Posts by geogadmin

According to science reporter James Morgan, writing for BBC News, Science & Environment, “Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to understand what causes so-called supervolcanoes to erupt” (“Supervolcano eruption mystery solved”): Supervolcanoes are capable of eruptions thousands of times larger than normal outpourings. It was thought that an external trigger, such as an earthquake, was...

UCSB-SDSU doctoral candidate, Elizabeth Kennedy, received a US Fulbright Student Award for 2013-2014 to conduct research with repatriated child migrants and children and youth living in lower income neighborhoods in El Salvador. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are the primary sending countries of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) to the United States, accounting for nearly 90 % of the 23,500 child migrants who...

The following is from the University of Utah’s News Center, posted January 6, 2014 with the title above: “Last year’s gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America’s modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered. The landslide –...