Category Archives: earthquakes

Friday focal mechanisms

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Chris Rowan

A brief summary of the past two week’s significant earthquakes, and their tectonic context. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geophysics

Friday focal mechanisms

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Chris Rowan

A brief summary of the week’s large earthquakes and their tectonic context.
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, tectonics

Creeping fault segments are showing their age

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Do faults get weaker as they get older?
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, paper reviews, tectonics

Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Chris Rowan

The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, structures, tectonics

The seismic non-pocalypse

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think – and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology