M5.6 earthquake nr Okhotsk, Russia, at 06.29 UTC on 11 February 2026. Detected in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Deep (510 km) M6.2 earthquake, Fiji region, at 20.44 UTC on 10 February 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and LEGO school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.5 earthquake, Cuba, at 12.09 UTC on 8 February 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

"Does it matter which way round this thing goes?"

M6.2 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 12.42 UTC on 22 January 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and Lego school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred Volcano Islands, Japan region on January 21st, 2026 at 4:37:45 PM GMT https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000rr5g

M6.0 earthquake, New Caledonia, at 13.02 UTC on 19 January 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.6 earthquake, Pakistan, at 06.21 UTC on 19 January 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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M6.2 earthquake, Kuril'sk, at 07.34 UTC on 13 January 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using (from top) 'slinky', horizontal pendulum, and @LEGO_Group school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.4 earthquake, Indonesia, at 14.58 UTC on 10 January 2026. Recorded in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.2 earthquake, Peru, at 02.51 UTC on 28 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.6 earthquake, Taiwan, at 15.05 UTC on 27 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.9 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 12.37 UTC on 18 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and Lego school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Mw=6.8, NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN (Depth: 17 km), 2025/12/12 02:44:11 UTC - Full details here: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fiche.php?seis=us6000ruc4

M6.7 earthquake, Japan, at 02.44 UTC on 12 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.6 earthquake, Japan, at 21.52 UTC on 8 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M7.6 earthquake, Japan, at 14.15 UTC on 8 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using (from top) 'slinky', horizontal pendulum, and LEGO school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

A detailed report about the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier #earthquake was just released by Earthquake Insights. ⚒️🧪 open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...

M7.0 earthquake, Canada, at 20.41 UTC on 6 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using (from top) 'slinky', horizontal pendulum, and Lego school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Did you feel shaking in Yukon at 1:41 p.m. MST today? That was a M7 #earthquake near the seismically active YK-AK border and 250 km to the west of #Whitehorse. Shaking was felt across much of Yukon and southeastern AK. Details and report shaking: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/... ⚒️🧪

338 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Hibonite: - Calcium aluminium oxide mineral - Sometimes contains cerium - 7.5-8 on the Mohs hardness scale (similar hardness to topaz) - Found in some high-grade metamorphic rocks - Named after Paul Hibon, a French prospector who discovered it in 1953 in Madagascar #minerals

There was an earthquake alert that went out this morning for a M5.9 near Reno, NV. This was a false alarm. There was no earthquake. The USGS is working to identify the issue. More soon.

Cuts to geology programmes, departmental mergers and shrinking university support threaten the long-term health of the discipline. Now, Jan Zalasiewicz examines the developing situation at the University of Leicester: geoscientist.online/sections/vie... #Geology #Geoscience #HigherEducation

P- and S-waves from yesterday’s (23:23:32 UTC 2025/12/03) M3.4 earthquake 3km depth beneath Silverdale Lancashire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 130km southsoutheast of the event) ⚒️🧪

M5.8 earthquake, China, at 07.44 UTC on 4 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M3.4 earthquake, Lancashire UK, at 23.23 UTC on 3 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using (from top) 'slinky', horizontal pendulum, and LEGO school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.6 earthquake near Fiji at 23.35 UTC on 2 December 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and LEGO school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

333 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Anorthoclase: - A potassium-rich variety of albite - Forms in sodium-rich volcanic rocks - Its name comes from the Greek words for oblique and fracture, because of its cleavage angle #minerals

332 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Glaucophane: - An amphibole group mineral - Forms in the blueschist metamorphic facies (low temperature, high pressure) - Its name comes from the Greek words "γλαυκός/glaukos" (sky blue) and "φαίνεσθαι/phainestai" (to appear) because of its colour #minerals

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Quite a big #earthquake with a magnitude of M6.0 about 60 northeast of Anchorage, #Alaska, a few minutes ago. Here's the seismic signal of my Raspishake seismometer 11 mins after origin time in Herne, Germany, which is 7300 km away from the epicenter. 🧪⚒️ #geology @raspishake.bsky.social

Thin Section Thursday! Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

M6.6 earthquake, Indonesia, at 04.56 UTC on 27 November 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

A small gift to myself

Limited success with the bee hotel. 19 red mason cocoons and signs of interest from a leaf cutter bee

326 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Periclase: - A magnesium oxide mineral - Forms via high temperature contact metamorphism - Used in the production of fire bricks - Its name comes from the Greek word "περικλάω/perikláo" (to break around) because of its cleavage #minerals

M5.7 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 22.38 UTC on 21 November 2025. P-waves recorded in Nottingam using 'slinky' (top) and LEGO school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: PUBIL, PERTH & KINROSS 22 NOVEMBER 2025 04:24 UTC 2.5 ML The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake: DATE: 22 November 2025 ORIGIN TIME: 04:25 42s UTC LAT/LON: 56.546° North / 4.532° West GRID REF: 244kmE / 742kmN DEPTH: 5 km MAGNITUDE: 2.5 Ml

Some more #Charnia content this #FossilFriday, but this time Charnia grandis reins. stat. It had been synonymized with C.masoni and mostly used for gigantic specimens of what is now C.brasieri but its strange rhomboidal branches are very distinct. the 1st branches are 45o and 2nd are at 90o

M6.8 earthquake, Japan, at 08.03 UTC on 11 November 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers. Followed by M6.4 event nearby at 08.54 UTC #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... & earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Estuary wader

By the estuary

Passed a tree full of linnets on a walk. Very noisy but well hidden among the branches

M6.0 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 23.29 UTC on 4 November 2025. P-waves recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.0 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 03.45 UTC on 4 November 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.4 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 19.38 UTC on 2 November 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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M6.1 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 08.44 UTC on 3 November 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...