Advancing earthquake science worldwide
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 »
05 August 2024 –A $10,000 gift from Paul Andrew Spudich’s sister, Suzanne, to the Paul Andrew Spudich Fund has expanded its travel grant offerings for early-career and student members. Providing the biggest boost to the fund since its 2023 launch, the new gift will help SSA reach its goal of … Continue Reading »
29 July 2024–In the spring of 2024, Arsène Sadiki traveled from Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) to share his research on the seismic precursors to the May 2021 eruption of Nyiragongo volcano. This volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo once played a significant role in Sadiki’s career choice, he recalled. … Continue Reading »