Latest Earthquake Podcast Episodes
Detecting Repeating Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault with Unsupervised Machine-Learning of Spectrograms
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - May 15, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTheresa Sawi, U.S. Geological Survey Repeating earthquakes sequences are widespread along California’s San Andreas fault (SAF) system and are vital for studying earthquake source processes, fault properties, and improving seismic hazard models. In this talk, I’ll be discussing an u...
EMP Attack - Hour 0 to 24
Destination Disaster - May 12, 2024 11:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome back to a new season! This season we're following a narrative driven story of an attack against the United States using an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon. Episode 1 tracks the first 24 hours of the largest military attack against the United States and outlines how it will immediatel...
(Re)Discovering the seismicity of Antarctica: A new seismic catalog for the southernmost continent
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - May 08, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAndres Pena Castro, University of New Mexico The seismicity detected in the Antarctic continent is low compared with other continental intraplate regions of similar size. The low seismicity may be explained by (i) insufficient strain rates to generate earthquakes, (ii) scarcity of seismic inst...
Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster
Disaster Area - May 01, 2024 16:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsA year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany? Videos: Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)...
Fault damage zone evolution across distributed fault systems: Insights from Ridgecrest, California
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - April 24, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsZachary Smith, University of California Berkley Intense dynamic stresses during earthquakes can activate numerous subsidiary faults and generate off-fault damage that alters fault properties and can impact the source processes and rupture dynamics of future earthquakes. Distinguishing how much...
Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three
Disaster Area - April 14, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsIt's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell sm...
Unraveling Multi-Scale Fault Zone Behaviors with Small Earthquake Focal Mechanisms
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - April 10, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYifang Cheng, Tongji University, Shanghai Earthquake focal mechanisms offer insights into the architecture, kinematics, and stress at depth within fault zones, providing observations that complement surface geodetic measurements and seismicity statistics. We have improved the traditional focal...
Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two
Disaster Area - April 07, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsIt's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell sm...
Offshore Fault Damage and Slip Behavior: Insights from Microseismicity and Seismic Imaging
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - April 03, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTravis Alongi, U.S. Geological Survey Many of the world’s most damaging faults are offshore, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for studying earthquakes and faults. This talk explores how earthquake-generated (passive) and human-made (active) marine seismic methods improve ou...
Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One
Disaster Area - March 31, 2024 19:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 711 ratingsIt's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell sm...
Variable short-term slip rate on the Imperial fault modulated by filling of the Salton Trough by Lake Cahuilla
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - March 27, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThomas Rockwell, San Diego State University The Salton Basin was free of significant water between about 100 BCE and 950 CE but has filled to the sill elevation of +13 m six times between ca 950 and 1730 CE. Based on a dense array of cone penetrometer (CPT) soundings across a small sag pond, t...
Mechanics of caldera collapse earthquakes and their seismic representations
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - March 20, 2024 17:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTaiyi Wang, Stanford University All instrumented basaltic caldera collapses generate Mw > 5 very long period earthquakes. However, previous studies of source dynamics have been limited to lumped models treating the caldera block as rigid, leaving open questions related to how ruptures initiate...
EP68 - The Texas City Industrial Accident
Destination Disaster - March 19, 2024 00:49 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, we're discussing the Texas City Industrial Accident. This disaster is considered the worst industrial accident in United States history. With over 600 dead, 5,000 injured, and over $1 billion dollars in property damage, justice wouldn't come soon enough. I want to thank you all for li...
What does the 2024 M 7.5 Noto Hanto, Japan, quake tell us about short-term forecasting and long-term hazard?
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - March 13, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsShinji Toda, Tohoku University The 1 Jan 2024 Noto Hanto earthquake launched a plethora of ills on the Noto Hanto population, taking 200 lives, and causing $25B in damage, only $5B of which was insured. These ills include a tsunami that arrived within a few minutes of the mainshock, as well a...
Tidally modulated icequake periodicity and its implication for rift zone dynamics
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - March 06, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMong-Han Huang, University of Maryland The Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) in Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. As the RIS flows toward the Ross Sea, a buildup of tensile stress due to increasing ice flow velocity develops a series of flow-perpendicular rift zones. Although these rifts ar...
Episode 231: The Peshtigo fire
Disaster Area - March 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsThe deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871. Videos: Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire Articl...
Adventures in Measuring Variations in High-Frequency Radiation for Small to Moderate Earthquakes
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - February 28, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPeter Shearer, University of California, San Diego Similar-sized earthquakes vary in the strength of their high-frequency radiation and various modeling assumptions can be used to translate these differences into stress-drop estimates. Empirical methods are widely applied to correct earthquake...
Episode 230: The sinking of the USS Thresher
Disaster Area - February 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsOn April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would never return. Videos: Second Saturday: The Loss of the USS Thresher Finding the Titanic | Bob Ballard: An Explorer’s Life Articles and books: U.S. ...
Empire State Building Plane Crash
Great Disasters - February 26, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsOn a foggy day in 1945, the busy streets of New York City were interrupted by a sound that shouldn't have been there - a plane, flying between the skyscrapers, and set on a collision course with the tallest building in the world. Visit www.greatdisasters.co.uk for the full transcript and more. ...
Episode 67 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Destination Disaster - February 26, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, we're discussing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the deadliest industrial accident to occur in the United States. 146 employees would lose their lives as a result of abysmal working conditions and locked exits, culminating in a perfect storm, ripe for death. Consider Joining t...
A decade of prospective evaluations of earthquake forecasting models in California: What have we learned and what can we do with it?
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - February 21, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToño Bayona, University of Bristol The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) is a global community of scientists whose mission is to advance earthquake predictability research though the rigorous and prospective evaluation of probabilistic seismicity forecasts. One of...
Spatial correlation in ground motion intensities: Measurement, prediction, and seismic risk implications
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - February 14, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJack W. Baker, Stanford University The amplitude of ground shaking during an earthquake varies spatially, due to location-to-location differences in source features, wave propagation, and site effects. These variations have important impacts on infrastructure systems and other distributed asse...
Episode 229: The Collinwood school fire
Disaster Area - January 31, 2024 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsThe deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood just after first period ended. Within a half hour, 172 students and three adults would be dead, or close to it. Videos: Cleveland Public Library: C...
Episode 66 - The Monongah Coal Mine Disaster
Destination Disaster - January 29, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, we're discussing the Monongah Coal Mine Disaster, the worst mining disaster in United States history. 86% of miners in the mine that day would immediately die during the explosion or in the hours after, exposed to toxic gasses. Consider Joining the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com...
Short History of the Geology of Pennsylvania
PCPG's A Poorly Sorted but Well Rounded Series - January 26, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsAnyone who has done geologic work in the Keystone State might wonder how things got so complicated. Pennsylvania’s geologic history is long and complex. Join us to explore how that complexity came about.
Probabilistic regional liquefaction hazard and risk analysis: A case study of residential buildings in Alameda, CA (In-person presentation)
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - January 24, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEmily Mongold, Stanford University The impact of liquefaction on a regional scale is not well understood or modeled with traditional approaches. This paper presents a method to quantitatively assess liquefaction hazard and risk on a regional scale, accounting for uncertainties in soil properti...
2023 In Review
Great Disasters - January 22, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsEvery year brings its share of tragic events. A few are somewhat predictable - we will always expect a number of hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, for example - while others are more unusual. Some grab headlines and make history, and others are quickly forgotten. These are the events which shap...
The 17 January 1994 Northridge Earthquake: That was Then, This is Now
Earthquake Science Center Seminars - January 17, 2024 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings(1) Susan Hough, (2) Kate Hutton, (1) U.S. Geological Survey, (2) Caltech (retired) On the 30th anniversary of the 17 January 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, we present a retrospective overview of an earthquake that had an enormous, multi-faceted impact in the greater Los Angeles area...
Episode 65 - The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Destination Disaster - January 15, 2024 16:36 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week, we're discussing the2011 Tohoku Earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster that would occur at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A magnitude 9 earthquake would strike the island nation, bringing with it tsunami of up to 133 feet in height and washing away entire towns. These very sam...
Review: Society of the Snow
Disaster Area - January 11, 2024 06:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsJennifer stops rewatching the movie long enough to review the movie. Spoilers ahead!
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