This week we talk about Bill Nye, earthquake magnitudes, and coffee.

Bill Nye * John got to see Bill Nye (@BillNye) talk at Penn State! * News article with photos!

Earthquake Magnitudes * Earthquake Size (C. Ammon) * Challenge is that earthquakes span a huge dynamic range. We measure ground displacements over about 9 orders of magnitude. * Largest Earthquakes in the World Since 1900 * Kiyoo Wadati * Richter magnitude scale * Book: Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man * Wood Anderson Seismometer * Body wave magnitude * Core Shadow Zone * Surface wave magnitude * Seismic moment * Moment magnitude * Example Seismogram

Resources * USGS Earthquake Notification Service * Harvard GCMT emails and catalog * Earthquake Storms - Dvorak * Introduction to Seismology - Shearer * An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure - Stein & Wysession

Fun Paper Friday * Do you like bitter tasting things? A study says that it tells something about your personality. Do you buy it? * Article about paper “Black Coffee Equals Black Hearts" * Sagioglou, Christina, and Tobias Greitemeyer. “Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits.” Appetite 96 (2016): 299–308.

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