Hi Canie,

I've looked at a couple of theories regarding earthquake triggering mechanisms, but to be honest, I can't see how anyone could prove one way or another that anything you can't see triggered a quake. From solar activity to pulses within the earth itself, how can one make the direct correlation between what comes from out there to in there?

I think it would be easier to find out what makes it possible to hear earthquakes arriving before they get here from sound than trying to figure out how some solar storm or earth wave pulse traveled through the area at that time. If one wants to look for solid, verifiable, hard core facts, then you'll have to find some way to prove its from out there or inside the earth and suddenly at that moment in time, surprise, an earthquake arrives.

As I firmly believe faults emit a sound days or weeks before rupture occurs, then that sound is recordable in some form or another. If people can hear them, then machines have to be able to record them. I say we install a whole new monitoring system, like Tri-Net, only call it Sound-Net and see what we get. I can see it now, all around the globe little tiny microphones suspended down inside faults, listening and recording future earthquakes. I'd like that. Its not as science fiction as it seems.

Just a few thoughts...Pat