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How much should you trust the scientific literature? Reflecting on my own academic maturation, as well as observing on-line discussions of dinosaur paleontology for over 15 years (yikes, I'm getting old!), I have concluded that most of us pass [...]
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That's an absolute "For Sure". When an M5 happened near the Perry nuclear plant, the design basis was exceeded, based on the crappy definition. The horrible scratch plates went through the roof, as they will be found to have [...]
It was a wonderful earthquake, and like most eastern earthquakes before it, we learned absolutely nothing.
The aftershock sequence seems entirely normal, so I wouldn't be saying anything unless I saw the events creeping towards the old seismic [...]
This may seem at first glance a stupid question, and the answer – Cambodia – even sillier. But it’s a fact. The tiny island nation of Singapore is home to a booming economy and the growth that goes along
Black hole just about finished munching on wayward star!NASA Swift satellite. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Terrestrial natural disasters don't seem so bad after you watch what happened to the wayward star that got too close to a black hole [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 28th, 2011: Interactives . Dynamic Earth . Intro American Geological Institute – Serving the Geosciences Since … USGS Earthquake FAQs Mars rover aims for deep crater Interactives . [...]
The track/intensity models are indicating development, but hint at a real possibility of an eventual NW track before it approaches North America. I suspect it will be upgraded to a named storm within 36 hours. The next 2 weeks are the most active of [...]
A new paper published in Natural Hazards today discusses post-depositional changes of tsunamites. At sites in Thailand covered by sediments of the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, Szczuciński (2011) has documented significant changes in the deposits over the [...]
From NASA’s Aqua satellite. Taken with the MODIS sensor which has channels in the wavelengths of red, green, and blue light, so it’s true colour. Click for the HUGE “print that puppy and slap it on the wall”
The image on the right is from NOAA/AOML and shows a very large wind field around Irene. The latest NWP models continue to show a track near New York and Boston, but while Irene is a minimal hurricane the large wind field will cause significant [...]