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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 9h

Early days for this one, but doesn’t look like somewhere we’d associate with magma movement.

Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 9h

Yes - think so. The real power in the 2005 event (actually a sequence that continued to 2010) was magma moving into a volcanic dyke. The earthquakes were largely side effects.

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 9h

Yes - that event was extraordinary. Hopefully this is not!

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Looks like a moderate event on the fault that bounds the Afar depression. Will check in with our colleagues at Addis Ababa University.

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Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social · Oct 26

The Dutch Ranking Expert Group report: universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/docume...

universiteitenvannederland.nl

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Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · Dec 6

Congratulations @commahound.bsky.social ! Excellent thesis, great viva. 🍾 Really enjoyed reading and talking about your research.

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Dec 6

Last night satellite #Sentinel1C launched into space! It will join its sibling to restore the Sentinel-1 constellation, gathering more frequent, global, accurate data to monitor changes on the Earth's surface. It will aid COMET research into #volcanoes🌋and #earthquakes🌎 and support event response.

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Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · May 25

“Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” by Soumaya Latour (CNRS) et al. (preprint, 2025) - analyzed near-fault ground motions using video by GP Energy, Thapyay Wa solar farm of surface fault rupture in M 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake, Myanmar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15461

Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera

We present the first direct measurement of the slip-rate function during a natural coseismic rupture, recorded during the 28 March 2025, Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake (Myanmar). This measurement was made...

arxiv.org

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Jun 25

Day 3 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna is in full flow! At 11.30am we have two talks by @timwrightleeds.bsky.social and
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Jun 21

The sun rises early over Leeds on the longest day of the year as we set off from the train station towards Vienna for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium #lps25 🌞🌞

The coming week, I (Stijn Vleugels, Uni of Leeds) will be taking over the COMET socials to give you a firsthand experience of the conference!

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 28

Really impressive, rapid analysis of the Myanmar surface rupture video.

Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · May 25

“Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” by Soumaya Latour (CNRS) et al. (preprint, 2025) - analyzed near-fault ground motions using video by GP Energy, Thapyay Wa solar farm of surface fault rupture in M 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake, Myanmar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15461

Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera

We present the first direct measurement of the slip-rate function during a natural coseismic rupture, recorded during the 28 March 2025, Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake (Myanmar). This measurement was made...

arxiv.org

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

compound with the gates? If so then fault is more or less north-south?

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

I think this is it. The dark areas in the recent Sentinel-2 imagery are the solar panels.

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

Maybe quite a lot of foreshortening based on aerial photo?

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

Seems to be in a step-over zone from the imagery. If photo is to SSW, then that would make the rupture more or less north-south though? None of the satellite/openstreet map etc have the solar farm mapped to get a robust orientation as far as I can tell.

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

Data posted with ~100m pixels but actual resolution a little trickier to quantify as the input data for the 3D inversion is largely Sentinel-1 pixel tracking, but also includes some burst overlap interferometry. @mrnergizci.bsky.social might comment on detailed pixel tracking parameters

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_...

Index of /public/nceo_geohazards/LiCSAR_products/EQ/us7000pn9s/3D_disp

gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

The geotifs are available via the comet news article linked above.

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

Comments in this video have it at 20°52'55.4"N 96°02'07.0"E www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub... . Image shows location on COMET N-S displacements from Sentinel-1. About 3 m of overall displacement, but higher-res offset data would be good to get details.

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · May 13

Incredible. Been waiting a long time to see a surface rupture video. The rupture is pretty simple (single strand) so I'd guess it was the primary fault comet.nerc.ac.uk/myanmar-eart... . But there looks like a small stepover near Thazi? Anyone managed to get a fix on the exact location yet?

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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · May 12

Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Apr 17

On 28 March 25, a M7.7 earthquake & powerful aftershocks struck Myanmar, leading to widespread destruction & the devastating loss of thousands of lives. COMET scientists measured resulting surface deformation using @esa.int Sentinel-1 satellite data: comet.nerc.ac.uk/myanmar-eart...

Myanmar Earthquakes, March 2028 - UK Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics

On 28th March 2025, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, affecting large areas of the country and causing widespread destruction. A powerful 6.4-magnitude aftershock followed 12 minutes later, a...

comet.nerc.ac.uk

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · Apr 7

Sorry - our systems were not optimised for earthquakes of this scale. We have made some along-track mosaics available at gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_... (e.g. gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_...)

Azimuth offset data for the Myanmar earthquake, showing the relative offset across the fault

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · Mar 28

Have asked ESA.

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Jan 17

Happy National Women in Science & Engineering Day!

Here are some of COMET's successes for #WISEDay25

#MoveTheDial #genderequality #womeninstem #womeninscience #womeninengineering #space #volcano #earthquake

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thanks to the Bristol students for organising

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · Jan 9

Excited to be at the @uk-comet.bsky.social annual student meeting in Bristol. Always a highlight of the year.

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Samantha Haynes @haynes-sammy.bsky.social · Jan 9

Well, this place seems nice, looks a bit like the old place, and I now need to go and find all the good people again - waves hello in social media 👋

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Tim Wright @timwrightleeds.bsky.social · Dec 18

Was fun to contribute to this excellent podcast series. open.spotify.com/show/7nXOPzy...

Get it in 10

Podcast · harrih · Geography is a broad and brilliant subject. Every week in term time, join Harri, the host of Get it in 10, as he talks to expert geographers from around the world about their work ...

open.spotify.com

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UK COMET @uk-comet.bsky.social · Dec 7

Want to study #volcanoes, #earthquakes and/or tectonics for your #PhD? There are fully-funded opportunities across COMET, including at @envleeds.bsky.social @uniofexeter.bsky.social @uniofoxford.bsky.social

More info: comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-studentships

#studentship #satellites #earthsciences

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