MAIN TECTONIC ACTIVITIES IN 2011 final review to 2011 ( minor plates are included)
NORTH AMERICAN PLATE	Earthquake activities there were rather normal in 2011 . Significant new acticvities occured in Aug 2011 on the East Atlantic coast. of the USA, Continuing new activities also where registered in nearby regions of Central USA , such as near Oklahoma
SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE	No real major or disastrous Earth quake event in South America in 2011 . Some signficiant activities were registered offshore of Columbia down to Peru at begin of the second half in 2011
PACIFIC PLATE	The Pacific Plate and its surrounding minor Plates are generally in a grip by the Eurasian and North/ South American Plate. The seismic activity around Australian plate occures mostly in the regions Vanuatu to Fijji. Compared to the recent years the strength and frequency of the typical Earthquake activities there was rather low in 2011
INDO/AUSTRALIAN	The INDO Australian Plate seems to be pushed by both- the movement of the South American Plate around the Yucatan peninsula towards the Northwest and the (increasing) movement of the Eurasian plate towards the Southwest into Southwest direction against the African plate While the subduction zone along the coast of Sumatra and Java was very quiet in 2011, volcanic activities shifted from one site of the large Indonesian archipelago to the other and occured mainly on the Souther borders of the Indian tectonic plate For almost one decade, Indonesia whad been somewhat like the epicenter of the world . After March 2011 almost all major activities from there seemed to have shifted from there more than 100 km Eastward to the quadriple junction offshore of Honshu Japan, possibly pushed by an increased activity of the African plate ( yet thought to be one of the most quiet tectonic plates on Earth)
EURASIAN PLATE	Not many geologists seem to have taken notice yet from the increasing activities around the Eurasian plate recorded since begin of 2011. Until August a large number of minor and larger Earthquakes with magnitudes up to 6.5 occured all along the subduction zone in the South of Europe reaching from the AZORES through Gibralter over Italy, Greece into Turkey and Iran. Approximately the double number events were registered in 2011 compared to 2010. The average strength of the quakes along the boundaries of the Eurasian to the African plate also increased 2011 with at least one point on the Richter scale from M 4 to 5. Europe`s active volcanoes in the Mediterranean Sea, Etna and Strombili, had regular eruption activity increasing in strength and were sveral times setv on red alert level . Greece geologists reported , to have noticed a significant activity increase also of the Santorin Volcano in 2011. Santorin is hot spot volcanon situated on the tripple conjunction of Europe with the African and Arabian plate and is the rest of a shield volcano that was torn apart by a large hydrogen explosion around 1500 BC . Volcanic magma material from that explosion was even found in the Arctic region.The explosion recorded as one of largest volcanic events in history just left a sickle of the formerly round island with a submarine crater rest in its middle ,just reaching up to sea level As the European plate is very massive, Earthquake magnitudes of 5.0 effect equal to magnitudes of 6.0 in other subduction zones and are counted as such. In the spreading zone to the North American continent in North Europe Earthquakes activities in 2011 even were more intensive than in all recent 5 years together . Numerous larger seismis shocks were registered on the boundary of the North American and Eurasia plate in 2011 mainly during the Arctic summer. All occured exactly on the boundary between the Eurasian and North American plate from the Norway latidude through Iceland up to the Eastern coast of Greenland and seem to creep more and more Northwards. Major seismic shocks up to M 4.9 ( volcanic "tremors") were also measured near to the Iceland volcanoes of Grimssvoetn, Hekla and Katla in 2011 yet and are believed to be sign of an upcoming large an d major eruption While Katla does not show any significant signs of an eruption on the surface yet, in July 2011 the increasing activity in its interior suddenly melted the ice cap above the crater and the melting water rushing down form its flanks destroyed a bridge. Some Seismic shocks with magnitudes up to M 4.6 o also were measured along the continental shelf of Scandinavia since 2011.,those were stronger to the North than to the South. There is no known active volcano around. As I have in suspect, this can only be an indicator for some new or old brake between Iceland and Norway, which may extend already further to the South ( either towards the Atlantic ridge or even between Great Britain and Scandinavia. The most interesting as well as unprecendented event in 2011 was and is the sudden activity of the El Hierro shield volcano, that forms the most Southern island the Canary islands. More than 10.000 seismic tremor shocks were registered between June and September 2011 South East and North West of the island, before a new subsea volcano Southeast of La Restinga began to erupt. oil rigs and seaquakes:Good evidence for such a process also gave three hot blowouts those occured after May 2010 at three Norwegian offshore oil rigs. Also the last incident at the Gannet oil field in Aug 2011 could be related to a minor tectonic movement. But so much is not known jet, neitern of the course of the incident nor wehre the leak actually isloated. Media claim the main leakage would be indeed at any wellhead and might therefore also come out from the oil resservoir itself through the annullus of one of the 7 borehole installations.> Fortunately ( and sad as well , as no other country has yet joined yet except Brasil ) ,the government of Norway prescribes for any offshore drilling/borehole in Norway beside Blowoutpreventer so called" downhole security valves- . This is an very reliable safety valve which is mounted on the lower end of the production line where the pipe leads into the oil resservoir itself. Its designed as a steel bowl , which can close the pipe from below the oilm resservoir and closes more tight as more pressure comes on it , The three Norwegian oiol rigs were evacuated , the safetyl valves closed and nothing reulted of this blowouts. Noone nijured no dagame and no oil spill. Some barrely may have escaped but tjhis is nothing compared rto what could and would have happened if no safety valve would have been in place and the BOP fails to operate due to a pressure it cannot resist - or even would be torn apart as it was the case in BP Macondo well "A" in the Macondo well intallation in 2010 ( remark: on TV only the leakage and oil spill at well location " B" was shown.. PR at its best! Read more on my documentary. Just click on the link above this texbox! read my report. on the following page: click here.
AFRICAN PLATE AND MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE	Activities also increased along the entire Atlantic ridge. Africa is usually the most quiet and slow tectonic plate of all. In the South an old equatorial brake off from the African continent begins at the horn of Africa/ arfur depression and stretches from there 6000 km into Southwest direction. This spreading process suddenly increased from some millimeters per year to meters per year early in 2005 , soon after the megaquake of M 9.6 had occured SW of Sumatra on 2004-12-26. This increased tectonic movement seems to create the regularly observed Seaquakes up to M 6.0 on the S- Mid Atlantic ridge and pressures towards Central and South America with an effect onto the Caribean Plate. The Northern Atlantic at least is surely known to be a spreading zone. What concerns the Southern Atlantic ridge,I won´t be sure about anymore! I don`t know much about, but guess, the Atlantic as such was almost quiet since thousands of years. Nevertheless, earthquake activities are known to be extremely seldom in and along the Atlantic , tzhey usually occure if then on its boundaries to Africa and the Carribbean . The last one known in the 20 Century was the Agadir quake in 1960, which had a magnitude of not much more than M 6.0 , but lasted for several minutes, during these it leveled the entire town. The disastrous Quake that destroyed Haiti in 2010 again proved ,that if those earthquakes occure there, they come rather unprecedented ( without warning or prequakes) but hard with intensive movements and mostly very disastrous. IN 2011, higher activities couold be found at the Western boundaries of the Atlantic to the Carribean near to Puerto Rico with magnitudes up to M 5.9
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EXPLANATIONS:

