People,
Here is an interesting article which connects sunspot activity and solar flares to geological activity such as earthquakes. The writer mentions: "There is already a known phenomena where it has been observed that earthquakes soon follow sunspot events."
http://www.rense.com/general93/sol.htm
Joseph H. Cater already made this connection back in the early 80s (1982?) when he published The Awesome Life Force. He stipulates that the particles from solar activity well up inside the crust, along fault lines and strata underneath continents. When these forces reach a maximum, there are discharges, as there would be in the case of a battery which has been recharged beyond its limits. Over the last few decades, what to speak of the last few years, solar activity has been on the rise, and this accounts for the recent spate of earthquakes.
Cater:
"The evidence for continental drift is overwhelming This idea does not seem to be in conflict with conventional beliefs; hence it is universally accepted by the scientific world. The electrostatic forces and stresses produced by the Sun's influence just discussed, make continental drift possible and are a greater factor than gravitational pull in producing Earth changes. Continental drift indicates the Earth is slowly expanding."
And even back then Cater was a proponent of the idea that the Earth is a growing body, that it is expanding.
Dean
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