Ah, but Don is not mainstream. Don predicted to me, and perhaps Petra, too, that a large quake was imminent in Hokkaido. This, about a week before the event.

We have three of the four parameters for predicting earthquakes nailed, using (John, avert your eyes) ear tones. I and another person not named here are only two of whom have a certain "ear effect" (for lack of a better word), presaging an earthquake of large proportions, and this may have something to do with the missing link.

This time it happened twice in one week, and Don thinks it may have something to do with the 8.3 and the subsequent 7 whatever in Lower Siberia.

Those two quakes seem related to me, but I can't tell you the physics involved. I don't think it was a step-over quake like Landers and Big Bear, but maybe the result of unknown stress transfer; i.e., the first quake somehow triggered the second.

Last night, Don called me on his cell on top of some mountain above Petaluma around midnight. Crazy old coot.

Tonight, his call came in earlier at 23:45. At least he was back home rather than freezing his buns off trying to catch mercury contaminated fish. Only on their way out did Don and his friend see the warning signs. Gulp.

I hope you won't take offense if I pass on that sashimi dinner.

Cathryn