Me today: 55 years old
@earthquakes.au this year: 50 years
Me at SRC this year: 35 years
It’s so weird that a casual summer job after finishing a computer science degree turned into a lifelong career, but here we are. I appreciate the friends, opportunities and experiences seismology has given me.
It looks like the region to the NW of Mount Perry is active again. In 2015 a magnitude 5.2 earthquake kicked off a sequence of aftershocks with magnitude 2+ events occurring regularly for almost 2 years. The area has seen ongoing activity, but these latest events are the largest since February 2015.
Last seismic station collected! Now we’re off to Kalgoorlie to clean them up for the next deployment.
Lots of flying today: nine of the GSWA seismic stations collected with the help of pilot Tom
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Here's the final video in my WA Array series, documenting the third and final field trip of a deployment phase. It involves collecting and cleaning the equipment, ready to do it all again in the next area of Western Australia. This exposed equipment survived a cyclone in March with very few issues.
We are at the Geological Survey of Western Australia core library today cleaning the last of the sensors and digitisers in preparation for the next deployment in less than 2 months time.
My last day in Western Australia and I felt an earthquake! I'm in Kalgoorlie and this magnitude 3.4 earthquake locates to about 5km from where I was lying in bed! Spending my morning playing with seismic data is the perfect end to my trip!
This very cute gecko was nestled in one of the stations we pulled out today. Pity I couldn’t get a photo of it sitting on one of our Gecko Seismographs! This is the second station where we’ve found the solar panel detached from the frame, presumably blown off by Cyclone Narelle last March.
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Jumping on the #grwm trend to reveal the truth about earthquake prediction.
We completed the last of the helicopter-serviced stations today at the most westerly point in Australia, on Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay. Thanks to GSWA for the opportunity to view this beautiful part of the state from the best perspective.
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Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Adam Pascale
Another magnitude 3.5 earthquake has occurred near Mount Perry in Queensland, at a few minutes past 4am. Comment if you felt it.
