Petra, your timing with your comments looks a little strange from my point of view. It appears to me that you are considering jumping overboard when land may have finally been spotted after what seems like an eternity of people seeing only ocean.

One of the reasons that I post notes here and to the Newsgroups is to let members of the international scientific community and other interested parties know where my research stands. A goal is to encourage them to use that work as a foundation for their own efforts. Another reason is to see if anyone can add anything helpful to the discussions. And as I stated in another note, that one reference which was posted here concerning a particular Web site may have been a case of just the right information being volunteered at just the right time.

If after additional data analyses it continues to look accurate, I believe that I now have a fairly good idea regarding how earthquakes are being triggered. And confirmation data are easy to obtain. I feel that this is a crucially important part of the general earthquake forecasting picture. And if I do circulate a report on this as I am hoping to do, my theory information might get geophysicists around the world to finally begin assembling a complete picture regarding these processes.

I am also considering recommending that governments around the world create their own versions of my present earthquake forecasting program. All they would need is a computer capable of running a spreadsheet program and access to the Internet so they can download the latest earthquake and precursor data.

Regarding ear tones, as I have said before I myself consider them to be largely useful for discussion purposes only. On a 1 to 10 rating scale in my personal forecasting program I assign them a value of 1. That way they still appear in my probability tables but do not have much affect on the results. And all of the ear tones in my 131.html Web tables are my own. On another page at the site there are some ear tone data which another person sent me.

If you wish to avoid discussing ear tones at this Web site then I would propose that all you are probably really doing is missing out on an opportunity to get other people engaged in some interesting discussions. No one appears interested in talking about the geophysics part of the effort which I myself am focusing on at the moment. But people do like to talk about ear tones.