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Category Archives: geohazards
Flood risks in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake
This is a guest post from Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She’s a hydrogeologist who likes to play in rivers, and I let her post this on the condition that she not … Continue reading
Active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes
How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?
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How big was that asteroid? The latest geochemist/geophysicist smackdown
What’s the most accurate method of estimating the size of asteroids associated with past impact events?
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Seismology@home
There’s an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers – designed to protect the hard drive when … Continue reading
Lusi in Time
The latest from Lusi I’ve just come across an excellent article in Time about Lusi, the mud volcano currently engulfing eastern Java. Entitled ‘A Wound In the Earth’, it’s a good summary of the human impacts, the attempts to contain … Continue reading
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