Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bringing historical seismic reports and modern seismic risk maps into alignment, and a roundup of stories from our newsletter, ScienceAdviser First on the show this week, a roundup of stories with our newsletter editor, Christie Wilcox. Wilcox talks with host Sarah Crespi about the oldest ice ever found, how well conservation efforts seem to be working, and repelling mosquitoes with our skin microbes. Next on this episode, evaluating seismic hazard maps. In a Science Advances paper this week, Leah Salditch, a geoscience peril adviser at risk and reinsurance company Guy Carpenter, compared modern seismic risk map predictions with descriptions of past quakes. The analysis found a mismatch: Reported shaking in the past tended to be stronger than modern models would have predicted. She talks with Crespi about where this bias comes from and how to fix it. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Christie Wilcox Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zfj31xo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.4	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
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0:55.9	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many
1:02.1	fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,
1:08.7	cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The Icon School of
1:13.6	Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. This is a science podcast for May 3rd, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:27.2	First up on the show, a roundup with newsletter
1:29.5	editor of Christy Wilcox. We talk about the oldest ice ever found, how to combat mosquitoes
1:34.9	with our own microbes, and about how recent research into conservation efforts shows that broadly
1:41.3	they seem to be working. Next, we're evaluating seismic hazard maps.
1:46.7	Leah Saldic and colleagues used modern prediction maps on past quakes and found a mismatch.
1:52.8	We talk about where this bias comes from and how to fix it.
2:00.6	Now we have newsletter editor, Christy Wilcox.
2:03.1	We're going to talk about some recent stories from the newsletter, Science Advisor.
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