Re: Earthquake Forecasting Program July 11, 2005

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Officer
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:31:31 GMT, in sci.geo.earthquakes, "edgrsprj"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>PROPOSED EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING
>COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT EFFORT

 here we go again...

EDG is not a computer programmer, nor is he a geologist... 

The best guess seems to be that he is he is crackpot, often going from group
to group espousing some sort of knowledge and asking for people to forward
his articles to government, schools and other professional bodies with a
demand that public monies be giving to him to support his "research".

A few years ago he started  begging for programming help to process these
"signals" he has been looking for... (odd he has never explained what the
exactly these signals really are.

>Posted July 11, 2005
>My main earthquake forecasting Web page is:
>http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html
>
>Newsgroup Readers:  If you circulate copies of this report to groups of
>computer programmers at different universities etc. around the world then
>they might find the subject matter to be interesting.

or that might classify you just as EDG is classified, KOOK or Crackpot

>The information in this report represents expressions of personal opinion.
>
>THE GOAL OF THIS REPORT
>
>   This is part of an effort to get some idea regarding how many
>computer programmers and other researchers around the world might be
>interested in participating in a project aimed at developing life saving
>earthquake forecasting computer programs.
>
>   That effort is not presently underway.  And I don't know when or if
>it will get started.  I am simply attempting to determine if other people
>believe that large numbers of volunteers would be interested in working on
>such a project or if there would instead be little interest in it.  That
>information would be helpful for developing a plan for establishing a Web
>site where the project would be centered.  Personnel running the following
>Web site have volunteered to make their site available for such an effort.

Look at this for all his effort over the past few years...

>But nothing has gotten underway so far.
>

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Re: Earthquake Forecasting Program July 11, 2005

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Officer
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:39:46 GMT, in sci.geo.earthquakes, "Hank Oredson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"edgrsprj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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>>> >> >> PROPOSED EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING
>>> >> >> COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT EFFORT
>>
>>> I guess my question was not specific enough.
>>> What I wanted was the exact sources, so I could access the data.
>>> The exact data sets you used.
>>
>> July 13, 2005
>>
>> Thanks again for the comments and interest.
>>
>>   The original report in this thread should have contained pointers to
>> all of the information you are requesting.  But once again, here are some 
>> of
>> the important URLs.
>>
>> http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/301.html
>>
>>   That Web page contains information regarding the details of how the
>> forecasting program works.  Also stored there are copies of an early
>> Zipped .txt version of the Perl program I am using along with Zip file
>> versions of earlier versions of the .txt format database files that I am
>> using.  I had to Zip them because of their size and the limited bandwidth 
>> of
>> that Web site.  If you would prefer to receive them as regular text files
>> then you can try contacting me by e-mail and I will try to send them 
>> along.
>>
>>   Perl users who downloaded and ran that .pl program some time ago 
>> said
>> that they had no trouble getting it to run on a Window's XP system.  Other
>> operating system users might encounter a few formatting problems etc.
>>
>> http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/90-05.html
>> http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/128.html
>>
>>   Those Web pages discuss the theories involved with this forecasting
>> method.  Some of the most important information is at the end of that
>> 128.html Web page.
>
>I found no equations there, nor any links to the original data sources.
>
>> http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html
>>
>>   That Web page contains several types of forecast data along with 
>> some
>> information regarding how to interpret them.
>
>Did not find any information on the source of the data.
>
>> http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/151.html
>>
>>   That Web page contains some "Help" information with details 
>> regarding
>> things such as the U.S. Navy's MICA computer program which I use to 
>> generate
>> data for things such as the locations of the Earth, sun, and moon relative
>> to the J2000 reference system.
>>
>>   You should not expect to be able to instantly absorb all of that
>> information though it sounds like understanding it should not be a problem
>> for you.  I have been working on the project for about 15 years.  And
>> unfortunately, every improvement seems to take days, weeks, months, ...
>
>Everything looked fairly obvious, except that there did not seem
>to be any reference to the source of the datasets.
>
>>   Additionally, as I said in my first report in this thread, the
>> multiple participants part of the project is not yet operational.  For one
>> thing, a suitable Web site has to be found.  Right now I am simply
>> trying to determine what the interest level there might be in such a
>> project.  And positive feedback that I have been getting by e-mail etc.
>> has been encouraging.
>
>Perhaps I was not clear enough in my previous posts.
>
>I am looking for the SOURCE of the data, that is, where did
>YOU get the data from, so that I may obtain my own datasets.
>
>In particular I am interested in the EM dataset.

There isn't any "data set"

There are no "formula"...

There is only EGD

Crackpot.

http://www.crank.net/geology.html

Look down to the middle of the page E.D.G.

Listed as "Cranky"




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