30 November 2015--Fan-Chi Lin, a 37 year-old assistant professor at the University of Utah will receive the SSA 2015 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, at the society's annual meeting 20-22 April 2016 in Reno, Nevada.

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23 November 2015– SSA will present its highest honor, the Harry Fielding Reid Medal, to Christopher H. Scholz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, at the SSA annual meeting 20-22 April in Reno, Nevada.

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16 November 2015 - Your generous gift to the SSA Student Travel Grant Fund helps rising seismologists attend the professional meetings that will inspire them for years to come. Donations to the fund help young scientists and engineers make essential career connections in their field and expand their research, and prepare them to be a future advocate for earthquake awareness and safety. 

Make your tax-deductible gift today, and help us sustain the next generation of seismologists.  Go online or call SSA at 510-525-5474.

9 November 2015 - Buried in the shallow soft mud of a dry California lake bed, a seismometer was able to detect the tiny tilts of the ground as it was pulled up by passing dust devils. The experiment, described online November 10 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, is one of the first reports of a seismic signature from a dust devil.

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27 October 2015 - The April 2015 Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal produced less damage and weaker shaking than might be expected from a magnitude 7.8 quake in the area, according to a group of ten new articles published this week in Seismological Research Letters.

In a region of major faulting and massive tectonic plate collisions, with an especially dense population centered on the country's capital of Kathmandu, seismologists had expected the worst from a major earthquake. And the quake and its major aftershocks did cause more than 8,000 fatalities, 22,000 injuries and hundreds of thousands of collapsed or damaged buildings. But the damage was not as catastrophic as expected, said U.S. Geological Service geophysicist Susan Hough, guest editor of the Gorkha focus section papers.

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13 October 2015 – SSA is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America (BSSA). After five years of exemplary service, BSSA Editor-in-Chief Diane Doser, who has led the journal since 2010, announced this summer that she would step down in late 2016.

Andy Michael, chair of the SSA Publications Committee, will lead the search committee, which plans to begin interviews later this year. All nominations and applications should be sent directly to him at michael@usgs.gov.

The BSSA Editor-in-Chief (EIC) is primarily responsible for the technical content and technical quality of BSSA. As head of this journal, the EIC is positioned to help authors publish quality papers focused on earthquake seismology research and encourage significant scientific communication and community building, and to lead BSSA through the challenges of scientific publication in the 21^st century.

The BSSA Editor-in-Chief should have broad interests, good communication skills and wide contacts in the field, in addition to enthusiasm for BSSA, the ability to persuade people to contribute, organizational skills and a commitment to devote the necessary time to the effort. Except for a stipend, the position is unpaid.

For a complete BSSA Editor-in-Chief job description see this page. For additional information contact Andy Michael at michael@usgs.gov.