Author Archives: Chris Rowan

When snow doesn’t melt away like snow

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Chris Rowan

When you move to a new country, it’s always interesting to observe the differences in how places work. Sometimes, a shared problem is solved in a completely different way (for example, the South African approach to separating out recyclable material … Continue reading →

Categories: photos, society

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week Earthquakes Chinese earthquake record shows that away from plate boundaries, seismic activity jumps around between different faults http://news.discovery.com/earth/china-quakes-give-us-temblors-pause.html The paper can be found here. Seems to be follow up to a paper … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Friday focal mechanisms: Chile’s persistent seismic gap

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Chris Rowan

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that shook Chile in February 2010 occurred within a seismic gap – but new research suggests that it did not fill it. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Blogs in motion Chris’s friend and fellow paleomagnetist Andy Biggin has just started blogging at http://www.geomagnetism.org/ A diary of scientific drilling into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, by GNS’ Rupert Sutherland http://rupertsnztectonics.blogspot.com/2011/01/drilling-into-new-zealands-alpine-fault.html Volcanoes This is awesome: the Pink Terraces, thought destroyed … Continue reading →

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Snow days

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Snowed in in Chicago – even a city with a fleet of 300 snow ploughs has its limits… Continue reading →

Categories: environment, photos, society