12/10/2011 Total Lunar Eclipse ~ post-eclipse reverberations

Eclipse Effects: Reading Gaia’s Body Language

The four largest earthquakes within 24 hours of the Eclipse

Three large earthquakes last 12 hours — Japan, Mexico, Sandwich Islands

Posted on December 11, 2011

(Additional graphics added by Astronomologer)

Info source: ＤＵＴＣＨＳＩＮＳＥ = ＳＩＮＣＥＤＵＴＣＨ at http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/

6.2 magnitude – South Sandwich Islands (south pole atlantic)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000756n.php

6.5 magnitude – South Central Mexico

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000753u.php

5.8 magnitude – South Japan

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc000753q.php

Astronomologer’s comments & notes

Here is a table of Earthquakes over 5.0 magnitude listed for the dates December 10 and December 11, 2011 as reported by USGS. As you can see from the table, there are very few events listed on it.

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I would be happier if all 3 Quakes were over 6.0 magnitude, but they’re not. It’s just the three strongest quakes for the day as picked out by the person who originally published the information I found on my Facebook Wall that someone had shared. We’ll figure out what this short data set means. It’s my habit to interpret what I find as it is. Sometimes it makes a good story. Sometimes it doesn’t. In this case it did. I like it when my job is fun. It’s boring to be too serious all the time, don’t you think?

Downward pointing triangle

On the illustration kindly provided by our first information source at http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/ we can see (from the Northern Hemispheric perspective) a downward-pointing triangle with the base vertices on either side of the Northern Pacific Ocean and the apex in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. If we were playing Baseball, this would be a Home Run, but we’re not and it isn’t. In Baseball there are three bases and a Home Plate. Hold that thought, though, and read on!

1. The Japan Quake was first in the sequence. Its Epicenter is in the Northern latitudes and Eastern longitude.We think of Japan as being in the Pacific Ocean but the Japanese Islands are on the ocean ridge of a submerged continent plate that separates the Eastern China Sea from the Philippine Sea. Asia and Europe are on the same land mass.
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   On the Pacific Ocean side of the western ridge that defines the Philippine Sea is the Northern Mariana Islands chain. That was the place on the planet where the Sun was at Zenith at the moment of Greatest Eclipse.
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   So now I see why this quake bears a slightly lower magnitude to distinguish it. We’ll figure out more about what that means eventually.
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   The Epicenter was in the water off the coast of Japan. If you’re in Google Earth and you zoom out you can see the outlines of the plates where our homes on Lemuria, Pan and Mu once stood tall and above ground. Oh well. Maybe that’s how the Earth cleanses itself when Humanity’s trash builds up and she needs a bath.
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2. Next was Guerrero, Mexico, southwest of Mexico City on the North American Continent. The latitude is Northern and the longitude Western. The Epicenter was on land somewhere in the Sierra Madre Del Sur Mountains. To use the term “mountains” after the name is redundant. “Sierra Madre Del Sur” literally means the Mother Mountains of the South.
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   f you have Google Earth check it out. The Epicenter is located at the corner of a patch of bare ground that looks like a quadrangle-shaped landing pad or something. It’s got a dirt road leading down from it. The rest of the area looks lush and green from overhead in Google Earth with other bare spots here and there. It almost looks like a golf course with sand traps and water hazards. There is a beautiful water formation nearby, a winding river feeds a sprawling waterway that appears to have been created by a dam.
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   So God isn’t the only golfer. Gaia plays golf too. I get it. So her first shot from the tee on Marianas Islands didn’t make it to Japan — it landed in the water. The second shot didn’t make it to Mexico City, it landed in a Sand Trap. Where did the the third shot go?
   

3. Hole in One!

   
   The Epicenter of the Quake at South Sandwich Islands region near Antarctica found its mark when it landed on the Protector Shoal at the northern tip of the Southern Sandwich Islands just north of Candlemas Island.

   The Sandwich Islands are situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, Southern latitudes, West longitude.

   Besides proving Gaia to be an excellent golfer, it starts to sound as if Earth Mother is playing Travel Guide as well as she has led us to explore a few of her features that are of peculiar interest.

The order of the Earthquake sequence is worth noting.

