Part of me is just surprised its already Wednesday. I’m leaving Friday afternoon for Pittsburgh, so my plane trip is closing in fast.
Links for Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
Last update: 13.15 CST, 16. March 2011
science:
- one of the ships damaged by the tsunami was the Japanese drilling research vessel Chikyu, which is capable of drilling deeper than the JOIDES Resolution — they’re canceling IODP leg 337 to check out the boat & fix things, but on the positive side everyone on board (including a class of elementary school children!) is safe
- visualization of seismic hazard vs. the population density of a region — takes a bit to figure out what you’re looking at, but one for the world & one for just Japan (via @allochthonous)
- animation of when & where the earthquakes occurred (color coded for depth & size of circle depends on size of quake) over the past week (via @allochthonous but I can’t get the link to work…)
- using statistics to try and figure out the earthquake forecast for Tokyo (pre-M8 earthquake that occurred at 6.15 according to @CPPGeophysics)
- daily energy released graph for the Japanese earthquake & aftershocks — don’t know what the moon is doing on there… (via @callanbentley)
- Evelyn has posted the fifth interview with her dad (nuclear engineer) – she’s promising an interview a day until this dies down
Answering speculation:
- In response to the claim that “the aftershocks are moving towards Tokyo” @CPPGeophysics produced this simple distance from Tokyo vs. time since Friday’s earthquake plot — and the answer is a clear “not true”
- the eruption of at least one volcano after the earthquake on Friday is still causing some speculation, but an aftershock on 15. March in the area around Mt. Fuji resulted in some comments floating around that the stratovolcano might erupt–Erik’s having some trouble with commenting on his blog, but this short post discusses why that’s improbable
Photos:
- National Post gallery from the 14. March (via @callanbentley)
- A Gigapan taken on the 15. March of the region around the Sendai airport from a plane(?) (via @callanbentley)
On the positive side:
- Some of the damage that the various national parks in the Pacific are dealing with has caused them to close, but Boy Scout troop 31 stepped up to the plate to help clean up Kaloko-Honokohau NHP
Elli Goeke
