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Sky Cities still arriving! Climate change, holograms, End Times?

13 April 2020 / 03:56 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Farvardin 1399/19 Sha’ban 1441/21 Geng-Chen 4718

“And I saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from Heaven from beside God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.”-Revelation 21:2, Aramaic Bible

They’ve been happening since the end of 2010, Sky Cities making appearances over coastal cities in Southern China.  The most recent was over Yangtei City, in August 2019, and even got the attention of the official communist government TV news known as CCTV:

Here’s a May 2018 video from another communist government TV channel, CGTN.  What looks like a giant apartment building “near Beach #1 in Qingdao” in the background, it seems to appear on the ground:

The government controlled news media dismisses these as mirages.  I’ve seen mirages of water caused by heat waves rising off hot desert roads or dry lake beds, but they are not ‘steady’ like these.  The mirages of water I’ve seen are wavy, from the heat rising, and it’s that wavy-ness stirring up the air molecules that give the effect of water on the road or dry lake bed, and they don’t last long, simply  shifting your perspective can make them go away.  I have never seen a steady, sharp edged mirage that reaches up into the sky and lasts for long periods of time!

Here’s a video from 2011, Xin’an river, which looks to be near flood stage.  The problem I have with it is that it’s hard to tell which is the Sky City and which is the real city, there’s no explanation in the video:

CGTN video, March 2016, skyline appears just above the water along the port of Dalian in Liaoning Province:

One possibility is the melting of glaciers is not only flooding the oceans with fresh water, but permeating the air with humidity.  However, if you compare the images in the sky with the landscape on the ground they are very different.  The sky cities appear to me as if they were megalithic blocks, something you’d see in an early science fiction silent film movie about a stark future-city.   Is this what inspired the megalith builders of the super ancient times?

Is it possible that increased humidity in the air can project an image of one city over another city?  China is full of what the ‘western’ news media calls ghost cities; giant cities built but never populated with people, and many were built in the desert regions of China:

In the June 2018, Australian Broadcasting Company’s (ABC News) video you can see some of the buildings in those ghost cities look like blocky megaliths.  Also note that there are lines of unfinished buildings with construction cranes still present.  In some of the videos of the Sky Cities you can barely make-out what looks like construction cranes.  Again, is it possible that atmospheric conditions caused by Climate Change is projecting ghost cities from desert regions into the sky above coastal cities?

In this video, from Xinhua, a ghost city in China’s Inner Mongolia with fog wrapping the lower half of the buildings, it look just like the Sky Cities that appear over water in other parts of China:

Note that at the beginning of this article I pointed out that the first Sky Cities appeared in 2010, that’s about ten years after the construction of the ‘ghost cities’ was started, that’s enough time for many of the buildings to be nearly finished.

Are they human made holograms?  Hologram technology has advanced so far that now they can even create the sensation of touch and sound!  Here’s a November 2019 explainer from C/NET:

The C/NET report shows you how far hologram tech has come in just the past two years.  Here’s an NBC News explainer about how holograms work, as of January 2018:

For those of you who are too religious, natural mirages or human made holograms do not refute End Times signs, it could back them up with scientific explanation.

The natives of the Southwestern area of United States not only talk of Sky Cities, some of them still live in Pueblos.  That’s correct, that plateau of protruding rock in the above pic has a city on top of it!  It’s known as the Acoma Pueblo.

Note the blocky megalithic appearance of the mud-brick buildings, from a distance. Unfortunately, as you’ll see in this official New Mexico video, Acoma is now a tourist trap Sky City:

For the native people of the U.S. Southwest, Pueblos came into use due to a need to escape climactic factors and even competing humans.   A good example are the Anasazai who once lived on the flat lands and built their cities partially buried in the ground, but then abandoned them.  Anasazai myth says their ancestors lived in the ground like ants, until the sky gods told them it was safe to come out.  Archaeologists think the Anasazai civilization was ended by a catastrophic climate change (drought), and that the survivors split-up and started building in the hills and on plateaus.

The Navajo talk about The Fifth World.  It is not the same as the Mesoamerican Fifth World, this appears to be the Sky World.  It is above the ground where humans and other animals live (Fourth World), and below the place where the Soul (Spirits) of Living Things live (heaven?), and above that The Place of Melting (source of creation?).

The Fifth World (sky?) is connected to multiple End Time events in that it appears to be the battle ground between the Spirit World and the Fourth World of animals.  Humans/animals don’t like living on Ground (Fourth World) and yearn to live in Sky (Fifth World), but the Spirits of heaven (Spirit World) routinely interfere, even saying “What are you doing here? This is not your country.”  

This book was first published in 1909.  Notice the swastika.  It is ignorantly called a good luck symbol because the Sanskrit word very loosely translates that way, but I believe it was an Earth/Sky symbol for many ancient tribes.  For the Navajo it represented the four worlds (I think are also the Sacred Mountains, cardinal directions, although many people believe the Sacred Mountains are real mountains) of humans/animals and lower beings living underneath the Fifth World of Sky.

