On the question of influence of remote earthquakes on seismicity

The responses of the Kamchatka earthquakes with a minimum energy class of completeness K ≥ 8.5 to 214 strong worldwide earthquakes with magnitudes M ≥ 7.5 and to 40 earthquakes with M ≥ 8 are studied. The analysis covers the time interval of 1963–2012. The distances from the sources of the strongest earthquakes to the center of the seismically active Kamchatka zone range from 600 to 16000 km. It is established that the remote earthquakes enhanced seismic activity in Kamchatka, at least in the cases when the dynamic strain was above 10^?6, which corresponds to the additional stresses of 10^?2 MPa, accelerations above 0.1 cm/s², and the periods of the surface waves of ～20 s. The response to the remote events gradually increased within a few days. The sensitivity of the response to the remote earthquakes varied in the course of time, which is identified on the intervals of a few dozens of years.