<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Lisa and the web team,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What a marvelous compendium! I'd like
to match that public appreciation with internal appreciation from the earthquake
program. We are all in your debt for giving USGS such a well-received public
face!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Many thanks, Dave</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">**********************************<br>
David Applegate, Ph.D.<br>
Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake & Geologic Hazards<br>
U.S. Geological Survey<br>
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 905, Reston VA 20192<br>
703 648 6714 voice, 703 648 6717 fax<br>
applegate@usgs.gov<br>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Lisa A Wald <lisa@usgs.gov></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">EHPweb <EHPweb@geohazards.usgs.gov></font>
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<td valign=top><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Jill McCarthy <jmccarthy@usgs.gov>,
Linda Pratt <lkpratt@usgs.gov>, Bill Leith <wleith@usgs.gov>,
Michael L Blanpied <mblanpied@usgs.gov>, David Applegate <applegate@usgs.gov>,
Tom Brocher <brocher@usgs.gov></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">04/28/2010 04:00 PM</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">EHP Website compliments</font></table>
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<br>
<br><font size=3>Here are all the compliments I've received on the Earthquake
Hazards Website since the beginning of this year. Your hard work
is appreciated!</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="Verdana">- </font><font size=2>Lisa</font><font size=1 color=#008000 face="Verdana"><br>
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Lisa Wald, Geophysicist</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#008000 face="Verdana">Web Team Manager<br>
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program<br>
Golden, CO<br>
303-273-8543</font><font size=1 color=blue face="Verdana"><u><br>
</u></font><a href=mailto:lisa@usgs.gov><font size=1 color=blue face="Verdana"><u>lisa@usgs.gov</u></font></a>
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<p><font size=3>You are doing a great job! The website is always improving.</font>
<p>
<p><font size=3>You guys should be honored with a Webby Award. I love this
site. Thanks for being there!</font>
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<p><font size=3>I'm very grateful to you for publishing this information!
Your work deserves our full support. Your website is also very easy to
use. Again, kudos!</font>
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<br><font size=3> <br>
I've been watching quakes for years and I don't think I'd ever seen so
many aftershocks. Maybe they've been there, but I hadn't noticed.<br>
I'm down at Palmer Station, Antarctica and we have a seismic station here.
So we kind of watch what is going on. <br>
We have white board where we put our notices of interesting things. We're
not far from the Chilean quake as we got a Tsunami warning. <br>
For your troubles, I'm just sending a picture of it and a picture of a
group from station out boating with the whales. We have a good life
here.<br>
Thanks again Lisa, <br>
Palmer Station Antarctica<br>
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<br><font size=3>Hello. I am relly glad you exist! thanks I travel the
world and have my family living in the Argentinian Andes, and I follow
you web site daly. </font>
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<p><font size=3>Awesome site. Good job. It would be really helpful if the
earthquake map were at least 20% larger and if the pan feature were a little
less coarse, more discretized. Would not be outside the parameters of even
small computer monitors to change the size. </font>
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<br><font size=4 face="Times New Roman">Lisa,<br>
Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to respond. I greatly
appreciate the information, and your superb Customer Service. THANK YOU.
