Monthly Archives: November 2011

Friday focal mechanisms: aftershocks in eastern Turkey

Almost a fortnight after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Eastern Turkey, the region continues to suffer from aftershocks, and there were two pretty big ones earlier this week: a magnitude 5.2 on Tuesday, and then a magnitude 5.6 on Wednesday. … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

A short FAQ on earthquakes and fracking

While there are plenty of important reasons to scrutinise this fracking business, the risk of triggering earthquakes is not one of them. Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, public science

The Oklahoma Earthquakes

There was some slight seismic excitement over the weekend in central Oklahoma: a magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook things up early on Saturday morning, which turned out to be the prelude to magnitude 5.6 tremor late Saturday evening. The focal mechanisms … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics

Writing Challenge, Week 1: Are you making progress?

It’s been a week since I issued the initial challenge to join me in a month-ish of intense writing activity. I’ve seen use of the #sciwrite hashtag pick up on Twitter, and 41 of you have now publicly committed to … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Anne has an article in this week’s Eos about the conference she went to in the Galapagos this summer. It is paywalled, annoyingly, but if you don’t have access and would like a copy of the article, let us know … Continue reading

Categories: links