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Tamarah King
@tamarahking.bsky.social
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Earthquake geologist & seismic hazard scientist | previously UniMelb, COMET, OxUniEarthSci | currently Geoscience Australia | views are my own | she/her

Living on Ngunnawal & Ngambri land, raised on Jawoyn, Dagoman & Wardaman land
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Golly gosh, at 900+ followers I'll introduce myself!

I'm Dr Tamarah King, an Australian earthquake geologist at Geoscience Australia (prev. UniMelb & Oxford Uni). My research spans active faults, earthquakes, paleoseismology & tectonic geomorphology in Australia & similar tectonic locations
Tamarah sitting on some red rocks looking at the camera Tamarah walking in the red Australian desert, along a surface rupture from the magnitude 6.1 2016 Petermann earthquake. The surface rupture is a 40cm high linear break in the ground surface where the fault pushed one side of the earth over the other side black and white image from the 1968 magnitude 6.8 Meckering earthquake in Western Australia. The image shows deep cracks in the ground and a 1.5m high linear break in the ground surface where the fault ruptured Tamarah wearing high vis and a hard hat stands in a deep trench and scrapes at the wall with a hand tool. This is a paleoseismic trench from the Snowy Mountains of Australia, and she is looking at evidence of earthquakes in the recent past (less than 10 thousand years ago)
November 13, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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the @earthquake.bsky.social bot put out four notices for what appears to be one earthquake (earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... ), presumably it's picking up every USGS review of the event?
screenshot of posts showing earthquake alerts from the USGS
January 8, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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📢3-yr postdoc (or lecturer) position in earthquake science at the University of Melbourne!

Working on Australian active faults & hazard. Research potential for: trenching, dynamic rupture modelling, crustal geophysics, remote-sensing. Closes 4th Feb

jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91525...
aerial shot of a beach with large cliffs, and hills in the background. The hills form the hanging-wall of an active reverse fault
January 3, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Cross-posting from the other place. My former postdoc position with COMET and EarthSci Oxford is open for applications! More info via @RichardThomasW or @NERC_COMET on the other place
November 24, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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Day 2 and I've successfully gotten my name on my desk wall. So far so good with my big move to Geoscience Australia!
September 21, 2023 at 5:30 AM