Good vibrations: Of earthquakes, elephants, and extraterrestrial life

Seismology has come a long way from constraining seismicity and Earth's interior. Owing to recent developments in instrumentation on land, sea, and above, big datasets, numerical techniques, supercomputing and machine learning, we now quantify and understand information from those complex vibrations that continuously excite our planet and its surface at scales from nanometer-scale cracks to global oscillations, and thereby illuminate their underlying processes. In particular, methodologies to discriminate vibration sources have been applied to meteorite impacts, nuclear explosions, glaciers, landslides, hurricanes, trains, ocean-shelf interactions, the sun, and animals.

Location: Lincoln's Inn, London, WC2A 3TL

Please RSVP to the Alumni Office by Wednesday 16 January 2019 or call the office on 01865 611 041/042 and speak to Kathie or Clare.