Baoning Wu
@baoningwu.bsky.social
Earthquake modeler, part-time seismologist, current post-doc at UC San Diego, former post-doc at USC, and PhD at UC Riverside.
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🌊 🚢 Scripps Oceanography graduate student Charles Lindsay takes us aboard a California Current Ecosystem research cruise, where scientists deployed a new mini-mooring and collected data from the surface to the deep ocean: https://bit.ly/3TLgvVr
August 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
🌊 🚢 Scripps Oceanography graduate student Charles Lindsay takes us aboard a California Current Ecosystem research cruise, where scientists deployed a new mini-mooring and collected data from the surface to the deep ocean: https://bit.ly/3TLgvVr
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Wang, B., Wu, B., & Zhou, Y. (2026). Reinterpreting the recurrence time–moment relation of global repeating earthquakes: A scattered data cloud bounded by crack-model physics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth doi.org/10.1029/2025...
feat. @baoningwu.bsky.social & @Binhao (not in BSky...)
feat. @baoningwu.bsky.social & @Binhao (not in BSky...)
Reinterpreting the Recurrence Time–Moment Relation of Global Repeating Earthquakes: A Scattered Data Cloud Bounded by Crack‐Model Physics
Long-term quasi-periodic repeaters from latest global catalogs reveal a triangular data cloud rather than a simple power law The 1/3-slope lower bound reflects ruptures under long-term loading wh...
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July 23, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Wang, B., Wu, B., & Zhou, Y. (2026). Reinterpreting the recurrence time–moment relation of global repeating earthquakes: A scattered data cloud bounded by crack-model physics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth doi.org/10.1029/2025...
feat. @baoningwu.bsky.social & @Binhao (not in BSky...)
feat. @baoningwu.bsky.social & @Binhao (not in BSky...)
Dear colleagues,
I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU26 late-breaking session, S030, focused on the recent 2026 Venezuela earthquake sequence:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
Please consider submitting an abstract and feel free to share this session with colleagues who may be interested.
I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU26 late-breaking session, S030, focused on the recent 2026 Venezuela earthquake sequence:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
Please consider submitting an abstract and feel free to share this session with colleagues who may be interested.
The 2026 Venezuela Earthquake Sequence: Insights from Seismology and Beyond
In June 2026, a large, complex earthquake sequence struck north-central Venezuela along the boundary between the Caribbean and South American plates, a right-lateral strike-slip fault system that had ...
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July 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Dear colleagues,
I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU26 late-breaking session, S030, focused on the recent 2026 Venezuela earthquake sequence:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
Please consider submitting an abstract and feel free to share this session with colleagues who may be interested.
I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU26 late-breaking session, S030, focused on the recent 2026 Venezuela earthquake sequence:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
Please consider submitting an abstract and feel free to share this session with colleagues who may be interested.
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NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite imaged Venezuela June 25. NISAR SAR interferometry (InSAR) enabled calculation of surface displacement. Displacements have red tones for east and blue tones for west, with white in middle near-zero over fault rupture. Fault ruptured far to east under ocean. #venezuela
June 27, 2026 at 11:10 PM
NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite imaged Venezuela June 25. NISAR SAR interferometry (InSAR) enabled calculation of surface displacement. Displacements have red tones for east and blue tones for west, with white in middle near-zero over fault rupture. Fault ruptured far to east under ocean. #venezuela
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#shakemovie simulation - Venezuela Mw7.5 event using the USGS finite-fault solution #specfem3d
June 28, 2026 at 7:36 AM
#shakemovie simulation - Venezuela Mw7.5 event using the USGS finite-fault solution #specfem3d
Made a first-motion focal mechanism for the M7.2 Venezuela earthquake. Seems consistent with the initial rupture fault shown by InSAR.
June 27, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Made a first-motion focal mechanism for the M7.2 Venezuela earthquake. Seems consistent with the initial rupture fault shown by InSAR.
Preliminary finite fault inversion results by Yuhe Liu at Peking University pku-geophysics-source.group/htmls/202606...
Seems like a normal SINGLE event with multiple asperities.
Seems like a normal SINGLE event with multiple asperities.
June 27, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Preliminary finite fault inversion results by Yuhe Liu at Peking University pku-geophysics-source.group/htmls/202606...
Seems like a normal SINGLE event with multiple asperities.
Seems like a normal SINGLE event with multiple asperities.
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An explanatory article from @evanbush.bsky.social at NBC News about the Venezuela earthquake(s). www.nbcnews.com/science/eart... ⚒️
June 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM
An explanatory article from @evanbush.bsky.social at NBC News about the Venezuela earthquake(s). www.nbcnews.com/science/eart... ⚒️
A replot of the latest aftershock locations from FUNVISIS (Jun-26 night, California). It seems that there is a gap between the east rupture and the west rupture.
One needs a Python script to download the catalog, using the link that the browser uses.
www.funvisis.gob.ve/monitor.html
One needs a Python script to download the catalog, using the link that the browser uses.
www.funvisis.gob.ve/monitor.html
June 27, 2026 at 8:24 AM
A replot of the latest aftershock locations from FUNVISIS (Jun-26 night, California). It seems that there is a gap between the east rupture and the west rupture.
