NASA's Science News announced a new form of space weather dubbed "Space Quakes" which play a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights.
"A spacequake is a tremblor in Earth's magnetic field.  It is felt most strongly in Earth orbit, but is not exclusive to space. The effects can reach all the way down to the surface of Earth itself. " NASA Science News
 
Here is the link to a video of a space quake in action.  It is a simulated movie created by Walt Feimer of Goddard's Scientific Visualization Lab.

http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/07/27/bounce_512x288.m1v

Kathleen's Vedic astrology take on these Space Quakes:

I posit that these Space quakes might occur over or in the geographical regions where the previous year's Eclipses shadow the Earth. 

The study of 'mundane astrology' is a branch of Vedic astrology and it studies the effects of major astrological events on nations, nation-states and geographical regions of people and the karmic links of astronomical events at a specific place and time.  The result of these studies often link the location of where an eclipse shadows the Earth with major changes in weather patterns or dramatic political events.  These dramatic political or weather changes can be felt easily up to 6 months or a year after an eclipse shadows the Earth.  Mind you, eclipses generally occur every 6 months like clock work.  WHERE they shadow the Earth moves across the Earth. 
 
I am suggesting a possible link between 1) the shadow of eclipses on Earth and 2) magnetoshpere 'quakes' with 3) major regional weather events.  The space quakes are just another example of disturbances in the magnetosphere.  A major weather event is experienced close the surface and a space quake originates in the Earth's magnetic field.  So, a quake in the Earth's field or a Hurricane or Tsunami on the surface could be different material expressions of similar types of disturbance; one at Earth's surface and another in Earth's field.
This is just a theory and clearly more analysis and documentation need to occur.    Documentation will need to occur with space quakes and major dramatic weather events as well.  This is where groups of Vedic astrologers document and work with each other to create more evidence and teaching for mundane astrology.
 
There can still be clear scientific reasons why a Hurricane begins and concurrent correlation to astronomical events.  The two need not be mutually exclusive. Rather, my theory is that they are related.
 
A future article will discuss the association of different planetary combinations and how these can be associated with different karmic events at different locations around the world (Mundane Astrology). This is an extension of Gayatri Devi Vasudev's lecture at the 2010 NorthWest Vedic Astrology Conference which is a continuation of her father's work (B V Raman).

Go to the full NASA article here:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/27jul_spacequakes/