Hypocentre

Hypocentre a.k.a.
Dr Ian G. Stimpson. Seismologist, geophysicist and structural geologist at Keele University, U.K.
You can contact me at hypocentre [at] gmail [dot] com.
All opinions are mine and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
The Out Campaign

Iceland Earthquake M6.2 Near Selfoss

Icelandic earthquake M6.2 11 km northwest of Selfoss at 15:46:01 UTC

Earthquake recording at Keele University, [...]

Accretionary Wedge #9: Deep Impact

The topic for the latest accretionary wedge hosted at Harmonic Tremors is a significant geological event.

Source: Robin M. Canup, “Simulation of a Late Lunar-Forming Impact,” Icarus, vol. 168 (2004)

Julian at Harmonic Tremors has left the term ‘significant’ open to interpretation so here is mine. I think that the most significant event in Earth history was [...]

First

Another weekend, another geoblogosphere meme. This time Dave at Geology News asks about first field trips.

Like several others that have followed the meme, my first field course was a bit too long ago to have photographic evidence (I don’t remember having a camera with me and if I did I don’t have the photos any [...]

Pangaea, geology stylee

Following the Pangaea Day geoblogosphere meme, started by Chris@goodSchist and followed up by Callan@Nova, Brian@clastic detrius and Chris@highly allochtonous I suppose I should give it a go.

This was harder that I thought. I’m still not sure I’ve got it perfectly correct (I may be a touch too far north) but I think that Britain was [...]

Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake, Sichuan, China

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake, Sichuan, China as recorded at Keele [...]