Earth Changes Bulletin Update

You have heard of the Weather Report? Here exclusively is this week’s "Earth Report" - a short review of the “big picture” about how the dynamic changes in the Sun and the Earth are effecting our lives more and more intensely, with the latest prognostications and predictions for weathermen, farmers, investors, businessmen, and every man.

FOR FIRST WEEK IN JUNE: FRIDAY, JUNE 4

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On the geophysical front, solar activity is climbing with sunspots rising at 74 on June 2. This climb is likely to continue for the Venus | Earth alignment on June 8, when the Earth will be directly connected to the magnetic field of Venus, forming one of most powerful circuits of ionic flow in the solar system. As a consequence, chaos in weather, rain, storms, tornadoes, and human emotions and affairs will rule the next 35 days. On the Earth itself, the Full Moon Syzygy at Perigee today and tomorrow has produced very little activity but a major surge is most probable in the next few days. Volcanic activity is waning but Iran, Japan, California, Pacific Northwest, and the Andean coasts of South America should be prepared for major quakes.

On the geopolitical front, the strange year continues to unfold. At the moment, economic and political conditions are in stalemate and any outcome, good or ill, is within the possible. Though time is against the American position in the world, all is currently in transition and none can see the outcomes. Though many expect major upheavals tending to violence during the next six months, conditions may turn more and more to peaceful change to set the stage for peaceful resolutions in the Middle East during 2005.

Program Thesis: What are we trying to do with the Earth Changes Bulletin?

Most news media do not handle technical and scientific subjects like geology and earth sciences very well. They don't understand the causes and effects of activities in the Sun and Earth. Accordingly, they often do not understand if, when, how, why to report earthquakes, volcanic activity, global warming effects The treatment often sounds absent-minded, poorly qualified, and frequently contains various technical errors. Seldom is the treatment entertaining and genuinely educational.

Based on new scientific principles which have emerged during the past thirty years, many of the dynamic activities of the Sun and Earth can be linked together to see how a range of effects are linked together. This makes it possible to paint "the big picture" into a perspective which explains many diverse events and processes, especially climate and weather patterns such as global warming and El Nino. From the "big picture", long range predictions can be made for weeks and even months ahead. The result is sophisticated cutting-edge information which is objective, balanced, astute, relevant, and can be easily seen and appreciated by lay audiences. The perspective is generally global, seldom parochial. For the framework of concepts, terms, and current conditions which are used or described in the these Bulletins, see the Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar.

To see the internet resources which are used to prepare this Update, take a look at the Earth Monitor front page

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmontor/

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SPIRITUAL WATCH

How to converge and express the spirit of mass transformation into manifestation, HOW to be, IS the question. How to do is the praxis of the time. Examining this question, probing it, is the chief trendline of this year.

As is now plain to see, the “Great Purification” has clearly commenced, pretty much right on the schedule suggested by the Q’ero, the Maya, and the Hopi. For additional discussion, see especially the commentary of May 19, 2004.

ALL IS IN TRANSISTION

FLOW WITH IT AS YOU LET GO OF OLD PATTERNS

THINGS ONLY SEEM BROKEN.

WORK DILIGENTLY AROUND THE DISRUPTIONS TO BRING USEFUL CONCLUSIONS.

THE NEW BASIS IS GESTATING….

And for God’s Sake, truly, use the sunspot highs of the next few days to connect your consciousness all the way to Arcturus. Once again your “wispy” sensitivities on the etheric level will become crispy and full-bodied, the difference between a light zinfandel and a rich, full-bodied 100 year very rare dark red wine.

Drink of the spirit as deeply and as fully as possible. THIS IS THE TIME TO TAKE TIME TO SMELL THE LAVENDERS AND ROSES.

Those who work with meditation energies will be greatly benefited, perhaps even more so than during the past few weeks, during the coming alignment of Venus with Earth. The peak for this energy should hit in a few days. Don’t wait to begin thinking about it.

