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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
Earthquake data exhibit clear patterns that correlate with planetary alignments.
The USGS National Earthquake Information Center lists large earthquakes at http://neic.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/epic/ep...LON=0.0&CRAD=0.
From this list I extracted dates of 1826 large earthquakes between 1901 and 1994.
Examination against planetary records produced the following findings:
Earthquakes occurred twice as often in the half of the year when Mars was on the other side of the Sun, 43% more often when Jupiter was behind the Sun and 19% more often when Saturn was on the other side. Quakes were 25% more frequent than average in the four weeks each year when Uranus was within 24 degrees of the sun, and 46% more frequent than average in the three weeks each year when Pluto was within 18 degrees of the sun.
These findings do not tell exactly when and where earthquakes will happen, but they do suggest planetary gravity can be like ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back’ in affecting earthquake timing. The astronomical significance of these findings is to illustrate that tiny planetary gravitational effects can produce regular measurable rhythmic patterns on earth.
These findings support the claims of measurable terrestrial patterns presented in my recent BAUT on planets and rain Planets and Rain |
That is interesting that you mentioned tiny, distant Pluto, but not the mother of all tide-raisers after the Sun and Moon, namely Venus at inferior conjunction.
Suppose for the sake of argument that the repetitive tidal stretching and squeezing of a fault that is already near the breaking point indeed is the "straw that broke the camel's back". I would look for a correlation with the highest tides during the general period, which would be spring tides with the Moon near perigee. If the perigee point is crossways to the Sun at any given time, the spring tides will be significantly lower. Even if all the planets were perfectly lined up with the Sun, creating their equivalent of a spring tide, they would not be able to offset that reduction.
Have you taken the Moon's perigee position into account in your analysis?
None of this takes into consideration that no two faults are going to be alike. I would be flabbergasted if the San Andreas and Anatolian Faults, to name a couple of big ones, had the same time constant in their response, if any, to repetitive tidal stress.
In my opinion you are seeing nothing but statistical flukes. That is assuming you are doing the statistical analysis correctly, which I have no way of judging one way or the other.