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28 April 2026—As The Seismic Record celebrates its fifth anniversary this spring, we’re sharing some of the papers that have made the journal a must-read for the seismology community since its introduction. Top Downloaded Papers (as of January 2026) Kearse and Kaneko (2025) Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video … Continue Reading »
17 April 2026—A massive Russian earthquake triggered swarms of tiny earthquakes in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey, according to a new report shared at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting. In July 2025, the region of Kamchatka, Russia was rocked by several large earthquakes, a sequence that ended in a magnitude … Continue Reading »
17 April 2026—A seismic hush fell over U.S. and Canadian cities that were in the “path of totality” during the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse, according to new research presented at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting. Johns Hopkins University seismologist and planetary scientist Benjamin Fernando was in an Ohio … Continue Reading »
17 April 2026—Thawing permafrost buried underneath rivers may be accelerating permafrost degradation faster than previously estimated in these inundated regions, according to new research shared at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting. Haoyuan Sun of Zhejiang University and colleagues used distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) on an existing telecommunications cable to develop … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—In subduction zones, the sites of the world’s largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a “pump” that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to research presented at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting. These microbes are the world’s most dedicated sleeping beauties, lying dormant for thousands … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—Placed within a borehole drilled deep through the layers of a landslide, a fiber optic cable captured tiny, periodic stick-slip events that offer a unique glimpse at the complex movements within the landslide’s shear zone. At the Lantai site in northern Taiwan, researchers concluded that the timing and … Continue Reading »