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Dr. Wendy Bohon

@drwendyrocks.bsky.social

Earthquake geologist 🧪⚒️ | Scicomm specialist 🎙️| Formerly USGS, IRIS, NASA | she/her | Views are mine | website: https://wendybohon.com/ “A delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos.”

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California Geological Survey@cageosurvey.bsky.social · 6d ago

In 2023, California remained one of the largest producers of non-fuel minerals in the US. Specifically, California ranked 5th behind Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, and Texas with a non-fuel mineral production value of 5.6 billion dollars, accounting for approximately 4.85% of the nation’s total.

Pie chart showing the production value of different types of non-fuel minerals. The largest slices of the pie belong to construction sand and gravel, cement, crushed stone, and “other”.
California Geological Survey@cageosurvey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Between July 13 (12:00 AM PST) and July 19 (11:59 PM) there were 54 earthquakes in California of magnitude (M) 2.0 or larger. 🔸51 earthquakes between M2.0 - 2.9 🔸2 earthquakes between M3.0 - 3.9 🔸1 earthquake between M4.0 - 4.9 The largest earthquake was a magnitude 4.3 near N of Johannesburg, CA.

Infographic with a map of California on the left showing the size and location of earthquakes, and a bar graph on the right showing the number of earthquakes of each magnitude
EarthScope Consortium@earthscope.org · 3w ago

There is currently an outage of real-time seismic data feeds spanning the majority of US-based networks that are contributed to EarthScope through the NEIC. We have been informed that a fiber-optic cable critical to data flow was damaged. The NEIC is currently working on a fix.

California Geological Survey@cageosurvey.bsky.social · 3w ago

Between July 6 (12:00 AM PST) and July 12 (11:59 PM) there were 61 earthquakes in California of magnitude (M) 2.0 or larger. 🔸55 quakes between M2.0 - 2.9 🔸4 quakes between M3.0 - 3.9 🔸2 quakes between M4.0 - 4.9 The largest earthquake was a magnitude 4.4 north of Covelo, CA.

Infographic showing a map of California on the left with the location of earthquakes marked by red dots are very exercises that indicate the size of the earthquake. On the right is a bar graph showing the number of earthquakes of each magnitude.