Interesting analogy about our ancestors...never thought about it like that...

As for your ear tones I think the problem for you Petra is evaluating your tones against geologic time. For example you might say you have a tone for a 1 -2 range quake in a given area. But sometimes that area might be statistically prone.

So you had this huge successful hit on the Parkfield quake. That was good. However these types of quakes are few and far in between to evaluate on regular basis. I guess if you lived to be 150 at least we would find out, does this make sense? As long as you keep issuing forecasts for larger magnitude quakes all is good, right?

I don't know what other site you are referring to, or, who the detractor is but just don't worry about it.