You may have heard about vertical tsunami towers in parts of Alaska. Our tsunami expert, Elena Troshina, weighs in on their value in some coastal communities. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/08/04/s...

Scientist explains need for vertical tsunami evacuation towers in Alaska

Alaska Earthquake Center Tsunami Modeler Elena Troshina said there’s a tool that could help save lives.

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Pleqse share!! Postdoc opportunity for near-real-time landslide detection in Alaska!!! The successful applicant will get to work with the amazing @ezgikarasozen.bsky.social See this page for more info! earthquake.alaska.edu/job-opportun... 🪨⚒️🧪

Did everyone see @janinekrippner.bsky.social explaining volcanoes for Encylopedia Britannica? www.britannica.com/video/what-a...

Volcanologist Janine Krippner Explains the Science Behind Volcanoes and Lava Flow | Britannica

Volcanologist Janine Krippner dives into the details.

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🧵#Alaska #uglydogs Crying as I write this. We said goodbye to @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social on July 22 to cancer. He was only 56, easily one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever known. Many Bluesky peeps have asked how to help, and give, to honor him. Some ideas:

"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social re.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

Please repost widely! #AcademicSky 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are you a Canadian PhD student or recent grad (or international person with a PhD from Canada or currently in Canada) and want to do geohazards or geomorphology research with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social , get in touch! 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-o...

What’s Shaking Alaska?! When a significant earthquake happens in Alaska, the Earthquake Center is your go-to place for info on where, when, how big, and how widely it was felt. We have a seismologist on duty around the clock! Listen to how they respond to an earthquake: https://bit.ly/3S8UC1D

Dino-centric postdocs at the Smithsonian 👇

⚒️ 🧪 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 moment tensor solution ("beach ball") for today's M5.0 quake indicates thrust motion striking NE-SW. The location, depth, and orientation place the earthquake on the Kantishna Hills Anticline, an area of active folding and thrust faulting associated with the larger Alaska Range thrust system.

PNSN’s stations monitor seismic activity in our region, but they also capture signals from earthquakes all around the world. Seismic waves from today’s M6.8 earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan traveled over 5000 miles to our network in WA and OR, arriving just over ten minutes later.

🚨BREAKING: Alaska recently removed thousands of people from its active voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found that some were in fact eligible to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Alaska wrongly removed eligible voters from active voter lists

Alaska removed thousands from voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found some were eligible to vote.

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It’s #FieldworkFriday! D24K on the North Slope is prone to flooding. When field team members Celia Chmielowski & Carolyn Parcheta arrived, the hut's batteries were wet and nonfunctional. The team installed a 2nd cooler for new batteries and built a wooden platform in the hut to keep batteries dry.

🧵 Friends, #Alaska our community lost the one and only Diva Dog Revna’s human @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social His silence is loud, many of us have been in incredible grief at the loss of such a unique, vibrant man. Sharing stories about the vast and varied impact he had on us is a testament (1/3)

Do I have any bsky friends who have a good photo or two of glacial landforms at Bull Lake WY, who wouldn't mind contributing them (with attribution) to the "Wyoming Rocks!" book? It appears to be one of the last sites I don't care for my own photos from 🫠

I was lucky enough to be one of the first recipients of this grant, it allowed me to go to an international volcanology conference! I never thought I would get the grant, but applied anyway. If you are interested, apply!! 🧪⚒️🪨

Seismological Society of America@seismosocam.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The support to attend this meeting via the Global Travel Grant is a testament to the SSA community and its investment in young scientists and the future of seismic hazard research and mitigation.” – Zoe Yin Apply for your own SSA Global Travel Grant before 31 July! buff.ly/6MgmvND

What's Shaking Alaska?! Well, we can tell you. Check out this week's episode, about a rare Y-K Delta earthquake on July 15th. https://earthquake.alaska.edu/sites/default/files/audio/072226.wav

Just last week we posted about the relative rarity of earthquakes in the Y-K Delta region. This evening's shaker, on the western end of the Denali Fault, underscores the message that these rare occurrences help us clarify basic geology and where our hazards lie. https://bit.ly/4wxz3pV

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Events in this part of the Y-K Delta are not unheard of, but don't happen very often!

