The hate for NZ has to stop 😂

Go Seahawks!!! 🙌🏻 #superbowl #champs

quite astonishing landslide in Niscemi, Sicily

⚡🟡Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued🟡⚡ 📍Where: Areas of Canterbury and possibly also Christchurch City 🕛When: 1:30pm - 9pm Friday 23 January ⁉️What: Downpours, large hail and thunderstorms. 👀Watch for any WARNINGS that may be issued. bit.ly/AllWarnings

Of course clouds have to be moisture-laden, otherwise they wouldn't be clouds. I get what they mean here but it made me chuckle slightly 🙂

Meri Kirihimete/Merry Christmas to my blue sky people, from down under in the summer heat! 🎄✝️🎅🏻

Get ready to see this a lot more in the coming decades.

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

Another incredible photo from this account. Never thought I'd see anything from inside or near to the blast zone from during the event!

According to the USGS, more than 2.3 million people may have been exposed to very strong or severe shaking, and another 14 million may have experienced moderate to strong shaking. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M 7.4 - 20 km E of Santiago, Philippines earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🙏

⚒️ 🧪 A M6.9 earthquake struck Cebu island in the Philippines today, causing at least 20 deaths. The rupture seems to have occurred on an unmapped fault, started below the ocean and continuing to the southwest, passing near populated areas of Cebu. Read more:

I have no words, never knew these photos existed!!! @davepetley.bsky.social have you seen them?

You actually erased NZ? 🤷‍♂️😂

Breaking News: An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 250 people and injured more than 500, officials said. The death toll was expected to rise.

M 6.0 - 27 km ENE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The shallowest landslide I think I've ever seen and seems tragic too with cars on the road at the time. @davepetley.bsky.social what do you make of it?

Just found out about the discontinuation of the stratospheric temperature and height products from the NOAA POES satellites. I did not think to link these to recent political changes to US satellite operations. I am deeply dismayed by this. Our understanding of the stratosphere is now hamstrung.

The M6.1 shallow #earthquake near Bigadic, Turkey, occurred on a normal fault system, possibly the Sindirgi-Sincanli Fault Zone. A similar event occurred near Simav in 2011 and generated significant damage around the epicenter. ⚒️🧪

This. 8.8 to 8.9 is a big difference, 8.9 to 9.1 big again, 8.9 to 9.1 is an enormous energy difference. Magnitude 9 earthquakes are truly colossal events.

MOMENTO DO TERREMOTO na Península de Kamchatka Rússia #terremoto de magnitude 8,8 #tsunami É mole? 🧵1/...⤵️

⚠️ A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii and parts of Alaska. The west coast of the US and BC is under a tsunami watch. Here is important information about tsunami alerts and preparedness actions. www.weather.gov/safety/tsuna...

There's the main event then! Got to be devastating for Kamchatka's coastal communities.

Explains the shallow aftershock depths to some degree, and very interesting on a range of topics!

The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

I also derived a new elevation model from the aerial images, allowing me to visualize the elevation change in the affected areas. The rocks and debris in the valley are locally up to 32m thick and I estimate the total displaced volume is about 11 million cubic meters. #Blatten

Thoughts are with those affected in #Boulder today, whatever the exact details this is senseless and awful.

Local authorities estimate the volume of the 2.3 km-long and several tens of metre-high (at max.) deposit mantling the Blatten valley floor to be ~10 million m3! 🧊🌊 www.vs.ch/de/web/commu...

@davepetley.bsky.social A still from the helicopter video gives a clearer view of the runup the other side of the valley 😮

Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten

Awful devastation 😟

Incredible #Myanmar quake footage.

Draft day! #saints #whodatnation #nfldraft

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.

The new satellite imagery to the right of the surface rupture is perfectly aligned with the historical Google imagery. On the left, you can see the rupture and offset.

“The eruption fissure that opened shortly before 10am is now 700 m long and has not grown for about an hour. The 2nd fissure, which opened just inside the barriers shortly before 11am, is considerably smaller but appears to be trying to extend S towards Grindavík.“ 🧪⚒️ www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Update: Preliminary coseismic displacements of 2025 Myanmar earthquake from @CopernicusEU @ESA #Sentinel2 images by using #CosiCorr, processed by @NTU_TW GEOG #Copernicus 1. Rupture propagated from N to S 2. Max. offset >4m 3. Rupture length ~500km

I've been going through the imagery and mapping any destroyed/damaged structure, particular rescue priorities (potential mass casualty events) and IDP locations in all the imagery available. google.com/maps/d/edit?... Please check the map and share widely with anyone who will find it useful.

Over the day, USGS significantly updated the ShakeMap which better represents the intensity along the ruptured fault now. ⚒️🧪

USGS updated PAGER estimate. It's frightening. Zone of extreme damage is now shown elongated along Sagaing fault for >500km. 70% probability of fatalities > 10000 (~35% >100000). ⚒️ 🧪 These are probabilities, hopefully overestimated. In any case it's a massive disaster. Thoughts for the victims 💔

From the BBC: "The ruling military junta has made a rare call for international aid - but the opposition National Unity Government is urging that any assistance be delivered through independent, local networks" #Myanmar

In case anyone was wondering, the United States isn’t able to deploy USAID’s DART emergency response teams or international search and rescue (USAR) to this or any other crisis.

Just correcting myself in reposting Dr Lucy Jones's post about the earthquake - Naypyidaw is the current capital of Myanmar, not Yangon.

CNBC-TV18 on YouTube showing the aftermath of a horrendous building collapse in Bangkok. That is 1000kms away from Mandalay where the epicentre of the mainshock was located. Oh my.

And already, there are horrifying videos emerging of building collapses. There is going to be a very urgent need for medical professionals in Myanmar, but its international isolation is going to be a massive issue.

This could be devastating. This is strike-slip mechanism on a plate boundary, much like the 1906 quake on the San Andreas. The rupture length is at least 300km. The capital, Yangon, is near the fault, but I can’t yet see if the fault ruptured towards Yangon or away from it