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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 49m

As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure, we will require user authentication for all data and product downloads beginning December 15, 2026. Read the full details ➡️ loom.ly/tuoN7m8

Background of ones and zeroes and the EarthScope purple-to-red color gradient, with a large white bullhorn icon.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 30/09/2026

Yesterday afternoon at ~2:05 pm PDT, the Seattle area was shaken up by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake. But this isn't unusual at all! Learn about the three types of earthquakes that can occur in the PNW region ➡️ loom.ly/WBQvUo0

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 28/09/2026

Our team continues to grow! EarthScope is hiring a GeoWorkforce Associate I (remote, U.S.) to assist our workforce development activities in the geosciences. Learn more & apply ➡️ loom.ly/ndNPGtA

A woman instructing a cohort of interns in a classroom. Text overlay reads, "We're Hiring!" with the URL to earthscope.org/careers.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/09/2026

Happy #fieldworkfriday! EarthScope engineers ventured out to Yellowstone National Park to service monitoring stations around the park.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/09/2026

Our community’s access to the Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is now being released as open source software as the SAC Community Edition. Learn more ➡️ loom.ly/ciqLSoQ

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/09/2026

We have new UAS capabilities! In replacing our drones for structure from motion imaging, we found an opportunity to add lidar and multispectral instruments. Details ➡️ loom.ly/YDYeplw

Photo of a drone on the ground, with a GPS station and mountains in the background.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/09/2026

Want to run a Jupyter notebook in our cloud compute hub from the comfort of your local VS Code window? Here's how to quickly connect to the GeoLab kernel. 👉 loom.ly/B7IPynw

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 21/09/2026

Join the EarthScope team! We're hiring a Staff Accountant II - Generalist (remote, US) to support day-to-day accounting operations, maintain accurate financial records, and assist employees and vendors with routine financial matters. Learn more & apply ➡️ earthscope.org/careers/

A calculator and an annotated budget sheet with an open pen sit on a desk. Text overlay reads, "We're Hiring!" with the URL to earthscope.org/careers.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 04/09/2026

Web services are moving from service.iris.edu to service.earthscope.org as part of our cloud transition: irisws-virtualnetwork, and irisws-evalresp. Read the full announcement ➡️ loom.ly/HVibwks

A white megaphone icon over a purple to red gradient overlay.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 03/09/2026

EarthScope is shifting to the cloud for ds.iris.edu website content & applications. You may experience disruption to service, such as an application being down or a web page being unavailable. This is temporary. If you experience any difficulties, please reach out to us at help@earthscope.org.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 03/09/2026

Our irisws-metadatachange web service, the primary source of historical changes made to SEED metadata records, is moving as part of our cloud transition. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/NVbyoSQ

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 27/08/2026

Reminder! We're hiring for an Engineer II - Polar position. If you have experience managing multiple geophysical and network field projects of varying complexity across different locations, including polar latitudes, this might be the job for you. Learn more and apply ➡️ loom.ly/A_rKSEw

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 26/08/2026

Learn how to create publication-quality maps and visualize geophysical data with the new Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geophysics self-paced course. Learn more & enroll ➡️ loom.ly/G-J1j0Q

GMT map of Japan with earthquakes plotted as circles colored by depth, with blue being shallow and red being deeper.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/08/2026

The PH5 web service tools and the Seattle-based PH5 archiving systems will be decommissioned on September 1, 2026, while the PH5 datasets are being transformed and migrated to the NSF NGF SEED archive. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/HzIxjBs

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/08/2026

Cloud Foundations has been updated! This course introduces concepts and skills needed to work effectively in GeoLab. The revised course will set you up to use a new set of instructional notebooks focused on accessing, exploring, and analyzing data. Check it out: loom.ly/VcYMLPg

Screenshot of Moodle course showing a quiz question about what to do when you see a warning that you are running low on available memory in GeoLab.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/08/2026

Both irisws-resp and irisws-sacpz are now integrated into the new FDSN station service. As a result, we are retiring these features as independent services. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/a4TMcEA

