Hurricane Ian
This will be a short one, but hopefully set the stage for several more that will come as soon as I can put them together (how cool would it be to have nothing else...
Mike Strickler Geologist
Earthquakes: Prediction and Control
As discussed in a couple earlier posts (Intro to Quakes and the Richter Scale), earthquakes are gonna continue to rattle our teeth and level our cities, and there’s not a hell of a lot...
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...
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...
Talcum Power and Asbestos
I read with interest the decision by Johnson & Johnson to discontinue the sale of talc-based baby powder by 2023. While J&J has not sold talcum powder in the United States and Canada since...
Cognitive Dissonance and the Earth
I read a short but interesting article from CleanTechnica titled “Cognitive Dissonance For Environmental and Earth Scientists”. In broad terms, this one dealt with human interactions with the planet… for good, but mostly for...
Kill Your Car?
The tagline on the noon news was enough all by itself: “California to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.” This is another one of those ideas that sounds so good, and yet...
Those that understand, teach
Here’s another post that isn’t directly related to the earth sciences, but since everything is in some way related to the earth I vote that it’s justified anyway. There’s been quite a stir in...
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...