In the above pic I believe the semi-circle Kachina surrounding the swastika is Sky.

Since World War Two, Native Americans have altered their swastikas to be politically correct, making them look more like pinwheels.

How scientists are connecting ancient myths to natural disasters

2015: PROOF OF PROJECT BLUE BEAM? VIDEO OF FLOATING CITY SEEN ACROSS CHINA, AGAIN!

COVID ODDITIES-5: “THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE GOING TO ARREST ME, THIS IS INSANE!”

CDC, JOHN HOPKINS, WIKIPEDIA, NEWS MEDIA+FLU vs COVID=SOMEBODY IS LYING

IMAGES OF THE RAPTURE: POPE REFUSES TO USE THE PHRASE “GOD’S WRATH”!

SUMERIANS WERE RIGHT! BEHOLD THE GOBLIN PLANET!

Going Viral, 26-29 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 26 to 29 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Kansas girl latest to die from flu

With 8,000-Plus Deaths in U.S. Alone, Flu Far More Deadly Than Coronavirus

New Jersey says its top concern is still influenza

Two Utah Military Academy students die from flu

Digging deeper into this year’s flu vaccine & its effectiveness

Apparently some people in the U.S. think coronavirus is related to Corona brand beer!

More proof they only care about the money: Cruise ship industry cries about losing U.S.$4-billion for every cruise halted by the epidemic!

Global coronavirus map

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U.A.E. admits viral outbreak bad for oil industry

China’s Supreme People’s Court blames police for trying to cover-up virus outbreak!

U.S. wants to send medical team to China

240 Americans airlifted from China diverted from original destination of Ontario Airport in California to U.S. military base

 

Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

 

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

Zombie Whales!: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-05 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 05 of Gregorian January 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  If you look at my past Pacific Ring of Fire postings you’ll realize that the U.S. and Aussie militaries conduct disaster training operations through out the year.  The question I have is why does the deployment of the Aussie military, during these unprecedented fires, seem so ineffective?

Here’s an economic reality check to Australia’s disaster preparedness: 70-thousand Aussie firefighters are not paid, not even for food or fuel!!!

Apparently humans should be blamed for the unprecedented fires because they were operating under the same bogus ‘save the forest’ mentality as the U.S.; don’t touch anything and let everything grow unchecked (the natives in the U.S. didn’t do that, that’s why the landscape seemed so pristine to the invading Europeans): There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns

Aussie PM defends response to fires

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

CANADA: Abbotsford’s airport a potential staging area in case of ‘catastrophic’ earthquake

At the end of December 2019, Canadian biologists used a new phrase to describe what was causing a whale extinction event; “Zombie Whales” (eaten alive by parasites, or perhaps a radical change in their food source?).

CHINA: Hong Kong rattled by 3.4 quake

ECUADOR:  5.0 quake

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EL SALVADOR:  4.6 quake – 71km SSW of Intipuca

FIJI: 5.0 quake

INDONESIA:  5.1 quake Java

5.0 quake Sumatra

JAPAN:  Fukushima unveils plans to become renewable energy hub

 

5.9 quake off Chiba Prefecture 

Shinmoe-dake waking up

MEXICO: 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits Oaxaca

NEW ZEALAND: More than 1000 North Islanders rattled by 5.5-quake

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NICARAGUA: 5.5 quake

PHILIPPINES: 5.4 quake

RUSSIA:  Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Registered Near Sakhalin Island

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 

 Shisaldin volcano, largest in Aleutians, briefly erupts

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California; 3.0 quake centered in Brea

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4.0 QUAKE FELT IN LOS ANGELES, OTHER CALIFORNIA AREAS

Colorado; Rumbles On The Colorado/Utah Border Spark New Water Plan

Hawaii;  Scientists look to Hawaiian chants for mention of past crater lakes

Wyoming; Team Rubicon recruits volunteers for disaster relief

Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019: XMAS BELLS ARE RINGING!

Climate Change, 01-05 January 2020: NO MORE GOATS?

Politicians spend tax money on Baka Helmets, for themselves!: Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019.

Any body remember the Gilligan’s Island episode where the underwater telecom line washes ashore?  New study says old underwater phone lines make great earthquake detectors

AUSTRALIA:  71% increase in drowning deaths in Victoria

4.8 quake Queensland, 29NOV2019

CANADA:  South Okanagan quake

Trio of quakes hit Haida Gwaii

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CHILE: 4.0 quake, 30NOV2019

4.4 quake, 30NOV2019

4.7 quake, 29NOV2019

5.1 quake border with Bolivia, 29NOV2019

CHINA:  1 killed, 4 injured as strong earthquake hits

Xiaomi is adding early earthquake warnings to MIUI phones 

COLOMBIA: Sisters split-up after Nevado de Ruiz volcano disaster reunited decades later

COSTA RICA: 5.4 quake 24NOV2019

EL SALVADOR:  U.S. military issues tidal wave warning, which turned out to be false because nothing had happened to cause a tsunami

