Advancing earthquake science worldwide
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 »
24 April 2025—Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be “hidden” by the signal generated by a natural earthquake? It’s possible, according to a new review article published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America that contradicts the conventional wisdom about explosion “masking.” The new … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have been collecting seismic data from a submarine telecommunications fiber optic cable in coastal Alaska, exploring how the cable could be used to detect signals from earthquakes, ocean currents and marine mammals. Then the researchers learned about construction on an oil spill … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—At the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025— Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated the country, according to researchers at the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting. The earthquake, which killed more than 23,000 people and left … Continue Reading »
17 April 2025—In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire had Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday meal along the St. Lawrence River, according to contemporaneous reports. When Roger Williams, founder … Continue Reading »