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.
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...
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?)
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
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
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.
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
#computational #geoscience jamboree in Breckenridge CO this summer. One more day to submit abstracts and apply for EC funding to attend the #CIG meeting. Science includes earthquakes, landscape evolution, subduction zone fluid transport and more!
geodynamics.org/events/detai...
geodynamics.org/events/detai...
June 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#computational #geoscience jamboree in Breckenridge CO this summer. One more day to submit abstracts and apply for EC funding to attend the #CIG meeting. Science includes earthquakes, landscape evolution, subduction zone fluid transport and more!
geodynamics.org/events/detai...
geodynamics.org/events/detai...
Great time back at JAMSTEC, science discussions and awesome toys
May 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Great time back at JAMSTEC, science discussions and awesome toys
New preprint from our team on Graph Neural Network Simulators as surrogates for dynamic rupture propagation, Bayesian inference, and exploring the physics of the mapping from fault stress state to earthquake scenarios.
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
May 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New preprint from our team on Graph Neural Network Simulators as surrogates for dynamic rupture propagation, Bayesian inference, and exploring the physics of the mapping from fault stress state to earthquake scenarios.
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
New preprint on Tethyan belt crustal deformation and lithospheric dynamics based on a comprehensive new GNSS based model, led by Nicolás Castro-Perdomo
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
April 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
New preprint on Tethyan belt crustal deformation and lithospheric dynamics based on a comprehensive new GNSS based model, led by Nicolás Castro-Perdomo
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
A nice summary of our team effort synthesizing the role of mantle convection for closing the Tethyan seaway and perhaps contributing to mammal migration patterns.
www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
April 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A nice summary of our team effort synthesizing the role of mantle convection for closing the Tethyan seaway and perhaps contributing to mammal migration patterns.
www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
New full waveform imaging for the mantle underneath North America shows craton dripping induced by past subduction (we think).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New full waveform imaging for the mantle underneath North America shows craton dripping induced by past subduction (we think).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Can it power-slide though?
February 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can it power-slide though?
Not “nature” nature but thankful to have this close by.
December 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Not “nature” nature but thankful to have this close by.