FIJI:  5.5 quake

GUATEMALA:  4.6 quake, 30NOV2019

5.5 quake, 13NOV2019

6.3 quake strikes Puerto San Jose 

Stunning image captures rare moment ‘upward lightning’ shoots out of a volcano

INDONESIA:  4.8 quake Christmas Island

Small tsunamis detected after 7.1-magnitude quake in North Sulawesi, North Maluku

The 2018 tsunami was as high as 492 feet (150 meters)

early warning signals of Anak Krakatau volcano collapse

JAPAN: 

Baka politicians try on their new idiotic plastic Earthquake Helmets in the Diet (I calls it a Baka Helmet)

Sakurajima volcano increasing activity

Volcano erupts on Satsumaio Island

Japan’s disaster warning system is confusing foreign residents and tourists

LAOS: 6.1 quake hits near border with Thailand

MEXICO: Volcano forces Dutch flight of horses back to Europe

  M4.1 earthquake, 22NOV2019, Off Coast Of Oaxaca

  Slow recovery in Mexico City after deadly 2017 quake

NEW ZEALAND: 5.3 quake off shore

5.9 quake rattles Bay of Plenty

Poorly understood fault could produce magnitude 9 or greater quakes

Insurance disputes from the 2018 earthquake halted due to statute of limitations (meaning the insurance industry could get away with not properly compensating customers)

NICARAGUA: 4.0 quake, 30NOV2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 5.4 quake off coast

PERU: 5.1 quake near Lampa

PHILIPPINES:  Philippine private sector responds to Mindanao earthquakes 

 Filipino soldiers donate the equivalent of two meals each (in cash) to help build 1-hundred temporary homes for Mindanao quake victims

4.3 hits Bukidnon Province

RUSSIA: 4.3 earthquake – Northwest Of Kuril Islands

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 Satellite Shows Ash Plume From Volcano Streaking Across the Pacific

SAMOA, Independent State of:  Magnitude 5.9 quake off Apia

TONGA: Tonga gets BIGGER: Underwater volcanic eruption which lasted 18 days creates new 1300 feet island

UNITED STATES:  Alaska;

4.1 quake, 22NOV2019 

  6.3 quake near Adak

One year after 7.1 quake, neighborhoods still not recovered 

 Railroad finally begins repairs to earthquake damaged bluff (just in time for winter)

Repairing earthquake damage to city schools will cost local taxpayers U.S.$82-million

California; MYSTERIOUS TECTONIC FAULT ZONE FOUND

 Humans are an unknown in state’s new earthquake warning system

 Second Day Of Quake Swarm Rattles Ventura With 70 Estimated Earthquake Events

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Guam;

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) orders Hawaii National Guard to conduct Vigilant Guard disaster training with the Guam National Guard.  The training includes everything from responding to a natural disaster to responding to a weapon of mass destruction event.

Hawaii; man dies after falling down lava tube under his garden

On 18-19 November, the People’s Liberation Army of China traveled to Hawaii to take part in disaster response training with the U.S. Army.  According to military sources, this is the 15th time such ‘disaster management’ training between China and the U.S. took place.

01NOV2019, United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Course training for Asia and the Pacific was conducted at the Navy Lodge, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

4.9 quake reported near Waimea

Nevada; Quake near Indian Hills

Oregon; Portland to pay $350K linked to earthquake warning sign lawsuit

In a possible round-a-bout way of training for the Cascadia Event, personnel with the state Army National Guard were deployed to Bangladesh to take part in a five days Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE).  The international training for a catastrophic earthquake is considered to be the biggest yet: “There are 20 different countries at this DREE which is great and that means just over 100 individual actual foreign participants which makes up more than 650 participants on opening day. It’s a long way from where we started and you can see the direct impact the DREE program has had over the years.”-Master Sergeant Robert Bentcliff, U.S. Army Pacific Command (USARPAC)

Utah; Earthquakes in Payson area

Washington; Grand Coulee Dam unaffected by ‘rare’ earthquake

July’s Monroe earthquake is informing plans for future danger

On 06NOV2019, U.S. Army and local EMTs conducted training in preparation for the catastrophic Cascadia Event.  The Puget Sound Federal Coordinating Center National Disaster Medical System exercise was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.  The training included loading mass-casualties onboard a USAF C-17 of the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (shows you how bad the military thinks it’ll be).

9 quakes hit Puget Sound region in less than a week

  3.2 earthquake hits near Snoqualmie, following a smaller quake

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Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019: “NEW NORM”

“new norm”: Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019.

AIR Reinsurer revealed that past disaster prediction models have been lacking for Asian countries, when compared to North America and Europe, is warning “Re/insurers have to be prepared for that new norm and adjust pricing and all the other conditions they have to deal with…”

If you like math try Scaling Laws for earthquakes and Cascadia slow-slip events

NASA says rice farming increases the chance of liquefaction during earthquakes!

British scientists discover How your morning coffee can help you survive an earthquake

Scientist claims hurricanes-typhoons can create 3.5 magnitude earthquakes

Magma crystallization makes volcanoes more explosive

Volcanic ash modifies the height, width and lifetime of a standing shock wave that can occur during volcanic eruptions

Now scientists say Earth can absorb a shocking amount of carbon (no shit Sherlock, where do you think the carbon comes from?!)

