Hannah Chin
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696 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Hannah Chin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Either or.
Okay.
Our other seismologist, Chris, he compared it to figuring out when your Thanksgiving turkey is ready, if all you did was stick it in the oven and walk away.
Point is, earthquakes are like chaotic turkeys.
Right.
And just to complicate this a little further, Emily, because I know that's what you're dying to hear, we don't even know for sure that this will be a magnitude 9 earthquake.
It could be a little bit smaller, catastrophic, but not quite that big.
Okay.
But here's what we do know.
Yeah, and so that's the second part of this story.
There's all of these things about earthquakes that science can and does predict, like what could happen when the big one hits.
How do scientists figure that out, just knowing, like, if it's an X magnitude earthquake, it will do this?
They look for clues from the past, and they can find those in places like estuaries and tidal marshes.
So this is coastal geologist and paleoseismologist Tina Dura.
She works in the geosciences department at Virginia Tech.
Tina showed me a picture of one of these sediment core samples.
It kind of looks like a layer cake.
You can see the marsh dirt and then the tidal dirt on top of it and then the tsunami dirt and then it goes all over again.
the Gulf of Mexico, et cetera, because the land is rising along with the ocean.
It's rising at about one millimeter a year.
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