Observations from 16 Mar to 30 Jun 2023 – webpage

Some of the articles didn’t copy and paste correctly and I need to separate these into months?

0015am 16 Mar 2023 BBC Weather – Tropical Storm Freddy: Malawi hit by national tragedy – President Chakwera “The devastation caused by a tropical storm that ripped through Malawi, killing 225 people is a “national tragedy”, the president has said.”

0020am 16 Mar 2023 BBC World News – Russian spy network accused of sabotage arrested in Poland

0025am 16 Mar 2023 UK Daily Mail – Now earthquake-hit Turkey suffers deadly flooding: At least 14 killed as shocking videos show victims being swept away in region devastated by quake disaster While the main segondary effect of earthquakes is landslides, movement of water over the landslides, with the effect of the water building up behind the accidental dam, when the dam bursts, large volumes of water are released simultaneously. Additionally, the landslides, and sometimes, the changes caused in the local topography and hydrology (The earth lifts and falls and natural underground water channels, stream entrances or exits and cave systems, might be closed or opened. Particularly in limestone regions.) by the earthquakes, some of which might be quite small, can cause waterflows in unusual directions. In this case the “Chaos theory” example from Jurassic Park (movie_1993) is quite suitable, though the perturbations and effects are a little larger than the effects caused by the human hairs on skin.

0040am 16 Mar 2023 You might have someone check this temperature reading?

0050am 16 Mar 2023 Weather Ireland You might check the weather in Graz, Austria, it’s wind calm at present, if the wind swings to NE and warm air goes up past Graz then the weather systems arriving from the Atlantic will be a little faster than normal? The current LOW off the WSW, while relatively moisture free, the air is quite cold and warming quickly and might produce faster than expected windspeeds, depending on the weather in Central Europe? It’s similar to a surf break, two outside currents flowing out to sea sometimes creates a sandbank, where the water flows in over the warm sand. The three currents are then speeded. It’s called a rip tide. Here, the break point around the mountains is at Graz. Battle of Graz (wiki) Étienne Macdonald (wiki) We presented flags of the French/Irish Units of Napoleon’s Grand Armee to the Collège des Irlandais (wiki_fr) as cadets. MacDonald, though Scot, was learned up through a few French/Irish Units. 84e Regiment d’Infanterie de Ligne Regimental History 1684: Created Regiment de Quercy 1776: Regiment Rohan-Sourbise
1787: Regiment Rohan https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/c_frenchinf9.html Napoleon made Colonel Gambin a Count of the Empire and allowed the 84th Line Infantry Regiment to inscribe UN CONTRE DIX (One Against Ten) on its colors.^[24] The Brave Little Tailor is also a favourite of mine, a similar method was used by Bilbo Baggins to defeat the trolls in The Hobbit (book_1937). That’s wind, not rain. He sells to paragliders.

0135am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand – I’ve never seen a [ VIII ] before. Can someone send the lads and lassies on that island nearby a box of new underwear, if it’s still there?

0150am 16 Mar 2023 Now, I waited a few minutes after my phone alarm told me about the fxxking earthquake before having a look to see who’s on the ball and compared to the New Zealand Rugby Team and I do mean the New Zealand ladies rugby team, you lot are looking like a bunch of duffers from Italy. That’s an hour ago now.

0200am 16 Mar 2023 USA Tsunami Warnings

0205am 16 Mar 2023 New site BouyWeather.com https://www.buoyweather.com/forecast/marine-weather/spot/Manukau/@-37.144,174.358

0210am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand NZL – Geonet Tsunami If you have a look at Manukau buoy depth, you can see the immediate effect of the earthquake, that isn’t the ocean rising, it’s the fxxking island dipping into the water. It’s the little squiggle 1/6th of the way back, it means the buoy is properly anchored, or it’s a pressure gauge on a fixed point. What are the other big movements? Well, I’d say a large vessel passing making bow or stern waves jumping the pressure gauge or the water around the buoy. I’d trust that one more because of the movements. Why is one flat and the other wavy? That’s the tide rising and falling. Google IS INCORRECT “The predicted tide times today on Wednesday 15 March 2023 for Auckland are: first high tide at 1:40am, first low tide at 7:48am, second high tide at 1:59pm, second low tide at 8:08pm.” TideForecast.com NZL Time now Google: 15:20 Thursday, 16 March 2023 (GMT+13) Time in Auckland, New Zealand. Eh, I’d be having a look at the accuracy of these lads? Tide Forecast??? Why? Because they seem to be an hour out? Someone not correcting for daylight savings time? Auckland’s buoy is falling in the tide and …

High Tide

2:36 AM(Thu 16 March) NZDT

2.86 m(9.38 ft)

0235am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand, you can see it here in Raoul Island boat cove a little later. Puysegur has a little flutter too, though before Manakau.

0240am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand??? To be honest after an hour and a half, I’d be wondering if it’s safe letting you play with pudding?

0245am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand, these, EMSC, ask for donations, you might ask them for help?

0250am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand The M 5.0 Depth 10km why? Well, there’s a good chance that might be a seabed change? Google “what is a landslide in the ocean called” Submarine landslides are a broad term for indicating the phenomena of failure of near-seabed sediments under the effect of gravity. From: Regional Geology and Tectonics (Second Edition), 2020. A little bit of bullshit required? A Tritonicslide? Triton (wiki) Father Posidon, Mother Europa, this triton from Libya, was described as having a fish tail, why? Because this area is not sedimentary, they’re metamorphic (changed by volcanic action, heat and pressure) and some fxxking huge rocks just broke off. University of Waikato New Zealand Geological History

0310am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand Now I know why the cook pours their fxxking gravy for them. And looking back at the Manukaua buoy, that little quake might have been why that buoy jumped at that little quake? Possibly the pressure sensor glitched?

0325am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand – DART Buoy Network If you select a buoy by clicking on it and choose your time frame, and press submit, you get a nice shiny graph of the data. It’s really just a tiny ping as the calculations are done in the webpage. At one o’clock near the high tide, the big fxxking earthquake happened. At 2:10 the second gave the buoy quite a little shimmer, which lasted for? Well, according to the buoy, it’s still bouncing. Local time.

0345am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand EMSC Where the M 4.2 shitheads? Oh that’s just a throw out to the pot heads or are ye all asleep? Why because ye look fxxking stupid and I keep the screen shots.

0350am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand Colman, why you so concerned? I saw Christchurch after the fxxking earthquake, I stayed in the evacuated youth prison turned into a nice youth hostel, the one built by Brits, with 1.5 meter thick walls, I liked the steel door, it meant it kept the fxxking doorframe up.

0400am 16 Mar 2023 Why do the Maori carve their building frames. Wood is hard work, the strong wood takes years to grow. It takes energy and time to harvest and it’s for building for a long time. The carving is sacred because it tells the young it’s important and not to fxxk with the fxxking buildings. You build with concrete and wonder why the people are anxious and fearful and they drink to still the noise from the earthquakes. Timber buildings on rubber pads. Nice wool insulation with a fire prevention treatment. Whakawhetai koe to the nice Maori I met who performed so beautifully for myself and three others. We Celts were warriors once too. Some of us are still trying the old ways. Colman

0410am 16 Mar 2023 Iceland A nice quiet night. Colman

0415am-0430am 16 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy Why would the warm water be running down the hill? Times in UTC. Yes, it does look warmer than yesterday. Mount Etna/Elevation 3,357 m adiabatic cooling 3°C per 1000 feet or 300 meters. It should be Thirty Three (33) degrees Centigrade below the temperature at ground level. Reggio Calabria Airport – Calabria, Italy, that’s the toe of Italy, Twelve (12) °C. – 33°C = -21 degrees °C so the top of the mountain should be quite black. Liquid water occurs at 1°C so the effective temperature at the surface is … at least 20 °C above what it should be. And the little yellow marks on the caldera of the right hand photo say? And the strange green specks in the flowing water areas in the left hand photo say?

0435am 16 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano This is new. Nice long exposure. Now can you point the fxxking camera from a decent angle, so we can see the calera with that? You’ll note the lack of snow cover on the left hand side, so this is where? How do you know it’s a long exposure? It’s windy, the snow drifting off the top of the mountain makes blurry edges.

0440am 16 Mar 2023 You might check something? The Canon 600D had a 1600 iso setting, and could stream video, they cost about 120 euros at present, the 800mm Samyang Korean manual lens (it’s sold under walimex pro now) costs a few hundred, with a doubler, it’s 1600mm. the more recent Canon 700D is a little better than the 600D, though it’s about 240 euros. If you wrap the thing in a plastic bag with duct tape, it should be quite good, though you might put a glass screen in front of it to keep the lens void from catching water. If you wash it with detergent like a diver washes the inside of his mask, the water slides off, it’s repels water, it’s why you can use it to power little duckies in the bathtub. You dip the little duckies tail in it. If you have a carpenter, they might even make you a surround for it with a fxxking beer crate?

0500am-0515am 16 Feb 2023 Ireland weather, there’s light rain outside, the cool moist air cooling and the moisture deposited out. Cold air holds less, however, it also drops it faster on rising over land. The moisture is closest to the ground, having just been dragged up into the air by wave action at the sea surface. Higher windspeeds, more waves, more evaporation. You can watch the moisture rising by watching the sea surface cooling. Copernicus, is your thermal that good or should it be done from light houses? Fastnet rock, might be a test location? How good are the really good thermal cameras? The Covid ones could do 0.1°C. How good are the thermometers on the buoys? Yes, submarines do generate quite a lot of heat, through convection and turbine action. Though from a lighthouse they’d have to be in quite shallow water and Fastnet is NOT in shallow water. With the current forecast, this might happen every night from now until Friday next, I’d be checking the rivers about Saturday and the dam contents too, please check tides for Thursday and Friday next when the LOW is due to pass us on Wednesday, if the thing moves a little faster than forecast? If the ground is saturated already, it mightn’t hold as much moisture as normal and there might be localised flooding here, please check drains etc. As per last five years flooding events in all areas in County Cork? Why five? well, sometimes that area gets more, the wind being from there, and sometimes that area and the winds going to be quite variable.

0525am 16 Mar 2023 New Zealand – Mr Italy no thinky an M 7.0 worth putting on their mappa either? Remind me to book my accommodation, 30 meters above sea level. Colman I thought profundita meant depth? and the water is deeper than that there?

0535am 16 Mar 2023 Air-worldwide.com – The 1976 Friuli, Italy, Earthquake By: Dr. Paolo Bazzurro  Edited by Robert Zalisk “In the end, the 1976 Friuli earthquake and its aftershocks left 157,000 people homeless, injured 2,800, and killed nearly 1,000. Reported losses at the time came to 6,000 billion Italian lire.”

Table 2. Damage Levels Used in Table 1 (Source: adapted from the European Macroseismic Scale, EMS-98) – (Copernicus, for reference? Colours of building damage assessment from satellite?)

0545am 16 Mar 2023 European Space Agency????
https://earth.esa.int/web/earth-watching/image-of-the-week/content/-/article/mount-etna-volcano-sicily-italy/
Oh, no one reads the web anymore? The Google map of this area is absolutely shit and : What’s this we shit paleface???
View Sentinel-2 high resolution image before the eruption (JPG 6.4 MB)
View Sentinel-2 high resolution image during the eruption (JPG 8.7 MB)
IMAGE Number 02 – 404 Not Found nginx

0615am 16 Mar 2023 ESA??? Copernicus? You see I didn’t have to log in to get this nice satellite map, and you used GOOGLE??? What the fxxk? GAEL project is fxxking right? Can’t quite see my house, however it’s quite good. Colman

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/access-data/dias
To facilitate and standardise access to data, the European Commission has funded the deployment of five cloud-based platforms. They provide centralised access to Copernicus data and information, as well as to processing tools. These platforms are known as the DIAS, or Data and Information Access Services.
The five DIAS online platforms allow users to discover, manipulate, process and download Copernicus data and information. All DIAS platforms provide access to Copernicus Sentinel data, as well as to the information products from the six operational services of Copernicus, together with cloud-based tools (open source and/or on a pay-per-use basis).
Would you like me to tell you which buildings they work from? Eircodes optional?
And Colman’s just a retired bollix poking around?

https://space.skyrocket.de/

0715am 16 Mar 2023 https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-engineering-students-launch-cube-shaped-satellite-orbit The article is from 2016. You might call and ask how their latest satellite is getting on, it’s due for launch in April, so it should be in finals for cleanroom exams and attachment to the cubesat launcher? Sealion. Is Robin leading the project or did she get astronaut training yet? 2 years research Masters and 5 years for Phd, she’d be close to receiving her Phd by now. How do you know that Colman? Oh, I know a girl who looks like her. Determined and petulant. It was that or Naval academy. And naval aviators don’t do test flying, they’re too valuable. United States Naval Academy, yea, with that homepage, I wouldn’t have gone there either. Colman

0925am 16 Mar 2023 Democratic Republic of Congo, I hate to burst the United Nations bubble, however, I wouldn’t have trusted a word out of the spoiled bitch, I compared the Smithsonian to earlier this morning. Now, you might say I’m being unkind, however, silver spoons in mouths, don’t make for great conversation, when the fxxking spoon is in their mouth all the time. I’d prefer to see, Volcano Discovery said? In fact I’d prefer to see the Japanese Space Agency said. They have that Mount Fuji, so they are quite cautious space bunnies. Historic eruptions of Mount Fuji (wiki) “About 2,300 years ago the east face of the volcano collapsed and lahars flowed down to the Gotemba area as far as the Ashigara plain in the east and the Suruga bay across Mishima city in the south. This incident is now called the Gotemba mud flow (御殿場泥流, Gotemba deiryū).”
You see there’s record keeping you just have to respect. 泥 流 oh, look a little mud (doro)? flow. From a volcano?
And suddenly you have Goteirya or Godzilla.
They have such nice (precise) words for all the nasty things. Why?
You draw it on the soldier’s forehead and he runs to daddy san and doesn’t even know the message, because it’s covered in a bandanna.
ありがとうございます Arigatōgozaimasu 謝意 Colman
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (JPN)

1000am 16 Mar 2023 The Irish Time cartoon by By Martyn Turner
● Wed Mar 15 2023 – 01:27 is the best Cork joke I’ve read in a long, long time.
I’d plaster a copy in the foyer of the Cork City Corpo building.
You mean a printed copy of the Irish Times in that sanctum.
No, I’d have the cartoon sculpted life size in plaster
and I’d nail people to it.
“If you’re not confused, you really don’t know what’s going on?”

1100am 16 Mar 2023 Can you have a look at this please? 1. Microsoft abusing privilege of my having their operating system by continually throwing the Microsoft Edge request at me. 2. Targeted ads with no intention of selling me the stuff, just trolling for my data, see Marketing company using Solar panel name. Solar data, in sterling, for 2016. Who are addresses and postcodes and why are they top of the google list? And really? They’ve filed business information with addresses and postcode? The UK Postal system is excellent, however you have to have lived there for a few year to know that some rodney plonker is having a laugh.

1130am 16 Mar 2023 You see, once upon a time, when there was a nice park there, in the middle, I used to buy my lunch with luncheon vouchers from the old persons sandwich shop near the park and I used to sun myself on the green during lunch hour. I was sixteen and I had the occasional task of delivering building plans to building sites by underground. I used to pop down the Highbury and Islington and onto the lines for a trip around London and back. Now, one very strange day, I poped down and came up in Brixton, a very strange place in 1986 for a young white man to be traipsing along and as I passed Brixton YMCA, I got a very strange smell and turned around going what’s that smell, and I followed my nose, and went, aloud, I’ve never smelt that smell before. And I went on to the building site and passed on the other side of the road on the way home. That was at somewhere about 3pm, having set off after lunch. At six pm at home that evening the Brixton YMCA was on the news, the largest haul by weight of drugs and value ever found in the city of London. I think there’s probably a news article about it somewhere, though it was before the internet got popular? So, what have you done for your neighbour lately. It smelled strongly of henna. So, goodnight s’meg heads and I’m just going to say howdy, doody. Colman And no, never went to soccer match, I’m too young to watch an hour and a half of chasing for a fxxking nil all draw. Colman

1710pm 16 Mar 2023 Turkey Back to where all this began on 07 Feb 2023. Though it’s inching closer to Constantinople, Istanbul, Ankara. 3 million people etc.

1715pm 16 Mar 2023 Libya Two little dings of the coast. ML:4.1 – Libya [Sea] time (UTC): 2023-03-16 10:00:10 depth (km): 25.1 Why does it say ML: “Because we’re all different.” “I’m not.” Colman

2055pm 16 Mar 2023 A few from Greece to Turkey with this little beauty 6 minutes ago, unconfirmed.

