Sol_Ert October 02023AD
Observations from 01 Oct – 24 Oct 2023 lost.
Observations from 25 October 2023
1040am 25 October 2023 Oman Yemen Copernicus Instagram Cyclone Tej
0850am 26 October 2023 Iceland Reykjanes again? Oh, there’s a few people talking about that. No sign of lava yet though? And a good weather eye on ISL – BAR – Bárðarbunga too, please?
There have been about 3,000 earthquakes Icelandic Monitor 26.10.2023 | 7:06 a.m
Probability of more frequent earthquakes Icelandic Monitor 25.10.2023 | 10:25 p.m
1400pm 26 October 2023 Mexico Hurricane OTIS
Extent of Hurricane Otis’ impact around Acapulco, Mexico, remains unclear amid widespread communications outages
By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Published 7:07 AM EDT, Thu October 26, 2023
Hurricane Otis: The mystery of why storms suddenly intensify
BBC Future By Isabelle Gerretsen and Jocelyn Timperley 26th October 2023
“NOAA has partnered with US company Saildrone, a data company that manufactures seafaring drones, to deploy instruments capable of weathering the high winds and waves of developing hurricanes. These saildrones are packed with sensors to collect data about the oceanic and atmospheric conditions, which is then relayed to the government agency whose scientists will analyse the data.”
1230pm 27 October 2023 Iceland Thar she blows. ISL – FAG – Fagradalsfjall ?
1250pm 27 October 2023 Mexico Hurricane Otis – BBC News Hurricane Otis: Dozens killed in Mexico’s Guerrero state Published 21 hours ago By Vanessa Buschschlüter
Twenty seven (27) dead reported in this article.
1305pm 27 October 2023 Iceland Did the volcano start at 8am/9am this morning? Why? Well, the squealing and pop normally stops after the cork comes out of the champagne bottle?
1740pm 27 October 2023 Iceland The second biggest earthquake hit at 4 am News | Iceland Monitor | Fri 27 Oct 2023 | 11.31 GMT “Since the seismic swarm began, more than 5,000 earthquakes have been detected.”
Volcoholics YouTube LIVE Iceland Volcano & Eruption Monitoring. Litli-Hrutur 2023 | Askja, Hekla, Katla, Grímsvötn
2050pm 27 October 2023 (A2050 IRL (UTC+1), Summertime, time changes to Zulu time or UTC or GMT on 0200 on night of 29 Oct 2023) Iceland Ground deformation East of Festarfjall observed at another station Triggered seismicity north of Grindavík continues 25.10.2023 Updated 27th of October at 2pm “The seismic swarm north of Grindavík continues with around 1000 earthquakes since midnight. A total of 5800 eqs have been recorded since the beginning of the activity. An earthquakes M4.0 was measured at 04:02 UTC on 27 October around 2 km north of Grindavík. The seismic activity is interpreted as the response of the crust to the stress changes induced by continued magmatic inflow at depth beneath the Fagradalsfjall volcanic system.”
1530pm 28 October 2023 Iceland Reuters Iceland hit by thousands of small earthquakes in volcano warning By Johannes Birkebaek October 27, 2023 3:33 PM GMT+1Updated a day ago “A seismic swarm has hit the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland with more than 5,500 small earthquakes in the last three days, raising the prospect of a volcanic eruption, the country’s meteorological office (IMO) said on Friday.”
1535pm 28 October 2023 Mexico AP News Forecasters were caught off guard by Otis’ growth. But warming means more hurricanes like it BY SETH BORENSTEIN Updated 6:55 PM BST, October 26, 2023
1620pm 28 October 2023 USA – NASA Slowdown of the motion of the Ocean Oh, I think you might read that and ask for a little read of the full Phd as well?
1845pm 28 October 2023 Waterproof Concrete USA What are coquina and tabby?
2245pm 28 October 2023 Artic Sea Ice September 2023 USA National Snow and Ice Data Centre Why is it not cooling and icing as fast as previously?
Colman? Clouds? Air humidity above the Artic circle? Higher Specific Heat Capacity? Keeps the heat in? Coupled with warmer water under the ice? Less cold? No, I mean actually warm, comparable to Irish winter standard temperatures about forty years ago? We used to go swimming in it.
0015am 29 Oct 2023 Chile Volcanoes – Why? Well, the smart person would put the best and the most junior on the riskiest, the best, obvious, the most junior, he/she is the one who is going to be around longest to talk about the potential eruption. And who goes near the mountain? Oh, I would hope that would be military after a certain degree of danger? Why? Because it’d be nice if the experts lived to say why it was dangerous. “These observations are important, please be careful taking the readings?” Really? On the range, every time I press the button, there are many safety checks.
A0030am 29 October 2023 Conjunction of Jupiter and Luna with some little Jovian moons.
Z0620am 27 October 2023 Arctic sea Ice “The average flow lines (grey; created from satellite radar interferometry) of Antarctica’s ice converge into the locations of prominent outlet glaciers, and coincide with areas of highest mass loss (i.e., Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in West-Antarctica). This supports other observations that warming ocean waters around Antarctica play a key role in contemporary ice mass loss.“
Antarctic Ice Loss 2002-2020 “Research based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites (2002-2017) and GRACE Follow-On (since 2018 – ) indicates that between 2002 and 2020, Antarctica shed approximately 150 gigatons of ice per year, causing global sea level to rise by 0.4 millimeters per year.” (Pssst, that’s just Antarctica – Ground water losses and Glaciers and Greenland ??? GRRR )
Z0720am 27 October 2023 Ireland Cork Full Moon last night. And maybe calling them “Super Spring” tides is a little fxxking stupid in October? Every 4.5 meter Full Moon tide with a bit of water in the river Lee is more like what’s actually happening.
Z0845am 27 October 2023 USA – EDU – MIT – Free course information.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
MIT Professor Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry “For his work on techniques to generate quantum dots of uniform size and color, Bawendi is honored along with Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.” October 4, 2023
Anne Trafton | MIT News
College Factual .com USA
“Nationwide, the average first to second year retention rate is 70.57%.”
Colman? Math – USA student population 29.43% “gone with the wind” after first year.
Z1600pm 29 Oct 2023 Iceland Icelandic Met Office Update
2100pm 30 October 2023 Iceland
2105pm 30 October 2023 Mexico Nearly 100 dead or missing in Mexico from hurricane, food and water worries persist By Josue Decavele and Jose Cortes October 30, 20238:18 PM GMT Updated 41 min ago
2225pm 30 October 2023 Ireland Dublin Copernicus
2230pm 30 October 2023 Russia Volcano Klyuchevskoy
1410pm 31 October 2023 Jamaica USGS M 5.4 – 4 km WNW of Hope Bay, Jamaica 2023-10-30 15:57:20 (UTC) 18.209°N, 76.605°W 10.0 km depth
Fox News 5.4 magnitude earthquake rocks Jamaica No injuries, deaths yet reported Associated Press Published October 30, 2023 2:07pm EDT Historical “The devastating Port Royal earthquake occurred in 1692, with a portion of the town sinking into the sea. Then in 1907, a quake struck the capital, Kingston, killing more than 1,000 people. Another big quake was reported in March 1957, affecting mostly western Jamaica, according to the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica.”
Sol_Ert November 02023AD
1030am 01 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo Sudan These two connected? It’s rainy season? Flooding the Rift valley lakes (wiki)? Masses of water causes stresses? Why? Because I lived for six months beside Lake Kivu. DR Congo: Floods – Oct 2020 Satellite detected water extent between 1 August 2019 and 27 January 2021 in Gobu village, Jiba Zone de Santé, DR Congo Any chance you can have a little look see before the fact? Please send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT Colman
1050am 01 November 2023 Dem Rep Congo https://thinkhazard.org/en/report/74356-democratic-republic-of-congo-nord-kivu-goma/UF Urban flood Hazard level: Very low ? In the area you have selected (Goma) urban flood hazard is classified as very low based on modeled flood information currently available to this tool. This means that there is a chance of less than 1% that potentially damaging and life-threatening river floods occur in the coming 10 years (return period of c. 1 in 1000 years). Therefore, based on this information, flood hazard does not need to be explicitly considered for your project. WARNING Having lived here, on a bad day, the drainage here is practically non existent and the drains, although a meter deep, the roads flood very badly when there’s a big rain, so I’d seriously reconsider using this product for wiping my arse with, let alone, basing your hazard map on it.
1100am 01 November 2023 WWF – Oysters: an unsung hero in a changing climate
1850pm 02 November 2023 Iceland The NASA FIRMS picture still has that infrared blip?
1900pm 02 November 2023 GBR&NI Newry RTE News Newry flooding recedes but authorities remain on alert Updated / Wednesday, 1 Nov 2023 19:56 By Conor Macauley BBC NI NI weather: Newry businesses ‘devastated’ by flood ahead of Storm Ciarán By Eimear Flanagan & Conor Neeson BBC News NI All eyes on the tide Catherine Morrison, BBC News NI reporter in Newry “Killowen in County Down recorded 75.4mm of rain between 09:00 on Monday and 09:00 on Tuesday, the wettest climate day on record for that station since data was first collected in 1997. The wettest day on record for Northern Ireland was 31 October 1968 when 158.9mm fell at Tollymore Forest, County Down.” Irish Examiner Sections of Newry under water as flooding hits Northern Ireland TUE, 31 OCT, 2023 – 14:28 PA REPORTERS
1920pm 02 November 2023 New Zealand RTE News Company guilty over New Zealand volcano disaster Updated / Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023 06:17 “The New Zealand firm that managed a volcanic island, which erupted killing 22 people in 2019, has been found guilty of failing to adequately protect visitors. Around 50 people were on White Island, also known as Whakaari, in December 2019 when a deadly column of burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent.” Excellent photo of Whakaari.
1940pm 02 November 2023 Russia Moscow Times Volcano in Russia’s Far East Spews Huge Ash Plume Into Atmosphere “The Klyuchevskaya volcano, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, began erupting in late June, although experts said at the time that it did not pose any threat to the nearby population. ” “Russia’s far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula is home to more than 300 volcanos, including 29 that are active.” “In April, the nearby Shiveluch volcano spewed massive plumes of ash across large swaths of the region, disrupting air traffic and blanketing a nearby village with a thick layer of ash.”
Important “…on Wednesday, Klyuchevskaya started releasing an ash column some 14 kilometers into the atmosphere…”
1950pm 02 November 2023 Iceland The Guardian UK Oct 27 Swarm of earthquakes in Iceland heralds next volcanic eruption “These earthquakes are a warning sign, a part of a longer-term story that we know we’re entering a buildup phase to the next [volcanic] eruption,” said the head of the IMO’s service and research division, Matthew Roberts.”
1955pm 02 November 2023 USA Hawaii – REMINDER From last year 2022
UK The Independant – Mauna Loa eruption – latest: Satellite captures view of advancing lava from space as crowds flock to volcano Follow for the latest updates on Mauna Loa’s first eruption in 38 years Gustaf Kilander,Oliver O’Connell,Johanna Chisholm Friday 02 December 2022 21:31 GMT
USA CNN – Hawaii activates National Guard as Mauna Loa’s unpredictable lava flow creeps within 2 miles of critical highway By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN Updated 3:52 PM EST, Tue December 6, 2022
USA Phys_org NOVEMBER 29, 2022 Lava from Hawaii volcano lights night sky amid warnings by Caleb Jones Advertisement above, so you won’t be surprised when you see it again and again on the website. I have the app. “The eruption of Mauna Loa wasn’t immediately endangering towns, but the U.S. Geological Survey warned the roughly 200,000 people on the Big Island that an eruption “can be very dynamic, and the location and advance of lava flows can change rapidly.”
USA CNN Hawaii’s 2 volcanic eruptions keep spewing lava with no end in sight. Here’s what could happen next By Holly Yan, CNN Updated 4:47 PM EST, Wed December 7, 2022
USA NASA Earth Observatory After three weeks of rest, lava started flowing again on Kilauea’s summit. Image of the Day for January 17, 2023 Instruments: Landsat 8 — OLIPhotograph
1425pm 04 November 2023 RTE News At least 140 people killed in Nepal earthquake Updated / Saturday, 4 Nov 2023 12:00 BBC News Nepal earthquake: More than 150 killed in remote western Nepal 48 minutes ago “The earthquake was recorded at 23:47 local time (18:02 GMT), according to Nepal’s Monitoring and Research Centre. The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.6 and said it was a shallow earthquake, meaning it happened closer to the earth’s surface.” USGS M 5.6 – 42 km S of Jumla, Nepal 2023-11-03 18:02:54 (UTC) 17.9 km depth Time zone in Nepal (GMT+5:45) Saturday, 4 November 2023, 20:07
1430pm 04 November 2023 Iceland – You going up to look? And who’s going to rescue me? No, let’s wait.
1440pm 04 November 2023 Irish Independent Taoiseach to open new bypass in Cork Story by Jack Joy “The Baile Bhuirne to Macroom road is set to officially open at 1pm on Monday, November 6. The new 22km section of road will be opened with an outdoor event that will be attended by the Mayor of County Cork, Cllr Frank O’Flynn, and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.”
1450pm 04 November 2023 Ireland Cork Glanmire
The Examiner ( Listed under SPORT? ) Sarsfields turn pitch into flood plain to limit damage to Glanmire community “The club’s pitch committee and volunteers took the decision to allow their main pitch to flood, in the hope that it would save the surrounding community from any further damage. ” “As a result, our main pitch essentially became a flood plain in order to relieve the flooding to the immediate Riverstown area, Orchard Manor & surrounding businesses. “We won a county, lost a pitch but hopefully saved a part of the Glanmire community.”
The Irish Independent ‘Just open the gates and let the water in’ – how a Cork GAA club helped its community survive the flood “Few things embody community spirit better than the GAA, so when the banks of the Glashaboy River was set to burst and destroy Glanmire amid Storm Babet, Sarsfields made the decision to protect the community and deal with the consequences later.”
1615pm 04 November 2023 Ireland Weather It’s amazing how fast things change when people know what’s available. https://www.sat24.com/en-gb
1730pm 04 November 2023 Chile Volcano Villarrica – Thar she blows. Nice one, no coffee. A clean, safe, secure start to the eruption. Now, check for lahars, please? It’s so nice being behind the experts for a change. Why? Well, some important people bumped that lot up the google list and for a change I wasn’t one of them, until now. Colman, eh, you looked at that stuff last month. Oh, spoil the surprise won’t you.
1740pm 04 November 2023 USA Michigan Tech, that’s a familiar photo, someone gave me a copy of that in Goma in 2001, just before the volcano erupted after my six months I was replaced. Though I only had a little excerpt, Nyiragongo. It was so difficult to tell height and depth on those old photos. Thank you, to everyone who got the UN workers safe out of Goma during the eruption 2002, way back then. Colman Nyiragongo (DR Congo) French-British scientific team field work report on the 17-18 January eruption Global Volcanism Program, 2002. Report on Nyiragongo (DR Congo) (Wunderman, R., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 27:4. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN200204-223030 By the way, how do you tell if there’s a little uplift there? Well, in our house by the lake, there was a rock in the middle of the yard, I showed my housemate the stars on Redshift 3 the computer program on my laptop to compare to the first clear night when we could see stars there. It’s a bit of a giveaway when the rock is a little bit further from the lake water level overnight? There’s a big dam the other end which maintains the lake level pretty well, it changes slowly with the seasons. Just a thought, as that’s quite a cheap way of seeing ground displacement changes? Silly thought? Downstream, the next lake, there was some extreme flooding? Can you check if the sides of the rift valley are the same width apart? When you squeeze a plastic bottle the water comes up the top? If there was a displacement of the entire mountainsides towards one another, it would lift the water level in the lake dramatically? Underwater surface area of the lake, reduce surface area by 1mm, it’s a deep lake, that’s a large volume of water to place in one layer on the top surface of the lake?
2305pm 04 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo Do I get a bonus for two volcanoes in the same photo? It is a 7 day picture. Yes, and I’m wondering where the international coverage is? How’d you find that? Well, I had ten minutes free before Euronews and I started at Antarctica, Erebus, quite and I’m at Dempcratic Republic of Congo when I found an unusual size to Nyamuragira, so I had a look to see the last weeks activity and there’s Nyiragongo on fire too. How’s the local evacuation precautions and warning systems working? https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-COD COD – Nato 3 letter code Dem Rep Congo https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-GTM Fuego’s quite though. Santa Maria is busy. https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-IDN Krakatoa What the fxxk is that? Near Kelud??? Loads of big fires on the mountain tops near there? It time for making charcoal? And it’s change of trousers time again? You might, actually, can we have someone have a little question about that one? It’s quite close to the city? Cookie? I like those big ones with the chocolate chips, and can you get a couple of hot chocolates too, it might be a long night. You’re asking her to get you hot chocolates? Oh, they’re not for me, I’m watching her desk while she gets some for herself. I’m off home in a short while. Merapi is quiet two days, what happened that it spilled off the North side? Weather? Semaru? Quite busy the last seven days? https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-ITA Mostly quiet, though Mount Etna was quite busy up to two days ago too?
2340pm 04 November 2023 Japan https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-JPN https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/iwo-jima_ioto.html https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-MEX Mexico, poppy’s only flaring? No quite, it’s a bit more than that, see the Ash advisory. https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-NIC There’s nothing about a volcano erupting there, can you see if it’s a party on top of the volcano or if anyone can see anything from the city?
0001am 05 November 2023 Papua New Guinea Langila https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-PNG
0005am 05 November 2023 Phillipines https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-PHL fxxk, coffee boy again, woah, glad there wasn’t visitors in the room for that one. TAAL – sxxt, get the boss back, Mayon is lit up too. https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-web-library/#VolcanoList-USA Maunaloa a little busy. What did the boss say? He said the nice girl at the back of the room has two hot chocolates with your names on them. And you can share the big cookie with the chocolate chips. Oh, and “Keep digging.”.
0045am 05 November 2023 Astronomy Colman, you only took two photos. It’s cold. The camera is working and I might be out for a while tonight, so I’m making some hot chocolate and a few rollies and getting my gloves and a hat. Where were you for 40 minutes? Oh, I was watching 30 mins of Euronews. More africans are reporting discrimination. Yes, there are more africans, yes they are poor and yes, poor people are discriminated against. Why? Because they argue about the cost of food with the poor person selling the food behind the counter of the supermarket. And you want to see the Policy person talking about the need to get people paid to get figures on why. Why? Because here the poor protestants harrass the poor catholics and the poor catholics harrass the poor protestants. They still at that? You been to a soccer match lately? No, why? Because you aren’t a poor protestant or a poor catholic, and they both watch Liverpool, Celtic and Man United and cry about the Arabs and Russians owning the clubs. And? Well, I read. My friends at primary school knew all the horse racing and soccer results. That was what they had in the house to read. I read Childcraft 26 volumes. Colman is a know it all. Yes.
2310pm 05 November 2023 Iceland – Someone should really have a little look? Logarithmically 10 M4.0s make an M5.0 event, that’s quite a few M3.8s a little math needed? What does 2 x M3.5s make? Anyone got a Scientific calculator? It was a requirement for the Leaving Cert Honours Math exam, 30 years ago? Colman
1650pm 06 November 2023 Country List R complete https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-r-colmans-web-library/
1900pm 06 November 2023 Country List P complete https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-q-colmans-web-library/ https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-p-colmans-web-library/
0515am 07 November 2023 NASA – Why is it called NASA? It’s the first Space mnemonic. NSEW – at night see the planets move East to West through the sky, though they are relatively fixed in the Universe. So the Earth appears to be moving West to East under the stars. Since all the stuff on the surface is moving that way at great tangential velocity, it’s much easier to launch satellites with this direction and so the ISS moves West to East, so if you’re trying to remember your direction, you ask, why is NASA called NASA. It’s not sailors are crew (NSEW) for an astronaut. That was for sailors and you say We are NASA. We, West to East. Then why is it called ESA? Oh, that’s from Irish, it’s iosa, irish for jesus. Yes, and that’s why no one takes the Lord’s name in vain and reads the fxxking website. What would you call it? Northern Wankers, at least then they’d remember West to East.
0910am 07 November 2023 Country List O & P complete
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-o-colmans-web-library/
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-n-colmans-web-library/
1830pm 07 November 2023 There’s loads of “M”s, took me all day. Country List M complete
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-m-colmans-web-library/
1900pm 07 November 2023 USA When’s the rocket launching, oh, sometime tomorrow? Really? And the fxxker who designed this ad campaign was paid how much? and couldn’t put a fxxking TIME OF LAUNCH in?
2040pm 08 November 2023 Iceland
And apparently 2023 will officially be
the hottest year on record in the last 125,000 years.
That’s One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Years.
1205pm 09 November 2023 NASA Plus
1330-1430pm 09 November 2023 Iceland https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night There’s no periodicity in this? Eh, that’s just the 48 hr picture, can you see if it’s a larger wobble? Continent shakes would be up down over a three or four day cycle? And? Well, normally the shakes decrease in amplitude and slow in time period and increase in frequency. You’re talking about a coin spinning, this is a bit bigger than a coin. What would you compare it to? A zit actually, it’s welling up, the skin over it is tearing and becoming red, the nasty stuff is under the surface and we’re just waiting to see if it comes up as one solid creamy black head or a splurge of fatty ugh. And? Well, if it’s fungal or bacterial, and it’s squeezed again and again the stuff keeps coming out until it’s healed. Alcohol? Oh, I’d say a whiskey or two is in order. You supposed to be drinking? Well, it’s going to be a long wait or a short wait and I’d prefer to have my drinking done first, won’t be much drinking done after the fxxking thing erupts. Why is it happening? Well, this one, this is the Earths surface contracting over the magma below, the heat keeps it expanded while the seawater and the surface above it is cooling in the surface winter temperatures and increasing in density. Over a meter cube, it’s barely noticeable, however over a large surface area it’s rather noticeable. How’d you come up with that? Oh, Neptune, they’re on about radioactivity heating the interior making Neptune’s heart, when it’s far more likely it’s periodic movement around the Sun and the temperature rising and falling on a planetary scale. When everything is so close to the temperature of change from liquid to solid, it’s quite impressive. Think of Neptune’s heart as the triple point of Nitrogen on a planetary scale. Prof Cox was on a tv program on BBC4 last night talking about it, I saw the Neptune photos a few years ago.
What is Love?
Love is when your safety and happiness is more important than mine.
Last eruption 1240CE – eh, someone might give them feedback? Just a little bit? YouTube Gina G – (Ooh Aah) Just A Little Bit “””Oh, what can “You” do for Me?””” Really? Twenty first century thinking? Yes, I preferred the twentyth. Wikipedia “released on 25 March 1996 as the first single from her debut album, Fresh! (1997).”
1500pm 09 November 2023 Iceland website update required?
Magnitude greater than M3.0
Magnitude greater than M4.0 ?
Magnitude greater than M5.0 ?
Eh, you know his zit metaphor? Can you place the earthquakes in a nice 3D chart and see if it’s the rocks breaking around the hot magma? at about 5 km depth? Colman? Well, from the chart it looks like an average of about 4km depth? And? They breaking or solidifying? Is there a different sound from the two types? Do those rocks suck in or expand as they solidify? And? Well, at a certain point, if the solidification is in a cylinder around the magma and it’s really hard, though it’s cooling rate determines the size of crystallisation sizes and thus rock density, so you might check that for pressure and rate of cooling? then the rest of it pops upwards, theoretically it could pop downwards, though there’s less mass and thus pressure above it?
1525pm 09 November 2023 Colman, why did you look at the weather chart of Ireland? Well, the new wind chimes I put out were tinkling away an hour ago, it’s sunny outside, there’s a rainbow in the sky to the East, there’s seagulls flying nearby and the winds calm again. There was just a plane flying overhead at about 20 to 30 thousand feet with no contrail, the exhaust wasn’t freezing, so… that’s a lot of hot wet air. Yesterday the front passed over a beautiful curve, the high cirrus (horses tails) were so close together it was like a pretty wave front. Aer Corp, Warm front followed by… Thick cloud, rain and low fog all the way down to the ground. Though it might miss us, it’s running down the coast same as Storm Ciaran. Why? Well, that’s to do with Ireland and the UK heating gently by day and cooling rapidly at night in the recent relatively cloudless nights and the ocean being so much warmer. Bit of rain for the Isles of Scilly (wiki) ? How’d they fare for Storm Ciaran?
Dry ground cools faster, as does places at altitude like mountains. We only have one mountain. Yes, we do. Copernicus data at work. Why does that say “Accu” in the url???
1600pm 09 November 2023 Ireland https://www.met.ie/forecasts/monthly-forecast “During week 1, low pressure will dominate our weather, maintaining a mainly westerly or southwesterly airflow over Ireland. This will steer frontal systems across the country at times, bringing frequent spells of rain and showers.” And this is why the officer get’s more money than you do.
They do have a nice little wind turbine though, it’s quite silent. Why? Because the windspeed is never very high. The trees see to that. You see, as the moist air rises over two hundred meters arriving over Cork county, it cools and the moisture condenses as that stuff you call, fog, mist, dew, a light cold rain and fxxk it’s bloody freezing rain. 1625pm, the cloud is just arriving over Ballincollig, I can see it from my backyard. The old Navy term was a squall, I think? What was a squall? Well, normally it was “Batten down the fxxking hatches.” Why? Well, the falling rain and air currents generated caused unusual blustery wind conditions and it’s nice if the bedding downstairs in the boat stays dry. 1640, horizon to the West is foggy already, Gurranabraher in 3-5 minutes, it’s moving rather fast.
1640pm 09 November 2023 Ireland Cork By the way, say hello to Intrim, they call me every day at 16-45. Colman Really? Oh, just a little bit.
My grandaunt lives at Cape Clear light house, when they say it’s clearing later, it means they could see the coast from the lighthouse and the lighthouse from the coast. Cork, it used to be where the English weather came from, the first commercial telegraph in the world, Cork Butter market to London stock exchange. What does the fxxking seagull say? “Caaark”
1740pm 09 November 2023 Europe, you might see about early ski holidays, there’s due to be a little early snowfall this year? That’s a meter depth (the red bit) in the next ten days??? Is it going to stay on the mountain or straight down the hillsides as flood waters? Is that Storm Domingo going over the mountains? How are those people in Turkey doing, they’re up in the mountains? The ones displaced by the earthquakes last February?
1800pm 09 November 2023 Ireland Ballinasloe Man in critical condition after violent disorder incident in Galway Updated / Tuesday, 7 Nov 2023 13:15
1810pm 09 November 2023 World – United Nations
1845pm 09 November 2023 Japan – ESA Really? Isn’t that cool.
1915pm 09 November 2023 It’s raining out of a clear sky, I can see Jupiter. We used to call them April showers and only fools went out without coats.
2035pm 09 November 2023 Vanuatu – How much for the photo? Volcano Discovery, you might check the Ibu photos? https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/ibu.html Dukono too? https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/dukono.html
2050pm 09 November 2023 Indonesia Magma NASA Firms2
1550pm 10 November 2023 USA – Smithsonian Institute – World Volcano Program Eh, the reports from the last month?
1740pm 10 November 2023 Iceland, I just got two warnings on my phone about Iceland a M4.2 and a M4.1 Yes, it looks rather busy just now. Yes, Colman has an earthquake warning app on his phone. Oh, I’d call that a bit busier than usual? Really? https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night Points to note for future, One, you picked a bad name for the initial event. You should have used a number for the article name. Two, I’d start updating it more than once every 24 hours. Three, have you changed your Civil Defence category of warning for the local area Grindavik and for the country? And it should be the first thing on the update? Grindavik first, in greatest danger, and then Iceland.
1800pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Another phone warning M5.2
1805pm 10 November 2023 Spain – Websites changed???? Where’s the fxxking eearthquakes??? https://www.ign.es/iberpix/
1807pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Another phone warning M5.0
1810pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Another phone warning M 4.4 The website? Couldn’t cope with the effects? I’m actually feeling the waves through my feet here. 1816 phone warning M 4.0
Yes, it is normally updated every 5 minutes.
https://visualizadores.ign.es/tproximos/
1825pm 10 November 2023 Spain
1830pm 10 November 2023 Dominican Republic 1831 phone warning Iceland M5.1
1834pm Iceland – phone warning M4.2 1836pm M 4.5
1837pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Colman – Preliminary estimate? An R 6.0 event. Richter scale R 6.0, logarithmic addition of all the earthquakes necessary to get full extent of the event parameters, however based on a mirror of the event, presuming the M5.2 was the largest and it will now calm to a lull, I’d say an R 6.0 event? And? Well, if it goes back up to M5.0s again it could be an R 6.5 event rather quickly. Though right now, that looks unlikely. This is NOT a rift slide? No, this is volcanic.
Event type? R 6.0 Vol. R 6.0 Vol. Brown, earthquakes, no eruption yet.
1850pm 10 November 2023 Please explain to the folks at home? Five M 6.0 = M 6.5 Ten M 6.0 = M 7.0 Ten M 5.0 = M 6.0 In logarithmic addition. And I invented the R 6.0 to denote the addition of the M 5.0 earthquakes to distinguish it from one earthquake. 1851pm phone warning Iceland M 4.0
10 x M 4.0 = R5.0 – 10 x R 5.0 = R 6.0
1855pm 10 November 2023 Iceland Earthquakes over M 3.0, M 4.0, M 5.0? Yes, I did say that yesterday. 1857pm two more >M 4.0 warnings. What does “Quality” mean? Actually I think that’s a bad translation of the “accuracy of the size and location”, though that’s just based on seeing it over the last few weeks since the data was added to the table. 100 M3.0s = M5.0, and then you add up all the fractions too. Two M3.5s = M3.8.
1857pm in approximately the last 3 minutes – 9 earthquakes over M3.0
1924pm in the last 27 minutes – 9 earthquakes over M3.0
It’s a geometric slow down. Is that possible? Yes, actually it’s a statistical distribution, though my capturing it so precisely is as unlikely as me deliberately living at over 100 meters above sea level, it takes a little bit of effort to look that “silly”.
1930pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – USGS Oh, show me the full picture???
1940pm 10 November you might ask about this one? Why? Well, it’s under the main runway? The airport is out there. Oh, and the vibrations are so bad, that I’m getting a headache here in Cork. 14 earthquakes >M3.0 in 21 minutes
1950pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Bit chilly there for running outdoors away from the earthquakes.
1955pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Airport??? How the fxxk do you report this? Actually, this is why Ireland’s Defence Forces moved away from the British, there must be a form for it, system of reporting, though unfortunately it seems to have crept back again.
2000pm 10 November 2023 Iceland
Looks like Iceland’s having a small child.
A small child?
Yes, like Thor, he was a small child once.
Colman? Estimate? I really hope the baby comes soon.
2013pm phone warning M 4.3 I have my feet up, the headaches receding. 2015pm phone warning M 4.5 Civil Defence? Bath full of water and twenty bottles of Poitín for cooking on your Trangia cooker afterwards, just in case. They’re expensive. Yes, that’s why I learned how to make one using an aluminium Coca-ColaTM can. I have a bottle of Methylated spirits. My boss in Kosovo, his dad was a doctor, he had surgical spirits. 2022pm phone warning Iceland M 4.1
2035pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – And every now and again you look behind you. Surtsey Island (wiki)
2050pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Surtsey Island
And can you place this on a separate area map too, please?
2115pm 10 November 2023 Iceland Well, some people watch gaa matches, and some watch soccer matches and I watch the world. And I cry when we lose. 2115pm phone warning Iceland M 4.3
2150pm 10 November 2023 Ireland Dublin Comic Con – “We are willing to hand over the reins to a group?” That the ladybird themed group? Harassment and intimidation, a very Northern Irish themed problem? This the Dr of Law you are talking to? Wrote a book on copyright infringement? Oh, and harassment is spelt wrong too. “Harassment violates your dignity and creates an intimidating, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for you. Some examples of harassment include: Verbal harassment, such as making jokes or derogatory (offensive) comments. 11 Mar 2022″ https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/equality-in-work/harassment-at-work/
2200pm 10 November 2023 Iceland I think the phrase is?
“SHITE, the boss in his office?”
Office? he got his heels together in front of the government.
Who’s in charge?
Oh, that would be me.
Coffee? And a doughnut, with sprinkles?
Was the drive over comfortable?
2215pm 10 November 2023 Iceland
There’s only a few of them,
300,000 or near to it
and they get help from unexpected quarters.
IRL-T23W8P5 and a few others.
That’s Colman’s address.
Yes, it is.
2235pm 10 November 2023
Hobbies are important in the development of a young mind.
2255pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Why? Weather map?
There’s a High pressure system over the island, now while the pressure is measured in mmHG or millimeters of Mercury, it’s equivalent to approximately 30 feet of water, so if you add the weight of one foot of water over the entire surface of the island then the island is quite a lot heavier and it bends over the magma below. Oh, and all the 100 km radius of sea water around the peninsula too. Anyone want to do a fxxking weather forecast and figure out the next fxxking event, please?
2305pm 10 November 2023 Iceland – Colman, you came to that conclusion rather quickly? Well, I’ve been looking at the weather, and earthquakes, and volcanoes for a few years. Hobbies are important.
https://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/Rossnowlagh Rossnowlagh Spot Info
Donegal? Water temperature a bit warm there for 10th of November?
| Type: | Rating: |
|---|---|
 Beach |  3.7 |
| Reliability: | Todays Sea Temp*: |
|---|---|
| Fairly Consistent | 12.6°C |
Tullan strand has a cemetery above it, where the drowned British soldiers were buried. Rip currents make swimming generally avoided, however for the surfer, board or kayak, the cliff face is a bonus. When the waves arrive at the face they are reflected and make a 1.4 times higher interference wave, a (hat) ^ shaped wave normally approximately 10 to 15 meters from the cliff face which runs most of the way into the sandy beach. Swell tonight 2.5 meters every 13 seconds and the ^ wave should be at almost 3.5 meters.
And the water temperature at 12.7 degrees is 1.3 degrees above the 1981-2005 average 25 year climatic temperature of 11.4 degrees Centigrade.
Who used 25 years? Republic of Ireland uses 30 years.
2350pm 01 November 2023 Iceland – I only just read the update. “Updated 10. November at 6:30pm The National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, in consultation with the Police Commissioner of Suðurnes, has declared a Civil Protection Alert Phase due to the intense earthquake swarm that commenced 3pm today at Sundhnjúkagígar, north of Grindavík.” Sprinkles?
Iceland Civil Defence,
cool logo, isn’t it?
Wind, Fire and Earth,
surrounded by Water.
And the guardian looking out for everyone.
Nice.
0001am 11 November 2023 Iceland Icelandic Monitor News Direct: Strong earthquakes and the possibility of a volcanic eruption “A number of strong earthquakes continue to hit the southwestern corner of the country. A civil defense emergency has been declared and there is a possibility that an eruption may be imminent.”
Well, “fretting” means a few things in Ireland, so play us a tune, it’ll be a long night.
Domestic | 10.11.2023 23:20 Updated 11.11.2023 0:00 Nursing home in Grindavík badly damaged “The nursing home Víðihlíð in Grindavík has suffered a lot of damage due to earthquakes there and has now been evacuated. Water has leaked onto the floor in many places, and at one point the building almost split in two, as shown in another attached photo.”
Colman’s comment?
That’s a fxxking solid reinforced concrete foundation, snapped in two, like a twig.
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/10/vegurinn_rifnadi_undir_bilnum/
“Grindavík road was torn apart in the most powerful earthquakes this afternoon. Gunnar Stefán Bjarnason, a resident of Grindavík, and his wife were driving the road to Grindavík when it broke down and their car jumped on the road.” 2013pm UTC, Iceland time, same as Cork Time and Date by Sonja Sif Þórólfsdóttir
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/10/myndskeid_skjalfti_reid_yfir_i_beinni_utsendingu/ “Fannar Jónasson, the mayor of Grindavík, was a little shaken when an earthquake struck when he was being interviewed live on Rúv’s news program this evening. A sharp series of earthquakes is currently underway on the Reykjanes Peninsula and there are clear signs of the formation of a magma tunnel to the surface. Volcanologist Ármann Höskuldsson told mbl.is at ten o’clock this evening that he expected an eruption in about four to six hours, or at the latest at noon tomorrow.”
Rúv – Islandic state radio
0030am 11 Nov 2023 Iceland
0045am 11 November 2023 Iceland https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/11/beint_grindavik_rymd_og_likur_a_eldgosi/
0100am 11 November 2023 10.11.2023 11:22 pm A magma passage could be under Grindavík “On the map you can see the seismic activity under Grindavík this evening.” by Sonja Sif Þórólfsdóttir
0115am 11 November 2023 Iceland – Eh, that’s not falling off as fast as we expected?
Now, bear in mind that a number of the earthquakes on the left hand side are sliding out of the number of earthquakes in the 48 hours and do not have immediate relevance to the size of this particular event. And my headache is back, I’m going to have to put my feet up again for ten or twenty minutes.
0130am 11 November 2023 Iceland And every now and again you look behind you. 0139pm phone warning Iceland M 4.1
0150am 11 November 2023 Iceland
Eh, Copernicus?
Where for art thou, Copernicus?
Shakespeare? This is more like a Greek tragedy?
Actually I’d call it “baby of Loki and a large female bear”? Colman? Where did you come up with that? Well, when did the first cart pulled by two horses, with eight legs arrive in Scandinavia? You read any Norse Mythology (wiki book_NeilGaiman_2017)? I think they called that one some sort of world snake? Jörmungandr (wiki) Angrboða (wiki) “Saturn’s moon Angrboda is named after her.” Male or female? Colman? Well, will he stand proud, or will there be many kids around her? It’s the difference between a . https://www.iceland.org/ Oh, someone just paid to advertise their _org on Google. Oh, it doesn’t, however we do pay our CEO a nice salary. Wiki – Iceland
0230am 11 November 2023 Europe – And every now and again we look behind us.
World snake, Viking – left that behind long ago. Now wasn’t that a nice bed time story. You’re joking? What’s the big one at the top?
0500am 11 November 2023 Costa Rica CRI – Poás Volcano
0505am 11 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo
Lotta crabs scuttling round at the moment? Nyiragongo close up???
Santa what’s it’s face Guatamala
Fuego – Guatamala
IDN – Krakatoa – Krakatau
IDN – Gunung Merapi – Mount Merapi
IDN – Gunung Semeru – Mount Semeru – Semeru
Italy – Mount Etna – 7 day picture
Japan JPN – Iwo Jima – Iōtō – 硫黄島, “Sulfur Island” I went back and this is the earliest I can find volcanic fire on the NASA chart, is this the birthday or was it spotted before this from land? 25th October 2023 New Island? New Vent?
No idea where this is, found it looking at a volcano in Nicaragua
Phillipines – Taal Volcano
Indonesia – Mayon
SHITE – USA Hawaii – What the fxxk is that doing on my island? Yesterday? How long has it been fxxking steaming? Boss? And a mai tai for my friend…
Blessed are teh cheesemakers, is she allowed to adverise dairy products? They’re bad for cholestroel gene bad persons like himself.
Eh, should we tell the Americans? It’s a little past their bed time? Does that Green Alert say 02 Nov or 11 Feb? Not sure? Ask them about that, we’ll look silly and they’ll ask why?
0620am 11 Nov 2023 USA Hawaii Volcano Mauna Kea – There’s a camera
Is that it? Not sure, look above there, if the camera position is correct, its half way up from the third of a rectangle to the top of the screen?
Here, I’ll draw a wee ellipse around it, looks like a crater vent top?
It’s dark of the Moon, you shouldn’t be able to see squat. It’s also mostly cloudy on the weather chart.
Eh, I zoomed in a little farther, the sat photo there is really good. Can you ask them if they can see that from the airfield? Bar-b-que??? Rather large for a bar-b-que?
0705 am 11 November 2023 Iceland Well, that’s ruined these jeans. Oh, it’s an official, a level 3 coffee alert, there’s trackies and a washing machine with a 14 minute cycle, one hour spin dry, utility room, end of the corridor. Boss in? Never left, he’s on the couch in his office. It looks like it’s starting again? What did the Islandic Monitor earthquake guy say? by 1200, midday today? Why the big gaps in the data? I’d say they turned the machines off for a fxxking sleep. Two hours? I’d say the machines needed the rest, the people, I hope they got some rest too. Colman? My headache hasn’t come back, though I just checked and I’m sitting with my feet on the five arm roller under the chair instead of on the ground?
0725am 11 November 2023 Iceland Colman? Went and put feed on my bird table and had a cigarette, headache started. It’s ongoing. Putting my feet up. Oh, you think that’s me being “mad, mad, mad”
0805am 11 November 2023 Iceland, can you check if anything unusual happened on the 18th October 2023? Colman
0810am 11 November 2023 Ever seen that experiment where they play music to the sand or sugar crystals on the plate until they jump? And then they make pretty patterns? Well if you’re sitting on a big rock like me, you notice it, however if you’re sitting on a squigy lump of soil or clay, “or bog”, you don’t… actually, you do, you notice “when it slides”. Please check the planning permissions on bog? The depth of pilings? etc??? Vibrational frequencies???
Why? Wind turbines, long sticky up things, they tend to sway?
Hula girl???
0835am 11 November 2023 – Dampers, they put dampers on skyscrapers, it’s the same math as noise cancelling earphones. Wind Turbines dampers – Colman_O’Keeffe_0835amUTC
0840am 11 November 2023 Iceland – What’s it up to now?
0905am 11 November 2023 Greece
0910am 11 November 2023 Iceland A felt event? Really? The three purple ones are in the last hour. Eh, the old ones? They fell off the list. there’s no orange or yellow ones.
0920am Eh, you might look at the Azores and Canary Islands too, just for giggles???
As in “Shit”s and Giggles. Some Hero in Information Technology, Colman, I’m for bed.
0935am 11 November 2023 Caribbean and every now and again we look behind us.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc Empty at 0935am Watch this space? 30% ???
2050pm 11 November 2023 Iceland It seems to be calming in a straight line graph? Actually that’s geometric, the maximums are straight line, however you have to see the frequency of smaller quakes as volume and that’s a geometric slowdown. Define geometric? Easiest is, 1000 in a day, 100 in a day, 10 in a day, though the time periods might be lower, it’s the easiest was of calculating it, it’s a question of a quadratic function and seeing the graph and the easiest way is to calculate the area under the graph, 4 per hour in 24 hours = approximately 100. Colman? Oh, and the energy released that’s falling off at a cubed function, that’s important. Why? Well, if you take the energy as boiling the poor people heads with noise, then it reducing is a good thing. And I am talking psychologically, though I’d be putting them on Vitamin C five times RDA to boost their healing, for a couple of weeks, just in case, because Colman is a cautious bunny and boxers and football players suffered badly, for year, from little tears in their cerebellum, before we took notice.
0900am 12 October 2023 Iceland
0910am 12 November 2023 Iceland
I think the phrase is “It’s not the years. It’s the mileage.”?
0930am 12 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Mauna Loa last eruption Dec 2022
Anyone want an Hawaiian shirt back this time?
1330pm 13 November 2023 Iceland The area is still under quite a lot of stress, the peak at 4am is bottom of the morning, coldest part of the night and rock fractures occur now at the time of most stress. I’d be looking at the weather for next high pressure system causing pressure over the site and water temperatures too, though they’d have a smaller effect. It’s heating and cooling and expansions and contractions now. Oh, and check has Iceland moved laterally? Addition of material to the West would suggest movement to the East? It is the rift filling the space as America moves to the West? There are always stresses in rock when a pointy thing is stuck in it, it’s like Iceland has been hit with the pointy end of a rock hammer, the hard bits jump upwards and the soft bits just absorb the stresses. It’s like a piton getting bumped out of an ice wall. Oh, and see the quakes at the north have slowed, almost stopped? I’d check what has happened at the islands up North, if they’ve moved closer to one another and squeezed whatever was happening there? You’re saying this could emerge as a solid lump? Colman? Example? A big one? Wicklow? slow cooled magma turned to granite and sticks up like a big rocky balloon, an iceberg sitting above the rest, though it’s a bit more than density working here, it’s like a wintertime rock getting lifted out of the earth in a farmers field, you have to sift the rocks out for planting every Spring. By the way, I was talking about meteorites to someone else, Ireland the best place to look for meteorites? Metal detector along all the rock build stone walls in Connaught? Though most would have been recognised long ago, you might find one in a rusty rocky looking shell? From space? Well, you might see if there’s a radioactive one, though quite unlikely? Those used to turn up as magic rocks for curing skin diseases? Nothing grew around them. Eh, how does a heavier rock get lifted? Colman? Actually the entire field is lifted as the ground swells with water, voids are formed under the rock as smaller particles fall, the voids are filled from smaller particles from above and when the ground empties of water the rock sits higher? Do I get a Hdip or a cookie for that? Colman? Well, I gave myself an icecream, a Cornetto HB, to be precise. By the way, have any new ice cervices been formed in the Islandic glaciers? vibrations can tend to fracture ice too? Particularly hard blue ice? A little radar piccy? Though I’m not sure how clear the view of the ice surface would be? Interference from returning signals bouncing in the new cervices would be seen as error data? Comparisons to earlier error data from other known crevices? Commercial applications? Eh, some people spend loads of money going up that big Everest mountain? and others? K2 for instance?
1500pm 13 November 2023 Ireland – Windy .com The Irish Store .com weather forecast. Colman has proven a theory of his. Unwashed long hair, this time of the year, five minutes in the rain and it clings to you with no insulation value. Triskel – constellation – from Aquarius, the three water carriers, in Ireland, the Triskel represented women, men got the firewood. The triple weather systems if they join or swirl around one another could theoretically become a massive storm or might have been seen as the suppliers of the storms accross Ireland. The storms effect the water carriers most, distance to the well, necessity for water every day. The one’s who died most often during the storms were the maiden the mother and the crone. And theory realised, I was out in the wet for ten minutes the other day (after six months getting nice and properly unwashed dirty, no diseases or health hazards noticed, excepting the tendency to hypothermic possibilities when hair is dirty, greasy and wet.) to test it and Colman’s going to have a nice bath, with foam and bubbles. Oh, and adding whiskey (uisce beatha, water of life) to the stale water kept it fresh, it killed the little bugs. Vinegar works too however whiskey is much nicer and vinegar was when the brew didn’t work right. A pub lock in was when it wasn’t safe to head home until morning, or there wasn’t going to be much done tomorrow because the weather’s rotten. Silly city folk. Working in bad weather. United Nations, please check this as an epidemiology in the third world, deaths during water collecting during storm times?particularly Asia and Africa, tendency towards short haired and bald Africans surviving and where long haired Africans have long hair, traditions of hair washing and timings, when during the year? celebrations etc. and survival stories, stories which are used to tell moral tales about the clean person surviving the storm? Why? Well, North America and Australia, the hair washing and water rituals are quite well known, some North Americans and Australians also used clays and sands to wash, body skin, soap chemicals and babies shitting in streams being not nice in some places, and the South American cities had lots of water works and water channels going through their cities, in some cases quite fast flowing water channels. Save One. Keep digging. Note from the symbol shown, water poured into the first two drains into the third. Below right.
1550pm 13 November 2023 USA Hawaii
They work for you or they worked for you? Live view of Halemaʻumaʻu – temporary webcam image showing the crater lava lake; view is from the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u, looking northwest [S1cam]. Disclaimer: The webcams are operational 24/7 and faithfully record the dark of night if there are no sources of incandescence or other lights. Eh, can you put a light there so we can see if the surface is rippling? And smoke and stuff? The glow on the top left? Where’s that?
Bit chilly for camping up here? No, the grounds lovely and warm. Really? hold on and I get a thermometer out of the car, the volcano boys are always looking for new vent sites, any unusual smells while you’ve been here?
1610pm 13 November 2023 Ireland Colman, what’s your theory? 31 October, the thing about dressing up and playing costumes and stuff is, for the festival, you have to wash either before or afterwards. Hair washing saves lives, festival. Phd in 5 words? Colman? Save One. Hair washing Festival. You saved two there? She had a daughter.
You see I have a print of this and the artist generates questions. DAGDA AND THE WOMAN OF UINNIUS Jim Fitzpatrick, the colours are quite different in the print.
1750pm 13 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Earthquakes, though little ones, Colman’s an oracle. Colman can read a fxxking calender, the bit where it says the date and month.
Eh, how do you tell if Hawaii is moving? Well, this the island rising as the volcano expands due to the Earths temperature, it’s the largest on Earth so the effect is most noticeable. There is an unfortunate suction effect in some caverns (magma chambers) below the volcano, particularly noticeable as the released gas expands upwards and as the volcano sits down onto of the magma a little later. expansion causes volcano to lift – gas released, makes holes, pressure released and weight released, weight falls, lava comes up the middle annoying all sorts of important people, like who? Your fxxking boss for one. That’s you. Yes, it is. Oh the others are your bosses. Thank you for being respectful about them, yes, they do get annoyed occasionally. Now, there’s a nice brass plate in Greenwich, England, UK, I saw it once. And I presume someone has made a nice calculation of it’s present height above the centre of the Earth. That’s where the calculations are made from, so can you please find out if the island is moving? North South, East West, displacements, as well, please? GPS and be nice, ask for the European data too, please? They have nice satellite things up there too. How did the Islandics do it? Oh, old school time? They looked at the stars, Navigation 101. Angular altitude to a star is quite easy when you’ve clear skies. Look through the telescope on a what? It’s called a telescope for a reason. Encyclopaedia? there’s one in the corner, that Bond girl in the movie, she was on T. “Dr No (movie_1962)”. Longitude is quite a good book too. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Paperback – 5 Sept. 2005 Dava Sobel
1810pm 14 November 2023 Iceland
EMSC – I recommend altering your colour scheme? This is the last week 7 days picture? Why are there yellow quakes in here? Circles around the earthquakes and latest on top and the colours can vary in saturation of red through orang through yellow based on the time from now backwards for the two weeks? It’s actually a simple change to the drafting method now that the computers are much faster and can calculate the colour saturation based on time now minus time of event.
0040am 15 November 2023 Italy UK Independent Mount Etna shoots lava into night sky amid eruption after months of calm Holly Patrick | 1 day ago ITA – Italy – Colman’s Web Library
Why no ash? A few reasons? Colman?
SUMMIT ELEV: 3330M
It’s bloody cold up there, it’s winter and it’s quite high, I was up there in Summertime a few years ago and you needed a light coat. Any moisture coming out is grabbing the nearest hard object to form ice crystals let alone water droplets. I’d say if I was trodding near it I wouldn’t be using the yellow snow for drinking? Sulphur, Sulphur dioxide and water, what temperature does sulphuric acid condense at? And does it run down the mountain in spring when the temperature heats up again? Metal sulphates? Water quality locally? In some places the locals are immune because the kids died already, way back, though I wouldn’t be a tourist drinking the spring water without a little water quality check every month? https://www.ct.ingv.it/
And it’s a starry night, freezing, except for the nice warm mountain. It is a nice picture of Orion though, slightly above right of the peak? How you know that? It’s almost at the same angle outside from my backyard. That’s a very wide angle lens. It’s a bloody big mountain.
0130am 15 November 2023 Italy – Eh, is someone going to tell the Italiens their wee volcano is erupting, they seem to be ignoring the beastie? Colman? Based on their website and their past fxxkups, I wouldn’t let that lot mind a cat, let alone a dog. Website? I’d class the website as an information disaster zone, out Met office wasn’t great for the web stuff until recently, however they had RTE bleating out the information too, they only upgraded when everyone started watching more Sky and BBC news. Who the fxxk gives a shite about being on any presidency excepting that of the local rowing club when the water’s fxxking rising in the pub next door. I had a lovely brief by a Lt liaison officer when I arrived in Rome for a week for a National Day parade and then he fxxked off to the officers mess, I’m on the phone. Did we get invited to the officers mess? Seriously??? Get a few pilots in for a week, the Italair boys in Lebanon were impressive, a little gung ho, though the silly lads have been reading all that NATO waffle about security and the need for enthusiastic concentration on completing the immediate mission and they know nothing about what the actual SENIOR Commanders intent is. Who? The person trying to get early warnings to the civilian populations as laid down in United Nations and EU documents going back to the UN, 1980s and EU 2000s, there are fxxking satellites designed launched, wathing and no one telling the average person on the fxxking ground that the local volcano is erupting, or that their town is about to be flooded as opposed to, eh, can you take a picture of the flooding the local mayor is pissed. A small redesign of the website, one of the students in Venice University Architectural school perhaps, one of them in their shiny flower hats? If you need to find them, they’re drinking wine at the church. Can’t afford to get into the local pubs.
1315pm 15 November 2023 Italy It’s why no one goes back, they have to spend all this government and state money advertising the place because they can’t use the free advertising because everyone is on the make. I’m sure the 4K video is lovely and I’m sure the European Commission will be wondering why there’s a copyright stamp on the briefing video saying, this is not allowed on state media. What? Well, if we don’t buy the best and just make do, they’ll soon shut up shop and head off somewhere else. They are they’re in Guatemala too. I know that’s why the BBC has a camera crew for the best bits. The latest volcano lightening video was epic on Instagram. Di you share it? No, I’ll wait for the NASA version or the ESA version, people worth talking about. Oh, and the thank you to the fans and voters by Arnie today was amazing. Well done. It was blooming just as I took this screen shot, I’s say the video was excellent, so admire it and say, well it’s a pity, however we’d prefer to have live feed, and the thermal is really good, maybe you should invest in some proper equipment. Reliability is key and space might a bit too far for your pockets, it’s a pity about that. You know there’s shares going in SpaceX, though it’s probably going to be a share for share offering this time, to avoid losing the voting shares. Watch the birdie, ISS a few photos? Is there a possibility of a handheld view of the volcano from the station today? The clouds should be visible from up there and if you’ve a red filter, you can get infrared, they cost a few euros, I got mine second hand, cost me fifty euros for the 58mm diameter filter. A day version and a night version would be nice? Though that would be two viewings over what, 36 hours? Depending on how far around the cupola you can stretch, though you could just point the Canada robot man cameras at it?
1415pm 15 November 2023 NASA ISS High definition video “After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life.” “The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment mounted on the ISS External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module was activated April 30, 2014 and after 5 years and 79 days was viewed by more than 318 million viewers across the globe on USTREAM (now IBM Video) alone.” You know NASA has a live streaming service now? https://science.nasa.gov/earth/a-tale-of-three-pollutants/ There’s a nice video of the Nitrogen dioxide leaving USA for European destinations???
1925pm 15 November 2023 Sky News – Excellent photos – Iceland volcano – latest: 800 new earthquakes raise volcanic eruption fears – as ‘new era of volcanic activity’ could be starting “Local authorities are monitoring the area closely, particularly the area northwest of Mt Thorbjorn near the Svartsengi power plant and the Blue Lagoon, it said.”
2045pm 15 November 2023 Italy Mount Etna – That’s a small bit more than came out the last time? A lot more in fact? Colman
2200pm 15 November 2023 Ireland – What the young people are listening to:
2300pm 15 November 2023 Tunisia Libya – Eh, those heat blooms normally there?
2305pm 15 November 2023 Ireland – You might ask about those two as well?
2320pm 15 November 2023 USA Hawaii
2330pm 15 November 2023 Italy, seriously, someone might say it to the Italians?
0005am 16 November 2023 Morocco Hey, Colman was talking about the earthquakes pulverising the rock and turning it to sand near here a few weeks ago.
0005am 16 November 2023 Spain Canary Islands, eh, you sure the new Japanese one is the only island coming up this month?
Eh, what’s the name of the island? El Hierro. You’d think the Institute of Geography would have a nametag on the island? Oh, Spaniards know the names of….
1145am 16 November 2023 France Eh, can someone see how much rain France has had so far this month? The clouds look awful think there? My backyard is sodden and rain slide down off sodden fields, I totalled a car once, it aquaplaned off the road over the rain coming off a sodden hillside, the rain on the road was about a cm deep. Near Athlone, beside a railway bridge. And how’s Ireland, the West, Shannon river levels?
1215pm 16 November 2023 ESA Earth Instagram – Feed back is always appreciated. Thank you. Colman
1305pm 16 November 2023 Mexico – You might check on that? Also Volcano Colima has been quiet since July? Is it safe to have a little scientific look?
I like this one? https://webcamsdemexico.com/webcam/puebla-panoramica-volcanes/
Can I get your other profile? It’s a little windy? Though the heated pool looks nice.
Beach clean up required, when you have time? 3 pieces of plastic every beach walk, as per the nice sticker I got for free from Lahinch Surf Shop, County Clare, Ireland.
1355pm 16 November 2023 Iceland, nice to see a little snow, haven’t had any here at my place in Cork in five years according to the photo of a snowwoman I made back then, we had one fall of snow, about 2cm and the snowwoman lasted about five days. Why no snow in the other photo? Well, there’s a small heating source nearby which keeps the place roastie and toastie warm.
Growing season is a little longer, where there’s available soil?
1435pm 16 November 2023 Guatemala, Volcán de Fuego and Volcán Santa Maria have both been busy this week?
1440pm 16 November 2023 Chile, as a quick check on activity, this system looks quite cool? It’s make a nice system for the ISS, what frame speed would you need to make it look as seamless? Actually, it’s hard enough as it is, the station moves so fast.
1515pm 16 November 2023 Chile – Volcano Villaricca has been busy this week too? That’s the tall one, almost 3,000 meters. Wiki – “Villarrica is popular for climbing with guided hikes to the crater from the town of Pucón, but these may be suspended due to cloud or volcanic activity.” Eh, their alert radius is only 1km around the caldera? https://rnvv.sernageomin.cl/volcan-villarrica/ Ah, the lava does… and the melting ice does what? It’s summer time. it’s still quite cool at the town, a thousand meters below the summit? Has all the snow melted off already? Oh and rain into the caldera is going to have an effect? What effect? Well, steam and bubbling boiling lahars? Depends on if the caldera generates it’s own weather pattern due to the rising steam? It’s quite windy though, I’d call it a worry for Sunday when the wind is due to drop? Depending on soil depth, rock permeability and the amount of hot water on the mountainsides by then? Oh, I’d be worrying about the boiling mud. A wee chat today? https://rnvv.sernageomin.cl/alertas-volcanicas/# According to this it should also be on Orange alert level?
| Relevant eruptions in recent years: | 1948-1949, 1963-1964, 1971, 1984, 2015 |
1645pm 16 November 2023 New Zealand, Rotorua, the first one Insta says this was posted 12 hours ago? The second? Where that? As good as Yellowstone? Probably, because of the size of the lake? The tourist place in Yellowstone NatPark, USA called, Geyser canyon is quite a small area, though the variety of geysers and spring pools there is quite amazing.
1655pm 16 November 2023 New Zealand Whakaari/ White Island. That she blows. Watch the birdie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakaari_/_White_Island Someone she change name on camera??? No, that’s what the locals called it. The other names those are for “special people”. Like who? Oh, politicians and newspaper writers. Why? Because some civil servants “know better”. https://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/whiteisland Alert level 2, Unrest. “Eruption hazards depend on the volcano and eruption style, and may include explosions, ballistics (flying rocks), pyroclastic density currents (fast moving hot ash clouds), lava flows, lava domes, landslides, ash, volcanic gases, lightning, lahars (mudflows), tsunami, and/or earthquakes.” Colman’s NOTE The hot steam taking the crease out of your trousers, might also be a small hazard? That sarcasm Colman? Just a little. Why? Well, the White island tourist visitors, who died horrible deaths, were recently in the Irish news. Though the steam burns weren’t mentioned. They’re classed as volcanic gases? Yes, however the boiling steam and other gases are also “heavier than air” and them flowing down the mountainside is a small problem occasionally, like, Pompei had a small problem once. And only once. Wiki – “Twenty-five survivors were injured, many critically and with severe burns.” Wiki – Geology “Some of these strata have been altered to varying degrees by highly corrosive and acid hydrothermal fluids and gases.” Charges dismissed against Whakaari White Island owners | ABC news The video of “the vent opening and the volcanic gases emerging” at the start of the news article is quite scary. Oh they’re listed in UNREST HAZARDS – YELLOW ALERT Volcanic unrest hazards occur on and near the volcano, and may include steam eruptions, volcanic gases, earthquakes, landslides, uplift, subsidence, changes to hot springs, and/or lahars (mudflows). Volcanic environment hazards may include hydrothermal activity, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic gases, and/or lahars (mudflows). Colman’s NOTE while traditional lahars are from India and high up in the mountains and due to catastrophic ice melts and mudflows, the ones in volcanic events are BOILING MUD FLOWS. The faster the flow, the steeper the hillside, the hotter the water stays, the slower it cools down and if the ground is already “quite warm” it stays hot enough to cook on all the way to the lake or sea. You can’t predict there’s a lake? Oh, if there’s enough water, there’ll be a lake or a river as far as the ocean. It could be an inland sea? Oh, like the Med? Doesn’t rain up there too often, too close to the Sahara. Yes, and there was just that flood in Libya, doesn’t rain in the Sahara and all that. Why is it mud? Well, normally the SO2 makes H2SO4 and the acid eats the chemicals holding the rocks together, it’s part of the reason Sahara has so little vegetation, the volcanoes in the Canary Islands and before them the ones in Mexico and Guatemala etc. in soil conditions it’s the same when the cattle piss so much the ureic acid kills the chemicals holding the soil together. Strangely its the stickyness which makes two sand bits have a gap between them. The clays sit down, fine particles squeeze in the gaps and the soil go squishy and waterlogged, and it doesn’t grow anything anymore. It becomes bogland where there’s loads of water. Amazon is the big version, Congo is quite different to Amazon. There’s only bog forest in some places to the north, where the Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira stuff blows accross towards Ghana and West Africa. You’re presuming, well, I only saw pictures of Amazon, Kisangani, the area I saw is quite plain like. As in? As in “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” My mother taught me that one. Colman Plains? Wildebeasts, piss, soil, Okavango delta. It’s amazing what you learn watching Mr Attenborough. Planet Earth, I bought a few copies. Ireland, Oak trees, New Zealand, Kauri trees, Australia, Eucalyptus trees. Unusual leaf chemistry. Quite acidic. Colman Silly question? New Zealand, no predators between little birdies in burrows and the Moa? Why? You ever seen a cassowary run? An ostrich? Moa 12 ft tall, top speed? just faster than the lava or the lahar flow? Or maybe the emerging volcanic gases? It’s called survival of the fastest in some places.
1935pm 16 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Moana Loa ??? A M3.1 is actually quite high for such squish rocks? Is there a vent closed, a rock fall inside the tube? Can you check for corresponding events before the 2022 eruption? Why? Well, if it’s a tube contracting or expanding because of the time of year, a similar outcome might occur? It’s a question of looking well before the event instead of just before, the pressure has to build up before the steam container on the train is ready to whistle. There used to be pressure release valves? What would it look like in a volcano? A big rock acting as a hinge? Volcanic gases produce ??? Unusual chemical formations and crystals. The strangest idea? Actually it’s in Jules Verne (Found this by accident – A journey to the centre of a Jules Verne classic – Financial Times Jules Verne themed tour in Iceland, I presume it’s originally from the Dublin Bloom’s day parade idea.) Journey to the Centre of the Earth CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT? “Then there appeared confounded together and intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of the order Myrtaceae—leaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris. It was enough to drive the most ingenious classifier of the upper regions out of his mind, and to upset all his received ideas about botany.” CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT “In truth, the liquid column of water had wholly disappeared to give place to dense masses of boiling eruptive matter. The temperature was becoming utterly insupportable, and a thermometer exposed to this atmosphere would have marked between one hundred and eighty-nine and one hundred ninety degrees Fahrenheit. Perspiration rushed from every pore. But for the extraordinary rapidity of our ascent we should have been stifled.” Anyway, couldn’t find the quote about a diamond cave in the Project Gutenberg version Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne Griffith and Farran, 1871. You might read it for yourself, Colman’s conclusion – Titanium Oxide would condense at a lower temperature than other materials and make a lumpy bit at a certain temperature and might not be ejected, after time a big ball of the stuff might be sitting as a valve on top of the vent? Yes, diamond is another possibility, though if that were true? Actually, the Carbon is quite reactive. Carbon, time, heat and oxygen make CO2. Vent contracts, ball shoots up, etc. SciTechDaily – Journey to the Center of the Earth: Using Diamond Anvils to Simulate the Earth’s Core “When compared to this new measurement, the density of the Earth’s outer core appears to be about 8 percent less dense than pure liquid iron. The suggestion here is that there are additional lighter elements in the molten outer core that are currently unidentified. This research could aid others in their quest to reveal more unobtainable secrets from deep within the Earth.” Reference: “Equation of State of Liquid Iron under Extreme Conditions” by Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Guillaume Morard, Yoichi Nakajima, Kei Hirose, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Saori I. Kawaguchi, Taku Tsuchiya, Daisuke Ishikawa, Naohisa Hirao and Yasuo Ohishi, 22 April 2020, Physical Review Letters.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.165701 Japan gets a big thank you, from Colman. Oh, and NASA, water falling leaving hexagons? CO2 in Mars atmosphere? Carbonic acid? preferential distribution of ions and pop the pressure is distributed upwards, there aren’t cracks, it’s not a contraction process and there are sandy patches above of non similar materials which don’t blow away in the wind, possibly polar, CO3- is a polar ion. Polar chemicals stay together longer. TiO2. Orthorhombic? That’s hexagonal isn’t it? https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemical-engineering/titanium-oxide#:~:text=Titanium%20oxide%20is%20commonly%20used,rutile%20at%20800%C2%B0C.
The European Union removed the authorization to use titanium dioxide (E 171) in foods, effective 7 February 2022, with a six months grace period. Titanium dioxide dust, when inhaled, has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen, meaning it is possibly carcinogenic to humans. Well, that’s a slight annoyance, all my walls are painted with it. Matt white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide “Due to the potential that long-term ingestion of titanium dioxide may be toxic, particularly to cells and functions of the gastrointestinal tract, preliminary research is assessing its possible role in disease development, such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, as of 2021.” It’s also in some tablets? I had an allergic reaction to one a few years ago. Colman Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Titanium Dioxide Classified as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans 2006 Big thank you to Canada, from Colman.
Oh, we’re only uncovering this stuff now. Actually it’s because some of us people who read are retired and reading.
2335pm 16 November 2023 USA Villa of Brule “This photograph is of the Villa of Brule near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and was taken by John C.H. Grabill. There was even a great Indian camp on this villa.” https://www.heraldweekly.com/photos-of-the-old-wild-west-part3/21?xcmg=1 Was there a photo of the vegetation around the base of Devils Tower in one of his? If he was there I’m sure he would have taken a photo of the tower? Why? Well, you might look for signs of a small cave opening with a path through the vegetation, it would have been well sealed. Early air photos might have seen it either? 1910s or 1920s perhaps? Locations of airfields? Actually they just used roads, they were quite small aircraft. Touring planes offering plane rides? Amateur air photography then would have been experimental? Fast exposure films etc. Though there were some really large film sizes with large grain photos, small amounts of light turning the entire grain? It wasn’t properly resourced with ex-military equipment until after WW1? Colman
0001am 17 October 2023 Iceland Unusual for ESCM to give an earthquake so big while Iceland hasn’t registered over a M 3.0, however, given the number of M2.0s, I’d say they might have bundled the energies together and said maybe it’s important to let people know there might be something coming up the pipe?
News | Iceland Monitor | Mon 13 Nov 2023 | 16.30 GMT A lot of damage in Grindavík
News | Iceland Monitor | Thu 16 Nov 2023 | 6.00 GMT Not a question of if, but when
0020am 17 November 2023 Yemen Now this one, this is very important.
Why this important? Well, last February there was a small catastrophe in a far away place called Turkey and it had to do with a plate moving North. Now, the arse of this plate has just shifted forwards, so wondering when the front of it is going to shift again is a very good question? Bandar Abbas in a week or two, a couple of M5.0s or a M6.0? And if there isn’t any? Oh, then I’d be seriously worried, because that would mean the ratchet is broken. 1400km approx. The plate sliding forward just 1 cm, the caterpillar, 1,700 km wide and 2,500 long sliding forwards moving his legs at about 100km per day, what does 1,700km x 2500km x 1km deep weigh approximately? And the energy released when it meets an empty valley and pushes the nice soft rocks in front of it? How you know plate hard? Oil under it, impermeable, old, hard rock. Why rock at Turkey soft? Volcanoes, rock soft, easy tunnelling. Big volcano blew top off long ago, they call it Greece now. Where rock blown up from Greece? Oh, that’s the desert you call Saudi Arabia. Why happening? Well, volcano it shoot caterpillar towards ocean, caterpillar she returning. It happen long, long ago. Caterpillar, she remember, she broke Africa. They call break African Rift valley. Nile to Great lakes. Broken, no, torn, like leaf under your dinner. (Colman, complete supposition??? Yes, however I just see things in a little longer perspective than you and while the Kilimanjaro puncture wound left a rather large deep hole and a very large circular blast crater pattern around it, you’ve got to ask, was the wound self inflicted or from space?) Now, if you measure the diameter and calculate the impact from space, we’d be probably making alcohol as little yeast cells instead of talking, so was there a lumpy bit thrown up so high, it came down at Africa? What would it look like? A large Devils tower? And were there any other bits? Kimberly diamond mine? South Africa? Angle of impact? Up comes down vertically, accross comes down at an angle? I’m talking about the caterpillar theory? Well, the other version says it crawled up out of the sea of it’s own accord and that’s a little off the Occam’s razor chart. And the oil? Well, maybe it was a very deep bog before the explosion covered it with really hard hot lava which solidified slowly? No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age Oh, that’s Atlas Obscura and it’s quite a nice story, Minoa etc. I’m talking about a thousand times larger, old, old magic. Times of dinosaurs and things before dinosaurs and a large asteroid impact somewhere else causing a pop. Why? Because an energy event like that would need some sort of external input, going back most people talk about the Richter 10 popular book theory of the Moon hitting earth, however it’s the catalyst to get you wondering about the effect of other space events. It is quite possible the caterpillar was hit in the arse by a meteor and jumped forward towards the ocean and now she is returning. And how would you learn this? Well, I’d ask a fxxking question in geology class is how. My geology book is a little scant on those sorts of theories for causes of the eruptions, it just gives epoch dates, within a hundred thousand years or so. What size of event could cause this? Oh, the Canary Islands? When did they pop up and why were there loads of holes? There weren’t there was one … big … hole. Oh? And now it’s bed time, wasn’t that a nice ending. Is there a sequel? A second episode? It was a book, they normally stood alone. There are loads of sequential books? There are some sequential books, it was a short time period when that type of publishing was popular, only two hundred years or so. What happened after that? Oh, well the book just got longer, you read along as it was written, it was a new style, was quite popular, what happened then? Oh time viewing, people looked back to see what really happened, quite a scary time that was. You remember it? Some of it, I had some of the memories removed, far too scary, it’s easier on the mind to read about those things in books than to see them first hand.
1400pm 17 November 2023 Indonesia – Taal volcano Rappler.com Taal Volcano sulfur dioxide shoots up to new 2023 high on November 15 NOV 15, 2023 7:25 PM PHT ACOR ARCEO “MANILA, Philippines – Taal Volcano’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission remains elevated, reaching a new 2023 high of 11,695 tons per day on Wednesday, November 15.” “Since September 2023, emissions have averaged 6,267 tons per day.” Eh, their list is a little short? Oh, it’s a state system same as the USA, no local cities or industry, no money no science, no volcano monitoring. The USA jumped it to Federal requirements after Mount St Helens. It’s a good start though. Yes it is, and I really like that they start with Volcanoes – Earthquakes – Tsunamis – No messing with, oh, its really sunny here, and I like they have a banner headline at present with Reduce Violence against Women.
Earthquake preparedness? Where’s the 2023 update? Annual updates? Latest information? Nothing has changed? 2023 – Reviewed and authorised 01 Jan 2023.
https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/earthquake/earthquake-preparedness
1735pm 17 November 2023 USA
1310pm 18 November 2023 Spain Earthquakes here were so important that the church built a large monastery and sanctuary here, can you see what normally happens after earthquakes here and did the church keep records of earthquakes felt? Correspondence? Correlation with volcanoes and other disasters in the Mediterranean and Europe in general? Weather? Why? Moist air is heavier than dry air?
1330pm 18 November 2023 New Zealand Silly question? Very silly in fact, if there’s a weight of air on the advancing plate and light airs on the “defending” plate, then advance is difficult. If the weight pushes the “defending” plate downwards and light airs lift the advancing plate, the plate has an easier time moving forwards? Can you have a little look at past weather? Big one? Christchurch, NZ, earthquake? I visited the place a few years after the earthquake there, it was quite unexpected.
Does this have anything to do with the steam at White Island? Whakatane?
1345pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Colman? The earthquakes are slowing, why aren’t they moving back yet? Well, it’s similar to a piece of ice contracting around a non contracting core, while the smaller cracks slow, the chance of a large crack happening at a moment of high stress is still quite high. I’d be looking at temperatures on the surface surrounding the area and generating a thermal gradient curve, though it’s really hard not knowing the temperatures in the magma. Can you draw a picture?
1400pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Now this would be a rough cross section North/South on the Reykjanes peninsula. The hard shell is what the soft rock around it is contracting around, maybe a couple of millimenters every kilometer per degree centigrade and the hard shell is only contracting a millimeter or two ever kilometer per degree centigrade. So it’s like a bimetalic strip, differences in expansion and cooling cause changes and even bimetalic strips experience small cracks. It’s why you use the same materials for the screws and bolts in an aircraft skin, while the harder materials are better for holding, the Mustang plane had aluminium rivets in an aluminium skin. And? Well, there’s still a chance that the harder shell contracting will push the magma up to the surface. Yes, there is. The Islandics are predicting it soon. Well, if I was them I’d be shouting the fxxking sky is falling, Odin is angry, anything to get the people out of the area.
1415pm 18 November 2023 Caribbean Colman, let’s do something nice? How do you place industry in the Caribbean. Oh, that’s really hard. Earthquakes here make making things difficult, the shakes mean that processes which make interlocking parts are difficult. The tolerances required require predictability of the resulting parts and one shake causes a batch failure. It’s why Ireland is good for industry, no quakes, loads of good batches, no cracking of glassware etc. It’s why we have had lots of semiconductor making here. And? Well, there are some hospitals in unusual places being built with nice rubber mats underneath to save the hospital. My brother built a building in London over an underground station which needed them to avoid the building shaking. I’d start with a few seismic sensors built into the buildings to estimate the effectiveness of the building designs. Ten or twenty years of readings and you can estimate the best building designs for placing in factories in the Caribbean. You’re not recommending how to build them? No, I’m not that good, there are far better designers and some people are building their factories like that already. I presume the Americans are looking at designs already, it’s why they moved their factories to less shaky countries years ago and now they’re moving some of them back home, now that the research has been done. Advantages in Caribbean? Actually they’re the same reasons it was unsuitable. A newly educated population craving work and sunny weather and nearby beaches and low lying urbanisation. Why? Well, if you build the new accommodations for the visiting supervisors above Tsunami danger levels and with good vibration damping, then you get good supervision and good products. Why external supervisors? Same as why army officers are mobile, if the officer has fire someone they might have to move on. It’s why there are Caribbean supervisors elsewhere and in Ireland, Dell for example, there are American supervisors here and Irish supervisors there, a friend of mine from college, he went America bound long ago.
1435pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Colman, where did you get your information from? Oh, Iceland, I had a small look at this before I made the estimate. We had a look at the standard stretch test on a plastic test specimen at UL. Try it on a composite like kevlar, carbon fibre or a chocolate bar with squares and hazelnuts, and you get unusual effects. Oh, you don’t just look at the top of the chocolate bar, you look at the underneath while you’re bending it. The cracking patterns are quite different on the underside. Now fold it over something hard and continue pressing down? The hazelnuts are pressed down. Now, release the pressure, do the hazelnuts jump up? Keep watching. In Australia there’s a similar fluid dynamics experiment with tar, it’s been watched for a long, long time. Now heat the ball of hard material, the interior chocolate melts. Withdraw the ball a little while it is melted. Now cool it with ice. Now press the chocolate down again? Measure the sounds coming out? Now try to estimate where the voids are? The temperature of the chocolate? Where? Exactly.
