Dahlias are putting on quite a show.

⚒️ 🧪 Satellite and seismic data begin to reveal a picture of the fault that slipped in Japan: together, this earthquake and the M7.0 earthquake in 2016 fit together like puzzle pieces. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/update-on-...

Update on the M6.8 Japan earthquake

Slip patches in the 2016 and 2026 earthquakes seem to fit together like puzzle pieces

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Signs of recovery were beginning to emerge in the city of Kumamoto on Friday, as major transportation routes disrupted by Tuesday's large quake resumed operations and as the death toll inched up to at least 35. 🧵

Kumamoto showing early signs of quake recovery as transportation routes resume

Shinkansen lines, flights and highways began resuming operations Friday, suggesting the damage to infrastructure was not as devastating as the 2016 temblor.

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Rescuers raced to find survivors on Wednesday, a day after a massive earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and triggered a large explosion at a popular shopping mall. 🧵

Rescuers race to find survivors following massive Kumamoto quake

At least three of the 13 deaths reported came at a major shopping mall, after an explosion ripped through the building, causing a large portion of it to collapse.

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Kilauea is erupting now - here’s one of the USGS livestream videos - www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

YouTube video by USGS

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Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people. n.pr/3RDctNS

Rescuers search for the missing after Japan earthquake as death toll rises to 13

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people.

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BREAKING: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Kumamoto Prefecture, registering up to "shindo" 7, the highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. The weather agency issued a tsunami alert, urging people to stay away from the ocean and the sea shore.

Tsunami alert issued after magnitude 7.1 quake strikes Kumamoto

The quake registered up to shindo 7, the highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale.

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⚒️ 🧪 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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This is Beily. He was miraculously found alive under rubble 29 days after the Venezuela earthquakes. He has since been reunited with his 11-year-old human Victoria and is expected to make a full recovery. 14/10 for all (TT: fuerzavzla1)

Sul sito dell'INGV Osservatorio Etneo è stato pubblicato il bollettino settimanale sul monitoraggio multiparametrico del vulcano Etna per il periodo 29 giugno - 5 luglio 2026. Link: buff.ly/Ycv8hUF #INGV #osservatorioetneo #Etna #sorveglianzavulcanica

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” ― Stephen Jay Gould

🌋 More from #Etna 📸 Kevin Saragozza

The Trump admin is doubling down on its intention to destroy American science. Scientific expertise – not politicians – should be in charge of our science. We need everyone in this fight. Take action against the OMB proposal here:  zurl.co/k2Cj5 Article: zurl.co/F5zCu

Trump administration stands by controversial OMB proposal despite growing resistance

White House denies requests to extend public comment deadline on its plan to give political appointees control over science funding

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A team of 79 people and six dogs from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue is in Venezuela searching the rubble for earthquake survivors. https://to.pbs.org/4gSlmxf

'We're not stopping': Virginia rescue team searches for quake survivors in Venezuela

The search and rescue efforts in Venezuela continued Wednesday, one week after a double earthquake struck that country. Fewer and fewer survivors are being found and an official said nearly 2,300 peop...

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Nearly half of the Americans surveyed in a new national poll do not know what America 250 commemorates. n.pr/3TfLTLa

Proud to be American, but not quite sure why.

Nearly half of the Americans surveyed in a new national poll do not know what America 250 commemorates.

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This is a brilliant story. Hooray for archives, and for their staff and volunteers. 📝📄🗄️🗃️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

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A new paper posits that southern California's Cajon Pass may serve as an 'earthquake gate' that, when open, allows earthquakes to keep on going, and when closed, stops them in their tracks. Temblor CEO Ross Stein provides his assessment of this work. temblor.net/earthquake-i...

Is Southern California's Cajon Pass an ‘earthquake gate’ ready to open? - Temblor.net

A new paper suggests that at Cajon Pass, the stress is higher than at any time in the past thousand years. Is this finding obvious or alarming?   By Ross ...

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Just like it takes only 30 people to have a 50-50 chance of a shared birthday, regions with a long history of earthquakes can have a multi-earthquake anniversary. For SoCal, it’s June 28 - 1966, 1991, and 1992.

Venezuela does not have a national early warning system of its own, but people with Android phones received alerts from Google’s Earthquake Alerts system seconds before back-to-back quakes struck on Wednesday. trib.al/KI8ICSy

How Phones Alerted Millions Before Earthquakes Shook Venezuela

Millions of people in Venezuela and surrounding countries received early warning alerts to their phones up to two minutes before back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday.

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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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Dr. Judith Hubbard@judithgeology.bsky.social · last mo.

⚒️ 🧪 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.

NEW: Yesterday, a rare catastrophe struck Venezuela when a magnitude 7.2 and a magnitude 7.5 quake hit the same region *within less than a minute*. For the @nytimes.com, I asked scientists how this happened, why they were so devastating, and what might happen next. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/s...

Why the Venezuelan Earthquakes Happened, and What to Expect Next

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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.

Very damaging earthquakes in Venezuela. @judithgeology.bsky.social provides a preliminary summary of what may have been a M7.2 and M7.5 doublet - or a complex rupture. Scientifically, this will be hard to untangle because later P/S arrivals will overlap the wavefield from the first event.

Dr. Judith Hubbard@judithgeology.bsky.social · last mo.

⚒️ 🧪 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.

This is the best tectonic map of the area I've been able to dig up. These earthquakes occur in the region where the strike-slip boundary between the Caribbean and South America plates bifurcates. The Oca-Ancon system continues W along the coast; the Bocono Fault runs to the SW inland.

⚒️ 🧪 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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USGS info: Venezuela earthquakes were a “doublet” sequence; EQ1 M 7.2 & EQ2 M 7.5 - USGS OnePager summary of estimated impacts from the larger event - earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M 7.5 earthquake 23 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Earlier today @drlucyjones.bsky.social sat down with Dr. Kate Scharer, USGS, to discuss the paper that Kate co-authored regarding the 1000 year high stress on the San Andreas Fault! And how this is not the end of the world, but just a new understanding of its dynamics. buff.ly/u85G8w1

Thoughts About The Earth Ep. 0

Dr. Lucy Jones sits down with Dr. Kate Scharer to discuss recent news regarding the San Andreas Fault and it's "imminent" rupture.

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For the lava and ash-devil fans, Kilauea is doing volcano things again. If you scroll back to about 1210pm local time on the youtube channel you can see a well-defined circulation. There's lots of tephra falling too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...