Ocean acidification now blamed on asteroid, not volcanoes

AUSTRALIA: 5.5 quake Macquarie Island

3.4 quake off Queensland

CANADA:  Recent natural disasters reveal that ignorant west-coast Canucks were using the 911 emergency help number as a tsunami early warning system (which it was never designed to be).  City of Victoria experiences sudden 54-thousand person subscribership increase to its alert system, in just one week!

Record one million people take part in British Columbia earthquake drill 

Maybe it’s because a New map reveals quake-deathtraps for people of Vancouver

Study shows mega-disaster could kill Canadian insurance industry

Killer fungus brought to Canada by Alaskan tsunami

Believe it or not, Canada’s geologically active western mountains (including volcanic Mount Meager) are little understood, scientists demand government fund research

CHILE: 5.9 quake

CHINA: 5.2 quake 

5.4 quake hits Taiwan

4.7 quake Taiwan

Stricter Seismic Resistant Measures for Public buildings mandated

COLOMBIA: U.S. Southern Command spends tax-dollars, and ten days, training Colombian soldiers how to respond to natural disasters.

Video of U.S. Marines practicing disaster response on Base de Enternamiento de Infanteria de Marina, Coveñas, 01OCT209:

ECUADOR: 4.6 quake

EL SALVADOR: 4.4 quake

FIJI: 5.0 quake 24OCT2019

5.3 quake 21OCT2019

GUATEMALA: 4.8 quake along border with Mexico

INDONESIA: 5.6 quake

Merapi erupts

More proof that you must not rely on the government and/or private sector organizations; a year after a September 2018 tsunami “…the government reported that 4,140 people died in the disaster, of which 1,016 were not identified; and a further 705 people remain missing. More than 4,400 were seriously injured and more than 110,000 houses destroyed….. more than 172,000 people were displaced…. …170 organizations were or are carrying out recovery activities across 63 location….   … is encouraging the community to actively take ownership and be more involved in repair, recovery and reconstruction efforts.”

JAPAN: Fate and denial: The Fukushima reactor 3, and the L’Aquila earthquake 7

Landslide kills two more

Japan braces for two more destructive storms, two weeks after chaos of Typhoon Hagibis

Typhoon Hagibis farm, forest, fishery losses rise

Deadly typhoon forces Japan to face its vulnerability to increasingly powerful storms

Typhoon Hagibis highlights need for multilingual emergency alerts

Typhoon Hagibis: Homeless men denied shelter in middle of typhoon

5.7 earthquake jolts Chiba-Tokyo area

Extreme weather and natural disasters make Japan’s civil protection agencies among world’s busiest

Nearly 20% of Large Earthquakes Happen in Japan

More proof JAPAN is the MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

KOREA: In a nation that was relatively earthquake free, a national earthquake drill was conducted

3.4 quake

MEXICO:  Two quakes hit near border with Arizona

Aztec Anales de Tlatelolco reveal massive catastrophic earthquake that struck in Gregorian year 1575

NEW ZEALAND: 5.7 quake hits Milford Sound

New Plymouth quake

 Scientists claim human pollution exceeds volcanic pollution

NICARAGUA: Masaya erupts?

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  4.2 quake 31OCT2019

4.5 quake 29OCT2019

4.6 quake 29OCT2019

5.5 quake 17OCT2019

Oil industry excited about potential for offshore hydrocarbon mining

PERU: Machu Picchu was hit by strong earthquakes during construction

4.4 quake 25OCT2019

PHILIPPINES:  31OCT2019-Three deadly quakes in one month

2nd Very Strong earthquake – 29OCT2019

The largest known volcano in the world discovered in the Philippine Sea

  Yet another deadly quake, landslide

RUSSIA:  5.1 quake 30OCT2019

5.3 quake 05OCT2019

Scientists claim new tech can warn of the ‘Big One’ five days before it happens

 moderately large explosive eruption occurred on Shiveluch volcano

SAMOA, Independent State of: Magnitude 6.0 quake

TONGA: Metis Shoal erupts

UNITED STATES:  Beer industry reveals new warehouses to be built with “weather and seismic-related considerations”!

Alaska; 20% of dock supports failed in last year’s earthquake, drastically reducing amount of products being off-loaded.  Turns out that local government had already been spending U.S.$3-million per year ‘kicking-the-can-down-the-road’ trying to maintain the aged docks!

Seismic airguns used to map the ocean floor are injuring beluga whales

“…the agency arbitrarily dismissed the risks from seismic, including the likelihood that denning polar bears will be run over and killed by seismic vehicles.”

5.7 quake strikes

Underwater volcano creates air pockets that can sink ships!

