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• Missouri earthquake shakes 9 states
  21 Feb 2012 CBS News - A series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up Tuesday to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent's most active seismic areas.
• Book Review - Defying the Doomsayers
  22 Feb 2012 WSJ - "Abundance" argues that growing technologies have the potential not only to spread information but to solve some of humanity's most vexing problems.
• Farmers, mark your calendars
  08 Feb 2012 Ag Week - You may have heard that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, and that it might be the end of the world. Just for your information, the Mayan calendar ends like ours ends, on Dec. 31. As the song goes, “don’t worry, be happy.”
• 2012 is the year of change
  30 Jan 2012 - The Citizen: Not just any old year - this is 2012; perhaps the most anticipated year in recorded history.
• VIDEO: Aurora Borealis over Ireland
• Second quake in 2 days rattles Greek islands
  27 Jan 2012 - USA Today/AP: An earthquake with preliminary 5.2-magnitude shook Greece's southern Aegean Sea islands Friday, the second in two days, Greek authorities said.
• Fiji declares a state of disaster over severe flooding
  25 Jan 2012 - BBC:Fiji has declared a state of disaster over flooding and landslides that have killed at least six people and displaced thousands.
• Delta Reroutes Flights As Solar Storm Hits Earth
  24 Jan 2012 - WSJ: Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday that it was rerouting some transpolar flights between Asia and the U.S. to avoid the impact of the largest solar storm in almost a decade.
• Massive Solar Eruption Bombards Earth Today
  24 Jan 2012 - CBS News: The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.
  
• Study warns of big Tokyo earthquake
  24 Jan 2012 - UK Press Association: The Tokyo region of Japan has a 70% chance of being hit by a powerful earthquake within four years, a new study has warned.
• The End of the Time of Earth: Why Does the Leap Second Matter?
  23 Jan 2012 - Scientific American: As a specialist in the study of time, I occasionally get asked about what I think of the so-called Mayan prophecy that the world will end in 2012. I
• Earthquake rattles Hawaii's Big Island
  23 Jan 2012 - CBS News: A magnitude-4.7 earthquake and several small aftershocks shook Hawaii's Big Island on Sunday, but there were no reports of injury or damage.
• Mexico earthquake in Chiapas shakes region
  21 Jan 2012 - BBC: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has hit the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, shattering windows and sending frightened residents into the streets.
• Great East Japan Earthquake may have been caused by 'slow slips': researchers
  20 Jan 2012 - Mainichi Daily News: The magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and a smaller earlier quake may have been caused by a phenomenon known as "slow slips," according to research by the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute.
• Earthquake hits northeast Iran, 100 injured
  19 Jan 2012 - Reuters: About 100 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit northeastern Iran on Thursday, state television reported.
• If calendars change, end of world can't come too soon
  17 Jan 2012 - Sacramento Bee: The deal is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar, which began in 3114 B.C., is set to "run out" after 5,126 years, meaning this year, specifically on Dec. 21.
• Strong earthquake hits off Antarctica's coast
  16 Jan 2012 - CNN: A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of Antarctica, prompting a warning that there was a "small possibility" it could trigger a tsunami.
• Iran moves the Doomsday Clock Closer to Midnight
  15 Jan 2012 - Washington Times: Tick tock, tick tock. Atomic scientists have moved the hands on the Doomsday Clock to five minutes before midnight, the witching hour.
• 5.7-magnitude earthquake hits Babuyan Islands region in northern Philippines
  14 Jan 2012 - Washington Post: A moderate earthquake roused people from sleep but caused no injuries or damage in the northern Philippines early Sunday, officials said.
• Apocalypse How? Dire 2012 Forecasts
  13 Jan 2012 - Bloomberg: 16 Forecast Slide Show.
• How to speak Apocalypse: A terminology primer
  12 Jan 2012 - 69 News: (CNN) It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel confused.
• End of the world? Mayan doomsday the latest hoax
  11 Jan - Chicago Tribune: Dec. 21 is the new Judgment Day.
• Should We Freak Out About Fracking-Induced Earthquakes?
