Alan Kafka

Earthquake Monitoring and Hazards

• For up-to-date information on earthquake monitoring and related matters, go to @Weston_Quakes on Twitter

• Weston Observatory's New England Seismic Network

• Latest Earthquakes in the World (USGS)

• USGS: National Seismic Hazard Maps

Research

• Why Does the Earth Quake in New York City?

• Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?

• "Cellular Seismology”: Does Past Seismicity Delineate Zones Where Future Large Earthquakes are Likely to Occur?

• Public Misconceptions About Faults and Earthquakes in the Eastern US

• Does Seismicity Indicate Where Large Earthquakes Occur in the Eastern US?

• Seismicity and Large Earthquakes in Intraplate Environments

• A Least Astonishing Hypothesis for Forecasting Locations of Future Earthquakes

• Exaggerated Claims About Earthquake Predictions

• Natural Hazards, Environmental Degradation, and the Urbanization of Planet Earth

• The COVID-19 Seismic "Hush", All Over the World...

Science Education & Communication, and Citizen Science

• My musings on earthquakes and related matters...

• My Geoscience and Public Policy Course

• Encouraging a Culture of Scientific Inquiry in K-12 Classrooms

• Inviting Students into the World of Scientific Research Through Seismology

• Dr. Quake Goes to High School

• Turning Seismic Moments into Teachable Moments

Courses

• Geoscience and Public Policy (EESC1187)

• Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint?

• Statistical Analysis of Scientific Data (EESC3398)

• Earthquakes (EESC2207)

• Introduction to Geophysics (EESC3391)

• Geophysical Data Processing (EESC5572)

• Certainty and Uncertainty in Science and Religion (UNCS2245)