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Poster for the 25 Years Since the Nisqually Earthquake Event, with a picture of damage to the city of Seattle in the background. It takes place at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Theater, at 3930 Brooklyn Ave NE in Seattle, on Feb 24th at 6:30pm. Admission is free. There is a QR code on the right side linking to a registration page.

It's been 25 years since the Nisqually earthquake—are we ready for the next one? Join us at UW next week (Tuesday, Feb 24) for a conversation and Q&A with local experts about earthquake science, policy, & preparedness in the PNW. Register here to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/25-years-s...

Lava fountains at Kīlauea on February 15, 2026.

Fountain on the mountain time at Kīlauea in Hawai'i. Check out the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

ok the sub-editor who wrote that headline had better be ready to fight

one of the two smokestacks of the M/V Kaleetan seen from its uppermost passenger deck on a semi-cloudy day.

a gold stripe on each smokestack of a @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov vessel means that it has served us in Washington for *50 years*! This is one of the smokestacks of the M/V Kaleetan, launched in 1967.

Nikon N60 | Fuji 400
#filmphotography

truly a load-bearing public service account

mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house

That's right, in fact it's a giant catfish that thrashes the underground and causes the shaking. ⚒️

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namazu

that's certainly what it brings to mind

En Turquie, trois ans après le séisme qui a tué 54 000 personnes, les procédures judiciaires s’enlisent Les familles de victimes dénoncent l’extrême lenteur des procédures et l’impunité persistante des responsables. Près de 270 000 personnes vivent encore dans des conteneurs.

Three years after the deadly earthquakes of Feb 6 2023, 1,300 cases are pending, and nearly 1,850 people are being prosecuted. At least 118 convictions have been finalized. No government officials who granted building permits/approved safety inspections are included.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa....

Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

The seismometers at the end of the earth have names Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.

US Geological Scientists have installed new seismometers at the South Pole. These super-deep instruments are the quietest (and deepest) on Earth and piggyback on other scientific projects in Antarctica.

Take a listen here: www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

thank you! excited I finally managed to snag one, I've wanted to for ages

I want you to know that I will not be the first person at PNSN with one of these on my desk

there was a loud but well-behaved party happening on the light rail on my way home (and then I put Posse on Broadway on to accompany the ambient honking & fireworks as I walked up Capitol Hill)

lol

(you take the girl out of Seattle and put her in New York, İstanbul, and then Oakland for almost twenty years...)

nothing makes me feel more like an alien in my hometown than my habitual jaywalking

🫡

we will constitute the field.

SEATTLE CULTURAL VICTORY. WOKE 1. CHUD 0.

inshallah

the disaster studies folks on the tl are going wild

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why It's So Hard To Turn The Lights Back On In Puerto Rico Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, almost 80 percent of the territory is still without power. While nobody expected a quick…

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference

www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

UNITED THE UNITED NATIONS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Kid Rock: "god bless the stars and stripes, I love my truck almost as much as Donny's dumptruck" or some shit idk

Bad Bunny:

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

THE TELEPHONE POLEOGRAPHY. the connection of the sugar cane fields and the electric grid

this rules

We all saw the fellas grindin right? That may be a first for the super bowl.