## 4 Discussion  
In [4], it was suggested that the Sun may be considered a significant agent provoking earthquakes during substantial increases in solar wind activity. One of Earth's most striking manifestations of solar wind activity is geomagnetic storms. It is shown in many papers that a geomagnetic storm may precede the occurrence of an earthquake. The authors in [55] investigated seismicity variations in the Northern Tien-Shan region from 1975 to 1996, before and after geomagnetic storms with a sudden storm commencement (SSC). They showed that in the territories underlain by rocks with low electrical resistivity, the seismic activity increased on average 2-6 days after the onset of a geomagnetic storm. In [56], it was found for 1994-2017 that 17 earthquakes with magnitudes M \(\geq\) 6.5 occurred within 2 days after 50 magnetic storms, when Kp-indices were above 7; all these events took place in the eastern hemisphere but were absent in the western hemisphere. In [57], 4666 earthquakes with magnitudes of Mw \(\geq\) 6 that occurred between 1932 and 2016 in the Pacific Rim region with longitudes of 120\({}^{\circ}\)-160\({}^{\circ}\)E and 70\({}^{\circ}\)-130\({}^{\circ}\)W were investigated, and it was concluded that external forces acting at the time of geomagnetic storms might trigger an earthquake with a time delay of \(\sim\)12-14 days. In [58], the authors investigated the correlation between geomagnetic storms and Mw \(\geq\) 7.0 global earthquakes from 1957 to 2020; their results gave statistically significant evidence that the probability of geomagnetic storms increased around 26-27 days before earthquakes. In [59], the response of global seismicity to St. Patrick's Day (17 March) geomagnetic storms in 2013 and 2015 was investigated. It was found that after a time delay of \(\sim\)30 and \(\sim\)39 days after storm onsets in 2013 and 2015, respectively, strong crust earthquakes occurred in relatively close continental areas: in Iran (M7.7, 16 April 2013) and Nepal (M7.8, 25 April 2015). Besides this, after a time delay of \(\sim\)68 and \(\sim\)74 days after storm onsets in 2013 and 2015, respectively, strong deep-focused earthquakes occurred at relatively close ocean areas: beneath the Sea of Okhotsk (M8.3, 24 May 2013, Russia) and beneath the Pacific Ocean (M7.8, 30 May 2015, Japan). The authors of [60] analyzed the magnetic field data from the Swarm three-identical satellite constellation concerning global Mw5.5+ shallow earthquakes from November 2013 to November 2021. They revealed that after the magnetic storm, the anticipation time of large earthquakes (Mw7.5+) may reach up to several years before an event occurrence. Many years of searching for statistical connections between solar, geomagnetic, and seismic processes finally led to the first mathematical model [61] to consider the hypothesis of electromagnetic earthquakes being triggered by a sharp rise of telluric currents in the lithosphere, including crust faults due to the interaction of solar flare X-ray radiation with the ionosphere-atmosphere-lithosphere system producing an increase in telluric currents in the crust faults. The results of their numerical estimations showed that after an X-class solar flare, the telluric current density in the conductive layer of the lithosphere might be 2-3 orders higher than the average telluric current density in the lithosphere, and that it may be comparable with the parameters of the electric current pulses generated in the lithosphere by artificial pulsed power sources [62]. As they noted, these artificial electrical pulses injected into the Earth's crust in seismic-prone areas resulted in the electromagnetic triggering of weak earthquakes and the spatiotemporal re-distribution of the regional seismicity of Pamir and Northern Tien Shan. Our results in Figures 2-7 show that due to the impact of the geospace environment on the lithosphere, relatively strong earthquakes may occur (magnitude 7+).