8 Mar 2015
by David Collings

infocus #37 March 2015 All Shook Up: Imaging Earth Tremors with a Confocal Microscope

Christchurch in New Zealand’s South Island suffered several devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.119

The extended swarm of earth tremors that followed these major earthquakes provided a challenging environment for confocal microscopists for whom even minor vibrations are normally troublesome.