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Starfish! Great to work on this project with my wondetful colleagues at Keele www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Next TCS AH webinar: Thursday February 27, 2025 at 4 pm CET. Speaker: Thomas H Goebel (University of Memphis, USA) Topic: Detecting and characterising seismic and aseismic deformation in geothermal and hydrocarbon reservoirs across the U.S. Abstract and Zoom link: tcs.ah-epos.eu/webinars/

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New study of Second World War 'Starfish' decoy sites in Staffordshire just published. Decoy sites built along German radio pathfinding beam tracks used controlled fires and lighting effects to trick the Luftwaffe into bombing open countryside instead of industry. www.keele.ac.uk/about/news/2...

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OTD UK Earthquakes: February 20, 2014 13:21:30.0UTC M4.1 3.5km depth Bristol Channel. Felt strongly Devon/Somerset and South Wales. Felt Limits: Rhyl, Guilford, Looe. ⚒️🧪

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OTD UK Earthquakes: February 17, 2018 14:31:07.6UTC M4.6 7.5km depth Cwmllynfell, near Ystradgynlais, South Wales. Felt: Wales & SW England. The UK’s most recent significant ‘quake. An earthquake of this magnitude occurs roughly every 4 years on mainland Britain … its been 7 years now … ⚒️🧪

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OTD UK Earthquakes: February 11, 1957 15:43UTC M5.3 Depth 13km. Diseworth, Derbyshire. Felt: Most of English Midlands. Felt Limits: Hartlepool, Pwllheli, Norwich, Exeter. Damage to roofs and chimneys in East Midlands. Boy suffered a fractured skull in Derby. Others hurt by falling masonry. ⚒️🧪

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Hi Seismo-Bluesky! I decided to test a pipeline with SeisBench, PyOcto, NonLinLoc, and HypoDD on the Santorini sequence. The level of activity (>4,500 events) is truly stunning! There are repeated bursts migrating backwards and forwards, spreading outwards from a narrow, almost linear channel.

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OTD UK Earthquakes: February 9, 1958 23:21UTC M5.1 North Sea near the Inner Silver Pit, 90km east of Hull. Depth: 16km. Felt: Eastern England - Limits: North Shields - Nottingham - Colchester. Flower pots knocked over Lincoln & Peterborough!

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P-wave from yesterday’s (23:23:14 UTC 2025/02/08) M7.6 North of Honduras earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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One week today BGS is hosting a free, in-person CPD session for primary teachers at @NHM_London. The day will focus on expanding your own knowledge of the subject matter, to enable you to develop lesson plans that work for your class. Book tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/primary-sc...

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Interesting factoid from this evening’s Western Institute of Mining and Minerals lecture by Michael Metson of Komatsu - 4% of electricity generated globally is used to comminute (‘crush’) rock.

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🧪⚒️ A swarm of earthquakes has been rattling the Greek islands. Today marked the largest event in the swarm so far (M5.1). Schools are closed and emergency crews have deployed. Could the swarm trigger a really big earthquake, like the M7.8 in 1956? Read more on Earthquake Insights:

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OTD UK Earthquakes: Feb. 1, 1915 c21:40 UTC M2.8 Conisbrough, S. Yorkshire. Felt: Denaby, Conisbrough & High Melton. A small magnitude coal mining related earthquake associated with the Denaby and Cadeby Colliery. Four miners were buried, three dug themselves out, fourth, Emanuel Jordan, died. 🧪⚒️

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Archive photo for #FoldFriday #FridayFold. Soft sediment deformation folding overturning cross-stratified sandstone, picked out by tafoni (honeycomb weathering). Llangollen, Wales. 🧪⚒️

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If only there had been some kind of clue beforehand.

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Welcome, the bananaist of republics.

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P-wave from today’s (12:19:32UTC 2025/01/13) M6.8 Kyushu, Japan earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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P-wave from today’s (08:32:50UTC 2025/01/12) M6.2 off coast Michoacan, Mexico earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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Off to Nottingham to talk to the East Midlands Geological Society about the under-appreciated benefits of geothermal energy. Not just for Iceland but the UK too … ⚒️

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P-wave from today’s (01:05:16UTC 2025/01/07) M7.1 Tibet / Xizang earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

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My 2024 year in photos. One a month from my camera roll. Part 1: January: Robin on allotment February: Red sky in the morning March: S-C fabric, Almería April: our From Stars to Cells: The life of iron exhibition

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P-wave from today’s (12:47:34UTC 2024/12/27) M6.7 Kuril Islands earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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Happy ġēol-idays. Ordovician felsic tuffs and andesite lavas of the Cat Bells ridge, Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria. ⚒️ ġēol = Old English yule.

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P-wave from yesterday’s (23:55:31 UTC 2024/12/17) M2.2 Gotham, Nottinghamshire, UK earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England about 72km away ⚒️🧪

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Want to investigate reservoir induced seismicity yourself? episodesplatform.eu from EPOS TCS AH has six global use cases including event catalogs, seismic waveforms, water levels and analysis software. Free to use. Select ‘reservoir impoundment’ from the impacting factor dropdown list.

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P-wave from today’s (01:47:23UTC 2024/12/17) M7.3 Vanuatu Islands earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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Archive photos for #FoldFriday #FridayFold Then and now(ish). Refolded isoclinal folds by chevron folds. Lower Carboniferous Boscastle Fm., Penally Point, Boscastle, Cornwall. First photo by me 2023/09/06 Second photo by TW Reader 1914/04/14 Geologists' Association Carreck Archive P804195 🧪⚒️

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OTD British Earthquakes: Wales’ only fatal ‘quake. 12 Dec. 1940 M4.7 Porthmadog, Northwest Wales. Mrs Williams of Criccieth, awoken, panicked, fell down stairs and died. John Thomas of Nefyn died of heart attack (the next day) ‘on account of the extreme loudness of the noise’. (Musson 2003). 🧪⚒️

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Christmas present bargains for UK residents only. I have a stock of Raspberryshake RS1D home seismographs for sale. I can offer these on a first come first served basis with 20% off the list price with free shipping (that's £420 inc VAT) message me for details

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P-wave from today’s (19:57:08UTC 2024/12/08) M6.3 Andreanof Islands earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

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