John Vidale

WaPo, Apple News, and LA Times are not any more entrancing.

I highly recommend a subscription - regular entertaining and detailed lessons in seismotectonics applied to the latest disasters and near-disasters.

I was just countering the notion that most outlets are garbling our results, at least in this case. I admittedly get great enjoyment out of reading the gibberish from a few.

I spoke at length to at least 10 journalists about the core story, and nearly every one wrote an impressively accurate article. We and Nature Geoscience both wrote press releases for a general audience, plus a research briefing. Some press outlets are just not very accurate nor reliable.

To be honest, the journalists have done a fine job explaining our findings, but I’d be glad to clarify what is murky.

Rambling about generating research ideas - www.equsci.org.cn/article/doi/...

Correct. Came up when I searched with the keyword earthquake. I haven't actually seen posts, just seems appropriate for a seismoguy.

almost forgot the Supplemental file
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Cool seismology - Temporal velocity variations within the fault fracture zone in response to Earth tides
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I've selected science, geophysics, earth sciences, earthquake, and a Japanese earthquake early warning one. And unfolding anyone with political posts, although I overdo those myself on FB. Any more recommendations? Jealous you've escaped, by the way.

Maybe I'll try BlueSky for science, if I can find the self-restraint to leave politics only on FB.

Just a quick note that I'm back to sporadically watching posts here.

I’ve got a pair of them, work great, small and run for months on 2 batteries. Have a week of memory, currently checking why my office is 62 degrees in the morning.

Hi Chuck! I’m not up to date on PNW ShakeAlert from here in LA. Progressing, but best when it can warn of an M7+ brewing down the coast - not there yet, I think.

I spent a lot of time there during the 6 years my mom was a petrology grad student next door, ~1962-69.

Re-starting experiment with BSky, striving to avoid the infuriating Elon & X. Nothing to contribute at the moment, however.

The challenge is to limit one’s “following” to maximize the interesting new results that are generating discussion. I prefer people promoting others’ best works and salient projects to people promoting their own, on which judgment is less objective. Annoying to see items of narrow interest.

That’s all?

The PNW big one, similar to 1700, is not overdue - recurrence ~ 500 years, compared to only 323 years passing.

Seismologists use “coefficient of variation” when forced to estimate probability of earthquakes by engineers.

Is the location of this event near the famous 17-minute foreshocks?

Further experimentation - Maybe deselecting people who post about anything but geoscience will render the cost-benefit ratio positive.

It may take 50 or 100 words plus a couple of figures to get an idea out for science, and editing is easier on the keyboard than a phone. Maybe bsky will improve when it works in a browser. Wait, I see now it does have a browser!

Just discovered bsky has a browser app. Maybe I'll stay engaged for a while. Thx for the comments!

I have to admit Facebook seems to have the best format for brief and cutting edge science exchanges. 

These media have information, but it’s inextricably contaminated with hysterical and hyper partisan tweets. 

Custom feeds may lead to talking with like-minded people, which is half the problem. 

Experiment as a forum over.

X, Threads, and Bluesky all promote posts that push edgy ideas, which segregates the crowd and suppresses balanced discussion, and generates anger and polarization and the impression of dystopia.

I’ll check in only for entertainment.

I’m dumbfounded that anyone thinks they would learn about aliens coming to Earth from a congressional hearing, believe that there was a 50-year secret that no other countries learned and revealed either. Just stunned, and hope it resolved quickly.

The problem, IMHO, is that scolding garners upvotes, moderate points of view don’t, on all the platforms. I’m on the verge of writing off social media for opinions on current events and returning to real news links - Apple News, Drudge, BBC, etc..

Too many people don’t know what they don’t know, my biggest gripe. And yeah, the Apple statement of privacy loss with Threads is astoundingly invasive.