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15 March 2004 - Robert Fritzius to Nicholas Hawkins - Re: Caronia events
As a follow on to our earlier discussion, and some more web
research I made some additions to the web page. I created
a schematic cross section thru the sea level village (where
the fires were reported), extending up the steep hill (or
whatever it is.)
Based on an aerial photo (if its really of our "village") I'd
guess that the hairpin road, just south of the new highway,
is the access road to the village on top of the steep hill.
The red line on the photo corresponds to the cross section.
If you don't mind, I put a note to the Sicilians, to give you
a hand when you get back there. Stranger things might happen.
If "telegraphing" your arrival is problematic I'll remove the
appropriate parts.
"The Canefield of Caronia" is the one near the query volcano.
"Canefield" is "Canneto" in Italian.
I'd like to know a lot more about that "query volcano."
How big is it? What is the distance to its center from
the seaside village? and on and on.
The Sto Stefano di Camastra should be about two miles east of
Canneto di Caronia.
15 March 2004 - Nicholas Hawkins - Re: Caronia events
The hills [along the coast] are very chaotic so it is difficult to generalize about the gradients; but the mean gradient on the slopes from Caronia Marina [up] to Caronia [the main center of population] is less than 45 degrees. The road zig-zags up it. At Caronia Marina, there is no flat ground more than 10 meters back from the railway.
A line from the railway to the hilltop would give about the gradient I estimated from Caronia Marina.
16 March 2004 - Robert Fritzius to Nicholas Hawkins - Re: Caronia events
At St. Stephano there is a museum. In the museum there is a painting
or some kind of artwork that shows some (fierce?)* warriors sinking into
the ground. To me that is suggestive them being victims of earthquake liquefaction.
You might check on earthquake lore in the area.
*The phrase may have been "five warriors".
There are two fault lines which criss cross at Mt. Etna. One fault line
is oriented SSW-NNE and the other is oriented SE-NW approximately.
Best I can tell this latter fault line intersects the north coast of
Sicily in the region of Canneto.
One of the pages that are linked to from the article:
A Canneto di Caronia (ME)
http://www.guidasicilia.it/ita/main/news/index.jsp?IDNews=10413
is accompanied by a map of Sicily that shows seismic hot spots.
There is a hot spot apparently in the north coast area a little
west of Caronia. Seems to be St. Stephens... and Palermo.
The article says that an updated map (Italy including Sicily) is
to be published on the 20th of March.
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22 March 2004 - Nicholas Hawkins - Caronia
Does anyone have a list of all the Caronia incidents?
6 April 2004 - Noname Noway - re: spontaneous fires
Greetings, it appears, both logically and from similar observations,
that the fires are caused by induced electric currents. I think it
would be simple enough to put a few coils in town and monitor them for
fluctuations (couple them to a packet radio for remote monitoring,
magnetically insulated, of course). I watched 2 telephone line
transformers across the street from each other begin to glow and then
catch fire through magnetic field fluctuations. There was a period of
about 1 minute 30 seconds between thermal discharges and it went on all
night.
Why these events are highly localized is also typical. Ground fields
mount up until a transference or transduction can occur or they just
move away or subside. Usually, it there are clouds around it may induce
a lightning strike but the fields mount anyway, clouds or no. Magnetic
field focusing may occur in an object having any field coil properties,
as each item listed had, transducing the magnetic charge into heat and
then fire. They could grid the town with ground stakes to trap the
charge to safer spots but I doubt if they will ever get rid of them. It
would be fun to map the geomagnetics of the town. I am sure you would
find some very dense fields, fields much larger than you would suppose.
6 April 2004 - Robert Fritzius to Nicholas Hawkins - Methane detector
With the return of the inhabitants of Canneto the fires started up again.
If you have time before you leave you might consider trying to
beg, borrow or steal a portable methane detector.
Here's a line to one page that offers something you could use.
http://www.bascomturner.com/bti_201.htm
More links later if I can find some.
I'd really l like to know the geological details of that steep hill
and the part of it that is under the flaming village.
06 Apr 2004 - Craig Renner - The Fires of Canneto di Caronia
I find this subject fascinating and I cannot believe the mainstream press
has only one article concerning this most important matter.
07 Apr 2004 - Noname Noway - re: spontaneous fires
Hello again, I understand some geophysicists are on the scene and have
set up a monitoring system for magnetic flux and electromagnetic
spectrum mapping. We should get a good view of the mag fields of the
town. I am looking forward to seeing it. The monitors are both mobile
and stationary and may even capture an event. They are using some
expensive equipment which I think is overkill. I prefer to use cheap,
cheap, cheap and give it to the locals to have fun with. Small science
is better than boss science.
By the way, if the power cord to the lamp WAS plugged in it probably
wouldn't have caught fire. The motors would have even if plugged in
because the field coils are isolated from ground through the switch. I
think it is magnetic flux rather than electromagnetic, these are not
hot dogs left in the microwave oven too long. Also, the mapping should
be carried out to sea to see if the village is just the tip of the
'iceberg'.
09 Apr 2004 - Robin van Spaandonk - Canneto di Caronia
Do you happen to know if anyone has thought to measure x-rays or gamma-rays?
(Such radiation would among other things cause water to separate into hydrogen and oxygen resulting in fires in water pipes).
9 April 2004 - Jeroen Goulooze - "...in the fall of 2004"?
I think you made a slght error. You probably mean 2003 instead of 2004
because that would be in the future:)
17 Feb 2004 - Author's Notes
The author speculates that the Etna volcanic ash episode took place in the
fall of 2004.
9 April 2004 - Robert Fritzius to Jeroen Goulooze
Thanks much!! Will fix.
09 Apr 2004 - Blake M. Wylie - Sicilian Fires
(I saw an AP story today about how they [the fires at Canneto di Caronia] are still going on:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&e=7&u=/nm/life_italy_fires_dc
Don't know if you've seen this before, but I used to live in Alabama, and something similar happened
in a town there in the 50's. I found a story about it here:
http://www.prairieghosts.com/al_fire.html.
It's a ghost site (paranormal), but it's the only place I could find it on the web.
[The article describes unexplained fires which repeatedly broke out inside dwellings when members of
the same family were present. Well written.]
(Continued in Part 2.)