## 3 Results  
### A Pattern of Seismic Activity at the Globe after the Magnetic Storms on 17 March 2013 and 2015  
Figure 5 shows the histogram of released seismic energy globally per day (Es, in Joules) from March 17 to June 17 in 2013 and 2015 (black and red columns, respectively). The considered time intervals are restricted by June, because the next strong geomagnetic storm occurred in June 2013 (Dst = \(-\)137) and June 2015 (Dst= \(-\)208). Figure 5: The histogram of released seismic energy at the globe per day from March 17 to June 17 in 2013 and 2015 (black and red columns, respectively) was estimated using data on M \(\geq\) 4.5 from the USGS seismological catalog. In Figure 5, the dashed circles (1 and 2) mark the most significant peaks in the globally released seismic energy after 17 March 2013, and 17 March 2015. For both years, the first peak occurred in April and the second in May. Table 1 presents earthquake data, which are mainly responsible for forming the Es peaks marked as 1 and 2. For the Es peak in April 2013, the M = 7.7 earthquake was mainly responsible on 16 April 2013. According to [47], it occurred on the Arabian lithosphere plate at a depth of \(\sim\)80 km in Southeastern Iran. Here, regional tectonics are responsible for the collisions of the Arabian and Indian lithosphere plates with the Eurasia plate. The Arabian lithosphere plate is subducted beneath the Eurasia lithosphere plate at the Makran Coast of Pakistan and Iran [47]. For this event, the delay time between the day of magnetic storm onset (17 March 2013) and earthquake occurrence (16 April 2013) equaled 30 days. For the Es peak in April 2015, the M = 7.8 earthquake, which occurred on 25 April 2015 in Nepal, was mainly responsible. According to [47], this earthquake occurred due to thrust faulting on or near the main thrust interface between the subducting India plate and the overriding Eurasia plate to the north. For this event, the delay time between the day of magnetic storm onset (17 March 2015) and the day of earthquake occurrence (25 April 2015) equaled 39 days. For the Es peak in May 2013, the deep-focus M = 8.3 earthquake was mainly responsible, which occurred on 24 May 2013 in Russia at a depth of \(\sim\)600 km beneath the Okhotsk Sea. According to [47], the Pacific and North American plates converge at the location of this earthquake, resulting in the subduction of the Pacific plate beneath Eurasia at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. The delay time between the day of magnetic storm onset (17 March 2013) and earthquake occurrence (24 May 2013) equaled 68 days. For the Es peak in May 2015, the deep-focus M = 7.8 earthquake was mainly responsible, which occurred on 30 May 2015 in Japan at a depth of 664 km beneath the Pacific Ocean. According to [47], this earthquake was located within the interior of the Pacific plate that subducts beneath Japan, starting at the Izu Trench, several hundred kilometers to the east of the event. The delay time between the day of magnetic storm onset (17 March 2015) and earthquake occurrence (30 May 2015) equaled 74 days. Thus, the results in Figure 5 support our suggestion that similar geomagnetic storms could provoke similar patterns in global seismic activity. To check on another suggestion, that, in the time of geomagnetic storm onset on 17 March of 2013 and 2015, the high-latitudinal areas of the longitudinal regions where the earthquakes occurred were located under the polar cusp, we calculated the magnetic local time in each of the four epicenters at the time of geomagne