Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
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| Viral 'Swift Quake' WWU professor aims to make earth science popular | Western Washington University professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach has rocked the Taylor Swift community following her identification of what has been dubbed the "Swift Quake" — a shake that registered as a 2.3 magnitude earthquake on a seismograph, caused by the musician's recent… |
2023-08-10 | |
| Major aftershocks are still shaking Turkey. When will the quaking end? | Every earthquake gives rise to aftershocks, their strength proportional to the magnitude of the initial shaking. In the case of the back-to-back quakes in Turkey, many of the ensuing aftershocks have been large enough to cause additional damage and casualties. “The likelihood of… |
2023-02-24 | |
| This is how heat from a volcano can be used to power an entire town | If there are any leaks in the pipes, the substance leaking out is simply water or steam, and there is no hazardous waste, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, told ABC News. Other than the land use and the environmental damage done by the… |
2023-02-09 | |
| The Tonga eruption explained, from tsunami warnings to sonic booms | Just a few weeks ago, a submarine volcano identifiable by two small uninhabitable islands in the Kingdom of Tonga began to erupt. Its outburst initially seemed innocuous, with ashen plumes and moderate explosions that few people living outside the archipelago noticed. But in the past 24… |
2022-01-18 | |
| Earthquake initially centered in Farmington was ‘phantom’ but felt real to residents | Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University, explained it this way in a series of Twitter posts: “Location algorithms can sometimes yield an incorrect location, though. This is because they are somewhat tuned to what they expect to record. For example, a… |
2021-07-09 | |
| A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come | Last December, a gloopy ooze of lava began extruding out of the summit of La Soufrière, a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The effusion was slow at first; no one was threatened. Then in late March and early April, the volcano began to emit seismic waves associated with swiftly… |
2021-06-29 | |
| Will a volcanic eruption be a burp or a blast? | Perhaps monitoring from space will become the best way to see future phreatic eruptions coming. But so far, no successful long-term forecast of a phreatic eruption has taken place. “Phreatic eruptions are terrifying,” said … |
2021-06-07 | |
| Whale Songs Could Reveal Deep Secrets Beneath the Oceans | “It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the… |
2021-02-12 | |
| Whale Songs Could Reveal Deep Secrets Beneath the Oceans | “It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the… |
2021-02-12 | |
| Alaska islands may be part of single, massive volcano | Still, the preliminary research does provide some tantalizing clues to help scientists better understand the current and potential future hazards in this region. “This lays a really nice story for future investigation,” says … |
2020-12-07 |