The disaster in Japan seems to be coincidently close to the violent magnetic activity that struck our planet with the Coronal Mass Ejection.
Study Suggests Atmospheric Changes Signaled Japan's Monster Quake
A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan's devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake's epicenter immediately before it struck. The finding is the latest in more than a decade of research looking into the possibility that stresses in the Earth's crust before a major quake may be connected to pronounced changes in the atmosphere from the surface to its uppermost layers. So what exactly did the team find when they looked at the atmospheric data from the Tohoku earthquake region? In layperson's shorthand, air temperatures above the monster quake's epicenter area rose and the upper atmosphere went nuts with loose subatomic particles and escaping heat. That is, something caused temperatures to rise in the lower atmosphere; in the ionosphere, much higher up, an unusually high level of electrons and outgoing long-wave radiation were detected.