• Beginning in the North East quadrant with the Ryukyu, Japan Quake thence moving eastward to
• North West quadrant with the Guerrero, Mexico Quake, thence moving eastward and southward to
• South West quadrant with the South Sandwich Islands Quake.
• Do we have a South East quadrant quake that comes close to crossing the planet? Yes, we do.
• South of the Fiji Islands, a 5.4. Adding this quake to the set of three we find all four of these Quakes are sequential, at least on this USGS list. It’s the only listing I consulted. Not all lists report all the same data.

December 12-13, 2011

For my fellow obsessive-compulsive data explorers out there …

The next puzzle piece to be fitted in followed on the heels of my longtime Ophiuchus friend Eric asking me if I knew what the midpoint of the three Earthquakes was. And he found a free tool online for determining the midpoint between two or more locations and he provided the information to me. Thank you, Eric.

Good luck with this map. Obviously I’ve been adding to it over a long period of time.

The midpoint is 4.884452 South and 113.789188 West.

That Midpoint is in the Libra-Serpens-Ophiuchus zone as the stars align with the planet below (align zero hours R.A. with the GMT meridian (zero hours longitude) and that is the starting point). From the map above we can’t really tell where the Midpoint would fall exactly. Fortunately I wrote a computer program (yes!) to convert sky coordinates to earth coordinates and vice-versa.

Why haven’t I written an Astronomology program? That kind of job would be WAY over my head. But I’m always on the lookout for somebody who is interested in co-developing such a program. If you run across any starving artist out of work computer programmers, let me know.

The radius of a circle drawn from that Midpoint reaching to the 43Sgr portal barely in the water off the coast of Northern Chile near Arica finds Sedona inside the circle.

The distance from the Midpoint to Sedona is a little shorter than the distance to the 43Sgr portal but it’s close enough to call it a purposeful placement of the Epicenter. No doubt the difference has some other purpose – like what it misses in reaching all the way to Sedona so that Sedona and the 43Sgr portal both rest on the circumference – it makes up for in another way. It misses by 200 miles.

In the context of the kind of distances we’re talking about (the 3 quakes spanning oceans and continents) and considering the ground equivalent positions of fixed stars that can’t be ascertained given light refraction and data discrepancies anyway … 200 miles is nothing.

• The longitude of the midpoint is almost 113.7
• The longitude of the groundpoint for Alpha Scorpius is 112.5
• The longitude of Sedona is 111.7

So we’re talking about a margin of 2 degrees of longitude between the 3 locations which approximates the relative margin of error – the 200 miles that keeps the radius shy of being equidistant to both Sedona and the ground (or water) position of 43Sgr (and therefore keeps those two places from both lying along the same arc.

Meanwhile, the Midpoint as we can see is clearly in the Libra-Scorpius-Ophiuchus sector of the planet.

The Ecliptic and Equatorial coordinates that are equivalent to the Geocentric coordinates are as follows:

• Declination ’4°53’4.2″ | Right Ascension 16h 24m 50.76s
• Ecliptic Latitude +16.5298° | Longitude 245.2145°

Compare to the Ecliptic and Equatorial longitudes for Mercury Rx at the approximate mid-point time between the 3 Earthquakes. This is pretty impressive but no surprise. I get results like this all the time using these methods for reading the communications of Earth Mother and Sky Father.

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Ephemeris / WWW_USER Wed Dec 14 18:24:44 2011 Pasadena, USA      / Horizons
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Target body name: Mercury (199)                   {source: DE405}
Center body name: Earth (399)                     {source: DE405}
Center-site name: GEOCENTRIC
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Start time      : A.D. 2011-Dec-10 04:16:00.0000 UT
Stop  time      : A.D. 2011-Dec-12 04:16:00.0000 UT
Step-size       : 1440 minutes
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 Date__(UT)__HR:MN     R.A.__(a-apparent)__DEC Cnst    ObsEcLon    ObsEcLat
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$$SOE
 2011-Dec-10 04:16     16 15 08.57 -18 36 41.2  Sco 245.2247133   2.5993441
 2011-Dec-11 04:16     16 12 38.77 -18 23 49.3  Sco 244.6034683   2.7050819
 2011-Dec-12 04:16     16 10 54.59 -18 14 57.3  Sco 244.1709454   2.7757945
$$EOE
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The ‘rules’ for interpreting results are pretty generous. Since the Eclipse we’re presuming spawned this set of Earthquakes in response occurred on December the 10th, we can use the position of Mercury on that date if we need to feel more secure about a good tight data coincidence. But that’s only if  we’re being really anal (raise your hand if you’re anything like me and you’re always searching for the total Bull’seye).