Ara,

Personally, I think this experience is ahead of the people who might try to understand it. It requires a lot of disciplines of which mostly medical researchers could lead the way in ruling out some thoughts about the experience. Such as a hearing expert can tell if the sound is external or internal and at what range it is heard. From that other information can be drawn. If it is external, which I believe it is, the source of the sound might be determined as only some things can generate certain sounds. Is it ULF, or ELF? There are so many questions and certainly some good solid answers as well.

One thing that I find quite interesting is that people who hear ear tones report that they hear a blocking sound, where external hearing is blocked and then an ear tone emerges after. Repeatedly our research has shown that this experience is followed by off shore earthquakes. It never varies. Other ocean related tones have a fog horn sound, or a mourning type of sound like a lost mariner might encounter, but they are all clear clues to ocean/water events. So how can one say these are meaningless sounds when the clues are so definitive?

Some things are ahead of their time and I think ear tone understanding is exactly that. It reminds me of how Don and I became so interested in earthquake safety six years ago and we were like beating against a deaf and silent wall. Suddenly everyone is in on the action. I guess we were ahead of our time, but we did connect with a goodly number of people and those who needed to hear what we had to say heard the message and acted on it.

I think in the future, perhaps after predicting some large earthquakes the interest may kindle. But we have to wait for mother nature to make her delivery with the big noises and then let mankind gain wisdom from the experience. BUT, the important issue is that to the hearer of ear tones, the sound of a small earthquake or a large one are equal. You have to hear lower sounding ear tones and understand where those belong before you can receive a much louder sound and relate it to its place. It is a learning experience.

I am the documenter of this experience. I have countless numbers of reports and have correlated them to resulting earthquakes. One day, someone will want to understand this and the records will be there to verify what we are doing. For me, I love it. I find the almost daily reports absolutely fascinating. I can see when there will be lots of activity in advance as well as quiet periods.

Sometimes you need a lot of patience and this is one of them.

Petra