Hi Mark,

I don't recall now if they were above average for the area's, but one place that had one that I had been writing about was Helena, MT. That one surprised me.

As for the Genesis Project, in the midst of romance and geological adventures, there's a seismologist out there who wants to publically predict earthquakes. So he develops a group of the very best in their field and the Genesis Project comes to life. Now you have to recall that I was in the midst of creating the Aurora Project with a very well known seismologist. I learned a whole lot during that time and though Aurora never became a reality, perhaps sometime in the future, something similar to the Genesis Project will. Hopefully when read there will be one or more scientists that have had this idea or when reading about it, may wish to take some of the ideas and create their own project in the form or fashion they feel would be most effective. After all, ideas are just like seeds in the garden of life, mental seeds can germinate and come to life and bloom.

Times are changing even in a short period. When I first addressed the issue of earthquake prediction 3 years ago, it was mostly a dirty word and no one wanted to be involved with anything that had the word prediction associated with it. But now, already I can see that it is changing. Far more seismologists are taking an interest and their fear of working on it are now being placed behind them. In that I find hope.

Petra