Hello Billion,

I am an ear tone sensitive, but I can truthfully say with several years of hearing these tones so far they are mostly an unsolved enigma. I have times when everything goes just right and the quakes show up just where they belong and yet many other times a total disappointment. Thus its going to take several more years to ferret out the solution as to how this works.

First of all, old wives tales are speaking of one's ears ringing, ear tones are not a ringing in the ears but a tone. I can only narrow down the description of the delivery of the tone, which may either be a true sound, or a vibration, in that it seems like an electrical noise traveling down an fibre optic wire.

So far as I have determined every fault has its own sound/tone depending on the rock structure in that given area. The foundation of thoughts I have on this matter is that as rocks that have been broken by scientific tests show that in breaking they do emit an electrical sound, then the fault rocks breaking must do the same thing, only on a much larger scale.

The parameters in this area are far to vast to isolate at this time in that we are talking about the distance from the person hearing the tone, the type of fault it is, the timing mechanism, whether the fault rupture is actually going to occur or is in the process of building for an occurrence. Don and I have spent numerous hours in discussion about this process as some of my tones do not materialize in an earthquake. It could be that the understructure of a fault does have rocks breaking, but not enough to deliver an earthquake at that time.

What I foresee in the long distant future is that some kind of microphones of a very sensitive nature could be placed along fault lines and record the sound on something like an oscilliscope. In time these tones could be classified for each fault as its behavior becomes known. Then the tones could be assimilated and a repeatable prediction could be made from this research information.

I know it is not an unusual experience to hear tones before quakes, but most people just think there ears are doing something unusual and they never make the connection between the sound/tone and resulting earthquakes.

I am rather a perfectionist about some things and I find it perturbs me when I hear something and I have a sense of imminent danger and then nothing happens. I do not like anything that can not be explained all of the time and thus I find it irritating and yet I wish to solve this mystery.

But looking at this in comparison to all research projects, one can hypothesize, continue to research and in time, someone will figure it out. I hope its me. I've got a lot of research I've done and I hope one day it will add up to something. LOL

Petra