Author: leilani

The above title is with apologies to the Eagles, but it happened to fit the bill. My desk is only slightly less cluttered than before I started the morning, but that’s okay because I got a LOT accomplished today!  G and I had already agreed to tackle some at-home stuff today.  He definitely does the…

Lately this blog has become The Earthquake Blog.  Obviously it’s something I find fascinating, anyway, and of course it’s on everyone’s mind with the cascade of huge temblors beginning in New Zealand and most recently in Japan.  The costs have been almost unimaginable.  For those of us whose glimpses at the scope of tragedy is…

Fast – have exactly two minutes to post.  Quick note before heading for work – another scientist says to watch out for a nice big fat quake in the US over the next couple of days: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/cavuto/transcript/major-earthquake-north-america-imminent Transfer to new office is official and starts in a few more days.  Yay!  Will have to wake…

Now that I have your attention – I started doing some homework.  Remember I mentioned the Cascadia megathrust earthquake zone off the northwestern coast of the US and Canada?  There’s a predictable seismological event there, something called an “episodic slip tremor”.  It differs from typical quake in technical ways I am not going to pretend…

All together now… can we say, “Holy shit…” I had just two days ago posted about predictions of quakes, potentially a big one.  Looks like it was dead on (no warped pun intended, not this time.)  It was someone else’s prediction; I felt too crappy yesterday to have “sensed” anything, even if I claimed the…