Hi Chris,

When you go to the space weather site, it has a little diamond that shows the center of the solar flare where it impacts the Earth. Well, when you look at where that little diamond shape is when you catch the solar flares, just as they are occurring, by golly they are right near Indonesia where the vast majority of large quakes have occurred this year.

But, that's just an observation. One of those things you notice when you watch things on a daily basis. It took me hundred of hours of watching the Momento Mori seismo to figure out what was happening when the lines came from various locations on the screen and what each type of line indicated. I've got it down very well now. You see, that little device is like a heart monitor for the Earth. Energy patterns occur all of the time; some are quakes and some are not. But I did notice a long time ago, the deep swooping patterns emerging from the top to the bottom or the bottom to the top were often precursors to quakes which later occurred in the far northern or far southern regions.

I asked one of the designers, Ken Goldberg if he ever thought of adding music to the seismo and sure enough he did. Two years ago they took it to Japan for a convention and displayed it with music. But as for the web, well, its not on the menu for anytime in the near future. But adding your own music when you watch it does make it interesting.

Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, I, unlike you am not a scientist, so I have the largess of just making note of patterns I observe. Life is rarely dull because in our daily lives there is so much to notice and yet for the large majority, most people don't see half of what's before them, nor to do they enjoy the true beauty of nature, the wisdom of what each of us carry and share with one another, or hear the sound of silence and understand how truly fleeting that moment is and how to rejoice in it.

There truly is nothing new on Earth that has not been here since the beginning with the exception of buildings and such. However, we human beings are rather slow to catch the nuances of what is perfectly normal and natural and understand what we have before us. I guess the sense of discovery and mystery is what makes the job of a scientist very enjoyable and for the non-scientist, ditto.

Petra