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Natural disasters may not always hit hardest where you’d expect

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Chris Rowan

For many natural hazards, the actual risk is not purely a function of frequency and magnitude: politics, regulation and psychology are also a large influence on the potential human impact. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, society

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Things we’ve written elsewhere In an invited commentary for Earth magazine (solicited in the aftermath of the arsenic life controversy), Chris discusses the impact of social media like blogs and Twitter on peer review and the discussion of published science … Continue reading →

Categories: links

The many faces of earthquake triggering

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Can large earthquakes beget more large earthquakes? It’s an easy question to ask, but much more difficult to answer. Depending on the distance from, and time since, the initial earthquake, the processes that may result in ‘seismic triggering’ are very … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, tectonics

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Volcanoes It’s been 1 year since Eyjafjallajokull closed European airspace. Here’s a great retrospective from Erik Klemetti: http://bigthink.com/ideas/37870 Meanwhile, over at volcano1010, John Stevenson reports on the latest results from scientists who are studying the eruption, especially the tough problem … Continue reading →

Categories: links