Category Archives: geology

Lusi: not man-made after all?

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Was the mud volcano triggered by an earthquake rather than poor drilling practice?
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, Lusi, paper reviews

I’ve been reading a few news items today about fossilized black smoker chimneys from China. This rang a few bells, as I wrote about a paper which talked about exactly the same thing on ye olde blog back in January. … Continue reading →

Categories: fossils, geology

Volcanoes from space!

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Chris Rowan

It was noted in this story about increasing seismic and thermal activity at Bezymianny volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula that two other volcanoes had been continuously active in this region for the past 11 years or so. My interest was … Continue reading →

Categories: geohazards, geology, volcanoes

More on the Japanese earthquake

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Chris Rowan

How this weeks’ earthquake fits into the overall tectonic picture in the western Pacific.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics

Earthquakes in Japan

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Update: A more detailed analysis of this earthquake can be found here Japan was hit by a couple of large-ish earthquakes yesterday. According the USGS moment tensor solutions, the first magnitude 6.6 was caused by the rupture of a normal … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology