NZ quake 8.55pm today

A strong earthquake hit New Zealand's main island today, ripping up roads and cutting off power on the east coast. The quake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, was centred in the sea 30 miles off the North Island city of Gisborne. Emergency plans have been put into action but there have been no immediate reports of casualties. No tsunami warnings have been issued.The force of the quake was felt across most of the country but Gisborne appears to be worst hit. "There were holes opening up in some streets, partial building collapses in some areas," a police spokesman said. "We have got a lot of damage and are still assessing the situation," another spokesman added.Power cuts have hampered attempts to assess the extent of the damage.Callers to radio phone-ins described how the earthquake sent household appliances flying and knocked objects off shelves.There are around 14,000 earthquakes in New Zealand, of which around 20 are higher than 5.0 on the Richter scale.The quake, described as a series of sharp shocks with a roaring sound, was felt widely along the east coast of both the North and South Islands, including in the capital Wellington, which is around 400 km south of Gisborne. Murray McPhail, who lives about 10 km from Gisborne, said he could see waves in his swimming pool as the quake shook. "You could just about surf on it," McPhail told the NZ Press Association. "Stuff came out of cupboards, bottles fell off walls, ornaments fell."A seismologist said the depth of the quake had limited damage and minimized any chance of a tsunami. New Zealand scientists record around 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which around 20 top 5.0 on the Richter scale.The last fatal earthquake in the geologically active country, caught between the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, was in 1968 when an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale killed three people on the South Island's west coast.
dare I say "it's started" Read prior post
Prior to this quake there was another: A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rumbled through Alaska's Aleutian Islands early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Seismographs recorded the quake about 12:30 a.m., centered 35 miles beneath the sea about 124 miles from Adak, and 1,304 miles from Anchorage, the USGS said.
ADDENDUM:
last night I had a dream that I was talking with a Maori. He was sitting on a low brick wall and I was standing infront of him and listening to what he was saying, of which in this state I can't remember 1 syllable and now this quake. I have also been incessantly hearing the name Mitar Tarabich going through my head for the past week, so I looked up his prophesies and posted on the "dawningone" blog.

Planetary alligned with the Galactic Centre

A very remarkable planetary/galactic configuration occurs on December 23rd and 24th 2007. The configuration on December 23 — Mars, Earth, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Galactic Centre — is shown in the graphic simulation linked below; it becomes even more remarkable in that it will be accompanied by the Full Moon (conjunct Mars) at about 2 a.m. on December 24 when a simultaneous Venus square Neptune occurs. It is even more remarkable in that the Pluto/Sun conjunction appears exactly on the Winter Solstice, just past conjunction with the Galactic Centre. Link below is the view from Mars toward the Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Pluto alignment toward the Galactic Centre on 23 December 2007 which occurs just after the Pluto/Jupiter (Heliocentric) conjunction on 23 November 2007. NASA Solar System Simulator for 23rd Dec 2007 Solar System on Dec 22, 2007. What is not shown is Pluto (which would be to Jupiter's right) Saturn, which follows down from Venus, and Uranus and Neptune. Saturn and Neptune form the cross's t-member. It is a 23/12 configuration. There will be a full moon on Dec. 23, 2007 The Conjunction involving these Planets is Alligned with the Galactic Centre through Pluto. The incredible amount of Energy that will be going full tilt in to our Sun on the 23rd will be World changing and will affect every Planet in our Solar System... What happens when you put too much current through a Light Bulb? Will it explode? Will it change the Solar rays into a different kind of energy? We do not have very long to find out. The fact of the matter though is something very powerful will indeed happen.

Global warming and glaciers

The answers here have come from the transcript of the Cassiopean tapes.
Q: How does global warming cause glaciers?
A: Increases precipitation dramatically. Then moves the belt of great precipitation much farther north. This causes rapid buildup of ice sheets, followed by increasingly rapid and intense glacial rebound.
(This makes sense as we have observed the extraordinarily bitter winters recently in norther climes like Estonia. Granted, we are seeing melting of polar ice in a lot of places, but I think this is maybe related to earth's core heating and increased volcanic activity, more than atmospheric events.)
A: Climate is being influenced by three factors, and soon a fourth.
1) Wave approach.(indonesia, qld coast) 2) Chlorofluorocarbon increase in atmosphere, thus affecting ozone layer. 3) Change in the planet's axis rotation orientation. 4) Artificial weather tampering.
A change in the speed of the rotation may not be reported while it is imperceptible except by instrumentation. Equator is bulging more than the polar zones.
One change to occur in 21st Century is sudden glacial rebound, over Eurasia first, then North America. Ice ages develop much, much, much faster than thought.
The big current ballyhoo over global warming is, I think, likely a red herring to divert awareness away from a pending sudden temperature reversal trend in the northern latitudes and with the article prior to this one regarding the sea encroaching on Indonesia this to little ol' untrained me looks like a precursor. Only time will tell if I'm totally of the mark here or not.

Rising sea in Indonesia

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailgeneral.asp?fileid=20071128102747&irec=27
November 30, 2007
JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia's environment minister said Tuesday global warming was to blame after parts of the capital were flooded with sea water, forcing thousands of people to flee inundated homes and cutting off a highway leading to the international airport. (and the fact that there have been numerous quakes in the area in the last several weeks in particular, has nothing to do with it?)Authorities used pumps to lower water levels, which reached up to 1.7 meters in the worst-hit areas and washed 2 kilometers inland, said Iskandar, an official at Jakarta's flood crisis center.
"I haven't seen it this bad in several years," said Toki, a policeman directing traffic around a flooded area near Sukarno-Hatta airport, where thousands of people have been stranded or trapped in the last 24 hours, forcing many flights to leave with only a handful of passengers.Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said global warming was at least partially to blame with rising sea levels making coastal cities like Jakarta especially vulnerable to flooding and monsoon storms. Authorities also ignored warnings about exceptionally high 18-year tide cycles, flood expert Jan Japp Brinkman told the Jakarta Post newspaper, and the situation was exacerbated by a failure to fix a sea barrier that was breached over a week ago. Iskandar, from the flood crisis center, said at least 2,200 houses were inundated with ankle-high to chest-deep water. The flooding came as Indonesia prepared to host the U.N. climate
change conference from Dec. 3-14, which aims to start negotiations on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions that expires in 2012.The sprawling archipelagic nation is one of the largest contributors of carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to the rapid pace of deforestation, but experts say it is also at risk of becoming one of the biggest victims of global warming.