Worsening Weather, Earthquakes, Vortices, Volcanoes, CMEs ... What's Up?

[space otter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmentalists-killed-2015_us_57678e8ee4b015db1bc9be9a?section=
06/20/2016 10:43 am ET
Nick Visser
Reporter, The Huffington Post

Record Number Of Environmentalists Killed Last Year For Defending The Planet

On average, more than three were killed per week, a watchdog group found.

For those tasked with the protection of our planet, 2015 was a year steeped in blood.

At least 185 land and environmental defenders, those who take peaceful action to protect natural resources, were killed in 2015, according to a new report released Monday. Those figures, the highest ever documented by the watchdog group Global Witness, represent a stark increase of nearly 60 percent from just a year earlier and an average death rate of more than three people per week.

"The environment is emerging as a new battleground for human rights," the report, "On Dangerous Ground," reads.

More than half of those killed came from just three countries, Brazil had 50 deaths, the Philippines, 33, and Colombia, 26. All are home to fierce battles between indigenous residents and corporations engaged in environment-harming enterprises like logging, mining and the expansion of plantations.





"What we're seeing is an increasing scramble for environmental prizes," Billy Kyte, campaign leader for Global Witness, told The Huffington Post earlier this year. "Corporations are entering more remote areas where they get more bang for their buck, and they're encroaching on indigenous land."

Mining enterprises have been linked to at least 42 of these deaths, agriculture and logging another 20 and 15, respectively. The report found indigenous groups were particularly vulnerable to violence, accounting for 40 percent of those killed last year.

While the number of activists killed has increased since last year, the report notes the official 185 figure represents only reported deaths. The actual figure is likely "far higher," the paper notes, citing war-torn regions in Africa and South Asia that have little oversight but likely violent political retribution over environmental advocacy.

Sadly, even the reported deaths often go uninvestigated and unpunished, according to the report, which chronicles the shooting of two prominent advocates in the Philippines.  Filipino activist Michelle Campos saw both her father and grandfather, fierce opponents of encroaching mining interests, killed in front of their family by paramilitary groups linked to the military.

"They told us to leave our community in two days or else they will finish us all," Campos wrote in a letter published by The Philippine Reporter. "They killed Onel, my father and our chairperson. They shot him in the head in front of our community, in front of my three younger siblings."

About 3,000 people were forced to leave their homes following the incident, and although several suspects have been identified, no arrests have been made.

Campos' story is a common narrative around the world. Other examples include the death of a Guatemalan teacher who helped close a palm oil plantation and the shooting of a land defender in Myanmar.

The report also comes just months after the death of Berta Cáceres, a high-profile environmentalist who for decades worked to defend indigenous land rights in Honduras. That country was the deadliest in which to conduct such work from 2010 to 2015, though it ranked eighth in 2015 alone. Cáceres, a winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism, was gunned down in her home after receiving death threats for years.





In her speech last year upon receiving the Goldman Prize, Cáceres called on humanity to act on the urgent need for protection. She dedicated the award to those "who gave their lives in the struggle to defend our natural resources."

"Let us wake up. Let us wake up, humankind," she said. "We're out of time."

[A51Watcher]

Sky sounds like those countries may be fighting more than they realize.

[Dyna]

Man-made pollutants found in Earth's deepest ocean trenches
June 21, 2016
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- Even the creatures living in Earth's deepest oceanic trenches aren't safe from man-made toxins. New research has revealed surprisingly significant concentrations of pollutants among deep-sea species.

Shrimp-like crustaceans called amphipods were collected from water depths between 23,000 and 33,000 feet.

Sizable concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, were found in amphipods from both trenches.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/06/21/Man-made-pollutants-found-in-Earths-deepest-ocean-trenches/6951466521352/?spt=sec&or=sn

[thorfourwinds]

Published on Jul 4, 2016
GLOBAL WEATHER EMERGENCY WARNINGS
'Jet stream shift from North to South Threatens Food Supplies' End of Winter and Changing Seasons.

[space otter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marshall-islands-climate-refugees_us_577e7996e4b01edea78cc4bc?section=

07/07/2016 03:17 pm ET
Renee Lewis Refugees Deeply

Marshall Islanders Set To Become Climate Refugees Before International Law Can Catch Up

BIKINI ATOLL LOCAL GOVERNMENT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman and a child walk through knee-deep water to reach their home during a king tide event on Kili in the Marshall Islands in January 2015.
As warming seas climb their shores, Marshall Islanders face becoming climate refugees before the international community can decide what rights, if any, that status confers.

