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Research Focus: Tectonics
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Why We Need to Reevaluate Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Worldwide
Earthquakes and tsunamis could pose even bigger threats than previously thought. As scientists better understand the processes at subduction zones, existing hazard assessments from these regions may need to be improved. Two new studies published in Nature Geoscience investigate how subduction zones work.
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The Himalaya ‘breathes,’ With Mountains Growing and Shrinking in Cycles
In an interview for National Geographic, Assistant Professor Judith Hubbard, who has spent much of her scientific career studying the mountain range, compares the evolution of the Himalayas to our breathing cycle. The interview highlighted the findings of a recent study published in Nature Reviews.
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EOS Insights: Sumatra Earthquake
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Mw 6.6 Earthquake Strikes Off the Coast of Sumatra
Did you know that the magnitude-6.6 earthquake that struck on 14 May in the Nias region off Sumatra, Indonesia, is an outer-rise event? Such earthquakes occur when the subducting plate bends and breaks before it slides beneath the upper plate.
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Assessing Risk Through Data-driven Decision Making
In this session of Cities on the Frontline by Resilient Cities Network, panelists highlight the importance of putting people and community at the heart of data-driven strategies.
Assistant Professor David Lallemant, Head of Disaster Analytics for Society Lab at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, discusses the limits of current risk assessment tools and the changes needed to account for a more vulnerable world.
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The Threat of Rising Sea-levels: Climate Change
This 'ST Connect' webinar by The Straits Times looks at the latest science and projections of sea-level rise and solutions, including nature-based options, to hold back the seas.
Professor Benjamin Horton, Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore joins the panel to discuss the threat of sea-level rise to low-lying island nations such as Singapore, where the coastline is already affected by rising sea levels.
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Turning the Tide on Parachute Science
Parachute science is the practice whereby international scientists conduct fieldwork in other nations, and then complete the research in their home country without any further effective communication and engagement with others from that nation.
This talk by Dr Paris Stefanoudis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, explores different forms of parachute science and the actions that can help eradicate these practices. Relevant to researchers, scientific publishers, academic institutions and research funders.
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Period-multiplying Cycles at the Transition Between Stick-slip Stable Sliding and Implications for the Parkfield Period-doubling Tremors
The recurrence patterns of the Parkfield tremors with period-multiplying slow and fast ruptures provide new insights on the physics of earthquake cycles.
Mei Cheng, a final-year PhD student at School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, shares findings which confirm the link between low-frequency earthquakes and underlying slow-slip events.
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Upcoming Seminars
Tuesday seminars will take a break and will be back in August.
Next semester:
03 Aug: Assistant Professor Shengji Wei, ASE/EOS
10 Aug: Professor Dale Barker, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, MSS.
24 Aug: Dr Yoshihiro Kaneko, GNS Science.
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Image Credits:
- Daniel Prudek
- Eric Lindsey
- Isaac Kerlow
- Kyle Bradley
- Resilient Cities Network
- The Straits Times
- Paris Stefanoudis
- Mei Cheng
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