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1 April 2026—Slow roiling convection currents deep within the Earth’s mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also deform the material of the mantle itself. Now, a new study in The Seismic Record confirms that much of this deformation in the lowest level of the mantle occurs … Continue Reading »
30 March 2026— Norman Abrahamson of the University of California, Berkeley, Claire Doody of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Daisuke Ishimura of Chiba University, Andrea Llenos of the U.S. Geological Survey, Hongrui Qiu of China University of Geosciences, Vladimir Shumila of ESG Solutions, and Elizabeth Silber of Sandia National Laboratory are … Continue Reading »
11 March 2026—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of The Seismic Record (TSR), its open-access, online-only journal publishing short-form papers covering the entire spectrum of seismological science. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through 30 June 2026. SSA has initiated … Continue Reading »
23 February 2026—Water leakage during the construction of a hydropower tunnel in northern Norway may have been the trigger for a nearby earthquake swarm that occurred three years later, according to a new analysis published in The Seismic Record. The swarm at Sørfjorden began in June 2023 and continued in … Continue Reading »
26 November 2025—A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July. The Surface Water Ocean Topography or SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution spaceborne track of a great subduction zone tsunami, … Continue Reading »
18 November 2025—An array of seismic sensors deployed to capture aftershocks from the 2018 magnitude 7.1 Anchorage earthquake also collected distinctive signals from hundreds of flights crossing over Alaska. In their study published in The Seismic Record, Isabella Seppi and colleagues at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show that these … Continue Reading »