[Carry_Okie]

I have a friend who is a mining geologist in Utah with no affiliation with this disaster. He tells me that no mine accident EVER has produced a seismic event with a Richter reading over 2.0. He believes that the mine owner is blameless. He also noted that seismic activity on the entire Pacific rim has increased substantially in the last few weeks, so an event like this in Utah is likely coincident.

He also told me that the professor Fox as a consultant is using is a total jerk. I did note that he did falsely indicated that each Richter number ,as a factor of ten, therefore meant that a 4.0 was 30 times the magnitude of a 1.0, which is of course total bs. The Richter scale is logarithmic: i.e., a 4.0 event is a thousand times the energy of a 1.0.

With "expertise" like that, I would take what the mediots say with a bucket of rock salt.

[ontap]

It seems odd that they were so fast to jump on this old man from the gitgo. The first question by the press were telling to me and then 10 days after the event what do we get , a seismic event.

[b9]

"mediots"

Great word!