Using Dips in Magnetic Flux to Predict Earthquake Activity
A number of months ago, I laid out the basics of what is driving tectonic plate shifting (pressurized magma, created by electrical arcing around the Earth’s iron-nickel core) and once again, earthquakes are in the news. A recent quake swarm 250 miles off the coast of Oregon are a reminder that from time to time, the Pacific Northwest will be inundated with a tsunami and there is nothing anyone can do about that, except, perhaps, not live there.
Now that we’ve worked out that these quakes are being driven by the generation of high-pressure magma, we still need to work out what exactly is driving this electrical arcing and what we can watch for to aid our earthquake predictions. Today, I propose an explanation.
Just 38 hours prior to this latest swarm, GOES-16 & 17 detected a sharp drop in the magnetic flux emanating from the Sun. One would expect that if my theory were correct, that we would actually see increased magnetic activity from the Sun prior to a quake event, but this is not the case. I propose that sudden, sharp drops in detected magnetic flux are actually precursors to quake events.
When the magnetic field around the Sun decreases in a particular area, the result is that plasma is free to escape and may be directed toward the Earth in the form of a coronal mass ejection. While a great deal of attention has been paid to this process, none has been paid to the consequences of magnetic field strength in a particular region of the Sun being excessively intense. Such surplus electromagnetic energy would need to “go” somewhere, and I propose that the place it goes is to the center of the Earth in the form of electrical induction into the core.
A number of months ago, I laid out the basics of what is driving tectonic plate shifting (pressurized magma, created by electrical arcing around the Earth’s iron-nickel core) and once again, earthquakes are in the news. A recent quake swarm 250 miles off the coast of Oregon are a reminder that from time to time, the Pacific Northwest will be inundated with a tsunami and there is nothing anyone can do about that, except, perhaps, not live there.
Now that we’ve worked out that these quakes are being driven by the generation of high-pressure magma, we still need to work out what exactly is driving this electrical arcing and what we can watch for to aid our earthquake predictions. Today, I propose an explanation.
Just 38 hours prior to this latest swarm, GOES-16 & 17 detected a sharp drop in the magnetic flux emanating from the Sun. One would expect that if my theory were correct, that we would actually see increased magnetic activity from the Sun prior to a quake event, but this is not the case. I propose that sudden, sharp drops in detected magnetic flux are actually precursors to quake events.
When the magnetic field around the Sun decreases in a particular area, the result is that plasma is free to escape and may be directed toward the Earth in the form of a coronal mass ejection. While a great deal of attention has been paid to this process, none has been paid to the consequences of magnetic field strength in a particular region of the Sun being excessively intense. Such surplus electromagnetic energy would need to “go” somewhere, and I propose that the place it goes is to the center of the Earth in the form of electrical induction into the core.
