04/20/2026
Record of the mag 7.4 earthquake today in Japan as recorded on our seismic system in Van Wickle Hall, Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
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04/20/2026
Record of the mag 7.4 earthquake today in Japan as recorded on our seismic system in Van Wickle Hall, Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
01/19/2026
Teaching in the field. Geology at its best. At Sunset Beach, North Shore Oahu
A great day to be a geologist. Kilauea eruption! Geology 150 students get a front row seat at this great show.
11/09/2025
This is the record of the earthquake that occurred off the coast of Japan today as recorded on the RaspberryShake system in the Geology Department at Lafayette College. The travel time from Japan to Easton was approximately 13min.
09/01/2025
Record of the 8-31-25 earthquake in Afghanistan. Note there is no S-wave because the distance is large enough that the outer core blocks their passage!
08/03/2025
Seismic record of the magnitude 3.0 earthquake that occurred at 10:19 pm on August 2, 2025 just NW of New York City. Recorded on the Raspberry Shake system in the Geology Department, Lafayette College.
07/17/2025
This is the record of the Mag 7.3 earthquake today in The Aleutian Island, AK. This was recorded on the Raspberry Shake system in the Geology Department, Lafayette College. A tsunami warning was generated, but was quickly cleared!
05/10/2025
Here is the record of the 5-10-2025 earthquake (mag 4.1) that occurred today just south of Knoxville Tennessee. It was recorded on the Raspberry Shake system in the Geology Building
01/27/2025
Here is the record of the earthquake near Boston, MA this morning as recorded at our station at Geology.