It's that time of year again - the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis is underway! Here (on his short course debut) is Francisco Delgado leading us through a first modeling exercise using InSAR displacements over Okmok Volcano!

⚒️ 🧪 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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The earthquake in Kumamoto has clearly demonstrated its power and intensity. I received a video from the area where the epicentre of the tremor was located. #earthquake #terremoto #Japan #japon

NISAR surface displacement map of Venezuela is the NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day today. Map shows earthquake displacement on land is largest north of Caracas, so fault slip at depth on offshore fault greater. Fault went through Catia La Mar next to airport. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Malik Tillman's free kick equalizes for the USA at 31 minutes! The fans made Seattle Stadium shake and we captured this seismogram of their reaction at station HWK3. #SportsSeismology #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup

Belgium scores first! Goal by Charles de Ketelaere nine minutes into the match—here's the reaction from the Belgian fans recorded by our station HWK3. #SportsSeismology #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup

6 July 2019 3:20 UT (20:20 of 5th LT) Mw7.1 earthquake hit Ridgecrest, eastern California, the state's biggest EQ in 20 years, felt even in Utah. A Mw6.4 hit 34 hours before. Sequence caused one death and 25 injured. earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind... learningfromearthquakes.org/2019-07-04-s...

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as a retired industrial scientist, it’s important to note industry has a time window that is short and won’t fund stuff unless they think it could pay off within five years. just because it’s interesting doesn’t get funded.

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Watching World Cup matches as they were meant to be: on the vertical component of an accelerometer and annotated by a seismic analyst.

#VenezuelaEarthquakes Have people seen photos or video of landsliding and liquefaction features?

Hey earthquake types - Swiss Re is hiring an entry grad level earthquake catastrophe modeler. Strong science shop if this is your thing:

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For Venezuela right now: yes, 100%. And for California (and I know Lucy knows this), the lesson is to design FOR recovery. All the new housing, renewable energy, etc. that we can't wait to build ... it WILL go through major earthquakes, so let's design it to recover function quickly. We know how.

Lucy Jones@drlucyjones.bsky.social · last mo.

The coming months could compound the problems in Venezuela. Disasters damage what is already weak. Recovery needs an influx of money and people to get the economic system functioning again.

Thoughts from a seismologist on the Venezuelan earthquakes: We are seeing the damage in Caracas and the most recent models show that Caracas was badly hit. But there are almost 1 million people who received even stronger shaking earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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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Not plotted here but the epicenter is located near the western limit of InSAR fringe, indicating rupture was predominantly towards the east, including Caracas. So rupture directivity, which is like a seismic Doppler effect, likely contributed to stronger ground-shaking effects and damage.

Gareth Funning@gfun.earth · last mo.

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

This is a video filmed at Maiquetía Airport in Venezuela. #terremoto #earthquake

Damaging doublet of magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes in Venezuela. PAGER Red estimation from ground-shaking effects. The impacts from these earthquakes will be compounded because of significant secondary effects (landslides, liquefaction). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

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Back-to-back powerful #earthquakes (7.1 and 7.5 magnitude) hammered Venezuela on Wednesday evening, collapsing buildings in the capital of #Caracas. apnews.com/article/vene...

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

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We don’t know where the next scientific breakthroughs will happen. Which is why we need to fund some basic, curiosity-driven research, regardless of how uncertain the outcomes.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless, and a team somewhere else is a decade into a problem that may take another decade to crack... If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless, and a team somewhere else is a decade into a problem that may take another decade to crack... If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

Tobin L. Smith@scipolguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

This is the whole thing. Basic, wonky, weird, non-applied, whatever you want to call it, science is usually the eventual foundation of everything you know as "technology" or "medicine". It's not even a case of "if they succeed" - the investment is in the voluminous incremental advancements

John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless.... No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

And here is the seismic recording of the second goal for the #USMNT in their match against Australia at Seattle Stadium today! #FIFAworldcup #worldcup2026 #SportsSeismology

Earthquake faults on late-night TV! It’s great to see a paper highlighted this way. Now we need Jimmy Kimmel to keep up the word about “Drop, Cover, Hold on” during an earthquake. Probably not the thing he thinks about day in, day out ;)

Dr. Julian Lozos@seismogenic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The San Andreas Fault is used to high-profile media attention, but this is a big feature for the San Jacinto Fault!!

The San Andreas Fault is used to high-profile media attention, but this is a big feature for the San Jacinto Fault!!

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology@soest.hawaii.edu · 2mo ago

Work done by SOEST scientists at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has made it to @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social. ⚒️🧪