Having a look at some work from my PhD on faults in Mongolia, and reminiscing on the beauty of this place. It's impossible to take a bad photo!

Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

This from 2021 looks really damn prescient today. “There have been many destructive earthquakes on this plate, particularly magnitude 7 and above around Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, in 1812 and 1900,”

Two large earthquakes in two minutes in Venezuela, with the second event much large at M7.5. This looks complex.

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Fairly big shake in western Turkey

Scary example of why scientists advise people to "drop cover hold" rather than "run outside" during strong shaking.

First slip map for the Mw 7.8 Myanmar earthquake. Propagation of rupture towards the South. Slipnear method (Géoazur/OCA).

My brother-in-law flies the scooper planes in different locations in North America. He doesn’t normally fly this time of the year!