QuakeFinder History

Inspired by a 1985 talk on “earthquake lights” by USGS scientist John Derr, QuakeFinder founder Tom Bleier began a search for signals associated with earthquakes. With a tree as an antenna, and later a 20-foot copper coil on the wall of his house, he looked for anything in the data that might provide an explanation for the lights or the radio interference reported before earthquakes in Chile and Japan. But like others before him, he found nothing.