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Plotting seismic events in Japan in 2D and 3D

March 18, 2011 – 1:15 am

I just saw this very interesting and shocking movie reporting the quakes rattling Japan from 9th to 14th of March. The amount of events after the big one, at 1:17, is devastating. I wanted to see more, adding the third dimension. I tinkered with wget, bash, gnuplot and ffmpeg to produce this less visually appealing [...]

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Fusione nucleare e fusione del nucleo. Due cose diverse (In Italian)

March 16, 2011 – 12:22 am

This post is for my Italian readers. There’s no English version because the issue does not exist in English, only in Italian. It is relative to the misunderstanding between the terms “meltdown” and “fusion”, in Italian both translated as “fusione”. I proceed saying that what unfortunately happened in Japan is a reactor core meltdown, not [...]

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Large quake occurs near Chile.

February 27, 2010 – 5:09 pm

A magnitude 8.8 quake occurred in Chile. A tsunami warning has been issued. Very good details, and a map of the predicted height of the tsunami across all the pacific can be found at Phil Plait’s blog. Apparently, Japan is not concerned about the Tsunami, which should hit around 3 AM GMT (12AM Japanese time). [...]

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