There was a M3.7 south of New orleans on the 19th-I think that was not too far from where the tropical storm passed-was that Hanna(h)? Someone may have the date that it passed and its strength at that time. I was giving Lowell some level of flack when he was relating a tropical storm to an eruption of Kick em Jenny (sp?) because the tropical storm was weak and very distant from that volcano. It may be interesting to watch Isadore, which is strong-it may pass near the location of a M > 4 earthquake a couple months ago (?) off of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico....

Hmm, cause and effect? If the sea level comes up due to decreased atmospheric pressure, then wouldn't the pressure stay the same at the seafloor? That is for open ocean-I guess a storm surge and wave battering at the coast would have some sort of pressure effect. Why doesn't some calculate this is fractions of a bar? say, a 5 m load of water across 50 km of coast...and a negative 2 m load of water on the other side (left) of the landfalling eye (water blown out to sea). adjust that for atmospheric pressure....

Again, I don't have much of an opinion on whether there is any statistical relation between hurricanes and earthquakes-I guess this is in Lowell's thesis.
Chris