  10 Jan 2012 - Forbes: After a handful of earthquakes in Mahoning County, most recently on New Year’s Eve, Ohio’s Department of Natural Resources shut down five deep wells used by natural gas drillers to dispose of chemical-laden gunk recovered from natural gas fracking operations.
• Planet X, 2012: Information or Disinformation?
  8 Jan 2012 - UFO Digest: Many people have hypothesized that the Mayans intentionally designed their calendar to end later this year because they were cognizant of the fact that a polar shift would occur
• RADIO: 2012: A year of doom
  2 Jan 2012 - BBC: The 'apocalyptic' ending of the Mayan calendar in December is one notable example of doom predicted for 2012.
• Will 2012 be a year of many earthquakes?
  2 Jan 2012 - MNN: 2011's higher-than-normal occurrence of large earthquakes was just 'random chance', and does not mean that 2012 will have more, say scientists.
• Symbolic 'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to atomic crisis
  01 Jan 2012 - CNN: The symbolic "Doomsday Clock" scientists use to portray what they feel is the risk from nuclear holocaust has moved a minute closer to midnight.
• More Views on Climate Risk and Arctic Methane
  28 Dec 2011 - NYT: In trying to clarify what’s known, unknown and learnable about the possible contribution to global warming from vast methane deposits beneath Arctic seas.
• O'Reilly Warns Romney: Bombing Iran "Starts World War III"
  21 Dec 2011 - Bill O'Reilly the provocative and usually hawkish host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News channel, warned Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a telecast earlier this week that bombing Iran "starts World War III."
• Methane Time Bomb in Arctic Seas – Apocalypse Not
  19 Dec 2011 - NYT: A very important research effort has been under way during recent summers in the warming, increasingly ice-free shallows off Russia’s Siberian coast.
• VIDEO: The Truth About 2012 and Solar Storms
• Nibiru: Imaginary Planet Blamed for Earth's Woes
  25 Aug 2011 - Discovery: The earthquake that ratted the Northeast U.S. this week is already being attributed to an imaginary celestial interloper called Nibiru.
• Super-Civilizations Might Live Off Black Holes
  30 Apr 2011 - Discovery: The sad unplugging of the Allen Telescope Array due to lack of funding brings a screeching halt, at least temporarily, to the most ambitious search for "hello" radio transmissions from E.T.
• Mysteriously swelling Yellowstone Super Volcano
  9 Feb 2011 - CSMointor: For reasons that are not clear, the huge volcano under Yellowstone National Park has been rising at an unprecedented rate during the past several years. But that doesn't necessarily mean that a massive, doomsday eruption is about to happen, finds a study that manages to put everyone at ease, more or less.
• Prophecies of Nostradamus on World War III
  Those studying the Prophecies of Nostradamus say that he has indicated the possibility of a Third World War
• 2012 Prophecies of the Hopi Indians
  Dan Katchongva (1865-1972), Hopi Primary Source: Excerpts, The Hopi Story: Teachings, History, and Prophecies of the Hopi People: as told by Dan Katchongva, Sun Clan. Translated by Danagyumptewa
• 2012 Doom: Planet X, solar flares and magnetic field reversal
  22 Nov 2009 - Examiner: Two of the more popular disasters involve collision with a hitherto unknown planet (either Planet X or Nibiru) and succumbing to solar flares that alter Earth’s magnetic field.
• Pseudoscience Rampant in 2012 Predictions
  14 Nov 2009 - Kansas Examiner: The impending arrival in theaters of Sony Pictures’ movie 2012 will no doubt usher in a new flood of media stories dealing with end-of-the-world prophecies.
