Tim Dawson

@timblor.bsky.social

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Earthquake Geologist in public service. Mostly posts about earthquake geology and a cat..mostly. Aspiring photographer, listening for the secret, searching for the sound

Sutro Tower with a backdrop of pink clouds
A hill with an incredible scene of late evening pink clouds and sky.
Sutro Tower framed by late evening pink clouds
A round loaf of bread on a cutting board.
A headline from the NYTimes that says “‘A typical construction mishap’, a developer of the building says.
Screen grab from la times about sound upgrades at the hollywood bowl
Mt Rainier glowing in the last light of day
A view of Mt Rainier in the distance, looking across the water, on a nearly cloudless day.
A view of Mt Rainier with water and trees in the foreground
a view across a body of water of Mt Rainier with a blue plastic Rainier tissue box dispenser placed on a wooden railing for scale.
A grassy landscape of circular mounds with a forest in the background.
A bald eagle perched on a railing
A Mt Rainier shaped tissue dispenser on a winder sill with a view of water in the distance
A floating dock with four seals on it
Four seals laying on a dock with a fifth seal in the water trying to get on the dock
A view of water with ominous clouds and rain in the distance.
A view of the Columbia River with some ships in the river from a train as it crosses a steel truss bridge.
A guestbook with signatures from attendees of the Crescent Partnerships and Applications meeting June 25-26 2026 in Portland, OR
A screenshot of the USGS PAGER estimate of fatalities due to today’s M7.5 earthquake in Venezuela. The estimate is is graph form and shows potentially tens of thousands of fatalities in the affected area.
A bottle of “Algaefix” which “works fast” and “controls algae growth” in pools, water gardens, and fountains
An ornate palace like structure surrounded by trees with blue sky above.
A woman in front of a podium speaking about a preliminary earthquake fault zone maps that is displayed on a screen behind her.
A black and white cat lying on a log that has been repurposed as a step to a deck.
Five people in a laboratory standing around a large, flat slab of stone with an array of sensors and wires arranged diagonally across the square slab.
A screen grab of an Outlook reminder that says “Do not travel” on June 5.
A screen grab of a research article dated 6/3/2026 entitled “Extremely Shallow Semi-Repeating Tremor Caused by Water Hammers in a Sewer Pipe in Social Circle, Georgia” by Xu Si and Zhigang Pang
A meme of Derek Zoolander asking “What is ths? A margarita for ants??”
A black cat on a bench with a shadow of the same cat on the bench slightly to the right
A car computer screen showing the mileage as 66666
Homer Simpson with glasses scratching his head.
A map of San Francisco and areas south showing the location of some small earthquakes just offshore of San Francisco.
A three story office building with a rainbow above it.
A TV news host in a tv studio interviewing an earthquake scientist (Ross Stein) online about the 1906 earthquake
A tuxedo cat getting its head itched by a human hand.
A clip of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing “The Rising”.
A view of a vineyard with vine rows sprouting new growth under a sky with breaking clouds.
A white bike lane line right-laterally offset by a few cms with a slight warp in asphalt extending left to right across the image which is the expression of active fault creep.
A scene of Sky, clouds, framed by trees
A view of a mountain against blue sky and fields in the foreground with mustard in bloom.
Phone notification of a MyShake earthquale alert M5.1 near Boulder Creek Ca
Capt Picard with the caption “There are…ten toilets!”
Curvey sand dunes with one in the center showing the slip face
Pink clouds at sunset over a hilly city-scape with a large radio tower on the right side of the image
Some cypress trees with a grassy foreground and the ocean and hills in the background.
A black and white cat laying on a couch looking angry
An old wooden fence in a desert scrubland marking the boundary of a cemetery of victims from the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake. Snow capped mountains are in the background with lower hills in front of the mountains. A slight linear shadow is visible crossing the alluvial fan behind the cemetery marking where the fault formed a scarp at the surface
A pizza on a grill above glowing embers.
Oak trees in green rolling hills
A view of Mt Diablo with green hills, trees, and a pond in the foreground.
Sutro Tower with an airplane in the sky to the right of the tower and the moon.
A view of a pond with thousands of tiny pupfish that pans up to a waterfall and a desert landscape
A yellow desert sunflower
Two tufa towers reflected in shimmering lake water, with tufa blocks in the foreground.
A video of blowing sand across a dune with mountains in the background
A mountain front and alluvial fan reflected in a lake.
Sunset on a desert mountain
Sunset on a desert mountain