Here's what we know for a fact about solar flares:
Space probes have shown that some of earths atmosphere is lost to space when our magnetosphere is compressed during these
events.
They often disrupt radio and satellite communication by bombarding our ionosphere with electro-magnetic particles.
Airplane pasengers can get a dose of radiation equivalent to a medical X-ray from the radiation.
They trigger Geo-Magnetic storms, which cause surges in power grids.
The aurora borealis (northern lights)glow brightly as the elements in earths atmospere near the poles are ionized.
Earth's upper atmosphere is heated up as ultraviolet light and x-rays hit it.

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But Noooooo, there's no relationship between these events and earthquakes (which just happen to coincidently surge after solar storms).

Wishing you all a better 2002 than 2001. It's been one year I'd have liked to just flush.

Thanks all for your participation. This is the only earthquake board I visit anymore, because the info. is so great. Thanks, Canie, for making it available to us amateurs.

Cathryn