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Obviously if you cannot account for the information she developed from using your program, she is either using it incorrectly, or you programmed it incorrectly. A program must have a specific answer, positive or negative, it cannot generate data which cannot be accounted for. This thing has more holes than swiss cheese.

As for the Ring Map program. Roger developed it for me for mapping ear tones at long distances. However, as we are now able to be more specific about mileages and I have a latitude/longitude mileage net link, I don't use it anymore. That program is more than a year old. I guess you must have been out in global land and missed the program when it rolled in, huh?

I think you are mixing emotions with common sense these days. While technology can play a role in helping a scientist determine where a possible future earthquake may occur, he has to develop the questions first. One always has to ask the question and then find the answer. Earthquake prediction requires the use of multi-disciplinary methods, such as Keilis-Borok is approaching this problem. While he has had two successful events, he may not get the fourth or fifth if his formula does not work universally. It may be that one has to be more site specific and hone it down to a much smaller area, if for no other reason the geological make-up of that specific area. But time will give him and the rest of us the results.

In your case you frequently only reference a country, which as you are well aware is not useful. You cannot warn an entire country and expect them to act on that kind of a warning. Nor can you ask people to look for recent cracks in foundations as those occur everywhere earthquakes occur, but mostly after the quakes unless one has soil such as adobe which is well known for cracking cement and foundations. And last but not least, we cannot ask anyone to look in one place and if not there, to look elsewhere, either. All of the above is not acceptable in the loosest terms. I think you know that.

If Zishimimi wants to work with our ear tone group, she is more than welcome, however, we don't share information on a routine basis and I'm not sure if that would please her.

Petra