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Greenland Megatsunami Led to Week-Long Oscillating Fjord Wave

Published on 8 August 202429 May 2025 | Journals, News, TSR

Aerial overview of the study region, with the landslide location (yellow star) on the southern shore of the Dickson fjord. The green box is a simplified model of the seiching effect. Phase 1 corresponds to the landslide, Phase 2 marks the entrance of the landslide into the fjord, and Phase 3 is the megatsunami with water waves initiating a seiching process. | TSR (2024) Carrillo-Ponce et al.

8 August 2024–In September 2023, a megatsunami in remote eastern Greenland sent seismic waves around the world, piquing the interest of the global research community. The event created a week-long oscillating wave in Dickson Fjord, according to a new report in The Seismic Record. Angela Carrillo-Ponce of GFZ German Research … Continue Reading »

Sichuan Province Earthquake Offers Lessons for Landslide Prediction from GNSS Observations

Published on 7 August 202429 May 2025 | Journals, News, SRL

Landslides along a river in Sichuan, China following the 2022 Luding earthquake

7 August 2024–Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China’s Sichuan Province, researchers tested whether Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations could be used for rapid prediction of earthquake-triggered landslides. In their report in Seismological Research Letters, Kejie Chen of the Southern University of … Continue Reading »

Gift Helps Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant Program Grow

Published on 5 August 202429 May 2025 | Community, Early Career, Grants, Member, News, Students

05 August 2024 –A $10,000 gift from Paul Andrew Spudich’s sister, Suzanne, to the Paul Andrew Spudich Fund has expanded its travel grant offerings for early-career and student members. Providing the biggest boost to the fund since its 2023 launch, the new gift will help SSA reach its goal of … Continue Reading »

At Work: Arsène Sadiki

Published on 29 July 202429 May 2025 | Annual Meeting, At Work, Community, Early Career, Grants, Member, News

29 July 2024–In the spring of 2024, Arsène Sadiki traveled from Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) to share his research on the seismic precursors to the May 2021 eruption of Nyiragongo volcano. This volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo once played a significant role in Sadiki’s career choice, he recalled. … Continue Reading »

At Work: Tamarah King

Published on 18 June 202429 May 2025 | At Work, Member, News

18 June 2024–Tamarah King, is there a question you hear often about Australian seismicity? “If I had a dollar for every time somebody told me ‘Australia doesn’t have earthquakes!’” King said. “Not just from the general populace, I regularly meet earthquake scientists who are genuinely surprised to hear about Australia’s … Continue Reading »

First Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grantee Completes Scientific Journey

Published on 4 June 202430 May 2025 | Community, Early Career, Grants, News, Students

SSA’s newest grant program sends early-career member to Osaka, Japan Chunyang Ji, a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University whose research focuses on the modeling and assessment of high-frequency ground motions, is the first SSA member to participate in a seismological meeting with the aid of a Paul Andrew … Continue Reading »