text:  with the earthquake that followed, the 5.9, on August 6, 1979. But I had mailed on August 2 a letter to the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver predicting that between the 7th and 14th we would have such a quake. Did you get an answer? Yes, but when they said, Jim, we've just looked at your first five years of predictions and you hit the 99 percentile level. There's only one chance in 100 what you've been doing is accidental, but we think you've been lucky.