Category Archives For: The Friday Links

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  11 May 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (32) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/05/11/whats-up-the-friday-links-32/ The INQUA has set up an Early Career Researchers Committee (INQUA_ECR), and I am proud being a member of that. Its aim is to...

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  13 Apr 2012 Christoph Grützner Strike-slip week on Planet Earth http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/04/13/strike-slip-week-on-planet-earth/ Last week was really weird for earthquake geologists. We have seen one of the strongest earthquakes ever measured and another handfull of major events,...

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  23 Mar 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (31) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/23/whats-up-the-friday-links-31/ Elsevier is facing ongoing protests, especially from the blogosphere. Not only did thousands of scientists sign the boycott (no publishing, no reviewing, no editorial...

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  24 Feb 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (30) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/02/24/whats-up-the-friday-links-30/ Dear fellows, please stop littering the beaches all over the world. Seriously. I like beaches and I guess so do you, so please, take...

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  27 Jan 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (29) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/01/27/whats-up-the-friday-links-29/ The sun dominated the geo-news this week. A very strong coronal mass ejection (or was it a sunquake…?) occured and hit Earth’s magnetic field...

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  20 Jan 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (28) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/01/20/whats-up-the-friday-links-28/ The University of Oklahoma has set up a “Global Geo-Referenced Field Photo Library“. Once registered, users may upload and geotag their (geological) field photos....

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  15 Jan 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (27) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/01/15/whats-up-the-friday-links-27/ Recently, scientists from Switzerland came up with the news that fractured bedrock might amplify earthquake shaking. The say they observed an increase by factor...

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  16 Dec 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (26) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/12/16/whats-up-the-friday-links-26/ Today is the 200th anniversary of the first event of the New Madrid Earthquake Series. There’s still an open debate on magnitudes, intensities, causative...

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  9 Dec 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (25) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/12/09/whats-up-the-friday-links-25/ It seems like everyone is at the AGU currently, and even the German media is full of geoscience news. The first really interesting thing...

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  2 Dec 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (24) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/12/02/whats-up-the-friday-links-24/ Earthquake prediction is possible! At least for toads (well, for bufo bufo only). And at least in Italy. And at least in 2009. Do...

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  18 Nov 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (23) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/18/whats-up-the-friday-links-23/ The Leonid Meteor shower will lighten the sky tonight, so keep your eyes open and please avoid going to bed. We can expect some...

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  11 Nov 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (22) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/11/whats-up-the-friday-links-22/ Emil Wiechert was born 150 years ago (26 December 1861). He not only invented modern Geophysics and Seismology, but he also had the first...

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  4 Nov 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (21) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/04/whats-up-the-friday-links-21/ The Geological Survey of India released a report on earthquake-triggered landslides following the M6.9 Sikkim Earthquake, 18 September 2011. A total of 210 landslides...

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  28 Oct 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (20) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/10/28/whats-up-the-friday-links-20/ The Turkey M7.2 earthquake turned out to be a really desastrous event. More than 500 people died, more than 2,000 houses were destroyed. Currently,...

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  21 Oct 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (19) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/10/21/whats-up-the-friday-links-19/ Let’s start with some good news: The first two Galileo satellites (Natalia and Thijs) will be launched today from Kourou. It’s a little behind...

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  5 Aug 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (18) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/05/whats-up-the-friday-links-18/ Earthquake prediction again: The former president of India, Abdul Kalam, said earthquake prediction will be possible within 10 years. It would be great if...

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  22 Jul 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (17) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/07/22/whats-up-the-friday-links-17/ This week’s Friday links are almost entirely earthquake related. On James’ Empty Blog you can find some scary but interesting videos from the Japan...

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  15 Jul 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (16) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/07/15/whats-up-the-friday-links-16/ Cyprus explosion caused an M3.0 earthquake: On 11 July, a catastrophe took place in southern Cyprus. 2,000 tons of amunition confiscated from an Iranian...

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  8 Jul 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (15) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/07/08/whats-up-the-friday-links-15/ The most exciting news this week surely were the media reports that a tsunami destroyed ancient Olympia in Greece, hundreds of years ago. Andreas...

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  1 Jul 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (14) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/07/01/whats-up-the-friday-links-14/ Some good articles came up last week, and two interesting things happened in northwestern Europe. A small earthquake (M2.7-M3.4) hit northern Netherlands in the...

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  10 Jun 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (13) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/06/10/whats-up-the-friday-links-13/ Sorry for starting with a non-geological link again, but it’s important: We have two more elements! Well, two more names in the periodic table...

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  3 Jun 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (12) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/06/03/whats-up-the-friday-links-12/ I am not sure if the geoscience community has realized that astronomy made three steps forward recently, so I’ll start out of topic. Three...

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  27 May 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (11) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/05/27/whats-up-the-friday-links-11/ Because of the recent news, these Friday links will deal with earthquake prediction. As in the L’Aquila case and in the Judgment Day “prophecy”,...

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  6 May 2011 Ioannis Papanikolaou Active and Inactive Faults http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/05/06/active-and-inactive-faults/ Following Tomas post let’s stay a little longer on the Corinth Canal. The 6 km long famous Corinth Canal despite being an amazing feat of engineering, since it...

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  29 Apr 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (10) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/04/29/whats-up-the-friday-links-10/ Today’s Friday links concentrate on tsunamis. Recently, Pure and Applied Geophysics came up with quite a lot of tsunami papers, and I am sure...

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  25 Mar 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (9) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/25/whats-up-the-friday-links-9/ While the Japan earthquake has dominated the media obviously, some other news came up in geoscience. A researcher team lead by Ludovic Ferrierè who...

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  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...

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  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...

• 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....

• 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...

• 28 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (4) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/28/whats-up-the-friday-links-4/ The California Geological Survey provides a great online-tool for geoscientist: A fault map of California (Alquist-Priolo-Fault-Zone with all datasets available in PDF and GIS...

• 21 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (3) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/21/whats-up-the-friday-links-3/ The L’Aquila earthquake from 6 April, 2009 caused more than 308 fatalities and destroyed about 15,000 buildings. A new initiative set up by the...

• 14 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links. (2) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/14/whats-up-the-friday-links-2/ On Wednesday night the Etna on Sicily showed strombolian activity and glowing lava flows were visible from Catania. Don’t miss the great photos here...

• 7 Jan 2011 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links. (1) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/07/whats-up-the-friday-links-1/ On 4 January, 2011 a partial solar eclipse was visible in Central Europe (up to 80% coverage of the sun).  Werner Kraus shot some...