Earthquake and tornado data evaluation computer program update
Posted by EQF on May 07, 2004 at 01:44:55:

Full documentation for the Earthquake and Tornado Data Evaluation Computer Program has now been stored at my Web site. The following file contains quite a few examples of how the program works. And I recommend that people examine it even if they are not interested in using the program itself.

http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/303.html

I am now going to start telling researchers around the world about the program and recommend that governments, research groups, and even private parties begin using it. The present version of the program does not actually predict earthquakes or tornados. It is instead intended to provide people with an ability to determine the locations where earthquake and tornado precursor signals are being generated. Once they have that information they can then check the area for other signs of an approaching earthquake such as large, fresh cracks in building foundations, reports of recent unusual animal behavior, reports of people in the area experiencing strong headaches, static on radio transmissions, glowing lights on the horizon etc.

I am also going to try to find some organization which can take charge of the effort to further develop the program, circulate it to people around the world, and help them learn how to use it.

I recommend that EarthWaves board visitors and posters who are interested in earthquake forecasting and who have some familiarity with computer languages get the Perl language compiler running on their computers and then download the data evaluation program from my Web site. The Perl compiler needs to be installed. That takes just a few minutes. My data evaluation program and its support files are then simply stored in a directory that the program user chooses. And the program is run from there. A Read-Me file stored in the 311.zip file at my Web site contains detailed instructions for how to get the program running and how to interpret the data that it produces.

I feel that for the foreseeable future this program might represent about the only hope that many people around the world including U.S. West Coast residents are likely to have for getting a warning before a destructive earthquake occurs near them. I am planning to see if I can provide people around the world with my own precursor data for use with the program. And they can check them to see if they might be pointing to a local earthquake. But I simply do not have the time and resources needed to watch for everyone’s earthquakes around the world. People in different locations will have to make that type of determination themselves. There are probably a number of different types of precursor data which they can also use from local sources such as Ear Tones.

Additionally, the main data file contains records of 5.0 and greater magnitude earthquakes going back to the beginning of 1990. But there are probably quite a few lower magnitude earthquakes, especially ones which occurred along the U.S. West Coast area which should be added to the program’s database. People living in different areas would have to do that. I cannot track down those earthquakes myself.

There are probably other forecasting programs which produce better results. But they are likely either not presently available to people around the world or are too complex for people to use at this time. This is just a computer program. And people in countries around the world should be able to use it shortly after it is downloaded. It is fully operational. And it should probably run on any computer which was built in the past 10 years.

The following report contains download instructions for both Perl and the data evaluation program.

http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/301.html

SUBSOLAR AND SUBLUNAR LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES

A professional computer programmer who has been helping with this project has now just about finished preparing a compiled Basic language program which will hopefully soon be merged with the data evaluation program. It generates data for the locations of the subsolar and sublunar points for the times when earthquakes occur and when warning signals are detected. My present Web site program extracts those data from a group of enormous files which have to be downloaded. And they work for only the year 2004. This new program looks like it should work for a much larger time span. In fact I don’t even know what its time limitations might be at the moment.