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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 6d

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for hanging in there.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 29d

Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social

youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Sep 6

Geophysics is serious business.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 24

Five stars

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Edward Clennett @eclennett.bsky.social · Aug 21

Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.

Flyer with an image of the Earth in the geological past, as well as the GSA Connects and GPlates logos. Text reads:
GSA Connects 2025 Short Course 521
Plate Tectonics for Science and Teaching using GPlates Paleo-GIS Software
Date: Saturday 18th October 2025
Time: 8am-5pm
Instructors: Jonny Wu & Edward Clennett, University of Arizona
Cost: *Student = $63
*Early Career = $88
Professional = $125
Laptop required. Please install GPlates from www.gplates.org prior to short course.
More information and registration at: https://store.geosociety.org/products/sc25cn521
*Register through GSA registration portal for student/ECP rate.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 17

Not saying but at least it looks nice.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 14

Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 12

All about high standards.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 11

Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Aug 9

These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪

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Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

A parade of volcanoes is erupting in Russia following an 8.8 earthquake

Six Russian volcanoes erupted shortly after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck nearby, with a seventh possibly to follow.

www.livescience.com

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Aug 3

Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries

The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.

www.bbc.com

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Eos @eos.org · Jul 30

#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.

“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL

eos.org/articles/tra...

“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.

eos.org

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · Jul 30

Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️

Crescent city CA tide gauge record from today

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Jul 27

Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jul 23

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

www.nytimes.com

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Jul 21

NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts

Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

www.nature.com

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Jul 21

It’s funny!

Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Jul 21

Join us for session DI012 – Seismic Anisotropy from Surface to Core at AGU 2025, in New Orleans.

The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 10

In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system.

Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI

Since the Tōhoku quake and tsunami struck in 2011, Japan has built three offshore monitoring networks comprising more than 200 instrument stations, connected to the mainland by optical fiber. The networks provide real-time warnings and insights into subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives under another at a seafloor trench.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Jul 10

Dylan in ATX. Or maybe Timothée Chalamet. I can attest to a Dylan sounding person behind the piano.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · Jul 10

Meaning, for example, N = 2, once all is said and done. Does make you wonder.

Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · May 29

Nominations open, and some awards are waaaay undersubscribed

European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · May 29

The EGU Awards & Medals honours #scientists every year for their outstanding #research contribution in the Earth, planetary and space sciences

Nominations are now open until 15 June 2025!

👉 Learn more and submit here: egu.eu/1WJWEA