Hi all;

Earlier, Amit proposed 5 indicators for quakes; new or full moons, max or min declination of the moon and perigee.

To test this I made an array of the 4016 days from 1001 thru 2011. To this I added all mag 6+ quakes from the NEIC catalog and all the moon information he specified.

There were 1328 quakes in 4017 days so the odds are 33.05% on finding something on a quake day.

There were 136 full moons with 35 quakes or 25.73% (below chance)
There were 136 new moons with 34 quakes or 25% (below chance
There were 147 North dec. maximums with 53 quakes or 36.05% (above chance)
there were 145 South dec. minimums with 42 quakes or 28.96% (below chance)
There were 143 perigees with 40 quakes or 27.97% (below chance)

So with only one of five indicators slightly better than chance I'd say it's another blind alley.

Roger