1500pm 18 November 2023 Ireland Colman what do you do the relax? Oh, I sit at the riverbank and watch the water flow past. Water’s up, hopefully there’s some kayakers getting some fun out of the river levels?
18 November 2023 Iceland – Why do Inuit have 300 words for snow? Thank you Iceland – SAVE ONE. https://en.vedur.is/avalanches/forecast/help#danger_table Why is one bit in Islandic, just so you know where the help came from. How do you save TWO?
Is your seismic sensor closer to the earthquake than the mountain? Why? Well, a nice warning that a rumble might be approaching Everest might be nice?
Remember that big avalanche went through the Everest base camp? Can you check the seismic monitors?
From which direction do the rumbles normally approach Everest? Can you put a sensor there?
Tourists pay for this type of information, it’s nice to be able to warn the local population too? Eh, insurance companies like it when their clients don’t claim???
1620pm 18 November 2023 Iceland – What’s missing from the table?
Avalanche has happened?
Avalanche has happened, People in danger?
Avalanche has happened, Road closed.
Avalanche has happened, Rescue work in progress.
Avalanche has happened, Road crews at work.
1645pm 18 November 2023 Poland – Zakopane – I went skiiing here, met some nice people. https://snomads.co.uk/info/avalanche-safety-in-zakopane-and-the-tatra-mountains/ Colman can read a calendar and a weather map, oh and his memory is quite good for the “important” stuff, like not dying, and similar things. The Tatra mountain snow cameras are quite cool. Dolina is a valley in the Polish language. Why is there no translation for Chochołowska? – Oh, that’s to remind you to get something warm into you when you get back to the town.
1720pm 18 November 2023 Spain I didn’t expect an answer so quickly? No one does.
1830pm 18 November 2023 USA – Anchorage, Alaska, you might have a look? UK The Guardian – Weather tracker: Anchorage on course for its snowiest November ever “Parts of Alaska have experienced considerable snowfall this autumn, with the state’s largest city on track to surpass its November record by some margin.” Fri 17 Nov 2023 09.50 CET Last modified on Fri 17 Nov 2023 17.46 CET
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1520pm 19 November 2023 Cyprus – Important
Sky News Deadly cat virus that swept Cyprus found in UK: Everything you need to know Thursday 16 November 2023 16:09, UK Josephine Franks “The deadly mutation of the virus is called feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and is generally fatal unless treated.” I presume that’s “FATAL TO CATS”? GOOGLE – “Peritonitis is a redness and swelling (inflammation) of the lining of your belly or abdomen. This lining is called the peritoneum. … “
2035pm 19 November 2023 China – Hainan volcanic field – Wikipedia – Hainan there’s quite a few nice species here, can you check corresponding species on European islands and Cape Verde, volcanic bed rock with soil containing rock lumps. Potentially the plant species were responsible for the quick growth of soil depth? Wikipedia – “A report from the Department of Land, Environment and Resources of Hainan Province states that 200 species are near extinction, with 6 species, such as Maytenus hainanensis and Sciaphila tenella already extinct.” Colman’s comment – And since persistent and poisonous weeds are normally the hardiest and first out the window with herbicides and agriculture, can you see about getting a few cultures of those species back for a look at their plant chemistry? They might be the ones for digging soils? NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNSA, Moon rock and Mars rock are very volcanic looking?
0130am 20 November 2023 South America – Today is an excellent day to learn about South American Southern Hemisphere Summertime – Climate and weather patterns.
0430am 20 November 2023 Ireland My space section is coming along https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-source-library/#Source_Space and I finished basics of the C letter countries.
Colman you’ve no viewers for your site according to WordPress.
Well, the people reading it don’t normally leave footprints and they
either own or flit into the site.
For no readers, it’s moving some arses rather quickly.
My Instagram is the same. https://www.instagram.com/colman_o_keeffe/
1220pm 20 November 2023 Iceland – Hydrology – Volcanoes ??? Good start, no river list yet, you should be able to make a picture of the rivers and be able to tap on the river on the map? Similarly station points in circles might have level colours in blue with warnings in yellow, orange, red, black etc. (Black is so bad, there have been or will be deaths?) Green is for land stuff? no, green is for on Water stuff as a contrast to the blue sea and sky. Red, Green, Blue. Any Red Port Left. Big maps, you can use LEDs? Once a day you light all the lights to see if one is out. The wind sock should be red and white with a black outline on a white background? The area is already in Yellow? You can use a square around the circular icon on the right hand screen, South, areas etc. ? The area in the 5box top right? They feel left out, give the tourists the nice place to visit? Green? Though Winter time for you, I’d start with? Blue, Cold and “alright, be careful”, Green, Warm and nice (above 10 degrees C).
0001am 11 November 2023 Iceland Icelandic Monitor News Direct: Strong earthquakes and the possibility of a volcanic eruption “A number of strong earthquakes continue to hit the southwestern corner of the country. A civil defense emergency has been declared and there is a possibility that an eruption may be imminent.”
Well, “fretting” means a few things in Ireland, so play us a tune, it’ll be a long night.
Domestic | 10.11.2023 23:20 Updated 11.11.2023 0:00 Nursing home in Grindavík badly damaged “The nursing home Víðihlíð in Grindavík has suffered a lot of damage due to earthquakes there and has now been evacuated. Water has leaked onto the floor in many places, and at one point the building almost split in two, as shown in another attached photo.”
Colman’s comment?
That’s a fxxking solid reinforced concrete foundation, snapped in two, like a twig.
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/10/vegurinn_rifnadi_undir_bilnum/
“Grindavík road was torn apart in the most powerful earthquakes this afternoon. Gunnar Stefán Bjarnason, a resident of Grindavík, and his wife were driving the road to Grindavík when it broke down and their car jumped on the road.” 2013pm UTC, Iceland time, same as Cork Time and Date by Sonja Sif Þórólfsdóttir
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/10/myndskeid_skjalfti_reid_yfir_i_beinni_utsendingu/ “Fannar Jónasson, the mayor of Grindavík, was a little shaken when an earthquake struck when he was being interviewed live on Rúv’s news program this evening. A sharp series of earthquakes is currently underway on the Reykjanes Peninsula and there are clear signs of the formation of a magma tunnel to the surface. Volcanologist Ármann Höskuldsson told mbl.is at ten o’clock this evening that he expected an eruption in about four to six hours, or at the latest at noon tomorrow.”
Rúv – Islandic state radio
0030am 11 Nov 2023 Iceland
0045am 11 November 2023 Iceland https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/11/beint_grindavik_rymd_og_likur_a_eldgosi/
0100am 11 November 2023 10.11.2023 11:22 pm A magma passage could be under Grindavík “On the map you can see the seismic activity under Grindavík this evening.” by Sonja Sif Þórólfsdóttir
0115am 11 November 2023 Iceland – Eh, that’s not falling off as fast as we expected?
Now, bear in mind that a number of the earthquakes on the left hand side are sliding out of the number of earthquakes in the 48 hours and do not have immediate relevance to the size of this particular event. And my headache is back, I’m going to have to put my feet up again for ten or twenty minutes.
0130am 11 November 2023 Iceland And every now and again you look behind you. 0139pm phone warning Iceland M 4.1
0150am 11 November 2023 Iceland
Eh, Copernicus?
Where for art thou, Copernicus?
Shakespeare? This is more like a Greek tragedy?
Actually I’d call it “baby of Loki and a large female bear”? Colman? Where did you come up with that? Well, when did the first cart pulled by two horses, with eight legs arrive in Scandinavia? You read any Norse Mythology (wiki book_NeilGaiman_2017)? I think they called that one some sort of world snake? Jörmungandr (wiki) Angrboða (wiki) “Saturn’s moon Angrboda is named after her.” Male or female? Colman? Well, will he stand proud, or will there be many kids around her? It’s the difference between a . https://www.iceland.org/ Oh, someone just paid to advertise their _org on Google. Oh, it doesn’t, however we do pay our CEO a nice salary. Wiki – Iceland
0230am 11 November 2023 Europe – And every now and again we look behind us.
World snake, Viking – left that behind long ago. Now wasn’t that a nice bed time story. You’re joking? What’s the big one at the top?
0500am 11 November 2023 Costa Rica CRI – Poás Volcano
0505am 11 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo
Lotta crabs scuttling round at the moment? Nyiragongo close up???
Santa what’s it’s face Guatamala
Fuego – Guatamala
IDN – Krakatoa – Krakatau
IDN – Gunung Merapi – Mount Merapi
IDN – Gunung Semeru – Mount Semeru – Semeru
Italy – Mount Etna – 7 day picture
Japan JPN – Iwo Jima – Iōtō – 硫黄島, “Sulfur Island” I went back and this is the earliest I can find volcanic fire on the NASA chart, is this the birthday or was it spotted before this from land? 25th October 2023 New Island? New Vent?
No idea where this is, found it looking at a volcano in Nicaragua
Phillipines – Taal Volcano
Indonesia – Mayon
SHITE – USA Hawaii – What the fxxk is that doing on my island? Yesterday? How long has it been fxxking steaming? Boss? And a mai tai for my friend…
Blessed are teh cheesemakers, is she allowed to adverise dairy products? They’re bad for cholestroel gene bad persons like himself.
Eh, should we tell the Americans? It’s a little past their bed time? Does that Green Alert say 02 Nov or 11 Feb? Not sure? Ask them about that, we’ll look silly and they’ll ask why?
0620am 11 Nov 2023 USA Hawaii Volcano Mauna Kea – There’s a camera
Is that it? Not sure, look above there, if the camera position is correct, its half way up from the third of a rectangle to the top of the screen?
Here, I’ll draw a wee ellipse around it, looks like a crater vent top?
It’s dark of the Moon, you shouldn’t be able to see squat. It’s also mostly cloudy on the weather chart.
Eh, I zoomed in a little farther, the sat photo there is really good. Can you ask them if they can see that from the airfield? Bar-b-que??? Rather large for a bar-b-que?
0705 am 11 November 2023 Iceland Well, that’s ruined these jeans. Oh, it’s an official, a level 3 coffee alert, there’s trackies and a washing machine with a 14 minute cycle, one hour spin dry, utility room, end of the corridor. Boss in? Never left, he’s on the couch in his office. It looks like it’s starting again? What did the Islandic Monitor earthquake guy say? by 1200, midday today? Why the big gaps in the data? I’d say they turned the machines off for a fxxking sleep. Two hours? I’d say the machines needed the rest, the people, I hope they got some rest too. Colman? My headache hasn’t come back, though I just checked and I’m sitting with my feet on the five arm roller under the chair instead of on the ground?
0725am 11 November 2023 Iceland Colman? Went and put feed on my bird table and had a cigarette, headache started. It’s ongoing. Putting my feet up. Oh, you think that’s me being “mad, mad, mad”
0805am 11 November 2023 Iceland, can you check if anything unusual happened on the 18th October 2023? Colman
0810am 11 November 2023 Ever seen that experiment where they play music to the sand or sugar crystals on the plate until they jump? And then they make pretty patterns? Well if you’re sitting on a big rock like me, you notice it, however if you’re sitting on a squigy lump of soil or clay, “or bog”, you don’t… actually, you do, you notice “when it slides”. Please check the planning permissions on bog? The depth of pilings? etc??? Vibrational frequencies???
Why? Wind turbines, long sticky up things, they tend to sway?
Hula girl???
0835am 11 November 2023 – Dampers, they put dampers on skyscrapers, it’s the same math as noise cancelling earphones. Wind Turbines dampers – Colman_O’Keeffe_0835amUTC
0840am 11 November 2023 Iceland – What’s it up to now?
0905am 11 November 2023 Greece
0910am 11 November 2023 Iceland A felt event? Really? The three purple ones are in the last hour. Eh, the old ones? They fell off the list. there’s no orange or yellow ones.
0920am Eh, you might look at the Azores and Canary Islands too, just for giggles???
As in “Shit”s and Giggles. Some Hero in Information Technology, Colman, I’m for bed.
0935am 11 November 2023 Caribbean and every now and again we look behind us.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc Empty at 0935am Watch this space? 30% ???
2050pm 11 November 2023 Iceland It seems to be calming in a straight line graph? Actually that’s geometric, the maximums are straight line, however you have to see the frequency of smaller quakes as volume and that’s a geometric slowdown. Define geometric? Easiest is, 1000 in a day, 100 in a day, 10 in a day, though the time periods might be lower, it’s the easiest was of calculating it, it’s a question of a quadratic function and seeing the graph and the easiest way is to calculate the area under the graph, 4 per hour in 24 hours = approximately 100. Colman? Oh, and the energy released that’s falling off at a cubed function, that’s important. Why? Well, if you take the energy as boiling the poor people heads with noise, then it reducing is a good thing. And I am talking psychologically, though I’d be putting them on Vitamin C five times RDA to boost their healing, for a couple of weeks, just in case, because Colman is a cautious bunny and boxers and football players suffered badly, for year, from little tears in their cerebellum, before we took notice.
0900am 12 October 2023 Iceland
0910am 12 November 2023 Iceland
I think the phrase is “It’s not the years. It’s the mileage.”?
0930am 12 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Mauna Loa last eruption Dec 2022
Anyone want an Hawaiian shirt back this time?
1330pm 13 November 2023 Iceland The area is still under quite a lot of stress, the peak at 4am is bottom of the morning, coldest part of the night and rock fractures occur now at the time of most stress. I’d be looking at the weather for next high pressure system causing pressure over the site and water temperatures too, though they’d have a smaller effect. It’s heating and cooling and expansions and contractions now. Oh, and check has Iceland moved laterally? Addition of material to the West would suggest movement to the East? It is the rift filling the space as America moves to the West? There are always stresses in rock when a pointy thing is stuck in it, it’s like Iceland has been hit with the pointy end of a rock hammer, the hard bits jump upwards and the soft bits just absorb the stresses. It’s like a piton getting bumped out of an ice wall. Oh, and see the quakes at the north have slowed, almost stopped? I’d check what has happened at the islands up North, if they’ve moved closer to one another and squeezed whatever was happening there? You’re saying this could emerge as a solid lump? Colman? Example? A big one? Wicklow? slow cooled magma turned to granite and sticks up like a big rocky balloon, an iceberg sitting above the rest, though it’s a bit more than density working here, it’s like a wintertime rock getting lifted out of the earth in a farmers field, you have to sift the rocks out for planting every Spring. By the way, I was talking about meteorites to someone else, Ireland the best place to look for meteorites? Metal detector along all the rock build stone walls in Connaught? Though most would have been recognised long ago, you might find one in a rusty rocky looking shell? From space? Well, you might see if there’s a radioactive one, though quite unlikely? Those used to turn up as magic rocks for curing skin diseases? Nothing grew around them. Eh, how does a heavier rock get lifted? Colman? Actually the entire field is lifted as the ground swells with water, voids are formed under the rock as smaller particles fall, the voids are filled from smaller particles from above and when the ground empties of water the rock sits higher? Do I get a Hdip or a cookie for that? Colman? Well, I gave myself an icecream, a Cornetto HB, to be precise. By the way, have any new ice cervices been formed in the Islandic glaciers? vibrations can tend to fracture ice too? Particularly hard blue ice? A little radar piccy? Though I’m not sure how clear the view of the ice surface would be? Interference from returning signals bouncing in the new cervices would be seen as error data? Comparisons to earlier error data from other known crevices? Commercial applications? Eh, some people spend loads of money going up that big Everest mountain? and others? K2 for instance?
1500pm 13 November 2023 Ireland – Windy .com The Irish Store .com weather forecast. Colman has proven a theory of his. Unwashed long hair, this time of the year, five minutes in the rain and it clings to you with no insulation value. Triskel – constellation – from Aquarius, the three water carriers, in Ireland, the Triskel represented women, men got the firewood. The triple weather systems if they join or swirl around one another could theoretically become a massive storm or might have been seen as the suppliers of the storms accross Ireland. The storms effect the water carriers most, distance to the well, necessity for water every day. The one’s who died most often during the storms were the maiden the mother and the crone. And theory realised, I was out in the wet for ten minutes the other day (after six months getting nice and properly unwashed dirty, no diseases or health hazards noticed, excepting the tendency to hypothermic possibilities when hair is dirty, greasy and wet.) to test it and Colman’s going to have a nice bath, with foam and bubbles. Oh, and adding whiskey (uisce beatha, water of life) to the stale water kept it fresh, it killed the little bugs. Vinegar works too however whiskey is much nicer and vinegar was when the brew didn’t work right. A pub lock in was when it wasn’t safe to head home until morning, or there wasn’t going to be much done tomorrow because the weather’s rotten. Silly city folk. Working in bad weather. United Nations, please check this as an epidemiology in the third world, deaths during water collecting during storm times?particularly Asia and Africa, tendency towards short haired and bald Africans surviving and where long haired Africans have long hair, traditions of hair washing and timings, when during the year? celebrations etc. and survival stories, stories which are used to tell moral tales about the clean person surviving the storm? Why? Well, North America and Australia, the hair washing and water rituals are quite well known, some North Americans and Australians also used clays and sands to wash, body skin, soap chemicals and babies shitting in streams being not nice in some places, and the South American cities had lots of water works and water channels going through their cities, in some cases quite fast flowing water channels. Save One. Keep digging. Note from the symbol shown, water poured into the first two drains into the third. Below right.
1550pm 13 November 2023 USA Hawaii
They work for you or they worked for you? Live view of Halemaʻumaʻu – temporary webcam image showing the crater lava lake; view is from the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u, looking northwest [S1cam]. Disclaimer: The webcams are operational 24/7 and faithfully record the dark of night if there are no sources of incandescence or other lights. Eh, can you put a light there so we can see if the surface is rippling? And smoke and stuff? The glow on the top left? Where’s that?
Bit chilly for camping up here? No, the grounds lovely and warm. Really? hold on and I get a thermometer out of the car, the volcano boys are always looking for new vent sites, any unusual smells while you’ve been here?
1610pm 13 November 2023 Ireland Colman, what’s your theory? 31 October, the thing about dressing up and playing costumes and stuff is, for the festival, you have to wash either before or afterwards. Hair washing saves lives, festival. Phd in 5 words? Colman? Save One. Hair washing Festival. You saved two there? She had a daughter.
You see I have a print of this and the artist generates questions. DAGDA AND THE WOMAN OF UINNIUS Jim Fitzpatrick, the colours are quite different in the print.
1750pm 13 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Earthquakes, though little ones, Colman’s an oracle. Colman can read a fxxking calender, the bit where it says the date and month.
Eh, how do you tell if Hawaii is moving? Well, this the island rising as the volcano expands due to the Earths temperature, it’s the largest on Earth so the effect is most noticeable. There is an unfortunate suction effect in some caverns (magma chambers) below the volcano, particularly noticeable as the released gas expands upwards and as the volcano sits down onto of the magma a little later. expansion causes volcano to lift – gas released, makes holes, pressure released and weight released, weight falls, lava comes up the middle annoying all sorts of important people, like who? Your fxxking boss for one. That’s you. Yes, it is. Oh the others are your bosses. Thank you for being respectful about them, yes, they do get annoyed occasionally. Now, there’s a nice brass plate in Greenwich, England, UK, I saw it once. And I presume someone has made a nice calculation of it’s present height above the centre of the Earth. That’s where the calculations are made from, so can you please find out if the island is moving? North South, East West, displacements, as well, please? GPS and be nice, ask for the European data too, please? They have nice satellite things up there too. How did the Islandics do it? Oh, old school time? They looked at the stars, Navigation 101. Angular altitude to a star is quite easy when you’ve clear skies. Look through the telescope on a what? It’s called a telescope for a reason. Encyclopaedia? there’s one in the corner, that Bond girl in the movie, she was on T. “Dr No (movie_1962)”. Longitude is quite a good book too. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Paperback – 5 Sept. 2005 Dava Sobel
1810pm 14 November 2023 Iceland
EMSC – I recommend altering your colour scheme? This is the last week 7 days picture? Why are there yellow quakes in here? Circles around the earthquakes and latest on top and the colours can vary in saturation of red through orang through yellow based on the time from now backwards for the two weeks? It’s actually a simple change to the drafting method now that the computers are much faster and can calculate the colour saturation based on time now minus time of event.
0040am 15 November 2023 Italy UK Independent Mount Etna shoots lava into night sky amid eruption after months of calm Holly Patrick | 1 day ago ITA – Italy – Colman’s Web Library
Why no ash? A few reasons? Colman?
SUMMIT ELEV: 3330M
It’s bloody cold up there, it’s winter and it’s quite high, I was up there in Summertime a few years ago and you needed a light coat. Any moisture coming out is grabbing the nearest hard object to form ice crystals let alone water droplets. I’d say if I was trodding near it I wouldn’t be using the yellow snow for drinking? Sulphur, Sulphur dioxide and water, what temperature does sulphuric acid condense at? And does it run down the mountain in spring when the temperature heats up again? Metal sulphates? Water quality locally? In some places the locals are immune because the kids died already, way back, though I wouldn’t be a tourist drinking the spring water without a little water quality check every month? https://www.ct.ingv.it/
And it’s a starry night, freezing, except for the nice warm mountain. It is a nice picture of Orion though, slightly above right of the peak? How you know that? It’s almost at the same angle outside from my backyard. That’s a very wide angle lens. It’s a bloody big mountain.
0130am 15 November 2023 Italy – Eh, is someone going to tell the Italiens their wee volcano is erupting, they seem to be ignoring the beastie? Colman? Based on their website and their past fxxkups, I wouldn’t let that lot mind a cat, let alone a dog. Website? I’d class the website as an information disaster zone, out Met office wasn’t great for the web stuff until recently, however they had RTE bleating out the information too, they only upgraded when everyone started watching more Sky and BBC news. Who the fxxk gives a shite about being on any presidency excepting that of the local rowing club when the water’s fxxking rising in the pub next door. I had a lovely brief by a Lt liaison officer when I arrived in Rome for a week for a National Day parade and then he fxxked off to the officers mess, I’m on the phone. Did we get invited to the officers mess? Seriously??? Get a few pilots in for a week, the Italair boys in Lebanon were impressive, a little gung ho, though the silly lads have been reading all that NATO waffle about security and the need for enthusiastic concentration on completing the immediate mission and they know nothing about what the actual SENIOR Commanders intent is. Who? The person trying to get early warnings to the civilian populations as laid down in United Nations and EU documents going back to the UN, 1980s and EU 2000s, there are fxxking satellites designed launched, wathing and no one telling the average person on the fxxking ground that the local volcano is erupting, or that their town is about to be flooded as opposed to, eh, can you take a picture of the flooding the local mayor is pissed. A small redesign of the website, one of the students in Venice University Architectural school perhaps, one of them in their shiny flower hats? If you need to find them, they’re drinking wine at the church. Can’t afford to get into the local pubs.
1315pm 15 November 2023 Italy It’s why no one goes back, they have to spend all this government and state money advertising the place because they can’t use the free advertising because everyone is on the make. I’m sure the 4K video is lovely and I’m sure the European Commission will be wondering why there’s a copyright stamp on the briefing video saying, this is not allowed on state media. What? Well, if we don’t buy the best and just make do, they’ll soon shut up shop and head off somewhere else. They are they’re in Guatemala too. I know that’s why the BBC has a camera crew for the best bits. The latest volcano lightening video was epic on Instagram. Di you share it? No, I’ll wait for the NASA version or the ESA version, people worth talking about. Oh, and the thank you to the fans and voters by Arnie today was amazing. Well done. It was blooming just as I took this screen shot, I’s say the video was excellent, so admire it and say, well it’s a pity, however we’d prefer to have live feed, and the thermal is really good, maybe you should invest in some proper equipment. Reliability is key and space might a bit too far for your pockets, it’s a pity about that. You know there’s shares going in SpaceX, though it’s probably going to be a share for share offering this time, to avoid losing the voting shares. Watch the birdie, ISS a few photos? Is there a possibility of a handheld view of the volcano from the station today? The clouds should be visible from up there and if you’ve a red filter, you can get infrared, they cost a few euros, I got mine second hand, cost me fifty euros for the 58mm diameter filter. A day version and a night version would be nice? Though that would be two viewings over what, 36 hours? Depending on how far around the cupola you can stretch, though you could just point the Canada robot man cameras at it?
1415pm 15 November 2023 NASA ISS High definition video “After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life.” “The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment mounted on the ISS External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module was activated April 30, 2014 and after 5 years and 79 days was viewed by more than 318 million viewers across the globe on USTREAM (now IBM Video) alone.” You know NASA has a live streaming service now? https://science.nasa.gov/earth/a-tale-of-three-pollutants/ There’s a nice video of the Nitrogen dioxide leaving USA for European destinations???
1925pm 15 November 2023 Sky News – Excellent photos – Iceland volcano – latest: 800 new earthquakes raise volcanic eruption fears – as ‘new era of volcanic activity’ could be starting “Local authorities are monitoring the area closely, particularly the area northwest of Mt Thorbjorn near the Svartsengi power plant and the Blue Lagoon, it said.”
2045pm 15 November 2023 Italy Mount Etna – That’s a small bit more than came out the last time? A lot more in fact? Colman
2200pm 15 November 2023 Ireland – What the young people are listening to:
2300pm 15 November 2023 Tunisia Libya – Eh, those heat blooms normally there?
2305pm 15 November 2023 Ireland – You might ask about those two as well?
2320pm 15 November 2023 USA Hawaii
2330pm 15 November 2023 Italy, seriously, someone might say it to the Italians?
