Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉
DYK that the 2010 M8.8 Chile earthquake caused highrises in Sao Paulo, Brazil (~2900 km away) to sway? (no damage) earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
In North America this suggests that a M9 Cascadia #earthquake could be felt (no damage) by people in highrises as distant as Toronto and Chicago.
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Geology in Wired!
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
5 days left to apply for a postdoc job with me, working on Martian glaciation!
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Relevant for glaciologists, geomorphologists, ice flow modellers, GIS or deep learning folks.
Closes 19th Jan. Queries via email.
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And there it is… Canada’s first felt #earthquake of 2026 - in a region that doesn’t have earthquakes so often!
This M2.0 earthquake (at 11:19 EST today) occurred 32 km south of Windsor, #ON and was felt by many.
Details and to report shaking:
www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2026/...
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The School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES) at McMaster is particularly interested in applications from experts in Al, environmental science, climate resilience, and/or Arctic studies. If this aligns with your expertise, we would love to hear from you!
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These chairs offer $1 million per year for full professors or $500,000 per year for associate professors, over eight years.
McMaster is seeking many scholars with ambitious research programs that tackle emerging global and national challenges in many disciplines.
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McMaster University is inviting top-tier researchers currently working abroad to join one of the world's leading research institutions through the prestigious Canada Impact+Research Chairs program.
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Bedmap - Ever wondered what the land underneath the frozen ice of Antarctica looks like? We released the most detailed map of Antarctica's hidden landscape, revealing ice up to 4,757m thick and filling major knowledge gaps across the continent.
Happy Maple Syrup Day!
Canada produces 80% of the world's pure maple syrup, and Quebec produces 91% of Canada's maple syrup.
It is something that is quintessentially Canadian.
This is its history.
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⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day!
📸: Pantone of Blue Mountains, light scattering. By Manon Berger on imaggeo.egu.eu
📸: A moment of rest in an ever-changing landscape. By Sjoukje de Lange on imaggeo.egu.eu
⚒️ 🧪 Japan just issued a “Subsequent Earthquake Advisory” following a M7.6 earthquake offshore Honshu. What does that mean?
Also: what happened in the earthquake, and why did it trigger a tsunami evacuation, with alerts of waves “up to 3 meters high”?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m76-earthq...
Better weather and climate data in Africa could save lives and improve livelihoods. Multiple international efforts are at work improving these networks.
eos.org/features/bui...
Read more in our year-end issue: bit.ly/Eos-Nov-Dec2025
A M5.8 earthquake struck NW China today - an aftershock of the 2024 M7 Wushi earthquake. Although slip in the M7 mainshock did not reach the surface, a M5.7 aftershock a week later produced a remarkable surface scarp. Did the latest M5.8 do the same thing? We're waiting for data to find out.
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Lead, Tin, and trace element analysis sheds light on trade of Tin from Cornwall across Bronze Age Europe ⚒️🧪
The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
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A M6.8 earthquake struck offshore Japan today - another large earthquake from the subduction zone that produced two recent great earthquakes. The earthquake was preceded by a "cascade up": foreshocks progressively increasing in maximum magnitude.
What do we know? What might happen next?
Hurricane Melissa recently battered Jamaica and the Caribbean. Learn how hot seas led to a record-breaking storm in this new map from #MapsDotCom
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#gischat 🌊🧪 #geogchat #geogsky
Fish in the forest, seaweed in trees?
Yes - 13 years ago tonight, the M7.8 #HaidaGwaii earthquake generated the world's largest #tsunami of 2012. Runup to 13m in some inlets left seaweed in trees and fish in the forest. If you are near water and feel long and strong shaking, go to high ground.
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Thoroughly enjoying checking out the spectacular folded and overturned Carboniferous-aged turbidities near Millook Haven on the NE Cornish coast.
Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::
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A M7.4 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka peninsula today: the largest aftershock so far of the great M8.8 on July 29th.
What do we see in the seismic data so far? And what are the chances of a triggered earthquake next door?
earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m74-earthq...
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If you've seen breathless reporting about a seismic swarm near a "supervolcano" in northern Nevada, don't worry: that is just where Yellowstone was, 15 million years ago. There is no supervolcano there now.
But the swarm, and the geology here, is pretty neat! Read about it in our latest post:
This Is Geoscience is a new campaign launched by @geolsoc.bsky.social to showcase the sector's societal value and highlight career opportunities for the geoscientists of tomorrow.
Discover more here: geoscientist.online/sections/new...
#geoscience #geology #careers
For #ThinSectionThursday, a bryozoan grainstone/rudstone from the Permian of Western Australia.
Ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Leitung der ETH Zürich zeigt anhand von Messungen, dass die Weltmeere während der beispiellosen marinen Hitzewelle im Jahr 2023 deutlich weniger CO2 aufgenommen haben als erwartet.
ethz.ch/de/news-und-...
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Measurements analysed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023.
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A magnitude 6 earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan just before midnight on August 31st. Vulnerable homes built of mud, brick, stone, and wood collapsed; the reported death toll has exceeded 800 people.
Why do earthquakes occur here, what happened in this one, and why was it so deadly?
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