Ants can detect earthquakes 24 hours before they occur

Ants can detect earthquakes 24 hours before they occur.

NaturalNews

April 17, 2013

by: Lance Devon

Human-to-human interaction is not the only way people learn about their environment. Studying the signs and signals of weather, plants, animals, and even ants is a great way to understand how the universe works. According to a new study in Germany from the University of Duisburg-Essen, red wood ants communicate in very distinct ways when an Earthquake is approaching.

Ant behavior before earthquakes changes

When an earthquake is imminent, the behavior of the ants change in a unique way. They stop going in and out of their mounds. Instead, the ants congregate outside their mound before, during, and up to a day after the earthquake occurs. They basically halt all activity within their mound and meet outside, as they sense the growing tension in the universe. By evacuating their mound, they prevent their colony form being swallowed alive by earthquake activity.

Unique cells enable ants to detect impending quakes

Tests carried out by geobioscientist Gabriele Berberich show that the red wood ants detect changes in environmental gas emissions by using their unique chemoreceptor cells. These cells allow the ants to sense changes in carbon dioxide levels. The ants also have built in radars called magnetoreceptor cells. These help them detect changes in the electromagnetic field.

During the three-year study, from 2009 to 2012, Berberich and her colleagues measured ten different quakes with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 3.2. Berberich used special software that tracked 15,000 different ant colonies, 24 hours a day. She found out that each colony built its mound along a fault line and only responded to quakes with a magnitude of 2.0 and greater.

Lessons to be learned from ants

A lot can be learned from ants. Not only are ants great communicators who work together to preserve their colonies, but they also work together effectively to accomplish tasks like lifting obstacles twenty times their weight. Anything is possible with ants. Their faith and work ethic are unshakable. Their ability to prepare, survive, and thrive in colonies that contain billions of ants is impressive. In fact, in 2004, a super colony spanning 62 miles was discovered in Melbourne, Australia, which contained millions of nests and multiple billions of ants. Ants are also a very fertile, reproducing, and productive species. A queen ant can lay up to 100 million eggs in a single day, and can produce eggs for up to 15 years.

Listening to nature’s signals

Nature communicates with humans every day. The human body sends out signals to let one know when they are sick. The human body gives signals when the weather is changing. Ants communicate when an earthquake is imminent to preserve their colony. The universe is a beautiful masterpiece of communication. With so many signs and signals in the weather, in plants, and even in ants, hidden knowledge of the universe can be unlocked by intuitive, curious, and listening ears.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.chabad.org

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/15/red-ants-earthquakes

http://news.yahoo.com

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Documenting The End of the World as we Know it

BIRTH PANGS ACCELERATING PROPHETIC EVENTS MARCH 2013 – YouTube.

I like this video because it shows in a few minutes some of the weirdest things going on in the planet. Watch it and tell me you are not wondering what the heck is going on.

Do you wonder sometimes if something else that we don’t grasp yet is at play in this reality ? 

And, it is produced by Christians and most of the info is from the mass media.

If anything,  it gives you a glimpse of what people are thinking.

Lou

Russian Military Warns Of Potential Catastrophic Quake On US West Coast

Russian Military Warns Of Potential Catastrophic Quake On US West Coast.

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

March 28, 2013

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/

 

An interesting Ministry of Defence (MOD) “urgent bulletin” being sent to all Russian naval forces operating in the Pacific Ocean region is warning that there is a “moderate to high” likelihood of a “significant seismic event” ready to occur on the North American Plate, particularly on the Western coastal regions of The United States, Canada or Mexico.

According to this bulletin, Russian military scientists have become increasingly concerned over the past fortnight of the events occurring with the Arctic Oscillation (AO) which has plunged nearly the entire Northern Hemisphere into harsh cold conditions and which Western scientists are blaming on melting sea ice which, they report, hit a record low this past autumn.

Of greatest concern, this bulletin continues, is the massive anticyclone that has formed over Greenland bringing to our planet the highest barometric pressure ever recorded in human history, and which American scientists warned last year would intensify.

American scientists this past week confirmed their Russian counterparts findings, and as we can read, in part, as reported by the Washington Post News Service in their article titled Record Blocking Patterns Fueling Extreme Weather which says:

“A near-record low value of the Arctic Oscillation– the climate index that measures the difference in relative pressure between the Arctic and mid-latitudes – is partly responsible for the unseasonable chill. Just how low has the AO tanked? The AO index plummeted to -5.6 on Wednesday, a historically low value.

One more remarkable aspect of this major league block: observations over Greenland are threatening to break the worldwide record for highest barometric pressure of 1083.3 mb, set on Dec. 31, 1968 in Siberia.”

Most ominous, however, in this bulletin is its blaming this massive anticyclone for the 20 March earthquake swarm occurring under it on the Reykjanes Ridge portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR).

Russian military scientists say in this bulletin that the earthquakes being caused by this massive anticyclone are destabilizing the Eurasian and North American Plates causing a sort of “chain reaction effect” which will ultimately manifest in the rupturing of the Pacific Plate.

As evidence of this potentially catastrophic earthquake event occurring, this bulletin continues, Russian scientists point to the 26 March 5.8 magnitude quake that struck Oaxaca, Mexico, and which they claim “exactly correlates” with their previous findings on the causes and effects of weather pressure induced seismic events.

Virtually unknown to the vast numbers of Westerners are the numerous studies, and their findings, lending credence to Russian research on weather related seismic events, and as we can read as reported by the New York Times News Service in their article titled How Storms Can Trigger Earthquakes which, in part, says:

“Scientists are increasingly pointing to storms as a trigger for earthquakes and mudslides. That’s raising questions about the effects that climate change might have on one of the world’s deadliest natural catastrophes, and to what extent, if any, insurers and governments could be adapting to the interplay between atmosphere and earth.

So far, those answers are as mysterious as the timing of earthquakes, a question that has baffled humans — and killed them — for generations. But recent findings suggest that some linkage exists to increasingly powerful storms.

New evidence shows that atmospheric low pressure systems can prompt the landslide to lurch downward. Pressure drops when warm daytime air results in low “tides,” or when fast-moving storms race onto the scene. The effect on landslides and earthquakes only occurs when the pressure plummets suddenly, causing underground water and air to shoot toward the surface.

That reduces friction between grinding subterranean plates, or under a landslide that’s been held immobile by abrasive dirt and rocks.

“Slides, earthquakes, glaciers, volcanic eruptions — all of these things involve soil sliding on soil, or rock sliding on rock,” explains William Schulz, a research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey and the author of a study published this month in the journal Nature Geoscience. “And sliding is resisted primarily by one thing, and that’s friction.”

The same conclusion was reached by scientists in Taiwan this June. A study published in the journal Nature described how low pressure accompanying typhoons sparked small earthquakes along the fault between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The scientists note that they make “a definitive connection between fault slip and changes in atmospheric pressure.”

Importantly, both studies say weather impacts can accelerate an earthly act that was bound to happen sooner or later. In other words, low pressure is not the cause of an earthquake, just the trigger.”

To if this massive and historical anticyclone over Greenland will, indeed, prove to be such a seismic “trigger” the Russian Navy is warning about in this bulletin it is not in our knowing…other than to note that anyone living in such an area should always be prepared for the worst happening in any event. 

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Chilling Report: 10,000 + could die in major Northwest quake

What can I tell you ? I live in this part of the world. We have been awaiting this apocalypse forever.  Are we scared ? Nah, it will never happen here. It always happens some place far away.  By the way, the numbers are way too low. 10,000 deaths will be half of the deaths just in this town (Victoria, BC).  Lou

Chilling Report: 10,000+ could die in major Northwest quake | Local & Regional | KATU.com – Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weather and Breaking News – Portland, Oregon.

By Lauren Gambino,

Associated Press

Published: Mar 14, 2013

FILE – A sign advertises a tsunami evacuation drill Thursday, May 31, 2012 in Charleston, Ore. (AP File Photo/Jeff Barnard)

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – More than 10,000 people could die when — not if — a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon legislators Thursday.

Coastal towns would be inundated. Schools, buildings and bridges would collapse, and economic damage could hit $32 billion.

These findings were published in a chilling new report by the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission, a group of more than 150 volunteer experts.

In 2011, the Legislature authorized the study of what would happen if a quake and tsunami such as the one that devastated Japan hit the Pacific Northwest.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, just off the regional coastline, produced a mega-quake in the year 1700. Seismic experts say another monster quake and tsunami are overdue.

“This earthquake will hit us again,” Kent Yu, an engineer and chairman of the commission, told lawmakers. “It’s just a matter of how soon.”

When it hits, the report says, there will be devastation and death from Northern California to British Columbia.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

Full story—>>>

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It’s official: 2012 weather was hottest, second most extreme on record

It’s official: 2012 weather was hottest, second most extreme on record.

NaturalNews

January 21, 2013

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that 2012 was not just the hottest year on record for the contiguous United States, but also had the second most “extreme” weather in recorded history.

