EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH UPDATE – Posted by EQF on April 13, 2011

The newest version of my earthquake forecasting Perl and Gnuplot languages computer program is now finally running though it is still in a somewhat rough form.

It is stunningly and almost frighteningly powerful!

The frightening part comes from the fact (I personally feel) that for at least some of our approaching highly destructive earthquakes, this computer program could very well represent the only hope that people where the earthquake is going to occur will have of receiving a warning beforehand.

One of the most important charts at my Web sites shows the correlation between my EM Signals and earthquakes going from the present back to the beginning of 2001. The chart was prepared by using Windows Paint to combine individual picture charts for the years 2001 up to the present. And if you have ever tried to do something like that and get all of the margins to line up with one another etc. then you know how much time and effort it can take.

The latest update for the computer program will generate the entire chart at one time. And even better, it can actively display the chart data while the program is running. So, the user can identify the location of some earthquake and then easily scroll up and down the entire chart range to see where there might have been groups of EM Signal line peaks both before and after the earthquake that look like they might have been pointing to its approach or indicating that some of its aftershocks were generating EM Signals.

That new feature makes it possible to easily look years into the past to see when EM Signal activity might have actually gotten started before some especially powerful earthquake.

It was not possible to do this type of work in the past because no more than 2 years worth of data could be displayed at any time. And even that was difficult. Now the entire 11 year range can be easily displayed without having to dump one year chart from the computer memory before another can be loaded. In the past, each year required something like 1.5 gigabytes of memory for its display.

It will probably take another week to get all of the parts of the program working together in a smooth manner and get the software stored on my Web site for downloads. In the mean time, informal announcements about it are being circulated to research groups around the world.

This computer program has now become an extremely powerful resource for earthquake forecasting, and for earthquake triggering research.

These are personal opinions.