[EHPweb] EHP Website compliments

[Lisa A Wald]

Here are all the compliments I've received on the Earthquake Hazards Website since the beginning of this year.  Your hard work is appreciated!

- Lisa
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Lisa Wald, Geophysicist
Web Team Manager
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Golden, CO
303-273-8543
lisa at usgs.gov
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You are doing a great job! The website is always improving.


You guys should be honored with a Webby Award. I love this site. Thanks for being there!


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!


 
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.
I'm down at Palmer Station, Antarctica and we have a seismic station here.  So we kind of watch what is going on.  
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.  
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.
Thanks again Lisa, 
Palmer Station Antarctica



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. 

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.



Lisa,
Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to respond.  I greatly appreciate the information, and your superb Customer Service. THANK YOU.  
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.
I use the service to stay informed, and overload is something I completely understand in disaster preparedness and disasters in general.  
I'll re-establish my profile back into the service once things calm, and perhaps, slow down in a few weeks.
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.
I hope you have a great evening.
Thank you again for taking the time to respond.
Best Regards,

Emergency Coordinator ARES - Gilroy OES
Assistant District Emergency Coordinator - Santa Clara County ARES/RACES
Santa Clara County RACES Training Officer

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.


FAVOR ENVIAR SU PAGINA PARA AGREGAR A FAVORITOS GRACIAS



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.

You and all involved in www.usgs.gov 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!

Thank you,



The USGS website is wonderful and very informative. I had never been to
this website before. I was quite pleased to learn so much so quickly about
the 7.2 Easter Sunday Baja quake.

No response is needed to this message.


Thanks. You guys do wonderful work.


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


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


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


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.



Dear team USGS, Thanks very much for help us with the exelent information each day. Kind Regards


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. 


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!



WOW...Thanks. They look like underwater roads. I was very surprised to get an answer. Thanks again.



Wow! That was fast!! 
Thanks for the prompt reply and update. Great service.
 


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?   


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! 



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. 

This website is awesome!=D


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


I just want to congratulate all of you and say thank you for the splendid work you are doing.

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.



Thank you sir. That was a big help. I'm going to give the problem to my
daughter when she gets to enough math to do probabilities and other stats.
I knew it had been thought of but I had to know. What a fascinating field
of study.



> 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?

> 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.
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>> 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.
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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.


> 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. 
> Thank you. 



Thanks so much for your quick reply.  I'll take a look at the animations that you do have.  
It's great to have the USGS site as a resource. Keep up the good work.

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. 


Keep up the good work your doing FINE Thanks


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.


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!


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