Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

New data about the growth of the #fediverse. The number of new accounts is now on average around 100k per day after the peak in November 8th of 135k new users.

Hi everyone! I am an #earthquake #geologist and #earth #scientist currently based in #Oxford, UK. I work on #activefaults, #paleoseismology, and #tectonics problems around the world, but particularly in #CentralAsia and in the western USA. I did my PhD in #Reno #Nevada and my undergraduate in #Humboldt #California.

I wrote a new tutorial on how to combine iOS lidar with Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry to make accurately scaled #paleoseismic trench logs. 🚨🚨🚨 🧵

The full tutorial is available here:
https://neotectonic.github.io/posts/iOS_Surveying/

I wrote a thread about Mastodon on Twitter, it needs to be read.
https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1590485665535643649?s=46&t=hpE2Unzsn-9qKirLfo3tYA

Our new paper on EPS!!
Short-period OBSs and CMT inversion using a 3D model revealed the aftershock activity off Ibaraki after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

Yamaya, L., Mochizuki, K., Akuhara, T., Takemura, S., et al. CMT inversion for small-to-moderate earthquakes applying to dense short-period OBS array at off Ibaraki region. Earth Planets Space 74, 164 (2022).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-022-01721-3

I feel, as part of my initiation into this space, I must talk about my love of #Medieval elephants.

Yes, you heard me. You see, though bestiaries were very common in Western Europe, elephants were not.

So things like this happen.

"SO... lion body... got it, cloven hooves, okay, big ears and dead bird eyes... long snake face... PERFECTION."