Thorsten Becker

Thanks for hanging in there.

Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social

youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...

Geophysics is serious business.

Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Five stars

Flyer with an image of the Earth in the geological past, as well as the GSA Connects and GPlates logos. Text reads: GSA Connects 2025 Short Course 521 Plate Tectonics for Science and Teaching using GPlates Paleo-GIS Software Date: Saturday 18th October 2025 Time: 8am-5pm Instructors: Jonny Wu & Edward Clennett, University of Arizona Cost: *Student = $63 *Early Career = $88 Professional = $125 Laptop required. Please install GPlates from www.gplates.org prior to short course. More information and registration at: https://store.geosociety.org/products/sc25cn521 *Register through GSA registration portal for student/ECP rate.

Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.

Not saying but at least it looks nice.

Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes

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Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.

All about high standards.

Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)

These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪

A parade of volcanoes is erupting in Russia following an 8.8 earthquake Six Russian volcanoes erupted shortly after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck nearby, with a seventh possibly to follow.

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.

Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…

www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.

#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.

“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL

eos.org/articles/tra...

Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️

Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s funny!

Join us for session DI012 – Seismic Anisotropy from Surface to Core at AGU 2025, in New Orleans.

The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu

agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans

Since the Tōhoku quake and tsunami struck in 2011, Japan has built three offshore monitoring networks comprising more than 200 instrument stations, connected to the mainland by optical fiber. The networks provide real-time warnings and insights into subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives under another at a seafloor trench.

In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system.

Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI

Dylan in ATX. Or maybe Timothée Chalamet. I can attest to a Dylan sounding person behind the piano.

Meaning, for example, N = 2, once all is said and done. Does make you wonder.

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar

US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

Incredibly disrespectful

Great to have John Aiken at UTIG to talk about solid fluid interactions and new code development paradigms leveraging AI

I cannot express to you the hours, days, YEARS that went into these images across Rubin. They are spectacular. And truly just a peek. It has been the wildest few months of my life getting my small piece, the social media, ready for this.

You're not ready for 11am.

ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

#computational #geoscience jamboree in Breckenridge CO this summer. One more day to submit abstracts and apply for EC funding to attend the #CIG meeting. Science includes earthquakes, landscape evolution, subduction zone fluid transport and more!

geodynamics.org/events/detai...