An Italian job; seismic risk-assessment at risk
Life is a risky business. Not a day goes by when some aspect of our lives comes under the gaze […]
Geophysics
Which satellite is that? What does it measure?
Space may well be the final frontier (there are one or two on earth that still require some work), but
The earth moved; GPS, earthquakes, and slow-slip
A post about earthquake tremor swarms and slow slip events. It is often useful to know where you are, in
So, adding CO2 does increase surface heating; how science has filled another gap in our knowledge
Read any scientific paper or blog on climate and you’re bound to come across the phrase radiative forcing. Radiative forcing
Volcanism does not cause glaciations; let’s turn this statement on its head
Is there a relationship between volcanism and glaciation? It is almost a truism that volcanic eruptions influence climate. Cold winters
Tsunamis behave as shallow-water waves
Tsunami statistics make grim reading, which is why I am not going to quote any. There are some great documentaries
There are two sides to every fault
In 1940-41, Harold Wellman, a creative but somewhat irreverent New Zealand geologist, along with his colleague Dick Willett, discovered a
It only takes a moment; the ups and downs of earthquakes
Seismic metaphors, or seismic as metaphor? Seismic, a word that geologists and geophysicists traditionally thought was reserved for their use,
Striped oceans and drifting continents
Continental Drift was the leading hypothesis for continental aggregation, prior to plate tectonics German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, in a fit
When North becomes South; The flip-side of earth’s magnetic field
Earth’s magnetic field is on the move – so too is magnetic North! Constancy in life is a comforting, if