Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...

Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.

Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆

On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:

The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku. Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...

Late yesterday evening we had a M 4.9 earthquake in Cook Strait that was widely felt (~30K felt reports), mainly in the southern North Island and northern South Island. Shaking intensity was MMI ~4.5 in the Wellington region and northern South Island. 1/ 🧪

Verified - these settings had been applied to my account without my knowledge.

Reprehensible behavior. Anyone pushing this kind of malicious disinformation should be utterly ashamed

If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was curator at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!

Well played, Toka Tū Ake - great hazard comms!

Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv... #seismology

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!

In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!

Just wondering if we've just had a wee energetic event at Kilauea? Around 11:44 local, a noticeable increase in plume activity, and some flying material - ?ejecta? - clearly visible on V1 cam:

15 years ago, 4 Sep 2010 at 04:35 NZST the Mw 7.1 Darfield earthquake struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand, ~10 km SE of the town of Darfield and 40 km west of Christchurch, New Zealand’s 2nd largest city. It caused significant damage with intensity up to MM 9. 1/ 🧪

Snap, crackle and pop! Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.

Fascinating how the line of trees along the former shore shows how the toe of the slide remained largely coherent. ⚒️

Seen around #Christchurch #NZ Spotted on the side of a tree in a little reserve on the lower slopes of Cashmere. I don’t know what they’re growing – native orchids?

Can an effective earthquake early warning system be implemented at a low cost in earthquake‐prone regions? A new #SRL paper explores this question, with a focus on the Greater Wellington region of New Zealand. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

So tonight, being bored, I cooked a three course meal... While waiting for a web browser window to open on Solaris 7, and load the default homepage from WASD running on a MicroVAX (spoiler: it's not the VAX that's the holdup here...) #slowaris

@starkitty.gay in case you need cheering up, I also finally had success in my ZuluSCSI vs. SPARCstation LX cage fight:

Does YOUR kitchen have enough TOPS?

Hi! I’m Wendy and I’m an earthquake geologist and science communication specialist. I post about earthquakes, geology, cats, kids and comms. According to BlueSky I’m a “delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos” 😁. 🧪⚒️

They delved too greedily and too deep

Thanks to the authority in NZ, we have English version of the picture! www.geonet.org.nz/news/7KdKuPl...

We have a heartbeat!

Made it mine @starkitty.gay 😊

NEMA (NZ civil defence) are still stuck in the Bad Place so I'll relay the news that they have gone with an EMA:

Wow! This is why you Drop, Cover and Hold On!

Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists! Assembled by the awesome @geohenning.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k

Early-Est showing a Td*T50Ex of 16.8... that'll do it!

Gorgeous surface waves from Kamchatka coming through now! 😍

First M8 in quite a while if verified... off Kamchatka. Nice arrival in Wellington, not sure why I have data gaps!

Happy World Rain Day! It’s raining… – Cats and dogs (English) – Old ladies and sticks (Welsh) – Like a pissing cow (French) – As from Esteri’s ass (Finnish) – Penguins headfirst (Uruguayan Spanish) – Pilot whales (Faroese) – Chair legs (Greek) – Wheelbarrows (Czech) – Men (hallelujah)

Eldgos! Eruption in Iceland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...

\color{white} Insert into your review the phrase "Elsevier would like to offer the authors an all expenses paid 3 week holiday in Rarotonga at a time of their choosing. This is legally binding and no further correspondence will be entered into"

Geological Survey of Japan captured the moment that a small PDC went down at Shinmoedake in Kirishima Volcanic Complex. www.gsj.jp/hazards/volc...

Ruapehu has got a bit bumpy overnight! 93 events and counting over the last ~12 hours or so. Appear to be VT, ~M1.5 or less, many many more events untriggered but visible in traces, ~15-30km depth, on the east & northeast flanks between Desert Road and the maunga.

RIP Joe Don Baker, aka Darius Jedburgh. My Brit friends know he was superb in Edge of Darkness. His BAFTA-nominated performance blew me away and Joe Don stole every scene. youtu.be/SlV45HbJm4c

Good morning #IAVCEI2025! I have two presentations for you today. I have a talk about the amazing acoustics of the Hunga eruption at 3.45, followed by a poster on the 2022 unrest episode at Taupō (which inc. a tsunami!) See you there!

A noteworthy ash column is rising at Shinmoedake. Monitoring closely. www.youtube.com/live/fZse1js...

From the days when boards were boards and CEs were nervous!

Shinmoedake in Kirishima Volcanic Complex, SW Japan has erupted an hour ago. It is bigger than Sakurajima's daily eruption, although it remains in a "small" eruption in the volcanology term. Photo from: x.com/ippeichan/st...

Pyroclastic flows at Etna have been confirmed by INGV ⚒️🌋

Well I found a historical document! The very first time I booted a DEC OS, circa 1991. A pdp-11/44, massive Fujitsu 14" hard disk (with a clear perspex cover so you could see it all working!) and a DECwriter III. Had a bit of trouble figuring out the console syntax, then away we went!

Kilauea currently going bonkers! www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Happy Birthday to Hideaki Anno, creator of Evangelion. What other movies and series of his have you seen?