Hi All. Over a period of a couple of years Dr. Lowell Whiteside has explained to me the correlation between major quakes and a coronal mass ejection (CME.) It appears that scientist in India have made a study of this and have found that there is a correlation between CMEs and earthquakes.

In the past it has been noted that whenever there is an increase in protons there is a decrease in earthquakes. Whenever there is an increase in X-rays (upper M and X flares) there will be an increase in earthquakes in and around areas that are volcanic in nature. However this affect largely depends on the location of the impact of the (CME)

Some of you may remember that when I was making earthquake forecasts using my raw onion and garlic sandwiches with a Corona Beer to wash it all down that in the event there was a large (CME) the quake would occur early, or be at least one magnitude larger then forecasted. In some case it could be both. As noted there were a few instances where this did occur. The earthquake swarm in the Coso Volcanic Fields a couple of years ago was the results of a solar flare.

On 24th January 2001 an earth directed (CME) which took two days to reach the earth
surface. When it did a major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 occurred in Gujarat on the west coast of India. For the entire world, a total of 65 earthquakes were reported on the same day.

Explosive events on the Sun can charge the magnetosphere with energy, generating magnetic storms that occasionally may affect the active faults in igneous geosphere to trigger the shallow focus earthquake. This correlation is observed in case of many more earthquakes in entire world. Besides these it has been observed that there is an increased occurrence of earthquakes globally in this period of solar maximum.

If the (CME) is earth directed, it may produce earthquakes if active fault zones fall in that latitude. It is possible to forecast the possibility of triggering of earthquake by looking into the location of active sunspot before it harbors energy towards earth. At present time I don’t know if that is being done. Take Care…Don in creepy town

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http://www.aip.de/thinkshop/posterpaper/mukherjee1.pdf