On September 28, 2018, a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake and an unexpected tsunami shook the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, leaving behind catastrophic results and open questions among geoscientists. How come this event is having such an impact on the scientific community? What we know so far On Friday afternoon (at around 5pm Western Indonesian Time) the Minahassa Peninsula on Sulawesi i ...[Read More]
WOMEESA (Women in Earth & Environmental Science Australasia)
WOMESSA Networking event July 2018 in Macquarie University (source WOMEESA network).
In the picture, WOMEESA team (April Foote-Heather Handley), GSA NSW Chair (Anthony Lanati), Jessica Walsh (PhD candidate, University of Wollongong), Shari Gallop (Lecturer, Macquarie University), Kelsie Dadd (Curious Minds), Felicia Weir (PSM), Julianne Lamb (Oil Search) and Anita Andrew (Environmental Isotopes)
The condition of women in the workplace has not always been easy. Even though the mentality of the people is changing towards inclusion and equality, it is a long way before things really change. We always observe unbalanced number of women versus number of men, unbalanced competition among colleagues for career promotion and responsibility and unequal wages between women and men in many places. M ...[Read More]
What’s Shaking? – Facts and figures of latest earthquakes
Haven’t you heard about the recent major earthquakes which stroke the globe? No worries, the ECS-reps will post a quarterly report with basic information about the latest earthquakes you can’t miss. Let’s start with June, July and August 2018. Between the 1st June and the 31st August, 425 earthquakes with magnitude Mw above 5.0 were recorded by the international network broadband se ...[Read More]
Lombok and Fiji – or why a M6.9 earthquake can be worse news than a M8.2 event
Two magnitude 6.9 earthquakes in Indonesia in the space of two weeks, 20 km apart. Meanwhile, a magnitude 8.2 event in the Pacific. Did you get any questions about the end of the world being upon us, how come all these quakes happen so close together and why the Fiji event was so harmless? Latitude Longitude Origin time depth Magnitude Region 8.2597° S 116.4363° E 2018-08-05 1 ...[Read More]