TITLE:
Four Years of Daily Photon Emissions That Have Predicted Major Earthquakes: Raw Data, Spectral Power Density Analyses and Implications for the Geosciences
AUTHORS:
Michael A. Persinger, Brendan Lehman, Blake T. Dotta, Ghislaine F. Lafreniere
KEYWORDS:
Background Photon Emissions, Global Seismicity, Spectral Power Densities, Daily Measurements
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.6 No.4,
March
31,
2015
ABSTRACT: The daily median ground
surface flux densities per day from a continuously operating photomultiplier
tube unit for four years in Sudbury, Ontario are presented for December 2010 to
December 2014. Increases of about 2 to 4 PMT units (1 unit = 5 × 10-11 W·m-2) for median daily
measures reliably occurred about two weeks before M ≥ 7.7 earthquakes anywhere
on the planet. The PMT units, until June 2014, usually returned to baseline
within a few days after the events. There has been a slow positive drift in
flux power density since about 2012 and a conspicuous maintained increase after
May, 2014. The equivalent energy per day if it were represented isotropically
within the volume occupied by the earth is the same order of magnitude as the
average daily global total seismic energy release. Spectral power densities
revealed enhanced peaks (periodicities) between 100 to 150 days, 60 days, 30
days, and 25 days. Discriminable
peaks in power were noted around 18 days, 14 days, and 4 to 6 days. These
results suggest that continuous measurement of photonemissions within
hyper-dark conditions may reveal geophysical processes that precede larger seismic
events and could reflect the movement of the earth-solar system around the
galactic center.