Jascha Polet

@jascha.bsky.social

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Seismologist who joined the Great Resignation in academia & moved from CA to Italy. Still figuring out what’s next, but enjoying the process. #seismology #earthquake #geoscience #geophysics #photography #italy

Earthquake map from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci41291863/map
Map of Japan earthquake
Map of how this earthquake was felt throughout the region
Figure from Verdon and Harris (2025) with pink star showing rough location of today’s earthquake. Orange polygon shows area where pressure gradient exceed 0.9 psi/ft. Grey dots show likely cases of induced seismicity.
Map of past seismicity around the M4.9 Indio earthquake using many different catalogs and the Generic Mapping Tools software
Video scanning along rock scratchings showing hunting scenes, agricultural life, huts, animals, geometric symbols
Larger scale map for Yakutat earthquake
Current screenshot of Kilauea USGS webcam
Historical earthquake map for the region of today’s M6.9 Yakutat earthquake generated by Jascha Polet using GMT.
Fields with horses, snow covers the ground.
Screenshot of live Kilauea webcam at https://www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYDxrUA?si=9z3ZkBVXB1g4c-AW
Hillside with houses and minor snowfall
Figure from Nishikawa et al. (2023) with the recent M6.8 earthquake added as a yellow star. This figure shows the types of earthquake and slip activity in the Nankai trough and Japan trench.
Seismicity map generated using many different catalogs of the region of the earthquake sequence (blue and purple) near Japan, with the largest event currently M6.8
Colorful full trees reflected in lake
Back foot of calico cat shows hairy toes
Set of green red and yellow trees with dark cliff wall behind them
Little Swiss house that is half stone house and half big boulder
Seismicity map of region of today’s M6.3 earthquake in Afghanistan
Mountains with snow in background of tress with yellow leaves
Speed climber on climbing wall.
Back of max Verstappen’s f1 car
Orange trees, valley and mountains in background
tectonic map of Scotia Sea region from Schellart et al. (2023) with the recent earthquake shown as a small purple star.
Historical seismicity map of Drake passage generated using GMT by Jascha Polet.
Red sunrise with small clouds above lake Como
View of mountains with peaks covered in snow
Winner of today’s sprint: Marco Bezzecchi at Misano last month leaning into a curve (photo by Jascha Polet)
Historic seismicity map of Philippines generated using GMT software by Jascha Polet
Marc Marquez at a curve at the San Marino motoGP (photo by Jascha Polet)
Empty beach at Rimini
Screen shot of earthquake map from the USGS NEIC website
Italian farmhouse renovation in progress…
Marc Marquez beating Bezzecchi in the San Marino GP. Photo by Jascha Polet.
Seismicity map of Kamchatka generated using GMT by Jascha Polet
Red Bull going very fast
Screenshot of live webcam of Kilauea eruption
Seismicity map of region around Afghanistan earthquake made by Jascha Polet using GMT software
Seismicity map generated using many earthquake catalogs and the generic mapping tools software, by Jascha Polet.
Castle in hills
Sunrise behind the Italian alps
View of the Matterhorn
Mountains with disappearing glaciers behind an old multi story building in northern Italy
Large quarry of maybe serpentinite?
Castle below mountain peaks, in B&W.
Seismicity map of western Turkey
Living room under “minor” reconstruction
Two sailboats with lakeshore village in background
Screenshot of current eruptive episode at Kilauea webcam
Map of past seismicity with events from last week outlined in blue.
GCMTs of aftershocks plotted on centroid locations with grey outlines and larger symbols. Smaller aftershocks plotted as pink circles. Foreshock sequence in purple. Background seismicity from many different catalogs. Map generated using GMT software by Jascha Polet.
Students posing with sign and banana outside of the international banana museum
Seismicity map of area near Fontana and Rialto.
Map of seismicity with pink circles aftershocks of the M8.8 and the purple circles after shocks of the M7.4 foreshock
Crescent city river gauge record
Figure from Macinnes et al. conpared to map of today’s Kamchatka earthquake by Jascha Polet.
Crescent city CA tide gauge record from today
Earthquake sequences of Kamchatka this month. Pink is M8.8 aftershock sequence.