Category: Community

SSA Community Grant Trains a New Generation of Seismologists in Nepal

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Participants celebrating the successful completion of the workshop.

28 July 2026— This July a $5,000 SSA Community Grant brought 42 students, teachers and early-career scientists from Nepal, India and Bhutan together in Kathmandu for hands-on training. The event, EARTH-Quake 2026: Enhancing Advanced Research, Technical Skills, and Human Capacity in Seismology, took place over three days at the Central … Continue Reading »

At Work: Yuchen Wang

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13 July 2026—Tsunamis in the deep ocean travel as fast as a high-speed train or even an airplane in some cases. “It’s quick, but not so quick,” says Yuchen Wang. “We have enough time between the tsunami generation and the tsunami arrival at the coast, and this time is very … Continue Reading »

At Work: Irene Liou

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15 June 2026—One hundred and fifty years of recorded earthquakes may sound like a lot of data, but it’s a drop in the bucket of the Earth’s 4.54 billion years, says Irene Liou. Liou, a postdoctoral researcher at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, focuses on physics-based probabilistic seismic hazard … Continue Reading »