Geomagnetic Reversals and Ice Ages

[onawah]

Sunspots Growing, San Andreas Risk, 30K Yr Old Art
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TODAY'S LINKS:
IMF and PPEF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.06765.pdf
30,000 year old Art: https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/pre...
San Andreas Risk: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/202...
Cosmic Dawn Signal Rethink: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Kilonova: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/202...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqtPGc4CPGo

[onawah]

Magnetic Animal Magic, Solar Watch, Deep Chemistry
28,369 views Mar 2, 2022
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Big Burb Episode 6: https://youtu.be/Af3yBREcutg
Seal Migration: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
Deep Chemistry: https://carnegiescience.edu/news/what...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pRFW0emjiTg

[onawah]

Solar Flare, No Black Hole, Magnetic Field Shift
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No Black Hole: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2204/
Loops, Wrinkles, Something Else? https://news.ucar.edu/132830/solar-il...
Paleomagnetism in China: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wCFb77LRyWI

[onawah]

An Antidote to Hopium

A few of Ben Davidson's short entries from the recent past which give us a realistic perspective on what life on Earth entails

The Earth Turns Over | Advanced Catastrophism
172,933 views
Jan 27, 2021

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iiXEL70xmzk

Bezos Upgrades Disaster Plan, La Palma, Ionospheric Disturbances
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Oct 25, 2021

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k4Cfws1cF0Q

5 Outrageous Facts About The Earth
74,830 views
Dec 4, 2021

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OlJIO9WQlEc

[onawah]

Solar Micronova Evidence, Impactor Discovered
31,624 views Mar 4, 2022
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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rNS5QkJ26pA

Keep Up On Disaster and Preparation
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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MRkt8TxkaRg

[onawah]

Unprecedented Ecological & Atmospheric Shifts
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Mar 5, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Eco-Shift: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Heinrichs and “DO”s: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Mid-Latitude Mesospheric Echoes: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/3/396
Dark Energy Illusion? https://www.sissa.it/sites/default/fi...
ResearchGate Case: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5y9td_0UZmk

[pyrangello]

New Madrid Separation....Until the separation arrives at the hard rock barrier at the town of New Madrid, which resists pulling apart, the serious rupture we have predicted will not occur. But if New Orleans starts tearing that will be the beginning . Thats when the bells go off!!!!!!!

The Zetas have said the New Madrid Fault Line rupture will come up from the Gulf, and start within a 3 week period spanning the end of 2021 and the early days of 2022. It was clear from looking at the position of the N American Continent that N America was locked at the top, being a flat top plate, so it could not roll. It was also locked at the bottom at the tip of Mexico, blocked by the Cocos Plate. For the Mainland Portion of N America to slide to the SW, the Cocos Plate would have to either fracture or move aside. On February 18 the buoys showed that the Mainland and SE Portions were moving independently. Something gave.


ZetaTalk Comments 2/18/2022: The Mainland and SE Portions of the N American Continent have separated at the tip of Mexico through the Gulf of Mexico. This can be seen in the buoy recordings, which show the SE Portion with a heaving Gulf floor while the Buoy off the West Coast of Mexico is showing a normal wave height throughout. Previously, they rose and fell together. The extreme quake activity over the past few days from the Tehuantepec Ridge and down along the coast to Guatemala, combined with a very deep quake on the Isthmus itself, shows that a likely Cocos Plate snap was at this location.

Internal dynamics of the Cocos Plate shows that the Tehuantepec Ridge is riding over the section just to the SE, creating a distinct platelet candidate there that has been pushed down in the past. What will this separation of parts to the East and West of the New Madrid Fault Line where it begins at the tip of Mexico mean? As the N American bow relaxes the Mainland Portion will find it can slide to the SW with less resistance. This will inevitably pull apart the hard rock at New Madrid, creating the anticipated rupture of the New Madrid Fault Line.

That a rupture at the Isthmus occurred is shown by a February 19 train derailment on the railroad at the Isthmus. The Isthmus is low land and narrow, and has been considered a candidate for a canal similar to the Panama Canal. This was accompanied by booms in central Florida, a reaction in the SE Portion of N America.




2:05pm HUGE boom in Central Florida
February 19, 2022
https://www.godlikeproductions.com/f...age5052294/pg1
I don't know what it was, but it shook my house and rattled the windows. VERY low frequency. Did anyone else hear it? All the dogs in the neighborhood are barking. It sounded more like an impact than an explosion.


Isthmus of Tehuantepec
https://www.britannica.com/place/Isthmus-of-Tehuantepec
Although the isthmus has been considered a favourable transportation route since the early 16th century, it was rejected as an interoceanic canal site because construction of the canal would have been too costly. Instead, a railroad extending 192 miles (310 km) from Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf of Campeche to Salina Cruz on the Gulf of Tehuantepec was opened in 1907.
ZetaTalk Comments 2/19/2022: If the Mainland and SE Portions of the N American Plate have separated at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, then each portion can act on its own. This is true of the lower portion as the separation travels up from the start of the fault line at Tehuantepec and then through the Pemex gas fields and the deep waters of the Gulf to New Orleans. Until the separation arrives at the hard rock barrier at the town of New Madrid, which resists pulling apart, the serious rupture we have predicted will not occur.

In the meantime, life in the lower part of the N American Continent will be changing. While the Mainland Portion drops slowly, relieving the bow stress that had been imposed upon it for over a decade, the SE Portion continues to find itself in a tug-of-war between its attachments to the African and Caribbean Plates and its deteriorating attachment to the Mainland Portion. The Cocos Plate has fractured at several points to allow the Mainland Portion to drop but must fracture further below Central America.

Meanwhile the Isthmus itself will pull apart, in two different directions, a trauma already displayed by the train derailment on February 19. The dance that will occur between the Mainland and SE Portions before the rupture reaches the town of New Madrid will be more violent than has been the case. This dance will reverberate throughout the SE Portion, but the path of the rupture will come up the Mississippi River from the Gulf. Monitoring this path will provide the best clues as to progress and timing.

The dropping Mainland Portion does not drop as a unit, but in steps. As a lower point slides to the SW, it makes room for points higher in the Mainland Portion to slide and drop. This could be seen on February 22 when dual train derailments occurred near Phoenix, AZ and Dallas, TX – both lateral to the Mississippi River Embayment. The Mainland Portion is dropping.



No Injuries after Train Derails in Denison
February 22, 2022
https://www.kxii.com/2022/02/23/no-i...rails-denison/
Crews with the Dallas Garland and Northeastern Railroad are still working to clear a train derailment near West Morton St., in Denison. It happened just after 4 pm, on Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses say at least six cars overturned and the track separated. It is still unclear what caused the derailment and no injuries have been reported.
Freight Train Derails in Arizona; Crews Contain Solvent Leak
February 21, 2022
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/ch...leak-contained
The derailment happened east of Highway 87, at Storey Road. The cause of the derailment was being investigated.
ZetaTalk Comments 2/22/2022: What is the nexus between multiple pressure points on the Cocos Plate border and two train derailments in the southcentral US? With the SE and Mainland Portions separating at the Tehuantepec Isthmus they can both operate independently. The Mainland Portion continues its slide to the SW, thus signs the Rivera Platelet is now fracturing its connection to the Cocos Plate and more hammering quakes along the Albatross Plateau. The Cocos Plate fractured at the Guatemala Basin and this break is still continuing, with the Cocos Plate now pushing against Central America.

The separation is predicted to run through the Gulf and up past New Orleans along the Mississippi River. Sinking land along the Mississippi River Embayment, with consequent breaks in the bridges over the Mississippi River there, would be expected. Note that two sudden and unexplained trail derailments in Phoenix and Dallas are lateral to the Embayment. The pressure is rising, though not yet along the fault line running under the Mississippi River. Watching the Embayment for flooding and the bridges there for closures would be clues to progress of the New Madrid Fault Line separation.

While all eyes are on the Gulf and the tip of Mexico, the top portion of the Mainland Portion is under stress too. The N America Plate has a long, straight border with the Eurasian Plate, all the way from Japan through the Arctic to Iceland and thence down between America and Europe to the Azores. This will pull apart at the Azores when the final New Madrid rupture occurs. But meanwhile, the tug-of-war is evident. The heliplot at Tiksi in Siberia is usually black from this tugging but on February 21 it handed the tension over to Greenland just across the plate border.