• 2012 End of the World? NASA Says, No
  12 Nov 2009: Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation.
• 2012 Prophecies Sparking Real Fears, Suicide Warnings
  09 Nov 2009 - National Geographic News: ON TV 2012: Countdown to Armageddon airs Sunday, November 15, at 7 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel.
• Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012
  4 Nov 2009 - Discovery: Ray Villard takes on some of the more popular doomsday theories, debunking each in turn.
• SLIDESHOW: Top 5 Plans to Ensure the Continuity of our Species : Discovery News
  4 Oct 2009 - Discovery: If you've seen the trailer for the fall blockbuster-bound "2012," then you pretty much know the entire plot: Earth's crust collapses like a failed souffle, deadly meteor showers chase John Cusack's van and ancient Mayans scoff that they totally called it.
• Crystal Skulls Key to Maya Predictions for 2012
  In March 2010, people from around the world are gathering in Yucatan, Mexico with their crystals and crystal skulls.
• 2012: A Y2K for the New Age
  18 May 2009 - Newsweek: Scholars rarely love popularizers, and nowhere is this enmity more evident than in the battle over 2012—a date which, depending on your view, will coincide with the end of the world, the transformation of global consciousness, the end of the Mayan calendar,
• Many gather to ponder end of Maya days
  03 Nov 2009 - LA Times: Hundreds of people gathered near the Golden Gate Bridge over the weekend to ponder the enigmatic date of Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the ancient Maya calendar.
• Nibiru - Armageddon Planet or Astronomical Baloney?
  01 Oct 2008 - Discovery: Conspiracy theorists are convinced that a rogue planet is bound to doom Earth in 2012. NASA astronomer David Morrison gives his take.
• Apocalypse Predictions Unfounded
  18 Sep 2008 - The North Wind: Gas prices are rising, the war in Iraq is still raging, and economy is crashing, yet the world is not coming to an end. So, why is it that many people think we're living in the "end of times"?
• From the Yucatan to Providence: Doom
  12 Sep 2008 - The Brown Daily Herald: From the Yucatan to Providence: Doom
• Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend
  07 Sep 2008 - PopularMechanics: The only data the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has produced thus far is a powerful (but debunked) urban myth—that the particle accelerator buried under the Swiss-French border will generate apocalyptic black holes.
• Ho hum, just another doomsday scenario
  05 Sep 2008 - BusienssDay: Someone on the radio was predicting a cataclysmic event the other day — yet again. The outcome was going to be usual storms, earthquakes, tidal waves, sun flares and, worst of all, a stock market crash.

• Lewis: Want to survive 2012? Be a 'prepper'
  21 Feb 2012 Denver Post - When people ask me about investing in gold, I often reply that my two favorite sectors are canned food and ammunition.
• The Mayan Calendar 2012: End Timing Is Not Everything
  2 Feb 2012 - For Catholics, the exact date of the end times is not the point.
• War in Iran would mean WWIII
  30 Jan 2012 - RT: ­Tensions between Iran and the West are close to crisis level.
• Peru 6.3 earthquake injures more than 100
  30 Jan 2012 AP: More than 100 people are reported injured, after an earthquake struck central Peru. None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening.
• Northern Lights and Earthquakes in County Donegal
  27 Jan 2012 - Irish Central: Strange series of events as Northern county sees winter tourism boom
• Opinion of Jamil Maidan Flores: World War III?
  26 Jan 2012 - Whether ’tis wiser for America to suffer the bluster of a nuclear-armed Iran or to take up arms in the Persian Gulf and by doing so, end the standoff.
• Magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattles southern Greek islands
  25 Jan 2012 - Washington Post: Greek authorities say an earthquake with preliminary 5.3-magnitude has shaken the southern Aegean Sea islands, but no injuries or damage have been reported.
• Chicago sees Northern Lights tonight, thanks to solar flare
  24 Jan 2012 - Chicago Tribune: For the second time in just three months, people in the Chicago area have a shot at seeing the northern lights this evening.
