Category Archives: geohazards

Keep your impacts out of our deglaciation!

Just to prove that it’s not a good week for high-impact asteroid theories, John Hawks points to a piece in Science which discusses a growing scepticism about Firestone et al.‘s proposal in PNAS last year that the Younger Dryas – … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards

Retreat of the Megatsunami?

The question of whether chevrons and their associated deposits are formed by tsunami is of more than just academic importance; if they are, then we may be severely underestimating the average frequency of events capable of causing destructive tsunami (be … Continue reading

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Return of the Megatsunami

The evidence for a recent large asteroid impact in the Indian Ocean
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Categories: geohazards, geology

Mildy shook up

An earthquake in the UK? What’s that about?
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

New Zealand gets a festive shaking

When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics