The article reports on a recent scientific discovery that reveals a surprising link between cosmic radiation and seismic activity on Earth. Scientists analyzed historical data and used computer models to demonstrate a correlation between cosmic radiation levels and earthquake frequency in areas prone to seismic activity.

This discovery was published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, in which the research physicist and CREDO coordinator, Piotr Homola, appears as first author and in which Jilberto Zamora, academic of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Universidad Andrés Bello and associate researcher of the Saphir Millennium Institute, is also part of it.

In the article, Zamora comments that "all this goes back to the 2010 earthquake″, a period in which he was in Putaendo and, during the event, he saw some lights in the sky that caught his attention.

Subsequently, he stayed in Russia as a postdoctoral researcher, where he had the opportunity to discuss this situation with Piotr Homola. Thus, he started the research that resulted in the paper: "Observation of large scale precursor correlations between cosmic rays and earthquakes with a periodicity similar to the solar cycle".

Which was developed by the international CREDO (Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory) project, started in 2016 by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Krakow.

We invite you to learn more about the scope of this discovery in an article published in the newspaper La Tercera, available here.