Advancing earthquake science worldwide
16 June 2025— Roland Bürgmann, professor at the University of California, Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and head of the Active Tectonics group at UC Berkeley, will deliver the opening keynote at SSA’s Environmental Seismology meeting. SSA spoke with him to hear more … Continue Reading »
Two student members will participate in the 2025 Environmental Seismology Conference with the aid of travel grants made possible by generous donations from the community to the General Fund. Congratulations to: Taylor Kenyon, University of Waterloo, US National Park Service Samara Omar, Colorado School of Mines We congratulate these … Continue Reading »
12 May 2025—In Guilherme de Melo’s small hometown in northeastern Brazil, he remembers constant droughts that plagued the town’s twin livelihoods of agriculture and livestock and led to shortages of potable water. To remedy this, a large dam was built in the early 2000s on the river that flows through … Continue Reading »
11 April 2025—Rebecca Colquhoun liked math and science in school but wasn’t sure what kind of career that might launch. Should they go into physics? Chemistry? Computer science? “I was looking for something that was sort of a mixture, so I could put off deciding for a while longer,” Colquhoun … Continue Reading »
10 February 2025—Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín’s research as a Ph.D. student at Miami University in Ohio focuses on earthquake swarms, the bursts of seismic activity—small earthquakes all about the same magnitude—that start abruptly and end abruptly. “We don’t know a lot about what triggers this activity,” she explains, “and because we don’t … Continue Reading »
9 January 2025—Earthquakes may be the noisy, attention-getters of seismological research, but geophysicist Daniel Gittins is focused on something a bit quieter. “Creep is the slow, gradual movement along faults that happens without causing an earthquake. Unlike sudden earthquakes, which release a lot of energy, aseismic creep occurs smoothly and … Continue Reading »