ZetaTalk Comments 2/21/2022: Since the Cocos Plate has fractured, allowing the Mainland Portion of the N American Continent to shift South and West without being blocked by the Cocos Plate, the pace has picked up. Within a day of the February 19 fracture that Nancy detected via the buoys, there is reaction at the top of the N American Plate. On February 20, another clue is being presented via the Heliplots, which show the constant intense jitter at Tiksi, Siberia moving to Greenland. Tiksi has had black Heliplots for months while the Mainland was being tugged down, but now has a normal Heliplot, while the tug has moved to Greenland.

We have consistently predicted that the tear of the Atlantic at the tri-plate Azores juncture would happen “almost instantly” when the jolt at the town of New Madrid occurred, signaling that the rupture of the great New Madrid Fault Line had begun. The SE Portion clings to the plate borders to the SE – the Caribbean, African, and S American Plates. But what of the long border between the Mainland Portion and the Eurasian Plate? This envelops the Mainland Portion from the far East across the Arctic over to Greenland and thence down between Canada and Europe.

The N American Plate border through the Arctic is held in a rigid stance because the N American Continent cannot roll, having a flat top. The New Madrid rupture may emerge from the Gulf, thence outlining the SE Portion along the Fault Line and across the Atlantic to the Azores tri-plate juncture, but the script has been written such that the Azores plays a part. The SE Portion and its attachments hold firm, but the N Atlantic is already rupturing along the mid-Atlantic rift. The switch of the tug from Tiksi to Greenland is preparing the way.

Indeed, a rupture at the Azores during the New Madrid adjustment has long been predicted by the Zetas.

ZetaTalk Prediction 2007: Of course the northern Atlantic Rift is most vulnerable at the Azores, where three plates touch and movement in any one of them destabilizes the rift. Africa is tugging to roll to the East, and drop, and will do so before the European tsunami occurs. This makes the separation of the N American Plate from the Eurasian Plate at the Azores and upward quite vulnerable.

ZetaTalk Prediction 2010: For the New Madrid, which will include the European tsunami in its effects, there will be one large jolt with a subsequent and almost immediate tearing of the Atlantic.

On February 24, attention returned to the Gulf, where a heliplot at Kingsville, Tx inexplicably turned black. A retired geologist, Mr. Jack M. Reed had the answer, published in 2006. The Gulf has a platelet on the Mainland Portion of N America under the waves in the Gulf. As the rupture of the New Madrid Fault Line that started at the Isthmus travels north under the waves, this platelet got bumped, with a reaction at Kingsville. The rupture is northbound.



What’s behind the Mysterious Booms Heard around East Texas?
January 5, 2022
https://www.ketk.com/news/local-news...the-mysterious
Houses shaking and loud explosions are what people in several East Texas towns say they experienced this last week. Now East Texans want to know who and what is to blame. No one is positive about what could be causing the heavy noises and shaking.
5.2 Earthquake Dead Center in Gulf of Mexico
February 10, 2006
http://culturelifesciencenews.blogsp...arthquake-dead
A retired geologist, Mr. Jack M. Reed, theorized there has to be a hidden tectonic plate segment in this spot and it is not only geologically active but is responsible for triggering the New Madrid Quakes.
ZetaTalk Comments 2/24/2022: Why would Kingsville, TX suddenly go black on the USGS Heliplots? Ostensibly this is not on a fault line or plate border, though reports of unexplained booms have occurred there as recently as January 5. What is significant is a platelet in the Gulf, seldom active but under great pressure at present because the Mainland and SE Portions of the N America Continent are in the process of separating. The Isthmus has separated and now this separation is moving through the Gulf. New Orleans will separate next.

http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue805.htm

[onawah]

Shocking Discovery, Pole Shift Hitting Ionosphere
43,151 views Mar 6, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Cosmic Visible Background: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Reduce CO2, Trigger Rapid Ice Age: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
F3 at Arecibo: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Flu and Humidity: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-fi...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3Pzlqr0D10

[onawah]

