This mornings M3.0 felt earthquake near Duncan was well recorded on the #SchoolShake network. No damages expected, but a great reminder to be prepared. Felt reports and details: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Why are "nation building projects" always things that accelerate the destruction of the planet largely to the benefit of multinational corporations, and never things that would benefit millions of Canadians like, say, high speed passenger rail? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...

USGS event page on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami. There are some great photos here showing the scale of the landslide and tsunami runup on the other side of the cove—almost 500 meters! www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...

we just saw one of the coolest sights yet on the #pacsafe2025 research cruise!! a huge pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins 🐬 looking for food off the back of the CCGS Tully @thobbsgeo.bsky.social @rdave6.bsky.social @charbottles.bsky.social #fieldwork #science #womeninstem #dolphins #wildlife 🧪

We are live on BlueSky! The Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) tracks earthquakes 🌎, landslides 🪨, explosions 💥, icequakes 🏔️, tsunamis 🌊, volcanoes 🌋, and more 🔍 🧪 ⚒️, advancing Alaska's resilience to earthquakes through monitoring, research, and public engagement. ✍️ 🗣️

🌍 Why Geology Matters! 📺 Shawn Willsey’s YouTube channel (“Geology Explained”) is ace! With >150,000 subscribers, his podcasts dive into all aspects of geology! ☕️ I chatted to Shawn about my career, why geology matters, and the challenges of geoscience communication… youtu.be/WxWrznYkRIw?...

Felt earthquake in the Juan de Fuca straight just south of Victoria! This was felt across the CRD and in Washington State. No damage expected, but another reminder we live in earthquake country.

Yesterday afternoon we finished the final #Ocean Bottom #Seismometer recoveries for #PACSAFE2025, and started redeploying along the Explorer Plate! Here’s a look at our “full house”, with 23 instruments on deck. #ScienceAtSea #Fieldwork @seos-uvic.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @dalhousieu.bsky.social

Another active fault on Vancouver Island - our new paper documents evidence for at least 3 Holocene earthquakes on the Beaufort Range fault

Sawyer Island located in the middle of Tracy Arm, 7 km downstream the landslide, shown here before and after the estimated 30-m high tsunami! 🌊😱 The isolated tree was particularly resilient! 🌲💪 Via @nikzimmer87.bsky.social

It’s been more than 20 years since I installed the 1st school-based weather station at Strawberry Vale Elementary on March 11, 2005. Now, the project is at a critical juncture. Do I shut it down, or do I try to reinvigorate it? Decision day is Sept. 30, 2025. www.andrewjweaver.ca/2025/08/14/s...

Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️

Copied from AEC post on X: Check out these amazing photos of the Tracy Arm Landslide! Thank you to Jacek Macelko for sharing these images, taken on Tuesday, August 12 from 3,500 ft. The pale triangle of the landslide scar stands out. 🧪⚒️🪨 1/2

It has been a busy couple of days! There was a large landslide and tsunami in SE Alaska, in Tracy Arm, Sunday morning. Luckily, no injuries or casualties were reported. This region is outside of our current landslide coverage, but we were able to get a quick location after hearing about the event. 🧵

Hello from the North Pacific! We’re out on the #PACSAFE2025 cruise, deploying Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) off the west coast of Canada. 🇨🇦 We spent the last 3 days at Endeavour Seamount, an underwater volcano expected to erupt soon. @rdave6.bsky.social & I got a selfie with it! #ScienceAtSea

A great thread on advances in tsunami monitoring and tsunami science.

Went on CBS Mornings today to talk about the tsunami and how it all unfolded. They had good questions. www.cbsnews.com/video/why-a-...

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

COMET is delighted to announce the registration of the InSAR Training Workshop 2025 is now open! It will be held both in-person and online at the University of Leeds from 11-13 November, 2025. Registration link: comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-insar-...

