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.

You may click here for the full text of the Earth Changes Bulletin Update for this week, or use this URL

http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/ecbulletins/2004/ecb_May_26_04.htm

On the geophysical front, solar activity is calm with no storms or magnetic disturbances even though sunspots were at 101 on May 25. Since the count was plunging, no doubt the count could bottom even below 50 in a day or two But in a few days they definitely will rise 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 New Moon Syzygy at Apogee last week produced very little in the way of Earthquakes during the past seven days, the strongest being only a 5.6 quake near Japan. As well, volcanic activity is slowly waning and most likely tectonic activity will not be a significant factor for the next 120 days.

On the geopolitical front, the strange year continues to unfold in ever more unbelievable and unpredictable patterns. At the moment, economic and political conditions are in stalemate and any outcome, good or ill, is within the possible. But in general terms, TIME runs against the continuation of the stalemate and the Americans. As blood flows, the heart wearies and outrage increases. As the economic imbalances mount up, debt crushes, and so the American Power slowly wanes as it futilely wrestles with the tar baby of its own creation in Iraq. Once again the economic bubble took direct hits. Inflation of basic commodities and food continued and the housing industry began a nation wide contraction. No signs seemed positive, they seemingly offered only the prospect of a big squeeze. . And so turns the human world.

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.

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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.

AS OBSERVED LAST WEEK:

The latest peak of 148 in the sunspot count two days ago sent meditative spiritual energies all the way to Arcturus. Wispy sensitivities on etheric levels became crispy and full-bodied, the difference between a light zinfandel and a rich, full-bodied 100 year very rare dark red wine.

Meditation with energies from the Neptune, Uranus, and Mercury planetary alignments has brought greater revelation and more inner freedom to those who work with these energies at all levels. Suddenly, chakras have begun to stay in an expanded state of energization for many hours on end, extending the normal result of meditation from an hour or two to all day and night.

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.

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.

The Earth Medicine Wheel has no baggage, only great opportunity for discovery of the interconnection of all things. It is also a great place to hang one’s “hat” during the Great Purification which is now underway at all levels It is a way of stepping out of the failed world and into a survivor world of basic truths.

God, or the Great Spirit, that is to say, the appeal to consciousness of higher purpose and meaning, is inevitable. That is the only ground there is on which we can come together and make our stand. This is the fundamental equation. The secular equations of professorial econometrix and bureaucratic absolution lead nowhere.

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.

Polar Motion on the X Wave is appearing STRANGELY DEVIENT, showing what may be a fairly unusual "jog" in the Y dimension.

I get this “jog” image (very small) from the X Wave plots from the IERS Paris Bureau, but I am unable to load the latest measurement files to see what the motion looks like in Wobble Tracker. This happens occasionally and it probably just means that the IERS database is being updated today.

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:

May 28: Mercury | Uranus

It would appear that the sunspot peak for this alignment is already past as of about three days ago at 128.

The next alignment after Mercury | Uranus is on June 7. 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 during about the last week of May and the sunspot peak for it should be broad and early, perhaps as much as 10 days early.

The Moon this day is North of the Equator (its North Node) 6 days past the New Moon approximately 391,350 KM from the Earth. It is 45% of the next Full Moon (visibility). The Moon just passed Apogee on May 21 at 406261 KM from the Earth. The next New Moon is June 17 2004 at 20:38 UTC.

HEADS UP: WE ARE PROBABLY HEADED TOWARD A MAJOR INCREASE IN QUAKE ACTIVITY ON OR ABOUT TWO DAYS EITHER SIDE OF JUNE 3. The Moon is now waxing to the next Full Moon of June 3 at 04:30 UTC. Take note: the Moon will be FULL in PERIGEE at 13:03 357248 km

(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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TONIGHT IS THE LAST NIGHT PROBABLY TO SEE THE VENUS CRESCENT for a few weeks. It will reappear when the Earth has moved far enough past it to let it be seen in the early morning just before sunrise. Venus is now loosing brightness as it slims down into a disappearing crescent whilst approaching a station precisely between the Sun and the Earth for its transit alignment of June 8 2004. It can still be seen in small amateur telescopes as a thin silvery crescent.

NASA INVITES: SEE THE “CELESTIAL TRIANGLE: Step outside tonight after sunset and look up. You'll see a beautiful triangle formed by Jupiter, the Moon and the first-magnitude star Regulus. If you have a telescope, point it at Jupiter; even a small 'scope will reveal the planet's cloud belts and four largest moons.

http://www.spaceweather.com/
images2004/26may04/skymap_north.gif

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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 101 ON MAY 25, 2004 AND SINKING.

After bobbing up and down between 78 and 128 during the past seven days, the sunspot count began to slide on May 23 and declined to about 101 on May 25, apparently headed steeply down to low numbers.

