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Seismology Research Centre @earthquakes.au · 25/09/2026

Android users - our latest app update includes data from @geonet_nz with links to their reporting form if you feel an earthquake in Aotearoa. Download links at seismoscope.net or search for Seismoscope in the store and look for our logo.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you remember what you were doing at 9:15am five years ago today? It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since the magnitude 5.9 Woods Point earthquake, the largest ever recorded in Victoria. Most of the 1800 aftershocks we’ve detected occurred in the first few days, now averaging just one a week.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well, I underestimated the interest in our app. Our earthquake list was accessed over 100,000 times today, which made our web hosting service hit its connection limit and recommend we implement an attack condition. Apologies if the app has been unable to load our data 😬 but other sources seem okay.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks, Wendy! One thing the app drove home for me was how incredibly active California and Alaska are in any 24-hour period, and how many earthquakes have happened in just the last 3 hours (the pulsing rings). And your pin is right in the middle of it!

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It may seem like just another earthquake browser app, but Seismoscope makes reporting what you felt much easier, and your feedback goes directly to the relevant authority. Seismoscope also includes @earthquakes.au data that you can’t get anywhere else 😊

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mysterious low frequency signals have been recorded ever since high sensitivity seismometers were deployed the 1960s. Scientists today still aren’t sure exactly how the earth is generating them. This video covers the latest of many theories.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Check out this video - it opens with some of the drone footage I took last year in Western Australia. Such a privilege to be involved in the WA Array project.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Millions of Australians travel to earthquake-prone regions every year, so although being prepared for earthquakes in Australia may not be a high priority for most people, knowing what to do in a strong earthquake could save your life while travelling.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another major earthquake in Indonesia. This one is magnitude 6.8 and only about 50km from the large city of Medan. Aftershocks at Flores continue.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If you have a hidden safety phone in Australia, remember to switch it off or put it in airplane mode before 2pm AEST today if you don’t want it to be discovered during the AusAlert test. Volume and mute settings will be overridden by the test.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Despite the 3:30am start, I really enjoyed answering questions from callers on the @news.abc.net.au #Overnights program last Friday. Here's a couple of snippets, but you can find the full program at the link below. The hour-long earthquake segment starts at 1:33:14. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Are you ready for AusAlert? Includes a PSA for people in DV situations for the day of the national system test.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The tragic events in Venezuela were the result of an earthquake doublet. What is a doublet, and what impact can it have on the effects of a major seismic event?

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yet another big earthquake this week? Coming through now is an M6.8 south of Mindanao, Philippines (same region as a few weeks ago).

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Earthquake Early Warning in action. You don’t often get a camera isolated from the shaking, so that’s interesting. I’ve since read other comments about the video and alert being fake because we can’t predict earthquakes (💯 true) but it’s the effects that are being predicted, rapidly after the event.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Has anyone studied the effect of two overlapping large earthquakes? I imagine some of the energy waves would harmonise and amplify the ground motion, making the effects worse than if the larger event had occurred on its own. It would certainly increase the duration of the shaking.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It’s devastating either way, but can anyone confirm that there were two earthquakes? All the data I’m looking at shows a single event trace. That said, I’ve never looked at a doublet in the M7 range, so I may be missing something.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are there two events? Looking at waveforms it looks like just one.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So do you say “6.7 magnitude” or “magnitude 6.7”? I’ve always used the latter. My reasoning: it’s not a unit of measurement like 6.7 metres or 6.7 megatons. Originally the number was the relative order of magnitude above human perceptibility. Let’s brainstorm some unit names. I like sensillas ™️

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Some more purrty rocks from the Geoscience Australia foyer

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m at Geoscience Australia for a seismic software user group meeting this week. I highly recommend visiting their public display in the foyer - lots of beautiful rocks, and you can even touch the moon!

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Jumping on the #grwm trend to reveal the truth about earthquake prediction.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here's the final video in my WA Array series, documenting the third and final field trip of a deployment phase. It involves collecting and cleaning the equipment, ready to do it all again in the next area of Western Australia. This exposed equipment survived a cyclone in March with very few issues.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Me today: 55 years old @earthquakes.au this year: 50 years Me at SRC this year: 35 years It’s so weird that a casual summer job after finishing a computer science degree turned into a lifelong career, but here we are. I appreciate the friends, opportunities and experiences seismology has given me.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My last day in Western Australia and I felt an earthquake! I'm in Kalgoorlie and this magnitude 3.4 earthquake locates to about 5km from where I was lying in bed! Spending my morning playing with seismic data is the perfect end to my trip!

