Advancing earthquake science worldwide
1 July 2026—From a massive but messy collection of reports from people who felt the 1957 magnitude-5.3 Daly City, California earthquake, researchers used the large language model Gemini 2.5 Pro™ to extract data that allowed them to create a shaking intensity map for an earthquake that rocked the San Francisco … 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 »
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 »
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 »
13 April 2026—Zhigang Peng studies the physics of faulting, earthquake triggering, fault zone structures, earthquakes swarms, slow earthquakes, but lately he’s added a few other topics that veer away from the usual. Vibrations in a sewer pipe. Exploding rock outcrops. “In particular, what I have been working on the past … Continue Reading »