Brave may not be the appropriate word here. Foolhardy, perhaps!
Anyway the thesis did pass a board of 5 prominent seismologists/geophysicist
on the first try, so it couldn't have been all bluff - these people don't let sloppy
work or pseudo-science pass a PhD board, not at the University of Colorado, anyway.

Nopenot in the reunion photo.

I did not track where the moon was in the sky. The study was simply an
attempt to see if seismicity rate changes occurred in different regions at
different times in the lunar month, nothing too fancy, just a plain statistical
study.

I do not wish to comment on EQF's statements until he can produce some
statistics to back them up. So far all I have seen are vague statements stating
the his indicators suggest an earthquake somewhere in a broad region in a
broad range of time which might or might not be damaging to buildings. I would
like EQF to begin to show some statistics demonstrating that his technique
is better than random before I spend much time looking at it. He is a scientist,
this is not beyond his abilities. Anecdotal information is fine, but proves nothing.