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Earthquake Seismology

CDPapua

PI(s): 
Geoffrey A. Abers
PI(s): 
James Gaherty
PI(s): 
W. Roger Buck

Seismic imaging of active UHP exhumation in eastern Papua New Guinea

 

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CDPapua

Deep Earth Structure and Dynamics

Lamont scientists utilize a variety of observational and computational techniques to image and model the deep interior of the Earth, from crust to core.

Multidisciplinary Observations of Onshore Subduction (MOOS)

MOOS Seismic Array Map - Alaska
PI(s): 
Geoffrey A. Abers

The MOOS experiment seeks to understand the structure and dynamics of subduction in the region of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, one of the three largest recorded (Mw 9.2), where terrane collision is

Location

Alaska
United States
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MARGINS Program

PI(s): 
Geoffrey A. Abers

Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for

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MARGINS Program
 
 

  • Press-Ewing Seismograph on Jeopardy!
    June 07, 2012
    An important piece of earthquake-science history popped up a few weeks ago on Jeopardy: “The Press-Ewing was an early seismograph, recording waves from these events.
     
    If you didn’t know a Press-Ewing from a French press, you were in luck. For $200, all you needed to know to formulate the question is what a seismograph measures.
     
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