Signey: January 2, 2018

Hi Signey,

I commend you for choosing some good area’s for your first forecast, Chile and Argentina often give a better than average chance of success. However, you don’t appear to have included a magnitude preference or time period… forgive me if I have overlooked these somewhere, I am old and tend to make a lot of mistakes 🙂

Magnitude is usually the preferred choice of the individual posting the forecast, but a good starting range would be M 5.5 to M 6.5. Most of the note worthy earthquakes occur within this band, unless of course you wish to try for the prize, in which case you would forecast 7+ or chose from the other options available on the prize page. Again, period of forecast time is individual choice, my preferred method is to forecast 7 days, if my chosen location has not produced a result in this time and still shows potential, I increase this period up to the 20 days maximum allowed… forecasting is easy once you get the hang of it !

I wish you luck, a happy new year… and welcome to the game 🙂

Don’t mention it…. Ben has posted many tutorials on this site that could help you, and are worth checking out. Or if you have any other points you wish to cover, I’m sure HookEcho, Counselor Gimber or myself will be able to address them for you. I can appreciate at the moment you are here for the entertainment factor, but in the future if you wish to take this further, we are often discussing seismic strategies in the chat room… we rarely get anything right, but it’s the participating that counts !

I look forward to getting back to you on the 8th 🙂