X5.1 solar flare recorded
The most powerful flare recorded in several years. Schumann resonance power read approximately 185 on the HeartMath GCI network the same day.
A dated record of solar, geomagnetic, Schumann and seismic activity — written down as public instruments reported it, in the order it happened.
Descriptive record · no forecast, no causal claimEntries open with an X5.1 flare and a run of elevated Schumann readings. Seismic activity for the same window is written into the same ledger, on the same dates, without interpretation.
The most powerful flare recorded in several years. Schumann resonance power read approximately 185 on the HeartMath GCI network the same day.
Schumann resonance power read 50 — roughly five times the station baseline. A volcanic eruption at Hayli Gubbi was recorded the same day. An X1.7 flare followed on November 25. Telluric readings sat at 2.3× baseline.
M6.6 Sinabang, Indonesia — tsunami warning issued, 1.78M people in the affected area.
M6.0 Susitna, Alaska — Pacific Ring of Fire.
Six further events in the M4.7–5.0 range were recorded across the Philippines, Greece and California.
More than 60 earthquakes at M2.0+ over ten days, opening with M4.0 at San Juan Bautista and running through M3.9, M3.8 and M3.4 events to December 6.
M7.0 at 10 km depth, 91 km north of Yakutat. Around 1,000 people reported moderate shaking and 13,000 reported light shaking.
Also logged that day: an M8.1 solar flare at 20:39 UTC. The seismic event was recorded at 20:41 UTC.
M7.6 at 495 km depth, southeast of Honshu. Tsunami advisory issued; felt across the Tokyo metropolitan region. An X1.1 flare was recorded at 05:01 UTC and the seismic event at 14:15 UTC.
Third-party reading: the HeartMath Global Coherence Initiative logged power level 250 — its highest in that two-month span — across Lithuania (250), Saudi Arabia (125) and California (180).
Recorded near Hualien on the Pacific Ring of Fire. An M5.1 flare had been logged on December 26 at 08:01 UTC.
The January entries centre on a G4 severe geomagnetic storm at Kp 8. Storm parameters and the seismic record for the same days are both written down; nothing is inferred from the ordering.
Bluff at 19 km depth, Tonga at 10 km depth. Geomagnetic indices were rising as the G4 storm system approached.
NOAA G4 severe storm — Kp index 8, solar wind above 500 km/s, IMF Bz strongly negative at −10 to −15 nT.
M6.0 Tadine, New Caledonia at 13:02 UTC, 10 km depth. Five further M5+ events were logged the same day: Pakistan M5.6, New Zealand M5.3, Tonga M5.3, China M5.2.
M5.9 Papua New Guinea (90 km), M5.4 Tanzania (10 km), M5.3 New Caledonia (10 km), M5.3 Philippines (10 km) — Pacific, East African Rift and Indo-Australian regions on the same date.
M6.1 at 25 km depth where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Philippine Sea Plate. Also recorded: M5.4 Philippines, M5.3 Japan, M5.3 Yemen, M5.2 South Sandwich Islands.
M6.2 near Vilyuchinsk at 52 km depth in the Kuril–Kamchatka subduction zone. Accompanied by M5.3 Yokohama, Japan and M5.2 Sand Point, Alaska.
M5.8 Mid-Atlantic Ridge, M5.7 Macquarie Island, M5.6 Papua New Guinea, M5.5 China (USGS yellow alert), M5.4 Kermadec Islands, M5.4 Tonga, and M5.3 Adak, Alaska, where a tsunami warning was issued.
Entries are dated records of what public instruments reported. Seismic data comes from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. Solar and geomagnetic data comes from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, GFZ Potsdam and Kyoto WDC. Schumann resonance readings come from the HeartMath Global Coherence Initiative, the Tomsk SOS-70 observatory and the Cumiana VLF station.
Events appearing near each other in this log appear near each other in time — nothing more. No relationship between electromagnetic activity and seismic activity is asserted, tested or implied here, and this log is not used to forecast earthquakes. It exists so the raw record is public and anyone can check it against the same sources.
Researchers, institutions and reviewers are welcome to examine the underlying data or contribute their own instrument records.
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