Tag Archives: earthquake engineering

  • Hungary feat
    23 Apr 2013 Christoph Grützner Kind of surprising M4.5 earthquake in NE Hungary http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/04/23/kind-of-surprising-m4-5-earthquake-in-ne-hungary/ Last night (22:29 UTC on 22 April) a M4.5 earthquake rattled NE Hungary. The event was shallow (~10 km) and the epicentre was only about...
  • iceland
    28 Feb 2013 Christoph Grützner Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Summer Course in Iceland 2013 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/02/28/earthquake-engineering-and-seismology-summer-course-in-iceland-2013/ The following mail reached us today: “A new International Graduate Summer Course in Iceland 2013: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY Iceland, 30 May –...
  • geol NRW2
    18 Jan 2013 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (53) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/01/18/whats-up-the-friday-links-53/ Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are one of the most important tools in geosciences and can be helpful in almost every discipline. They are widely...
  • volcano feat
    11 Jan 2013 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (52) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2013/01/11/whats-up-the-friday-links-52/ The RealClimate blog network published two long articles on the state of the art of sea level rise estimations. Part 1 was written by...
  • FLL
    6 Nov 2012 Christoph Grützner Earthquake prediction – some thoughts and four interviews http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/11/06/earthquake-prediction-some-thoughts-and-four-interviews/ Since the L’Aquila trial has caused a lot of attention and an outcry of the scientific community, topics like earthquake prediction and earthquake forecasting...
  • The Agio Apostoli Fault in Central Greece.
    2 Nov 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (47) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/11/02/whats-up-the-friday-links-47/ The German research vessel R/V Polarstern is an ice-breaking mega laboratory and the heart of the German arctic and antarctic research. It is maintained...
  • fossil raindrops
    26 Oct 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (46) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/10/26/whats-up-the-friday-links-46/ For me the most important geo news this week was the court decision on the L’Aquila trial on Monday. A local court sentenced six...
  • Hinzen et al 2012
    11 Sep 2012 Christoph Grützner New paper on archeoseismological investigations in Cologne, Germany http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/09/11/new-paper-on-archeoseismological-investigations-in-cologne-germany/ A new paper has been published online first by Hinzen et al. on their archeoseismological study in Cologne, Germany. During recent archeological excavations, a...
  • schlatt
    14 Jul 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (38) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/07/14/whats-up-the-friday-links-38/ Annals of Geophysics (former Annali di Geofisica) published a special volume “Geoethics and geological culture. Reflections from the Geoitalia Conference 2011“. This is pretty...
  • The Saale loop at Ziegenrück, Germany. More interesting than the algae blossom is the huge fold behind me (not visible in the image), known as the famous Ziegenrück Fold. I will post something on that next week, probably., so keep on reading..
    22 Jun 2012 Christoph Grützner What’s up? The Friday links (36) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/06/22/whats-upthe-friday-links-36/ Today is GeoScience Day (Geotag) at RWTH Aachen University! Organized by the Chair of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, this event will start at 9:30...