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A quotation from Joubert

Perhaps we need, for worldly success, virtues which make us loved and vices which make us feared.
 
[Peut-être, pour les succès du monde, faut-il des vertus qui fassent aimer, et des défauts qui fassent craindre.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 9 “De la Sagesse, de la Vertu, etc. [On Wisdom and Virtue],” ¶ 26 (1850 ed.) [tr. Collins (1928), ch. 8]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/28523…

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

«
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.

[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/billings-josh/73841/

#earthquake #Tibet: a very strong earthquake for a normal faulting (extension) mechanism along a NS trending #fault. Extension in high mountainous areas seems contradictive, but is due to potential energy: when a bulldozer pushes a pile of sand, the top will collapse. #aardbeving
masto.ai/@lastquake/1137845255

MastodonLastQuake (@lastquake@masto.ai)Attached: 1 image 🔎 What was the faulting motion that caused the #earthquake (#भूकम्प) in Nāmche Bāzār? Moment tensor map from seismological institute(s):

Preliminary Observations of the 5 April 2024 Mw 4.8 New Jersey Earthquake
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doi.org/10.1785/0320240024 <-- shared paper
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doi.org/10.1785/0320240020 <-- shared paper
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doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215 <-- shared paper
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[This is ‘unusual’ seismic activity and shaking patterns for this part of the USA, on an ‘unmapped’ fault, and seemingly challenging existing models of earthquake risk in the region; while a 4.8 is not big, it must have been quite a surprise for the people in this heavily populated U.S. Northeast not used to such things (per the paper, the USGS estimated it was felt by some 42 million people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthquake #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewJersey #USA #geology #engineeringgeology #seismic #USGS #seismology #fault #faulting #Tewksbury #DidYouFeelIt #geotechnical #NIST #remotesensing #InSAR #strikeslip #mechanism #thrust

Voyager 1 Fault forces Switch to S-Band.

Voyager 1 stopped communicating altogether, suggesting that further fault protection trips disabled the powerful X-band transmitter and switched to the lower-powered S-band downlink. The current problem began when controllers sent a command to turn on one of the spacecraft’s heaters.

blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10

Continued thread

We started at the lighthouse, standing on the Westcliff marine terrace. Here we discussed the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989) and if it is a "representative #earthquake" that explains the uplift of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Loma Prieta took place on a left-step in the San Andreas #Fault. Left-steps in Right Lateral Faults lead to compression and a thrust component. It is one way to build mountains. #LomaPrieta #SanAndresFault #SAF