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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Early days for this one, but doesn’t look like somewhere we’d associate with magma movement.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Yes - think so. The real power in the 2005 event (actually a sequence that continued to 2010) was magma moving into a volcanic dyke. The earthquakes were largely side effects.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Yes - that event was extraordinary. Hopefully this is not!
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Yes. Looks like a moderate event on the fault that bounds the Afar depression. Will check in with our colleagues at Addis Ababa University.
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Reposted by Tim Wright

lizziegadd.bsky.social
The Dutch Ranking Expert Group report: universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/docume...
universiteitenvannederland.nl
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veldaelliott.bsky.social
Congratulations @commahound.bsky.social ! Excellent thesis, great viva. 🍾 Really enjoyed reading and talking about your research.
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uk-comet.bsky.social
Last night satellite #Sentinel1C launched into space! It will join its sibling to restore the Sentinel-1 constellation, gathering more frequent, global, accurate data to monitor changes on the Earth's surface. It will aid COMET research into #volcanoes🌋and #earthquakes🌎 and support event response.
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Reposted by Tim Wright

kwh.bsky.social
“Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” by Soumaya Latour (CNRS) et al. (preprint, 2025) - analyzed near-fault ground motions using video by GP Energy, Thapyay Wa solar farm of surface fault rupture in M 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake, Myanmar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15461
Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera
We present the first direct measurement of the slip-rate function during a natural coseismic rupture, recorded during the 28 March 2025, Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake (Myanmar). This measurement was made...
arxiv.org
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Reposted by Tim Wright

uk-comet.bsky.social
Day 3 of @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna is in full flow! At 11.30am we have two talks by @timwrightleeds.bsky.social and
Camila Novoa Lizama from @envleeds.bsky.social. At 4.15pm Erin Mills @bgs.ac.uk is presenting and, after that session, there will be lots of COMET posters to see. More info below:
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Reposted by Tim Wright

uk-comet.bsky.social
The sun rises early over Leeds on the longest day of the year as we set off from the train station towards Vienna for ESA’s Living Planet Symposium #lps25 🌞🌞

The coming week, I (Stijn Vleugels, Uni of Leeds) will be taking over the COMET socials to give you a firsthand experience of the conference!
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Really impressive, rapid analysis of the Myanmar surface rupture video.
kwh.bsky.social
Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · May 25
“Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” by Soumaya Latour (CNRS) et al. (preprint, 2025) - analyzed near-fault ground motions using video by GP Energy, Thapyay Wa solar farm of surface fault rupture in M 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake, Myanmar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15461
Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera
We present the first direct measurement of the slip-rate function during a natural coseismic rupture, recorded during the 28 March 2025, Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake (Myanmar). This measurement was made...
arxiv.org
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
compound with the gates? If so then fault is more or less north-south?
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
I think this is it. The dark areas in the recent Sentinel-2 imagery are the solar panels.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Maybe quite a lot of foreshortening based on aerial photo?
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Seems to be in a step-over zone from the imagery. If photo is to SSW, then that would make the rupture more or less north-south though? None of the satellite/openstreet map etc have the solar farm mapped to get a robust orientation as far as I can tell.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Data posted with ~100m pixels but actual resolution a little trickier to quantify as the input data for the 3D inversion is largely Sentinel-1 pixel tracking, but also includes some burst overlap interferometry. @mrnergizci.bsky.social might comment on detailed pixel tracking parameters
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_...
Index of /public/nceo_geohazards/LiCSAR_products/EQ/us7000pn9s/3D_disp
gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
The geotifs are available via the comet news article linked above.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Comments in this video have it at 20°52'55.4"N 96°02'07.0"E www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub... . Image shows location on COMET N-S displacements from Sentinel-1. About 3 m of overall displacement, but higher-res offset data would be good to get details.
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Incredible. Been waiting a long time to see a surface rupture video. The rupture is pretty simple (single strand) so I'd guess it was the primary fault comet.nerc.ac.uk/myanmar-eart... . But there looks like a small stepover near Thazi? Anyone managed to get a fix on the exact location yet?
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Reposted by Tim Wright

paleoquake.bsky.social
Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)
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Reposted by Tim Wright

uk-comet.bsky.social
On 28 March 25, a M7.7 earthquake & powerful aftershocks struck Myanmar, leading to widespread destruction & the devastating loss of thousands of lives. COMET scientists measured resulting surface deformation using @esa.int Sentinel-1 satellite data: comet.nerc.ac.uk/myanmar-eart...
Myanmar Earthquakes, March 2028 - UK Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics
On 28th March 2025, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, affecting large areas of the country and causing widespread destruction. A powerful 6.4-magnitude aftershock followed 12 minutes later, a...
comet.nerc.ac.uk
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Sorry - our systems were not optimised for earthquakes of this scale. We have made some along-track mosaics available at gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_... (e.g. gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/nceo_...)
Azimuth offset data for the Myanmar earthquake, showing the relative offset across the fault
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Have asked ESA.
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Reposted by Tim Wright

uk-comet.bsky.social
Happy National Women in Science & Engineering Day!

Here are some of COMET's successes for #WISEDay25

#MoveTheDial #genderequality #womeninstem #womeninscience #womeninengineering #space #volcano #earthquake
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Thanks to the Bristol students for organising
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Excited to be at the @uk-comet.bsky.social annual student meeting in Bristol. Always a highlight of the year.
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Reposted by Tim Wright

haynes-sammy.bsky.social
Well, this place seems nice, looks a bit like the old place, and I now need to go and find all the good people again - waves hello in social media 👋
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by Tim Wright

timwrightleeds.bsky.social
Was fun to contribute to this excellent podcast series. open.spotify.com/show/7nXOPzy...
Get it in 10
Podcast · harrih · Geography is a broad and brilliant subject. Every week in term time, join Harri, the host of Get it in 10, as he talks to expert geographers from around the world about their work ...
open.spotify.com
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Reposted by Tim Wright

uk-comet.bsky.social
Want to study #volcanoes, #earthquakes and/or tectonics for your #PhD? There are fully-funded opportunities across COMET, including at @envleeds.bsky.social @uniofexeter.bsky.social @uniofoxford.bsky.social

More info: comet.nerc.ac.uk/comet-studentships

#studentship #satellites #earthsciences
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