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/08/2026

Legacy web services irisws-traveltime and irisws-distaz that offer seismic travel-time and distance-azimuth calculations will soon be retired. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/1UYiQWE

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 21/08/2026

Starting August 25, 2026, network operators will have a new way to submit StationXML metadata to the EarthScope-operated NSF National Geophysical Facility. This approach uses a new Dropoff System now currently in use for miniSEED submission. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/SjlbObk

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 20/08/2026

Detecting flash floods while they’re still trickles is essential for early warning of the growing threat. A new study uses NSF NGF instruments and facilities to demonstrate how Distributed Acoustic Sensing can pick up signals from these initial flows. Read it here: doi.org/10.1785/0220260087

A five-panel comic explaining the importance of understanding when overland flow starts and how DAS can be used to detect this transition. The comic features a conversation between an anthropomorphized DAS instrument, cloud, and raindrops.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 20/08/2026

A necessary scheduled maintenance window to upgrade capabilities of deployed seismic services in the NSF NGF cloud system will result in a short service disruption on Tuesday, August 25. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/vSjczoY

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 15/08/2026

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Flores region of Indonesia early on August 15, local time. Indonesia is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, where a large number of powerful earthquakes occur due to subducting tectonic plates. Learn more & access event data ➡️ loom.ly/VhAsJUY

Map of Indonesia and surrounding region showing the August 15 magnitude 7.7 earthquake epicenter (star), nearby tectonic plate boundaries, and earthquake locations colored by depth from shallow (purple) to deep (red).

Map of Indonesia and the surrounding region showing the August 15 magnitude 7.7 earthquake epicenter (red star), tectonic plate boundaries, and GPS velocity vectors illustrating crustal motion across the region relative to the Pacific Plate.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 14/08/2026

GeoLab, our cloud compute JupyterHub, enables you to work directly with the cloud data archive, making it faster and easier to work with data. We have onboarding resources (constantly growing!) to get you rolling and a community forum to trade data workflow tips. loom.ly/VNay9xU

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 11/08/2026

Did you know that earthquakes might be the key to sustaining Yellowstone's vibrant microbe community? 🦠 🌋 Read all about it in EarthScope Sci Comm Intern Kat Plaza's Caldera Chronicles article ➡️ loom.ly/e2FapJI

An electron-microscope image of a microbe (Bacillus infernus) found 2,700 meters (8,860 feet) underground in Virginia. From Boone et al., 1995.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 11/08/2026

This animation shows the waves from the August 10 magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia ripple across seismic stations in North and South America. Learn more about this event ➡️ loom.ly/6rGCOuc

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 10/08/2026

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia today, August 10. Along the west coast of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate. Today’s earthquake occurred at an intermediate depth of 110 km. Learn more & access event data ➡️ loom.ly/6rGCOuc

Map of northwestern South America and Central America showing earthquake locations colored by depth. A star marks the Aug. 10 magnitude 7.4 earthquake in western Colombia, near the boundary between the Nazca and South American plates.

Map of northwestern South America and Central America showing GPS motion relative to the South American Plate. White arrows indicate the direction and rate of crustal motion, with a star marking the Aug. 10 earthquake in western Colombia.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 07/08/2026

Happy #fieldworkfriday! EarthScope engineers installed DAS instruments at LIGO, an observatory for gravitational waves — the cosmic whispers of black holes. 📷: Gizem Karslioglu/EarthScope Consortium Read more about the fusion of geophysics & astrophysics here ➡️ loom.ly/HdisPj8

An engineer with a sledgehammer in mid-motion.

A LIGO detector arm, which looks like a concrete cylinder, stretches into the distance. A gravel road is to the right of it. A personal is next to the detector with boxes and equipment.

Inside the LIGO lab facility. Scientific instruments and machinery are shown in a white lab room.

