Whenever there is a significant geological event along the Pacific Rim, people take to social and conventional media to conjure the mythical impacts of the “Ring of Fire”! Once again, people look for a pattern when one doesn’t exist. With plate tectonics, subduction zones, and volcanoes, Dr. Jones explains in this episode how the “Ring of Fire” has no geologic significance and naming the complexity of the region with one simple term is a dangerous approach to manage the geological risk.
Episode 117 - Hurricane Season
Episode 116 - What the U.S. Can Learn From Earthquakes in Turkey
Episode 115 - The Reality of Atmospheric Rivers
Episode 114 - All About Liquefaction
Episode 113 - The Value of Retrofits
Episode 112 - Happening Right Now: More Extreme Disaster Events
Episode 111 - Tempo
Episode 110 - When You Have a Lot of Earthquakes, You Have a Lot of Earthquakes
Episode 109 - Why Are Schools Safer?
Episode 108 - Weak Faults Have Bigger Earthquakes
Episode 107 - The Misconception of the ”Massive” Earthquake
Episode 106 - What We Can Learn from New Zealand
Episode 105 - Looking for Anomalies in All the Wrong Places
Episode 103 - Pandemic Randomness
Episode 102 - Human History of Random Thoughts
Episode 101 - Random Acts of Shaking
Episode 100 - The Magic Eyes of the Geologist
Episode 99 - Why Plate Tectonics Matters to You
Episode 98 - Is It Too Late to Cool the Earth?
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