The Most Important Scientific Discovery of 2019: Seismic Universe

LOS ANGELES - Dec. 30, 2019 - PRLog -- In the most important scientific discovery of 2019 and the most significant geophysical find of all time – published in the Journal of Geophysics (https://n2t.net/ark:/88439/x020219 and https://n2t.net/ark:/88439/x034508) – Dr. Mensur Omerbashich showed that Earth plate tectonics and M6.2+ (tectonic) earthquakes are caused by externally forced mechanical resonance rather than mantle convection (internal heat). The discovery enables anti-forecasting (seismic quiescence prediction) months ahead globally.

The phenomenon of resonating vibration, or resonance, occurs when a physical system's natural period of oscillation matches another physical system's period of oscillation.  As gravitational vectors in our Solar system's plane regularly stir masses of the rotating Earth, this disturbance under the right conditions magnifies the input tidal energy by 100s of times. Earth tectonic plates act as oscillating bodies of mass themselves, each with its natural vibration period.

Also, mantle convection models are designed such that they break down if one can demonstrate a coupling between continents and flows in the mantle – for example, a prominent Richter-McKenzie 1977 model in the same journal.  Then this demonstration of a continent-mantle global coupling mechanism from successive M6.2+ (tectonic) earthquakes in the most extreme band of energies on Earth means that the same resonance and not convection drives the Earth's tectonic plates.

By analyzing the times of earthquakes occurrences in the USGS, GFZ, and EMSC records, Omerbashich extracted a complete set of periods of so-called superharmonic resonance.  Omerbashich then analyzed the times of all Apollo Program's moonquake events – as a spatially (384,000 km apart) and temporally (half a century apart) independent verification. This moonquakes analysis resulted in the detection of the Moon's superharmonic resonance. Such independent confirmation of resonance tectonics and so its universality unveiled the external (astrophysical) cause of plate tectonics, as hinted by Alfred Wegener.

One of the greatest strengths (to the point of impossibility to question the result) of this discovery is that it is direct. Thus the analysis has captured continents and tectonic plates as they "ride" on mantle's resonance waves (rather than merely implying resonance from some intermediary data) while cyclically snapping into M6.2+ quakes at precisely those resonance periods.

Previously unexplained yet widely spread polygonal (mostly hexagonal) "cratering" – photographed by various Space probes (journal.geophysicsjournal.com/public/journals/1/article_73_cover_en_US.png) supports the result that the mechanical resonance is a cross-scale universal physical phenomenon, but one ignored in the past. As such, it must be considered in addition to or instead of gravitation and fundamental physical forces.