AS PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED: This upcoming alignment is definitely the time to consider special personal alignment and celebration with the spiritual realities. Here is one idea: take your normal meditation practices and do something special to orient with the Earth Medicine Wheel alignments which North American shamans are trying to re-energize. Just avoid getting hung up on space and time. It is inner connection to the All Pervading All In All which is “the deal”. Time and space are irrelevant. But the Earth Medicine Wheel concept provides a “concept” of connection and unity with the world and Divinity which is beautifully outside the crazy worlds of crazy white man and crazy semitic religious warfare and heavy hands of doctrinal absolutism. The Buddhist and Hindu traditions have lovely variations of the Earth Medicine Wheel, so those within those lineages can easily join in with some understanding of the ideas.

It is time to link the spiritual communities of the Earth. The Whole Earth. IT HAS BECOME URGENT TO LINK THE SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES WITHIN A BROAD MOVEMENT WHICH PROVIDES NEW CURRENTS OF LEADERSHIP.

POLAR MOTION

What is happening to the motion of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of polar motion GO TO:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins
/statusreports.htm#polarmotion

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To see the current graph of polar motion, see

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm

Scroll down the page until you get to the black and white graphs with show the x and y coordinates of the North Spin Axis on two separate graphs.

After a strangely deviant "jog" in the Y dimension, Polar Motion on the X Wave is once again more or less appearing normal.

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED: Steady as she goes. A slow acceleration in the shifting of the poles has been underway for perhaps the past 100 years and the last three decades has shown an increase in the rate of acceleration. This has appeared to accelerate even more during the past decade.

MAGNETIC POLES – SHIFTING

What is happening to the magnetic fields of the Earth. For the overall summary of the status of the changes in the magnetic field GO TO:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#earthfield

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No real change during the past year: a magnetic pole shift is not something to be very concerned about within this decade at least.

PLANETS & ALIGNMENTS
(all time coordinates here and elsewhere are in UTC unless otherwise noted)

For background and the current information on planetary alignments GO TO:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#planets

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See Earth Changes 2003 Almanac Calendar for additional details

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/ebooks/calendar2003/

The Almanac lays out the planets and the lunar phases for entire year in advance to allow you to find the best and worst periods of weather, earthquake activity, ethereal “lunar” influences, etc.

We have one upcoming planetary alignment for the next few days:

The next alignment after Mercury | Uranus is on June 8. Venus catches up with the Earth and aligns with it just two weeks before the Summer solstice.

This alignment should begin to be felt as increased solar activity and indeed yesterday solar activity was already picking up quite briskly. This increase should continue through to the alignment date and may persist for a few days longer.

The Moon this day is almost FULL, South of the Equator (its South Node) 14 days past the New Moon approximately 363,900 KM from the Earth. It is 99% of the Full Moon (visibility). Take note: the Moon will be FULL in PERIGEE at 13:03 357248 km on June 3 UTC.

HEADS UP: WE ARE PROBABLY HEADED TOWARD A MAJOR INCREASE IN QUAKE ACTIVITY DURING THE NEXT FOUR DAYS.

The next New Moon is June 17 2004 at 20:38 UTC.

(Perigee = the Moon’s closest approach to the Earth during its monthly orbit which increases gravitational influence of the Moon by as much as 15%; Apogee = the Moon’s greatest distance from the Earth during its monthly orbit). (Berkland has a more complex formula for syzygy and his dates are often different.) For details see http://www.syzygyjob.com/

PLANET WATCHING

For background and the current information on observable planets and planetary alignments GO TO:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#planets

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NASA INVITES:

HOW TO WATCH THE VENUS TRANSIT
On Tuesday, June 8th, for the first time since 1882, Venus is going to pass directly between Earth and the Sun. For six hours, the planet's black silhouette will crawl across the face of our star. No one alive today has seen a transit of Venus, but you might be able to; follow the links below.

live webcasts: from Iran; from the Canary Islands; from the Netherlands; from Denmark;
When to look -- a table of transit events
James Cook and the Transit of Venus (Science@NASA)
Worldwide visibility map; North American visibility map
Venus transit animation by Frank Reddy (Astronomy.com)
Observing tips: projection techniques vs. solar filters

SUNSPOTS

The events in the solar atmosphere which impact weather and climate patterns, the magnetic field and auroras, including forecasts for the week, month, and year ahead. For background information, go to:

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm#sunspots

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To follow the numbers below, view the Solar Cycle 23 Chart at

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/topten_monitor.htm

Or, get the data in a table from

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.txt

SUNSPOT COUNT AT 74 ON June 2, 2004 AND SPIKING STRAIGHT UP.

After bobbing up to 128 on May 23 to produce the latest crop of tornadoes and thunderstorms, the sunspot count dropped to a low of 52 on May 28 and then began to rise June 1 to 74.

THE VENUS | EARTH ALIGNMENT SUNSPOT PEAK is forming up relatively late as the second planet from the Sun slowly overtakes the Earth. But not very late. The peak count will probably peak a couple of days early for the alignment, which is technically dead on a straight line on June 8.

WHEN THE PLANET ACTUALLY PASSES IN FRONT OF THE SUN TO CAST A SHADOW WHICH CAN BE SEEN FROM THE EARTH, ASTRONOMERS CALL THIS TYPE OF ALIGNMENT A TRANSIT. Most alignments do not technically line up so perfectly because the orbits of the planets usually vary in the degree of pitch up or down from each other’s orbital plane. Only once in a great long while do the pitches or angular degree of the orbital planes line up so perfectly that the inner planet “eclipses” the Sun as seen from the outer planet in the alignment.

The Solar Flux was still trending down as of yesterday and the Index number was 90. I predict that it probably will suddenly rise again TODAY OR TOMORROW to bring the sunspot count back into high numbers for the Venus | Earth alignment during June 6-10

The rise in both counts can and probably will appear at any moment.

SOLAR ACTIVITY

As reported by NASA/NOAA unless otherwise stated

The Solar Wind was definitely robust at 511.2 km/s this day but it was pushing a relatively mild density of 1.7 protons/cm3”.

I hope the recent C class flare and robust solar wind did not burn out the Fluxgate Chart at the University of Alaska (which measures magnetic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere created by solar winds and ion storms). It’s Iway graph data server was off line this hour on 2 June (about 1:30 PM Arizona time). Yesterday, however, the graph showed that the active rise in solar activity during the past 48 hours had produced some clear disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field (atmospheric) (as of this time, about 2 PM Mountain time US). To see the Fluxgate moment to moment, go to http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/plotstations.cgi?

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NASA PREDICTS: Earth is entering a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole on the Sun. Gusts buffeting our planet's magnetic field could cause a geomagnetic storm at high latitudes. Sky watchers in, e.g., Canada and northern US states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Washington should be alert for auroras, although tonight's full moon will make faint auroras difficult to see. Solar Flares: Probabilities for an M-class or X-class solar flare during the next 24/48 hours: about 1-5%, perhaps 5 to 45% probability for geomagnetic disturbances during the next 24/48 hours.

Jan Alvestad reports: “The geomagnetic field was unsettled to active on June 1. Solar wind speed ranged between 496 and 586 km/sec under the influence of a high speed stream from coronal hole CH98…At midnight there were 4 spotted regions on the visible disk. The solar flare activity level was very low. No C class events were recorded during the day. May 30-June 1: No fully or partly Earth directed CMEs observed. Coronal holes… A recurrent trans equatorial coronal hole (CH99) was in a geoeffective position on May 30-31.”

Jan Alvestad predicts: “The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to active on June 2-4 due to a high speed stream from coronal hole CH99.“ Alvestad also predicts for the next 24 hours, 60-100% probability of coronal holes, 0% probability of CME's, 0% probability of M and X Class Flares

MONTHLY AVERAGES IN SOLAR CYCLE 23: (These numbers are reported by Jan Alvestad) Over all, the sunspot average count (ISSN) for February 2004 was 46.0. March 2004 was even higher with the ISSN average count at 48.9 April’s count was radically lower at 39.3. The May 2004 average count of 41.5 was SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN in April. This was about 9% higher than predicted.

Solar Cycle 23 still packs quite a wallop.

WORLD WEATHER SUMMARY

Those who have been following the patterns have seen that the correlations between sunspot peaks and major storm fronts coming in off the oceans to track across the continents is roughly pretty good, sometimes very much exactly on the mark. Accordingly, our “sloppycasts” (approximate continental weather patterns) this past few years have proven out to be fairly worthwhile.

CONFIRMED - AS PREDICTED: it is apparent that we will now see that A LOT OF FREAK EXTREMES IN THE WEATHER WILL BLOW IN DURING THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.”

This past week and weekend are just the beginning. Activity of the past three days will diminish a bit and the extremes will seem to be drying up BUT DON’T LET THE PAUSE FOOL YOU:

AS PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED: the Venus | Earth alignment will keep the ball bouncing during the first half of June right up and through the Summer Solstice. The alignment of Venus | Earth on June 6-8 should make for a wet early Summer. This weather disturbance may get pretty intense. SORRY, BUT IT SHOULD BE GREAT FOR TORNADOS, AND MAYBE AN EARLY NEAR HURRICANE STRENGTH TROPICAL STORM OR TWO DURING JUNE.

Plan accordingly for practically anything.

PLAN ESPECIALLY FOR AROUND JUNE 10 – 14, ANOTHER RECORD BREAKING CROP OF TORNADOES AND THUNDERHEADS.

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS:

(Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on satellite and radar.

STAND PAT ON WHAT WAS PREDICTED LAST WEEK: the main determinant is the jet stream. It is highly unstable at this time and most likely will remain so for the next three weeks. It will be driven even more wildly by the coming surge of sunspots. This makes predicting air mass flows and storm front patterns totally impossible.

EXPECT ANYTHING.

EARTH WEATHER PREDICTION FOR SPRING SEASON:

(Northern Hemisphere) This “sloppycast” is based on sunspot counts, planetary alignments, and visual data shown on satellite and radar.

June 10-14 or so will see another major storm front roll in to greet the official opening of Summer on June 21.

SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS:

for background or more details see

http://michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/statusreports.htm/#weather

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Getting downright hot!!!. The weather has now normalized into close alignment with statistical averages. For all areas below 5000 feet, generally no moisture. Elevations at 7000 feet plus will see scattered rain during the next three weeks. Though likely to be rare, some of this rainfall may be extreme. AND sudden flash squalls and floods could break out anywhere..

EL NINO & LA NINA WATCH
watch is now open again; Pacific water activity appears mostly normal, we are between the extremes of the ENSO; but all Auguries point to next year for the next onset.

AS REPORTED LAST WEEK: A fairly large cool patch of ocean water has set up and consolidated along the Pacific Equator from the coast of Peru out some 35 degrees of Longitude. It is about half the size as last year’s cool patch at this time of the year.

NEW THIS WEEK OF JUNE 2. The patch of cool water appears to be in the throes of breaking up and it appears overall to have decreased in size and temperature deviation as of May 23, the latest date which is posted.

It would seem that no Nino or Nina is indicated as of the moment and conditions seem to be verging away from either condition.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: The year 2004 and/or 2005, in accordance with the 100 year X Wave Graph of the motion of the spin axis in Chandler’s Wobble, COULD BE EL NINO YEARS. Graphs of various El Nino periods seem to show that the beginning of temperature build-up can occur as late as April of an El Nino year. So 2005 may not be callable until early Spring 2005.

GLOBAL WARMING

It is becoming obvious that we have a long term real shift in the average temperatures and climate regions related to the latitudes. This climate shift is creating a growing environmental disaster in the polar zones and in the desert-prone latitudes such as in the Pacific Southwest.

KEEP WATCHING ESPECIALLY THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC. Those areas are the most objective front line observatories of the climate shift.

For the latest short review, see

Earth Changes Bulletin Update As Of May 26, 2004

EARTHQUAKES

Around the world to see the current and potential patterns of seismic activity, with coverage of the windows of danger. I prepared this section by pulling out the Earth Changes 2003 Calendar which has everything plotted on it. You should too. Check out the Almanac as well, it discusses all of the windows for the year and even spotlights the two most dangerous windows. Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 2.0 mag. and above. FOR MORE QUAKE INFO RELATED TO SYZYGY WINDOWS, Jim Berkland calculates syzygy windows with considerably more sophistication than I do. See http://syzygyjob.com

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTION OF THE WEEK OCCURRED with a 6.5 quake on the ocean floor near Japan to the East of Honsho Island and a 6.3 quake in Northern Iran which has been followed by several aftershocks in the range of 4.3 to 5.0. The quake near Japan apparently affected no one, but the quakes in Iran killed people and damaged villages.

Quake activity appears randomly distributed through the Mediterranean-Himalaya Belt, the West Pacific portion of the Ring of Fire, and around the Carib Tectonic Plate. At the moment, quake activity in both North America and South America is diminished below normal levels.

