Callan explains you the Virginia earthquake

A great post from Callan Bentley's blog, describing the geological background of yesterday's earthquake in Virginia (USA), 5.8-5.9 magnitude:

http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2011/08/23/the-mineral-va-earthquake-of-august-23-2011/

Earthquake strikes US east coast

5.9 magnitude earthquake in the East coast of USA. Some material damages but not casualties reported:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/earthquake-rattles-washington-area/2011/08/23/gIQATMOGZJ_story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14634730

Age of the oceanic lithosphere

Just a short note... I found the other day (or I should say, refound, as I have used it many times in the last years) this image from

Cool, isn't it? :-) And it makes a great desktop background!


http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/data/2008/ngdc-generated_images/whole_world/2008_age_of_oceans_plates.jpg

You can find more here. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/
Enjoy!

How people in science see each other

How true!

(click on the image to enlarge it)


(reblogged from http://sotak.info)