Seismic Wave; Solar Quake

This is a movie of the July 9, 1996 solar quake. The images were made using the Michelson Doppler Imager onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, a joint European Space Agency/NASA project. The white, feathery object in the center is the solar flare that caused the quake. A solar flare is an explosion in the atmosphere of the Sun, caused by the tearing and reconnection of strong magnetic fields. Although moderate in size, this flare released an enormous amount of energy. The energy released is equal to completely covering the Earth's continents with a yard of dynamite and detonating it all at once. Some of this energy was transferred to the solar surface by high speed electrons traveling within magnetic flux tubes, invisible tubes of magnetic energy. They produced X-rays, microwaves and shock waves that heated the solar surface. These shock waves are the solar quake, and can be seen as concentric rings spreading outward from beneath the flare, much like ripples spreading from a rock dropped into a pool of water. The flare-generated solar quake contained about 40,000 times the energy released in the great earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906. The amount of energy released was enough to power the United States for 20 years at its current level of consumption.

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[streaky1992]

@Jamescool223 you mean Sunquakes :)

[Jamescool223]

WOW earthquakes on the sun amazing

[BOYKOILIEV2008]

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See what earthquake happened in Colombia on the 31st of January 2009.For Colombia or Costa Rica:31st of January 2009,16h25min

/UTC/.Boyko Iliev

[quietthomas]

The wave accelerated as lower layers are hotter so the wave can go faster in the deeper layers - dragging the visible top layer ripple along and accelerating it.

[GasMaskGuy343]

EPIC!!!!

[ChickenLover7777]

somebody threw a rock in there, didn't they??!!

[StoneWallKid]

This things for real... I just saw it on the history channel. That bright part in the middle is a HUGE solar flair that hit the surface so hard it made these waves at around 250,000 MPH that were 2 mi high

[arrivingdesignation]

you meant molten surface? but the wave was so quick and wasnt it suppose be distorted. or is it a closer look over surface. i guess closely, solar radiations would be much difficult to capture on plates.

[bignewgame]

Was this superimposed over water? Sure looks like it.

[ibozo]

SUNQUAKE!! LOL