Hi Cori,

I posted a note on Syz Sensitives about 3 months ago and no one seemed to be very interested. Our group now consists of myself and two others who report regularly and one other who reports occasionally. 3 out of the 4 of us have matching behavior in hearing tones and mapping locations from those tones. Not everyone is the same in performance, thus this working group has a very good hit/false alarm record.

It takes time daily for matching quakes and tones and if we are really busy like we were about two weeks ago it requires extra time. It is interesting to see the patterns that develop. We had a long quiet spell and then all of us individually began to make reports about three weeks ago. None of the tones were heard at the same time and not necessarily on the same day, but the ear tone reporting really escalated and within ten days the quakes started coming in. Now is has been quiet for about a week and things in the quake world are getting quiet again too. After seeing this specific trend over time is rather interesting.

Also curious is that if you talk to people who are not scientists, they have no reservations that people can hear ear tones for earthquakes, but those who have a scientific background can not accept this correlation.

But the issue of all aspects of ear tone work have not been resolved yet. More research is still necessary and is ongoing and will be for the forseeable future. For those who work with ear tones, coming to an understanding of why some ear tones have a trailing effect and some don't is curious; but I think, though I'm not positive, this is a result of the length of the fault from which the tone is generated. IE: the longer the fault is, the longer the trailing sound may be.

When all of the questions can be answered, then the explanation as to what they are will at last be known and can be written in fact and not speculation.

Thanks for your interest,

Petra