Hear COMET’s Tamsin Mather and David Pyle on how we are monitoring volcanic risk on Radio 4’s programme Costing the Earth.
You can listen to the episode, “Lava: A Dangerous Game”, here.
Author: Charlotte Royle
Understanding earthquakes to better mitigate risk
Read COMET scientist Alex Copley‘s blog about the hazards posed by active fault-lines within the Earth’s crust for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction here.
Photo credit: Jens Aber on Unsplash
New Satellite improves earthquake monitoring
Europe’s Sentinel-1A spacecraft and its extraordinary images of slip from the South Napa earthquake herald a new era of space-based surveillance of faults.
On 24 August 2014, the San Francisco Bay area shook in an Mw = 6.0 earthquake, the region’s largest in 25 years. The tremors injured roughly 200 people, killed 1 person, and damaged buildings near the quake’s epicenter in the southern reaches of California’s Napa Valley. It also set off a scientific scramble to measure the fault’s movement and marked the dawn of a new age of earthquake satellite monitoring thanks to a recently launched spacecraft: the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A satellite.
COMET scientists explain why in an article published in EOS, the Earth and space science journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Read more here.
