Are you on Facebook or Twitter? Do you use Whatsapp regularly to communicate with friends and loved ones scattered across the globe or even just across the city? I’d be surprised if you answer ‘no’ to all of these questions. In fact, why not admit that you are just as addicted to that smartphone of yours as I am to mine? Being a seismologist, you might have played with one of the ...[Read More]
Once upon a time there was a little mermaid, with the upper body of a human and a tail of a fish, happily diving within the seven seas. Wait … I’m sorry, that is the wrong story. I will tell you today something about a different generation of MERMAIDs, that are pretty useful for seismologists. It is a very exciting story indeed. Over the last decades seismic station coverage dra ...[Read More]
“TRIANGULAR DISLOCATION: AN ANALYTICAL, ARTIFACT-FREE SOLUTION” (by Mehdi Nikkhoo and Thomas R. Walter) COMMENTED BY OLAF ZIELKE “Paper of the Month” is a new blog series launched by the ECS-reps team. The aim is to absorb and share the reading experience of mature seismologists with regards to peer-review articles either recently published (less than 12 months) or older, if of particular no ...[Read More]
EGU’s Pico’s (Presenting Interactive COntent®) are awesome and a lot of fun!! But at this year’s EGU General Assembly there was no Seismology PICO lead session. How sad was this? Why would this be? Can we do anything to change this? But wait, how much do you actually know on presenting or preparing a PICO…? Right, just what we thought… Perhaps not that much. There are many benefi ...[Read More]
