Canie, if you are happy with the way things are going then fine. It just sounded like you were getting a little flustered. And I wanted to try to pour some oil on the water, in a manner of speaking.

This the second time I have been asked that Wave Chart question in the past few days, the first was by an e-mail contact.

The Wave Charts have two general purposes at the moment:

(1) Research – On the charts you can mark the time when two or more earthquakes occurred and then examine things such as the strength of the gravitational pulls of both the sun and the moon, the Solid Earth Tide height, the sun – Earth – moon angle … all at once. Up until I started generating those charts individual researchers were pointing to solar or lunar gravity or sun – Earth – moon angle etc. and saying that this or that must be triggering earthquakes. With the Wave Charts you can see how a sizeable number of those forces look at the same time. And I feel that they can provide researchers with invaluable information.

After I posted those charts to my Web site it seemed like the different individual opinions I was hearing simply disappeared. Perhaps that was just my imagination. In any case when I now hear that someone is discussing the subject of earthquake triggering processes I point him or her to the Wave Charts. The feedback that I have gotten is that they are well liked.

(2) Aftershocks – When an especially important earthquake occurs you can mark its time on the Wave Charts and then project forward in time and get a drawing which shows the days when important aftershocks might occur for the earthquake. That procedure works amazingly well as you can see by examining the following Web page:

http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/130.html

I use a completely different program to process my earthquake precursor data. And the results are then checked with the Wave Chart program as well as forecasts being circulated by other people. Some of Shan’s and my forecasts have been in amazingly good agreement.