I am now supervising Diogo's PhD. This will be my first work out of the planet and the fulfilment of a dream. When I was a young kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. Now I am an old kid, I am realising I will never leave this planet. But I hope to fly high in spirit with Diogo 🚀🧑🚀🪐
Sim, confesso que sou um apaixonado pela "popular science". Foi por isso que vim para a ciência, e gosto de trabalhar neste tipo de temas e divulgá-los. Qualquer das formas, há um par de consequências imediatas importantes, como os sismos de grande magnitude. Mas evitei ir por aí desta vez...
The quake was actually a bit further to the south, closer to the plate boundary. But it is a diffuse plate boundary. There must be some really big faults there to generate these magnitudes. But yes, it can be inherited extensional structures being reactivated.
And it was not the only one. In 1969, there was another magnitude 7.9 here. This time right below a completely flat abyssal plain without any mapped major fault. There's a nice story about it here: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Non-fiction, popular science. Heard recent podcasts with the authors and seemed good!
Thank you, Fabio!