Tag Archives: tsunami
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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... -
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,... -
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... -
Session on “Paleoseismicity of the Mediterranean Region and surface – faulting hazard in urban areas”: 86th National Congress of the Società Geologica Italiana, 18-20 September 2012 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/04/05/session-on-paleoseismicity-of-the-mediterranean-region-and-surface-faulting-hazard-in-urban-areas-86th-national-congress-of-the-societa-geologica-italiana-18-20-september-2012/ The 86th Italian Geological Society Congress will be held in Arcavacata di Rende (CS) on 18-20 September 2012, at the Università della Calabria, Italy.... -
3rd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology, Morelia (Mexico), 18 – 24 November 2012 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/28/3rd-inqua-igcp-567-international-workshop-on-active-tectonics-paleoseismology-and-archeoseismology-morelia-mexico-18-24-november-2012/ The 3rd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology will be held in Morelia (Mexico) from 18 – 24 November 2012.... -
Mexican Geophysical Union meeting 2012: session on paleoseismology, seismic and tsunami hazard http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/27/mexican-geophysical-union-meeting-2012-session-on-paleoseismology-seismic-and-tsunami-hazard/ UGM SESSION: PALEOSEISMOLOGY, SEISMIC AND TSUNAMI HAZARD Mexican Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (RAUGM) 2012 28 October – 2 November, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico A... -
PostDoc research position on Tsunami deposits, EQ Geology, Tectonics (Mexico) http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/22/postdoc-research-position-on-tsunami-deposits-eq-geology-tectonics-mexico/ The Group on Active Tectonics (GAT) and the Environmental Geophysics University Laboratory (LUGA) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Morelia seeks... -
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... -
Excursion and field work in Greece – landslides, rock falls, fault scarps http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/03/12/excursion-and-field-work-in-greece-landslides-rock-falls-fault-scarps/ Since ten days I am in Greece now with a dozen of students. We started with an excursion in the western Peloponessus area and... -
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... -
Back from field work in Oman http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/02/22/back-from-field-work-in-oman/ Klaus, Ben, Sascha and me went to visit our colleague Gösta at the GUtech in the Sultanate of Oman. We did some fieldwork for... -
Paleoseismology, archeoseismology and earthquakes at the EGU2012 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2012/01/30/paleoseismology-archeoseismology-and-earthquakes-at-the-egu2012/ Now that the abstract submission deadline has passed you might be interested in somehow paleoseismicity-related sessions at the EGU2012. I decided to group the... -
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... -
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.,... -
SSA 2012 Special Session: Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Coastal Archaeological Sites http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/11/15/ssa-2012-special-session-earthquakes-and-tsunamis-at-coastal-archaeological-sites/ Dear colleagues, We would like to bring your attention to a special session at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America... -
A few words about the upcoming Corinth Workshop http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/09/17/a-few-words-about-the-upcoming-corinth-workshop/ After the very successful 1st Workshop on Earthquake Archaeology and Paleoseismology held in the ancient roman site of Baelo Claudia (Spain, 2009), the INQUA...
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New paper on the post-depositional changes of Tsunamites http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/31/new-paper-on-the-post-depositional-changes-of-tsunamites/ 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... -
Special issue on Archaeology and Paleoseismology in Quat. Int. 242 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/08/22/special-issue-on-archaeology-and-paleoseismology-in-quat-int-242/ It is our greatest pleasure to announce that a new special issue on paleo- and archaeoseismology has been published. The special issue of Quaternary... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
A small tsunami in England on 29 June, 2011 http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/06/30/a-small-tsunami-in-england-on-29-june-2011/ Yesterday, British media reported on a small tsunami that hit southwestern England at 10.15 BST. Wave heights reached around 30 cm in some bays... -
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... -
SSA meeting: Special session on Japan, Christchurch EQs http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/03/16/ssa-meeting-special-session-on-japan-christchurch-eqs/ The Seismological Society of America has re-opened abstract submission for a special session on the Christchurch and Japan earthquakes during the Memphis conference. Deadline... -
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... -
“spektrumdirekt” reports on archeoseismology http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2011/01/04/spektrumdirekt-reports-on-archeoseismology/ The online science magazine “spektrumdirekt” reports on the archeoseismological and paleoseismological studies in Baelo Claudia, Southern Spain. The article focusses on tsunami hazard in...
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New Tsunami-papers published! http://www.paleoseismicity.org/blog/2010/10/20/hello/ Two new paper were published on tsunami research in the Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie: Reicherter, K., Vonberg, D., Koster B., Fernández-Steeger T., Grützner, C. &...