A panel of colorful computer screens mounted to the wall, with several desks and a couch below, make up the LIGO control room and show a group of people meeting.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 07/08/2026

Our mars-event web service, a primary source of computed seismic event solutions recorded on Mars (courtesy of ETH, Zurich), is moving as part of our cloud transition. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/Cwx5_NA

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 05/08/2026

We're retiring EarthScope’s on-premises seismic archiving system. This is one of the final steps in a multi-year effort to move EarthScope’s seismic data archiving — nearly 40 years’ worth, hosted at the University of Washington — into the AWS cloud. Full details ➡️ loom.ly/ruMsBQ4

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 05/08/2026

UPCOMING WEBINAR 2026 Venezuela Earthquakes: Insights from Satellite Optical Geodesy Presenter: Dr. Cassie Hanagan (USGS Earthquake Science Center) Register to attend ➡️ loom.ly/U3E3l9o

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 04/08/2026

We're hiring for an Engineer II - Polar position! If you have experience managing multiple geophysical and network field projects of varying complexity across different locations, including polar latitudes, this might be the job for you. Learn more and apply ➡️ loom.ly/A_rKSEw

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 30/07/2026

In GeoLab's first month, we saw a number of you checking it out! Our biggest peak came during @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social 's Strain Accumulation and Release from GNSS short course, when we had over 110 folks crunching data. Get started ➡️ loom.ly/yr8gnps

Chart of daily active users over the course of June, showing weekly spikes in activity up to 40-110 users.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 29/07/2026

How are ocean waves and earthquakes linked? A new study combines buoy wave height measurements with NSF NGF seismic data to examine how winter ocean swells impact seismicity at California’s offshore Mendocino Triple Junction. Read it here: doi.org/10.1785/0220250447

A comic illustrating how wave height measurements and fifteen years of seismic observations draw a connection between seismicity and ocean-waves. The comic features anthropomorphized borehole seismometers and a wave rider instrument collaborating to study the seasonal changes in seismicity.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 28/07/2026

A destructive, shallow magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the Kyushu region of Japan today. While the earthquake occurred near the subduction zone, the July 28 event resulted from strike-slip faulting on a crustal fault. Learn more & access event data ➡️ loom.ly/TByakck

Map of Japan showing the July 28 magnitude 6.8 earthquake epicenter (star), nearby tectonic plate boundaries, and earthquake locations colored by depth from shallow (purple) to deep (red).

Map of Japan showing the July 28 magnitude 6.8 earthquake epicenter (red star), tectonic plate boundaries, and GPS velocity vectors illustrating crustal motion across the region relative to the Eurasian Plate.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 28/07/2026

Join our team as temporary Operations Support Clerk in Albuquerque, NM. This position will support the Instrumentation Services Facilities Operations Manager with maintenance, safety, and equipment management tasks across the site. Learn more & apply at the link in our bio! loom.ly/A_rKSEw

Inside the EPIC facility's warehouse overlain with a red to purple gradient and text reading "We're Hiring!" and the URL earthscope.org/careers/

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/07/2026

With analysis-ready cloud data in our GeoLab compute hub, calculating GNSS signal-to-noise has gotten a massive speed boost compared to parsing daily RINEX files — and can be parallelized across a cluster to go even faster. GeoLab is now open, so why not check it out? 👉 loom.ly/H2ZsbaU

Bar chart comparing the three methods in terms of days of data processed per second-- 0.26 for downloaded RINEX, 1.56 for analysis-ready data, and 15.77 for analysis-ready day with compute cluster.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 23/07/2026

The tectonic plate boundaries off Northern California are complex. Recent research suggests it might be even weirder than it looks on the surface, with a piece of the old Farallon plate stuck to the Pacific plate beneath California. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/_zeAgvg

Block illustration of the Pioneer fragment and Gorda Slab beneath the North American plate.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 17/07/2026

A M7.3 earthquake struck offshore near the border of Mexico and Guatemala. Offshore southern Mexico and Central America, the Cocos Plate subducts beneath the North American and Caribbean plates, resulting in frequent large earthquakes. Learn more & access event data ➡️ loom.ly/qBQlsMY

Map of southern Mexico and Central America showing earthquake depths along the Cocos Plate subduction zone. A white star marks the July 17 magnitude 7.3 earthquake offshore of southern Mexico.

