Edwin Nissen

@faultydata.bsky.social

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Professor/Canada Research Chair in seismology in Victoria BC 🇨🇦. Earthquakes, active tectonics, remote sensing. Proud cat dad. Views my own

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A fault scarp on an alluvial fan with mountains behind
NASA satellite photo of the Canadian Rockies with a large scour down the center. This is the Rocky Mountain Trench.
Mt Baker, a conical stratovolcano, with Victoria and the Salish Sea in the foreground
Map of relocated seismicity in the Darfield NZ earthquake
Abysmal plain
Photo from the top of a large landslide, where part of a road has fallen away. A tiny drone is (barely) visible in the sky above. Lots of fall foliage and Fraser River in the distance
Map showing epicenter of today’s earthquake in western Turkey. It lies at the west end of a known fault system.
Map showing glacial limits across the Dawson City region of the Yukon. Much of the area was last glaciated 2.6 million years ago, making this a much older landscape than in other parts of Canada
Photo of a large landslide (the Moosehide slide) above Dawson City. Triggered landslides are an important secondary hazard of earthquakes in mountainous regions like the Yukon. Photo by Dana Hatherly/Yukon News.
Topographic map and aerial photo showing “mole track” features along the Tintina fault in the Yukon, likely formed in repeated strike-slip earthquakes
Flock of pelicans flying over open water. Mountains in distance
A drone hovering above a field
Political signage for David Beckham, Liberal MP candidate for Saanich
Cat
Seismogram showing P and S waves from a nearby earthquake
InSAR interferograms showing observed and modelled deformation fringes from a recent earthquake in Laos
Seismogram showing distinct P and S wave arrivals
Satellite image showing folding and river incision in the epicentral region of the 2023 earthquakes
Satellite image of the Herat region showing folding, fault scarps, and river incision, all clear signs of active shortening and uplift
Seismogram showing shaking from last night’s small earthquake just south of Victoria
Snow capped peaks of the Koryak highlands, a remote mountain range in easternmost Siberia
The formerly four storey US embassy in Vanuatu, with its ground floor pancaked flat from yesterday’s earthquake. It now looks like a three storey building.