Adam Pascale @seislologist@social.cleverlibre.org

My colleague, Juan Santiago Velasquez - a seismologist from #colombia - just told me about #earthquake nests - something I’d not heard of before. Here’s my quick summary featuring the #melbourne #PeregrineFalcon reacting to our magnitude 5.9 earthquake last year!

#NewProfilePic courtesy AI. There were some weird ones in the results, but this was OK and captured my crows feet beautifully.

What's your Birthquake?

#twelveapostles #earthquake #fault #melbourne #tourism #scicomm

Earthquake tourism: there's a lookout on the Great Ocean Road with a great view of a reverse fault in a cliff face. Can you see it? From the same platform you can also see some limestone stacks that people seem to be interested in: The Twelve Apostles!

How should we describe particular #magnitude earthquakes? Large, small, powerful? There are guidelines, and we can use other words, but the classification should be appropriate for the size and impact of the #earthquake to be effective #scicomm

Another 7.0 in the Fiji-Tonga region occurred a few minutes ago

Here we go again. Let’s see where and how big…

Hi fellow #Mastodonians (or is it #Tooters - I’m not sure what our collective noun is here). I try to do short weekly #earthquake #scicomm videos. This week’s deep #Fiji events were a good excuse to talk about #subduction

Is that a second, larger Fiji quake coming through?

Energy waves from a magnitude 6.8 earthquake south of the Fiji Islands is travelling across our Southeast Australian seismograph network

Did you miss last Friday's webinar with presentations from 11 organisations working on #Seismology in #Australia? Well, it's now on YouTube! Don't be daunted by the 2 hour runtime - there are descriptive chapter markers so you can jump between presentations https://youtu.be/D5S4pUhjJbo

I believe Mastodon video uploads are limited to 40MB, so let's see how that looks. Here's one of my early #scicomm videos trying to explain how we can have a negative #magnitude #earthquake

Southeast NSW #Australia is a relatively active region, but not many #earthquakes have occurred in the immediate area of yesterday's magnitude 4.0 east of Frogmore. Only 250 events are logged within 20km of this epicentre in the last 60 years, and this is the largest on record.