Monthly Archives: February 2011

Friday focal mechanisms: Chile’s persistent seismic gap

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010 occurred within a seismic gap – but new research suggests that it did not fill it. Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

Pakistan floods: Predictable or predicted, but a disaster nonetheless

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in July and August 2010 left large swaths of Pakistan underwater. At least 18 million people were affected by the flood, and it is estimated that, more than six months later, several hundred thousand remain without … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, climate science, geohazards, hydrology, paper reviews, society

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Blogs in motion Chris’s friend and fellow paleomagnetist Andy Biggin has just started blogging at http://www.geomagnetism.org/ A diary of scientific drilling into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, by GNS’ Rupert Sutherland http://rupertsnztectonics.blogspot.com/2011/01/drilling-into-new-zealands-alpine-fault.html Volcanoes This is awesome: the Pink Terraces, thought destroyed … Continue reading

Categories: links

Snow days

Snowed in in Chicago – even a city with a fleet of 300 snow ploughs has its limits… Continue reading

Categories: environment, photos, society

New at Erratics: What’s up with Cu?

Our goal in starting Earth Science Erratics was to promote and encourage new voices to take there first steps into the geoblogosphere. But we also want to make sure that people who have taken those first steps already, but have … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links