2105pm 16 Mar 2023

2130pm 16 Mar 2023 And if the person(s) who designed ↑ and wrote this was here now, I would kiss them for restoring my faith that there are working humans in the European Union dedicated to saving lives through seismic research. You can count the fxxking grains of sand on the beach. See, here, with a map like this and an Eircode and a telephone number from a telephone book, you could call the fxxking house phone and ask if there was a little shaking, a lot of shaking or if they noticed it at all and you get a good indication for next time. What would you use as a standard indicator for a house? A full mug of water on a wooden kitchen table? On the floor? On the path outside? On the door lintel in the kitchen? And the call warns them of the best method of dealing with an aftershock? We have a record of speaking to you before, three years ago, have you made any alterations or improvements to the house since? Have you noticed any subsidence or other indicators of damage? Colman

2205pm 16 Mar 2023 Mount Merapi Volcano, Indonesia – Looks hot?
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/indonesia/central-java/mount-merapi-volcano-cam.html

2230pm 16 Mar 2023 Indonesia https://magma.vsi.esdm.go.id/ USA USGS Volcano Hazards Program – 2010 Mount Merapi https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vdap/merapi.html

2240pm 16 Mar 2023 https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP, Volcano Hazards Program USGS, slightly disappointed this only does USA Volcanoes, however the site is the most beautifully designed I’ve seen. This is better designed than NASA FIRMS.

2300pm-2355pm 16 Mar 2023 December 19, 2022 USGS Optimizing Satellite Resources for the Global Assessment and Mitigation of Volcanic Hazards—Suggestions from the USGS Powell Center Volcano Remote Sensing Working Group
a dot PDF Document DOI 10.3133/sir20225116
Summary: An amazingly honest appraisal of current failings and the inability of the scientific community to fully utilise the current capabilities for the safety of life and limb. This inability is caused by lack of availability of the resources to all interested parties, in some cases quite justifiably. In addition it points out the resources are finite and those which are currently being superseded by more specialised capability satellites have proven quite useful when used properly. Now: What are the bare bones? Of 1600 volcanoes of immediate interest, they having erupted in the last five hundred years, about 500 are being watched currently, and those unfortunately when they come to interest of researchers or the local governments. Now, where would you find 3200 lunatics to sit and watch 1600 volcanoes? We can’t do that, it’s boring, can we get the satellites to do it for us. Well, actually, it’s the safety of the 3200 lunatics we’re concerned about. The fixed assets deployed to the volcanoes keep disappearing or they are destroyed or they malfunction and they’re in places no one want to be. Having had to support a petition for a UN team to leave a jungle clearing a hundred km from anywhere and only accessible by helicopter, chosen by a man with a map 1,200 km from there, I can feel their pain. While the personnel assets capable of doing the job are diverse in language and ethnicity, they are there and the question is whether Mr Guterres of the United Nations can draw the personnel and computer skills and goodwill required to get the available satellite data for the world to get ahead of the volcanoes. What is NOT in the report? We only have reasonable data for the surface of the Earth, below seasurface volcanology and seismic data availability is scant. Weather and Climate Change and it’s effects on volcanology and seismic events is NOT mentioned. After that, I’d say it’s worth an engineer doing a nice A3, two A4 page summary, double spaces for notes taken by the briefee for any questions asked, with three A5 photos, diagrams or infograms and an A5 of acronyms on the back for briefing of government.

0010am 17 Mar 2023 Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. Now this is the scary stuff.
USA – USGS – Astrogeology – Planetary Defense – ACTIVE – Publications
By Astrogeology Science Center October 7, 2022
Because S/L scared the xxxx out of a few people and JPL started in a farm building and someday … “Someday, we will save the world and then we’ll do it again and again.”

0045am 17 Mar 2023 International Journal of Impact Engineering – Computer simulations of large asteroid impacts into oceanic and continental sites–preliminary results on atmospheric, cratering and ejecta dynamics January 1, 1987

1330pm 17 Mar 2023 https://www.corkcity.ie/en/tv/ The Cork city St Patricks parade is on live tv. Via YouTube. https://youtu.be/KWE64k8qY9o “Because Cork is the Centre of the Universe.” Excellent commentary! Colman “The largest foreign community in Cork is of course from Kerry…”

If you look below you can see the difference between the YouTube, recorded and the “Live with the red circle.” You get this if you wave the cursor in front of the picture.

1425pm 17 Mar 2023 There are some faults in the Cork city council page, however it’s quite good. A big thank you to Ronan the commentator. Please fix the page for next parade? Similar for the Dragon of Shandon? Colman Ideas? Warehousing and engineer support for building and storing larger floats, normally in other big city parades, it’s a standard sized float or two added per year, largest groups first? Four parades a year? Colman You might add the city attractions after the tv page instead of the was this information helpful? Also the webpage might be big enough for two cameras? Colman

1800pm 17 Mar 2023 Greece We don’t say four? EMSC says M 4.1, Oh? Oh, yea.

1815pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand I hate to ask, does anyone need an Aspirin? Now if only there was a map where you could see all the earthquakes in New Zealand today and yesterday? However the New Zealand Geonet map, is a pile of steaming shit. It’s pudding day and those New Zealand people in the corner, they’re not allowed pudding.

1825pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, do the officers need someone to chew their food for them?

1905pm New Zealand – You see the information is there, however you’re design is shit. And there’s another two? Gonna call that another bunch of M 3.0+s? What’s the periodic nature about? Oh, that’s the island bouncing. The seismograph notices at the top and bottom of the wave, momentum says it should be continuing up and it’s changed and then down and it’s changed.

1950pm 17 March 2023 Oh, look what I found. https://www.youtube.com/user/Aoife3970 https://www.tiktok.com/@potato_in_crime/video/6914294304370412805
This is still up and it’s been there since 05 Jan 2021 ??? Really? At £1,000 per month that’s 26 months, £26,000 euros, and counting. Oh that’s how much I’ll be asking for, legal fees will be extra. And there’s three video’s really? Anyone got a calculator, three cases with separate solicitors? 26×3= I’ll have to use my fingers, no, 3 x 25 is 75+3 = 78,000 pounds sterling. Why? Because I treat my enemies as English cunts. Another alias of hers is: Aoife O’Connell, which was the name she introduced herself to me as, also Lily. Oh, and my photos are my copyright, I allow their use elsewhere as a favour. and the photo in the video is my photo and my copyright. Colman

2035pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, yes, it’s official. Now, see where all the different stroke for different folks gets one?

2050pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, oh, you’d like a second opinion? Well I know someone almost as qualified? Some new trousers needed in Kawerau, someone’s Saturday clothes are ruined. Time now: 09:54 in the morning Saturday, 18 March 2023 (GMT+13)Time in Wellington, New Zealand.

2115pm 17 Mar 2023 21:15 UTC It’s so annoying that he’s screenshotted it before you changed the settings. Needs personal supervision. Oh, I’d be getting personal with a few people about now. Colman

2150pm 17 Mar 2023 Jesus saves, however Colman scores on the rebound.

2200pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, sure it’s only a little shake, would you like sprinkles on it?

2210pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, can you take a message, we’re rather busy? 29 weak Earthquakes today? I counted them and I didn’t have to use my fingers, aren’t you proud, I just counted them in my head, as I scrolled up the list. There’s only space for a hundred on the page, shall we see if we can get to a hundred in a duration time period of one week? At present the 100th weak earthquake is Sat Feb 18 2023 12:46 PM and every time there’s a cluster, the time back to the 100th get’s smaller. Oh and for the other readers, my club is smaller than yours, the other lady, she carries Ireland. She’s a bitch to lift, however when she lands, it’s quite spectacular.

2230pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, sorry you were saying? Yes, I would like coffee with my cake. Thank you. Yes, that was two minutes ago.

2245pm 17 Mar 2023 Energy, logarythmic cscales, thumb revision for the mathematically less inclined. 10 M2.0s make an M3.0 That’s 200 = 20 M3.0s + 45 = 65 M3.0s = 6 M4.0s + 10 = 16 M4.0s = 1.6 M 5.0s, now where’s the rest of them? Oh, well actually, there’s quite a few 3.9s and 3.8s and for some reason the energy released in MegaWatts has been removed from this page,

2300pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand ? Not a fxxking mention? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/ https://www.times.co.nz/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/

2310pm 17 Mar 2023 Stuff.co.nz ‘Bloody shambles’ in Kawerau as rolling earthquakes rock Bay of Plenty Avina Vidyadharan 11:59, Mar 18 2023
Time now in New Zealand 12:10 Saturday, 18 March 2023 (GMT+13)Time in Wellington, New Zealand “Despite the damage, Harris was glad the quakes did not happen on the Hawke’s Bay side.”

2320pm 17 Mar 2023 New Zealand, our younger viewers might like to get a nice soft drink while I explain something to the adults. Normally NZ goes putt putt putt towards the ? And Turkey just jumped North West, in geological terms, its only a tiny fraction of a second ago, so New Zealand is now jumping to the North West and it’s not particularly happy about the sudden movement because, like a fat lady on a scooter hitting a large fxxking rock, her mass and girth, tends to wobble a lot as the poor fxxking scooter comes to a sudden fxxking halt. So buckle up campers. Personally I’m glad I’m watching from a safe distance. The poor guy tying his shoelaces is in for some surprise.

2330pm 17 Mar 2023 Oh there is an earthquake section, we just don’t put that sort of thing on the front page? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/earthquakes/ 17 Mar, 2023 07:12 PM 2 mins to read Note: This is 5 hours before stuff.co.nz’s story, it’s also almost 6 hours ago. “Being shallow we feel it more”, another said, while a third person said it was “quite scary” and they were “still feeling mild aftershocks.”
Eh, you might read the fxxking newspaper once in a while? What? That rubbish? Stuff.co.nz had a better story.

0015am 18 March 2023 New Zealand, now you have to realise that today in New Zealand is a Saturday and a day of rest, when a lot of New Zealanders would be out for a little bar-b-que in the back yard, because charcoal is relatively cheap and it’s nice to have a bit of steak occasionally. Just in case, you didn’t know where the NZ herald’s other little paper was and where the Bay of Plenty is, actually, I’m hoping it’s still there? “I can’t write with that racket.” “Yes, that tennis racquet is quite a difficult impediment to your typing.” Colman — Colman, why are you so concerned, well I met some of the fit twits down there and they weren’t the brightest sparks in the fire. Support this with an example, well my lazy tour guide, almost the head off me, somewhere there were O’Keeffe genes, he spends his time off the job, on the job, in Italy, where it’s quieter. And in Rotorua, the little timber chalet, where I visited my brother and sister in law for a few weeks was lovely and peaceful. How’s the gold mine in NZ doing? Whick one? The one where I took these photos? They handed out nice leaflets too, though I wasn’t on South Island that holiday. Yes, those thrucks are very far away and very big, the others are in a zoom close up and very big too. The leaflet said something about the local houses falling into the old mine shafts?

0025am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand No, I haven’t seen one here before either, though I’ve only been watching earthquakes for a couple of years.

0030am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand, this is the last two hours worth Volcano Discovery.

0040am 18 Mar 2023 Anyone else got FIRMS open? And EEFIS too?

0045am 18 Mar 2023 Hawaii looks rather unusual too? Oh, and a USA Nuclear plant dumped a load of couple of tonnes of hot water into the ocean. Really? Might run that as a story?

0100am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand Sorry, That pub isn’t making money tonight? Personally I’d be out in the open air with a nice brew watching from a nice high hilltop. Just like the Greeks used to do from their nice, what were they called? Amphitheatres? “Where you go when Poseidon (wiki) is decided on doing some fxxking.” and you can quote me on that. Colman ““Earth Shaker” redirects here.” so says Poseidon (wiki)” “Amphitrite (wiki) was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (and thus a Nereid), according to Hesiod‘s Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus an Oceanid), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both the Nereids^[5] and the Oceanids.^[6] Others called her the personification of the sea itself (saltwater).”

0115am-0120am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand EFFIS Population location maps https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300833602/light-earthquake-shakes-christchurch Caroline Williams 13:50, Mar 18 2023 That’s 25 minutes ago.
Earthquakes rumble Canterbury – GeoNet says shakes 10 minutes apart NZ Herald 18 Mar, 2023 01:11 AM Quick Read That’s 8 minutes ago Editor says what? AM? Really? AM really Serious? NZ Herald – “Canterbury has been shaken by two quakes this afternoon – the bigger of the two at a magnitude of 4.7.”

0130am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand Sorry officer, which one of these bastarding things are you talking about?

0135am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand That’s the last 1 hour 35 minutes. Now they’re very busy. The dark colours are the deepest, the light colours are shallowest. Christchurch 5km Bay of Plenty not determined yet.

0200am 18 Mar 2023 Iceland & Canary Islands, Spain – Because you never take your eye off the dealer. Did I hear a wibble? Not even a small one?

0200am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand – You want to explain the difference between a UTC search and a NZDT search to me again, just so I know you understand why I’m a little fxxking pissed off? No, actually they have all happened in the last 2 hours and 6 minutes. Now, that’s actually quite disturbing. Yes, it is.

0210am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand? Copernicus? Copernicus? Someones going to get a very well quoted article out of this? How deep does your soil moisture information go? And anyone taking water from deep wells? Artesian sub surface waters? Why? Well it looks like the earthquakes are settling the land and the area is sliding towards the ocean? Can someone check the beach and how far in the tides supposed to come? Now, with old information from Egypt and little towns falling into the ocean, it says in the Colman’s guide book (I made that up for literary allusion) that the land slides for a good while and then the entire town just sinks of it’s own weight into a lower depth (into the ocean), the weight of the town causing the entire local area to sink. It’s a density question, density of local soil and freshwater and mass of buildings, the Egyptians kept putting up big stone ones, versus the density of the sea water? Local salinity levels and arrival of fresh water into the bay (ocean) and bay area all the way up to Rotorua, due to the huge amount of rainfall from the recent cyclones? Theoretically the local lava soil is floating itself from not falling in the ocean? I know its a strange idea, literally the shit in the soil, humus keeps the soil together and this is good, however remove the trees and plants and stuff and build on it and the equations change rapidly in geological terms, like over fifty years or so, blink of an eye in geological terms?

0230am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand This place sucking or blowing?
M 2.9, M 3.0, M 3.8, M 4.7 and all in the last 2 and a half hours.

0235am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy Volcano Discovery last 24 hrs
See the thermal camera, I know it’s springtime however it looks a little warmer than when last I looked and I know that was early morning, so can someone check the pictures for this time of night for the last few nights? In particular, for the left hand side of the photo, just left of centre, I don’t remember that area being warm at all? Oh and has https://earthquaketrack.com/p/italy/recent given up?

0300am-0315am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand Unnoticeable means the humans on the surface don’t notice it, though the strange feelings of anxiety and panic, now that’s another matter altogether. Now I’ll ask again. Is this sucking or blowing? And I’m hoping it’s blowing, because in human terms, a large breath in normally means a large breath out???? Historical precedents? Speaking in Weather Terms? The areas just been sat on and soaked in water (being heavier) by the cyclones, is this it drying out and sitting up? It’s Summer time there. The land dries quickly.

0320am-0350am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand How deep are the lakes here? And when was the lake at Kawerau filled in? Take away the roads and towns, the map says there should be a lake there, a little smaller than Lake Rotomā (wiki). “Lake Rotomā has a high water quality with visibility up to around 13 metres deep. The lake has a maximum depth of 83 metres in the northern part and 73.5 metres in the southern part.” “Surface elevation 316 meters” “Lake Rotomā was formed within the Rotomā Caldera when lava flows from a large crater explosion blocked its outlet 9,500 years ago.” What be under Kawerau? A large sink hole? An old mine? Why? Well, greenstone was quite popular and the axes tend to break after cutting big trees. And it forms nicely near hot lava and that tends to be near where the hot lava cooled slowly. It’s quite similar to how Connemara marble formed. Old Limestone is the primary ingredient with some nice copper oxide, normally boiled through it, as it cools the texture is formed, being much harder than the limestone. Sometimes it should contain old fossils, though normally the structures are lost as the hot water, pressure and heat does it’s work. I went greenstone carving. The stone is lovely to work with using nice diamond and carborundum blades and grinders. I made a pendant.

0415am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand Someone might double check this? Those are the ones of M 2.0 and above. Seventy eight (78) in 4 hours 15 minutes? The last of the 100th Weak and above is now at Wed Feb 22 2023 10:11 AM. At 2210pm 17 Mar 2023 last night, it was at “At present the 100th weak earthquake is Sat Feb 18 2023 12:46 PM”, so the last 6 hours has made a change of four days in the averages.

0430am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy, sorry, you were saying, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of me eating? That supposed to be there or is it new?

