A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar storm or geomagnetic storm to cause the disturbance. So what was it?
Lately, Earth’s magnetic field has been quiet. Very quiet. The sun is in the pits of what may turn out to be the deepest Solar Minimum in a century. Geomagnetic storms just aren’t happening.
“That’s why I was so surprised on June 23rd when my instruments picked up a magnetic anomaly,” reports Stuart Green, who operates a research-grade magnetometer in his backyard in Preston UK. “For more than 30 minutes, the local magnetic field oscillated like a sine wave.”
This chart recording shows a magnetic wave rippling through Preston UK on June 23, 2020. Credit: Stuart Green.
Green quickly checked solar wind data from NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite. “There was nothing–no uptick in the solar wind speed or other factors that might explain the disturbance,” he says.
He wasn’t the only one who noticed. In the Lofoten islands of Norway, Rob Stammes detected a similar anomaly on his magnetometer. “It was remarkable,” he says.
“Our magnetic field swung back and forth by about 1/3rd of a degree. I also detected ground currents with the same 10 minute period.”
What happened? Space physicists call this phenomenon a “pulsation continuous” or “Pc” for short. Imagine blowing across a piece of paper, making it flutter with your breath. Solar wind can have a similar effect on magnetic fields. Pc waves are essentially flutters propagating down the flanks of Earth’s magnetosphere excited by the breath of the sun. During more active phases of the solar cycle, these flutters are easily lost in the noise of rambunctious geomagnetic activity. But during the extreme quiet of Solar Minimum, such waves can make themselves “heard” like a pin dropping in an silent room.
Magnetic observatories around the world detected the wave on June 23, 2020. Credit: INTERMAGNET
Earth’s magnetic field was so quiet on June 23rd, the ripple was heard all around the world. INTERMAGNET‘s global network of magnetic observatories picked up wave activity at the same time from Hawaii to China to the Arctic Circle. There’s even a hint of it in Antarctica.
Pc waves are classified into 5 types depending on their period. The 10-minute wave on June 23rd falls into category Pc5. Slow Pc5 waves have been linked to a loss of particles from the van Allen radiation belts. Energetic electrons surf these waves down into Earth’s atmosphere, where they dissipate harmlessly.
With Solar Minimum in full swing, there’s never been a better time to study these waves. Keep quiet … and stay tuned for more.
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Brings a whole new meaning to “May the farce be with you”
If that pin was made of steel, maybe dropping it causes a ripple in the local magnetic field. Just saying … They say in Preston (20 miles down the road) of people placing (small) bets on horses that they are ‘having a flutter’. To me it now has a whole new meaning.
The most likely reason is that the Earth’s magnetosphere was swiped by a sharp transition in the heleispheric current polarity.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
These are common regular low intensity events, normally masked by various solar magnetic activity of a grater magnitude. Nothing much to be excited about.
I agree, Vuk. The solar magnetic field change was from Toward to Away at 12:55 on June 23rd 2020.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind
But experiments into the radiation belts also produce effects like raining particles.
U.S. military tests radiation belt cleanup in space
by Richard Stone. Science 03 Jan 2020:Vol. 367, Issue 6473, pp. 9-10
DOI: 10.1126/science.367.6473.9
“Now, researchers are ready to try artificial remediation, by beaming radio waves into the belts.
Hi Carka
Nice to hear from you again, hope all is well. Take care and stay safe.
vuk
‘I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of monuments suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.’
http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/HCSt.gif
So much science out there – and nobody can explain anything about this?!
No wonder climate vodoo men get away with calling their business “settled science”.
Will I have to consult my grandmother again and have their asses whopped?!
Okay, okay, I admit it: it’s my fault.
I was trying to pick up a long range radio signal last week, something like Moscow or maybe Baltimore or Rekjavik, because the heaviside layers were elevated enough to allow it. Everything was going smoothly until my cat found the antenna wire and moved it. Disrupted everything, and started that mag wave ball rolling.
Sorry about that. I’ve scolded her, but you know cats: they yawn, look at you like you’re asking them to eat lettuce instead of FF Chicken, and go right back to whatever they were doing. I had to put her outside the bathroom and shut the door. She’s still mad at me, too.
Lol.
You know how we know the Earth isn’t flat? It it was, cats would have knocked everything off by now.
Another magnetar shrugged?
Intriguing!?
is this the magnetic field equivalent to stall flutter in fluid dynamics? Stall flutter was the cause of the Tacoma bridge collapse. Air flow from a constant wind passing the towers produced vortexes that then were shed at regular periods, imparting a force on the tower. The velocity of the wind was just right to produce shedding at the resonant frequency of the bridge.
Salute!
Actchally, it was likely the change in our local space-time when the alien mothership dropped outta hyperspace.
Where is the NEO outfit looking now?
Gums wonders……
According to the comments, when aliens show themselves they have a lot of explaining to do. How dare they mess with my Milgauss watch.
The rumbling of the far universe could have something to do with it.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2020/06/flash-of-light-from-a-faraway-galaxy-4-billion-years-ago-first-triple-black-hole-merger/
Several sensible possibilities. I would like to know whether anything special happened with 5G that day.
If Betelgeuse lights up the sky in the next few day, weeks like a second sun, we will know this was the precursor of a supernova.
Wouldn’t the gamma spectrum get here first?
There’s only one explanation – he’s coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQWBXJOgAI
(BOC – Godzilla)
That’s what I said upthread, but I used his proper name. 😉
This article is making a mountain of a signal out of a molehill of pulses. It certainly did not ‘rock’ the Earth’s magnetism, as the title implies: “Weird: Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earth’s Magnetic Field”
And it really has nothing to do with Earth’s currently quiet magnetic field:
“Lately, Earth’s magnetic field has been quiet. Very quiet. The sun is in the pits of what may turn out to be the deepest Solar Minimum in a century.”
The sunspot count is currently zero (because we are in a solar minimum between cycles 24 and 25). But the solar flux index (SFI) currently stands about 68, which is about 4 index points above the lowest flux index recorded during the last solar minimum (between cycles 23 and 24). Still a way to go before we can claim ‘deepest’ minimum:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/07/16/sun-in-deep-slumber-107-solar-flux-hits-record-low-value/
Also, I would like to point out that it is not the strength per se of the Sun’s magnetic field that causes geomagnetic storms. Geomag storms are defined by the change (“disturbance”) in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by changes in ring currents, induced by increased flow of solar wind protons and electrons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm
So, the increased ring currents create their own magnetic field, which _opposes_ the Earth’s magnetic field. That is why storms are defined by negative disturbances.
Now back to the pulsations observed by the two amateur observers (Green and Stammes) on 23 June 0600-0700 UTC. I see nothing remarkable about these signals, except that they are very tiny. If we zoom in to that exact hour, I think we can see them here on this USGS plot, which lists the USGS stations sorted by descending Northern latitude (because the disturbances tend to increase towards the poles).
But you can see tiny sinusoidal pulses like these virtually everywhere, between the big disturbances. (Look at 12 June around 0800 UTC for example). What is so special about the 23 June pulses?
Channel “F” (total magnetic field) [Note changes in field at mid latitudes are much less than -50nt, so way below ‘storm’ grade disturbances]
https://geomag.usgs.gov/plots/?scale=10&endTime=2020-06-23T07:00:00.000Z&startTime=2020-06-23T06:00:00.000Z&timeRangeType=custom&channels=F
Channel “Y” (north component, which is smaller, but makes pulsation look relatively bigger)
https://geomag.usgs.gov/plots/?scale=10&endTime=2020-06-23T23:00:00.000Z&startTime=2020-06-23T00:00:00.000Z&timeRangeType=custom&channels=Y
But if you zoom out, and look at magnetic ‘disturbances’, over the whole month of June, you can see numerous events exceeding negative a hundred or so nano-tesla’s. I would say that is fairly ‘noisy’ for disturbance plots during a solar minimum. The pulsations were about 10nt-20nt, so completely swamped by this activity.
https://geomag.usgs.gov/plots/?channels=MDT&scale=Auto&timeRangeType=custom&channel=F&endTime=2020-06-26T20:30:00.000Z&startTime=2020-06-01T20:30:00.000Z
What about the current F10.7 cm flux staying as low as it is for this extra length of time? … https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-cycle
Currently it looks to be running 6 months longer at this low point as compared to the last long minimum. It has yet to show a move towards rising off of the bottom. I am not familiar enough with previous minima to know how to assess that, but it looks like it is going to stay low for awhile longer.
@goldminor
“… staying as low as it is for this extra length of time?”
Solar magnetic activity is measured by intensity (or lack) of solar flux. The time span of activity further characterizes the nature of this activity, but IMHO does not really measure the intensity of activity.
So the previous solar minimum will be “deeper” if this one never descends down to ~64SFI, which is the theoretical minimum SFI.
Here is something of interest to this post. A powerful 7.4 quake struck southern Mexico at 15:30 UTC on the 23rd. That would be 9 hours after the magnetic disturbance. In 4 days from now on the 30th the 7 planet alignment will be at peak alignment. Earth and Mercury will be in conjunction. Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction, and Jupiter will be very close to conjunction with Pluto. … https://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/
Sounds like a bad case of conjunctivitis to me. Will it produce pink sunsets?
We shall have to wait and zee.
I observed one just last evening.
In an odd solar cycle. the Sun’s magnetic field is pointing south which means it can cancel part of the Earth’s magnetic field at the point of contact – creating a crack in the Earth’s int the magnetic field which allow the solar wind to enter into the Earth’s atmosphere rattling our magnetic cage.
See https://spaceweather.com/glossary/bsubz.html.
ancient black hole plasma accretion wake, could be.
very likely contributed to the recent seismic activity too.
(unless CERN ramped up recently, but they usually unglue
India and Pakistan pretty good)
The name is ‘Nemesis’, our second sun.
Other names for this brown dwarf and its satellites include:
Planet X
Nibiru
Hercolubus
Wormwood,
Mother Shipton’s fiery dragon etc
Here’s an excellent website which has a lot of info for those who want to know more about this
https://yowusa.com/
Did you know that almost all major observatories are offline due to the virus?
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/04/covid-19-forces-earths-largest-telescopes-to-close
Here’s some recent photos of the system
https://yowusa.com/2020/03/coronavirus-planet-x/
And an interview with Marshall Masters explaining what those photos mean
https://yowusa.com/2020/03/march-madness-nibiru/
https://pastebin.com/VriSCRHh
Bob Fletcher has done a lot of research on this
https://pastebin.com/W7diHHqv
It does not matter if you think this is crazy conspiracy crap or whatever.
It’s coming and the only course of action to take is the spiritual path
Look up the Hopi prophesy on the Red and Blue Kachinas
We’re nearly reached the end of the Kali Yuga
Here’s your ‘official’ notifcation from the controllers:
I observed one just last evening.
Any chance that this story links in ?
22 /23 June 2020, RN #IMS station SEP63 #Sweden detected 3isotopes; Cs-134, Cs-137 & Ru-103 associated w/Nuclear fission @ur momisugly higher[ ] than usual levels (but not harmful for human health). The possible source region in the 72h preceding detection is shown in orange on the map.
https://twitter.com/SinaZerbo/status/1276559857731153921
Someone may be reprocessing spent nuclear fuel into weapons-grade material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_products_(by_element)
This kind of reprocessing has absolutely nothing to do with the magnetic disturbances reported on 23 June.
Actually it looks like an accident happened at a Russian nuclear plant:
https://www.ibtimes.com/mysterious-spike-radioactivity-over-northern-europe-accident-russian-nuclear-plant-3002064
It’s coming and the only course of action to take is the spiritual path
No such thing as a “wave of magnetism”
You cant uncouple magnetic influence from it’s source. Any claim to the contrary is pseudo science
“You cant uncouple magnetic influence from it’s source.”
Actually it can; have you ever heard of “IMF”? (hint: not ‘impossible-mission force’)
IMF is the interplanetary magnetic field, whose source is the Sun.
https://spaceweather.com/glossary/imf.html
Here is a 3D rendering of the IMF, based on an old drawing made by Leif Svalgaard in the early 1970’s. [Leif was a pioneer in this area of solar research]
http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/HCS.html
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740023171.pdf
re: “You cant uncouple magnetic influence from it’s source.”
Statically, yes, BUT even a ‘static’ source had a beginning (OR, if it is physically moved), so in the long run it is changing, which is the basis for “radiating” a wave, an EM or electromagnetic wave.
I do it everyday via a dipole (or loop) antenna, and so do you via a smart/i phone or a WiFi client.
See: Maxwell’s Eqs
Walter Lewan (MIT) Maxwell’s Eqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFtNCPUMoYA&feature=youtu.be&t=68
WAV01: Maxwell’s Equations, Greg Durgin
Everything you want to know about IMF-Earth ‘magnetic reconnection’ (and more):
http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/images/c/ce/2016GEM_Sunday_Reconnection.pdf
This event seems to close to the solstice and Earth lapping Jupiter and Saturn in July to be ignored. Could it reflect a slight change in Earth’s orbit or obliquity?
I’m not here preaching, but the things going on present day are biblical in my opinion.
Maybe prophetic would be a better term.
Nostradamus, Mayans, Bible, Steven Spielberg, whatever you believe in, just take a look at the world and universe. Big change is inevitable, and we’ve only just begun…
🤘☣️🤘🏿👻😈