Jason "Jay" R. Patton

Tsunami evacuation sign

I think the first ever #tsunami evacuation sign I’ve ever seen in real life! #Antibes #France 🌊🇫🇷

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

Shame on you Google. Just more enshittification of your search tools, for revenue and/or political favor

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

#ProudBlue This was a fascinating & informative discussion on what we’re dealing with these days. Well worth a listen!

POTUS telling his Generals to prepare for shooting on the opposition should top the news over one of these ritual shutdown dramas, I think

I think NSF staff took advantage of not being part of HHS and not having a Trump appointee running the agency. Currently, NSF is led by Brian Stone who was the NSF chief of staff and has been at NSF for 25 years.

Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits off central Philippines coast Earthquake sends people running into the streets, damages buildings after hitting off Cebu island.

Earthquake sends people running into the streets, damages buildings after hitting off Cebu island.

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Lindol #Earthquake offshore of the #Philippines

left-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
possibly associated with Philippine fault system (?)
interpretive poster

tectonics in 2022 report earthjay.com?p=10210

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#PaperReport for Goldfinger et al., 2025
doi.org/10.1130/GES0...

stratigraphy is the key to disentangling prehistoric earthquake records for the Cascadia and San Andreas fault systems

evidence suggests that in the past 3ka, Cascadia precedes San Andreas, often over short time

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Lindol #Earthquake in the #Philippines

@USGS_Quakes models show low chance for triggered landslides & hi chance for induced liquefaction
PAGER estimates for losses

Tectonic background in 2023 report earthjay.com?p=11611

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Lindol #Earthquake in the #Philippines

Left-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Associated with Phillipine fault system
Hopefully not many casualties

Tectonic background in 2023 report earthjay.com?p=11611

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This is a moment where all cis people need to be calling their elected officials and demanding they protect trans healthcare, even if it means shutting down the government

It doesn't matter if you live somewhere red or blue - everyone needs to hear this

Absolute lies. This is precisely the kind of thing that is holding back meaningful progress on the climate

There is no empirical evidence hydrogen production has contributed in any way to global warming

The entire gas network is switching to #hydrogen, because it is #zeroemissions

#EarthquakeReport for M5.9 #Earthquake offshore of #Oregon #UnitedStates

Right-lateral strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Along Blanco transform fault system
Common location and magnitude for Blanco fault

Read 2019 report earthjay.com?p=8935

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Vote here: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

Most of my students think it's okay to use for "brainstorming" and "generating ideas." Once again: GENERATING IDEAS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOU

#EarthquakeReport for M6.3 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake en #Venezuela

Mainshock (?) to today's earlier M6.2
Also thrust (Compressional) earthquake mechanism, shallow, and potentially damaging

Tectonic background in 2018 report
earthjay.com?p=7657

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#EarthquakeReport for M6.2 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake en #Venezuela

Shallow
@USGS_Quakes models show chances for landslides and liquefaction
PAGER estimate for human and economic impact

Tectonic background in 2018 report
earthjay.com?p=7657

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#EarthquakeReport for M6.2 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake en #Venezuela

Thrust (Compressional) earthquake mechanism
Shallow
Hopefully not many casualties

Tectonic background in 2018 report
earthjay.com?p=7657

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

AGRIVOLTAICS... everything about it is amazing... except for the name 🤮😂

“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?”

- Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1

A geological cross-section showing layers of folded rocks in green, brown, and blue.

Currently *OBSESSED* by this tunnel-parallel cross-section along the Channel Tunnel between England and France 😍

#geoscience #geology ⚒️

Source: @geolsoc.bsky.social (www.geolsoc.org.uk/science-and-...)

#EarthquakeReport for M 4.3 #Earthquake near #Berkeley #California

right-lateral strike-slip earthquake mechanism
associated with the Hayward fault (?)

tectonic background in 2018 report earthjay.com?p=7481

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Appears that there a bunch of Democratic house members that need to be primaried

it is unbelievable

indeed!

welcome to the world of trump and his cultist supporters :-(

Panic in the headlines - Te Awamutu News “Tourists warned of volcano (in capital letters) alert in Spanish holiday hotspot as locals urged to leave homes” This was a headline published a few weeks ago by Great Britain News, and I want to...

After having a great geo call with @earthjay.bsky.social yesterday, I am inspired to give this platform a go again! So here is my latest writing. Over the last few years I have been doing the classic newspaper column writing scicomm style.

www.teawamutunews.nz/2025/09/pani...

that looks like a mudstone or shale (there is a range of subcategories/subclassifications for types of mudstone/shale) but could have sand in it(?)

the bedding seems to be non deformed (so maybe not metasedimentary) but could be

while licking rocks is fun we don't need to lick everything we see

Earthquake Probabilities and Hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (USGS)

Wirth, Frankel, Sherrod, Grant, Dunham, Stone, and Grossman prepared an excellent overview of the earthquake sources in the Pacific Northwest and the likelihood of their occurence

doi.org/10.3133/fs20...

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.