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EXTRAORDINARY EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY DRAWING ATTENTION AROUND THE GLOBE

From Croatian Times:

Quake Expert: Earth Cracking Up

A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours.

Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu - from Romania's National Institute of Earth Physics - says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days.

The series started with two massive quakes in Indonesia measuring 8.6 and 8.2 on the Richter scale rapidly followed by three more only slightly smaller in Mexico within hours.

"There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes," said Marmureanu.

He added: "The quakes are a surprise that cannot be easily explained by current scientific knowledge. With the Indonesian quake for example, statistically, there should be one big earthquake in this part of Asia every 500 years. However, since 2004, there were already three quakes with a magnitude of over 8, which is not normal.

Me: What is going on?  I don't know.  A friend passed along the above, plus I have learned of a couple of websites that track weather, earthquakes, and unusual occurrences: Dutchsinse and The Extinction Protocol.  Since I have not yet studied the particular theories each site embraces, I am not endorsing their viewpoints, but I do find the websites helpful in chronicling global events. 

RECENT EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY VISUALIZED (VIDE0)

A friend's email brought a link to this remarkable visualization of recent earthquake activity around the globe.  Look out!  We are definitely living in dangerous times.

 

THE BIG BROIL

From Drudge Report:

Rolling Blackouts Begin In Detroit...

SCORCH: HIGH TEMPS TO LAST WEEKS...

Now covers 1 million sq miles; 140 million people baking...

NEW YORKERS WARNED TO EXPECT ROLLING OUTAGES...

DROUGHT CRIPPLES SOUTHERN U.S. FARMS

This is really serious. Gregory Meyer reports for the Financial Times:  (HT: Drudge)

 [...] The Lone Star state is at the epicentre of a once-in-a-generation drought stretching from Arizona to Florida. The US’s southern underbelly is scorched like meat on a grill.

The drought has spawned wildfires, turning grasslands to ash. In Texas, the leading cotton producer in the US, 59 per cent of the cotton crop is in poor condition or worse. Harvests of hard winter wheat, prized for yeasted breads, have plummeted in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas as yields and acreage contracted. Ranchers cannot feed their cattle on parched pastures.

  Mr Hancock, a fourth-generation farmer, says the cotton seeds he planted on his 3,000 dryland acres never germinated. “All I see is dry, barren farmland. The weeds really haven’t even grown,” he says.

His irrigated crop is also “right on the edge”, as temperatures in Lubbock have hovered near 38C all month. Last month was the hottest June in Texas on record, breaking the previous peak in 1953.    [more . . .]

America's (Current) Great Drought

Click here for a comprehensive survey of serious drought conditions now prevailing in the U.S. 

America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.

From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.    (more)     HT: Drudge