<br>
Your explanation is helpful. Some thing I think I can pass on to
our responders in our training classes, and make them more aware of how
some of the notification systems may react when overloaded with an event
of such magnitude.<br>
I use the service to stay informed, and overload is something I completely
understand in disaster preparedness and disasters in general. <br>
I'll re-establish my profile back into the service once things calm, and
perhaps, slow down in a few weeks.<br>
Again, thank you and my apology for sounding so rash. You have clearly
given me the bigger respective, and an understanding on the limits
on some of today's notification technology.<br>
I hope you have a great evening.<br>
Thank you again for taking the time to respond.<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Emergency Coordinator ARES - Gilroy OES</font><font size=4><br>
Assistant District Emergency Coordinator - Santa Clara County ARES/RACES<br>
Santa Clara County RACES Training Officer</font><font size=3><br>
</font>
<p><font size=3>Dear USGS, I am sending you a big hug in thanks for your
wonderfully helpful and educational earthquake pages. I especially love
the Earthquake Animations of the recent earthquake in Mexico. The seismographs
are also quite fascinating. I have learned a lot about earthquakes from
all your explanatory information and graphs. Thanks.</font>
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<p><font size=3>FAVOR ENVIAR SU PAGINA PARA AGREGAR A FAVORITOS GRACIAS</font>
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After the earthquake in northern Mexico Sunday, nearly everyone I know
has contacted your web site for earthquake information. My experience,
and the experience of all my friends, has been that the responsiveness
of your web site and the accuracy of information has been great. That's
astounding, given what has to be the load your web server has been under
lately.<br>
<br>
You and all involved in </font></tt><a href="x-msg://40/www.usgs.gov"><tt><font size=2 color=blue><u>www.usgs.gov</u></font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>
should be proud of your work and the fruits of your efforts. When we are
so often disappointed with the performance of one or another parts of our
government, it's greatly gratifying to see an agency who's job it is to
work for us, is doing a really great job working for us!<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
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<br>
The USGS website is wonderful and very informative. I had never been to<br>
this website before. I was quite pleased to learn so much so quickly about<br>
the 7.2 Easter Sunday Baja quake.<br>
<br>
No response is needed to this message.<br>
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<p><font size=2 color=#004080 face="Calibri">Thanks. You guys do wonderful
work.</font>
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<p><font size=3>Just wanted to thank you for your site, felt a quake in
Surprise, AZ and it freaked my kid out. I was able to show her we just
felt the Baja quake... Thanks</font>
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<p><font size=3>TO GIVE THANKS TO YOU FOR THE GIVEN INFORMATION TO DAILY
AND AT ONCE IN OUR COUNTRY IN THEIR USGS PAGINATES, FOR ITS MEANS WE HAVE
KNOWN ABOUT ALL THE SEISMIC MOVEMENTS THAT THEY HAVE HAD IN OUR COUNTRY
CHILI AND IN OTHER PLACES OF THE PLANET, THANK YOU THANK YOU. GRACIAS POR
SU INFORMACION. ATTE</font>
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<p><font size=3>Living in Santiago de Chile, is very hard these days with
all this continuos shaking and collective histeria. Looking at your actual
web information appreciate your comments about Is there a major trend in
these past two weeks in the Pacific rim regarding earthquakes? USGS has
been my favorite page since 27/Feb/2010 days and going. My congratulations
for this invaluable information you share with us. Local authorities are
far, very far behind. Best regards</font>
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<p><font size=3>Hello, I'm a journalist of technology from a newspaper
called Publimetro published in Chile. We've recentely been hit by an earthquake
and a significant number of tsunamis. Because of that the chilean netizens
have visited your web site looking for information. Many of then have set
it as a favourite or even as their home page. So I wanted to ask you if
you have any information about what are the countries that mostly visit
you web site. It's very important for us the media and the chilean people
to have this information in order to write a story about it. I hope you
can help me or just answer this message. Thank you.</font>
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<p><font size=3>Dear team USGS, Thanks very much for help us with the exelent
information each day. Kind Regards</font>
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<p><font size=3>to all that work on the web site thank you for all your
hard work . it so nice to be able to look up info. thank you a user of
your web page. </font>
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<p><font size=3>Good afternoon, First, thanks for maintaining such a great
resource!! I use your site in many of my lesson plans and appreciate all
of the information that you keep on here. My question is if there is a
way to look at the number of quakes of a specified magnitude or above over
a series of years. That is, compare the number of 5.0 or larger in 1995
to say 2009. One of my kids asked me in class "why there are so many
more earthquakes this year?" I told him that there probably weren't
more; it was more likely that they were simply getting more media attention.
If this is not feature that the site offers, it might be a useful one to
add. Being able to compare magnitude, number, and region would be very
interesting. Maybe we could even find some patterns in the data..who knows.
Anyway, thanks in advance for your help!</font>
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<br><font size=3>WOW...Thanks. They look like underwater roads. I was very
surprised to get an answer. Thanks again.<br>
</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">Wow! That was fast!! <br>
Thanks for the prompt reply and update. Great service.</font>
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<br><font size=3>Thank you very much for responding to my inquiry after
the February quake in Illinois. I'm impressed by the USGS site and
responsiveness to our questions. It's very interesting and informative.