Sandbags surround the Majuro airstrip while hurriedly-built bridges span flooded sections of road, and many Marshall Islanders have built seawalls to protect their homes on this remote nation in the Pacific Ocean.

The Marshall Islands are made up of five main islands and 29 coral atolls spread across three-quarters of a million miles of ocean, but they amount to just 70 square miles of actual land. And even that is now at the mercy of the seas, which are rising thanks to climate change.

The United Nations has predicted sea levels will rise by up to three feet by 2100 if global carbon emissions continue unchecked, and a recent paper published in the journal Nature said this estimate should be doubled to more than six feet because of ice melt in Antarctica.

The Marshall Islanders seem destined to become climate refugees as the whole country threatens to disappear below sea level by the end of the century. And the seas are rising faster than international law can adapt. There is no international recognition of people displaced by climate change as refugees, leaving them without legal protection or rights.

The average elevation in the Marshall Islands is six feet, with many areas just above sea level. In recent years the "king tides" – two especially high tides that come each year at around the same time – have swept through the streets of the capital, Majuro. King tides never used to swamp the atoll; now they do.

Entire rows of damaged and abandoned homes can be seen in some areas of the atoll. About 170 miles southwest, Kili island has been flooded so regularly that its residents are thinking about leaving for good.

"If we lose our islands, we would become aimless refugees," said Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, a Marshallese poet and climate activist who lives in Majuro. "We could be the first to leave our entire country, our entire home."

Two years ago, Jetnil-Kijiner was invited to speak at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, where she called on world leaders to take action to save her island nation. She read one of her poems that describes the threat that faces the Marshallese people.


AP/ROB GRIFFITH
A small uninhabited island that has slipped beneath the water line and only shows a small pile of rocks at low tide on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
"Tell them we are a proud people toasted dark brown as the carved ribs of a tree stump.
Tell them we are descendants of the finest navigators in the world.
Tell them about the water, how we have seen it rising.
Tell them what it's like to see the entire ocean level with the land."
If displaced because of rising seas, the Marshall Islanders – like anyone put in this position by climate change or natural disaster – would find themselves in legal limbo. They would not qualify as refugees, so would not receive the same international protection, even though they were forced to leave their homes. That's because "climate refugee" is not a term recognized under international law.

Alex Randall from Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), the Oxford, UK-based climate NGO, says the term is widely used but holds no legal currency: "The phrase 'climate refugees' isn't used much within law or research any more, for the very same reason that such people don't have similar rights to other kinds of refugees."

Climate refugees are not covered by the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

That is because "natural disasters or environmental degradation do not constitute a form of persecution as per the Convention criteria (fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality or membership of a particular social group or political opinion)," according to a 2014 IOM report.

The IOM and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have called for international human-rights law to be used to cover the legal gaps threatening people displaced by climate change. That is because its framework covers respect for the rights of all individuals at all times, including protection from arbitrary loss of life.

"The key thing is creating systems that protect all migrants and displaced people," said Randall.

One effort in this direction has come from Switzerland and Norway through a state-led process known as the Nansen Initiative. Conceived to fill the legal gap in cross-border migration due to climate change and disasters, its agenda was endorsed by some 110 countries last year.

But the Nansen Initiative may not help those displaced from countries that cease to exist altogether.

"I think people understand that climate change will cause migration, but I don't think they really get what that means for the Marshall Islands," Jetnil-Kijiner said. "It would mean changes in our status in the international realm."

If the islands were swamped by rising seas, the country would likely lose its sovereignty, making its people stateless under international law.

The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons sets out a minimum standard of treatment for them, including providing travel documents and identity papers. It does not, however, compel any state to accept a stateless person for entry or residence, according to the UNHCR.

Thousands of people have already left the islands for a variety of reasons, with many settling in diaspora communities in Hawaii, California and Oregon. In Springdale, Arkansas – another hot spot for Marshallese migration – traffic signs are written in the Marshallese language.

Several thousand islanders live in the town. One of them, a retired pastor from Majuro who moved there with several members of his family, said Marshallese residents remain close-knit even after leaving the islands.

