US GEO folks: A few NSF POs are traveling again (!!) & several are hitting the regional GSAs. @drrocks1982.bsky.social + @llautz.bsky.social are headed to the Triple-Joint meeting in Memphis, I'll be in Hartford for the Northeastern. We are hype to see the community! Reach out if you'll be there!
If you want info about earlier versions, see: pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1060...
Coulomb 4.0 is here, via @temblorinc.bsky.social! What's this, you ask? It's the latest version of an open-source Matlab program that can help you visualize how stress is transferred when faults rupture. Find out more in this article by the scientists that developed and refined it! โ๏ธ
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
What happens when you consider #earthquakes as a social phenomenon? Learn more in this month's SSA At Work with Max Schneider! buff.ly/RCVMm4P โ๏ธ
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โHow a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead Californiaโs earthquake workโ
Way to devalue my experience.
๐ฃPRESS RELEASE๐ฃ Rupture into SlowโSlip Fault Regime During the 2018 Mw 6.9 Island of Hawaiโi Earthquake is Followed by Modest Postseismic Slip #BSSA โ๏ธ
A M6.9 Hawaii quake may have stalled episodes of periodic slow slip.
PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/OY10yq2
PAPER:https://buff.ly/bNUFl92
Maureen Long at a talk hosted last October by Yale's St. Thomas More Chapel on her work, the role of Catholicism in her intellectual life, and coexistence between faith and science. Taken from the St. Thomas More Chapel Instagram account (most recent photo I could find).
Ok, positive scientific thing (for a change):
We're going to talk about the work of Yale seismologist Maureen Long, because her work is focused on the most direct evidence of mantle flow and convection we can get.
Her career essentially defines our direct knowledge of mantle flow.
For @highcountrynews.org's latest issue on Deep Time, I reviewed 3 books that help us explore Earth's past in different ways: Basin and Range by John McPhee, Strata by @laurapoppick.bsky.social, and When the Earth was Green by @restingdinoface.bsky.social ๐งชโ๏ธ
www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
Good morning everyone. My 3D printed lidar-derived volcano tissue box covers are now for sale in my Etsy store. Majority are of Lawetlat'la (St Helens), Tahoma (Rainier), Wy'east (Hood), Kweq' Smanit (Baker), Kohm Yah-mah-nee (Lassen) and even one Salton Sea mud volcano. โ๏ธ
phaneritic.etsy.com
A new Temblor article talks about how Alaska's Connector Fault, which recently ruptured in the M7 earthquake on Dec. 6, was found and included in Alaska's seismic hazard map *before* the earthquake. โ๏ธ๐งช
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#AGU25 is coming up, and there's lots of neat research that'll be presented. I got to talk to some great scientists about work that pertains to sending people to the Moon and Mars for @eos.org! โ๏ธ๐งช
As a long-time reader of @theopennotebook.bsky.social, I was happy to contribute to this article and be on the "other side" of the interview. Thank you @skylerdware.bsky.social for the opportunity. Lovely to hear how others are diversifying their work.
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Full disclosure, I have not read the paper yet. I've only read the abstract and scanned the figures. โ๏ธ
Double, double, toil and trouble... oh wait no. Bubbles, spatter, lava and tremor, there we go! For @earthscope.org, I dove into a paper that used drone footage from Geldingadalir's lava lake + seismic data to explore the source of volcanic tremor. โ๏ธ๐งช
www.earthscope.org/news/bubbles...
Map of the Puget Sound and Vancouver Island region showing the location of tiny ETS tremors (not earthquakes and not felt) from September 15 - October 15. Locations are colour-coded by time.
Right on schedule! More than 10,000 tiny tremors (not felt) have rolled through #PugetSound and southern #VancouverIsland over the past 30 days. This is Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) and occurs here every 12-16 months:
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu...
Also - it is #ShakeOut day!
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Photograph of a human hand holding two long pieces of rock. The left rock has alternating layers of red, dark grey and light grey. The right rock has many fine undulating layers of alternating grey, green, and black.
Oxidised (left) and unoxidised 3.2 billion year old banded iron formation. These samples are from drill core and were only a couple of meters apart. #geology #paleontology
"we propose this Potassium-40 deficit represents primitive proto-Earth mantle domains that largely escaped mantle mixing after the [moon-forming] giant impact and exist in the present-day deep mantle, contributing to some modern hotspot volcanism" โ๏ธ
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My latest for @earthscope.org combines Silurian reef systems with seismology! The highlighted research looks at how to parse noisy seismic data from a single station in the Chicago area. โ๏ธ๐งช
www.earthscope.org/news/chicago...
Tomorrow is ShakeOut!
On October 16 you can join geologists from the @cageosurvey.bsky.social at Tech Interactive in San Jose and in the California Natural Resources Agency Building as we talk about earthquake science and how to be earthquake ready.
I'm incredibly honored to be a part of this team and proud of this award!!! But I'm just a very small part of this program. Anita Marshall @bakingsodavolc.bsky.social deserves all the credit for the idea, the passion, the grunt work, and for its success!!! โ๏ธ๐งช๐ญ
My latest for @earthscope.org, a dive into mapping sediment thickness across the US with Transportable Array data! โ๏ธ
www.earthscope.org/news/a-new-m...
Highly recommend:
1. Science on a Mission by Naomi Oreskes (www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...)
2. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black (www.sciencenews.org/article/dino...)
3. Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud (www.sciencenews.org/article/turn...)
For @temblorinc.bsky.social, @beccapox.bsky.social writes about interesting new developments in tsunami early warning using prompt elastogravity waves, a small-amplitude, fast-moving seismic wave. โ๏ธ๐งช
This earthquake was originally reported as a magnitude 4.6 but was downgraded to a magnitude 4.3.
Remember, there is a trade off between speed and accuracy. As more data becomes available the initial reports are likely to be adjusted to reflect our improved understanding.
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What went well, and what needs to be improved when it comes to major earthquakes that shake Istanbul? In @temblorinc.bsky.social 's latest, experts explore aspects of a recent M6.2 earthquake that shook the city and reportedly caused panic. ๐งชโ๏ธ
How does insurance work when it comes to events like tsunamis? This short Temblor article describes one way path, built on NOAA's tsunami monitoring efforts. 10 days after the Kamchatka tsunami hit Samoa, the country received a payout from PCRIC. โ๏ธ๐งช
Long but interesting! Check out @temblorinc.bsky.social's latest on the July 2025 Kamchatka earthquake, in which Temblor scientists look at stress transfer associated with 2 foreshocks. They also compare the mainshock to a similar 1952 quake, explore some tsunamis, and consider an eruption. โ๏ธ๐งช
๐ฃ SSA is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America #BSSA. Nominations are open through October 2025.
โญ Full Job Description: www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-see...
โญ Nomination Link: www.seismosoc.org/publications...
