Category Archives: earthquakes

5 focal mechanisms

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Chris Rowan

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
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Categories: basics, earthquakes, geology, geophysics

Earthquakes within plates: we don’t know when, and we may not know where

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Chris Rowan

For intracontinental earthquakes, the seismic past and present may not help when predicting future hazards
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Earthquake hazard mitigation the Iranian way

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Capital city in danger of being flattened by earthquakes? Move the capital city
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, tectonics

Earth Science Week Challenge Day 5: Earthquakes, volcanoes, and disasters, oh my

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

One last push for geoblog readers to fund earth science projects that rattle the classroom windows.
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Categories: by Anne, earthquakes, science education, volcanoes

Two large earthquakes, two unusual focal mechanisms

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Chris Rowan

A quick look at the causes of this weeks’ big earthquakes in Samoa and Indonesia
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology