Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Friday Focal Mechanisms: before and after the M8 Santa Cruz Islands quake

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Chris Rowan

On Tuesday night American time (Wednesday lunchtime local time), a magnitude 8 earthquake occurred near the Santa Cruz Islands, a set of small islands east of the Solomon Islands. In this region, the Australian plate is subducting to the north-east … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Chris Rowan

A busy week for both of us this week – Anne had a stimulating few days at the ScienceOnline 2013 conference in North Carolina, while Chris tried to achieve something other than teaching prep. But, through all this, we still … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Friday Focal Mechanism: the Himalayas’ long tectonic shadow

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Chris Rowan

It wasn’t the biggest seismic event of the week, but this shallow (15 km depth) magnitude 6.0 that shook the remote southeast corner of Kazakstan on Monday still caught my attention. Located within the Tian Shan mountains, this earthquake is … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics

The Up-Goer Five Challenge: now at Scientific American

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Chris Rowan

Anne and I have continued to be blown away by the magnitude of the response to Anne’s original challenge to explain your scientific research using only a list of the thousand most commonly used English words. Ten Hundred Words of … Continue reading →

Categories: public science, science education

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Chris Rowan

Since it seems much of the northern hemisphere is cold and snowy at the moment, here’s some good reading to curl up with a hot drink over. For those in the southern hemisphere: here’s some good brain food to distract … Continue reading →

Categories: links