I remember this day well in 2012. I turned off the light at 1:15 of the night on May 20th after reading a book on my Kindle. I felt a slight tremor. It was said that it wasn't a seismic zone, so I thought it was just the tail end of a distant quake. I looked for information on my phone but found nothing. At 4:03 in the morning, I woke up to a strong quake. I heard objects falling and glass breaking (which I later found out were from my neighbor's house), everything was shaking, and suddenly, I started hearing the sounds of buildings collapsing. I was 10 km from the epicenter but only found out hours later. I immediately turned on the light, but the power went out. When the power came back, all phone lines were down, but my trusty 1mbit/sec ADSL was working. I was alone at home. I went outside and, having experience with earthquakes, urged my neighbors (still in disbelief) to run to the end of the street, to a parking lot away from all buildings. Roof tiles could fall. Strong aftershocks followed in the minutes after. They would continue for months, and occasionally, you can still feel them.
There were many collapses in the area. Together with a neighbor (a surveyor), we inspected the building and found no visible problems. It was a recent building, only a few years old. I went back inside to have breakfast around 5, much to the surprise of my neighbors who were urging me to leave. I turned on TV and news were still uncertain. They were just talking about a very strong earthquake in the norther part of Bologna). There were strong tremors all day long. It was a strange day. My friends wanted me to go to their place, far away. I decided to stay. My neighbors wanted me to go with them to the shopping center parking lot to sleep in the car. I stayed home. Some neighbors slept in tents in their gardens for months out of fear. That night, I just slept dressed on the couch.
There are many other details of that day that will stay in my mind forever.
[#HDR defense] of IRAP astronomer Sébastien Deheuvels this Monday morning. Topic: the #seismology of #subgiant and red giant stars.
Analysis of seismic data acquired by the #CoRoT and #Kepler space missions has enabled Sébastien Deheuvels and his team to revisit the problem of #chemical element transport and angular momentum in stars, measure the #internal rotation of sub-giants and red giants, detect the presence of #magnetic fields in stellar interiors, ...
I made a new bot to monitor Earthquake or Gempa Bumi in Indonesia in real time. 🌍 🏃 🏠
@infogempa 🤖
I saw a few BMKG bots here but all of them are either offline or not posting anything for a while, that's why I decided to make one for myself so we can check the latest news about Earth Quakes on fediverse. 😄
@Smithsonianmag reports: "Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today."
As we looked through the photos albums of our great-uncle, it was clear he travelled extensivily throughout Aotearoa. We wondered where he got the money for this as he worked for the Post Office. We will never really know, but it was fun to speculate. He visited Ahuriri/Napier in June 1931, a few months after the devastating earthquake. In the photo below, you can see the opera house in the foreground looking very damaged by the earthquake.
Now that Marjorie Taylor Greene has kindly informed us that her god, who's on call 24-7 for Marjorie and talks to Marjorie ALL the time, is out to hurt people (because Marjorie wants to hurt people and has made a god in her own image to justify this), I'm wondering how we're supposed to appease this angry god when the eclipse devastates us.
Conor Patrick Reeves. Born 4/5 at 10:31 PM 8.3 lbs and 52 centimeters during an #Earthquake
Momma had a tear and needed some stitches. Baby had to spend a little time in the NICU because he swallowed some of his poop and needed some help breathing. Both momma and baby are doing great now
