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28 April 2026—As The Seismic Record celebrates its fifth anniversary this spring, we’re sharing some of the papers that have made the journal a must-read for the seismology community since its introduction. Top Downloaded Papers (as of January 2026) Kearse and Kaneko (2025) Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across the ground at a Nevada airfield also captured unique aspects of a Cessna 172’s speed and maneuvering. Researchers at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting said the findings help demonstrate the … Continue Reading »
1 April 2026—Slow roiling convection currents deep within the Earth’s mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also deform the material of the mantle itself. Now, a new study in The Seismic Record confirms that much of this deformation in the lowest level of the mantle occurs … Continue Reading »
30 March 2026— Norman Abrahamson of the University of California, Berkeley, Claire Doody of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Daisuke Ishimura of Chiba University, Andrea Llenos of the U.S. Geological Survey, Hongrui Qiu of China University of Geosciences, Vladimir Shumila of ESG Solutions, and Elizabeth Silber of Sandia National Laboratory are … Continue Reading »
11 March 2026—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of The Seismic Record (TSR), its open-access, online-only journal publishing short-form papers covering the entire spectrum of seismological science. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through 30 June 2026. SSA has initiated … Continue Reading »
23 February 2026—Water leakage during the construction of a hydropower tunnel in northern Norway may have been the trigger for a nearby earthquake swarm that occurred three years later, according to a new analysis published in The Seismic Record. The swarm at Sørfjorden began in June 2023 and continued in … Continue Reading »