Robin Lacassin @RobinLacassin@qoto.org

Hi! I’m a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada and adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. I study #earthquakes and focus mostly on #SeismicRisk and #ActiveTectonics. I’m interested in #Paleoseismology #Neotectonics #Seismology #Geodesy and #SeismicHazard.

I’m also chair of the #AGU Hazards Equity Working Group, a Fast Reports editor at @weareseismica and a Building Equity & Capacity committee member for #SZ4D.

I hope we can make this platform a better disaster communication tool than what we had on Twitter. Getting good information out during crises is one of the most important pieces of disaster science comms, & I think the length of these posts is going to be a big asset.

So this is my first post on Mastodon.

Part of my work as a volcanologist with the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV) is the real-time surveillance of seismic and volcanic activity in the volcanic areas of Sicily. This is done in 8-hour shifts in the Operations Room of the INGV seat in Catania, the Osservatorio Etneo. This is me making a stupid face during my latest shift, on 5 November 2022.

Is there a #geotwitter equivalent here? For example, is it #geomastodon I wonder?

@jascha Induced seismicity is much less trendy in the #insurance industry than it was back when it was happening right under Oklahoma City.

But for those who don't have USGS #earthquake alerts set to M3.5... there are still a ton of induced earthquakes! Now mostly in West Texas.

Today’s #Texas M5.4 #earthquake (approximate location as a purple blob) in the context of nearby #reinjection wells and other recent #earthquakes on a map from Tung et al. (2020)

RT @CopernicusEU: #DYK that parts of the Greek islands 🇬🇷 move (horizontally↔️) at a velocity of several mm per year?

You can monitor this phenomenon with the products of the @CopernicusLand European Ground Motion Service #EGMS

🆕The data can now be downloaded! More at https://land.copernicus.eu/news/the-european-ground-motion-service-archive-is-now-available

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1592864204096081920

The #NASA #InSight team is holding a full science meeting this week at the Royal Astronomical Society (#RAS) in London. This might be one of the last team meetings during the mission given that the spacecraft is soon expected to run out of power and enter "dead bus" mode.