Adam Pascale
@seislologist.bsky.social
Seismologist; Chief Scientist @earthquakes-au
I’m also SeisLOLogist on TikTok & elsewhere.
🌏earthquake 🎙️scicomm 🧪science he/him
I’m also SeisLOLogist on TikTok & elsewhere.
🌏earthquake 🎙️scicomm 🧪science he/him
2025: the year when the first fault rupture was captured on video. Onshore, large, surface rupturing earthquakes are so rare, and to have a camera recording that close to the rupture and framed so well is potentially a once in a lifetime event.
Source video is here:
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM
Source video is here:
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM
January 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
2025: the year when the first fault rupture was captured on video. Onshore, large, surface rupturing earthquakes are so rare, and to have a camera recording that close to the rupture and framed so well is potentially a once in a lifetime event.
Source video is here:
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM
Source video is here:
youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM
When I posted a version of this video last year, I underestimated the equivalent energy of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake relative to a nuclear blast by a factor of 10. This time I’ve quantified it using the Trinity test (as seen in the movie Oppenheimer). The 1957 underground test was 10x smaller again
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When I posted a version of this video last year, I underestimated the equivalent energy of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake relative to a nuclear blast by a factor of 10. This time I’ve quantified it using the Trinity test (as seen in the movie Oppenheimer). The 1957 underground test was 10x smaller again
My last trip to Western Australia wasn’t just to collect seismic data, but also involved setting up magnetotelluric stations and deploying networks of nodes to characterise the velocity profile at each site. It was nice to be able to use my drone to get a different perspective of our field work.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
My last trip to Western Australia wasn’t just to collect seismic data, but also involved setting up magnetotelluric stations and deploying networks of nodes to characterise the velocity profile at each site. It was nice to be able to use my drone to get a different perspective of our field work.
Holiday gift idea for the earthquake nerd in your life. We made a few extra SEISMOLOGY MEGAQUAKE t-shirts, and they are on sale at src.com.au. We only have a few left, particularly in the larger sizes, so get in quick.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Holiday gift idea for the earthquake nerd in your life. We made a few extra SEISMOLOGY MEGAQUAKE t-shirts, and they are on sale at src.com.au. We only have a few left, particularly in the larger sizes, so get in quick.
📦 FREE SHIPPING UNTIL 18 DEC 📦
Add coupon code ROCKMYWORLD in the cart checkout
📦 FREE SHIPPING UNTIL 18 DEC 📦
Add coupon code ROCKMYWORLD in the cart checkout
Faultless earthquakes? Several recent earthquake swarms in southwest Western Australia appear to be volume rupture sequences that don’t appear to occur in a plane to indicate a faulting structure, even after HypoDD reanalysis of 400 aftershocks.
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Faultless earthquakes? Several recent earthquake swarms in southwest Western Australia appear to be volume rupture sequences that don’t appear to occur in a plane to indicate a faulting structure, even after HypoDD reanalysis of 400 aftershocks.
It’s concert season in Melbourne. Last weekend Lady Gaga was rocking Marvel Stadium hard enough to shake our office seismometer 5.6km (3.5mi) away. Here’s the set list order plotted next to frequency and ground motion over time.
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It’s concert season in Melbourne. Last weekend Lady Gaga was rocking Marvel Stadium hard enough to shake our office seismometer 5.6km (3.5mi) away. Here’s the set list order plotted next to frequency and ground motion over time.
Look what a colleague brought back from NZ for me. Aftersocks! I’m intensity 12 🦶
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Look what a colleague brought back from NZ for me. Aftersocks! I’m intensity 12 🦶
Reposted by Adam Pascale
Limited stock and sizes remain, so get in quick if you want a MegaQuake t-shirt. Free shipping deal is on between now and 18 December, so get in early if you want one to arrive in time to put under your tree these holidays.
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Limited stock and sizes remain, so get in quick if you want a MegaQuake t-shirt. Free shipping deal is on between now and 18 December, so get in early if you want one to arrive in time to put under your tree these holidays.
First hand proof: Lenny Kravitz got Melbourne jumping last night! I correlated my video timing with the seismic recording. He’s so cool, and equally hot. Lenny is all the temperatures.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
First hand proof: Lenny Kravitz got Melbourne jumping last night! I correlated my video timing with the seismic recording. He’s so cool, and equally hot. Lenny is all the temperatures.
HypoDD visualisation!
Last week I presented a paper on the reanalysis of an aftershock sequence using the double difference method, and used this animation to show how the event locations moved in depth and lat/long with each iteration. About 450 events, with a stable result after only 4 iterations.
Last week I presented a paper on the reanalysis of an aftershock sequence using the double difference method, and used this animation to show how the event locations moved in depth and lat/long with each iteration. About 450 events, with a stable result after only 4 iterations.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
HypoDD visualisation!
Last week I presented a paper on the reanalysis of an aftershock sequence using the double difference method, and used this animation to show how the event locations moved in depth and lat/long with each iteration. About 450 events, with a stable result after only 4 iterations.
Last week I presented a paper on the reanalysis of an aftershock sequence using the double difference method, and used this animation to show how the event locations moved in depth and lat/long with each iteration. About 450 events, with a stable result after only 4 iterations.
I was genuinely surprised at the AEES conference dinner tonight when the committee presented me with lifetime membership to the Society, joining only 5 others given this honour in the Society’s 35 years. I’m scaling back my AEES duties for a few years, but I’ll always be lurking in the background 🤓
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I was genuinely surprised at the AEES conference dinner tonight when the committee presented me with lifetime membership to the Society, joining only 5 others given this honour in the Society’s 35 years. I’m scaling back my AEES duties for a few years, but I’ll always be lurking in the background 🤓
AC/DC played Melbourne again on Sunday night. There was a 12% higher peak in ground-pounding tunes compared to last Wednesday. The frequency "heat map" pattern was similar in timing and relative intensity, but slightly clearer this time. 🤘
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
AC/DC played Melbourne again on Sunday night. There was a 12% higher peak in ground-pounding tunes compared to last Wednesday. The frequency "heat map" pattern was similar in timing and relative intensity, but slightly clearer this time. 🤘
AC/DC shakes Melbourne! It seems more energy waves went into the air than into the ground, with people reportedly hearing the concert up to 7km (4 miles) away. The ground energy was detected, but not as strongly as during some other recent concerts #ACDC #taylorswift #oasis #travisscott #kiss
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
AC/DC shakes Melbourne! It seems more energy waves went into the air than into the ground, with people reportedly hearing the concert up to 7km (4 miles) away. The ground energy was detected, but not as strongly as during some other recent concerts #ACDC #taylorswift #oasis #travisscott #kiss
Wow, I did not expect my little observation to make its way outside Australia and get picked up by @billboard.com and @rollingstone.com 🤘
AC/DC Shook Melbourne All Night Long, Scientists Confirm
AC/DC Shook Melbourne All Night Long, Scientists Confirm
The opening date of AC/DC’s "Power Up" tour of Australia made waves that were detected by earthquake monitoring equipment.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Wow, I did not expect my little observation to make its way outside Australia and get picked up by @billboard.com and @rollingstone.com 🤘
Reposted by Adam Pascale
We recorded two non-earthquakes in the last 24 hours. The first was on our office seismograph, detecting Oasis fans 5.5km away at Marvel Stadium. The second was picked up by our station in eastern Victoria - likely a sonic boom from a meteor. The sound was reported widely in the region.
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We recorded two non-earthquakes in the last 24 hours. The first was on our office seismograph, detecting Oasis fans 5.5km away at Marvel Stadium. The second was picked up by our station in eastern Victoria - likely a sonic boom from a meteor. The sound was reported widely in the region.
