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… “first, expecting the worst, but then buoyed by a flood of emergency funding that has kept their stations stable and surviving. For now.

“It’s a huge success story, and we’re so grateful and thrilled,” Ms. Robertson said. “But the future is unclear.” — the article continues (see gift link above)

… “Mariana Robertson, the station’s general manager, said she had faced a potential “doomsday” situation that included cutting staff.

Then the donations poured in.

Now, Ms. Robertson is one of many station directors across America who find themselves in unexpected territory:” …

“Things looked bleak last summer for KCAW, a tiny public radio station serving the remote community of Sitka, Alaska (population 8,393). Congress had just slashed $500 million in funding for public media, blowing a $187,500 hole in the station’s budget…”

Public Media Holds Its Apocalypse at Bay, for Now

Gift link to NYT article - see thread (below) for the experience of Sitka, Alaska’s radio station KCAW - www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...

Modern concrete building with lush trees in foreground, backed by rugged mountains under a clear blue sky. Text emphasizes commitment to reliable weather and atmospheric research.

"NCAR: Serving critical American interests." Read the op-ed by CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati and @laspatcu.bsky.social Director Bethany Ehlman in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: buff.ly/vnM7iMD

Sunrise, and a good one, too!

Map showing the location of the earthquake in Joshua tree. The location of the earthquake is marked with a star and the different colors indicate areas that had different levels of shaking intensity.

M 4.9 earthquake 19 km NNE of Indio, CA

Did you feel it? Report it!

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New day dawning - have a good one!

Catalina & San Clemente islands at sunset tonight

Shake map showing the location of the Northridge earthquake. The different colors indicate different intensities of earthquake shaking. The strongest shaking, indicated by red, is centered under Northridge, California.

32 years ago, at 4:31 AM, a magnitude 6​.7 earthquake struck southern California. This quake, centered in Northridge, caused 57 fatalities and injured thousands.

Is there also a report available from the panel? If so, please provide a link. Many thanks!

Hokkaido megaquake probability rises to around 90%, says panel The panel estimated the probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8-8.5 occurring along the Chishima Trench off the city of Nemuro in Hokkaido within 30 years.

The probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8-8.5 occurring along the Chishima Trench off the city of Nemuro in Hokkaido within 30 years has risen to around 90%, according to a Japanese government panel.

For the non meta among us

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

M6.5 subduction earthquake strikes near Acapulco, Mexico Unsurprisingly, also felt in Mexico City

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A M6.5 earthquake struck near Acapulco, Mexico today, triggering warning systems and causing tall buildings in Mexico City to sway. How does this event fit into the larger tectonic picture - and what kinds of earthquakes might we expect here?

earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m65-subduc...

“Engineering and Risk Research—A Strategic Vision
for Extending USGS Earthquake Science to Risk
Assessment and Mitigation” (2025) by Jaiswal, K. et al. is a free & openly available USGS publication - pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1555/ci...

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993PApG...

@earthscope & UNAM operate continuous GPS / GNSS stations in this vicinity; it will be interesting to see the data. There have been other earthquakes near this one, of similar size. I’m looking forward to reading analyses of this activity.

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.5 #Earthquake #Sismo #Terremoto en #Mexico near #Acapulco

Thrust (compressional) earthquake mechanism and depth suggest this is a megathrust subduction zone earthquake

Tectonic setting in '20 report earthjay.com?p=9563

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#EarthquakeReport for 2025 Annual Year in #Earthquakes and #Tsunami

See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025

See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025

earthjay.com?page_id=12459

It’s #EarthquakeReport Day! The M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake was HUGE, as you can see in the cumulative energy‑release plot but no one died because it struck such a remote area.

The deadliest events were the M7.7 Myanmar, M6.0 Afghanistan, and M7.1 Tibet quakes, which caused around 8,000 deaths. ⚒️🧪

The forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement In their new book, "Science Under Siege," Peter Hotez and Michael Mann reveal the main forces threatening science: plutocrats, pros, petrostates, phonies, and the press.

The forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement | I discussed my book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, with @ethanelkind.bsky.social of @npr.org / @kalwradio.bsky.social #YourCall radio: www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Ban Blinding Headlights and Save Lives!

Petition here - c.org/YVhjb4Qqqg

… for observation, analysis, and interpretation of the earthquake source. Robust
imaging using all available data, however, can now explain many aspects of the complicated and
protracted source evolution. (end of abstract)

… geodetically recorded locally, regionally, and worldwide. Also, deformation
recorded geologically by the uplift and subsidence of coral reefs constrained the alongstrike
and downdip pattern of fault slip. The extremely long duration and spatial extent of the source
presented challenges…

… The initial subevent precipitated further northward progression of slip,
dynamically extending the full rupture length threefold alongstrike to ~1600 km. Rapid early slip
was resolved best teleseismically for the first several hundred seconds, whereas slower slip proved
sufficiently large to be…

During the 26 Dec. 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, heterogeneous slip amounts
& velocities occurred across a vast area of the plate interface. Large & rapid slip produced
the initial subevent, itself a potent seismic & tsunami source comprising the first 1/3 of
the total rupture length…