An Italian job; seismic risk-assessment at risk
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August 25, 2017
Life is a risky business. Not a day goes by when some aspect of our
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Which satellite is that? What does it measure?
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July 24, 2017
Space may well be the final frontier (there are one or two on earth that
The earth moved; GPS, earthquakes, and slow-slip
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July 18, 2017
A post about earthquake tremor swarms and slow slip events. It is often useful to
So, adding CO2 does increase surface heating; how science has filled another gap in our knowledge
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Read any scientific paper or blog on climate and you’re bound to come across the
Volcanism does not cause glaciations; let’s turn this statement on its head
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Is there a relationship between volcanism and glaciation? It is almost a truism that volcanic
Tsunamis behave as shallow-water waves
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May 22, 2017
Tsunami statistics make grim reading, which is why I am not going to quote any.
There are two sides to every fault
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April 15, 2017
In 1940-41, Harold Wellman, a creative but somewhat irreverent New Zealand geologist, along with his
It only takes a moment; the ups and downs of earthquakes
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Seismic metaphors, or seismic as metaphor? Seismic, a word that geologists and geophysicists traditionally thought
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Continental Drift was the leading hypothesis for continental aggregation, prior to plate tectonics German meteorologist
When North becomes South; The flip-side of earth’s magnetic field
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February 24, 2017
Earth’s magnetic field is on the move – so too is magnetic North! Constancy in
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