EQF,

Obviously, we differ on how deeply one should understand earthquakes before proclaiming great advances, and whether one needs any evidence to proclaim quarter-century advances in the state-of-the-art.

The only two people named are EQF and Shan, which appears to be the "people at the international level" working on your approach.

Sorry I am "wasting your time" by composing 5-line posts that require 100-line responses. I'll try to restrain myself.

John