GENERAL REMARKS TO THE RELATION OF SUN ACTIVITES ( Coronal mass ejections or CME) TO SEISMIC ACTIVITY AND WEATHER

Some geologist and volcanologist have still doubt in that relationship but however must admit: Statistically, there are reliable constant coincidences ( those can be found and proven in my statistics by the links below) between CMEs impacting on Earth and volcanism and Earthquake activities. After the huge and distastrous M 9.6 Seaquake and subsequent tsunami had hit South west Asia December 26- 2004 , NASA started a program to prove whether there is a correlation between these seismic extreme seismic activities and the Sun activity and soon came up with the conclusion,. that bthere is a direct relationship. . But the evidence was not further researched by NASA...

. When I first in May 2010 searched for for data of the Sun activity to compared these with my " Earthquake statistics" it became clear with a while that there is a clear relationship . Almost one year of data collection and comparation (see for my Earthquake ststistics") showed first, there is a clear conicidence of Earthquake activity and sun activity. First I just compared the sun spot number ,the solar flux flare activities and also Coronal Holes ( as some had mentioned) . After the 9.0 seaquake in Japan on March 11- 2011 it was clearer , that indeed the socalled coronal mass ejections could be the immidiator of those huge Earthquake energies form the Sun. CMEs ar not light, but hot plasmatic Sun matter ejected into space, if enough electromagnetic energies concentrate around active sun spots or along filament to accelerate erupting sun matter above the gravuitational escape speed of the sun . A CME released from the Sun`s surface so first expands like a spring that was under pressure before. ( "Plasma"is a state of matter so hot that the subatomic particle form a kind of soup out of protons, neutrons and electrones.The hot high energetic sun plasma of a CME forms a kind of cloud in form of an expanding funnel, that - once ejected from the Sun then travels through space until. it hits any massive body there. Through the empty space it also does not losse much of its energy. Usually it takes 2- 4 days until such a CME arrives on Earth (depending on the current sun sind speed that can change from hour to hour) . Scientists obviously long time believed that the geomagnetic field would reject all of the subatomar particles including their high energies. But at least, the electromagnetic energies (cinetic energy) of arriving sun winds and CMEs easily penetrate the athmosphere and rather load up the geomagnetic field and the Earth a s such.

HONSHU/ Japan- MARCH_ 11- 2011

Two larger but (what is main important :) highly Earth directed CMEs had occured on the Sun on March 07 and 08 2011 and had arrived shortly before the frist of the many Earthquake had taken place offshore of Honshunilsand/ Japan on March 10- 2011. . I have then further explored those and similar events as well some historical event reports so far as specific solar data and archives already were available for that time. ( first data were available for the public after 2001. 1996 SoHO- the pioneer of all later satellite based Solar spacecraft observatories was lounched and still submits data necessary for CME detection and space weather prediction

Almost all volcano eruptions and major Earthquakes I examined have a clear coincidence with CME impacts on Earth. . Thus examining the major events for more than one year I can can say now , that with all researched CME impacts , volcanic and seismic activities increased each time on a global or regional sacale. With a probability of 100 % always one or more major Sea or Earthquake will follow any significant CME impact on Earth. On this I based my " experimental volcano and Earthquake forecast". You find all about that project by the start page of my project with the following links:

When I started with my research in May 2010 I did not no about this NASA statement published by BBC: (BBC) Is Solar activity to blame for Japan's massive earthquake?

FILAMENT ERUPTIONS:

Filament eruptions are likely the strongest eruptions on the Sun. They release long duration intensive sun wind streams in all directions , those were measured on the GOES magnetometer as a rise in the magnetic density to almost the double of the normal values, even if the major CME core passed the Earth. . This geomagnetic field density ( measured in nanoTesla) which must be interpretatealso as the electromagnetic energy level of the geomagnetical field. This actucal electromagnetical load or overload is likely the indicator or even the source of the observed typica effects , CME impacts- due to all recent statistics I have made-immidiately have on on the planet itself: increasing volcano activities/sudden strongs storms and other amplified weather parameters/ stronger Earthquakes in the aftermath.

NOAA/ NASA with its main task to protect civil and military satellites from damages- never had observed this geomagnetic field density ,but only the socalled planetery "K" and "A" indices, those represent just the fluctuations in the geomagnetic field ( stronger fluctuations with higher amplitudes are called" geomagnetic storm") . These magnetometer values are provided by the satellites ACE (interplanetray magnetic field) and GOES (terrestrial gemoagnetic field) . As its is just not possible to send satellites to an orbit so close to the Sun, in order to retrieve exact measurements on the exact size and arrival time of CMEs, these magnetometers are the only valuable instruments those deliver reliable data on CME impacts such as their strength and energetic impacts. Recently NASA/ NOAA declared it wants to base their future space weather prediction more or exclusively on these magnetometer values. The problem is: If these CME data become available, the CME just neeeds another appr. 15 - 30 minutes- to Earth and prewarnings might therefor be too late and fail.

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Recent statistics also showed more and more that also strong winds and the more oftenly reported unprecendented tornadoes seem to be among the primary effects

 

I am observing the Sun activity since May 2010 on a daily base and try to improve my reports and forecasts due to the progress in understanding that relationship between Sun CME and their effects on Earth. In more detailled views I began during 2011 also to research- based on satellite data- how far CME main terrestrial impact regions are identical with those regions where then the largest volcanic and seismic activity takes place , resp. where the major events take place after an CME impact .( . I hope , that my tables included the related evidence- after constant development and necessary adjustments in the layout- meanwhile give a well understandable insight and overview

More about current activities on that in my environmental blog. You can also visit my Earthquake research project on my page " evaluations"