Big Solar Storm Coming Soon? Ionosphere, Jet Shutdown
47,382 views Mar 7, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Jet Weakening: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
Asymmetric Solar Wind-Ionosphere Coupling: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
16.8 Year Cycle: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-EqN5AqmbYM

[onawah]

Solar Watch, Cold Wave, Hunting Past Disasters
17,766 views Mar 8, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Climate Models Questioned: https://news.ucar.edu/132831/new-stud...
Major Climate Events: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ldoTkgtFWCo

[onawah]

Big Sunspots Arrive, Volcano Triggers, Super Stars
36,485 views Mar 9, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Planetary Nebula: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Cosmic Rays & Volcanos: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.03637.pdf
NICER Magnetar: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
Big Molecule Around Star: https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/pr...
Japanese Killing stone: https://weather.com/news/trending/vid...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8p_hImSU4

[onawah]

Sunspots, CME Watch, Greenland, South Pole
30,830 views Mar 10, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Old Hiawatha: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
GOCE South Pole: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Obse...
Hints of Truth: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNj2XP-eyP8

[onawah]

Sun Erupts at Earth | Tsunami of Fire & Plasma Explosion
54,720 views 3/10/22
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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mVc1qsPp1Hc

[onawah]

Solar Eruption | Full CME-Impact Forecast
40,572 views Mar 11, 2022
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"Moderate CME impact expected Sunday, coronal hole stream expected Monday, mid-high level geomagnetic activity is possible. This can produce minor electrical issues but is unlikely to cause major ones."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KMx40E5vS-o

[onawah]

Solar Flare, Eye Candy, Dragonfly, Electroquakes
30,328 views Mar 12, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Galactic Gas Detector: https://news.yale.edu/2022/03/10/new-...
HH34: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/go...
Pre-Earthquake Signals: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/5/2658
Heliosphere Animation: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20363

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUuaRKVzrs

[onawah]

CME Impact Today, Climate Report, Paleopoles
31,478 views Mar 13, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Paleopoles: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Solar Events in Past: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
US Climate Report: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-pr...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5SZNS19oDE

[onawah]

CME Impact, Level 2 Storms, Another Solar Flare
25,533 viewsMar 14, 2022
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Sept2017 Solar Storm: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Atmospheric Tides and Space Weather: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h8Dn1lktyy0

[onawah]

More evidence of a cycle of cataclysms caused by the Sun
Brien Foerster - the Lost Technology of the Ancient Megalithic Builders
102,446 views Premiered Mar 11, 2022
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"Courtesy of UFO Mega Con https://bit.ly/UFO_MEGA_CON_USA - At many ancient sites in places such as Egypt, Peru, Bolivia, Easter Island, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey we see clear evidence that advanced machining technologies were employed at megalithic sites, in some cases more advanced than what we have in the 21st century. What this indicates is that the historical record we have been taught is woefully insufficient and that either very technologically advanced human societies or visitors from off planet created amazing megalithic stone works prior to the established historical civilization timelines. Though academia in general scoff at such ideas, the scientific evidence from independent researchers, geologists, engineers and others show that we are not the most sophisticated beings to have existed on this planet.

About Brien Foerster:
Brien Foerster was born in the United States but grew up on the west coast of Canada where he developed a fascination with Native art. Though he did graduate from university with a BSc. honors degree, his passion for the art of the indigenous people caused him to become a professional carver of totem poles for over a decade.

At 35 he moved to the island of Maui in Hawaii and spent 2 years working with Hawaiian people building a 62 foot double hull sailing catamaran. This adventure led him to explore Polynesia for several years, and then he chose to visit Peru 12 years ago. His first tour guide in the Inca city of Cusco could not explain how the huge megalithic works of the area were made and by who, thus he began to explore using his science background, as well as local and foreign geologists, engineers and oral tradition experts the mysteries that underly these astonishing stone works.
This has led to a revelation that the megalithic works of Peru, as well as those in Bolivia, Easter Island, Egypt, Lebanon, Petra and other places were in fact created many thousands of years before any known culture, and were all seemingly devastated by a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. This led him to recently publish the book Aftershock.
In all, he has published 36 books as of August 2019, has appeared on numerous television shows, such as Ancient Aliens 18 times, numerous radio shows and podcasts, and has explored more than 95 countries. You can find more than 1200 of his videos on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/brienfoerster

