Hi Roger,

After every highly significant earthquake there are probably numerous reports about what should have been obvious earthquake precursors that people observed.

I have had a number of conversations with a survivor of that catastrophic January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake. And his story about precursors that he encountered was so stunning that I really wanted to try to get him to talk about them on national TV here in the U.S. He probably actually owes his life to the fact that he encountered those precursors. And it would have been a great story to hear. He told me that he was willing to appear on TV. Unfortunately it was another of these efforts that I just did not have time to get organized.

In my opinion, perhaps the main reason that we are not seeing the precursor data collected, displayed, and discussed at some location before an earthquake occurs is because so many people involved with the science of forecasting earthquakes are so totally lacking in any sense of direction.

Researchers around the world are happy to publish papers on the precursors. However, they can’t seem to get organized to the point where something constructive like an Internet based central database file gets established. That is one of the reasons I have been working on a new bulletin board system for earthquake forecasting and earthquake research among other things. It will hopefully make that type of organized resource available to people around the world.

Initially at least, it would not be a conversational board like this EarthWaves board. So, people would continue to post their discussion notes here.

A Perl programming expert has now developed the first version of that new bulletin board program for me. And I need to find some time to get it running so that I can see how it looks. It will probably run on my Web site as is. But before storing it there I want to get it running on my PC. I think that I need to link some additional modules to my present version of Perl so that it will run. And determining what modules they are etc. will take some time.