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Category Archives: earthquakes
Friday Focal Mechanism: M 7.4, Oaxaca, Mexico
The largest earthquake to hit the planet this week was in Mexico, which was shaken on Tuesday by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. The epicentre was in the Oaxaca region about 300 kilometres southwest of Mexico city, and the rupture was … Continue reading
The humbling legacy of the Tohoku earthquake
A year ago on Sunday, one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded ruptured the subduction megathrust that dips beneath the east coast of Japan. The rupture displaced the seafloor by tens of metres and generated tsunami waves up to 20 … Continue reading
The soundtrack of our unquiet Earth
I’ve coming down off an intense few weeks’ of travelling: first to this years’ ScienceOnline conference (some thoughts about which might appear here soon), then to a conference on Hawaii’s Big Island (which I’ll definitely be writing about), and then … Continue reading
How I (mostly) slept through the one of the largest earthquakes to hit NW Europe in 200 years
In the early hours of 13 April 1992, the border region in western Europe where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet was shaken by a magnitude 5.4 earthquake, caused by northeast-southwest extension in the Roer Valley Graben. The shaking was … Continue reading
Geological mayhem and destruction in 2012: not the end of the world, just business as usual
We don’t live on a boring planet. 2012 will be plagued by natural disasters, but so is every other year. Continue reading