This channel is under ZEG UK/USA/PM LTD & AdRev Management."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tq1dOEm6wc8

Also see: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1488451

[onawah]

Amazing Star Beam, Repeating Stellar Explosions
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TODAY'S LINKS:
Stellar Beam: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/202...
What Kind of Nova? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.06320.pdf
R Aquarii: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
RS Ophiuci: https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H9lhHUe0ph4

[onawah]

A new scientific paper shows a strong correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide
Mar 12, 2022
https://strangesounds.org/2022/03/is...7gfo79fwcmLpmU

"A recent peer-reviewed paper that found a correlation between solar activity and earthquakes is sending tremors through the scientific community.


The figure shows an example of application of the statistical method to 15 days of the catalogue. The istogram levels give the daily value of the proton density; the red line shows the level of the current density threshold (all values of it are consecutively tested). The black points indicate the occurrence of earthquakes in that day. The istogram colours indicate the conditions which are applied for the statistical tests; in particular, violet indicates the first day below the current proton density threshold (i.e. the first day after a value above the threshold), the green indicates the last day above the density threshold, and so on (as indicated in the legend). High values of earthquake frequency in one of these particular periods indicate the tendency of earthquakes to occur before, during, after (and with what time lag) a period of proton density above the current threshold. Also shown in the figure are the minimum (blue), average (purple) and maximum (intense red) values of proton density for the whole catalogue used. via Nature

The paper theorizes that clusters of protons from the sun may correlate to large earthquakes on Earth. The sun, like all active stars, constantly vents matter in the form of solar wind, which includes particles like electrons, protons, and ionized helium atoms. The distribution and density of these particles vary, as the sun has variable “weather” just as the Earth does.

Researchers Vito Marchitelli, Paolo Harabaglia, Claudia Troise and Giuseppe De Natale looked at data on earthquakes and solar activity to ascertain if there was a correlation. Their data consisted of worldwide earthquake data as well as measurements of solar protons from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint satellite of NASA and the European Space Agency that was launched in 1995 and is still active.

Understanding the researchers’ thesis requires a brief foray into statistics. If earthquakes happened at completely random times of day, one could map them on a chart depicting time, and the dots would be randomly distributed, with no apparent pattern. Moreover, the rate at which they occur would be statistically constant, albeit random — meaning they would favor no one time over any other one.

But evidently, earthquakes don’t fit this pattern.

“Large earthquakes occurring worldwide have long been recognized to be non Poisson distributed,” the researchers write. The Poisson distribution is a statistics term that formally describes a situation described above, wherein events occur at a constant rate and independently of previous events. Radioactive decay is a good example of something else that observes the Poisson distribution: individual events of atomic decay are randomly distributed, but over time they average out to something predictably constant, which is why physicists are able to predict precise half-lives for any isotope.

Because earthquake timing seems to fit some unseen pattern, they posit that big earthquakes must then “involve some large scale correlation mechanism, which could be internal or external to the Earth.” They continue:

“Till now, no statistically significant correlation of the global seismicity with one of the possible mechanisms has been demonstrated yet. In this paper, we analyze 20 years of proton density and velocity data, as recorded by the SOHO satellite, and the worldwide seismicity in the corresponding period, as reported by the ISC-GEM catalogue.”

They conclude, “We found clear correlation between proton density and the occurrence of large earthquakes [of magnitute greater than 5.6], with a time shift of one day. The significance of such correlation is very high, with probability to be wrong lower than 10^-5” [meaning one in 10000].”

In statistical terms, that would imply a very confident correlation between the two events, meaning proton density and the occurrence of these large quakes. Indeed, one in 10,000 is close to the gold standard of statistical certainty.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N5hfS-a0jgk

Skeptical scientists
Despite this, multiple geophysicists and seismologists were very skeptical of the paper’s conclusion for other reasons. Salon spoke with several who were critical of the findings.“My first thought is that what keeps the global time distribution of earthquakes from being Poissonian is the occurrence of aftershocks,” said Tom Parsons, a research geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey. “Once a catalog is declustered and aftershocks are removed, then it is difficult to show non-random inter-event times. As aftershocks are primarily a local phenomenon, it strikes me as unlikely that they are caused by global-scale solar activity.”

