Only 10 days Left-Until Predicted Huge Earthquakes

This is why webbot sucks

You can take anything from it an interpret it how you like.

With in the January fifth window .A 7.6 earthquake is on target!

One more though to go I think... Something about twin quakes if I remember and not from what went down in china. I already read that!

lat number 133.279°E

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Why the latitude?

(Sorry for the short post)

Because the webots folks said the earthquake would be with in a certain range of lat.

And I think it got that relatively right.. along with the intensity... Lord knows it sucks in Indonesia right now. And Its magnitude is of something larger which was expected and with in the jan fifth window.

PS This thread finally got my star and flag

[edit on 3-1-2009 by titorite]

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Really?
A 7.6 earthquake??
Don't get me wrong, that's big, but it's not HUGE like the webbot predicts.
The effects won't be felt around the world as the webbot suggests.
I think this is just grasping at straws...
It reminds me of the Oct 7th prediction...

OMG I thought this thread was dead. I am speechless and don't know what else to say. gosh

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Sorry, I was mixed up by your mix-up.

I should have asked: why the longitude, because what you posted was the longitude of the earthquake, not the latitude.

The latitude is almost 0º, and the latitude of the "forecasted" earthquake(s) was between 32º and 36º North, if I remember it well.

The guys have already admitted their mistake on Coast to Coast AM for mis-interpreting the earthquake data. Here's a quote from this weeks article at Urbansurvival.com...



As far as the Oct. 7th prediction you keep bringing up, here's what he had to say about that in response to a reader's complaints, much like your own...



That about sums it up nicely, IMO.

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So pretty much, in the end, if they get it wrong they just say that they were actually right but they just didn't read the data correctly lol...
And they're still trying to justify the Oct. 7th deal...
Sorry, I just don't buy it.
When you say something HUGE is going to happen on a specific day, something many times worse than September 11th, then it just makes them look like jackasses for passing it off to a relatively mild event such as the Bernie Madoff story or Iceland going bankrupt.

Even if they ARE right, and their data is all accurate, WHAT GOOD does it do if they mistake THE WORLDS LARGEST EARTHQUAKE for a scam pulled of by some old guy?
The key point is that: if they are wrong OR right, they're far from accurate.

The next time they predict the end of the world, I'll be expecting a school shooting or a mild quake in Indonesia or something of that nature lol...

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Yeah typical

This is why people think webbot is accurate, they always say they made a mistake when their prediction has been incorrect, (always after the dates in question have passed).

This post is now officially listed on the bad prophecy/ prediction almanac

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Well, maybe they weren't entirely incorrect, there were the two big quakes in Papau New Guinea over the weekend. These did fall in the window which was Jan. 3. The latitude was incorrect, but the big idea of twin quakes was correct. 7.3 and 7.6 are pretty big IMO. Similar to the China quake prediction, there are small inaccuracies, but the big idea is the thing that makes the project interesting. I think it shows that they are onto something, even if they can't always make perfect sense of it. You can believe what you will, as will I.

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I know it's not exactly the same, but if you choose an event like a big earthquake (they happen every year) and use a coin to see if it will happen (tails means it happens, heads means it does not, for example), it has a 50% chance of being right.

So, only if they can show a forecast accuracy of something like 90% (and we will never know about that, they said that they do not publish everything they "see") I will not think of this as a good way of forecasting future events.

I can see where you are coming from, but I don't think the equation is quite as simple as that. You're right, big earthquakes happen every year, so that would mean that the coin is definitely going to come up tails with a window of one year. But now we narrow the window to one month and make that call months in advance. Next we add some specific information like it isn't just going to be a single big quake, but twin quakes. Granted there are some other details which don't match up exactly, but given the window and the specific of twin quakes, I wouldn't expect that to be a 50/50 chance of happening during a specific month of time. Probably much lower when considering the other variables involved.

Now, consider this semi-correct hit and the May quake in China which they missed by 1 day and they seem to be on to something. The details of both were not perfect, but better than a lucky guess considering some of the specifics which were correct.

Now, does that mean that it can be a good way of forecasting specific events, probably not. I think all they are really trying to do is alert people to the possibility and give them the chance to be prepared. That is why they don't release every little thing they see to the public for free, just the big ones they feel could help someone somewhere.

The problem is that I cannot consider this semi-correct. What was correct about it, that two large earthquakes would happen during this time? That, as far as I know, was the only correct thing. The location was a failure and the magnitude was a failure. What was left is something for which statistics are enough.

I remember seeing a TV show where a man said that statistics can help something but they can not tell everything. That man, using statistics, predicted that on a certain month there would be an aeroplane crash, the number of passengers involved, the type of aeroplane and the colours of the company's logo, and his predictions was right, but only because of the frequency of aeroplane crashes, the average number of passengers, the average type of aeroplane involved in crashes and the average colours of the logos.

It really wasn't a prediction because he could not predict exactly where and to which aeroplane or company, so I do not see a great difference between those statistics predictions and the web-bot forecasts.

And only with enough statistic data can we rule out lucky guesses.

Another thing, that apparently people keep on forgetting, is that if these forecasts are really accurate, who is the responsible. For what we know, the man behind it may have a specific ability to predict some events, and considering that he programmed to web-bot and all the other software that does the data manipulation and is the same person that interprets the resulting data, the web-bot may be a failure while the man is the real wonder.

Oh its Feb 3rd!!!! how many days do we have left oh wise one?