Monthly Archives: February 2011

  • 28 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner Where on Google Earth? WoGE #271 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/28/where-on-google-earth-woge-271/ I have won my first WoGE on Friday, Florian had a great image of the Okavango delta in Botswana. So I have the great...
  • Oman Radiolarites
    25 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (8) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/25/whats-up-the-friday-links-8/ The Christchurch earthquake was the main topic of the Geoblogosphere this week. A great analysis on the effects was provided by Dave Petley in...
  • Offset conglomerates in greece
    23 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner Why was the Christchurch earthquake so devastating? http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/23/why-was-the-christchurch-earthquake-so-devastating/ A M6.3 earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February (21 Feb in UTC), leaving at least 75 people dead and hundreds injured or...
  • fridaylinks
    18 Feb 2011 Tomas Fernandez-Steeger What’s up? The Friday links (7) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/18/what%e2%80%99s-up-the-friday-links-7/ Albini made forensic studies on the origin of “fake” earthquakes in historical catalogues and shows  in her new paper how the 1272 earthquake “happens”. I...
  • darwin_gap
    15 Feb 2011 Tomas Fernandez-Steeger Friday’s earthquake and Darwin gap http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/15/814/ A nice short discussion about the Lorito et al., 2011 paper regarding the seismic gap at the Chilean coast and seismic slip during the...
  • korinth
    14 Feb 2011 Martin Schmidt Registration for Corinth2011 opened http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/14/registration-for-corinth2001-opened/ The registration for the 2nd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering at 19th-24th September 2011 in Corinth, Greece...
  • 11 Feb 2011 Tomas Fernandez-Steeger What’s up? The Friday links (6) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/11/what%e2%80%99s-up-the-friday-links-6/ Today on Friday, 11 February, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred offshore in Chile near Concepcion at  36.5° S and 73° W in a depth of 28km....
  • 8 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner Searching for Records of Past Earthquakes Under Water http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/08/searching-for-records-of-past-earthquakes-under-water/ In its latest issue, EOS reports on the European Science Foundation conference “Submarine Paleoseismology – The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes” which was held...
  • 4 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (5). http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/04/whats-up-the-friday-links-5/ The Accredtionary Wedge #30 blog carnival hosted by Mountain Beltway came up with a tasting idea in January: The Geological Bake Sale. Explore and...
  • 1 Feb 2011 Christoph Grützner Oxford University Press Book Sale http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/02/01/oxford-university-press-book-sale/ Oxford University Press is currently selling selected books with up to 75% off. The promotion covers dozens of books, among them titles on Archeology,...