Rocket-cell-man phenomenon :)

The next CI Geodynamics webinar is on Friday, May 20, at 9am PDT. Hiro Noda: Viscoelasticity and poroelasticity in dynamic earthquake sequence simulation Dmitry Garagash: Seismogenesis and cascading rupture on multi-scale fault networks Registration at geodynamics.org/events/details…

Obese subjects self-reported their adherence to a 25% caloric restriction diet & exercise. After 8 months, there was minimal weight loss & no change in glucose, cholesterol, inflammation, or blood pressure -- leading scientists to conclude that people lie tinyurl.com/ycyppk6x

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is lighting up! Seismicity started on Monday near the Charlie-Gibbs transform, with an M5.8 normal faulting event. Has been migrating south at ~1 km/hr since then. A once-in-50-yr dike intrusion event? (EQs relocation courtesy of G. Ekstrom LDEO) 🌋

Co-teaching with Profs Brice Lecampion and John Colinski a ‘Fracture Mechanics by papers’ doctoral class at EPFL. An awesome by definition :) format of introducing main fracture ideas and developments via exploring a relevant, classic or not paper and it’s consequences per week

This and next weeks’s paper is Williams J Appl Mech 1952 on ‘Williams expansion’. Two pages that made the crack tip a lot friendlier place for the following 50 years.. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/appliedmechani…

Arxiv related notes use Williams’ vehicle to explore the fracture tip with different physics. See here how ‘unconventional’ fracture tip singularity arises in hydraulic fracturing. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.12008…

For similar ‘unconventional fracture developments’ in dynamic rupture of shear heated faults see with Robert Viesca nature.com/articles/ngeo2…

Addressing reviewer comments

Study in leading medical journal reports that age is a strong predictor of lifespan. Kid you not thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

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Shoutout to its inhabitants who made this stay lots of multifaceted, multiphysics fun. Keep the cold lake sect alive and see you soon!

Leaving the Swiss scientific land, GeoEnergy Lab EPFL @emsi_lab_epfl @lemr_epfl where no rock is strong enough not to be cracked :)

Published today Science Magazine: Scale-dependent fracture energy as simple explanation for earthquakes observed across all scales with implications for earthquake nucleation & multi-fault rupture cascades with Dmitry Garagash Kadek Hendrawan Palgunadi Martin Mai science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…