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Edwin Nissen
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Professor/Canada Research Chair in seismology in Victoria BC 🇨🇦. Earthquakes, active tectonics, remote sensing. Proud cat dad.
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allochthonous.bsky.social
⚒️ Here's a worthy geoheritage cause; the Scottish Geology Trust is running a crowdfunding campaign for a "Deep Time Trail" at Siccar Point ahead of the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's Birth next year. 4 days left to contribute!
Building the James Hutton Deep Time Trail
We are raising vital funds for a new Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point to celebrate the life and legacy of James Hutton for his Tercentenary.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️
@theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis
Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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drlauragregory.bsky.social
Fieldwork, labwork, earthquakes and more!! Get in touch if you're interested in doing a PhD with me @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social
Please share, and check out details here: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The inner workings of the earthquake cycle: New insight from integrating Quaternary fault activity, microstructures, and geophysics - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Summary Fault activity is now known to be highly dynamic, with observable spatial and temporal variability in earthquake recurrence and the style of fault slip. This exciting project explores the unde...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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tyolsen.bsky.social
STORY: 4 years after the 2021 floods and landslides, major promises linger. There is no federal money to stop a future Nooksack Flood of Sumas Prairie. There is no national flood insurance program. And BC's new Flood Strategy lacks the funding to actually see it through.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
BC’s Flood Prevention Promises Remain Unfulfilled | The Tyee
After the 2021 atmospheric river, governments preached averting over recovery. Locals remember. Do politicians?
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
faultydata.bsky.social
This is the view I woke up to (hungover) on the first day of the new millennium🇳🇵
profpaulbarrett.bsky.social Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 20d
Sunrise on the Annapurna range
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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rapbastardz.bsky.social
New ad dropped:
Trump standing looking indifferent while a man possibly dies next to him. A few bald men hold his legs up in the air as if he’s going to take a giant shit or give birth. Sure, maybe it’s to help the blood flow to his head faster. Either way, graphic reads “Trump care, concepts of a plan since 2015.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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wukaimi.bsky.social
The Faculty of Chemistry and #EarthSciences @uni-jena.de currently has two #geojob openings for #professorships: (1) General #Geophysics and (2) Geographical #RemoteSensing / #Earth #Observation. www.nature.com/naturecareer... @dgg-news.bsky.social @dvgeo.bsky.social @dggv-1848.bsky.social
photographic view featuring the tower of the building of the Institute of Geosciences in Jena towards west. The institute is located on a Pleistocene strath terrace of the Saale river, c. 50 m above the city centre (feturing some skyscrapers in the middle of the photo). The forested plateau in the background of the photo is formed by mesas exposing Middle Triassic strata ('Muschelkalk'). Jena is a thriving university town offering very high living standards and a cool place to be ;-)
November 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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earthquakeguy.bsky.social
Fish in the forest, seaweed in trees?
Yes - 13 years ago tonight, the M7.8 #HaidaGwaii earthquake generated the world's largest #tsunami of 2012. Runup to 13m in some inlets left seaweed in trees and fish in the forest. If you are near water and feel long and strong shaking, go to high ground.
🧪🌊⚒️
A photo of seaweed in trees and a GPS unit to measure the height above sea level. The seaweed in the trees was deposited by the October 27th, 2012 tsunami generated by an offshore M7.8 earthquake. GSC photo.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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schoolshake.bsky.social
Tuesday's 530am #earthquake was a well-timed follow-up to #ShakeOutBC. The early timing and quiet schools resulted in the event being nicely recorded on all #SchoolShake instruments. If you felt it, you can still report it here www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/dyfi-lavr/fo...
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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drwendyrocks.bsky.social
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?...
M6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake
YouTube video by Dr. Wendy Rocks
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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wukaimi.bsky.social
@sumikotsuka.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc (2 yrs) to work w/ us at @uni-jena.de and LIAG Hannover on constraining exhumation rates in #Albania using calcite/dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronology. www.structures.uni-jena.de/en/1012/open.... @paleoseismicity.bsky.social @dfg.de
Open Postdoc position
two-years full-time postdoc position open in our team, starting 1 January, 2026.
www.structures.uni-jena.de
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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earthquakeguy.bsky.social
When #seismology meets #meteorology!
Ground shaking across #VancouverIsland is ramping up (but not felt) as the remnants of Tyhpoon Nakri approach the west coast.
The ground shaking started increasing just after midnight Pacific time (07:00 UTC on this figure) Oct. 17, as the storm gets closer.
⚒️🧪🌀🇨🇦
A plot of ground shaking on southern Vancouver Island over the past 24 hours (thanks to the IRIS Consortium: https://www.iris.edu/app/station_monitor/ Stronger ground shaking (not felt) is observed starting just after midnight (Pacific time) or 07:00 UTC as used on this plot, as the storm gets closer.
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
faultydata.bsky.social
Spot the drone 👀 Our third visit to Quesnel BC where we’ve been mapping deformation of the aptly-named “Big Slide” using drone lidar. Last year, you could walk along that road! Expert piloting skills by @thatfaultguy.bsky.social
Photo from the top of a large landslide, where part of a road has fallen away. A tiny drone is (barely) visible in the sky above. Lots of fall foliage and Fraser River in the distance
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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schoolshake.bsky.social
This mornings M3.0 felt earthquake near Duncan was well recorded on the #SchoolShake network. No damages expected, but a great reminder to be prepared.

Felt reports and details: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...
September 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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doktrock.bsky.social
🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Lecturer/Pūkenga - Geology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
otago.taleo.net
September 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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mihai-cirstea.bsky.social
Why are "nation building projects" always things that accelerate the destruction of the planet largely to the benefit of multinational corporations, and never things that would benefit millions of Canadians like, say, high speed passenger rail?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
September 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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phaneritic.bsky.social
This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting.
earthquake.usgs.gov
August 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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morganmp.bsky.social
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...
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...
www.usgs.gov
August 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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nredick.bsky.social
we just saw one of the coolest sights yet on the #pacsafe2025 research cruise!! a huge pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins 🐬 looking for food off the back of the CCGS Tully

@thobbsgeo.bsky.social @rdave6.bsky.social @charbottles.bsky.social

#fieldwork #science #womeninstem #dolphins #wildlife 🧪
August 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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akearthquake.bsky.social
We are live on BlueSky! The Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) tracks earthquakes 🌎, landslides 🪨, explosions 💥, icequakes 🏔️, tsunamis 🌊, volcanoes 🌋, and more 🔍 🧪 ⚒️, advancing Alaska's resilience to earthquakes through monitoring, research, and public engagement. ✍️ 🗣️
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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seismatters.bsky.social
🌍 Why Geology Matters!

📺 Shawn Willsey’s YouTube channel (“Geology Explained”) is ace! With >150,000 subscribers, his podcasts dive into all aspects of geology!

☕️ I chatted to Shawn about my career, why geology matters, and the challenges of geoscience communication…

youtu.be/WxWrznYkRIw?...
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August 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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schoolshake.bsky.social
Felt earthquake in the Juan de Fuca straight just south of Victoria! This was felt across the CRD and in Washington State. No damage expected, but another reminder we live in earthquake country.
August 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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thobbsgeo.bsky.social
Yesterday afternoon we finished the final #Ocean Bottom #Seismometer recoveries for #PACSAFE2025, and started redeploying along the Explorer Plate! Here’s a look at our “full house”, with 23 instruments on deck.

#ScienceAtSea #Fieldwork @seos-uvic.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @dalhousieu.bsky.social
Aft deck of a research ship, with many large blue steel stillage crates containing yellow circular ocean bottom seismometers. It is sunny, and one adult man stands on deck looking at the instruments. A rainbow over the ocean, as seen from a research ship off the west coast of Canada.
August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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lucindaleonard.bsky.social
Another active fault on Vancouver Island - our new paper documents evidence for at least 3 Holocene earthquakes on the Beaufort Range fault
weareseismica.bsky.social Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · Aug 15
🌍The Beaufort Range fault is ACTIVE!
This right-lateral oblique Beaufort Range faulting occurs >100 km farther North than previously documented faults in the Cascadia forearc.
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
NAU Research @nau-ses.bsky.social
UVic SEOS @seos-uvic.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM