Posted by EQF on April 30, 2004 at 20:12:33:
This text and table formatting approach should work. Something that I have been stating is that I believe that my new Earthquake and Tornado Data Evaluation Program can provide scientists around the world with a powerful research tool in addition to an invaluable aid to forecasting earthquakes. And the following is an example of what I mean by a research tool. The program is already fully operational. I am presently working on getting documentation prepared which will provide program users with information regarding how to run the program and interpret the data. And in the process of doing that I have been running some tests on the already available data. A short time ago I instructed it to look for possible matches between that recent destructive earthquake in Morocco and earlier destructive earthquakes. And it generated a lengthy list of earthquakes which matched that one. Only the top few are being listed here. According to my records, the one in Morocco produced roughly 500 fatalities, the one in China about 100, the one on the Panama border 2, and the one in Iran some 25,000 to 45,000 depending upon which numbers you accept. Results sorted by PROBABILITY ang eqlon gl ml ci la sa date loc/typ m/s ft PR: lon lat probs / area, country, state, or city 45 4. 3 81 61 47 5 04/02/24 mor 6.4 3 100: -4 35 .100 / MOROCCO 2004/02/24 02:27:46 35.22N 3.95W 1.4 6.4 NEAR NORTH COAST OF MOROCCO 37 62. 2 82 60 48 5 04/03/24 chi 5.5 3 89: 118 45 . 89 / CHINA 2004/03/24 01:53:49 45.44N 118.23E 17.7 5.5 EASTERN NEI MONGOL, CHINA 26 83. 87 79 62 43 88 03/12/25 pan 6.5 1 72: -83 8 . 72 / PANAMA 2003/12/25 07:11:11 8.41N 82.84W 33.0 6.5 PANAMA-COSTA RICA BORDER REGION 37 32. 0 79 65 44 91 03/12/26 ira 6.6 5 71: 58 29 . 71 / IRAN 2003/12/26 01:56:52 29.00N 58.33E 10.0 6.6 SOUTHEASTERN IRAN (NEIS data)For the purposes of this discussion I will propose that the numbers of interest are in the gl, ml, ci, la, and sa columns. Their ranges are 0 to 89. 90 would be equal to 0. The numbers for each of those earthquakes in each column are almost exactly the same. And my interpretation of what they are showing is that all of those deadly earthquakes were triggered by forces related to the gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon which were acting in the same manner. This is something that I believe I have observed with other groups of destructive earthquakes in the past. But the computer programs I have been using up until now did not have the ability to organize the data in such a manner that it is so easy to identify triggering effects such as that one. QUESTION: What does that triggering information mean? ANSWER: The simplest answer that I can provide to that question is that it means that this data evaluation program does actually have the potential to revolutionize the sciences of earthquake and perhaps tornado forecasting by making it very easy for researchers to identify and then study triggering phenomena such as that one.
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