Don, as I have said in the past, with many of the notes that I am posting here the EarthWaves board is serving as a place to make announcements regarding the progress of efforts to develop earthquake forecasting technology. And this latest progress report was particularly important because it stated that a major hurtle to the rapid development of this type of technology has now been overcome to a large extent. The technology was severely limited by computer program speed and power. That is no longer a major problem. The main problem now is finding time to do the research.

My previous programs could work with records of only about 2000 earthquakes at a time. So I had to divide my data into small batches, process them, and then try to combine the results and make some sense of them. That was rapidly becoming impossible. My new program can work with almost unlimited numbers of earthquakes. And I just downloaded a list of 20,000 earthquake records going back to the year 1990 and will now begin processing them and adding them to my database. Unfortunately those original records still have to be processed by one of my older and slower programs which generates the sun and moon location information. And it will probably take my computer a good part of a day to do the necessary calculations.

You might notice that I do not respond to some of the notes posted in response to my own notes. One of the primary reasons is the fact that what people are talking about in those notes is so distant from what I am discussing that it is impossible to make a response. As I have said in the past it is like comparing apples and oranges.