Earthquakes, Seismic Waves, and the New Madrid Fault
How far do earthquake waves travel, and what can cause different quakes to be felt at a greater or lesser distance? This is a fine question, and before we get started, feel free to...
Mike Strickler Geologist
Groundwater recharge and your checkbook
“Atmospheric Rivers” (a.k.a. the Pineapple Express) are all the rage these days, and those of us west of the Rockies are hoping that the current weather patterns will help put an end to the...
It’s The Climate
Susie and I have lived in and near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon since the 1970s. One of the first things that caught our eye when we blew into town was the huge sign...
Fusion and Clean Energy
The big science news of the week (possibly the decade, if not the century) comes out of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where nuclear physicists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) finally...
Lake effect snow
The weather reports and forecasts (11/18/22) are not at all promising. While the entire Eastern Seaboard looks to become very white over the next several days, Buffalo, New York is getting much of the...
Quicksand (a.k.a. Liquefaction)
I had a great question a little bit ago on the Ask GeoMan section of my GeoMania educational website from Elizabeth in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She’d been walking on Nye Beach on the central...
Glaciers: Ice with an attitude!
We’ve already spent a bit of time looking at streams (click here for a listing of posts related to moving water). And while many of us may assume that glaciers work just the same...
The sound of the sun
I mentioned in an earlier post that sitting at the beach gives us a chance to listen to the voice of the sun. While this may sound like a 60s flashback — and fifty-plus...
Introduction to waves in the ocean
I think that one thing most of us will agree upon is that sitting on the shore and listening to the sound of the sun can help soothe even the rockiest of passions. Any...
Strickler’s Laws of GeoFantasy
I love being a geologist. Along with being able to spend my life outside and in nature (and drink a lot of beer in my salad days — it’s one of the requirements for...
