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A sketch of a tall, thin tree with a cloudy puff at the top and two little branches just below. Otherwise, it is mostly a long tree trunk. The height of the tree is labeled L (m) and the diameter is labeled D (m). From Hough, 2026, published in The Seismic Record.
Map of border region of Nevada (South), Idaho and Oregon that's meant to show precambrian geology.
The background says AGU24, What's next for Science -- the theme of the AGU 2024 Fall Meeting. In the foreground, a tall white man, a shorter white man, and a white woman, all three with short-ish hair, stand smiling, looking rather joyful. The man in the middle, Ross Stein, is holding open his certificate.
Map of the U.S. West Coast. The upper left hand corner has Temblor’s blue and green logo. The lower right corner contains the explanation. The top of the explanation has the color bar for shaking forecast, ranging from white (weak) to blue to yellow (strong) to orange to red (violent). The middle section shows minor faults as thin red lines, major faults as thick red lines, and megathrusts as diffuse red zones. The lower section starts with USGS earthquakes color-coded by age in days. Dark red events occurred today, and the events older than 30 days are shown as yellow (red shows events that are 2 days old, and orange shows events that are 7 days old). These circles are scaled by magnitude. Finally, there’s a sentence at the bottom that says that the earthquakes shown on the map were pulled from the USGS at 11:56 AM Pacific time. The rest of the image shows white for ocean, a big blue star for the location of the earthquake, and to the right side, a map of the western coast of the U.S. colored by the Shaking forecast. The important fault systems are labeled: The San Andreas, Cascadia, the Pacific-Juan de Fuca transform, and the Pacific-Juan de Fuca spreading center. Credit: Temblor
Google reviews of Axial Seamount. The first one, a five star review, says "So many catchy musical sequences and characters down here! Ariel and Sebastian are perfect hosts--practically hand-drawn in every way. I promise I'll return one day!" The second disagrees with one star: "Not very family friendly, I went down as a mother of 4 and I am not a mother of 2. Would not recommend." Dark humor, indeed.
Indian woman (me) with hair up, face covered in pink and red powder with orange powder on black shirt.
Tall man with no shirt, white hat, and blue swim shorts with ducks on them flanked by two small kids. On the right is a kid in a blue shirt, and on the left is a kid in orange. Together, they are holding hands, walking out into the ocean. The foreground shows shallow water with rocks. Ever-deepening blues stretch to the horizon.
A white hardcover book that says Draft No. 4 John McPhee On the Writing Process
Front cover of Neil Gaiman’s children’s book titled “what you need to be warm” in orange caps. The cover is black with a few white starts and a grayscale Earth in the center with two child’s hands framing the bottom of the cover, held like you would put your hands to warm over a fire. My hand and my little’s are on the right side of the image, and there’s a fuzzy fleecy blanket in my lap behind the book.
Flyer for Temblor webinar. Text reads: One Month Later: The New Year's Day Magnitude 7.5 Noto-Hanto, Japan Earthquake. Preceded by an intense swarm, the quake caused extreme shaking, coastal uplift, a tsunami, liquefaction and landslides. What does the event foretell about seismic hazard assessment? Presented by Ross Stein, Ph.D., Temblor, Inc. Co-authored by Shinji Toda, Prof., Tohoku University A Temblor webinar with Q&A Wednesday, 31 Jan 2024 8 am PT / 11 am ET 4 pm UK / 5 pm CET Register here to attend: temblor.net/temblor-webinars The lower right shows a map of the Noto Peninsula with aftershocks that have occurred since the mainshock shown as ellipses. Faults are marked as red lines, and reverse faults are marked as blue with teeth on the overriding plate.
Maybe a sturgeon (?) staring straight at me with other large fish (is that a leopard shark?) cruising by. A bit of green-yellow kelp with some reddish accents waves near the sturgeon while the bottom of the tank had lots of rocks with reddish stuff growing on them. Maybe there’s a sea anemone stuck to one of the rocks. The water is blueish and clear.
Sandy beach with elephant seals. There are at least three babies, two cuddled up to older seals. In the background the ocean laps onto the beach, smoothing some of the sand that these seals have churned up with their comings and goings. Cloudy blue sky above.
Two male elephant seals snooze in the sand. They both have tossed sand onto their backs, which also results in sand loosely packed around their bodies. The one in the foreground seems to have made a hole for his right flipper. The one in the background has a track leading from ocean to animal, so we can see the path he took along the beach to get to his current resting spot.
Young (or maybe female?) elephant seal taking a moment to look up from the beach. Much of the lack of smoothness in the wet sand comes from other elephant seals wriggling up and down the beach.
Brown sandy beach with a few elephant seals lounging, sharp rocks poking out if the surf. In the background sits Piedras Blancas Lighthouse. One elephant seal’s head is thrown back, and he’s making some noise!
Blue sky, gray clouds and dark blue ocean dotted with surfers.
Black and white Great Dane curled up on a white round Costco dog bed.
Three kids (two mine, one not mine) at the end of a snow covered driveway, with the one in the middle pushing the shovel to amass enough snow for a snowman. Pine trees in the background. Snowflakes dotting the image.
Mt Humphries, mostly sans snow, draped in the green of pine trees, against an incredible Blue Sky
Front cover of the book Impact, by Greg Brennecka. Upper and lower bands of image are orange. The center is black with orange-yellow cartoons of shooting stars streaking from upper left to lower right. Full title is Impact: New rocks from space led to life, culture and Donkey Kong
Inch worm reared up and back, off a stalk of picked basil. The stalk sits in a green bowl full of water, in a silver sink.
A view of the Bay to the left and the beach to the right. In the mid ground, trees grow tall on a short cliff. Two trees have tipped into the water, with their root balls to the right.
Me pointing at weird blobby thing on peculiar countertop that may or may not be quartz. Counter with white and beige with rust colored crystals with black specks throughout. Also, shiny things.
The sky is streaks of orange and yellow and purple with pockets of blue as the sun sets. The foreground is green grass, with a tiny soccer team doing drills with mini pop up goals.
Pool splashing with hail. Two palm trees in the back ground, and hail in the grass in the foreground.
A family of five raccoons blew in with the hurricane yesterday evening. Here, they are crossing my driveway, heading toward the green grass illuminated by the garage lights.
Front cover of the book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black. The left third of the cover is an orange apocalyptic looking sky with the tail end of a Dino. The right two thirds is white and the rest of the Dino is a skeleton.
Temblor, Inc. map of the magnitude-5.1 earthquake and aftershocks that struck near Ojai, California today. The San Andreas fault, which runs west-northwest in the upper right hand quadrant, as a prominent red set of lines. Other faults, largely east-west trending, cut through much of the region between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Today’s event occurred near the San Cayateno Fault.
Picture of the front cover of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham. The background of the cover is a mostly yellow inferno fading to red on the right side.
Merlequin (black and white and gray colored) Great Dane sitting on a blue cloth-draped couch with his face between his hands…errr paws. He has lovely white eyelashes, a black nose, and white paws. Half his face is black spotted with white, and the other side is white spotted with black and gray.
Kid in blue coat and gray pants squatting in snow, peering up from beneath hood.
This Temblor map shows the Aleutian Trench, and large earthquakes that have occurred within the vicinity of the Shumagin Seismic Gap. The magnitude-7.2 event that occured last night is shown as a dark maroon circle, scaled to match its magnitude.
A modified 747 flies above white-gray clouds in the distance. Photo taken from another airplane, with wing in the upper left of the image.
Man (the Mr.) dressed in a hot pink, navy and bright yellow tri kit, sporting a pink visor and sunglasses, runs on the red carpet toward the finish at Ironman Switzerland. He appears somewhat unhappy, mouth slightly agape. A woman sporting an olive green dress and glasses looks on with disinterest (or so her expression suggests at the moment the photo was taken).
White bearded dude, with tan swim cap, orange goggles, and black wetsuit. Indian gal, blue sunglasses on pink visor. Both smiling with blue sky background.
Row of brown wooden portable toilets. Heart carved at top. All in use. Wetsuit at the base of the second one.
dark blue lake water studded with arms of swimmers, snow-capped Swiss Alps in the background. Light blue mostly cloudless sky