0005am 16 November 2023 Morocco Hey, Colman was talking about the earthquakes pulverising the rock and turning it to sand near here a few weeks ago.
0005am 16 November 2023 Spain Canary Islands, eh, you sure the new Japanese one is the only island coming up this month?
Eh, what’s the name of the island? El Hierro. You’d think the Institute of Geography would have a nametag on the island? Oh, Spaniards know the names of….
1145am 16 November 2023 France Eh, can someone see how much rain France has had so far this month? The clouds look awful think there? My backyard is sodden and rain slide down off sodden fields, I totalled a car once, it aquaplaned off the road over the rain coming off a sodden hillside, the rain on the road was about a cm deep. Near Athlone, beside a railway bridge. And how’s Ireland, the West, Shannon river levels?
1215pm 16 November 2023 ESA Earth Instagram – Feed back is always appreciated. Thank you. Colman
1305pm 16 November 2023 Mexico – You might check on that? Also Volcano Colima has been quiet since July? Is it safe to have a little scientific look?
I like this one? https://webcamsdemexico.com/webcam/puebla-panoramica-volcanes/
Can I get your other profile? It’s a little windy? Though the heated pool looks nice.
Beach clean up required, when you have time? 3 pieces of plastic every beach walk, as per the nice sticker I got for free from Lahinch Surf Shop, County Clare, Ireland.
1355pm 16 November 2023 Iceland, nice to see a little snow, haven’t had any here at my place in Cork in five years according to the photo of a snowwoman I made back then, we had one fall of snow, about 2cm and the snowwoman lasted about five days. Why no snow in the other photo? Well, there’s a small heating source nearby which keeps the place roastie and toastie warm.
Growing season is a little longer, where there’s available soil?
1435pm 16 November 2023 Guatemala, Volcán de Fuego and Volcán Santa Maria have both been busy this week?
1440pm 16 November 2023 Chile, as a quick check on activity, this system looks quite cool? It’s make a nice system for the ISS, what frame speed would you need to make it look as seamless? Actually, it’s hard enough as it is, the station moves so fast.
1515pm 16 November 2023 Chile – Volcano Villaricca has been busy this week too? That’s the tall one, almost 3,000 meters. Wiki – “Villarrica is popular for climbing with guided hikes to the crater from the town of Pucón, but these may be suspended due to cloud or volcanic activity.” Eh, their alert radius is only 1km around the caldera? https://rnvv.sernageomin.cl/volcan-villarrica/ Ah, the lava does… and the melting ice does what? It’s summer time. it’s still quite cool at the town, a thousand meters below the summit? Has all the snow melted off already? Oh and rain into the caldera is going to have an effect? What effect? Well, steam and bubbling boiling lahars? Depends on if the caldera generates it’s own weather pattern due to the rising steam? It’s quite windy though, I’d call it a worry for Sunday when the wind is due to drop? Depending on soil depth, rock permeability and the amount of hot water on the mountainsides by then? Oh, I’d be worrying about the boiling mud. A wee chat today? https://rnvv.sernageomin.cl/alertas-volcanicas/# According to this it should also be on Orange alert level?
| Relevant eruptions in recent years: | 1948-1949, 1963-1964, 1971, 1984, 2015 |
1645pm 16 November 2023 New Zealand, Rotorua, the first one Insta says this was posted 12 hours ago? The second? Where that? As good as Yellowstone? Probably, because of the size of the lake? The tourist place in Yellowstone NatPark, USA called, Geyser canyon is quite a small area, though the variety of geysers and spring pools there is quite amazing.
1655pm 16 November 2023 New Zealand Whakaari/ White Island. That she blows. Watch the birdie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakaari_/_White_Island Someone she change name on camera??? No, that’s what the locals called it. The other names those are for “special people”. Like who? Oh, politicians and newspaper writers. Why? Because some civil servants “know better”. https://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/whiteisland Alert level 2, Unrest. “Eruption hazards depend on the volcano and eruption style, and may include explosions, ballistics (flying rocks), pyroclastic density currents (fast moving hot ash clouds), lava flows, lava domes, landslides, ash, volcanic gases, lightning, lahars (mudflows), tsunami, and/or earthquakes.” Colman’s NOTE The hot steam taking the crease out of your trousers, might also be a small hazard? That sarcasm Colman? Just a little. Why? Well, the White island tourist visitors, who died horrible deaths, were recently in the Irish news. Though the steam burns weren’t mentioned. They’re classed as volcanic gases? Yes, however the boiling steam and other gases are also “heavier than air” and them flowing down the mountainside is a small problem occasionally, like, Pompei had a small problem once. And only once. Wiki – “Twenty-five survivors were injured, many critically and with severe burns.” Wiki – Geology “Some of these strata have been altered to varying degrees by highly corrosive and acid hydrothermal fluids and gases.” Charges dismissed against Whakaari White Island owners | ABC news The video of “the vent opening and the volcanic gases emerging” at the start of the news article is quite scary. Oh they’re listed in UNREST HAZARDS – YELLOW ALERT Volcanic unrest hazards occur on and near the volcano, and may include steam eruptions, volcanic gases, earthquakes, landslides, uplift, subsidence, changes to hot springs, and/or lahars (mudflows). Volcanic environment hazards may include hydrothermal activity, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic gases, and/or lahars (mudflows). Colman’s NOTE while traditional lahars are from India and high up in the mountains and due to catastrophic ice melts and mudflows, the ones in volcanic events are BOILING MUD FLOWS. The faster the flow, the steeper the hillside, the hotter the water stays, the slower it cools down and if the ground is already “quite warm” it stays hot enough to cook on all the way to the lake or sea. You can’t predict there’s a lake? Oh, if there’s enough water, there’ll be a lake or a river as far as the ocean. It could be an inland sea? Oh, like the Med? Doesn’t rain up there too often, too close to the Sahara. Yes, and there was just that flood in Libya, doesn’t rain in the Sahara and all that. Why is it mud? Well, normally the SO2 makes H2SO4 and the acid eats the chemicals holding the rocks together, it’s part of the reason Sahara has so little vegetation, the volcanoes in the Canary Islands and before them the ones in Mexico and Guatemala etc. in soil conditions it’s the same when the cattle piss so much the ureic acid kills the chemicals holding the soil together. Strangely its the stickyness which makes two sand bits have a gap between them. The clays sit down, fine particles squeeze in the gaps and the soil go squishy and waterlogged, and it doesn’t grow anything anymore. It becomes bogland where there’s loads of water. Amazon is the big version, Congo is quite different to Amazon. There’s only bog forest in some places to the north, where the Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira stuff blows accross towards Ghana and West Africa. You’re presuming, well, I only saw pictures of Amazon, Kisangani, the area I saw is quite plain like. As in? As in “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” My mother taught me that one. Colman Plains? Wildebeasts, piss, soil, Okavango delta. It’s amazing what you learn watching Mr Attenborough. Planet Earth, I bought a few copies. Ireland, Oak trees, New Zealand, Kauri trees, Australia, Eucalyptus trees. Unusual leaf chemistry. Quite acidic. Colman Silly question? New Zealand, no predators between little birdies in burrows and the Moa? Why? You ever seen a cassowary run? An ostrich? Moa 12 ft tall, top speed? just faster than the lava or the lahar flow? Or maybe the emerging volcanic gases? It’s called survival of the fastest in some places.
1935pm 16 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Moana Loa ??? A M3.1 is actually quite high for such squish rocks? Is there a vent closed, a rock fall inside the tube? Can you check for corresponding events before the 2022 eruption? Why? Well, if it’s a tube contracting or expanding because of the time of year, a similar outcome might occur? It’s a question of looking well before the event instead of just before, the pressure has to build up before the steam container on the train is ready to whistle. There used to be pressure release valves? What would it look like in a volcano? A big rock acting as a hinge? Volcanic gases produce ??? Unusual chemical formations and crystals. The strangest idea? Actually it’s in Jules Verne (Found this by accident – A journey to the centre of a Jules Verne classic – Financial Times Jules Verne themed tour in Iceland, I presume it’s originally from the Dublin Bloom’s day parade idea.) Journey to the Centre of the Earth CHAPTER 36 WHAT IS IT? “Then there appeared confounded together and intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of the order Myrtaceae—leaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris. It was enough to drive the most ingenious classifier of the upper regions out of his mind, and to upset all his received ideas about botany.” CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT “In truth, the liquid column of water had wholly disappeared to give place to dense masses of boiling eruptive matter. The temperature was becoming utterly insupportable, and a thermometer exposed to this atmosphere would have marked between one hundred and eighty-nine and one hundred ninety degrees Fahrenheit. Perspiration rushed from every pore. But for the extraordinary rapidity of our ascent we should have been stifled.” Anyway, couldn’t find the quote about a diamond cave in the Project Gutenberg version Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne Griffith and Farran, 1871. You might read it for yourself, Colman’s conclusion – Titanium Oxide would condense at a lower temperature than other materials and make a lumpy bit at a certain temperature and might not be ejected, after time a big ball of the stuff might be sitting as a valve on top of the vent? Yes, diamond is another possibility, though if that were true? Actually, the Carbon is quite reactive. Carbon, time, heat and oxygen make CO2. Vent contracts, ball shoots up, etc. SciTechDaily – Journey to the Center of the Earth: Using Diamond Anvils to Simulate the Earth’s Core “When compared to this new measurement, the density of the Earth’s outer core appears to be about 8 percent less dense than pure liquid iron. The suggestion here is that there are additional lighter elements in the molten outer core that are currently unidentified. This research could aid others in their quest to reveal more unobtainable secrets from deep within the Earth.” Reference: “Equation of State of Liquid Iron under Extreme Conditions” by Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Guillaume Morard, Yoichi Nakajima, Kei Hirose, Alfred Q. R. Baron, Saori I. Kawaguchi, Taku Tsuchiya, Daisuke Ishikawa, Naohisa Hirao and Yasuo Ohishi, 22 April 2020, Physical Review Letters.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.165701 Japan gets a big thank you, from Colman. Oh, and NASA, water falling leaving hexagons? CO2 in Mars atmosphere? Carbonic acid? preferential distribution of ions and pop the pressure is distributed upwards, there aren’t cracks, it’s not a contraction process and there are sandy patches above of non similar materials which don’t blow away in the wind, possibly polar, CO3- is a polar ion. Polar chemicals stay together longer. TiO2. Orthorhombic? That’s hexagonal isn’t it? https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemical-engineering/titanium-oxide#:~:text=Titanium%20oxide%20is%20commonly%20used,rutile%20at%20800%C2%B0C.
The European Union removed the authorization to use titanium dioxide (E 171) in foods, effective 7 February 2022, with a six months grace period. Titanium dioxide dust, when inhaled, has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen, meaning it is possibly carcinogenic to humans. Well, that’s a slight annoyance, all my walls are painted with it. Matt white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide “Due to the potential that long-term ingestion of titanium dioxide may be toxic, particularly to cells and functions of the gastrointestinal tract, preliminary research is assessing its possible role in disease development, such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, as of 2021.” It’s also in some tablets? I had an allergic reaction to one a few years ago. Colman Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Titanium Dioxide Classified as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans 2006 Big thank you to Canada, from Colman.
Oh, we’re only uncovering this stuff now. Actually it’s because some of us people who read are retired and reading.
2335pm 16 November 2023 USA Villa of Brule “This photograph is of the Villa of Brule near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and was taken by John C.H. Grabill. There was even a great Indian camp on this villa.” https://www.heraldweekly.com/photos-of-the-old-wild-west-part3/21?xcmg=1 Was there a photo of the vegetation around the base of Devils Tower in one of his? If he was there I’m sure he would have taken a photo of the tower? Why? Well, you might look for signs of a small cave opening with a path through the vegetation, it would have been well sealed. Early air photos might have seen it either? 1910s or 1920s perhaps? Locations of airfields? Actually they just used roads, they were quite small aircraft. Touring planes offering plane rides? Amateur air photography then would have been experimental? Fast exposure films etc. Though there were some really large film sizes with large grain photos, small amounts of light turning the entire grain? It wasn’t properly resourced with ex-military equipment until after WW1? Colman
0001am 17 October 2023 Iceland Unusual for ESCM to give an earthquake so big while Iceland hasn’t registered over a M 3.0, however, given the number of M2.0s, I’d say they might have bundled the energies together and said maybe it’s important to let people know there might be something coming up the pipe?
News | Iceland Monitor | Mon 13 Nov 2023 | 16.30 GMT A lot of damage in Grindavík
News | Iceland Monitor | Thu 16 Nov 2023 | 6.00 GMT Not a question of if, but when
0020am 17 November 2023 Yemen Now this one, this is very important.
Why this important? Well, last February there was a small catastrophe in a far away place called Turkey and it had to do with a plate moving North. Now, the arse of this plate has just shifted forwards, so wondering when the front of it is going to shift again is a very good question? Bandar Abbas in a week or two, a couple of M5.0s or a M6.0? And if there isn’t any? Oh, then I’d be seriously worried, because that would mean the ratchet is broken. 1400km approx. The plate sliding forward just 1 cm, the caterpillar, 1,700 km wide and 2,500 long sliding forwards moving his legs at about 100km per day, what does 1,700km x 2500km x 1km deep weigh approximately? And the energy released when it meets an empty valley and pushes the nice soft rocks in front of it? How you know plate hard? Oil under it, impermeable, old, hard rock. Why rock at Turkey soft? Volcanoes, rock soft, easy tunnelling. Big volcano blew top off long ago, they call it Greece now. Where rock blown up from Greece? Oh, that’s the desert you call Saudi Arabia. Why happening? Well, volcano it shoot caterpillar towards ocean, caterpillar she returning. It happen long, long ago. Caterpillar, she remember, she broke Africa. They call break African Rift valley. Nile to Great lakes. Broken, no, torn, like leaf under your dinner. (Colman, complete supposition??? Yes, however I just see things in a little longer perspective than you and while the Kilimanjaro puncture wound left a rather large deep hole and a very large circular blast crater pattern around it, you’ve got to ask, was the wound self inflicted or from space?) Now, if you measure the diameter and calculate the impact from space, we’d be probably making alcohol as little yeast cells instead of talking, so was there a lumpy bit thrown up so high, it came down at Africa? What would it look like? A large Devils tower? And were there any other bits? Kimberly diamond mine? South Africa? Angle of impact? Up comes down vertically, accross comes down at an angle? I’m talking about the caterpillar theory? Well, the other version says it crawled up out of the sea of it’s own accord and that’s a little off the Occam’s razor chart. And the oil? Well, maybe it was a very deep bog before the explosion covered it with really hard hot lava which solidified slowly? No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age Oh, that’s Atlas Obscura and it’s quite a nice story, Minoa etc. I’m talking about a thousand times larger, old, old magic. Times of dinosaurs and things before dinosaurs and a large asteroid impact somewhere else causing a pop. Why? Because an energy event like that would need some sort of external input, going back most people talk about the Richter 10 popular book theory of the Moon hitting earth, however it’s the catalyst to get you wondering about the effect of other space events. It is quite possible the caterpillar was hit in the arse by a meteor and jumped forward towards the ocean and now she is returning. And how would you learn this? Well, I’d ask a fxxking question in geology class is how. My geology book is a little scant on those sorts of theories for causes of the eruptions, it just gives epoch dates, within a hundred thousand years or so. What size of event could cause this? Oh, the Canary Islands? When did they pop up and why were there loads of holes? There weren’t there was one … big … hole. Oh? And now it’s bed time, wasn’t that a nice ending. Is there a sequel? A second episode? It was a book, they normally stood alone. There are loads of sequential books? There are some sequential books, it was a short time period when that type of publishing was popular, only two hundred years or so. What happened after that? Oh, well the book just got longer, you read along as it was written, it was a new style, was quite popular, what happened then? Oh time viewing, people looked back to see what really happened, quite a scary time that was. You remember it? Some of it, I had some of the memories removed, far too scary, it’s easier on the mind to read about those things in books than to see them first hand.
1400pm 17 November 2023 Indonesia – Taal volcano Rappler.com Taal Volcano sulfur dioxide shoots up to new 2023 high on November 15 NOV 15, 2023 7:25 PM PHT ACOR ARCEO “MANILA, Philippines – Taal Volcano’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission remains elevated, reaching a new 2023 high of 11,695 tons per day on Wednesday, November 15.” “Since September 2023, emissions have averaged 6,267 tons per day.” Eh, their list is a little short? Oh, it’s a state system same as the USA, no local cities or industry, no money no science, no volcano monitoring. The USA jumped it to Federal requirements after Mount St Helens. It’s a good start though. Yes it is, and I really like that they start with Volcanoes – Earthquakes – Tsunamis – No messing with, oh, its really sunny here, and I like they have a banner headline at present with Reduce Violence against Women.
Earthquake preparedness? Where’s the 2023 update? Annual updates? Latest information? Nothing has changed? 2023 – Reviewed and authorised 01 Jan 2023.
https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/earthquake/earthquake-preparedness
1735pm 17 November 2023 USA
1310pm 18 November 2023 Spain Earthquakes here were so important that the church built a large monastery and sanctuary here, can you see what normally happens after earthquakes here and did the church keep records of earthquakes felt? Correspondence? Correlation with volcanoes and other disasters in the Mediterranean and Europe in general? Weather? Why? Moist air is heavier than dry air?
1330pm 18 November 2023 New Zealand Silly question? Very silly in fact, if there’s a weight of air on the advancing plate and light airs on the “defending” plate, then advance is difficult. If the weight pushes the “defending” plate downwards and light airs lift the advancing plate, the plate has an easier time moving forwards? Can you have a little look at past weather? Big one? Christchurch, NZ, earthquake? I visited the place a few years after the earthquake there, it was quite unexpected.
Does this have anything to do with the steam at White Island? Whakatane?
1345pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Colman? The earthquakes are slowing, why aren’t they moving back yet? Well, it’s similar to a piece of ice contracting around a non contracting core, while the smaller cracks slow, the chance of a large crack happening at a moment of high stress is still quite high. I’d be looking at temperatures on the surface surrounding the area and generating a thermal gradient curve, though it’s really hard not knowing the temperatures in the magma. Can you draw a picture?
1400pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Now this would be a rough cross section North/South on the Reykjanes peninsula. The hard shell is what the soft rock around it is contracting around, maybe a couple of millimenters every kilometer per degree centigrade and the hard shell is only contracting a millimeter or two ever kilometer per degree centigrade. So it’s like a bimetalic strip, differences in expansion and cooling cause changes and even bimetalic strips experience small cracks. It’s why you use the same materials for the screws and bolts in an aircraft skin, while the harder materials are better for holding, the Mustang plane had aluminium rivets in an aluminium skin. And? Well, there’s still a chance that the harder shell contracting will push the magma up to the surface. Yes, there is. The Islandics are predicting it soon. Well, if I was them I’d be shouting the fxxking sky is falling, Odin is angry, anything to get the people out of the area.
1415pm 18 November 2023 Caribbean Colman, let’s do something nice? How do you place industry in the Caribbean. Oh, that’s really hard. Earthquakes here make making things difficult, the shakes mean that processes which make interlocking parts are difficult. The tolerances required require predictability of the resulting parts and one shake causes a batch failure. It’s why Ireland is good for industry, no quakes, loads of good batches, no cracking of glassware etc. It’s why we have had lots of semiconductor making here. And? Well, there are some hospitals in unusual places being built with nice rubber mats underneath to save the hospital. My brother built a building in London over an underground station which needed them to avoid the building shaking. I’d start with a few seismic sensors built into the buildings to estimate the effectiveness of the building designs. Ten or twenty years of readings and you can estimate the best building designs for placing in factories in the Caribbean. You’re not recommending how to build them? No, I’m not that good, there are far better designers and some people are building their factories like that already. I presume the Americans are looking at designs already, it’s why they moved their factories to less shaky countries years ago and now they’re moving some of them back home, now that the research has been done. Advantages in Caribbean? Actually they’re the same reasons it was unsuitable. A newly educated population craving work and sunny weather and nearby beaches and low lying urbanisation. Why? Well, if you build the new accommodations for the visiting supervisors above Tsunami danger levels and with good vibration damping, then you get good supervision and good products. Why external supervisors? Same as why army officers are mobile, if the officer has fire someone they might have to move on. It’s why there are Caribbean supervisors elsewhere and in Ireland, Dell for example, there are American supervisors here and Irish supervisors there, a friend of mine from college, he went America bound long ago.
1435pm 18 November 2023 Iceland Colman, where did you get your information from? Oh, Iceland, I had a small look at this before I made the estimate. We had a look at the standard stretch test on a plastic test specimen at UL. Try it on a composite like kevlar, carbon fibre or a chocolate bar with squares and hazelnuts, and you get unusual effects. Oh, you don’t just look at the top of the chocolate bar, you look at the underneath while you’re bending it. The cracking patterns are quite different on the underside. Now fold it over something hard and continue pressing down? The hazelnuts are pressed down. Now, release the pressure, do the hazelnuts jump up? Keep watching. In Australia there’s a similar fluid dynamics experiment with tar, it’s been watched for a long, long time. Now heat the ball of hard material, the interior chocolate melts. Withdraw the ball a little while it is melted. Now cool it with ice. Now press the chocolate down again? Measure the sounds coming out? Now try to estimate where the voids are? The temperature of the chocolate? Where? Exactly.
1500pm 18 November 2023 Ireland Colman what do you do the relax? Oh, I sit at the riverbank and watch the water flow past. Water’s up, hopefully there’s some kayakers getting some fun out of the river levels?
18 November 2023 Iceland – Why do Inuit have 300 words for snow? Thank you Iceland – SAVE ONE. https://en.vedur.is/avalanches/forecast/help#danger_table Why is one bit in Islandic, just so you know where the help came from. How do you save TWO?
Is your seismic sensor closer to the earthquake than the mountain? Why? Well, a nice warning that a rumble might be approaching Everest might be nice?
Remember that big avalanche went through the Everest base camp? Can you check the seismic monitors?
From which direction do the rumbles normally approach Everest? Can you put a sensor there?
Tourists pay for this type of information, it’s nice to be able to warn the local population too? Eh, insurance companies like it when their clients don’t claim???
1620pm 18 November 2023 Iceland – What’s missing from the table?
Avalanche has happened?
Avalanche has happened, People in danger?
Avalanche has happened, Road closed.
Avalanche has happened, Rescue work in progress.
Avalanche has happened, Road crews at work.
1645pm 18 November 2023 Poland – Zakopane – I went skiiing here, met some nice people. https://snomads.co.uk/info/avalanche-safety-in-zakopane-and-the-tatra-mountains/ Colman can read a calendar and a weather map, oh and his memory is quite good for the “important” stuff, like not dying, and similar things. The Tatra mountain snow cameras are quite cool. Dolina is a valley in the Polish language. Why is there no translation for Chochołowska? – Oh, that’s to remind you to get something warm into you when you get back to the town.
1720pm 18 November 2023 Spain I didn’t expect an answer so quickly? No one does.
1830pm 18 November 2023 USA – Anchorage, Alaska, you might have a look? UK The Guardian – Weather tracker: Anchorage on course for its snowiest November ever “Parts of Alaska have experienced considerable snowfall this autumn, with the state’s largest city on track to surpass its November record by some margin.” Fri 17 Nov 2023 09.50 CET Last modified on Fri 17 Nov 2023 17.46 CET
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1520pm 19 November 2023 Cyprus – Important
Sky News Deadly cat virus that swept Cyprus found in UK: Everything you need to know Thursday 16 November 2023 16:09, UK Josephine Franks “The deadly mutation of the virus is called feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and is generally fatal unless treated.” I presume that’s “FATAL TO CATS”? GOOGLE – “Peritonitis is a redness and swelling (inflammation) of the lining of your belly or abdomen. This lining is called the peritoneum. … “
2035pm 19 November 2023 China – Hainan volcanic field – Wikipedia – Hainan there’s quite a few nice species here, can you check corresponding species on European islands and Cape Verde, volcanic bed rock with soil containing rock lumps. Potentially the plant species were responsible for the quick growth of soil depth? Wikipedia – “A report from the Department of Land, Environment and Resources of Hainan Province states that 200 species are near extinction, with 6 species, such as Maytenus hainanensis and Sciaphila tenella already extinct.” Colman’s comment – And since persistent and poisonous weeds are normally the hardiest and first out the window with herbicides and agriculture, can you see about getting a few cultures of those species back for a look at their plant chemistry? They might be the ones for digging soils? NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNSA, Moon rock and Mars rock are very volcanic looking?
0130am 20 November 2023 South America – Today is an excellent day to learn about South American Southern Hemisphere Summertime – Climate and weather patterns.
0430am 20 November 2023 Ireland My space section is coming along https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/colmans-source-library/#Source_Space and I finished basics of the C letter countries.
Colman you’ve no viewers for your site according to WordPress.
Well, the people reading it don’t normally leave footprints and they
either own or flit into the site.
For no readers, it’s moving some arses rather quickly.
My Instagram is the same. https://www.instagram.com/colman_o_keeffe/
1220pm 20 November 2023 Iceland – Hydrology – Volcanoes ??? Good start, no river list yet, you should be able to make a picture of the rivers and be able to tap on the river on the map? Similarly station points in circles might have level colours in blue with warnings in yellow, orange, red, black etc. (Black is so bad, there have been or will be deaths?) Green is for land stuff? no, green is for on Water stuff as a contrast to the blue sea and sky. Red, Green, Blue. Any Red Port Left. Big maps, you can use LEDs? Once a day you light all the lights to see if one is out. The wind sock should be red and white with a black outline on a white background? The area is already in Yellow? You can use a square around the circular icon on the right hand screen, South, areas etc. ? The area in the 5box top right? They feel left out, give the tourists the nice place to visit? Green? Though Winter time for you, I’d start with? Blue, Cold and “alright, be careful”, Green, Warm and nice (above 10 degrees C).
