Episode 44 - "It's not Richter magnitude!"

This week we talk about Bill Nye, earthquake magnitudes, and coffee.

Bill Nye

• John got to see Bill Nye (@BillNye) talk at Penn State!


• News article with photos!

Earthquake Magnitudes

• Earthquake Size (C. Ammon)


• Challenge is that earthquakes span a huge dynamic range. We measure ground displacements over about 9 orders of magnitude.


• Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900


• Kiyoo Wadati


• Richter magnitude scale


• Book: Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man


• Wood Anderson Seismometer


• Body wave magnitude


• Core Shadow Zone


• Surface wave magnitude


• Seismic moment


• Moment magnitude


• Example Seismogram

Resources

• USGS Earthquake Notification Service


• Harvard GCMT emails and catalog


• Earthquake Storms - Dvorak


• Introduction to Seismology - Shearer


• An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure - Stein & Wysession

Fun Paper Friday

• Do you like bitter tasting things? A study says that it tells something about your personality. Do you buy it?


• Article about paper “Black Coffee Equals Black Hearts"


• Sagioglou, Christina, and Tobias Greitemeyer. “Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits.” Appetite 96 (2016): 299–308.

Contact us

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin