Question:

How reliable is the USGS 7 day earthquake list?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

That information is important because I use those earthquakes in my database file of earthquakes dating back to the beginning of 1990.

For each earthquake in that file, more than 60,000 at the moment, my computer program created and then stored information regarding the positions of the sun and the moon in the sky and the locations of ocean and Solid Earth Tide crests and troughs at the time the earthquake occurred. My forecasting computer program then uses complex probability equations to compare those data with data for EM Signal times. And my earthquake forecasts are generated using the resultant probability numbers

That works for some approaching significant earthquakes and not others. For it to work, the approaching earthquake first needs to be generating EM Signals that have sun and moon position data etc. that match other earthquakes that occurred in the past in the area where it is about to occur. And only a certain percentage of approaching earthquakes do that.

If that USGS list is actually not very reliable then I am going to have to access the USGS database file of earthquakes that is used for searches, have a program compare those earthquakes with the ones in my database file, and delete the database file earthquakes that were actually errors in 7 day USGS list in the first place.

Earthquake Research Computer Program Project

A project that might be about to get underway involves having interested computer programming specialists around the world work together to further develop my earthquake forecasting and research computer program software.

The major goal would be to develop a computer program that did a good job of determining exactly what sun and moon gravity related forces etc. were responsible for earthquakes in different locations being triggered. My present program uses a single set of conditions for fault zones everywhere. And logic would suggest that fault zones running north and south probably have earthquakes being triggered by a different group of forces than ones running east and west.

That project might be developed as what I understand is a GIT type of project where people around the world can participate.

Also, part of the project might involve having that computer program run at some Web site, possibly as a “cloud” computing type of effort. My program presently probably requires too much CPU time for it to run continuously at a single Web site. And it would need to run continuously so that it could immediately process data for earthquakes as they occurred.

• USGS 7 day list