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18 August 2026—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through January 2027. SSA has initiated the search to replace the journal’s current EIC Allison Bent, who began her term in … Continue Reading » The post SSA Seeks New SRL…
17 August 2026—Speakers at the 2026 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference, including an SSA editor and Board member, shared new research on why induced seismicity remains relevant for hydrocarbon and geothermal energy exploration. Their presentations throughout the conference, held 2-7 August in Fukuoka, Japan, explained advancements in understanding the … Continue Reading » The post…
17 August 2026—A tire blew out during a family car trip through Kansas, but it wasn’t all bad news for eight-year-old Nate Stevens, who was eager to dig for fossils along the road. “And then I started pulling out Inoceramid clam fossils, because anywhere in the middle of Kansas, you … Continue Reading » The post At Work: Nate Stevens first appeared on Seismological Society of America .
28 July 2026— This July a $5,000 SSA Community Grant brought 42 students, teachers and early-career scientists from Nepal, India and Bhutan together in Kathmandu for hands-on training. The event, EARTH-Quake 2026: Enhancing Advanced Research, Technical Skills, and Human Capacity in Seismology, took place over three days at the Central … Continue Reading » The post SSA Community Grant Trains a New…
21 July 2026—Sustained supershear earthquake ruptures produce distinct ground motion characteristics compared to subshear earthquakes, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, with potential implications for current building codes and ground motion models. Supershear earthquakes occur when the fault rupture itself moves faster … Continue Reading » The…
13 July 2026—Tsunamis in the deep ocean travel as fast as a high-speed train or even an airplane in some cases. “It’s quick, but not so quick,” says Yuchen Wang. “We have enough time between the tsunami generation and the tsunami arrival at the coast, and this time is very … Continue Reading » The post At Work: Yuchen Wang first appeared on Seismological Society of America .
1 July 2026—From a massive but messy collection of reports from people who felt the 1957 magnitude-5.3 Daly City, California earthquake, researchers used the large language model Gemini 2.5 Pro™ to extract data that allowed them to create a shaking intensity map for an earthquake that rocked the San Francisco … Continue Reading » The post LLM Extracts Historical California Earthquake Data as…
25 June 2026—As a service to global researchers working on the 24 June 2026 magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes in Venezuela, the Seismological Society of America has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be freely available until 16 July 2026. Paige … Continue Reading » The post Free to Read Papers Related to the Venezuela Earthquakes first appeared on…
23 June 2026–The Seismic Record (TSR) has earned its first official Clarivate Impact Factor of 5.3, ranking 6th out of 103 journals in the geochemistry and geophysics category. The Impact Factor measures how frequently a journal’s articles are cited by other researchers, serving as a comparable gauge of a publication’s … Continue Reading » The post Rapid Science, Global Reach: The Seismic Record…
15 June 2026—One hundred and fifty years of recorded earthquakes may sound like a lot of data, but it’s a drop in the bucket of the Earth’s 4.54 billion years, says Irene Liou. Liou, a postdoctoral researcher at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, focuses on physics-based probabilistic seismic hazard … Continue Reading » The post At Work: Irene Liou first appeared on Seismological Society of…
