With
the collision of the coronal mass ejection from this X-Class flare with Earth
come other impacts for the near-Earth space environment. Geomagnetic storms, like the one currently in progress, are
known to wreak havoc on a range of satellite and ground-based communication
technologies, as well as power grids, GPS/GNSS, and orbit predictions of
satellites and space debris. It is also very likely to produce dazzling aurora
activity as far south as the northern U.S. and Europe in the Northern
Hemisphere, and as far north as southern Australia and New Zealand in the
Southern Hemisphere.
While
scientists and aurora-hunting enthusiasts closely watch the storm’s ongoing
effects, others will be bracing for problems and disruptions to the many
technological services that will be affected.
We
don’t need to worry about this coronal mass ejection being “the big one”—a
solar storm direct hit that could cause widespread power blackouts and
trigger as much as $2 trillion worth of damage, according to a National
Academy of Sciences study. But this storm, on the back of this month’s
abnormally active space weather, may wind up on the larger end of the scale,
and will be the subject of lots of analysis and research.
Images of the
sun during solar cycle 23. You typically see more activity during a solar
maximum (2001) than during a minimum (1996 or 2006). ESA&NASA/SoHO
We
don’t yet fully understand everything that is happening. But the activity over
the past few days, when the sun should be within its quietest period, shows
that significant space weather events are possible at any stage of the 11-year
solar cycle.
You
can help us study this and other solar storms as a citizen scientist. Sign up
for Aurorasaurus and let
us know if you observe aurorae with this event.
Alexa Halford is a researcher in Physics and
Astronomy at Dartmouth College; Brett Carter is senior research fellow at RMIT University, and Julie Currie is research officer at RMIT University, Australia.
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