Christie Rowe

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Director, @nevadaseismolab Field geologist / earthquakes Exec Ed for Community at Seismica, a researcher-run free journal (seismica.org)

Screen grab of the USGS "Did You Feel It" page for a magnitude 3.8 earthquake that occurred on 8/27/2025 at 02:17:48 (UTC). The page shows that one person in Winnemucca completed the "Did You Feel It" survey and contributed to the USGS shake map.

screen grab of an email which reads "Thanks for the invitation but I don't work with MDPI due to its involvement with predatory publishing practices and general harm done to the research community by this business model. The invitation to edit an issue only peripherally related to my expertise reinforces my impression of the lack of meaningful scientific oversight at this publishing house. "

Plastic nursery pot containing about 20 lithops less than 1 cm across, these are beige, gray and pink plants shaped like tiny butts. They are planted in 1-2mm decomposed granite.

Nevada terrane map with a linear band of earthquake epicenters represented as colored circles. The band strikes NE-SW and is about 20 km long. The magnitudes are very small (near M0) up to M2 but mostly all around M1.

Terrane map displaying an area of Nevada including Tonopah and Goldfield. Over 40 red circles lie in a NW-SE line with some scattered circles of other colors. The legend says red circles are earthquakes in the last 12 hrs and the other colors reflect earthquakes 24-336 hours ago. This shows that the current cluster of earthquakes started today.

Shaded terrane map showing Walker Lake, Nevada, with a cluster of colorful dots representing earthquake epicenters in the hills east of the lake. The dots are mostly blue, several green and two yellow, so none have occurred in the last 12 hours (no reds) and very few in the last 24 hours (the two yellows), with the majority more than 48 hrs ago (blue). A few dots closer to walker lake are also small earthquakes which are not co-located with the swarm but are NW of it.

Terrane map backdrop of mountainous region with circles representing earthquake epicenters depicted in various colors. Three red dots show earthquakes in the last 12 hours. About 10 yellow dots depict earthquakes in the last 12-24 hrs, including one notably larger than the others (M3.9). About 15 green dots represent earthquakes that occurred 24-48 hours ago, including two notably bigger ones (M3.3 and M3.4). The blue dots are underneath the other colors and too numerous to easily count, the largest being the M4.3 which occurred two days ago at 8:31 in the morning. There are no white dots (168-336 hrs ago) showing that the swarm onset occurred suddenly on Friday morning.

Map showing Indian Springs, Nevada, a small community on Hwy 95. Four earthquake epicenters (M2.9, M2.9, M4.4 and M2.9) are shown about 5km NNW of Indian springs. From earthquakes.usgs.gov "last 7 days at 21:52 PST on 14 August 2024.

A cut bank in unconsolidated sediment, with a few horsetail plants growing out of it. Left side of bank is black mudstone with strong scaly fabric dipping to the left of the photo. Sharp contact divides the scaly mudstone from yellow sand with bright orange laminated cements. The sand is cut by many branching deformation bands parallel to the scaly fabric in the mudstone. Pink marking tape nailed into the sand indicates that geologists have been logging this fault outcrop.

A man in a wool coat and glasses wears a backpack and clutches a thermos in his left hand. His right hand waves a sparkly sequined star wand, magically making the word "hashtag seismonology" appear on the wall. He has a lightening-shaped scar on his forehead.

Outcrop of light grey-green rock on a beach surrounded by rounded boulders of similar rock and flakey white and dark green rock. In the center of the outcrop is a rounded mass of black rock with red veins.

A woman and a child in a kitchen wearing baking aprons - the woman's apron has the star trek insignia while the child's apron says "star wars". The child is waving electric beaters. The photo is cropped to show only the apron-clad torsos and not the peoples' faces.

Six panels offering facts about the journal Seismica: 90 submissions, 50 in review and 81 published. 57 citations in first year. Average time from submission to publication of research articles is 22 weeks, and for fast reports, 32 days. 145 Volunteers including board members and reviewers. 14,000 pdf downloads and 35,000 article views. Not bad for a very new journal!