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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 13

Japan Coast Guard found no significant bathymetric change after the earthquake swarm in Tokara Islands. The mystery deepens...
www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/info/kouhou/...

トカラ列島周辺海域にて地震後初の海底地形調査を実施～地震活動の原因解明に資する基礎情報としての活用が期待～｜海上保安庁

発表日令和7年9月8日概要海上保安庁海洋情報部は、活発な地震活動が発生し...

www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Updates from JMA regarding the eruption of Iwojima (Ogasawara Io-to).
www.data.jma.go.jp/vois/data/re...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks. Probably this concides to the seismicity uptick in the island in the recent days...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 2

JMA reported Iwojima (Ogasawara Io-to) is erupting.
Image from Himawari-9 satellite. weather-models.info/latest/himaw...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 1

I think so. The EQ has been studied intensively.

Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 1

The map was made by the 4 years levelling campaign with >4000 people・days... Crazy stuff.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today is the National Disaster Prevention Day in Japan, commemorating the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which devastated Tokyo and Yokohama.

Here is the ground displacements map after the EQ, which was of course made without GPS or InSAR...
www.gsi.go.jp/kohokocho/ko...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please, don't do that...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Nano-Banana, please super-resolution and enhance this low-resolution satellite image. Make it like the imagery from the state-of-the-art 10-cm resolution satellite. Strictly keep the composition and viewing angle of the original image. Add immence details to the original blurry image. 😱😱

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Automatic Colorization has reached this level now (Qwen Image Edit i2i model). Sakurajima 1914, Bezymiannny, 1956, Quizapu 1932. It is increasingly important to keep the original data.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 28

The strong eruption of #Shinmoedake this morning, from JMA and municipal government cameras. Reddish growing has been observed for the first time this year.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 24

The colors are depending on the sources. Each sources have unique integer numbers and I am so lazy so that I assigned a random color.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 24

How much of the ocean has been mapped? 2025 Edition. (GEBCO 2025 SID + SRTM15Plus v2.7 TID)

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have just learned that there is a temple in Myammer with a floating pumice displayed as the holy object...
www.sukima.com/38_myanmar20...
I need to visit there some day after the peace is back.

チャットンシーボ僧院

（ミャンマーモン州モーラミャイン）水に浮かぶ軽石がシンボルの僧院。

www.sukima.com

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 22

Osarizawa Mine was one of the largest copper mine in Japan. It has been accepting visitors after its closure in 1950's, but no more from 2026. The memories of Japan as World's top mining country is fading away.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 17

After a bit of search about insects repellant for a fieldwork, I found it safe to say Icaridin (EU) / Picaridin (US) is much better than the old DEET.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 10

Was in the field yesterday. Found two cute mountaineers.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 8

Flowing to 3 directions is quite much👀

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 8

JMA mascots: Harerun and Volken

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 6

#MyNewWallpaper #QGIS #Map

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the villages of vicinity, only few evacuated to the shrine made their lives. The stair of the shrine originally had 50 steps, but now 15 steps. The modern archeological excavation found two bodies at the bottom: an elder woman possibly carried by a young women.
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8E%...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 5

342 years ago OTD OTT, the climax of the 1783 Eruption of Asama Volcano, Japan. The eruptive products of prolonged plinian eruption had collapsed from the northern flank of the volcano, and formed disasterous Kambara pyroclastic flow and debris avalanche.
gbank.gsj.jp/volcano/esdb...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reportedly Klyuchevskoy Volcano this morning.

Yu.V. Demyanchuk, IViS FEB RAS
From KVERT Telegram.
t.me/ivsfebras_kv...

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 4

One of my favorite Cambrian monsters since the childhood😍

Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · Aug 3

UPDATE! My retro Opabinia was too retro so new image to help spread the good word about opabinia feets (well, fleshy leg thingies)! Thanks @jopabinia.bsky.social for the latest in opabinia research! #SciArt #AugArthroAwe

Illustration of Opabinia, a segmented creature with a pair of flat fins per segment, a long proboscis tipped with a fleshy claw thing tipped with spiny things, five large stalked eyes on head, floating in a purple sea, middle Cambrian (505 Mya)

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · Aug 4

A MASSIVE M3.0 earthquake in New York?? Oh, no. Prayers sent from a plate convergent margin😎

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 3

Breaking News: A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck in northern New Jersey, and was felt across the state and in New York.

Earthquake Jolts New Jersey and New York City

The epicenter of the 3.0-magnitude quake, which struck around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday, was near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.

nyti.ms

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