We're retiring EarthScope’s on-premises seismic archiving system. This is one of the final steps in a multi-year effort to move EarthScope’s seismic data archiving — nearly 40 years’ worth, hosted at the University of Washington — into the AWS cloud. Full details ➡️ https://loom.ly/ruMsBQ4

We have several new options for increased compute resources in GeoLab, our cloud notebook environment, including scalable compute quota caps for intensive workflows, access to GPUs and larger server sizes, and access to a Dask gateway. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/iPCvi2A

UPCOMING WEBINAR 2026 Venezuela Earthquakes: Insights from Satellite Optical Geodesy Presenter: Dr. Cassie Hanagan (USGS Earthquake Science Center) Register to attend ➡️ https://loom.ly/U3E3l9o

We're hiring for an Engineer II - Polar position! If you have experience managing multiple geophysical and network field projects of varying complexity across different locations, including polar latitudes, this might be the job for you. Learn more and apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/A_rKSEw

We're upgrading the infrastructure behind the GNSS real-time NTRIP service, and a new caster is available today to test against ahead of an upcoming switch-over on August 6. Full details ➡️ https://loom.ly/vNV4Rng

In GeoLab's first month, we saw a number of you checking it out! Our biggest peak came during @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social 's Strain Accumulation and Release from GNSS short course, when we had over 110 folks crunching data. Get started ➡️ https://loom.ly/yr8gnps

How are ocean waves and earthquakes linked? A new study combines buoy wave height measurements with NSF NGF seismic data to examine how winter ocean swells impact seismicity at California’s offshore Mendocino Triple Junction. Read it here: doi.org/10.1785/0220250447

⚒️ 🧪 A M6.8 earthquake struck Kyushu, Japan today. Large quakes in Japan are common and often pass without much notice, but this one is serious - instead of occurring offshore in the subduction zone, it is a shallow, strike-slip event near Kumamoto. Damage and deaths have already been reported.

Southern Japan struck by deadly M6.8 earthquake

A reminder of the neighboring 2016 Kumamoto M7.0 earthquake

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A destructive, shallow magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the Kyushu region of Japan today. While the earthquake occurred near the subduction zone, the July 28 event resulted from strike-slip faulting on a crustal fault. Learn more & access event data ➡️ https://loom.ly/TByakck

Join our team as temporary Operations Support Clerk in Albuquerque, NM. This position will support the Instrumentation Services Facilities Operations Manager with maintenance, safety, and equipment management tasks across the site. Learn more & apply at the link in our bio! https://loom.ly/A_rKSEw

With analysis-ready cloud data in our GeoLab compute hub, calculating GNSS signal-to-noise has gotten a massive speed boost compared to parsing daily RINEX files — and can be parallelized across a cluster to go even faster. GeoLab is now open, so why not check it out? 👉 https://loom.ly/H2ZsbaU

The tectonic plate boundaries off Northern California are complex. Recent research suggests it might be even weirder than it looks on the surface, with a piece of the old Farallon plate stuck to the Pacific plate beneath California. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/_zeAgvg

EarthScope Data Services will be retiring the irisws-timeseries web service and its associated microservices as part of our strategic initiative to refine the NSF National Geophysical Facility's portfolio of data and metadata access capabilities in the cloud. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/ykDi5xU

We are migrating the archiving of miniSEED data in the NSF National Geophysical Facility repository from our legacy Seattle data center to a new cloud platform. Details ➡️ https://loom.ly/H3jeNM0

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.

A M7.3 earthquake struck offshore near the border of Mexico and Guatemala. Offshore southern Mexico and Central America, the Cocos Plate subducts beneath the North American and Caribbean plates, resulting in frequent large earthquakes. Learn more & access event data ➡️ https://loom.ly/qBQlsMY

Our fdsnws-availability web service will be out of service for an undetermined period of time starting on July 27. We are working on a replacement system and will make it available as soon as possible. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/v4nRIEo

Our PH5 web services will be migrating and retiring. The data and metadata previously served by these web services will be migrated to our FDSN web services. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/vsxmCS0

Using geodetic data from the Network of the Americas and the paleoseismology record, researchers at the University of Hawaii investigated how the Cajon Pass in SoCal could influence the next big earthquake along the San Andreas Fault System. Read more on our website ➡️ https://loom.ly/3pYLMzQ

Working in our GeoLab cloud compute hub and want to share a notebook with a collaborator or students? A simple option is to use nbgitpuller. How to ➡️ https://loom.ly/whHh4zY

When you're ready to try out our GeoLab cloud compute hub, we have set of (growing!) resources to help you put it to work. Not fully comfortable using Git to manage your code and collaborate? Head to the docs! 🛠️ https://loom.ly/nJojnZM

Introducing Gabrielle Troia! Gabrielle is working as an Educational Resources and Data intern this summer, creating and updating geophysics educational materials. Tune in to our interview to hear about the work Gabrielle is doing this summer! https://loom.ly/wLqOX8I

Water vapor interferes with GPS signals, hindering position calculations — but can be used to help predict rainfall. A new machine learning model harnesses this “error” from GPS stations to improve short-term rainfall forecasting. Read about the research: https://loom.ly/dLPVMQg

This animation shows the waves from the June 24 earthquake doublet in Venezuela ripple across North and South America. See our full Venezuela earthquakes event response ➡️ https://loom.ly/xuQ_PYs

Twinning Spotlight: Cayden Woolery (Purdue) Cayden spent 3 weeks at New Mexico Tech gaining hands-on experience with seismic instrumentation & fieldwork. He toured the EarthScope Consortium Primary Instrument Center, helped his mentor install a permanent seismic station.

We recently opened our cloud compute JupyterHub, allowing users to work directly with the cloud data archive. We have onboarding resources to get you rolling and a community forum to trade data processing tips. Come check it out! https://loom.ly/VNay9xU

This June, the ISCO NOTA station on Cocos Island was rebuilt, restoring access to real-time geophysical data from the Cocos Plate. 📸: Lia Lajoie/EarthScope To learn more about this unique station and the significance of monitoring the Cocos plate, visit our website: https://loom.ly/_m_804I

It's been almost one year since the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake, which shook the entire Pacific Ocean. Now, researchers have combined two seismic techniques to probe in high detail how this megathrust fault ruptured. Read about the study here ➡️ https://loom.ly/U7ypafI

NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite imaged Venezuela June 25. NISAR SAR interferometry (InSAR) enabled calculation of surface displacement. Displacements have red tones for east and blue tones for west, with white in middle near-zero over fault rupture. Fault ruptured far to east under ocean. #venezuela

What have we learned about the deadly Venezuela earthquake in the last day and a half? A lot, actually. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/early-scie...

Early scientific picture of the deadly Venezuela earthquake emerges

Eastward rupture from the Boconó fault onto the San Sebastián fault

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⚒️ 🧪 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.