Posted: November 2003
Title: Undergraduate seismology research opportunities for summer 2004
Contributed by: John Taber, IRIS E&O
Text: The goal of the IRIS internship program is to involve undergraduates in seismological research projects... (more)

Posted: November 2003
Title: Comparison of AS-1 and USGS Magnitudes
Contributed by: Larry Braile, Purdue University
Text: Continuous or short duration (several weeks or months) recording of earthquakes with an educational seismograph...(more)

Posted: November 2003
Title: The Charlevoix Seismic Zone, Quebec, Canada
Contributed by: Maurice Lamontagne,
National Hazards and Emergency Response Program, Natural Resources Canada
Text: Chromo-stereoscopic image (about 80 km by 90 km; 30-m pixel size) that integrates a RADARSAT ortho-image...(more)

Posted: October 2003
Title: The Earth Responds
Contributed by: Paul Earle, U.S. Geological Survey
Text: After large earthquakes seismic waves travel throughout the Earth. (more)

Posted: October 2003
Title: Trench wall on the San Andreas Fault
Contributed by: Scott Haefner, USGS Menlo Park
Text: Carol Prentice (USGS) and Tom Anderson (Sonoma State University) studying a trench wall on the San Andreas Fault... (more)

Posted: September 2003
Title: Comb Ridge, near Kayenta, Arizona
Contributed by: Steven Semken
Text: Comb Ridge, near Kayenta, Arizona, is a beautiful example of a monocline, a single-limbed fold. (more)

Posted: September 2003
Title: New IRIS/USGS earthquake display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Contributed by: John Taber
Text: Over the past five years, the IRIS Consortium and the US Geological Survey Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory have worked...(more)

Posted: August 2003
Title: CRSEIZE Seismic/Geodetic Experiment
Contributed by: Susan Schwartz
Text: CRSEIZE was an IRIS PASSCAL joint seismic/geodetic experiment to investigate properties of earthquakes...(more)

Posted: August 2003
Title: Drowned beach off the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica
Contributed by: Susan Schwartz
Text: During the interseismic cycle (between large earthquakes), subduction of the Cocos plate...(more)

Posted: July 2003
Title: Earthquakes in the Northeastern United States
Contributed by: Alan Kafka
Text: Although the Northeastern United States is located deep in the interior of the North American plate, earthquakes do... (more)

Posted: July 2003
Title: Earthquakes in the Eastern United States
Contributed by: Alan Kafka
Text: Although most earthquakes occur in the vicinity of plate boundaries, large and damaging earthquakes... (more)

Posted: June 2003
Title: Did you feel an earthquake?
Contributed by: Michael Hamburger
Text: The U.S. Geological Survey compiles felt reports from thousands of volunteer earthquake observers at its "Community Internet Intensity Map" service... (more)

Posted: May 2003
Title: Freshman Engineering Student Seismometer Design Project
Contributed by: Tom Boyd
Text: See Winners! At the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), as part of the required Engineering...(more)

Posted: May 2003
Title: Forensic Seismology -- New Mexico Pipeline Accident
Contributed by: Rick Aster, NMT After: Koper, Wallace, and Aster, Seismic Recordings of the Carlsbad, new Mexico Pipeline Explosion of 19 August, 2000, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in press, 2003.
Text: Seismographs are sensitive to general disturbances in the Earth and often record sonic or subsonic signals...(more)

Posted: May 2003
Title: Potential earthquake damage in California
Contributed by: Serkan Bozkurt & Ross Stein, USGS
Text: Comparison of the 1857 Ft. Tejon earthquake on the southern San Andreas with the 2002 Denali ...(more)

Posted: April 2003
Title: Seismic wave simulations in the Earth's mantle
Contributed by: Saadia Baker, Michael Wyssession
Text: Seismologists learn about the interior of the earth by studying the effects of Earth structure...(more)

Title: Slow earthquakes recorded in the Pacific Northwest
Contributed by: Wendy McCausland
Text: Beginning in mid February, 2003, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network started observing strange, long-lasting, weak signals ...(more)

Posted: February 2003
Title: Landslide produced tsunami images
Contributed by:
Text: Tsunami predicted from a 500 km3 flank collapse of Cumbre Vieja volcano...(more)

Posted: February 2003
Title: Students Shake Up IRIS HQ!!
Contributed by: Michael Hubenthal
Text: By building model skyscrapers and creating their own earthquakes...(more)

Posted: February 2003
Title: Volcanic eruption at Mt. Etna, Italy
Contributed by: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Text: The current volcanic eruption at Mt. Etna, Italy started on July 17, 2001...(more)

Posted: January 2003
Title: Hope Fault, South Island, New Zealand in 1888
Contributed by:
Text: Result of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake on the Hope Fault, South Island, New Zealand in 1888...(more)