The Charlotte Observer tells us:
Cataclysms and catastrophes: If something in nature explodes, collapses or crashes, you can probably read about it in Geology in Motion ( www.geologyinmotion.com), a blog by Susan Kieffer, emerita professor of geology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Q. You’ve written a book on the science of natural disasters, and your blog covers such terrifying events as car-swallowing sinkholes and erupting volcanoes. To what degree has science “tamed” disasters by providing data to warn people in advance?....
