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Greg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow. A recon mission into #Polo just measured a wind speed of 215 mph a few thousand feet above the surface.

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Earthquake information from Geoscope Observatory @geoscope-ipgp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mw=6.6, LOYALTY ISLANDS (Depth: 10 km), 2026/09/25 21:23:03 UTC - Full details here: geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fi…

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Yann Klinger @yklinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In case any one doubts that geomorphology and paleoseismology are unrelated. Trenching the Fuyun fault now.

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J H Gurney @jhgurneyquakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sim City 3000 without a doubt. I can build my own city! I can manage expenditure and income to enable future city building. I can inflict disasters on my Sims?!! I can manage air and water pollution, all whilst moving my industries to greener methods! Oh, and the soundtrack is awesome 👌

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In just 24 hours, Polo went from a tropical storm to one of the strongest hurricanes on record. Simply remarkable.

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Greg Porter @gporterwx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow! Recon flights inside of #Polo just recorded a central pressure of 889 mb. That's in the top 5 for the strongest storms on record in the EPAC

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José R. Ribeiro @joserodribeiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

21 September 2004 11:05-13:32 UT Mw5.0-5.2 earthquake doublet hit Kaliningrad, Russia at the Baltic coast. One person killed and 20 seriously wounded. The 2nd EQ was felt as far as Oslo and Saint Petersburg. A totally unexpected EQ... earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts. I've posted versions before, but I update this each term following conversations with students. Here's my Fall '26 edition. In no way definitive! Learning as I go.

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This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself. Recently... I read a story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh....
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for creative writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College” persuaded me that for many students of all sorts it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed, you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled them. Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is, I probably can’t stop you.... Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it....
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good. Even if sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from the act of shaping language... There is no paycheck, or even a finished book held in hand for the first time, that has ever brought me as much complicated pleasure as the arrangement of words. Maybe you’re like this, too. Or maybe you want to be. If so, I designed this course with someone like you in mind.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

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J H Gurney @jhgurneyquakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This sadly doesn't surprise me. I'm aware of harassment and discrimination in academic settings I have been in and how they're very rarely reported because nobody believes anything tangible or close to justice will ever come of it. I despair of academic ivory towers & their silence on these things

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am honestly disturbed by how many science communication folks have completely ignored this issue. Like, not a word.

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For me, it’s #cassiterite today! The primary tin ore mined since the Bronze Age. It’s found in placer deposits and in veins in some granites. You can find cassiterite in Cornwall, Bolivia, Australia, Indonesia, and other places around the world. #MinCup26

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J H Gurney @jhgurneyquakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We had writing without need for #Graphite in a pencil, at the same time #Cassiterite was critical at forming the first metal-based civilisations. This seems a no-brainer to me.

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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🌟 OPEN ACCESS 🌟 What’s the relationship between local magnitude, moment magnitude, and stress drop for Australian earthquakes? Find out, in #BSSA. ⚒️ buff.ly/1nibY6N

Stress drop plotted against local magnitude on the left panel and against the Brune moment magnitude on the right panel.

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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/72369/ope...

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Open PhD position in structural geology

Open PhD position in the project:

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden garden bench, smiling at the camera with hands clasped, wearing a dark overcoat, light trousers and black shoes, against a stone wall with flowers.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

128 years of #earthquake recording in Victoria, Canada! On September 3, 1898, a Milne seismograph began operation in the basement of the old Customs House building on the Victoria waterfront. It was one of the first seismographs in Canada ⚒️🧪🇨🇦 Coverage from a few years ago cheknews.ca/earthquake-h...

Photo showing the Milne seismograph that was first deployed in Victoria, Canada, in 1898.

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J H Gurney @jhgurneyquakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Shockingly people value zinc more than the Moon!! #TeamAnorthite #MinCup

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Latest high resolution drone pictures of the source area of the rock ice avalanche that triggered the Nepal flood! 🧊🌊 📷 Guoxiong Zheng

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José R. Ribeiro @joserodribeiro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

29 August 1420 Mw8.8-9.4 earthquake at the Chile-Peru Subduction Trench produced a field of large boulders in Atacama Desert coast, northern Chile, and probably the "ghost" Ouei tsunami that hit the Honshu coast, Japan. Deserves more studies... doi.org/10.1111/sed.... cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520290...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/08/2026

Hundreds of scientists around the globe have been working tirelessly to piece together the sequence of events that led to the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal, which has killed nearly 600 people, left nearly 2000 missing, and destroyed many towns and hydropower plants. scim.ag/3SErvn3

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How scientists unraveled the cause of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal

Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Nepal *landslide* (and a chunk of glacier) Landsat-9 images “revealed a huge rock landslide had indeed occurred. “The glacier just came along for the ride,” Ekström says.” “Byers points a finger at the gradual thawing of high-altitude permafrost, which binds rock and ice together.”

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How scientists unraveled the cause of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal

Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The sheer scale of destruction amid Himalayan glacier collapse disaster is horrifying, as is presumptive human toll. This was no mere flash flood or mudslide--it was more akin to a geologic-scale debris avalanche or "inland tsunami." The footage emerging is almost unbelievable.

