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Jacob Margolis
@JacobMargolis
Science reporter @KPCC + @LAist fire, water, heat, quakes, biodiversity loss etc Signal: 323-989-2982 Hosted: The Big Burn + The Big One ideally never here
Apr 8, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
It's all but impossible to predict exactly how a devastating earthquake would play out during normal times.

I tried to answer what would happen if California was hit by a Big One while we're struggling to deal with #coronavirus. 1/x

laist.com/2020/04/07/big… Truth is, no one wants to think about it. The prospect is supremely overwhelming.

Even @rabidmarmot at FEMA's Region 9 office said, "We were just casually talking about it in the office. And it was like, we don’t want to consider that, but obviously we have to.” 2/x
Feb 12, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Sad news. Mars rover #Opportunity is probably done. Sometime tonight, a team @NASAJPL will make their final attempt to contact #Oppy. If they can't, they'll likely call the mission. Here's what happened... 1/ She was bouncing along, doing well, until a massive dust storm engulfed all of Mars in June 2018, knocking out communications with the team on earth. They haven’t heard from her since. It’s unclear exactly what happened... 2/