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