Things I’ve recently linked to on various social media platforms, disasters edition:
- Using science to predict pedestrian behaviour is useful for planning evacuation routes. I’m amused that religious fervor is outside the bounds of science for this article; I know a few psychologists who disagree.
- Carbonatite lava flow videos, and an explanation of why they’re both rare and weird.
- Amazing photographs of volcanic activity in 2011
- Dinosaurs and mathematics harnessed for the power of hazard mapping. [Mild language warning.]
- The right (and wrong) way to die when you fall into lava, from the always-fantastic Eruptions blog.
- Video of lava-sampling that exemplifies why I’m so in favour of robots for volcanology.
- Thailand Floods, quite possibly the cutest PSA ever created. Also: whales.
- 2010 Maierato landslide in Vibo Valentia, Italy is an oldie-but-goodie for demonstrating fluid behaviour. Those are marls and argillaceous deposits of the Miocene-Pliocene.
- Aftersocks, blending charm and disaster-fundraising.
I’m a bit amused that for being so landslide-obsessed, most of my links are eruptions-related.