Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Caused By "Solar Flare"

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After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity associated with our sun's regular 11-year cycle, and confirms that Solar Cycle 24 is indeed heating up, as solar experts have expected. Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.

Japanese media reported at least 1,000 people are presumed dead from Friday's massive 8.9 earthquake, most drowned by Tsunami that swept across the northeast coast of the island nation.

And its not only a coincidence that it happened exactly after 24 hours Solar flare hit Earth.

According to NASA website March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected anX1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (above) shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site.

In addition, on March 10, 2011 around 0630 UT, a CME did strike a glaceing blow to Earth's magnetic field. This was a result of an M3 flare that occurred late on March 7, 2011.

At 2,200 km/sec, this was the fasted CME since September 2005.

What is going on with all this recent solar activity?

After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity associated with our sun's regular 11-year cycle, and confirms that Solar Cycle 24 is indeed heating up, as solar experts have expected. Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.

What is a solar flare and what does X-class mean?

A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. Flares are our solar system’s largest explosive events. They are seen as bright areas on the sun and they can last from minutes to hours. We typically see a solar flare by the photons (or light) it releases, at most every wavelength of the spectrum. The primary ways we monitor flares are in x-rays and optical light. Flares are also sites where particles (electrons, protons, and heavier particles) are accelerated.

Scientists classify solar flares according to their brightness in the x-ray wavelengths. There are three categories: C, M, X, with each one representing approximately 10x more power. The number following the letter indicates another factor applied to the basic classification scheme, from 1-9. At the high end, the X class can go higher than 9 because there is no higher letter classification.

What is a coronal mass ejection (CME)?

The outer solar atmosphere, the coronal, is structured by strong magnetic fields. Where these fields are closed, often above sunspot groups, the confined solar atmosphere can suddenly and violently release bubbles of gas and magnetic fields called coronal mass ejections. A large CME can contain a billion tons of matter that can be accelerated to several million miles per hour in a spectacular explosion. Solar material streams out through the interplanetary medium, impacting any planet or spacecraft in its path. CMEs are sometimes associated with flares but can occur independently. Source : NASA

Solar Flare & Christchurch, New Zealand 6.3 earthquake February 22, 2011 :

Last month we informed our readers, solar flare storm will hit earth on February 18, 2011, which could possible cause earthquake as well. [Link]

And later on a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on February 22, 2011 and killed 400 + people and damaging buildings throughout the city. [Link]

CME/Solar flares cause Spaceqauke & Spacequake cases Earthquake :

Our February earthquake prediction was actually based on the fact that same chain of action had took place on August 3, 2010 when 6.4 Earthquake hit Papua New Guinea after an enormous magnetic filament breakingaway from the sun on august 1, 2010.

Moreover even NASA admitted on their website "spacequake can cause Northern lights and magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake".

Spacequake :

According to NASA, researchers by using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."

A spacequake is a temblor in Earth's magnetic field. It is felt most strongly in Earth orbit, but is not exclusive to space. The effects can reach all the way down to the surface of Earth itself.

"Magnetic reverberations have been detected at ground stations all around the globe, much like seismic detectors measure a large earthquake," says THEMIS principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA.

It's an apt analogy because "the total energy in a spacequake can rival that of a magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake," according to Evgeny Panov of the Space Research Institute in Austria. Panov is first author of a paper reporting the results in the April 2010 issue of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL).

