On Sept 15th an article was published about a tokyo quake - see:

Astronomer Predicts Major Earthquake for Japan, Other
Experts Express Doubts 

By Associated Press

posted: 03:40 pm ET

15 September 2003 

TOKYO (AP) _ A Japanese researcher is causing a stir in Tokyo with a
prediction based on his study of radio waves that a major destructive
earthquake is highly likely to hit the city this week. 

Yoshio Kushida, a well-known self-taught astronomer who runs his own
observatory just outside Tokyo, published on its Internet site his
prediction that a quake with a magnitude of 7 or greater was likely to
strike the metropolitan area on Tuesday or Wednesday. 


There was a 5.7 on the 20th 50 miles from Tokyo

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_yyaa.html


Then of course, the 8.3 yesterday...  Which one did he
predict?  


Its so hard to judge these things when there are years between signals
for large quakes.  Maybe if there were a network of astronomers that
looked for this wave flux throughout the world, it might help to answer
the question as to whether there is any validity in the method. 



This same method was used in southern california by a couple of amateur
earthquake people after the Northridge quake and did 'predict' the major
aftershocks of that quake based on this wave flux.


I think there's some validity to the method, but don't know enough about
astronomy to set up the proper equipment.


Canie


At 05:18 PM 9/26/03 +0200, you wrote:

Hi all,

I am in wrong or a so called quake forecaster said

something about a BIG ONE in Japan, not much days ago?


regards

mauro