You last post has little or nothing to do with seismic events, Iains. It has everything to do with trying to show us that you can string together technical words and phrases regardless of whether they inform the discussion about earthquakes. As for links, yes I do open links. What I don't do is open links that are not commented on by the poster. In my view that is bad-mannered and dead lazy. I want to know what posters here think about whatever it is we're talking about. If you put up a link I want to know why you think it's relevant. I've opened too many rubbishy links here to waste any more time on unsupported ones. And I'm very unlikely to open links to the Mail or Telegraph. If you can, just tell us what you think. I know of one forum that won't accept unsupported links in posts at all.

It's sad that dictionaries now accept "miniscule." That usage displays ignorance of the etymology of the word. To me, its minuscule and always will be. Just a minuscule point there.