In general, Earth's magnetic field lines can be thought of as rubber bands stretched taut by the solar wind, which is actually charged particles flowing in all directions from the sun, said study co-author Vassilis Angelopoulos, a space physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Source : NASA

[Ravvau]

i agree,, this was NOT HAARP induced,, not man made

giveaway is Japan and the US love each other,,, whereas in Indonesia when it happened, they were fighting in the private with the US and UN, that soon changed after the tsunami hit them,,, they miraculously pulled in line with what the UN wanted, and equally miraculously, hardly any aftershocks once they immediately agreed

Japan has not stopped having aftershocks since it happened and will have more

[Richard]

i agree,, this was NOT HAARP induced,, not man made

giveaway is Japan and the US love each other,,, whereas in Indonesia when it happened, they were fighting in the private with the US and UN, that soon changed after the tsunami hit them,,, they miraculously pulled in line with what the UN wanted, and equally miraculously, hardly any aftershocks once they immediately agreed

Japan has not stopped having aftershocks since it happened and will have more

Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees this. It just doesn't make any sense what so ever to attack a country that you're making tons of money from. The solar flare makes the most sense to me. The Mayans predicted these disasters would keep increasing as we approach the solar maximum in 2013.  This is why lots of people are building underground shelters. They know things are going to get very bad.

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The Issue Is the Rim of Fire

Anyone who is approaching the current catastrophe in Japan as a "Japan" or "nuclear" issue, is not only being idiotic, but could be outright dangerous, Lyndon LaRouche said March 14. "The problem is the Sun. The Pacific Rim of Fire has taken over."

The main culprits in this dangerous idiocy are the major Western media outlets, led, as usual, by the New York Times and leading British press. With sensational lies, virtually non-stop, they are trying to change the subject from what happened in Japan—a near-record earthquake and a massive tsunami—into an attack on nuclear power. It's not nuclear power which is a threat to civilization—it's the international press!

If these press controllers succeed in killing nuclear power and its advance, by appealing to and stirring up irrational fears, they will be responsible for murdering the very future of mankind in ways they probably don't even understand.

The nuclear plants in Japan were the victims of a process much more powerful, and much more serious, than most people can imagine. And the solution is to rapidly accelerate the science-driver programs of thermonuclear energy, and space science, which the genocidalist-run international press is trying to kill! In fact, the dominance of this anti-nuclear, genocide faction over the planet for the last 40 years, is a major factor in why mankind is not prepared for this crisis.

The crisis is known as the "Rim of Fire." LaRouche, with his LaRouchePAC Basement research team, has prepared an audio-visual documentary on the Rim of Fire, as a first step in defining the problem and the solution. What can currently be said is the following:

What mankind is facing is the activation of a rim of fire centered in the Pacific region, and all its abutting coasts. This corresponds to a period of intense solar flare activity, which is expected to last into 2013. Thus, there will be a period of high instability, during which a magnetic-field shift will be in process.

During this period the entire Pacific region, including the Pacific Coast of the American continent, is vulnerable to the effects of cosmic radiation emanating from the intense solar activity. The endangered areas include California, Chile, and Alaska, on the American side, and areas of the southern Asian-Pacific, such as Indonesia, and New Zealand, on the Asia side. California, with its known tectonic faults, is an area of particular danger.

Many scientists, of course, are well aware of the existence of what they call the Ring of Fire, a ring of intense earthquake and volcanic activity around the Pacific Rim. They are also aware of correlations between such activity and solar activity. But the political will to mobilize the kind of scientific renaissance required to address this threat, has, until now, been quashed by the British imperial financial system which dominates the globe.

The first step in solving any problem is to correctly define the problem, or ask the right questions. Thus, as LaRouche stressed, any jerk who believes in empty space, or who is complaining about nuclear power plants, is worse than useless in this situation. Don't look at Japan—look at the Solar System, and the galaxy of which it's a part. There, and only there, will it be possible to diagnose, and potentially avert, the otherwise certain doom of the Pacific Rim of Fire.

And watch the LPAC video. This is one of the rare occasions where your life depends on it.

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17749

[Ravvau]

in the discussion between LPAC researchers Peter Martinson and Natalie Lovegren on the coincidence between recent solar flares and the associated tectonic activity at about the 5minute mark of that video,,, Peter Martinson clearly states that it took just over ONE WEEK for the massive earthquake to hit new zealand after the recorded massive coronal ejection


by this proven measurement,,, the massive coronal ejection that occurred 3 days ago will take another 4 plus days to take effect on earth,,, so it may be that such effects of earth occur a few days AFTER the flare strikes earth

which is feasible if one thinks of a form of kinetic energy buildup and discharge of the flare once it strikes earth due to earths massive atmospheric electrical capacitance

[Richard]

I ran across a interesting article on Graham Hancock about the solar flares.

