The magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku-Oki earthquake of March 11 last year was the largest earthquake in Japan’s modern history. In fact, it was the fourth-largest earthquake anywhere in the world since 1900.
The…
Dr Bernado de Bernardinis told residents to go home and enjoy a glass of red. Now he's in the dock.
AFP PHOTO/ TIZIANA FABI
This week, a committee of six scientists (including Dr Enzo Boschi, formerly president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and one government official, whose role was to advise…
Theories suggesting lunar influence on earthquakes have serious cracks.
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With a total lunar eclipse set to occur just before sunrise (AEST) on Thursday, we can expect to see certain views regurgitated about our moon. Our satellite has been the focus of speculation and folklore…
The last 10 years have seen three of the seven biggest earthquakes ever recorded.
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Since the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, there have been several major events, and a large number of magnitude-8 earthquakes – a cluster, it could be said, of large earthquakes.
The last time we saw this was…
Do hotter-than-average lake temperatures at Mt Ruaphehu suggest an imminent volcanic eruption?
Jess Robertson
A prolonged period of hotter-than-average temperatures in the crater lake of New Zealand’s Mt Ruapehu has seen the country’s media questioning whether another eruption is on the cards.
Mt Ruapehu (Māori…
Is earthquake prediction even possible?
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Why have so many lives been lost in Japan and New Zealand recently? And why have so many survivors – the so-called “lucky ones” – had their livelihoods and homes destroyed?
As a seismologist, I ask myself…
