Having a look at some work from my PhD on faults in Mongolia, and reminiscing on the beauty of this place. It's impossible to take a bad photo!

Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

Catastrophic M7.5 earthquake strikes northern Venezuela

Severe damage; collapsed buildings; significant fatalities possible

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This from 2021 looks really damn prescient today. “There have been many destructive earthquakes on this plate, particularly magnitude 7 and above around Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, in 1812 and 1900,”

Caribbean-South American plate boundary primed for major earthquake | Penn State University

Faults in northern Venezuela are primed to produce a powerful, potentially destructive earthquake, according to a team of scientists who conducted a new study of the Caribbean-South American tectonic ...

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Two large earthquakes in two minutes in Venezuela, with the second event much large at M7.5. This looks complex.

Applications are open for a @uk-comet.bsky.social funded PhD project on complex faulting and earthquakes! We'll be using cosmogenic isotopes, seismology, and more to investigate how complex fault structures influence earthquake style and recurrence. phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2486...

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Head of School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability

The University of Leeds was established in 1904 and is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. It is renowned globally for the quality of its education and research across a huge b...

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Fieldwork, labwork, earthquakes and more!! Get in touch if you're interested in doing a PhD with me @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social Please share, and check out details here: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

The inner workings of the earthquake cycle: New insight from integrating Quaternary fault activity, microstructures, and geophysics - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network

Summary Fault activity is now known to be highly dynamic, with observable spatial and temporal variability in earthquake recurrence and the style of fault slip. This exciting project explores the unde...

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Fairly big shake in western Turkey

Scary example of why scientists advise people to "drop cover hold" rather than "run outside" during strong shaking.

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Kamchatka, 8.8 magnitude earthquake

First slip map for the Mw 7.8 Myanmar earthquake. Propagation of rupture towards the South. Slipnear method (Géoazur/OCA).

My brother-in-law flies the scooper planes in different locations in North America. He doesn’t normally fly this time of the year!

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From @theathletic.bsky.social: A NASCAR driver’s father is helping fight the L.A. fires in a 400,000-pound airplane just a few hundred feet above the ground, at 170 mph. nyti.ms/40j67DD