Birthpangs???

[Caretaker]

www.youtube.com/user/fidockave213?ob=0&feature=results_video&v=G0JchP9G_qI&lr=1

[Keith]

Birthpangs? Absolutely! And there's more coming.

End Time Signs

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[Murph]

It is like watching the tide come in. Everytime a wave comes in it comes a little higher...

The events in the video don't look significant by themselves but when you put them all together...

Birth pangs...

[Keith]

Exactly!

[Murph]

Major Earth Changes Coming? Earthquakes Are Becoming Much
More Frequent And Much More Powerful

Are earthquakes becoming more frequent and more powerful?

With only two months to go, we are on pace to have more earthquakes of magnitude-5.0 or greater this year than we have had during any other year over the past decade by far. In fact, as you will see in this article, since the year 2000 there has been a very clear upward trend in the number of major earthquakes. So is this an indication that major earth changes are coming? Is our planet becoming increasingly unstable? We are currently witnessing tremendous political, social and financial upheaval all over the globe. Every week the economic crisis in the United States and elsewhere seems to get even worse. So what is going to happen if the shaking of the earth becomes even more intense and major cities all over the planet start getting leveled? For most of human history we have seriously underestimated the awesome destructive power of natural disasters, and the fact that the number of earthquakes around the world seems to be going up consistently should be a huge wake up call for all of us.

These days powerful earthquakes happen so frequently that most people hardly notice them anymore.

The other day Oklahoma experienced a magnitude-5.6 earthquake. It was the largest earthquake that has ever been recorded in the state. It was so powerful that it was felt in Illinois and in Tennessee. There were more than 30 aftershocks. But it barely made a blip in the news and after a couple days everyone had forgotten about it.

A magnitude-5.7 earthquake just struck eastern Turkey. The vast majority of people will have forgotten about it by tomorrow.

So why don't people care about these huge earthquakes?

Well, it is because they are just so incredibly common these days.

In 2001, there were 1361 earthquakes of magnitude-5.0 or greater around the globe. This year, we are on pace to have nearly twice as many.

In 2011, we are on pace to have more than 2600 earthquakes of magnitude-5.0 or greater.

As you can see from the following chart from americandailyherald.com, the number of major earthquakes has been rising steadily over the past decade, and the 2600 major earthquakes that we are on pace to have this year is going to far surpass all of the previous years on this chart....




So what do most geologists say about this data?

Well, most of them continue to make the "politically correct" claim that the number of earthquakes is not really increasing. Instead, they say that what is happening is that our ability to detect earthquakes has gotten better.

endoftheamericandream.com/archives/major-earth-changes-coming-earthquakes-are-becoming-much-more-frequent-and-much-more-powerful

[Murph]

Of course that is a bunch of nonsense. Our ability to detect major earthquakes has not doubled over the past ten years.

Let's take a look at another chart.



This next chart comes from dlindquist.com, and it is a graph of the number of earthquakes magnitude-6.0 or greater that have occurred since 1973. As you can see, the trend is clearly up....

If, as many geologists claim, the reason for the higher number of major earthquakes is our constantly improving ability to detect them, then why was the number of earthquakes magnitude-6.0 or greater fairly consistent between 1973 and 1999?

It has just been over the past ten years or so that major earthquakes have become much more frequent and much more powerful.

But it hasn't just been earthquakes that have been increasing in frequency and intensity.

There have been more natural disasters that have caused more than a billion dollars in damage this year than in any other year in U.S. history. The following short excerpt comes from a recent ABC News article....

From Hurricane Irene, which soaked the entire East Coast in August, to the Midwest tornadoes, which wrought havoc from Wisconsin to Texas, 2011 has seen more billion-dollar natural disasters than any year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

And as America’s hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and wildfires set records this year, so too has President Obama in his response to them.

During the first 10 months of this year President Obama declared 89 major disasters, more than the record 81 declarations that he made in all of 2010.

Barack Obama has already declared more major disasters in less than three years than any other president has ever declared over an entire four year term.

So just what in the world is going on?

Is something going on that we should be alarmed about?

Well, nobody knows exactly what is going on, but clearly there has been an increase in seismic activity all over the globe.

Over the past few years, the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean has become unusually active. We have seen absolutely devastating earthquakes hit places such as Chile and New Zealand. Earlier this year, Japan experienced the worst earthquake that it has ever seen and it produced a tsunami that was so devastating that it will never be forgotten.

