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"content": "\u003cp>A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan's devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake's epicenter immediately before it struck. The finding is the latest in more than a decade of research looking into the possibility that stresses in the Earth's crust before a major quake may be connected to pronounced changes in the atmosphere from the surface to its uppermost layers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spoiler alert:\u003c/strong> This does not mean scientists have found a way to predict earthquakes. Yet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1105/1105.2841.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary (non-peer-reviewed) paper \u003c/a>released this week in Vienna, the team working in Southern California, Maryland, and several Russian institutions said that a rise in atmospheric temperatures was recorded over the epicenter of the Tohoku earthquake, just off the northeast coast of the island of Honshu, in the days immediately before the 9.0 shake occurred on March 11. The quake and subsequent tsunami killed 24,000 people in Japan and caused damage in much of the Pacific basin. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are led by \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapman.edu/SCS/EES/faculty/ouzonov.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Dimitar Ouzounov\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of earth sciences at Southern California's Chapman University who also works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Ouzounov has collaborated with others on several other papers that have documented anomalies in atmospheric conditions near quake epicenters. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendeley.com/research/achtergronden-van-ontwikkeling-van-het-lager-onderwijs-en-van-schoolstrijd-nederland-18621905-een-poging-tot-sociaalhistorische-analyse-vrijheid-van-onderwijs-marges-het-onderwijs-maatschappelijk-perspectief-l-box-j-dronkers/\" target=\"_blank\">One paper documents \u003c/a>rising atmospheric temperatures before two California quakes in September 2004: a 6.0 quake near \u003ca href=\"http://www.parkfield.com/parkfield/\" target=\"_blank\">Parkfield\u003c/a>, on the San Andreas Fault northeast of Paso Robles, and a 5.5 tremor in \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509\" target=\"_blank\">Bodie\u003c/a>, north of Mono Lake. Ouzounov \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0518/Japan-earthquake-Big-shallow-quakes-have-a-warning-signal-say-researchers\" target=\"_blank\">told the Christian Science Monitor \u003c/a> that he and his colleagues \"have crunched data for more than 100 quakes in Asia and Taiwan ... and have found similar correlations for earthquakes with magnitudes bigger than 5.5 and depths less than 31 miles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly did the team find when they looked at the atmospheric data from the Tohoku earthquake region? In layperson's shorthand, air temperatures above the monster quake's epicenter area rose and the upper atmosphere went nuts with loose subatomic particles and escaping heat. That is, something caused temperatures to rise in the lower atmosphere; in the \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ionosphere\" target=\"_blank\">ionosphere\u003c/a>, much higher up, an unusually high level of \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/electron\" target=\"_blank\">electrons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgoing_longwave_radiation\" target=\"_blank\">outgoing long-wave radiation\u003c/a> were detected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean? Ouzounov et al. have seen this often enough to believe it could signal that seismic and tectonic processes--along faults that are about to rupture or at the boundaries of plates that are about to shift--have a direct linkage to these atmospheric changes. From Ouzounov's paper (citations omitted): \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nOne of the possible explanations for this relationship is the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism, which provides the physical links between the different geochemical, atmospheric and ionospheric variations and tectonic activity. Briefly, the primary process is the ionization of the air produced by an increased emanation of radon (and other gases) from the Earth’s crust in the vicinity of [an] active fault. The increased radon emanation launches the chain of physical processes,which leads to changes in the conductivity of the air and a latent heat release (increasing air temperature) due to water molecules attachment (condensation) to ions.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Got that? If not, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26773/?p1=Blogs\" target=\"_bllank\">a translation\u003c/a> from the arXiv blog at MIT's Technology Review: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake, the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radioactivity from this gas ionises the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects. Since water molecules are attracted to ions in the air, ionisation triggers the large scale condensation of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process of condensation also releases heat and it is this that causes infrared emissions. \"Our first results show that on March 8th a rapid increase of emitted infrared radiation was observed from the satellite data,\" say Ouzounov and co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These emissions go on to effect the ionosphere and its total electron content.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not everyone buys that explanation of the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere mechanism. Here's an alternative theory\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/scientists-may-have-found-quake-warning-signal-10363\" target=\"_blank\"> as reported today in California Watch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friedmann Freund, another NASA scientist and a researcher at San Jose State University, says the observed atmospheric changes have nothing to do with radon and other gases escaping from the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no evidence that links radon emanation closely with seismic or pre-seismic events,\" he said. \"There is another much more powerful, much more general and observationally supported process which causes massive air ionization, when stresses build up deep below earthquakes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the electromagnetic changes are caused by extreme pressure on the rocks themselves. His theory is simple: If you squeeze a block of granite rock hard enough, it’ll become electrically active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Freund and others set up a laboratory experiment in which they squeezed a rock really hard, while detecting the emissions around it. As soon as pressure was applied to the rock, the electrical field around it changed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To get back to that spoiler at the top: The new Tohoku findings will naturally prompt excitement over the idea that scientists have found an atmospheric signal of some impending major earthquakes and thus a way to forecast them. That idea has been thrown around in research papers since the late '90s at least. But the Christian Science Monitor quotes Ouzounov as saying that earthquake prediction based on his colleagues' findings is \"far away.