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Social media data are increasingly being analysed to support disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. A new comprehensive NHESS review examines how such data are being used in disaster management research.
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Earthquakes remain among the most disruptive natural hazards worldwide, capable of causing sudden loss of life, severe economic damage, and long-lasting societal impacts. One of the most effective tools developed in recent decades to mitigate these effects is Earthquake Early Warning (EEW), a real-time monitoring strategy that exploits a fundamental physical property of earthquakes: seismic waves do not propagate instantaneously, and their speed is much slower than the light-speed at which the information travel through communication channels. When an earthquake …
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes and Anna van den Broek (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu, a.j.vandenbroek@uu.nl), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Lauren Mc Keown, Assistant Professor – University of Central Florida. Email: Lauren.Mc.Keown@ucf.edu. Website: http://www.laurenemckeown.com/. What is interesting about the geomorphology of Mars? Martian geomorphology is interesting because there are a whole host of features that formed via the interaction between the …
I remember the day very well. It was the first time we drove up to the glacial ice from our base station in Kangerlussuaq (Western Greenland), where we had patiently been waiting for two days for the weather to clear. I took this photo during a three-week fieldwork campaign in July of 2025 as part of the Deep Purple project. As part of the project, we were in the field to collect glacial ice-algae samples, which grow on (and thereby …
