Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned 1978 Citroen CX 1987 Citroen CX 1990 Citroen CX 2002 Renault Avantime 2025 IM6

Thinking of... - The people of Iran, who mostly hate their government - The people of Israel, who mostly hate their government - The people of Palestine, who mostly hate their government - The people of the USA, who mostly hate their government

One of my GNS Red Team colleagues has been busy doing some paleoseismology! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A post office where the service dashboard allows you track your current number of 'destroyed parcels'?! I don't know if I should be terrified, or awestruck by the honesty in marketing here! 😆

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

I think FinDer has been on the magic mushrooms. IYKYK.

First time I've seen anything priced over one million Yen at a Hard Off store!

Daddy & daughter holiday in Japan and encountering some *serious* snow!

A rare clear view of Fuji today - you can practically *feel* the geohazards!

Do you want to learn about the impacts of the M9 Cascadia subduction #earthquake that struck at 9 p.m. on this night, 326 years ago? Strong shaking, a tsunami and landslides as described in Indigenous oral traditions from #VancouverIsland to #California. ⚒️🧪 hakaimagazine.com/features/gre...

Ahhh memories!

Well that's the first time I've seen slipping on a solar storm plot!

BUGGER. (Spoiler: controller is not removed...)

Charging at 260kW! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Elon!

Was on the picket line in solidarity with striking NZ firefighters today.

Just dusted off my ancient AS/400 and powered it up... it failed quickly, with an error code... googled, and this was the first result I found for that error code. FML

Well the NeXTStation may not have been entirely successful but with a replacement PRAM battery the NeXTdimension Cube came right up first try! ✊

A very happy "fuck you" to John Stallard of Warlord Games, who is worried about "wokeism" killing wargames and thinks women don't play them, possibly because women don't want to hang around twats like John. And how did taking on female wargamers go for the non-"woke" side last time, John?

This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu. The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.

Good news, good news! After too many years of sitting in the garage, it Just Worked!

Could be nothing but... there's an interesting uptick in microseismicity - something I haven't seen in a very long time - at Sundhnúkur, on the DAS plot:

A quick summary of 2025 New Zealand earthquakes. GeoNet located more than 21 000 earthquakes in New Zealand and the Kermadec region. Magnitudes range from -0.3 – 6.8 and depth from 0 (just below the surface) – 750 km. 1/ 🧪

Ngā mihi o te tau hou! (we're always the first!)

When I posted a version of this video last year, I underestimated the equivalent energy of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake relative to a nuclear blast by a factor of 10. This time I’ve quantified it using the Trinity test (as seen in the movie Oppenheimer). The 1957 underground test was 10x smaller again

Happy DEC-20 day to those who celebrate!

Dangerous hacking manoeuvres number 217: slowly reviving a dead Google Glass EE2 lithium battery with a lab power supply while monitoring battery temperature with a FLIR imager!

From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story

So I got a new toy. And being an incorrigible geek, and big-time fan of #TheExpanse, I had to do this... inspired by the G this thing pulls! #ScreamingFirehawks

Wētā Tūī Kererū Mokomoko Pīwakawaka

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