Christie Rowe: In Search of the Source of Earthquakes

Speaker: Christie Rowe (Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University) Earthquakes happen every day all over the world.  Most are concentrated along the boundaries of tectonic plates, but occasionally, earthquakes happen where we don’t expect them.  How do these events start? What controls the location of earthquakes?  And what happens to all the [...]