Chris,

You should probably have actually looked at the Year Chart Web page before posting that information.

There are three charts there for the year 2010 that deal with that. One shows the EM Signal data plus 7 and higher magnitude earthquakes. The second shows 6 and higher magnitude earthquakes. And the third shows 5 and higher magnitude earthquakes.

The Etdprog.exe program itself can easily plot earthquakes like that in any range, for any Year Chart going back to 2001. Part of this effort involves making the program and its support data available to researchers around the world. And they will then be able to plot whatever earthquakes they wish. The data presently on the Year Charts Web page provide people with an idea of just some of what the program can do.

The reason for having most of the charts deal only with 7 and higher magnitude earthquakes is because if the EM Signals are actually earthquake related, then logic would suggest that they would most likely be linked with the most powerful earthquakes. And the latest data are indicating that in general, that does appear to be the case. It is important to remember that going up one number in magnitude means the earthquake will be 10 to 35 times more powerful. So, even dropping from 7 down to 6.5 involves a much less powerful earthquake. In fact, the most easily observed Year Chart data are for earthquakes in the 8 and higher magnitude range. There are enough of them for the years 2001 through 2010 to easily see the correlation between the EM Signals and those tremendously powerful earthquakes.

These EM Signals appear to be affected by distance among other things. And on that partial year 2003 chart I included with that original report you can see strong line peaks before the California earthquake and relatively weak ones before the slightly more powerful Iran earthquake that occurred a few days later. That might be a distance related difference. I am detecting signals here in the U.S. Iran is on the opposite side of the planet.

It appears to me that you don’t understand how Shan’s forecasting method works. It could be somewhat similar to methods that rely on GPS measurements. And I believe that increasing amounts of evidence are becoming available that show that it does probably work for some earthquakes. Unfortunately, at the moment it is not clear what that percentage might be. In my opinion, Shan needs to get his data better organized along those lines.

The main reason that people should be doing research on his forecasting method is because it should work just about anywhere on the planet. And, it is likely so inexpensive to get running that even the poorest villages could afford to use the technology.