Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Positive detection of the Falcon 9 impact from the VLT!!! 020
Reposted by Ben Fernando Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 17/04/2026News from #SSA2026: Hush, something big is happening! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @spacequakes.bsky.social researcher Benjamin Fernando says a #seismic quiet fell over U.S. and Canadian cities that were in the “path of totality” during the 8 April 2024 total #solar #eclipse buff.ly/4Py3Ker ⚒️ 034
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Inspired by the launch of Artemis II? Join our impact flash observation project, where we'll be coordinating a search for meteoroid strikes on the Moon with the astronauts! science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...science.nasa.govImpact Flash! - NASA ScienceYou and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon. 163
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Did the superbowl affect seismology? Yes, especially in Seattle (and not in the way you might think!). New pre-print out now: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...eartharxiv.orgDid Seattle go silent during the Superbowl? 010
Reposted by Ben Fernando Science Magazine @science.org · 27/01/2026In April 2024, burning remnants of a defunct Chinese spacecraft fell to Earth. As the space junk tumbled through the atmosphere, the fragments created a series of sonic booms. Seismic stations on Earth were listening. scim.ag/49Lsc2wscim.agFalling space junk can be tracked from its sonic boomsSeismic stations can accurately map re-entering debris with high accuracy 0275
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Achievement unlocked: a paper in Science! My friend and colleague Constantinos Charalambous & I showed how seismic data can be used to track and characterise the break-up of re-entering space debris. Also features a beautiful graphic by @jhuartssciences.bsky.social Sophia Economon. 2337
Reposted by Ben Fernando Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 12/12/2025(This from @spacequakes.bsky.social's excellent @royalastrosoc.bsky.social talk) 031
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2025YESSSS! We’re going (back) to the Moon! Big win for our SaveVIPER campaign! 🐍 010
Reposted by Ben Fernando Science Magazine @science.org · 01/09/2025Locked beneath a single-plate crust, Mars’ mantle holds a frozen record of the red planet’s primordial past, according to a new Science study of Martian seismic data collected by NASA’s InSight mission. scim.ag/47jTkWXscience.orgSeismic evidence for a highly heterogeneous martian mantleA planet’s interior is a time capsule, preserving clues to its early history. We report the discovery of kilometer-scale heterogeneities throughout Mars’ mantle, detected seismically through pronounce... 0388
Reposted by Ben Fernando Eos @eos.org · 05/08/2025Conferences are key enablers of community building and can provide constructive environments for open discussions of cultural issues within science, write @spacequakes.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and Mariama Dryák-Vallies @ciresceee.bsky.social eos.org/opinions/eig...eos.orgEight Ways to Encourage Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Discussions at Conferences - EosGetting scientists to engage in sessions about issues of scientific culture is challenging, but these best practices for meeting organizers can help. 051
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Huge explosion at SpaceX's Starbase this evening! Detected what looks like Rayleigh waves and airwaves from hundreds of miles away. (will make a better-looking plot when I'm less sleepy haha). 020
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025We're recruiting a undergraduate research intern to work part-time in London with me and @nhm-london.bsky.social this summer on analysing micrometeroids from the world's first deep-sea ocean expedition (HMS CHALLENGER, 1873-76). Pease encourage your undergrads to apply! 020
Reposted by Ben Fernando Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · 21/05/2025Ben Fernando (Johns Hopkins): Impact seismology can give us a sense of the trajectories, speeds and numbers of impacting objects in the Solar System. We can use "insights" gained from observations on Mars and the Moon to learn about high velocity objects moving in Earth's atmosphere. 131
Reposted by Ben Fernando Nature @nature.com · 09/05/2025Researchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order go.nature.com/3YD039ego.nature.com‘Orwellian’: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research recordsResearchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order. 15334
Reposted by Ben Fernando Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Planetary scientists have been really, really mad about DEI-related conference abstracts being taken down from LPI meeting sites. I wrote about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘Orwellian’: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research recordsResearchers say that a NASA-funded institute is over-interpreting Trump’s anti-DEI order. 36933
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Horrific news. Hopkins research helps some of the most in-need communities around the world. This will cost lives. 🤬🤬🤬washingtonpost.comJohns Hopkins University to slash 2,000 jobs after $800M in federal cutsJohns Hopkins University said it is laying off more than 2,000 workers across the globe after the Trump administration cut $800 million in federal grants. 010
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Interesting signal recorded on the northern Cuban coast post-Starship 8 last night - looks like a sonic boom (and a big one at that!) to me... 010
Reposted by Ben Fernando Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · 24/02/2025A team led by Johns Hopkins University scientists has dispelled fears that Iran conducted a nuclear test following a Magnitude 4.5 earthquake last October, showing these concerns were unfounded. Read more: doi.org/10.26443/sei... spacequakes.bsky.social 144
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Road trip day #2 - Raleigh, NC! Ticked off my 5k in state number 25. Very wet and very very windy… 030
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025About to set off on a road trip to Johnson Space Center to drop off some non-flyable equipment. Looking forward to ticking off some new states! 🚗🚀🪐 030
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025How much of a bang did OSIRIS-REx make when it re-entered the atmosphere? Take a look at our new paper to found out! doi.org/10.1785/0220... w/ @neerajac.bsky.social @tomrivlin.com and others! 052
Reposted by Ben Fernando Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025New paper alert! 🧪⛏️ Led by the amazing @spacequakes.bsky.social, here's a seismologically ordinary earthquake that got outsized attention due to some misinformation. It was cool to be a small part of this work! Open access in @weareseismica.bsky.social : seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... 25219
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This was a fun thing to be part of, in an otherwise grim week. TL;DR - we can use seismometers to track space junk re-entering the atmosphere in close to real-time. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comEarthquake sensors could help track a different threat: Falling space debrisScientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive way to detect falling space junk. 030
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Some interesting signals from Grand Turk in the TCI last night, a few minutes after the Starship explosion. Possible/likely sonic booms from re-entering debris I suspect! 020
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The Moon occulting Mars a few minutes ago from Baltimore, MD! 010
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Went running with some Baltimore friends round St James’ Park yesterday. Cold but stunning. I do miss having open green space to run in! 000
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Interested in a free, one-day workshop with @markpanning.seismology.space, I, and others, on how to access and use InSight seismic data? More info/application here! forms.office.com/r/TNRCKfP8ypforms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 024
Reposted by Ben Fernando Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 30/12/2024Hey, that’s an article about our InSight observers program in that table of contents! Congrats to @spacequakes.bsky.social on that and thanks to all of our InSight Seers who were a great part of our science team meetings in the last couple of years of the InSight mission. 2116
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024This week I’m continuing to do fieldwork everywhere except the field… Very cool to visit the @ctbto.bsky.social ops room this morning!! 010
Reposted by Ben Fernando Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 15/11/2024After the end of the Dragonfly Team meeting, I drove up to Baltimore and got to give a talk in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at the invite of @spacequakes.bsky.social, and also got to visit the lab of @planetdr.bsky.social. Very cool! 1191
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 05/04/2024Today’s M 4.7 as seen from my PiShake at Johns Hopkins Homewood campus! 000
Reposted by Ben Fernando Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 13/03/2024Avi Loeb's team presented their interstellar-debris-in-the-ocean claim yesterday at #LPSC. It was ... a lively session. Words by me: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comDid ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meetingAstrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an interstellar meteor showered Earth with particles. At a planetary science conference this week, researchers begged to differ. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says that an ... 5132
Ben Fernando @spacequakes.bsky.social · 13/03/2024Hello, bluesky! Glad people liked this interview 😀 1124