0435am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy Yes, it’s there on the left just past the humble pie. As a guide to what you might like to publish, here’s one from earlier.
The Guardian Mount Etna erupts in spectacular fashion – in pictures Wed 17 Feb 2021

0440am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy, EFFIS and FIRMS are both clear, however FIRMS says Stromboli and EFFIS says no Stromboli? And it says in the last 4 hours 45 minutes From today 00:00:00 GMT ?

0455am 18 Mar 2023 This SO2 a NOTAM yet?
Ever see a volcano blow a smoke ring before? ENE Catania

0500am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy Might be a few takers on the tour today? Mountaineering helmet rentals?

0505am 18 Mar 2023 You see duckie, the air is quite cold above the thing and it’s in the shade of the mountainside from geosynchronous orbit. Nice save Copernicus, I was worried about ye for a bit. By the way, I’m doing this on one screen, my other computer with the dual 27 inch portrait and landscape displays, that’s for emergencies.

0515am 18 Mar 2023 Volcano Discovery Suwanose-jima Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: EXPLODED AT 20230318/0028Z VA CLD UNKNOWN OBS VA DTG: 18/0020Z “Suwa-no-se Jima is one of the Tokara Islands, belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture. The island covers 27.66 km² in area and has a population of 48 people. Although the island has an airport, there are no regularly scheduled services, and access is normally by ferry to the city of Kagoshima on the mainland.” Suwanosejima (wiki)

0530am 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy, how you know it smoke ring? Colman: I read the NASA FIRMS Infra Reds, low cloud, fog produced by moisture from the ocean in the hot air from Sahara cooling in the night. Low level, the SO2 is much higher and in the upper winds, not the low level ones which is where the Windy.com has the wind directions and is the direction of travel of the low level clouds. You can get a time for the first blast from the difference in position, if you had a calculator handy, a pocket one, though the guy who shat himself on the side of the mountain from the noise, probably would give you a better estimate, I’d say it made a slight whistling sound. (That’s understatement for effect.)

0535am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand Last of the 100th now at Wed Feb 22 2023 12:56 PM, that was at Wed Feb 22 2023 10:11 AM at 0415am. That’s a three hour change in an hour and 20 minutes, things might be slowing down?

0540am 18 Mar 2023 Iceland, why all dem earthquakes, dem little ones, dey in straight line and all together? Der was an volcano near dere a wile ago? Would this be associated with the spot of light dwizzle which path over the lava chamber earlier?

0555am-0615am 18 Mar 2023 Canary Islands, Spain It’s Spring time, the islands are warming up and the natural expansion is sucking at the centre with some larger rocks (as in crystals a couple of hundred meters in size) breaking apart. I’ve roughly drawn a line along the centre of mass of the islands to show as a guide. There should be some smaller ones on the other three islands shown as well, however their seismometers mightn’t be calibrated as accurately as the ones on Tenerife, that is where the University is located and I’d be asking a few questions about deep noises on La Palma too, there should be more than that? Though there is a “moist” lava chamber down there, so there might be sloshing rather than cracking? Not “moist”, “wet”, no, no water there, a viscous fluid lava chamber, using the term liquid would be a misnomer, it’s probably cooling like hot treacle at this stage. Colman Note: Northern Hemisphere, coolest time, normally at Irish Latitudes, a month after winter solstice Jan 21, time of greatest change? April 21 Hottest time July 21. You might check the temperature changes at 1 and 5 meter depths for the islands to confirm the same? Not directly on the islands, though that would be a nice thing to compare with the water temperatures? in a building the fire detectors shouldn’t be within 1 meter of the corner of the room because of unusual convection currents leading the smoke away from the detectors, the standing air in the corners guides the rising smoke away from the corners. Similarly for placing your temperature sensors. It’s why weather thermometers are in vented boxes at a standard height above ground. I presume some of your seismometers have temperature sensors under them too? Colman

0635am 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand The purple one is in the last hour and California looks rather busy too, so I’m going to bed. It might be a long night tonight too.

1640pm 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand The last of the 100th earthquakes weak and above is now Fri Feb 24 2023 8:56 PM https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake#

1715pm 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy Two little quakes yesterday. The ones directly under the town. Perhaps they might be the reason for the little gush of wind (SO2) last night?

1720pm-1755pm 18 Mar 2023 Ecuador. I was on this before my earthquake alarm and it seems I’m faster than Volcano Discovery, so the Bembridge scholars kan cis my shiny buttocks. Simple explanation of volcanic sink holes, the land warms up, hole expands, the stuff falls in the hole, the stuff compacts in winter, the hole expands, the stuff falls down. Eventually the stuff reaches molten magma and if there’s liquid lava available, it decides whether it wants to go up the big hole to the surface and you get a volcano. There’s a big bathplug hole in Iceland that shows this on a local level, as the plug drops, the sides have pieces worn off and the plug becomes less effective as a stopper. This one in Ecuador seems to be a large example. Why is there a hole? Well I visited Devils Tower, Wyoming (a state determined that if they couldn’t be first they were going to be last alphabetically, and the last shall be first etc. With the up down keys on spreadsheets this is now quite funny, they seem to have anticipated this nicely.) Devils Tower, (I took some good photos, though I haven’t scanned them yet.) is an example of the lava cooling slowly and forming nice strong crystalline structures, the rock around it having weathered away. In the case of sink holes, the lava retreated, some would say, either the entrance to the lower magma chamber was blocked or the cooling simply contracted the lava into a smaller space under the sinkhole. Why do lava chambers form? Well, that’s a thermodynamics and fluid dynamics problem, the heat, simply melts the area underground and it gets wider and fills, if the lava reaching the top moves fast, the chamber doesn’t get bigger as there isn’t time for the lava to melt the surrounding rock, if it’s moving is slowed then the heat dissipates into the rock melting it wider around the volcanic vent and chambers can form. Gas from below trapped in the volcano vents can also push the lava downwards. As lava cools, it’s ability to hold dissolved gasses decreases and gasses are “vented”. Pardon the pun. “They’re called books, dearie.” Colman

1800pm-1815pm 18 Mar 2023 Iceland The periodicity of the flapping has changed and now it’s like the relatively unpredictable las flaps of the flag as the energy from the big movement at the flagpole has slowed. You might check the time from the extremely regular periodic quakes to this? Now in a flag, the time to the next major movement changes dramatically depending on the next movement of wind catching the flag, though smaller unfrequent movements can happen depending on the wind catching the end of the flag. (See if “unfrequent” is in the geology dictionary will you? Relating to frequency as in Hertz. Do you want to count your Earthquake frequency in beats per week? Number of oscillations in a 168 hr time period? How do you tell the ups and how do you tell the downs? Peaks and Troughs.) Google: Periodicity /ˌpɪərɪəˈdɪsɪti/ noun Technical: 1. The quality or character of being periodic; the tendency to recur at intervals. “the periodicity of the sunspot cycle”

1825pm 18 Mar 2023 Ecuador

1830pm 18 Mar 2023 New Zealand USGS there’s another one near New Caledonia?

1835pm 18 Mar 2023 BBC Sentinel satellites to monitor every volcano 19 April 2017
“How we doing on this? USA Not impressed?” Colman

1840pm 18 Mar 2023 Ireland “Here Numpties, can your mother stich? Well get her to stitch this?” Colman

1920pm-1950pm 18 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano, Italy Let’s watch the mountain cool for the night? The high Specific Heat Capacity (SHC) of water means that the rock and soil containing water holds heat longer than the surrounding dry rock. Theoretically, it also rises in temperature slower, although in practice because water convects energy, and it also fills gaps between the soil and sand particles, which would otherwise be insulation spaces, water logged soils and rocks actually heat faster. Specific heat capacity of water is 4184 J⋅kg⁻¹⋅K⁻¹. (wiki) In school, we were taught 4,200 J/kg/°Centigrade. Note Weight of water 1kg = 1 litre or 1grm = 1 cubic cm. 1 litre = 1 milliTonne. One thousandth of a Cubic meter which weighs 1 Metric Tonne. 1°Kelvin = 1°Centigrade. Note: 1 Joule is equal to the amount of work done when a force of 1 newton displaces a mass through a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force applied. Note (Wiki – What mass weight? Oh, we couldn’t decide because the USA wanted lbs.) Normally we measure this by comparisons on how much energy it takes to lift one kilogram by 1 meter against Earth’s Gravity 9.81m/s² Hence, the work done = Force × Displacement = 9.8 N × 1 m = 9.8 Nm = 9.8 J. So theoretically you need to drop a kg of water 426 meters to generate the energy required to heat it by 1°Centigrade. And we use nuclear energy to heat water. Funny people. Colman Thermodynamics has nice formulae on how inefficient it is to get electricity from low temperature differences and geology says why its difficult to get close to the Earths interiors constant high temperatures (lava is unpredictable) and this is why geothermal power generation research is so important. Also making Hydrogen, the most efficient way of transporting this harvested energy, close to volcanoes is very dangerous, for slightly obvious reasons.

1955pm-2015pm 18 Mar 2023 Canary Islands, Spain This is a little large for a thermal expansion quake? The depth says, “Is this close to the magma chamber for La Palma?” Well, theoretically, at that depth 33 km or 33,000 meters it’s simply quite hot and if all the islands just got bigger, then they simply pushed this one at the end a little hard and a big rock down there cracked. The energy released by the fracture of the rock crystals has the effect of heating the rock slightly and some energy is released as seismic energy, in our experience it’s similar to sound vibrations, the bang of the surface of rock breaking as the hammer hits it, though normally, you’re hearing the bang of the air (The air makes a pressure wave, as it escapes, we call it noise.) squeezed between the hammer head and the rock. It’s why ice melting actually releases a small amount of energy as it changes from a a crystal to a liquid. It’s why ice has a lower density than water and floats, the crystal structure being organised, costs energy. It is also why proper ice crystals are clear, while less well organised snow or slush is opaque.

0315am-0335 19 Mar 2023 You might have a look at this, if it’s a later wave from Turkey then the volcanoes South East might be of interest in a two or three days, The flapping flag says they’ll dip and lava will come up the spout and the land around here is very fluffy? Define fluffy, soft permeable new rocks with limited capacity to resist movements, see a flag, the heavier areas where the armies put nice embroideries the mass or weight of the extra material gives mass which resists movement, F=ma, Force = Mass time Acceleration, heavy rocks, granite, Ireland etc, therefor lower movements for the forces, energy imparted by seismic waves. Check the rock densities and just do the fxxking math, please? Oh, Colman, no, he’s not granite, stone or fxxking ski, he’s a titanium coating on a fxxking uranium core. Why do you say that Colman? Colman wasn’t chosen for the Cadet school, he was sent, it was easier than cleaning up the bodies afterward. And they taught me how to kill large numbers of people when tasked. What fun. Loads to think about. Oh, you go on doing what you’re doing, Colman is just saving people, he does that in his spare time. Why? Well, alive soldiers kill the enemy better than dead ones and that’s how you win wars or, did I not read the same books as you. I’m drunk. Had an excellent nights dancing. Met a beautiful woman, two actually, though one spoke English. I like Cork. The singer in the band was very beautiful too, though we unfortunately only talked shop. I hope I meet them again. I like Earth. It’s the only planet I know with human life on it. So far. Go SpaceX. Permanent habitation modules in test mode on Luna and Mars, asap, please. How do you test for CO2 removal? Plants respire in the dark. Use little Arduino, Galileo and Raspberry pi robots on long instruction timeframes for teaching programming, for long interval remote viewing and path and flexible hand calculations for maintaining the plants. It’s why nurses remove the flowers from the wards before bedtime. Colman And again, you might look at this. Colman

1520pm 19 Mar 2023 While it’s quiet a little look around for new products. If they don’t exist you fxxking ask for them.
NASA Image of the day? Excellent library, however, designed for modems. Fails to appreciate the speed of current wifi and ethernet data transfers? The full screen should have fifty items? Sorting? Decade? Year? Event Type? Imagery from? Example? NASA ISS Hurricane (name) 2010s 2012 Why? Because some budding weatherperson writing their thesis might like a shiny photo, similarly geology and volcanoes etc.
Copernicus Image of the day? Now this is a complete cluster. That fxxking banner on all the pages on top is awful and the banner photos similarly. Oh, it’s designed for the person who uses a phone and they only see it once, because they never return to the fxxking site. Why? Because it’s shit. Computer sales are down. Why? Availability of suitable products to keep people using the desktop computer for more than work are NOT available. What would you do Colman? Well, the idea of an art wall as seen in the purchase of high definition art by serious people for display in their own homes, would suggest that people like shiny pictures. I would connect the house computer (a nice quiet design, the fans are quite noisy.) to an always on display, hopefully with a disaster monitoring app banner, to warn the householder of local events. The NASA and Copernicus imagery is amazing, and I would have an app which displays a photo every five minutes. (The app, free to housholds and for a fee to public display, similar to IMRO in Ireland, collecting money for the singers and songwriters from businesses, though unfortunately this was a complete fxxk up because it reduced album sales because no one knew who the fxxk was selling new albums, because the hairdresser didn’t have anything on the fxxking radio because they wouldn’t pay the IMRO charges. Large businesses? Pubs etc. Radio stations playing in the foyer? Just because you can make money that way doesn’t mean you should, it’s the classic supply and demand curve and IMRO crushed it by charging too much from the wrong customers. That’s the commercial version.) The webpage, should have a facility to launch to fullscreen, with automatic download weekly of the latest 3hrs/5mins = 36 images? At the screen resolution of the computer or tv screen? The image sizes are quite small. Why? Because it’s nice to have the computer offline for use by the kids occasionally. It used to be called a screensaver. Today, production of heat in the home using electricity is being encouraged and always on electrical items produce heat which diverts energy usage from gas and oil and coal to electricity, hopefully produced by renewables. Colman

1330pm 19 Mar 2023 Papua You might take a look at this one?

1340pm 19 Mar 2023 Turkey

1720pm 19 Mar 2023 Someone’s a smoker? Mount Etna Volcano, Italy.

1725pm 19 Mar 2023 NASA you beautiful people. This is a new sat photo. Please? Pretty please? a time stamp for the photo in the corner?

1730pm 19 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy – Thermal Colman why NASA time stamp photo? Oh, it’s a smoking photo, however it’s got snow on top at the moment.

1745pm 19 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy Why no smoke in this thermal? Well, it’s diffuse heat and thermal or heat or infrared is absorbed by air and moisture in the air and this is a picture from a long way off, the rest of the picture is shown because there’s actually so much data. It’s the equivalent of 100 pixels and one dot shows rather than one pixel in a hundred showing the dot. Also the image software on his camera is treating it as static noise and filtering out the stray pixels. To quote the current ad on tv – “Should have gone to Specsavers.” RAW data and filter yourself, you would have been better using a b/w webcam and an infrared filter with a long exposure per frame. That’s why the astronomers alter their Canon 600Ds. You can also write your own shiny software for the little beasties (the cameras). Colman

1750pm 19 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy Would someone spoon feed those Italians, please, and some diapers might be useful too?

1800pm 19 Mar 2023 No it didn’t just stop. It’s dusk, the cameras are adjusting to night time and the extra heat from teh Sun was keeping the smoke warmer longer, now the heat is being dissipated more quickly, so less heat and the image pixel photons travel shorter distances and now they look like static and are ignored by the thermal camera. 1970’s tech like the FN rifle had were green/black, though the new ones are cool https://irishshootingsports.ie/optics/night-vision/infiray-affo-al25-thermal-spotter/ this one has colours and records video, though I don’t know if you can stream from it yet? Probably? “And all for the cost of a fxxking camera, Italy burned another city.” Anyone want to write that story and put it away for an Ash day? Please remind them Cork had the Americans to visit during WW1. Nice people, and those lovely cameras, Brownies, weren’t they. Such lovely air photies with those beauts. Colman

1830pm 19 Mar 2023 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park USA, eh, why it called Volcanoes National Park and why Colman no use names for all volcanoes? Well “The Volcano” is called Big Island and that is not fully appreciated by the tourists who have no idea that big island is actually a hundred km accross and it takes an hour to get to the north side of the island at 60 miles per hour and the roads aren’t quite suitable for more than that. The Jurassic Park (movie_1993) version of the film scene would have the wife tourist saying “You shouldn’t stand so close to the edge dear”, and than zoom back to show the top of the island melting behind them. It’d be a cool science based computer game? Save the tourists? Save the seismologists? Save the geologists? Save the astronomers? The boat leaves in one hour, be on it? Hanglider from the top like Escape from New York? Oh and Muffy the Siberian Tiger has just eaten a keeper and escaped from the local wildlife park. The local helicopter is taking the keeper to Honolulu to the emergency ward.

