Roger,

You should already be aware of this because of your experience with the USGS. Try to remember this.

People in the physical sciences who have advanced degrees frequently do that type of work because they like doing research. And they are not especially concerned regarding whether or not it has any significance. That does not apply to me because I am also a disaster mitigation professional. And my goal with any type of research these days is to do something that has at least some chance of saving lives or improving people’s health.

I do have some additional data from Pavel. But I want his approval for storing it on my Web site before I do that. And it looks like he is off on one of his field trips to maintain his sensor systems or whatever. If he doesn’t get back to me on this in a day or so I will store the information on my Web site anyway.

All of his data should be available at some Web site so that people around the world can examine them and make use of them. And, that is really not that difficult to do. But, I can only encourage him to do that. He has his own schedule. And if he doesn’t have time to make those data available then there is not much that I myself can do.

Also, my own forecasting program is back running now. So, I have a little more free time. But as I have been saying, I am not planning to be doing too much original earthquake work before the November elections. Earthquakes claim perhaps 10,000 lives per year on the average with an occasional one that might claim a quarter of a million lives. In contrast, some 30,000 to 50,000 people die each day from preventable hunger and disease. And many of those fatalities can be traced back to our world’s lack of sufficient environmentally safe, affordable energy. So, to save the most lives, the most effective strategy is to get our elected officials to do more to develop new sources of energy. And I am not talking about more oil wells in environmentally sensitive areas.

Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for President appear to agree and keep stating that we need to make more energy available. But the Democrats don’t appear to understand what a new source of energy actually is. And the Republicans don’t seem to understand what any source of energy is unless “Oil Well” is somewhere in the title.

These are personal opinions.