Ok. Let’s try again.

You create a computer program which produces a wave for the Los Angeles area which exactly matches the ocean tide height in the area. (I believe that such a program already exists.) Then you try to see if Los Angeles area earthquakes occur when there the wave generated by the program has a high or low tide value.

As you know the match would probably not be very good.

So, you add adjustment parameters to the computer program so that the wave that it generates does have a high or low value when there is an earthquake. Then you watch as future earthquakes occur and discover that the program is continuing to have high or low values when they occur.

My forecasting software works something like that. I do not actually rely heavily on ocean tide data. But that might be the easiest way to explain how it works. I believe that you said that you did not understand the technology that I am using so I tried explaining it in those terms. And I wanted to know if that explanation was clearer.