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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 1h

@zzyzx.bsky.social I went to bed like any good bandwagon fan. But here's the seismograph for the win!

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 7h

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 10h

@zzyzx.bsky.social seismic tie.

Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 10h

RIVAS RUMBLE! Single to Left brings in Polanco to tie up at 2-2!

# SeizeTheMoment

@Mariners @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 12h

The labels aren't in the right places, though.

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 12h

The seismogram is a little ahead of the broadcast, and I can tell that something good is happening from the vibrations.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Mariners fans! We installed the Richter Rizzs seismic station at T-MobilePark yesterday. You can track the energy in the ballpark live at mariners.pnsn.org! Let's rock T-Mobile Park! #SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seattle Mariners lead radio announcer Rick Rizzs is kneeling in front of banners that state Richter Rizzs and are in front of a green seismometer with a Pacific Northwest Seismic Network sticker on it.

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The.

5 minutes of a seismogram from the seismic sensor installed at T-Mobile Park.

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 14h

Ruby the hornbill is fetching baseballs, flying between bases, and rooting for the Seattle Mariners to bring home the big win tonight! 💙

🧢 Wear your Mariners gear and score $5 off general admission at the ticket window (offer valid through the Mariners’ postseason run).

#seizethemoment

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 17h

EarthScope is looking for a GeoWorkforce Associate (remote, US) to help lead internship programs and other products that facilitate the development of a robust, well-trained geoscience workforce.

Learn more & apply: https://earthscope.org/careers/

Students and an instructor kneel on the grass connecting cables as part of a seismic experiment. Text reads "We're Hiring!" with a link to earthscope.org/careers. The graphic is overlain by a purple to red gradient.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 18h

EarthScope is hiring a Full-Stack Web Designer/Developer (remote, US) to lead the end-to-end design and development of a website for the NSF-funded National Geophysical Facility, as well as the evolution of EarthScope’s existing web stack.

Learn more & apply: https://earthscope.org/careers/

Overhead view of a web developer with multiple printed design documents, laptop and monitor screens, overlain by a red to purple gradient. Text reads "We're Hiring!" with a link to earthscope.org/careers

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Washington State Dept of Natural Resources @wadnr.bsky.social · 19h

Even after the flames are out, the danger isn’t. Burned areas can still send debris flows roaring downstream for up to five years after a wildfire all it takes is some heavy rain (about ½ inch per hour) to get things moving.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 19h

Happy #FieldworkFriday Mariners fans! Cal Raleigh said he could feel the ground shaking in Game 2, so PNSN came to take a closer look! We installed a seismometer right here in T-Mobile Park to record seismic energy during game 5. Seattle, we want to feel this place rocking! #SeizeTheMoment

PNSN install team standing along dugout with the empty green seats of TMobile Park behind them.

PNSN Field Engineer installing seismic instrument on concrete ground. Tool bag in foreground, black wall in background.

Looking over the right shoulder of PNSN Field Engineer working on laptop with green seismic instrument in background.

Green seismic instrument on ground, Grey and blue cable extending from rear.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 1d

A new study has concluded that solar power plants are now cost-competitive with diesel for many rural Alaska communities, even if solar is only usable during part of the year. (via Alaska Beacon)

Hybrid solar-diesel power is less expensive than diesel alone in parts of rural Alaska, study shows

Diesel prices in remote areas are so high that it’s cheaper to use solar for part of the year, the analysis found, even with the cost of two power plants.

akpub.io

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 1d

As opposed to vicious magma.

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. Sweet Fergus. I'm so sorry.

Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 1d

They're feeding lots of the same complaints and fears to SW CO.

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 1d

I've lived next to gas pads (and the trucks and the compressors), and I've lived with solar and batteries. I would much rather have solar as a neighbor.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Another "storm of the century" is hitting Kotzebue, for the second year in a row. Last year's storm almost took out my dad's house. Woke up to videos of the flooding and it's already bad. They are expected to get another storm after this one passes.

www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Kotzebue has issued a mandatory evacuation order as flooding from coastal storm begins

Water could rise as much as 10 feet above the high tide line, according the National Weather Service

www.kotz.org

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, no. Kotzebue.

Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 2d

The city of Kotzebue is under mandatory evacuation orders. That's as the community prepares for flooding the National Weather Service warns could be worse than last year's, which led to dozens of evacuations and two families losing their homes.

Mandatory evacuations ordered in Kotzebue as flooding from coastal storm begins

Water could rise as much as 10 feet above the high tide line, according the National Weather Service.

akpub.io

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, it's not like he was flying along the San Andreas or past the Cascades...

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 2d

And here: Florida River.

Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 2d

Butter.

(I grew up in Maine.)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 2d

Sheesh - a tsunami big enough to push coral boulders 100s of m inland in the British Virgin Islands around the year 1400, likely sourced from an earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench.

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 2d

This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals

Uranium-series analyses provide dates for 15 annually banded coral skeletons on the low Caribbean island of Anegada A subset of the corals was likely washed ashore in a Puerto Rico Trench tsunami...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 3d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 4d

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 3d

You do not need to register for GSA to attend this workshop virtually - please check it out!

Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 3d

This #GSA #ShortCourse is accepting new virtual participants through Friday of this week (Oct 10). Be sure to secure your spot if interested! ♿

Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · Jul 19

Geo-professionals with disabilities will be leading a short course at GSA Connects this year about the experiences of people with disabilities in the geoscience workforce.

Can’t get to San Antonio? You can attend virtually! Learn more and register at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2...

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 6d

At the 2019 reunion presentation about the geothermal heat pump, the presenter mentioned something about the geo department getting excited and wanting to collect data. I love that the data became senior theses and then advice for other colleges.