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Re: Looks Like A Hit For Antonio
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Posted by lowell on May 02, 2001 at 11:41:26:
Petra, I think you are being a bit generous in accepting the event in the eastern Mediterranean today as having been predicted by Antonio. It does not fall within his predicted parameters which were within 150 km of 38.5N 22.5E. The epicenter in the eastern Mediterranean is about 507 km away from this epicenter. This is like saying a earthquake north of San Francisco was properly predicted by a prediction for an earthquake south of Los Angeles. Anyway, we can see what chances Antonio has for getting this prediction right by random guessing. During the past 35 years 112 earthquakes have occurred with M>=5 within 150 km of his stated epicenter. During that time there were 12775 days. This averages to a probability of 0.009 for an event of this size in this radius on a given day (about 1 in 100 odds). Since his time window was 11 days, his odds are about 11 times this or around 1 in 9 or 1 in 10 of a correct prediction by chance. If such an event were to occur before May 6, there would probably be reason to congratulate him. On the other hand there have been 443 events within 510 km of this epicenter with M>=5 in the past 35 years. The daily probability of an event in this area of M>=5 is therefore about 0.035 (about 1 in 35), but in an 11-day window this is a probability of success with a random guess of about 0.38 (nearly 1 in 2). If you were playing Russian Roulette, I'd bet you might be willing to continue playing if you knew your odds of hitting the bullet were 1 in 10, but I think you would have second thoughts if you know that the odds were 1 in 2.
Follow Ups:
● Catalog - michael 14:23:11 - 5/2/2001 (7288) (1)
● Re: Catalog - lowell 14:29:55 - 5/2/2001 (7290) (1)
● Re: Catalog - michael 14:36:13 - 5/2/2001 (7293) (2)
● Re: Catalog - Lowell 15:28:39 - 5/2/2001 (7305) (1)
● Re: Catalog - michael 15:43:48 - 5/2/2001 (7310) (1)
● Re: Catalog - Lowell 16:24:23 - 5/2/2001 (7329) (0)
● Re: Catalog - Roger Hunter 14:55:39 - 5/2/2001 (7298) (1)
● Re: Catalog - michael 15:06:10 - 5/2/2001 (7300) (1)
● Re: Catalog - Roger Hunter 15:29:32 - 5/2/2001 (7307) (1)
● Re: Catalog - michael 15:58:03 - 5/2/2001 (7315) (1)
● That'll cut down on the work! nt - Roger Hunter 16:03:38 - 5/2/2001 (7318) (1)
● Re: That'll cut down on the work! nt - michael 16:11:30 - 5/2/2001 (7324) (1)
● Time - Roger Hunter 17:09:02 - 5/2/2001 (7342) (0)
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