EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOLAR ACTIVITY AND EARTH SEISMICITY DURING THE WEAK SOLAR CYCLE 23

The relations between sunspot number, sunspot areas, solar 10.7 cm radio flux, solar proton events and earthquakes of magnitude M >= 5 and M >= 8 during the time interval between 1996 and 2008 of the solar cycle 23 have been analyzed in this work. We have found that there is a direct relation between solar activity and Earth seismic activity for M >= 5 and M >= 8, near the maximum of the Solar cycle 23, and an inverse relation between them at the descending phase of the cycle.