Seismology

Git or Perish

Maria Tsekhmistrenko August 25, 2020

Disclaimer: This example was designed to showcase a bad code. Do not use. Do not replicate. Forget you have ever seen it!

Tell me if this sounds familiar to you: Act I After a fruitful discussion with a colleague, you exchange codes and algorithms. You are happy because you are convinced you will save some time through this collaboration and you don’t need to develop the same codes yourself. Act II The drama unfolds slowly. Firstly, you search without success for a README file or instructions on how to execute ...[Read More]

Seismology Job Portal

EGU Seismology ECS Team August 21, 2020

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.

What’s it like to be black in academia?

Maria Tsekhmistrenko August 19, 2020

Maria, a member of our ECS team, recently interviewed Professor Christopher Jackson from Imperial College, London, UK. The idea of this interview arose after protests swept across the US, triggered by the murder of George Floyd. Resurfacing the recurring and unsolved issue of racial biases, these protests highlighted that fact that racial inequality is not only present in everyday life, but that i ...[Read More]

Earthquake of the month: Simeonof – Alaska M 7.8

EGU Seismology ECS Team August 17, 2020

Figure 1 | Recorded aftershocks two weeks after the M7.8 Simeonof earthquake (blue star). Yellow areas corresponds to historical earthquakes occurred along the Auletian trench. Credit: Alaska Earthquake Center (earthquake.alaska.edu)

On July 22nd, Alaska was the scene of last month’s largest earthquake, a Mw 7.8 earthquake that hit the Aleutian Islands, offshore the Alaska Peninsula. The hypocenter location, tectonic setting and focal mechanism suggest a megathrust earthquake. The hypocenter of the so called Simeonof earthquake is located at the western edge of the historical 1938 earthquake (M8.3) slip zone, near the Shumagin ...[Read More]