Over all quake activity remains diminished, far below typical perigee syzygy window levels. There were only seven quakes yesterday above 2.0 and only eight so far today as of this writing during mid-day. The largest daily total for quakes above mag 2.0 was 18 quakes on May 27. The daily average for the remainder of the last six days was down, in the range of 6-10 per day.

There were six shapeshifting quakes during the past seven days in the Great Rift which winds around the Earth across the bottom of the oceans. Four of the quakes were in the Mid-Atlantic close to the Equator, all of them to the Northeast of Brazil. Seven quakes which struck around the edges of the Carib Plate were apparently associated with this rifting in the Mid-Atlantic. The quakes outlined the Carib Plate quite nicely, revealing the tectonic dagger which probably is the tectonic force on which Atlantic sundered some 12,500 years ago.

{The quake activity in the Great Rift is one of the most important harbingers for the Earth Changes Watch to monitor. As the Earth’s crust adjusts its shape in response to gravitational and spin energy vectors, quakes in the Great Rift increase and tectonic activity all around the world increases}’’

The other two shapeshifting quakes struck along the margin of the Antarctic Tectonic Plate, one of them to the South of Africa and another one South of Australia.

Here below are brief descriptions of the six shapeshifters.

Magnitude 5.4 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

2004 June 02 20:47:56 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_jfbm.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 4.74N 32.54W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Reference 945 km (590 miles) N of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil

1140 km (710 miles) NE of Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

1905 km (1180 miles) ENE of Belem, Para, Brazil

2835 km (1760 miles) NE of BRASILIA, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Magnitude 4.8 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

2004 May 31 06:59:04 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_jdam.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 8.15N 38.81W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Reference 1260 km (790 miles) NNE of Parnaiba, Piaui, Brazil

1320 km (820 miles) NNE of Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

1515 km (940 miles) NE of Belem, Para, Brazil

2820 km (1760 miles) NNE of BRASILIA, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Plus there was another of the same size in virtually the same location.

Magnitude 5.5 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

2004 May 27 15:11:37 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_izay.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 14.16S 14.42W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Reference 685 km (425 miles) S of Ascension Island

2685 km (1660 miles) SW of ACCRA, Ghana

Magnitude 4.6 SOUTHWEST OF AFRICA

2004 May 30 00:26:31 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_jbbp.html

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 52.45S 18.15E

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region SOUTHWEST OF AFRICA

Reference 1005 km (630 miles) E of Bouvet Island

2055 km (1280 miles) S of Cape Town, South Africa

Magnitude 5.0 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND

2004 May 27 02:18:56 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_izad.htm

Location 56.78S 147.64E

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND

Reference 750 km (465 miles) WSW of Macquarie Island, Australia

2115 km (1320 miles) S of MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia

2400 km (1490 miles) S of CANBERRA, A.C.T., Australia

NORTH AMERICAN WATCH

Unless otherwise specified, all quake activity which is discussed is based on the USGS LOCAL AREA database charts and tables which list quake activity in excess of 1.0 mag. and above. Generally most of the quakes which appear in these counts are in the range of 1 to 2 in magnitude.

Seismic activity in North America for quakes in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 is down in frequency for the last seven days:

518 quakes in U.S./Alaska as a whole, down from 577 last week, widely scattered and diminished in magnitude.

397 in California and Nevada, down from 404 last week, widely scattered in all the usual places, including several widely scattered in Nevada and a continued tremulation of the crust which is focused in the Paso Robles area.

18 in the Pacific Northwest, down from 30 reported last week (two week period) – these were mostly scattered, two related to St. Helens, two related to Rainier, one related to Baker, one related to the volcanic zone near Darrington. The rest were mainly Cascadian quakes.

25 - in Utah, scatted throughout, down from last week

22 in the Mammoth Lakes, Long Valley Volcanic Field, same as last week, all small microtremors highly focused in one area.

YELLOWSTONE WATCH

8 in Yellowstone, down from 12 last week, widely scattered mostly tiny 1.0 or less microquakes around the huge Yellowstone National Park, so widely scattered and minute, they are hard to see on the locator maps. For Yellowstone activity, see

http://www.seis.utah.edu/recenteqs/Maps/111-45.html

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