Earthquakes and the Richter Scale
Humans have been trying to describe the strength of earthquakes for almost forever — I imagine the initial attempt began soon after the first caveman got knocked on his or her butt. It wasn’t...
Category: Tectonics
A Brief Introduction to Earthquakes
Stress… it can be a big deal. We all get stress all the time — from any number of sources and in a dog’s breakfast of exotic flavors and intensities. Sometimes we bend and...
A Brief Introduction to Volcanoes
Before we get started I gotta come clean: The year was 1957, I was six years old in southeastern Nebraska, and Pop had called a family meeting to inform my sister and I that...
Super Volcanoes
kaBoom2 The headline of the article in Global Times (8/10/22) sounded ominous: “Earth overdue for volcanic super eruption. Explosive pressure builds up over millions of years, new research finds.” The article reports that “super...
Water, water everywhere…
I’ve been a collector of good ideas for as long as I can remember. But just like an on switch cannot exist without an off, or an up without a down, for every positive...
West coast tectonics
I had an interesting question come across my GeoMania website a while back: “If Mt. St. Helens and the whole west coast is a convergent plate boundary with subduction, how come there are no...
