Category Archives: geohazards

Tectonics of the Haitian earthquake

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Haiti is parked right on top of a plate boundary, but too poor to really prepare for the inevitable large earthquake.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics

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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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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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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Foreshocks and aftershocks of the Italian earthquake

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Monday’s earthquake did not occur in isolation – what do the smaller earthquakes tell us?
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology