A common feature in latitudinal dependence of different geophysical processes occurring on the rotating Earth

Abstract

Abstract. The concept of an essential latitudinal dependence of different geophysical processes occurring on the rotating Earth was formed in the last two decades. The objective of this work is to present a few statistically reliable regularities in the latitudinal distributions of the following geophysical phenomena: earthquakes, hotspots, and major and super major ore deposits. The similarity of latitudinal distributions for different geophysical phenomena points to the existence of the "critical latitudes" in the rotating solid Earth.