UPDATE Posted By EQF On May 24, 2011

This is most of the text of an Earthquake Warning Update that was just posted to the sci.geo.earthquakes Internet Newsgroup and several others.

My May 18, 2011 Earthquake Warning is in the process of being reevaluated. That process will likely take several days.

It was my expectation that the highly unusual EM Signals that were detected on May 18, 2011 might provide me with some valuable information regarding the nature of these EM Signals and what the rules are for exactly when in time before an earthquake they are generated.

It appears that information like that has in fact been generated. But it was not what I was expecting. And it will need to be studied for a while.

One of these rules that I determined during the past year is probably fairly clear is that when two or more strong EM Signals are detected within a several hour period of time, perhaps 75% of the time the earthquake responsible for the signals will occur within perhaps 5 days. However, there are always exceptions to almost any rule. And the May 18 EM Signals look like they are falling into that 25% of cases where the earthquake does not occur during the expected time window.

This also happened in the days following the 9 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake in the Japan area. The expected earthquake (Myanmar) did not occur until about 9 days after the EM Signals were detected.

It appears that these EM Signals can be detected at perhaps any location on the planet for earthquakes that are going to occur anywhere on the planet. They appear to be related to activities both in the fault zone and also in the Earth’s atmosphere. So they can affected by a wide variety of phenomena including powerful tornados, hurricanes, and solar storms in addition to activities in the Earth’s crust.

The EM Signals detected after the Japan earthquake appear to have been amplified and perhaps generated a greater length of time before the associated earthquake because of something, probably strong electromagnetic forces, related to that extremely powerful earthquake.

The EM Signals detected on May 18, 2011 presently appear to have been affected by a volcano that was getting ready to erupt in Iceland. I have suspected for several years that these signals could be influenced by volcanic activity. And this might be some of the clearest evidence that I have been able to collect to date regarding that.

A report that I read on the volcano stated that it last erupted in early October of 2010. And when I checked my EM Signal records I was amazed to see that quite a few strong EM Signals were detected at that same time. They are not generated that often. And I don’t believe that it was a coincidence that they were generating both back in October and also on May 18, around the same times that the volcano became active.

I still feel that there is going to be some noticeably strong seismic activity in the northwest part of the U.S. It might take a month or so. And I still expect that there could be some fairly strong seismic activity in the central Asia area down to the Indian Ocean. But that activity might not be as strong as originally expected.

For several months there have been strong line peaks appearing on my Data.html forecast charts in the 180 E area. They might have been linked in part with the following earthquake although its magnitude is fairly low for line peaks that strong.

2011/05/21 21:17:01 30.77S 178.13W 20 5.8 Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

These are expressions of personal opinion.