Considering our other recent set of conversations... I put up the eartone post and list so anyone interested in researching eartones and their relationship to earthquakes could have a set of eartones.

One person here said that they would like to add the signals to their database to see if it helped their earthquake predictions - this was loudly objected to. I guess what I don't understand is why the objection to one person using eartone data in an attempt to predict earthquakes and no objection to others.

Was the purpose just to let others who hear eartones know that lots of people are hearing eartones? Don't we want to do something with the data?

We started out having a number of people posting eartones and once someone suggested using the data in research the posting slowed down to a trickle.

I have not updated the list in a while - I am wondering if it should even remain on the site.

Maybe I was wrong in my assumtion that the data is meant to be used for some sort of research. The way I think of eartones as a predictor of earthquakes is that if they are a precursor then there should be a fixed way to interpret these tones that people hear. If each person who hears tones have tones that mean something different then its not to worthwhile an event to use for predicting a quake. (The scientist in me)

All I really know at this point is that people do hear tones (I've been hearing them as long as I can remember) - what they are hearing or what causes the ear to hear the sound is unknown. There are even different type of eartones - at least 3 for me.

Canie