Monthly Archives: August 2020

The Cuyahoga River burned today for the first time in 51 years. Here’s what we can learn from it.

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Anne Jefferson

How many of you had “Cuyahoga River catches fire” on your 2020 bingo card? Yet that’s what happened today.  A tanker-car collision/fire near the Cuyahoga River in Akron this morning spilled burning fuel into a storm sewer and then the … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, geohazards, geology, hydrology, public science, society

Why did North Carolina experience a magnitude 5.1 earthquake yesterday?

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Chris Rowan

The location of this earthquake seems a little odd because North Carolina is about as far as it’s possible to get from an active plate boundary – thousands of km from the mid-Atlantic spreading ridge to the east and the … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geology, structures, tectonics