Did solar magnetic eruptions cause the Japanese earthquake?

By Simon Macara

In the days leading up to the Japanese earthquake there were two spectacular magnetic eruptions on the surface of the sun. Could these eruptions have somehow played a part in the timing of the Japanese disaster?

It’s an intriguing question that few people seem to be asking. Much has been said in the media recently about the possible gravitational effect of an unusually close moon on the Earth’s tectonic plates. There have also been theories put forward connecting the cycles of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus with seismic activity, but most scientists are reticent to attribute any similar tectonic influence to electromagnetic emissions from our local star.

Yet the timing of last week’s devastating earthquake (which occurred on 11 March 2011) was remarkably close to the moment when an unusually rapid Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) collided with the Earth’s magnetosphere.

Coincidence? Perhaps, but if so then its the 3rd similar coincidence in a row, because both last year’s Chilean earthquake and the Icelandic volcanic eruption also just happened to occur very soon after significant electromagnetic eruptions on the sun. Evidence is starting to mount in favour of a strong cause and effect relationship between major solar magnetic eruptions and powerful tectonic events on Earth.

Let’s wind the clock back to February 18th 2010. Solar physicists and backyard astronomers alike watch in awe as a million kilometer long magnetic filament emerges from the sun’s surface and arcs out into space. It throbs menacingly above the surface of the sun for a whole week as speculation rages as to what will happen next. How long will it remain intact before it snaps? Will it fall back to the surface producing a rare and powerful Hyder Flare? Hyder Flares can rival the strongest flares produced by sunspots, and it’s thought that they occur when a reconfiguration of the magnetic field causes filament material to fall back onto the sun’s chromosphere.

On 24th February 2010 the monster filament finally snapped, producing a CME and sending 3 separate clouds of plasma hurtling away from the sun’s surface. Solar physicists predicted at the time that any material heading towards the Earth (travelling at around 1.5 million miles an hour) would impact our planet on the 27thor 28th of February.

On the 27th of February at 06:34 Universal Time (UT) Chile was hit by a magnitude 8.8 quake, the 6th largest ever recorded. I was so struck by the synchronicity of the quake’s timing that I went to see Dr Lucie Green (one of Britain’s most eminent solar physicists, and a specialist in the study of magnetic filaments) at the Greenwich observatory to pose the question:

“Do you think it’s possible that material ejected when the giant filament snapped may have somehow influenced the Earth’s magnetic field sufficiently to cause the Chilean earthquake?”

Dr Green was unwilling, however, to accept the possibility of there being any kind of connection between the two events. Pushed on the issue, she admitted that the timing of the quake did indeed tally rather perfectly with the arrival here of any magnetic energy ejected in the eruption, but insisted that this must be a coincidence.

Hot on the heels of the Chilean quake the next major disaster to hit the planet was the Icelandic volcanic eruption. This too was the subject of another very similar “coincidence”. On 12th April 2010 a gargantuan solar prominence suddenly erupted from the sun’s northwestern limb. After an especially quiet 3-year long solar minimum during which there were virtually no prominences at all this was a major event, setting the astronomical community abuzz with excitement.

It was in fact the largest solar prominence we’d seen for 15 years, arching out almost a million kilometres above the surface of the sun. A highly significant solar event by anyone’s standards. Fortunately the eruption was not heading directly towards the Earth, but it was predicted to give a “glancing blow” to the Earth’s magnetic field sometime in the following 2-3 days. 2 days later on April 14th. Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which had been erupting slowly and steadily since 20th March, suddenly exploded into spectacular activity, causing the now infamous shutdown of many of Northern Europe’s principal air routes.

