Oklahoma and a spike of earthquakes

Photo credit Jason Alexander, News Star

“Oklahoma typically had about 50 earthquakes a year until 2009. Then the number spiked, with 1,047 quakes shaking the state last year.”

— The Republic

“EARTHQUAKES IN THE STABLE CONTINENTAL REGION” — USGS

Magnitude 4.7 OKLAHOMA November 08, 2011
Magnitude 5.6 OKLAHOMA November 06, 2011
Magnitude 4.7 OKLAHOMA November 05, 2011

[edit] Local GS site with a PDF about the quakes Oklahoma Geological Survey  [/edit]

This struck me as odd so I mention it. I was looking at the aftershocks in Turkey, poor folks, bitter cold is decending from a high over Russia.

Bob Tisdale needs pastures new, can you help?

Bob has in the past posted on Tallbloke’s and seems liked so I am providing a link to his request, which might widen his audience slightly.

http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/looking-for-ideas/

Tim

[comments are off, talk to Bob over there]

Station change over time and GHCN V2

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The plot shows how the GHCN V2 station location has moved in time as a global average. Hadcrut3 is shown for illustrative purposes only (**).

I computed this some time ago and really needs someone else to carry out the same exercise in case I have made a significant mistake.

Dark 400 metre spherical asteroid passing inside lunar orbit

Radar image of optically black object 2005 YU55.

Image credit NASA/Cornell/Arecibo

“Arecibo radar observations of asteroid 2005 YU55 made in 2010 show it to be approximately spherical in shape. It is slowly spinning, with a rotation period of about 18 hours. The asteroid’s surface is darker than charcoal at optical wavelengths. Amateur astronomers who want to get a glimpse at YU55 will need a telescope with an aperture of 6 inches (15 centimeters) or larger.”

The mess that is GHCN datasets

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Figure 1 XY plots two substations for WMO station 48877 where a sane person would reasonably expect a close to straight line with little scatter, since these are supposed to be the same location with very minor differences.

I am deeply critical of professionally managed and published datasets, particularly the withholding of information and lower level data, which makes forensic impossible. There is a lot I am not saying.

X-rated solar region hoves into view

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Image Stereo

The sun continues bumbling along near solar maximum, my opinion.

Current news is a particular large sunspot region has rotated into view and is doing x-rated flares.

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Yesterday the above.

SOHO site

Not much to add, the sun is active.

I am taking this opportunity to fill you in on Tallbloke’s absence.

Lyubushin predicted the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and said so Montpellier Sept 2010

— Alexandrovich Lyubushin, Russian Academy of Sciences

Some people will say that is not specific enough and major quakes are frequent off Japan, a perfectly reasonable position, nevertheless Alex’s work has a great deal of merit in what is a difficult field. A human lifetime is short in relation to the time between these major events, there is little data.