Most likely the peak in the count for the Mercury | Uranus alignment is over.

BUT, the Solar Flux is still above 100 and probably will suddenly rise again during the next few days 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 robust at 433.6 km/s this hour (about 10:00 UTC) and it was pushing a mild density of 1.5 protons/cm3”.

The Fluxgate Chart at the University of Alaska (which measures magnetic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere created by solar winds and ion storms) recorded mostly a flat line for most of the past 48 hours. If one would "see" the cosmic ocean as one can see the oceans of earth, you would see a "glass" like reflecting pond with no disturbances (ripples and waves on the surface) to scatter the light.

(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: Not much. Solar Flares:

Probabilities for an M-class or X-class solar flare during the next 24/48 hours: about 10-50%, perhaps 5 to 20% probability for geomagnetic disturbances during the next 24/48 hours.

Jan Alvestad reports: “The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled on May 25. Solar wind speed ranged between 414 and 552 km/sec under the influence of a high speed stream from coronal hole CH97. This stream ended at about 18h UTC. At midnight there were 5 spotted regions on the visible disk. The solar flare activity level was very low. No C class events were recorded during the day. May 23-25: No fully or partly Earth directed CME observed.”

Jan Alvestad predicts: “An elongated coronal hole (CH98) in the northern hemisphere will likely be in a geoeffective position on May 25-29. The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled on May 26-27 and quiet to active on May 28-June 1 due to effects from coronal hole CH98.” Alvestad also predicts for the next 24 hours, 20-60% 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.

May’s average count will be similar to April’s

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.

WELL, THE MAY FORECASTS, MADE DURING THE EARLY MONTHS OF THIS YEAR WERE CERTAINLY WRONG, BUT LAST WEEK’S BELATED CORRECTION CERTAINLY HAD IT RIGHT:

“rather than small numbers for solar activity and mild weather on Earth, 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.”

Current floods and tornadoes 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.

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.

THE MAIN DETERMINENT 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 WIDLY BY THE COMING SURGE OF SUNSPOTS. THIS MAKES PREDICTING AIR MASS FLOWS AND STORM FRONT PATTERNS TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

EXPECT ANYTHING.

AS PREDICTED LAST WEEK: For this next week, chaos and unpredictable patterns will rule. The Jet Stream over North America is sliding around with sharp dips like a drunken sailor. Nothing indicates a normalization in the pattern now for the next seven days. Radar maps show lots of action over North America with enough wet marine air coming in off the coasts to drive a lot of storm fronts.

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 7 or so will see another major storm front roll in to greet the official opening of Summer on June 21. See above.

SOUTHWEST CONDITIONS:

for background or more details see

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

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The nights remain cool but the days are now warm. After the next week, weather will now normalize 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, some of this rainfall may be extreme. AND, expect sudden flash squalls and floods practically 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, THIS CONTINUES: 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. It has increased in size and temperature deviation up through to May 16, the latest date which is posted. It would seem that no Nino or Nina is indicated as of the moment, but this sudden cooling of the Equatorial belt bears watching carefully. It could build towards a surprise La Nina, but that is not very probable.

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

THIS IS A BEEG, FAT, DISTURBING REALITY.

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.

WE HAVE A PROBLEM.

QUITE BEYOND SOLAR SUNSPOT CYCLES.

There is no doubt that the long, high output of Solar Cycle 23 and its huge spikes of solar activity have probably added something to the most recent global warming phenomenon.

I originally attributed much of the drought of the past several years to the sunspot peak of Solar Cycle 23. I thought, okay, wait until Sunspot Peak 23 is clearly over, let things settle down, and watch for the climb in global warming stats to decline a bit. The drought should disappear, the arctic return to normal, and people will look with renewed interest in how the Sun really is the prime mover of everything in the solar system.

But Solar Cycle 23 is just insufficient to explain what is going on. We are past the peak of Solar Cycle 23, all solar activity this year is well below the level of activity in Winter and Spring of 2003, yet climate change in the Arctic is still accelerating. Recently, credible sources have revealed that the artic is right now melting at a more rapid rate than it ever did during high summer. A major shift in the Arctic eco-system happening before our eyes. Everything in the North will be displaced if this continues during the next few years. This includes the Alaska oil production, which is completely dependent upon the frozen permafrost on which the buildings and pipeline were built. If that starts to melt, the buildings will sink, the pipeline will break, and the Alaska oil production will have to shut down.

Closer to home, the drought patterns in areas of the Pacific Southwest are still too evident. The air is way too dry. Though we had more rain in the Sonoran plain this winter, it was not enough, allowing us to see that there is still a problem and that perhaps we too are caught up in this forced planetary climate shift.

