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WWLN in the news
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
From Discovery News: "Since 2002, the World-Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) has been ramping up its capability to listening in on Earth's electrical tumult. Already 46 monitoring stations dot the globe, detecting close to 30 percent of all lightning strokes and locating nearly every single storm on the planet in real time." Read More -
More on possible megaquake impacts
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
From komonews.com: "The Washington coast has felt the tremors of a megaquake in the past. But results of a new study shows Seattle may feel them as well." Features ESS Professor John Vidale. Read More -
Msnbc: "Lightning's gamma rays may destroy matter"
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
From msnbc.com: "A satellite dispatched to scout out high-energy gamma rays streaming from the cosmos found that not only were flashes of gamma rays oddly close to home, but they were also powerful enough to annihilate matter." Features ESS Professor, Bob Holzworth. Read More -
Earthquake threat to Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
From seattlepi.com: "Its design is obsolete, and it's definitely in the wrong place. That, essentially, is what's wrong with the Alaskan Way Viaduct when it comes to earthquakes, engineers say." Read More