Morgan Moschetti

People in This San Francisco Suburb Would Like the Earth to Just Stop Shaking, Please

I like to call them “earthquake infestations”, most seismologists call them swarms. Regardless of the name, the hotbed of seismic activity in San Ramon, CA has an article in the NY Times and features USGS seismologist Annemarie Baltay:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

www.science.org/content/arti...

EarthScope Student Career Internship Program | EarthScope Consortium The EarthScope Student Career Internship Program, formerly known as USIP, offers unique real-world work experience for undergraduate and graduate students relative to the interns' academic and career ...

I'm once again recruiting interns to join our science communication team next summer. There aren't many opportunities like this out there, and we work really hard to make it a great experience.

Share this with anyone you know that might be interested! www.earthscope.org/education/st...

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, and you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏾

Carl Tape's website - bears Bear Encounters with Seismic Stations in Alaska and Northwestern Canada Carl Tape, David Heath, Michael Baker, Scott Dalton, Kasey Aderhold, Michael West Seismological Research Letters, 2019 Full-reso...

Good to know they don’t just have it in for seismometers.

sites.google.com/alaska.edu/c...

2025 M7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake-Triggered Landslides and Snow Avalanches A M7.0 oblique-slip earthquake initiated about 6 miles (10 km) below the Hubbard Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains about 55 miles north of Yakutat, Alaska at approximately 11:40am AKST (1:40pm YST) o...

Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪

I updated my spaghetti magnitude video. 🍝

What magnitude is your appetite? 😆

I love xkcd

Congrats! This is amazing. Great work.

U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.

Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

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Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...

NOAA cancels funding for data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer ...

alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

One of the pictures of posterboards saying "How is the USGS meaningful to you?" - absolutely covered in post its expressing support and praising their science

USGS missing from GSA 💔⚒️

From reddit: www.reddit.com/r/geology/co...

For seismic hazard modeling, we refer to these uncertainties as “between-model uncertainty.” We also incorporate additional uncertainty estimates when we want to capture the full uncertainty because of the recognition that alternative models are (typically) developed to model mean/median metrics.

She Made Sure That Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public

We are choosing to let go of the scientific knowledge that benefits our country and our communities.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.

YouTube video by Dr. Wendy Rocks M6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake

Today marks 36 years since the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California.

This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪

youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

America’s brain drain

No words

Calif. could detect massive earthquakes with internet cables. Here's how. The same high-speed tech that brings you HD movies could also measure earthquakes.

Imaging identifies a transition to supershear rupture at the Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ), indicating a role of changes in geologic structure on rupture process. Fiber-optic cables (and distributed acoustic sensing, DAS) may help to monitor offshore earthquakes.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Fiber-imaged supershear dynamics in the 2024 Mw 7 Mendocino Fault earthquake Fault structure and rupture physics are deeply intertwined, and observations of this coupling are critical for understanding earthquake behavior. Rupture propagation is observable at fine scales using...

Fascinating new results from @atterholt.bsky.social and colleagues who use seismic signals recorded on a fiber-optic cable near Arcata, California to learn about the earthquake rupture process of the 2024 magnitude-7 offshore earthquake.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Indeed.
The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).

The 1755 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Lisbon, Portugal aren’t well understood. New research suggests that large-scale delamination of the Earth”s mantle may have been the cause. Seismic hazard is highest near existing plate boundaries, but it exists elsewhere.

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Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia - Nature Geoscience The lithospheric mantle may be delaminating from the crust in an oceanic plate segment offshore Southwest Iberia, which could be the ultimate cause of the 1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake, according to se...

Our new paper just came out today at @natgeosci.nature.com.

@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

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

USGS story map on the Kamchatka magnitude-8.8 earthquake at the end of July. This event is a reminder of the potential for huge earthquakes to affect people across the Pacific Basin.

earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...

This was NOT a 1500-ft tall wave traveling away from the landslide.
The 1500-ft number has been described as the splash caused by impact of the landslide with water in the fjord. Wave heights in the fjord were very high, however.

I’m definitely not the one to ask, but the landslide is right at the glacier terminus. @akearthquake.bsky.social just put out an event page also.

2025 Tracy Arm Landslide-Generated Tsunami A landslide above the toe of the South Sawyer Glacier failed into the waters of Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska, producing a tsunami on Sunday, August 10th, 2025, at 05:26 AKDT / 13:26 UTC. No inju...

USGS event page on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami. There are some great photos here showing the scale of the landslide and tsunami runup on the other side of the cove—almost 500 meters!

www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...

Great, thanks!