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Paper:\u003c/strong> \"\u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.2841v1\" target=\"_blank\">Atmosphere-Ionosphere Response to the M9 Tohoku Earthquake Revealed by Joined Satellite and Ground Observations\u003c/a>,\" Ouzounov et al. (PDF)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Paper: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mendeley.com/research/achtergronden-van-ontwikkeling-van-het-lager-onderwijs-en-van-schoolstrijd-nederland-18621905-een-poging-tot-sociaalhistorische-analyse-vrijheid-van-onderwijs-marges-het-onderwijs-maatschappelijk-perspectief-l-box-j-dronkers/\" target=\"_blank\">Satellite IR Thermal Measurements Prior to the September 2004 Earthquakes in Central California\u003c/a>, Ouzounov et al. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan's devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake's epicenter immediately before it struck. The finding is the latest in more than a decade of research looking into the possibility that stresses in the Earth's crust before a major quake may be connected to pronounced changes in the atmosphere from the surface to its uppermost layers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spoiler alert:\u003c/strong> This does not mean scientists have found a way to predict earthquakes. Yet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1105/1105.2841.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary (non-peer-reviewed) paper \u003c/a>released this week in Vienna, the team working in Southern California, Maryland, and several Russian institutions said that a rise in atmospheric temperatures was recorded over the epicenter of the Tohoku earthquake, just off the northeast coast of the island of Honshu, in the days immediately before the 9.0 shake occurred on March 11. The quake and subsequent tsunami killed 24,000 people in Japan and caused damage in much of the Pacific basin. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are led by \u003ca href=\"http://www.chapman.edu/SCS/EES/faculty/ouzonov.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Dimitar Ouzounov\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of earth sciences at Southern California's Chapman University who also works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Ouzounov has collaborated with others on several other papers that have documented anomalies in atmospheric conditions near quake epicenters. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendeley.com/research/achtergronden-van-ontwikkeling-van-het-lager-onderwijs-en-van-schoolstrijd-nederland-18621905-een-poging-tot-sociaalhistorische-analyse-vrijheid-van-onderwijs-marges-het-onderwijs-maatschappelijk-perspectief-l-box-j-dronkers/\" target=\"_blank\">One paper documents \u003c/a>rising atmospheric temperatures before two California quakes in September 2004: a 6.0 quake near \u003ca href=\"http://www.parkfield.com/parkfield/\" target=\"_blank\">Parkfield\u003c/a>, on the San Andreas Fault northeast of Paso Robles, and a 5.5 tremor in \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509\" target=\"_blank\">Bodie\u003c/a>, north of Mono Lake. Ouzounov \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0518/Japan-earthquake-Big-shallow-quakes-have-a-warning-signal-say-researchers\" target=\"_blank\">told the Christian Science Monitor \u003c/a> that he and his colleagues \"have crunched data for more than 100 quakes in Asia and Taiwan ... and have found similar correlations for earthquakes with magnitudes bigger than 5.5 and depths less than 31 miles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly did the team find when they looked at the atmospheric data from the Tohoku earthquake region? In layperson's shorthand, air temperatures above the monster quake's epicenter area rose and the upper atmosphere went nuts with loose subatomic particles and escaping heat. That is, something caused temperatures to rise in the lower atmosphere; in the \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ionosphere\" target=\"_blank\">ionosphere\u003c/a>, much higher up, an unusually high level of \u003ca href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/electron\" target=\"_blank\">electrons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgoing_longwave_radiation\" target=\"_blank\">outgoing long-wave radiation\u003c/a> were detected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean? Ouzounov et al. have seen this often enough to believe it could signal that seismic and tectonic processes--along faults that are about to rupture or at the boundaries of plates that are about to shift--have a direct linkage to these atmospheric changes. From Ouzounov's paper (citations omitted): \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nOne of the possible explanations for this relationship is the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism, which provides the physical links between the different geochemical, atmospheric and ionospheric variations and tectonic activity. Briefly, the primary process is the ionization of the air produced by an increased emanation of radon (and other gases) from the Earth’s crust in the vicinity of [an] active fault. The increased radon emanation launches the chain of physical processes,which leads to changes in the conductivity of the air and a latent heat release (increasing air temperature) due to water molecules attachment (condensation) to ions.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Got that? If not, here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26773/?p1=Blogs\" target=\"_bllank\">a translation\u003c/a> from the arXiv blog at MIT's Technology Review: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The thinking is that in the days before an earthquake, the great stresses in a fault as it is about to give cause the releases large amounts of radon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The radioactivity from this gas ionises the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects. Since water molecules are attracted to ions in the air, ionisation triggers the large scale condensation of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process of condensation also releases heat and it is this that causes infrared emissions. \"Our first results show that on March 8th a rapid increase of emitted infrared radiation was observed from the satellite data,\" say Ouzounov and co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These emissions go on to effect the ionosphere and its total electron content.