Advancing earthquake science worldwide
16 April 2026—The first qualitative study in the United States examining the experience of deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing individuals (DHH+) with earthquake early warning (EEW) highlights accessibility gaps in disaster alert systems. At the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting, a team of researchers led by Michele Cooke at the … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—Researchers used the large language model Gemini 2.5 Pro™ to extract data from personal reports of a 1957 earthquake to create a shaking intensity map for the magnitude 5.3 event that rocked the San Francisco Bay Area. The process that turned Gemini into a “digital archivist, described at … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across the ground at a Nevada airfield also captured unique aspects of a Cessna 172’s speed and maneuvering. Researchers at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting said the findings help demonstrate the … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026— If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) could improve earthquake detection times calculated by the ShakeAlert system. At the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting, Zoe Krauss said ShakeAlert’s earthquake detection time could … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026— The seismic crisis that gripped the Greek island of Santorini and its neighbors last year contained more than 60,000 earthquakes, according to a unique machine learning study that identified the earthquakes as they occurred between December 2024 and June 2025. At the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting, Stanford … Continue Reading »
15 April 2026—When the edge of a Greenland glacier breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg, can a global seismic network “hear” it? The answer is yes—but only if the event is a large one. And it helps to pair the resulting surface seismic waves with satellite observations … Continue Reading »