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Pumice island found off New Zealand

An area of floating pumice 250 nautical miles in length and 30 nautical miles wide in the South Pacific ocean. Picture: AFP / New Zealand Defence Force (Story from News.com.au) A giant floating island...

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Another Mars Lander Announced

by Brendan Artist rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander. InSight is based on the proven Phoenix Mars spacecraft and...

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Tsunami Debris

Location of debris from the 2011 tsunami. (NOAA) By Evan Perhaps nothing is more sobering to an aspiring earth scientist than the results of major disasters. I remember watching the footage of the 2004...

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Not So Serious Sunday 16

by Brendan Volcanoes are cool, as this video describing a fissure eruption at Kamoamoa on Kilauea  Hawaii in 2011. It contains some amazing footage of a fresh eruption including some awesome lava...

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Satellites save lives: pack yours today

By Nick A SPOT4 satellite image of flooding in Barangay, Manilla, The Philippines in December 2011. Image from the DisasterCharter.org   Normally this kind of imagery is something I’d reserve for a Not...

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Seismologists convicted for failing to predict earthquake

By Evan I’ve written about this a bit in the past, but today, the news came down that six scientists have been convicted of manslaughter in Italy for failing to predict that an earthquake was imminent...

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Science on trial: The importance of science communication.

By Claire By now I’m sure you’re all familiar with the case in Italy, of the seven people (six scientists and a former government official) who were convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict the...

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Field Trip!

Artist’s (i.e. Mike’s) impression of the Akaoa volcano. By Evan As this post is published, I should be sitting in the Sydney Airport, awaiting departure to Christchurch, New Zealand. Every two years,...

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From the archives: Seismologists can’t predict the future…but they can try!

By Mike (originally posted 22nd May 2012) I picked up a copy of the New Scientist a couple of days ago to shorten the bus ride to Sydney, and one particular article caught my eye, an interesting piece...

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Plosky Tolbachik: Pictures of fire and ice

By Claire I absolutely love images of erupting volcanoes, especially when they occur in ice covered mountains. Any lucky for me, today’s blog post includes both of these things! The Plosky Tolbachik...

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Earthquakes and the formation of gold deposits

By Chops Last month, a piece of geoscience made it (albeit briefly) into the newspapers: namely, the idea that gold forms within earthquakes. This was widely reported, for example ABC Science picked it...

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Dynamics of the rotation of the inner core

By Chops Some research came out of RSES last week regarding the rotation of the inner core, and how it speeds up and slows down. This research, made by Hrvoje Tkalcic and others, has got a little bit...

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Seeing and listening to earthquakes

By Chops The magnitude 6.5-6.8 earthquake to hit New Zealand near Wellington around a week and a half ago brought earthquakes back into the news. Rather than exploring the way the earth rattles and...

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Hilarity ensues – Part I

Or: Why you should do fieldwork By Tanja Just under a week ago I came back from a two-week long fieldwork in the bush area of Western Australia. Not sure if that area really counts as the outback as...

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