Good Day EQF:

Gosh darn, if I would have known you wanted to volunteer to help on a research project I would have enrolled you years ago. But as Don and Antonio Romino would tell you, I'm a witch on wheels. LOL :-)

But you know, when you want to get the facts the only way to do it is to go straight to the source.

My friend Don was at my house about two years ago and he's talking on the telephone one morning and hands me the phone after he tells his friend I wanted to talk to her. I asked him who this person was on the telephone and he says, "Charlotte King." I could have killed him. I had wanted to talk to her for years, and he never told me they were friends.

Well, Charlotte and I had a real heart to heart talk about ear tones and the difficulties we've had. I was surprised to learn that she knew you and of course many others who are still posting on the web.

Of course Don's greatest benefit from knowing me came when I introduced him to Lowell. They are such good friends and I am happy they have such a good rapport with each other.

Lowell is really good at bringing a lot of material together in making a point about precursors. One of them came several months ago when one night I heard an ear tone that matched the Mendocino Triple Junction and at the exact same time as the quake occurred and I heard it, there was a solar flare that hit the Earth. I wouldn't have ever looked for it, but Lowell thinks of these things.

I do agree, one should look for other precursory phenomena before making a proper forecast. But there's not always a lot of material out there and from what I've seen, more often than not, an ear tone recipient will hear an ear tone and select a matching epicenter and be quite accurate when there is nothing out there to support the possibility of an earthquake in a given location. All to often the electronic data that is supposed to indicate fault changes does not change until the earthquake occurs.

Now this is something you might be interested in pursuing. How does one take this information and create an instrument that can collect this sound or vibration. Perhaps you have some contacts who work with instrumentation who might avail themselves to this effort?

As you know Don and I have a study area very close to where I live and a long time ago in 1999 I had heard an ear tone for a quake that was for all purposes and intent going to occur in my neighborhood. I found that as I drove around the base of the fault I got a sensation of head pressure on the back on my head, but yet, when I was on top of the fault, I had no sensations at all. After the quake occurred the woman who lived virtually on top of the epicenter told me that the night before it occurred both of her ears were ringing so loud that she felt like she was sitting in the middle of an electrical field. Now that was interesting, but I've heard of this same phenom from others who are close to epicenters. So as you can see, something does occur when you are very close to an epicenter prior to an earthquake. Kewl stuff.

Insofar as formal research on ear tones, yes indeed it has occurred. I know of two scientists who did investigate ear tones and used subjects.

Petra