Tag Archives: Japan
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A motion piece on the Tōhoku Earthquake – One Year Later http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/04/07/a-motion-piece-on-the-tohoku-earthquake-one-year-later/ Peter Kim pointed me to that fascinating motion piece created by Onlineschools.org. It is an approach somewhere between science and art, but perfectly addresses... -
Animation of the 2011 worldwide seismicity http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/20/animation-of-the-2011-worldwide-seismicity/ A very nice animation of the 2011 worldwide seismicity for earthquakes M ≥ 4.5 in the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwWn_W6ZbT4&feature=youtu.be (with sound intensity for each... -
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... -
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... -
AGU2011 Tohoku earthquake session on video http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/12/12/agu2011-tohoku-earthquake-session-on-video/ A small comfort for all those who have missed the AGU2011 fall meeting (and so did I) might be that some sessions are now... -
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... -
New paper on the Japan 2011 tsunami and implications for paleotsunami research – Updated http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/22/new-paper-on-the-japan-2011-tsunami-and-implications-for-paleotsunami-research/ Goto et al. published a short paper on the Japan 2011 tsunami and implications for paleotsunami research in Marine Geology: Goto, K., Chagué-Goff, C.,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Japan – strong aftershocks continue http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/04/11/japan-strong-aftershocks-continue/ A strong aftershock has rocked Japan on 11 April. USGS reported a magnitude of 6.7, while EMSC estimated M6.6. A tsunami warning has been... -
Japan earthquake aftermath – blogs and press http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/31/japan-earthquake-aftermath-blogs-and-press/ The Japan earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan harder than we could have imagined. Thousands are still missing, the death toll climbs and climbs,... -
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... -
Liquefaction in Tokyo Central Park http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/16/liquefaction-in-tokyo-central-park/ Thanks to Alessandro I came across this incredible video of liquefaction occuring in the Tokyo Central Park during the M9.0 Japan earthquake. We can... -
Japan EQ & Tsunami: Environmental Effects http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/13/japan-eq-tsunami-environmental-effects/ The Japan M9.0 earthquake and the following tsunami are well documented by videos, photographs, sea-level measurements, seismograms etc. But how do we recognize such... -
Mw9.0 earthquake hits Japan, causes Tsunami (updated – 3) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/11/mw8-9-earthquake-hits-japan-causes-tsunami/ An earthquake with a magnitude of Mw9.0 has occured 130 km east of Honshu, Japan in a depth of ~25 km. This had been...
