Morgan Moschetti
@morganmp.bsky.social
Research scientist working on seismic hazards. Professional interests: earthquakes, geohazards and risk, seismology.
Views and opinions are my own.
Views and opinions are my own.
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Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, and you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏾
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx who rely on screen readers for vision loss deserve equitable access to information, and you can update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏾
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Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪
2025 M7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake-Triggered Landslides and Snow Avalanches
A M7.0 oblique-slip earthquake initiated about 6 miles (10 km) below the Hubbard Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains about 55 miles north of Yakutat, Alaska at approximately 11:40am AKST (1:40pm YST) o...
www.usgs.gov
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪
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I updated my spaghetti magnitude video. 🍝
What magnitude is your appetite? 😆
What magnitude is your appetite? 😆
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I updated my spaghetti magnitude video. 🍝
What magnitude is your appetite? 😆
What magnitude is your appetite? 😆
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Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...
U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...
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🚨JOB ALERT : ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGIST 🚨
Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey!
💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month
📆 Application due: 11/17/2025
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey!
💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month
📆 Application due: 11/17/2025
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Engineering Seismologist
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
calcareers.ca.gov
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨JOB ALERT : ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGIST 🚨
Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey!
💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month
📆 Application due: 11/17/2025
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey!
💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month
📆 Application due: 11/17/2025
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
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Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are choosing to let go of the scientific knowledge that benefits our country and our communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
She Made Sure That Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We are choosing to let go of the scientific knowledge that benefits our country and our communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
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Today marks 36 years since the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California.
This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪
youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...
This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪
youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...
M6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake
YouTube video by Dr. Wendy Rocks
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Today marks 36 years since the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California.
This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪
youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...
This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪
youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...
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A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
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No words
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No words
Fascinating new results from @atterholt.bsky.social and colleagues who use seismic signals recorded on a fiber-optic cable near Arcata, California to learn about the earthquake rupture process of the 2024 magnitude-7 offshore earthquake.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fiber-imaged supershear dynamics in the 2024 Mw 7 Mendocino Fault earthquake
Fault structure and rupture physics are deeply intertwined, and observations of this coupling are critical for understanding earthquake behavior. Rupture propagation is observable at fine scales using...
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Fascinating new results from @atterholt.bsky.social and colleagues who use seismic signals recorded on a fiber-optic cable near Arcata, California to learn about the earthquake rupture process of the 2024 magnitude-7 offshore earthquake.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Indeed.
The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).
The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).
It's true that "appeal to authority"is a logical fallacy. Following scientific consensus is more logical than seeking out crackpots.
August 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Indeed.
The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).
The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).
The 1755 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Lisbon, Portugal aren’t well understood. New research suggests that large-scale delamination of the Earth”s mantle may have been the cause. Seismic hazard is highest near existing plate boundaries, but it exists elsewhere.
www.science.org/content/ar
www.science.org/content/ar
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The 1755 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Lisbon, Portugal aren’t well understood. New research suggests that large-scale delamination of the Earth”s mantle may have been the cause. Seismic hazard is highest near existing plate boundaries, but it exists elsewhere.
www.science.org/content/ar
www.science.org/content/ar
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Our new paper just came out today at @natgeosci.nature.com.
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia - Nature Geoscience
The lithospheric mantle may be delaminating from the crust in an oceanic plate segment offshore Southwest Iberia, which could be the ultimate cause of the 1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake, according to se...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our new paper just came out today at @natgeosci.nature.com.
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
USGS story map on the Kamchatka magnitude-8.8 earthquake at the end of July. This event is a reminder of the potential for huge earthquakes to affect people across the Pacific Basin.
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting.
earthquake.usgs.gov
August 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
USGS story map on the Kamchatka magnitude-8.8 earthquake at the end of July. This event is a reminder of the potential for huge earthquakes to affect people across the Pacific Basin.
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...
USGS event page on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami. There are some great photos here showing the scale of the landslide and tsunami runup on the other side of the cove—almost 500 meters!
www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...
www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...
2025 Tracy Arm Landslide-Generated Tsunami
A landslide above the toe of the South Sawyer Glacier failed into the waters of Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska, producing a tsunami on Sunday, August 10th, 2025, at 05:26 AKDT / 13:26 UTC. No inju...
www.usgs.gov
August 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
USGS event page on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami. There are some great photos here showing the scale of the landslide and tsunami runup on the other side of the cove—almost 500 meters!
www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...
www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...
NASA plays a key role in earth science, contributing critical information from its earth-observing satellites. For earthquake hazards, these data are important for characterizing details of the earthquake rupture, extent of faulting, and remote sensing estimates of damage to buildings.
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NASA plays a key role in earth science, contributing critical information from its earth-observing satellites. For earthquake hazards, these data are important for characterizing details of the earthquake rupture, extent of faulting, and remote sensing estimates of damage to buildings.
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Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️
Early View of Tracy Arm Landslide Features
YouTube video by Alaska Earthquake Center
youtu.be
August 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️
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It has been a busy couple of days! There was a large landslide and tsunami in SE Alaska, in Tracy Arm, Sunday morning. Luckily, no injuries or casualties were reported. This region is outside of our current landslide coverage, but we were able to get a quick location after hearing about the event. 🧵
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It has been a busy couple of days! There was a large landslide and tsunami in SE Alaska, in Tracy Arm, Sunday morning. Luckily, no injuries or casualties were reported. This region is outside of our current landslide coverage, but we were able to get a quick location after hearing about the event. 🧵
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As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️
Trump’s cuts to science & innovation could stall innovation, eliminate jobs, and undermine U.S. global competitiveness. @alondra.bsky.social explains for @TheHill.com:
The administration is attacking America’s opportunity engine
The damage is already apparent. A future Congress may want to restore funding, but talent pipelines, lab capacity and institutional knowledge cannot simply be switched back on.
thehill.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️
Does anyone know what the tsunami wave heights were in Arcata Bay from M8.8 Kamchatka? @earthjay.bsky.social others?
August 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Does anyone know what the tsunami wave heights were in Arcata Bay from M8.8 Kamchatka? @earthjay.bsky.social others?