Advancing earthquake science worldwide
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
9 July 2025—Fabian Walter, a senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, is a member of the program committee for the upcoming SSA Environmental Seismology meeting. The October conference “has a balance of a strong group of high-level researchers and the right size where you … Continue Reading »