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Not everyone buys that explanation of the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere mechanism. Here's an alternative theory\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/scientists-may-have-found-quake-warning-signal-10363\" target=\"_blank\"> as reported today in California Watch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friedmann Freund, another NASA scientist and a researcher at San Jose State University, says the observed atmospheric changes have nothing to do with radon and other gases escaping from the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no evidence that links radon emanation closely with seismic or pre-seismic events,\" he said. \"There is another much more powerful, much more general and observationally supported process which causes massive air ionization, when stresses build up deep below earthquakes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the electromagnetic changes are caused by extreme pressure on the rocks themselves. His theory is simple: If you squeeze a block of granite rock hard enough, it’ll become electrically active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Freund and others set up a laboratory experiment in which they squeezed a rock really hard, while detecting the emissions around it. As soon as pressure was applied to the rock, the electrical field around it changed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>To get back to that spoiler at the top: The new Tohoku findings will naturally prompt excitement over the idea that scientists have found an atmospheric signal of some impending major earthquakes and thus a way to forecast them. That idea has been thrown around in research papers since the late '90s at least. But the Christian Science Monitor quotes Ouzounov as saying that earthquake prediction based on his colleagues' findings is \"far away.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Paper:\u003c/strong> \"\u003ca href=\"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.2841v1\" target=\"_blank\">Atmosphere-Ionosphere Response to the M9 Tohoku Earthquake Revealed by Joined Satellite and Ground Observations\u003c/a>,\" Ouzounov et al. (PDF)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Paper: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mendeley.com/research/achtergronden-van-ontwikkeling-van-het-lager-onderwijs-en-van-schoolstrijd-nederland-18621905-een-poging-tot-sociaalhistorische-analyse-vrijheid-van-onderwijs-marges-het-onderwijs-maatschappelijk-perspectief-l-box-j-dronkers/\" target=\"_blank\">Satellite IR Thermal Measurements Prior to the September 2004 Earthquakes in Central California\u003c/a>, Ouzounov et al. 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An explosion ripped through a reactor building Monday afternoon (Tuesday morning Japan time)—the third blast since Saturday as workers struggled to deal with pressure buildups in three of the six reactor buildings at the plant. Later, a fire broke out in a fourth reactor building. The new explosion and fire were apparently responsible for a spike in radiation levels around the plant. People living within 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of the plant complex were ordered to evacuate; those within 30 kilometers (10 miles) were told to stay indoors to avoid radiation exposure. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan addressed the nation after Tuesday morning’s blast. “Radiation levels around the compound have risen to fairly high levels,” Kan said. “There is a danger of even higher radiation levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: How bad is the Fukushima situation? And will it affect us in California? To the second question, we’ll just say: We’d like to know, too, and we’re working to find out. (Here’s someone who was working even harder: Paul Rogers of the \u003cstrong>San Jose Mercury News\u003c/strong>. See his story: \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_17614609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So far, very low risk of West Coast contamination from Japanese nuclear accident, experts say\u003c/a>.) To the first question: Judging from the coverage it’s getting from careful, measured sources, we’re led to believe, as most of you are, that it’s pretty bad. Here’s a selection of headlines:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Washington Post:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/nuclear-crisis-deepens-as-third-reactor-loses-cooling-capacity/2011/03/14/ABk6rQV_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAPAN STEPS CLOSER TO FULL-BLOWN NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE AFTER 3RD BLAST\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nYes, the headline is in all caps on the Post’s front page. 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On Tuesday morning, Tokyo Electric said that 2.7 meters, or less than half, of the rods were still exposed. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New York Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Japan’s nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air, according to the statements of Japanese government and industry officials. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Times:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-20110315,0,2212206.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reactor breach feared as radiation rises\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the best-case scenario, the situation at the damaged reactors will take weeks, if not months, to stabilize, U.S. nuclear experts said. “They do not have the situation under control,” said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert at the Institute for Policy Studies and a former Energy Department deputy. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/strong> assesses the dangers posed by the crisis at the power plant: \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576199022182617758.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damaged Nuclear Power Plants Could Spew Range of Emissions\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> For the latest on the crisis from AP, you can click on this \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis\">Yahoo! 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