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 »
25 April 2025–The newest recipients of an SSA Community Grant will work together to create a workshop focused on rising seismic activity across Nigeria and surrounding regions. Community Grants Following the February application cycle, two members were selected to receive SSA Community Grants. Umar Afegbua Kadiri of the Centre for … 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 »
9 April 2025— Plane crashes are thankfully rare, but when they happen, investigators rely on the airplane’s “black box” for data to explain what happened and how to prevent it in the future. Seismic instruments deployed to gather strong motion data are kind of like those black boxes, said Keith … Continue Reading »
2 April 2025— Five student and early-career members will receive travel grants to participate in scientific conferences as part of the Global Travel Grant program and the Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant program, which provides financial support to SSA members. 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grantees SSA’s newest grant program … Continue Reading »
13 March 2025–SSA is proud to recognize our 2024 peer reviewers for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Seismological Research Letters (SRL) and The Seismic Record (TSR). “SSA’s journals are known for their rigorous peer review and for the valuable reviewer feedback that helps authors improve the … Continue Reading »