Massive coronal hole still facing earth expect major quakes in coming days.......

[MindWars]

The Big Wobble: Massive coronal hole still facing Earth expect major quakes in coming days as our Sun hurled a twisted plume of debris more than 250,000 km into space

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Well I suppose if we see big quakes coming this might be why. or if the power goes out we'll know why.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Damn, and I need to set up a new router tomorrow ...

 

[MindWars]

Damn, and I need to set up a new router tomorrow ...

Now, now you know it said a " few days" bhahhahah

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

The Big Wobble: Massive coronal hole still facing Earth expect major quakes in coming days as our Sun hurled a twisted plume of debris more than 250,000 km into space



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Well I suppose if we see big quakes coming this might be why. or if the power goes out we'll know why.

So it will be like on the Corona Beer commercials on the TV afterward?

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

The Big Wobble: Massive coronal hole still facing Earth expect major quakes in coming days as our Sun hurled a twisted plume of debris more than 250,000 km into space



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Well I suppose if we see big quakes coming this might be why. or if the power goes out we'll know why.

Wait I thought fracking and climate change caused all quakes?

 

[Mousterian]

I have heard of solar weather playing havoc with electrical equipment (Carrington Event), but earthquakes? I think that must be Trumpish Truth.

 

[usmbguest5318]

What is a coronal hole?

When we look at solar imagery from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at a wavelength of 193 or 211 Ångstöm, we can see the hot outer layers of the Sun's atmosphere. This outermost layer of the Sun is called the corona. The magnetic field of the Sun plays a great part in how we see this image. The bright areas shows us hot and dense gas that is captured by the magnetic field of the Sun. The dark and almost empty looking areas are places where the magnetic field of the Sun reaches into space so that hot gas can escape. These areas look so dark because there is very little hot material compared to their surroundings.

The magnetic field of a coronal hole is different than the rest of the Sun. Instead of returning to the surface, these magnetic field lines stay open and stretch out into space. At the moment we do not yet know where they reconnect. Instead of keeping the hot gas together, these open magnetic field lines cause a coronal hole to form, where solar wind can escape at high speeds. When a coronal hole is positioned near the centre of the Earth-facing solar disk, these hot gasses flow to Earth at a higher speed than the regular solar wind and cause geomagnetic disturbances on Earth with enhanced auroral activity on high latitudes. Depending on the size and location of the coronal hole on the disk, more or less auroral activity can be expected. Coronal holes are usually not interesting for middle latitude sky-watchers and only occasionally cause a geomagnetic storm.
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How do I recognize a coronal hole stream?

Other than a coronal mass ejection, a coronal hole high speed stream (short: CH HSS) arrives slowly with first a steady increase in the solar wind density. This increase of the solar wind density occurs because the faster solar wind bunches up the slower solar wind particles in front of it. This phenomenon is also called a co-rotating interaction region (short: CIR) and is often accompanied by an increased strength of the IMF. Only after this co-rotating interaction region we will see that the speed of the solar wind increases while the solar wind density decreases.
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Additional references:

• Coronal Holes -- Read this one first -- It's more than you probably want to know about coronal holes, but if you're like me and read the OP's linked article and wondered "is the hole the space inside the "square" projecting off the Sun's surface?.....and so-f*cking-what...and do I really need to care?", this is the one for you....it'll take you about 15 minutes or so to read, but it's got the info you need.
• Interplanetary and solar surface properties of coronal holes observed during solar maximum
  
• CORONAL HOLES AND THE HIGH-SPEED SOLAR WIND -- If you feel like you need to "get your geek on," this one's for you.

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I posted the pics, text and links I did because the OP photo is of a "solar tornado" flare, not a coronal hole. Just figured it be nice to have a photo of a coronal hole since that's what the title mentions.​