Could this mean that a new life form has come into existence within the geology community?

Are they really admitting that there might be some type of precursor that can indicate that an earthquake is approaching?

Might that be one of the signs that we are supposed to watch for that our planet is about to get smacked by a giant asteroid sending us all off to join the dinosaurs?

Actually I am glad that they published that information. I suspected that if they could detect some ground movement prior to the quake then signs of the earthquake’s approach probably appeared on my own forecast charts.

And they did !!!

If the link works correctly, the following is my years 2001 through 2013 Year Chart that can be seen near the bottom of the following (indirect) Web page.

http://www.freewebs.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html

The download “read” for that chart is from my own Internet server, not the EarthWaves server.

You want to scan down to September of 2012 when the earthquake occurred. And you will see that there is some line structure to the right of the actual earthquake, perhaps around 68 W. It goes all the way back to at least September of 2011 and then abruptly ends after the earthquake occurred. That and the shallow depth of the earthquake and the fact (?) that those researchers were able detect its approach by using GPS are good indicators that the line structure on my chart was in fact pointing to the approach of that earthquake.

There are a number of reasons that the longitude of line structure is too far to the east. One of them could be that the strain on that tectonic plate was actually causing a fault zone farther to the east to generate the signals that I detected.

Another reason is that my forecasting program tries to match EM with the past earthquakes in my database file. But the line on the bottom of the page shows that my database file contains almost no earthquakes at 85 W where the earthquake occurred. However, there are LOTS of earthquakes in the database file at 68 W. So the program did the best it could with determining the right longitude with limited amounts of earthquake data to work with.