Tsunami that happened 55 years ago created killer tropical fungus

California; Massive fire storm expected after the next Big One

Revealed; 600 buildings on college campuses will collapse during Big One

New earthquake warning system 30 years after deadly quake

NASA discovers ‘web’ of ruptures, warns dormant Mojave Desert fault is moving, 8.0 on its way

Whales breach wildly in Monterey Bay after magnitude-4.7 earthquake strikes

World’s Largest Outdoor Seismic Simulator

Registration for 2020 National Earthquake Conference Now Open

Hawaii; New lava formation off Puna

False tsunami warning caused by police

Nevada; USGS gives university million dollar grant to build additional seismic monitoring stations

Seismic risks for delayed public building renovations creates urgency for state taxpayer funding

each year Nevada experiences anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 earthquakes

Oregon; Towns to go under, literally, due to tsunami

4.7 quake hits on day of earthquake drill

Homeless shelter spends 18 months upgrading in preparation for major earthquake

Utah; FEMA gives Salt Lake City U.S.$4-million in additional tax funding for ongoing earthquake preps

Washington; State disaster experts say Cascadia Event will push a swath of ocean 18 feet high toward the coast at speeds of at least 20 knots.  That’s why state officials are spending tax dollars creating new tsunami warning/evac system.

 Know the 4 types of tsunamis that could impact people after an earthquake

Cascadia Event will create tsunami that will swamp coastline within 15 minutes, not enough time to get to higher ground, so what about Vertical Evacuation towers?

New tsunami evac-pods, get one now!

Wyoming; What’s really happening under Yellowstone?

Yellowstone’s ‘big one’ is coming, just not tomorrow

VANUATU: Yasur volcano continues to be unstable and seismic activity is set to continue

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, September 2019: “THE MISSING LINK”

“the missing link”: Pacific Ring of Fire, September 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, September 2019.

In the event of a killer asteroid, volcanic apocalypse, or nuclear holocaust, mushrooms could save humanity from extinction

How Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis

New study says even if oil industry fracking stops the damage is done, and earthquakes related to the fracking could happen for years after the fracking is stopped.

AUSTRALIA:  3.1 magnitude earthquake strikes south of Canberra

In Northern Territory, the Australian military, along with U.S. Marines, trained for operation Crocodile Response, a bilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in order to more rapidly respond to natural disasters and crises throughout the region.

CANADA:  Moderate earthquake – Southern Yukon Territory- September 26

Earthquake analyst says Vancouver is full of “killer buildings”

CHILE:  6.8 quake 29 September

4.6 quake Tarapaca, 28 September

5.8 south east of Easter Island, 27 September

6.1 quake, 26 September

Rumbling volcano triggers Orange Alert

CHINA: A CCTV camera captured the unusual scene of dozens of fish leaping out of a pond moments before an earthquake hit

 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the South China Sea

Taiwan earthquake hero dog off to world rescue championship

Taipei uses VR games to teach earthquake survival

COLOMBIA: 5.0 quake, 22 September

ECUADOR: 4.5 quake, 11 September

EL SALVADOR: 4.7 quake, 10 September

FIJI: 5.1 quake, 27 September

GUATEMALA: 5.2 quake, 15 September

INDONESIA:  Death toll rises after 6.5 quake, thousands in homeless shelters

One year after deadly tsunami, tens of thousands still struggle to recover

Explosive volcano eruption powered by water, not magma

JAPAN:  “If nobody died, it would be easy to explain about the history. But many died and I survived by running faster than those who did not run, or did not know how to escape. It is really hard to explain emotionally.”-tsunami survivor

Sakurajima explodes

Five years after deadly volcano eruption, half of cities near volcanoes lack escape plans

U.S. Army video report, disaster drill for Sagamihara City:

The Japanese military held Remote Island Disaster Exercise training at Yaeyama Islands, 01SEP2019.

KOREA: 2.3-magnitude ‘natural’ earthquake hits North Korea

Holy volcano attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims

South Korea Ministry of Environment’ K-water operations, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work with NASA to develop satellite technology in the hopes of preventing future water disasters.

U.S. personnel from Osan Air Base respond to the aftermath of Typhoon Lingling, 07SEP2019.

MEXICO:  Historic earthquakes suggest Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt’s quiet regions are active, home to 40% of Mexico’s residents

Popo erupts, yet again

NEW ZEALAND: 6.0 quake south of Raoul Island, 27 September

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 5.4 quake, 25 September

Manam volcanic ash plume rose up to estimated 8000 ft (2400 m) 

PERU: 4.0 quake, 28 September

4.8 quake, 27 September

4.8 quake, 03 September

5.2 quake, 02 September

Volcano Ubinas erupted three times in one day

INCA CHILD SACRIFICE VICTIMS WERE PLACED ON VOLCANOES SO THEY’D BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

PHILIPPINES:  6.3 quake hits Mindanao, 29 September

4.1 quake, Mindanao, 22 September

4.7 quake, Mindanao, 21 September

5.7 quake, Davao City, 10 September

RUSSIA: 4.4 quake, Kamchatka, 28 September

4.9 quake, south eastern Siberia, 28 September

4.3 quake, Kuril Islands, 27 September

 That purple tinge you’ve been seeing in North American sunsets? Thank a Russian volcano that erupted several months ago.

