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Southern Sumatra Earthquake Magnitude 7.6, September 30, 3009 Recorded at Keele University, UK. So, large earthquakes are like buses. You wait months for one to come along and then two arrive within hours of each other. I used to think that one event couldn’t trigger another at this sort of range but it does look [...] Samoa Earthquake September 29, 2009, M 8.0 recorded at Keele University, UK. This earthquake caused a tsunami which hit the local islands causing at least 65 deaths in Samoa and at least 20 deaths in American Samoa according to the BBC. It is unusual in that although it occurs close to the trench where the Pacific [...] In a previous post I looked at my trip down the Tara zinc and lead mine near Navan in Ireland. After a very nice lunch we were then taken on a tour of the processing plant. The ore is first crushed underground and brought by conveyor to the surface. The whole process is monitored [...] David Bressan at Cryology and Co is hosting Accretionary Wedge #20 and I’m late with this and don’t really have much time what with the start of teaching next week – sorry. He asks … What remains to be discovered for future earth scientists what we (still) don’t know about earth? What are the geological riddles that still [...] [Spotted at Milford on [...] |
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