The Japanese earthquake registered in Aarhus
The shaking from the violent events near Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was also felt in Aarhus.
In the basement of the Department of Earth Sciences, a seismometer measured the Earth’s movements with great accuracy.
The figure below shows the Earth's vertical velocity through the first 30 minutes following the quake
- Fig. by seismic technician Steen Røj Jacobsen.
Bo Holm Jacobsen, associate professor from the Department of Earth Sciences, had a busy day
making his expert knowledge available to the media. He appeared on the TV2 news and answered questions from listeners in the radio programme Smutvejen (Shortcut) on DR P4.
See and listen to the programmes here