TONGA: 5.3 quake, 25 September

UNITED STATES: FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) hints that its running out of money by telling people to save money to help pay for disaster expenses!

USMC video promoting 30SEP2019 deployment to Colombia, bragging about spending U.S. taxes to help the South American country prep for a major natural disaster:

Yet again, U.S. taxes going to send U.S. Marines to Central American countries for yet more natural disaster preps (in October):

Alaska;  New Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Technique Unveiled

4.0 quake, Kodiak, 29 September

5.2 earthquake that shook Southcentral Alaska wasn’t an aftershock

View live earthquake data at earthquake.alaska.edu/earthquakes

California;  Residents upset over California’s earthquake insurance law

36 tiny earthquakes in 6 days

MOUNT WHITNEY DEATH TRAP, becomes Search-And-Rescue MONEY PIT

RED BANK & SOUTH FIRE HELICOPTER OPS

Idaho; Idaho State University, working with Idaho National Laboratory and Center for Advanced Energy Studies, gets $1.1-million taxpayer funded grant to build first ever Disaster Response Complex.  The goal is to train emergency responders in a realistic catastrophic environment with multiple scenarios such as earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, and even terrorist threats.

Hawaii; One year after eruption steam continues to appear in new places, or reappear in old places, and vegetation continues to die.

New discovery, volcanoes cause algae blooms

Why Alaskan and Hawaiian volcano observers work together  

Health professionals representing 20 countries gathered for the 22nd annual Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course in Honolulu, from September 9th-20th.  It was hosted by Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the University of Hawai’i Office of Public Health Studies.  The main goal is to create a common language, and procedures, between civilian and military emergency responders around the world.

Nevada; 4.5 quake near Austin, 09 September

Oregon; 5.9 quake off the coast

Major quake to leave Portland without clean water, city analysts predict 3-thousand water lines will break!

 Lakes hold the secret to tracking the history of The Big One: “…lake records are the missing link.”

Even though Mongolia is not a Pacific Rim country, the U.S. decided to conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief ‘Pacific Resilience’ training in the Central Asian country, and ordered Oregon’s Army National Guard to participate.

Utah; Quake hits northern Utah, 24 September

Panguitch hit by three small quakes within five hours

Small quake hits Zion National Park

Washington;  Who’s monitoring the killer volcanoes?

In 1964, a subduction zone earthquake in Alaska triggered a tsunami that reached a height of almost 13 feet on Washington’s coast….the next one “could happen tomorrow, or it could happen 200 years from now” 

To learn more about Washington’s natural disaster preps go to mil.wa.gov/preparedness  (by the way, the ‘mil’ stands for military)

Wyoming; Confessions of a Yellowstone Volcano Observatory scientist

VANUATU: 4.6 quake, 26 September

5.3 quake, 20 September

5.9 quake, 06 September

5.1 quake, 05 September

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, August 2019: TREMOR EVENT HAS BEGUN

Tremor Event Has Begun: Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, August 2019.

A Mega-Tsunami on Early Mars

Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant for 10-million years

What tourists/travelers need to do in after a disaster

AUSTRALIA: Oil industry seismic operations delayed

Hidden ‘Jurassic World’ of Volcanoes Uncovered

KitKat introduces rare volcanic chocolate

CANADA:  Researchers discover why oil industry fracking causes earthquakes

BC school district braces for mega earthquake

CHILE: 6.8 earthquake reveals stress is building on the megathrust

Increased Volcanic activity threatens fish farms, plans being made to evacuate the fish!

CHINA: Insurance industry adopts new earthquake catastrophe model, to predict insurance payouts and identify buildings most at risk of failure

5.0 hits Taiwan

COLOMBIA:  5.3-magnitude quake hits 28 km NW of Guapi

ECUADOR: There are 47 volcanoes in Ecuador, and 27 of them are potentially active, and five of them have erupted since 2000.

EL SALVADOR:  Colossal volcano behind ‘mystery’ global cooling finally found

FIJI:  5.0 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region on 27AUG2019

5.9 earthquake – Fiji Islands Region (Wallis & Futuna) on 22AUG2019

 A floating ‘island’ made up of volcanic rock, meandering through the Pacific.

GUATEMALA: Appeals for more help from International Red Cross, for dealing with the 2018 eruption (is this why so many Guatemalans are flooding into the U.S.?)

HONDURAS:  Mysterious white smoke emanating from mountain that is not considered a volcano

How many U.S. taxpayers know that over the past four decades a small outpost in Honduras has housed a mix of U.S. military forces, backed by aid organizations to provide medical assistance and disaster response for Latin American countries? 