Extreme weather was calculated using the U.S. Climate Extremes Index, which generates a numerical score based on extremes in temperature, precipitation and landfalling tropical cyclones. The 2012 score was nearly 100 percent higher than average, and was surpassed only by 1998.

Every state hotter than average

The overall average yearly temperature for 2012 was 55.3°F, surpassing the 20th century average by 3.2°. It surpassed the prior record hottest year, 1998, by 1.0°. Annual temperatures were above average in every one of the contiguous states. In 19 states, 2012 was the hottest year ever recorded; in 26 states, it was the second hottest.

In fact, every single season in 2012 was hotter than average. The year began with the fourth warmest winter ever recorded, which led to the third smallest snow cover on record. Across the central and southern Rocky Mountains, in fact, snowpack totals were lower than 50 percent of normal. Low levels and retention of snowfall meant less available water later in the year.

Winter turned to spring with the warmest March ever recorded. Spring temperatures averaged 5.2° higher than normal, making it the hottest spring on record by a whopping 2.0°. This produced an early starting growing season, which led to early depletion of water from soil and laid the groundwork for a coming historic drought. Temperatures continued to break records in the summer, and July was actually the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States, with an average temperature of 76.9° (3.6° higher than average). Autumn, too, was hotter than average.

Overall, 99.1 million people, nearly one-third the U.S. population, experienced 10 or more days of weather hotter than 100° this past year.

Extreme drought, extreme storms

Every season of 2012 experienced lower-than-average precipitation. A severe drought hit in full force during the summer, with 61 percent of the contiguous United States affected in July. Yearly rainfall ended up being 2.57 inches below average, for the 15th driest year ever recorded. The dry weather fueled the third-largest wildfire season on record, with 9.2 million acres burned.

According to the NOAA report, the 2012 drought was roughly equivalent in footprint to that of the 1950s. Yet it failed to reach the intensity or duration of that drought, or of the devastating drought of the 1930s.

The number of North Atlantic tropical cyclones in 2012 was above average, with 19 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and one hurricane above Category 2. Therefore, 2012 tied with both 2011 and 2010 as the third-most-active tropical cyclone year on record.

The only extreme weather that put in a lower-than-usual showing in 2012 was tornadoes. The contiguous states experienced approximately 1,000 tornadoes in 2012, well below the average of roughly 1,200.

Overall, the year was marked by 11 weather-induced disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage.

Sources for this article include:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130108131149.htm

Extreme Weather November 2012

RISING TIDES – WITH PERPLEXITY THE SEA AND WAVES ROARING NOVEMBER 2012 – YouTube.

You’ll think you’re looking at the apocalypse.

December 2012 – Just the Beginning

December 2012 – Just the Beginning – Waking Times : Waking Times.

December 4, 2012 

Linda George, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

We made it!  We got through 2012. Well – almost. THE month of THE year that has been talked about for decades is finally here. The date we’ve all  had thrust into our consciousness – December 21is the date of the ‘Galactic Alignment.’ The what – you may ask? The Galactic Alignment is the alignment of the December solstice Sun with the Galactic equator.

This December 2012 solstice Sun has converged, as a result of the precession of the equinoxes, with the exact centre-line of the Milky Way (the Galactic equator). Such an alignment occurs only once every 26,000 years. The precise alignment of the solstice point (that is, the centre-point of the body of the Sun as viewed from earth) with the Galactic equator was calculated to occur in 1998. In fact the Galactic Alignment ‘zone’ is from 1998 plus or minus 18 years, which is the period from 1980 to 2016. We are in the Galactic Alignment era.

The date of December 21 (Northern winter solstice) 2012, was the date the Mayan Calendar long count ended – the end of the calendar in other words. That the calendar ended squarely at the time of the Galactic Alignment seems to be highly significant. Mayan calendar expert, Jose Arguelles, said the end of this 26,000 year cycle actually encompasses five great cycles. “We’re on the fifth and last of a set of Great Cycles that began in 24,000 BC. It’s on this basis that we’re looking at 2012 as being a very, very critical juncture. It’s what I refer to as ‘galactic synchronization,’ and it is also is a major evolutionary shift.”

All up then – something of a significant year; with the pinnacle being in December 2012.

In all likelihood, external life will continue – in the wild and chaotic way it has been this past year or five. That is, we may not notice anything too much out of the usual. Of course, the usual is highly unusual these days. We have become almost desensitized, in many instances – rolling along with it, often barely registering the atrocities going on in the world.

Internally, or on a soul level, the evolutionary shift we are participating in however, is registering. We are perceiving the shift in vibratory frequency, and if we are conscious, we are noticing everything changing: our daily habits, our jobs, our perceptions, our reactions and responses. For those of us awake to the incoming ‘truth vibrations,’ as David Icke calls them – that are beaming in at us from the black hole deep in the universe – this time is a very exciting one. Our DNA is being activated by these higher vibratory frequencies and this is altering our physical, as well as our emotional and spiritual realities.

The Galactic Alignment era, is the era of our awakening. And perhaps, the demise of what we believe to be reality. Whatever occurs, we know that we are infinite consciousness. We cannot not survive. As things look now, we are doing a good job of destroying our host – planet Earth and ourselves along with her. We’re assailed with environmental toxins and poison in our food and water; life destroying chemicals and drugs are promoted and administered by stealth, corporate greed eats away our means of support and survival in the material world…..It’s a dog eat dog world out there.

And yet, there are clearly major and heart-opening indicators of things changing for the good. More and more people are waking up to the role their individual consciousness and actions,play in all of this. And they most profoundly do. The time has passed where we can sit on the side-lines as witnesses. Every action, every thought, everything we imagine into being – is poured into the whole. It all registers, and it all has an effect. Everything begins at the waveform (thought) level. This is the place of real power and it is the place where we can, and will change the outer world.

So then – what is our task at this time, the sunset of 2012? I think it is to integrate this knowledge – and act on it. Know that we are all cells in the one body of humanity – a body that is faltering. It is sick, because evolutionary change this profound is hard on physical, temporal forms. And we live in a world, illusory as it is, that appears to be physical. Everything in the physical world is finite by nature, and we are moving into the next era – where life will be lived within an awareness of the infinite. We are each being touched by the infinite now, in this era of transformation.

Given all of that, it seems slightly irrelevant to talk about the astrology for the month. Yes, we have a  New Moon in the 13^th, in Sagittarius: time to start the adventure! Mercury is going direct again – phew – so the delays and mis-communications are done with for a while. Uranus goes direct on the 14^th intensifying the push for change and sweeping us all along with it. The Sun goes into Capricorn on the Solstice – the 22^nd (here in the Southern Hemisphere) and the Moon squares Neptune on Christmas Day – bringing a dreamy magic; luring us to drink yet another glass of wine, as we indulge our urge to  escape from the mundane world for a time. The Full Moon in Cancer on the 28^th is squared to Uranus – emotionally we might just be in the mood to cut out for a time. Don’t hold great hopes for deep, intimate sharing under such an influence.

That’s it from me then. I am sending blessings, blessings, cosmic and earthly – to surround you through the last days of 2012. May your heart be light, your body open, energy flowing – remember you are not solid, you are mostly empty space. The radiant, powerful energy of your soul, that universal wanderer, vacationing here for a time, is who you really are. Infinite consciousness is the real you – let’s raise a glass on Christmas Day and celebrate the freedom of that awareness. Our real journey is just beginning…….

About the Author

Linda George is an author and astrologer living in New Zealand.  She has been passionately involved in astrology alternative health, spirituality and metaphysics for many years – and with a background in journalism she is now committed to ‘spreading the word’ in these waking times.  She works as an evolutionary astrologer, writer and yoga teacher. Her book ‘Sun Signs and Soul Mates’ is available on Amazon.

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

2MIN News December 4, 2012

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Migrating North Pole Contributing to Severe Weather?

Activist Post: Migrating North Pole Contributing to Severe Weather?.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Activist Post

Few can argue that severe weather is currently impacting the globe. Certainly the record droughts in America have become a huge concern for food prices, which has subsequently sparked an uptick in alarming climate change rhetoric.

As the Northern Hemisphere has experienced one of the warmest summers on record, Arctic ice has receded considerably, prompting the typical global warming “collapse” discussion. While northern ice has indeed reached new modern lows, ice in the southern hemisphere continent of Antarctica has reached record highs. Charts for both hemispheres can be seen here.

So, clearly some kind of shift is happening, but perhaps the answer is not as simple as CO2 concentrations like the establishment would like us to believe. There seem to be much larger galactic-scale forces at play that are affecting not just Earth but all planets in the solar system. One of those forces appears to be Earth’s rapidly migrating magnetic North Pole, as can be seen in the video below.

This video does an excellent job of explaining how this anomaly may fit in to the bigger picture of our shifting climate vs. the limited human-centric, 200-year-long version that gets politicized:

With the Earth’s magnetic North Pole shifting by 40 miles per year, this event is already causing airports to adjust their runways. It is bound to change prevailing winds, ocean currents and many other factors involved in maintaining a stable and predictable climate.

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