Diego González

Accadde oggi: il 21 ottobre 1822 iniziava l'eruzione del Vesuvio definita come "la più spettacolosa conflagrazione del secolo". Fu un'eruzione esplosiva ed effusiva, che colpì diversi paesi alle pendici del vulcano buff.ly/2bCq3Ln #ingv #vesuvio

Who will be the second geologist to use their hammer on the Moon? ⚒️

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social.
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋

Un día como hoy, hace 4 años daba comienzo la erupción del Tajogaite en la isla de La Palma.

A las 15.03h (hora local canaria) se iniciaba la erupción, que continuaría durante 85 días hasta el 13 de diciembre, siendo la erupción histórica más larga registrada en la isla y tercera en el archipiélago

A Maxar satellite image of Mt Fuji. The satellite was only 3 degrees above the horizon at the time, so the capture angle is almost directly side on instead of top down.

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible.

The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.

blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

MADRID, GRACIAS🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Looking forward to the next one!

Back at home after an incredible week of #fieldwork in La Palma #LaIslaBonita! All lava flows, basalts, phonolites, enclaves of all flavours... learning a lot with the best company, @falladamente.bsky.social @albertocaracciolo.bsky.social and Álvaro! Y mucho #barraquito... ⚒️ 🌋

Return from paradise 🌴🍌🫀🌋
A great fire work is over 😪
#LaPalma #IslaBonitaIslaPreciosa

I'm sure there are deep arguments for either, but I think hauyne is just prettier, which is a consideration when we match up random minerals against one another. ⚒️

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵

#Etna 's new lava flow is slowly advancing down the southeast flank of the volcano (currently at about 2400 m elevation), and is accompanied by mild Strombolian activity at the Southeast Crater. Photos taken from Nicolosi, on Etna's south flank, on the evening of 16 August 2025

Israel mata a cinco periodistas de Al Jazeera, entre ellos Anas al Sharif, en un bombardeo en Gaza El reportero, uno de los rostros de la cobertura de la guerra, había sido señalado directamente en varias ocasiones por el ejército israelí, que confirmó su muerte argumentando que era miembro de Hamá...

“Si esta locura no termina, Gaza quedará reducida a ruinas, las voces de su pueblo serán silenciadas, sus rostros borrados, y la historia os recordará como testigos silenciosos de un genocidio que decidisteis no detener. Por favor, compartan este mensaje"

Anas al Sharif

elpais.com/internaciona...

Jim Lovell, el único humano que viajó dos veces a la Luna sin pisarla - Eureka Otro veterano de las misiones Apolo nos deja. El pasado 7 de agosto falleció Jim Lovell, antiguo astronauta de la NASA, a la avanzada edad de 97 años. De entre […]

En el blog > Jim Lovell, el único humano que viajó dos veces a la Luna sin pisarla danielmarin.naukas.com/2025/08/10/j...

Lo más lejos que he estado:

N: Oslo
S: Miami
E: Viena
O: San Francisco

a broken mannequin on the ground

how your email finds me

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

The Imbrium Basin is one of the largest of the giant impact basins whose formation highlighted the later stages of the formative era of the Solar System. Here we see some peaks of it's massive rim, mostly the shadowed sides here, made from photographs taken of the surroundings. Many of these photos had bad Sun glare in them and much processing and retouching was required to suppress the glare. In the foreground we see parts and antennas of the Lunar Module. This is roughly 210 degrees of the 360 degree panorama.

54 years ago the Apollo 15 mission was exploring the Hadley Rille area of the rim of the Moon's vast ancient Imbrium Basin. After landing, the 'top' hatch was opened and David Scott obtained panoramas of the surroundings from an elevated view, something done only once. Here is a part of that view.

Two whole days the Kamchatka tsunami has been bouncing around the Pacific!

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

⚒️ 🧪

A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.

This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

The Earthquake Insights article about the Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake is, as always, really informative. ⚒️🧪 #geology

open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...

Just a reminder that tsunamis aren't just one wave.

This tide gauge in Alaska has recorded 5 hours of surges so far from the Kamchatka quake - still more to come!

Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.

Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.

📜⚒️🌋 We have a new publication in Volcanica! A robust quantification of H2O in silicate glasses through micro-Raman spectroscopy: insights on the compositional effect. Congrats to Filippo for this great work!
www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

Felsic minerals in cross polarised light from Bau Granite Suite in Borneo. Large phenocryst in centre shows two regions of concentric zoning. Several other plagioclase phenocrysts show concentric zoning and twinning. Crescent shaped crystal (bottom right) is very rounded quartz xenocryst. Very fine grained groundmass of feldspars and quartz.

For #ThinSectionThursday a plagioclase phenocryst (centre) showing double twinning suggesting coalescence of two crystals. Crescent shaped crystal in lower right is part of highly rounded quartz xenocryst. From Bau Intrusive Suite, Sarawak, Borneo 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

HDR (high dynamic range) image of a crescent Moon with the dark side illuminated by earthshine and several background stars.

Today is the #InternationalMoonDay - marking the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lading... so here goes my last #Moon photo! A crescent Moon HDR composite with Earthshine, 1 May 2025 🔭🌒

Seismometers around the world detected this earthquake. In this animation from @earthscope.org, you can watch the waves sweep across Europe - too small for people to feel, but not too small to be detected by seismic instruments.

A map of the southern central Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Bright red lines mark the currently active eruptive fissures. Darker red lines show guard walls meant to keep lava away from infrastructure. Lava flows from this current eruption are shaded purple; the flows are mostly moving eastward, away from roads and infrastructure. Darker gray shading shows all of the lava that has erupted out of the Sundhnúksgígar fissure in the 9 eruptions since December 2023. To the east, shaded in lighter gray, are the lava flows from the three Fagradalsfjall eruptions in 2021-2023.

⚒️🧪🌋🇮🇸 The fissure slowly extended to the north over the past hours. It is 2.4 km long now, and also extends further north than any of the previous fissures.
This new map shows a smaller lava cover area than has been the case in the earlier stages of previous eruptions.
www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...