Dulce Bracamontes
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Dulce Bracamontes
@dulbracamontes.bsky.social
volcanologist
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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...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The 28 March earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, caused fatalities across a broad swath of the country and beyond.

This special issue of Science features papers exploring the risk and reasons behind the anomalously fast, sustained rupture. https://scim.ag/3JnMTbO
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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#Earthquakes at #MountEtna reveal magma ascent from deep to shallow crust 🌋 — variations in #bvalue track magma movement through the volcano’s plumbing system.

Check out our new study in #ScienceAdvances

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@science.org

More from our Etna studies below!
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🧠📈 Adding strain rate to ETAS boosts earthquake forecasts at Campi Flegrei!
Geodetic signals make models more realistic and predictive
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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📈 Which seismic phase associator works best?
🧠Puente Huerta et al., benchmarked 5 algorithms testing their performance across diverse settings and under noisy-complex conditions
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Here's the color version. I love how the dike catches the light/color from the Sunrise.
Tsé Bit A'í. #photography
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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New paper alert. Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo. Great work led by Marius and Jens, thanks all for working on that together! It can be found in today’s issue of Nature.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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EDITORIAL: Supershear Earthquakes: Their Occurrence and Importance for Seismic Hazard, Early Warning, and Design Standards #SRL ⚒️

This editorial explores evidence that strike-slip faults around the world experience supershear rupture.

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September 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🚨 Exercise done!
During Mexico’s National Earthquake Drill, BSC researchers used MareNostrum 5 to:
⚡ Simulate shaking
⚡ Calculate hazard maps
⚡ Collaborate to reports

A true urgent computing test!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEP...
ChEESE: Mexico’s National Earthquake Drill 2025
YouTube video by ChEESE CoE
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Great to see this new work by Sam Mitchinson published this week! He quantified the uncertainty in expert classification of volcano seismic events, with important implications for ML model accuracy. 🌋
Capturing expert uncertainty: ICC-informed soft labelling for volcano-seismicity - Bulletin of Volcanology
Reliable classification of volcano-seismic signals underpins monitoring and eruption forecasting and is an essential tool for advancing understanding of subsurface processes. However, traditional appr...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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In a new #SRL paper, a scientist explores how well REDPy detects and catalogs earthquakes associated with volcanic eruptions. ⚒️

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September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Introducing hypoTD, a new method of relative hypocenter relocation! #BSSA ⚒️

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September 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Happy birthday to French music teacher, conductor, and composer Nadia Boulanger! She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, including Aaron Copland and Philip Glass. 🎈
September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Shared on behalf of the USGS: YVO Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles for September 15, 2025
#volcano #earthscience #geology #science

"How to Take a Volcano’s Temperature"

www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
How to Take a Volcano’s Temperature
If only we could stick a thermometer into a magma chamber…  That’s not really possible, but fortunately each mineral in a volcanic deposit is like a microscopic thermometer that records magma chamber ...
www.usgs.gov
September 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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How Much Acoustic Wave Energy Is Converted to Seismic‐Wave Energy in Acoustic–Seismic Coupling? #BSSA ⚒️

For the answer to that question, please visit the paper!

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September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Triggered Tectonic Tremors in the Western Makran Subduction Zone Following Large Teleseismic Earthquakes #SRL ⚒️

A quake in Mexico may have triggered deep tectonic tremors in the western Makran subduction zone, located off the coast of Iran and Pakistan.

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September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Really happy to see our most recent Voices article, on the importance of DEI in science, published this week. Includes perspectives from 8 researchers from the USA, UK, China, and Bangladesh www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Global perspectives on the critical role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in science
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are fundamental to advancing scientific innovation and addressing complex societal challenges. This Voices piece gathers insights from eight researchers around t...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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REDPy: A Python Tool for Automated Repeating Earthquake Detection and Visualization #SRL ⚒️

Two test cases, Mount St. Helens and Kilauea, help demonstrate the utility of REDPy.

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September 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Temblor's analysis of the July 2025 magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka quake explores some mysteries (a moderate tsunami, a curious eruption), and finds that the 10-day foreshock was exceptionally productive.

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Huge July 2025 Kamchatka earthquake followed unusually productive foreshock sequence - Temblor.net
A large foreshock that struck 10 days before the magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake brought the epicentral megathrust patch closer to failure and produced an exceptionally abundant burst of aftershock...
temblor.net
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Meet surfQuake — a new software designed to streamline the estimation of seismic source parameters. #SRL ⚒️

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September 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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In a new #SRL paper, scientists present new software designed to streamline the estimation of seismic source parameters. Called surfQuake, they test it on 2,000 events clustered in the central Pyrenees. ⚒️

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September 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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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 5:46 PM
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Alguna vez te has preguntado, ¿por qué el cielo es azul?
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM