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JMA confirmed no changes in volcanic monitoring data after the June 26th M5.6 at 20km depth near Fujikawaguchiko. The agency issued a standard one-week caution window citing 10-20% historical frequency of comparable follow-up events.

The part missing from most coverage: the 2012 NIED study estimated magma chamber pressure beneath Fuji at 1.6 MPa following the Tōhoku earthquake — 16x the 0.1 MPa threshold associated with the 1707 Hōei eruption, which occurred 49 days after the M8.6 Nankai earthquake, well outside the standard monitoring window.

Full analysis with sources: https://youtu.be/l0A7xswu1sM?is=68d-VS0lv6j3tvTt

“Continental drift is as fundamental to geology as natural selection is to biology. Why did it take us hundreds of years to discover it?”

Kīlauea has produced 49 fountaining episodes since December 2024 — more than any episodic eruption ever recorded at this volcano, officially surpassing the historic Puʻu ʻŌʻō sequence (47 episodes, 1983-1986) that eventually transitioned into a 35-year lava flow.

USGS's latest update has narrowed the forecast window for episode 50 to June 25-27, with June 26 flagged as most probable. That's not a guess — it's based on measured tiltmeter inflation and gas emission data at the summit.

Full breakdown with sourcing:

https://youtu.be/xpDqKN4ifo0?is=RG8URkGdBSTa4iwS

In the same green field you’re equally likely to find an oak tree and a palm tree. Doesn’t matter if you’re 2 miles from the coast or in the plains.

Speaking of plains, right next to a lush forest with epic mountains are vast plains for days with golden hills and mountains, with a reservoir right in the middle.

Not an hour’s drive away you see these green rolling hills with substantial vegetation, then all of a sudden a little sand dune pops up in the middle.

Somehow this place has a little bit of everything you’d find anywhere else in the country (hell maybe the world), and yet simultaneously it looks like nowhere else.

On Wednesday evening, the ground southeast of Yumare ruptured in a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. Thirty-nine seconds later, before the first quake's waves had even finished crossing the country, a second, larger shock hit almost the same spot: magnitude 7.5.

That ordering is the strange part. In a normal sequence the biggest shock comes first and everything after is an aftershock. Here it ran backwards. The USGS called it a doublet: two comparable mainshocks, not a quake and its echo.

I wanted to understand how that actually happens, so I wrote a long piece working from the physics out to the tectonics, why one rupture can light the fuse on the next through static and dynamic stress transfer, why this particular coastline (the Boconó–San Sebastián–El Pilar system) was primed to fail, why the tsunami warning was issued and then cancelled within the hour, and why northern Venezuela has done versions of this in 1812, 1900, 1967, and 1997. The 1812 event, it turns out, may itself have been a doublet.

Every figure is sourced to the primary literature (Kagan & Jackson on doublet statistics, King/Stein/Lin on Coulomb stress, the GPS and InSAR work on El Pilar creep), and I've tried to be careful about what's confirmed versus what's still preliminary this early after an event.

What if the magma inside the mantle starts behaving like the Sun, emitting intense thermal radiation upwards? This massive heat and radiation cause phase transformations in minerals and drastically alter the asthenosphere, making it highly elastic like a thin sheet of rubber. Under continuous mechanical stress, will the tectonic plates stretch and eventually rupture or break? What is your opinion

What if the core of the earth has life in it

Like the outer surface is the core and inside it it is a civilization and most probably the ice age and when the outer earth -where we live will erase the inner earth will enlarge and take over.

See also: The study as it was published in Geophysical Research Letters

This quick vid takes you through the adventurous job journey of a glacial hydrologist!