In other words, Parsons notes that earthquakes aren’t randomly distributed, and thus wouldn’t adhere to the Poisson distribution, because often earthquakes aren’t independent events: one earthquake can trigger a follow-up quake, or vice-versa. “Declustering” refers to separating related “clusters” of earthquake events, such as a quake and its accompanying aftershocks.

Co-author Giuseppe De Natale answer: “the large scale correlation among worldwide earthquakes is not only due to simple ‘clustering,’ meant as main shock-aftershocks sequences.”

De Natale clarified that the researchers “absolutely don’t say that the aftershocks are caused by solar activity. In fact in this case we would not get a so high statistical significance for the inferred correlation,” he continued.

De Natale also shook off the criticism about “clustering” of earthquakes and aftershocks undermining his thesis. He told that the correlation they found pertains to “a very peculiar behavior of worldwide seismicity, which we are presently noting and studying, evidencing a tendency of global seismicity [. . .] to occur clustered in times, but at mutual distances of several thousands of [kilometers]; so, they cannot be ‘aftershocks’ in the common sense.”

He argued that this “seems to be strictly related to the triggering effect of proton density (and hence of solar activity).”

De Natale pointed to other earthquake incidents, including ones that were very deep underground, as “isolated events” that prove that the aftershock criticism is unwarranted. Even large, shallow earthquakes, De Natale says, did not exhibit Poisson distributions even after isolating them from aftershocks, meaning that they appeared to be correlated to something.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUuaRKVzrs

Greg Beroza, Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and a professor of geophysics at Stanford University, had a similar reaction to the paper as Parsons.“The claim seems extraordinary and the physical mechanism is obscure. This is an example of statistical seismology, and there are many potential pitfalls associated with that kind of work,” said Beroza.

De Natale answer: “We agree that the physical mechanism we propose is still very qualitative and needs more experimental evidence,” he said. “However, the evidence of correlation is extremely strong with probability to be wrong (i.e. just by chance) less than 1/100,000. Furthermore, we used several different, very advanced statistical techniques to confirm the correlation.”

He continued: “So, it is possible that the physical mechanism is not the appropriate one, but, in our opinion, it is almost impossible to deny the existence of a clear correlation between proton density and worldwide earthquakes.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OTx8dQYap90

Another top seismologist called into question the rigorousness of the study and expressed deep skepticism about its conclusions.“I’m not an enthusiast,” John Emilio Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California, told Salon. “There are a lot of red flags in that paper. I’m frankly surprised it made it through review. I have to admit I didn’t go through the numbers and try to reproduce their statistical analysis, which would really be the key, but they kind of misunderstand a number of things and they approach the problem in a pretty roundabout way, so I’m fairly skeptical.”

He added, “They make a whole set of arbitrary rules with who knows how many pre-parameters and then make these complicated plots whose meaning really isn’t clear. So it’s not a direct test of their ideas.”

De Natale answer: “We use just one parameter to infer the correlation: the level of proton density. Moreover, we use different and very advanced statistical procedures to statistically test the correlation.” De Natale cited one of these statistical procedures, a “renowned” method to “test seismological forecast algorithms” known as the Molchan method.

De Natale added, “I understand these methods, for people not used to handle them, can be difficult to understand; but they are very sound — and the statistical results, showing such a high significance, are almost impossible to deny.”

Whether or not solar activity is correlated with earthquakes on Earth, earthquake prediction has long been considered a holy grail of sorts for geologists and actuaries alike. Indeed, a robust means of predicting earthquakes could save lives, and aid disaster relief and preparedness.

Yet probing deep within the Earth, to the point where faults might be observable, is an impossible task for any sort of scientific imaging due to the density of rock; rather, modern seismology relies on indirect observation and observational seismic data instead. Indeed, recent advances in earthquake prediction technology — such as those that predicted the increasing likelihood of a large Southern California quake — derive from computer modeling using seismic records and geologic models. [Salon]"