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1 October 2024–The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East Coast who felt the shaking from this largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in New Jersey since 1900. But researchers noted something else unusual about the earthquake: why did so many people 40 miles away in New … Continue Reading »
8 August 2024–In September 2023, a megatsunami in remote eastern Greenland sent seismic waves around the world, piquing the interest of the global research community. The event created a week-long oscillating wave in Dickson Fjord, according to a new report in The Seismic Record. Angela Carrillo-Ponce of GFZ German Research … Continue Reading »
21 February 2024–Strange seismic wave arrivals from a 2010 earthquake under Spain were the clues that led to an unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean: a subducted oceanic slab that has completely overturned. The waveforms paint a picture of a slab that descended rapidly into the Earth’s mantle and flipped … Continue Reading »
8 January 2024–The Seismological Society of America’s journal The Seismic Record (TSR) has been accepted in Scopus®, Elsevier’s comprehensive and multidisciplinary abstract and citation database. Scopus® includes more than 1.8 billion references dating back to 1970, including journals, trade journals, conference proceedings and books. The Scopus® Content Selection & Advisory … Continue Reading »
3 January 2024–Seismic events that coincided with sudden drops in pressure within the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines in September 2022 alerted the world to the rupture of pipelines in the western Baltic Sea. The suspected act of sabotage, which reportedly used explosive charges to rupture the … Continue Reading »
14 December 2023–In their rapid characterization of the magnitude 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake in Morocco, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) suggest that the earthquake ruptured roughly 25 kilometers deep beneath the surface. The USGS source modeling, published in The Seismic Record, shows a compact … Continue Reading »