1910pm 19 Mar 2023 Japan Why EMSC got little world in corner? Oh, because some people have no idea where Japan is, let alone Fukishima and the other nuclear power stations along this very populous coastline. Oh, fukisima doesn’t exist any more, we cleaned it up and there’s a very poorly attended museum there now… Yea, and there used to be a place called Windscale too. France: you are building the fusion reactor where? Oh, it’s on a lonely hill side, nothing to worry about. It’s only a test facility.

1915pm 19 Mar 2023 Iceland, is it time we started saying, can someone check the weather forecast and see if we’re getting lava this year? The weather map is from 11 this morning. If you squeezed the tube of toothpaste (SW of Iceland) two days ago, it’s only reaching the surface now. Is it hot enough to keep the lava tubes open is the question. Is it cool enough to freeze them? (Note: rock solidifying is the rock freezing thought eh temperature is a little colder than water’s freezing temperature. Any strange gas puffs? Why? Because the gaseous stuff changes with the rock temperature emitting the dissolved gasses. Really hot stuff, like La Palma and you get light metal oxides (Lithium etc) up in the air too.

1950pm 19 Mar 2023 Volcano Discovery Krakatau volcano (Sunda Strait, Indonesia): powerful explosions yesterday Sun, 19 Mar 2023, 15:27 15:27 PM | BY: MARTIN Almost a B/W photo, oh, a few dollars more gets you a colour version.

1955pm 19 Mar 2023 Merapi volcano (Java, Indonesia): glowing dome block avalanches continue Sun, 19 Mar 2023, 14:48 14:48 PM | BY: MARTIN Note: The story title is exactly the same as 12 Mar 2023, the old story is still there.

2030pm 19 Mar 2023 Krakatoa, that’s quite famous isn’t it. An island exploding or something? Well, actually… It’s Banten trying to move to the South West and it hit a very hard piece of something and the friction of it trying to get over the obstruction is boiling the rock. What’s Christmas island made of? And the deeps in front of Banten? It’s like a steel moving over flint? Maybe you have that backwards? If Banten is the Big lump digging in? No, I’d look and see when the ends separated? It might have been a jump big enough to push the ends apart, you might see if it’s recent? Like about 15,000 years ago? When the Mediterranean opened? Well, it’d have been a rather large bump. Like the Turkey Rift Slide M 9.0? Oh, I’d be looking at it as slightly larger than that, however using numbers for something like that would be inadvisable. Why? Well, some of the people you’d be talking to count on their fingers. Colman (They use binary.)

2045pm 19 Mar 2023 New Zealand The 100th weak or above earthquake is now at Mon Feb 27 2023 4:35 AM today is the 19th + 2 = 21 days.

2050pm 19 Mar 2023 Alaska, USA I wouldn’t have called it Homer. No, if I was a Whovian, I would have called it Sunnydale. It’s a Buffy the Vampire Slayer joke. Colman

0220am 20 Mar 2023 Japan USGS

0225am 20 Mar 2023 Iceland this looks periodic too. Yes, the sun goes down every night and the coldest part of the night is when the greatest contractions happen and every night, it’s at the absolute limit that the next little crack happens. Snow falling will do that. Colman

0335am 20 Mar 2023 Mount Etna Volcano Italy Eh, why silly photo from long way off? Remember the water on the left hand side of the photo? Not there today. A Volcano clearing it’s throat often has to blow out the collected water, this cools rapidly in high altitude air and falls as water which flows down. The water from last night is gone. Then the Vent is clear for other things to come up the spout, like ash and lava and stuff. Just saying, it might have already got everything off it’s chest, though I doubt it. Oh the rest of it, that’s snow melting in the heat from the vent, it’s quite warm on the hillside and more snow keeps blowing up from around the place it is quite a high mountain. At 12 degrees at sea level, that’s 400-600 meters snowline and another 2,000 meters up to the open vent. With a 5 km horizontal hike, what’s the Naismith on that in the snow and on a volcanic surface? Yea, I wouldn’t be doing it by foot either, anyone got a winchman on a helicopter? They’re expensive. Yes, and is there a safety distance from the vent yet? Funny, I thought there was an Italian Air Force and stuff, though it might just be a rumour. I didn’t see any of them on the National day parade when I was there, they seemed to be parading swimming gear. There wasn’t even a fly past. Colman European Soil map says Cambisols, young soils with moderate horizon growth. It’s a Volcano, calling it young soil is a little bit like saying the wine you started fermenting day before yesterday is a little young to be drinking? Colman Here’s the European soil map. It’s a nice .pdf in poster size.

0415am 20 Mar 2023 Stromboli Volcano Italy NASA say dis one velly hot. Eh, yea, there’s money to be made at this and listen here, we’re the ones making it? Colman https://vincenzomodica.com/etna-stromboli-webcam?lang=it Mount Etna Volcano? Yea, I’d say that was ash in the dawn’s early light?

0430am 20 Mar 2023 Ventusky uses the nice cameras. Looks like there’s quite a lot of dirt in the atmosphere, you might look into that? It wouldn’t have anything to do with that volcano thing they have there, would it? Anyone coughing down wind yet?

0450am 20 Mar 2023 Puerto Rico USA, this one is a little unusual too?

0515am 20 Mar 2023 Algeria Now since some things happen annually, you might keep an ear out for this? Didn’t happen last year, though it all depends on if conditions are similar in the expansion of the African continent.

0520am 20 Mar 2023 Iceland, is that the morning cough starting? No, weather passed yesterday and Reykjanes clear as a sunny morning on Mount Sinai.

0545am 20 Mar 2023 World, just asking is 35 degrees Centigrade a little warm for swimming? You see most countries count the survival times in the ocean by how long you can survive in the cold water? On the surface, with a cool breeze? Eh? On the water with a warm breeze, your sweat boils off rather rapidly. Requirements for water in Astronaut survival packs? How do you get fresh water from salt water on sitting on top of a SpaceX capsule or other space vehicle? Why? Well, I’d stay with the vehicle and unfortunately if it’s floating on this water, the interior becomes 35 degrees Centigrade rather rapidly, water being a conductor and a convector. Can you rig a sail? For shade? etc? Thin aluminium or carbon fibre poles? Can you use additional space blankets as a solar still? Salt tablets? Why? Well, you don’t use the sea salt as there’s too much potassium, so you have to bring sodium salt tablets. Colman https://www.seatemperature.org/

0605am 20 Mar 2023 Wouldn’t want to worry anyone, however the water temperature in Tenerife is a little above the 30 year average? Like if the average was at that fifteen years ago, then it’s risen a little fxxking fast? It’s only 0.2 degrees higher? That’s averaged over the entire month and it’s fxxking night time. Keep watching and see the temperature at 6pm this evening?

1645pm-1705pm 20 Mar 2023 Lava camera viewing camera box. Note: This ticks all the boxes, the view from this camera is NOT the pretty picture, it’s the engineers picture. The weighted box means that if there is a seismic event nearby, ie. the vent spews ash or lava that the camera box swings, the engineers pole in front then becomes a parallax indicator, which can be used for a rough guide to the severity of the explosion, yes, normally the seismic event “seems” like an explosion. A Scottish caber, yes, from the sport caber tossing) is a standard sized larch pole, weighted for carrying by two people, some times used for crossing rivers, the coastal sport was running the greasy pole or pillow fighting on the poles suspended over a lake or ocean. The camera box should be powered by solar panels, hopefully attached to the non viewing sides of the tripod. Does anyone make them in equilateral triangles? The camera with the lead weight has the stability, because of it’s mass, it’s the tripod which moves and then the camera moves slightly as the movement of the top of the tripod is transferred to the rope, a spring would give an even greater instability so I recommend non-climbing ropes, the climbing ropes have elasticity. For standardisation, metal wires and fixtures might be used for joining the poles, similarly metal poles, however if you want standardisation of engineering for all possible lava viewing events, I recommend rope and wooden poles. Power for the camera box and its phone or satellite connection should be from an onboard battery, with an indicator to say if the battery is still connected to the solar panels. Solar panels at the top of the tripod are harder to remove, it’s why food was also stored on tripods like these in American native cultures as were the bodies of the dead. The standard Engineers measuring stick with 20 cm measurements at the top should be used for an indicator of range to the stick and the parallax movements of the camera box, calibration of the movements should be possible after an earthquake sized event, where a standardised measurement is possible. Two painted rocks painted red and white might be placed near the engineers measuring stick as the fxxking things tend to fall over, and after calibration, the red and white rocks can be used as an indicator instead. Do I have your attention? Actually, thinking about it, two engineer poles in a line 25 or 50 meters apart might be better? Colman

1720pm 20 Mar 2023 Hawaii USA What type of event might this be useful for? USGS Note: For local fire fighting, placing the camera tripod on a nearby hill or mountaintop pointed at the fire might be useful for local fire fighters too? In the case of fire, wind direction is also important and a flag or small windsock might be used as an indicator of local windspeed?

1725pm 20 Mar 2023 Is this important? Now if you look at the big fxxking picture, this is the 30day list of earthquakes from IRIS and it’s a little fxxking noisier than normal. And they’re just the ones we can see, the sneaky bollixes have some of the the data on the ones on the rest of the fault lines and won’t confirm the bloody things as the map would look rather busier again and we wouldn’t want to worry anyone. Mid Atlantic ridge are the ones Ireland is concerned about, it’s only 800-1200km away from our shorelines.

1800pm 20 Mar 2023 Arthur C. Clarke had a vision of the Earthquake Monitoring Seismic Computer. Yes, it’s why they called ours EMSC. It’s in his book Richter 10. It’s called that because although the Turkey Riftslide, M 9.0 jolted the continent of Europe, an M 10.0 is 10 times greater in energy than an M 9.0, it’s a logarithmic measuring scale, and that would physically move the continent and have all sorts of “knock on” effects to other continental plates. He was most concerned with San Francisco as it was the area which he could name as having the greatest sales potential to his book and greatest effect on research, however there are other areas, as we’ve seen in Turkey where “A Big Ten” (AB – you’re going to need blood for that one.), an M 10.0, would have drastic effects on continental levels, an M 11.0, now that would shake the planet Earth, an MeteoRITE M 12.0, you just bury the dead and rebuild your home town. An M 13? A once in 500 million year event, well, that’s where the Luna or Mars Party come home and repopulate the planet. Though we’re working on means to avoid it, another two hundred years or so and we should be ready for that. Another hundred years or so after that and we should have a planetary defence for Mars too.

1830pm 20 Mar 2023 Why are the planets where they are? Mars little planet should be inside Earth near Venus? Well, strangely this is to do with it’s moons and the asteroid belt. Gravity attracts, solar wind pushes. Lots of moons and local asteroids and they catch the solar wind keeping the local body away from the Sun. It’s a strange one because all the supposed descriptions of the Earths demise in a few billion years describe the Sun’s core expanding and swallowing the Earth, forgetting that the increase in Solar wind should push Earth out further away from the Sun over time. You might look at a few exoplanets for confirmation of this? Also deposition of Hydrogen onto suitable bodies, like Saturn’s rings increases the local ability to catch the Solar winds too. It’s a follow on hypothesis of mine from the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode “Explorers” (fandom.com Memory Alpha) Series Three (3) Episode Twenty two (22), about the Bajoran Solar Wind sailing inter planetary sailing ship made from wood, an excellent insulator. Colman

1850pm-2010pm 20 Mar 2023 NASA – Your youngest Astronaut, looks like me, Blueberry. She can read the 10 week semester module (6 modules per trimester) book in six hours, with someone available online, to answer the tricky questions and do the exam the following day. Her long term memory is for important stuff, so make sure someone asks for her checklists, checks a copy of her check lists a week before the flight and asks to see her check lists on the bus before the flight as a NASA Priority 02 checklist item before each flight. Then hand her a can of Coke and a Mars bar. And her check list is to have a Personal Only section, for photos etc. Emotion is important, as are hugs. Why Priority 02? because Priority 01 is making sure she’s on the fxxking bus. Why? Strenuous mental effort is exhausting and I used to use three alarms to get me up in the morning and I had to vary my alarms as I’d sleep through “normal” sounds and after a few weeks one alarm is a normal sound. Yes, it’s why Armstrong and Aldrin ignored the alarm noises on Apollo 10, just another alarm, heard it loads of times in the simulator. Edge of the envelope and the alarms always go off, it’s why USA Airforce uses various voices for their warning signals to Airforce pilots in high G manoeuvre events. In Space Terms, it’s where the flight controller (and not the comms astronaut) says. “Blueberry, we’d like you to drink some liquid, please.” In Lunar orbit, the commander is NOT the comms person, same applies and they’re closer to the event, it’s a long comms time to Luna. Oh, and she gets a brass keyring, the vitamin tablets don’t normally include the metal minerals (Copper and Zinc oxides are excellent biological catalysts.) and rubbing it once a day for luck stops her losing her hair at 40 years of age. Mine started when I wasn’t handling the bullets every few days. And my beard started going grey after I tried the Brit Naval diet of biscuits (Shortcake) for a year, with vitamin tablets and didn’t include metal minerals. Since I now rub a brass shell every day, the greying has stopped. How did you figure that? Mars Ben Bova, Vit C and Flashman, MacDonald_Fraser never went anywhere without a three month supply of ship’s biscuit. Vit C 10x RDA, B Vits various (brewers yeast), Cod liver oil tablets and Vit D for winter, just in case the light go out on ISS. The UV solar lights are an extra heat source. A refrigeration problem and you turn out the lights. Why 10x RDA, well, good for the immune system and if you have to ration them then you’ve 10 times the length of time. The Martian, potatoes, excellent source of Vit C. And yes, those NASA reduced rations in the movie did look remarkably like biscuits. Why aged 22, at that rate she might have been younger. Star Trek, the Q offered Wesley Crusher the opportunity to be a full grown man and he said no. I’d make sure she sees the crocs and tigers and the death of the coral reefs at Queensland, Australia, so she knows what she’s fighting for. It’s survival of the species, boys and girls. What scared you most ecologically? I did a shallow 5 meter dive off Corfu. There was no seaweed on the bottom, there was no seaweed in the water. The area had zero sea life besides us visitors, there was just rock and sand beneath us. And she needs a female voice on the comms, her dad is urging her on in her head and she needs a cautious bunny. The stern word, that’s from the flight controller. Colman Superego Ego Id. Go further (Vincent for Vincent Van Gogh and for Vital_Information_Necessary_CENTralized (fandom Disney), he was a little robot, with a nice paint scheme), Fly a little lower (Icarus), Survive (Gopher). Why? Because WE’LL get you home. The Black Hole (1979) – I saw it in London and I read the book too. Colman And being a complete know it all, during her pregnancies, she’s to eat for three not two, the kid is thinking, she can drop the weight after, feeding the kid. And lots of supplementary milk in the first 18 months and the kid’ll be six foot boy or girl. Height in later life is determined most by growth in the first 9+18 months.
“There’s no calcium in that diet.” Blueberry.
“The Scots use milk in their biscuits.” Shortcake.

“Evening miss. I’ve got you.” Superman
“You’ve got me. Who’s got you?” Lois Lane

“Bullshit, tell me something I don’t know?” Blueberry.
“The blue eye genes you have, arrive with square perky breasts, and an extremely brave attitude and I haven’t seen you swimming. It’s also where your shoulders came from.” Shortcake.

