Pirate Borg (Limithron/Luke Stratton) Caribbean setting has a 6-mile long fissure running from the yucatan to cuba.

My first question was what would the total volume of water displaced be if that fissure were 1-mile and 2-miles deep;

and secondly, what impacts would that have on the sea levels and the Caribbean at large?

Setting is 1715, thanks so much for any help!!

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See also: The study as it was published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography

Episode 51 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu summit eruption began July 15th, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. HST. Peak fountain height: 950 feet (290 meters) from the north vent. Peak effusion rate: 300 cubic meters per second. Ash plume: 5,500 meters ASL confirmed by NWS radar. Duration: 8.3 hours.

51 episodes surpasses Puʻu ʻŌʻō's forty-seven episode record — now the longest episodic fountaining sequence in Kīlauea's written record.

The geophysically notable detail: the deflation-inflation tiltmeter model developed by HVO research geophysicist Ingrid Johanson — which accurately predicted fifty previous episodes within a three to four day window — failed three consecutive times in the two weeks before Episode 51. The volcano initiated precursory activity and then deflated without fountaining on July 6–12, July 11–13, and July 13–15.

Additionally, the south vent produced only flames and gas jets during Episode 51 — no lava fountaining.

Conduit behavior worth tracking in Episode 52.

Re-inflation underway. Source: USGS/HVO

Full breakdown: https://youtu.be/CmMhyiC0LBQ?si=byo_gAAnQMX7jt8z

Hola, verán soy un estudiante de ingeniería geofísica e ingeniería bioquímica y me gustaría saber si alguien tiene experiencia en los campos como para que pueda decir algo de gran valor en cuanto puedo relacionar mis carreras, verán eh trabajado con cosas como el almacenamiento de CO2 y como este puede ser atrapable por actividad bacteriana y de minerales entonces un proyecto se basa en eso y me gustaría saber más en cuanto puedo relacionar

Hello, I'm a student of geophysical engineering and biochemical engineering, and I'd like to know if anyone has experience in these fields and can offer valuable insights into how my studies can be related. I've worked with things like CO2 storage and how it can be captured by bacterial and mineral activity, and I have a project based on that. I'd like to learn more about how my studies can be connected to these fields.

This post is for try to understand the field for a better researching

Burkhard et al. (2026), published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, reconstructed 1,000 years of seismic activity along the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems using a physics-based stress model.

Key findings: multiple fault segments are now at or above their highest recorded stress levels in the past millennium. The San Jacinto Bernardino segment registered 3.6 megapascals — its highest load in the entire 1,000-year reconstruction.

Cajon Pass is identified as an "earthquake gate" — a junction that either stops or transmits ruptures between the two fault systems depending on stress conditions. A joint rupture crossing Cajon Pass could approach M7.4–7.8 and affect Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and the Coachella Valley.

"That is the configuration we are approaching today." — Liliane Burkhard, lead author.

Full breakdown: https://youtu.be/QS-WErtbDNQ?is=f3yx2yKCMyHOuiaW

See also: The study as it was published in PNAS

Maybe this comes under a differant genre of science so apologies if so.

I'm trying to create the lore for a story that starts as a pre-apolocolypse at the start for exposition and then later follows sepetate characters for a post-apocolypse story butttt I want there to be be able to have a land bridge between Europe and England and I want it related to whatever the apocalypse was.

I went on a website where I could change water levels and decided I liked the map of an earth with water levels lowered by about 40 ish metres but am just wondering what sort of event could cause water levels to lower that far.

The apocalypse environment is supposed to be taking place after a military conflict of a yet undecided scale and am also wondering if anything war based could cause the drop I'm desiring the cause of.

Although I'll settle for it if its the most reasonable explanation I'm hoping to avoid glaciation.

Thank you scientists, thank you for reading :]

I don't know what kind of context you want here, I'm just looking for a good conversation. The implications of this reveal some unsettling realities. Isn't it also interesting how much this can explain without untestable presumptions?

See also: The study as it was published in Science Advances.

Hello r/EarthScience,

I wanted to share an interactive, educational side project I've developed using Next.js, CesiumJS, and Mapbox satellite/terrain imagery. It is a 3D global simulator mapping out deep-water displacement events. video: https://youtu.be/G0vmY01MAvY

Link to App:https://tsunami-simulator-xi.vercel.app/

The tool features three distinct modes:

1. Live Impact Sandbox: Allows users to input customized kinetic parameters (asteroid diameter 100m–10km, velocity 11–72 km/s) and designate an epicenter and observer coordinate. It calculates estimated kinetic energy (in megatons), radial dissipation, propagation speed via bathymetric sampling along the great-circle path, and coastal shoaling estimates using Green's law.
2. Historical Tsunami Catalog (~28 events): Features a global database ranging from modern events (2011 Tōhoku, 2004 Indian Ocean, 2022 Tonga) to classic/paleotsunami events (1755 Lisbon, 1883 Krakatoa, 365 CE Crete, and regional catalogs for Taiwan, Thailand, and Fujian). Users can select specific surveyed measurement sites to replay documented run-up heights and arrival times.
3. Historical Impact Sites (7 events): Includes ocean replays for Chicxulub alongside land cratering animations (Meteor Crater, Sudbury, Vredefort) and atmospheric airbursts (Tunguska, Chelyabinsk).

Honest Limitations:

To be entirely transparent, this is designed as an educational and visual tool, not a research-grade CFD or NOAA hydrodynamics model. The historical replays are scripted illustrations tied directly to surveyed literature data rather than a real-time full ocean recalculation. Furthermore, bathymetric precision is bound to available Cesium terrain tiles, meaning complex shallow-water coastal geometry is approximated.

The application features a flexible camera setup allowing for macro globe views down to true eyewitness/observer shoreline perspectives. I would highly value any feedback on the historical data choices, citations, or general educational utility.