I think that it's rude to comment that a person's idea is stupid. Implies they're stupid and there aren't any stupid people on this board. I made a very near miss with a Vancouver Island earthquake and it was 25 km's out of range or so. I'd be more than happy to make a comment about it on my summary for the posting because I can use it to reference why the prediction failed when posting the same region in the future when I may have forgotton what I did wrong on the last post. Dennis, I think close also counts and serves as a barometer to tell us when we're getting hotter hotter or colder colder. take care from B.C....mb.