• Iceland earthquake swarm, October 20 – 22, 2012

    Icelandic Met Office is reporting 451 earthquakes since Saturday, October 20, 2012.Earthquake count: Magnitude less than 1 in all:  14 Magnitude 1 to 2 in all:  190 Magnitude 2 to 3 in all:  191 Magnitude more than 3 in all:  56 Total: 451Earthquake

  • Space weather highlights: October 15 – 21, 2012

    Solar activity ranged from low to high levels in last 7 days. Activity was low during October 15 – 19 due to mostly low-level C-class flares. The largest flare of this interval was a C7 on October 17, 2012 at 08:02 UTC from Region 1596 (N07, L=150, class/area

  • M1.3 solar flare erupted from Region 1598

    A moderate solar flare peaking at M1.38 erupted from emerging Region 1598 on October 21, 2012. This latest M-class eruption started at 19:46, peaked at 20:03 and ended at 20:20 UTC. Region 1598 was the source of yesterdays strong M9 solar flare and is moving into more

  • Magnitude 6.6 earthquake near Vanuatu

    Strong earthquake M 6.6 hit Vanuatu on October 20, 2012 at 23:00:32 UTC. Epicenter was located  226 km (140 miles) NNW (345°) from Santo (Luganville) and 499 km (310 miles) NNW (338°) from PORT-VILA, Vanuatu (13.572°S, 166.594°E) at depth of 35.4 km (22.0

  • Riverbank collapse in India (Video)

    TheLandslideBlog brings an excellent video showing  riverbank collapse in India. The bank collapsed on the road that links Badarpur in Assam with Imphal in Manipur. Video is also showing how sometimes people act foolish and are not aware of

  • Strong solar flare reaching M9.0 took place at 18:14 UTC

    A strong solar flare reaching M9.0 took place at 18:14 UTC on October 20, 2012. Sunspot that produced it is rotating into view off the eastern limb. Associated was Type II Radio Emission. Estimated velocity was 516 km/s. Coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated but