Texas Educational Seismic Project

Why now?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Kristi Fink

“An essential goal for us then is to encourage our teacher and student colleagues to raise their experience of science to higher levels of engagement and to encourage them to experience firsthand what it means to be a scientist.”.

https://www2.bc.edu/~kafka/SeismoEd_SRL/SRL776_EduQuakes.htm

The “Big One”

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Kristi Fink

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In 1931, the west Texas town of Valentine experienced Texas’ “big one.” It had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter Scale and was strongly recorded on seismographs across the globe. Evidently, it made quite a mess of the small town, too.

–source: http://blog.chron.com/factistics/2011/03/houston-earthquakes/

“Whole Lot of Shakin” Going On”

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Kristi Fink

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Elvis might be surprised with the recent seismic activity in Irving, Texas

http://earthquaketrack.com/us-tx-irving/recent

Did you feel it?

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Kristi Fink

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Beautiful picture of the Earth , courtesy of Weston Observatory, MA. This is a seismogram of the magnitude 3.6 earthquake that occurred in Texas on Jan 7, 2015.

It was recorded at Nacogdoches, TX — about 145 miles from the epicenter. The P-wave arrived at about 00:52:45, and the S-wave arrived at about 00:…53:10.

For more information about this seismogram, and other seismology research in Texas, see the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics —

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/seismology/ See More