January 2010 « Hypo-theses

Stoke-on-Trent Earthquakes Recorded at Keele

Two more small local earthquakes have occurred in Stoke-On-Trent following on from the two that happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Both were magnitude 1.8 and are probably related to old mine workings beneath the city.

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Using Gigapan and Photosynth in Geology Teaching

This week I presented some work in progress on the use of gigapan and photosynth to assist mobility impaired geology students at the “Overcoming Barriers to Learning in the Geosciences” meeting of the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) subject centre of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

The main aim of our MIS:TIQUE project (mobility impaired students [...]

Haiti Earthquake January 12, 2010 Recorded at Keele

Here is the seismogram of the M7 earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010 recorded at Keele University, UK.

This earthquake doesn’t appear to be that well recorded but the P and SS phases are identifiable.

The earthquake was a shallow left-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system, essentially a major component of the plate boundary [...]

Rock365

In a moment of madness I have decided to embark on a flickr 365 project – to take a photograph every day for a year. What else would a geologist take for a theme for such an undertaking but rocks? So project Rock365 was born. I’m now ten days in and beginning to [...]

Stoke-on-Trent Christmas Earthquakes 2009

I was convinced that I felt an earthquake last night. I was just drifting off to sleep and must have drempt it as there was no record of our seismometer when I got into work this morning. However, in checking my iPhone for (non-existent) earthquake reports I did come across two local earthquakes that happened [...]