0205am 22 November 2023 USA Hawaii
0210am 22 November 2023 Sorry, was a little busy yesterday.
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-b-colmans-web-library/
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-a-colmans-web-library/
Had a look at this start point, (Oh, when the country list is complete, that’s only my start point.) today on my phone and now I have to figure out a nice format for the pages for phone reading, some of the menus are a little small and the wordpress link-here “surrounds” are a little quirky. Z looks ok, however more countries, such U and the menu for each country looks rather busy, I might go back to a return to top of page menu-button again?
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-z-colmans-web-library/
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-u-colmans-web-library/
0225am 22 November 2023 USA Hawaii Eh, severe lack of yellow and empty circles on this map? They fall off the end of some sort of list?
0230am 22 November 2023 Eh, when I went to look at the alert, it brought me to here and I couldn’t see the alert because it was below the end of the screen on my computer screen? I’d say the Get Help button is a small cry for some technical support?
0240am 22 November 2023 USA Hawaii – It is quite steamy, isn’t it. Is there any underground streams running down into the volcano? Like through the bottom of the caldera on the top? Since heat and water normally make boiling water and steam? Every watched a coffee percolator? Ever wondered how he/she came up with the idea? Oh, and no gentleman should be without a cocktail shaker, if you invert the lid, you have a nice strainer for your??? tea and coffee making. (I actually think about why?) And it’s nice for boiling water in too, I have a lovely metal one. (Here’s a nice cocktail shaker set, flying tiger copenhagen etc.) As for coffee percolators, this one seems to have fit our army tea pots, and did you know? you could steam your vegetables in it too? Never liked the aluminium versions though. https://cottagecraftworks.com/old-fashion-stove-top-coffee-percolator
0330am 22 November 2023 My last half hours work lost because I cursed when I saw the attractive pale lemon colour of the warning and my version is:
USA – Hawaii – Volcano Kilauea – YELLOW ALERT – 21 November 2023
Quick Facts –Elevation: 1,222 (m) see below? it says 1,247 meters?
Threat Potential: Very High* https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea
*based on the National Volcano Early Warning System
0405am 22 November 2023 – I recommend the bathroom anti-fungal paint, the black mould loves the extra SO2 in the atmosphere. You’re supposed to have a stone basin under the tap, which is constantly full to attract the SO2 away from the nice people inside. The Virtual tour is cool. Retired CBRN Defence instructor. Colman Oh, and a few air plants. The ones which grow without soil? They’re the best for the offices as you don’t have a watering can, just a nice water spray mister, my uncle used to have them in his office in London in 1986. They improve air quality, the water attracts the ozone and SO2 and NO2 etc. , London smog from traffic congestion and all that. https://www.airplantsireland.ie/
The ones top left in the card pictured those were the ones my uncles secretary used to water every few days. Colman – Woops, I know the answer to this. There’s a bit more to it than the light level, similar to the mosses and lichens, they get certain nutrients directly from the air and making new cells in particular requires Sulphur and Nitrogen and they get theirs from the air. If they’re blooming quickly indoors than maybe you shouldn’t be in that room? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia “Tillandsia is a genus of around 650 species of evergreen, perennial flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, native to the forests, mountains and deserts of the Neotropics, from northern Mexico and the southeastern United States to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to central Argentina.” “Some are aerophytes, which have a minimal root system and grow on shifting desert soil.”
Desert plants? – Colman’s comment Volcanic-desert plants. Oh, you want them to flower? Smoke a few cigars in the greenhouse. SO2, NO2 and bingo.
Oh, orchids, how much are those orchids? The plant only flowers once in fifty years and it’s so difficult to tell when? Eh, smell the air? Why? Volcano wind, she blowing, see if plant is blooming? Oh, don’t use the match to light your cigar, bad for you, just light a few of the sulphur matches, does the job. the NO2 that’s from the cigar. Check which smelly candles have them in? Greenhouse Sulphur Candles 225g Kill Greenhouse Pests and Spores (1) Depends on how much you use. – Withdrawn from Use British Horticultural Society https://www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/withdrawn-chemicals
Active ingredient Sulphur (Green sulphur)
Brand name(s) Vitax green sulphur
Main use For control of powdery mildew on many fruit, ornamentals and vegetables and storage rots of bulbs, corms and tubers. Also useful for treating greenhouse staging, seed trays and boxes where moulds are likely to occur
Last date of use 31.12.11
Active ingredient Sulphur (Yellow sulphur)
Brand name(s) Vitax yellow sulphur
Main use For control of powdery mildew on many fruit, ornamentals and vegetables and storage rots of bulbs, corms and tubers. Also useful for treating greenhouse staging, seed trays and boxes where moulds are likely to occur
Last date for use 31.12.11
Google – People also ask – How do I get my air plant to flower? Provide Bright Light If your climate is warm, try placing your mature plant outdoors with filtered light and adequate moisture and it should jump-start the blooming cycle. Avoid placing air plants in windowless rooms or bathrooms as they will not receive enough sunlight to produce the energy needed to bloom! 10 Jul 2023
0600am 22 November 2023 USA Hawaii – Iceland – A small collaborative chat about how to model the recent events on Reykjanes to estimate the damage caused by the M twiddly bit 6 event in Iceland? To estimate it? Well, you get the model to predict the event and then see if it’s prediction is close to the actual event and then see if it’ll model something else? Why the relatively large one up at the top of the map on the second picture? How you know that? Looked at all the other maps and they’re not on the island or near waters. Well, Iceland has been pushing forwards, forwards and now it’s stopped. And? Well, the front of the pushybit has just realised its got nothing pushing it forward anymore and it has sprung back a little.
1540pm 22 November 2023 Europe GDACS – Sorry you wanted to interrupt me to tell me how well you read the weather? Why drought in a tropical rainforest? Well, there’s a thing called transpiration and the moisture is lifted by the trees into the air. And? Well, you’ve cut down all the trees. https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/#/echo-flash-items/latest
1635pm 22 November 2023 Iceland Reykjanes – Nice YouTube Livestream here – Live Science .com Iceland volcano LIVE: Live stream shows earthquake activity at center of danger zone By Harry Baker, Hannah Osborne Contributions from Alexander McNamara last updated about 23 hours ago. “The feed, from the University of Cambridge Volcano Seismology Group, shows earthquakes being recorded at the Melhóll seismic station, which sits almost directly above the magma dike.” Why is it called that? Mel, irish-sweet, hole, there was a mine there. Mel, it’s flour in Islandic? Well, biscuits are sweet and cow butter was unusual there and Paddys, we make butter. It was a long time ago.
1655pm 22 November 2023 Iceland
Oh, and GDACS – Whoever came up with the columns list, he/she/it gets a bottle of Irish whiskey for holidays. And I don’t care if their retired, send one to their workplace, so they know, even though they’ve left, they’re efforts are still appreciated.
1755pm 22 November 2023 Dominican Republic BBC News Dominican Republic: At least 21 dead after storm brings torrential rain Published 2 days ago “”Dominican President Luis Abinader called it the “largest rainfall event ever” in the country’s history, following torrential storms over the past 48 hours.””
1820pm 22 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo Flooding https://floodlist.com/tag/democratic-republic-of-the-congo https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/#/echo-flash-items/latest FloodList is funded by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
1905pm 22 November 2023 Ireland Office of Public Works https://www.flooding.ie/ https://www.water.ie/help/flooding/ https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/ CARO – Climate Action Regional Offices (Cabhair – Help – language Irish) https://www.caro.ie/knowledge-hub/climate-action-adaptation/flooding https://floodlist.com/tag/ireland
MapCarta Kiltha River
1935pm 22 November 2023 Europe
1950pm 22 November 2023 Greece – Italy You might have someone look at that? Oh, and the Italian one, though that’s at 10km depth.
https://emergenze.protezionecivile.gov.it/en/seismic/
https://www.iai.it/en/news/italy-earthquake-civil-security-crisis-management
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/what/civil-protection/national-disaster-management-system/italy_en
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/italian-civil-defense-teams-share-their-experience-of-helping-victims-in-quake-hit-turkiye/2838825
2040pm 22 November 2023 Logistics – Pallets are normally timber, the platform supports the load. The wooden bits which hold the platform off the ground are normally wooden blocks with the grain horizontal. Timber is an elastic material and in compression it squeezes nicely and normally returns to it’s original shape. Where a fracture of the timber has occurred, it normally means that the load must be checked for overstressing in transport. The material is also nice in that it is poor in the transmission of vibration and also protects the load from local vibrations, normally those from the vehicle carrying the load. In an old Irish building, the floor was normally timber, the reasons for this are twofold, one, the occupants are protected from vibrations from foreign earthquakes, rain and hailstones, and road traffic, two, the building was protected from the concurrent jumping up and down caused by frivolities like the pastime of Irish dancing. In military circles, the phenomena caused the order that the soldiers should break step crossing a bridge, and similarly having been in a really good disco in Lahinch, the walls shook when the disco was hopping, the timber first story floor having been cemented into the wall structure.
2100pm 22 November 2023 Italy – Mount Etna – This has been really quiet the last two days compared to the last two weeks? The earthquake two days ago north of Vulcano?
0150am 23 November 2023 USA NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory SEVERE WEATHER 101 Flood Basics https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/floods/ Eh, there’s a whole load of baloney going round? https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/ http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/data/education/hwp-thunderstorms.pdf
In the Aer Corp we learnt thunderstorms off one A4 photocopied page and while yere nice photygraps be delicious, there’s a whole load of we know big words, we smart, and a load of, actually, we aren’t very good teachers. Oh, and I’d severely change the size of the hailstones required for a severe thunderstorm to a hailstorm? Level 1, 2, 3 etc and consider that Hailstorms, they’ll be on other planets too? And the thunderstorm Zeus like, Καταιγίδα, not a frilly clothed nymph is she, she sits over a volcano, throwing beautiful plasma events, see Taal Volcano photos for an idea of what the Pleb is talking about. https://languagedrops.com/word/en/english/greek/translate/thunderstorm/
0335am 23 November 2023 Africa – Someone might ask how bad this is going to get? It’s only November??? Southern Hemisphere Summer has only started. Global Weather Hazards Summary November 17 – 23, 2023 LAST ITEM ??? 8. Maximum temperatures are expected to be abnormally hot in parts of southeastern Africa. Oh, and by the way you might tell them, it’s much more efficient to store your reports as UnitedNationsGlobalWeatherHazardsReportYR02023MN11DY17-23, it sorts nicely in alphabetical/numerical sorts in the databases. If you want your new one on top of your computer file folder you press the sort “descending” button?
0400am 23 November 2023 Germany – Denmark You might look at snow shoes from 26th onwards? Looks like quite a winter ahead? By the way, my washing line has been up and dry for at least a week, and it’s been starry nights, can you check Irish rainfall for November and see about whether this is looking like our standard climate for say ten years ago excepting that everything is a month later because of the increased temperatures? windy .com weather forecast, I had a quick peek ahead.
0415am 23 November 2023 Turkey Türkiye – Eh, Kırklareli Kırklareli Merkez/Kırklareli Türkiye – You might have a look see if anyone is camping out tonight? in fact, at all, this week? The last floods were only back in September and are the roads fixed yet? The drains still a little clogged etc. ? And yes, there is a reason why Hungarian sounds like Finnish, though the Ottomans seem to have moved them up to Hungary, ’bout the same time as Vlad held the passes in Romania. They were bodyguards to Constantinople etc. and when some people say can we bring down a few family members to mind the farm, they aren’t talking about their twins. By the way, any historical records from Constantinople speak about Viking ship burials in the deep waters near there? Where deep diving might have prevented their treasures being recovered? It was why they sank the treasures offshore.
https://www.efas.eu/en/news/storm-daniel-affects-greece-bulgaria-and-turkiye-september-2023 “Meanwhile in Kırklareli Province in northwestern Turkey, 12 people were reported swept away by flash floods in areas of a national park in Iğneada in the Demirköy district. Emergency teams carried out extensive search and rescue operations. As of 05 September, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reported that 6 people were rescued, but the bodies of two of the victims were found with 4 people still missing. By 06 September, AFAD reported 2 further fatalities.”
0555am 23 November 2023 Dem Rep of the Congo, sure what else would you be doing at 6am on a Thursday? 25 July World Drowning prevention day https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/global-report-on-drowning-preventing-a-leading-killer Have you learned to swim? If not? Why not? Pool time?
0615am 23 November 2023 Iceland The Irish Independent Explainer: When will the Iceland volcano erupt and what happens when it does? Silly question, the children in this area, it’s been volcano, volcano, volcano, every year and this winter, it’s been rather scary. Might a nice “less stressful environment” be good for them? Like a nice holiday somewhere, where the ground doesn’t shake under their feet? Like Ireland? Grindevik population 3,000 people, possibly 500 kids? Couple of weeks each? Learn English, learn Irish, learn what solid ground is? Colman
0830am 23 November 2023 Iran To be honest I wasn’t expecting this quite so soon or so small, however, I suspect one or two larger ones here in the next week too?
2200pm 23 November 2023 Iceland – Now what have we learned today? Nothing, there’s very little earthquake activity here. And? It’s of no interest to a seismologist or a volcanologist. And? And nothing. Ok, well, lets ask a different question? Why do you study the phenomena? For scientific reasons. Eh, maybe that one’s not right for us here? The little girl at the back, Inge isn’t it? To prevent people dying. That’s a really brave observation. And you are correct. So why was a silly writer like Jules Verne way, way back, writing about a Journey to the Centre of the Earth talking about Snæfellsnes? Inge? Well, if he was forward thinking enough, he would see Reykjavík is in a dangerous place and Snæfellsnes is as quiet as bedtime and maybe that’s where he was suggesting they move to? It’s a good observation. Oh, and there’s a job here for you if you’d like when you’re old enough, ask for a transition year placement here in a few years when you’re fifteen. You don’t have placements, I checked. Yes, you did and normally we don’t, however we keep very long lists, and very short lists, and your name is now on one of them. What are the long list of? Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Oh. – Colman’s comment – Iceland and Grindavik are at a junction, returning to the village in future is possible. Future volcanic activity in the area is practically guaranteed. While the natural wish to return home is strong, and the current employments of the householders are nearby, a move to a new location, one which should in future become the second city of Iceland, a town founded on the basis that safety of the population is of paramount importance, should now be considered, three thousand moving, possibly one thousand homes and the infrastructure to support them. It’s a difficult task and one for maybe ten years activity, however it’s a time for showing good leadership, and Iceland by moving the populace, similarly to what was done, in a much easier climate, I will admit, the USA Engineer Corp making the Mississippi flood routes safe, in some more severe cases, they simply moved the town to the top of the hill. There are other populations in the world under threat of earthquake and volcano and building warm homes in a cold climate, such as those in Iceland is difficult and expensive, and thus a United Nations grant should be applied for, to help those displaced by the current seismic and volcanic emergency. The attempt to live here safely was made, and even the hardy Islanders have decided that the danger is too much in the short term. They should be supported in the difficult choices, which have to be made to show example that, some places, it’s simply too dangerous. Now, while some would say, oh, this is a bad example for Moon and Mars, I would point out that we’re going there because the ground doesn’t move and in someways living on the Moon or Mars would be easier than living in Grindavik. Colman how did you come up with that? Oh, I was told a story about how the guide on Mont Blanc said to the climbers, the cloud is coming we need to make a descision in a while about whether to push for the top. Five minutes later the climbers said, maybe it’s time to go back and asked the guide, how much longer before you would have turned us back and he said, oh, about a minute or two.
2305pm 23 November 2023 Indonesia – A quick check on each of the eight items circled? Oh, no one notices fires here, there’s so much smoke from the volcanoes? There’s so much smoke from the volcanoes because of all the fires? Trees hold moisture, give shade and the volcano doesn’t heat up as fast.
2335pm 23 November 2023 Indonesia – last eruption 2020 according to wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeang_Api https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=264050 USA-Smithsonian-GVP says 2022 for ash warnings?
2355pm 23 November 2023 This is new – Current Eruptions, though seriously, the date? Current??? And I thought it was current eruptions for this volcano???
1255pm 24 November 2023 Iceland An M 3.6 is quite large for squishy rocks.
1340pm 24 November 2023 Iceland – I told you dropping a book near the machine is bad. Upsets all sorts of people with automatic detectors and stuff. However, you might have look at the rest of europe and tell us what the blazes is going on and was it to do with the M 4.0 in the undersea three days ago?
2030pm 24 November 2023 USA That Alaska one happened. Cool, I presume by your calm that it was a nice little one, bay area? Correct. Excellent, keep an eye out, might be a little foreshock, though there was a M 4.0 or something similar there last year, so hopefully the stress has been released.
2100pm 24 November 2023 USA West Texas Small fire there, can you see if it was related to the earthquake?
2115pm 24 November 2023 Oh look it’s another Some Hero in Information technology? Author(s) Vasilis Nousis has a BSc in physics and an MSc in new technologies and research in teaching of natural sciences from the University of Ioannina, Greece. He is currently a natural sciences teacher in secondary education, and since 2011 has served as head of the Laboratory Centers of Natural Sciences of Igoumenitsa. Hands-on seismology: constructing a school seismometer Hands on Science – The European journal for Science Teachers. Any Irish ever published an article in here? What are you drinking? Tap water versus bottled water Author(s): Daniela Bergamotti, Paola Semeghini – I’d revise that little section saying Nitrogen in water to Nitrates and Nitrites? Safe Drinking Water Foundation OPERATION WATER DROP Ouch, the difference??? “Total hardness is a measurement of calcium and magnesium, and is expressed as calcium carbonate; our body needs both Ca and Mg to remain healthy. In some countries minimum levels of calcium have been advocated (levels should be greater than 20 mg/L for calcium).” I like this! “4) where water is softened by sodium-ion exchange, it is recommended that a separate unsoftened supply be retained for culinary and drinking purposes.” I don’t like this??? “If the hardness is too low the water can be quite corrosive leaching copper and lead out of plumbing pipes.” (That’s Lead, metal, Pb, the poisonous stuff?)
2245pm 24 November 2023 Wikipedia – The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Colman’s comment – “the one we remember”) “Two days after the earthquake Cordón Caulle, a volcanic vent close to Puyehue volcano, erupted. Other volcanoes may also have erupted, but none were recorded because of the lack of communication in Chile at the time.” “Earthquake lights were reported in Purén.” You have an electromagnetic charger for your phone? The contactless one? Yes. Send one to the earthquake people with a message saying “See what metals are in the underlying soil, the metals moving up and down probably cause electromagnetic effects.”? In ball lightening on ships, Ben Franklin, USA President did some experiments, static at the ends of ropes etc. https://www.history.com/news/benjamin-franklin-kite-experiment-electricity ““The idea of mitigating natural dangers is such a big game changer,” says Michael Madeja, head of education programs at the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum.” “Michael Madeja is the Head of Education Programs at the APS Library & Museum. Prior to joining the Museum team in 2015, Mike filled education and visitor services roles at a variety of institutions such as Ford’s Theatre, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Philadelphia Zoo. Mike holds an M.A.T. in Museum Education from the George Washington University and a B.A. in Biological Anthropology from Temple University.” Colman’s comment – “Colman, put the fireguard in front of the fire at bed time, see there, a spark burned a hole in the new carpet.” quote from my dad. In 2015 that someone can say this? “The idea of mitigating natural dangers is such a big game changer,” Really??? It’s a quote out of context… Is it? https://www.amphilsoc.org/library “Notable manuscript collections include the papers of Benjamin Franklin, the Journals of Lewis and Clark, a large corpus of Charles Darwin correspondence and printed material, the records of pioneering anthropologists , the holdings of the Eugenics Records Office, and the papers of seven Nobel Laureates.”
2310pm 24 November 2023 USA National Human Genome Research Institute FACTSHEET Eugenics and Scientific Racism – Eugenics is an inaccurate theory linked to historical and present-day forms of discrimination, racism, ableism and colonialism. It has persisted in policies and beliefs around the world, including the United States. Wikipedia – Human Genome Project – “It remains the world’s largest collaborative biological project. Planning for the project started after it was adopted in 1984 by the US government, and it officially launched in 1990. It was declared complete on April 14, 2003, and included about 92% of the genome. Level “complete genome” was achieved in May 2021, with a remaining only 0.3% bases covered by potential issues. The final gapless assembly was finished in January 2022.” Wikipedia – Species is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. – Colman’s comment – It documents the receipt of an alien DNA strand, the building of such and the movement of the resultant alien through human life. And Natasha Henstridge is a stunner. The swimming pool scene is quite memorable. Today, in the 2020s, the ideas are kept alive and frightening by Irish actor Michael Fassbender’s “David” in Prometheus and the Alien movie franchise.
0020am 25 November 2023 Turkey – Excellent update to the webpage map. http://udim.koeri.boun.edu.tr/zeqmap/hgmmapen.asp You might ask the web designers about methods for floating extra information banners above the earlier data, it’s used for banners for advertising, the important information here? When the picture is valid for and for what duration is the list of earthquakes? I should have said, Nov 2023, however traditionally, if the date of the map picture has the 2023 on it, then it is presumed except where stated that it’s for the current month or year. Beautiful layout, there’s something wrong with the Red on right hand side, and what’s wrong is??? Depth? Sea level? Altitude is no greater than 5km, AboveSeaLevel ??? (landslides etc), SL < d < ↓05 km, 5 < d < ↓10 km etc. And I’d consider, since a M 4.0 is ten times more powerful than a M3.0, putting a dark brown outline circle around M 4.0s and above, brown for earthquakes and if you make the circles have a transparency, possibly 50/60% then you should be able to see some overlap of the larger earthquakes? Some of them mightn’t have seen it done with overhead projector plastic? Old guy stuff etc. Post WW2 before computer printers, after overhead inkjet plastic printing, prior to cheap projector screens and 60″ monitors. Some of us still have magnifying glasses and brass map detail lenses. Though some gobshite broke the UV LED on my new magnifying glass for reading the paper watermark was correct. Why is it called a water mark? Well, sometimes it was put in the empty “deep” water areas of the maps. Google Examples of common materials that contain fluorescent molecules include: “The bitter flavoring of tonic water is due to the presence of quinine, which glows blue-white when placed under a black light.” If you want to ask a silly question, why was there “mercury glass candlesticks” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-vapor_lamp “The ultraviolet light from mercury vapor lamps was applied to water treatment by 1910.” Of course if you soak the entire map in the bottle of tonic water, there’s a completely different effect and the entire map glows in UV. Did you know it was called Jesuit’s bark?
0200am 25 November 2023 United Nations – Nuclear report 2008 Why so many? Well, some of the facilities have quite a few reactors around the one location. Wikipedia – Fukushima nuclear accident 11 March 02011AD – 02011AD Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami “”… the “Great East Japan Earthquake“. “” “It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1900.”
0230am 24 November 2023 Wikipedia – 00869AD Jōgan Earthquake and Tsunami, Sendai, Japan “Three tsunami deposits have been identified within the Holocene sequence of the Sendai plain, all formed within the last 3,000 years, suggesting an 800 to 1,100-year recurrence interval for large tsunamigenic earthquakes. In 2001 it was reckoned that there was a high likelihood of a large tsunami hitting the Sendai plain, as more than 1,100 years had then elapsed.”
The 869 Jōgan tsunami deposit and recurrence interval of large-scale
tsunami on the Pacific coast of northeast Japan – Journal of Natural Disaster Science, Volume 23, Number 2, 2001, pp83-88
Wikipedia – 01454AD Kyōtoku Earthquake and Tsunami – “The only records of this event come from a set of diaries, known as “Oudai-ki”, kept by priests in a temple in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture. The entry for this earthquake just gives the date and time and mentions a major tsunami that drowned many people along the coast of Tohoku.”
Wikipedia – 01611AD Sanriku Earthquake and Tsunami “The tsunami struck on the east coast of Sanriku from Sendai bay in the south to southeastern Hokkaido in the north, a greater length of coastline than was affected by the 1896 tsunami.”
Wikipedia – 01933AD Sanriku Earthquake and Tsunami “Hardest hit was the town of Tarō, Iwate (now part of Miyako city), with 98% of its houses destroyed and 42% of its population killed.”
Wikipedia – 01896AD Sanriku Earthquake and Tsunami “It resulted in two tsunami waves which destroyed about 9,000 homes and caused at least 22,000 deaths. The waves reached a then-record height of 38.2 metres (125 ft); this would remain the highest on record until waves from the 02011AD Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami exceeded that height by more than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in). “The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 meters (Colman put that in bold.) (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku’s Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 700 km/h (435 mph) and up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes of warning, and more than a hundred evacuation sites were washed away.” Oh, and it was in the middle of the day, 2:46pm, just after lunchtime, it’s not like they had to get out of bed and dress and stuff. Silly question? Why were there so few casualties in olden days? Horsemen getting washed away and stuff? Oh, wooden castles, wooden houses, they floated, you just hung on for dear life and waited to see where your new house location was going to be. Colman – How’d you know that? Well, if you look at the foot of the buildings, they’re in little rounded saucers, if you wanted them to stay put, you’d put them in U shapes with little drains to let the water out, so you expect them to lift, and you want them to slide nice and softly away and up into the rising waters. The footings of the temples in the Forbidden city in China are similar. And the nice rooftops with the circular holes, they’re so passers by can catch a passing building if needed. The Vermont Cynic Japanese rope-tying is more than bondage – Well, it’s a lot easier catch the wife floating by if she’s wearing a harness. Shibari – 1400s, really? From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735. Read a nice book on Japanese history at college in UL, I was doing Electronic Engineering at the time, only did ten weeks, though I did read the module book recommended by our teacher, a History of Japan. And she was a nice French lady. 木 means ‘tree’. 木木木 means “forest”. You know with enough people on the roof and a rope, you can right the house and the roof acts as the floor of the boat? It’s a self righting survival technique in sailing. And that is why the walls were made of paper and came away. The attic floor, now that’s a different story. What was in the attic? Well, it was insulation, normally a store of … , you work it out, you might look up a history book or two?
