On July 11, 2005 I posted a report to a number of Internet Newsgroups including sci.geo.earthquakes stating that I was considering creating a Web site where researchers around the world could post notes and develop computer programs associated with the science of earthquake forecasting. This present report is an update on that project.

The effort is still underway. The present plan is to try to get the proposed Web site organized for the science of earthquake forecasting and then expand it to include other sciences such as tornado forecasting and different areas of medicine. The ultimate goal is to have discussion areas there for as many of the problems which threaten the health and lives of people around the world as possible.

Professional and amateur computer programmers would probably be heavily involved with this work.

Since that first report was posted last July I have been able to establish what looks like it will be a stable source of funding for the effort. It should at least enable me to continue working on the project and pay for things such as Web site rental fees etc. And I am presently working with two groups of legal people who are attempting to create a formal organization through which the actual funding and Web site operation etc. will take place. How fast this effort will progress is at the moment largely up to those legal groups. One of them is supposed to create the necessary legal documents. The other will be doing the filing with government agencies etc. Unfortunately, since I am not a major client of either group they are doing the work when they are not busy with other clients.

A formal legal organization intended to be an introductory version of this
new organization has existed since 2002. But it took my legal people about
eight months to get all of the paperwork done and filed. The present effort
has been underway for a month. Hopefully it will not take another seven
months to finish.

PROPOSED WEB SITE

A number of years ago I worked with a Web site development expert to create
a discussion group for earthquake forecasting. I believe that it eventually
evolved into the two following discussion groups. The original Web site
expert is no longer involved.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthwaves

http://www.earthwaves.org/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

More details regarding that proposed Web site can be found in the following
report that I submitted for a United Nations disaster mitigation related
discussion back in July of 2004:

http://www.unisdr.org/wcdr-dialogue/t3-dialogue.htm#34

http://www.hewsweb.org

http://www.grassroots.org