Tag: earthquakes

  • Accelerating Antarctic ice loss, fiber optic seismometers, mangrove methane: this week in science | Miles O'Brien Productions

    Accelerating Antarctic ice loss, fiber optic seismometers, mangrove methane: this week in science

    Miles is making his way back from the dolphin research trip–this is Fedor Kossakovski filling in again. Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Accelerating loss of Antarctic ice A batch of papers out this week in the journal Nature give new urgency to the fight…

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  • The Big One

    Just before the shaking began, everyone’s phones began buzzing. Schoolchildren, railway drivers, dentists and firefighters all looked down at their phone just before 2:46pm local time on a spring Friday on the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku, in Japan. Earthquake, it told them. And then, eight seconds later, the shockwaves of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit them.…

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