1900pm 25 November 2023 China National Space Administration? I thought there were loads of little Chinese kids learning English? Why? Well, if they were learning how to read space stuff, this is all a little out of date? Will be launched in 2011???
1950pm 25 November 2023 Phillipines – What does that mean? Well, the Ph says the stuff in the lake isn’t really classed as water anymore, more like Sulphuric acid, and the temperature says that combined with the temperature, that a little metal rowing boat wouldn’t survive very long there. You’re deliberately suggesting that awful scene from Dante’s Peak, aren’t you. Absolutely. And grandma knew. And grandma did it to save the offspring. Would that have been realistic? Well, actually they might have survived wearing really good gas masks, however the SO2 fumes are quite poisonous and cause serious lung damage in those concentrations above the lake contents, and the Philippines are well ahead of the rest of the world calling them volcanic fluids. Upwellings of boiling sulphuric and nitric acid might be closer to the scientific truth. Why is it so different there? Well, the annual rainfall is quite high and they have so many large rainfall events such as Hurricanes. They call them Tropical Cyclones. Correct. What’s an extratropical cyclone? Oh, that’s one that isn’t from the tropics, if one arrives at Ireland, it’s probably be called a Tempest. Why is it called that? Because a bunch of silly scientists can’t make their minds up about how dangerous the things are and like to confuse little kids like you. That’s why you called them Hurricanes. Correct. A cyclone is actually a large air mass, normally with rain in it. Wikipedia – In meteorology, a cyclone (/ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/) is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone). Now why is that a falsehood too? Because a low pressure system is of lower pressure, a lack of volume, the air cooled and sucks the stuff around it inwards. What happened to the mass? Well, normally it fell as rain on the ocean. Excellent, now why do we read? So we can draw our own logical conclusions. Correct, though it is a large air mass, it’s just got a different density to the high pressure areas, the high pressure is why? It’s warmer and the air expands and the air density is lower. Now, why does the air cool? Well, moisture condensing from the atmosphere and falling as rain sucks heat out of the atmosphere as it makes liquid, fog, mist, rain, sleet, snow. Actually, it’s evaporation which causes the cooling, the windspeeds over the water normally evaporates water and draws the moisture into the atmosphere, cooling the air. Quite good for a first time though. have a look at this one? ThoughtCo.com The Chemistry of Weather: Condensation and Evaporation By Tiffany Means Updated on November 05, 2019 This one is quite good too. Forest Transpiration and the Water Cycle By Steve Nix Updated on March 06, 2017 That’s not his real name, there’s a Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood mac. Yes, there is, however the world is a big place and some people choose their own names to fit in and
Forestry Expert – B.S., Forest Resource Management, University of Georgia Steve Nix is a natural resources consultant and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters.
2050pm 25 November 2023 USA USGS The Water Cycle There’s no mention of plant transpiration here? No, they have mostly conifers. Is that why the world is dying? Fast growing lumber for construction? That’s a rather large leap for a 12 year old, it’s a good question though. You look sad. Yes, just a little. To hear you say it, it’s rather how should I put it, obvious, and, disappointing that other smarter people haven’t acted a little sooner. Can it be saved? Well, we’re working on it. At least they mentioned Climate change, twice, though in the last two lines. In English literature, it’s sometimes called an after thought.
2100pm 25 November 2023 Philippines, this says you’re only one of an hundred and forty six people to read this bulletin. Is that because it’s in Pilipino? No, that’s because most people get their news from the newspaper or the radio, the tv or the internet. Isn’t that the other way round? Well, it was that way for me growing up, ask your friends how they get their news? They’ll ask how I get my news. And? Can I say I get some of it from you? Of course, thank you for considering me a news source.
2120pm 25 November 2023 Iceland I see the above M 3.0 green star is working again. Why is their green vona code in lower case? Oh, that’s a friendlier format. the Capitals are for shouting. Eh , I would have used capitals for RED? Possibly? Why are they colour coded, oh for foreigners, and what should they say instead of the obvious? Well, it’s not obvious on a black and white monitor or screen, this was developed when there were b/w tvs. The kindle readers they still use them. Good point. What would you say? Yellow – Worried? We are. Orange – Food and Water? Where? RED – Elsewhere for a bed? We’re on our work couches at night. BLACK – Help the injured, the dead can wait. It mightn’t have happened yet? BLACK – Help the injured, the dead can wait. The VONA message isn’t particularly good for the average person to interpret? Well, the average European, perhaps, however when your first school outing is to a museum about the volcanoes of Iceland, I’m sure the locals have the suitable vocabulary to interpret the message.
0440am 26 November 2023 Chile Volcano Villarrica – Nice camera. Good job. Colman
Why keep going? Well, it’s a South American road thing, if you put them all on the very few roads, then if they stop at 20 km to camp, the entire road behind them is blocked. 20 km, keep going, free up the road ways for the people behind you.
0500am 26 November 2023 Chile – Any of this lot still hanging around to watch the eruption? Comments on the Yellow alert status? You might aky de Iftalians?
Here’s one for UCC Computers and Psychology to throw their molars around?
0020am 27 November 2023 Iceland – A little look at all your links?
0040am 27 November 2023 USA Hawaii
The frame size presumes all of the thumbnails are going to be displayed at the same time? Calling the webcams USA – (HI)HVO – Á_Kiluaea_HDCam01 ? (HI) Hawaii state, HVO Hawaii Volcano Observatory, why? well, for an earthquake monitoring site you might use É if it had a tendency to emit gasses? Í for islands? Ó etc. Ú, I think there’s one of them in Tajikistan, however I don’t know the geological name for the fire pit.
0120am 27 November 2023 Greece – The depth map? The colours are pretty good, however, surely the ones closest to the surface of the Earth hurt more than the ones at >100km depth, which are in Red, you (Oxford Reference) Amadán. And you list the sizes from Largest down? So the ludicrously scared can read the biggest one as the one their looking for? and it’s ↑10km-⛵SeaLvl , ⛵-↓10km , 10-↓30km , 30-↓100km , >↓100km. Why 10km above sea level, oh, Everest is quite high. SL < d < ↓05 km is what I said for Turkey, however your nice islands and mountains to the North have different characteristics.
0200am 27 November 2023 Italy Scale and legend go to the bottom right? Who made the map, bottom left. Engineers – who signed off is bottom right, this is cartography? Oh, and the scale and legend, should NOT be in the map detail, it should be off the map square, make it blank space? It prints better. And the immediate rescuers won’t be working off phones, presume no electricity. Back up generators, hospitals, army, police, internet??? and inkjet printers.
0230am 27 November 2023 Europe? Seriously? You were planning Christmas holidays? Really? Unionised? Really? There’s a way around that. Remember when the military lads marched into the NASA control room in Apocalypse, now picture it was Helga, and her house of Pain. Why? Well, some monkeys, they just throw the peanuts back at you, they’re a choking hazard, they eat the bananas.
0245am 27 November 2023 Spain – The list is quite awful and how do you get to the Map of all the recent earthquakes?
Now, you could have UCC write a Phd on how much is wrong with this, however you might just ask a Leaving Cert student to fix it? Actually, these are the Transition Year Ninjas, they might have a few qualified Junior Certs willing to help out? https://ty.ie/ty-help/ty-programmes/ Map on the left? Your name’s on the top already, the red ones go on the left? Who designed this? From a Japanese model? Reads right to left? And maybe the Magnitude of the Earthquake might be important, so let’s make that a little bigger and the first piece of information, and (UTC) explains itself, so it goes on the right of the date time, most people can see its a date from the 2023 bit, it is this year? What is the distance “South West” of Cabo whatever? “10km, SW of” is quite a good method.
0315am 27 November 2023 Spain
0320am 27 November 2023 Spain – Good effort, C minus. Unfortunately, in University life, they aren’t told, you have another week, get that fixed. Nice to see Spain looking out their window at least, now, can you pick up a telephone and phone a friend?
0600am 27 November 2023 Italy – Seriously?
1910pm 27 November 2023 Cork Beo – Three heroic Rebels rescue woman from a sinking car near Cork quay “The trio managed to smash the back window and pull the occupant out before securing the vehicle to the side of their vessel.”
SAVE ONE – Local Legends. It’s a Cork phrase, legend in their own lunchtime.
2035pm 27 November 2023 New Zealand – It might only be a displacement of few centimetres on one side which starts a large basin making waves. A constant rocking motion and you get large waves rather quickly? Topographic study? Where would the old village have been located? Fishing, hunting etc. While most would consider the rising of the lake to be due to underwater volcanic gasses or such, it might be constant seismic events? Over a million years or so? Large enevts, Tsunamis have been located and dated by the Japanese with recent studies 1990 – 2010, you might ask them for a little study group? You might cost some Winter hotel rooms for them in Taupo perhaps?
2045pm 27 November 2023 Greece – Sorry, you think I’m picking the map methods out of thin air? It’s called searching for best practice. Magnitude – big ones first. Map to the left and top, bold for earthquakes over M 3.0, the only change I’d make is to adjust the contrast on the map, reducing the darkness of the colours, while adding boundaries in dark colours, (like an old b/w map) highlights the updated information (normally the navigation marks and lines, some people used string or sticks, a (photo in Temu) two pronged compass placed at your current position was an easy way of seeing your estimated course with deviations left or right possible due weather.) The nice bright colours used would then stand out even better? Why are there water areas in dark blue? Actually that was a function of using the computer to build the map. See the slopes on the edges of the islands, there’s an error in the map building program which might have made it think that the slope was infinite and it maximised the colour darkness there. Depending on the scale used for mapping, the LiDar information is quite detailed, it might also have seen sailing vessels in the harbours or straits as points on a circumference of a lake and coloured it as a lake either? Why did they leave it like that? Well, locals know its salt water and there’s channels, the picture of the cat is nice and it took a huge amount of computer power to generate the image and oops, they’re not going to let us spend that money again. See the lake up on the mountain, I think it’s the lake reason. Do you want to do a map estimate using their data and see for yourself? With the availability of multi core processors that amount of processing became much easier after the 2010s. Of course for us, it’s just a couple of seconds, though that map might have taken someone months to process on a machine like a VAX or similar in the 1980s. They didn’t have LiDar then? Actually, you’re right, wrong time period, that might have been radar data. Was it that accurate? Good question, why don’t you have a look and compare them to the LiDar data today. Where’s the data? Oh, have a look in the local library map section. I zoomed in, that’s the real colour of the water. Good gurl. Always check for yourself. You were joking. No, the picture of the cat is nice. Though why did they have real water pictures there, and the water depth is elsewhere. Oh?
2130pm 27 November 2023 Greece
2320pm 27 November 2023 Navigation – How do you use a stick for navigation? Well, you get your speed in knots, the sailor at the stern throws the measuring rope in. Then you have a piece of paper. Now, you place the piece of paper at the bottom of the map to get it North South East West, thumbtacks are useful, you decide which direction your going in, so you start your plot from left or right or top to bottom. Teh you get your top speed stick for the ship, lets say 25 knots for fun. So you have your stick in a nice scale, one knot equals a few millimetres or centimetres, and you place the 0 at the front and the length of your stick at the number of knots at your start point. 15 minutes is a quarter of the stick, 10 minutes is 1/6 of the stick, 5 minutes is 1/12 of the stick. The used 12 inches in a foot, didn’t they. And you scale your results back to your small scale map? Correct. Can you see how it works now? Good. Rest time?
2325pm 27 November 2023 USA Alaska – that was last night.
2330pm 27 November 2023 USA Hawaii, the one bottom left, can you see if that was in the mountain or a landslide off the mountain? That was 20 minutes ago. Yes, quite fast at checking their own quakes aren’t they. This is quite cool, the story of the land Kīlauea https://www.nps.gov/maps/stories/the-language-of-the-land.html “The chief, Kahawali, was an expert hōlua racer, but he refused to compete with Pele. In retaliation, Pele chased him and his followers to the ocean, where they were buried in flowing lava. Kahawali barely escaped with his life and fled to the island of Oʻahu on a canoe.” Where is Kahawali’s village? Potential Hawaiian Pompeii ? How many others are there worldwide? How would you look? Where were the rivers and streams at the time? Freshwater? Valleys with trees, firewood? Flat ground for farming?
“Kamapuaʻa, a supernatural being who sometimes appeared as an eight-eyed pig”, I’d look at that translation again? https://health.hawaii.gov/docd/disease_listing/spider-bites/ “However, two spider species of concern that are seen in Hawaii are the Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans) and the Brown Widow Spider (Latrodectus geometricus). Their bites can be dangerous and would require a visit to the doctor.” Eight eyed, dangerous enough to kill a pig. Might look at legends to defeat Kamapuaʻa? Why are they called widow spiders? Oh, European women were considerably smaller than most Hawaiian women. That’s no explanation, why would they be bitten instead of the men? Depends on what you do afterwards and graveyards are unusual in their geography and location and the availability of hiding places for large spiders? How large? Oh, those ones about an inch, 3cm accross, I saw a black widow spider once, a kid from my apartment block in Israel used to catch and sell them pickled in alcohol, they normally like dry places.
0100am 28 November 2023 USA CDC Venomous Spiders. Do you like my Spider logo, took me almost a half hour. It is a good photo though, it’s my own from my back garden. I added the little venom bite marks so you know what you’re looking for.
Silly question, they say bring the snake or spider to the doctor if it’s been killed, how do they identify anything from a squished spider? Well, actually, these days, you take a really good picture of one of its feet and send it to a really good spider person or an AI app. And how do you tell if it’s venomous? Well, normally the patient starting into cardiac arrest or respiratory distress is a pretty startling indicator. What would you call the App? Wednesday? I’d name her, Wednesday.
0130am 28 November 2023 USA – SAVE ONE – IMMEDIATE IMMEDIATE IMMEDIATE USA USA USA MEDICAL MEDICAL MEDICAL SPIDERS – First Aid – Identify the creature – Hospital
0200am 28 November 2023 New Guinea, can you see if there’s an old man living on top of a large rock near one of the villages, complains there’s going to be a wave, because of the whooshing sound in his head. Doesn’t actually say anything, because that would be awful magic and people would want reliable information and sometimes the wave doesn’t happen, however there’s a few locals who check if he’s doing his washing or working particularly hard and they tend to be working on land when the wave comes.
0220am 28 November 2023 Spain – And the map colours muted, sort of a b/w and…
Board is green today, isn’t that nice.
0225am 28 November 2023 Iceland Anyone doing some blasting last night? Like at about midnight? Why? Well, it’s a lot easier than using a JCB, it’s not soil and it’s to get the roads back to usable condition soonest, it’s going to be properly freezing there soon, it’s already dark almost all day, five hours of daylight, it’s only 23 or 24 days to winter solstice.
0400am 28 November 2023 Africa – Silly question if the attack was in May, are there little hippos in the river just now? It’s Summer time, in the natural world, babies normally are conceived at times to maximise their survival by births in Spring or Summer. Now while “normal” seen activity does not normally include eating the afterbirth, it’s apparently got a taste like liver. So might some enthusiastic mommy or daddy hippo have been getting a little local protein off the passing canoes for making big strong hippo babies? Do animal studies there? There? Not on your nelly, that’d be like sending Colman to take photos of CosPlayers, local predation, thievery, drug peddling ugg… A quick in and out and maybe a look back occasionally or an aerial photo every now and again to count the things. By the way, remember the kayaker lost on the river in Congo? There’s hippos there. They chase off the crocodiles. Have a look at the local trails to and from the river. The hippos make the trails, and the keep the trails wide. How’d you know that? Was offered a lovely Ivory statue, naked woman, amazing craftsmanship, wasn’t an elephant tusk, it was hippo. The curve at the top was natural, on an elephant tusk, there would be grains visible where it had been cut and sanded. Did I buy it, no, I asked him could he carve it in ebony. These look like the tiny wooden chess pieces I bought, Kisangani, https://afrilege.com/products/ebony-wood-hand-carving-african-woman-statue-figurine-2 I only bought the wooden ones. Life is good today. The African fabric print designs are cool aren’t they. Colman
It’s nearly Christmas after all.
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1815pm 28 November 2023 Turkey Earthquake CNN – CDP The colours used to display the shaking intensity are a little attractive instead of alarming, though the colour scheme is quite good in terms of the danger, while the attractive colours accidentally make the earthquake event look like a vagina, I would use blood red to make the quake look like an alarming bloody wound. Oh, and that colour green, that’s actually close to the colour of gangrene.
1840pm 28 November 2023 Turkey earthquake This is quite similar to how Iceland displays their earthquakes. Silly question? Is that why Iran’s population started to level off. Not sure, you might check the data, though it might have been one or two of the small chats which happened around the 2000 Millennium celebrations. Though I’m sure the earthquake made a few people critically aware of the limitations of Earth, there not being any way to make more land area and stuff. The fact that you have to have land to grow crops on is important too. Why did they build there? Well, they forgot that there was a reason why people didn’t live there before. Border boundary lines were often chosen for the fact there was so few people there, though some were natural features like wide rivers which couldn’t easily be crossed and the bridges were natural places for customs posts and such. It was often a question of having a sensible method of enforcing law on both sides of the borders, and a boundary agreed where one country enforced their law to here and the other from here. If there were no people because of earthquakes, terrain, mountains etc. then law breakers crossing from one to the other avoiding the local authorities were minimised. So passports were to keep the criminals within their own jurisdictions? In quite a few places that is true. And in others? Well, some people exported their criminal elements, to strange places, with many dangers. You’re joking. No, the idea is in 2000AD, the lawman past his best was sent out on The Long Walk bringing law to the lawless. And how is that relevant when you’re talking about criminals on one hand and lawmen on the other? Well, take Ireland as an example, quite a few of the crimes for which Irish were deported to Australia and other places were crimes against landlords, supposed punishments for the bad management by the landlord and the inequity of them being poor and the landlord rich. And? Well, in English tradition, the Lord was given the land to manage for the best policy of the King. It’s a strange idea and quite a few landlords forgot. And even stranger is that Ireland in it’s constitution owns all the land of the state and people with title, land titles that is, owning their own home etc. hold the land in trust. And did Ireland take the land back? In very few cases there were what were called compulsory purchase orders, though very few and there were many methods by which the land title owner could dispute the requirements of the state. Now, what disadvantage does this have to Ireland? Well, if the person who owns the land is gone and their family knowledge, then they can’t say Granddad said not to build there because that bit of ground floods every twenty years. Nice, I like your example. Now, a few more on a list for tomorrow, and a bar of chocolate for every valid example. How can you do that? That’s not normal? Well, here’s a question, would you be surprised to find that the money for the chocolate was missing from your end of month allowance? So why offer me chocolate? Well, you’re looking rather thinner than you should be so a few bars to put a bit of fat on those skinny bones wouldn’t hurt. Thinking takes energy and you’re not eating while you’re thinking. It’s sort of a self reinforcing problem because your body hungry is trying to think of how you can get food. And you giving nice answers to me makes me happy, I smile and you’re happy and your body is mistaken in thinking you’re happy because you ate. So a few chocolate bars for a few answers tomorrow might be a good thing. What was the bit that the 200OAD comic book didn’t say? Well, it’s a little like Cincinnatus or a Roman legion retirement camp town, if they all go out the same gate, then there’s going to be some very lawful towns for the first hundred kilometres outside the gate and that’s handy for safe departures from the gate? Nice. Hot chocolate? With marshmallow sprinkles? By the way, why did you reference Cincinnatus, well, after the Judge death story and the deaths defeat in Mega City One, Judge Dredd puts McGruder back in charge of the city, her strongarm being necessary to restore order. Wow, nice, I like it when you surprise me like that, big leap for a little gurl. What isn’t said? They have awfully similar chins. So do we.
2145pm 28 November 2023 Turkey – 7 day list all earthquakes under M 4.0. The list is here. http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/scripts/lasteq.asp
2210pm 28 November 2023 Turkey – You might check how long this was a military training ground? Romans Greeks etc. Why? Well, the main town was built a nice distance back from the lake, which says they had some historical knowledge of the dangers and certain old militaries, they used to keep garrisons around disaster areas to help clean up the messes afterwards, to keep the grain production going, the people being slightly happier when they’re fed. How do you mean slightly happier? Well, have you seen the riots when they’re not? It’s easier teach farming than make batons. Why? There’s no trees. Who would you have stationed there? One cohort, the preretirement one, 15 years service, trained to lead ten men, didn’t make the grade for permanent promotion, one hundred of them leading a thousand local farmers and you have a good work crew for disaster relief, and they’ve farmed for a good while, so farming up there in the arid soil shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. Oh, and can you get the road improved in the town centre too? Well, there’s a few of them trained in that too. Can you give us land near an old rock quarry? This place is horrid, cold in the winter, arid, and the water tastes funny. Actually, this is quite like where I grew up. Reminds me of home, and the couple of years left until I can see the old place again.
2320pm 28 November 2023 Spain
2335pm 28 November 2023 Look up, it’s Aer Lingus
2355pm 28 November 2023 USA – NASA – World Temperatures https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ Why is that one Black, their earth observation colour is blue? Oh, because there were deaths. And is that why their Outer space colour is black too. Well, that’s an old theory. What’s the theory? Well, some people, they go further and stay longer because other people died doing what they’re doing because they thought it was important. And? Space is dangerous. And? It’s worth doing it for the planet. And? And the Irish are still in Lebanon. Why? Because people died trying to give the place Peace, and it hasn’t got Peace yet. “We’re doing our best.” Yes, we are. I like they’re wearing the flak jackets again. Yes, some people have short memories. Tattooing it on a forehead or two in the Cadet School comes to mind. Why tattooing it? Because nailing a sign with it on to their foreheads might cause a few other people to becoming upset. That’s not a very nice thought. No, dying isn’t either.
0315am 29 November 2023 Oman
0325am 29 November 2023 Spain
1955pm-2105pm 28 November 2023 Colman, what are the most important movies you’ve seen? Why? Star Trek – AI “There is no comparison.” Waterworld – Global warming and Sea level rise. “The water rose and covered dryland.” The Day After Tomorrow – Climate change causes a massive climatic shift, though they don’t mention volcanoes. “It’s happening now.” Oh, and if they hadn’t kicked a little interest at Voyager demanding that we keep talking to the beastie, then we wouldn’t have been able to see the probes sent out as far as we have recently, practicing talking to a piece of space junk that far away is important to being able to communicate effectively with later more adaptive pieces of machinery. Who would have thought course corrections were going to be possible that far out, the original Voyagers, they hit, hoped and just turned the cameras for as long as possible and listened for the sensor readings. Why are the volcanoes more active? Well, as the Earth warms up, lets say 1.5 degrees like the silly people are letting us call our climate goal, the surface temperature heats the interior of the planet. It’s a geoid, while most of the shape is due to rotational forces, there is a small bit of the bulge is due to the warm bits being more expanded than the cold bits. Gravity having a roughly equal effect on all of the Earth. How do you reason that? The Moon is round, Mars is round, Mercury is round, they all have rotations, yet ours is the geoid, we have a liquid core, it’s the heat. How would you prove it? Well, with satellites, you could measure the distance to the poles and watch the distance change with the seasons. Theoretically, you could measure the temperature internally using the distances. Oh, and the Earth’s centre of gravity would change, and this is seen in the fact the earth has a Wobble, so you might calculate the changes from the size of the Wobble to confirm it. Now, as the surface is larger than the interior, the surface area of a sphere reducing with smaller diameter, heat is concentrated a little more a little further down, just a little, so a 1.5 degree heat change at the surface becomes 1.6 degrees at say a hundred kilometres down. Now temperatures in certain mines at just a kilometre down are pretty warm already, the magma being close enough to the surface to allow us to generate power and heat homes and in some places it pokes above the surface occasionally through gaps and hole in the Earths crust. So heating it all by 1.5 degrees at the surface is going to have some rather startling effects. You didn’t use the phrase interesting as in how interesting, oh god, oh god we’re all going to die? Nice use of the Serentity quote. True, startling is there will be deaths, lots of them, similar to Covid 19 had startling effects. Some of the effects were a little less car usage and a slowing of the Earths heating which was nice, though we’re back driving cars more again now, so you can watch the planet heat again next year. Oh and the ice water flowing off Greenland the the icebergs at Antarctica are slowing the apparent rise, though from an energy balance point of view, the energy balance is still way out, it’s called thermal pollution. Long time ago I did a project suggesting using the waste heat from the coal burning power plant at Moneypoint to grow tomatoes. Oxygen generation, carbon capture and thermal recycling. I got a C. The UL professor wanted us to get more electricity out of the plant. The efficiency of the electricity production cycle. I got my information from a small thin book with pencil drawings and it talked about making biogas from sewage and the waste heat. I went to the library. Seeing the generators for ourselves was cool though, the ESB gave an excellent tour. If it increses by 1.6 degrees at 100 km down and 1.5 at the surface, won’t the interior expand more than the surface. Nice, now you’re seeing the problem in Three dimensions, now you have to look at it in Four, over time, the changes start to become? They become worse. And? Can we turn the heating down a little? Excellent start. 18 degrees? And we’ll wear those nice thermal vests we got last Christmas. Unfortunately my favourite one, someone decided to cut holes in the arms, to make me sew, silly people, no imagination, no view of the future and certainly no idea of what Colman was capable. How do you mean? Well, you’re here. I wasn’t supposed to be capable of that, human interaction is beyond him. And? Well, I set really difficult goals based on low amounts of information and I invite people to participate. You’re talking about those marriage proposals aren’t you. Among other happenings in my life. I hoped some college friends would participate in my endeavours too, though few see long term the way I do, most see I want an immediate return instead of, my children will see a return because by the time they have children, they’re busy and money’s tight and suddenly silly unexpected presents at strange times from around the world spark curiosity and wonder. And you’re scary. Well, that depends on who’s doing the talking about me doesn’t it. I think you’re scary. Why? Because you tell the truth and it’s rather scary. Is that me being scary? Well, the world is rather scary. And? I’m turning the heating down now and you gave me the thermals last Christmas. Well, you’re here because your parents asked me why I gave you the thermals when they can afford the heating costs. And? They thought maybe you could learn a few things from an old piece of space debris. What does your name mean? Pale blue dot.
