The upcoming earthquake in Chile...

Not sure - I'm strong on Chinese stats, but in Australia, my knowledge is limited to individual farms.

But it's worth noting that from about 2000 to 2006, there was a really bad drought in the wheat-growing belt of North-West New South Wales and South-West Queensland. A lot of farmers gave up on their crops, and that would have hit fertiliser use.

 

April 2, 8.2 Chile
April 10 ,6.1 Nicaragua
April 13,7.6 Solomon Islands
April 18,7.2 Mexico

April 24th?

 

Earthquakes and (volcanoes) have such large human impacts that people are devoting massive efforts and computers to understand them better. Here's one example

TUM - TU München: Computational record on SuperMUC

One might infer from such effort that it is not at all easy to figure these things out. This does not exclude the possibility that some people believe that it is easy.

 

April 19,7.8 Papua New Guinea

 

That prediction table seems to have nearly full coverage, with items for 20 out of April's 30 days.

On an earthquake site, I'm seeing a lot more more quakes listed. Here is a list, sorted for just the events of 5.5 and higher (the cutoff on the above prediction table), and dated by UTC, not local time:

April 1, 8.2, Chile (plus weeks of huge aftershocks)
April 2, 6.0, Panama
April 2, 5.6, Japan
April 3, 5.6, Sumatra
April 4, 6.0, Solomon Islands
April 4, 5.5, Greece
April 10, 6.1, Nicaragua
April 10, 5.6, Tonga
April 11, 7.1, Solomon Islands
April 12, 7.6, Solomon Islands (plus days of huge aftershocks)
April 15, 6.9, Bouvet Islands
April 17, 6.2, Balleny Islands
April 17, 5.5, Celebes Sea
April 18, 7.2, Mexico
April 18, 6.0, Santa Cruz Islands
April 18, 5.5, Alaska
April 19, 7.5, Solomon Islands (plus a couple large aftershocks)

Have you scored the 'predictions' against the null hypothesis?

 

Ive watched these monthly predictions for a year or two.
I dont believe Ive ever seen a month with so many high "R4-R5" periods predictions.
Nor have I seen the resulting corresponding coronal holes, coronal mass ejections and flares.
Nor have I seen a month of so many greater than magnitude 6 quakes.
I have witnessed many R5 periods which have spawned tropical storms as well.
Also volcanic eruptions are triggered during these high periods as well.
But my observations are casual.

 

Catalogs of coronal mass ejections are available online, for example here:

The SOHO/LASCO Instrument Homepage

Which should make it feasible to look for correlations with earthquakes or other terrestrial events. Or simply to up one's game from the level of 'I never saw this many'.

Does this web article answer the question well enough?

Do solar flares cause earthquakes? :: The Sun Today

cause the scientific study I linked to earlier in the thread did not seem to settle the matter.

 

Humans have an incredibly powerful ability to 'see' patterns in white Gaussian noise. That is why I put little stock in casual observations of this sort. Show me some computed correlations over long time periods.

 

Pattern recognition is totally a survival skill. It persists in other ways that are not necessarily adaptive.

Pareidolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But, entertaining as all get-out.

 

Indeed.

 

I need an 'unsee' option in my brain.

 

April 24 Vancouver 6.6