Advancing earthquake science worldwide
Register today to grow your career at all levels! 8 December 2025—SSA’s many member benefits include access to complimentary training sessions led by experts who understand our science as well as our ever-changing industry. Take advantage of more than 25 hours of free professional development offerings in early 2026—register today! On … Continue Reading »
4 December 2025—Thanh-Son Phạm calls himself a “method developer.” As a seismologist, this means that his interests are to develop ways to reach from the Earth’s inner core to the ice sheets of Antarctica. Phạm, a research fellow at the Australian National University, discovered the geosciences after studying mathematics and … Continue Reading »
1 December 2025—SSA and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) are pleased to announce that Francisco José Sánchez-Sesma, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), is the 2026 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Sánchez-Sesma will deliver the Joyner Lecture at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting to … Continue Reading »
26 November 2025— Throughout the past year, SSA members stepped forward to mentor and teach one another. They raised their voices to advocate for federal support of our science and made generous financial gifts to aid our mission. Together we advanced seismology through: $88,600+ in grants supporting our community’s scientific … Continue Reading »
18 November 2025—SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent has appointed Hongfeng Yang as the first deputy editor-in-chief of its journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Yang, a professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, joined the editorial board of SRL as an associate editor … Continue Reading »
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 »