Advancing earthquake science worldwide
2 December 2025—Since 2020, the Barry Landslide in Alaska’s Prince William Sound has been outfitted with instruments monitoring seismic signals from the area, as researchers hope to catch a destructive, tsunami-generating landslide before it starts. A team of scientists studying those signals have identified an unusual class of seismic events, … Continue Reading »
26 November 2025—A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July. The Surface Water Ocean Topography or SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution spaceborne track of a great subduction zone tsunami, … Continue Reading »
18 November 2025—An array of seismic sensors deployed to capture aftershocks from the 2018 magnitude 7.1 Anchorage earthquake also collected distinctive signals from hundreds of flights crossing over Alaska. In their study published in The Seismic Record, Isabella Seppi and colleagues at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show that these … 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 »
23 October 2025—The 2016 magnitude 5.8 Pawnee earthquake in Oklahoma, caused by wastewater injection, is the first induced seismic event documented to cause liquefaction. Sand boils and surface cracks were observed at sites affected by the event’s strong ground shaking. Geotechnical earthquake engineers have models to predict where and how … Continue Reading »
5 September 2025—Resilience is a term often discussed in the face of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, but the attributes of resilience and how they interact are rarely analyzed, researchers say in a new study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. To learn … Continue Reading »