Tag Archives: Geology

Digging for answers: getting to the bottom of the Tohoku earthquake

On the 11th March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake struck off the north-eastern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. An area of seafloor larger than Greater Tokyo moved eastwards by 5 metres and some parts of the fault moved by up to 50 metres. A total of nearly 19,000 people were killed, mainly as a result of the following tsunami. But the event came as a huge surprise to scientists the world over “This was a truly extraordinary earthquake and very unfortunately seismologists, including myself, did not expect this to happen,” said Japanese scientist Dr. Kiyoshi Suyehiro. Read more [...]

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is organising their upcoming AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, USA for the 5-9 December 2011. A current call for presentations is out for the "Earth Science Communication in a Changing Media Landscape" (PA03) to share experiences in the area of successful communication and interpretation via blogs and podcasts. The AGU Fall meeting is all about Earth Sciences (and geophysics in particular), but there is also a focus on science communication and science interpretation. Read more [...]