Advancing earthquake science worldwide
16 May 2025—In an ongoing effort to support and promote the outstanding work of SSA student members, the Society is pleased to present 12 students with a 2025 Student Presentation Award. The SSA awards program seeks to highlight excellent student presentations (poster or oral) at the SSA Annual Meeting. Each … Continue Reading »
12 May 2025—In Guilherme de Melo’s small hometown in northeastern Brazil, he remembers constant droughts that plagued the town’s twin livelihoods of agriculture and livestock and led to shortages of potable water. To remedy this, a large dam was built in the early 2000s on the river that flows through … Continue Reading »
25 April 2025–The newest recipients of an SSA Community Grant will work together to create a workshop focused on rising seismic activity across Nigeria and surrounding regions. Community Grants Following the February application cycle, two members were selected to receive SSA Community Grants. Umar Afegbua Kadiri of the Centre for … Continue Reading »
16 April 2025—In places where earthquakes rupture the Earth’s surface, scientists often try to predict the location of these future fault ruptures based on the geological fault traces created in past earthquakes. But how accurate are these fault traces in predicting the next rupture location? At the Seismological Society of … Continue Reading »
2 April 2025— Five student and early-career members will receive travel grants to participate in scientific conferences as part of the Global Travel Grant program and the Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant program, which provides financial support to SSA members. 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grantees SSA’s newest grant program … Continue Reading »
10 February 2025—Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín’s research as a Ph.D. student at Miami University in Ohio focuses on earthquake swarms, the bursts of seismic activity—small earthquakes all about the same magnitude—that start abruptly and end abruptly. “We don’t know a lot about what triggers this activity,” she explains, “and because we don’t … Continue Reading »