Don't Panic Geocast

Episode 44 - "It's not Richter magnitude!"

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This week we talk about Bill Nye, earthquake magnitudes, and coffee.

Bill Nye

  • John got to see Bill Nye (@BillNye) talk at Penn State!
  • News article with photos!

    • Earthquake Magnitudes

    • Earthquake Size (C. Ammon)
    • Challenge is that earthquakes span a huge dynamic range. We measure ground displacements over about 9 orders of magnitude.
    • Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900
    • Kiyoo Wadati
    • Richter magnitude scale
    • Book: Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
    • Wood Anderson Seismometer
    • Body wave magnitude
    • Core Shadow Zone
    • Surface wave magnitude
    • Seismic moment
    • Moment magnitude
    • Example Seismogram

      • Resources

      • USGS Earthquake Notification Service
      • Harvard GCMT emails and catalog
      • Earthquake Storms - Dvorak
      • Introduction to Seismology - Shearer
      • An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure - Stein & Wysession

        • Fun Paper Friday

        • Do you like bitter tasting things? A study says that it tells something about your personality. Do you buy it?
        • Article about paper “Black Coffee Equals Black Hearts"
        • Sagioglou, Christina, and Tobias Greitemeyer. “Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits.” Appetite 96 (2016): 299–308.

          • Contact us

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          John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

          Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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