Stormrider
@kwh.bsky.social
Science applied where humans & hazards collide🧪⚒️🌎 Chased earthquakes for ~34 years, and volcanoes ~5 yrs. before that; formerly at USGS; @lamont.columbia.edu Ph.D. & @dartmouthears.bsky.social
Stacks of lenticular clouds at sunset last night (10/25/2025) near Ridgecrest, California (USA)
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Stacks of lenticular clouds at sunset last night (10/25/2025) near Ridgecrest, California (USA)
Incredibly close! Vote for #kyanite please - it’s an awesome P-T indicator mineral, with all its pseudomorphs (if you are so inclined). Thank you!
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Incredibly close! Vote for #kyanite please - it’s an awesome P-T indicator mineral, with all its pseudomorphs (if you are so inclined). Thank you!
Wishing you may enjoy life, one day, one sunset at a time.
August 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wishing you may enjoy life, one day, one sunset at a time.
Coachella Section of the southern San Andreas Fault near Palm Springs, California (view towards the southeast) #AlwaysAWindowSeat
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Coachella Section of the southern San Andreas Fault near Palm Springs, California (view towards the southeast) #AlwaysAWindowSeat
Here is the first page of about 16 pages from his book.
August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Here is the first page of about 16 pages from his book.
“We survived the tsunami!” OC Lifeguards at Salt Creek 7/30/2025 🌊
July 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“We survived the tsunami!” OC Lifeguards at Salt Creek 7/30/2025 🌊
Map of the 1952 M 9.0 and other earthquakes that have led up to today’s M 8.8 - recently, the are has had renewed activity that, in hindsight, can be seen as foreshocks to the M 8.8
July 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Map of the 1952 M 9.0 and other earthquakes that have led up to today’s M 8.8 - recently, the are has had renewed activity that, in hindsight, can be seen as foreshocks to the M 8.8
Nice day at the San Clemente Ocean Festival
July 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Nice day at the San Clemente Ocean Festival
Stunning video by h0rdur - this frame capture shows the en echelon fissure set very nicely:
July 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Stunning video by h0rdur - this frame capture shows the en echelon fissure set very nicely:
Iceland eruption 🌋 video by h0rdur 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DMLgDHf...
July 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Iceland eruption 🌋 video by h0rdur 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DMLgDHf...
Owen’s as well as Cole, Charter, and Seaton’s accounts, from Voight Ch. 3, pg. 145.
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Owen’s as well as Cole, Charter, and Seaton’s accounts, from Voight Ch. 3, pg. 145.
Barry Voight’s Chapter 3, pg. 138 includes these fascinating eyewitness accounts by Guil Huff and Donald Hough (and by others, pp. 138, 145-146):
June 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Barry Voight’s Chapter 3, pg. 138 includes these fascinating eyewitness accounts by Guil Huff and Donald Hough (and by others, pp. 138, 145-146):
Barry Voight’s Chapter 3 includes this map of the slide:
June 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Barry Voight’s Chapter 3 includes this map of the slide:
Multidirectional hill shade of headscarp:
June 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Multidirectional hill shade of headscarp:
Oops, actually here it is (the previous one is north of the river);
June 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Oops, actually here it is (the previous one is north of the river);
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I recommend reading Chapter 3 of Barry Voight et al.’s textbook (pp. 113-166) that gives a detailed account of this landslide. ISBN 0-444-41507-6
June 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I recommend reading Chapter 3 of Barry Voight et al.’s textbook (pp. 113-166) that gives a detailed account of this landslide. ISBN 0-444-41507-6
Here’s where we stopped along the Pacific Crest Trail to admire the view and eat lunch before turning around to head back to camp, before the afternoon thunderstorms hit.
June 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Here’s where we stopped along the Pacific Crest Trail to admire the view and eat lunch before turning around to head back to camp, before the afternoon thunderstorms hit.