Showing posts with label tectonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tectonics. Show all posts
Friday, 30 September 2011
Montserrat
The Year 9 geographers have been having a look at Montserrat in their geography lessons this week... The Montserrat Volcanic Observatory have just posted this lovely photo on their Facebook page... Click on the photo to link to the MVO website.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Fault-Line Living
On Saturday, the Fault-Line Living team will set off on their 15,000 mile expedition from Iceland to Iran, to investigate the stories of people living on faultlines. The expedition is sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society and Landrover, and the team will be carrying seismometers provided by the BGS with them.
The expedition website is here and you can also follow their progress on their Facebook page.
The expedition website is here and you can also follow their progress on their Facebook page.
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Montserrat "explosion"
Just noticed that the Montserrat Volcanic Observatory have added some new photos to their Flickr page, so had a look at their website to find that the alert level has been upped to 4 (5 being the highest) and that there was an explosion which caused a large pyroclastic flow on Friday.
Some excellent images and a range of videos (including some thermal ones) of pyroclastic flows on the MVO website...
Some excellent images and a range of videos (including some thermal ones) of pyroclastic flows on the MVO website...
Friday, 4 December 2009
Pompeii...
Most of you will know about Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79AD. What you might not know, however, is that you can explore the ruins of Pompeii in Google Streetview... Click on the picture below!
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Indonesian earthquake and Samoan tsunami
Lots of you have come into lessons over the past couple of days talking about the tsunami that struck Samoa and American Samoa and the series of earthquakes around the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The events are still in the news, with international relief teams being flown in to help in the rescue and clean-up efforts.
The BBC has lots of information, images and video clips about both - with In Pictures series here for the tsunami and here for the earthquakes.
We picked up all the activity on our seismometer - I haven't managed to get screenshots of the seismographs yet, but when I do, I'll post them on the Swanwick Seismology blog here.
The events are still in the news, with international relief teams being flown in to help in the rescue and clean-up efforts.
The BBC has lots of information, images and video clips about both - with In Pictures series here for the tsunami and here for the earthquakes.
We picked up all the activity on our seismometer - I haven't managed to get screenshots of the seismographs yet, but when I do, I'll post them on the Swanwick Seismology blog here.
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