This study is concerned with the effects of powerful Pacific cyclones on the seismicity of Kam chatka, Japan, and the Philippines. We used complete seismological catalogs for these regions that span a few tens of years. It was found that the cyclones that originate from the western Pacific generally do not exert a significant triggering effect on the seismicity of these three regions, at least in the short term, during a few weeks. The ground motion generated by cyclones, which might be treated as a trigger, does not have ampli tudes above those in the motion due to numerous local earthquakes of moderate magnitudes (~4-5) and larger teleseismic earthquakes.
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