(I’m currently on a plane, en route to Florida for the STS-134 NASA Tweetup.) A British couple behind me are looking out the window and ask a flight attendant if that’s the Grand Canyon below us and to our left. She says yes, so I look out and see that it’s actually Valley of the [...]
Lotta’s Fountain, originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker. Today marks 105 years after the great earthquake and fire ravaged San Francisco in 1906. I decided to take a stroll downtown and pay my respects at Lotta’s Fountain. I took this photo at 2:54PM. Three minutes later, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit the Bay Area. It was [...]
EDIT: The Big Picture is featuring powerful and scary photos of the damage. We’re just starting to find out how bad today’s M6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand was. A former professor of ours when we were in New Zealand in 2006 dropped us an email this evening and let us know that it was [...]
Back in March of 2010, I wrote a post looking at the frequency of earthquakes occurring around the world and examined whether or not there were more earthquakes occuring than normal. Specifically, I chose to look at earthquakes between M6.0 and M6.9, as they are sufficiently large enough to be detected by seismometers around the [...]
Overlooking the Owens River Gorge near Bishop, California Finally have a chance to fully check out Ken Burns’ wonderful documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” In the first episode, they document the discovery of Yosemite Valley and a quote by Lafayette Bunnell. “None but those who have visited this most wonderful valley can even [...]
My old office In what seems like another lifetime, I used to be a geologist for an environmental consulting company here in the Bay Area. One of my biggest fears was drilling through a gas line. We were often in the field, supervising remediation projects or gathering data in preparation for a remediation project. This [...]
I’m sure Corona’s marketing department is thrilled about this. [H]e returned to his residence in Kabul to find it had been burgled. The intruder took money from a drawer and left behind a bottle of Corona beer. The Corona bottle sat on his counter for the next two weeks Yeager says, because Corona is one [...]
Incredible footage from Eyjafjallajökull.
Incredible video of a jökulhlaup (volcanic induced flood by melting of a glacier) from the eruption beneath the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland. [Via Brian Romans]
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