Once again the timing of the catastrophe corresponded extremely well with the predicted time-lag between the moment the waves of electromagnetic energy erupted from the surface of the Sun and their arrival here 2 days (and 93 million miles) later. Although the brunt of the giant prominence’s energy was directed slightly beyond our planet, the fact remains that the 2 most disruptive tectonic disasters of 2010 both occurred within 2 days of remarkable electromagnetic eruptions on the sun.

So as we count the cost of last week’s Earth-shattering Japanese quake and begin to live with the fall-out, perhaps the question we should be asking is:

“Were there any significant electromagnetic eruptions on the sun in the days preceding the Japanese quake?”

The answer to this question, for the 3rd major tectonic cataclysm in a row, is a resounding “yes”. On this occasion there were in fact not 1, but 2 remarkable eruptions that occurred within the target time-frame.

The first candidate was a CME that erupted in the final hours of March 7th. This was no ordinary CME. It was in fact the fastest one we’ve witnessed since 2005. Its stream of super-heated plasma raced towards us at 2,200 kilometers per second, impacting the Earth’s magnetosphere at 06:30 UT on 10th March, almost exactly 24 hours before the Japanese quake.

The timing of this CME alone gives us sufficient cause to add the Japanese disaster to our list of possible sun-induced events, but this was not the only significant eruption that happened just before the quake. Any influence this CME had would have been further augmented by a second notable eruption. The second candidate was an X-Flare which erupted from behemoth sunspot 1166 on 9th March. X-Flares are an especially rare and powerful type of solar flare that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. We have just gone through a period of 4 whole years without a single X-flare being emitted from the sun. This prolonged dearth lasted until February 14th this year when the first X-Flare of solar cycle 24 was recorded. Then on March 9th at 23:23 UT cycle 24 delivered its second X-Flare, a X-1.5 class flare that erupted from Jupiter-sized sunspot complex 1166.

The intriguing timing of these 2 eruptions raises the possibility that they may have worked in concert with each other to deliver the Earth’s magnetic field a “double whammy” blow that was strong enough to precipitate the Japanese earthquake. Some interesting scientific studies have been done to suggest the mechanics of how this might have worked. Odintsov et al (2005) have theorised that incoming CME’s or high velocity solar wind streams compress the magnetosphere generating atmospheric gravity waves, which change the surface air pressure. This disrupts the balance of pressure on the tectonic plates, and if enough pressure accumulates it produces an earthquake.

Their study also identified two sharp peaks in the number of earthquakes during the average 11 year sunspot cycle. One was caused by CME’s and took place at the time of sunspot maximum, and a second peak was triggered by high speed solar winds during the descending phase of the solar cycle. These findings, however, shed little light on the current wave of massive tectonic events which are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity at the ascending stage of the current solar cycle. This is a worrying trend that suggests that the worst may be yet to come, and that the approaching sunspot peak of cycle 24 could deliver seismic events larger and more destructive still than the Chilean and Japanese disasters.

This is an area of research that merits far more scientific attention than it is currently receiving. I think we should be much less hasty in ascribing to “coincidence” such glaring anomalies that we encounter in the cosmos and focus instead on discovering what they really mean. The modern western mindset has a tendency to devalue and misinterpret anomalistic events it doesn’t understand by calling them “coincidences”. Our quest for a fuller understanding of the mechanics of the solar system will be better served if we treat such anomalies as “synchronicities”, rather than dismissing them as meaningless “coincidences”. Synchronicities happen for a reason. They are like signposts at intersections in the universal matrix that surrounds us, alerting us that something requires our attention.

As solar cycle 24 gets increasingly more active and the predicted sunspot peak of 2013 draws inexorably closer, the need to fully understand the complex relationship between the sun’s magnetic emissions and the Earth’s tectonic system is becoming ever more pressing. It’s not a coincidence that massive solar eruptions happen just before major tectonic disasters. It is compelling evidence of a causal relationship. The better we understand the exact nature of this relationship, the better equipped we will be to weather the effects of the imminent solar magnetic superstorm very probably headed our way.

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