Sunrise on our last day in the field. We stayed in Sandstone the next night and visited a rock formation known as London Bridge, as well as the painted tanks that contain the town’s water supply. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a short video on this trip. Thanks to GSWA for letting us come along.
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Sunrise on our last day in the field. We stayed in Sandstone the next night and visited a rock formation known as London Bridge, as well as the painted tanks that contain the town’s water supply. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a short video on this trip. Thanks to GSWA for letting us come along.
We had time to stop to take in some sights today, despite the chewed sensor cable at one station near the vermin-proof fence that runs coast-to-coast north-south for thousands of kilometres. Some nights we camp at places we can’t light fires, but ambience is just two plastic buckets and a torch away
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We had time to stop to take in some sights today, despite the chewed sensor cable at one station near the vermin-proof fence that runs coast-to-coast north-south for thousands of kilometres. Some nights we camp at places we can’t light fires, but ambience is just two plastic buckets and a torch away
We’re camping at seismic stations in a remote section of the network. Flat tyres and camp fires - all part of the fun of field work.
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We’re camping at seismic stations in a remote section of the network. Flat tyres and camp fires - all part of the fun of field work.
First and only day I’ll be flying. Managed to get to 4 stations, deploy site characterisation nodes at each, and get some drone shots of a magnetotelluric station too.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
First and only day I’ll be flying. Managed to get to 4 stations, deploy site characterisation nodes at each, and get some drone shots of a magnetotelluric station too.
I’m in Western Australia again, helping with mid-phase data collection from the instruments we deployed 6 months ago. We’re checking solar/battery and logger/sensor performance, and doing a little gardening. A busy 10 days ahead, with site characterisation and magnetotelluric surveys on the cards.
October 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’m in Western Australia again, helping with mid-phase data collection from the instruments we deployed 6 months ago. We’re checking solar/battery and logger/sensor performance, and doing a little gardening. A busy 10 days ahead, with site characterisation and magnetotelluric surveys on the cards.
It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred about 10 minutes ago in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, triggering all stations in our southeast Australian network. It’s offshore and around 50km, so hopefully far enough to not cause too much damage or trigger a tsunami.
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred about 10 minutes ago in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, triggering all stations in our southeast Australian network. It’s offshore and around 50km, so hopefully far enough to not cause too much damage or trigger a tsunami.
Here's the @auscope.bsky.social Seismometers in Schools recording this morning's M7.8 Kamchatka earthquake. Data and network visualisation is from SRC's Seismosphere.
The 24-hour single station view from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory shows the seismometer detecting the earth ringing for hours!
The 24-hour single station view from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory shows the seismometer detecting the earth ringing for hours!
September 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Here's the @auscope.bsky.social Seismometers in Schools recording this morning's M7.8 Kamchatka earthquake. Data and network visualisation is from SRC's Seismosphere.
The 24-hour single station view from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory shows the seismometer detecting the earth ringing for hours!
The 24-hour single station view from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory shows the seismometer detecting the earth ringing for hours!
ABC News Breakfast asked me to drop by to comment on this morning's M7.8 earthquake, an aftershock on the M8.8 from late July. I think I'm getting better at explaining crustal stress in plain language, but then I go and call Kamchatka an island instead of a peninsula🤦♂️
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hits Russia's Kamchatka
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September 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
ABC News Breakfast asked me to drop by to comment on this morning's M7.8 earthquake, an aftershock on the M8.8 from late July. I think I'm getting better at explaining crustal stress in plain language, but then I go and call Kamchatka an island instead of a peninsula🤦♂️
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Is 200 earthquakes in just over a month normal for southeast Australia? It is, if your seismic network is dense enough and you’re dedicated to detailed data analysis. Staff at the Seismology Research Centre have manually located more than 35000 earthquakes over the last 50 years.
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Is 200 earthquakes in just over a month normal for southeast Australia? It is, if your seismic network is dense enough and you’re dedicated to detailed data analysis. Staff at the Seismology Research Centre have manually located more than 35000 earthquakes over the last 50 years.