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Does plate tectonics control magnetic reversals?
Possibly, but this paper will not convince you. Continue reading
Categories: Cenozoic, geophysics, Mesozoic, palaeomagic, tectonics
Why does a compass point north? A mystery at the heart of the story of science (book review)
Strange as it might seem, I’m finding North Pole, South Pole, paleomagnetist Gillian Turner’s newly published account of “the epic quest to solve the great mystery of Earth’s magnetism”, a difficult book to review. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy … Continue reading
Categories: geophysics, palaeomagic, public science, reviews
Earthquake ‘precursors’ and the curse of the false positive
Whenever you read a story that describes some phenomenon that preceded a large earthquake, and dangles the carrot of true earthquake prediction, don’t just look at the headline event. Check for false positives. Continue reading
Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geophysics
Aftershocks of the Sendai earthquake
On a map of global earthquake activity, Japan rather stands out right now: a pulsing boil of seismic activity that all but drowns out the shaking in the rest of the world. As of a few hours ago (5pm Central … Continue reading
Shaking in Christchurch boosted by seismic lensing?
Even taking into account how close the rupture point of Tuesday’s earthquake was to Christchurch, the intensity of the shaking – and the amount of damage that the city suffered as a consequence – seems to be very high for … Continue reading
Friday Focal Mechanism: Magnitude 7.2, Western Pakistan
Why are we getting an extensional earthquake at a convergent plate boundary? Continue reading
Yellowstone: what lies beneath
The best evidence yet that the Yellowstone hotspot is the result of a mantle plume – one that had to burn through a subducting slab to get to the surface. Continue reading
Friday focal mechanisms
A brief summary of the past two week’s significant earthquakes, and their tectonic context. Continue reading
5 focal mechanisms
On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
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