Hey E,

At long last we agree on one thing. You said:

CONCLUSIONS
(1) I believe that those data provide some fairly good evidence that earthquakes are not all random events. Certain forces or phenomena are at times influencing the times when they occur.

I will to my dying day contend that nothing in the universe is random. Including the fact that we so rarely agree on anything. Wanna know why? If we knew all of the answers, we would have no reason for being. But, you have to spar a bit here and there to make a point and it's during that process which forces a person to go out and get the skinny on what's really real and in the end, we learn.

So don't think all of this has been for nothing. One day, sooner or later, more likely the latter than the former, one of us is going deliver the facts to the other. I pray it's you.

Petra