EQF gets an earthquake book accepted

Congratulations on your publication Chris.

The following is not intended to make light of your research paper. Instead, since you started a thread on publications I thought that this would be a good place to add some additional material to the subject rather than start a new thread.

TETONIC PLATE PROCESSES RELATED BOOK

A lengthy book has been written by a fairly large group composed mostly of geophysicists I believe. It contains detailed analysis of various subjects such as why tectonic plates move relative to one another and how they came into being in the first place.

Because of the excellent coverage of the subject matter I expect that the book could become required reading for geology students around the world in the future.

It was scheduled to be published late last year but got delayed for some reason. And the latest I have heard is that it is now scheduled for publication before the end of 2011.

I had the honor of being the only U.S. scientist that I am aware of to be asked to help with preparing the book. Some of my earthquake work is referenced in it. And there is even a reference to one of Roger’s probability calculation related computer programs if I remember correctly.

If the book is as successful as I think it might be then I would expect that there will quickly be a second edition that does a better job of organizing and presenting the data and drawings etc. The graphics are adequate. But they could have been better if professional graphics designers did the work.

So, that is two earthquake related books where I have made some type of significant contribution. The other was published several years ago.

GEOLOGIC PROCESSES MONITOR

And, I just heard that another of my international earthquake projects might become operational some time in the Spring of 2012.

Certain types of geologic process monitoring sensors are being put into operation in different countries around the world by a research group in Europe and some of their international colleagues. A single sensor unit can apparently collect data for processes taking place across an entire tectonic plate. And my contribution to that particular effort was to help the researchers find a suitable location here in the U.S. where the first of those sensors for the North American plate could be located.

These are personal opinions.