Hi Cori,

Ear tone research is one long effort and it seems every now and then something we should have noticed ages ago becomes very clear.

At first we worked with 40 mile distances and then upon doing measurements time and again we noticed the distances from the ear tone recipient to the epicenter were 37.5 miles, more often than 40 miles. So we fine tuned it a little. To be off by one second is acceptable, thus providing a 37.5 mile radius. Remember you use the number of seconds counted and multiply them by 37.5 miles to determine where the epicenter will be. You'll notice that one second for you, places the quake at the edge of your property.

We have some times when we get match after match and things will go great and then we have the opposite. We've learned to look for trends to see this as a whole, not just a single ear tone at a time. When you work with groups, trend forecasting then becomes possible.

Just in observing weekly or monthly earthquake patterns its easy to see Caifornia and some of the west coast is having a higher number of 3.0 quakes than we've had in the past two years. So where will this go? My general thoughts are that we will continue to see this increase, going to 4's and 5's and within two years we will more than likely have a larger quake where people live, versus out in the desert. That's just my opinion and I cannot offer anything solid by way of data to support that.

Petra