(Friday, Saturday and Monday‘s links.)
Last update: 20.00 CST, 15. March 2011
Teaching resources:
- SERC has added a specific page just for this earthquake / tsunami that also includes some material on teaching about nuclear power (more will probably appear over time)
- the BBC gives us a visualization of why earthquakes can cause tsunamis that you could either show in class or do yourself (via @rivrchik)
Scientific data:
- GPS slip deficit in Japan with recent quake locations (via @CPPGeophysics)
- USGS report on local tsunami hazards for the Pacific Northwest from earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone from 2005 (via @geosociety)
- Coulomb stress map for the northern flank of the Sendai earthquake zone from the USGS (via @aboutgeology)
- earthquake location vs. time diagramfrom @CPPGeophysics
- Chris Rowan discusses how many aftershocks have occurred vs. how many & how strong they might be in the coming days / weeks
- Callan Bentley added a great post about GPS displacement vectors
- Trembling Earth update post about the earthquake & tsunami
- another explanation of what’s going on with the nuclear reactors in Japan (via @rivrchik)
- want to scroll through lots & lots of seismographs from the western US for the past few days? the Pacific Northwest Seismometer Network was made for you (via @callanbentley)
- Evelyn must be chatting quite a bit with her father (a nuclear engineer), because we’re up to post #3 — I think I failed to link to one of these, but she has links to all of the conversations at the top of the post
- Dave Petley asks whether Friday’s earthquake was geologically surprising
images / video:
- CNN footage of a village being swept away by the tsunami (via @callanbentley)
- Earth Observatory before (2008) & after (14. March 2011) false-color images (Water is dark blue, plant-covered land is red, exposed earth is tan, and the city is silver; standing water is most evident in the flat, open places that were once fields) of Ishinomaki, Japan
- Earth Observatory also has before (Jan 11) & after (14. Mar 11) images of the Kitakami River in Japan, which have the same coloring scheme as the previous set
- In Focus gallery of the Rescue, Recovery & Reaction in Japan
- In Focus also has a gallery of the 1923 Kanto earthquake to give a bit of perspective what the nation has gone through
- the Boston Globe’s Big Picture also has two new galleries up from Japan: one from Tuesday & one from Monday (there are repeats between the In Focus & Globe, but enough is different to make both sources worthwhile)
affecting other things:
- a bit of speculation, but Erik Klemetti covers the renewed eruption of Kirishima in Japan following Friday’s eruption
- the Antarctic glacier has shifted in response to Friday’s earthquake according to an article in the New Scientist (via @rivrchik) — anyone have a link directly to the science?
Elli Goeke