But some aspects of the culture are incompatible with U.S. customs and norms, including the common practice of family members and relatives living together and speaking Marshallese as a first language.

"We speak Marshallese a lot, but the young ones have to talk in English, too, because of school," said pastor Charles Heam. "Only the older people speak Marshallese, the younger are not fluent."

The pastor admits that his family's new home comes with advantages, like better education and better healthcare, but this does not remove the sense of loss.

"I miss my home island, Majuro," he admitted.

This article originally appeared on Refugees Deeply. For weekly updates and analysis about refugee issues, you can sign up to the Refugees Deeply email list.
https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/07/01/seas-rising-faster-than-refugee-law-can-adapt




also
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/photos/7-wonders-of-the-world-that-may-soon-be-underwater/ss-AAhGPYL?li=BBnbfcP#image=12

7 wonders of the world that may soon be underwater

35 slides with captions

[zorgon]

The Marshall Islands are made up of five main islands and 29 coral atolls spread across three-quarters of a million miles of ocean, but they amount to just 70 square miles of actual land. And even that is now at the mercy of the seas, which are rising thanks to climate change.

The United Nations has predicted sea levels will rise by up to three feet by 2100 if global carbon emissions continue unchecked, and a recent paper published in the journal Nature said this estimate should be doubled to more than six feet because of ice melt in Antarctica.

...meanwhile NASA SAYS:

Oct. 7, 2014
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum

[Dyna]

2016 Arctic Sea Ice Wintertime Extent Hits Another Record Low

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/2016-arctic-sea-ice-wintertime-extent-hits-another-record-low

Are we going to roll?

[ArMaP]

More ice at the south pole, less ice at the north pole?

It's the opposite of what happens on Mars, with a bigger north pole ice cap and smaller south pole ice cap, maybe if we understand one situation we can understand the other.

[space otter]

whatever you want to blame it on.. or not we are  into change bigtime
hope everyone has picked their place of safety

http://inhabitat.com/climate-change-is-pushing-earths-clouds-higher-and-towards-the-poles/

by Lacy Cooke

VIEW SLIDESHOW

A new study published in Nature warns that climate change is pushing Earth's clouds higher and towards the poles. Why do these cloud patterns matter? For starters, there isn't much solar radiation near the poles, so the clouds won't reflect as much heat back into the atmosphere. Also, when cloud tops are higher they act similar to greenhouse gases, trapping radiation on Earth. These patterns only serve to bolster climate change.


wow check out the face in this one..


As scientists work to understand how climate change will affect our planet, one of the biggest uncertainties has been how warming will impact clouds. In the past, it was hard to obtain reliable observations; satellites gathering data typically weren't designed to collect long-term records.

Scientists at institutions in California and Colorado scrutinized "corrected satellite records" from as far back as the 1980's. They found cloud patterns similar to those described by climate change simulations. These patterns predict that some clouds will move towards the poles, and some cloud tops will stretch higher into the sky.

The scientists tried to account for natural variations by looking at models that incorporated elements like volcanic eruptions and increasing greenhouse gases, and models that didn't incorporate those elements. Study lead author Joel Norris of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said, "The pattern of cloud change we see is the pattern associated with global warming."

Related: World's largest fog harvester produces water from thin air in the Moroccan desert

The study doesn't provide all the answers we need; it doesn't look at low subtropic clouds, which some scientists speculate will be more important, and the cloud shift patterns could be due to erupting volcanoes in addition to greenhouse gas emissions. However, the study is another step on our path towards understanding how climate change will impact Earth.

Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology director Bjorn Stevens said, "This study reminds us how poorly prepared we are for detecting signals that might portend more extreme (both large and small) climate changes than are presently anticipated."

...................................

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09072016/clouds-patterns-could-contribute-global-warming-climate

hanging Cloud Patterns Could Lead to More Global Warming

Clouds' impact on climate change has been a scientific mystery, but a new study zeroes in on how they may be accelerating the warming of the Earth's atmosphere.

Zahra HirjiBY

Cloud patterns have been shifting over the past 30 years in ways that a new study says are possibly due to global warming––and may even lead to more warming in the future.

Climate scientists believe cloud changes are one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models and understanding how cloud patterns respond to rising greenhouse gas levels is critical to determining how much and how quickly global temperatures will rise.

