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Newswise – Individuals may soon have an inexpensive way to learn ofvolcanic and earthquake activity from their home orbusiness. Randall Peters, professor and chairman of theDepartment of Physics atMercer University, andJames Shirley, a scientist at NASA?s Jet PropulsionLaboratory, have designed a sophisticated but inexpensiveplumb bob devicethat records seismic waves and could be used by individualsas a method of early warning. The experimentalinstrument, located in Macon, Ga., recorded theseismic waves from the December Indian Ocean earthquake thatled to the devastating tsunami.
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On January 21, 2004, Unknowncountry.com published a storyabout a strange object that appeared near the sun in animage taken by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.The object was dismissed by NASA first as a system artifact,then as a star or space debris.

Now, almost exactly a year later, another such object hasappeared in a new SOHO image. This one has somewhat more ofthe appearance of a system artifact, but it is also the onlyone we have observed since last January that is notobviously a star, an artifact, or some other naturaloccurrence. NASA scientists feel strongly that it is asystem artifact. If it is not, and is in the plane of thesun, it would be improbably gigantic.
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Brazil has so few tornadoes that it doesn’t even have theequipment to forecast them, but the town of Crici

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UPDATE: 01/07/05: The Pinapple Express is slamming intoCalifornia, but fortunately it’s 24 hours too late to set upthe conditions necessary for a three-front faceoff over thecentral US. Thus the rare event that appeared to pose aserious weather hazard in that area will now either nothappen or be delayed until next week.

If it does happen, this rare event is likely to unfold overthe central UnitedStates during the middle of next week. It will bring severestorms involvingsnow, ice, rain and possible rare midwinter tornadoes. 2004was a record year for tornadoes in the US, and in 2005California has already seen tornadoes and waterspouts,previously extremely rare in the far west.
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