This message is being posted for the purpose of demonstrating the ear tone work several of us have been doing behind the scenes. My hope is by sharing this information others who share in this ear tone experience may find this method useful to them.

The narrative below is an original e-mail I received along with 3 others in the group and the top begins with my congratulatory note to Mary the ear tone reporter of which copies went to the others in the group. Thus you need to read the original report at the bottom and then read the results at the top. I could have changed this, but this is our normal way of doing things and I did not wish to lose the format.

To achieve a valid matching ear tone report to an earthquake it must meet the following guidelines:
1. It must occur within ten days of the date of the original report.
2. Each second of ear tone equals 37.5 straight-line miles, thus the total of seconds counted, times 37.5 miles is the distance from the ear tone receiver to the location of the expected epicenter. A valid match cannot be more than 37.5 miles from the actual earthquake epicenter.

The link for the distance calculator is listed below. One must enter the latitude and longitude of the location of the ear tone recipient at the location where the ear tone was heard and then enter the latitude and longitude of where the earthquake arrived.

All participants in the group have right ear tones as East and South and the left ear tones as North and West.

Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: 8-sec mod-loud right tone

> Congratulations Mary....you've got a match...see below....Petra
>
> 3.7 2004/09/09 08:30:05 35.088N 117.517W 5.6 15 km (10 mi) ENE of Boron,
> CA
>
> Distance Calculation Results
>
> Distance between 37.62n 121.50w and 35.08n 117.51w is
> 283.2801 statute miles
>
> This calculation assumes the earth is a perfect sphere
> with a radius of 3963.1 statute miles
>
> 283 miles divided by 37.5 equals 7.54 seconds of ear tone.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:11 PM
> Subject: 8-sec mod-loud right tone

> > Hi again,
> >
> > At approximately 12:05 p.m. PDT today (9/1/04) I heard a moderately-loud
> right tone with pitch about A above middle C (lower than most recent tones
> I've heard.) This one blocked sound in the left ear before it began, but I
> heard it with the right ear with still hearing external sounds with the
> right.
> >
> > Mary

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Distance Calculation Link:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html
Simple Things to Understand:

The volume of the sound will give you an understanding about how large the earthquake should be. If the ear tone for instance is a long distance from you and the sound is on the low side, it should be greater than a 3.0, yet lower than a 5.0. If the ear tone is short and the sound loud, it could be as little as a 3.5 to 4.5. Only experience will help you to determine what to expect from each ear tone.

How do you define the future epicenter? If you look at the fault maps on the net and determine where the distance falls, which will be in a circular pattern, most earthquakes will show up on those fault lines and not in places where they normally don't have earthquakes. It's a process of elimination. However, if you hear the same sound repeatedly, you'll probably know from experience where the epicenter and fault are located.

You can only make progress if you carefully log each and every ear tone and record each and every match. Do not fudge the numbers because in the end you're only fooling yourself. Our group has noticed that earthquakes which occur in the north (left ear) arrive faster than those heard in the right ear. (south). There will always be little caveats, but earthquakes do what they want and thus we have to expect the unexpected.

This method has worked repeatedly for our group. It doesn't mean it works for everyone. But we do feel fortunate that we have been able to define so much material into something that has a pattern that is repeatable. In addition to the above there are other sounds which are heard and only experience or contact with others who have had similar experiences can help. I'll mention one as an example because it isn't reported that frequently, but very interesting. Some of us have heard a sound just like a bird fluttering its wings next to our ears. The results are earthquake swarms and only the direction by your ear, combined with the volume can give you a direction of this future swarm.

Thank you for your patience,

Petra