Episode 44 - "It's not Richter magnitude!"
This week we talk about Bill Nye, earthquake magnitudes, and coffee. Bill Nye John got to see Bill Nye () talk at Penn State! Earthquake Magnitudes Challenge is that earthquakes span a huge dynamic range. We measure ground displacements...
November 20, 201553m 26s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (aphid.fireside.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
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
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin