Update – July 23, 2013

A fairly powerful and destructive earthquake has occurred in China.

2013/07/21 23:45:56 34.49N 104.24E 9 5.9

News reports are stating that 75 died and 400 were injured.

My computer program charts for that earthquake and the strong July 20, 2013 EM Signal don’t match. Additional tests will be run. But I can’t presently confirm that the earthquake was responsible for that signal. Its magnitude was also lower than expected. But it was a very shallow earthquake. And my data indicate that they generate stronger signals than even more powerful deep earthquakes.

So, that makes three significant earthquakes in a row, all in July, that occurred within my usual 5 day Time Window following a strong EM Signal. The first two were 7.3 magnitudes. The one in China was lower. But it claimed a lot of lives making it quite significant.

The point is that if earthquake researchers around the world were to take a closer look at their local precursor data when I circulate one of these warnings or advisories then perhaps they could spot some of these approaching powerful and significant earthquakes.

Earthquakes don’t occur where I live. If they do where you live then one of these times when an EM Signal is detected it might be for an earthquake that is headed in your direction. And how the signal data are being processed at that time might determine if anyone in your area will know that the earthquake is on the way.

Later this week I am planning to try to get my forecasting Web page running again. It stopped running because the USGS changed its earthquake data format and I didn’t have time to compensate for that because other important projects had deadlines. Now I need to go back and process large amounts of the low and medium intensity EM Signal data that are used with that forecasting Web page. Roger’s programs that do some of the data processing are running again.

These are personal opinions.