Meanwhile, the preceding years have killed off so many 400 plus year old Ponderosa pines along the Mogollon Rim in Arizona and New Mexico that it is very clear in the forests that this is far beyond the scope of damage which comes from an 11 year solar cycle. Trees that were growing before crazy white men pirates came to this continent have died in massive numbers during the past two years. Their death has left so much fuel for massive fires that THE PROBLEM is headline news in Arizona. Currently this dry tinder is fueling the outbreak of many forest fires which are at least a month “early”. It is entirely possible that we will see 1 million plus acres burn this year, even as spectacularly as the fires two years ago.

What is the problem is the $10 million question. I am glad that the environmentalists are so ardent in their desire to save the Earth. But I believe that their focus on greenhouse gases is largely displaced. It is good to get rid of all forms of chemical pollution, but I doubt that the minor shift in CO2 is causing much of the problem. THERE APPEARS TO BE FAR TOO RAPID AN ACCELERATION IN THE SHIFT FOR IT TO BE CAUSED BY A RELATIVELY MINOR ANNUAL INCREASE IN CO2. THERE MUST BE OTHER CAUSES.

This leaves us with the Sun and the fires within the Earth. Is the Sun's overall output on an upward trend or we are just now seeing it more noticeably? Or is increased heat flow from the Earth’s Great Rifts warming the oceans enough to cause the temperature shifts in the climate? Or are both of these factors involved?

These questions are very serious hypotheses and neither the geophysicists nor the astrophysicists should pooh pooh the other. It is at the moment going to be tough to answer these questions perfectly objectively. We are data poor and have insufficient ability to watch the process. What we need to do is explore both of these ideas as aggressively as science knows how.

Frankly, I believe that NASA will get more bang for the science buck by investing big time in researching these than we will get in sending robots or people to Mars.

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

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 5.6 quake in the Eastern Sea of Japan (which is not very big nor very rare for that zone) and with two quakes, mag. 4.8 and 5.4, in the Great Rift at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean below the southern tip of Africa along the margin of the Antarctic Tectonic Plate.

Quake activity appears randomly distributed, roughly one third to the Mediterranean-Himalaya Belt, one third to the West Pacific portion of the Ring of Fire, and one third to the western coasts of the Americas, from Chile to Alaska.

Most major activity was generally diminished in frequency and widely scattered. The largest daily total for quakes above mag 2.0 was 27 quakes on May 20, the day after the New Moon, but this syzygy increase lasted only one day. The daily average for the remainder of the last six days was down, in the range of 6-10 per day.

Six shapeshifter quakes during the week continued “shapeshifting” the Earth by striking in the Great Rift which winds around the Earth at the bottoms of the oceans.

{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}’’

Three shapeshifters occurred along the margin of the Antarctic Tectonic Plate, two of them to the south of Africa and another one near between the East Pacific Rise and the southern tip of Latin America.

Another shapeshifter occurred in the junction of the East Pacific Rise and the tectonic margin between the South American and Carib Tectonic Plates.

The remaining two shapeshifter quakes occurred in the northern Mid Atlantic Ridge, one close to Iceland. This activity in the Mid Atlantic Ridge continued the activity of the previous couple of weeks in the Northern Atlantic.

Here below are brief descriptions of the six shapeshifters.

Magnitude 5.5 SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

2004 May 22 20:13:59 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 35.96S 101.88W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region SOUTHEAST OF EASTER ISLAND

Reference 1215 km (750 miles) SE of Hanga Roa, Easter Island

2865 km (1780 miles) WSW of SANTIAGO, Chile

Magnitude 4.5 WEST OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

2004 May 23 10:49:17 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 2.41N 99.21W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region WEST OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

Reference 990 km (610 miles) WNW of Villamil, Isabela, Galapagos

1410 km (880 miles) SE of Clipperton Island

1875 km (1170 miles) S of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico

2325 km (1440 miles) W of QUITO, Ecuador

Magnitude 4.8 AZORES ISLANDS REGION

2004 May 20 08:45:14 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 35.60N 34.27W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region AZORES ISLANDS REGION

Reference 510 km (320 miles) SW of Santa Cruz das Flores, Azores, Portugal

600 km (370 miles) WSW of Horta, Azores, Portugal

800 km (495 miles) WSW of Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal

2250 km (1400 miles) W of LISBON, Portugal

Magnitude 4.4 REYKJANES RIDGE

2004 May 23 22:06:29 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

Location 53.53N 35.30W

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region REYKJANES RIDGE

Reference 1035 km (640 miles) SE of Qaqortoq (Julianehab), Greenland

1095 km (680 miles) E of Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

1395 km (870 miles) NE of SAINT JOHN'S, Nfld. and Labrador, Canada

1515 km (940 miles) SE of NUUK (GODTHAB), Greenland

Magnitude 4.8 SOUTHWEST OF AFRICA

2004 May 26 11:21:00 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

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

U.S. Geological Survey,