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Hi. I'd be interested in any comments you might have re Draft:Earthquake sensitive. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 21:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC) reply

And likewise in the Rfc at Talk:Earthquake_prediction#RfC re neutrality/POV issues. I believe you know a thing or three about this topic, right? :-) ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 22:50, 9 July 2016 (UTC) . reply

Hi, Elriana. Some items you might find of particular interest. In addition to all the other stuff! ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 19:59, 4 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Console, R. (30 August 2001) Testing earthquake forecast hypotheses.
 Tectonophysics 338(3-4):261—268  doi: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00081-6

Lee, Ya-Ting; Donald L. Turcotte; James R. Holliday; Michael K. Sachs;
 John B. Rundle; Chien-Chih Chen; and Kristy F. Tiampo (2011)
 Results of the Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models (RELM) test of
 earthquake forecasts in California. PNAS ...
 
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/09/19/1113481108.full.pdf#page=1&view=FitH

Nanjo, K. Z.; H. Tsuruoka; N. Hirata; T. H. Jordan ( 2011)
 Overview of the first earthquake forecast testing experiment in Japan.
 Earth Planets Space 63:159-169  doi:10.5047/eps.2010.10.003
 
http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/pdf/2011/6303/63030159.pdf
  Lists methods submitted for CSEP testing. VAN not included.

Ogata, Yosihiko; Koichi Katsura; Giuseppe Falcone; Kazuyoshi Nanjo and
 Jiancang Zhuang (June 2013) Comprehensive and topical evaluations of
 earthquake forecasts in terms of number, time, space, and magnitude.
 BSSA  103(3):1692-1708  doi: 10.1785/0120120063

Rhoades, D.A.; F.F. Evison ( 1979) Long-range earthquake forecasting based
 on a single predictor.
 Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc. 59():43-56
 
http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/1/43.full.pdf
  Present a theoretical framework for presenting predictive information.

Savage, Jim (April 30, 1990) Criticism of some forecasts of the National
 Earthquake Prediction Evaluaton Council, in USGS OFR 90-722, p207/213.
 See Kerr90-sci249 for article about this.
 "This paper is concerned with the assessments of the probability of future
 rupture of identified segments of the San Andreas fault as formulated by
 the Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities (WGCEP)".
 Several other appendices in ofr 90-722 address Savage's criticism.

Tiampo, Kristy F.; Robert Shcherbakov (2012) Seismicity-based earthquake
 forecasting techniques: Ten years of progress (review article)
 Tectonophysics 522—523:89-121  doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.019
 
http://www.upo.es/eps/troncoso/Citas/ESWA10/citaESWA-3.pdf

Vere-Jones, David (1995). Forecasting earthquakes and earthquake risk.
 International Journal of Forecasting, 11: 503—538
 
http://forprin_old.dev.zoe.co.nz/paperpdf/Vere-Jones-forecastingearthquakes.pdf

Zechar, J.D. (2010), Evaluating earthquake predictions and earthquake
 forecasts: a guide for students and new researchers, Community Online
 Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis, doi:10.5078/corssa-77337879.
 
http://earth.usc.edu/~zechar/zechar2010corssa.pdf
   Good tutorial, but contingency table is turned around.

I would like to thank you for your observation. Ber31 ( talk) 05:58, 16 May 2017 (UTC) reply

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Hallo. Im Deutschen würde es ja auch völlig genügen zu sagen "Erdbeben mit einer Stärke von $number", womit man also nicht mal das Wort Magnitude braucht. Das sollte eigentlich auch im Englischen funktionieren mit Strength, denke ich. Jedenfalls genügt es immer "magnitude (of) $number" zu schreiben - um nichts falsches gesagt zu haben. -- Itu ( talk) 01:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Ja, das ist nicht so anders auf Englisch. Wir sagen normalerweise "an earthquake with magnitude $number", aber es gibt Leute die "magnitude" nicht verstehen. Sie fragen mir oft, "Like the Richter scale?" Es ist eine Idee wir haben als wir jung waren gehoert, und die Woerter maken einige Leute besser verstehen. Nein, die Wissenschaftler benutzen es mehr nicht, aber es ist immer noch ein weit verbreitet Idee. Deshalb wir sollen einmal in den Artikel die Woerter benutzen. (Entschuldigung, wenn mein Deutsch nicht perfekt ist. Ich schreibe es selten.) Elriana ( talk) 06:34, 27 January 2018 (UTC) reply

WP:SPEAKENGLISH. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 21:35, 27 January 2018 (UTC) reply

I was simply using the fact that Elriana has a de-3 Babel, for doing a comparison de-en about how to tell an earthquake strength. -- Itu ( talk) 07:05, 30 January 2018 (UTC) reply

And I have no objection if explaining it to you in German helps improve your understanding. But as these matters are related to a current discussion at Talk:Lists of earthquakes I point out that there is a guideline to be aware of. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 00:09, 31 January 2018 (UTC) reply

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Gpkp ( u • t • c) 15:58, 4 October 2018 (UTC) reply

Hi Elriana--I translated this from the French wiki; any help in cleaning it up would be welcome. Also, I saw your name in the history of List of fossil sites, and I can't rightly figure out where to list this, the site of the Neanderthal fossil Engis 2. If you can stick it in there, that would be great. Thanks! Drmies ( talk) 04:42, 25 October 2018 (UTC) reply

• Thanks again for your edits there--and now I'd like to ask the same thing for Arago cave, which was translated from the French version by Fabdoull. Thanks for whatever you can do...! Dr Aaij ( talk) 01:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC) reply

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