Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

Surface rupture photo from Chinese colleagues for the Mw7 normal fault earthquake that occurred on October 23rd.

Watch the #SanJuanRiver near Mexican Hat, Utah go from ~700 to ~17000 cfs in this timelapse made from images at the nearby #USGS river gage location. Final frame is from this morning. A higher #flood peak of ~33,000 cfs is heading this way, moving through Farmington, NM as I type...

Could a future “supershear” rupture happen in California? Most would likely now say, “yes.” Ross Stein, Ph.D. of Temblor (Stanford/USGS) discusses fault rupture in the context of the San Andreas and (possibly) Hayward faults. Video 🎥 by San Francisco Bay Area’s KPIX CBS youtu.be/dhQkNb_Bz5c

An early-season low will dive southward off CA coast into tomorrow, bringing widespread rainfall to Central Coast (& lesser showers elsewhere). Aided by unusually strong jet overhead, cold air aloft, & record-warm ocean temps, some notable thunderstorm activity is also possible.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

oops. @aas.org journals (in this case PSJ) might have an issue with copy-editing and proof-reading as I am pretty sure this is not what the authors intended 🔭🧪

Update: Now Post-Tropical Storm Rachel has made landfall along northern Baja CA north of Ensenada. San Diego is thus spared brunt, but bands of torrential rainfall & severe thunderstorms are occurring from CA's Imperial Valley eastward into AZ, w/serious flash flood threat. #CAwx

Hurricane Isaias at sunset.

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

On 25 January 2026, a very large landslide reactivated at Niscemi in Sicily, Italy, causing significant damage. A new paper in the journal Landslides (Guerriero et al. 2026) describes the event:- eos.org/thelandslide... Original paper (which is open access):- link.springer.com/article/10.1...

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

We’ve got the Earth and space science news you need. Don’t miss out on it. Set eos.org as a preferred source on Google. www.google.com/preferences/...

The slow pace of federal research funding under Trump, coupled with his administration’s mass cancellations of existing grants, have led to severe underfunding of research. As another fiscal year under Trump comes to a close on September 30, NOAA, AHRQ, NSF are far behind in money awarded.

#Polo's incredible rise from a tropical storm to a massive category 5 monster appears to have set a record.

All of the Jupyter notebooks used in the sessions are available through GitHub here: github.com/isceplus/202... (Note that the OSL online system that we used in the course is operated by ASF and only available during the course, so please don't bother the EarthScope staff with requests for access.)

The videos from this year's incarnation of the ISCE+ training course, supported by @earthscope.org are now online! Lots of great material in there for your edification! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?

I spoke with @afp.com about the Nepal disaster and some of the conspiracy theories swirling around the cause (also feat @kristencook.bsky.social @glaciocook.bsky.social). ⚒️🧪 factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Energy Transfer is the most super duper, super emitter of them all. 👉Biggest single super emitter 👉4 of the 15 sites ranked as the biggest emitters 👉75 methane plumes in the study period. @timdonaghy.bsky.social But what you really need to know...👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump wants to turn Head Start into a Dead End. The plan? Tear down common sense regulations, cut funding, claim the program doesn't work, and eventually...get rid of it altogether. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. Together, we can SAVE Head Start.

I wrote about my favorite climate TV show. Yes it is a "Monsters, Inc." spin-off. No they never say the word "climate." But trust me it's definitely about renewables vs. fossil fuels, I asked one of the writers! (Who is married to Kathryn Hahn.) Today's CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES:

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Recorded and now available, in case you missed it. Since this session ended, the NWS has now issued an Extreme Heat Warning for most or all of coastal SoCal for Wednesday (yes, tomorrow will be even worse) for the genuinely dangerous combination of extreme humidity plus heat.

Short-notice pop-up livestream TODAY (Sep 8) at 10am PT: A steamy tropical airmass associated with remnants of Hurricane Marie has allowed thunderstorms to develop near LA this AM, and will bring extreme humid heat over next 48 hours. Live discussion to follow.

It’s 75% humidity and headed for 96F in Pasadena today and if I wanted to live in Florida I’d freaking move to Florida don’t do this to me SoCal.

Sufficient satellite & drone imagery is now available to allow initial analysis of the landslide that started the 26 August 2026 debris flow in Nepal & Tibet. eos.org/thelandslide... This was a large failure with catastrophic impacts. But larger, more devastating, events have occurred in Nepal.

An El Niño-induced coastally-trapped Kelvin wave will likely raise water levels about 9-14 inches (relative to 1993-2025 averages) along the California coast in early October. Water temperatures will also increase. The sudden increase will be as much as “the entire climate change anomaly in one go”

the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

Really useful story map of the 2026 Nepal Trishuli flood from the Centre for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH). It is likely that this flood is the largest to hit the valley in 5000 years. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f2b2... @davepetley.bsky.social @iceybethan.bsky.social @watershedlab.bsky.social

Folks, @callanbentley.bsky.social had me on his youtube show to discuss the Nepal flood disaster. Have a watch. 🧪⚒️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUx1qYIW4U

The AGU has a one year report covering the myriad of ways science is being ignored and eliminated in the United States. Read and repost. There is a pdf at the bottom of the page to the full report. eos.org/state-of-the...

New postdoc job ad for a JPL postdoc to work on JWST direct imaging! #jobs #exoplanets www.jpl.jobs/job/R5931/Po...

Lala, now a Category 1 hurricane, looks pretty healthy on radar imagery as it makes a close approach toward Hawaii's Big Island, where it may make landfall (if so, would be first HI landfall since 1992). Either way, widespread and potentially serious flash flooding is expected.

Just when I thought I’d lost my capacity for shock, I am utterly disgusted by this from the NYT, absolutely the worst

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

So far, almost 8 months into the year, 11 M≥7 events have occurred. The average is 15/yr. 2010 saw 23 events. 1989 had only 6. Because the last 3 (Indonesia, Columbia and Venezuela) occurred near people, they seem more significant but the Earth really doesn' care where we are.

Outside of local triggering (eg., aftershocks), the global distribution of big earthquakes is random in time. That means there is an average rate (15 M7+ evets/yr) but the time since the last event doesn't matter. Sometimes we see clusters - if there were no clusters, it woldn't be random.

The Perseverance rover on Mars caught an occultation of Earth by a crescent Phobos on July 2. These observations aren't only fun (though they are fun!), they also help with monitoring minute variations in Phobos' orbit www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...

Good morning team! Why indeed!

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