[Rockhounds] Relationship Between Mid-Ocean Spreading Zone Seismic Activity and Global Temperatures

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

The papers titled The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global
Warming (CSARGW), The Correlation of Seismic Activity and Recent Global
Warming: 2016 Update (CSARGW16), and Have Global Temperatures Reached a
Tipping Point? (HGTRTP) [1-3] document the link between mid-ocean spreading
zone seismic activity (MOSZSA) [4] and global temperatures (GT) [5] over
the past 40 years. In this brief note, the MOSZSA, as measured by the
moment-magnitude 4-6 earthquake frequencies in these high geothermal flux
areas, along with GT, are extended through 2018 (Figure 1) to re-test the
hypothesis that MOSZSA serves as a significant driver of GT. The methods
employed are the same as those detailed in CSARGW with one exception: the
data from University of Alabama - Huntsville, version 6.0, are now averaged
with the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) version 4.0 data instead of the older
RSS 3.3 version.

https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/pdf/IJESNR.MS.ID.556039.pdf