Spot The Quakes. Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over in the Twitterverse, where I appear as @WEschenbach, in a discussion someone made the following comment: Solar minimum affects periodicity of volcanic activity.Year ‘without a summer’, 1816, and several other big volcanos occurred during solar minimum cycles. I said that wasn’t true, and pointed him to my analysis of volcanoes and sunspots. Someone else commented: But interestingly, it is true for earthquakes, for which we have more occurrences. I thought … “electromagnetic tidal force”?!? So I decided to take a look. Figure 1. Yikes! Figure 2. Again … yikes. To get around this, I decided to just look at strong earthquakes, those with a magnitude over 6.5. To compare these larger earthquakes with sunspots, I first made a “histogram” showing the percentage of days with 1-20 sunspots, 20-40 sunspots, 40-60 sunspots, and so on. Figure 3. How close are they? So there you have it … sunspots do NOT affect earthquakes in any statistically significant fashion.
W. Can Climate Affect Earthquakes, Or Are the Connections Shaky? If ifs and buts were candy and nuts~ctm From NASA Global Climate Change Can Climate Affect Earthquakes, Or Are the Connections Shaky? A USGS Earthquake Science Center Mobile Laser Scanning truck scans the surface rupture near the zone of maximum surface displacement of the magnitude 7.1 Searles Valley earthquake that struck the Ridgecrest, California area. Credit: USGS / Ben Brooks By Alan Buis, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory The twin magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes that struck the Ridgecrest area in California’s Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles on July 4 and 5, respectively, were felt by up to 30 million people in California, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, resulting in loss of life, injuries, billions in damage and lots of frazzled nerves.
There are lots of myths about earthquakes. In fact, according to the U.S. But what about climate? Weighing the Seismic Consequences of Water What About Droughts? Fire and Ice: Glaciers and Tectonic Processes Like this: Like Loading... New Papers: Seismic Activity Explains 1979-2016 Temperatures, ENSO Events Better Than CO2. Within the last year, Dr. Arthur Viterito (geography professor) has published multiple scientific papers documenting the significant correlation (r=0.80) between the seismic activity changes in the Earth’s high geothermal flux areas (HGFA) and both El Niño events and global temperatures. The HGFA/global temperature correlation has been found to be stronger than the correlation for CO2 concentration changes (r=0.74) for recent decades (1979-2016).
Other recent research has provided further support for the significant influence of seismic activity (i.e., there is a very high correlation [r=0.935] between geothermal flux and North Magnetic Dip Pole movement). These robust and well-documented seismic activity associations have led Dr. Viterito, 2016 Viterito, 2017 Namely, increased seismic activity in the HGFA (i.e., the mid-ocean’s spreading zones) serves as a proxy indicator of higher geothermal flux in these regions. Viterito, 2017. The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global Warming - Principia Scientific International.
Published on Written by Arthur Viterito Abstract The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with high confidence that the warming of global temperatures since 1901 has been driven by increased radiative forcing. The gases responsible for this enhanced forcing are ‘greenhouse gases’ of anthropogenic origin, and include carbon dioxide, methane, and halocarbons. This study will show that increasing seismic activity for the globe’s high geothermal flux areas (HGFA), an indicator of increasing geothermal forcing, is highly correlated with average global temperatures from 1979 to 2015 (r = 0.785).
Introduction The prevailing thought in the scientific community is that human-induced alterations to the earth-atmosphere system are the primary drivers of climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries. The forcing amounts to an additional RF of 2.29 Wm-2 (watts per square meter) relative to the total RF in the year 1750. Methods Results Discussion Conclusion References. New Paper Finds That Even Seismic Activity Correlates Better With Warming Than CO2! By P Gosselin on 19. June 2016 The correlation between seismic activity (geothermal flux) as a natural mechanism in the 1979 to 2015 global warming is stronger than the correlation with carbon dioxide during the same period. Hat-tip: Kenneth Richard Viterito, 2016 The Correlation Of Seismic Activity And Recent Global WarmingThe latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with high confidence that the warming of global temperatures since 1901 has been driven by increased radiative forcing.
The paper concludes that the world should wait until all of the climate system is understood before enacting laws to curb GHG emissions: To ameliorate the problems of rising global temperatures, legislative and taxing initiatives are currently being proposed and evaluated by governing bodies around the world. New Paper Reveals Seismic Activity & Climate are Connected. Published on July 24, 2019 Written by John O'Sullivan International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources publishes a new paper showing a significant and growing relationship between mid-ocean seismic activity and global temperatures (extended through 2018). The author, Arthur Viterito (College of Southern Maryland, USA) affirms what has been shown in earlier studies, with regional disparities in mid-ocean seismic activity emerging.
These will be monitored going forward. Published July 16, 2019, ‘The Relationship Between Mid-Ocean Spreading Zone Seismic Activity and Global Temperatures Remains Strong Through 2018,‘ [1] found: “…a link between mid-ocean spreading zone seismic activity (MOSZSA) [4] and global temperatures (GT) [5] over the past 40 years. As Figure 1 clearly demonstrates, GT remain strongly tied to global MOSZSA through 2018, yielding a correlation coefficient of 0.83 (P<0.001).
“The correlation of MOSZSA and GT showed continued strength through 2018. Related.