Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Earthquake location matters, part eleventy

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Chris Rowan

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.

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Chris Rowan

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

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Chris Rowan

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

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Chris Rowan

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

Sendai/Tohoku earthquake round-up

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Chris Rowan

It’s hardly surprising that my browsing this week has been focussed largely on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (which is now officially being referred to as the Tohuku earthquake, rather than the Sendai earthquake; I’d complain … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, links