I need to remind people that traveling within a volcano’s active exclusion zone that has repeatedly noted and declared off limits to EVERYONE (along with the government saying “stop climbing this volcano”) is a terrible idea and illegal. Those zones exist for a reason. (1/2)

Sadly, today’s disaster was all but inevitable in my opinion given the apparent recent-ish exponential increase in traffic within Dukono’s exclusion zone. It was only a matter of time until fatalities happened; likely the volcano’s likely first since its 16th century eruption.2/2

I had been seeing a few images/video of that recent meteorite over parts of Europe. Images aren’t high enough resolution for me to make a determination. Can’t tell if achondrite or eucrite (guessing, could be wrong). However, wasn’t it moving a bit slow for a meteorite?

Since today is my day off I’m making a basketball post. (I mean, I played the game for 1000s of hours in high school). I will be very very annoyed if Miami Ohio doesn’t make the March madness tournament. They are undefeated and deserve a spot, even if they might get (1/2)

(2/2) blown out in the first round of the tournament. But I don’t think they will. I can see them making it to the third round. While yes, they haven’t played any current top 25, my read of their team is that they work very well together rather than top of the top skill.

@USGS @USGS_Quakes unsure if error on the recent earthquakes page or if there really was a doublet (2x M6.5) in Vanuatu. Assuming error due to repeated perfect rounding in the second entry. First quake is real though.

For the 35,000th time, no one and I mean no one can identify what earthquakes are foreshocks. Only after a main larger earthquake occurs (mainshock) can we say such. So anyone claiming otherwise is putting out nonsense, and I’m getting tired of having to debunk stuff like (1/2)

(2/2) this instead of working on video projects I want. Misinformation “geology” channels are spreading like wildfire, while views at legit geologist channels (like myself and Shawn Wilsey) are way down. It’s frustrating.