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Dr. Wendy Bohon

@drwendyrocks.bsky.social
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Earthquake geologist 🧪⚒️ | Scicomm specialist 🎙️| Formerly USGS, IRIS, NASA | she/her | Views are mine | website: wendybohon.com “A delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos.”

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 11h
What is this? Have any of you ever seen anything like this?
Picture of an evening sky over a suburban landscape. In the sky is a vertical segmented, thin, black cloud. Closer picture of the segmented black cloud 
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Pacific Northwest experience earthquakes from 3 general sources: 👉 megathrust earthquakes along the plate boundary between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates 👉 shallow earthquakes within the overriding crust 👉 deeper earthquakes within the subducting slab.
Cartoon showing the Wanda Fuca plates abducting beneath the North American plate and the location of the different earthquakes, including the megathrust, deep earthquakes within the subducting slab, and Crustal earthquakes.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s M4.2 quake in Washington occurred close to a few other M4+ quakes, although those were from way back in the late 1900’s. 😊
Map showing the location of the other earthquakes. Today’s earthquake is shown in purple and is the southernmost earthquake. The other earthquakes shown are a magnitude 4.1, 4.8, and 4.4. There’s also a list of the depths and dates of those earthquake
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did you feel that M4.3 Washington? Be sure to fill out a Did You Feel It? Report! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Map showing the greater Seattle area. The star marks the location of the earthquake, which is to the southwest of Seattle and north east of Tacoma.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cool girls have cool jobs 😎
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m in Fortuna for work. First thing I do when I arrive at the hotel? Check my tsunami risk and figure out the tsunami evacuation route. Don’t be scared, be prepared! www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/...
Map showing tsunami hazard zone for the area around Fortuna. Tsunami zone is indicated in yellow. 
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My dear friend @seislologist.bsky.social has launched a cool new earthquake app called Seismoscope! It’s fantastic for visualizations but has lots of other functionality as well. Check it out! (It’s free and available on iPhone and Android) apps.apple.com/us/app/seism...
Map of North and South America showing the location of earthquakes marked by symbols with different shapes and colors
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bad guard dog but still the goodest boy apple.news/A2x6myZlYSNm...
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'Worst guard dog.' Watch Golden Retriever try to play with suspected intruder — USA TODAY
Nash, a 4-year-old Golden Retriever in San Diego, tried to play with a suspected intruder who broke into his home while his owners were away.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another little M3.1 quake in Compton right on top of the M3.1 from 9/6. Looks like it generated light shaking across the LA area. Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Star shows the location of the earthquake and the different color show the distribution of earthquake shaking. All the colors on the map are light, blue and purple, indicating light to weak shaking.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If yall don’t follow @afroherper.bsky.social you should! She posts excellent herpetology 🦎 content (including #FindThatLizard) and is a 10/10 human. bsky.app/profile/afro...
Screenshot showing the Bluesky profile for Dr. Earyn McGee 
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An educator in Scotland asked me if I would be willing to create a short video about my path and career that they could play at career day at their school. I figured since I was making it anyway I would share it here as well! 🧪 🪨
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The best part of my new office at work isn’t the great view (although that’s nice) it’s that I have my own thermostat.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Allow me to make the case for why calcite should not only earn your vote but win the tournament. Calcite is the mineral with the most forms, is highly fluorescent & phosphorescent, helped explain the wave nature of light, laid the foundation for optics/polarizers, and even calms an upset tummy. A 🧵:
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 50 is really something these days…
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Woke up this morning to the police response to a shooting on Hwy 50 west bound. It took me 3 hours to get home from work today due to a different shooting on Hwy 50 east bound. Everything is fine here in America. We’re super great. 🙃 www.kcra.com/article/high...
kcra.com
Highway 50 fully reopens after deadly afternoon standoff in Sacramento
A man fatally shot a woman in the parking lot of a Panera Bread restaurant in Sacramento on Tuesday and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff with law enforcement shut down High...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good morning from Sacramento! ☀️
Sun rises over a city
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Another day, another docuseries 😂
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🇨🇦
A redhaired woman smiles at the camera from the airportWelcome to Toronto sign
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not paying people for their time and expertise and calling it ‘exposure’ is exploitation dressed up as an opportunity. Yes, this is a subtweet. (Or whatever that’s called on BlueSky).
