[EHPweb] EHP Website compliments

Thu Apr 29 05:00:14 UTC 2010

Lisa and the web team,

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!

Many thanks, Dave

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David Applegate, Ph.D.
Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake & Geologic Hazards
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 905, Reston VA 20192
703 648 6714 voice, 703 648 6717 fax
applegate at usgs.gov

From:
Lisa A Wald <lisa at usgs.gov>
To:
EHPweb <EHPweb at geohazards.usgs.gov>
Cc:
Jill McCarthy <jmccarthy at usgs.gov>, Linda Pratt <lkpratt at usgs.gov>, Bill 
Leith <wleith at usgs.gov>, Michael L Blanpied <mblanpied at usgs.gov>, David 
Applegate <applegate at usgs.gov>, Tom Brocher <brocher at usgs.gov>
Date:
04/28/2010 04:00 PM
Subject:
EHP Website compliments

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.

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.

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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