Map of Japan earthquake

First reports of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the coast of Honshu by @lastquake.emsc.eu

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Live view of the #Kilauea eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the NW rim of the caldera [V1cam]. This camera is a pan-tilt-zoom model & the view may change depending on activity. The V1cam is an autofocusing pan-tilt-zoom model. The camera automatically focuses its view.

#USGS #HVO #V1

OK, what came first for you? The earthquake or the app blaring, waking you up in the middle of the night?

The app for me. I want to hear about your experience last night. Looking to interview a couple of people this morning on the topic of last night's quake near Boulder Creek.

DMs open

Map of how this earthquake was felt throughout the region

Shallow Mw4.6 reverse faulting earthquake near Boulder Creek, CA. If you live near there, fill in the did you feel it questionnaire!
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science

Not so marvelous news.

~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

I have a joke about seismology but you're Rayleigh not going to Love it.

[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Turn the sound on! 🔊 The USGS V1 camera at Kilauea now has *audio* and tephra is falling on it right now - www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

Figure from Verdon and Harris (2025) with pink star showing rough location of today’s earthquake. Orange polygon shows area where pressure gradient exceed 0.9 psi/ft. Grey dots show likely cases of induced seismicity.

Today’s M4.9 #earthquake in Louisiana represents an unusual earthquake for the region and occurred in the area of the Haynesville Shale, which has been associated with an increased likelihood of hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity. ⚒️🧪

cartoon drawing of someone trying to clean their glasses on their shirt. she holds it to the light. still dirty. frowning. “no” “may your enemies’ glasses be always smudged, and their shirts the wrong type of fabric ♥️”

a mundane curse #comic

Episode 42 continues, with lava geysers of up to 1,200 feet high Ashfall advisory also in effect for east and southeast portions of the Big Island, including places such as Hilo, Pāhoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Volcano and others in the Hilo, Puna and Kaʻū areas.

Ashfall advisory also in effect for east and southeast portions of the Big Island, including places such as Hilo, Pāhoa, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Volcano and others in the Hilo, Puna and Kaʻū areas.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Shakemap for the magnitude 4.27 earthquake mentioned in this post.

A magnitude 4.27 earthquake occurred 4 km ESE of San Ramon, CA on February 2nd, 2026 at 3:01:13 PM GMT

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RIP to the QUEEN, Catherine O’Hara. 💔

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

This immersive data visualization will help you comprehend the scope of historic cuts to grants and the research workforce:

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

By @maxkozlov.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & @dangaristo.bsky.social, edited by @richmonastersky.bsky.social

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Map of past seismicity around the M4.9 Indio earthquake using many different catalogs and the Generic Mapping Tools software

Quick map of the M4.9 #earthquake near Indio, CA, and its current aftershock sequence (with blue outlines). Located about 15 km from the 1992 Joshua Tree quake and consistent with past strike slip faulting in the area. ⚒️🧪

Consider me the vampire who moved to Italy and watched the US change in a few months..

It was fascinating to see the similarities between these and the petroglyphs I have seen in the western US!

Thank you!

You are very welcome!

Yes, there are also glacial striations on the rocks! Life in Italy is good, how quickly things seem to have changed in the US..

I haven’t posted for a while, because I just don’t know what to say anymore…
But here are some prehistoric rock scratchings in Valcamonica that I found amazing, so maybe some of you will enjoy them too.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Rock avalanche below Mt King George triggered by the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake. The runout distance is 1.4 km.

A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
eos.org/thelandslide...

New Year Office Chitchat How was your Christmas? you ask and I think of the bloodstained rug and the silent scraping of the spade in the garden at midnight and the wash wash washing of my hands and the dreams, those endless dreams which haunt the night-time and smudge their thumbprints on the day to come and I reply Super, thanks. Yours?

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!

Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI

www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

There’s a kitten rescuer whose videos I love, but she’s clearly been rescuing kittens for so long that she’s run out of cute names

Every new video has the cutest kittens you ever seen, with a caption like, “Meet the Roofing Materials kittens: Tar Paper, Shingles, and Fiberglass!”