Zach Eilon

British scientist, now resident of the Pacific plate; I research/teach geophysics & seismology @ucsantabarbara. Politics and Man Utd junkie. He/his.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

New #paper from @BrennanBrunsvik with an unprecedented seismic model of eastern NA lithosphere and asthenosphere structure. *LAB steps, lithosphere-spanning sutures, edge-driven convection, isostatic support for the Appalachians*... read all about it: https://t.co/ixGNVTW2jv

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

Great job @cristhianpsalas presenting his work on #Alaska velocity and attenuation tomography at the #Seismology Student Workshop

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@geosmx Not sure why we should have to settle for one or the other!

[NWS Los Angeles @NWSLosAngeles]

Hot off the presses! Here's the latest storm total rainfall forecast expected for the Tues-Wed storm system. #CAwx

[Pierre Romanet @PierreSeismo]

Because I had nothing to do today, I decided to test the assertion of @ssgeos and @hogrbe about alignment of 3 planets or sun and occurence of earthquakes (Spoiler: it does not work). Here after I will call this alignment a conjunction.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@BrandonTBishop @drrocks1982 We tried but someone formerly known as Prince had already snagged it.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

For decades this area has been kept relatively cool by sulfur emissions from ships.

But this changed in 2020.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

The fact that the NYT thought we needed yet another “wokeism running amok on college campuses” piece, completely indistinguishable from all the other ones, is more interesting to me than the essay itself, which has absolutely nothing new or substantive to add.

Some thoughts: 1/

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

This whole thread is 🤯

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

It is already clear that Bing AI is a big a leap over ChatGPT as ChatGPT was over the old GPT-3 model

It generated paper ideas based on my previous papers, found gaps in the literature, suggested methods "consistent with your previous methods," and offered potential data sources

[NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC]

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Updated total precipitation map for California for a period of 22 days stretching from December 26 to January 17. The AVERAGE over the ENTIRE STATE in that time frame was 11.47 inches, with several locations in central California setting 3-week records.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@Ross_PT @Scripps_Ocean @jillmmcd @IGPP @WHOI @LehighEES What do they taste like?

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@chrispynn @aaronvalue @SBCity Yup
https://t.co/Ri0yfdcfAv

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

Santa Barbara has received more than third of our average *annual* rainfall in the last ~20 hours. This is an historic meteorological, geomorphological, and human event. Hoping everyone is safe. #cawx #santabarbara #AtmosphericRiver

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

Almost our wettest year ever at this point in the season.

Side note: don't make outdoor plans in @SantaBarbara for the middle of the second week of January!

(Cyan is this year, Red is the average, Blue are past years. Data from https://t.co/sisNRJqZ55 @countyofsb )

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

At the @SBCity press conference just now, Public Works director said they expect the reservoir to be at 100% capacity by the end of the week.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

Of course, the upside of this gargantuan rainfall is that our main reservoir, Lake Cachuma, has almost doubled its stored water, from 38.3% to 74.3% in *24 HOURS*. That's 23 billion gallons, or 35,000 Olympic swimming pools. And it's still filling.
Data: https://t.co/UDoegUZQMP

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@ajtclimate @NWSLosAngeles Well, ~150% of previous. "Almost double" is a bit of an exaggeration.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@ajtclimate Hoo boy. According to @NWSLosAngeles, the airport (SBA) daily record was smashed by almost double 👀
https://t.co/ETglfeL2CN

[NWS Los Angeles @NWSLosAngeles]

Four daily rainfall records were broken yesterday in our area: 4.22" at SBA Airport, breaking the 2.83" of 2005; 3.42" at the Santa Maria Airport breaks 2.03" of 1907; 2.02" at Paso Robles Airport breaks 1.18" in 1995; 2.69" at Sandberg 1.84" of 2005. #CAwx #LArain

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@NicolefromUtah No, that's just the edge of the screen grab being cut off - I believe that was 4.11 inches, at the Goleta Fire Stn.

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

@ajtclimate https://t.co/fwldKm7sgs

[Zach Eilon @eilonzach]

Note, rainfall data from our amazing county hydrology website:
https://t.co/sisNRJqZ55
@countyofsb