The west coast of the United States also sits along the "Ring of Fire" and it is definitely overdue for a "killer earthquake".

But that is not the only part of the country that should be concerned.

It is entirely possible that a massive earthquake could strike at any time along the New Madrid fault zone that would absolutely devastate major U.S. cities from Chicago all the way down to New Orleans.

It has happened before.

Back in 1811 and 1812 four mammoth earthquakes along the New Madrid fault shook the entire eastern half of the country. These quakes opened up deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards and they caused church bells to ring as far away as Boston.

So what would such an earthquake do today?

Well, one study by the University of Illinois found that a 7.7-magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault would leave 3,500 people dead, more than 80,000 injured and more than 7 million homeless.

So what would happen if a magnitude-8.7 earthquake struck?

Remember, an 8.7-magnitude earthquake would be ten times larger than a 7.7-magnitude earthquake.

That is something to think about.

We live in very unusual times.

It seems like everything that can be shaken is being shaken.

Let us hope that the earth calms down for a while and that the number of major earthquakes begins to stabilize again.

But there is no guarantee that is going to happen.

In fact, many believe that this is only just the beginning.

Fasten your seatbelts, because the years ahead could be very, very interesting.

endoftheamericandream.com/archives/major-earth-changes-coming-earthquakes-are-becoming-much-more-frequent-and-much-more-powerful

[Murph]

Why Is The Heartland Of America Being Ripped To Shreds By Gigantic Tornadoes That Are Becoming More Frequent And More Powerful?

What in the world is going on in the heartland of America?

Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes. A lot of meteorologists claimed that the nightmarish tornado season of 2011 was an "anomaly", but 2012 is shaping up to be just as bad or even worse. These tornado outbreaks just seem to keep getting more frequent and more powerful. For example, several "supercell" tornadoes ripped across the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area on Tuesday. People all over America were absolutely horrified as they watched footage of these tornadoes toss around tractor trailers as if they were toy trucks.

Personally, I have never seen a tractor trailer tossed 100 feet into the sky before. This is not normal. CBS 11 meteorologist Larry Mowry told his viewers that one of these torandoes was "as serious of a tornado we've seen in years". So why is this happening? Why is the heartland of America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes that are becoming more frequent and more powerful?

Up to this point in 2012, at least 57 people have been killed by tornadoes across the country. Thousands more have been injured and countless homes have been reduced to splinters. In fact, there have been a couple of small towns that have been essentially wiped off the map by giant tornadoes.

What we are witnessing is not normal. Prior to the horrific tornadoes that we saw on Tuesday, there had been 326 tornadoes in the United States so far in 2012. That is about twice as many as usual for this time of the year.

Overall, the United States only sees about 1,200 tornadoes for the entire year usually. The busiest time of the year for tornadoes is still a way off, and we are on pace for a truly historic year.

But it is not just the number of tornadoes that is the problem. Many of these tornadoes are immensely powerful. The following is how the local CBS affiliate described the damage done by the recent tornadoes in Texas....

Multiple tornadoes threw tractor-trailers in the air, ripped the roof off an elementary school, leveled houses and shut down airline traffic out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as one of the worst storms in years hit North Texas Tuesday.

Baseball-sized hail punched holes through car roofs, and a Red Cross spokeswoman warned the breadth of the destruction may not be cleared until well into Wednesday. The mayors of Arlington and Lancaster declared a state of disaster following the storm strike.

There were even reports of massive "debris balls" in Dallas, Ellis, Johnson and Tarrant counties. These tornadoes picked up huge amounts of debris into the air that were just carried along by the storms. That must have been an absolutely horrifying sight to behold.

A lot of jaw-dropping footage from these tornadoes has already been posted on the Internet. For example, the following video shows tractor trailers being tossed about like rag dolls....



Have you ever seen anything like that before in your life?

I know that I haven't.

Look, one bad year can be dismissed as a coincidence.

But two historically bad years in a row?

Many would call that a trend.

Last year, America experienced one of the worst tornado seasons of all time. Many Americans will never, ever forget the devastation caused by the tornadoes of 2011.

For example, National Geographic reported that a gigantic F5 tornado that ripped through the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area had winds of up to 260 miles an hour. If you drive through Tuscaloosa today you can see that they are still trying to recover.

