Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Not to scale

Like all geologists, I’m a great fan of scale bars. Except, it seems, on some of my figures… Continue reading

Categories: geology, public science, science education

Earthquake location matters, part eleventy

It’s been a month since the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami rattled then swamped northern Honshu, and Japan continues to be rattled by sizeable aftershocks. A magnitude 7.1 shock last Thursday initially set off further tsunami alerts but the rupture turned … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards, society

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week.

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week We’ve been away for a couple of weeks, but now we return you to your normal linky service. Volcanoes Eruption of Laki may not have caused an unusually cold winter in 1783. … Continue reading

Categories: links

How to (and how not to) talk about earthquake hazards in the media

Susan Hough: take a bow. Simon Winchester: don’t. Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, public science, ranting

New at Erratics – the largest meteorite crater in the world

The clinching evidence for the Vredefort dome being formed by an impact did not come from aerial photos, but from under the microscope. Continue reading

Categories: links, planets, Proterozoic, structures