How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?
Posted on May 8, 2008 11:19 AM • 4 Comments •
What's the most accurate method of estimating the size of asteroids associated with past impact events?
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Posted on April 17, 2008 10:18 AM • 4 Comments •
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...
Posted on March 27, 2008 12:46 PM • 5 Comments •
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 the mud, and the...
Posted on March 18, 2008 7:50 AM • 4 Comments •
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 -...
Posted on March 11, 2008 12:38 PM • 7 Comments •
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...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 9:59 AM • 2 Comments •
The evidence for a recent large asteroid impact in the Indian Ocean
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Posted on March 8, 2008 7:45 AM • 9 Comments •
An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?
Posted on February 27, 2008 10:05 AM • 10 Comments •
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...
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Posted on January 25, 2008 9:27 AM • 2 Comments •
Jani has been exploring the Sahara Desert using Google Earth, and would like to know if this structure in southeast Algeria is a crater or not (it can be found at 22 48' N 9 29' E): Before I give...
Posted on January 9, 2008 11:37 AM • 60 Comments •