Brian,
Do you really feel that newspaper journalists have given Mr. Berkland a "fair" or "balanced treatment" of the subject? Give me a break. Often, reporters will run not walk straight to the USGS and maybe, just maybe toss in a quote or two from a man who has theories which were factors in the great Indian Ocean quake tsunami disaster on December 26, 2004. And no, that event did not "go over [my] head."
Callie