Got a few mins to respond but not everyone is worth responding too. Mr citizen scientist has shown to be not worth the effort and I'm not the first or I'm sure, the last to say it. On ignore.
I'm sure he knows exactly what he means and would be happy to put you right. Why don't you ask him? Email him here ... Ben Davidson
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Seems clear enough to me Figure 4: The Six Largest Earthquakes of the Current Solar Polar Fields Cycle
They may do that later, this is an ongoing study.
Did you find the explanation in "Apendix A" clear enough when it describes the mathematical model ?
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That's a little harsh tusenfem. The setting out page is just giving background information HERE and that seems fair enough. The actual paper is HERE and is very well presented imo.
All in all, your points are minor, the center holds
They explain that point in the paper ...
You did read all the paper ferd, right?
There is a further source of information being set up on this topic called QUAKEWATCH.NET It's not finished yet but should be worth a look see
Some of you guys need a reminder ...
Earthquakes and the Solar System
Does Mr. Davidson actually know what longitude means? How is longitudinal motion supposed to be "compression/expansion"? Longitudinal means "around the Earth", how is that going to be compression or expansion? And what does he mean with "tangential" in this context?
I'm sure he knows exactly what he means and would be happy to put you right. Why don't you ask him? Email him here ... Ben Davidson
[email protected]
Would it not be good to put in some actual data in this so-called "paper"? Instead of plots without any axes as in Figure 4? Which figure actually shows that the big earthquakes can happen at any phase of those three coloured curves, reversal or maximum or minimum. So, what was that again that I wrote, that is was badly written???
Seems clear enough to me Figure 4: The Six Largest Earthquakes of the Current Solar Polar Fields Cycle
The authors should have taken magnetometer data and actually show what these significant changes in magnetic and electric field look like to at least try and support their handwaving arugment.
They may do that later, this is an ongoing study.
Did you find the explanation in "Apendix A" clear enough when it describes the mathematical model ?
Don't worry Haig, I will not ask you to do something like that.
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Who the frak cares about how much time of work is put into it? Spending more time does not make it necessarily better (as obvious from their "paper") neither does spending less time make it worse. A project takes the time it needs.
That's a little harsh tusenfem. The setting out page is just giving background information HERE and that seems fair enough. The actual paper is HERE and is very well presented imo.
All in all, your points are minor, the center holds
No, dear Haig, the burden is yours and not ours. Or it would be yours, if you in fact had a hypothesis rather than, as Dinwar aptly put it, a Just So Story. When you have something more than idle speculations like "...if the Earth was a giant capacitor..." or "..if the Earth was an electromagent.." come back and we can discuss it..
They explain that point in the paper ...
4.2 Modeling the SPF Earthquake Trigger
To explain the connection between earthquakes and the changes in SPF, we consider modeling the earth as a capacitor (Hill 1971; Ustundag 2005) which could temporarily store energy to be triggered later by changes in the SPF. The ionosphere, an electrically conductive layer, is treated as one plate of the capacitor while the other conducting plates exist in or below the ground. Two plates are separated by the Earth’s atmosphere and mantle crust, which are treated as leaky insulations. In this model, electrical movements in the ionosphere in longitude (compression/expansion) or tangential (circulation) directions can result in significant changes in Earth’s electric fields or magnetic fields which propagate into the Earth’s crust, as part of the capacitor.
The field modulation (especially in the electric fields) influences the movement of global charges currently existing in the Earth’s crust (Namgaladze 2013), accelerating charge diffusion toward the tectonic hot spots that already contain high charge concentration. It is also known that charges are scattered in the uniform dielectric volume and converged around cracks or contacts between two dielectric layers containing stress. As a result, a strong electric field may be locally produced amplifying the mechanical stress through piezoelectric effect (Manbachi 2011). Large displacement current and local heating have been observed during earthquakes as a result of electrical discharge in various earthquake preparation zones (Teisseyre 1997; Lovett 2013).
You did read all the paper ferd, right?
There is a further source of information being set up on this topic called QUAKEWATCH.NET It's not finished yet but should be worth a look see
Some of you guys need a reminder ...
Earthquakes and the Solar System
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