The Perils of Fault Meshing
Anyone who follows me on Twitter has surely seen me kvetching a whole lot about fault meshing lately. I figure, given my whines and curses, that I owe you all an explanation of what exactly it is that...
View ArticleConference Poster Comedy of Errors
There is a poster that displays the results of my latest models, all happily rolled up in its poster tube, sitting in the back seat of my car and waiting to be driven to San Francisco in the morning....
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Accretionary Wedge #41: El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake
The El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake was a M7.2 centered in Baja California, Mexico, that occurred on 4 April 2010. It was the largest earthquake in Baja California since 1892, and the largest to shake...
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Accretionary Wedge #42: Natural History Museum Floor
I am grateful that the topic of this month’s Accretionary Wedge was expanded from just countertops to include any sort of decorative rock, because I grew up in a sadly formica- and linoleum-laden...
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Bulletins from the City that Was
Recently, I came across a link to the California Digital Newspaper Collection, which includes scans and full texts of many newspapers from around the state, dating from the 1840s into the present. It’s...
View Article2012 Seismological Society of America Meeting
I really truly always mean to liveblog the conferences that I go to. Each time, I tell myself that I’m going to be on top of it, and that I’ll sum up the thoughts of the rampant livetweeting into a...
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The Airliner Chronicles: ONT to PDX
Today, I flew on Alaska Airlines from ONT to PDX. I had a window seat on the right side of the plane. If you are geologically inclined, or a fan of natural landmarks of California and Oregon, you will...
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Complex Fault Geometry Is Delicious
There’s a lot of frustration and restarting and re-coding and waiting inherent in numerical modeling. Once everything works, running the models needed to answer a given question is just a matter of...
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Landfill, Liquefaction, and Loma Prieta
Geologic map of San Francisco’s Marina District, adapted from US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1551-F Say what you will about San Francisco’s Marina District. It has its fans and its detractors,...
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