UPDATE March 2011: K-11 / Hell in the Pacific

Hi everybody,

I'm in Australia at the moment and I was observing the aftermath of the New Zealand earthquake ( on the news ) when the earthquake and tsunami in Japan happened. I had just left Japan a week earlier so I narrowly escaped that myself. And on the flight on the way to Japan I had been reading about the second earthquake that hit Chile just before New Zealand. So, I've recently had a shift in perspective on the 'ring of fire' - being a little bit more personally touched by its activity.

I should say that thankfully all my friends and contacts are well and safe in Japan, and it did cross my mind that a site update at the moment might not be entirely appropriate, given the death tolls involved. But it is still all relevant and I haven't updated for a while, so here are the extra new bits. And I think you'll see why it seems particularly appropriate to be sending this one from Australia, as this continent does illustrate some of the things I'm talking about.

Anyway, here are the new bits below, hope you find something interesting there.
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K-11

In February 2011 astronomers announced the discovery of the K-11 star, which is widely regarded as the most important discovery since the first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, in 1995.

Unlike most exoplanet systems so far observed K-11 has 6 gas planets in an orbit closer then Mercury. These planets can not have formed where they are now. Grouped so closely together their gravity should have interfered with their formation. They should have ripped each other apart at the outset.

In other words the K-11 system may be full of migrant worlds that have changed their orbits.

http://www.theseventhearth.com/k-11.htm
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HELL IN THE PACIFIC

On February 12, 2011 an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the richter scale struck central-southern Chile - a year after it was struck by an 8.8.

On February 22 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch in South Island, New Zealand.

On March 11 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Northern Japan, the strongest that the country has yet seen.

All the above quakes were followed by aftershocks.

These earthquakes are all happening around the well known and closely observed belt of volcanic and earthquake activity that runs around the Pacific, known as the 'Ring of Fire'. Devastating though these events are they should be no surprise as increased tectonic activity goes hand in hand with global warming.

But the pattern of these earthquakes connects with 2 points I have been illustrating on this website - the concept of the 'closing' of the Pacific as the beginning of a contraction period, which involves massive increase in plate movements.

http://www.theseventhearth.com/GW_hell_pacific.htm

http://www.theseventhearth.com/GW_Chile.htm