This new study, published Monday in the journal Nature, provides for the first time a reliable record of past cloud changes spanning nearly three decades and a comparison of those changes with climate models. This brings researchers much closer to solving the mysterious cloud-climate relationship.

Most climate models have projected that global warming would cause the tops of certain clouds to move higher in the atmosphere and also trigger a decrease of cloudiness in the subtropics, expanding the dry zone there. The models also predict that these patterns will trigger more warming, creating what's called a positive feedback loop.

The new findings offer "more evidence that clouds are going to be ... [an] exacerbating factor" on climate change and not a mitigating one, lead author Joel Norris told InsideClimate News.

Norris is a climate professor at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He conducted this study with five scientists from the University of California Riverside, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Colorado State University.

Because the only satellites available to monitor clouds for decades weren't designed for this task, scientists haven't been able to conclusively track cloud changes and compare them with the model results—until now. The study shows that these two cloud pattern changes predicted by the models have already been occurring in parts of the globe since at least the 1980s.

"It think it's a very good study but it's not really the smoking gun in terms of proving we know" how exactly clouds are impacting global warming, said Dennis Hartmann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. Hartmann was not involved in the study.

Measuring cloudiness has been difficult, if not impossible, for researchers because they've had to rely on satellites designed to measure weather patterns, not clouds. Scientists seeking to use this data grapple with a daunting array of challenges: satellites shift orbits over time; sensors degrade; instruments have to be replaced. So the data are inconsistent, and previous attempts to correct for these issues have left flaws (called "artifacts") in the data that have led to incorrect or ambiguous interpretation.

To fix that, Norris and his colleagues developed a way to systematically find and remove these data artifacts. This allowed them to clean up the data from two satellite projects—International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and Extended Pathfinder Atmospheres (PATMOS-x)—to clearly observe cloud patterns between 1983 and 2009.

"It's a huge accomplishment," said Joyce Penner, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the study.

Their findings showed an increase in cloudiness in some regions and a decrease in others. They found that the subtropical dry zones—longitudinal bands containing many of the world's deserts—are expanding. These areas could expect to see warmer surface temperatures and more evaporation, and possibly exacerbated droughts too.

The corrected data also showed the tops of the highest clouds are moving even higher in the atmosphere across the globe. This pattern could be even worse for the climate because clouds both absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface and emit some of that radiation to space. How well a cloud emits radiation to space depends on its temperature. Low clouds are more effective than high clouds at emitting radiation.

The researchers confirmed their findings with three other sources of satellite data used to indirectly measure cloudiness during the same time period.

After confirming that the cloud patterns they'd observed were real, Norris and others ran thousands of climate model simulations to see how they compared. Models set up to track changes in cloudiness due to natural variability did not match the observed patterns. Nor did models measuring the impact of ozone or other factors.

But models tracking cloud changes linked to greenhouse gas emissions or the impact of volcanoes spewing particles in the atmosphere did match. This means it is likely climate change along with the recovery of the atmosphere from volcanic eruptions has influenced the cloud changes observed between the early 1980s and late 2000s.

Penner said, however, the study doesn't attempt to prove these cloud changes will then exacerbate global warming.

Hartmann praised the study, but said it raised a lot of questions, including why the observations revealed much more dramatic changes to cloudiness than the models predicted. Hartmann also said the study's short time period was a limitation and questioned the findings that natural variability did not appear to account for the changes to cloudiness in the last few decades.

The study identified general changes in cloud patterns and did not attempt to measure and quantify such changes, either globally or in specific regions. Without these details, it's difficult to predict how changing cloud patterns might impact Atlantic hurricane frequency or paths, for example, or other regional weather phenomena.

"It's very enticing," Penner said. "It leaves all these issues hanging out there that need further work."


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Zahra Hirji

Zahra Hirji is a Boston-based reporter for InsideClimate News. She covers natural gas drilling, fossil fuel divestment, renewable energy policy and climate science, among other issues. She also runs ICN's two news aggregations, Today's Climate and Clean Economy Wire, as well as helps with multimedia presentations, social media and website upkeep. She has a degree in geology from Brown University and a masters degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[zorgon]

whatever you want to blame it on.. or not we are  into change bigtime
hope everyone has picked their place of safety

NEVADA

It was here when the Dinosaurs roamed

It was here when the Wooly mammoths roamed

It was high and dry when the sea levels flooded most of the center USA

It will survive the Apocalyse too

[thorfourwinds]

It appears Zorgon is right, again.   

