Posted by Roger Hunter on November 04, 2010 at 08:30:11:
EQF; Yes, that's a lot of predictive methods and if you go back thru the literature you will find hundreds more. But quakes are still not being predicted and the reason is that none of those methods WORK! Dr Whiteside worked with NOAA as head of the cataloging department. His thesis was one of the largest in that area of the CU Boulder library. After he retired he worked with GeoForecasters. Then he posted on Petra's website for awhile but not on her current site. It's claimed that he has made thousands of predictions but he won't let me test them because he's had bad experiences in the past with other evaluators. In the end, it all comes down to results. And so far, you don't have any. You point to the occasional correspondences after the fact but conveniently overlook the more frequent mismatches. It's just smoke and mirrors until proven otherwise. And that's MY personal opinion. Roger
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