Map of southern Mexico and Central America showing GPS station motion relative to the North American Plate. White arrows indicate crustal movement, and a red star marks the July 17 magnitude 7.3 earthquake offshore of southern Mexico.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 17/07/2026

Our fdsnws-availability web service will be out of service for an undetermined period of time starting on July 27. We are working on a replacement system and will make it available as soon as possible. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/v4nRIEo

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 16/07/2026

Our PH5 web services will be migrating and retiring. The data and metadata previously served by these web services will be migrated to our FDSN web services. Read more ➡️ loom.ly/vsxmCS0

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 15/07/2026

Working in our GeoLab cloud compute hub and want to share a notebook with a collaborator or students? A simple option is to use nbgitpuller. How to ➡️ loom.ly/whHh4zY

Screenshot of the linked web page, titled "Sharing notebooks with nbgitpuller".

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 09/07/2026

When you're ready to try out our GeoLab cloud compute hub, we have set of (growing!) resources to help you put it to work. Not fully comfortable using Git to manage your code and collaborate? Head to the docs! 🛠️ loom.ly/nJojnZM

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 08/07/2026

Introducing Gabrielle Troia! Gabrielle is working as an Educational Resources and Data intern this summer, creating and updating geophysics educational materials. Tune in to our interview to hear about the work Gabrielle is doing this summer! loom.ly/wLqOX8I

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 03/07/2026

This animation shows the waves from the June 24 earthquake doublet in Venezuela ripple across North and South America. See our full Venezuela earthquakes event response ➡️ loom.ly/xuQ_PYs

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 01/07/2026

We recently opened our cloud compute JupyterHub, allowing users to work directly with the cloud data archive. We have onboarding resources to get you rolling and a community forum to trade data processing tips. Come check it out! loom.ly/VNay9xU

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 01/07/2026

This June, the ISCO NOTA station on Cocos Island was rebuilt, restoring access to real-time geophysical data from the Cocos Plate. 📸: Lia Lajoie/EarthScope To learn more about this unique station and the significance of monitoring the Cocos plate, visit our website: loom.ly/_m_804I

Image of ISCO station on Cocos Island. The GPS station is in the background, with the tower containing all the additional instrumentation and power supply, including the buried seismometer in the foreground.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 26/06/2026

Happy #fieldworkfriday! To start the weekend off on a good note, we're sharing a throwback to when our engineers serviced a NOTA station in Elko, Nevada and caught this spectacular sunset. 📷 : Dylan Cembalski/EarthScope

A GPS receiver station in the scrubland of Nevada, overseeing a color orange-and-pink sunset.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/06/2026

Borehole strainmeters can detect aseismic Slow Slip Events (SSEs), but these events’ subtle fingerprints are difficult to pick out. A new study uses NSF NGF data & tools to develop a machine learning algorithm fine-tuned to pinpoint SSE signals. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74095-9

A comic illustrating how slow slip events (SSEs) can be felt by borehole strainmeters on the the San Andreas Fault. The comic features anthropomorphized borehole strainmeters and a machine learning algorithm detecting events.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 25/06/2026

On June 24, two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela: a M7.2 followed immediately by a M7.5. Here, the Caribbean Plate moves eastward at about 20 mm/yr relative to the South American Plate, producing shallow earthquakes. Learn more & access event data ➡️ loom.ly/xuQ_PYs

Map of northern South America showing the June 24 magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes in northern Venezuela near the Caribbean–South American plate boundary, alongside regional earthquakes colored by depth.

Map of the Caribbean–South American plate boundary showing the June 24 earthquake location (red star) and GPS vectors indicating eastward motion of the Caribbean Plate relative to the South American Plate along a strike-slip boundary.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 24/06/2026

We're welcoming 26 interns this summer to train the next generation of geophysicists! We'll introduce many of them here over the course of this summer ☀️ Learn more about our internship programs and future opportunities ➡️ loom.ly/rUXjFGo

The 2026 internship cohort lined up in three rows, with the first row kneeling at the front.

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 23/06/2026

Registration for the 2026 InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) course will close on July 1. Learn more & register: loom.ly/DwH3Q-Q

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