Re: happy birthday
Posted by EQF on November 11, 2007 at 15:06:38:

Don't feel too bad Roger. Old programmers never die. Their teeth just fall out and they lose their byte.

Discussions regarding whether or not earthquakes can be predicted might be on the wane starting perhaps a year from now.

The forecasting program discussed on the following Web page is now running sufficiently well that I am in the process of trying to get it into a form that it can be given for free use to researchers around the world. They will then be able to take the times when “Ear Tones” or certain types of electromagnetic pulses (EM signals) are detected and plug them into the program which will generate charts for them that show where the signals might have had their origins.

http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html

The program works by using some fairly complex probability calculations to link EM signals with past earthquakes. When there are good matches it indicates that another earthquake could be about to occur near where the ones in the high quality matches occurred.

The main program is unfortunately presently too slow and complex for the general public to use. I am working on simplifying it by adding internal sun and moon location data generation routines and a group of equations which combine force vectors etc. At the moment those operations are being performed by other computer programs.

With luck (plus my slow programming speed), a version which can be circulated as part of a group of programs might be ready for distribution by some time in late 2008. If it works as well as I believe it should, then an amazing international discovery could suddenly be made that “We can actually predict earthquakes!”