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Your Planetary Pulse Check

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Headlines of Interest

  • If you could explore anywhere in the solar system, where would you go?
  • 24 hours in a day? Depends on your definition of a complete spin of the Earth (Video animation)
  • 4.5 Mag quake hits SoCal
  • See what your area will look like in the future with the current climate shift predictions
  • What happens when wildfire smoke meets a hurricane? See for yourself
  • No more hurricane names. Let's go greek!
  • Self-spreading virus vaccines.. brilliance or dangerous?
  • Parody Nobel prize award winners: Scientists that gave alligators helium and world leaders who downplayed the coronavirus.
  • 120,000 year old human foot prints... no Nikes
  • Well... we're THAT planet. 5 Tropical systems seen from space.
  • Will wildfire smoke make us more susceptible to the coronavirus this fall?
  • Are we trapped in a nightmare pandemic spiral?
  • Super toxic phosphine gas... sign of life on Venus?
  • Wildfire smoke reaches NYC
  • Striking images reveal how COVID infects lung tissue
  • EMDrive thruster still violating the laws of physics
  • Devastating wildfire update video (3 Min Video)
  • Animal populations down 70% in 50 years worldwide
  • With fall approaching, time to shrink your summertime quarantine bubble
  • New Hubble Telescope image has thousands of multi-colored stars
  • Comedy wildlife photo finalists 2020
  • Sally expected to be a Cat 2 on landfall
  • Triggering earthquakes at the Yellowstone supervolcano to measure the magma chamber.. maybe we should rethink this one
  • NOAA announces La Nina has officially arrived to affect the weather. Add that to the list for 2020!
  • Scientists successfully grow produce in Mars-simulated soil
  • Could "the force" be real? New theory about dark matter
  • Imagine a metal detector 1/1000th the width of a human hair...
  • NASA is taking applications for private contractors to retrieve moon dust by 2024
  • Think 2020 is bad? Climate disasters are going to get 'a lot worse' in the future
  • Live your life to the extreme, like a hummingbird
  • "Imagine if we listened to scientists before a hurricane"
  • New crustacean found.. where the temperature gets to 157 degrees!
  • 3.1 Mag Quake.... in New Jersey
  • Yosemite looking apocalyptic as fires approach (Pictures)
  • Earthquake warning system: Cows?
  • Meteor lights up California sky (video)
  • How to survive a volcanic eruption: Lessons from those who survived Pompeii in 79 A.D.
  • Incredible new pictures released by NASA
  • 'Pyrocumulus' cloud forms over California wildfires (Video)
  • Active volcano under Northern England? There is evidence of it
  • Several good meteor showers coming up!
  • Mars' 17-mile wide moon Phobos, what's up with that?
  • 'Unprecedented disaster' as Creek fire grows to 135,000 acres in 3 days
  • One scientist has spent decades cataloguing over 57,000 man-made objects in space; Its now available to anyone
  • Want to know what your city looked like 120 Million years ago? There's a map for that...
  • Powercell Disaster Bus can power a shelter of 50 for 3 days from hydrogen fuel cells!
  • Harvard scientists invest material that remembers it's shape!
  • NASA alerts congress that Artemis rocket $2.4 Billion over budget but what an engine! Video
  • Video shows the moment flood water breached Massachusetts hospital doors
  • Meet Optimism. Perseverance rover's Earth twin
  • FEMA Daily Brief
  • Current US Power Outages
  • Crowd Sourced Disaster Photos
  • Active US Forest Fires

NWS Active Alerts
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1-Day Convective Outlook
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LightningMaps.org's Lighting Tracker
Space Weather Legend
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TNT Equivelents for earthquake magnitude
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Ebeko exploding, sending ash 13,000 ft
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Ongoing Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanic Ash Aviation Advisories
  • 9/8 Reventador (Ecuador) 14,000 ft
  • 9/8 Sangay (Ecuador) 21,000 ft
  • 9/8 Sabancaya (Peru) 24,000 ft
  • 9/7 Suwanose-Jima (Japan) EXPLODED
  • 9/6 Sabancaya (Peru) 27,000 ft
  • 9/5 Sinabung (Indonesia) 11,000 ft
  • 9/5 Duncan (Indonesia) 7,000 ft
  • 9/5 Reventador (Ecuador) 16,000 ft
  • 9/5 Sangay (Ecuador) 22,000 ft
  • 9/5 Ebeko (Kuril Islands) 12,000 ft
  • 9/5 Suwanosejima (Japan) 18,000 ft
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Current Stream Flow
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Earth is roughly 4,500,000,000 years old. There have been a few incidents. -DC
Over the past 20+ years, I've been a firefighter, EMT, dispatcher, officer, detective, disaster responder, and now am enjoying a new frontier as a high school teacher.
The DC Brief is a collection of stuff I find interesting and how I start my day. Hope you enjoy!
Contact me at thedcbrief(at)gmail.com
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