Hello Mr.  Dick,
It seems to me that USGS is primarily interested
in damaging quakes. So if the quake caused
little or no damage it will not be analyzed so
quickly.
But the Government does nor need
Professors to do its work.
To me, a Professor is a Phd in the
Academic World and not the Physical Work World.
Academic meaning the teaching of people.
I know that the government will hire dedicated Scientist
who pay no attention to teaching anyone
but the government and I do not call such people
Academia.
When I went to ASU for a short while
(I did not like the environment since some
really threatening people were students and
teachers there) and learned you rarely
see the professors in the classroom.
They usually have a graduate student teaching.
Some with poor English abilities and little tolerance.
If only they had non-competitive education like
some of the military schools with maybe 5 students
at a time.
The courses in the military are like 500 series courses
much more interesting than any civilian one I ever had.
But I know the USGS  most likely has Resident Geophysics
people who do nothing but this seismology stuff.
I do not call such people Professors (Educators).
Anycase, what I have to say is relatively meaningless
so take it all with a grain of salt.
(7000 grains to the avd. pound.)
I think this Public Geology stuff is just humoring the masses
and what they are really doing is looking for new Resources
or Nuclear blasting ( which can also be for construction use).
Pure science just for knowledge alone is frowned upon by
those in power/money, or so it seems to me.
I once saw in the library a plan to blast a sea level canal through Panama
using Nuclear Devices.
Many people are against such a thing.

Regards;
geoff



-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Dick
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:48 PM
To: psnlist@..............
Subject: Re: Gulf Of California Recent Event

On 10/22/2010 6:19 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> I don’t know why such a thing has to do
> with me, since, they get reports
> by the zillions. All I know is the first
> reports are only preliminary until....
I am sure it doesn't have anything to do with you. If anything, it has
to do with funding. They can't afford to keep professors looking at the
data all the time. We had one over here a couple of years ago. The site
moved almost twenty miles from the quake to the final data. I have seen
the national quakes change as well. I usually wait over two hours...even
over night before posting. But one this big, should get better attention.
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