Chris

My interest here lies with data that is available to us. While I post a Digest with a table of the monthly count of 6M or greater quakes, yet I understand that the figures I use are different from archive figures. I continue to post the table because it shows the preliminary figures available to all of us on a timely basis, and these are the ones we as lay people have to use in our prediction schemes.

So far on the electron figures I have come up with this: it is not the steady state figures (high or low) that are of interest, but the deviations, in this case the drops. As you point out, and here I make an analogy, when someone has a fever, it helps to know why to give proper treatment.

Solar data has been an interest in the Digest for several months, and I have not found it helpful in earthquake prediction, even though I now understand that for the sensitive person geomagnetic storms can be like meterological storms for symptom production. The earthquake sensitive person needs to know that. Thus looking, even without understanding, can bring progress.

Donald