**Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.**
Steven Wright
LARGEST QUAKES so far today -
5.1 SOUTH OF ALASKA
5.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.0 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.2 GUAM REGION
5.0 GUAM REGION
5.2 GUAM REGION
Yesterday, 3/11/15 -
5.0 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
5.2 OFF COAST OF COSTA RICA
5.4 OFF COAST OF COSTA RICA
SPACE WEATHER -
Monster solar flare - Wednesday's event caused an hour-long blackout in high-frequency radio communications over wide areas.Solar flares are often accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), enormous clouds of superheated plasma that streak through space at millions of miles per hour. Powerful Earth-directed CMEs can wreak havoc, causing geomagnetic storms that can disrupt power grids and satellite navigation.
It's unclear at the moment if a CME is associated with Wednesday's event. However, the SWPC has already issued a minor geomagnetic storm warning for Friday (March 13) as a result of three CMEs the sun unleashed on Monday (March 9).
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