Research led by University of Adelaide, Australia - New Understanding of Earth’s Architecture: Updated Maps of Tectonic Plates

Title:

New Understanding of Earth’s Architecture: Updated Maps of Tectonic Plates

 

By:

University of Adelaide, Australia

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 19 June 2022

https://scitechdaily.com/new-understanding-of-earths-architecture-updated-maps-of-tectonic-plates/

 

From the article:

Research led by University of Adelaide, Australia - New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better understanding of natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes.

Subsea internet cables could help detect earthquakes [BBC News, May 2022]

Title:

Subsea internet cables could help detect earthquackes

 

Author:

Chris Vallance

Published:

BBC News, 19 May 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61506705

From the article: 

"These telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep-sea scientific sensors, the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and its partners say.  

 

Scientists tested the technique on an optical-fibre link between the UK and Canada.  

 

The research is published in Science Magazine."

 

Home seismometers provide crucial data on Haiti’s quake [Nature, August 2021]

Title:

Home seismometers provide crucial data on Haiti's quake

 

Author:

Alexandra Witze

 

Published:

Nature, 20 August 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02279-y

 

From the article:

A network of inexpensive seismometers, installed in people’s living rooms, gardens and workplaces across Haiti, is helping scientists to unravel the inner workings of the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that devastated the southwestern part of the Caribbean nation this month. The community-science effort launched after the country’s last major earthquake — a magnitude-7 tremor in 2010 that killed more than 100,000 people — and has since helped to reveal details about Haiti’s seismic activity.

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands - A troubled process: determining the depreciation in house prices as a result of the earthquakes in Groningen

Title:

A troubled process: determining the depreciation in house prices as a result of the earthquakes in Groningen

 

Author:

Maarten Bosker

Professor of International trade and Economic development at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

Published:

Erasmus University Rotterdam, 11 February 2021

https://www.eur.nl/en/news/troubled-process-determining-depreciation-house-prices-result-earthquakes-groningen

 

From the article:

How to make a good estimate of the depreciation of Groningen homes as a consequence of the earthquakes? Maarten Bosker, Professor of International trade and Economic development at Erasmus School of Economics, contributed to developing the model used to enable this depreciation to be determined. It proved to be no simple task.

ScienceAlert, 19 May 2020 - Yes, a Solar Minimum Is Coming. No, It's Not Going to Mess Up The World

Title:
Yes, a Solar Minimum Is Coming. No, It's Not Going to Mess Up The World

Author:
Micelle Starr

Published:
ScienceAlert, 19 May 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-about-to-experience-solar-minimum-here-s-what-that-really-means

From the article:
"Because we are normal people living in normal times, normal things are happening. Like news tabloids reporting that the Sun is in "lockdown", and that Earth is doomed to crazy weather famine and… earthquakes, for some reason.

Well, you can relax. Nothing the Sun is currently doing is going to create freezing weather, famine, or earthquakes. While humans are experiencing things that are decidedly not okay, the Sun is doing nothing unusual whatsoever."