Hello Dr. Boon,

Tinnitis and ear tones are two entirely different events. While tinnitis is brought on by many reasons which have to do with some physical manifestation in the body, ear tones are not. I've had both and there is no similarity between the two.

After researching both ear tone subjects and understanding that rocks broken in a lab generate an electric signal, it is quite easy to understand that if large rocks are breaking within a fault, there is no reason not to believe both humans and animals can hear this sound.

Unfortunately, most people do not make the connection in knowing where an earthquake should occur after hearing an ear tone. While some of us memorize the sound itself and know where it comes from, there is also a mathematical way to do it as well. It's very precise and affords no guesswork. The only problem with ear tones is determining when they will occur. Some quakes arrive in a matter of 45 minutes while others show up within two weeks. And some of the time, but not often an ear tone does arrive and there seems to be no matching earthquake. For those I believe there is fault movement, but not sufficient to create an earthquake.

The greatest problem with ear tones are the humans who hear them. People cannot stay awake 24/7, so they can't hear ear tones all of the time. But many people have been awakened at night from an ear tone that is so loud it will wake one out of a good sleep. That is a very disconcerting event because the math cannot be applied to it because you don't know when it started so the key to knowing where this future epicenter may be is lost.

There are a plethora of events which happen during a lifetime for which there is no rapid explanation, but ear tones are not one of them. I can easily understand why you would chose to ignore them, because if you looked seriously at using them, you would find the work involved is significant.

While some people chose to use the term "warning signal", I don't like that term. It depicts an ominous event, when those events are truly rare.

Petra