OpenTopography is excited to announce a major expansion to its international data catalog with the addition of the High Resolution Digital Elevation Model from Natural Resources Canada. This 1-meter resolution dataset is ideal for a wide range of applications. opentopography.org/news/opentop...

Exciting new paper in GRL by freshly minted Dr. Theron Finley, who’s discovered evidence for big earthquakes with an unusually long recurrence interval (>10 ka!) on one of North America’s longest faults, previously considered inactive for many millions of yrs. 1/3

Rare sighting of brown pelicans (a flock of ~20 flying in formation) from McMicking Pt, Victoria #yyj. First time I’ve seen them in eight years living here!

I'm excited to announce that we are seeking an External Engagement Lead for the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network! PNSN is the trusted authority on earthquakes and related topics in the PNW. Help us shape earthquake preparedness, advocacy for resilience, and hazards information all across Cascadia.

Found the geodesy-themed cherub in the St. Gallen library in Switzerland

Here is a good non-technical article explaining what is going on at Mt. Rainier today. Biggest swarm since 2009; not rising to the level of "unrest" and not concerning at this point. But very interesting and a sign that Rainier is absolutely an active volcano! ⚒️ www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Nice summary of a cool new study that uses historical air photos to link the acceleration of deep-seated landslides to glacial retreat and slope debuttressing… focused on Alaska but of equal relevance to western Canada

Small M1.9 earthquake this morning just offshore #VictoriaBC, at 5:39 am PDT, at 9 km depth. While not large enough to cause damage and not likely to be felt, another reminder of the hazard across the region. Well recoded by the @schoolshake.bsky.social @raspishake.bsky.social network.

There was a tragic rockfall yesterday afternoon at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Here's a recent story from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about it. I'll try to explain my understanding of the event here over the next few minutes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... 🧪⚒️

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

2 days left! Looking to attend a professional conference? AGU? GSA? We're still accepting applications for the Geoscience Fellowship - a travel stipend open to U.S. graduate students & postdocs interested in earthquake science & broadening participation. Learn more & apply: cascadiaquakes.org/g...

Couldn’t be prouder of these two! ☺️ Drs. Theron and Guy have made enormous contributions to our understanding of active faulting and earthquake hazards across western Canada 🇨🇦, including use of novel LiDAR mapping techniques. Several exciting papers to follow - watch this space!

Calling all Cascadia seismologists… save the date!

Dusting off our lidar drone ahead of the summer surveying season @thatfaultguy.bsky.social @earthquakeandrew.bsky.social

Geophysicist Ross Stein and #career coach Ellen Shulman are teaming up on a SSA member workshop to help you explore, prepare and ace a career transition. Sign up for this 4-part immersive workshop now! First session is 16 June buff.ly/WNXEovX ⚒️🧪

On 28 May 2025, the Birch Glacier in Switzerland catastrophically failed, generating a massive landslide that has partially buried Blatten. So what happens next? eos.org/thelandslide...

ICONIC How lucky we are to be living in the Anthropocene 🙃 Disasters are in real time and in high definition! 📷Alain Amherd / Walliserbote

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

What an inaugural post on bsky.app. A (the) major glacier collapse at Bichgletscher/Kleines Nesthorn.

We are opening a post-doctoral position to study earthquake ruptures and earthquake cycle based on analogue modeling. Join our group that goes from field to image processing, numerical models, all the way to analogue models, to try to understand earthquake cycle. Check out the announcement.

🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

New seismic data challenge a key tsunami hazard assumption in the Pacific Northwest: the Cascadia megasplay fault may be inactive—or largely absent. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

CNN on the damage being done to natural hazard monitoring by this misguided administration. I'd say that one quote from me feels a little off – I don't expect Cascadia to be the "largest" we've ever seen on the planet – but the gist is on target. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/c... ⚒️

Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦 calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

This is mind-blowing! I have never seen footage of the slip that occurs during an earthquake! Here you see the slip that occurred during the Myanmar earthquake. 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...