INDONESIA:  volcano chaser documenting Indonesia’s volatile craters

Activities banned within 3 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi

Huge Oil Spill in Land of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes

JAPAN: belief in link between deep-sea fish sightings and quakes finally debunked

Asama-yama erupts

Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano

5.4-magnitude quake strikes Aomori Prefecture

Video of Aomori Prefecture conducting a disaster drill, a week after 5.4 quake, in conjunction with U.S. Misawa Airbase:

MEXICO:  Dramatic eruption by Mexico’s Popocatepetl 

5.5 earthquake – Chiapas, 12AUG2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Video explainer of U.S. taxpayer supported Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief exercise PACIFIC ENDEAVOR:

PERU: Oil industry to increase offshore seismic operations

Proposes earthquake resistant cities

PHILIPPINES: 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Luzon island

5.0 earthquake – Mindanao, 11AUG2019

European Union brings relief to victims of powerful earthquake

RUSSIA: Karymsky volcano spews

5.0 earthquake – East of Kuril Islands, 25AUG2019 

Lightning strikes Ebeko volcano during eruption

TONGA: 5.4 earthquake – 24AUG2019

5.0 earthquake – 24AUG2019

new submarine volcanic eruption discovered

UNITED STATES: Watch tsunami waves from a 9.0 earthquake hit the Pacific Northwest in new simulation videos

Alaska; After major quake, budget cut to seismic monitoring system

California;  UCBerkeley is in the middle of conducting seismic evaluations of the more than 600 buildings on campus.

Ridgecrest earthquakes caused up to $5 billion in damage to China Lake naval base

At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, U.S. Navy SeaBees were recognized for their efforts to help with recovery after the July earthquakes.

In San Diego, the U.S. Navy conducted exercise Citadel Rumble, enlisting the help of Amateur Radio Emergency Service to test emergency radio communications between USN hospitals during natural disasters.

Groundbreaking earthquake catalog may have just solved a seismic mystery

Community Seismic Network has installed 1-thousand sensors across the region

Hawaii;  Large Earthquakes, Hilina Fault System Relationship

What does water in Halema‘uma‘u mean?

Montana; More small quakes reported

60 years ago 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 28 people

Nevada; UN Reno gets 1-million additional tax dollars for ShakeAlert quake warning system

Oregon;  Critics blast Oregon repeal of tsunami-zone building ban

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake just struck

$1.6-million in additional taxpayer funding for ShakeAlert warning system

Washington;  Funding from the U.S. Geological Survey is expected to double the number of sensors in the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

Seismic Tremor Event Has Begun, Seismologists Say

Wyoming;  1959 quake changed landscape, structures and more in Yellowstone, 160 new geysers sprang to life

VANUATU: Mount Yasur is – incredibly or frighteningly, depending on how you look at it – open to members of the public game enough to walk up and peer into the belly of the Earth.

5.5 earthquake – Santa Cruz Islands (Vanuatu), 22AUG2019

6.3 earthquake strikes between Vanuatu, Solomon Islands

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, JULY 2019: “LOST IN TIME”

Vehicle I-D: Cold War Zombie tank T-55, they’re everywhere!

I calls it a zombie tank because it’s six decades old and refuses to die.

People’s Republic of China, 2021:

CHINA’S TYPE 59D, UPDATED COLD WAR T-54/55, TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?

CHINA STILL USES THE NATO GUNNED TYPE 88 WARSAW PACT BASED T-54/55 TANK

Lost your hull?  No problem, mount your turret on a truck trailer:

Syria 2012 to present:

Date and location unknown, possibly inside Syria, a T-55 somehow ended up on its turret!

Government T-55s.

Insurgent T-55.

With a mine-roller.

Iraq 2020: They still like those Chinese Type 69s. See more in Iraqi Armor after the Invasion.

Romanian T-55s taking part in NATOs Saber Guardian, June 2019:

U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Alex Cornell du Houx, 13JUN2019.

Video August 2018, Afghan government T-55 Boom Stick in action in Sangin District, while U.S. Marines watch:

Kurdish Peshmerga T-55, Iraq, May 2016: 

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Sergio Rangel, 29MAY2016.

Click here to watch extremist insurgents execute captured Syrian soldier with a T-55 tank!

Romanian T-55s, April 2016:

African Union T-55AMV, 2015:

African Union female T-55 crew:

Bamyan, Afghanistan, 2012:

An old T-54.

See more in Steel Skeletons of Soviet Afghanistan.

Daymirdad, Afghanistan, 2011: 

T-55, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Sean Casey, 09JAN2011.

Iraq 2010:  U.S. BRINGS DEAD IRAQI T-55 BACK TO LIFE!

Iraqi T-54/55 ARV, Salman Pak, November 2008:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Chase Kincaid, 15NOV2008. 

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Chase Kincaid, 15NOV2008.

T-55 Salman Pak, Iraq, November 2008:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Chase Kincaid, 15NOV2008.

Al Ja’ara village, Iraq, January 2008:

U.S. Defense Department photo, 14JAN2008.

Iraq 2003:

Chinese Type 69 (‘upgraded’ T-55). USN/USMC photo.

See more in Iraq 2003 Battle Damage.

Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, 2002:

Ventilator on turret top and small hole for bow machine gun on front slope indicates this was a T-54. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Arlo K. Abrahamson, 29MAY2002.

Cambodia: 

Iraqi Chinese made T-55 assaults Iranian infantry line during Iran-Iraq War:

Vietnam, T-54:

Supposedly upgraded Nicaraguan T-55:

Bosnia & Herzegovina 1996-98:

Croat (HVO) T-55 crew fires-off their 12.7mm gun, on the Barbara Range in Glamoc, Bosnia and Herzegovina. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Kim Price, October 1998.