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Stephen Hicks @seismo-steve.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dreadful scenes from the devastating Rasuwa flood in Nepal/Tibet. My heart goes out to everyone affected. It likely began with a glacier collapse / rock–ice avalanche recorded by seismometers worldwide. I hope real-time seismic monitoring can support early warning for communities downstream.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Grands Charmoz right now! 🔥 Yet another Rock Avalanche this summer—especially on this face! Looks like it's going to be a big event. 📷 Ludo Ravanel

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The devastating events in Nepal & Tibet originated from a glacier collapsing on the N side of Langtang-Lirung mountain. @gunjan87.bsky.social recent paper on Langtang glaciers shows that they are rapidly warming, and that the rate of recession is accelerating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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 Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 25/08/2026

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: GRIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE 25 AUGUST 2026 18:47 UTC 2.2 ML The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake: DATE: 25 August 2026 ORIGIN TIME: 18:47 13s UTC LAT/LON: 53.540° North / 0.091° West GRID REF: 526.5 kmE / 406.5 kmN DEPTH: 5km MAGNITUDE: 2.2 ML

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

77 years ago tonight - a M8.1 #earthquake off #HaidaGwaii ruptured a 500-km-long segment of the Queen Charlotte Fault ("Canada's San Andreas Fault"). The average slip along the #fault was ~5 m. Shaking was so strong that it was hard to stand. More than 100 aftershocks were felt on Haida Gwaii. ⚒️🧪🇨🇦

Map showing the location of the M8.1 earthquake of 1949 and the M7.8 earthquake of 2012. The rupture zone of the 1949 earthquake (shown on the map) extended for about 500 km along the Queen Charlotte Fault. The 2012 earthquake was a subduction earthquake on the Haida Gwaii Thrust fault.

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Tom Singleton @tomsingleton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Bude Castle. Built in 1830 by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney to prove that a substantial stone building can be built on a sand dune. Grade II listed and home to a delightful cafe and museum. #Bude #Cornwall

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ARSO potresi @arsopotresi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Danes je svetovni dan fotografije. Najstarejše znane fotografije nekega slovenskega potresa so nastale po Ljubljani po potresu, ki je 14. aprila 1895 prizadel mesto. #NaDanašnjiDan #potres

Wolfova ulica po potresu.
https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljanski_potres_%281895%29#/media/Slika:Ljubljana_po_potresu_03.jpg

Ljubljana po potresu – vhod v Kolodvorsko ulico iz Šentpeterske (danes Trubarjeve) ceste.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ljubljana_po_potresu_08.jpg

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

⚒️ 🧪 A M7.7 earthquake just struck Flores, Indonesia. The USGS estimates that hundreds could have died, although the news currently reports far fewer. The earthquake seems to have occurred on a known “backthrust” that runs along the north coast of the island. Learn more:

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M7.7 earthquake strikes Flores, Indonesia

Backthrusting along the Flores Thrust

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#Lala will strengthen further into hurricane before making close approach (or even direct landfall) on Big Island of Hawaii on Sat. High-impact flood & wind risk given interaction with island's tall/complex volcanic topography. (Strong El Niño events increase HI hurricane risk.)

Official NOAA NHC track forecast for Lala, which shows it making landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday.

Current satellite snapshot depicting deep convective clouds associated with Lala.

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Lucy Jones @drlucyjones.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Outside of local triggering (eg., aftershocks), the global distribution of big earthquakes is random in time. That means there is an average rate (15 M7+ evets/yr) but the time since the last event doesn't matter. Sometimes we see clusters - if there were no clusters, it woldn't be random.

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Dr. Amilcar Carrera-Cevallos @acarrerac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Preliminary finite fault model of the M7.7 #earthquake in #Indonesia (Aug 14, 2026). Coseismic slip concentrates in two main patches along the fault plane, reaching ~2.6 m near the epicenter.

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GFZ Earthquake Alerts (GEOFON) @geofon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Magnitude : 4.9 Region: Spain Time: 2026-08-14 23:04:41 UTC Epicenter : 3.75°W 37.05°N Depth: 10 km *First posted at: 23:09 UTC* geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz… #GEOFON #GFZ #earthquake #magnitude

Map showing the earthquake of 2026-08-14 in Spain

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J H Gurney @jhgurneyquakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This has ruptured a shallow thrust fault north of the island of Flores. Early M6 aftershocks indicate a westward rupture over a length of ~150km. Moderate damage is being reported already in Ruteng, towards the west of the rupture but significantly inland from the coast.

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GFZ Earthquake Alerts (GEOFON) @geofon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Magnitude : 6.2 Region: Flores , Indonesia Time: 2026-08-14 22:28:38 UTC Epicenter : 121.55°E 8.40°S Depth: 10 km *First posted at: 22:34 UTC* geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz… #GEOFON #GFZ #earthquake #magnitude

Map showing the earthquake of 2026-08-14 in Flores Region, Indonesia

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nice arrival in Wellington too!

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GFZ Earthquake Alerts (GEOFON) @geofon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Magnitude : 6.3 Region: Flores , Indonesia Time: 2026-08-14 22:13:53 UTC Epicenter : 120.15°E 8.23°S Depth: 33 km *First posted at: 22:25 UTC* geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz… #GEOFON #GFZ #earthquake #magnitude

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 14/08/2026

🔔#Earthquake (#gempa) M7.7 occurred 58 km NW of #Ende (#Indonesia) 30 min ago (local time 05:58:26). More info at: 📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐https://m.emsc.eu/?id=2042828 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=2042828

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GFZ Earthquake Alerts (GEOFON) @geofon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Magnitude : 7.7 Region: Flores , Indonesia Time: 2026-08-14 21:58:23 UTC Epicenter : 121.25°E 8.33°S Depth: 25 km *First posted at: 22:04 UTC* geofon.gfz.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz… #GEOFON #GFZ #earthquake #magnitude

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