http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10790840

Hawkes Bay, NZ gets a 4.6 EQ only hours after Wellington, NZ gets a 4.9 with the solar flare coming in,

I have to say ..those tornados we had last week, an F5 ..with 175 mph winds ..that is very very rare. Killing over all 41 people reported nevermind the damage it caused across 10 states.

California had a 4.0 earthquake March 5th http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2012/nc71746766/

Okay so, it's been a mild rainy day here in SW Missouri.

I just got up to do something and looked outside ...

IT'S SNOWING!

Friggen BLOOMS on tree's and we have snow comming down!! OMG so did not think it would snow?? It was 71 degree's here yesterday. 71!!

no damned way CM, no damned way!
ok, now I'm worried.
you know Ozarker? she lives out in Missouri too and usually her weather ends up here in a day/2 days. I hope we don't get snow, everything is in about full bloom now!

M 5.1, Iran-Iraq border region

could be a little bit of tin with this quake. do they get a lot of earthquakes there?

Pam-It was really odd weather. It was a nice, warm, misty spring rain. Birds were loving it. Then BOOM, with-in an hour the weather just dropped and there were little balls of snow/hail and large flakes.

Nothing stuck but ..yeah I was like ..damn there go the fruit tree's. **cuss cuss**

these just showed up on my USGS feed

just saw this as well.
ANOTHER CME IS HEADING FOR EARTH: Sunspot AR1429 has unleashed another strong solar flare, an M6-class eruption on March 9th at 0358 UT. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection directly toward Earth (movie). According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud will arrive on March 11th at 0649 UT (+/- 7 hr) adding to the geomagnetic unrest already underway.
on Spaceweather.

Ohio stiffens regulations after concluding that fracking caused earthquakes

Ohio state regulators announced tough new regulations on Friday after concluding that the injection of wastewater underground as part of the controversial gas-drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” had almost certainly caused a dozen earthquakes near one well.
The regulations will require well operators to supply extensive geological data before requesting a new drill site, avoid certain rock formations, and keep track of pressure, volume, and the chemical makeup of all drilling water using state-of-the-art technology.
Investigators pointed to “a number of coincidental circumstances” connecting the quakes in northeast Ohio, which began in March 2011 and continued to the end of the year, with a well which had begun operation three months earlier. They also noted the presence of a fault in the rocks that was identified only after drilling began.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/ohio-stiffens-regulations-after-concluding-that-fracking-caused-earthquakes/

Frightening Volcanic Venting Signals Coming Midwest Megaquake

A U.S. Midwest Megaquake: many say 'It can't happen here.' But it can, and it will. It's happened many times in the past and the odds are increasing that it's about to happen again soon—much sooner than most people think. The last New Madrid Megaquake caused the Mississippi River to run backward, destroyed whole towns and villages in seconds, and killed an unknown number of people. And that was when most of the Midwest was sparsely populated. The next Megaquake would affect up to 160 million people, severely damage or destroy most of the supporting infrastructure, topple one or more major cities, potentially kill tens of thousands, and make a million or more homeless within a matter of mere minutes.
 
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1878/606/Frightening_Volcanic_Venting_Signals_Coming_Midwest_Megaquake.html

Earth's Death Star And The End Of America

From the British journal, New Scientist: "It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

"A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation’s infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event—a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun." [Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe]

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1882/514/Earths_Death_Star_And_The_End_Of_America.html

Well, for what it's worth. Our internet/phone/TV is doing weird stuff. Keeps shutting down about every 30 minutes.

**cue weird twilight zone music***

Hrm .....Noticed this over at ATS::

New Madrid Fault Region: Area Residents Noticing Sulfur Smells In Arkansas And Missouri

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread819207/pg1

Around the time of the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes, people in the area where the quakes occurred, noted the smell of sulfur, and especially after the quakes hit, many eyewitness accounts described a stench of sulfur in the air. This was due to the releasing of fumes from the magma chamber, up through cracks, with the pressure pushing it from the eruption sequence.

These smells are near to the area where some of the mass bird die offs recently happened in Arkansas as well.

Regulators Say Fracking Wastewater Well Caused 12 Earthquakes in Ohio

http://www.truth-out.org/regulators-say-fracking-wastewater-well-caused-12-earthquakes-ohio/1331661617

Earthquakes rock Mexico, Indonesia

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has struck this morning near Acapulco in Mexico.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake struck 52km northest of Ometepec and 183km east of Acapulco at a depth of 10km.
It was initially measured as magnitude 7.9, but was later downgraded to 7.6, and was followed by a strong aftershock.
No tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
The first quake was strongly felt in Mexico City, with buildings swaying - sending frightened workers and residents into the streets.

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INDONESIA QUAKE
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Papua region of Indonesia, but there was no tsunami warning or reports of damage.
The quake struck at 2:56 am local time at a depth of 66.9 kilometres, some 154 kilometres south southwest of Jayapura in Irian Jaya, the US Geological Survey said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10793489

The Mexico quake is a big one.  Is it a "pre-quake"?  I was just thinking that the quake map looked a little calm the last few days.  I usually check it every day.  No statistics, but just my personal opinion based on pattern recognition, I suppose.

Recall that "The Awareness" (http://www.cosmicawareness.org ) in its 2012 forecast predicted a large quake affecting Mexico City. Whether this one was it or not remains to be seen.

Mexico earthquake rattles capital city

Mexico rocked by 7.8-magnitude quake, damaging buildings and closing airport in southern and central parts of country

 
A strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of about 7.8 has rocked Mexico, with the authorities initially reporting minor damage and no loss of life.
The streets of the capital, Mexico City, filled with frightened people evacuated from buildings that swayed dramatically on Tuesday. Telephone networks were immediately saturated and power was cut in much of the capital. Schools reported panic attacks among some children.
The authorities said the epicentre of the quake was located below the Pacific coast near the border between the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero and close to the town of Pinotepa Nacional.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/mexico-earthquake-rattles-capital-city?newsfeed=true

7.8, that is HUGE but it seems they may have minimal damage/loss of life going by reports so far which is very good news.

Bad news coming in now, hundreds of collapsed houses:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/20/world/americas/mexico-earthquake/?hpt=wo_c2

More than an hour after the quake, residents in Ometepec were feeling aftershocks, said Francisca Villalva Davila, the city's comptroller.

"There are many cracked ceilings, many houses that collapsed," she told CNN en Español.

Mexico earthquake felt as far as capital

'Expect aftershocks from Mexico quake'

Quake strikes near Guerro-Oaxaca, Mexico

About five out of every 10 houses in the municipality, where about 50,000 people live, saw significant damage, the comptroller said.