• Today Largest Solar Storm Since 2005 Hits
  24 Jan 2012 - Scientific American: Last night the sun unleashed a flash of radiation called a solar flare, along with a generous belch of ionized matter that is now racing toward Earth at thousands of kilometers a second.
  
• Earthquake Shakes Northern Dominican Republic
  23 Jan 2012 - ABC News/AP: A 5.4 earthquake struck Monday in the northern Dominican Republic but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
• Earthquake strikes Chile
  23 Jan 2012 - CNN: There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile Monday afternoon, authorities there said.
• Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years
  23 Jan 2012 - Space.com: A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth tomorrow (Jan. 24), as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.
• Marc Faber: 'World War III will occur in the next five years'
  20 Jan 2012 - Business Intelligence: Dr. Marc Faber sees a shift in economic and military power from West to East and is increasingly convinced that the end game will be war.
• Scientists crowdsourcing for more information about earthquakes
  20 Jan 2012 - PhysOrg.com: In the past, seismologists have had to rely on information provided by just a few sensors in the vicinity of an earthquake to get information about it, and then afterwards, on anecdotal evidence provided by people that had experienced the quake first hand.
• 3.4 Earthquake Hits South Of Missoula
  20 Jan 2012 - NBC Montana:
• Celebrating Year of the Maya with tour of Latin America's ruins
  17 Jan 2012 - CNN: SLIDESHOW The Global Heritage Fund has named 2012 "The Year of the Maya," -- the Maya calendar points to December 2012 as the dawn of a new age.
• Rare caterpillar-like horizontal earthquake discovered
  16 Jan 2012 - MSNBC: Rare for an earthquake to occur on a horizontal fault, in area with no previous tremblors
• US and Google attempt to tap a volcano's heat for green energy
  15 Jan 2012 - The National: Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to green energy.
• It's the end of the world. Or not.
  14 Jan 2012 - Ventura County Star: Some believe the end of the Mayan "long count" calendar on Dec. 21 means doomsday. The Maya say that it's not the end of the world but rather the beginning of a new cycle, and others say there's nothing to worry about.
• Apocalypse Soon!
  12 Jan 2012 - HuffingtonPost: On 10 January the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight.
• What has scientists worried?
  11 Jan 2012 - CS Monitor: Scientists say they moved the 'Doomsday Clock' a minute closer to midnight because nations are failing to sufficiently address nuclear proliferation, climate change, and other global threats.
• Obama’s revolution in American strategy
  10 Jan 2012 - Salon: So much for “World War III” and “the Long War”
• Unraveling 2012 Prophecies
  09 Jan - Sun Star: These are the speculations, predictions and prophecies that have equated the upcoming year to doomsday.
• Our culture is obsessed by apocalypse
  4 Jan 2012 - Vancouver Sun: From the reams that have been written about 2012, it is clear we are unhappy with the world we have created and are looking for a 'do-over'
• 2012: Here Comes the Apocalpyse - Again
  2 Jan 2012 - Huffington Post: If there's one thing that we can bank on in this New Year (and the solvency of banks isn't one of them), it's that we'll be subjected to a flood of stories speculating on whether Dec. 21, 2012 will bring about the end of the world.
• Doomsday cult member surrenders to police in Japan
  01 Jan 2012 - AP: A former member of a Japanese doomsday cult wanted for the murder of a notary official surrendered after nearly 17 years on the run, authorities said Sunday.
• 15 faith-based predictions for 2012
  01 Jan 2012 - CNN: To ring in the New Year, CNN's Belief Blog asked experts in religion, faith leaders, and a secular humanist about how the forces of faith and faithlessness will shape the world in 2012.
• How far is World War III?
  21 Dec 2011 - The Nation: Unknown to the world, the clouds of World War III, are gathering over the horizon. The world is unaware of the gathering storm because the “Western media”, the property and tool of the real masters of the West ...
