AGU – Day Three

Day three brought pretzels and drinks to entice people to the “Geosciences in Germany” stand, to a fascinating presentation on microbial life deep beneath the ocean floor. Interest in Quick Quake is excellent – it’s great to be able to bring a smile and exclamations of “cool” and “neat” from…

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AGU – Day Two

A busy day on the stand with lots of oohs and ahhs as I spun the dial on Quick Quake to come up with the earthquake solution. Educators very excited about the prospect of using it in class with their students. I got to spend a bit of time at…

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AGU – Day One

After arriving and realising that our exhibition stand was basically an empty piece of concrete floor with a backdrop curtain, I quickly arranged some bright red carpet and a red draped table to roughly match our new logo colours. I should’ve spent a bit more time reading the first-time exhibitor’s…

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Earthquake Waves and Data Analysis Video

We’ve created a short video explaining in simple terms how the energy waves generated by earthquakes are recorded by seismographs, and how these wiggly lines are interpreted by seismologists to calculate the location and magnitude of the events. You can view the video on our YouTube channel. It also features a…

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