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Have you seen the @sfchronicle.com article “New calculations raise the odds of a major Bay Area earthquake”? Here’s my hot take. 🔥 Article 👉 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m sad to miss the SCEC meeting but it’s totally worth it to spend this time with my kiddos. 🌴🏊‍♂️🎢
Hogwarts light showTwo kids practice spells in front of a storeA child picks out a wand A woman smiles at the camera. She is in a pool with two kids. One has his arm wrapped around her.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our Universal Studios Florida step count beat our Disneyland step count, but just barely. It poured down rain both days.
24,548 steps24,822 steps
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m not a regular at the Ritz-Carlton. Do they do this every night?
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some early reports said that the horrifying flooding in Nepal was the result of an earthquake. However, the signal was actually the recording of the landslide. TL:DR - there was no earthquake, it was a landslide. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Screen shot showing the USGS event page. The landslide released the same amount of energy as a M5.2 earthquake
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It was lovely to work on this article with @meghansmiller.bsky.social and @ahusker.bsky.social. Hopefully it will help answer some of the ongoing questions about the recent destructive earthquakes. theconversation.com/are-earthqua...
theconversation.com
Are earthquakes becoming more common? Here’s what the numbers say
Scientists have been able to catalogue the largest earthquakes for a very long time.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is why I’m not a biologist.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have you ever woken yourself up sneezing?
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Take a 2 min break and fly along the central San Andreas fault with me
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I did a thing the other week and forgot to tell y’all about it.
Redhaired women sits in a chair in a living room. Screens, lights, and microphones surround her and you can see her image in the screens of two camera.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Rigorous science creates knowledge; effective communication helps that knowledge reach society and create impact.” - Ali Osman Öncel 👏👏👏
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wonder why he’s single? 🤔
Facebook profile of manOnline harassment and abuse.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Starting soon! www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
kqed.org
Is California Ready for `The Big One?’ | KQED
We look at the latest science, California preparedness and why we still can’t predict earthquakes.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For those of you in Northern California - I’ll be on KQED this morning at 10. Listen if you can!
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My TikTok metrics from the past week are wild.
Screenshot for the timeframe between August 10 and August 16 showing 1.1 million post views 94,600 likes and 25,600 profile views
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A little levity to start the week
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Excellent day at an excellent fault trench! Many thanks to @earthjay.bsky.social @miltonshaky.bsky.social and Jessie Vermeer for spending the day showing us your work. Why are we staring a dirt wall? I explain in the video in the next post.
Bearded Man in a forest wearing field clothes and a gold hard hat standing in front of posters of the trench wall. People in field gear standing in the trench above another trench cut. View of the trench looking uphill. There are multiple benches cut into the hillside. People along the top look very small compared to the trench. Geologists in field gear standing in different benches of the trench pointing at different features.
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our colleagues at the Cascades Volcano Observatory captured the arrival of a bolide (large meteor) over western WA on their infrasound instruments! Check out the post from USGS Volcanoes here: www.facebook.com/share/p/19Bb...
Graphic showing waveforms of bolide recording on infrasound instruments at Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount St Helens, and Mount Hood
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are we having more earthquakes than usual? Nope. I make some version of this video at least once or twice a year. .
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My husband just tried to correct me on an earthquake fact.
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Kamala Harris's Incredulous Reaction
ALT: Kamala Harris's Incredulous Reaction
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is incorrect, but she is pleased with the misidentification.
Picture of a cat stretched out on a woman’s lap. Google has identified the animal in the picture as a “Manx”
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just ate the most delicious fig of my life and it turned my entire day around. It really is the little things ✨
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Watch the M6.8 Kumamoto, Japan earthquake rupture breaking the ground in real time in this security camera footage.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
M 7.7 earthquake 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Map showing the location of the earthquake is marked by a star. The circles of different colors indicate different levels of shaking
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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“It may feel like we’re having an unusually large number of earthquakes, but statistically, this has been a fairly normal year,” said Wendy Bohon, a geologist who studies earthquakes. Here's why it seems like we're having more earthquakes lately, and what we can do to prepare for The Big One.
huffpost.com
Why Are There So Many Earthquakes Happening? We Asked Geologists.
The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.”
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Having we been having more earthquakes than usual? No, but the ones that have occurred have had devastating impacts. www.huffpost.com/entry/major-...
huffpost.com
Why Are There So Many Earthquakes Happening? We Asked Geologists.
The recent string of earthquakes are a reminder that we need to be prepared for “The Big One.”
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
M 4.1 earthquake 4 km N of San Leandro, CA generated a @usgs-shakealert.bsky.social Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Map showing the San Francisco Bay area and the location of the earthquake, which is marked by a star
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When it comes to earthquake impact, magnitude is only one part of the story.
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