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Study Demonstrates Excellent Potential of Earthquake Early Warning System in Alaska

Published on 5 August 2025 | BSSA, Journals, News
MacColl Ridge in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

5 August 2025—For a wide variety of earthquake scenarios in Alaska, an earthquake early warning (EEW) system could provide at least 10 seconds of warning time for hazardous shaking, according to a new report. Increasing the density and improving the spacing of seismic stations around the state could add 5 … Continue Reading »

Free to Read Papers Related to Kamchatka Earthquake

Published on 30 July 202530 July 2025 | BSSA, Community, Journals, Member, News, SRL, TSR
USGS ShakeMap for 2025 Kamchatka Pennisula Earthquake

30 July 2025—As a service to global researchers working on the 29 July 2025 magnitude 8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, the Seismological Society of America has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be freely available until 22 August 2025. BSSA … Continue Reading »

Can Seismic Signals Detect Fragmentation of a Fireball Meteoroid?

Published on 23 July 2025 | Journals, News, SRL

23 July 2025—The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as it fell through the atmosphere, according to new research published in Seismological Research Letters. The 2020 return of the sample capsule from the asteroid-exploring Hayabusa2 mission to … Continue Reading »

Curved Fault Slip Captured on CCTV During Myanmar Earthquake

Published on 14 July 202518 July 2025 | Journals, News, TSR
screenshot from video of curved slip in 2025 myanmar earthquake

18 July 2025—Dramatic CCTV video of fault slip during a recent large earthquake in Myanmar thrilled both scientists and casual observers when it was posted to YouTube. But it was on his fifth or sixth viewing, said geophysicist Jesse Kearse, that he spotted something even more exciting. When Kearse and … Continue Reading »

First Analyses of Myanmar Earthquake Conclude Fault Ruptured at Supershear Velocity

Published on 14 July 202518 July 2025 | Journals, News, TSR
Earthquake damage in Mandalay. | China News Service/ Wikimedia Common

11 July 2025—The first studies of the 28 March 2025 magnitude 7.8 Myanmar earthquake suggest that the southern portion of its rupture occurred at supershear velocity, reaching speeds of 5 to 6 kilometers per second. In their paper published in The Seismic Record, seismologists Lingling Ye, Thorne Lay and Hiroo … Continue Reading »

Global Seismology: Taking the Pulse of the Planet

Published on 9 July 20259 July 2025 | Community, Government Relations, Member, News

9 July 2025—The Global Seismographic Network has stations in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Waverly, Tennessee. Its instruments gather ground motion data in the deserts of western China, at the South Pole and in Germany’s Black Forest. And at every moment, these data are broadcast to researchers, monitoring agencies and the public … Continue Reading »

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