2055pm 20 Mar 2023 Turkey – No, it’s not on USGS yet. You were saying? Why? Because the seismic wave hasn’t reached their sensors yet and optical goes faster. I’ve a pain in my head all fxxking day. And someone asked USGS a question about the 2.8 at Hawaii and the 3.0 in California. And a 4.7 in Peru, priotities? Counting the bloody things is a nice job? And the data changes just for Colman’s benefit. You think I never noticed before? Colman

2300pm 20 Mar 2023 A little story.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Chornytsya and she wasn’t born.
Her father died in a field in Ukraine.
Now, Once upon a time a bully came to intimidate us at our tennis court and a nice lad stood behind me after he realised there was something up.
A long time ago, in a land far far away, some busy men thought that the peasants in China might need some help with a Japanese problem, they had been a little busy with their own problems for a long time and other people had thought to take advantage of their domestic situation.
Now when they had given as much as they could and to all who were prepared to fight the fascist scourges, two tribes in China with very different attitudes, had a little war of their own. It was rather unfortunate and the two tribes still aren’t quite on speaking terms.
Now, since there is a little “It’s Russian land.” and an “I want Khoroshiy plyazh, a nice beach.” problem, a nice man in China might offer, since China is the worlds largest Iron and Steel producer, others now using different building methods and materials, fifty (50) of those pretty self propelled PLZ-52s (155mm) with ammunition enough to get the Ukrainian drinks tray to their old border?
Now while, I am not a fan of big guns for small people, the acceptance of Ukraine of such a pretty and thankfully untested in a major battle, firearm, might put the fear of God into the Russians and they might think that the reason that everyone is standing around looking at them is because Russia is actually lying on the ground and they might notice that they got just got poleaxed from behind.
Oh, and it would completely sink Russian firearms and ammunition manufacture for the foreseeable future.
Now, since most sensible nations don’t make more than they use for ranges unless there’s a reason for it, the ammunition is expensive, poisonous and leaves a bad taste in the mouth, a rather salty ironish taste, and if you’ve ever had a tooth knocked out or bitten your tongue by accident as I have, you know exactly what taste I’m talking about.
So, after the war is over the Ukrainians might send the guns and unused ammunition back to China and they might be available to others second hand and battle tested. Most Irish army officers buy second hand cars, the problems have normally all been fixed by their earlier users, particularly now that the Irish NCTs are done after two years.
If they had earlier been done at day of sale, we might have noticed the German Volkswagen emissions problem.
However I diverge, China, Ukraine, Fifty (50) PLZ-52s (155mm) for rent, ammunition and spare parts with payment on their usage and mileage? While there are similar from South Africa in stores in the Middle East at a reasonable price, a few people there are keeping them in case of an Iranian problem, and we might get to that another day, since that’s going to sort it’s self out as soon as they run out of oil.
And to the Iranian nuclear industry I have a few words.
The Russians built and operated Chernobyl.
Google: How long will Chernobyl be radioactive? 20,000 years.
Oh, the USA did earlier have Three mile island, however similar to Fukishima, both had reasonable safety mechanisms and locations to mitigate the inevitable price of failed technological leaps forward.
Unfortunately, while technological chasms are crossed in large leaps, not everyone makes it, every time.
Fifty self propelled guns?
This Spring? And the USA might escort them to Ukraine?

Signed Colman, he is a complete bollix and a wanker,
however, most of the time he’s a lazy honest man. Colman

0040am 21 Mar 2023 European Space Agency, ESA, https://www.instagram.com/stories/esa_earth/3062789125999506945/ Swift change here, please? This is your Instagram story today. “Climate Change is here. 50 years and 5 meters of flood FULL STOP.” Discuss.

0130am-0220am 21 Mar 2023 New Zealand the 100th weak and above earthquake back is at Mon Feb 27 2023 7:55 PM It is quite an unusual Map picture. And people live there? Yes, you can live with the earthquakes, if you’ve a little respect for the earth shaker. Good indoor plumbing standards with flexible pipes and a nice water reservoir and hammocks and timber houses on nice flexible platforms work wonders too, otherwise repairing the plasterwork is annoying. The Egyptians only used painted plaster inside solid rockcut rooms. You see, if you actually take note of your surroundings, you ask? Why isn’t that there? Instead of why is that there? The Egyptian temples and monuments are carved sandstone and granite and they weren’t painted, the paint and plaster fell off. Now, later there were roofs painted with stars in the tombs, what glue was used for the paint? Eh, would that be a chicken and egg question? Yes, the Egyptians had very shiny boats and they went afield, and someone brought back a chicken and said, you know there was a huge head there too of this huge birdlike creature. And they called the ones which lived in the high mountains, protecting the diamonds and other gems, rocs, I read Arabian nights as a kid. (Eh, how big was the biggest eagle from top of the steppe or over Aphganghneistan?) “In Māori mythology the Hakawai was one of eleven tapu (sacred) birds of Raka-maomao, a god of wind. The Hakawai lived in the heavens and only descended to the earth at night.” Now a Cassowary is an annoying great beastie, however it’s not that long ago since the Moa was around, and if I was an annoying leader I would have insisted on catching a few and attempting breading the beasties. It says that there were other large birds in Madagascar. Now being a complete fientific imbecilic and not having the knowledge of what has been tried, I’d be asking, if dem eggs in dem museum

came out of the big chickens arse, do they have DNA on them and since dem be like chickens, can you fill an egg the right size with chicken egg stuff and grow giant flightless birds? Oh, and also, dem crocodiles swim large distances and the big ones seem to be leaving Australia in droves, for some reason, at least, if I was a creature, which liked a reasonable climate, I’d be thinking of finding a cooler water temperature? Oh, and making dem crocs in the croc eggs, that be something similar? Dragons and such? Why? Well dem snakes in Texas, it’s quite cold there and they bask in the sun in summertime. Some lizards are good eating. Mars and stuff. Low light levels, insects, geckoes etc. Oh and why sow when the crocks lay a hundred eggs and if you flitch them they lay more. They lay a hundred eggs hoping one survives, because dem pesky humans dem eat them. Some people don’t see man as a meat and egg eating predator. Medical question, what’s the cholesterol problem like in the Aboriginal Australian communities? Are croc eggs as high in cholesterol? And were croc eggs used for inks in Egypt and who… ? Aboriginal watercraft collection. Chesapeake “Phragmites (Phragmites australis) continues to invade the Eastern Shore and other parts of Maryland at an alarming rate. Not only does it grow so tall that it blocks the shoreline view, more importantly, it grows so thick it can destroy a wetland’s fragile ecosystem by choking out the beneficial and native wetland plants, becoming a monoculture with practically no wildlife habitat value.” However, the stuff is excellent for feeding horses. It’s also excellent for tying together as rafts etc. Dem Egyptians used it for moving rocks and stuff. How do you tie it together, well actually you weave it onto a balloon and fill it with more reeds, though they rot quite quickly, today we call it an ecofriendly approach. Colman

0300am-0345am 21 Mar 2023 Was looking at the little quake in Taiwan and got distracted, Google Earth is so cool, nice big picture stuff, most people zoom from place to place with names and stuff, I tend to look from the Moon. What’s that big hole called? The meteor strike? The Philippine sea? I watched something about a snowball Earth a long time ago and a theory of plants and making oxygen and stuff for why the Earth warmed up. Every seen a sharpnel impact on a bullet proof glass window? Looks rather like that except, the rock here solidified almost immediately, now if it was really cold, like an iceball, the rock would cool like that? Why the strange shape? Well that would depend on the size and shape of the mountain range it hit? It’s like a baseball hitting a sandcastle. Why only half an impact crater? Well, it was a couple of Eons ago, the Chinese land mass is moving over it at present. The little slowing at Taiwan might be the landmass bending around the floater? It might have been a very fast piece of very light rock, which floated after it hit, the density might not have allowed it penetration? There’s a similar deposition on the Moon, Titanium dioxide plastered accross the visible side of the Moon, though the Moon was solid then. I think? If Taiwan is stuck on top of the floater, it might be stuck there? Can you find out how deep the floater is? looking at it as a softball rather than a baseball and it says 600 to 900 km in diameter? How high would Titanium dioxide float in Silica oxide? White sand in Grey sand? Density, it’s close to ice in water? Now, for an experiment drop the raspberry ripple icecream soft scoop in the tub of almost melted vanilla icecream and see if the lump sits in the middle and has a deep crevasse around it and a circular impact ring? It should have melted on impact? Titanium is very hard and has a very high melting point and it might not have been the only metal in the mix? Iridium was in the one which killed the dinosaurs? Really stupid question? If all the metals coalesced at different times as super cooling and super conductivity happened and this little bit is a magnet now and so is that and all that comes together in one lump, and the Sun suddenly starts, and that’s a now magnet in the wrong place, and the Sun has a magnetosphere and attracts the lump into a slingshot orbit, does the lump get shot out into deep space to return on a gravitational orbit a long time later? How good’s your Ground Penetrating Radar? Well, actually, I wouldn’t use that, I’d calculate the rock densities based on transmission of seismic energy? It’s the way light travels through a prism or a lens or through air, water and glass. Now there’s a few Phds? And a min er al study for Lun(a). ( To the tune of “And a partridge in a pear tree.”) Colman Oh, and what are the lumpy bits to the East, eh, fragments? which stuck in the rest of the rock, slowed and cooled by the ice? Or deposited after the ice melted? They look rather like piles of sand, shall we call them Iceworld Impact Meteorological deposits? Apparently that area has rare Earth elements too, which are “rare” and and may not be normal Earth elements at all? Ask Irish PDF for my theory on superconductive formation of Planets and Suns in an “empty” space, environment? A fun evening. Colman Oh and calling me int is like calling Mr Cox a rock hound. It’s way above, collection, collation, evaluation, editing, expurgation and spewing the shit on the bosses desk. Gathering Knowledge, it’s about seeing big pictures and ignoring the little pot holes and picking the pearl from the apparent void of ocean sand, putting it in a nice setting and letting Ireland wear it for all time. Colman How did you work all that out? Well, I’ve been trying to work out where the Japanese were getting all their rare Earths for a while, though I didn’t expect to figure it out at 4am on a Tuesday morning. I thought they were getting the stuff through nuclear transmutation, similar to the USA. Colman

1945pm-2005pm 23 March 2023 Here’s some supposing? South Africa, Kimberley Diamond mine. Now, while I was there no one tried to sell me a ticket to see the South African volcano. And human habitation there is very old. So, why is there a diamond mine? Heat and pressure creates diamonds from carbon. So something moving very fast made a circular hole in Kimberley, probably straight through a coal seam or two. Why no major crater? Well, the rocks in South Africa are actually really soft, I passed the largest bungy jump in the world when I was there, off a bridge, the glacier and river had cut a beautiful deep valley, (Square edges, numpties.), so the meteor was going so fast, it didn’t notice the impediments, as it whizzed through.
Rather like a bullet passing through soft tissue and missing vital organs.
Now, if it hit somewhere with hard rocks, there might have been a different story.
“It’s how you tell ’em.” Colman
As an example of a “Long Glacier” along a natural fault line in the local geology, with multiple outlets at a right angle towards the ocean, here’s one from South Africa, there’s another at Taiwan and the largest example is below the Himalayas. This one was actually a “Step or Tiered Glacier.” Why South Africa not notice? Only whites educated and not were well. “Too busy at the braai.” Colman
Irish Intermediate Certificate Geography, I didn’t take it for Leaving Cert, I was supposed to be a Chemistry graduate, though Electronics seemed more lucrative in the 1980s. Colman alternatively “20 minutes of The History of the World.”

2010pm 21 Mar 2023 Cork, Ireland. On a local level, it’s been raining quite a time here, anyone checked the drains? Colman

2020pm 21 March 2023 Eh, you know that Uluru thing in Australia?
Yes, the lump of red mud.
Well, actually there’s a men’s one and a women’s one.
Now if I was a silly person long ago, I would have said, let’s build a monument.
We can put the boat we arrived on in “The Middle”.
And every man plasters some mud on that one and every woman plasters some mud on that one and the monuments keep getting bigger.
“Some people think long term.”
Colman

2030pm 21 Mar 2023 Russia – If I was only going to look at one earthquake today, which would it be. This one I think. Why? Well, there’s a few volcanoes nearby, some very soft young rocks and they shouldn’t make such loud noises. Colman

2040pm 21 Mar 2023 You’d like to hear about another big item.
Why is there a ring of land, though not all of it is volcanoes?
Well, this was the extent of the “Ninety degree Artic Continental Edge Glacier or NACEG”, the ice ran this far and melted here, there being volcanoes nearby to keep the water warm, dropping moraines, the material gathered by the glacier on it’s journey.
So, why is the water depth variable?
Well it was like Antarctica, the edge of the icefloe was floating on the water.
The area to the East the hills are rather high?
Well, there was more material lifted from the land there and the Antarctic ice floes are rather tall, even today. Question for the class: Can you look at the topographical map of Alaska here and estimate the maximum height of the NACEG? Colman

2100pm 21 Mar 2023 Colman – Describe Global warming.
Well, there was a party warming up rather slowly and some people arrived and they were addicted to being warm and lit a fire in the middle of the room. Now, because the room didn’t have a chimney, a few years ago, they started complaining about the smoke and just now, they just realised there wasn’t a fxxking exit door and the fire is too hot to get close to to kick it out and there’s no fxxking water and someone just called a friend to get the fire brigade and the phone signal is awful and they just realised that the person that they called had given them a joke phone number for a party gift sales helpline and the music in the room is a little too loud and some of the people at the party have been smoking something strange and haven’t noticed it’s warm, because they aren’t wearing anything except underwear.
And where are you Colman?
In the corner sitting on the floor, near my exit, wearing sandals, Bermuda shorts and a “Made in the 1970s” t-shirt. With the landline to my ear. Calling the guards.

2125pm 21 Mar 2023 Iceland, that one’s unusual? You are correct, which one of the two oranges is the 3? The hilltop squeezes or the rock or ice landslides? It’s called an avalanche? Well, we might look and see whether it’s snow, ice or rock falling? The hill is rather steep and there seems to be a little roadway or track at the bottom of the hillside on the left? The red one is the one I was talking about? Why? Well, I’d have my house overlooking the stream. Colman Squeezes? It’s springtime, it’s warming? Oh, it snowed there day before yesterday.

2150pm 21 Mar 2023 How would you find unusual mineral deposits at relatively shallow depth (1000m to 5000m) in the earth?
Oh, I’d see what happens when they expand and cool in the Summer and Winter. Different materials expand and contract at different rates.
Material might fall between the boundaries of the minerals, being crushed annually, by the expansions.
In diamonds, the little occasional bumps, cause the minerals to form relatively perfect crystals, as the imperfections are “bumped” to the edges.
Eh. Anyone got a geology mineral boundary map handy?
You writing this down? Colman

2200pm 21 Mar 2023 Why is there quartz between the rock layers? Well, sometimes it was seafloor limestone, volcano, seafloor limestone, volcano. And the weight, heat and pressure crushed it into quartz. And why is there sometimes gold in it? Well, sometimes the heat simply melted the gold out of the rock above and it melted a hole into the quartz layer beneath it. The same sometimes happens with other minerals of low melting points, Fool’s gold or Iron pyrites is another example.

2330pm 21 Mar 2023 An old Instagram Archaeology volcanic eruption , Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala . 🎥 @carpe_destination with @skiddinginbroadside

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFcDg2IaSE/

1315pm 22 Mar 2023 Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey? It’s one long rock? Direction of the earthquake yesterday? With data on the transmission rates through a medium, you can calculate the transmitted energy? It’s similar to calculating lux, light transmitted in a space, light is absorbed by air and water vapour. In noise, it’s why sound “carries” better in dry cold air than warm humid air? It’s why noises “carry” further at night and in the winter time. That energy going towards Turkey? If so and at that speed and reduction in intensity through the medium of that rocky mountain range, it’s an M 4.0 or a couple of them, 24 hrs after this, near Armenia, Georgia or Turkey? Strangely enough, our Irish sea and the British English channel serve as dampening mechanisms to earthquakes from Europe and the weight of the Alps and Pyrenees also serve as dampening mechanisms, the rocks being quite soft. It’s mathematically closest to electronics and feedback mechanisms. And yes, there are some mechanisms which amplify the noises. Close to my house there’s an echo chamber road, where the design of the walls amplify the sound. In this case the narrowing of the mountain range on the way to Turkey, might have an amplifying effect, it may be a reason why this earthquake seismic energy hasn’t dissipated as quickly as it should? Also, harmonic resonance, can also cause amplification of the apparent sounds, similar to the surf wave at Tullan strand, the wave bounces off the wall, meets the second wave and is 1.4 times higher than the original wave. Why? A fellow 28 Inf Bn officer brought me canoe surfing there, you might ask him about it. Colman

1340pm-1345pm 22 Mar 2023 Could you do a Google Earth style “distances” map of the Seismic Energy Channels?
It’s a really hard calculation system though, the variables are constantly changing as moisture content in the rocks change, water being drawn from artesian wells and rain falling and temperatures changing with the seasons?
It’d be similar to doing a changing traffic map of a large city?
The calculus is difficult, it might take all week.
Oh, that would be secret.
50,000 dead Turks would ask, “If it was that easy, why wasn’t it done earlier?”
So would a couple of dead Americans at Mount St Helens?
It’s nice that the earthquake energy over that side is constantly dissipated by constant bump, bump, bump at the shiny torpedo range off the coast, isn’t it.
And yes, Ireland has a lovely artillery range at Wicklow, close to our largest mountain range, near the capital and yes, we fire artillery there and yes, it is nice that Ireland has so few earthquakes.
And yes, that is why so few of our shiny underseas hills have oil deposits, the quakes sometimes crack the hilltops and the stuff comes up.