One needs a Python script to download the catalog, using the link that the browser uses.
www.funvisis.gob.ve/monitor.html
One needs a Python script to download the catalog, using the link that the browser uses.
www.funvisis.gob.ve/monitor.html
I can see a fault bend/gap story emerging from the discussion I had with colleagues about why the USGS reports two events (M7.2 → M7.5). Maybe there is a fault bend or gap between the west rupture (M7.2) and the east rupture (M7.5)?
Here is an iPad schematic:
Here is an iPad schematic:
June 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I can see a fault bend/gap story emerging from the discussion I had with colleagues about why the USGS reports two events (M7.2 → M7.5). Maybe there is a fault bend or gap between the west rupture (M7.2) and the east rupture (M7.5)?
Here is an iPad schematic:
Here is an iPad schematic:
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Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.
June 25, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.
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@baoningwu.bsky.social Baoning Wu and Jeena Yun attended the International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes in Japan as recipients of the 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant. Learn more about their experiences and how you can apply in Feb 2026 www.seismosoc.org/news/paul-an... ⚒️🧪
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@baoningwu.bsky.social Baoning Wu and Jeena Yun attended the International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes in Japan as recipients of the 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant. Learn more about their experiences and how you can apply in Feb 2026 www.seismosoc.org/news/paul-an... ⚒️🧪
Slow Slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Thinking Outside the Plane - Sammis - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Slow Slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Thinking Outside the Plane
Large episodic slow slip events in Cascadia can be modeled as stick-slip at the interface between a viscoelastic layer above an elastic layer
The model is motivated by (a) slip in an event < plat...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Slow Slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Thinking Outside the Plane - Sammis - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Could drought explain why the southern San Andreas fault has been quiet for more than 300 years? A new #SRL study explores this question, and more. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Could drought explain why the southern San Andreas fault has been quiet for more than 300 years? A new #SRL study explores this question, and more. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
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Tsunami video allegedly taken at Pionerskaya bay after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake. HOLY SHIT! This guy and his dog are unbelievably lucky. 🧪⚒️ #geology
youtube.com/shorts/LhFQ2...
youtube.com/shorts/LhFQ2...
MASSIVE Tsunami Hits Pionerskaya Bay, Kamchatka, Russia (HQ)
YouTube video by 2025 Kamchatka Earthquake & Tsunami Archive
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August 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tsunami video allegedly taken at Pionerskaya bay after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake. HOLY SHIT! This guy and his dog are unbelievably lucky. 🧪⚒️ #geology
youtube.com/shorts/LhFQ2...
youtube.com/shorts/LhFQ2...
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Japanese GSI published the InSAR result of ALOS-2. It may be helpful for the interpretation.
www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic20...
www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic20...
August 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Japanese GSI published the InSAR result of ALOS-2. It may be helpful for the interpretation.
www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic20...
www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic20...
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First Sentinel-1 interferogram from southern Kamchatka! Lots of what I am assuming are tropospheric signals (e.g. over the volcanoes), but I also see long-wavelength fringes that change in azimuth from the NE (~shore-perpendicular) to the SW (~shore-parallel). Optimistic it could be the earthquake!
August 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
First Sentinel-1 interferogram from southern Kamchatka! Lots of what I am assuming are tropospheric signals (e.g. over the volcanoes), but I also see long-wavelength fringes that change in azimuth from the NE (~shore-perpendicular) to the SW (~shore-parallel). Optimistic it could be the earthquake!
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Literature regarding the 1923 and 1952 #Kamchatka #earthquakes are available at these links:
1923-02-03: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1952-11-04: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1923-02-03: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1952-11-04: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Literature regarding the 1923 and 1952 #Kamchatka #earthquakes are available at these links:
1923-02-03: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1952-11-04: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1923-02-03: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
1952-11-04: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53?
rdcu.be/eyrre
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July 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53?
rdcu.be/eyrre
rdcu.be/eyrre
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Azúa, K., Ide, S., Yano, S., Ruiz, S., Sugioka, H., Shiobara, H., et al. (2025). Shallow tectonic tremors reveal the beginning of the slab window at the Chilean triple junction. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115019. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Shallow Tectonic Tremors Reveal the Beginning of the Slab Window at the Chilean Triple Junction
We detected ∼500 shallow tectonic tremors at the Chilean Triple Junction (CTJ), using nearly two continuous years of ocean bottom seismometers data A gap between tremors and fast seismicity is ob...
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July 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Azúa, K., Ide, S., Yano, S., Ruiz, S., Sugioka, H., Shiobara, H., et al. (2025). Shallow tectonic tremors reveal the beginning of the slab window at the Chilean triple junction. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115019. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
One of the best tsunami education I have seen video on YouTube. Very intuitive animation, especially the parts on wave shoaling and how waves breaks at the coast line.
youtube.com/watch?v=piH4...
youtube.com/watch?v=piH4...
The CRUEL Physics behind Tsunamis!
YouTube video by Sabin Civil Engineering
youtube.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
One of the best tsunami education I have seen video on YouTube. Very intuitive animation, especially the parts on wave shoaling and how waves breaks at the coast line.
youtube.com/watch?v=piH4...
youtube.com/watch?v=piH4...
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Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)
May 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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If you are near the @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla, come by to the Ritter Memorial Fellowship Lecture tomorrow at 3 pm, I will be talking about the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche #Seewarte).
April 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you are near the @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla, come by to the Ritter Memorial Fellowship Lecture tomorrow at 3 pm, I will be talking about the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche #Seewarte).