My data indicate to me that the following earthquake is to a large degree the one to which numerous warning signals which I detected between around October 10, 2006 and November 14, 2006 were pointing.

2006/11/15 11:14:16 46.57N 153.24E 27 8.3 Kuril Islands
(NEIS data)

For about a month after October 10 I posted quite a few public warnings to Internet Newsgroups and to this and the other EarthWaves bulletin boards. Other warnings were circulated around the world by E-mail. Had an earthquake that powerful occurred near any city on the planet the results would probably have been absolutely devastating.

My earthquake warning technology and the data at my Web site did a moderately good job of indicating where the earthquake might occur. For reasons which are still something of a mystery that technology appears to produce better results for earthquakes which are going to occur closer to heavily populated areas. That November 15 earthquake occurred in a fairly remote area.

On December 12, 2006 there were several earthquakes in the Indonesia area which reportedly claimed a number of lives. My data did an excellent job of pointing to where they might be about to occur. Unfortunately I presently simply do not have time to update my Data.html Web page on a regular basis or circulate warnings for every significant earthquake. So some such as those are getting missed.

That lack of time is also the reason that I am unable to get into many discussions or respond to people’s notes regarding this technology. That is unfortunate. But there is not much that I can do about it at the moment.

There were no especially strong warning signals detected before the string of earthquakes which began on October 15, 2006 near Hawaii. And I suspected that that might be because there was something unusual about them. My guess regarding that looks like it might have been correct. If I correctly understood one report that I saw on them, instead of having been caused by the usual tectonic plate movements they resulted from the weight of the lava associated with Hawaii volcanoes pressing down on the local tectonic plate (or plates). And that pressure essentially “broke” the plate. It is possible that earthquakes like that do not produce strong signals of the type that I work with.

These are personal opinions.

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