1530pm 22 Mar 2023 Supposition works like this: We used to do it in a group at lunchtime in secondary school, strangely our group of friends has done very well over the years. And also strangely our group didn’t have a leader, we voted on stuff. France, strangely enough, I’d associate the three of these together, Porto Rico is squishy rocks and they tear in lumps rather than one slip bang like in the Mid Atlantic like that one. And the slip energy might have gone sub surface through the magma and popped up at France. Like a little wave under a flat iceberg. The vibration travels faster or slower through which medium, liquid or solid? Solid actually. I’d say the Alps caught it like a softball, no, like a round bay throwing a wave back to a centre point, it’s used in cars for focusing your headlights? No, Italy dropped and lifted and that’s the end of the big rocks you call the alps? Excellent brainstorming session, now, please do the math, and find out? In my head I still use the different voices, Science, Chemistry, Math etc. Colman The Armies call them staff officers, QOIA, S1-S12 etc. Why Colman say Q first? Well, no bullets, no going forward. Colman Why it 4 in list, so you remember the fxxking Q stuff when you’re making your decision. Split seconds? Oxygen level at 5%, diving or in a spacesuit, you’re not particularly worried about what the job was, the other guy, the pretty rocks or you’re belly being full at that point. Yes 1A 4Q, USA WW1 – Sgt York killed a machine gun battalion, because someone kept giving him loaded rifles. That’s not in the story. No, it’s not, it’s what I would do as the officer behind him. In North Africa it was a full battalion attacking every second day. “Replacements are important.” Vietnam, they sent them in one by one. Woops, not quite what we meant. You see in military terms, I like Maori traditions. Picture the two leaders in front of their troops going, yes, your lot look rather good too, listen we’re going felling a tree tomorrow, it’d be a lot easier if your lot could give us a hand, can we say I gave in and you demanded the smaller half the tree, as it was further to your village? You want the bottom half? Yes, the grubs in the rotten wood in the middle are excellent for the animals, can we do you a hangi (bar-b-que) while you’re with us? A days food with us is a days food saved from your village? Now please, remember that Colman has seen a lot, so the rotten tree interior is normally caused by a lightening strike, and some boats have a tradition of a flat area at the back, and this was long before the invention of engines, because you have to remember where you started from. They were dug out canoes. Yes, and it’s a lot easier, if nature has done half the work for you. The experimental archaeologist used a burning fire in the centre and then carved the wood out. Well, they weren’t as lazy as Colman. Busy people them lot, yes, rather annoying. Well, after you light a little fire in the floor of your canoe, and the black stuff catches fire, you remove it, so it doesn’t happen again, and, how did that happen? Mmm, charcoal. Finding coal seams in the middle ages was difficult, because people hadn’t remembered where their ancestors found and used the stuff they could reach with their level of technology. The fxxking roofs collapsed and killed dad, so let’s close that hole, so no one goes there again. Colman

1645 22 Mar 2023 South America The plate in front (to the West) is cooling, it’s winter, it contracts and drags the north and south of the continent and the middle cracks. Same every year. It is a rather large mine, how big was the blast? And where does the energy come out? Heat etc. ? Water? Landslides? You see shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, is ok, until the plate hits an obstruction, it’s why Arthur C. Clarke’s published idea was welding rather than greasing. Colman Why do you say that Colman, well, I had a plastic tooth on a plate in my mouth for years and one day it broke and I nearly choked on the plastic tooth. Mechanical failures are semi-predictable on a macro scale using probability, it’s why aircraft parts are replaced after so many “evolutions”, take offs landings, hours flown etc. Colman In biological terms to poke the cerebellum, it’s like put, put, put, up the hill and nothings happening, nothings happening and then she fxxking screams “Faster, you shiny bastard.” Colman
Oh, and John Snow, he knows nothing.
Oh, there are books and we read them.
Yes, and put, put, put, put, put.
Try someone else.
And Colman?
Silly man, falls in love at the drop of a hat.

1750pm 22 Mar 2023 France, having a other look, the ones pointing at France from Turkey through both side of the mountain ranges at Greece and Romania? Did they make a combined wave at France? They’re both under M 4.0s though, so they mightn’t be on your map?

1800pm 22 Mar 2023 Egypt How many times were the capitals moved? Why? Large landslides blocking water flows can lead to reduction in water flows which can lead to sedimentation which results in the river changing direction to another path later. It’s how oxbow lakes sometime form. Why called ox bow lakes? Because the animals prefer drinking from still water at the lake and hunters kill them and the bones and arrowheads are often found together, the arrowheads sometimes stick in the bones and it’s safer make more. Trying to remove the stuck arrowheads as a primitive means a danger of a cut which turns septic and causes blood poisoning. Pliers were invented by the Greeks, at least the best examples are from old Greek doctors kits, the Romans had some of their shiny books too.

1820pm 22 Mar 2023 North and Central America That’s a rather busy 48 hours? Is that the Turkey Rift Slide arriving from the West? Why? Well, the Atlantic is a nice buffer from the East, the plates wave up and down easily, squishy, the plates the other side are over hard ocean rock, it’s heavy, that’s why it’s ocean, it’s the 9/10ths of the iceberg, and it’s why there’s so much energy when the plates splat against one another. So the wave took ages to get there, and the hard rock at the plate edge transfers more energy to the North American continent than would be seen elsewhere, and the rock is relatively soft so the energy is dissipated over a great distance and relatively small quakes rather than one big one. (Hopefully?) You might keep a close eye on Central America, please? Volcanoes etc. If the area’s been kicked up, later as it falls lava comes up the spouts? Colman

1840pm 22 Mar 2023 Cork, some marvellous looking clouds over Cork just now, in rounded formations caused by the wind barrelling down the Lee valley, I was just outdoors for a look. The unusual semi-circular cloud formations caused by the wind jumping over the hills north of Crossbarry and dipping into the Lee basin. Colman

2210pm 22 Mar 2023 Taal Volcano, Phillipines ? That’s 900km from Taal. Yes and there’s no earthquake at Taal since when? A little peek, for old times sake? Colman

2350pm 22 Mar 2023 Taal Volcano, Phillippines There’s one, though that’s 500km North of it.

2355pm Mar 2023 Greece 118 earthquakes in 48 hrs. Biggest almost 24 hrs ago.

#	Sol. Type	Origin Time (GMT)	Epicentral Location	Latitude (°N)	Longitude (°E)	Depth (km)	Mag.	Foc.M

115

M

21/03/2023 00:20:14

31.4 km SE of Arta

38.9302

21.1965

3.0

4.6

0005am 23 Mar 2023 New Zealand 100th earthquake now at Mon Feb 27 2023 7:55 PM 22+2 = 24 days ago. To be honest this looks like a local climate counting method rather than a “Eh, do ye need help? counting method.” Oh, we wouldn’t like to alarm the tourists. “What? Tourists? Where?” Colman

0015am 23 Mar 2023 Wasn’t expecting this. Clicked on IRIS Seismic Monitor and found their new articles button. https://news.google.com/search?hl=en-US&q=quake+OR+earthquake+OR+tsunami+OR+tremor+OR+earthquakes+&gl=US&ceid=US:en It’s quite good actually.

2020pm 23 Mar 2023 Sgt York, now some people are still going, the rifles were all zeroed differently. Well, either the range was short enough that it didn’t make a difference or the officer asked Sgt York the number of clicks to zero the rest of the troopies rifles to, and this is why I preferred the fixed sight on the 1.5 magnification fixed sight Steyr rather than the addition of the removable telescopic sight. It’s a specialist weapon then, and not suitable for reserve troops. So I hope the 1.5 mag sights are still in stores. Oh, they… Replaceable parts is a Civilisation (Computer game) technology, the weapon has a zero zero mark for a reason. Do you know what your rifle is set to? It’s on the side of the sight after it’s been zeroed. Metal sights, you had a bag of left a bit, right a bit sights and you fixed them to the weapon. I’d have had a few spares in my pocket, if I was a good sergeant. Some people enjoy shooting as an exercise in fitness, skill, self control and breathing and some people are just good at it. And some people, they just read the manual, oh, it does that, nice.

2145pm 23 Mar 2023 Canada, should the place be settled as heavily as it is? And what is a PeaVine and strangely enough Irish old placenames had the cures for the local ailments as a naming system, can you find out how old the name is? And ask an old medicine person, from the local tribes, if it has medicinal benefits, the root perhaps, in small doses perhaps? Nervous anxiety caused by the seismic energy? Why? Well, if it was edible it’d be in the shops, liana roots, they remove oxygen from the water and are used to kill fish in South American fish traps. Smoking also reduces oxygen levels, because some people don’t learn how to breath properly and are hyperoxic all the time, it’s called hyper activity in children. Oh, it’s caffeine, and sugar, no, that’s because the hyperactivity leads to sugar crashes after the brain starts using the fxxking oxygen. Brain usage is as water (it’s the fxxking river carrying the oxygen and sugar, the river narrows, smaller boats), oxygen and energy dependant as muscle usage. Coffee, sugar, milk, please. Six pints a day minimum. I have my coffee in a pint mug. It’s literally a Culchie mug, why, because Culchies are city folk, farmers aren’t in the one place long enough for a pint of coffee, they drink their beer in pints, and drank their water out of the farmyard taps, you bend over and suck the water from the side of the water stream and they knew exactly how good their water was for the animals, much similar diseases in cattle, so drinking the same water is good for agricultural standards, you sick, animals sick.

2215pm 23 Mar 2023 Earthquakes, Save One – Fire engines, not suitable for carrying fresh water why? Well, we drank water out of the hose in the garden, in the early days in Ireland they were canvas hoses and they dried easily and rotted if not dried properly. Early in the arrival of hosepipes for the garden, if not emptied correctly, the water gathers at the bottom and black mould appears, relatively harmless, if you wash the pipe out. In Fire engines the pipes are rolled and the water sits at the bottom, tested interior fire hydrant pipes the same. You might have an extra “fresh water” only pipe for the fire engine? From the main tank, which is cleaned and sterilised, it has to be after running stream water through it, contaminated water gets on the firemen and while this is easily dealt with at a fire incident, they normally last so short a time and the firemen normally go for a pint after, the fire tender needs to be cleaned properly, so the tanks are sterilised, it’s just the normal detergent and stuff, tastes awful, however the chemical is no worse for you than eating off washed dishes or swimming pool water, though as normal, boiling the water for drinking is preferred.

2345pm 23 Mar 2023 Mineral formation and unusual Chemical combinations in rock formations Lunar, Earth and Mars? I haven’t read this so I’m brainstorming. Why different chemicals, chemicals normally form stable forms. They’ve been there in the same place for a long, long time. Diamonds form and are “purified” by little bumps giving structure to the atoms, which use the little amounts of energy to rearrange themselves, people often forget that at an atomic level it’s mostly empty space and a little bump can move an atom. Now rocks have dissolved minerals, and if they can’t move because of solidification, then the little bumps should theoretically shuffle the atoms like sands, frequent bumps can redistribute lighter materials to the surface, it’s how immiscible liquids separate, normally through differences in density. Redistribution should on a larger scale, millimetres or sometime centimetres on earth distribute the atoms in such a way that the most stable forms are distributed evenly accross the entire crystal and strangely enough the old rocks on Luna have the water in the crystals. Now water normally boils out and rocks dry. If I was looking for water, it’s in new rocks as ice or in old rocks as stable crystals and finding water contained in rocks with old crystals would be unusual and would either point to liquid water or steam arriving up from below or water arriving down from above? The steam or water vapour would normally be on the surface and wouldn’t penetrate to deeper rocks? Opposition? It’s the water’s ability to fill spaces and it’s higher relative density than the surface gasses which would allow it into empty interstitial spaces below? Metals change places? Sahara desert? How reactive is the OH-, in chemistry, some of the water should fracture to H+ and OH- and a smaller amount to 2H+ and O–, has this replaced the CO2 in some rocks? Ca(OH)2 ? A tiny fraction of H+ with a different isotopic composition to Solar winds would say that the water split? And if the levels were different in local areas you might find rocks underneath with the stuff? H+ isotopes, have tiny variations in their spectroscopy? Can you look from orbit? It’s cold, however it’s not that cold and you’re looking for “errors” tiny pixels which should be discounted as possible errors, though strangely distributed evenly over most of the planet and more frequent over the icy poles, where we know the ice is quite old? Why, because “most” of that new ice is H+ from the Sun grabbing free Oxygen from the local CO2. Water is a polar compound, it’s attracted to its like and like the robots standing together in iRobot (movie_2004), they do huddle together for warmth, you see that was an easter egg, to get you to think like a robot psychologist, close together their batteries last longer, it’s a thermodynamics question.

0030am 24 Mar 2023 Mars – Any quicksand? Why? Well, really shingle beaches are a danger to armies, dry the large round stones stick to one another, wet the round stones become treacherous, you feet can sink up to a foot into the stones and your boot get wet, salty water eats the glue. Now, if you watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (movie_2008), the quick sand is in the jungle is old sand with voids, no, old round sands. The harder the substance the lower the size of surface imperfections and the easier it moves, it’s why jewels are used for bearings in mechanical watches. Now, if I was a geologist I would look at the rock beside the quicksand to see if the sand was made locally or if it washed there from upstream and got locked in an oxbow type lake. Also, settling can sometimes move the smaller particles down, and with water and a small exit size through the local sediments or local rock types, the larger rounded sand particles remain. And that’s an old idea, stood in a patch of rounded shingle fishing a long time ago and thought about it all evening. There was a quicksand thing in some Tarzan tv-series episode I saw, a long long time ago.

0155am 24 Mar 2023 NASA FIRMS geolocated at that point. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2023-03-23..2023-03-24,2023-03-23;@-21.1,64.0,10z Iceland Possible Volcano 24 Mar 2023 NASA FIRMS
EFFIS – you have to zoom to the location and turn on the satellite buttons both of them bottom left.
https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/effis_current_situation/

0230am 24 Mar 2023 Icelandic Volcanoes.is https://icelandicvolcanos.is/

0710am-0725am 24 Mar 2023 USA – Plate movement yesterday. Now, there are periodic shakes at Iceland. Now if I lift one end of a plate resting on a table, the other end stays relatively stable, though that end is stuck to Iceland. Small amounts of energy transmitted. If the USA Plate now starts it’s ripple, how long to the big energy arriving at Iceland? At my calculations for Turkey – Iceland on 02 March 2023 I got 4000 km in 20 days. And Baha California to Iceland is 7,500km, so I’d say 35-40 days from yesterday, say day before yesterday 22 Mar + 35 = 27 Apr 2023 ??? It’s relatively soft rock on top, how hard is the underlying rock? Deep Iron ore mining, (there was a tv program about it recently) heavy metal mining (Uranium, Lead etc), pretty hard dense rock. Yes, I’d say around 22-27 Apr 2023 for a look? And an estimate of 30 Apr 2023 for the event? How weather dependant is the event going to be? Listen, if I could change the weather to … Yes, a few people have said that and… No. Colman

1440pm 24 Mar 2023 Oh, look they have a Spar, they used to be in Ireland. Yes, it’s amazing what happens when you fxxk out the Bishops. It’s called a map recce, nice sunset over the water, distance from airport and police station. Colman

1455pm 24 Mar 2023 – Can I buy a vowel?

0220am 25 Mar 2023 Oh, and after three dead officer relatives under 60 years, I thought one of us having a retirement and a few years rest might be nice, this career not being particularly good for the health, and I retired at 41 and now I’m quite annoyed. Oh, and I live outside an army barracks with a first aid kit, and when Covid happened I volunteered to administer a Covid emergency ward, (Logistics experience and a CBRN Defence course) though thankfully I was not required, and there’s a war on in Europe, interior and I recently bought the barracks a book on how to speak Ukrainian. The guide books I used as a Military Observer were the Lonely Planet books, the phrases in fifteen European languages book was the best I ever saw. And I am quite annoyed. Colman

0805am 25 Mar 2023 Free BOOK – University of California Press
Volcanology and Geothermal Energy For our families, who have provided inspiration,
instilled the desire to learn, encouraged us to share our knowledge,
and, along the way, given us love
Preferred Citation:
Wohletz, Kenneth, and Grant Heiken. 
Volcanology and Geothermal Energy. 
Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1992.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6v19p151/

0900am 25 Mar 2023 CENAPRED monitoring report to the Popocatépetl volcano today March 24 (2023) “CENAPRED emphatically reiterates the recommendation NOT TO ASCEND to the volcano’s crater, since there is the possibility of explosions occurring, as has been seen on several occasions in the past, involving the emission of incandescent fragments . In case of heavy rains, move away from the bottom of ravines due to the danger of mud and debris flows. The  Popocatépetl Volcanic Alert Traffic Light  is in YELLOW PHASE 2.”
Sometimes you see stuff that makes you think?
Perhaps Mexico is a better tourist destination than Italy? My only criticisms, the www.gob.mx webpage, the Government logo Button – could be a little bigger? the original screen resolution of the logo was designed for low res phone screens, the page is amazing except for the Search button, top right magnifying glass, is a little difficult to find. The search results though, are ABSOLUTELY FXXKING AMAZING – THANK YOU MEXICO ! Colman

1105am 18 May 2023 Indonesia Gunung Semeru That an active lava vent?

