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Greenland Megatsunami Led to Week-Long Oscillating Fjord Wave

Published on 8 August 202429 May 2025 | Journals, News, TSR

Aerial overview of the study region, with the landslide location (yellow star) on the southern shore of the Dickson fjord. The green box is a simplified model of the seiching effect. Phase 1 corresponds to the landslide, Phase 2 marks the entrance of the landslide into the fjord, and Phase 3 is the megatsunami with water waves initiating a seiching process. | TSR (2024) Carrillo-Ponce et al.

8 August 2024–In September 2023, a megatsunami in remote eastern Greenland sent seismic waves around the world, piquing the interest of the global research community. The event created a week-long oscillating wave in Dickson Fjord, according to a new report in The Seismic Record. Angela Carrillo-Ponce of GFZ German Research … Continue Reading »

Sichuan Province Earthquake Offers Lessons for Landslide Prediction from GNSS Observations

Published on 7 August 202429 May 2025 | Journals, News, SRL

Landslides along a river in Sichuan, China following the 2022 Luding earthquake

7 August 2024–Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China’s Sichuan Province, researchers tested whether Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations could be used for rapid prediction of earthquake-triggered landslides. In their report in Seismological Research Letters, Kejie Chen of the Southern University of … Continue Reading »

Pore Pressure Diffusion Led to Microseismicity at Illinois Basin Carbon Sequestration Site

Published on 8 May 202430 May 2025 | BSSA, Journals, News

8 May 2024–Pore pressure diffusion generated by carbon dioxide injected underground at a carbon storage site in the Illinois Basin is the likely cause of hundreds of microearthquakes that took place at the site between 2011 and 2012, according to a new analysis. The modeling study published in the Bulletin … Continue Reading »

What Kinds of Seismic Signals Did Swifties Send at LA Concert?

Published on 13 March 202430 May 2025 | Journals, News, SRL

spectrograms from 2023 Taylor Swift concert

13 March 2024–Seattle may have experienced its own Swift Quake last July, but at an August 2023 concert Taylor Swift’s fans in Los Angeles gave scientists a lot of shaking to ponder. After some debate, a research team led by Gabrielle Tepp of Caltech concluded that it was likely the … Continue Reading »

Could Fiber Optic Cable Help Scientists Probe the Deep Layers of the Moon?

Published on 28 February 202430 May 2025 | Journals, News, SRL

28 February 2024–An increasing number of seismologists are using fiber optic cables to detect seismic waves on Earth—but how would this technology fare on the Moon, and what would it tell us about the deep layers of our nearest neighbor in space? In Seismological Research Letters, Wenbo Wu of Woods … Continue Reading »

Strange Seismic Wave Arrivals Lead to Discovery of Overturned Slab in the Mediterranean

Published on 21 February 202430 May 2025 | Journals, News, TSR

Map of seismic stations and the deep Granada earthquake. Red triangles indicate stations for studying the low velocity layer on the slab.

21 February 2024–Strange seismic wave arrivals from a 2010 earthquake under Spain were the clues that led to an unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean: a subducted oceanic slab that has completely overturned. The waveforms paint a picture of a slab that descended rapidly into the Earth’s mantle and flipped … Continue Reading »