Aftershock of 8.2 reported near the original 8.6 quake. 3.5 foot water rise reported near northwest coast of Sumatra (Meulaboh).
Month: April 2012
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Aftershock greater that first shake?
FLASH: Indonesia’s geophysics agency says aftershocks in Aceh include quake of 8.8 on Richter scale, issues tsunami warning
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All the trouble in the world: Korean Peninsula edition
Planes diverted to avoid North Korean rocket launch
And there is more..And as far as the threat from new leader Kim in the North, what is the real truth on the rocket launch possibility? Experts seem to agree that it is not being launched for what North Korea claims it will be, a pure satellite to monitor forests and weather patterns. ..The final newsworthy article about North Korea floating across newswires and the internet tonight is this: You thought the Soviet gulags were bad? You maybe didn’t see this article on North Korean camps in which 150,000 simply languish in prison camps. Entire families suffer and die in these prison camps, according to the UN report.. also in the prison: Children and grandparents for ‘political crimes’ of their family members.The AP reports this on the camps:The labor colonies are enclosed behind barbed wire and electrified fences, mainly in the north and north central mountains of the country, the report says, alleging high rates of death in detention due to systemic mistreatment, torture, execution and malnutrition.The report says former prisoners were able to identify their former barrack and houses, work sites, execution grounds and other landmarks in the camps via imagery available through Google Earth.The committee says the report’s findings contradict a December 2009 statement by North Korea to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the political prisoner camps don’t existDid you ever get that pit of your stomach feeling where you know the world is truly mad? I have it now…
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We all glow down here: Study shows just how much radiation has covered the world since Fukushima
This photo has been making the rounds on Facebook and other social networking sites over the past several weeks.. We’d be remiss not to address it on Earth Informer.
The image is a model of that appeared in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity *something you don’t find on many newstands* shows just how vast and widespread the radiation after the Fukushima disaster has been. The world covered with red and blue.. Shades of red indicate particles at the bottom layer, blue is the upper layer. And all the world is a sea of those two hazy shades of radiation.
More here on the science behind it.
And if you’re interested in reading more real research, here is the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.Meanwhile….stay in.
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Another day, another autism study
Autism rates are high. So are obesity rates. And tonight, a study that somehow tries to link both together is getting a lot of press and air time.. More on that study here if you wish to grin and bear it..The basic gist, if you couldn’t get the relation, is that moms are really obese before they get pregnant.. and then after …jeeezsh.. that recommended weight gain puts them in a tip the scales category. Of course, no matter those skinny moms and dads in skinny jeans that ended up with an autistic baby.. Indeed, indeed..So tonight, if you’re a big fat pregnant woman who lives near a freeway and has a husband and father-to-be who is over the age of 35 and works with computers, your child may be autistic. But the vaccine won’t do it. No worry.It’s certainly interesting. All these years and we still can’t truly pinpoint what cases Alzheimer’s or autism. All the brain power going towards finding the causes.. all that brainpower lost on the mysteries of the brain.More than $1billion has been spent over the past decade to try to find out the reason that children have autism. Hopefully the $1billion will pay off over the next decade.Until then lose weight, move into the country, and quit the computer job. And get younger, too.