And Joplin, Missouri may never be the same again after what happened to that city last year. The gigantic tornado that ripped through Joplin was called by some the deadliest single tornado in more than 60 years.

That mammoth tornado ripped a path of destruction through Joplin that was more than a mile wide and more than 6 miles long. You can see some amazing before and after photographs of Joplin right here.

But people don't think about what happened to Joplin much anymore because there have been so many other horrific disasters since then.

Overall, 2011 was the worst year for natural disasters in U.S. history.

Many were hoping that there would be a return to normalcy in 2012.

Unfortunately, that simply is not happening.

In 2012, we have already seen one of the worst tornado outbreaks ever recorded in the month of March in all of American history. A couple of small towns in Indiana were virtually completely wiped out by that outbreak.

Sadly, what we have already seen in Indiana and Texas may just be the warm up act.

The truth is that usually May is the worst month for tornadoes in the United States.

So how bad are things going to get this year?

How many other communities across the nation are going to be absolutely ripped to shreds before tornado season is over this year?

In 2009, there were 1146 tornadoes in the United States.

In 2010, there were 1282 tornadoes in the United States.

In 2011, there were 1691 tornadoes in the United States.

In 2012, we are on pace to far exceed the total we saw in 2011.

theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/why-is-the-heartland-of-america-being-ripped-to-shreds-by-gigantic-tornadoes-that-are-becoming-more-frequent-and-more-powerful

[Murph]

"Strange sounds" reports sent to RDR

More "strange sound" reports are noted by RDR readers.

April 9, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY – While the frenzy of reports involving “strange sounds” appears to have subsided in recent weeks, our story “Oklahoma man reports ‘strange sounds’ and ‘sky trumpets’ near his home” generated a few comments from readers who had “strange sounds experiences of their own. Names have been changed due to the controversial nature of the subject.

The first reader we heard from was Stacy. After reading the aforementioned story, Stacy, living in northern Virginia, said the portion of our story about “Owen” near Owasso, Okla. hearing a sound that sounded like a “large bucket loader … scraping across concrete” and having a “tone quality to it” was “almost exactly” how she heard nearly identical sounds two nights in a row, sometime in the fall of 2011.

While about a 20-minute drive from metro Washington’s Dulles International Airport, Stacy said she was sitting out in her outside, covered, screened-in porch, at about 11 p.m., when she heard a sound that “sounded like a very large, unusually outsized road grader or machine with a very large blade or bucket scraping the road.”

There was no snow on the ground to be plowed, and while Interstate 66 was not far away, no road grading was going on, to her knowledge.

Millie, a media professional, wrote to Red Dirt Report with an experience that went back to October 2010 and occurred during a trip to the California side of Lake Tahoe. Living on the West Coast, Millie was with her husband, a science teacher, who needed to attend an evening science class in that area.

Wrote Millie in an email: “We were driving along Highway 89 through the mountainous pristine forest when we heard loud booms and then what sounded like a freight train going right along side our vehicle. However, there were no train tracks and there was no construction or anything or anyone in the area. As we drove and continued to hear the loud noise we rolled down the window and the sound seemed to surround us. I remember experiencing an eerie feeling or sensation almost like an out of body experience, but it wasn't.

Continuing, Millie wrote: “I would have to say the event lasted about eight-to-10 minutes. As soon as we arrived in Tahoe we no longer heard the sound but certainly talked about it all weekend with the other teachers who were also part of the science class. We were certainly a bit spooked about what happened and now that other similar reports are coming out, we are really wondering what on earth that noise was.”

Another reader, Jeremy, simply wrote us about his experience that took place in October 2011, while he was standing on his front porch.

“I heard what I thought to be a low-flying jet fixing to come over my house. So, I walked out on the lawn and watched as it got louder and it lasted about a minute or two and then it ended. So, I checked the weather to see if an storms (were) in the area and nothing showed.” Jeremy said he has been researching this sound, thinking he was the only one to hear it, only to find our recent Red Dirt Report article. Thank you, Jeremy, for contacting us.

Perusing news reports on the web, we see that while the strange booms being heard in Clintonville, Wisconsin have subsided while "loud banging sounds, earth-shaking tremors and ... flashes of light" are being heard 130 southwest of Clintonville in Baraboo, Wisconsin, according to Gather.com. Flashes of light now? It gets stranger and stranger.


www.reddirtreport.com/Story.aspx/21921