In case you missed it in our August Newsletter… Check out this feature story on our Cores to Code program! Hear directly from students about how the program has impacted their lives, their goals, and their futures. This is what real change looks like. Read the full story:

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Join me on Sept. 14 at 3:00 EST for this SSP Curiosity lab talk “Living with Earthquakes: how can science help keep us safe when the Earth shakes?” Register: ssp.org/events/curio...

📣 SAVE THE DATE Mark your calendars for the SZ4D Science Community Meeting in Long Beach, CA, April 20-22, 2026, preceded by an early career event. Full program, registration, travel grant applications available in the Fall. Open to all. More info -> www.sz4d.org/events/2026-...

First day of school! Year 7 at Virginia Tech. The year I was hit with the readers 😆🤓🌊 Let’s go, HOKIES! 🦃

It's also annoying because that paper is about sudden land subsidence and not tsunamis or quake probabilities as such. They do note established quake models and that if you are suddenly two metres lower than you were before your tsunami risk just increased a lot. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity? 🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured! 🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM #ImpactfulData #EarthScience

Check out the August 2025 edition of CRESCENT's Quarterly Newsletter: Seismic Moment mailchi.mp/uoregon/seis...

New documentary short just dropped! @pbs.org updated their video about a Cascadia subduction (not seduction) zone earthquake and tsunami with new research from @diatomdura.bsky.social and team! youtu.be/OQNoO1Ua-q0

An opinion piece by Diego Melgar on the recent Russia earthquake and early warning systems was featured on MSNBC today. Check it out here: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I enjoyed this wide ranging (and timely!) conversation about earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone on the Risky Science podcast. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/7l21...

Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️

Some quotes from @diegosismologo.bsky.social and me in here 🌊🌊 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Totally agree. Climate change isn’t causing big subduction earthquakes. But it is raising baseline sea levels along our coasts, and that makes the impacts of those earthquakes and tsunamis worse when they do happen. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another quick comparison of the 1952 #Kamchatka #earthquake from MacInnes et al. (2010) with today’s M8.8 event. The aftershock areas are similar, as well as one region of foreshocks. The updated USGS rupture model has a max slip of 10m versus 12m for 1952, with SW rupture direction. 🧪⚒️

Direct link here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Excited to see this product from our Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL) out! Huge shoutout to Lydia Staisch for spearheading this effort along with lots of input from the coastal paleoseismology community. Check it out for all of your paleoseismic dataset needs!

Dr. Tina Dura, part of the CRESCENT Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) working group, was featured recently in a PBS Terra video about the future Cascadia megathrust event. Learn more about what the event could mean for the PNW and how you can prepare here ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uV...

Excited to see this product from our Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL) out! Huge shoutout to Lydia Staisch for spearheading this effort along with lots of input from the coastal paleoseismology community. Check it out for all of your paleoseismic dataset needs!

Check out this short video from PBS Terra about the Cascadia subduction zone. I make a few appearances! youtu.be/89uVoIN5ZH4?...

I was once a little pain the ass, gym rat, point guard at Chico High in Chico, CA. I found this article while visiting home and it brought those memories flooding back 🏀

Research led by Dr. Tina Dura and CRESCENT on increased coastal flood risk in the PNW was just featured in the June 2025 issue of TsuInfo Alert! Check it out here ➡️ dnr.wa.gov/washington-g...

Cores2Code is a wrap! Last week, students learned Python and crustal deformation models—then shared their final projects. We’re excited to see where their geoscience paths lead! Huge thanks to @diatomdura.bsky.social, Andrea Hawkes, Harvey Kelsey & @diegosismologo.bsky.social for making it happen!

Snuck in a little CPAL fieldwork while the @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social Cores to Code undergrads were busy modeling with @diegosismologo.bsky.social. Just a little light work mapping 1700 CE tsunami sand at Lagoon Creek, CA 🌊🌊

The @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social Cores to Code students have been busy in the lab processing sediment cores, compiling site stratigraphy, running loss on ignition, and conducting foram and diatom analysis! They’ve been star researchers, remaining engaged and enthusiastic throughout the process!

Just a reminder that we STILL don't know if NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program has funding for FY25... the grant year starting in September. This grant funds EVERY state- and territory-level tsunami program in the nation.

Grundens day. Dare I say these were even more comfortable than the Carhartt overalls? And you can sit in the mud and not get wet. Where have these been all my paleoseismology life? 🌊🌊

Great first few days in the field with the @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social Cores to Code undergraduate research program. The students are already expert paleoseismologists! We took cores, described stratigraphy, and they found their first earthquake evidence! All in a good few days work in Humboldt Bay 🌊🌊

Great first few days in the field with the @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social Cores to Code undergraduate research program. The students are already expert paleoseismologists! We took cores, described stratigraphy, and they found their first earthquake evidence! All in a good few days work in Humboldt Bay 🌊🌊

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Registration is now open for CRESCENT's Annual Meeting October 28-29! Learn more and register by July 11 ⬇️ cascadiaquakes.org/2...

Entering my fieldwork overalls era. Keep it muddy, keep it cute 🌊🏄🏻‍♀️💅🏻

A major quake along the Cascadia subduction zone could cause up to 2 meters of land drop—vastly expanding coastal floodplains. Combined with sea-level rise, flood exposure could more than triple by 2100, a new study warns. In ABC7: abc7.com/post/study-e... In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fun drive from Coos Bay to Arcata today. It was foggy/sunny/windy just like it should be. Here I am freezing my booty off at Cape Blanco, doing my important job of warding off that 1000 foot mega tsunami*! *Mega tsunamis are not a thing and we don’t expect anything larger than 100 feet at Cascadia 😎

Do you know your tsunami risk? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Great first day of the @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social Cores to Code undergrad research program! We’re road tripping down the Oregon coast on our way to NorCal. We discussed Siletzia, wave cut terraces, and relative sea-level change at Cascadia. It was a solid day with a great group! 🌊🌊 @vt_geosciences

Two of my favorite genres collide: Cascadia earthquakes and home-improvement. 🌊 www.realtor.com/advice/home-...

These headlines irk me but the story is pretty good! www.sciencefocus.com/news/100-ft-...

Great piece by Jes Burns on our Cascadia subsidence work. I’m so grateful for journalists like Jes who take the time to really understand complex science and then accurately and clearly communicate it to the general public. She’s the goat! 🐐🌊

An analysis out of Virginia Tech and the University of Oregon shows sea level rise could pose a greater risk to coastal communities when considering the effects of a Cascadia earthquake and climate-driven sea level rise together.

I’ll take “What happens when a predatory news source adds a zero?” for $1000, Chuck. 🙄

As if the real story isn’t scary enough…. www.nbcnews.com/science/eart...

Congrats to @austindoug13.bsky.social on this excellent paper! It was fun to be a part of it and gain more experience in the world of microplastics!

The PNW states use future subduction quake/tsunami scenarios to assess risk to the coast. The most-used scenario today involves a hypothetical massive splay fault extending all the way north to south. With new seismic reflection data, we have shown that the 'megasplay' is mostly non-existent. 1/4

We’ve come full circle back to the more scientifically reasonable 100ft tsunami heights. Maybe people will stop blowing up my inbox with angry messages about how I don’t know anything about tsunamis! Also, lest we forget, our paper isn’t even about tsunamis 🙃 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

With everything going on *gestures wildy*, I am feeling so to be on Ios Island in Greece with some incredible other geologists learning everything we can about subduction↘️💥🌋, underplating ↗️🍽️, deformation 〰️, fluids💦, and (perhaps?)...slow slip 🫴🦋.

Where is @the-independent.com getting this idea of a 1000ft tsunami from the paper they cite by @diatomdura.bsky.social ?? Am I missing something? ⚒️ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...