Loading ...That USGS earthquake map of the Pacific rim is one I check every morning to see if there are any EQs strong enough to generate a Pacific-wide tsunami that could affect us here in Hawaii. Generally it takes at least a magnitude 7 with a specific uplift characteristic to do that. I notice ‘clusters’ where there are weak areas that slip little by little, but they are mostly localized events.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-76.51682,-380.03906&extent=83.55972,74.88281
There is a HUGE sunspot rotating across the Earth facing sun right now. In the past 48 hours it has unleashed three X-class flares. First two were X1.6 and X1.8. Third one was a large x6.8 that was the largest of this solar cycle and largest since 2017. That caused radio blackouts on the shortwave bands here in Hawaii. Us ham radio operators notice these things. Strangely, the X-flare did not generate a ‘Coronal Mass Ejection’, or CME, which can take several days to reach us and these cause disruptions in communications also. The flare itself is an energetic proton and X-ray event that gets here at the speed of light and effects are nearly immediate. This is an active sunspot and we are still in danger of more X-class flares in the coming week.
There is a controversial theory I call the ‘Expando-Earth’ model that posits that large energetic outbursts from the sun focus high energy particles in the Earth’s core and actually create matter. Just like a nuclear explosion turns matter into energy, the reverse is also possible according to Einstein. So if matter is created in the core, the earth expands slightly, and we get earthquakes and fault movements. I note that our latest large earthquake here in Hawaii under the Mauna Loa volcano (5.6) occurred just a few hours after the last large X-class flare. This was a week or so ago. So I pay attention to these correlations.