Paul Denton

it's that time of year in Rutland

Shaking up earthquake safety in Nepal with a folk song Geophysicist Shiba Subedi combines science and songwriting to raise awareness and debunk earthquake myths.

Shiba Subedi is an inspiration in the field of earthquake communications, I'm very proud to have been able to work with him a few years ago. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think it might be time to start stockpiling thermometers 🌡️ At some point this week the climate crisis will be solved by banning the manufacture, sale or use of all devices used for the measurement of temperature.

This is amazing! The Greenland USO (Unidentified Seismic Object) now immortalized in a cartoon 😁 Seism-o-solver to the rescue!
Source (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Mel, the image shows the seismogram from last week's M7 earthquake in California recorded on a Rasperryshake RS1 seismograph located in the UK, 8000km away.

seismogram recorded on raspberryshake RS1D 8000km away from earthquake

Christmas present bargains for UK residents only. I have a stock of Raspberryshake RS1D home seismographs for sale. I can offer these on a first come first served basis with 20% off the list price with free shipping (that's £420 inc VAT) message me for details

these old horizontal pendulum seismometers still give the best signals from teleseismic surface waves

map of raspberry shake locations in the UK

seidmogram

seismogram

The UK now has more citizen science raspberryshake seismic stations than professional ones. Some detect surprisingly good signals from 8000km away, even with sub-optimal sites tgey see big events. R94C3 is in my garden office (aka the shed) and detected P waves from todays California earthquake ⚒️

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Here's one for the #geoscience ⚒️ peeps, Amazing offers on Raspberryshake seismometers for the next week only, 20% off and free worldwide shipping shop.raspberryshake.org

Just moved here from the other site.

Ever heard of ‘Mendeleev Bingo’? Our new Earth Learning Idea, published today, is called "Element of Fun"! This activity provides an engaging way for students to become familiar with the Periodic Table. And like all ELIs the emphasis is on FUN!
www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/452_Peri...

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amazing offers on Raspberryshake seismometers for the next week only, 20% off and free worldwide shipping shop.raspberryshake.org

I saw an otter in Rutland Water (a large man-made reservoir in the middle of england) for the first time on this morning's dog walk, no photos but it brightened my day.

Image of a map of southeast Ireland, the location of a seismometer and an earthquake epicentre. Right image shows the wiggle trace of the recorded waveform above a frequency-time spectrogram plot showing earthquake frequencies of 2-40 Hz.

M1.6 Cork, Ireland #Earthquake recorded on the #RaspberryShake #CitizenScience seismic network. See what's shaking near you with the #ShakeNet mobile app

one thousand followers ! that was quick. I guess I must be listed on some starter packs. Maybe I should start posting a bit more.

seismologists should all follow Jordi ( of messi-quake and springsteen-quake fame) welcome to bluesky

seismologists should all follow Jordi ( of messi-quake and springsteen-quake fame) welcome to bluesky

Durham and the Scilly isles , both 07:35 sunrise today. ... can you tell that I am supposed to be doing some boring admin tasks this morning

I had to think about that for a while, the relative effects of longitude and latitude on sunrise and sunset times. I then spent ten minutes finding somewhere on the south coast that has the same sunrise time today as Rutland ... it turns out it is Chesil Beach.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
gardener
video shop assistant
banana unpacker
lawn mower
experimental physicist
field safety officer
educator
museum exhibit designer
translator
rescue boat coxwain

Anthony Gormley statue at Margate

random blue plaque in Margate

war memorial in Margate

Out of season holiday by the sea. Margate has gone a bit overboard with random blue plaques, cool statue turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/ano... and my uncle , killed as a baby in an air raid in 1941, on a war memorial

#Earthquake recorded on the #RaspberryShake #CitizenScience seismic network. See what's shaking near you with the #ShakeNet mobile app quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/...

This year the ShakeOut date for the USA fell on the 35th anniversary of the deadly and destructive Loma Prieta earthquake, but those of you in Aoteoroa New Zealand still have a week to get involved.

the purton ghost ships, beached and abandoned to reinforce the banks of the river severn

I'm not sure that my dog can read

... (surface waves being a superpositioning of direct waves with multiples and many fold multiples ) so in the near field where most damage occurs surface waves don't really exist and it's S waves that are causing the damage.

I always struggled with answering the question "which waves cause the most damage" the textbook answer seems to be surface waves, however my understanding is that surface waves take a long distance to develop ...

a geophone made from Lego

exciting news for seismologists everywhere. My greatest ever achievement, a functioning geophone made from Lego, is now available to purchase from mindsetsonline.co.uk , also available a usb 24bit digitiser.

a geophone made from Lego

exciting news for seismologists everywhere. My greatest ever achievement, a functioning geophone made from Lego, is now available to purchase from mindsetsonline.co.uk , also available a usb 24bit digitiser.

sunset

church by the sea

causeway and hotels by the sea

Attending conferences as an exhibitor can get a bit draining, especially when they put the exhibition stands in a windowless basement. however sometimes you get to spend a week by the sea in Corfu, so not all bad. thank you to the European Seismological Commission local organising committee