Dr. Dee Ninis
@deeninis.bsky.social
Earthquake Scientist: geology, seismology
Seismic hazard - Seismology Research Centre
Affiliate - Monash Uni Earth Atmosphere Environment
Vice Pres. - Aus. Earthquake Engineering Society
Committee - Geological Society Aus. (Vic.)
Seismic hazard - Seismology Research Centre
Affiliate - Monash Uni Earth Atmosphere Environment
Vice Pres. - Aus. Earthquake Engineering Society
Committee - Geological Society Aus. (Vic.)
How it started/ How it’s going
Water ripples
L - modern, active, beach sand;
R - ancient, preserved, sandstone
Water ripples
L - modern, active, beach sand;
R - ancient, preserved, sandstone
April 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started/ How it’s going
Water ripples
L - modern, active, beach sand;
R - ancient, preserved, sandstone
Water ripples
L - modern, active, beach sand;
R - ancient, preserved, sandstone
A M7.7 followed ~11 mins later by a M6.4 aftershock - still a strong earthquake and likely damaging in itself - in Myanmar/ Burma about 40 mins ago. It took ~12 minutes for the associated waveforms to arrive at our recorders in the @earthquakes-au.bsky.social network in southeast Australia.
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
A M7.7 followed ~11 mins later by a M6.4 aftershock - still a strong earthquake and likely damaging in itself - in Myanmar/ Burma about 40 mins ago. It took ~12 minutes for the associated waveforms to arrive at our recorders in the @earthquakes-au.bsky.social network in southeast Australia.
From Geoscience Australia
March 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
From Geoscience Australia
We see you, Aotearoa.
A M6.9 (prelim.) earthquake ~140 km offshore of the southernmost South Island, New Zealand, and widely felt across the South and North Islands, as detected on @earthquakes-au.bsky.social seismic network in southeast Australia.
A M6.9 (prelim.) earthquake ~140 km offshore of the southernmost South Island, New Zealand, and widely felt across the South and North Islands, as detected on @earthquakes-au.bsky.social seismic network in southeast Australia.
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We see you, Aotearoa.
A M6.9 (prelim.) earthquake ~140 km offshore of the southernmost South Island, New Zealand, and widely felt across the South and North Islands, as detected on @earthquakes-au.bsky.social seismic network in southeast Australia.
A M6.9 (prelim.) earthquake ~140 km offshore of the southernmost South Island, New Zealand, and widely felt across the South and North Islands, as detected on @earthquakes-au.bsky.social seismic network in southeast Australia.
#GeoValentine! ♥️
February 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#GeoValentine! ♥️
Not gonna lie - I’m jealous of this licence plate
February 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Not gonna lie - I’m jealous of this licence plate
My long-time colleague and friend Konstantinos Michailos (ANU) and I on the Anydros-Santorini earthquake swarm
@aunz.theconversation.com
@earthquakes-au.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
https://theconversation.com/an-earthquake-swarm-is-shaking-santorini-it-could-persist-for-months-249278
@aunz.theconversation.com
@earthquakes-au.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
https://theconversation.com/an-earthquake-swarm-is-shaking-santorini-it-could-persist-for-months-249278
February 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My long-time colleague and friend Konstantinos Michailos (ANU) and I on the Anydros-Santorini earthquake swarm
@aunz.theconversation.com
@earthquakes-au.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
https://theconversation.com/an-earthquake-swarm-is-shaking-santorini-it-could-persist-for-months-249278
@aunz.theconversation.com
@earthquakes-au.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
https://theconversation.com/an-earthquake-swarm-is-shaking-santorini-it-could-persist-for-months-249278
Geology x Stamps 😍
South West Africa Rock Formations, released in 1986.
South West Africa Rock Formations, released in 1986.
February 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Geology x Stamps 😍
South West Africa Rock Formations, released in 1986.
South West Africa Rock Formations, released in 1986.
Black sand (magnetite, ilmenite) at Bells Beach, near Torquay, Victoria 🖤
January 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Black sand (magnetite, ilmenite) at Bells Beach, near Torquay, Victoria 🖤
“A disaster so big it sped up our planet’s rotation and left almost a quarter of a million people dead..” The 2004 M9.1 ‘Boxing Day’ Sumatra Andaman earthquake and tsunami https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/2004-boxing-day-tsunami-twenty-years-on/104576856
December 21, 2024 at 10:39 AM
“A disaster so big it sped up our planet’s rotation and left almost a quarter of a million people dead..” The 2004 M9.1 ‘Boxing Day’ Sumatra Andaman earthquake and tsunami https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/2004-boxing-day-tsunami-twenty-years-on/104576856
Why Vanuatu should brace for even more aftershocks after this week’s deadly quakes: a seismologist explains https://theconversation.com/why-vanuatu-should-brace-for-even-more-aftershocks-after-this-weeks-deadly-quakes-a-seismologist-explains-246231
December 18, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Why Vanuatu should brace for even more aftershocks after this week’s deadly quakes: a seismologist explains https://theconversation.com/why-vanuatu-should-brace-for-even-more-aftershocks-after-this-weeks-deadly-quakes-a-seismologist-explains-246231
A M7.5 (prelim.) - with a current depth estimate of ~50 km - near Vanuatu not long ago, as detected by all the sites in our seismic network in southeast Australia.
December 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM
A M7.5 (prelim.) - with a current depth estimate of ~50 km - near Vanuatu not long ago, as detected by all the sites in our seismic network in southeast Australia.
You just can’t trust double crossing metamorphics (Mount Isa region, Queensland, Australia).
December 17, 2024 at 1:30 AM
You just can’t trust double crossing metamorphics (Mount Isa region, Queensland, Australia).
And it’s a wrap! Another successful Australian Earthquake Engineering Society conference, this time in Adelaide on the 70 yr anniversary of the ~M6.0 Adelaide earthquake. With keynotes from Helen Crowley (GEM), Dave Wald (USGS) and Tim Sullivan (Uni. Canterbury NZ)
November 24, 2024 at 8:37 AM
And it’s a wrap! Another successful Australian Earthquake Engineering Society conference, this time in Adelaide on the 70 yr anniversary of the ~M6.0 Adelaide earthquake. With keynotes from Helen Crowley (GEM), Dave Wald (USGS) and Tim Sullivan (Uni. Canterbury NZ)
I can relate, @seismogenic.bsky.social. Also this counts as research, surely.
November 20, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I can relate, @seismogenic.bsky.social. Also this counts as research, surely.
A M3.1 (prelim.) earthquake not long ago, near Trentham Victoria. If you felt this earthquake, please consider reporting it to our colleagues @EarthquakesGA here: earthquakes.ga.gov.au
November 15, 2024 at 11:56 PM
A M3.1 (prelim.) earthquake not long ago, near Trentham Victoria. If you felt this earthquake, please consider reporting it to our colleagues @EarthquakesGA here: earthquakes.ga.gov.au
A lovely view of the neotectonic Eden-Burnside Fault - which has uplifted the Adelaide Hills, South Australia - from the women’s WILD breakfast at the #ANCOLD2024 conference. We @earthquakes-au.bsky.social are here to talk seismic hazard with our clients in the dam industry.
November 13, 2024 at 12:21 PM
A lovely view of the neotectonic Eden-Burnside Fault - which has uplifted the Adelaide Hills, South Australia - from the women’s WILD breakfast at the #ANCOLD2024 conference. We @earthquakes-au.bsky.social are here to talk seismic hazard with our clients in the dam industry.
A M4.0 (prelim.) earthquake near Muswellbrook NSW not long ago. If you felt this earthquake please report it here earthquakes.ga.gov.au
November 12, 2024 at 1:23 AM
A M4.0 (prelim.) earthquake near Muswellbrook NSW not long ago. If you felt this earthquake please report it here earthquakes.ga.gov.au
She sends her best wishes for a speedy recovery 🐾
November 10, 2024 at 10:31 AM
She sends her best wishes for a speedy recovery 🐾
Blasting at Fosterville Gold Mine causes 3.6-magnitude earthquake in Central Victoria https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-05/elmore-earthquake-fosterville-goldmine-bendigo-geoscience/104560816
November 5, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Blasting at Fosterville Gold Mine causes 3.6-magnitude earthquake in Central Victoria https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-05/elmore-earthquake-fosterville-goldmine-bendigo-geoscience/104560816
Coastal cliffs, shore platform, tessellated pavement, and honeycomb weathering in Triassic (~220 Myr old) Hawkesbury Sandstone at Watson’s Bay, near Sydney.
November 3, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Coastal cliffs, shore platform, tessellated pavement, and honeycomb weathering in Triassic (~220 Myr old) Hawkesbury Sandstone at Watson’s Bay, near Sydney.
Researchers under attack from Adani over study that found Carmichael coal mine was likely to divert water from the Doongmabulla Springs which were more vulnerable to mining than previously assumed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/adani-doongmabulla-springs-half-million-year-old-water/104456500
October 22, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Researchers under attack from Adani over study that found Carmichael coal mine was likely to divert water from the Doongmabulla Springs which were more vulnerable to mining than previously assumed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/adani-doongmabulla-springs-half-million-year-old-water/104456500
No one:
Geologists: How about a couple of pretty rocks to decorate the table?
Geologists: How about a couple of pretty rocks to decorate the table?
October 21, 2024 at 8:29 AM
No one:
Geologists: How about a couple of pretty rocks to decorate the table?
Geologists: How about a couple of pretty rocks to decorate the table?
“Rio Tinto backs the need for new environmental standards, to work with First Nations peoples to protect cultural places, to find solutions to nature loss and to ensure the disclosure of climate emissions.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/rio-tinto-backs-plibersek-nature-reforms/104478452
October 16, 2024 at 5:24 AM
“Rio Tinto backs the need for new environmental standards, to work with First Nations peoples to protect cultural places, to find solutions to nature loss and to ensure the disclosure of climate emissions.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/rio-tinto-backs-plibersek-nature-reforms/104478452