Collaborate Disseminate
If your only exposure to seismologists at work is through film and television, you can be forgiven for thinking they still lay out rolls of paper to examine lines of ink under a magnifying glass. The reality is far more interesting in a field that has eagerly adopted all available …read more
Continue reading Watch Earthquake Roll Across A Continent In Seismograph Visualization Video
Scientists used the second largest earthquake on record to glimpse the terrain 410 miles under our planet’s surface. Continue reading Mountains Bigger Than Everest May Lie Deep Inside Earth
Some seismologists have speculated the strange waves could be related to volcanic activity. Continue reading Mysterious Waves Rippled Across the Earth and Scientists Don’t Know Why
The island nation’s new warning system will broadcast qualitative alerts like takai and kyodai (“high” and “huge”) during future Pacific megathrust earthquakes, to better urge people to evacuate before the waves come. Continue reading Preparing for Japan’s Next Tsunami
Mars InSight will be the first interplanetary mission to lift off from the West Coast. Continue reading NASA’s Launching a Lander That Will Dig on Mars
Whenever there is an earthquake somewhere in the world, our TV screens fill with images of seismic data. Those news report graphics with simplified bite-sized diagrams that inform the masses, but usually get something wrong. Among the images there will invariably be one of a chart recorder drawing a significant earthquake trace on paper, which makes good TV, but is probably miles away from the state of the art in seismology.
We are not seismologists here at Hackaday, so it was extremely interesting to find [Michael D]’s project, Device for Seismic Noise Analysis. In it, he gives a basic primer …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Device for Seismic Noise Analysis
“The volcano is still very much alive.” Continue reading Mount St. Helens Is ‘Recharging’ With Magma, Say Geologists