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15 June 2026—One hundred and fifty years of recorded earthquakes may sound like a lot of data, but it’s a drop in the bucket of the Earth’s 4.54 billion years, says Irene Liou. Liou, a postdoctoral researcher at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, focuses on physics-based probabilistic seismic hazard … Continue Reading »
10 June 2026—Researchers combining two methods to reconstruct the rupture evolution of the July 2025 magnitude 8.8. Kamchatka earthquake found the rupture from the megathrust event extended about 500 kilometers from its epicenter. The rupture extent closely overlaps the rupture of the magnitude 9.0 1952 Kamchatka earthquake, according to the … Continue Reading »
10 June 2026—Researchers repurposed an AI model designed for visual identification tasks to detect Bryde’s whale calls contained with seismic data collected in the South China Sea. A whale call can be visualized as a spectrogram, a “snapshot of sound” that shows how the frequencies of the sound signal change … Continue Reading »
5 June 2026—Thousands of small earthquakes, detected for the first time by a machine learning process, reveal the distinct, razor-sharp edge to the Yakutat microplate as it subducts beneath the North America plate. The Yakutat oceanic plateau is caught in the middle of a tectonic traffic jam with the Pacific … Continue Reading »
1 June 2026—The 30 June nomination deadline is fast approaching for both the 2027 William B. Joyner Memorial Lecturer and the 2027 Bruce Bolt Medalist. If you’re still looking for inspiration or guidance about nominating a peer or colleague, we invite you to check out some of the research that … Continue Reading »
SRL Focus Section on Operational Response Accurate estimates of hazards in the first seconds, minutes and hours of a large earthquake or tsunami are crucial for producing effective early warnings and emergency responses, helping save lives, mitigate loss and speed recovery. Seismological Research Letters (SRL) is now soliciting papers for … Continue Reading »