Solar flares appear to influence large earthquakes – Photo from NASA
When the Sun fires off huge coronal mass ejections (CMEs), earthquake records show that there is an increase in earthquakes at the same time all over the world.
When the Sun is calm and is not throwing out as many massive CMEs, the “number” of earthquakes worldwide goes down.
We can use this knowledge of possibilities to predict (as much as humanly possible) large earthquakes, especially near major metropolitan areas and around nuclear power plants.
Big Flares and Large Quakes
The sun has erupted more than a dozen times over the past week, throwing radiation into space; some CMEs are heading toward Earth, and some outward into the unknown. According to NASA, the Sun fired off 24 medium strength M-class flares and 4 stronger X-class flares between October 23 – 30.
Big flares appear when big quakes shake the Earth.
The following large earthquakes occurred on Earth at this time:
- 6.6 43km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile 2013-10-31
- 6.3 45km SSW of Hualian, Taiwan 2013-10-31
- 6.2 46km W of Constitucion, Chile 2013-10-30
- 7.1 Off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 2013-10-25
- 6.7 East of the South Sandwich Islands 2013-10-24
- 6.5 91km SW of Etchoropo, Mexico 2013-10-19
- 6.8 64km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-16
- 7.1 5km SE of Sagbayan, Philippines 2013-10-15
- 6.4 30km W of Platanos, Greece 2013-10-12
- 6.1 33km N of Gueiria, Venezuela 2013-10-12
- 4.9 53km WNW of Eureka, California 2013-10-11
Humans build major populated cities on top of active earthquake zones – beautiful but dangerous.
The Solar/Quake Cycle
Today, this very minute, the solar cycle is reaching its peak, so this means that the Sun is “sucking up” more energy from its surface because its magnetic poles are preparing to flip. Scientists are monitoring this polar magnetic flip, and this should provide some hints when the next CMEs will flare up.
This should also provide us with some hints when the next large earthquakes will respond, here on the Earth.
THIS should provide the massive concentrations of people living along the most volatile earthquake zones some sort of warning when to expect larger earthquakes.
The question to ask is are we paying attention?
CMEs
If your cell phone is acting up, it’s probably caused by the most recent CME.
Solar flares are strong bursts of radiation that sling powerful material through space toward Earth (known as a CME or coronal mass ejection), and some can be quite harmful. Most CMEs reach the Earth in one to three days after they have ejected from the Sun’s surface.
A powerful CME pointed toward Earth moving over 600 miles per second can disturb the upper atmosphere enough to disrupt radio signals and affect electronic systems in satellites both in space and on the ground.
Apparently the Earth’s earthquake zones DO respond to the Sun’s X-class flares, wouldn’t you say?
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