The DC Brief

Your Planetary Pulse Check

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

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NWS Active Alerts

1-Day Convective Outlook

LightningMaps.org's Lighting Tracker

Space Weather Legend

TNT Equivelents for earthquake magnitude

Ebeko exploding, sending ash 13,000 ft

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

Current Stream Flow

Earth is roughly 4,500,000,000 years old. There have been a few incidents. -DC