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Tag: seismology
Guest Video: Early Earthquake Warning Systems
You may have heard of earthquake warning systems. Here is how one of them works. In that example, people in Palm Springs and along the
Guest Video: The Secret Lives of “Quiet” Volcanoes
Have you ever wondered how volcanologists can tel what’s going on inside an apparently quiet volcano?
Guest Videos: Finding Megaquakes Before They Happen
Seismologists are studying fault zones in and around New Zealand to better understand how megathrust earthquakes happen.
Guest Video: The 4-Ton Steel Ball of Göttingen
Ludger Mintrop designed equipment to test geophysical theories of his teacher, the German geoscientists Emil Weichert, and incidentally founded the geophysical field of seismic reflection profiling.
Also he punched the Earth. Real hard.
YVO on Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm
YVO stands for Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. Check their website whenever you see scary headlines about Yellowstone Volcano. Earthquake swarms do happen there, and the top
