Mike Ross
@eruptionchaser.bsky.social
Mike Ross (he/him)
Red Shift Leader | PSA Delegate
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū
Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad.
Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.
Red Shift Leader | PSA Delegate
National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū
Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad.
Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.
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Mokomoko
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in [the wild] your backyard:
Virginia opossum
Whitetail deer
North American raccoon
Striped skunk
Pacific giant salamander*
* okay, different backyard, but still notable
Virginia opossum
Whitetail deer
North American raccoon
Striped skunk
Pacific giant salamander*
* okay, different backyard, but still notable
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
West Indian Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Timber Rattlesnake
Atlantic Stingray
North American River Otter
West Indian Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Timber Rattlesnake
Atlantic Stingray
North American River Otter
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Wētā
Tūī
Kererū
Mokomoko
Pīwakawaka
Tūī
Kererū
Mokomoko
Pīwakawaka
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Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Prove you are a genuine Russian armed auxiliary ship with this simple Kamcaptcha...
Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Large amounts of flying tephra visible on the USGS V3 cam right now.
Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Watching 'A House of Dynamite' for our night shift movie on the Bridge in the NGMC. Cue my team yelling at the screen: "That's not how you run a response! Don't bother applying to be a Shift Leader! Wouldn't last 5 minutes in a big geohazard response!" 😆
On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
On the night shift at work and been keeping an eye on the CME:
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
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Late yesterday evening we had a M 4.9 earthquake in Cook Strait that was widely felt (~30K felt reports), mainly in the southern North Island and northern South Island. Shaking intensity was MMI ~4.5 in the Wellington region and northern South Island. 1/ 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Late yesterday evening we had a M 4.9 earthquake in Cook Strait that was widely felt (~30K felt reports), mainly in the southern North Island and northern South Island. Shaking intensity was MMI ~4.5 in the Wellington region and northern South Island. 1/ 🧪
Verified - these settings had been applied to my account without my knowledge.
Next select Settings, and then Moderation on the next screen. At the bottom of the Moderation page under "Advanced" is a section called "Bluesky Moderation Service" that looks like an info box. It in fact leads to more settings.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Verified - these settings had been applied to my account without my knowledge.
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Reprehensible behavior. Anyone pushing this kind of malicious disinformation should be utterly ashamed
In the midst of a measles outbreak Voices for Freedom has gleefully interviewed Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor behind the fraudulent study connecting the measles vaccine to autism.
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Reprehensible behavior. Anyone pushing this kind of malicious disinformation should be utterly ashamed
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If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was curator at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!
The Interim Computer Museum
icm.museum
October 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was curator at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!
Well played, Toka Tū Ake - great hazard comms!
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Well played, Toka Tū Ake - great hazard comms!
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Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
October 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
#seismology
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I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!
Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!
October 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!
In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!
Just wondering if we've just had a wee energetic event at Kilauea? Around 11:44 local, a noticeable increase in plume activity, and some flying material - ?ejecta? - clearly visible on V1 cam:
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just wondering if we've just had a wee energetic event at Kilauea? Around 11:44 local, a noticeable increase in plume activity, and some flying material - ?ejecta? - clearly visible on V1 cam:
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15 years ago, 4 Sep 2010 at 04:35 NZST the Mw 7.1 Darfield earthquake struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand, ~10 km SE of the town of Darfield and 40 km west of Christchurch, New Zealand’s 2nd largest city. It caused significant damage with intensity up to MM 9. 1/ 🧪
September 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
15 years ago, 4 Sep 2010 at 04:35 NZST the Mw 7.1 Darfield earthquake struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand, ~10 km SE of the town of Darfield and 40 km west of Christchurch, New Zealand’s 2nd largest city. It caused significant damage with intensity up to MM 9. 1/ 🧪
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Snap, crackle and pop!
Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.
Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
August 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Snap, crackle and pop!
Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.
Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.
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Fascinating how the line of trees along the former shore shows how the toe of the slide remained largely coherent. ⚒️
Just now: Large slide in sensitive marine clays in Mid-Norway sweeps away the main E6 road and the railway. One person still missing. Image by Johan Arnt Nesgård, Trønder-Avisa.
August 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fascinating how the line of trees along the former shore shows how the toe of the slide remained largely coherent. ⚒️
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Seen around #Christchurch #NZ
Spotted on the side of a tree in a little reserve on the lower slopes of Cashmere. I don’t know what they’re growing – native orchids?
Spotted on the side of a tree in a little reserve on the lower slopes of Cashmere. I don’t know what they’re growing – native orchids?
August 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Seen around #Christchurch #NZ
Spotted on the side of a tree in a little reserve on the lower slopes of Cashmere. I don’t know what they’re growing – native orchids?
Spotted on the side of a tree in a little reserve on the lower slopes of Cashmere. I don’t know what they’re growing – native orchids?
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Can an effective earthquake early warning system be implemented at a low cost in earthquake‐prone regions? A new #SRL paper explores this question, with a focus on the Greater Wellington region of New Zealand. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
August 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Can an effective earthquake early warning system be implemented at a low cost in earthquake‐prone regions? A new #SRL paper explores this question, with a focus on the Greater Wellington region of New Zealand. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
So tonight, being bored, I cooked a three course meal... While waiting for a web browser window to open on Solaris 7, and load the default homepage from WASD running on a MicroVAX (spoiler: it's not the VAX that's the holdup here...) #slowaris
August 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So tonight, being bored, I cooked a three course meal... While waiting for a web browser window to open on Solaris 7, and load the default homepage from WASD running on a MicroVAX (spoiler: it's not the VAX that's the holdup here...) #slowaris
@starkitty.gay in case you need cheering up, I also finally had success in my ZuluSCSI vs. SPARCstation LX cage fight:
August 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
@starkitty.gay in case you need cheering up, I also finally had success in my ZuluSCSI vs. SPARCstation LX cage fight:
Does YOUR kitchen have enough TOPS?
August 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Does YOUR kitchen have enough TOPS?
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Hi! I’m Wendy and I’m an earthquake geologist and science communication specialist. I post about earthquakes, geology, cats, kids and comms.
According to BlueSky I’m a “delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos” 😁. 🧪⚒️
According to BlueSky I’m a “delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos” 😁. 🧪⚒️
December 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Hi! I’m Wendy and I’m an earthquake geologist and science communication specialist. I post about earthquakes, geology, cats, kids and comms.
According to BlueSky I’m a “delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos” 😁. 🧪⚒️
According to BlueSky I’m a “delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos” 😁. 🧪⚒️