Today while visiting my mother I found that she was already watching this disaster classic and not only that, but the infamous "eart...

The ongoing eruption of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii continues to captivate me. Below is a USGS video published this morni...

Today I took another vigorous hike on the west side/main section of Santa Margarita Lake Park with my hiking bros. I'm trying to get int...

This afternoon I joined my brother by another mother, Mike, and his brother-in-law, for a hike up Rinconada Trail from the trailhead off of...

Today I joined in on a quick road excursion out into the Machesna Wilderness Area in the La Panza Range on the Santa Lucia District of the...

This afternoon after school I made a quick jaunt over to the coast to pick up a necklace repair made by a friend in Los Osos and to attend...

A friend, brother in Christ, and fellow rock enthusiast, whom I first met way back in the late 2000s at a gun show at the Midstate Fairgro...

Twenty-three years ago this morning the M6.7 Northridge Earthquake slammed the Los Angeles Basin killing 57 people. This is a mash-up o...

Miles Traer strikes again! As with THIS other recent offering by him also produced during his recent visit to the recently-concluded Ame...

The American Geophysical Union held its annual autumn conference in San Francisco last week. Since the early 1990s I have enjoyed the ea...

This morning I attended Cliff's annual Santa Lucia Rockhounds ' rockhound tailgate sales event in Wellsona, just north of Paso Rob...

I just spotted this on Twitter a short time ago and could not resist sharing it here as I'm a consummate rock geek. I do not know who ...

This does seem a bit ominous especially when combined with the fact there is hardly any promotion of this earthquake advisory on social medi...

Today the newly-formed, real-life League of Extraordinary Gentlemen conducted a field trip to Santa Barbara County hunting for Miocene Epo...

Image of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain taken by means of the "Kite Aerial Photography technique." Image courtesy...

Tonight at about 9:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, a M9.0+ earthquake struck the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and Southwest Britis...

When looking at/thinking about minerals it is important to think about not only the elements which comprise them (or that they are if the...

This is a Pele's Tear , the Hawaiian equivalent of the Apache Tear . This particular one has just been discovered two days ago at Kila...

This is my favorite presentation of the periodic table which stands to reason given I am very much a visually-oriented creature. Note: c...