Hi EQF,

I was curious to know if any of your subjects heard ear tones before the two Alaskan quakes, the 6.7 and the 7.9? If your subjects are in the USA then they would be far more likely to hear those two quakes than one in Greece at a 5.9.

In recalling your past "warning signal" events which you felt were successful, they were only quakes which included injuries or loss of life. So I am a little puzzled as to how one could distinguish in advance what the results would be. IE: How can an ear tone for a 5.9 quake so far away be noted for a warning and yet for a 7.9, nothing. Or at least you did not post anything after the Alaskan quake.

Overall in looking at global seismicity and only including earthquakes which might include injuries or death, that would limit your research to only approximately 20% of the earthquakes which occur in a given year. Therefore, can you explain or enlighten us as to how you can tell one from the other in advance?

Just thinking of myself being your shoes and trying to decide where I might send a warning, I think I would feel a little apprehensive. You don't wish to alarm people over a moderate earthquake and yet the quake which occurred in Greece was moderate.

I'd like to have some feedback from you so I can understand how you can tell the difference between a life threatening event at any magnitude, versus other events which are not, but would be excluded as life threatening, but far larger quakes.

Citing one example for instance, in Challis, Idaho a few years back, there was a 5.6 quake and the quake dislodged some very large boulders. They rolled down off of the hills and caused the death of a child on his way to school, when the boulder hit the building he was passing at the time. So the quake in itself was not enough to be life threatening except for the boulder problem. Thus if one had an ear tone for this event, how could you distinguish it as life threatening or otherwise?

I know you do not as a rule work on USA quakes, which is rather unfortunate as one day we will have a super life threatening event and be absent of your input ahead of time. Have you reconsidered your position on this issue? I would think it odd for you not to warn those of us who live in high seismic risk zones in the USA, over other places around the globe.

Frankly, out of all of the ear tones I have heard, I have never had any indication of injury or loss of life. So this puzzles me greatly.

Petra