Resonance in Dublin, Ireland

Piezoelectric Fires in Dublin, Ireland

by Kevin Doyle for The Herald
September 16, 2011

Gardai cannot rule out arson as cause of blaze.

Mystery surrounds a fire at an unoccupied house in the grounds of the home of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick.

Gardai are investigating whether arson may be to blame for the fire, which broke out in a flat-roofed building at the property in Greystones.

Wicklow fire crews rushed to the scene at the end of a lane close to Mr FitzPatrick's family home, off Whitshed Road, near Greystones Golf Club.

Dublin Fire Brigade received a call at 8.55pm last night...

Gardai last night confirmed that officers at Bray were investigating a fire at a derelict bungalow located at the end of a garden in Greystones.

The cause of the fire was still under investigation today...

Lightning no Longer Blamed for Amazon Data Center Outage

by Yevgeniy Sverdlik for Data Dynamics
August 16, 2011

Utility retracts earlier diagnosis, continues investigation.

The power outage that brought down a portion of an Amazon data center in Dublin, taking down along with it the virtual infrastructure of a number of the company's Cloud customers, is no longer believed to have been caused by a lightning bolt.

In a detailed online account of the outage, the Amazon Web Services team wrote that the utility whose transformer went down on the morning of 7 Aug. had taken back its initial diagnosis of the culprit, when it said a lightning strike had caused the outage, but had not offer an alternative explanation.

"The utility provider now believes it was not a lightning strike, and is continuing to investigate root cause," the AWS team wrote.

Regardless of the cause of the utility outage, the company's Dublin facility failed to switch to back-up generators as it was supposed to when utility power is lost. The AWS team said it believed the facility's programmable logic controllers were at fault for this.

PLCs synchronize the electrical phase between generators before feeding power into the facility. In last week's case, however, a PLC at the data center detected a ground fault, which caused it to fail to complete its task, the AWS team believes at the moment.

Because of the PLC's failure, backup generators for most of the data center were disabled and there was not enough power to continue running all the servers.

The outage affected Amazon's Infrastructure-as-a-Service businesses Elastic Compute Cloud (cloud servers) and Elastic Block Store (cloud storage) and its cloud database service called Relational Database Service. Cloud instances of these three services hosted in Dublin felt most of the effect.

Amazon said nearly all EC2 instances zone and about 60% of EBS volumes in the zone went down. Networking gear connecting the zone to the Internet and to other availability zones in the region went down as well, causing connectivity issues that resulted in customers receiving API errors.

A 110kV 10MW utility transformer serving the data center failed around 10:40 a.m. About one hour later, Amazon technicians were able to bring some of the back-up generators online by phase-syncing them manually.

This restored power to many EC2 instances and EBS volumes, but most of the networking gear was still down, so the restored instances were inaccessible. The technicians finally restored connectivity to the zone around 1:50 p.m.

The AWS team wrote that it would add "redundancy and more isolation" for the data center's PLCs to insulate them from other failures. The company is working with its vendors to deploy a "cold, environmentally isolated back-up PLC", while also correcting isolation of the primary PLC.

To compensate its customers, Amazon said it would provide a 10-day credit to all customers with an EBS volume or an RDS database in the affected availability zone, equal to 1--% of their usage of AWS resources.

Analysis

These unusual fires are being caused all over the world by an unrecognized force: ultra-low frequency sound, far below the audible level of most humans. This infrasonic influence is building strong electrical currents in the metal objects like wheel-barrows, door-knockers and copper electrical wiring in the walls of homes, which then become hot enough to ignite the plastic sheathing surrounding the wires. In other cases, heated wires ignite bed mattresses and metal hangers ignite clothing.

The infrasound which is now being focused onto the Dublin, Ireland vicinity is being transduced by the Orion pyramids of present-day Giza, Egypt, which act as a nonlinear lensing system for resonantly balancing the geomagnetic fields of Earth as stimulated by coronal mass ejections from the increasingly active sun.

Dublin, Ireland (53.35°N 6.27°W) is 2,472 miles from Giza, or 9.9% of the Earth's mean circumference distance (of 24,892 miles). Other related events caused by the same infrasound resonance are occurring in Longford and Glasgow. Ancient sacred sites like Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange were constructed using these infrasound standing waves for acoustic levitation of both stones and water, and left artifacts displaying this geometric knowledge.

The cases have become so severe that spontaneous combustion of objects by piezoelectric induction has been recurring in spates - in areas such as Tenerife, Babura, Abuja, Bauchi, Jos, Omukondo, Onakaheke, Tsholotsho, Lalapansi, Goodhope, Nairobi, Mpumalanga, Mapuve, Bodibe, Bloemfontein, Hopewell, Cape Town, Landovica, Hull, Egham, Wisbech, Messina, Peschici, Berici, across northern Greece, Ratria, Kakori, Mumbai, Kolkata, Charajpura, Thiruvananthapuram, Kishtwar, Rangrik, Kota Baru, Kuala Lumpur, Santo Tomas, Rockhampton, Adelaide, Brisbane, Eaglehawk, Sydney, Georgetown, La Pampa, Melipilla, Nelson and in the US in Seattle, Corvallis, Soudan SP, Minneapolis, New Ulm, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Anderson, Homosassa, San Mateo, Vallejo, San Francisco, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, Clovis, Calaveras, Haverhill, Peabody, Brentwood and New York City.