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11 March 2026—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of The Seismic Record (TSR), its open-access, online-only journal publishing short-form papers covering the entire spectrum of seismological science. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through 30 June 2026. SSA has initiated … Continue Reading »
3 March 2026—The Seismological Society of America (SSA) announced today the appointment of Stefano Parolai as the next editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). Parolai is the current director of the department of mathematics, computer science and geosciences of the University of Trieste and full … Continue Reading »
23 February 2026—Water leakage during the construction of a hydropower tunnel in northern Norway may have been the trigger for a nearby earthquake swarm that occurred three years later, according to a new analysis published in The Seismic Record. The swarm at Sørfjorden began in June 2023 and continued in … Continue Reading »
5 February 2026—The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that took place in 2018 on the south flank of Kīlauea on the Island of Hawaiʻi may have stalled episodes of periodic slow slip along a major fault underlying the volcano, according to a new study by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey. Since … Continue Reading »
3 February 2026—A swarm of small earthquakes within the Karoo Basin in South Africa has revealed a critically stressed fault that could be perturbed by potential shale gas exploration in the area, according to a new report in Seismological Research Letters. The analysis by Benjamin Whitehead of the University of … Continue Reading »
22 January 2026—For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of primary accounts of the event by Ioanna Triantafyllou at Hellenic Mediterranean University … Continue Reading »