Relationship Between M8+ Earthquake Occurrences and the Solar Polar Magnetic Fie

[Mikey]

Ben Davidson from Observatoryproject.com and suspicious0bservers.org recently co-authored a study called "Relationship Between M8+ Earthquake Occurrences and the Solar Polar Magnetic Fields" together with U-yen and Holloman. Springer was going to publish the study due to very positive reviews, but after some very weird bureaucratic coincidences, the publication with Springer seems to be no longer possible. In the YouTube video available at the official website for the paper, http://spaceweathernews.com/spf/ , Davidson documents how the manuscript was 'implicitly refused' due to bureaucracy after going through a number of successful stages, as well as the scientific findings of the paper itself. The authors are now self-publishing the paper and appendices -- they are available on the linked website.

I'm not qualified to comment on the paper, but if the findings and theory are true, it could indeed be a way to predict 'high risk' times for large earthquakes, and it could save a lot of lives.

 

[monotonic]

Maybe someone could make a website that uses their method to generate warnings?

 

[Mikey]

Maybe someone could make a website that uses their method to generate warnings?

Certainly, but as the author himself said, the paper has to be evaluated. The concept seems to be very simple, but the math is not. So it needs mathematicians/physicists/statisticians to review and validate it. Obviously, generating earthquake warnings is a very sensitive issue, so the foundations must be rock-solid.

 

[trendsetter37]

Maybe someone could make a website that uses their method to generate warnings?

That is a good idea. I've actually been attempting to learn webdev and this was going to potentially be one of my first projects. I still need to read their official paper in its entirety but I've followed their research the past couple of years.

Certainly, but as the author himself said, the paper has to be evaluated. The concept seems to be very simple, but the math is not. So it needs mathematicians/physicists/statisticians to review and validate it. Obviously, generating earthquake warnings is a very sensitive issue, so the foundations must be rock-solid.

Indeed.

 

[gdpetti]

I'm not qualified to comment on the paper, but if the findings and theory are true, it could indeed be a way to predict 'high risk' times for large earthquakes, and it could save a lot of lives.

Which is perhaps why that journal didn't want it published. Less waste of precious hollow point shells that way. Economics 101. Ben's first lesson perhaps?