The Day-Date-Moon Ticker
M12, T13, W14, Th15/6.2M, F16/6.2M, Sa17/MC, Su18/MC, M19/MC(2), T20/MC, W21, Th22

Explanatory Notes
The Ticker above is chronological, with symbols for day, date, moon phase and/or distance. After the / are earthquakes(7.0M), volcanoes(V8), geomagnetic storms(GS31), and solar flares(XC and MC). These correspond to the data below.

Earth and Sun Digest for January 22, 2004

...at a Glance (with time ticking)
(Source data can change without notice or correction.)

Earthquakes of 5.0 to 5.9M thru Wednesday--13 (Jap-1, SoPac-4); two quakes of 6M or greater: 1/16 6.2M CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, 1/15 6.2M NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G.
California and Nevada earthquakes in past week-398 ; no quakes of 4M or greater
Volcanic ash near Jet Stream (at 5 mi/8 km)--Siberia, Russia
Sunspot No. high and low--104 on 21 January from 56 on 17 January
Largest and smallest daily total area of sunspots--610 on 17 January to 390 on 18 January (100 = Earth)
X-Class Solar Flares: none; last M-Class flares (5+/day) 5 on 27 October (see ticker for fewer MC)
Planetary Geomagnetic Indices: high of 26 on 16 January; last sets of five or more Kp's of 4 or more per 24 hours: 15 to 19 and 21 to 22 January

Solar Fluxes Today (related to horizontal graph median line):
Proton and Electron lines under
for updates see http://www.sel.noaa.gov/today.html
Near Earth Asteroid: 2003 YS17 coming Jan 14, a miss by 14 LD
see www.spaceweather.com

Moon for January 2004 per Astronomy Magazine
3 apogee, 7 full moon, 14 last quarter, 19 perigee, 21 new moon, 29 first quarter, 31 second apogee
The moon is at apogee (251,536 miles far) on 31 January.

Recent Volcanic Eruptions

ASO Kyushu, Japan 32.88°N, 131.10°E; summit elev. 1,592 m
a "mud eruption" on 14 January, ash emissions to low levels

BEZYMIANNY Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 55.98°N, 160.59°E; summit elev. 2,882 m
a strong explosion on 14 January producing an ash plume to 6-8 km with a large pyroclastic flow

SANGAY Ecuador 2.03°S, 78.34°W; summit elev. 5,188 m
a plume on 14 January extending ~45 km E., most likely with ash

SHIVELUCH Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 56.653°N, 161.360°E; summit elev. 3,283 m
during 11-12 January explosions producing ash plumes to 4 km, on 16 January an ash plume to ~5.5 km

GUAGUA PICHINCHA north-central Ecuador 0.17°S, 78.60°W; summit elev. 4,784 m
the afternoon of 7 January strong rains with rockfalls and lahars

KARYMSKY Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 54.05°N, 159.43°E; summit elev. 1,536 m
during 9-16 January ash-and-gas plumes maybe to 4.5 km, with a pilot report of an ash plume to ~7 km, on 12 January an ash plume to 3.5 km

KILAUEA Hawaii, USA 19.43°N, 155.29°W; summit elev. 1,222 m
on 18 January a large period of deflation with the initial flow about 1.5 km S of the cone

KLIUCHEVSKOI Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 56.06°N, 160.64°E; summit elev. 4,835 m
during 9-16 January ash explosions to 5.8 km above the volcano on 11-13 January, Strombolian activity during 11-12 January

SANTA MARÍA Guatemala 14.756°N 91.552°W; summit elev. 3,772 m
on the morning of 15 January a moderate explosion, ash to 4.7 kmr, on 19 January moderate explosions occurred and avalanches

SOUFRIÈRE HILLS Montserrat, West Indies 16.72°N, 62.18°W; summit elev. 1,052 m
volcanic activity at low levels during 9-16 January, sulfur-dioxide flux low at the beginning of the report period (less than 200 tons per day), increasing to around 350 tons per day after a minor ash-venting event on 9 January

TUNGURAHUA Ecuador 1.47°S, 78.44°W; summit elev. 5,023 m
during 14-19 January continuing gas, steam, and ash, emissions to ~6 km

Ash data is summarized from the weekly GVN/USGS report at
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
All ash elevations are in km above sea level (a.s.l.).

