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faultcreeper.bsky.social @faultcreeper.bsky.social · Aug 21

Big scarps and playas. Dixie Valley, NV

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Marco Francescone @geo-mf.bsky.social · Aug 18

Huge active fault plane at Genoa ridge, perfectly E-dipping!

#normalfaults #sierranevada

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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · Jul 30

Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53?

rdcu.be/eyrre

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faultcreeper.bsky.social @faultcreeper.bsky.social · Jul 30

@seislologist.bsky.social looks like you might need to update the shirt after todays event!!!!

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faultcreeper.bsky.social @faultcreeper.bsky.social · Jul 1

A beast of a soil. Mt Rose Nevada

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faultcreeper.bsky.social @faultcreeper.bsky.social · Jun 17

Sorry Tim.

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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · May 8

USGS research has uncovered a 700-year sequence of major earthquakes in the eastern Aleutian Islands through tsunami evidence and modeling. This work enhances our understanding of seismic hazards in the region.
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#Seismology
#TsunamiResearch
#AleutianIslands #EarthquakePreparedness

A 700-year rupture sequence of great eastern Aleutian earthquakes from tsunami evidence and modeling

New research from the USGS, University of Hawaiʻi, and the University of California, Santa Cruz provides fresh insights into a prehistoric sequence of earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands. Researchers ...

www.usgs.gov

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John Hatchard @johnhatchard.bsky.social · Apr 28

Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could be even worse than feared.

A once-every-500-years earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could shake for 5 minutes and cause 100-foot tsunami waves. That would be just the start of the horrors.

⏬ Bluesky bite-sized article thread (7 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊

Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could be even worse than feared

A once-every-500-years earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could shake for five minutes and cause 100-foot tsunami waves. New research says that would be just the start of the horrors.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Apr 29

“We’d be losing the cornerstone report to communicate to the public the risks we face with climate change and how we can move forward,” said Dustin Mulvaney, professor of environmental studies @SJSU, an author on the southwest regional chapter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...