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Studying Earthquakes from England
I’m back at it! This blog has suffered a long hiatus for which I could prattle on with a multitude of excuses, but suffice it to say that the shift from U.S. PhD student life to European postdoc life...
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Complex, compound New Zealand earthquake – Part 1: Seismology by Night
Shaking intensities reported to GeoNet NZ Just after midnight last Sunday, the whole country of New Zealand was rocked by a massive earthquake at the north end of the South Island. From the outset,...
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Complex, compound New Zealand earthquake – Part 2: Faulting by Day
Fault offsets from Nov 14, photographed by Environment Canterbury @ canterburymaps.govt.nz Reeling from the massive M7.8 earthquake at midnight, its relentless aftershocks, and the continuing coastal...
View ArticleHere’s what earthquake early warning looks like
When a large earthquake struck the coast of Japan near Fukushima Tuesday morning, people all across the country were alerted nearly immediately–most in advance of significant shaking at their...
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Who feels earthquakes?
Earthquakes are felt by people somewhere on the globe just about hourly (see this USGS list of felt earthquakes in just the last 24 hours). Some places are particularly prone to them–think Japan,...
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Strong earthquake widely filmed in Chile
A swarm of magnitude ~5-6 earthquakes offshore Chile on April 23 was punctuated two days later by a much larger M6.9 earthquake yesterday evening. While nobody could have specifically predicted the...
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A celestial celebration of Earth’s place in the Cosmos, mapped onto Earth
It’s been repeated now a million times, but its grandeur bears another announcement: on August 21, 2017, a long-awaited total solar eclipse will cast the moon’s narrow shadow directly across the United...
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Get Prepared Now
The scenes of violent shaking in dense urban Mexico City from the new Sept 19 earthquake are genuinely horrifying. Buildings twist, collide, crumble, buckle, and collapse before your eyes like some...
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78 seconds of Earthquake Early Warning
Late on Friday afternoon, February 16, during the Chinese New Year street fair in la Ciudad de México, the tight hold between the North America and Cocos plates failed, the fault slipped, and the...
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Twitter #EarthquakeCup is in full swing
In the grand tradition of #MammalMarchMadness, the exceedingly popular Twitter-poll-based geeky sciencey alternative to the US’s eponymous basketball tournament, which grew to extraordinary popularity...
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