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We are at the Geological Survey of Western Australia core library today cleaning the last of the sensors and digitisers in preparation for the next deployment in less than 2 months time.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It looks like the region to the NW of Mount Perry is active again. In 2015 a magnitude 5.2 earthquake kicked off a sequence of aftershocks with magnitude 2+ events occurring regularly for almost 2 years. The area has seen ongoing activity, but these latest events are the largest since February 2015.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Last seismic station collected! Now we’re off to Kalgoorlie to clean them up for the next deployment.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We completed the last of the helicopter-serviced stations today at the most westerly point in Australia, on Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay. Thanks to GSWA for the opportunity to view this beautiful part of the state from the best perspective.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Lots of flying today: nine of the GSWA seismic stations collected with the help of pilot Tom

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This very cute gecko was nestled in one of the stations we pulled out today. Pity I couldn’t get a photo of it sitting on one of our Gecko Seismographs! This is the second station where we’ve found the solar panel detached from the frame, presumably blown off by Cyclone Narelle last March.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lovely little horse - I dub thee Chappell. Today’s animal encounters while collecting seismographs included a bunch of kangaroos, emus, cattle, goats, working dogs, and so many parrots and birds of prey🐴🦘🐂 🐐🐕🦜🦅

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My new standing desk setup is working wonders. I feel my mood and energy levels being boosted already.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’m back in WA, helping retrieve the stations we deployed a year ago. First day done, 4 stations collected, 22 to go! The flies were pretty friendly today

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

How do seismologists tell the difference between earthquakes, blasts and other seismic phenomena? #focalmechanism #area51 #alien #earthquake

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 04/05/2026

This video from @seislologist.bsky.social provides a great introduction to the Seismology Skill Building Workshop (SSBW), including an interview with former EarthScope Student Career Intern Ellie Meyer! Registration now open ➡️ www.earthscope.org/event/2026-s...

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Learn Seismology for FREE! I found out about this skill building workshop that is run by @earthscope.org while at the @seismosocam.bsky.social meeting in April. Registrations open today (1 May) so watch the video to find out more from Ellie Meyer and then search up “SSBW Earthscope” to sign up #stem

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Nice article about the quake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent advisory. 🧪

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well, only half the t-shirts have arrived and just my neon sign - no banners or equipment! Anyhow, come and see me for Medium and larger shirts. Hopefully the rest turns up tomorrow #ssa2026

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It fills me with pride to see our Waves software being used by the earthquake monitoring community for routine data analysis, education and outreach. There’s a great new visualisation feature coming soon, being previewed in my #ssa2026 talk at 16:45 today (ballroom A). See you there!

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Lovely day in Pasadena. Pity my exhibit stuff has been stuck in customs in Memphis until this morning! Hopefully it’ll arrive in time to lob out this year’s t-shirts on Thu/Fri so I don’t have to send them home unloved…

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

You step out of the country for 1 day…

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Every satellite is loaded with technology, so it’s only right that our largest satellite gets some new tech on board. A future Artemis mission will install seismometers on the moon to learn more about the internal lunar structure, and monitor how the surface behaves during moonquakes and impacts.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Flashback to System 7 on the Macintosh in the early 1990s and our waveform app, SeisMac. You can still see elements of it in our current Waves app, even the channel display order of East, North, Up: as in X, Y, Z; like the axis directions on a graph. What order do you think they should be displayed?

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Did you want a MegaQuake T-shirt but the shipping's putting you off? Are you going to SSA? Buy now using coupon code ssa=pickup and I'll bring it over for you. Make sure you "Add to Cart" & go to the Checkout to enter the coupon code before paying. Offer ends Thursday! www.src.com.au/product/seis...

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Seismology MegaQuake T-shirt - Seismology Research Centre

Seismic band tour merch! The back lists the date, size and location of major earthquakes over the last century. Front says SEISMOLOGY in a thrash metal font

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, they should have been using a network of seismographs. This morning’s magnitude 5.5 in central Australia was south of Yulara on the NT-SA border.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Who’s going to Pasadena in a few weeks for the @seismosocam.bsky.social meeting? Asking for a friend. As in, I need friends to hang out with… 😶

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Research-grade accelerometers need to capture signals from tiny local tremors while also recording massive magnitude 7 earthquakes that are a million times larger. But what does that mean in terms of physical ground motion?

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