Published on Nov 30, 2016

MINI-ICE AGE SETTING UP!


GLOBAL WARNING/RECORD TEMP. PLUNGE BY DEC. 3
BPEarthWatch

T Wine    20 hours ago
BPEarthWatch :  Amazing the connections you've made with the date of the magnetar wave arrival in Dec 2004 and the correlating 9.3 EQ in Sri Lanka. And another one is headed this way in days??? CHILLING. Especially since he's been predicting the second wave of energy for some time now, with a date of 12/26/16.

Makes sense of the recent Exec Order for space weather disasters, doesn't it? Glad to hear you and Mike and Paul are getting together again. Dig deep, my friend. (Btw, the trolls are going to be so surprised when Christ returns. All that troll time wasted. Just like that.) God bless.?

Michael's Full Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRvalL7mqs?
Michael's Website, http://www.counciloftime.com
Listen to live shows on his site: http://www.counciloftime.com/mediaplayer.aspx?

THE DESTROYER, CLOSEST LOOK/36 HOURS
Published on Dec 9, 2016
THE JUNO MISSION

EARTH WARNING! MASSIVE WAVE OF ENERGY/16 DAYS AWAY!
BPEarthWatch
Published on Dec 10, 2016

MINI ICE AGE BEGINNING/SOLAR MINIMUM/DNA CHANGE.
Published on Nov 2, 2016


From a few days ago:



COLD FRONT COMING TO AMERICA: WEATHER MANIPULATION OF JET-STREAM
Published on Dec 1, 2016
James Munder

There is a massive cold front coming to America next week they say, according to European forecasting. The jet stream will take the frigid air out of Alaska and bring it down into the United States as it spreads out into the Eastern United States; what they call, in the mainstream media, a polar vortex. I call it weather manipulation and jet stream manipulation.

Western half of US to be hit with temperatures of up to 30 degrees colder than normal...
Published on Dec 1, 2016

Get ready for the big freeze! Western half of US to be hit with temperatures of up to 30 degrees colder than normal after Alaska experiences bone-chilling lows of minus 41F.

Record-setting cold weather could strike large parts of the United States in the next week as record-setting low temperatures from Alaska sweep south, climatologists have warned.
The Last Frontier state is already experience its coldest weather in almost two years, with temperatures in Fairbanks hitting minus 41F.

Now the bitter conditions are set to move into the northwestern states, pushing temperatures well below the average for this time of year.

The cold blast is set to last between six and eight days.

One weather model expects low temperatures of 25F degrees below the norm in Denver, Colorado, and Rapid City, North Dakota, by December 7, according to Pivotal Weather.

The mercury will only reach the high teens in Billings, Montana, and the 20s around Salt Lake City, Utah.

Forecasters predict the weather will move east in the next 10 days, but it will lose some intensity.

Some models suggest cities such as New York and Washington could be slightly higher than usual, but only by 1F or 2F.

When the cold air from the west clashes with warmer breezes from the east, it is also likely to form a storm.

This means central parts of the Lower 48 could see severe snow and thunderstorms.

'Cannot recall last time I have seen such a cold anomaly forecast across almost entire USA,' climatologist Roger Pielke Sr. said on Twitter.

Alaska set the record for its coldest November in 1970 at minus-62F, according to the National Weather Service.

Computer models predict the near-freezing temperatures will spread east in the next week.

'When the cold assaults the western United States this time next week and clashes with milder air to the east, a storm is likely to form, producing heavy snow west of its center and potentially strong thunderstorms to the east,' wrote Jason Samenow, chief meteorologist of the Post's Capital Weather Gang.

'It is far too early to pin down the specific storm track, but the central United States should start to monitor the situation in the coming days.'

Dec 4 Jet Stream Report Get Ready
R Wayne Steiger

Could This Winter Be A Repeat Of 2013 With A Polar Vortex?
CBS Chicago
8 December 2016

MINI-ICE AGE/ARCTIC VORTEX/TEMPS PLUNGING
Published on Dec 12, 2016
BPEarthWatch

*SEVERE WEATHER ALERT* EARTH'S EXTREME WOBBLE MAIN CAUSE!
Published on Dec 13, 2016

Crazy Polar Vortex Coming - Dec 14th-21st, 2016
Weather Decoded

[Shasta56]

I was out in the polar vortex. I had full days of nursing visits both Saturday a day Sunday.  It wasn't enjoyable. The weather is getting crazier. I really would like to know where the climate change deniers think people are going to live when this world becomes incapable of supporting life. 

