Assuming that time will permit, in the future when those earthquakes occur I myself am planning to post notes to different earthquake bulletin boards and perhaps a few Newsgroups discussing how the chart shows that it occurred when there was a Solid Earth Tide or moon gravity peak etc. Already available data indicate that some of the most interesting and productive earthquakes to study will probably be the very high magnitude ones. In addition to comparing their occurrence times to the times of other high magnitude earthquakes it will be possible to compare them with precursor signal generation times and the times when some of their aftershocks occur.

Time lines for three recent destructive earthquakes can be found on the present year 2003 chart (Mexico, China, and Afghanistan). Discussions could probably get started regarding them. However instead of attempting that myself I am planning to focus on preparing the next report in that series.

EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH

One of the problems associated with efforts to discover why earthquakes are occurring at the times they are occurring has to do with the fact that researchers around the world are often studying different forces and phenomena. Their data cannot be easily compared and used to form organized, cohesive theory pictures. The chart on that Web page contains a variety of data which can be easily compared with one another. And after the next and perhaps last file in that series (data for years 1990 to the present) has been stored at the Web site I am planning to begin discussing those data with scientists around the world. I expect that those discussions may result in earthquake science making an abrupt jump forward in time.

It could be a few weeks before those discussion get started. And I would be interested in hearing about any successes or problems people are having with producing printed copies of that GIF file or understanding what its data represent. If possible and appropriate I will try to add additional clarification information to the Web page or if necessary perhaps even divide its GIF file into several sections so that they can be printed on separate sheets of paper. That has not already been done because it would make the process of adding new data to the chart more complicated.