Abstract—In response to the kind invitation of the Editorial Board of the journal “Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth” to take part in the discussion concerning the methodology of statistical study of correlations between geophysical processes, we have done a small research and written this paper. Being predominantly geomagnetologists, we focused on the topical question of a correlation between the earthquakes and geomagnetic storms and briefly touched upon the connection of the earthquakes with seismic noise. The main result of our analysis is as follows. The correlation between the earthquakes and magnetic storms exists objectively. The problem deserves a further study using statistical hypothesis testing methods, and a special attention should be paid to clearly distinguishing between causal and acausal correlations.
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We are deeply grateful to A.D. Zavyalov, O.D. Zotov, and A.S. Potapov for their discussing the correlation relationships between geophysical processes.
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The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic research under project no 19-05-00574 and carried out in partial fulfillment of state contract no. 0144-2014-00116 of the Geophysical Observatory “Borok” and state contracts of the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Guglielmi, A.V., Klain, B.I. & Kurazhkovskaya, N.A. On the Correlation of Earthquakes with Geomagnetic Storms. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 57, 994–998 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351321060021
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