Peekaboo I see you

Always a pleasure to work with the uber-talented @dralkatrip.bsky.social. Do we know everything there is to know about earthquakes in South Carolina? Not by a long shot! I look forward to seeing what comes out of the GAtech deployment.

Interesting talk! I find myself wondering how HPW fits into this story. 3-km nearest fault distance, vertical PGA over 1g, horizontal around 0.5g. But gotta be sure the metadata are sorted out.

Processed strong motion data for the M7.7 Myanmar earthquake www.strongmotioncenter.org/cgi-bin/CESM...

Mandalay Hill, among thd country’s most storied cultural heritage sites

Oh shit earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Some faults are scary and some faults are creepy (and some are both). A new portal shows creep rates at 3 sites in northern and central California, going back as much as 30 years. escweb.wr.usgs.gov/share/langbe...

Last summer I was fortunate to visit a regional @nws.noaa.gov office in Colorado, with two grandsons. It was fascinating to see 1) how much they do to monitor & assess weather threats, and 2) how small they are.

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a cinema

Movie that you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only

Whatcha doing out there, big guy? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Do you have a library card?

What does an earthquake sound like? Check this out! #5 is a doozy. The guy was enjoying the ride…until he wasn’t… 🫨 archive.org/details/karl...

Lite (and fun) science for heavy times www.science.org/content/arti...

It’s gonna be so confusing for everyone who needs to drive there

Speaking of earthquakes along the Atlantic Seaboard! If you felt it, pls report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Hot times on Friday night ⛷️

A pretty good bridge

The seismologist never wants to give in to Henny Pennyism, but a M3.5 near Boron reminds us that recent large quakes left a pretty big gap in the Mojave desert.

#SRL remains near and dear to my heart because it maintains high @seismosocam.bsky.social standards whilst allowing room for papers that don’t fit conventional boxes 👻

Enough with the tease. My outside the boxest idea for investigating active faults in low-strain-rate regions. Has she lost her ever-lovin’ mind? Or created a whole new discipline, spectral-seismology? Time will tell. 👻👻👻 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

Anybody up for something on the lighter side?

This is a teaser 👻

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The poignancy of a window seat: fire scars perilously close to Mt Wilson, and Pacific Palisades reduced to two dimensions 😢

We weren’t in that scene but rather behind it, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The brilliance of the day could not be diminished or dampened by a little cold weather. In fact I hardly remember the weather that day.

The death toll from the SoCal fires inches closer to the toll from the ‘94 Northridge earthquake. More structures were destroyed in the fires than the earthquake, and the total property losses will likely be higher.

Ime, having one, and especially two, women in a room changes the tenor of discourse, and wards off easy tendencies towards bias and worse.

Speaking of disasters, I hesitate to call attention to a Comment that makes one reasonable point amidst a sea of poorly informed points, but the opportunity to reply led to some interesting new insights about the 1886 Charleston earthquake. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/arti...

Your daily reminder that natural hazards don’t go on holiday because of other natural disasters. A major earthquake during a Santa Ana event is among SoCal’s worst nightmares. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

If you’re in Los Angeles County and got an evacuation alert shortly after 4pm, and then a nvm message, remember that there are humans behind many emergency management systems.

Following large earthquakes, media coverage can give an inflated impression of impact by focusing on the most dramatic damage*. I’m afraid the scale & scope of the firestorm losses are much worse than the world is seeing so far, with no coverage from the hardest hit places 😢

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Not improving. Horrific scenes from the foothill communities.

A lot of folks in the red zone, one of three in the county right now

We are safe in the flatlands but it’s downright apocalyptic out there www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...

How many villages in the epicentral region, that is the question. An earthquake like this will not be kind to stone rubble masonry. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Abstract deadline coming up! Interested in earthquakes and their impact on society? Join us in Baltimore in April!

Yesterday’s M4.7 near the Geysers, where induced earthquakes are common, generated relatively subdued shaking for its magnitude, consistent with results of past studies starting with Hough (2014), a little paper that held up pretty well 😁 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Singapore!

#Protip: when those earthquake notifications come through, never read so fast that you mistake the depth for the magnitude #NewYearsHeartAttack earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Mark your calendars now, I promise at least one of these talks will be highly entertaining 😁

The DYFI reports for today’s M4.1 earthquake in Quebec suggests the temblor shook more moose than people. But as a US system, DYFI does not sample populations evenly, especially outside the US (but inside the US as well). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

20 years already since the monster M9.1 Andaman-Sumatra earthquake unleashed a tsunami that caused most of the 200,000+ deaths. One of a handful of M9+ quakes since the advent of modern seismometry, and arguably the most tragic.

When you haven’t been on skis in 4 years, and never exactly learned to ski in the first place, what’s better than a bunny slope? A half 🐰 slope!

@temblorinc.bsky.social hey! Hi!

You’ll be visited by three spirits

The major Caribbean/North American plate boundary brushes the coast of SE Cuba. Yesterday’s M5.9 was fortunately not close to major population centers. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

“An old man walked along the shore, finding starfish & throwing them back to the sea. A person came along & said, old man, there are so many starfish, you can’t possibly make a difference. The old man looked at the starfish in his hand & said, I can make a difference to this one.” #adoptdontshop