Thanks Petra.

As I suspected, the answer left more questions in its wake.

If Im understanding you correctly, these waves aren't necessarily a sound wave, but electrical waves of some sort being "broadcast" from the site of a future EQ. The person on the receiving end is "hearing" this wave in the form of a perceieved sound or ear tone.

I have a radio in my car. I tune it to KFI 640 AM. I listen to the news. If I didn't know the station was located in Los Angeles, how would I know that simply by having a device capable of converting the radio waves into sound waves? Even if I could hear the signal with my ears alone, I don't see how I would be able to know its origin.

You claim to hear certain locations on the map. You say you have a "problem with the Palm Springs general area". This claim seems a little fantastic to me. I can buy the idea of a wave of some type being propogated from an EQ site prior to the shaking, but I am really having a difficult time understanding how anyone could possibly pinpoint a signal's origin given the short duration and seemingly constant noise created by the 300 plus EQs I see on the map each week.

With all the activity in this state, it seems to me your ears would be ringing so loudly and so constantly that you couldn't here anything else let alone tell me a particular part of that mess came from Palm Springs.

It would be one thing to say "Hey..I think there might be a connection here." But you go so far as to say things like "I have a problem with the Palm Springs general area. I can hear it, but it reduces the sound to an almost below hearing range. It seems muffled." - thereby claiming a level of certainty in the hypothesis. In your mind, the tones ARE from EQ sites and you CAN pinpoint them. So you believe there ARE waves, they ARE perceptible and they CAN be pinpointed with enough accuracy to identify Mexico or Palm Springs.

I think your prediction for Mexico had a "ear tone" element built into it. (Correct me if I'm mistaken) Fortunately for our neighbors to the South, you were wrong. You heard a tone that came from Mexico. The quality of the tone told you 5.5 to 7. But it didn't happen. Why do you think that is? Given the statments you've made about the ear tones, doesn't your claim of authenticity and accuracy and the subsequent failure of your prediction call the whole idea into question?

Russell