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23 October 2025—The 2016 magnitude 5.8 Pawnee earthquake in Oklahoma, caused by wastewater injection, is the first induced seismic event documented to cause liquefaction. Sand boils and surface cracks were observed at sites affected by the event’s strong ground shaking. Geotechnical earthquake engineers have models to predict where and how … Continue Reading »
8 October 2025—2025 has been a year of anniversaries for the nuclear monitoring community, some grim and some hopeful. It was 80 years ago that the first nuclear bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But it was nearly 30 years ago, in 1996, that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty opened to … Continue Reading »
16 September 2025—For her dissertation, Louisa Barama worked on ways to characterize seismic events like tsunamigenic and deep earthquakes in near real time, using teleseismic data, calculations of radiated earthquake energy and machine learning techniques. “Then I got this opportunity to work on an Air Force Research Lab project [led … Continue Reading »
5 September 2025—Resilience is a term often discussed in the face of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, but the attributes of resilience and how they interact are rarely analyzed, researchers say in a new study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. To learn … Continue Reading »
How can SSA best serve your professional needs and continue making advances in the field of seismology? Keep that question in mind as you read the candidate statements below for our 2026 Board of Directors Election. Then be sure to cast your vote! As the governing body for SSA, the Board … Continue Reading »
19 August 2025—What lies beneath Fickle Hill in northern California? Maybe the answer to an earthquake mystery that has puzzled seismologists for decades. The origin of the 1954 magnitude 6.5 earthquake that rattled residents around Humboldt Bay has been unclear, but a new study now suggests a surprising source: the … Continue Reading »