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Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
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faults
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Shaky ground
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A little less than six years apart -- on 1 November 1755 and 31 March 1761 -- two major earthquakes struck the country of Portugal, each t...
Monday, April 11, 2022
A whole lot of shakin'
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I didn't realize how complicated it is to calculate the magnitude of an earthquake. Most of us are probably familiar with the Richter Sc...
Friday, September 11, 2020
Forecasting on a fault line
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Living in an earthquake zone is risky business. I lived for ten years in Seattle, which is immediately adjacent to the Cascadia Subduction Z...
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