@akearthquake.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our Duty Seismologist has reviewed a magnitude 4.9 event that occurred at 06:07 PM AK time. This event was located 74 miles NNE of Togiak, at 2 miles deep, and was reported as felt in SW Alaska. Thank you for reporting! For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/4gGIwXA

Our Duty Seismologist has reviewed a magnitude 4.9 event that occurred at 06:07 PM AK time. This event was located 74 miles NNE of Togiak, at 2 miles deep, and was reported as felt in SW Alaska. Thank you for reporting! For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/4gGIwXA

Aleknagik M4.9 | Alaska Earthquake Center

July 15, 2026 18:07:38 AKDT (July 16, 2026 02:07:38 UTC)

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Hi Folks, We have reviewed a magnitude 4.7 earthquake that occurred at 09:46 AM AK time. It was located 191 miles SSE of Akhiok, and occurred 28 miles deep. This earthquake was reported as felt in King Cove and Sand Point. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/4wIvWM7

Akhiok M4.7 | Alaska Earthquake Center

Alaskan Earthquake Center

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It's July, when coastal recreation🎣 and work peak, and landslides🏔️start to become a worry. We have a new interactive StoryMap for your perusal, focusing on landslide–tsunami 🌊 history and active monitoring in coastal Alaska. https://earthquake.alaska.edu/landslide-tsunami-hazards-coastal-alaska

Landslide–Tsunami Hazards of Coastal Alaska | Alaska Earthquake Center

July marks the anniversary of Alaska’s most notorious landslide, Lituya Bay (1958), which generated a devastating tsunami.

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Tea and Alchemy by Sharon Lynn Fisher.

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 3w ago

When was the last time you did this👇🏼 #BookSky

Despite it originating 50 miles deep, several people in Homer and vicinity have reported feeling this typical subduction-zone magnitude 4.2 earthquake that occurred at 02:11 PM AK time. If you felt it, go ahead and fill out a Did You Feel It? report. https://earthquake.alaska.edu/event/aka2026nsipgy

Anchor Point M4.2 | Alaska Earthquake Center

Alaskan Earthquake Center

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Today's anniversary of the 1958 Lituya Bay landslide and tsunami (still known as the highest tsunami runup ever recorded) and last summer's Tracy Arm event remind us that these hazards persist in coastal Alaska. Learn more about our two varieties of tsunami hazard here: https://bit.ly/4f8Fjxg

It's not often that very-low-frequency earthquake science hits the front page of a newspaper! The role that Alaska Earthquake Center monitoring played in the science is shown on p2. Check out this link to the Geophysical Institute story for an easier-to-read version. https://bit.ly/4vmFBqF

Last week, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake devastated Venezuela. Our hearts go out to the people left homeless and those who lost loved ones. In Alaska, small quakes help us forecast where to expect bigger ones and design better infrastructure. Listen here. https://bit.ly/4v5Soxq

Next, we have our service dogs. They are wild born, proper rez dogs raised in the ozarks on a working farm 🌲🐶🐶🌲 We are raising $15,000, but can go get them when we reach $10k. We will repost this post with dollar amount updates but are just over 10% right now. Give 🔽

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We need Wilderness First Responder training for our permitting and insurance. If you want to donate to this, use the general fund. We would greatly appreciate it! If you or someone you know would provide us the training for free or at a discount we would be oh so grateful 🧡🪶✨ lusidpsychcare.org

LUSID Residencies

LUSID Residencies is a non profit that takes children who were sexually abused on extended term healing adventures with service dogs, counselors, refugees, & decolonized veterans. We exist to break th...

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