Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Chile Earthquake Facts

Linkdump from today's explorations.

All items taken from this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/21yyig/an_80_magnitude_earthquake_has_struck_offshore/

USGS website info: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000nzvd#summary
USGS Summary report: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2014/20140401.php

Wave propagation map: http://i.imgur.com/RRmDfnQ.png
Wave propagation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhvfbjCIiXo
Hear the sound of the quake! (well, the sound of its seismic waveform) http://www.iris.edu/dms/nodes/dmc/tools/event/4597319

Pasta analogy which nicely explains the logarithmic nature of the strength of earthquakes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj_DmNbCIAErl1C.jpg

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