To Don, Roger, and my fave--Brian...

For starters, me, the girl who flunked science, gets the fact that Berkland uses two windows per month--I follow 'em, and yeah, I have predicted quakes and have had accurate hits during both is primary and secondary windows.

But here, this is one is for Roger...

More from the book. Chapter 18: The Most Important Questions about Earth Changes:

Should people reconsider Berkland's seismic windows?
Do you feel any responsibility for people in Asia who believed your prediction, avoided the beaches until the window closed and went surfing on the 26th?
--Roger

JB:Roger, you are childishly trying to hang a guilt trip on me for picking an eight-day period with the greatest vulnerability to quakes. When did I ever say that the risk was over when the window closed? I have always said that there are two windows per month--one associated witht he full moon and one with the new moon. The 9.0 Sumatra quake occurred on the day of the full moon just as sid the last 9-plus quake (Alaska 3/27/1064). All this year I had warned that December would have the highest potential for large quakes in 2004.