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Category Archives: geohazards
Hurricane Harvey and the Houston Flood: Did Humans Make it Worse? (Part 2: Urbanization)
There’s been a lot of speculation and discussion about the role of urbanization in contributing to the flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Fortunately, urban hydrology is my specialty, so even though I’ve never been to Houston, I feel like … Continue reading
Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flood: Did Humans Make it Worse? (Part 1: Climate Change)
This Friday at noon, the Kent State University Department of Geology is hosting a panel discussion on the human role in the catastrophic flooding experienced by Houston and surrounding communities in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. I will be one … Continue reading
#365climateimpacts: A crazy February heatwave and a tornado warning on March 1 (February 16-March 3)
Here are two more weeks of daily climate change impacts stories, as part of my #365climateimpacts project. I didn’t have to go very far from home to find inspiration for this fornight of tweets. We had an incredibly unusual heat … Continue reading
Oroville Dam: Water and Weather, Engineering and Erosion at the Nation’s Tallest Dam
California is having a very wet winter, with multiple atmospheric rivers dumping feet of precipitation in the mountains. Oroville Dam on the Feather River, is the nation’s tallest dam, is facing serious engineering challenges. This Storify has some of the best links to a rapidly evolving situation. Continue reading
317 years since the last rupture of the Cascadia megathrust
At around 9pm on the 26th January 1700, the Cascadia subduction zone – a shallowly dipping thrust fault that runs more than 1000 km north from Cape Mendocino in Northern California to the vicinity of Vancouver Island, ruptured in an estimated magnitude 9 earthquake. Continue reading
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