• Mexico Mayan Region Launches Apocalypse Countdown
  20 Dec 2011 - Salon: Seize the day. Only a year is left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world.
• VIDEO: No Killer Solarflares from Sun
• End of the world as we know it
  newsreview.com: Over the past year or two, my husband and I have bumped into people we haven’t seen or heard from in years or even decades (surprise e-mails from past co-workers or passing each other in the grocery store).
• Comet Elenin Won't Kill Us, Says NASA
  17 Aug 2011 - Discovery: NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin. And no, these aren't the "facts" doomsayers will tell you.
• Will Earthbound Comet Fulfill 2012 Prophecy?
  23 Mar 2011 - Discovery: It's nearly 300 million miles away and barreling toward us. The intruder from deep space, called called comet Elenin, crosses Earth's orbit on its inbound leg and again on its outbound swing around the sun later this year.
• Earthquake Prediction Trends
  Earthquakes in 2005 set the pace early on, even days before 2005 got underway, as the Sumatra Earthquake created such an incredible landscape change that it sent a Tsunami barreling to shore in Indonesia.
• Natural Disasters: Top 10 U.S. Threats
  23 Aug 2010 - LiveScience: Government officials are evaluating and revising disaster plans around the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, just as they did after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
• Nostradamus Quatrains Concerning Comets in the future
  Deciphering Nostradamus' work.
• The 2012 Myth: Crossing the Galactic Plane
  15 Nov 2009 - Kansas City Monitor: A component of the 2012 myth is that on the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice the Sun will cross the galactic plane resulting in an alignment with the galaxy’s central black hole that will result in all sorts of nasty consequences.
• Predictions vary for 2012, last year in Mayan calendar cycle
  14 Nov 2009 - Chicago Tribune: The madness and mayhem portrayed in previews of the film "2012" bear no resemblance to the prophecies that Myriam "Shuni" Giron believes will come to pass in three years.
• Human Extinction: How Could It Happen?
  11 Nov 2009 - Discovery: It would take a combination of severe and catastrophic events to drive the hardy human race to extinction, research concludes.
• Where Are You Hiding Planet X, Dr. Brown? : Discovery News
  4 Nov 2009 - Discovery: Mike Brown speaks with Discovery News about this hypothetical astronomical body but finds out that there is no grand conspiracy.
• Next apocalypse? Mayan year 2012 stirs doomsayers
  10 Oct 2009 - USA Today: Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
• End of days? Maya calendar notes galactic event in 2012
  19 Sep 2009 - Longmont Times: Call Karen Majorowski the Calendar Girl.
• Mayan Calendar Spurs End-Of-The-World Debate
  29 Jul 2009 - NPR: For those people making long-term plans, note this: The end of the world as we know it will be on Dec. 21, 2012
• The Mystery of 2012?
  09 Jan 2009 - UK's Daily Mail: Not surprisingly, the Mayan-inspired mania surrounded 12/21/12 is more money-grubbing than actual science.
• Will the world end in 2012?
  25 Oct 2008 - Jamaican Observer: According to the culture of ancient Maya, part of what scholars call Mesoamerica, astronomy predicts some major cosmic developments for December 21, 2012,
• Times Call: End of days? Maya calendar notes galactic event in 2012
• Scientist: 2012 World’s Doom Day!
  16 Sep 2008: A Ghanaians scientist has predicted that the world would crumble to an end come 20th December 2012.
• End of World Postponed Again, For Now
  11 Sep 2008 - The Gather: Armageddon, Awakening of Cthulhu, Big Crunch, End of Days, Götterdämmerung, Ragnarök, Rapture, Second Coming, and the Yuga cyclical change all failed to occur again this past week.
• The Doomsday Bunker: MoD's secret command centre
• End of the world as we know it
  04 Sep 2008 - newsreview.com: Over the past year or two, my husband and I have bumped into people we haven’t seen or heard from in years or even decades (surprise e-mails from past co-workers or passing each other in the grocery store).

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