We have one more question. We hear the the Chilean earthquake caused
the earth's axis to move by two inshes. How does this inpact our
world? <br>
</font>
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<p><font size=3>I experienced the M 3.8 quake in IL Feb, 10, 2010 at 3:59
am. I reside in Mampton Hills IL 10 k from epicenter and was one od the
18+K who reported to usgs. I am wondering if we have had any aftershocks
yet? I understand they may not be discernible-I wouldn't feel and hear
an explosion in my house this time! </font>
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<td><font size=3>The website looks great. The topography and geologic
overlays really look good. It's a very successful continuous-improvement
operation. All the best to you and your team. </font></table>
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<p><font size=3>This website is awesome!=D</font>
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<p><font size=3>Dear USGS i love your website-Super Job! i experienced
Selmar quake in CA in the 70's at 9 years old and will never forget it.
i happened upon your site and now i look every chance i have. fantastic
Thank You</font>
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<br><font size=3>I just want to congratulate all of you and say thank you
for the splendid work you are doing.</font>
<br>
<p><font size=3>I would like to thank you for making such an excellent
website. I am over 40 y/o and am not as savvy as the younger people who
explore the internet. Your website is easy to understand and I'd also like
to say that I'm visually impaired and it was made with good contrast colors.
They help a lot.</font>
<p><font size=3><br>
<br>
Thank you sir. That was a big help. I'm going to give the problem to my<br>
daughter when she gets to enough math to do probabilities and other stats.<br>
I knew it had been thought of but I had to know. What a fascinating field<br>
of study.<br>
</font>
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<br>
<br><font size=1>Thanks so much the answer to our question. We know this
is not really within your scope of duties. The kind of earthquake of earth
movement the move depicted was like a daylong event that would have taken
apart Pangea. The poles shifted etc. Is that possible? Could we someday
in the future experience such a tremendous shift that our poles shift in
one day?</font>
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<br><font size=1>Thanks again for your help. Theses movies sometimes get
you to thinking about the real possibilities this ole earth is capable
of. And we all know she is capable of deadly disaster.<br>
</font>
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<br><font size=1>My son and I saw the film 2012. Since then we have been
debating the idea that the earth could not possibly shift like it did in
the show worst case scenario. I think it could happen that quickly. He
says it would be impossible. Could you please help us understand plate
tectonic better by telling us how far and long are the quickest possible
displacements that could happen worst case scenario? Thank you in advance.</font>
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<br><font size=3><br>
I must say; I did not expect such a timely response from a government agency!
Thank you for taking the time. You folks run a great site. I am slowly
learning a wee bit of geology. Fascinating stuff. Thank you for your great
and work.<br>
<br>
<br>
> I am a lay person who frequently visits the USGS site. I wonder if
it would be possible for the names of the tectonic plates to be included
on the maps that you provide for the location of earthquakes. I have often
had to do google searches in order to get that information. I think it
would be very helpful to people like myself who do not have formal scientific
training. <br>
> Thank you. <br>
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<br><font size=3 face="Garamond">Thanks so much for your quick reply. I'll
take a look at the animations that you do have. <br>
It's great to have the USGS site as a resource. Keep up the good work.<br>
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Roman">Wouldn't it be cool to see the animation of
earthquake maps over time. What patterns might emerge? It would be almost
like watching the Earth breath. How long has the USGS been using the current
style of map images? I remember at least 6 or seven years of following
this site. Is there a way to retrieve images from the past to be compiled
into animated graphics? Thanks for your consideration. </font>
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<p><font size=3>Keep up the good work your doing FINE Thanks</font>
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<p><font size=3>I just wanted to commend you on your amazing earthquake
site. I can look up an earthquake when the shaking is still going and get
preliminary data, and within 5 minutes it has the scale and other information.
I am consistently impressed, and believe that this is an incredibly valuable
public service. Thank you for such an amazing website.</font>
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<p><font size=3>Navigation, information... it's ALL there! What a fantastic
job you folks have done on this site. Bunches of kudos to your IM team.
Very impressive. Love, love it!</font>
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