Hi Kiddo. Despite all you have said about me I still can’t walk on water. I tried and I went straight to the bottom. All I did was get cold and wet.

We have had some good times together putting seismologists on the spot with pointed questions. Some of the answers we got leave a lot to be desired, but then I guess we should be thankful that we got an answer in the first place.

I will admit that I really have to wonder if earthquake prediction is the way to go. It seems to me that in the long run it would be better to learn where quakes are most likely to occur and then build for the strongest quake to be expected. Of course there are limits has to how strong you can build anything. The Japanese are learning that it costs more to rebuild, then to build for the strongest expected quake in the first place. You can move the people, but you can’t move the structures. If there is nothing left to come back to where is the incentive to go forward? Take Care…Don in creepy town