DAS Bump! My summary of this morning’s session: “Forecasting Earthquakes with Continuous Data: From Lab to Field”. Sounds like a SCEC German punk band. #scecmeet

Tom Rockwell (Distinguished Lecture) kicking off the 2025 SCEC meeting! Small offset per event (smaller magnitude) produces narrower damage zone in nearby rocks. Serves as a proxy for max magnitude per rupture event. #scecmeet #scec2025 🧪

Opening presentation of this year’s SCEC annual meeting in Palm Springs! It seems SCEC is a “large Enterprise” working to develop & share cutting-edge earthquake system science to enhance California’s resilience & to educate and inspire future scientists. #scecmeet #SCEC2025 🧪

Well, given that he's not running for governor again becuase he reached his term limit....

“NSF watchers fear that a smaller, restructured agency could be more vulnerable to pressure from the White House to fund research that suits its ideological bent.” www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm guessing there was a real reason that the new pope served as the bishop of Chiclayo, but I'm going to pretend that whoever was doing the bishop assignments misheard it as Chicago and was like "great we can just promote one of our Chicago guys".

It’s me! I’m “one scientist”! 🧪

Us geologists here at the @cageosurvey.bsky.social LA office all got our early warning notifications on our phones so we were prepared for some shaking. Did you get one too? Download @myshakeapp.bsky.social to be ready next time. #earthquake

Felt the long-period shaking here in downtown LA from the M5.2 earthquake near Julian, CA (San Diego County). Epicenter is near the Elsinore Fault, which would be the primary suspect, but we'll see once more data comes in. #earthquake #Julian 🧪 @cageosurvey.bsky.social

You’ll forgive my concerns over a possible upcoming recession. I lost my job and almost lost my house in the last one.

So encouraged by everyone we saw at the Hands Off rally yesterday in Santa Ana (Orange County)! #HandsOff Rise Up. Wise Up. Eyes Up.

What do the Republicans and the oligarchs fear most? Solidarity between poor rural whites and Black urban folks. They have always feared it. It’s time to come together, friends. Our futures are bound up together.

Heading out to our local Orange County Hands Off rally shortly. #handsoff

Anyone have any insight into why this M3.1 in the Sacramento delta is SO deep? 🧪

Folks attending the @geosociety.bsky.social Cordilleran conference - roll out of bed early, grab a ☕️ and head over to the Granada Room to catch my 8:00 am talk! Then stick around to learn about liquefaction hazards in Sacramento from @brianolson.bsky.social at 9:10. 😎

If you're at the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting in Sacramento tomorrow, stop by the "Earthquake Hazards in Applied Geology" session tomorrow morning and catch me and Wendy Bohon in action as we represent the California Geological Survey! 🧪 @drwendyrocks.bsky.social @cageosurvey.bsky.social

Help me... I'm reviewing a technical document and need to know... is it "0.5 inch" or "0.5 inches"? 🧪 Can't find any style guides or clear rules.

Jeremy Lancaster (California State Geologist) giving the lunchtime lecture at GSA on post-wildfire flooding & debris flow hazards. Highly developed alluvial fans are most prone. Studies find a minimum flow depth of 5 feet equaled total destruction of structures. @cageosurvey.bsky.social

The USGS posted their aftershock forecast and they are saying there's a 40% chance of another M6+ earthquake in the next week. Certainly, there will be dozens to hundreds of smaller M4s and M5s. If you are in Bangkok, I doubt you'll feel quakes less than M6 though. Scary no matter what though.

That's one way to start your weekend! A M4.6 earthquake shook the Bombay Beach/Salton Sea area this morning, just before 10:30am local time. This part of California has been rumbling with small M1-2 quakes since March 1. This could be the main shock of that sequence. #earthquake 🧪

Would you like to learn about earthquakes and tsunamis in Northern California? 🧪⚒️ Register for an “Evening Discussion of Local Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards.” This hybrid event will be held on March 12 from 5:30-7 PM. Visit now.humboldt.edu/news/lessons... for more information.

WE DON’T GAIN MORE SUNLIGHT WITH DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME! WE JUST SHIFT THE HOURS OF THE DAY WITH WHEN THE SUN IS UP!

Excellent 1-day workshop in Newport, OR discussing ground failures from past Cascadia earthquakes and planning for future ones.

Raising Cane!

"[NOAA is] a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity." - Project 2025, Chapter 21 It's not about reducing bloat/waste... it's about eliminating an ideology...

I mean, as a state government employee, I literally do this EVERY. WEEK. It’s called a “Weekly Report”. (However, failure to respond is NOT taken as my desire to resign.)

Movie you've watched more than 6 times (in the theater), gifs only.

Quite the shimmy-shaking going on in central California, east of Salinas. This location is near where the San Andreas Fault transitions from the "locked" northern section to the middle "creeping" section. 19 earthquakes since 9pm-ish last night w/ a M3.9 being the largest. #earthquake 🧪

It’s the ketamine not talking?

LOVE “The Californians” ad for VW!! Although, unless they are coming San Diego/southern Orange County or Santa Clarita, they’re not taking the 5 to the 405 to the 10 to get to Malibu.

[3 minutes into watching EVERY “Dateline] Me: “The husband did it.”

*mudflow

Earlier this week, the San Andreas Fault popped off a few M3 quakes. Today the Hayward Fault is trying to get some attention with M3.2 and M3.4 earthquakes. Can we just NOT? #earthquake 🧪

Couple minor quakes (M3.5 and M3.0) just now near/on the San Andreas Fault, north of San Bernardino, CA. Let's all be cool and not get too rumbly, m'kay? 🧪 #earthquake

Whoa! M7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, between Cuba and Belize. Tsunami threat to coasts and island within ~600 miles of the epicenter. #earthquake 🧪

“Very well educated.” Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan complains migrants are too “educated” about their rights.

Morning shake up down in northern Baja/southern California from a M4.2 earthquake. Epicenter is a little NW of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake epicenter. Did you feel it? Fill out this anonymous survey about your experience. 🧪https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci41034376/tellus

It's quiet...a little TOO quiet.

Die Zeit won't even show the salute.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” — 14th Amendment, Section 1

Dang ESPN!! Glad I watched S1 E7 of “Severance” last night so the Season 2 commercial with the MAJOR spoiler didn’t ruin me!

SoCal just lost 7,000+ homes to wildfires, but once the fires are out, hazards aren’t over. 7 yrs ago I went to Montecito, CA to collect scientific data on the deadly post-wildfire debris flows that killed 25 & wrecked 100+ homes. As a rule of thumb, debris flows are more likely <5 yrs after fire.🧪

My favorite nights are when Jeopardy! has a “Geology” category!! (My second favorite is “The Bible.) Here are tonight’s clues for all my geo folks! 1/2

The Getty Museum is within the newly announced mandatory evacuation area for the #PalisadesFire.

Not now, San Andreas!! WE'RE BUSY!

Singing "Imagine"?? ... at an Evangelical Christian's funeral?? WHY? How? WHAT?!

Any forestry or ecology folks on here? Is clearing every natural hillside and mountain slope of dead and down trees/debris an actual, plausible mitigation strategy for wildfire prevention?

Current status in southern California. I'm not near any active fires at the moment (blue circle), but we're monitoring it all. FIVE fires currently active: #PalisadesFire #HurstFire #EatonFire #SunsetFire #LidiaFire

This is not a president. This is an asshole.