Petra,

I wrote, "Petra, you had better get a patent for your ears, and copyright all the tones!"

You replied, "I'm sorry Ara, but I found this quite amusing. What would I tell the Patent Bureau about my ears? Dr. Spock, I'm not. Nor Ms. Spock either."

Well, it was meant to amuse you, so I am glad you were amused, but I am puzzled as to why you are sorry for being amused. Californian earthquake sensitive people are hard to figure out! Of course I am too, so maybe you thought I have no sense of humor. Actually, I was thinking of a news story where some American guy copyrighted all possible telephone numbers (as an ironic joke, he was not intending to really claim compensation).

"...I find it...amazing that anyone that can a single sound heard and know it belongs to a place on earth. There are no machines of any kind that I am aware of that can do that which to is amazing. To learn that every single fault has its own unique sound is equal to every person who has their own fingerprints again is amazing. But it also says that one day a machine can take that sound and know exactly where it belongs."

This is the part of ear tones that most fascinates me too, along with the idea that a direction (N,S,E,W) might be indicated. It is similar to the idea that different parts of the body represent different places on earth, which idea also intrigues me. I do not think any of it is "amazing", though -- certainly no more or less amazing than anything else. If I were you, I would restrict that word to experiences and not to phenomena.

"I came to the conclusion that seismology does not have the answer to ear tones and for the foreseeable future will not. It is outside of their realm of scientific understanding."

Seismology is just a branch of geology, and is a very temporary science, I think. Soon a big piece will fall off and be subducted by physics.

"But that does not mean there is not a scientific discipline which can address this earth sound."

On the other hand, ear tones are rather private observations, and the explanation and interpretation of them is very incomplete. It's a tough nut to crack.

"Today I turned a new leaf. I'm not asking for those is seismology to try and understand this anymore."

It is not wrong for them to have no interest, but those who ridicule you are wrong. In so doing, they ridicule themselves, who are unable to figure out a way to investigate something that has been independently reported throughout the world.

Ara