Thrilled to share our new study, published in Tectonics, on spatio-temporal graben evolution in the rift linkage zone in #CentralAfar using quantitative #geomorphology, showing fault initiation timescales & evolution patterns.🌍
@derekkeir.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social
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The SGI-SIMP 2026 meeting is in Padua 15-17 September en.geoscienze.org/padua2026/
For extensional tectonics see “P12. Faulting, magmatism and crustal stretching during extension” en.geoscienze.org/N538/p12.html
submission deadline 11.05.2026
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social

The SGI-SIMP 2026 meeting is in Padua 15-17 September en.geoscienze.org/padua2026/
For extensional tectonics see “P12. Faulting, magmatism and crustal stretching during extension” en.geoscienze.org/N538/p12.html
submission deadline 11.05.2026
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social

16:00 Ran Issachar (Geological Survey of Israel) “Plume-induced plate rotation in the Afro-Arabian rift” 16:20 Hany Khalil (Alexandria University, Egypt) “Impact of rotation pole proximity on rift evolution: analog and numerical modelling insights from the Red Sea” 16:40 Asfaw Erbello (Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia) “Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa”

⚒️ How do rotational tectonics affect continental rifting and break-up? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

on March 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET

with Ran Issachar,
Hany Khalil,
Asfaw Erbello

Register
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Past talks
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Fault Stability Assessment in Tectonically Active Geothermal Fields Through Integrated Stress Analysis Static fault stability analysis establishes critical baseline conditions for safe geothermal development The majority of faults in the Tulu Moye geothermal field are critically stressed under cur...

Stress inversion of focal mechanisms + structural mapping + Monte Carlo simulations. All open source. Open access.

With @derekkeir.bsky.social @healydave.bsky.social

📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

⚒️ @eos.org
#FaultMechanics #RockPhysics #StructuralGeology #EarthSciences #Geothermal #OpenAccess

Congratulazioni a doctor Marella Parnas

Congratulations to new doctor Marella Parnas

Fault Stability Assessment in Tectonically Active Geothermal Fields Through Integrated Stress Analysis Static fault stability analysis establishes critical baseline conditions for safe geothermal development The majority of faults in the Tulu Moye geothermal field are critically stressed under cur...

New paper on fault slip susceptibility and role of fluids in fault slip by @robrizzo.bsky.social in GCubed agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.

We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece) As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

New InSAR study by Marella Parnas provides insights on the likely fault responsible for the 1995 Aigion earthquake in the Corinth rift @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social
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Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece) As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

New InSAR study by Marella Parnas provides insights on the likely fault responsible for the 1995 Aigion earthquake in the Corinth rift @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

Lisa McNeill training to use a Guralp Certimus for Corinth seismic project @seis-uk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Watch South Africa instead. They normally win.

New Research Topic on rifting and the energy transition available for submissions in Frontiers in Earth Science @rehachandresh.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social
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Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s8GTEs #ScienceMagArchives

New Research Topic on rifting and the energy transition available for submissions in Frontiers in Earth Science @rehachandresh.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

We have 51 ESPCDs available for loan at SEIS-UK.

These devices are most suitable for shorter period surface wave and body wave studies.

#SeismicSaturdays

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

#FieldPhotoFriday Sometimes flipping a switch is all it takes when trying to remedy a down station, if only the breaker that had flipped was local! The field crew stopped by this station near Jurupa Valley to diagnose and fix it, flipping the breaker and adjusting some cables is what did the trick!

@seis-uk.bsky.social has had seismic equipment on every continent through our work with the wider geophysics community. We supply equipment, software, training and expertise to ensure that world leading research can be conducted.

The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development - Nature Seismic data from the Turkana Depression in East Africa show that areas of thinned lithosphere are not necessarily persistent weak zones where extension and magmatic provinces will develop.

Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development

go.nature.com/4nFsYmD

Lisa McNeill training to use a Guralp Certimus for Corinth seismic project @seis-uk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

AI is not just for menial works! Great job Gianmaria @derekkeir.bsky.social

Our new study is out in Scientific Reports!
@natureportfolio.nature.com. We use cluster analysis to reveal how the mantle source beneath the Afar Rift (Ethiopia) evolved during continental rifting.
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece) As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

New paper by Marella Parnas coming out soon re-analysing the 1995 Aigion earthquake of the Corinth rift using InSAR and teleseismic data, and coming up with a new interpretation of the likely causative fault. @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

Well done Doctor Marella Parnas!

Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece) As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

New paper by Marella Parnas coming out soon re-analysing the 1995 Aigion earthquake of the Corinth rift using InSAR and teleseismic data, and coming up with a new interpretation of the likely causative fault. @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

16:00 Daniel Sauter (University of Strasbourg, France) “Was the mantle warmer when Pangea broke up? Insights from initial oceanic crustal thickness alongside the rifted margins of the Atlantic and Indian oceans” 16:20 Éva Oravecz (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and ETH, Switzerland) “The effects of oblique rifting on the syn-rift magmatism and spreading initiation” 16:40 Leila Mezri (University of Bremen – MARUM, Germany) “Tectonic controls on melt production and crustal architecture during magma-poor seafloor spreading”

⚒️ How does seafloor spreading initiate when continents break apart? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

on Feb 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET

with Daniel Sauter,
Éva Oravecz,
Leila Mezri

Register
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Past talks
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January 5th: “Sources of rift inheritance” 16:00 CET: Mélanie Ballay (University of Strasbourg, France) “Mantle inheritance and mantle-melt interaction, two key factors in the lithospheric break-up: insights from the Australia-Antarctica magma-poor rifted margins" 16:20 CET: Jeffrey Pollock (Mount Royal University, Canada) “The influence of orogenic collapse and tectonic inheritance on continental break-up: insights from seismic anisotropy in the lithospheric mantle" 16:40 CET: Zoltán Erdős (University of Potsdam, Germany) “The influence of orogenic inheritance on rift dynamics - a numerical modeling perspective”

⚒️ How does orogenic inheritance affect rifting and continental break-up? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

on Jan 5th 2026, 4 pm CET

with Mélanie Ballay,
Jeffrey Pollock,
Zoltán Erdős

Register
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Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

On board the Gaia Blu research ship of the CNR Italy today in Livorno @sorcerinsar.bsky.social

On board the Gaia Blu research ship of the CNR Italy today in Livorno @sorcerinsar.bsky.social