“Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical… we either prepare for future earthquakes or the population eventually pays the price... In the U.S., this preparation hinges in large part on the expertise of scientists and engineers in federal agencies…” theconversation.com/us-earthquak...

The whole #MyanmarEarthquake rupture in one interferogram! This is three consecutive wide swath frames of ALOS-2 data, provided by JAXA through agreement with NASA. The line-of-sight (LOS) is ~perpendicular to fault strike, so most of what you see is vertical motion at bends and steps of the fault.

USGS Myanmar earthquake remote surface rupture obervations 🔁REFRESH🔁 doi.org/10.5066/P1RY... Offsets from Sentinel2 and Landsat pixel tracking ➡️ (slip blip at southern end; the rupture that can’t stop won’t stop) On-fault offsets from high-res imagery ➡️ more detailed fault mapping

⚒️ 🧪 New satellite imaging of the Myanmar earthquake area confirms that the rupture was unusually long: ~500 km. We discuss the data, the rupture, and the implications, in our latest post. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/surface-ru...

NASA JPL ARIA project analysis of data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 radar images measured the slip on the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar. Quick preliminary map. More details later. Fault ruptured about 500 km (300 miles) in the magnitude 7.7 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Remote surface rupture observations for the M7.7 2025 Myanmar earthquake - soft rollout! doi.org/10.5066/P1RY... Simple fault trace and slip distribution from pixel tracking, high-res from available imagery. Watch for updates! ⚒️ USGS and collaborators effort led by @nadinegrr.bsky.social 🙏

Heartfelt thanks to the USGS crew and others (especially @wangyu-1979.bsky.social) for working hard behind the scenes the last few days to confirm the loooong Myanmar rupture for the response products. Surface rupture imagery is bonkers. What a tragedy for the folks there, sending ♥️💔♥️

Magical INSAR led us to rupture from the M5.8 Parker Butte Nevada earthquake. 1.5 km of surface rupture, right lateral, max offsets 2-5 cm, on NNW plane. Conjugate to NE trending aftershocks.

Curious about what the NVseismolab gets up to? Check out this video and follow us on Instagram for more behind the scenes action! 👉 www.instagram.com/share/BAV7Q5...

New trench excavated across the Alpine Fault at Blue Grey River. Definitely reverse dominant at this site. Thanks to @jameslagreca.bsky.social and Liv for their hard work. We were lucky with weather but eventually chased off by torrential rain.

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⚒️ If you are puzzled by shallow slip deficit during strike-slip earthquakes, maybe diffuse deformation is part of the answer. S. Antoine et al. revisited the Ridgecrest earthquake and got ride of almost all of the SSD by better accounting for off fault deformation. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...

SPOILER ALERT: Went out to collect perishable data around yesterday's M5.8 epicentral region. Preliminary results: Nobody feels aftershocks when @faultcreeper.bsky.social is driving. Afternoon frozen slushy river makes for extremely cool co-seismic features (new types? to document!). 1/2

Ok Nevada, don’t start any of this conjugate faulting stuff. Stay chill little bro

Shout out to our field team who worked all night setting up temporary seismic stations near the epicenter of the ML 5.8 earthquake NNE of Yerington so we can better monitor aftershock activity.

A shaky day for us here in Nevada with a M5.5 earthquake NNE of Yearington at 3:08pm. Did you feel the shaking? Report it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Nevada doing Nevada things - likely l-l s-s on unmapped NE trending structure near Desert Mtns. Mw 5.5 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... Screenshots lol

An exciting PhD opportunity has come up w/ the Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke program in"Understanding earthquake sequences using near- and on-fault paleoseismology on the western Marlborough Fault System". To work with leading paleoseismologists from VUW (J Howarth) & GNS. Contact [email protected] for pdf

New paper alert‼️ Prof. Heather Savage (UCSC) and Prof. Christie Rowe (UNR) characterized the size of slipping layers during earthquakes and how this influences the size of earthquake events through heat production and dissipation. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/8xdj6wut

Rocks and clouds: Paleocene Green Mountain Conglomerate sitting on Paleocene/Upper Cretaceous Denver Formation. Oh and some cute lenticular clouds, and Red Rocks Amphitheater in the distance. Classic Scott 1972 map: coloscisoc.org/wp-content/u...

Today the California Geological Survey released new “Earthquake Zones of Required Investigation” maps (EZRIMs) for both Earthquake Fault Zones (aka “A-P Zones”) and Seismic Hazard Zones (Liquefaction and earthquake-induced landslides).  www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/publicat... 1/5

That time I dressed up as a sub-duck-shin zone.

Dog seen from couch

It is finally online the paper brilliantly led by my friend @GeoJenni (Dr. Jenni Robertson) where we study the #QuaternaryUplift in SW #Crete, the area of 365 AD #CreteEarthquake (M 8.5). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123002883

(blinks furiously in the bright light after coming out of the lab) There’s a special place in hell reserved for people who put too much tape on OSL sample tubes 💀🌋

Ollie the yellow lab today, making the most of the situation

The science is great over here. Heres the Genoa fault for a Friday pic.

White Creek fault slips in 1929 in New Zealand —> radiates seismic waves —> shaking causes landslide —> waterfall forms along diverted river —> waves propagate globally —> except not as expected and Inge Lehmann works it out, publishes P’. Amazing story! iugs-geoheritage.org/geoheritage_...

Show me a picture, new or old of #AlaskaSky Prince William Sound 2024, SSA field trip, freaked me out because it was so blue wtf

My introduction where I earnestly say I do Important Stuff. But actually I really mostly do this