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 [...]
Charles Fipke studied Geology at the University of British Columbia because “with Geology you can at least get a job”. He is now a multimillionaire diamond magnate. How did he do it? Where does one start in the hunt for diamonds? Read more [...]
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 [...]
A child has fallen down the well, but it is not our well – and not our child. This attitude represents the relationship between the EU and the proposal of a Mediterranean tsunami early warning system following the devastating tragedy in Japan. At Read more [...]
Simon Schneider, the EuroScientist's External Relations Manager, will be available for talks at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna from April 3rd to 8th. Read more [...]
The EuroScience Open Forum will be held in Dublin in 2012. Martin McKenna gives us a science themed tour of Dublin to start exciting us about ESOF 2012. Read more [...]