A U.S. Army First Lieutenant tries to keep flames from spreading. This Serbian T-55 was deliberately blown-up with C-4 plastic explosive by the U.S. Army, on Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Angel Clemons, 15MAR1997.

T-55 ‘upgraded’ with vulcanized rubber armor, Broko area of Bosnia-Herzegovina. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Jon E. Long, January 1996.

Iraq 1991:

What’s left of an Iraqi Type 69, a Chinese ‘upgrade’ of the T-55. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, March 1991.

Smoldering Iraqi T-55 on the border with Kuwait. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Joel Torres, 28FEB1991.

CzechoSlovakia 1989:

Just a few years before the end of the unofficial Cold War, Czechoslovakia upgraded their T-55s with ‘Western-NATO’ targeting systems.

CzechoSlovak T-54, date and photographer unknown.

Egypt 1985:

Notice the ‘Western’ style square search light. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Captain Mark Beberwyck, August 1985.

U.S.A. 1987:

Captured T-54/55, Foreign Materiel Intelligence Group Training Detachment, Fort Irwin, California. U.S. Army photo by Donna Fulghum, 10MAR1987.

Peru 1983:

Factory fresh/parade ready T-54 (indicated by the bow machine gun hole in the front slope), 1983(?).

U.S.A. 1984:

Photo taken by ‘yours truly’, while on a California Army National Guard drill weekend on Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California.  You can see the hole in the front slope of the hull for the bow machine gun, which is typical of the T-54.  Early T-54s also had a ventilator on the turret top.

T-54 (it has a ventilator on top of the turret) captured by Israel then turned over to the United States, notice the U.S. military antenna mast mounted on top of the turret. Photo dated November 1984.

Israel 1974:

Photo dated May 1974, location unknown, however it appears to be captured T-55s put to use by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Being cannibalized for parts.

Egypt 1974:

Egyptian T-55 destroyed by Israel, 1974. Notice somebody marked the penetration hole in the turret.

Iraq, November 1963:

Iraqi T-54 during coup led by pro-Egyptian (Nasserists) against the Ba’ath Party, November 1963.

Germany 1961:

U.S. Embassy photo. The then brand new T-54/55 is deployed in response to the U.S. deploying its then brand new M48A1, which were deployed in response to older T-34-85s being deployed in what became the Berlin Crisis which led to the creation of the Berlin Wall.

See (photos & film), and read, more in BERLIN KRISE, ‘GAME OF CHICKEN’ M48A1 VS. T-54/55!

This is a terrible Cold War era U.S. Army vehicle I-D image of a T-54.

Soviet Union:

Cold War film, late 1950s or early 1960s, Soviet T-55s getting decontaminated in NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) exercise:

A variety of variants:

So many model kits, so little time!

 

T-55 data @ ArmyRecognition.com

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IRAN BUILDS ITS OWN ‘JEEP’

HOW TO BUILD A 1/1 SCALE TIGER-1 TANK

Soviet Great Patriotic War ‘Bat’ to be resurrected from the dead!

“For the first time in the world, a Tu-2 bomber will be reconstructed to its operational condition on the premises of the Novosibirsk State Technical University. The reconstruction work will be carried out by Aviarestavratsiya. This work will take three years.”-Science and Higher Education Ministry

The Tupolev 2 bomber of World War Two fame is being brought back to life in Russia.

A Tupolev TU 2 WWII Soviet front line bomber (NATO reporting name Bat) on static display at Monino Museum, Russia. TASS photo by Marina Lystseva.

According to TASS, the resurrection was supposed to start on 21AUG2019.  The specific plane to be restored to flying condition had a long history, first flying with the Soviet forces during World War Two, then flying with Chinese forces until the 1980s(!), and then ending up in the United States in the hands of the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico (read a description of the plane and how the Chinese used it, here).

War Eagles Air Museum, before restoration. Photo via David and Paula Barnett.

War Eagles Air Museum, after restoration.

The U.S. museum restored the Tu-2 to the point it could be used as a static display.  In 2019, the Russia based Aviarestavratsiya (air restoration)/Winged Victory Memorial supposedly acquired the plane and will bring it back to Russia: “This is not a plane that was shot down or was broken. We have not yet studied its series numbers and have not yet tracked its exact history. The plane will be studied and analyzed in detail. Each element will be reconstructed or restored.”-Boris Osyatinsky, Aviarestavratsiya/Winged Victory Memorial

However, as of 2022 the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico still lists the Bat as part of their displays.

By the way, China still has several Tu-2 bombers on display:

Photo via Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.

Photo via Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.

For kit builders there are several brands to choose from:

The ‘Bat’ served with many countries in many wars.

The old East German VEB-Plastikart (now known as adp Master Modelle) kit.

More info: https://alchetron.com/Tupolev-Tu-2

Tupolev TU-2 – Photos & Video

VEHICLE I-D: RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!