EQF and all, Sorry, I probably overstated annoyance at what EQF is doing and understated what is behind the efforts. This is in part related to the Haiti quake and fatalities; A professor here was really annoyed at the poor explanations given by meteorlogists on CNN, and I was very annoyed at ridiculous explanations given by meteorlogists on CNN for the 2004 tsunami.

Actually, EQF is probably doing the correct thing to NOT predict earthquakes ahead of time, because he/she cannot reliably do that and realizes this so would not be helpful. It is OK to look at the graphs after the fact but should be careful not to claim success; just note correlations.

On the other hand, I don't buy the technique and what little I've looked at the graphs, am unimpressed. Partly because I read some number of the posts and looked at the graphs I'm not willing to spend more time on this so will defer to others to read what they say, like Roger, John, and others.

Chris