0615am 19 May 2023 Happy Birthday to me. Nasa Worldview, there’s an excellent tutorial. NASA, the snapshot function is awful, no location data, the hurricane doesn’t appear and no timestamp. The snapshot is One (1) square km per pixel. Now while Nasa Firms is the Red Porsche from Ferris Beuller’s day off and Nasa Firms2 is the Red Ferrari from Magnum PI. Worldview is? let’s call it Mr Wick’s beautiful automobile, the Ford Mustang Boss 429. The power to get you places. 20.7123^2. 429^2=184041.

2045pm 21 May 2023 Dem Rep Congo Nyamuragira Eh, can you see if this is on the news yet?

2055pm 21 May 2023 Indonesia Gunung Merapi

2100pm 21 May 2023 Phillipines Mayon Volcano yes, Taal is a little busy too.

2225pm 21 May 2023 Italy Campi Flegrei M 2.0 earthquake. Eh, that’s just a little one. Yes, however it’s at 2km depth and the location is quite important. http://www.volcanocafe.org/devil-may-care-campi-flegrei-ndvp-3/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields

0220am 23 May 2023 Italy Mount Etna Eh, that a lava flow?

0545am 23 May 2023 Italy Mount Etna
https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/22/italys-mount-etna-volcano-spewing-smoke-and-ash-in-new-eruption
https://news.sky.com/story/mount-etna-eruption-forces-grounding-of-flights-at-sicilys-catania-airport-12886506
https://www.nationalworld.com/europe/mount-etna-eruption-2023-volcano-when-last-eruption-where-is-catania-airport-4151746
https://www.geo.tv/latest/488728-watch-volcanic-eruption-from-mount-etna-disrupts-flight-operations-in-catania
BBC – Mount Etna: Italian volcano erupts spewing ash onto Catania 14 hrs ago GBR – BBC – Mount Etna Woops, someone forgot they had a Mount Etna Page.

Deutsches Welt ??? https://www.dw.com/en/italy-floods-collapsed-hillsides-roads-wiped-out-no-communication/video-65697771 19 hours ago https://www.dw.com/en/goats-as-an-early-warning-system-in-italy/video-65605292

Volcano Ash Advisories – Toulouse http://vaac.meteo.fr/advisory/

1630pm 23 May 2023 International Aviation

International Aviation – Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres

2100pm 23 May 2023 Iceland Yes, that one’s important too. You might check the distance from the Mount Etna Eruption and see if the time of travel corresponds to my calculations around the time of the Turkey earthquake? Why? Well, if you hit the ruler hanging over the edge with a hammer it moves quite rapidly. The ash went up, conservation of momentum, the opposite force was directed downward in an equal strength and opposite direction. And the continent of Europe rippled, again. Oh, and the Etna causality origin, might have been the earlier quakes north of Iceland on the 16th. Now you’re getting the idea.

1415pm 26 May 2023 Antarctica Mount Erebus, silly question related to Mars. It was quite surprising to me to read that the lava bombs from Mount Erebus’ last eruption were described as having diameter, large diameter. And earlier events having had lava bombs of even greater diameter up to 1.5 meters in diameter. Now, since the fluid and thermodynamics of lava bombs is relatively unknown, does the vast size of the bombs relate to temperature of the air into which the lava is thrown? The surface solidifying quite quickly and presumably the interior not having the thermodynamic stresses to cause explosion due to thermal stresses during speedy cooling, ot having suitable elasticity to remain in a spherical shape on reaching contact with the ground? Now, I recently saw some quite beautiful spherical rocks on Mars in the rover photographs and I wonder does the size and shape of the possible lava bombs there indicate eruption during a time of cold temperatures? Similarly, atmospheric pressure and the ability of the atmosphere to cause friction, which is a cause of heating in meteors at speed, sometimes causes liquification of the exterior of the meteor and thermal stresses which cause fracture of the meteor before contact with the ground, sometimes causing clusters of the liquid parts to form meteor bombs, which should be a roughly teardrop shape, though tumbling and variations in density can sometimes change the geometry. Why? Well, if the tail cools, the effect of flight and aerodynamics can cause tumbling too. One of the spheres showed possible twin tails, possibly caused by the pointy tail falling into the airstream and speeding the descent, becoming roughly stable in attitude and cooling a second tail. Now, how much would the museum pay for a one meter diameter lava bomb from Mount Erebus? “Have sled, will travel?”

0.5^3= 0.125×3.142×4/3= 0.52 meters^3 or 520 litres x 3kg/litre. = 1.571 tonnes.

That work at -30C. Well, actually it’s warmer than that at the volcano? Ice stability is a bit iffy though? Yea, that’s why they wrote that alien versus predator movie instead. A pyramidal heat bloom unexplained from Antarctica. Volcano. Wasn’t there a Superman scene like that too? Yes, the special effect of cutting the ice tunnel was so good or so expensive that the studio probably couldn’t afford it and it went to the Superman people.

2050pm 26 May 2023 Spain Canary Islands, I was having a wee peek at the historical data for La Palma, I had the screen open for the entire Canaries and I flicking back month by month when I noticed this gem? Can someone check out if this was a wildfire and if the area is safe for this year?

0100am 27 May 2023 Star Trek: this was when? Why? Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. We’re still pressing buttons. Wifi connectivity and AI? Arduino or Raspberry Pi with microphone and wifi module cost? Wave hand in front to activate microphone, distance sensor 2 euros. Codordojo, project, 3 hours? Python voice synthesiser and voice to text modules. I designed a plc board for a sensor activated coffee machine for a Uni project in 1995 and we’re still pressing buttons, though the touch sensitive screens are nice. So hygienic? MacDonalds does have handwashing facilities in the toilets. Yes, the USA had how many Covid deaths? One million out of a population of 300 million? Really? I wonder why? Yes, just put your finger on it. Now take a swab. Now, comeback tomorrow and do the same. How many people hit the Big Mac Meal button yesterday? Do I get my Phd now? No, that’s the other button. Colman

0245am 27 May 2023 Copernicus 25th anniversary Spain Canary Islands La Palma volcano eruption photo.

1215pm 27 May 2023 Phillipines Taal Volcano

1230pm 27 May 2023 Spain The Canary Islands La Palma volcano, that a fire or the vent opening again? You serious. Yes. Why’s the fxxking webcam off? I’d have webcams on that thing for the next fifty years, at least. We spend more money watching a person who has killed and for a minimum of how long?

1245pm 27 May 2023 Colman’s not a professional. Ok. Well, let’s compare. United Kingdom, a wealthy country next door to Ireland. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=390090 Saunders volcano. Last report 2020, currently erupting?
That look hot to you? NASA says it looks hot to them. Really? Professionally? Colman

1300pm 27 May 2023 Portugal Sao Jorge Civil Defence 19 March 2022 https://www.safecommunitiesportugal.com/seismic-crisis-on-the-island-of-sao-jorge-azores/ Now, there’s a Frood who really knows where his towel is. Colman

1345pm 27 May 2023 The Predator movie. My favourite quote from it. What does your daddy do? “Oh, he kills people, so you can be a mailman.”

1540pm 27 May 2023 Scott Base Antarctica has 117 days of darkness.

1635pm 27 May 2023 New Zealand – Rotorua boiling mud, it’s a bit more active than when I was there a few years ago https://www.instagram.com/p/BsICnxhH-QF/

1650pm 28 May 2023 UNESCO Astronomy

1830pm 29 May 2023 Spain The Canary Islands La Palma You asked about that webcam yet?

1915pm 29 May 2023 Italy Mount Etna, well, I was a little busy looking at that one?

1920pm 29 May 2023 Italy Vulcano, well, I’m looking at that one. Actually, it’s a bit strange in Guatemala, everything’s gone quiet? Well, yea, it seems the pressure is up under Europe at the moment.

1955pm 29 May 2023 Indonesia Gunung Semeru

2105pm Phillipines Taal volcano

0500am 30 May 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo Volcano Nyamuragira

0510am 30 May 2023 Indonesia Krakatoa

0520am 30 May 2023 Italy Mount Etna

0550am 30 May 2023 Spain La Palma Cumbre Vieja Volcanic vent eruption 2021 Might be someone having a bar-b-que? That’s quite a bar-b-que. Did you know there was a survival training crowd in Cork recently? Colman’s version? Here’s a fxxking lighter, I’ll show you how to make de comect typt of a fire, tell me where you’re going and if I see you on the NASA Firms2 firelist, I can get you to 1 sq km and I’ll send someone to look for you. Yea, I knew one of their instructors, instructors. Silly Colman. Oh, the good infra reds? Well, someone gave me one for Nyiragongo a long time ago (2001) in Goma, they’re quite detailed.

2220pm 02 Jun 2023 Various Volcanoes from this morning, I was doing some photography https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs_2mV0NfNJ/ so I was a little busy.

2225pm 02 Jun 2023 Soil erosion on hillsides, prevention of landslides? Found two unusual articles:
Case Study of Solid Waste Based Soft Soil Solidifying Materials Applied in Deep Mixing Pile (China)
An over view on chemistry and applications of Acacia Gums (India)
Since there is a priority to plant acacia trees in Africa at present in the African tree belt project, are these two research projects related to this effort and how do you harvest Gum Arabic, which is also an Acacia gum? My mother uses it for painting. Since the plats need some unusual soil chemicals Aluminium etc. to make the gum, where are the best places to plant them?

0255am 03 Jun 2023 Look what I found.

0305am A 03 Jun 2023 Now if only I could learn the secret handshake to actually see the f’g data? Oh, there’s a “All the recorded ones shown on the interactive map here if you turn on the archaeology layer.” And no Date or Logo on your datamap, which would remove the requirement to add at www.heritagemaps.ie, [03 June 2023] ‘. Because it’s what NASA f’g does. Colman O’Keeffe Oh, and by the way, I would have called the Cork Prison a secure area too? Portlaoise Prison had an aircraft no fly zone it was so secure. Oh, the old prison is, however that’s the new prison… Data set not updated?
Silly idea? Google Chrome, if they put a timestamp beside the web address, it would get the date/time of the data and the web address it was received from? Though it would need a timezone. Apologies, I waited long enough, no ones using it so the data isn’t in my nearest data server, though now all of Cork has nice speedy access, the full view just arrived with the nice layers.

0340am 03 Jun 2023 ???? Seriously boys and girls? Priorities? How much of our National Income, actually monies arriving into the state comes from shiny tourist pfennigs and… Oh, we’re on euros now. Yes, and the internet has been going how long?

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0435am 03 Jun 2023 “Archaeology is the study of the human past using material remains. These remains can be any objects that people created, modified, or used.” It’s also useful if the data entry people can read? And understanding the basis behind the object to be achieved is important. I should be able to see the two data points from this map and zoom to them, though I did find Tipperary from my Primary school education on the counties of Ireland, the average foreign visitor might not, and when I did zoom to Tipperary, I was unable to find either of the data points. It’s a lovely map though, can any charity apply for use of the data sets, or do you need to be paying yourself with Lottery money first? Now the reader might find it strange of me to mention this educational standard, however it should be remembered that the countries of Europe were not introduced to the student of my age until Intermediate Certificate Geography and Denmark has cows and produces milk was a large surprise to some people. “Where the f’k is Denmark and why are we learning this rubbish and isn’t it nice there’s a RyanAir flight there now. And don’t get me started about Holland and bulbs and economics. That wasn’t on the syllabus. Exactly, I learned about it from learning about the Dutch Masters and their paintings and the search for The Black Tulip. Now when you ask, do the young people know more than us? You must ask yourself what you have read, I read the circuit diagram for the Apollo Moon lander once, it’s quite a cool piece of electrical engineering for the time, based on the fact that the circuit pieces had to be capable of surviving spaceflight, however, having done 10 weeks electronic engineering and having bought the book recommended for circuit diagram design, I gave it recently to a relation starting college, it would have been quite possible for me to design such a circuit and so it is that Canada Space Agency is having a number of Universities design rubic cube sized satellites for experimentation at University level. A young friend at college doing computer science with me described using the Kerbel Space program and I thought isn’t that an excellent way to introduce people to space design. However:

https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/space-mission-design-tools

0525am 03 Jun 2023 Colman, you didn’t know about that until you just searched for it. Well, actually I passed it along while looking at other information a while ago and it only just became quite relevant. You bored, yes, I’m bored, let’s look at something else, Coronation street, you have to watch Coronation street, it’s so funny.

0530am 03 Jun 2023 Dictionary of Physics, Dictionary of Chemistry, Dictionary of Biology, Penguin, Reference. 07 May 1987. Yes, the Leaving Cert, Matriculation Cert and the UCC Scholorshp exams were fun, though nothing about the quark on them. Up, Down, Love and Strange, though that’s thirty years ago since I read that, so you might check it.

1910pm 28 Jun 2023 Iceland – You haven’t been around in a while. No doing some gardening, how’s the eruption in Iceland going? No sign of one. None. Really, and I thought the new island building was doing quite nicely, at this rate, it’ll be surfacing this year or next.

2010pm 28 Jun 2023 Italy Stromboli – that been that busy all week? Why? Well, I only just peeked at it for a minute and caught this beauty.

2015pm 28 Jun 2023 New Zealand White Island – Howzat? Sorry, cricket joke, seriously, how’s the island doing? It’s winter. Exactly. Now’s the time to take your minimals and compare to last year. I had a guest a while ago talking about Lake Taupo water temperatures? Please check, the minimal should be 28 to 30 days after the solstice?

2020pm 28 Jun 2023 Indonesia – you might take a look at these too? Gunung Ibu etc. It’s winter there it should have cooled off a little by now? Well, theoretically, the winter contraction could be pushing the lava up, it might subside after the minimal?

2025pm 28 Jun 2023 USA Hawaii – You might check out Hawaii too? It’s theoretically Summertime there, though it largely depends on the water temperatures? Have they got any temperature data from historical, say 200 years to now? I’m sure the USA Navy took a water temperature every now and then? Captain Cook, might his readings be the earliest, Darwin, he was on that boat wasn’t he? Not that voyage? Well, I’m sure they had some scientific person, was it entered in the ships log? A diary perhaps? Oh and check on Mount St Helens, just in case and all that?

2035pm 28 Jun 2023 Vanuatu – Has no one been looking at this? Why? Well it took ages to load onto my computer and that means there wasn’t a single copy of it on the local servers in Ireland? Not a single copy? And that’s no looker for a week? Also will you tell them if they’re going to use shiny pink colours, I read left to right, the left to right readers, they might like the colour scheme though. And this page is confusing, the front looks like all bulletins and only refers to the ones for the first volcano?

2105pm 28 Jun 2023 Papua New Guinea – Can you have a little look at these too? The coastal fires? Lava vents? Time of year? I’d say forest clearing for crops next year? You might ask? Why? Well, if it’s another new bloody plantation, the biodiversity there is going to fall rapidly? Why rapidly? Well, the local workers eat the local wildlife first, it’s free.

0720am 01 Apr 2023 United Nations Oceanography

0815 01 Apr 2023 CBS News – Weather Earthquake chart

0845am 01 Mar 2023 USA West Coast Shake Alert app

0750am 11 Apr 2023 Mexico Yea, I’d say that qualifies as Flaming? Orange? I’d say so.

The webcamsdemexico cameras are about 3 mins behind my time?

0835am 11 Apr 2023 Mexico BBC News Popocatépetl: Mexican volcano’s spectacular eruption caught on camera 10 January 2020 Latin America & Caribbean
“Its name means “smokey mountain” in the indigenous Náhuatl language.”

0840am 11 Apr 2023 Hawaii BBC News

• BBC News Kilauea volcano: Hawaii homes destroyed by lava 21 May 2018
• The Guardian Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupts – in pictures The world’s largest active volcano has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years on the Big island of Hawaii Wed 30 Nov 2022 USA National Park Service Hawaii Volcanoes photos

1820pm 11 Apr 2023 Mexico 20km South East of Texcoco? Can someone find out who was the cheeky bollix who carved his head in the mountain? If he was local did he have himself buried under it? And if he was a Spaniard, can you see if he buried himself with a treasure? It’s amazing what people will get up to when you say, oh, do something to keep all the locals busy? No, that is NOT a natural formation. The soil was carved off the top of the hill so nothing could grow there, it should be nice fertile pumice weathered over a couple of hundred thousand years. And check for local gaseous effusions? The lack of a cone might have lulled the locals into thinking the area safe? It was another vent from the Popocatépetl magma chamber, however if it cooled really slowly, deep in the mountain, similar to Devil’s tower, Wyoming, the rock would be really hard and unusual locally and really good for building. It might be why the blank area of rock is still without vegetation? You might look for unusually long life architecture in the city? Post colonisation? Though I’d also see if there was some of it in the old Aztec buildings too, when he was told where the hard building stone came from, it might have been where the bishop or town mayor got the idea, though you could surprise me and tell me it’s a fxxking astronauts head similar to the ones the NASCA had in the desert for the God’s to see? Personally, if I was the local chieftain, I would have been wearing a stone hat, an expensive military hat, people throwing stones are annoying. And you’re not going to tell me the locals didn’t have slingshots? Though, without leather, and that takes ages when you’ve few beasts of burden, and few skins from them? And the leather from the alpaca isn’t particularly tough? Be excellent for slippers though, so cosy. Who’s the fxxking artist? Please? And is that a Jaguar looking over his left arm or a wolf or dog?

