Shouldn't we have had a huge earthquake by now?, page

So we've just ridden out "one of the strongest magnetic storms in years" according to space weather and in the past few days we were blessed yet again with numerous theories that magnetic storms cause earthquakes.

As you can see on USGS, we had just 2 mag 5 earthquakes...strongest storm in years and all we get is 2 mag 5 quakes??

We had 9 mag 5 quakes 3 days ago!

What's going on here?

reply to post by Forevever

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Still good opportunity for Auroras if you're close enough to the poles.

My power was out all day...I wonder if it was related???

Oh wait I got a letter a week ago from the power company saying that they were carrying out maintenance today.

Convenient...

Just for comparison here's the NOAA warning page showing March 10th, where we had a glancing X flare hit us and also the date of the Japanese quake, a favourite of the flare - earthquake crowd.

March 2011:

August 2011:

The major difference here is the kp index warnings, the March storm only had a warning of 5 (G1) and August had a warning of 7 (G3)

Explanation of the kp indexes here:

www.spaceweather.com...

reply to post by Lionhearte

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Disappointed?

Er.

No.

reply to post by Chadwickus

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The threads I read said solar activity might trigger earthquakes, not create them..

I read that to mean if there was an earthquake imminent then the activity would possibly bring it on..

It's like they say smoking causes cancer but still not all smokers get it and some that never smoke do.

reply to post by backinblack

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I've lost count of the different theories out there.

Just wondering where these theories are at since this storm is bigger than the one that was supposed to have caused/created/assisted the Japanese quake.

Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by backinblack

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I've lost count of the different theories out there.

Just wondering where these theories are at since this storm is bigger than the one that was supposed to have caused/created/assisted the Japanese quake.

Bigger maybe but weren't they all just M class flares?
Usually it's the X class they discuss mostly but to be honest I didn't follow those threads much..

reply to post by backinblack

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March 10 was an X flare.

Originally posted by Chadwickus
reply to post by backinblack

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March 10 was an X flare.

Yes an X flare around the Japanese quake but as I said, these last ones were only M flares right?

reply to post by backinblack

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Correct.

They were more powerful because they combined.

reply to post by Chadwickus

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I believe this is in reference to this thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by backinblack

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CLPrime said it best

Thats like saying, "My cat sleeps 23 hours a day, but, during those hours my cat was sleeping, 8 people were murdered in Texas. Therefore, my cat must kill Texans in his sleep."

reply to post by Chadwickus

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Sorry mate, but no predictions for WA showing up on my radar for the next month.

Speaking of earthquakes, here in Australia we had a documentary tonight on the big one in San Francisco back in 1906.

We may have to wait a few days to see the end result:



Although the protons have dropped some, they are still higher than normal:

Originally posted by Forevever
reply to post by backinblack

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CLPrime said it best

Thats like saying, "My cat sleeps 23 hours a day, but, during those hours my cat was sleeping, 8 people were murdered in Texas. Therefore, my cat must kill Texans in his sleep."

Exactly. When I originally said that, I was speaking of the Elenin "alignments" causing earthquakes, but the sentiment is exactly the same: trying to find a correlation between CMEs/solar flares and earthquakes is like finding a correlation between my cat and dead Texans.

Solar and seismic activity are not explicitly related. And, even if they are, so what? When a CME, like this one, does not cause an earthquake of any significance, again like this one, and the excuse is "Well, not all CMEs are guaranteed to cause earthquakes because there has to be an area capable of producing an earthquake for the CME to trigger," then what's the point? That's how earthquakes happen anyway... by the release of pressure from areas capable of producing earthquakes.
The solar-seismic correlation is a baseless, senseless, and pointless "theory".

Oh...and my cat's been dead for 2 years.

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