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• Indian Ocean Tsunami Anniversary

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that killed about 250,000 people around the rim of the Indian Ocean. An article and videos on the CNN website illustrate some of the observances.Related: What causes a tsunami?
  11 hours ago

• Earthquake Early Warning System for California

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  “An earthquake early warning system for California is feasible in coming years…. Earthquake early warning systems, already successfully deployed in Mexico, Japan and Taiwan, can detect an earthquake in progress and provide notice of seconds to tens of seconds prior to actual ground shaking.” Quoted from the ...
  4 days ago

• Measuring Earth’s Magnetic Field

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  An article that explores what NASA scientists are learning about Earth’s core and magnetic field using indirect measurements taken on land, on the oceans and from space.
  4 days ago

• Weathering the Storm of Stupidity (GLOBAL WARMING SUCKERS CIRCLE THE WAGONS)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  “(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar So what’s next? A series of essays by Sarah Palin about ...
  1 week ago

• Earthquake Production and Fault Slip Rate

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  An article summary at Eurekalert.org explains that there is sometimes a relationship between earthquake production and the speed of tectonic plates adjacent to a fault.
  1 week ago

• Sea-Floor Sunday #58: Northern Puerto Rican margin

  
  Clastic Detritus — Authority: 114
  One of my more popular posts, based on site stats, is this one highlighting a nice image of the seafloor in the region of the Puerto Rico trench. This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday image shows a new bathymetric image of this region that I found on the USGS Woods Hole Science Center website . Shaded relief and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Seismometers Listen for the Hawaiian Hotspot Plume

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  An article in the New York Times explores some of the high-resolution seismic imaging being done on the seafloor off Hawaii in an attempt to determine if the islands have been formed as a result of a mantle plume.
  2 weeks ago

• Small Eruption at Ambrym Volcano

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  Ambrym Volcano emitted a thin plume, likely rich in sulfur dioxide, on December 3, 2009. Ambrym island is part of the Vanuatu archipelago, along the western boundary of the Pacific “ring of fire.”
  2 weeks ago

• Fast-Moving Plates Cause More Quakes?

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  Do rapidly shifting tectonic plates generate more earthquakes than their slower counterparts? It depends on the fault.
  3 weeks ago

• Report: Earth Surface Processes (.pdf)

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  There are many natural and man-made events that interact and change our planet’s surface. This is a .pdf report on researching Earth surface processes, by The National Academy of Sciences.
  3 weeks ago

• Rift at Afar, Ethiopia Will Become an Ocean

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  In 2005, a 35-mile-long rift broke open in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Seafloor Mining and Environmental Impact

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has a new article that provides a brief overview of seafloor minerals, seafloor mining, who regulates seafloor mining and how environmental impact might be limited during mineral extraction. They also have two Flash presentations on seafloor mineral deposits and seafloor mining.
  5 weeks ago

• New method to measure snow, soil moisture with GPS may benefit climate modelers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and ...
  5 weeks ago

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