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Things I did not expect to teach this term:
The properly formal language for the #OverlyHonestMethods version of "a pandemic shut down the university and we don't have the hardware or software licenses to run geotechnical models at home."
I checked my #OverlyHonestMethods archive. The closest I have to "scope reduced due to pandemic" is:
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Meanwhile in Indonesia:

Krakatau is erupting. Again.

Krakatau erupted so fiercely in 1883 that it destroyed itself while wrecking devastation. This is Anak Krakatau, “Child of Krakatau” rebuilt by subsequent eruptions

This eruption is not unusual but it is dangerous. Stay away
That embedded tweet is the most viral describing the eruption, but it’s also not accurate.

Anak Krakatau is in (exactly) the same place as it’s deadly namesake, so similar magma geochemistry, thus similar eruptive style.

But it’s been restless for years: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn…
This isn’t the first eruption of Krakatau since the 1900s because:
1. Krakatau & Anak Krakatau are similar but not the same.
2. Anak Krakatau erupted in 2019.

It’s also unsurprising as Anak Krakatau is erupting now as it was sending up warning plumes last month.
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Relevant to current events:

Key US laws on national disaster preparedness, including the role of federal government in facilitating an integrated, all-country, capabilities-based approach to preparedness that optimizes use of available resources:
doi.gov/recovery/about…
I am so confused (read: furious) about how the federal government is choosing to support (read: selectively decide who lives & dies based on political preference) overwhelmed states during the pandemic.

Turns out impeached Presidents keep breaking the law if yo don't remove them
Federal agencies are empowered & restricted by their mandates. If it's out of scope, they can't do it. If it's in scope, they must do it.

Sometimes we retroactively realize fuckups. Both Katrina & Sandy resulted in re-scoping FEMA's mandate to better match needs & expectations.
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Hi Idaho,
So you just had a significant earthquake. That's not fun.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

You might get aftershocks. Please remember to Drop! (or Lock!), Cover! & Hold on! until shaking finishes.

Please fill out a Did You Feel It? report:
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…
Earthquakes in Idaho are part of that same Basin & Range geology we talked about with Utah.

It's NOT the same faults or seismic stress field (this is too far away to be an aftershock from Utah), but the same concept of sliding blocks under tension.
Idaho can also get earthquakes related to the Yellowstone hot spot as magma shifts underground, so let's head this off right away:

Yellowstone is at activity level green. Everything is normal. It's not gearing up to kill us in the near future.

See? volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/…
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