Thorsten Becker
@thwbecker.bsky.social
Geophysicist at UT Austin working on the connections between planetary interior and surface systems. The physics of plate tectonics, from earthquakes to global mantle convection. Makes maps.
Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.
Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
Geophysics is serious business.
September 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Geophysics is serious business.
Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.
Not saying but at least it looks nice.
August 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Not saying but at least it looks nice.
Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
August 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.
Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)
August 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)
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These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪
August 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪
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Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries
The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.
www.bbc.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos
The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.
eos.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
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Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
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"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts
Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Join us for session DI012 – Seismic Anisotropy from Surface to Core at AGU 2025, in New Orleans.
The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans
The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans
July 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Join us for session DI012 – Seismic Anisotropy from Surface to Core at AGU 2025, in New Orleans.
The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans
The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
#seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans
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In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system.
Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI
Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI
July 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system.
Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI
Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI
Dylan in ATX. Or maybe Timothée Chalamet. I can attest to a Dylan sounding person behind the piano.
July 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Dylan in ATX. Or maybe Timothée Chalamet. I can attest to a Dylan sounding person behind the piano.
Meaning, for example, N = 2, once all is said and done. Does make you wonder.
Nominations open, and some awards are waaaay undersubscribed
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Nominations are now open until 15 June 2025!
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Nominations are now open until 15 June 2025!
👉 Learn more and submit here: egu.eu/1WJWEA
July 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Meaning, for example, N = 2, once all is said and done. Does make you wonder.
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US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
www.nsf.gov
July 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
Great to have John Aiken at UTIG to talk about solid fluid interactions and new code development paradigms leveraging AI
June 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great to have John Aiken at UTIG to talk about solid fluid interactions and new code development paradigms leveraging AI
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I cannot express to you the hours, days, YEARS that went into these images across Rubin. They are spectacular. And truly just a peek. It has been the wildest few months of my life getting my small piece, the social media, ready for this.
You're not ready for 11am.
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
You're not ready for 11am.
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
June 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I cannot express to you the hours, days, YEARS that went into these images across Rubin. They are spectacular. And truly just a peek. It has been the wildest few months of my life getting my small piece, the social media, ready for this.
You're not ready for 11am.
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
You're not ready for 11am.
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream