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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Always a pleasure to work with the uber-talented @dralkatrip.bsky.social. Do we know everything there is to know about earthquakes in South Carolina? Not by a long shot! I look forward to seeing what comes out of the GAtech deployment.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Interesting talk! I find myself wondering how HPW fits into this story. 3-km nearest fault distance, vertical PGA over 1g, horizontal around 0.5g. But gotta be sure the metadata are sorted out.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Processed strong motion data for the M7.7 Myanmar earthquake www.strongmotioncenter.org/cgi-bin/CESM...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Mandalay Hill, among thd country’s most storied cultural heritage sites

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Some faults are scary and some faults are creepy (and some are both). A new portal shows creep rates at 3 sites in northern and central California, going back as much as 30 years. escweb.wr.usgs.gov/share/langbe...

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Creepmeter data plotsDetecting rate changes on Creepmeters

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Last summer I was fortunate to visit a regional @nws.noaa.gov office in Colorado, with two grandsons. It was fascinating to see 1) how much they do to monitor & assess weather threats, and 2) how small they are.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Whatcha doing out there, big guy? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s gonna be so confusing for everyone who needs to drive there

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hot times on Friday night ⛷️

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The seismologist never wants to give in to Henny Pennyism, but a M3.5 near Boron reminds us that recent large quakes left a pretty big gap in the Mojave desert.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#SRL remains near and dear to my heart because it maintains high @seismosocam.bsky.social standards whilst allowing room for papers that don’t fit conventional boxes 👻

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Enough with the tease. My outside the boxest idea for investigating active faults in low-strain-rate regions. Has she lost her ever-lovin’ mind? Or created a whole new discipline, spectral-seismology? Time will tell. 👻👻👻 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

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Haunted Summerville: Ghostly Lights or Earthquake Lights? | Seismological Research Letters | GeoScienceWorld

Abstract. Among the colorful local lore in the Charleston, South Carolina, area, are a number of ghost stories, shared not only over campfires, but also

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Anybody up for something on the lighter side?

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The poignancy of a window seat: fire scars perilously close to Mt Wilson, and Pacific Palisades reduced to two dimensions 😢

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We weren’t in that scene but rather behind it, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The brilliance of the day could not be diminished or dampened by a little cold weather. In fact I hardly remember the weather that day.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The death toll from the SoCal fires inches closer to the toll from the ‘94 Northridge earthquake. More structures were destroyed in the fires than the earthquake, and the total property losses will likely be higher.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Ime, having one, and especially two, women in a room changes the tenor of discourse, and wards off easy tendencies towards bias and worse.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Speaking of disasters, I hesitate to call attention to a Comment that makes one reasonable point amidst a sea of poorly informed points, but the opportunity to reply led to some interesting new insights about the 1886 Charleston earthquake. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/arti...

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Reply to “Comment on ‘The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: Relic Railroad Offset Reveals Rupture’ by Roger Bilham and Susan E. Hough” by Thomas L. Pratt, Martin C. Chapman, and Qimin Wu | ...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Your daily reminder that natural hazards don’t go on holiday because of other natural disasters. A major earthquake during a Santa Ana event is among SoCal’s worst nightmares. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you’re in Los Angeles County and got an evacuation alert shortly after 4pm, and then a nvm message, remember that there are humans behind many emergency management systems.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Following large earthquakes, media coverage can give an inflated impression of impact by focusing on the most dramatic damage*. I’m afraid the scale & scope of the firestorm losses are much worse than the world is seeing so far, with no coverage from the hardest hit places 😢

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Not improving. Horrific scenes from the foothill communities.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A lot of folks in the red zone, one of three in the county right now

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We are safe in the flatlands but it’s downright apocalyptic out there www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

How many villages in the epicentral region, that is the question. An earthquake like this will not be kind to stone rubble masonry. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Abstract deadline coming up! Interested in earthquakes and their impact on society? Join us in Baltimore in April!

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Yesterday’s M4.7 near the Geysers, where induced earthquakes are common, generated relatively subdued shaking for its magnitude, consistent with results of past studies starting with Hough (2014), a little paper that held up pretty well 😁 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Mark your calendars now, I promise at least one of these talks will be highly entertaining 😁

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The DYFI reports for today’s M4.1 earthquake in Quebec suggests the temblor shook more moose than people. But as a US system, DYFI does not sample populations evenly, especially outside the US (but inside the US as well). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

20 years already since the monster M9.1 Andaman-Sumatra earthquake unleashed a tsunami that caused most of the 200,000+ deaths. One of a handful of M9+ quakes since the advent of modern seismometry, and arguably the most tragic.

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

When you haven’t been on skis in 4 years, and never exactly learned to ski in the first place, what’s better than a bunny slope? A half 🐰 slope!

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The major Caribbean/North American plate boundary brushes the coast of SE Cuba. Yesterday’s M5.9 was fortunately not close to major population centers. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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SeismoSue @seismosue.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

“An old man walked along the shore, finding starfish & throwing them back to the sea. A person came along & said, old man, there are so many starfish, you can’t possibly make a difference. The old man looked at the starfish in his hand & said, I can make a difference to this one.” #adoptdontshop

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