As pointed out in other notes, I am working informally with people connected with some of our world's leading earthquake research and forecasting groups.

With one particular group which is probably the most important we have been spending quite a bit of time up until now just exchanging different types of basic information so that we all would know what the others were talking about. Getting through that introductory process was vitally important. And I was not certain that we would make it. But the process has now been completed. So the last major information exchange hurtle has been cleared.

Those people have an operational copy of my Wave Chart data generation program. In fact we are already working on version #3. One goal is to eventually develop an easily modified program which will run on its own. At the moment the Wave Chart program it is actually a fancy computer spreadsheet program. And it will run in its present form on just a few versions of a particular spreadsheet. Not everyone has one of those versions. So I am thinking about trying to see if there is some way to get the technology onto a CD. Researchers could then load it into their computers from the CD or run the program directly from the CD itself. Some help and the necessary permissions would be needed from the company which produced the original spreadsheet software.

I personally feel that this could be the most rapidly advancing earthquake forecasting effort on the planet. I already have an earthquake forecasting program of my own running. And I feel that it produces at least some good results. So trying to decide if earthquakes can even be predicted in the first place is not a problem. And I believe that I have also developed the most sophisticated theory model for how the gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon directly and/or indirectly affect earthquake triggering times.

So we have a situation where there is a considerable amount of valuable information available to some bright, experienced people who are quite interested in the information. That is a fairly powerful combination.

Unforunately this is an effort which presently involves people who are doing the work largely on their own time. It is not yet a part of any official program. And any number of things could cause the effort to collapse. However, so far, so good.