Shasta

[thorfourwinds]

Forget Yellowstone! Long Valley Super Volcano/ Thousands of Quakes.
Published on Dec 21, 2016
Higher Truth Channel

Long Valley activity has always, always exceeded Yellowstone quakes.
Scalding hot springs happened years before Yellowstone's incident, and now?

Super-volcano Campi Flegrei Reawakening
Nearing Critical Phase | Veiling Sunlight, Volcanic Winter
Published on Jan 5, 2017

Europe Freezes: Snow on Greek & Italian Beaches, S.E. USA Snow Covered (286)
Adapt 2030
Published on Jan 8, 2017

Europe engulfed in blizzards and record breaking snows down to the beaches of southern Italy and Greece. Coldest Orthodox Christian Christmas Eve in 120 years, Bosporus Straight closed due to sea ice and high winds, Istanbul slammed with 2+ feet of snow. Eastern Europe's roads impassable and the Danube River freezes over.

Mini Ice Age/Polar Vortex Breaking Down. 175 MPH Winds/CA
Published on Jan 9, 2017

Seeker and I both live in North Georgia.   

Here's but two of the volcanoes erupting and sending ash clouds (higher each time) 25-30-35-40 thousand feet into the atmosphere,


Bogoslof volcano (Aleutian Islands): another strong explosion last night
Monday Jan 09, 2017 10:23 AM | BY: T

The series of strong explosions at the volcano continues.

Another event started at about 22:30 AKST local time last night (or this morning 07:30 UTC) and was detected in seismic and infrasound data from neighboring islands and produced lightning.

The highly explosive nature of the eruption is most likely due to the fact that the new vent is located at or near sea level and water-magma interaction increases the violent fragmentation of the erupted magma.

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, "seismic data suggest two strong eruptive pulses within that period, at 22:33-22:34 and 22:56 AKST (07:33-07:34 and 07:56 Jan 9 UTC), consistent with two distinct volcanic clouds observed in satellite images.

"The second cloud is larger and reached as high as 35,000 ft asl. Winds are blowing the volcanic clouds to the northwest.

"Additional explosive events at Bogoslof may occur without warning."



Cluster of Big Earthquakes Rattles Iceland's Katla Volcano

Last night, a brief earthquake swarm rattled the caldera at Katla in southern Iceland. The largest earthquakes were over M4, ranging from a few kilometers deep ...

[thorfourwinds]

100 MILE CRACK OPENS UP IN PAKISTAN AFTER EARTHQUAKE
Nibiru Planet X 2016
Published on Feb 11, 2017
https://watchers.news/2017/02/10/large-earth-crack-pakistan-february-2017/

Longest earth fissure in Qila Abdullah Baluchistan Pakistan

City51 TV
Published on Feb 9, 2017
Following recent driving downpours in Balochistan, an earth fissure opened up in Qila Abdullah. The fissures spans several hundred miles sparking panic among the local residents.

https://watchers.news/2017/01/25/earth-fissure-arizona-january-2017/
Large earth fissure discovered in Arizona
on January 25, 2017

Fissure in Arizona is the largest of its kind

Business Insider
Published on Feb 1, 2017
There's a 2-mile-long crack in the desert of Arizona. At 10 feet wide and up to 30 feet deep in some parts, it is the largest of its kind. It continues to grow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=KIRoTD2CLi4

https://watchers.news/2017/01/16/earth-fissure-northern-cape-south-africa-january-2017/
Large earth fissure opens in Northern Cape, South Africa
January 16, 2017

Massive Sinkhole Documentary - World's Most Terrifying Sinkhole

https://watchers.news/2017/02/11/storm-flood-nevada-california-idaho-february-2017/
Devastating floods hit western US, new storm approaching
February 11, 2017

[Irene]

These fissures fascinate me. I view them as symptoms of a larger issue with the Earth's crust. I think it's been compromised. By what, I have no idea.

We have been poking it full of holes and emptying it of many of its contents for some time now. Maybe it's reaching its limit.