Category Archives: earthquakes

Earthquake activity in Indonesia

There have been some reports of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake shaking things up in eastern Indonesia. More info from the USGS: The media report that there was a tsunami warning issued, which seemed a little odd: you’re not going to … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards

Monday links and an open thread

Currently what little creative energy I have is going into other writing (specifically, a really fiddly bit in the paper I’m preparing to resubmit), so here’s a couple of links for you: A real time global earthquake map. Darn cool, … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, fossils, links

More on the Japanese earthquake

How this weeks’ earthquake fits into the overall tectonic picture in the western Pacific.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics

Earthquakes in Japan

Update: A more detailed analysis of this earthquake can be found here Japan was hit by a couple of large-ish earthquakes yesterday. According the USGS moment tensor solutions, the first magnitude 6.6 was caused by the rupture of a normal … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Algae and earthquake precursors

From ye olde blog, May 2006: an interesting report from the BBC: Concentrations of the natural pigment chlorophyll in coastal waters have been shown to rise prior to earthquakes. These chlorophyll increases are due to blooms of plankton, which use … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, paper reviews