Here is the Nicobar Islands earthquake of June 12, 2010 as recorded at Keele, UK
And here superimposed on the travel time curves …
We have now put our seismometer ‘semi-live’ on the web. The last 24 hour data trace can be found at http://geophysics.esci.keele.ac.uk/quakes/ updated every [...]
Some tragic news from China via Mineweb, that I’ve not come across elsewhere, on the rescue mission for 31 trapped coal miners in the Luotuoshan Coal Mine being called off.
The mine in Inner Mongolia was flooded on the morning of March 1st. There were 77 people underground at the time. One miner was killed, and [...]
The price of gold (green) against copper (red) over the last two years from Infomine.com.
I’ve always been intrigued by gold as metal. It’s not much use for industry except that due to it not tarnishing or corroding it is used in electrical contacts. Apart from that, a minor use as a lubricant on space missions [...]
Here is a quick geological conundrum. I’ve been scanning a few old photographs and came across this structure. How is it related to the underlying geology and how does it work?
Suggestions in the comments.
[clue: it is sort of related to a recent post]
Update: The solution [...]
From an Ipsos / MORI poll of UK primary and secondary school teachers …
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: “Creationism is completely unsupportable as a theory, and the only reason to mention creationism in schools is to enable teachers to demonstrate why the idea is scientific nonsense and has [...]
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