
Earthquakes in Central Asia
@quakescentasia
We're looking into large earthquakes in Central Asia. Coordinated by Richard Walker from Univ. of Oxford. quakesincentralasia.org
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08-07-2020 20:42:48
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We're hiring! 4-year fully-funded PhD in paleoseismicity.org and #neotectonics of Hellenides🇬🇷 from #cave deformation part of Narodowe Centrum Nauki project at Uniwersytet Śląski 👇details mssd.us.edu.pl/en/wp-content/… 👇application due 20/10 irk2.us.edu.pl/en-gb/offer/MS… please spread the word write for Q&A

Here's a summary of our 2024 activity in the NATO SPS Programme project “Earthquake Hazard and Environmental Security in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan”: the field trip to the western USA quakesincentralasia.org/research-updat… Ramon Arrowsmith @RichardThomasW Gulkaiyr Tilekova Aidyn Mukambayev



📣📣 Initial results are in of a remote sensing survey to identify archaeological sites along a segment of the #Afghanistan section of our #TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project with Iconem. Read the #casestudy here 👇🏻👇🏻 eamena.web.ox.ac.uk/case-studies


The archaeological remains of two more Silk Road cities have been identified in southeastern Uzbekistan. Find out more in Scientificamerican. scientificamerican.com/article/lost-s…

24 October 1769 1:00 UT Mw7.3-7.4 #earthquake hit Lake Baykal, Russia, damaging houses in Irkutsk. But a recent study suggest a much lower value (6.0) for the magnitude. emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en=1… gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt… Larger in 1742 x.com/JoseRodRibeiro…







Here's the abstract volume of the 2025 HOKUDAN International Symposium on Active Faulting: home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/kojiok/abstrac… HT Franck Audemard






🎥 "It might never happen"...Remembering forgotten #earthquakes in Central Asia What happens when natural disasters fade from living memory? How do societies perceive #risk? Prof Richard Walker & Dr Neill Marshall Oxford Earth Sciences share their fascinating research 1/3

MPLSOxford University of Oxford Earthquakes in Central Asia Huge thanks also to Dr. Sarah Dryhurst & Prof Robin Goodwin, The Leverhulme Trust, UK COMET, EwF, Oxford Earth Sciences, Reuben College, Oxford, NATO Science for Peace and Security Program & all project collaborators 2/3