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 »
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 »
10 March 2025—“Moment tensors are a model to describe earthquake sources based on forces acting at the seismic source,” explains Boris Rösler. “In the 1960s, it was shown that these forces generate a seismic wavefield equivalent to slip on a fault. We can thus describe the geologic process of an … Continue Reading »
A joint statement by SSA President Heather DeShon and President-Elect Susan Bilek 15 February 2025 — The recent termination of thousands of federal employees, including employees within the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of Energy and Department of Commerce, will undermine the critical scientific expertise required to keep the … Continue Reading »
February 13—The Seismological Society of America held its Board of Directors election on Friday, 3 January 2025. The following members were elected to a three-year term beginning 14 April 2025 at the SSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Ashly Cabas, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering … Continue Reading »