Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.

Not plotted here but the epicenter is located near the western limit of InSAR fringe, indicating rupture was predominantly towards the east, including Caracas. So rupture directivity, which is like a seismic Doppler effect, likely contributed to stronger ground-shaking effects and damage.

Another interferogram (Sentinel-1, descending track) covering the bulk of the rupture. The fact that you see essentially (the southern) half of the displacement pattern, indicates that the fault was offshore, or close to it. The noisiness is due to the tropical vegetation in-region.

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

I am currently in Budapest, where I don't have an earthly about what the talking heads on their World Cup coverage are saying. I don't miss the loudmouthed prat on FOX at all (yeah, you know which one). www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Went to the salt mines outside of Kraków yesterday and thought I'd model good technique

FRINGE 2026, day 2: Still zombified by jetlag, shotgunning coffee to stay conscious. Also, through some kind of black magic, someone has cut the auditorium in half, which is not doing wonders for my grasp on reality! We're starting with ESA future mission concepts this morning...

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

FRINGE 2026 is go! The premier scientific workshop for InSAR methods, results and science. Apparently they are not sure whether it is the 13th or 14th edition. But I have been coming to them since 2003 (as has Marcus Engdahl who made this slide) and wow I'm old!

GOOD EVENING KRAKÓW

Saw the first post-Mindanao earthquake Sentinel-1 data were available, and thought fuck it, I'll stay up late and process it. And actually, it's way more coherent than I thought it would be! And there are fringes!

Earthquake response: drop to a crouch for a second, then move to computer and spend three minutes refreshing the USGS webpage until a dot shows up on the map. (M3.4, Reche Canyon, near the San Jacinto fault)

Applications are now open (due July 1st) for the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis! Alongside the usual background, theory and practical applications, we plan to cover some ISCE3 and NISAR content for the first time! www.earthscope.org/event/2026-t...

It is important to validate InSAR time series results! And to call it out when people oversell the capabilities of the method! (Ideally before Science magazine airs out your dirty laundry in public...)

First time at the Bowl for 2026! In the cheapest of the cheap seats. Alison Moyet is down there somewhere. (Loved all the Yazoo songs!) Marc Almond and the Human League to follow.

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

And, here, in much more detail. This is an absolutely critical read for all federally funded scientists and institutions. Now is not the time to sit in the corner, hoping you won't be noticed - now is the time for action. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

It's not often you get to see Javanese shadow puppetry and a full Gamelan outside of Indonesia, let alone in your random Californian city! Thanks to @seismogenic.bsky.social for letting us know it was happening (and well played)!

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

I know a number of students who have done this and all found it to be extremely valuable. Students get introductions to Linux, Python, seismic data and analysis, Jupyter notebooks and even a bit of GNSS data analysis, skills that will be useful across multiple fields. Registration closes June 1. ⚒️

I'll be spending the next several days driving/ being driven in a cargo van of sentimental family items from Cape Girardeau, MO to Riverside, CA. I prefer to think of it as an "opportunity to see parts of the country I wouldn't normally see" rather than "a fucking long drive". Some pictures:

BANGARANGAAAAAAAAA

Sandie Shaw hasn't aged well

Austria: hoped he was going to do the conga with his animal friends there... and now we're all done bar the voting. Drink!

Romania: proper boggle-eyed stare on that one! Endearingly odd operatic warbles at the end of the chorus. Supported by the female Darth Sidious. Pretty good.

Norway: sounds a bit like The Hives. Would probably prefer The Hives, tbh. It's not awful. Showing good moves and grip strength for one with so many broken bones.

Italy: he wore white to a wedding? Faux pas! Got minor Get Lucky vibes at the beginning, didn't hate it.

Cyprus: Foxy lady, good hip shake. 12 points from Greece

Sweden: Full Euro-pop banger! Thought she might have an ugly mouth, but apparently not.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Lithuania: Not a fan of the silver face paint, but he loves humanity, which is nice.

Poland: good pipes. Big slide thing. Disagree with the central conceit of the song, mind you.

Finland: Vigorous fiddling. Good legs. Bloke looking sad standing next to window shutters. Ticks all the boxes.

Moldova: I hope they play this to incoming air passengers from this day forth! I once saw the Moldovan National Opera in Oxford. This is probably better than that.

France: Good dynamics! Operatic! I don't hate it.

UK: He might be rubbish, but he's *our* rubbish. Like the fuzzy monitor heads.

Bulgaria: Splendidly bonkers, tempo changes, flexing, moshing in chairs. Possibly their best export since Hristo Stoichkov?

Malta: easy listening in leather trousers and a vest. It'll never catch on.

Serbia: wouldn't want to pick my nose with those nails. Bonus points for the guttural yelling and flames.

Australia: not in Europe. Maybe she's lost? Piano was definitely fake.

Ukraine. Warbling. Nah.

Greece: "supposed to be a cat"(!) Loses points for using a scooter, hate those things. Jen is giggling like mad on the sofa. Liked the statue.

Albania: Big mother is watching you? With subtitles? Ominous.

Belgium: no actual ice. Would have been fun to see her try to dance on some. Disappointing.

Germany: She seems nice, but I don't think the flames are making up for a bit of a lack of oomph in the vocals. #Eurovision

Denmark: looks like a bunch of pelvic thrusting zombies in a box? #Eurovision

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore