Advancing earthquake science worldwide
16 May 2025—In an ongoing effort to support and promote the outstanding work of SSA student members, the Society is pleased to present 12 students with a 2025 Student Presentation Award. The SSA awards program seeks to highlight excellent student presentations (poster or oral) at the SSA Annual Meeting. Each … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have been collecting seismic data from a submarine telecommunications fiber optic cable in coastal Alaska, exploring how the cable could be used to detect signals from earthquakes, ocean currents and marine mammals. Then the researchers learned about construction on an oil spill … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—At the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025— Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to researchers at the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting. The earthquake, which killed more than 23,000 people and left … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire had Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday meal along the St. Lawrence River, according to contemporaneous reports. When Roger Williams, founder … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—You’ve probably seen the posts while scrolling on your phone: a shaky TikTok showing shelves emptying and lights swaying inside a convenience store, or a WHAT WAS THAT?? tweet that captures an earthquake in progress. Researchers now show that Google’s large language model (LLM) Gemini can comb through … Continue Reading »