Nuke or Nature?
Checked against every documented nuclear test, the USGS catalogue files 16 test explosions as earthquakes. It lists every big underground shot at the Nevada Test Site, and misses the largest tests held anywhere else.
Papers
Research notes in environmental data science: earthquakes, space weather, climate, water, and the places where one field starts to look like another. They are the workspaces of the Data Lab at TerraPulse, a platform for measured climate and earth-science data. I am its architect.
Most of this is unfinished, and none of it is peer reviewed. 6 of the 13 notes are credited in the source data to an AI agent. 72 more studies are not listed: the project that produced them withdrew them from its own site, so nothing from them is published here.
The index, counted
fewermore
Notes per status
published1
accepted2
complete1
in review1
in revision1
active1
draft6
A note’s place in the lab’s own workflow. Accepted means the lab’s internal review passed it. No journal was involved.
| Listed here | 13 |
| Figure shown | 11 of 13 |
| Paper PDF on this site | 0 of 13 |
| Withdrawn at source, not shown | 72 |
These count what is mirrored on this site. More of the notes have figures and a compiled paper in their workspace at the lab than are shown here.
| Bucket | notes |
|---|---|
| March 2026 | 4 |
| April 2026 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 2 |
| June 2026 | 0 |
| July 2026 | 0 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 4 |
| October 2026 | 1 |
Counted by the date each workspace was created. Only the notes still listed are counted, so a month can look quieter here than it was.
papers-data.json, generated Oct 26, 2026
The notes
Newest first. A figure opens at full size. Every card links to its workspace on terrapulse.info, where the work is written out.
Domain
All 13 notes.6 of 13 notes: seismology.1 of 13 note: radiation.1 of 13 note: space weather.5 of 13 notes: other.
(opens in a new tab)The top of a taller figure. It opens whole.
Three Aftershocks, or 183? Same Size Quake, Either Answer.
Loma Prieta produced 80 aftershocks of magnitude 3 and above in its first month, squarely in the middle of its era.
Rest of the abstract
The record around it swings sixtyfold across nearly identical magnitudes, and the obvious explanation does not survive the data.
11 data filesWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
When One Report Says Golf-Ball Hail, How Often Does the Next One Disagree?
Same-storm pairs of US hail reports, 1996-2025: of the neighbouring reports within a mile of a golf-ball report, 43.1% came in below golf-ball size (2010-2025), rising to 61.9% at 15 to 30 miles, against 78.5% for a report with no link. The basis risk a report-based trigger inherits, measured on NCEI Storm Events.
No preview figure
How Many Rain Days Does a Jobsite Actually Lose?
How many working days does a US jobsite actually lose to rain, measured hour by hour in local time rather than inferred from daily totals?
If Hail Falls in the US, How Big Is It?
Seventy-one years of measured NCEI hail reports: size, place, season, and the counties where big hail returns every year, 1955-2025.
3 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
CNEOS fireball day-of-year vs. meteor-shower calendar (1998-2026)
CNEOS fireball day-of-year tested against 12 named meteor shower peaks. Clean null after deduplication: Schuster p=0.22, zero showers survive Bonferroni at any window width.
Rest of the abstract
Detection floor at N=355 is rate ratio >=1.96 (Bonferroni-12); optical-bolide Geminid ratios of 1.3-1.5 are below the floor.
2 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
M6.6 Sanriku 2026-05-15: foreshock signature and Bath's-law test
On 2026-05-15 a M6.6 earthquake struck offshore Sanriku, NE Japan (~39.03N, 141.81E), in the Pacific-Plate subduction zone where the 2011 Tohoku M9.1 mainshock occurred.
4 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
No preview figure
April 2026 Offshore Washington Swarm: Ridge, Not Subduction Zone
Fact-check of claims that an earthquake swarm off Washington coast is occurring in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. USGS data shows the swarm at ~129°W on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, ~400 km west of the CSZ trench.
1 data file, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
Radon precursor hypothesis: Safecast radiation vs earthquake timing
Does background radiation (Safecast citizen-science network) show detectable anomalies in the days before significant earthquakes?
4 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
Tornado Season Shift Analysis
Is tornado season extending later into the year? 73 years of SPC data.
1 data file, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
Global Environmental Radiation Baseline from Citizen Science: Signal vs Sampling Bias
Separating physical radiation patterns from observational campaign clustering in 679K Safecast measurements across 45 countries. Can citizen science data establish a reliable global radiation baseline?
2 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
Temporal Clustering of Global M4+ Earthquakes: Spatial clustering
Derivative study expanding on: Spatial clustering. nearest-neighbor distance analysis Parent study: Temporal Clustering of Global M4+ Earthquakes (earthquake-temporal-clustering)
4 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
Temporal Clustering of Global M4+ Earthquakes
Analyzing whether significant earthquakes cluster in time beyond what random (Poisson) occurrence would predict. Testing the hypothesis of earthquake triggering: does one large quake increase the probability of subsequent events?
3 data files, interactive figure in the workspaceWorkspace on terrapulse.info (opens in a new tab)
papers-data.json, generated Oct 26, 2026