Advancing earthquake science worldwide
An SSA student and early-career member attended a seismology-advancing conference in Kochi, Japan—an experience made possible by donor generosity. 1 November 2025— Baoning Wu never met the late seismologist who inspired SSA’s newest support program, but he knows his research well. One of Paul Spudich’s widely-cited papers is referenced throughout … Continue Reading »
8 October 2025—2025 has been a year of anniversaries for the nuclear monitoring community, some grim and some hopeful. It was 80 years ago that the first nuclear bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it was nearly 30 years ago, in 1996, that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty opened to … Continue Reading »
16 September 2025—For her dissertation, Louisa Barama worked on ways to characterize seismic events like tsunamigenic and deep earthquakes in near real time, using teleseismic data, calculations of radiated earthquake energy and machine learning techniques. “Then I got this opportunity to work on an Air Force Research Lab project [led … Continue Reading »
18 August 2025—There’s a lot of things that Rob Anthony likes about New Mexico. But as a geophysicist interested in noise, there’s one aspect that stands out: the relative seismic quietness. “We’re one of the quietest spots in the United States,” Anthony says of his workplace at the Albuquerque Seismological … Continue Reading »
15 August 2025—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), its flagship, peer-reviewed international journal. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through October 2025. The EIC leadership transition is scheduled to take … Continue Reading »
30 July 2025—As a service to global researchers working on the 29 July 2025 magnitude 8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, the Seismological Society of America has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be freely available until 22 August 2025. BSSA … Continue Reading »