Electromagnetic Earthquakes: Lithosphere-atmosphere Interactions and Biological Implications in the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Abstract

The complexity of climate change phenomena on a global scale includes numerous variables, which cannot be traced back to a single cause. This study, carried out in Italy by Radio Emissions Project, which can also be used for other countries, aims to add a new variable for the study of climate change on a global scale, represented by the interaction between lithosphere and atmosphere. This variable offers itself as an additional element to the climate change unknowns currently considered, such as precisely CO2. The hypothesis of this potential relationship is based that electrical charges given off by tectonic stress, but also volcanic dust, may constitute the nuclei of aggregation of water droplets and determine the sometimes very intense precipitation associated with the geophysical event. These are, therefore, circumscribed and short-lived weather events, but when measured on a 10 or 30 year scale they can somewhat accentuate, to a lesser extent to an ongoing climate change. In this study, two cases are presented concerning a potential link between endogenous
activity and very intense weather events that have occurred in the past two years: the earthquake swarm in the Marche and Emilia-Romagna regions and the province of Parma. Crustal diagnostics that anticipate seismic events and consequently intense weather events, approximately over an interval of about seven months, are monitored 24 hours a day with Radio Direction Finding technology. The Method, which is still in the experimental phase is capable of intercepting geophysical signals, from areas under tectonic stress, including volcanic activity.