All are welcome to the twin wonders of Arctic conditions and Norwegian management.If you want to study clouds, barnacle geese, seismology, sea ice, zooplankton and any number of pollutants, all indicators of how the Arctic and the world are changing, Ny-Alesund is the place.
The traditional fault-segmentation model used in seismology does not allow for this.
Most of the damage was centred on Ya'an, a city of 1.5m located 140km (90 miles) south-west of Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu.The earthquake was of magnitude 7.0, according to Chinese seismology officials, and struck just after 8am Saturday local time.
If they want to study seismology they go to Parkfield.Despite this, and the fact that some 200 research papers have been written about Parkfield's seismology, not a single actual earthquake has been successfully predicted in Parkfield.
At the moment, the main scientific fields here are astrophysics, seismology, and atmospheric science.Astrophysicists have been coming to the Pole for decades to set up their experiments.
This led to breakthroughs in 3D seismology and directional drilling.
This killed 6,400 people in an area that was supposed to be seismically inactive.In the wake of Kobe one of the doyens of Japanese seismology, Kiyoo Mogi, noisily quit his post as the government's top earthquake adviser because of the futility of the task.
Satellites and seismology are likely to pick up some signs of imminent eruptions from almost all the others.
He ranges over a number of themes, from seismology to chess-playing, but exhibit A is the American housing crash of 2007-08 triggeredgered the financial crisis.
On earth, seismology (the study of earthquake waves) is used to probe the planet's interior by measuring the reflection and refraction of those waves by the layers of rock involved.
Luckily, though, phones have yet another bit of kit inside that can help: satellite-positioning hardware.National outfits that concern themselves with seismology, such as the US Geological Survey (USGS), already use fancy satellite-enabled kit to meticulously measure along some stretches of known faults.
