Citation Kevin Bazar, Sandra Bond, and Jim Howle, Using bare-earth LiDAR imagery to reveal the Tahoe – Sierra frontal fault zone Lake Tahoe, California, Unites States Geological Survey (17 May 2012) (with embedded video) The pointing finger The videographers went to the trouble to include a pointing finger icon in the video. It traces the [...]
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Tagged: fault, Jim Howle, Kevin Bazar, Lake Tahoe, LIDAR, light detection and ranging, Sandra Bond, Tahoe Sierra frontal fault zone, USGS, Using bare-earth LiDAR imagery
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- 24 May 2012 – 15:08
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Citation Jane Qiu, Trouble on the Yangtze, Science 336(6079): 288-291 (20 April 2012) China’s emphasis on hydropower The Chinese government has set a goal of achieving 15 percent non-fossil energy production by 2020. Author Jane Qiu says that most of this will come from hydropower. And much of that from what the Chinese call the [...]
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Tagged: China, Chinese Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Dahu, dam, dam building, Dam-Quake Link, earthquake risk, EIA, environmental impact assessment, fault, Jane Qiu, Jinsha River, Min, Wenchuan earthquake, Xiaonanhai Dam, Yalong, Yangtze River
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- 4 May 2012 – 18:16
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The hypothesis is that heavy rain causes landslides, which unload inclined tropical faults enough for them to move Shimon Wdowinski’s 08 December presentation at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting was novel. He said that he and a colleague had found an up to four-year temporal correlation between wet tropical cyclones and large earthquakes in [...]
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Tagged: American Geophysical Union 2011, cyclone, earthquake, erosion, fault, Flossie, Haiti, Herb, inclined, Morakot, Shimon Wdowinski, Taiwan, tropical, unload
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- 27 December 2011 – 14:25
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