Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary: did Eltanin asteroid kickstart the ice ages?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Sediment deposits along shores of Antarctica, New Zealand and Chile suggest over 2 million years ago something big must have plunged somewhere in the middle of that triangle, creating a mega tsunami with hundreds of meters high waves engulfing coastal … Continue reading →

Nuclear future on balance: world has not responded to Fukushima, Europe has

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

And of course Japan has too – as suffering such damage demands a general policy reevaluation. Apparently different political systems apply different forms of logic, a new report states. But we have just one investment market…

Instant before earthquake points of highest friction reach 1500 Celsius

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Japanese tsunami causes breaking of Antarctic ice shelf

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Jorn van Dooren

As Edward Lorentz once put it so eloquently in his Chaos Theory is that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Then what influence could something as large … Continue reading →

Japanese tsunami caused by accelerating ‘counter shock’

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Scientists think they understand why the earthquake on the 11th of March off the coast of the island of Honshu, Japan, caused such a large and devastating tsunami. The high score on the Richter scale (9.0) is not a sufficient … Continue reading →

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Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary: did Eltanin asteroid kickstart the ice ages?

Nuclear future on balance: world has not responded to Fukushima, Europe has

Instant before earthquake points of highest friction reach 1500 Celsius

Japanese tsunami causes breaking of Antarctic ice shelf

Japanese tsunami caused by accelerating ‘counter shock’