2130pm 29 November 2023 Space Ireland Anyone take a decent photo of EirSat 1 ? For historical purposes ? 08 November 2023 NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation “By observing water vapor in protoplanetary disks, Webb confirmed a physical process involving the drifting of ice-coated solids from the outer regions of the disk into the rocky-planet zone.”
2145pm 29 November 2023 What’s your favourite quote from the movies?
[Enola] He doesn’t have a name
So death can’t find him
Doesn’t have a home
or people to care for
He’s not afraid of anything,
men least of all
He’s fast and strong
like a big wind
He can hear a hundred miles
and see a hundred miles underwater
He can hide in the shadow
of the noon sun
He could be right behind you, and you
won’t even know it ’til you’re dead!
He’ll come for me He will (Waterworld_movie1995 – Script)
It’s a silly quote. Why? He barely knew her. And? And what?
She was his friend. It’s amazing what some people will do for their friends.
He didn’t act until her mother said? She wasn’t her mother.
Maybe he needed someone to remind him he was human?
Maybe she needed someone to remind her that action was needed.
You want to watch the movie again? It’s a long one, three hours?
Why is it so long, with such a short script?
Well, the ocean is beautiful, I could look at it all day.
Why is it comparable to life at present? Oh, easy one, it’s a space movie. His boat is faster, he reads, he knows navigation, he reads, he knows how things work, he reads.
He knows it’s a bloody volcanic island, he leaves.
That’s a very defeatist attitude,
I always saw it as him going out to get other people back to the island.
Hope springs eternal in the human heart. And?
Nice one. I needed a reminder.
2220pm 29 November 2023 Ireland and today is an excellent day to look at Winter weather in Ireland. As the heat rises away from the continent of Europe and the warm water remains warm longer, the winds push outwards from the continent. It’s why Ireland normally has it’s driest months in November and December. It’s the movement of the lands heat into the cooler air which causes the expansion. It’s the relative change really as the warm air over the water, it’s density remains fairly constant. The nights are longer, the days shorter and the ocean and the continent receive less solar radiation, sunlight and the continent radiates more heat than the ocean. With it’s natural fractal shapes, it also loses more heat convectively compared to the smoother water surface. Evaporation off the fractal surfaces, similarly cools the continent more rapidly than the ocean, though this is offset slightly by higher wind speeds over water, due to the non fractal nature of the wave forms and the relatively flat surface of the ocean. The altitude of some parts of the continent and various other local weather phenomena also play a factor, such as windspeed around mountains and through moist valleys etc. some of which are effected by day time night time changes in the local air temperatures.
2300pm 29 November 2023 Ireland – I was just looking at A Perfect Storm movie2000 to see when it happened – Google What is the true story behind The Perfect Storm? “In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew members aboard.” Wikipedia – “However, between Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the crew underestimates.” REAL LIFE Wikipedia – Captain Linda Greenlaw says she did not place a distress call on behalf of Andrea Gail. “Without a distress call (directly) from the imperiled vessel, the Coast Guard will not initiate a search until the vessel is five days overdue in port,” Greenlaw said. She had also been 600 miles east of the Andrea Gail when she went down (not west as depicted), and stated “They never indicated they were in trouble. They just never came back.” The 1993 U.S. Coast Guard’s investigative report said that Andrea Gail was experiencing 30-foot waves and winds from anywhere from 50 to 80 kn (58 to 92 mph) around the time of the last communication. What’s kn? – Knots, it’s a measure of speed used by sailors. One knot ≈ 1.15 miles per hour ≈ 1.85 kilometres per hour.
0030am 30 November 2023 Iceland – That’s unusual? Well, it’s been an unusual five year for Iceland. Estimate? I’d check the depth of the glacier? Ice is actually a sort of an insulator at those temperatures, normally due to the high specific heat capacity of water and it’s slowness to heat and cool, it means that heat takes time to pass through the body of ice. And? Well, it’s been covered by ash and soot and SO2 from the volcanoes the last few years, it’s also been heated directly by energy from the volcano, it’s not that far from it, Iceland is quite a small island, and the water bodies between it and the volcano have been heating too, while the water flowing down the river might be only a tiny fraction warmer, it’s warmer water flowing at speed and transferring heat to the other side of the river. So I’d say the area under normal stresses would be only reaching a critical point every now and again with a large thermal stress, coldest nights etc. however with the change in ice cover, the thermal stresses its receiving are ones it’s not normally used to and crack. Prediction? Depends on how much cloud cover, the colder nights, it’s going to be going crack all the way to say, it’s supposed to be 30 days past the solstice, say 21 Jan and i’d put that out to maybe another 14 days past that depending on the weather in Springtime, if it’s cloudy the thaw mightn’t arrive for another couple of weeks. So I’d be listening from now to 07 February? Traditionally it’s the first of February. True, though you might ask when the festival was held in Iceland, there will have been some sort of festival to celebrate the mountain stopping it’s ice crackling. And to prepare for the fire crackling of Summer? Good point, you might check for that too? And? Well, I’d say more M 3.0s different locations, thermal stresses being released, possibly at a maximum in the next three to four weeks up to and around the Winter Solstice. The Gods battling the Ice Giants. You have been doing some reading. Why isn’t this happening in Scandanavia? Oh, that’s a flat glacier, it’s quite unusual. Scandanavia, it’s actually warming up over time, and there isn’t the depth of ice, it’s valley and mountains so the expansions and contractions are actually less now that when it was colder, so there aren’t thermal stresses building. These are new stresses. Colman, another example in Europe, please? Oh, well, I’d go to the other end of the scale, lack of water over European soils over the past ten years culminating in the recent droughts have reduced the cooling effect of the water in the soil in Summertime. Results? Well, we haven’t seen the proper results yet, it normally takes longer on a larger landmass. Has it happened before? Well, thermal stresses I don’t have old data, however, if you consider that Lake Ochrid became a tourist destination for Scandinavian tourists, a number of years before the SAS plane took the photos of the earthquake over Skopje? You might check if it was an expansion earthquake? And given it’s timing and the tourists arriving, without looking at the date? I’d estimate. Shite, if those are his estimations based on little data. Exactly. Colman, they’re going to bring you out for a pint of coffee and a chat. His mug has his name on it, one of you is making the coffee while the rest get to ask questions. And Colman, you can bring your doughnut back to the office, not eating will give them more time to hear answers. You only have how long for each office? And you built in the coffee break here. Oh, I’m rather lazy too.
0200am 30 November 2023 Azerbaijan – Still making that list.
0210am 30 November 2023 Greece, now theoretically the top of the water is warmer than the lower water, however it’s about thermal stresses and the top of the bit of rock cools faster than the bottom of the piece of rock, even though the top is warmer than the bottom, and so you get a crack. Now all of the Northern hemisphere is cooling, in particular, here at Greece, and contracting and drawing the areas to the South upwards. While it’s moving upwards, though at slow speed, little cracks happen, now, if the stuff moving upwards stops and starts moving South while the stuff to the South is still moving North, then you have? Turkey? It’s a nice theory, a little concise. Well, you wanted the short version. What’s the long version. Well, there was a flood about 15,000 years ago, wiped out a number of civilisations in the place we now call, the Mediterranean Sea. Oh, let’s have a nice cup of coffee, I can tell this is going to be a forty minute one? Well, that’s how long the lecture normally is, the Phd, that’s normally three years research after three years study and a year to write up the results. The lecture is normally one of the the full course twelve weeks, twenty lectures module based on the Phd. You wanted five minutes. Would I have gotten you to take the full course module? True.
0250am 30 November 2023 Morocco What’s going on here? Well, the Kings website is a little sparse, to be honest he might have written the entire thing himself, there’s so little. There is a nice list of museums though Cartographie des Musées, it’s in French? How much French do you need to read what days the museums are open? What’s dhs? Dirham, it’s the local currency. One Moroccan Dirham equals 0.091 Euro, about ten dirhams to a euro. The UAE Dirham is a bit different, it’s four to a euro. Yes, there’s a few people make that mistake. The earthquakes? Not sure, still looking at it. It was back of the lists, however the recent earthquake there has bumped it right up the agenda. Quick estimate? There’s something there which is either expanding more or contracting more with the temperature increases? Metal ore deposit? Something like that possibly? Morocco has some unusual metal mineral deposits? My dad gave me a set of minerals from a visit he made to a souk there. (Agadir – Souk El Had, was established in the Amsernat area, near the industrial zone, after the 1960 earthquake. The Souk flourished and expanded over time, becoming a retail pioneer. Its wall is made of a modern blend of concrete and rammed earth.) Wikipedia – 1960 Agadir earthquake “Between 12,000 and 15,000 people (about a third of the city’s population of the time) were killed and another 12,000 injured with at least 35,000 people left homeless, making it the most destructive and deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history.” Yes, there was something in the history books about the capital being moved from the coastline back to (wikipedia) Marrakesh wasn’t it? CLIMATE CHANGE Wikipedia – A 2019 paper published in PLOS One estimated that under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5, a “moderate” scenario of climate change where global warming reaches ~2.5–3 °C (4.5–5.4 °F) by 2100, the climate of Marrakesh in the year 2050 would most closely resemble the current climate of Bir Lehlou in Western Sahara. The annual temperature would increase by 2.9 °C (5.2 °F), and the temperature of the coldest month by 1.6 °C (2.9 °F), while the temperature of the warmest month would increase by 7 °C (13 °F). According to Climate Action Tracker, the current warming trajectory appears consistent with 2.7 °C (4.9 °F), which closely matches RCP 4.5. Colman’s comment – There’s a few people moving there arses pretty damn quick at present isn’t there. PDQ. You’ve been to Agadir? Yes, visited dad, we all went down for a Christmas holiday while he was in Western Sahara. He liked the thermals I lent him while he was there, the night time temperatures drop dramatically. Laayoune weather now, 14 degrees, midday 30 degrees
0250am 30 November 2023 Morocco What’s going on here? Well, the Kings website is a little sparse, to be honest he might have written the entire thing himself, there’s so little. There is a nice list of museums though Cartographie des Musées, it’s in French? How much French do you need to read what days the museums are open? What’s dhs? Dirham, it’s the local currency. One Moroccan Dirham equals 0.091 Euro, about ten dirhams to a euro. The UAE Dirham is a bit different, it’s four to a euro. Yes, there’s a few people make that mistake. The earthquakes? Not sure, still looking at it. It was back of the lists, however the recent earthquake there has bumped it right up the agenda. Quick estimate? There’s something there which is either expanding more or contracting more with the temperature increases? Metal ore deposit? Something like that possibly? Morocco has some unusual metal mineral deposits? My dad gave me a set of minerals from a visit he made to a souk there. (Agadir – Souk El Had, was established in the Amsernat area, near the industrial zone, after the 1960 earthquake. The Souk flourished and expanded over time, becoming a retail pioneer. Its wall is made of a modern blend of concrete and rammed earth.) Wikipedia – 1960 Agadir earthquake “Between 12,000 and 15,000 people (about a third of the city’s population of the time) were killed and another 12,000 injured with at least 35,000 people left homeless, making it the most destructive and deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history.” Yes, there was something in the history books about the capital being moved from the coastline back to (wikipedia) Marrakesh wasn’t it? CLIMATE CHANGE Wikipedia – A 2019 paper published in PLOS One estimated that under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5, a “moderate” scenario of climate change where global warming reaches ~2.5–3 °C (4.5–5.4 °F) by 2100, the climate of Marrakesh in the year 2050 would most closely resemble the current climate of Bir Lehlou in Western Sahara. The annual temperature would increase by 2.9 °C (5.2 °F), and the temperature of the coldest month by 1.6 °C (2.9 °F), while the temperature of the warmest month would increase by 7 °C (13 °F). According to Climate Action Tracker, the current warming trajectory appears consistent with 2.7 °C (4.9 °F), which closely matches RCP 4.5. Colman’s comment – There’s a few people moving there arses pretty damn quick at present isn’t there. PDQ. You’ve been to Agadir? Yes, visited dad, we all went down for a Christmas holiday while he was in Western Sahara. He liked the thermals I lent him while he was there, the night time temperatures drop dramatically. Laayoune weather, now, 14 °C, midday 30 °C, at present.
0620am 30 November 2023 Ireland – It’s been a crispy night, the Plough, Thor’s hammer, is directly overhead, Polaris is amazingly clear, the stars have been twinkling ll night, best I’ve seen in a long time, the Moon is too bright for a good photograph. If it’s that cold here, what’s Iceland like? They’re at the sea too and it’s almost freezing at the airport.
Let’s have a look at the glacier? Wind at 9am 21 kmph? Windchill factor? Some of the charts give “Feels like” gusts to 38 kmph at midday, no, I’d say 7-8am possibly? It’s an off chance? Yes, however it’s worth a few hours out of bed for a little look. 7mm of rain is quite a lot, as snow it’s quite a lot more than 7mm, that might be 10 to 12 mm of snow? In three hours followed by another 10 mm in the next three hours. Nice day for a hike. What’s the dew point? Well, the air humidity, if it’s less than 100%, theoretically at ground level, no dew will fall, the air temperature has to fall to that or the ground temperature has to be that low, for the moisture to fall out of the air. However up at higher altitudes things change dramatically. And? Well, sometimes the air at higher altitudes is warmer. And? Well that’s Polar air over them and it’s moist polar air. 2 cm of snow is almost an inch of snow, in six hours. Yes, it might be the insulating blanket to scupper your seeing a quake tomorrow, or to prove your theory? Possibly? By the way Met Eireann, the forecasting website system is down?
You see yourself looking at my lovely RED announcement? Works doesn’t it.
Why do we write left to right? Oh, right handers lean their hands on the paper to the right of where they are making their marks, if you write the other way, your hand slides over the ink you’ve put on the paper and it leaves blotches, or at least it did when it was liquid inks and after that with ball point pens, with pencils it smudges. Japanese, they wrote in columns down, left to right or left to right similar to us. Why in columns down? Well, it’s sort of a headline system, if the subject of the entance starts with Earthquake at. the next line starts with Many deaths, the next line with The town of … You get the idea? That sort of headline stuff and lots of stories on the one page, method of newspaper columns wasn’t in Europe until quite recently, 1800s I think, though I’ve never looked at it. 1700s, there’s a little bit about it here Early History of the
English Newspaper Moira Goff British Library. Goffs, that’s the horsey place isn’t it? Yes, I went to school with another day pupil in Newbridge college, I think he was one of them. Nice guy. We used to play soccer out the back during lunch times, I used to get the ball out of the river.
0730am 30 November 2023 Iceland – If I was at the Military College, I’d be punching the air with victory again. Not at the glacier we were talking about, however it’s still cold and it’s still early in the morning, you might check the weather there and the windspeeds off the ocean? It’s quite windy down the gap through Iceland and Greenland.
Why is Reykjanes quieting down? Well the contractions around the hard spot have slowed because the surrounding land is now close to the water temperature. The temperature at the airport is a good indication, as the maximum stresses arrived as the cooling happened, everything went crash, bang wallop, now it’s past the maximum stress and it’s arrived at a rough stasis point. And? Well, cooling winds, changes in air pressure, various things could cause the release of the stresses there already, though I’d be looking at what happens when the place starts to warm up again in February? Why? Well, it’s all contracted tightly around the warm, hard spot and it’s going to expand again, and there will be new thermal stresses, it’s a question of the changes in the hillside, the body of the hillside, the new formations of natural features around it which are stable. And? Well, sometimes stability looks rather strange. Example? Devils tower, USA? It’s an extreme example though, sometimes the hard pillar sinks into the magma again, sometimes it pokes up as a lump over the hillside and sometimes the centre remains hollow and you get a tall volcano, though it’s the weather here that makes me think Devils tower, it’s been quite cold around Yellowstone and it’s latitude in the USA for a long time, on and off. In terms of millions of years, on and off. Correct.
2035pm 30 November 2023 Greece While the idea is good and I’m tempted to say similar to USGS placing the information to the bottom left or right is an option, USGS has much fewer quakes visible on their land area and you have more. Since we read map information top down and your landmass is to the north, I would suggest placing the quake information underneath the circle. And I really like your arrow to the quake, to increase map area for viewing you might increase teh length of the arrow a little to maybe 60 degrees angle of arc rather than the 90 degrees seen. Manual solution? The people reading this aren’t seismologists and to be honest so long as the information is correct, if you did the calculations using your fingers, they really wouldn’t care. Or. time? Seriously? Earthquake – Time I do like your move away from UTC, GMT is standard Earth time at sea level, and if you want to know more read Stephen Hawkings and the effects of speed and gravity on timekeeping. Location? traditionally you were able to navigate from to, there is a question here, if the direction to the most important town nearby is known, can you move the earthquake information, you see if it’s undersea, it’s normally going to be a town to the North, with S of, however you could use the traditional ASXZ WNES keys to move the earthquake information on the screen? another option is S2W4E6N8 on the number keypad? Similarly using an Xbox controller is an option for large screen users, most kids know how to operate them in Ireland and England, so they can drive tanks later, did I say tanks, tractors and cranes, naturally. The first 3D helmet I played in in the USA had the old game, the one with the line outlines of the tanks and your turret and you swung the turret around an fired, excellent game, I hadn’t seen it except as an arcade game, the screens were little black and white tvs, the helmet weighed a ton, it was held from above with cables and you stood upright in a waist high circular pod holding onto the barrier to keep your balance. The helmet was quite heavy. If no one plays the hard game, no one makes the easy game. No Everest, no Irish hillwalking. No space, no satellite tv. No theatre, no tv shows. Theatre isn’t harder than tv? Ask an actor how they proved they could turn up every day, every night, every Saturday and Sunday?
2100pm 30 November 2023 Ireland – Are there any similar examples to Devils Tower in Europe? Wicklow. What? Well, the expansion and contractions here over the granite, simply shook off all the other materials and they slowly slid off the mountains. It’s an unexpected answer. I get told that a lot these days. What were you told before, oh, they used to laugh. Right up to “Then the volcano erupted and the town of Goma was evacuated.” They laughed when I was a student in the Mil Col and ordered the latest air photos from the Aer Corp for my exercise area and they arrived within hours too. “Not suitable for the Mil Col. That was my report.” How did you cope with that in Donegal? Oh, I just didn’t tell them how or where I got my stuff. And what did the Mil Col do? Oh, they have live video from drones available to the Bn Comdrs now, DF hq were impressed, though when you tell someone who answers “When do you want them to wake up?” to “Have you every knocked anyone unconscious?”: “He’s not talking to anyone in the Army.” and “Get him out so he can do some good elsewhere.” You get some unusual results. And? “You’re too smart to be in the Army.”, now that was said to me on a number of occasions. And what did you do? Oh, I just didn’t tell them how or where I got my stuff.
2135pm 30 November 2023 Spain – Now what happens after the earthquake at Santiago de Compostela ?
2155pm 30 November 2023 Italy – Way past being nice to this piece of shite.
2200pm 30 November 2023 Turkey Now, there’s a contraction quake. How do you know? The size of it, it’s related to the strength of the rock, soft rocks in Iceland they seem to be about M 2.8-3.2 when they crack, here the rock is a little drier, grainier perhaps and the quakes are M 3.0-3.5 from what I’ve seen, though I’m not look at them very long. It’s similar to a stress test on a piece of plastic, though it stretches, a metal or concrete specimen in the tester and you get a wait for it, bang, if there’s a twisting motion too, the specimen has a nice twirl on the fracture and the lifting force causing the fracture is slightly different. How do you know that? Oh, Madame Tussaud’s Museum of Horrors, we went in London as kids, there was a torture chamber. It was in the Wax museum, next door to the Planetarium. There’s quite a few of the museums now. People like taking their photos with the stars. How did they discover that? Oh, I presume some inspired lad decided to jump the rope and get their photo taken in one of the earlier exhibits. I see Royal Greenwich Observatory has upped their game, might that be due to the expansion of London Planetarium? “The London Planetarium building is located on Marylebone Road, London. It is adjacent to and owned by Madame Tussauds. It previously housed a planetarium, offering shows related to space and astronomy. In 2006, it was closed as a separate attraction and became part of Madame Tussauds. Since 2010, the building that previously housed the London Planetarium has been home to the Marvel Super Heroes 4D attraction.” Woops, it’s because the old London Planetarium is closed. And we went because of the Planetarium.
2220pm 30 November 2023 USA NASA – I was looking at why Superman worked at the Daily Planet, if you look the 1930s, it was new thing discovered in the papers Pluto, Neptune etc. This is quite cool. A Brief History of High-Energy Astronomy: 1900 – 1959
| 17 Dec 1903 | The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled flight of an airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
| 1900 | Gamma rays are discovered by Villard and are considered to be a highly energetic form of X-rays. |
| 30 June 1908 | A large explosion occurs in a sparsely populated area near the Stony Tunguska River in Siberia, flattening trees for tens of miles. The Tunguska event is now believed to have been an atmospheric explosion or `air burst’ caused by a high-velocity impact of a 60 to 90 meter diameter comet or meteoroid and to have had an energy of at least 10 megatons of TNT, and, if so, this is the largest impact event in recorded history. |
I see they’re saying it’s a comet or meteorid? Comet, I’d say, from the pictures it was a wind blast from centre out. Picture a lets see 60 meters diameter, 30 meter radius, Volume of a sphere, V=4/3πr3 113,100 meters cubed = 113,100 tonnes of water ice, temperature in space = blah, arrives at atmosphere at whatever speed, enters atmosphere, starts to heat up. Momentum keeps the body of superheated steam going in the same direction, it’s lost some of it’s momentum due to friction and some of the steam just falls off into the atmosphere on the way down. I’d be doing calculations based on the effects of downdrafts from thunder storms? Sometimes they flatten small trees in Irish forests. I’d ask were the trees cooked? To attempt to establish the temperature of the steam passing over the land surface area? Though in some cases of one liquid falling onto another liquid on a solid surface, the earlier liquid forms a thin barrier to contact between the upper liquid and the solid surface. In this case, it’d be like a hammer hitting a plastic surface, the air trapped between them gives a sharp twang as it expands after release of the hammer through it bouncing upwards. Now if they did their calculation based solely on the energy imparted to the trees and the damage radius/area, then they may have severely estimated the size of the event, radius 45 meters 113,112 /30 * 45 = 169,668 tonnes. It’s fairly level your house? I would and it would cook all the little insects too, you might check for insect life in the tree canopy? Smells? Cooked insects, birds and animals? People did visit afterwards? Time from impact to the visit? Reason for visit? Local reports, thunder clap? steam whistle? seismic event? was there a large thunderstorm afterwards? hot air rising into the atmosphere? it might have immediately risen through the passage of heated air which was left as it fell to earth? Similar to a lightening bolt, the initial passage of the high voltage spark opens an ion trail for the passage of the current which heats the air making the light which we see. A large contrail perhaps? Look that contrail has a twist on it? Angle of approach? Unusual shape? Rotational angle? the higher the angular rotation with respect to Earth, the faster it spins in Earths atmosphere, the more ballistically accurate it’s trajectory, however the increased apparent surface area slows the object and heats it faster. Therefor? Non rotating comets and meteors are far more dangerous to the Earths surface, particularly metal ones, the comets, the ice bits, they leave wakes of water vapour, metal ones, no vapour trail. Sounds? Slush, womp. Whizz, thuw. And bigger than that? Oh, you’ll hear the difference. From how far away? From where you’re sitting, where ever you are in the world. How will I be sitting? Oh, because you’ll know it’s coming, we’re working on that. Around 130 feet wide. Radius 65 feet = 19.812 meters, actually it’s estimated radius is 20 meters and, tell them in feet, it sounds smaller. By the way, isn’t it cool that the NASA website has the link to the Wikipedia article.
I looked at the photo of The Tunguska event. It’s a really good photo. The new wiki article is much better than the old version, though a nice date of the last update on the articles would be cool? “According to the testimony of S. Semenov, as recorded by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik’s expedition in 1930:” Nice, someone thinking similarly to me. No, I opened the article after writing my stuff up above. A stoney body? “entering the atmosphere at roughly 55,000 km/h (34,000 mph), exploding at 10 to 14 km (6 to 9 mi) altitude” Really? Some people. The new photo is cool: “Trees knocked down and burned over by the impact.” Though the photo I saw was a wide angle landscape from a hill? It’s not in the article?
Colman O'Keeffe 