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r/EarthScience

34.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.4K upvotes, which works out to 68 per 1,000 members.

68peak upvotes per 1,000 members
34.9Kmembers
2.4Kbest post
167most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

33% 28% 21% 9%
Link 33% Image 28% Video 21% Gallery 9% Question 6% Text 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Picture 27 Discussion 9 Video 9 GIF / GFY 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Earths Temperature since 1940

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 167 video 2026

San Andreas Fault hits highest stress level in 1,000 years, study finds

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 60 link 2026

Glacier Collapses and Triggers Devastating Avalanche.

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 40 video 2026

A massive rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth’s sixth ocean

↑ 763 πŸ’¬ 23 link 2026

Stream going towards ocean, but just stops and drains? Why does this happen, and is there a name for it?

↑ 461 πŸ’¬ 37 image 2021

La Palma is erupting, and I worked on research debunking the mega tsunami theory

↑ 452 πŸ’¬ 63 link 2021

Trump fires the entire National Science Board

↑ 409 πŸ’¬ 34 link 2026

Could someone help me identify this rock?

↑ 323 πŸ’¬ 134 image 2021

Just found this, which it seems was published only a tad more than a week ago (2021-September:20_Ν­_Νͺ) adducing very thorough body of evidence of dest…

↑ 268 πŸ’¬ 43 image 2021

What could be the reason for this?

↑ 256 πŸ’¬ 51 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/EarthScience, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.