0715am 11 May 2023 Europe Copernicus Seasonal Forecast.

0100am 14 May 2023 Indonesia Gunung Ibu That a little lava flow? Colman

2220pm 14 May 2023 Guatemala Volcano Santiaguito Eh, maybe you should be taking this one a little more seriously? That’s 4 kilometres accross?

0940am 15 May 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo Nyiragongo is visible again as well as the quite active Nyamuragira.

2130pm 17 May 2023 Indonesia Mount Tambora. That’s a new vent or a reopening vent? What direction did that magma chamber move? Well, actually, it’s not the magma chamber which moves, it’s the relatively solid surface moving over the deep hot more fluid (viscous) rocks.

1050am 18 May 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo Nyamuragira Eh, that lava field is almost 6 km accross, anyone got a drone photo of that? Photo from a plane? There’s an airport nearby? Well, the air isn’t particularly predictable there? There’s nasty stuff rising from Nyiragongo too and clear air turbulence from the hot air rising might be a thing? Colman

1100am 18 May 2023 Indonesia Gunung Merapi Eh, that one’s a little busy too?

NEW STUFF STARTS HERE

2220pm 26 Sept 2023 Morocco – Spain That’s thirty days? Yes, it’s a little busier than usual. That linked to Turkey? To be honest I wouldn’t bet against that. Colman You might look at the Azores again? I presume you’re already looking at the Canary Islands?

2000hrs 27 Sept 2023 Mexico – Popocatepetl

2005hrs 27 Sept 2023 Guatemala – Volcán de Fuego It’s started erupting again. Really? Has it been raining lately? “More than 600 incidents associated with the 2023 rainy season” https://reliefweb.int/report/guatemala/more-600-incidents-associated-2023-rainy-season Mass of the water in the soil, it rains “a lot” squeezes the underlying magma and the lava comes up the top. Physics, same as squeezing a zit. Strangely the rising lava takes time to heat the water above it, so you might see how long it takes for the Volcan de Aqua on the other side of the valley to boil the water up that spout?

2020pm 27 Sept 2023 Indonesia – Gunung Ibu Yes, some of the volcanoes are “seasonal” define seasonal? WWElll,,, Colman, your summary? Ground drys slowly, weight off, ground lifts slowly, sucks up magma from below. Rain, ground wet, ground falls faster than underlying magma contracts, with spout available, lava comes up spout, self sustaining system in the medium term. Define medium term? Couple of hundred years? Until the magma chamber cools or empties? How would it become a long term system, such as we have here? An underlying geological stress system, such as plate movement or bending creates extra heat melting more rock and feeding the magma chamber. Example of a medium term system? Historically? Mount Kilimanjaro? Though I’m not sure how long the initial eruption phase took, after a stable system formed, it might have been “seasonal” for a couple of hundred years? Dangers for the future? Local or Global? Global? Climate change in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, volcanoes surrounded by permafrost where the ice and cold rock has formed a natural barrier, melting of the permafrost causes saturation of underlying rock greater than the normal system has been used to. The rock lifts during dry season and falls during wet season and the current stable system goes through “currently” unpredictable change resulting in “seasonal” activity in these volcanoes which have been relatively inactive up to this point. Example? Really? here? Yes. Possibly Mount St Helens? Though I’d have to read the weather and rainfall data for about a hundred years for that local area to be sure? It’s about the right latitude for the permafrost having melted maybe a hundred years before? Though everything is moving much faster now, the biggest worry is Greenland and if there are volcanoes under the beastie which have been dormant up to now, with the danger of the lava coming up the spouts melting the ice there even faster than is happening now. Iceland used to have much more ice, some of the nice geology, they’re showing the tourists wasn’t visible there fifty years ago. I’m going for a small sleep. Really? Yes, a small cry and a small sleep, and then I’ll have a look at telling a few people.

2100pm 27 Sept 2023 Indonesia – Gunung Merapi Current warning – Level 3 – Exclusion Zone 3 to 7 kilometers Pretty isn’t it. That’s live. It’s a commercial webcamera site. https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/indonesia/central-java/mount-merapi-volcano-cam.html

2015pm 27 Sept 2023 Ireland – Ireland’s biggest drug hauls: Three decades of high-stakes busts | Independent.ie – https://military.ie/en/public-information/defence-forces-social-media/

You’re taking the xxxx? Seriously the Public face of the Defence Forces liaising with the media wears a Covid mask? Someone hasn’t gotten the memo? Yes, and that’s why …

Colman, what would you have added? “in challenging conditions” is a bit of a fxxking understatement, https://www.met.ie/latest-reports/recent-rainfall-radar/12-hour-rainfall-radar “during a brief gap in the storm clouds” is a bit closer to the truth.

https://archive.org/details/Reeling_in_the_Years_-5×07-_2006 Oh, look, there’s Colman. I was much younger there. Just before I was promoted actually. I retired in 2012. First officer on the left.

2220pm 27 Sept 2023 Colman, give me an example of you making a giant leap in information terms? One worthy of conspiracy theory and X-files which you were so fond of? IDN – Krakatoa – Krakatau Indonesia, Whaling kills all the whales, who shit in the ocean producing loads of plankton, the plankton make oxygen cooling the planet and absorbing CO2 produced by volcanoes. The planet warms faster the ocean rises in height just enough that an unstable system is formed at one particular volcano and in Aug 1883 “The pressure wave generated by the colossal third explosion radiated out from Krakatoa at 1,086 km/h (675 mph). The eruption is estimated at, 180 dB, heard 5,000 kilometres away.” Now, you might look at the frequency of eruptions since this time and ask has the ocean level risen and was whaling the causal factor, or as I would contend, a factor which speeded the retreat of the ice and has been lately doubled on by our burning of fossil fuels, replacing the whale oil which used to be a renewable resource used for lighting by many coastal communities, and that is not advocating a return to whaling, the numbers required for regreening the oceans require geometric population growth over the next two hundred year at a minimum. My point is the rising oceans have put pressure by weight on the islands of Indonesia increasing volcanic activity. That a big enough leap? Oh, and that’s todays FIRMS picture.

2240pm 27 Sept 2023 Ireland – I like the Naval Service. Commander Tony Geraghty, fleet operations officer of the Irish Naval Service, said: “There was an extremely complex joint operation involving the Naval Service, the Air Corps, the Army Ranger Wing and Defence Force headquarters. “And then it was [made] even more complex by environmentals that we had no control over. The weather was extremely poor.” Sky News – Eh, I’d like to speak to whoever was in charge? Eh, who wrote the plan? The Ops officer? Plan? What you want done? Heli, top cover, ship, am I missing anything? (Oh and get that good photographer from the Aer Corp, the one who takes the nice photos, when we go on manoeuvres. Eh, there’s always a different one. “Exactly.” Him speak like that because small amount of words better for speed on radio, environmental factors. “Environmentals”) Sid’s Civilisation, the best military advance was Interchangeable Parts. The photo’s are actually a little too good, the camera showing it’s functionality as a tool for detection and proof for court use. I would have dropped the light level to the actual visibility to show how nasty the weather was actually. Video? no, wouldn’t want to scare the families, the boat rocking too and fro like that under the helicopter. Curaçao to Cork: What we know about MV Matthew’s journey (rte.ie)

Irish customs officers seize 2,253 kg of suspected cocaine – which could be worth £136m | World News | Sky News

Elite army unit storms ship to seize Ireland’s biggest drugs haul

“This ship is very large, she’s 190 metres long, with an exceptionally high freeboard. So very difficult to get on,” he added. He said a “great deal of skill” was demonstrated by the Army Ranger Wing and helicopter pilot during high winds. United Kingdom – The Independent Ireland’s biggest drugs haul: Cocaine worth €157 million seized as elite army unit storms ship | The Independent

‘Significant’ quantity of suspected cocaine on Panamanian cargo ship due into Cork Port (irishexaminer.com) TUE, 26 SEP, 2023 – 20:44 eh, 1.5 tonnes? Largest… ( Well, it was a little difficult to estimate the weight when we were measuring it in cubic meters, we didn’t exactly have a weighing scales with us on the fxxking helicopter. )

0005am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Ship MATTHEW (Bulk Carrier) Registered in Panama – Vessel details, Current position and Voyage information – IMO 9228150, MMSI 356182000, Call Sign H3GG | AIS Marine Traffic “https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:711870/mmsi:356182000/imo:9228150/vessel:MATTHEW ” Eh, is this the message you really want to give with your website?

0010am 28 Sept 2023 Abandoned burning ship ‘had $400m cargo of luxury cars’ | Shipping industry | The Guardian 21 Feb 2022 The ship’s operator, MOL Ship Management (Singapore), said on Monday that the vessel was “still assumed to remain on fire south of the Azores, drifting further away from the islands”.

You want an information jump – XXX with Vin Diesel and American Gangster with Denzel Washington responsible for 157 million euro drugs seizure 2023, Cork, Ireland. xXx (2002) – IMDb – American Gangster (2007) – IMDb “The Fur Coat.” What colour would you like your “Honorary Irish Oscar” in? Black and White. Please?

0100hrs 28 Sept 2023 Malaysia – Now the strange thing about being an internet user is if you’ve a little knowledge of the algorithms, you ask why an internet page with 800 viewers in a month like “Shipping News” comes up so high in the internet searches, Google having such a “readership bias”. Now I know this is due to the “importance” of the reader, so why this in Bing? Matthew Drugs Bust – Bing News

https://www.google.com/search?q=matthew+drug+bust&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBIE989IE989&oq=matthew+drug+bust&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgIGB7SAQkxMTkxMmowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1

And in Google the winner is?

0105am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Cork – https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/cartel-ship-searched-cork-harbour-27794544 Local News, this is why I love Cork. Colman https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/bmx-bandit-drug-driving-e-27796445?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=exchange “The latest stop, search and seizure involved a young man on a SUR RON Light Bee electric bike – with a custom Japanese Manga-style sea-monster-themed wrap.”

0110am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Cork – Storm Agnes Trail of destruction across Cork as Storm Agnes ‘hurricane’ rips roof off building and thousands without power Yes, that was the weather when the Aer Corp dropped the ARW onto the ship. Ever done any fast roping Colman? No, as an Ops officer though, I had fun writing a little Opord for a few lads and lassies from the Irish Mechanised Company to practice Fast roping with some Germans in Kosovo. ARW? No, just a few of the Fin/Irl Battlegroup. It was an admin exercise really, a transfer of troops from one operational tasking to another for training. “Operation Obsidian” strikes again. I am enjoying my retirement. Colman Acorns – Curragh Rugby club, you plant acorns, and other people, they stand under the trees.

0130am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12563477/Irish-military-raid-drug-smuggling-fishing-trawler-carrying-100M-worth-cocaine-ran-aground-beach-following-chase-Atlantic-three-men-arrested-organised-crime-offences.html Eh, what’s the visibility there? Visibility? Can you see those white horses? The aircraft is tilted backwards because it’s having to fly forwards at what speed to stay above the boat. And that’s a big civilian SAR thing. Oh, I found the video, it’s a little shaky, quite good though for handheld out the side of the aircraft. I made a phone call on request of my boss to Christopher Foss, 1990, I was chatting to him about gyrostabilised camera mounts. Yes, that’s on the FLIR camera, however that’s a different kettle of fish altogether and it’s easier to live feed to hq with the side camera, it’s got wifi. The old one was the Canon 7D, though I can’t remember, which had the built in GPS. To be honest, it’s a little difficult to get iPhone coverage that far out, though the camera is quite good, the Samsung one, that’s a little better camera for 4K definition video and some of the new Stereoscopic cameras are also, nearly good enough for military use, though the band width is quite prohibitive.

You see the real colour of the boat seen here is: Where’d you get that? Oh, Cork Beo, though the Sky Rider Cup advert is quite long. How do they have that advertisement? Well, Cork is rather a well travelled and well educated population and the families are quite close so they like to keep up with the local news. West Cork does have the wealthiest population density outside Dublin D4 and Cork local news viewers are thus judged as having a higher disposable income than other populations. It’s an algorithm thing. And…? Colman… And…? And we have time on our hands to watch the ships come in.

Sorry, you think I’m joking?

0220am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Cork Fire services battle blaze in Cork city centre building – Cork Beo – Eoin Shortiss 21:07, 27 SEP 2023 UPDATED21:32, 27 SEP 2023 And we have another winner. Oh, that “….ISS”?

0235am 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Cork And now back to our regular viewing Recap on Storm Agnes as Cork faced mass outages and flooding during tidal surge – Sara Rountree Deputy Editor (roundtree and mackintosh, it’s weather related.) UPDATED21:13, 27 SEP 2023 – Flooding in Kilumney Village, the video is quite good.

The level of the river was such that the water from the river flowed up through the drain? A water level sensor and a stopcock? Ovens Bridge already has a sensor? https://waterlevel.ie/last/ This program has come on in leaps and bounds. Nice one OPW.

You might check the position of the drain? Downstream with a flow of water a suction effect might draw the water away from the drain rather than it flowing towards the T-junction?

A V shape is made by fast flowing water passing a bridge, an air pocket is generated where a drainage pipe can evacuate water below the apparant height of the river through the bridge structure. Oh, this is cool too.

https://www.opr.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2009-Planning-System-Flood-Risk-Mgmt-1.pdf

1000am 28 Sept 2023 Sailing, found this by accident. I was looking for the design for a suction bilge, it’s used at the back of small sailing boats, there was one in the GP14 I learned sailing in on the DF Beginners Sailing Course a long time ago. A similar design with three valves was proposed for removing water from the bottom of the Scorpion tank during CBRN exercises, by a British soldier. With a lack of toilet facilities, it was a little unhygienic having urine on the bottom of the floor. You might check designs with these people? https://www.theleeco.com/products/check-valves/ You’re taking the xxxx. No, the river Lee has had a long sailing and chandlery history. The history book is 275 pages, though there are pictures so you shouldn’t be too bored. I would have put a date of the edition on the front page, though that’s just me being nice.

Sailors and fishermen know all sorts of important stuff. IRISH DEFENCE FORCE INVITES US PATRIOT SAILING TO COMPETE FOR BEAUFORT CUP https://uspatriotsailing.org/pressroom/12830011 One of our instructors took a small time away from the DF and sailed the Round the World yacht race a couple of years after he brought us in four yachts from Kinsale round and into Cork harbour where we berthed in the Premier berth and attended Cork Jazz Festival. An excellent weekend for education of the young officer.

Army Sailing Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_leaf_paradox The solution first came from Albert Einstein in a 1926 paper in which he explained the erosion of river banks, and repudiated Baer’s law. https://www.alternative-energy-tutorials.com/hydro-energy/water-turbine-design.html The rotational generators are based on Einstein’s proof. There were a few of them we saw on the walk from Zermatt to Chamonix, you saw the flood water entrance, however the little generators were underground to protect them from ice in the winter. How a hydro generator works – YouTube

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/microhydropower-systems

1300pm 28 Sept 2023 Ireland – Cork – Kilumney – a little look in the river please?

Now that’s what I’m talking about. See the square exit on the side of the bridge, well above the water line. That’s where you put your drain exit. Can you ask this guy, where the bridge is and can you find the engineer who designed it? Colman

1340pm 28 Sept 2023 Iceland

1340pm 28 Sept 2023 Morocco – Timing? Under stress, the temperatures maybe setting off these earthquakes? Heating in the morning? Cooling after sunset? Why is the area to the back of the mountain range where this squeeze is happening so smooth? Fill a biscuit box with sand and make nice mountainy shapes. Now shake the biscuit box. Smooth. That’s where the big earthquakes happen. How can you make that assessment? Well, there’s a small amount of rain there, the hillsides are relatively san free and there’s a little river system, though flood driven. There should be larger deeper river cuttings? It’s probably sandstone? The vibrations are actually making sand out of the rock increasing the speed of the normal thermal erosion? Colman