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23 January 2024–SSA is pleased to announce the recipients of several of the Society’s awards for 2024. The Harry Fielding Reid Medal, the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, the Frank Press Public Service Award and the SSA Distinguished Service Award are among the highest honors conferred by the Society. … Continue Reading »
SSA announced 20 travel grants to student, early-career and international members to participate in the 2024 Annual Meeting. The travel grants are made possible by generous donations to the Kanamori Fund, Annual Meeting Travel Fund, General Fund and Joyner Fund. Student Travel Grant Recipients: Himanshu Agrawal, University of Edinburgh Sandra Donna … Continue Reading »
20 November 2023–Last year with your help, the SSA Annual Meeting Travel Fund supported 23 students and early-career members attending our 2023 meeting in Puerto Rico. SSA needs your generosity again to fully fund its 2024 Annual Meeting Travel Grant Program to bring even more of your future colleagues to … Continue Reading »
1 November 2023–The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and SSA are pleased to announce that Helen Crowley, secretary general of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, is the 2024 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Crowley will deliver the Joyner Lecture at the EERI Annual Meeting to be … Continue Reading »
18 July 2023—It’s almost time to submit your session proposal for the next Annual Meeting. Learn how to get started at the SSA mentoring session on 25 July. Organizing a session for the SSA Annual Meeting is one of the best ways to make a splash in the global seismological … Continue Reading »
Leer en Español 20 April 2023–Tsunami deposits identified in a coastal mangrove pond in Northwest Puerto Rico could have come from a megathrust earthquake at the Puerto Rico Trench that occurred between 1470 and 1530, according to research reported at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2023 Annual Meeting. These … Continue Reading »