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The 2014 Oso, Washington Landslide: Completely Foreseeable
The large, deadly landslide that struck near the town of Oso, Washington on March 22 was a slow-motion tragedy. The first few days were the worst part of it—emergency responders were working without...
View Article50 Years On: The Great Alaska Earthquake
It was the afternoon of Good Friday, 27 March 1964, in most of Alaska* when an enormous earthquake ripped the plate boundary off the southern coast over an area one-third the size of California. The...
View ArticleL.A. Gets Its Latest Wake-Up Call: The 28 March 2014 La Habra Quake
If you think of earthquakes like alarm clocks, then lots of people, maybe most of us, respond by rousing briefly and then hitting the snooze bar. California experienced its largest earthquake in years...
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Let's Get Surficial
People might think that geologists have deeply centered awarenesses, and of course we do, but we're just as deeply concerned with appearances and surfaces. Above the bedrock roots of a landscape, a...
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E-an Zen, 1928-2014
One of America's unsung senior geologists, E-an Zen, died on 29 March at the age of 85. Born in China, he emigrated to the U.S. and earned a doctorate in 1955 from Harvard. A 30-year career followed at...
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1 April 2014 Chile Earthquake Completes the Set
Yesterday's magnitude 8.2 earthquake off the coast of northern Chile was significant to scientists because it was widely anticipated and because it filled the largest remaining "seismic gap" in a large...
View ArticleOhio Tightens Fracking Regulations
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is the well-publicized process by which "tight" rocks can be made to produce oil and gas. It involves explosives, and in a handful out of approximately a million cases...
View ArticleDo We Need Hadean Eras?
In geology, the rocks have a way of messing with our pretty schemes. One instance I'm thinking of involves the base of the geologic time scale. The Earth itself is about 4.5 billion years old--but the...
View ArticleHuge Trove of Science Released to the Public
The American Geophysical Union is the world's largest publisher of Earth science research--and space science too. As an AGU member of long standing, I've enjoyed subscribing to AGU journals for my own...
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Is This Your Hat?
I first ran this post in August 2009 and again in July 2011, but I think it's worth a repeat. . . During my 2006 trip through the Sierra Nevada (at Stop 12 of the Subduction Tour, to be precise), I...
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