Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Two more earthquakes shake Christchurch

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Just as it seemed that seismic activity was finally dying down in Christchurch, the city has been shaken by two more earthquakes. The USGS currently has the first shock pegged as a magnitude 5.8, and the second as a magnitude … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Chris Rowan

A good crop of links for your Sunday reading pleasure this week – and some new geoblogs to check out, too. Other posts on All-geo Geology word of the week has to be ‘geospeedometry’: Metageologist asks, how fast do metamorphic … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Friday(ish) Focal Mechanism: a kinky slab beneath Mexico

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Chris Rowan

A quick look this week at the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that shook southern Mexico last Sunday. It caused a fair amount of shaking in Mexico City, and a few deaths, but apparently no major structural damage. The depth of the … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics

Struggle and Serendipity (or: Yay! I’m in Open Lab!)

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Chris Rowan

For some reason I wasn’t exactly keeping up with my e-mail last week – or much else that wasn’t Big Geology Conference related. So, although I did take note of the e-mail containing the glad tidings that my post ‘Ten … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery

All the blogging from AGU

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Chris Rowan

One thing I’ve been doing in free moments since the end of the AGU Fall Meeting is catching up on what cool science other geobloggers who attended the meeting had unearthed whilst wandering the poster hall and lecture halls. Below … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, conferences, links