Hi Cathryn,

I'll make it simple. Less is better and perfection should be the goal. I have maybe 50 ear tones a year +/- 20 and some of them are not very interesting, so I don't want to post the useless and mundane, but rather those of interest, perhaps for places which may not have earthquakes all of the time or for larger earthquakes.

I had an impression about two months ago that things were going to change in California. I'm sure some of that came from general observation, but rather this was an intuitive thought. I haven't been disappointed in the least, but I also sense the long quiet we have had is gone now. With that comes the sense that one should try to be accurate with the ear tone reports. Much more I think will come from now through the next two years and with this new openness here I hope some of the work/information we may provide will be of more help than just random ear tone reports.

I said so much to Don this past weekend. Right now we have Parkfield to be jubliant about and MSH is doing something which seems harmless, but it is not going to be that way all of the time and we should think about that seriously.

We are doing our research....let scientists do their own.

Petra