Episode Q9: Earthquakes

Joining us for the 9th edition of our special Quarantine Series is geological engineer Wade Johnson in Boulder, Colorado.

After studying nuclear engineering at the University of California Berkeley (known as UC Berkeley, or just “Berkeley”) he changed course and graduated with a degree in geology focusing on it economic aspects.

He then went to work as a seismologist at the Berkeley Seismological Lab in their borehole seismology group. For the past 16 years he has worked on the Plate Boundary Observatory installing borehole strainmeters and seismometers. He has worked on projects in the field of remote sensing in North America, Turkey, Central America, the Caribbean, and India.

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. It’s 01:38:59 long and 89.4 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. And it’s now available on our YouTube channel.

You can also listen to this episode on your Amazon Echo device. Simply say, “Alexa, play Speaking of Jung on Apple Podcasts (or on TuneIn).” Just be sure to pronounce Jung with a hard J.

The theme music, which will now be used for our special Quarantine Series, is ‘Subatomic Pussy’ by Dhaze. His track, ‘Introspection,’ will continue to be used for our Interviews with Jungian Analysts. You can find Dhaze’s music on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Apple Music.

SHOW NOTES

Cascadia Subduction Zone Stretching from Northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California

2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake Tokyo, Japan

Rainier Vista University of Washington, Seattle

Mt. Rainier National Park Active volcano in Washington State

Mount Rainier Volcano Monitoring US National Park Service

Mount St. Helens Disintegrates in Enormous Landslide YouTube video

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology IRIS Seismic Monitor

UNAVCO Community outreach

Parkfield, California, Earthquake Experiment USGS Long-term earthquake research project on the San Andreas fault led by the USGS and the State of California

San Andreas Fault Zone USGS information

Joshua Tree Retreat Center Joshua Tree, California

Farouk El-Baz, Ph.D. Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University

How are earthquakes recorded? USGS information

Roger Bilham University of Colorado, Boulder

ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

Latest Earthquakes USGS Magnitude 2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day

ShakeMaps Past 7 Days

Did You Feel It? Collects information from people who felt an earthquake and creates maps that show what people experienced and the extent of damage.

With a Nod to UC Berkeley, Google Crowdsources EQ Data Google turns Androids into EQ detectors, Mirage News, Aug. 11, 2020

Trying to Forecast Earthquakes Near the Salton Sea A swarm of earthquakes near California’s Salton Sea has lead the US Geologic Survey to issue a forecast about the potential for a large quake, Discover Magazine, Aug. 12, 2020

Moonquakes NASA Science Mission Directorate

Moonquakes and marsquakes: How we peer inside other worlds Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine, Aug. 10, 2020

What does a Marsquake look like? NASA video

The Martian Amazon Prime Video

Explore Thermal Basins Yellowstone National Park

What is Fracking? National Resources Defense Council

Deepwater Horizon BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Science.