Jackie Caplan-Auerbach

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Will a volcanic eruption be a burp or a blast?

Perhaps monitoring from space will become the best way to see future phreatic eruptions coming. But so far, no successful long-term forecast of a phreatic eruption has taken place. “Phreatic eruptions are terrifying,” said …

2021-06-07
Whale Songs Could Reveal Deep Secrets Beneath the Oceans

“It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the…

2021-02-12
Whale Songs Could Reveal Deep Secrets Beneath the Oceans

“It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the…

2021-02-12
Alaska islands may be part of single, massive volcano

Still, the preliminary research does provide some tantalizing clues to help scientists better understand the current and potential future hazards in this region.

“This lays a really nice story for future investigation,” says 

2020-12-07
Alaska islands may be part of single, massive volcano

Still, the preliminary research does provide some tantalizing clues to help scientists better understand the current and potential future hazards in this region.

“This lays a really nice story for future investigation,” says 

2020-12-07
40th anniversary of Mount St. Helens eruption to take place virtually amid COVID-19

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach is a geophysics professor at Western Washington University. Dr. Josef Dufek is a professor at the University of Oregon, teaching volcanology in the Department of Earth Sciences. Dr. Steve Malone is a research professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences…

2020-05-18
Increased Hawaii Seismic Activity Not Considered a Danger

The most likely cause of the recent swarm is a subterranean movement of magmatic fluids within the volcano, although Neal added the earthquakes could also be caused by gas or fluid escaping from Loihi.

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a Western Washington University professor who has studied…

2020-05-15
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach to Speak at WWU on Feb. 12 about the 2018 Eruption of Hawai'i's Kilauea Volcano 2020-01-21
Rare Earthquake Swarm Strikes Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, however, “what we’re looking at here are earthquakes of more or less common size: There’s still lots of small ones but quite a few fives and then up to the 6.4,” said Jackie Caplan-…

2020-01-09
A Deep-Sea Magma Monster Gets a Body Scan

This summer, the 235-foot research vessel Marcus G. Langseth set out into the ocean off the Pacific Northwest. Trailing the ship were four electronic serpents, each five miles in length. These cables were adorned with scientific instruments able to peer into the beating heart of a monster…

2019-12-04
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