The earthquake data that follows are taken from U.S. Geological Survey tables available through http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html .

EARTH

FIVE Index of Global earthquakes of 5.0 magnitude or greater

DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT LON DEP MAG Q COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km

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04/01/20 11:22:2321.08S169.87E101.7 5.2SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS
04/01/20 08:11:5758.41N151.60W22.9 5.0KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
04/01/20 06:56:3362.83S160.40W10.0 5.5PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE
04/01/19 07:22:5284.51N104.46E10.0 5.7NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
04/01/19 05:47:2431.69S71.57W28.1 5.3NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE
04/01/18 20:36:3432.10S178.91W33.0 5.3SOUTH OF KERMADEC ISLANDS
04/01/17 21:13:1017.82N95.40W109.7 5.2VERACRUZ, MEXICO
04/01/17 13:54:035.37S151.37E33.0 5.1NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
04/01/16 18:07:557.67N37.69W10.0 6.2CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
04/01/16 15:42:240.43S132.01E33.0 5.6NEAR NORTH COAST OF IRIAN JAYA
04/01/15 10:56:2010.93N62.38W98.3 5.1NEAR THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
04/01/15 07:52:4924.88S69.33W76.0 5.1NORTHERN CHILE
04/01/15 07:26:573.42S151.01E33.0 6.2NEW IRELAND REGION, P.N.G.
04/01/15 06:48:546.24S150.02E42.2 5.0NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
04/01/15 00:10:3044.06N145.94E102.6 5.1HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION


United States Quakes this past week
with quakes possibly felt in U.S. from nearby countries:

04/01/22 03:17:3943.62N110.63W5.0 3.0WYOMING
04/01/20 17:11:5343.19N71.81W5.0 2.2NEW HAMPSHIRE
04/01/20 08:11:5758.41N151.60W22.9 5.0KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
04/01/20 05:19:3937.72N121.81W18.6 3.2SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIF.
04/01/19 01:25:2549.88N177.26W33.0 4.1SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
04/01/17 09:59:4246.39N111.18W10.0 3.4WESTERN MONTANA
04/01/17 09:41:2635.59N120.90W0.0 3.4CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
04/01/17 07:29:4744.29N110.68W5.0 3.1YELLOWSTONE NAT. PARK, WYOMING
04/01/16 08:18:1847.57N122.58W54.5 3.6SEATTLE-TACOMA URBAN AREA, WASHINGTON
04/01/16 07:21:1851.50N177.26W52.6 4.6ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS.
04/01/15 04:46:0049.45N127.07W10.0 4.2VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION

Monthly Summary of Earthquakes of 6 or greater Magnitude
in the World, per USGS/NEIC Preliminary Global Report

YEAR: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04

November 0 7 10 6 7 4 15 15 10 11 13 with one 7M
December 0 6 13 7 3 2 16 11 7 11 17 with one 7M
YR total 19 110 160 109 76 63 103 109 112 133 145 (8)

January 2 1 13 10 4 7 5 8 10 14 10 (8 with one 7M)


SUN

Sunspot numbers for the past week:
1/14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
58 57 68 56 72 87 94 104
Planetary geomagnetic A Indices for same period
12 16 26 14 18 17 16 12

Solar data from http://www.sec.noaa.gov/

SPECIAL NOTE

Space Weather Scales

The scales/graphs at Today's Space Weather are further explained at NOAA's website of the title's name:
http://www.sel.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/index.html

In particular the explanations are graded by severity of effect. I suggest keeping this site as a reference.

Comments or questions are welcome.

Donald J. Boon, editor, donaldboon@comcast.net