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Paper of the month — The origin of volcano-tectonic earthquake swarms by Roman and Cashman (2006)

February 27, 2017
Paper of the month — The origin of volcano-tectonic earthquake swarms by Roman and Cashman (2006)

We are pleased to propose you a new Paper of the Month written by Dr. Derek Keir on volcano seismology. Derek’s PhD thesis was on the “Seismicity of the Ethiopian rift” and conducted at Royal Holloway University of London under the supervision of Prof. Cindy Ebinger and Prof. Graham Stuart of the University of Leeds. Towards the end his PhD studies, the Dabbahu rifting episode started (September 2 ...[Read More]

Earthquakes felt by Eeyore

January 19, 2017
Earthquakes felt by Eeyore
Did they tumble off the table when Milne's house shook? Picture by Wally Gobetz, https://www.flickr.com/people/wallyg/

“It’s snowing still,” said Eeyore gloomily. “So it is.” “And freezing.” “Is it?” “Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.” A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (1928) The above is a quote from one of two classic Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. Upon ...[Read More]

Paper of the month — Signal apparition for wavefield separation

November 4, 2016
Paper of the month — Signal apparition for wavefield separation
Gotta know your sources. Drawing by Joseph J. Gerencher, Jr. (http://home.moravian.edu/users/phys/mejjg01/interests/Seismo_pages/example_seismograms.htm)

Our paper of the month is  “Signal apparition for simultaneous source wavefield separation” (J. Robertsson et al., 2016) commented by Andreas Fichtner. Andreas Fichtner is Assistant Professor for Computational Seismology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He received his PhD from the University of Munich for his work on Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for Str ...[Read More]

Paper of the Month — Seismic anisotropy

September 30, 2016
Paper of the Month — Seismic anisotropy

“SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DEFORMATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING?” (M. K. SAVAGE, 1999) commented by Dr. Jessica Johnson   Jessica Johnson from the University of East Anglia (UK) is our guest author of the PoM blog series of this month! She has chosen to comment on the paper “Seismic Anisotropy and mantle deformation: what have we learned from shear wave ...[Read More]