Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

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."

Space Station Flyover time-lapse movie. I captured 163 photos of the ISS flying over on August 4th. Here's a movie of them:
#space #astronomy #astrophotography #iss #nasa #photography #fediverse

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Large earthquakes in #Canada??
Not so often, but yes, some of the world’s largest #earthquakes, including:
M9 (offshore #VancouverIsland in 1700)
M8.1 and M7.8 (offshore #HaidaGwaii in 1949 and 2012, respectively).
More than 4000 earthquakes are located across Canada each year, from coast to coast to coast.

More on Canada’s earthquakes and how we minimize the impacts:
https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic-historique/GeoScienceCanada2010_Cassidyetal.pdf

https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_largest-earthquakes_e.pdf

I THINK SOMEBODY JUST FEDERATED MY TOOT